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Halloween happenings
Halloween may be three days away, but any true Angeleno knows that the celebrating begins well before Oct. 31. From local pumpkin patches (located at the Original Farmers Market and Wilshire Rotary’s Larchmont lot) to destination events such as Descanso Gardens’ CARVED harvest festival and the immersive family-friendly playground “Haunt O’ Ween” in Woodland Hills, […]
Gift suggestions for the athletic teen in your life
Holiday shopping will be challenging this year. The supply chain apparently has too many interruptions and speed bumps, and the word is out to start buying gifts early. That means now. I’ve been at the helm of this Youth Sports column for a year. When I started, there wasn’t much to write about. The pandemic […]
Rabbi returns to her roots at Temple Israel of Hollywood
When young Mari Chernow, freshly graduated from rabbinical school at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, left in 2003 to take up a position at Temple Chai in Phoenix, she only planned on staying there a couple of years. Eighteen years later, the Southern California native has returned home with her wife Kara and […]
Letters to the Editor
Historic Rossmore I am the grandson of the original builder / developer, Harry Feigenbaum, who successfully built the Ravenswood Apartments prior to the project at 410 N. Rossmore [“Rossmore apartment project presented at a ‘town hall,’” October, 2021.] He owned the property free and clear and operated the Ravenswood. Never being satisfied to sit back […]
Youth Soccer returns to Fairfax for practice, games
A local chapter of the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) is officially up and running. For AYSO Region 78, practice and (notably) games commenced in mid-September at Fairfax High School. While a smaller operation took place last fall with practices only, the full-scale opening is a welcome affair for many young players in our area. […]
Remembering ‘Chronicle’ historian and his wife and daughter
Artist and historian Harry Muir Kurtzworth (1887-1979), whose sketches created for the Larchmont Chronicle are featured in Section One of this issue, is back in the news — the California Art Club Newsletter, to be exact. “It’s very exciting that my grandfather is still very, very popular on Larchmont, and in the Chronicle,” Kurtzworth’s granddaughter, […]
