Category Archives: General

(Editor’s note: I wrote this story in June 2017 and I’m reprinting it for people who may have not followed the sign issue, that was raised when the Palisadian-Post, which occupies one office in the 881 Alma Real Building, was...

Los Angeles can never take care of its homeless population unless it starts asking the correct question: how many people have mental issues?  Is there an institutional setting in which they can be helped? Jimmy Dean, a homeless woman, who...

A Westchester senior asked Circling the News, “Why are the seniors not taken care of?” In Los Angeles, one in four people are identified as a “senior” citizen (60+). According to an 2016 Empower La study “Purposeful Aging,” (https://empowerla.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Purposeful-Aging-6222016b.pdf), the...

Circling the News had not planned to write a review about “Oliver,” Palisades High School’s spring musical that only has four performances left. The editor felt she had already alerted readers to the show before its opening. But after seeing...

By ALISON BURMEISTER Special to Circling the News As a professional makeup artist for more than 20 years, some of the more challenging makeup moments I’ve encountered recently have been doing my own makeup. As I age, I’ve noticed there...

Palisadian Frank Renfro started a new company in January that residents ought to know about. No, it’s not another sexy yoga clothing store, nor a tchotchke shop or even a hot-stone massage parlor, instead, Renfro has something every resident can...

The Palisades Forestry Committee (PFC) will plant 13 street trees on Thursday, March 24, in designated treeless spaces in the parkway along Hartzell Street, between Sunset and Bestor Boulevards. Two species (Mondell Pine and Arbutus ‘Marina’) have been approved by...

Join the Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club Meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 8, for a Zoom presentation “Ready Your L.A. Neighborhood,” which will explain different ways that residents could prepare for a disaster. https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4344069528?pwd=eEE5Q3pzQ2hxZnlYd1BVUGlzTzNJdz09.  Meeting ID: 434 406 9528 Passcode:...

Fire Station 69 Captain II Tommy Kitahata, who was named 2020 Firefighter of the Year, received a special surprise on February 25. The chefs on “Bake Squad,” an American Netflix Original series, presented him with a three-foot Dalmatian cake, complete...