LINCOLN BLVD — The year was 1969. The role was “Villager” in Homestead High School’s performance of “Tea House of the August Moon.” The man was John Paizis, then a sophomore, who was appearing onstage for the first of what was destined to become many, many performances.
Among the more amusing items I’ve run across are pending amendments to the city’s zoning ordinance concerning parking and access provisions in parking lots and parking structures with more than 40 parking spaces — approved by the Planning Commission last week and forwarded to City Council for action
“Education is under siege,” states Dr. Henry Giroux, author of “Stealing Innocence: Corporate Culture’s War on Children.” “It’s under siege by the marketers.
If you’re going gluten-free these days, be prepared to spend more on groceries. According to a New York Times article, it costs three times as much to eat gluten-free as it does to eat foods containing gluten.
A woman almost won the nomination for president recently, women are heads of universities, CEOs of corporations and astronauts. The overwhelming majority of Americans are perfectly comfortable with this development in sexual equality.
A message shows up on the Internet in code. “Dar al-Harb to Dar al-Salaam base: The weapon is tested and ready, the perfect time and place chosen with great care and cunning.
ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST — As firefighters battle to bring the gigantic Station fire and others under control, Los Angelenos are left to wonder what the state can do to protect homeowners from the next hellacious conflagration.
Q: Dear Rachel, I’ve been spending time with an incredible woman who works at my chiropractor’s office. We’re both huge Los Angeles Lakers fans and I initially asked her out on a date to go to a game.
School starts next week, and as a middle school teacher, I feel almost the same pressure to put together a back to school look as I did when I was a student.
If I were to take a vote right now, I’d have to say that Gordon Bressack’s new play “Fuggedaboudit!” is the worst play I’ve seen this century. But then, of course, the century is new.
Tonight, a repeat performance won’t fail to impress as Patti Smith, progenitor-empress of punk rock, Rimbauld and Verlaine’s spiritual poet child and 2007 Rock Hall of Fame inductee returns to the Santa Monica Pier for the Twilight Dance Series’ last concert of the summer.
