News

  • Vickrey – Swapping Pot Pies for State Dinners
    By BOB VICKREY Back in my early days as a publisher’s rep, I traveled to Dallas for a luncheon with Southwest cooking legend Helen Corbitt and Stanley Marcus, the Founder and President of Neiman Marcus, to arrange a book signing party launching
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  • Topanga Fire Shuts Topanga Canyon Boulevard
    A brush fire in Topanga was reported around 1:56 p.m. and dubbed the OwenFire (Santa Maria Road). Initially LAFD Engine 69 reported on Twitter that it was ½ acre fire in medium to heavy fuels traveling at a moderate rate of spread, with no
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  • Clever Caption Needed?
      A reader sent the following photo and wrote: “I saw this couple digesting the Saint Laurent construction cover images from a bench on the Village Green this morning and just wondered what they were saying.” Readers, can you supply the caption?
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  • Vile Graffiti Sprayed on the Large Gym
    Graffiti sprayed on the large gym at the Palisades Recreation Center is an ongoing issue. Yesterday July 24, this editor was sent a photo, taken by a park visitor around 7 p.m. The graffiti was vile and racist. That Palisades resident alerted the
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  • Palisades Park Advisory Board, “Lights, Camera, No Action”
    The Palisades Park Advisory Board held its quarterly meeting on July 20 in the small gym, where there was no air conditioning, no Wifi. The rotary fan was eventually turned off because it was so loud, that it made it hard to hear people speaking.
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  • Park Advisory Board Asks about Numerous Parties Permitted at the Park
    (Editors note: The Palisades Park Advisory July 19 meeting lasted more than two hours. This will be a two-story report, with the next story reporting on restrooms and a possible dog park. It will run on July 25.) The Palisades Park Advisory Board
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  • Village Green Photo Contest Announced
    The lovely private triangular park, the Village Green, will celebrate its 50th birthday, Sunday, August 27. The event will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. To celebrate the birthday, a Palisades Village Green photo contest is being held.
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  • Active Shooter. What Do You Do?
    Most Pacific Palisades would rather talk about anything than an active shooter. But the lessons that Sergeant Mike Harding went over at a July 19 meeting at the Legion Hall could save a life, possibly your own. Before introducing Harding, Ronald
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  • Portions of the I-10 and PCH Closed Tuesday and Wednesday Evenings
    Santa Monica announced that a portion of the Santa Monica Bluffs, above Pacific Coast Highway, is unstable and needs emergency repairs. The bluff considered unstable is between the tunnel and the incline. A column of soil has broken away from the
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  • Week Two: Plager Reports from Shibuya
    (Editor’s note: Chaz Plager, who will be a senior at Palisades High School and started writing for Circling the News last year, is in Japan. Before he left, he agreed to send a weekly report that I could share with readers. This editor feels lucky
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