Archive for March, 2023
Rabbi to speak on hate crimes
A spate of hate crimes targeting Jews is a painful reminder of the stubborn survival of antisemitism and has prompted the local Holocaust Museum LA to hold a public conversation Sun., March 12 at 10 a.m. “We invite our friends throughout Los Angeles to join us for an important conversation addressing contemporary antisemitism,” museum officials […]
Science and community come together at La Brea Tar Pits
There’s a lot going on at the La Brea Tar Pits. We recently talked with Dr. Emily Lindsey, associate curator and excavation site director at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum. Said Lindsey, “Because of its location, [the site] really has the power to bring its story to millions of people. We can take […]
Metro incites action both above and below ground
Whether you build under ground or above, the issues facing the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) are formidable, which is why we were gladdened when just-elected mayor Karen Bass told us she was looking forward to joining the board of Metro to help tackle some of the challenges (many of the most current […]
Citrus Square: paradise planned next to Hancock Park
George Allan Hancock was truly one of the great aristocrats of his day. Scion of the Gilded Age, he was the son of Major Henry Hancock (the owner of the Rancho La Brea) and Ida Haraszthy Hancock, the daughter of Hungarian count Agoston Haraszthy, aka “the Father of California Viticulture.” George Allan Hancock abandoned the […]
John Irving’s new book echoes his own youth as an athlete
I have read John Irving, and he has read me. Mr. Irving has been a subscriber to Amateur Wrestling News since the early 1970s. I’ve been writing 20 years for the publication and am presently the managing editor. “Wherever I’ve lived, Amateur Wrestling News has reached me,” he said. Mr. Irving, who won the Academy […]
Profanity through the ages has had varied meanings
In January, an employment judge in the United Kingdom presiding over a case of unfair dismissal ruled that using the F-word in the workplace was now “commonplace” and that its use in a particularly “tense” meeting did not “carry the shock value [it] might have done in another time.” Indeed, many have observed this […]
