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A wind chime for the ghosts of old Los Angeles
Gentle reader, Up on the roof of the Dutch Chocolate Shop in Downtown Los Angeles, a functional piece of the city’s past called us to make the short…
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Raymond Chandler and the case of the purloined cover art
Gentle reader, A decade ago, we published The Kept Girl, Kim’s mystery novel about the real-life cult of angel worshippers who relieved Raymond…
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Climbing onto the Million Dollar Theater's Marquee
Gentle reader, Greetings from your friendly historic Los Angeles sightseeing tour company, now offering walking tours like Saturday’s excursion through…
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Demolition is coming for the beautiful 1937 J.J. Rees Apartments in Beverlywood, and it's everything wrong with L.A. City Hall
Gentle reader, We’ve lost some great Los Angeles landmarks to the landfills, and it doesn’t have to be this way. More progressive, green and thoughtful…
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Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Ray Chan Convicted... but it's not over
Gentle reader, When a whale dies in the open ocean, its corpse slowly sinks through darker and colder layers, before finally landing on the barren…
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March 2024

A Daring Theft Above the Dutch Chocolate Shop
Gentle reader, We interrupt our previous scheduled wrap up reporting on the Ray Chan public corruption trial—holy cats, the jury came back guilty on all…
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Save Sunshine, the Last Palm on Old Bunker Hill
Gentle reader, Once upon a time there was a volunteer palm tree that grew on a dusty parking lot on the last scrap of natural hillside of Bunker Hill…
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Courthouse Bombshell: LADBS General Manager Ray Chan assembled an "A-Team" of retired government officials to grease the development wheels…
Gentle reader, The Los Angeles Times is dead to us, and it ought to be to you. There was nobody from that shell of a newspaper in the new Federal…
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Jose Huizar isn't there, but he's on trial at the Federal Courthouse
Gentle reader, After spending two more days at the New Federal Courthouse, taking copious notes on testimony from City Council aide George Esparza and…
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Room just opened up on Saturday's Know Your Downtown L.A. Tour
Gentle reader, This is a quick note to say that we’ve had some last minute cancellations on tomorrow’s very popular walk Know Your Downtown L.A…
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B'nai B'rith Preservation Update from Superior Court and Day 1 of Ray Chan's Public Corruption Trial
Gentle reader, Apologies to all of you who experienced the annoyance of not being able to send an email to Mayor Karen Bass. We’d apologize for giving…
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Correct phone number (not webform, email) for asking Mayor Karen Bass to veto the B'nai B'rith demolition deal
Gentle reader, Los Angeles has a thousand different ways of wrecking one’s morning. Today, it was hearing from a number of you that the previously valid…
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