Guest · September 1, 2022
New Head of School Jennifer Ciccarelli could be seen in the halls of Marlborough on Aug. 29, the first day of the 2022-2023 school year. Ciccarelli began her tenure at Marlborough on July 1, 2022. The Marlborough Board of Trustees and the Head of School Search Committee announced via email in 2021 that Ciccarelli would […]
Nona Sue Friedman · September 1, 2022
Ali Slagle, author of many recipes for the New York Times and the Washington Post, recently wrote a new cookbook, “I Dream of Dinner (so you don’t have to).” Slagle started experimenting with food in high school. Growing up in Hancock Park with her mother and nonna busy in the kitchen, she attended Marlborough School […]
Suzan Filipek · June 2, 2022
Graduation season is here, and unlike recent years when the pandemic curbed ceremonies to socially distanced virtual and drive-by events, this year’s graduates will be flipping their tassels live before moving on to the next stages of their lives. Here are some of our area schools’ graduation ceremony plans: Episcopal School of Los Angeles will […]
Rachel Olivier · June 3, 2021
During a year unlike most, seniors, their families and school officials worked together to create commencement ceremonies that were safe, hopeful and properly acknowledged the accomplishments of the class of 2021. • • • Immaculate Heart High School, class of 1991 graduate, Tyra Banks, addressed 108 seniors Wed., June 2 at the Hollywood Bowl. Banks […]
Columnist · April 1, 2021
“I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.” – Linda McCartney My only knowledge about genus Equus is that top fuel funny cars have a representational stampede called horse-power under their hoods (I used to write for “Drag Racer” magazine.) My wife was raised on a Central Illinois farm, and she and […]
Jane Gilman · September 30, 2020
What today is known as Harold A. Henry Park was once a family compound consisting of five houses. Dr. Eldie Preston (E.P.) Wood came to Los Angeles in the early 1900s and decided to invest in property. He liked the area between Wilshire Boulevard and Olympic Boulevard (then still 10th Street). The odd-shaped parcel he […]
