Datura - Here in the Malibu

Veronique de Turenne • October 19 2009 10:45 AM

The days broke gloomy all weekend, a lowering sky, slate gray, light shifting so slowly it felt time had stopped.

Amid the muted, muddied colors though, this lone datura glowed, sleek and white and toxic, a ghost amid the spiky brush.

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So here's the thing about beach Frisbees

12:45 PM Thu | County officials seek to clarify all the misinformation out there — but yes, Frisbee throwing is still illegal during summer.

12:22 PM Thu | Union weighs in at Miramonte

11:00 AM Thu | Trutanich states the obvious: he's running

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Why does MarketWatch employ a columnist who is a white nationalist?

1:14 PM Thu | He's also editor of VDare, which publishes the works of anti-Semitic and racist writers.

11:49 AM Thu | Forget the naysayers, January's employment report really was good

10:59 AM Thu | Mortgage settlement not perfect but acceptable

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