(Editor’s note:  Dr. Ben LaBrot, who is the founder and CEO of Floating Doctors, a professor in the Keck School of Medicine Dept. of Global Medicine at USC and a Pacific Palisades Optimist sent the article to his fellows Optimists on March 30 that

When Palisadian Nina Madok spoke to several local business owners who are struggling during the coronavirus shutdown, and then read about Toppings Yogurt and its dire financial situation on Via de la Paz, she asked herself, “What can I do to give

I gave myself a simple reporting task. The media and residents have been told that sheltering the homeless in about a dozen City of L.A. recreation centers has been a success and the program most likely will be expanded to include the Palisades

(Editor’s note: Given the surge of coronavirus cases in New York, I emailed my friends who live there and asked how they were doing. They responded yesterday, March 31.)  “I took my wife to the hospital a while back, she had contracted coronavirus.

(Editor’s note: It’s good that I’m not a restaurant critic. While writing about our local restaurants lately, and describing their menu items, I find that I’m constantly hungry, even if I’ve just eaten.)  One evening on

On March 20, Councilman Mike Bonin announced that Mayor Eric Garcetti had ordered the use of 42 city recreation centers to temporarily house people experiencing homelessness. Five of the facilities were on the Westside, including the Palisades

By BOB VICKREY After reading CTN’s story of Kenny Turan’s retirement from his post as senior film critic at the LA Times, I was reminded of a couple of spontaneous meetings at Dutton’s Brentwood Books on San Vicente Boulevard. As a publisher’s rep

THAI VEGAN III When Thai Vegan III opened last year in the mini-mall on Sunset, just below Fire Station 29 at Los Liones Drive, it instantly received rave reviews. Many people who live on the other side of town (from Temescal over to the Riviera)

By BILL BRUNS and SUE PASCOE On March 25, longtime Pacific Palisades resident Kenneth Turan tweeted: “After close to 30 years in the most exciting and rewarding of jobs, I am stepping away from being a daily film critic for the Los Angeles

“Sunday in the Park with George” was a famous musical by Stephen Sondheim with book by James Lapine. It was inspired by the French painter Geroge Seurat and his painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” The musical won the 1985