Monday, February 2, 2009

February 2, 2009 News



New address for Daily Breeze:

Daily Breeze

South Bay Tower

21250 Hawthorne Blvd., Suite 170

Torrance, CA 90503



Thanks to the LA Times' Andrew Nystrom for clueing me in to this list of LA Times-related Twitter pages.



This via LA Observed is news from last week but didn't get into my last post.


Tim Doyle, formerly of Variety and Maria Russo, formerly of The Los Angeles Times, are the lead editors of Sharon Waxman's new Hollywood news website … A news release says the contributors to The Wrap include Kim Masters, who recently departed National Public Radio; Andrew Gumbel, the author and correspondent for British newspapers; Nicole LaPorte, a former film reporter for Variety who has just completed a book about DreamWorks; Mark Lisanti, former editor of Defamer; Johanna Neuman, who covered Washington for The Los Angeles Times and USA Today; and Peter Mehlman, a former co-executive producer of Seinfeld and leading television writer and producer.

Masthead with email addresses is here.


More from LA Observed here.



New York Post replaces the late Clive Barnes with Elisabeth Vincentelli. This from Playbill:


Elisabeth Vincentelli, the arts and entertainment editor of Time Out New York, is the new chief drama critic at The New York Post, according to Michael Riedel, the paper's theatre writer.

According to the blog she keeps (The Determined Dilettante, at blogspot.com), Vincentelli grew up in France and has lived in the U.S. for 20 years. On her blog, she comments on theatre, dance, film, music, books and more.…the arts and entertainment editor of Time Out New York, is the new chief drama critic at The New York Post, according to Michael Riedel, the paper's theatre writer.



Sorry for initally posting last time the wrong magazine title from which Bob Thomas retired. It's FORE, and the new editor/publisher is Katie Denbo.