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Sure, "Sex and the City" makes a trip to New York City seem glamorous. Any chance to take a bite out of the Big Apple is always fun.
Frank Girardot: Coyotes are getting as bold as crooks
A few weeks ago, I had a surprise late-night encounter with three coyotes roaming the streets of Los Feliz.
Claudia Heller: The gift of young hearts
GO FISH: Les Lazarus, 102, lived through the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. He is a resident at Royal Oaks Manor in Duarte.
About 95 percent of the more than 2,700 security alarms the Arcadia Police Department responded to last year turned out to be false alarms.
Michael Sarabia was born in Boyle Heights, attended Roosevelt High School, graduating in 1974. via La Bloga
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No police officers were killed in the North Hollywood bank robbery shooting of February 28, 1997 Venice Beach is the second largest tourist attraction in California, after Disneyland The City of Los Angeles is ... via Los Angeles Police Department
The Pasadena Symphony Association's free concert series, "Cl sica - las ra ces de la m sica" , presents Huayucaltia at 2 p.m. May 17 at the Autry National Center, 4700 Western Heritage Way. via Pasadena Star-News
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Remember When for April 29, 2008
“It's been the most satisfying project of my career”
The bill was reportedly passed on the merits of providing a road of military importance. via Lassen County Times & Westwood Pine P...
Booking Passage and Crossing Paths
A few years ago at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, I saw an image that summed up the entire festival: Nation editor and publisher Victor Navasky crossing paths on the UCLA quad with film critic and ... via City Beat
“We're proud Americans, and when we see something we don't like, we sound off about it.”
During this weekend's 34th Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, it might be a draw for what's louder and more brutal - the roar of the engines or the music of Pennywise. via Press-Telegram
“For book lovers, a lot of (coming to Acres) was the experience”
For locals like Stan Poe and S&e Reed, Acres of Books has been more than a bookstore to them. via Press-Telegram
“It's an occasion when the big brown envelope arrives”
The dozen friends met when they were young, at the University of North Dakota, and they've stayed in touch the old-fashioned way, by writing letters. via San Diego Union-Tribune
“Pa's nose fell off at breakfast.”
HAD he not cemented his cinematic rep with Richard Matheson's horror story 'Duel,' Steven Spielberg might still be struggling in television. via Los Angeles Times
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Remember When for April 1, 2008
“It's like you gave me my baby back. It's like I have given birth again”
An article stated more people were looking to escape from the nation's big cities on the East Coast and along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. via Lassen County Times & Westwood Pine P...
Choosing the best for Bradbury
“I would like to bring them together”
IN tiny Bradbury, City Council challenger Marisela C. Adams has found several important issues to run on. via Whittier Daily News
Noted novelist Arthur Lyons dies
“It ran for a couple of years. That's one of the things that Art was really proud of”
Arthur Lyons, a man as colorful as the characters in his film noir books and films, died early Friday at Desert Regional Medical Center at age 62. via Desert Sun
Jamie Nichols works hard to put on 'Celebrate Dance'
“She's a wonderful mover and shaker for dance in L.A., and I'm glad she's in our community”
She's done the fundraising and the marketing, including mailing 5,000 postcards, doling out scores more and blasting 2,500 e-mail accounts. via Los Angeles Times
Engineer Banks strives to sip fuel, burn...
“I laid out a design for a turbocharged four-cylinder engine that would power a half-ton truck. They thought it was crazy.”
His business has always been in the drag strips, salt flats and gearhead garages of Southern California. via AutoWeek
Ballot measure seeks to divide city into districts
“We're an ethnically diverse city, but that diversity was too spread out across the city and it wasn't well represented”
If a proposed ballot measure to split the city into districts eventually succeeds, it will be the fourth in the San Gabriel Valley to abolish citywide council elections. via San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Student opinion counts with lawmakers, trustee learns
“Instead he turned to me and said 'I want to hear from you.'”
Media Credit: Photo courtesy of Linda Bermudez Linda Bermudez poses for a photo with Congressman David Dreier, R-26th District, in Washington, D.C., where she traveled with three Citrus College Board of ... via The Clarion