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June 30, 2008
Librarians are some of my personal heroes, providing a beacon of light in a world that often seems hellbent on...
June 29, 2008
But please don’t just think of of the victims.
June 27, 2008
The 17 access gates remain unlocked from the beach side--with one exception.
June 26, 2008
The right candidates should be alive to [keep abreast of] current events.
June 25, 2008
WASHINGTON D.C., JUNE 25, 2008: In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court earlier today struck down as cruel and...
The "New Chinatown" re-dedicated at free festival this weekend
Carbon Beach is open 24 hours, and that includes the 56 dry-sand easements.
June 22, 2008
Seven words that describe how I feel ...
LA Eastside.com blog covers the fight to save the fading murals of East Los Angeles this week.
June 21, 2008
So I’m driving along Interstate 5, minding my own business, when a car one lane over and ahead of me...
June 20, 2008
Skylight Books hosts Skylight Salon this Summer Solstice
June 19, 2008
You don't have to be a Los Angeleno to greet all diet claims with immediate suspicion.
June 14, 2008
He did not believe in Father's Day. He found it crass, commercial, and entirely pointless.
June 10, 2008
On Saturday, author Erik Davis and Esotouric Tours led about 30 enthusiasts on a five hour pilgrimage to local occult landmarks cited in Davis's 2006 book, The Visionary State: A Journey Through California's Spiritual Landscape.
June 08, 2008
Prefiguring Trigger's imprint on Hollywood and Vine by eons, Miocene hoofprints are embedded on a Mojave wall.
June 06, 2008
The California Myth Authority announces a big scavenger hunt for library conference-goers in Anaheim this month.
June 05, 2008
Us mommies are mad. We have baked and fundraised, sold magazines and clocked in endless volunteer hours at our children's schools, trying make up for previous budget cuts that have left our schools without teacher's aides, arts programs, working computers, you name it.
June 03, 2008
Plus the return of the Malibu Public Beaches Safaris. Skills-enhancing activities include a public-private boundary hike, sign watching, a no-kill hunt for accessways, and a public easement potluck.
Imagine Rocky Horror Picture Show meets Little Shop of Horrors. Now, throw in cockroaches, cloak & dagger CIA types, hitmen, a love story and lots of rock, rap and dancing.
June 02, 2008
He told me he had played music with guys named Chubby Checker, Fats Domino and someone named Muddy Waters, all names I had never heard of and which made me laugh, they sounded so silly.
Charles Brittin's images of 1950s and '60s Los Angeles — especially the art avant-garde and Venice Beach before money arrived — might finally bring him the fame he deserves.
The National Needle Arts Association's 3rd annual Stitch N' Pitch tour lands in Dodger Stadium tonight.
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