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Viewpoint: My family and I love surprises, other events
For the most part I love surprises. I especially enjoy running into people I haven’t seen in a long time. My most recent surprise was getting to meet the daughter of my roommate for the first time. Her mother, Barbara, and I met when we shared a...
Tags: Animal, Amtrak
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Newton: Getting L.A. growing again
There is no more consistent refrain among elected officials and candidates these days than that they will do everything they can to create jobs. It's a worthy goal given the sluggish state of the economy, and it's particularly crucial in California, which...
Tags: Business Enterprises, Los Angeles Times Columnists, City National Corporation, Darrell Steinberg, Local Government
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Daum: I 'like' me, I really 'like' me
Recognize this pattern? Brag brag brag Bait for compliment Self-promote Promote someone else so as to be able to self-promote later Brag Wax indignant about political issue on which everyone you know agrees with you Bait again Brag...
Tags: Sports, Social Media, Golf, Olive Garden
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Post & Beam's well-seasoned restaurateur, Brad Johnson
Foodies tend to move like flocks of birds, swarming a chic eatery, and then — swoop — off to the next. One of their newer perches in Los Angeles is in a part of town that hasn't had much of the food spotlight. Post & Beam opened on New Year'...
Tags: Chicken, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Restaurants, Gael Greene, Manhattan (New York City)
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Man About Town: At Hollywood Park, playing the ponies is family fun
With a caffeine headache and 60 bucks in my britches, I head out to the pony rides on a Friday night — to glittery, improbable Hollywood Park, now officially Betfair Hollywood Park. The Inglewood track's spring-summer semester has just started, and...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Concerts, National Football League, Shrimp
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Rodriguez: L.A.'s way is the freeway
Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky's office released a mildly amusing list of 53 suggestions for surviving "Carmageddon," one for every hour the 405 will be closed this weekend between the 10 and the 101. In the hope that you'll stay off the...Tags: Public Transportation, Human Interest, Transportation, Joan Didion, Travel
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Man About Town: Our view of the cosmos from an L.A. hilltop
Do I turn you on to cool stuff or what? Last week, a great shave. This week, the cosmos. There isn't really anyplace I won't take you. OK, I won't take you to Chuck E. Cheese's — that'd just be cruel, pepperoni in the very corpuscles of the place....
Tags: Music, Research, CEC Entertainment, Inc., Entertainment, Woody Allen
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Viewpoint: Taking pleasure in an uncrowded coastline
Spending a couple of days in San Diego has been a treat, especially getting to see the 10-foot waves washing over the South Mission Beach jetty. About a half-mile away we spotted the waves lapping at the lower end of the Ocean Beach Pier. It is always a...
Tags: Military Equipment, London Heathrow Airport
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Newton: Labor on the wane? Not in L.A.
This has been a hard couple years — on top of a hard era — for organized labor. The percentage of American workers who belong to a union has continued its long slide, dropping from 12.3% in 2009 to 11.9% in 2010. Those numbers are even starker...Tags: Employees, African Americans, Unions, Minority Groups, Labor Legislation
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Jim Newton: A mysterious inquiry
Last month, scores of public officials across Los Angeles County opened their mail to find nearly identical requests for information: Members of the Los Angeles City Council and the county Board of Supervisors, the Community Redevelopment Agency and...Tags: Raytheon Company, Politics, Disasters, Don Knabe, Crimes
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Jim Newton: What we have is a failure to communicate
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, public safety leaders in Southern California concluded that the need for a unified emergency communications system was so grave that they had to build it in such a way as to avoid the traditional pitfalls for huge,...Tags: Raytheon Company, Politics, Disasters, Don Knabe, Crimes
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Passengers stop man from attacking MTA bus driver, officials say
L.A. NOWA man was arrested early Monday after he allegedly attacked an MTA bus driver before passengers were able to stop him, transit officials said....
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