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September 30, 2006
For the last year, the City of L.A. has been developing an aggressive master plan for our notorious 51-mile Grand Sewer. Imagine turning L.A.'s ultimate symbol of Everything Gone Wrong into a long greenway.
September 29, 2006
The Chateau Marmont on the Sunset Strip ranks high on my children’s list of cool L.A. literary sites. It’s not...
First day of classes yesterday at UCLA and the place was packed. I've been doing some research on campus, learning...
September 28, 2006
"Getty Underground" is an in-house art show of work by museum employees — from curators to receptionists. They do it every two years, but only staffers and selected visitors ever get to see it.
September 26, 2006
(Written in American Airlines security waiting line at LAX) Here I sit, watching X-rays of your suitcase for six twenty-five...
September 25, 2006
So I went to the Lion's Club flea market in Malibu yesterday and the tiara I've been rendezvousing with for...
September 21, 2006
Okay, okay. I haven’t contributed anything to these electronic pages for weeks. Truth be told I’ve been editing my latest...
Sometimes you have to face your fears. That’s why I took my bad old self down to Vroman’s in Pasadena...
September 16, 2006
This is a great time to be living in California. With less than two months before the election, we’re about...
September 13, 2006
Reading the strange Internet saga of Lonelygirl15, I was immediately struck by how closely the real-life story resembled a major plot thread in William Gibson’s latest novel "Pattern Recognition."
September 10, 2006
Tonight, trying to decide whether to watch the start of the ABC docudrama or the end of the Manning Brothers...
Ever since I lived in New Mexico, I have admired tarantulas. They have shape and heft and maybe it's all...
September 08, 2006
For once I can recommend a fact-based melodrama that doesn’t have to dip into cornball fiction. The film is called...
September 06, 2006
As someone who writes often about nature in Los Angeles, I have a few favorite spots where I like to...
My daughter ran into the house the other night screaming that there was a tarantula on an outside window near...
September 03, 2006
In 1938, my then fifteen year old mother and her mother fled Vienna a step ahead of the Nazis, and...
September 01, 2006
As editor of a short story anthology called “Los Angeles Noir” that’s due out in April 2007, I’ve been forced...
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