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I recall one panhandler in Ireland. → Read More
You can’t camouflage the danger by owning the libs. → Read More
He understood the city. → Read More
Rise up, suitcase schleppers. → Read More
‘Ya catch that council meeting on the Zoom last night?’ → Read More
You have to love being called a crackpot by Jerry Brown. I mean, I have to love it. To savor the irony. During his two terms, totaling 16 years, in office as California’s governor, it was Brown him… → Read More
That’s why the plein-air painters of old Laguna and Pasadena were known as the Eucalyptus School. → Read More
A week in the Manzanar jail. → Read More
Couple of weeks ago, in this space, I commented on the superb SoCal housing-supply forensic work done by Josh Albrektson, MD of South Pasadena — radiologist by night, City Hall annoyer by day. The dashing doc was profiled in the excellent piece by staffer Jeff Collins about how many of our no doubt mostly beloved, mostly truth-telling city halls across the hundreds of municipalities among which… → Read More
A (formerly) soaring Mayan pyramid of our own. → Read More
And yet here we are, living and then dying under a clearly sham version of what they truly meant. → Read More
An entirely in-depth history of everything in Pasadena. → Read More
Over ceviche and margaritas at a family lunch last Saturday, the conversation turning, as conversations will, to the rise of authoritarian leaders around the world, and thus to to the rebirth of the Ferdinand Marcos dynasty in the Philippines, my cousin reminded me that Marcos’ lover Dovie Breams Villagran used to live across the street from her. “Wait — not the shoe one,” was my highly informed… → Read More
Hard to figure, nevertheless true: It was 11 years ago last month that I had a lunch and a visit with Mary Donnelly-Crocker at her offices on the campus of my old alma mater, John Muir High School, and then referred to her in this space as “the longtime” executive director of Young & Healthy. If she was longtime in 2011, what does that make her in 2022? About to happily retire, that’s what,… → Read More
Everything everyone — by which I mean the wrong ones, the NIMBYs — says about housing in Southern California is always wrong. A favorite trope, loved by letter-to-the-editor writers, who just make things up — sorry, letter-writers, whose gemlike prose I edit and publish every day — is that the coming of more and more multi-family housing to our megalopolis is nuts because we are in a drought and… → Read More
A passion for living your most compassionate life. → Read More
I was reading a book review the other day — an essay on poetry, by Elisa Gabbert, as it happens — and came across the name of someone I once knew, a fabulously eccentric cult figure of the old school. She writes of him: “The architect Christopher Alexander thought big plate glass windows were a mistake, because ‘they alienate us from the view’: ‘The smaller the windows are, and the smaller the… → Read More
Sweeping San Gabriel Valley views. → Read More
The liars with a purpose, with ends, who don’t care about the means. → Read More
The old college try. → Read More