Saturday, October 11, 2014

Box Office Mojo - Serems to Return From The Dead! But - Is It Really Alive?

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 For now, at least.... And the site is still lacking the Friday box office numbers. 6 AM Sunday October 12th Update -  Still no Friday ...

Walking Tours of Historic Downtown Los Angeles Resume This Sunday Oct. 12th at 11 PM and Next Saturday at 10:30 AM and Next Sunday at 11 AM

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Yes, with the Sunday morning fog keeping  temperatures down tomorrow until after the post 1 PM burn-off, I am scheduling a two hour walking...

BOX Office Mojo Site Goes Dead - And Redirects to (also Owned by Amazon) IMBd's Site

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My best - or worst - I should say, guess is that  everything currently free on Box Office Mojo - other then the daily overview chart - mig...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Walking Tours of Historic Downtown LA Return Starting This Weekend September 27th & 28th from The Last Bookstore

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Yes, with temperatures returning to the upper 70's  this Saturday & Sunday September 27th & 28th,  there will be walking tours o...
Friday, August 01, 2014

Private PG&E Replaces Power Pole for $11,000; City of LA Owned DWP - Costs $42,000! Almost 400% More!

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  photo courtesy of Daily News While researching the present day labor costs for the DWP water main replacement program to update yester...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Neighborhood Councils Know The REAL Reason LA Has 90 Year Old Plus Water Mains Exploding - UPDATE

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A lot of ink was spilled this morning on why Los Angeles hasn't rebuilt its decaying infrastructure after a good portion of  UCLA ...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

Down Under + Ancient Greece & Rome Invade Downtown LA's Last Boostore $1 Room!

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Now that the long awaited final two volumes of the nine volume 1988  edition of the... Australian Encyclopaedia   have have finally t...
Friday, July 25, 2014

Four Headlines on Front Page of Los AngelesTimes Website - If It Bleeds - It Leads!

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Seriously - the LA Times had to go to Kansas to get the 4th dead people in a row headline? No survivors of Air Algerie plane crash in Mal...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Latest Unbelievable Bargains in the One Dollar Room at The Last Bookstore

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View of 1st floor of The Last Bookstore Since my last posting, 2,000 more novels, short story collections and memoirs have arrived in t...
Monday, July 21, 2014

Why Many Used Bookstore Are Closing - Including Brand Books

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photo by David Allen I didn't know Glendale's Brand Books was closing until Keven Roderick of LA Observed   linked to a story ...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

Jerry Janger, Husband, Father, Art Collector and Civic Patron, Passes Away

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I just discovered art collector and civic patron Jerry Janger recently passed away at his home surrounded by his family including, Linda,...

The $1 Room Welcomes Just Downpriced Books on Anicent Rome & Greece, the Civil War, all things Nautical & Boating, and much, much more!

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Besides the several... thousand.... down priced literary, contemporary and even some classic novels arriving every week in the $1 Ro...

Superb Essay on Why Not Only Zumthor's Design for LACMA is a Disaster - But Why Zumthor Himself is Wrong for LACMA - And Los Angeles! UPDATE at End!

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Today's issue of LARB (The Los Angeles Review of Books - which you should be subscribing to if you aren't already) has a stunning...
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Detailed Proof How the Russians Shot Down the Malaysian Plane

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BLOOD ON PUTIN'S HANDS: A Russian SA-11 missile launcher, which was used to bring Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 down, was operated by...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

Brilliant Overview of Putin's Ukraine Role. And This is a Must Read for Everyone.

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While I haven't regularly read SLATE in years, after experiencing Anne Applebaum's - brilliant - and there is no other word to descr...
Friday, July 18, 2014

Special Saturday July 19th Morning Walking Tour of DTLA on How to Fix Los Angeles

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Besides some of the usual history of Historic Downtown Los Angeles - at the request of two frequent visitors to Downtown, this  Saturd...