Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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President Barack Obama is scheduled to arrive today for a two-day visit to Los Angeles for two political fundraisers and a speech at a gala for an organization founded by Steven Spielberg to keep alive memories of the Holocaust and other genocides. The trip will be Obama's 17th to the Los Angeles area since taking office in 2009. All but three of his trips have included political fundraisers. He has made 10 trips to the area solely for fundraising. "Since the Clinton presidency, Los Angeles has...
The woman who recorded Donald Sterling's racist rant has two shoplifting arrests under her designer belt - but the cases were later expunged, sources said. V. Stiviano first was busted for sticky fingers at a Ross Dress for Less store in Los Angeles in 2002 and was picked up again in 2004 at an Old Navy in Santa Monica, the sources said. Going by the aliases Monica Gallegos and Vanessa Perez, Stiviano entered the Old Navy store at 7:40 p.m. one night in January 2004 and allegedly took nine...
Anne Marie Ketchum, Music Director and Founding Artistic Director for The Verdi Chorus (now Frank and Merle Strauss Artistic Director), pulled out all the stops for their Spring performances this past Saturday and Sunday at First United Methodist Church in Santa Monica. To kick-off their 31st season of presenting glorious choruses, arias and ensembles from grand opera, Ms. Ketchum decided on an all Italian program entitled AMORE ITALIANO and chose selections from some of the greatest works ever...
Tony the Tiger Voice Actor Dies Lee Marshall, one of the actors who supplied the booming voice of Tony the Tiger in commercials, has died. He was 64. His son, Jason VanBorssum, tells the Los Angeles Times (http://bit.ly/1uH8hbv ) Marshall died of esophageal cancer on April 26 at a Santa Monica hospital. Marshall began voicing the Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes mascot in 1999, filling in for the original actor, Thurl Ravenscroft. Marshall got his first full-time radio job at the age of 14 in Phoenix. He had a prematurely deep voice and lied about h...
Dr. Louise Jaffe – a member of the SMC Board of Trustees and a longtime supporter of Santa Monica's educational institutions – has been elected President of the California Community Colleges Trustees (CCCT) for 2014-15. "Dr. Jaffe is a strong leader, an experienced trustee, and an accomplished education researcher. She is what the state needs at this time when we are focusing on student success," said SMC Superintendent/President Chui L. Tsang. "Trustees in the state play a very important rol...
Dear Editor: Subject-Bergamot Art Center Community Meeting May 6th I attended the Bergamot Art Center meeting on May 6 and I have the following comments: 1. The existing Bergamot Arts Center is extremely fragile. It can only exist if it has on-site parking, easy access and lower rent rates. Without these three legs it will collapse. 2. The proposed hotel and commercial office space would eliminate at least one if not two of these legs. Therefore the proposed hotel and commercial office space with the traffic and congestion it would cause...
The Santa Monica History Museum will be hosting Discover the History: Santa Monica's Gold Coast, a lecture by noted film historian Marc Wanamaker on Sunday, May 18th, 2014. The lecture will follow the history of the Santa Monica Beach north of the Santa Monica Pier to Santa Monica Canyon. Wanamaker will trace the development of the beach from tents to house to beach clubs on the beach to this day. The social life of the Hollywood Colony, with beach parties hosted by Norma Talmadge, Bebe Daniels...
Couple Assaulted in Local Hotel Santa Monica Police say they were called to the Ocean Luxury Lofts and Suites at 107 Broadway, regarding an assault in progress. It happened on May 6 at about 3:45 in the morning. They say they found and detained the suspect, Ricardo Mathews of San Bernardino, on the 2nd Floor while other officers contacted two victims on the 3rd Floor. Lawmen report that Mathews broke into a storage room in the hotel and stole a basket with spare keys for each of the hotel...
Samohi POPS Concert and Lincoln Middle School Open House....
By Fred Altieri Observer Reporter What a horse. What a team. And California bred. California Chrome's magical mystery tour intensified as the three-year old wonder horse thoroughly electrified and wooed the horseracing world and beyond by winning the 140th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in his own superlative style and ridden in brilliant fashion by jockey Victor Espinoza on Saturday, May 3. The enchanted chestnut-colored colt contrasted by the elegant white markings on his face and all four...
Donald Sterling has been confrontational during his 33 years as the Clippers' owner so it isn't surprising that he isn't taking his lifetime suspension without a fight. Sterling has a $1.7 billion lawsuit against the NBA in mind after he was banned for life by NBA commissioner Adam Silver. He is considering several major law firms. Sterling's advisors aren't disputing the fact that Sterling's comments were racial but they are disputing the fact the tape he made was private. So, in court the...
The Lakers have indicated they plan a long search for a coach to replace Mike D'Antoni, who resigned last week following two unsuccessful seasons. The Lakers are in the difficult position of being without a coach or many players. Only three players, Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash and Robert Sacre have a Laker contract for next season and Nick Young has a player option. It is believed the Lakers may interview as many as 20 coaching candidates. Two college coaches, John Calipari of Kentucky and former LA...
What other news, what other developments could there be from the Clippers' bizarre week as they await a deciding Game 7 of their opening round playoff series against the Golden State Warriors? Well, there is one more development. The New York Post reported that 80-year-old ousted Clipper owner Donald Sterling has been battling prostate cancer for several years. Most Clipper players and Coach Doc Rivers said they weren't aware of the situation. "I hope it isn't true," said forward Blake Griffin....
Magic Johnson issued the following statement concerning rumors he might buy the Clippers. ´I am not going to buy the Clippers,” he said. The NBA is attempting to force disgraced owner Donald Sterling to sell the team soon. Unlike Johnson, Oprah Winfrey has expressed interest and has two highly qualified partners....
Directed by James Gray and co-written with Ric Menello, THE IMMIGRANT is a film that is not to be missed and is, quite honestly, the best work of Gray's career thus far and will be difficult to top. Steeped in the rich immigration history of America in the early 20th Century, THE IMMIGRANT is set in 1921 New York where it revolves around the story of a young Polish Catholic immigrant named Ewa Cybulski, as she tries to navigate the treacherous American waters filled with corrupt officials,...
From the moment that L. Frank Baum put pen to paper back in 1900 and swept that first generation of collective and individual imaginations up into a Kansas twister, the stories of Dorothy Gale, her little dog Toto, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Woodsman and the Land of Oz have dazzled and delighted young and old alike for more than 100 years. Baum himself penned a total of 14 Oz stories as well as a play before MGM and Judy Garland dropped in on an eye-popping Technicolor Oz. Since...
