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Category Archives: Los Angeles
Los Angeles Has The Worst Streets Of Any Major American City
I remember driving west from downtown Los Angeles one evening in 2009. The lane next to the sidewalk was filled with deep potholes and almost every driver avoided it but me. I ploughed along, grateful that my path was free … Continue reading
Posted in Los Angeles, Traffic
Tagged covered wagon, mental energy, potholes, scoff, snowstorms, southwest border
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Holocaust Survivor Stanley Diller Drops Dead
The levaya (funeral) was at Yeshiva Gedolah this afternoon. Stanley was known in Los Angeles Jewish circles for his ugly divorce from his first wife and for his support for yeshivot. The Jewish Press reports in 2010: At the Hancock … Continue reading
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Tagged angeles superior court, california appeals court, Hancock Park, holocaust survivor, los angeles superior court, state appeals court, superior court judge, ugly divorce, war of the roses
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What Do You Have To See In LA?
On his radio show Dec. 15, 2011, Dennis Prager says: “Yesterday my wife and I went to the Walt Disney Concert Hall. “It’s wonderful living in LA, but there isn’t much to see. It’s not a tourist attraction like San … Continue reading
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Tagged Dennis Prager, disney concert hall, radio show, walt disney, walt disney concert hall
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Low-Cost Ways To Rev Up Your Life In Los Angeles
Are you interested in inexpensive acupuncture? YoSan (on Washington Blvd in Culver City) and Emperors College (in Santa Monica) have community clinics that charge about $40 per session. You can get low-cost psycho-therapy from $16 on up (depending on your … Continue reading
Posted in Los Angeles, Sex
Tagged emperors college, jews sex, psycho therapy, religious overtones, step recovery groups, women sex addicts
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Los Angeles’ first Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Heritage Month begins
The Los Angeles Times reports: Outside City Hall, a string of balloons hovered in the muggy June air. They were red, yellow, green, purple and blue. The rainbow theme was fitting: On Friday, Los Angeles officials launched the city’s first … Continue reading
Posted in Dennis Prager, Homosexuality, Los Angeles, Sex
Tagged asian pacific islander, asian pacific islander month, asian pacific islanders, bill rosendahl, gay pride celebration, mayor antonio villaraigosa
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Beit Din Of Beverly Hills Award Vacated By Los Angeles Superior Court
On July 21, 2005, the Los Angeles Superior Court vacated the award of the Bet Din of Beverly Hills (the psak of R. Gavriel Cohen). The dispute is within a family over the ownership of the synagogue Yad Avraham (12426 … Continue reading
Posted in Law, Los Angeles, R. Gavriel Cohen
Tagged angeles superior court, arbitration award, la superior court, logic dictates that, los angeles superior court, neutral arbitrator
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Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Bacca Supports CAIR
From the Los Angeles Times: Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca shot back at a congressman who warned him during a congressional hearing Thursday that a Muslim group the sheriff supports is affiliated with terrorists and is “using” him. The … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Los Angeles
Tagged american islamic relations, american muslims, criminal allegations, los angeles county sheriff, muslim group, sheriff lee bacca
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Dennis McDougal’s First Novel Is About The Vietnam War — The Candlestickmaker
Here are my previous interviews with the author of ten books. Here’s what Amazon.com has to say about Dennis and his new book: Aboard the spy ship U.S.S. Argosy in the war-tossed waters off the coast of Vietnam, three young … Continue reading
Posted in Author Interviews, Dennis McDougal, Hollywood, Journalism, Los Angeles
Tagged dennis mcdougal, john wiley sons, mother goose nursery rhyme, o j simpson trial, tim o brien, times staff writer
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The Rains Have Stopped In Los Angeles
I’m looking out my window at a beautiful rainbow over Pico-Robertson.
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