- November 17, 2020A November 13 “Deadline” exclusive announced that Palisadian Kevin Nealon will bring his popular YouTube unscripted comedy series, “Hiking with Kevin,” to television. TBS is developing a half-hour scripted adaptation which Nealon will
- November 16, 2020Circling the News received a November 6 email from Palisadian Tracey Price, co-founder of American Growers, who wrote: “A while back, you featured a story about the mysterious oak tree saplings that were planted at the parking lot of our local
- November 16, 2020PACIFIC PALISADES CRIME: Senior Lead Officer Michael Moore has released the following crime report, with those that have been reported through November 14. BURGLARY November 6, 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., in the 700 block of Muskingum. The suspect entered
- November 15, 2020The Pacific Palisades Rotary Club is hosting a holiday toy drive. All residents are invited to participate. The toys will go to families at the Salvation Army Westwood Transitional Village, a nonprofit organization helping families transition from
- November 15, 2020Pacific Palisades residents have noticed a significant increase in the number of dockless Lime and Bird scooters lying on sidewalks the past few months. Teens in the town take advantage of the scooters, driving them about, quite often with a friend
- November 15, 2020Editor’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 mid-March: sending a weekly Covid-themed
- November 12, 2020It appears that L.A. City officials are starting to realize that the homeless encampments located under freeway overpasses, on sidewalks impeding the public right away and in hillside brush in outlying areas, need to be dealt with. There are an
- November 12, 2020LAPD STORY: BONIN TO HOST TOWN HALL ON PUBLIC SAFETY NEXT MONDAY In a November 11 Circling the News story (“In Light of LAPD Budget Cuts, Will Pacific Palisades Retain One Patrol Car and a Beach Detail?”), one reader wrote: “I think it is sad that
- November 11, 2020In July, as the Covid-19 pandemic began to impact the City’s budget outlook, the L.A. City Council voted 12-2 to reduce the police department budget by $150 million. The city council aims to reduce the LAPD workforce to 9,757 officers by next
- November 11, 2020As a child, I was read Aesop Fables, a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BC.I still remember “The Ant and the Grasshopper,” The Tortoise and the Hare,”