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The Misadventures of Ari Mendelsohnnew
This is the first chapter from the picaresque novel by noted author and journalist Lionel Rolfe, which recounts the sexual and political travails of the irascible, blacklisted title character, a reporter still harboring his besieged idealistic belief in humanity's innate goodness and America's dubious potential for good amid a reality of avarice, pragmatism, cynicism, and materialism.
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Lionel Rolfe |
11-04-2010 |
Excerpts
Abbey Road: Some Good Memoriesnew
The Abbey Road EMI Studio in London, no doubt the most famous recording studio in the world, has been in the news a lot recently. So Lionel Rolfe waited a few weeks before telling his stories about the place without the contamination of trendiness.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
08-24-2010 |
Music
Tags: Abbey Road, Beatles
Who Was The Real Hero of The 1910 Bombing of The Los Angeles Times?new
The bombing of the Los Angeles Times building in 1910 -- whose centennial is in October -- undercut the power of the American labor movement for decades.
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Lionel Rolfe |
08-09-2010 |
Commentary
Tags: Los Angeles Times
Israel’s Mystic Pullnew
What exactly is a Jew -- and do his first loyalties lie with Israel?
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Lionel Rolfe |
06-25-2010 |
Commentary
Bukowski: Tales of an Extraordinary Madmannew
Charles Bukowski was especially popular in his native Germany, but in the United States he was selling only in the hundreds. Even though the movie Barfly didn’t do well at the box office, it helped draw more attention Bukowski’s way. Let me tell you about the time I reconstructed Bukowski.
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Lionel Rolfe |
05-21-2010 |
Commentary
The Dark Past Of An Elephants' Oasis In The Mother Lodenew
Author Lionel Rolfe interviewed Pat Derby and Ark2000 reflecting on the plight of the earth's largest animals in captivity.
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Lionel Rolfe |
03-22-2010 |
Animal Issues
Obama Will Likely Be Our Next Lincolnnew
Ultimately I think that Barack Obama will be considered one of the great presidents. He has the intellectual ability to see what the problems are and what might be done about them. That’s a big start, compared to the last president. There’s a problem, however.
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Lionel Rolfe |
02-22-2010 |
Commentary
Is Obama Going To Force Leftists To The Center?new
Dean didn’t say this, but I will. Calling someone a Nazi is harsh, yet Republicans nowadays embrace parts of the Nazi ideology, which is a peculiar mixing of racism and phony populism. In hard times like we got, it sometimes works.
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Lionel Rolfe |
01-22-2010 |
Commentary
You Can’t Always Sing & Dance: Karen Kayenew
My friend, Karen Kaye, executive director of Connections for Children in Santa Monica, a non-profit provider of babysitting and other services for single working mothers, is dead.
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Lionel Rolfe |
12-28-2009 |
Commentary
A Begrudging Admiration of Las Vegasnew
It’s a strange economic model that has fascinated a number of contemporary American writers, from Hunter Thompson to Marc Cooper. Las Vegas is an obvious morality story all about capitalism, exploitation, human nature, and, of course sin and religion. The town was created by Jewish mafioso, then the Mormons took over for a while, and now others are moving in. Mormons may be the most conservative of all religion, certainly socially, yet Vegas is proud of the fact that your secrets are safe in Sin City. Not being a Mormon, I can’t imagine how they reconcile themselves to their adopted city.
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Lionel Rolfe |
12-03-2009 |
Commentary
Wallowing in Pessimismnew
Sometimes I feel as if we are starting to relive the narrative told in the pages of William Shirer's, The Rise and Fall of the The Third Reich.
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Lionel Rolfe |
10-09-2009 |
Commentary
A Voyage To The Eastnew
A few days before President Obama gave his rousing speech on healthcare before Congress, my wife Boryana and I made a journey to the east, visiting relatives inside the Beltway and taking what might possibly be my last look at New York City.
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Lionel Rolfe |
09-11-2009 |
Commentary
My Beef With The Editor Of The L.A. Times Book Reviewnew
Writer, thinker, and cultural critic Lionel Rolfe reflects on L.A.'s literary scene and the slow death of the Los Angeles Times.
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Lionel Rolfe |
07-17-2009 |
Books
Forget Trying To Make Nice With The Priests & Kingsnew
Author and columnist Lionel Rolfe calls on President Obama not to allow progress to stall in the name of bipartisanship. The stakes in the battles that are being fought on health care and other issues are far too high to allow it.
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Lionel Rolfe |
06-23-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: bipartisanship, Obama
War, Wealth, Empire and the Obama Presidencynew
Karl Marx insisted that the only real source of wealth is human labor. The ruling classes may have expropriated some of that wealth with their system of paper and electronic bank statements. But at heart, the banking system turned out to be a fraud. Always has been.
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Lionel Rolfe |
05-22-2009 |
Commentary
