Westside Today Headlines http://www.westsidetoday.com/news-s21/1/publisher-s-notebook.html Sat, 18 May 2013 07:07:35 -0700 en-us Copyright 2013, Westside Today http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/c_7TzXDT_d0/come-meet-the-candidates.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-8865/come-meet-the-candidates.html Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:07:35 -0700 Happy New Year!A city council race – and the mayoral race – are hard upon us. We all vote March 5. The Brentwood News is delighted to host a “meet the candidate” forum at University Synagogue on the evening of Thursday, February 7. Mike Bonin, Tina Hess, Odysseus Bostick and Frederick Sutton will each tell you why he or she is the best candidate to replace Bill Rosendahl, who is stepping back to fight his battle with cancer. We’ll start at 7:30 p.m. and end at 9 p.m.I’ll moderate...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-8865/come-meet-the-candidates.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/JziqNiz1CuY/dog-spas-vs-justice.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-8608/dog-spas-vs-justice.html Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:07:35 -0700 You’d be amazed at how many press releases we get promoting the darndest things. Just read some of the verbiage from this press release promoting a holiday getaway for dogs:“Pooch Hotel Santa Monica”, we’re told, is a “five star” fitness center for dogs, complete with poolside cabanas, “palace” suites, a spa, perfectly manicured grass, all enclosed by a white picket fence.Amenities include DogTV, a custom swimming pool complete with floating dog beds, “Poochberry facials,” m...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-8608/dog-spas-vs-justice.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/1cRYgvI9gg0/a-tax-everyone-can.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-8510/a-tax-everyone-can.html Tue, 04 Dec 2012 07:07:35 -0700 Measure J, the ballot proposition that would have extended the Measure R sales tax – facilitating the speeding up of much-needed public transportation infrastructure – fell just short of the two-thirds vote required. Opponents to Measure J included some citizens of Beverly Hills who don’t want a subway tunnel built beneath Beverly Hills High School. To demonstrate their ire, many opposed Measure J as a form of protest. Earlier, opponents to the Beverly Hills section of the proposed subway ...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-8510/a-tax-everyone-can.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/4_KTRSMEylU/500-000-new-jobs.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-5933/500-000-new-jobs.html Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:07:35 -0700 I’m an old-fashioned print guy now reinventing himself as a dot-com mogul wannabe. Like everyone in this town, I’ve got this big idea I’m working on. More and more I find myself talking to fellow entrepreneurs, website designers, potential funders, lawyers and various “deal” guys. It’s very clear to me that there are tons of startups out there that, if funded, could likely do very well. Some of the ideas are pretty amazing. Small armies of highly energetic kids are ready to rock...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-5933/500-000-new-jobs.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/UWpYJtVfSQs/brentwood-beat.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-5384/brentwood-beat.html Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:07:35 -0700 I’m assuming everyone knows by now that the 405 will shut down late Friday, July 15, 2011 through very early Monday morning, July 18, 2011. Just in case you didn’t know, now you do. Many say they will leave town rather than be subjected to this debacle. How silly. The 405 closure is a great opportunity in disguise. It will be a great weekend, you wait and see.I remember the “Storm of 1978” while a graduate student in Boston. For days, the snow fell. And fell. And fell. It was am...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-5384/brentwood-beat.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/_vgi77LoQ18/brentwood-beat-transition-time.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-5181/brentwood-beat-transition-time.html Fri, 20 May 2011 07:07:35 -0700 The recent Obama visit, as always, got everyone excited. Traffic wasn’t too bad this time, but many were disappointed that they weren’t able to catch a glimpse of the president at Tavern Restaurant. Several locals were waiting across the street, hoping to greet the president.His security detail chose instead to drive the president down a back alley, where his limo parked beneath a tent behind Tavern. From there, the president was whisked inside the restaurant via the kitchen. Those standi...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-5181/brentwood-beat-transition-time.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/RPmFm7PKIeo/va-debate-heats-up.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-4659/va-debate-heats-up.html Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:07:35 -0700 This subject is sensitive, timely, important and complex -- and goes to the heart of who we are as a community and a society. In the print issue of the Brentwood News, three pages are devoted to divergent views regarding the future of the VA (see pages 10-12). See also “Brentwood Beat,” page 4.It feels as if this conversation is taking off in earnest, we urge you to read this special report. Additional perspectives will be included in our next issue as well. We welcome your thoughts on t...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-4659/va-debate-heats-up.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/Euhr78YajlA/brentwood-beat-note-to.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-3859/brentwood-beat-note-to.html Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:07:35 -0700 I think the BCC, or Brentwood Community Council, has been a good thing. Since its formation, the community has a central point of communication to hash out issues of importance. But the BCC is starting to remind me of seventh grade student council. At the beginning of each meeting, all kinds of committee reports are given. It can take up to an hour or more to go through some pretty ho-hum items. Finally, after all that, time is allotted to take up new business – which, on occasion, includ...