Sundown on Sunset: Hot and Cold - Posted October 26, 2007
Daniel Hernandez covers the fires down in San Diego, and asks all the right questions. Britney's mom, Lynn Spears, has written a parenting book. Title search for How to Raise a Drug-Addled Skank is underway. Who did buy Luke Ford's other blog? NPR should just hire Joe Escalante, already. Paris... [FishBowlLA]

Heller Says Goodbye to CBGB's Hilly Kristal - Posted August 31, 2007
Hilly Kristal, founder of the recently-shuttered CBGB, died this week, and the "rock midwife" and "original to the end" is being remembered everywhere from the Village Voice to NPR. But we like Steven Heller's memory best. Heller designed a newsletter for Kristal's first tavern called "Hilly's Gazette" and tells a story about... [UnBeige]

News You Don't Want To Miss: Tuesday RoundUp - Posted May 29, 2007
From the annals of "All News Is Local" come some of the top stories to hit our inbox. Well, the top stories that aren't about 11-year-old boys shooting giant pigs: NPR: Day to Day interviews Mia Farrow about Bush's sanctions against Sudan. Your guess is as good as ours. CNN: A Venezuelan TV... [FishBowlLA]

Once-Reluctant LA Times Now Eager to Speak About Hate Crime Coverage - Posted February 23, 2007
If you've been following the Long Beach Halloween hate crime story and the media coverage of same, there's another story in the LA Weekly by an FBLA editor. On the Media did an interview that made the powers-that-be at the Los Angeles Times so distressed that an editor placed several frantic... [FishBowlLA]

Once-Reluctant LA Times Now Eager to Speak About Hate Crime Coverage - Posted February 23, 2007
If you've been following the Long Beach Halloween hate crime story and the media coverage of same, there's another story in the LA Weekly by an FBLA editor. On the Media did an interview that made the powers-that-be at the Los Angeles Times so distressed that an editor placed several frantic... [FishBowlLA]

Rising Star Finalists - Posted February 6, 2007
After the jump, you'll find the finalists for FishbowlDC's Rising Star competition. Congrats to everyone for being nominated and making it into the 2nd round in our first "Rising Star" competition. The winners will accompany mediabistro.com and FishbowlDC to the National Press Foundation Dinner, with a seat next to a high-profile... [FishBowlDC]

I'd Like To Thank The Academy, And NPR, For Giving Me This Honor - Posted January 25, 2007
We all secretly have our Oscar speeches in our heads, don't we? Along with our moms, and our deities and our third-grade teachers, we'd use the airtime to make a romantic or meaningful offer of thanks to someone unexpected. Or maybe we'd use the limelight to really stick it to Tracy Schindler for... [FishBowlLA]

Off the Media: Liberal, Censor-Avoiding Apples - Posted January 17, 2007
This week from On the Media we learned that: Co-host Brooke Gladstone is willing to joke about her liberal self. In a story about how conservative bloggers (the "right-o-sphere") are being skeptical of their skepticism of the mainstream media's Iraq war coverage: "Some conservative bloggers, mired in the ugly truth about the war... [FishBowlNY]

Where'd Borat Go? - Posted January 16, 2007
It happened a few days ago -- or maybe it happened months ago and we just hadn't noticed. But Sacha Baron Cohen decided to drop the in-character interviews about Borat and just ... be himself. When Baron Cohen won the Golden Globe (Wow. We're not used to saying that.) for best comedic... [FishBowlLA]