ROSE AVE — It’s been a challenging year for many. Unemployment is on the rise along with foreclosures. Confidence in elected officials is waning as the state’s debt keeps climbing.
The 112th Congress, in which Tea Party members will be among the one in four members of Congress who are newly elected, will make for great political theater with sound bytes being broadcast, tweeted and repeated throughout the next two years.
SM BAY — Those strange bright lights residents saw in the night sky earlier this month turned out not to be UFOs after all, but rather two daredevils from the Red Bull Air Force who decided to jump out of an airplane with night flares.
NOMA — Santa Monica is known around the world as a popular tourist destination, but has its reputation reached outer space? Residents in Santa Monica and the Westside have reported seeing strange lights in the night sky on at least two occasions this month, the unidentified flying objects disappeari
JAMS — Shirley Compton is a loyal fan of the Los Angeles Lakers, but she hasn’t been able to attend a game since the purple and gold played at the Great Western Forum.
As a writer, a dream of mine has been to have one of my screenplays made into a movie. (Another is to play for the Lakers, which may be more feasible.
So, to be a Boston Red Sox fan and watch the Yankees lose at Fenway Park is amazing. To watch the Lakers beat the Celtics at Staples Center is memorable.
Last week I wrote about Mel Gibson’s phone calls to his ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva. This week Gibson’s lawyers and PR staff are spinning faster than at an aerobics class.
The Lakers’ Ron Artest is not someone who has a good reputation. He’s caused problems on some of the teams he’s played for, he spent 10 days in jail because of a domestic abuse charge, and he’s best known for being part of a brawl in which he punched a fan at a game.
Summer is usually a slow news season. Not this summer. Every day, thousands of barrels of oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico, with August or September as a likely end to this ecological nightmare.
A week ago the Lakers won their 16th NBA championship. This past Monday was the big parade and now it’s back to the real world. (Ugh.) But first a few final words (actually, 826) about game seven.
The Internet saved my life last week. I had to take a nice, long walk after game seven of the NBA Finals, and if not for the ability to access video clips of the post-game press conferences via the web, I don’t know where I’d be right now.
