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Every Day My Heart Gets Broken

Dennis Danziger | Posted November 20, 2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Amy Friedman, Culver City, High School Students, Lausd, Pen, PEN In The Classroom, Public School, Race To The Top, School Vouchers, Teacher Unions

Every day my heart gets broken.

The hurt starts before I step foot onto my campus. I live six blocks from my work site in a diverse, middle-class neighborhood called Mar Vista where two bedroom homes sell for $700,000 and the gentrified two-story jobs go for over a million.

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The Same Chance I Had

Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted November 19, 2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: American Recovery And Reinvestment Act, Economic Recovery, Education, Lausd, Los Angeles

Today, I'm proud to announce a down payment of over $4 million dollars to start putting Angelenos who dropped out of high school back to work through the Workforce Investment Act. We're also launching the Reconnections Academy, which will help put more than 1,000 young adults back to school and...

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Who Knew a Buick Regal could be so Fabulous?

Thomas DeLorenzo | Posted November 19, 2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Auto Industry, Automakers, Buick, Buick Lacrosse, Future Of General Motors, General Motors, Hollywood, Los Angeles

Last Thursday night, I was reluctantly taken to a party. I am constantly going to parties; it's part of the price I pay for working in the Entertainment Industry. There are parties for just about any moment you can think of. Hollywood is always inventing reasons to...

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The Pursuit of Parenthood: Cindy and Sandy

Andrea Buchanan | Posted November 20, 2009 | Living

We live next door to identical twins girls from Guatemala named Cindy and Sandy. They have very thick accents, always dress in the same clothes and walk up and down our sidewalk holding their Chihuahua named Baby. They come to our house everyday to visit our dogs who they love....

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Behind the Scenes at Project Green Search Model Competition

Starre Vartan | Posted November 19, 2009 | Green

Read More: Green, Green Living, Models

Project Green Search, the first-ever green model competition, has a winner! Rachel Avalon hails from Los Angeles, California, and beat out over 130 other serious contenders for her new title as Green It Girl (read more about Rachel and her plans here). But before the winner was chosen,...

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Sport at the Annenberg Space for Photography: It's Not Manila But It's a Thrilla

Joel Epstein | Posted November 19, 2009 | Entertainment

To borrow liberally from the wisdom of Yogi Berra, that giant of American letters, "It isn't over till you've visited the new show at the Annenberg Space for Photography." Sport: Iooss & Leifer which features the works of Neil Leifer and Walter Iooss, two of the world's greatest sports...

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To Iraq and Back

Lisa Haisha | Posted November 13, 2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Iraq, Iraq War, Love, Spirituality

"We shall never cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time." - TS Eliot

Sometimes returning to our roots inspires us to revisit ourselves within the concentric circles of shared destiny. In search...

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Why No One In L.A. Grows Old

Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted November 13, 2009 | Los Angeles

I can explain all the plastic surgery, dyed hair, botoxed lips and skin and obsession with youth that characterizes my city. In fact, I can sum it up in one word, the most beautiful word in the English language. Autumn.
You see, there is no autumn in...

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Flowers for Florez

Donna Perlmutter | Posted November 17, 2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Broad Stage, Juan Diego Florez, Los Angeles Opera, Pavarotti, Recital

That was no busboy at the Broad Stage - where most of Los Angeles's opera elite massed to the walls the other night. Yes, Juan Diego Florez may have looked like one in his black suit, boxy jacket buttoned to the neck, all emphasizing his slight frame. But, in fact,...

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In Hollywood, There is No Such Thing as a Lone Gun

Bill Swadley | Posted November 12, 2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Actor, Career, Entertainment Industry, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Networking, Show Business, Success

In his book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell makes a compelling case for the notion that the "self-made man" is a rare exception at best, but more often than not, a complete myth. Nowhere is this more true than in Hollywood.

Several months ago I started working with a group...

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The Dopeness, Part XXIV

Cotty Chubb | Posted November 13, 2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Art, Charles Burchfield, Genesis, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Newport Jazz Festival, R. Crumb, Van Morrison

Three days in Los Angeles: an unknown well-known artist, Crumb meets God, Van the (young) man, a pastrami sandwich to cry for, and an easy dinner.

