Semi OT: LA Dog Trainer drops the Calendar section

[Kevin M.]

Effective immediately if not sooner, the Times has an entertainment section just like every other newspaper… because unoriginality will obviously translate to more readers.

They’ve only had a Calendar section for 64 years, so it wasn’t an ingrained piece of LA culture or anything. 

Kevin M. (RPCV)

[Jim Ellwanger]

It's been "Calendar" in name only for quite a while (heck, it hasn't even been published on Saturdays for the past few years), so the name change gets a big shrug from me.

For example, they don't seem to be moving very quickly to hire a new regular film critic after the departure of Justin Chiang - the anemic number of movie reviews they currently publish are mainly coming from the syndicated Katie Walsh of Tribune News Service, filled in by some freelancers.

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[Dave Sikula]

"In my day," the Calendar was a vital part of the arts in Southern California, with really superb critics (Dan Sullivan, Sylvie Drake, Charles Champlin, and even Martin Bernheimer and Robert Hilburn). Over the years, it's been dumbed down to the point where the Sunday section is little better than People or Tiger Beat.

I'm no fan of Chiang (his moving to The New Yorker strikes me as guaranteeing that they still have a really lousy film critic when Richard Brody finally -- finally! - leaves). but there's really not a lot there now. Charles McNulty is an excellent theatre reviewer, but I expect someone will snatch him away. (Hopefully, it'll be the New York Times, which could really use a perspective that doesn't center on Manhattan and the West End.)

--Dave Sikula