Joe Louis, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall and Much More See that house across the street? It may not look so fancy, but it may […]
Category: Hollywood
Be Fruitful and Multiply… My Family Has
We Don’t Use Ballrooms for reunions. We rent AT&T Stadium My parents came from families big enough to play baseball against one another — and […]
Significant People in Your Life
Who Simply Seem to Disappear… Like My Dear Friend Ernie Sometimes it turns out that the gal serving you slivovitz at your favorite dive bar […]
Revisiting the Troubling Malibu Tragedy
PCH Could Get Speed Cameras After Deaths of Four Students After an allegedly speeding driver killed four Pepperdine students last fall on the Pacific Coast […]
A New Generation Leads WeHo
The New Faces of Gay Nightlife in West Hollywood As I walk out of my front door at BlockParty and look left and right, I […]
Adventures of the RED WRTR
When You Could Drive Behind the HOLLYWOOD Sign Nothing more than your car is a status symbol in Hollywood. No one asks what you do, […]
My Fabulous Life at the Barn
One of Hollywood’s Most Significant Landmarks Still Stands In a city where they think nothing of knocking down Pickfair, bulldozing the Garden of Allah and […]
The Gold Age of Hollywood
MGM Turns 100, and A Little Girl Turns 97Cora Sue Collins is the last living MGM contract player from the 1930s, and more than 20 […]
Let Us Now Praise David McHam
Am I the Last Newspaper Reader in America? My college journalism professor demanded such dedication in pursuit of accuracy and definitive facts on each assignment […]
‘A Bit of a Step, a Bit of Soul’
Is There Anyone Who Hasn’t Danced with Chester Whitmore? That slight old man walking past you on Hollywood Boulevard may not seem like anyone […]