February 22, 2019Palisadian Offers His Academy Award Predictions Annually, L.A. Times film critic Kenneth Turan speaks at the Palisades Optimist Club meeting shortly before the Oscars show, which will begin at 5 p.m. this Sunday, February 24. Turan, a longtime- February 22, 2019Costumes for 2018 Movies on View at FIDM By LIBBY MOTIKA The magic of costume design is like all good magic, indecipherable yet potent. Costumes are integral to movies, aligning with the vision of the filmmaker in building the story and providing
February 19, 2019Frontera Lot Closed by Sinkhole A large sinkhole opened in the parking lot by the tennis courts below the Field of Dreams at the Palisades Recreation Center on February 11. Park staff said they have been told that the ENTIRE Frontera parking lot and
February 19, 2019Chautauqua Closed for Garbage Truck Fire Chautauqua Boulevard between Pacific Coast Highway and Corona del Mar was closed for about an hour today, thanks to a garbage truck fire. Circling the News received the following email from a reader “Anyone
February 19, 2019Cub Scouts Combine Duty/Fun About 25 Cub Scouts and their families went to Will Rogers State Beach on Saturday morning, February 9 to clean litter off the beach. Because of this year’s excessive rainfall, the Scouts hoped to prevent trash from
February 17, 2019J.B. Holmes Wins by a Stroke at Riviera J.B. Holmes captured the Genesis Open at 14 under on Sunday, winning $1,332,000 and a Genesis car. This is his fifth PGA TOUR title and his first since 2015. Holmes, 36, overcame a four-shot lead by fellow
February 17, 2019Beware Large Pothole On Temescal Road Just below the Palisades High School stadium on Temescal Canyon Road (by the stacked wood) is a pothole that is about four feet long, by a foot wide, by five inches deep. The hole is in the slow lane of traffic.
February 16, 2019Editorial Farmers’ Market Saga In the past three years, there have been two important stories concerning the Palisades Farmers’ Market: one, surprisingly, was about the demise of the Glendale market and the second was about securing a
February 16, 2019Pali Girls Water Polo Wins First City Title “We finally got rid of the curse,” said Palisades High girls water polo coach Kirk Lazaruk, after the team’s 13-8 victory over Birmingham Thursday. This was the girls’ first Division I City Section
February 16, 2019Legion’s Oratorical Contest Focuses On the Constitution and ‘We the People’ No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other