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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Hello Down There – Mielke’s Picture of the District Salary DilemmaBy Ari L. Noonan @ 9:00 AM May 09, 2012With the School Board having turned the early-spring community flap over adjuncts into a fairly silent movie for the present, Board meetings have returned to their prosaic form. read |
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Sahli-Wells Traces Malsin’s Setback to the Loophole DisputeBy Ari L. Noonan @ 9:00 AM May 09, 2012Second of two parts read |
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Opening Night for Meghan. Felt Like a Veteran. No Reason for Jitters.By Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 PM May 08, 2012First of two parts read |
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Parking Protests Again Flavor Car Show PublicityBy Ari L. Noonan @ 10:00 AM May 08, 2012On Saturday morning for the ninth straight year, the entrepreneur George Barris’s Back to the ’50s Car Show will be floridly staged in the bosom of Downtown, from 9 to 3. read |
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Let the Sun Spray Into the District. Solar Panel Salesman Returns.By Ari L. Noonan @ 9:00 AM May 08, 2012[Editor’s Note: The School Board will conduct its regular twice-monthly meeting tonight at 7 in the Board Room of the School District offices.] read |