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SBBA 2023: Team Mexico wins D-League finals
The SBBA (Saint Brendan Basketball Association) 2023 season concluded Saturday, March 25 with the division playoff semifinals and title games. That was nine games in one day! Doesn’t get any better for youth basketball fans. Championship Saturday began early with the first of two Bobcat Division (ages 8-9) semifinal games. The eventual champions were Salt […]
Festivities, fundraising and honorees begin to fill calendars
Due to yet another rainy weekend in Los Angeles, the outdoor Civic Leadership Forum (CLF) brunch that the Junior League of Los Angeles (JLLA) hosted was moved indoors at the last minute, but that didn’t dim the spirits or significance of the occasion: to highlight and exchange information about the current foster care system and […]
Wilshire Rotary 90th, Larchmont Charter fundraiser, teepee, more
Ninety years ago, the average cost of lunch was 75 cents and a movie ticket just 35 cents. The year 1932 also was when the Wilshire Rotary Club gained its charter and began serving our neighborhood through its charitable works and other support for our community. Meetings took place at the Wilshire Country Club and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
