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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When Religion Is Not Out of BoundsBy Ari L. Noonan @ 7:00 AM February 06, 2012Speaking as a religious Jew, the most disheartening turn of the Presidential campaign has been the brazen daily mockery by the Angry Left of Mitt Romney’s religion. read |
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A Case of Battered Women as ‘Planned’ Bullies Pull the TriggerBy Ari L. Noonan @ 2:00 PM February 03, 2012The main history lesson of this afternoon’s onesided showdown between the angry, man-hating left-wing girls of Planned Abortionhood and the more sedate ladies of the Susan G. Komen Foundation: read |
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Malsin Stayed in TouchBy Ari L. Noonan @ 12:00 PM February 03, 2012Re “On the 50th Day, Malsin Returns to the Sparring Ring” read |
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Will the Sol Ever Shine Again Over Culver City?By Ari L. Noonan @ 7:00 AM February 03, 2012With undeniable clarity and enviable eloquence, Sol Blumenfeld, perhaps the most under-rated orator in our town, explained – scenically, modestly – to a Chamber of Commerce breakfast yesterday how drastically the Redevelopment Agency has rearranged and upgraded Culver City just in the last four years. read |
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O’Leary’s Advice for the Governor: DuckBy Ari L. Noonan @ 10:00 AM February 02, 2012City Manager John Nachbar and Community Development Director Sol Blumenfeld were billed as the headline attractions at the Chamber of Commerce’s Good Morning, Culver City, breakfast this morning at the Courtyard by Marriott hotel. read |