Charles Burchfield at the Hammer: Heat Waves in a Swamp. At the Hammer Museum until January 3^rd, 2010.

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Friday is LA's EV day -- Nissan's Leaf Hits Dodger Stadium, Santa Monica

Steve Parker | Posted November 12, 2009 | Business

Read More: Carlos Ghosn, Cars, Dodger Stadium, Nissan Leaf, Santa Monica, Tennessee, Tokyo Motor Show

For its first public showings outside Japan, Nissan's all-new Leaf "pure EV" plug-in electric sedan, due on-sale worldwide as a 2012 model, will see the first light of an American day at a press-only event this Friday morning at Dodger Stadium featuring Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, and later that day,...

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Collapse: Interviews with a Radical Thinker Who Called the Crisis

Chris Smith | Posted November 5, 2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Collapse, Financial Crisis, Michael Ruppert

Americans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new president will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight. American pundits tend to restrain their pessimism and hope for the best. But is anyone...

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Jerry Brown Aide Showed Bad Judgment, But Didn't Break Law in Secretly Taping Reporter

Peter Scheer | Posted November 4, 2009 | Media

Read More: Ethics In Journalism, First Amendment, Governor California, Jerry Brown, Recording Journalist

Attorney General Jerry Brown's spokesman Scott Gerber was unceremoniously "disappeared" from Brown's incipient gubernatorial campaign this week because of a lapse in judgment that, quite frankly, has been grossly overblown. Gerber's mistake: To surreptitiously record a phone conversation with a reporter, which was later discovered because Gerber, in a plea...

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The Right Man

Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted November 3, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Antonio Villaraigosa, Lapd, Los Angeles, Police Safety

Today it was my distinct honor to nominate Deputy Chief Charlie Beck to be the next Chief of Police of the Los Angeles Police Department.

The decision was not an easy one. I spent countless hours with each of the outstanding candidates; consulted with the members of the Police...

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Inside Story: Why Newsom's Gubernatorial Bid Collapsed

Phil Trounstine | Posted November 4, 2009 | Politics

Read More: California Governor's Race, Eric Jaye, Garry South, Gavin Newsom

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's publicly-stated reason for dropping out of the Democratic race for governor was the absolute truth: "With a young family and responsibilities at City Hall, I have found it impossible to commit the time required to complete this effort the way it needs to -- and...

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Fighting Loan Modification Scams

Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted October 26, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Antonio Villaraigosa, Loan Modifications, Los Angeles, Subprime Mortage Crisis

In Los Angeles, two thirds of the families facing foreclosure who walk through the doors of our HUD-approved housing counseling agencies have been scammed by so-called mortgage modification consultants. These consultants promise the world to vulnerable homeowners desperate to stay in their homes, charge advanced fees as high as $5,000...

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Who Wants to Be Governor of the Failed State of California?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted October 24, 2009 | Politics

One Republican candidate who wants to be California's next governor is Steve Poizner, whose economic prescriptions for healing the state's fiscal maladies are like a quack doctor who "bleeds" his patient by attaching leeches. Poizner's PR people came up with a catchy "10-10-10" slogan. He throws up three arbitrary numbers...

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Now's the Time for Our Long Range Transportation Plan

Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted October 22, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Antonio Villaraigosa, Congestion, Environment, Los Angeles, Transportation

If you want to let the MTA board know it's time to pass the Long Range Plan you can

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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Bobby Woods | Posted October 20, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Brother Can You Spare a Dime, Economic Crisis, Economic Recession, Economic Recovery, Great Depression, Les Deux Love Orchestra, Music, Recession, Recession Fears

Hard Times.

No question. They're here again.

Scarcity. A system collapsed. Spirit-crushing headlines. Billions gone who-knows-where? Doubt & Uncertainty everywhere. You know it. Your family knows it. Your friends know it.

We've been here before.

After the crash, back in '32, in the midst of the Great Depression, a song...

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