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-3859/brentwood-beat-note-to.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/X8cE3v4V7S4/she-ll-be-missed.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-3016/she-ll-be-missed.html Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:07:35 -0700 As I think everyone knows, Barbara Goldenberg had been suffering some health issues for a while now. Not that she ever complained -- not at all -- she was always cheerful, positive, full of life.I can't imagine there was a person anywhere who didn't like her. In addition to her many civic contributions, she was maybe the nicest, most genuine, open, polite and friendly person on the planet. If everyone treated each other the way Barbara treated everyone, world peace would reign supreme.Her pas...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-3016/she-ll-be-missed.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/g92uxUsAFzE/sarah-is-back-.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-2789/sarah-is-back-.html Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:07:35 -0700 Sarah will help relaunch the Brentwood News.http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-2789/sarah-is-back-.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/xc7PTR3HlpE/brentwood-news-coming-back.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-2604/brentwood-news-coming-back.html Mon, 10 May 2010 07:07:35 -0700 Greetings, all.Thanks for all your well wishes. Everywhere I go, people tell me they miss the Brentwood News.We had to stop publishing for a while, we got hammered by the economy.But soon we'll have a new newspaper and a great new website up and running again. If you want to write for us, check out our "contribute" button in the top of the left column. You can post your own stories, subject to our review. We hope this will become a site that's known for its citizen journalism. Accor...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-2604/brentwood-news-coming-back.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/9JI_3D9H8XE/meg-whitman-wows-beverly.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-2526/meg-whitman-wows-beverly.html Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:07:35 -0700 I was at the Beverly Hilton the other night attending a business function. When I first arrived, it was clear something big was going on at the hotel. A crowd was gathering and there were maybe 20 security guys running around wearing those earplugs with the skin-toned wires that go down the backs of their collars.I learned that Meg Whitman would be arriving in an hour or so to attend a political fundraiser. I asked a member of her staff if I could attend and a helpful press aide obliged. My t...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-2526/meg-whitman-wows-beverly.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/p7_w3WugNWY/community-matters-an-incomprehensible.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-2310/community-matters-an-incomprehensible.html Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:07:35 -0700 A collective shudder shook the Westside in recent days -- especially among parents of school children who jump on the school buses that criss-cross town every morning and afternoon.Julia Siegler, 13, a student at Harvard-Westlake, was struck by two cars as she tried to cross Sunset at the intersection of Cliffwood and Sunset in Brentwood. As everyone knows by now, she was killed. If you can, pull over and take a look at the shrine of flowers, candles, pictures and written statements that now oc...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-2310/community-matters-an-incomprehensible.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/APnsydLPYa4/community-matters.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-1251/community-matters.html Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:07:35 -0700 http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-1251/community-matters.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/_Uuo8qWARtM/staying-alive.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-1198/staying-alive.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:07:35 -0700 Times are tough in the publishing business, everyone knows that. But my marching orders from community leaders is very clear: Stay alive, no matter what it takes. Whatever cutbacks we have to undertake for now are OK and understandable; our readers and advertisers will forgive us, I'm told. The key thing is to stay alive. Popular wisdom has it that the Internet is putting papers and magazines out of business. I don't think that's too big a factor at the local level -- at least not yet. Righ...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-1198/staying-alive.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/r56lr9f1fiw/come-to.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-939/come-to.html Mon, 04 May 2009 07:07:35 -0700 On May 27, from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Luxe Sunset Hotel in Brentwood, Westside Today will host a seminar called "New Media Made Easy."At this introductory session, our instructors, Karl Susman and Angel McClinton, will go over the basics of social media, new gadgets (cell phones, laptops, GPS trackers, etc.) and e-commerce. This introductory session will be followed by nine different modules -- Google, Social Media, PCs, MACs, Applications, Important Websites, Cell Phones, Shar...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-939/come-to.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/gGNPlBxkFTo/time-for-reinvention.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-725/time-for-reinvention.html Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:07:35 -0700 Everyone I know is saying it: it’s time for all of us to reinvent ourselves.With the April editions of Westside Today magazines, we’ve heeded that call and our magazines have officially undergone a reinvention of their own. Just as Westwood has the “W” Hotel, and Orange County is referred to as “The OC,” our staff often uses “WT” as shorthand for “Westside Today.” If Oprah Winfrey can put out a magazine called “O,” we believe we can be equally bold and refer to ourselves...