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The phone calls started coming in early today as the LA Weekly and its cover story on the Neighborhood Councils hit news racks around town. ...

In Roger Vincent's excellent (as usual) article in today's LAT's Sunday business section, he mentions the until now only rumored...

I can count on one hand the number of times I have been photographed since age 17 other than by family or by female and other friends. I ha...

If anything proves the Neighborhood Councils are a work in progress, today's Mayor's Budget Day did. Last year, each Neighborhood C...

Shortly after I started this blog... my life abruptly changed, a not too uncommon occurrence in my life; hence my recent hiatus. To my su...

An era of American and world history ended today with the passing of former President Ronald Reagan. The first time I ever met Reagan wa...

One of the great civic benefactors of Los Angeles died yesterday, but you would never know it by reading the news sections of the Chicago, I...

In today's LAT, Bob Pool covers the impending demolition of the historic Wilshire eatery, Perino's - the site of so much of Los Ange...

Two events have finally pushed me over the edge into the living hell that is blogdom. FIrst, both the process and the end result of the Gran...

Accepting a dare from Matt Welch of the late, and greatly lamented (other than by the LA Times, of course), LA Examiner - I am going to take...