Kevin Roderick launched LA Observed in 2003 and is the site's editor and publisher. His bio is here. Website | Email Most of his 10,000 entries have been written for his editor's blog. Browse or ...

This is Kevin Roderick with LA Observed for KCRW. At this year's Grammy awards, two giant media planets left their own orbits and collided. A photographer at the Universal Music after-party snapped ...

This is Kevin Roderick with LA Observed for KCRW. Welcome to the new news year. When the calendar turns, convention calls for being upbeat about the unknown opportunities the future may hold. And ...

This is Kevin Roderick with LA Observed for KCRW. Remember back about three years ago when Mel Gibson, the actor, was arrested in Malibu for driving under the influence? There’s a new controversy ...

Larry Mantle talks with Kevin Roderick, author of The San Fernando Valley: America's Suburb (Los Angeles Times Books) and with Ken Bernstein of the Los Angeles Conservancy about the history and untold ...