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That ain’t no ordinary parishioner
Re the downpage photo on Monday’s L.A. Times A1 from All Saints Church captioned “The Rev. J. Edwin Bacon Jr. embracing a parishioner” after the end of the IRS probe was announced Sunday … well, the photographer failed to note, … Continue reading
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Poem written at lunch at Gerlach’s Grill with the Arts section
Reading accounts of the historical Migrations of artists Whole schools As if they all gathered each day at 8 At the sound of the bell Moving on to junior high Crushes on teachers The kiss of the classmate effected In … Continue reading
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To be black, gay and ex-Communist in Pasadena, 1953
So late Tuesday night I’m lying there under the halogen breaking my semi-vow to only read real books and not newspapers or magazines in bed by cracking The New Yorker that came in that day’s mail. First Talk of the … Continue reading
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Now that ‘Joe from Cincinnati’ is canceled …
You’ve got the three Harbour board guys Sunday at Bolsa Chica just out of the water after a couple hours of waist- to shoulder-highs in the fog. Right to left, James from Mt. Washington, an artist and musician, with his … Continue reading
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A colored square in the sky
< Aren’t those more like colored triangles? Yes. But I guess the 4,761 striped flags in French conceptual artist Daniel Buren’s piece, on view through Nov. 11 in the sky above One Colorado in Old Pasadena, together form a square. … Continue reading
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Pasablanca in the fall …
It’s all, you know, a terrifically big secret, and cast members are never supposed to spill the beans about the plot of, or the local celebrities in, the Pasadena Senior Center’s annual fund-raising Pasadena Follies parody musical extravaganza. But Ann … Continue reading
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The friends of Bill …
Picking up a book at will call upstairs at Vroman’s Sunday, I was scanning the store’s monthly calendar when the young clerk — a student at St. Andrews — said that, while it hadn’t made the printed edition, Bill Clinton … Continue reading
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