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-725/time-for-reinvention.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/UeywQ4bNcz8/community-matters.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-519/community-matters.html Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:07:35 -0700 A few months ago we said we were going to host a “recession buster” networking party. Some working on the event said they thought there wasn’t enough time to pull it all together, so we postponed.Many of you were disappointed and keep asking when we’re going to do this. Clearly it’s the right idea at the right time.Well, now we’re on again. Let’s do it this time. And let’s do it right!Mark your calendars for the evening of Monday, February 23, from 6 p.m. till 9 p.m. The event wi...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-519/community-matters.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/2RTxAE7J8OA/community-matters.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-439/community-matters.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:07:35 -0700 Got Chickens?Sometimes things have to get really bad before they can become good again. As painful as the current situation is, deep down inside we all knew something had been off track for quite some time. The day of reckoning had to come. And so it did. And now here we are. That good times can follow bad is something we all need to keep in mind right now. Clearly the current economy is exceedingly painful. I know we’re sure feeling it at Westside Today.Publishing is not an easy field in whic...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-439/community-matters.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/DguwmMUlkk8/small-business-conference-postponed.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-434/small-business-conference-postponed.html Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:07:35 -0700 It was felt we didn't have enough time to line up speakers, sell tickets, etc.So we've postponed the planned "Small Business Conference" (our "recession buster" gathering) till January.Keep checking in, sorry for any inconvenience.http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-434/small-business-conference-postponed.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/f0cYAt8qDCU/community-matters.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-310/community-matters.html Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:07:35 -0700 Ten-Point Program for Saving AmericaThe presidential candidates are rushing toward the middle in the hope of capturing undecided voters. This is good; Americans are fundamentally a centrist people. Just in case the winner is too tired to remember his platform, here’s one he can use:1. 100% energy independence within ten years. A massive investment in green technology, pumping up our economy along the way. An “all of the above” approach to energy production, coupled with massive conservatio...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-310/community-matters.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/tmdGO-6w_hM/community-matters.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-251/community-matters.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:07:35 -0700 Westside Today, publisher of this magazine, is delighted to announce a new joint venture with Price Item Media, producer of several “This Week” e-mail blasts. For several years, Price Item has been producing “This Week in Malibu” and “This Week in Palisades.” It’s a weekly e-mail service chock-full of local headlines in brief, upcoming events and other announcements, as well as special deals from local merchants.Residents of these towns love this convenient service and the Palisa...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-251/community-matters.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/KAUSVzFNT1w/community-matters.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-206/community-matters.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:07:35 -0700 Kids Vs. AdultsIt’s August, and almost time for the kids to go back to school.It’s a shame today’s kids are growing up in such a scary time, but I have faith in this next generation. They do an awful lot right.I remember the original Earth Day back in 1970 (and the Santa Barbara oil spill that led up to it). We talked a good game back then about all we were going to do to save the planet. Today’s kids are actually taking action.Alas, the oil shortage of the 1970s wasn’t painful enough ...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-206/community-matters.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/fA7YUoXA7ZM/feedback-is-a-good.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-107/feedback-is-a-good.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:07:35 -0700 First of all, thank you for all the great feedback regarding our new format. I don’t think we heard a single negative all month, and we heard lots and lots of positives. We are still ramping up and will be delivering more improvements in the months to come, so stay tuned.Our new website is up and running and we’ll continue to load it with tons of great content. We want WestsideToday.com to be a great resource for anyone who wants to know everything about the Westside.It will take just a shor...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-107/feedback-is-a-good.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishersNotebook-WestsideToday/~3/GHimhM7j2RY/community-matters.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-56/community-matters.html Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:07:35 -0700 If you have been a long-term reader of our magazine, as you flip through the pages of this issue, you will likely notice some changes. We’ve put a nicer cover on the magazine and we’re using a better paper stock for our inside pages as well. We’re also a bit smaller, which we hope you will find more user-friendly. We’ve introduced a few new editorial improvements and we will continue to add more in the coming months. Check out especially our more localized pages for each of the towns we ...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s21-56/community-matters.html