Tuesday, November 30, 2010 9:56 AM Shabana Rehman will make you laugh in unexpected ways. She is also a bit of a celebrity for being the first Muslim woman comedian in Norway—a title not without its dangers. Now she’s coming to Los Angeles to share her shocking and gut-wrenching stories in her one-woman show, The Homeland Insecurity Show. Rehman draws the audience in with off-beat humor, captivates with honesty and floors us with emotion. Rehman is known for other reasons.. She’s a Mullah lifter! To summarize a comical story, she…
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Top journalists run for press club board
Monday, November 29, 2010 10:07 AM Active press club members will receive a piece of snail mail on Tuesday or Wednesday marked “Ballot Inside” for the election of seven new journalists to the Press Club Board of Directors. Please open it up, select your choices and mail it back right away, because we’ll be counting the votes on December 13. If you do not receive your ballot by Thursday, December 2, please contact Diana Ljungaeus at Diana @lapressclub.org so she can get you a ballot immediately. Candidates for 2011 LA…
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Friday, November 12, 2010 10:28 AM By Richard Horgan on November 12, 2010 10:30 AM HEAR PODCAST Although Variety‘s Andrew Stewart was a no-show at the Thursday, November 11th Los Angeles Press Clubpanel discussion examining the challenging future of entertainment trade reporting, that still left Gregg Kilday of The Hollywood Reporter, Bob Tourtellottefrom Reuters, Andrew Hampp of Ad Age and The Wrap’s Josh Dickey (pictured), subbing for a screening-diverted Sharon Waxman.During a 90-minute discussion moderated by NPR contributor Anthea Raymond, each panelist made fine observations about the current state of…
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Monday, November 01, 2010 10:56 AM “I’ve Gone from Erection Radio to Election Radio” — Jack Silver –excerpt from LARadio.com by Don Barrett. (November 1, 2010) Bill Moran, entertainment veteran talk show host (KABC, KFI, et al) and 14 years with Billboard Magazine, hosted another industry Talk radio seminar Thursday night at the LA Press Club and this was his best one yet. Perhaps it was the intimate setting of the Steve Allen Theatre where the assembled leaders of the Talk radio community shared their thoughts on the state of…
See MoreCovering Media and Entertainment in the Cross-Platform Age
Monday, November 01, 2010 10:52 AM The trades are changing. For one, The Hollywood Reporter is remaking itself as a breaking news website with a weekly glossy magazine for back up. The new editorial team has already made its mark, taking on Hollywood insiders used to a free pass. How have new web-only publications like The Wrap given THR new grit? Will other trade publications respond? Will audiences notice? — Join us as key players from the Hollywood trades come to the Los Angeles Press Club to ponder the future…
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