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A blatant miscarriage of justice

A blatant miscarriage of justice

| October 26, 2023 | 0 Comments

[This month, our movie reviewer — a lawyer and decades-long member of the California Bar — turns his focus on a single movie. – Ed.] The Burial (3/10), 126 minutes, R. At first glance, this is a pleasing, feel-good story — about Jerry O’Keefe (Tommy Lee Jones), a white businessman who owned funeral homes and […]

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This wrestler is fit and won’t miss his Thanksgiving meal

This wrestler is fit and won’t miss his Thanksgiving meal

| October 26, 2023 | 0 Comments

USA Wrestling is this country’s national governing body for the sport of wrestling, which, with the possible exception of athletics (“track and field”), is recognized as the world’s oldest competitive sport. USA Wrestling says that, “guided by the Olympic Spirit,” it exists to provide “quality opportunities for its members to achieve their full human and […]

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City’s Housing Element threatens our historic districts

City’s Housing Element threatens our historic districts

| October 26, 2023 | 0 Comments

In October the governor signed 56 new housing bills in an effort to address California’s housing crisis. The majority of these only continue to chip away at the issue through making construction a little bit easier here, offering an incentive there, or by enacting greater tenant protections, all in the elusive pursuit of bringing the […]

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WSHPHS presents its 2023 Landmark Awards to homes, barn

WSHPHS presents its 2023 Landmark Awards to homes, barn

| July 27, 2023 | 0 Comments

For decades, the local Windsor Square Hancock Park Historical Society has presented Landmark Awards to residences and historic properties in recognition of their architectural and historical significance to the communities within the historic Rancho La Brea. This year, the awards will be presented at the Society’s annual meeting on Sat., July 29. This year’s recipients […]

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An inconvenient truth at the on-pause Mark Taper Forum

An inconvenient truth at the on-pause Mark Taper Forum

| July 27, 2023 | 0 Comments

“How did you go bankrupt?” Hemingway wrote that — although the quote is sometimes attributed to Fitzgerald — the answer was: “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Theaters fail the same way. As reported in the Los Angeles Times (6/20/23) and elsewhere, the Mark Taper Forum is “pausing” production due to financial difficulties. The Taper’s executives […]

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‘Chateaux in the sky’ part 2: Gramercy, St. Andrews and Manhattan

‘Chateaux in the sky’ part 2: Gramercy, St. Andrews and Manhattan

| June 29, 2023 | 0 Comments

‘The Places’ take center stage It must have been quite a shocking sight in the late 1920s as a swell of development erupted in “The Places” along Gramercy, St. Andrews and Manhattan between Third Street and Olympic Boulevard. Like a giant monopoly board, multistory apartment buildings sprouted up amidst a flat landscape of vacant lots, […]

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