Opinion

Comin’ Through The Rye

It’s one of those mornings when I can’t find anything. I know my makeup is in my purse but where’s my purse? I have indeed donned a dress but am lacking the…

A Press in Peril

I’ve been thinking a lot about Edward R. Murrow lately. Journalists of a certain age are prone to do that. Not because we’re lost in our senile reveries, but because Murrow, the…

White Hats-Black Hats

I was eight years old when we got our first television set. It was 1953. I was a horse loving, cowgirl-tomboy child, trapped in Evanston, Illinois, until, at 18, I could catch…

With Love, From Summer 2017

How can anything really be Summer 2017? In what kind of science fiction, futuristic, Tomorrowland time have we arrived?   Of course, all things being relative, our children bat not an eye. “2017?…

Letters – July 14, 2017

Fire Night at Rocco’s   On the first night of the fire, Jane Hoover and Lisa Zook closed up Topanga Home Grown at the usual time and went to the Bistro. It…

Making Noise

I arrive just as Kevin is wrapping up his How-We-Behave-on-the-Wheel talk. “No more pictures; turn off your cell phones until the ceremony ends… etc.” I walk around the circle searching for a…

Life

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”-John Lennon It’s been a rough year, a year of living with loss, drastic changes, closing down and trying to open up again.…

Artificial Intelligence and Journalism

When Michael Ferro became the largest shareholder and non-executive chairman of Tribune Publishing in 2016, according to his Wikipedia bio, Ferro became determined to usher the historic company into the digital age,…

Letters – June 30, 2017

This year Arson Watch began replacing the older Arson Watch signs with our new updated reflective version developed by Todd Prince of Malibu Arson Watch. The Arson Watch signs are mounted below…

Plays for a Political Mean Season

Was it only a year ago that I was rhapsodizing about the upcoming 2016 programming at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum? As I wrote at the time, the Theatricum’s summer program blew in…