Ari Noonan, General Editor: Now in Year 23 of his recovery from an addiction to sportswriting, Ari Noonan is the tallest, oldest and hardest-hitting journalist in Greater Culver City. In the 1960s, he was a sportswriter, first in Orange County. Then he served as Night Sports Editor for the defunct Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. “Defunct” is the adopted first name of many newspapers Mr. Noonan has worked for and, to an extent, driven out of business. He was the last Sports Editor of the Evening Outlook in Santa Monica, for example. He was the last Managing Editor of the Baltimore Press, which died before he could leave town. In the 1970s, he jumped to Santa Barbara and Philadelphia before washing enough dishes to cover his fare back to Los Angeles. Throughout the 1980s and ‘90s, he became the dean of Jewish reporters in Los Angeles. That is, he became the dean of Jewish reporters covering the Jewish community of Los Angeles. This was not necessarily a good thing because during that span, he was present at the closure of three or four Jewish newspapers. With recent history being too painful to discuss, suffice it to report that he came to Culver City at the turn of the century. Following an editorship at the Culver City News, he opened The Front Page in March of ’04 and the newspaper went online fulltime in the final week of ’05. Contact Ari at
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Bob Lench Memorial Service on Monday at West L.A. CollegeBy Ari L. Noonan @ 1:00 PM November 20, 2008A memorial service celebrating the life of education enthusiast Bob Lench, philanthropist and West Los Angeles College Foundation board member, will be held on Monday at 12 noon in the Fine Arts Theatre on the West campus. read |
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Of A. Lincoln and G. SilbigerBy Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 PM November 19, 2008The Gettysburg Address, Nov. 19, 1863 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal.” read |
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An Expensive, Impressive Handoff — From O’Leary to Robitaille to CharityBy Ari L. Noonan @ 1:00 PM November 19, 2008Neither a pomp nor a circumstance was in sight yesterday at the lunch hour at Joxer Daly’s Irish pub when the proprietor, Mehaul O’Leary, slid into a front booth to commit an extraordinary act. Having shlepped along his business-sized checkbook, he opened to page one, and he began writing, expensively. read |
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Democratic Process Takes a Beating in Council ChambersBy Ari L. Noonan @ 4:00 PM November 18, 2008If your child is running with The Mob, mama, do not fret. Your worries have ended. At least you know where to find him every Monday night — in Council Chambers. To the consternation of true democrats (lower-case “d”) and other reasonable people, mob rule has hijacked the City Council the last two Mondays. read |
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Fulwood Bails Out a Confused City Council, Temporarily Rescues 4043 Irving ProjectBy Ari L. Noonan @ 12:00 PM November 18, 2008Being the national rage, bailout came to Culver City early this morning. A little before 1 a.m., when the indecisive City Council was flailing like a wounded whale over the controversial mixed-use project intended for 4043 Irving Pl., City Manager Jerry Fulwood bailed out the confused, yawning members. read |