Circling The News

Comic Ronnie Shakes, who was raised Catholic, loved making fun of the holidays. “Fruitcake. I hate fruitcake. What the hell is that stuff? I can’t find any fruit in there.

“In the Bleak Midwinter,” a Christmas carol, tumbled into my thoughts as we drove from Rapid City, South Dakota, to Valentine, Nebraska. It was the third week of December and

By BOB VICKREY Circling the News Columnist Back in the 1980s, if you drove past the rather lackluster storefront of All-Pro Health Foods at 845 Via de la Paz, you would have

When I was twenty-one, I loaded up a suitcase with all my worldly possessions, two hundred dollars, and took a Greyhound bus from South Dakota to New York City. I was too

  As the “giving season” goes into full swing, longtime Palisadian and Coldwell Banker realtor Michael Edlen continued his philanthropic ways by donating

Pacific Palisades Senior Lead Officer Michael Moore gave tips for a crime-free holiday last year at a Palisades Rotary meeting. Circling the News is reprinting his tips,

With help from Pacific Palisades residents, the Optimist Club raised $1,796 for the Salvation Army on December 13. For more than 40 years, the local Optimists have

“I hate social media. I hate the internet,” FBI Special Agent Frederick Simon told members of the Palisades-Brentwood National League of Young Men. “I used to feel the good

At 10:50 a.m. Sunday, December 15, Circling the News received a report from NORAD… Santa has been spotted over Alaska, with strong tailwinds, on his way to Pacific

  The Russian-born, internationally renowned violin virtuoso, Daniel Shindarov, 95, performed classical favorites at a Pacific Palisades home on   December 8. “He