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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Goodbye, Mr. Cahn, R.I.P.By Ari L. Noonan @ 4:00 PM February 07, 2012My friend and teacher Joseph Cahn died yesterday morning. Even if your Hebrew is non-existent, you comprehend the meaning when I say a tzaddik has left our world. read |
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The Un-gay Side of Gay MarriageBy Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 PM February 07, 2012The breaking news: Dateline San Francisco – A divided three-judge panel from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals this morning declared California's same-sex marriage ban, Prop. 8, unconstitutional but agreed to give sponsors of the bitterly contested, voter-approved law time to appeal the ruling before ordering the state to resume allowing gay couples to wed. By 2 to 1, they said a lower court judge correctly interpreted the U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court precedents when he declared in 2010 that Prop.8, a response to an earlier state court decision that legalized gay marriage, was a violation of the civil rights of gays and lesbians. read |
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Council Members and Their BenefitsBy Ari L. Noonan @ 9:00 AM February 07, 2012[Editor’s Note: Following heated exchanges here in recent days about benefits for City Council members, a City Hall official today, for the first time, describes the benefits in an attempt to eliminate misunderstandings.] read |
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Sunny and Mild Outlook for Summer Music Festival, Says MandellBy Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 PM February 06, 2012After an hour-long meeting on Friday with City Manager John Nachbar, Summer Music Festival producer Gary Mandell emerged beaming with optimism that the imperiled concert series can be resumed in July. read |
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Virgin Meets the Devil, and Guess Who Prevails?By Ari L. Noonan @ 10:00 AM February 06, 2012The ugly beauty of bigotry is that because of its insidious nature, it must be subtle. read |