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Denis Dutton, founder of Arts & Letters Daily — December 2010 obit and the durable link-curation legacy
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, December 2010 In late December 2010, philosophy professor Denis Dutton — founder of the link-curation site Arts & Letters Daily — died in New Zealand at 66. Dutton, who taught at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, was Los Angeles-born and…
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KCRW DJ Chris Douridas’s December 2010 on-air recovery from a rainy-night Hotel Cafe crash
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2010 In mid-December 2010, KCRW DJ Chris Douridas paused mid-set on his weekly New Ground show to tell listeners he had been in a car accident the night before — on the way home from Hotel Cafe’s tenth-anniversary party. The…
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KCRW UpClose’s October 2010 Matthew Weiner and Alan Ball events at NPR West
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, September 2010 In late September 2010, KCRW and NPR announced the next two installments of UpClose — their live-event series staged before an intimate audience at NPR West in Culver City. The October 12 event paired The Treatment host Elvis Mitchell…
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Cutie and Pop Pop — the LA Times’ 2010 profile of the Boyle Heights nonagenarian bloggers
By Cassidy Lee · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2010) · Wayback archive → In mid-June 2010 the Los Angeles Times ran a feature on Barbara “Cutie” Cooper, 93, and her husband of 72 years, Harry “Pop Pop” Cooper, who were running a blog called The-OGs.com — short for Original Grandparents — out of their…
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Janice Min’s first THR hire was Kim Masters — and the show is still going
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2010) · Wayback archive → The single hire that announced Janice Min’s intention to remake The Hollywood Reporter wasn’t a deputy editor or a publisher — it was Kim Masters, brought in as Editor-At-Large with her KCRW show kept intact. Sixteen years later, that show is…
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The 2010 scoop on Fox’s Napoleon Dynamite animated series — and the six episodes that aired
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Alex Weprin (2010) · Wayback archive → Three days before Fox’s 2010 upfront presentation, Alex Weprin landed the network’s official confirmation that Napoleon Dynamite was being developed as an animated television series, with the original cast attached. The pilot was greenlit, the show aired, and it didn’t make…
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Alan Rich dies at 85 — the migratory music critic of LA Weekly, Newsweek, and Variety
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In late April 2010, Alan Rich — one of the most-bylined American classical-music critics of the post-1960 era — died at 85 of natural causes. His career had taken him across the NY Times, Variety, LA Daily News, California magazine, the…
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Denise Cramsey, the Extreme Makeover producer who died at 41 — and a Variety obit that aged well
By Cassidy Lee · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In late November 2010, reality TV producer Denise Cramsey — the Emmy-winning executive producer of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Trading Spaces, and School Pride — died at 41 of a brain aneurysm. Variety’s Stuart Levine wrote the kind of obit that…
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The LA Press Club’s 2009 National Entertainment Journalism Awards call for entries
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, January 2009 In late January 2009, FishbowlLA flagged the approaching deadline for the LA Press Club’s National Entertainment Journalism Awards — with a wry note that FBLA had found the call for entries on Craigslist rather than receiving it directly. Then…
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The Huffington Post Investigative Fund’s May 2009 launch — Lawrence Roberts, Nick Penniman, and the nonprofit-investigative model
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, May 2009 In late May 2009, the Huffington Post Investigative Fund announced that Lawrence Roberts — the Washington Post’s Investigations Editor — would join as the Fund’s Executive Editor. Arianna Huffington chaired the Fund’s Advisory Board; Nick Penniman was the Executive…