AltWeeklies Wire
Los Angeles Police Commission Comes to Town
A few things that I didn't get to say in two minutes
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James Preston Allen |
04-16-2014 |
Commentary
Getting Older, Not Always Gracefullynew
Getting older was supposed to be easier than this--more like a wonderful long vacation. But of course, it hasn't been that way. My wife left me just before I turned 70 and I’m still not getting along with it too well a couple of years later. I don’t have enough on Social Security to survive, so I'm still working part time at my old high-stress journalism job. And becoming something of a lonely and grumpy old man in the process.
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Lionel Rolfe |
03-24-2014 |
Commentary
Raining On The Ukrainian Paradenew
Hate to rain on anyone’s parade, but let’s get off this thing about poor picked on Ukraine standing up for freedom against the big evil Russians.
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Zamna Avila |
03-17-2014 |
Commentary
The Future Governor From Newhall, Calif.new
The obituary notice of a four-term California assemblyman who died at 86 the other day brought back memories of an odd and jarring time in my youth when he hired me to write a philosophy because he was then an aspiring politician.
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Lionel Rolfe |
03-06-2014 |
Commentary
Tags: Jim Keysor
Talking Unionnew
There's a curious thing about talking union. It's not cool. Unions ain't cool. They're so not cool you'll notice almost nobody writes about them. They ain't trendy. But they're the coming thing.
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Lionel Rolfe |
02-19-2014 |
Commentary
What’s Wrong With Today’s Journalism?
Journalism now and then...
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By Lionel Rolfe |
01-15-2014 |
Commentary
Penelope Sudrownew
Lionel Rolfe meets actress Penelope Sudrow.
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Lionel Rolfe |
12-27-2013 |
Commentary
Obamacare – Left, Right, Center
Another fine mess you've got us in.
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James Preston Allen |
11-06-2013 |
Commentary
Big Bad Government vs. Tea Partynew
Catharsis at the crossroads of health care and the U.S. Constitution.
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James Preston Allen |
10-07-2013 |
Commentary
Sitting Bull’s Voice to Be Heard at San Pedro International Film Festivalnew
Ernie LaPointe is setting the record straight about the history of Chief Sitting Bull and his descendents at the 2nd Annual San Pedro International Film Festival.
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Andrea Serna |
10-06-2013 |
Culture
Obama Will Go Down In History As One of Our Greatest Presidentsnew
In my mind, there's little doubt that Barack Obama will go down in history as one of our greatest presidents. He is presiding over a country almost as torn by divisions as it was in the civil war. Our greatest presidents come out of troubled times.
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Lionel Rolfe |
09-30-2013 |
Commentary
A Celebration of George Duke, a Great Musicion and a Good Guynew
The death of keyboardist George Duke at 67 last week brought back memories of the ‘70s when I smoked dope with him nearly every day.
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lionel Rolfe |
08-12-2013 |
Music
A Deeply Melancholic Statenew
A couple of days ago I was in a deeply melancholic state because of various personal struggles, including health and financial issues and an ex-wife I still love, but it all is leavened with the sense that as one approaches the end of life, the world becomes a much more apocalyptical place.
Sitting here in Los Angeles, I gazed at recent photographs of Nelson Mandela in South Africa wearing a kind of a beatific smile. It left me wondering if he really felt that sanguine about the planet he is leaving soon. I pondered these matters in part because it evoked some powerful links in my own life.
Mandela, as we all know, was a compatriot of another great Apartheid leader--Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who I saw in 1999 at Westminster Abbey in London at a memorial for the violinist Yehudi Menuhin--who also is my uncle.
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Lionel Rolfe |
08-12-2013 |
Commentary
An Elusive Utopia By The Seanew
The traditional happening places for the arts in Los Angeles are two–and it’s been this way since the ’20s and earlier. One is Echo Park near downtown and the other is Venice by the sea. But Venice has captured more of the romance, perhaps because its history has been rich and porous enough there’s this terrible tendency to want to sum it all up, to say what exactly it means.
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Lionel Rolfe |
08-01-2013 |
Nonfiction
Tom Paine, American Radicalnew
Alaine Lowell lived through the revolutionary ’60s — a young woman born of the counterculture and intent on experiencing the time-honored odyssey of finding one’s self.
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Lionel Rolfe |
07-09-2013 |
History
