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The Times is throwing five writers into Extra Points, "the inside scoop on Southland football:" Staffers Eric Sondheimer, Mike Terry, Martin Henderson and Dan Arritt plus correspondent Eric Maddy.
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| The funeral for Mark Lacter will be held Sunday, Nov. 24 at 12 noon at Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 W. Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles 90045. Reception to follow.
| Take My Picture Gary Leonard is a regular weekly feature of LA Observed.
| The Cossack had bought his property, as well as the house he lived in, with dirty money.
| No city of LA water main should be 90 years old. What other proof do we need that the city has to invest in its water infrastructure?
| Our modern water systems have made it not only possible, but virtually inevitable, that we should forget where our water comes from and the responsibilities it carries. Myth and art may be our best ways back into that understanding.
| A judge's ruling that declares capital punishment unconstitutional in California causes Martinez to wonder if we are beginning to weary of the savagery and he hopes for the dawning of a new day of compassion.
I asked Junior State high school students how many read newspapers. I expected few hands would be raised in the Los Angeles Times community room. Wrong. Well over a dozen--maybe more--signaled they read those old-fashioned print communications.
Before I lived in Echo Park, there was a tiny 1920s bungalow-cottage-standalone house on N. Occidental in Silver Lake. I...
