Circling The News

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

(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

(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

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.

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

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

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

“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

The room overlooking the Santa Monica Mountains was packed, but crowds of adults were ignoring the view and hovering near the kitchen. It was a Chamber of Commerce mixer at

(Editor’s note: After I posted a story about Palisades residents questioning the safety of residents and homeless if Rec Centers were to be used for the homeless, I