Author Archives: Sue Pascoe

AYSO Soccer Enrollment Opens; Parents Are Urged to Enroll Their Kids by August 20 

  If you want your youth to get some exercise, learn a sport and have fun while doing it, AYSO Region 69 invites families to enroll before August 20. There are still a few openings in most divisions. AYSO Region...

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Will Rogers Beach a Valuable Resource for All Angelinos

(Editor’s note: On May 26 Councilman Mike Bonin co-proposed using parking lots at two popular beaches — Will Rogers State Beach and Dockweiler — a parking lot at the Marina del Rey Boat Ramps and two Recreation Centers to house...

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Palisades Celebrity Real Estate Shuffle

By BERNICE FOX Special to Circling the News Brooke Shields Puts her Palisades Home up for Sale Brooke Shields has been renting out her house in the Upper Riviera for several years. She and her writer-producer husband, Chris Henchy, mainly live...

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Lessons from Echo Park Lake Confrontation Include Costs and the Role of the Media

(Editor’s note: A CTN reader sent me a link to a 101-page Echo Park Rehabilitation After Action Report, compiled by the L.A. Police Department. The report has a lot of statistics and money figures — and speaks about how LAPD...

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OBITUARY: Gary B. Nash, Esteemed Historian, Author, UCLA Professor

Long-time Pacific Palisades resident Gary Nash, who was born July 27, 1933, in Philadelphia, died of colon cancer on July 29. A UCLA professor who retired in 1994, Nash wrote more than 30 history books and textbooks and more than...

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Alan Eisenstock’s Playlist: Anti-Vaxxer Blues

(Editor’s note: When Palisadian Alan Eisenstock is not researching and writing one of his nonfiction books (18 thus far!), he pursues what he calls “a crazy labor of love side project” that he started in March 2020: sending a weekly...

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Carnegie Astronomer Visits the Optimists

When Dr. John Mulchaey addressed “Exploring Life in the Universe” at an Optimist Club meeting on Zoom in June, he was asked, “Are there other civilizations out there?” Mulchaey, director of the Carnegie Observatories, said there is probably “life in...

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Holly Sidell’s Hit Solo Show, Deconstructing Holly, Comes to Hollywood Fringe Festival

  Holly Sidell shared her story of surviving breast cancer in an online show, “Deconstructing Holly,” in December. Then she said, ““While undergoing cancer surgery to remove my lady parts, I floated in the space between life and death.” Sidell...

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PaliHi’s Julia Abbott Places Second in the Optimist International Oratorical Contest

Palisades High School senior Julia Abbott placed second in the 2021 Optimist International Oratorical World Championships that was streamed live on July 23, earning $10,000 in scholarship money. The Brentwood resident spoke on the theme “Healing the World with Optimism,”...

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Cryptocurrency Billionaire Purchases $83 Million Riviera Home from Palisades Developer 

Spec developer and Palisades architect Ardie Tavangarian has sold a 20,000 sq.-ft, six-bedroom mansion with 18 bathrooms on one acre in the upper Riviera section of Pacific Palisades for $83 million. The only pricier sale this year in California was...

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