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September 26, 2007
Channel 4's Bob Long and Channel 9's Mary Beth McDade both touched nerves, in different ways.
Village Voice Media's top dog doesn't see any of the controversy that has roiled the LA Weekly in the past year.
A reader appreciates William Lobdell's reporting on Orange County lifeguards.
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How is it that until about a week ago I'd never heard of the surrealist photographer Francesca Woodman? We even went to the same school.
Phil Wallace / Feeling regret?
Seventeen years after the Rams and Raiders left town, neither team is better off. Now both are threatening to move back.
Ellen Alperstein / Nature comes calling
Sometimes you just have to raise your outdoor voice.
SoCal Sports Observed
After 22 years of loyalty, Baylor is unceremoniously shown the door.
Bill Boyarsky
Parents have won partial restoration of federal poverty funds for 23 schools in the San Fernando Valley and the Westside. Many of the schools are in middle class neighborhoods but have substantial numbers of poor students.
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Jenny Burman
Elvis on the Avenue.
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Here in Malibu
They're very big and they're very hungry.
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