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Letter From LA: Fall 2023
"This city is going crazy," my Lyft driver muttered, as we watched a car make a left turn right in front of a speeding ambulance, sirens wailing to wake…
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Letter From LA: Super Bowl Issue
In honor of Super Bowl Sunday and the Chinese surveillance balloons that flew across the country for several days two weeks ago, I decided to revisit…
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Letter From LA: Gods and Monsters
Swaying palm trees, cool evening breezes, night-blooming jasmine, ruby red and purple bougainvillea, golden sun at twilight: these are some of the…
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Letter From LA: Dreamin' About Dreams
Belated Happy New Year and Yom Kippur to my Jewish (and gentile) friends:
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Letter From LA: Summer 2022 - The Crime Issue
When I was growing up in Los Angeles, there were certain parts of the city you just didn't go to -- the bad sides of town: Watts, East LA, parts of…
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Letter From LA: Winter of (my) Discontent
It's been more than six months since my last Letter; this winter was a mind-numbing jumble of ill tidings that, to paraphrase Shakespeare, was a winter…
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Letter From LA: Dylan and the Dreamin' Blues
Bob Dylan turns 80 on May 14, 2021, and in honor of this anniversary, I've decided to listen to every Dylan album I can get my hands on (I have about 25…
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