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MY LIFE BREAKING THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE WITH JIM MORRISON
IT’S AMAZING WHAT can happen when you live right off the Sunset Strip. About 15 years ago on a warm balmy December night, I was in my living room of my apartment, watching a movie on my laptop when suddenly a breeze blew into my window. I was startled and then inexplicably began to say in…
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L.A. IN THE SHADOW OF RUBEN SALAZAR
I HAD BEEN IN LOS ANGELES only a few days when the pressures placed on Chicano journalists in this city first began to settle on me. Fittingly, it happened in a bar at the Ambassador Hotel, where I was living at the time, not far from the pantry where Robert F. Kennedy had been assassinated.
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MARILYN’S GENIUS, FORGOTTEN AND FOUND
Marilyn was more than a cinematic icon; she was a strategist, an intellectual force navigating the treacherous labyrinth of male-dominated Hollywood in an era when women were often dismissed as ornamental.
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LARRY MCMURTRY: THE ‘MINOR REGIONAL NOVELIST’ WORTHY OF THE NOBEL PRIZE
‘Terms of Endearment’ followed ‘The Last Picture Show’ with great fanfare, but it was his Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Lonesome Dove’ that cemented his legacy as one of America’s best writers The list of Texans that have spent their writing lives chronicling their roots is rather long and impressive, and includes names like Dobie, Webb and Graves.…
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The Sad, Sudden Passing of Lucy’s El Adobe Café Heiress Patty Casado
Lucy’s El Adobe Café heiress Patricia Casado is doing the unthinkable. She’s trying to resurrect her family’s restaurant facing a mountain of challenges that would make even the most seasoned restaurateur throw in the towel.
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MY LIFE AS MARILYN, MY DEAD OLDER SISTER
The LA Monthly interview with actress Catherine Hicks, who portrayed Marilyn Monroe in the 1980 TV feature Marilyn: The Untold Story as well as in the Arthur Miller play After The Fall and also Bus Stop on the stage By Justin Bozung ACTRESS CATHERINE HICKS made a solid career for herself in Hollywood but it was her unforgettable Emmy nominated role…
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RANDY NEWMAN: WHY I WROTE ‘I LOVE L.A.’
There are few songs that echo in L.A. quite like Newman’s winking civic anthem, which manages to be both sunny and subversive at the same time with its “big nasty redhead” cruising the boulevard. “Hey,” Newman protested, “I meant ‘nasty’ in the very best sense of the word.”
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Leaving L.A., Will the Last Person Here Turn Out the Lights?
Any new LA Metro security forces are overwhelmed. There is a literal scourge of drugs, crime, homelessness, filthy, stinking people, one of those filthy long-term homeless ladies with a reeking cat in a cage and a huge pile of basically trash, and it’s horrifying.
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HOW FERNANDO WON THE HEARTS OF LA
Fernandomania became a cultural phenomenon in 1980s Los Angeles as a young Mexican left-hander became the toast of the city and ultimately an icon as big as any matinee Idol.
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COUNCILWOMAN NITHYA RAMAN CHALLENGES BASS IN MAYOR’S RACE
Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nithya Raman entered the race for mayor Saturday, challenging incumbent and political ally Karen Bass hours before the noon deadline for candidates to file paperwork for the June 2 primary.
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