By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Kate on FishbowlLA, 2006
In late 2006, the Los Angeles Times was still investing in its weekend arts coverage — and went looking for an editor with magazine pedigree.
Then
FishbowlLA reported that LA Times editor John Montorio had told the newsroom that Mary Kaye Schilling would join in February as editor of Calendar Weekend. Schilling arrived with a strong magazine resume: a former editor at Entertainment Weekly and, earlier, an editor at the influential 1990s teen magazine Sassy.
The hire was part of a planned relaunch. The Times wanted to overhaul Weekend and its companion website, calendarlive.com, which FishbowlLA noted had a less-than-stellar reputation. Schilling was relocating from Australia, where she had been a senior editor at Time Warner’s Who magazine.
Now
The optimism behind the hire did not survive the decade. The Los Angeles Times spent the late 2000s and 2010s contracting — repeated ownership changes, deep newsroom cuts and a steady trimming of standalone sections. Calendar Weekend as a distinct print product faded, and calendarlive.com was eventually folded into the paper’s main site.
Schilling’s own career continued in magazine and digital journalism. The 2006 item is a small snapshot of a moment when a major metropolitan newspaper could still recruit nationally for a section editor — before the economics of print forced the Times to stop expanding and start defending what it had.
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