RIP Alan Rich
You've likely heard by now the news of Alan Rich's passing. He was, and I quote OC Register music critic Tim Mangan, "an institution of Southern California music criticism." Check out Tim's piece on Alan HERE. I also liked John Payne's LA Weekly piece HERE.
Speaking of LA Weekly, Ben Calderwood joins Jonathan Gold as food critic.
LA Observed has this from the staff memo…
Ben Calderwood started this week as our second food critic, joining Jonathan Gold, Amy Scattergood and Amy's lineup of strong freelancers to produce the best food coverage in Los Angeles.
…and more HERE.
You can find Ben on Twitter @humOrbot.
This from a press release a few weeks back:
Fine Arts LA is excited to announce that after a year of working dutifully toward building the site to what it has become, Nicole Campoy-Leffler (Editor-in-Chief) and Danyel Madrid (Editor-at-Large) are appointing a new Editor-in-Chief to take over all editorial responsibilities from within the team: Josh Morrison.
Nicole Campoy-Leffler will continue writing for the website and will maintain a managerial role at Fine Arts LA... Danyel Madrid is set to continue working with Fine Arts LA as a regular contributor...
Email at @fineartsla.com is josh
Got this auto reply from an email I'd sent to Mia McNeice at Variety:
Mia McNiece is no longer with Variety. For V page consideration, please email (@variety.com) Bob.Hofler or vpagePer THIS from Fishbowl NY, Fiona Murray replaces Janelle Carrigan as Wall Street Journal features editor.
Thanks to Flo Selfman for passing these announcements along from Media Bistro's Revolving Door newsletter.
Todd McCarthy has been named film and festival critic and columnist at Indiewire. He had been former chief film critic and columnist at Variety.
Tim Griffin has been named editor-at-large at Artforum. He had been editor-in-chief there.
Michelle Kuo has been named editor-in-chief at Artforum. She had been senior editor there.
Erica Cerulo has been named senior editor at Lucky. She had been associate editor at Details.
Lauren Benet Stephenson has been named accessories market editor, news, at Women's Wear Daily. She had been associate online editor there.
