That’s our Bush! (LA Weekly)
I learned how to write at L.A. Weekly, largely under the tutelage of Bob LaBrasca, whose preferred method of getting a writer to change an offending passage was to read it back to him in a sarcastic tone. |
Picasa chief departs Google for Fetch (CNET)
Mike Horowitz, a Google employee since 2003, has taken a new job at Fetch overseeing a product to extract useful information from the Web. |
Making ‘Marley & Me' with director David Frankel (The Kansas City Star)
When filmmaker David Frankel showed a rough cut of his film "The Devil Wears Prada" to his boss, Fox 2000 Pictures president Elizabeth Gabler, she was so pleased that she handed him a copy of another best-selling book to adapt into a movie: "Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog." |
Rowling "fierce" but fair about Potter: editor (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
J.K. Rowling's first editor, who championed Harry Potter after several publishers had turned the boy wizard down, described the author as "fierce" but fair to work with. |
News Articles (Simpsonian)
Over the past two fiscal years, Simpson has had a surplus of nearly $1.5 million to put toward a multitude of renovations across campus. Each year, Simpson sets aside undesignated money, known as a contingency fund, in the operating budget to have on hand in case of an emergency. |
Sonoma West News (Sonoma West Times and News)
SEBASTOPOL – Bet you don’t know what a Luthier is. For starters, it has nothing to do with the German monk who got mad at the Pope a few centuries ago and ended up with a church named after him. |
Former News-Review staffer publishes book (Charlevoix Courier)
“That’s Outrageous!” More than the mere title of a book, “That’s Outrageous!” has been a calling card of sorts for author Fred Gray, a former staff writer for the Petoskey News-Review, Associated Press writer and a 20-year veteran of Reuters where he was a senior editor and director of technical operations. |
It's 30 years later; mother still grieves (San Diego Union-Tribune)
SAN DIEGO – The doorbell rang at about 3 a.m., a couple of hours after Josie Watson's collie, Prince, woke her up and started inexplicably panting at the front door. Outside stood the coroner and the roommate of Watson's son, Butch. |
Washington Mutual keeping San Antonio center open (INO News)
(AP:AUSTIN) Washington Mutual revealed Tuesday that despite nationwide layoffs it is keeping open a regional operations center in San Antonio that employs 1,800 people and is at the core of its job creation agreement with the state of Texas. |
Ledger leaves a haunting legacy in blockbuster 'Dark Knight' (Journal & Courier)
The following DVDs are being released on Tuesday: |
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