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		<title>LAPD Chief Charlie Beck Throws a Book Party for Connie Rice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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It wasn&#8217;t your usual book party.
For one thing, Monday night&#8217;s book launching event for civil rights lawyer  Connie Rice&#8217;s new memoir, Power Concedes Nothing, was held at the LAPD&#8217;s headquarters, in the over-lit Compstat room, no less&#8212;i.e. the room where the cops go to hear a rundown on the latest crime statistics and &#8216;crime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Tips 4 Getting the Most Out of the LA Times Festival of Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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This weekend the glorious LA Times Festival of Books will be held at its new location on the USC campus, after 15 years at UCLA. 
The line up of authors and other intriguing panelists is, as usual, excellent. (You can find the Saturday and Sunday schedules here.)
Both days are filled with more great events than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking of Japan, the Blocked California Budget and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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MEMORIES OF JAPAN, SOME INDELIBLE, SOME WASHED AWAY
The frightening news out of Japan cannot help but hold our attention,  as heroic engineers at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station  continue to try to save the plant&#8217;s crippled nuclear reactors from meltdown. 
But, in addition to the devastating TV news reports, please do yourself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The California Supremes and Prop 8, Lara Logan and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT WILL CONSIDER WHETHER TO RULE ON CRUCIAL  PROP 8 ISSUE ON WEDNESDAY
The LA Times has the story.
The California Supreme Court will decide Wednesday whether to plunge back into the legal battle over same-sex marriage.
The state high court, meeting in closed session, will review a request by the U.S. 9th Circuit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA Mag Gets LA Women Together</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Monday night, Los Angeles Magazine held a gathering they called a Women&#8217;s Leadership Reception.   it was co-hosted by Editor-in-Chief Mary Melton and Publisher Amy Saralegui along with City Controller Wendy Greuel.

 The women present were an eclectic mix.  They were from government (like Greuel, city planning director Gail Goldberg, and longtime California [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from the LAT 2010 Book Prizes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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DAVE EGGERS&#8217; PRIZES AND QUIRKS ON LAT BOOK PRIZE NIGHT 
As most of you know, the LA Times Book Awards were this past Friday night, and the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books took place on Saturday and Sunday at UCLA.  125,000 people were expected at the LATFOB and judging from the crowds I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WANT iPAD!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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It ain&#8217;t going to save the newspaper biz, but it is going to change book publishing&#8212;in a good way, in my personal opinion.  (Operative word &#8220;change&#8221; not &#8220;save.&#8221;)  Who cares about paper.  Bring on the literary downloads.
Okay, now onward to USC to teach.  (Must stop obsessing.) 
See you after that other, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Does the  LA Times Hate Books?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Saturday night, one of California&#8217;s best known small literary presses, Red Hen Press, had it&#8217;s annual Christmas party at the home of editor/poet Kate Gale and publisher Mark Cull (who also happen to be married to each other, which is handy).
It is a party that I always try to attend.   For one thing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wire &amp; the Decade When TV Became Art</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/literature/2009/admin/1-the-wire-the-decade-when-tv-became-art/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The Best of the Decade lists are everywhere.  
Newsweek has some interesting ones like 10 History Altering Decisions. and 10 Most Overblown Fears.
Paste Magazine has a pleasing list of the 50 best albums.
And at the flimsier end of the spectrum, Vogue magazine was suddenly  overtaken by a giddy moment of populism and decided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE FUTURE OF MEDIA:  LA Times Book Fest Version</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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In the middle of the panel called MEDIA:  WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE  at Sunday&#8217;s LA Times Festival of Books, Marc Cooper made news&#8212;or at least mini-news&#8212;when he remarked in passing that the Sacramento Bee feels it does not have the staff to adequately cover the upcoming race for governor&#8212;at least the [...]]]></description>
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