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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Gassy Biden and Obama May Talk McCain into Submission so He Can Gain Peace and QuietBy Ari L. Noonan @ 6:00 AM August 25, 2008Amidst the near-unanimous chorus of chin-dribbling cheers that erupted — and that was just in the media — after Messiah Sr. dipped into his sticky crackerjack box and hired Messiah Jr. as his Second Banana, one crucial question remained deftly ignored. read |
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Despite Lehman Brothers’ Troubles, Parcel B Groundbreaking Is DueBy Ari L. Noonan @ 4:00 PM August 22, 2008In case you are wondering what ever happened to the still-invisible Parcel B, the unappetizingly labeled project that formerly was going to be the final jewel in the crown of a rebuilt Downtown, consider the spectacular tailspin being suffered by the glamour party that had been behind the financing: Yesterday the Financial Times reported: “Lehman Brothers, the beleaguered U.S. investment bank, held secret talks to sell up to half of its shares to South Korean or Chinese parties in the first week of August but failed to reach agreement with either.”read |
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Tellefson Road — Ready, Set, Open. Not Quite. But Almost.By Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 PM August 22, 2008Mike Bauer, president of the Culver Crest Homeowners Assn., emailed neighbors this morning that “great news” was only a fortnight away. Three and a half years after the Crest lost Tellefson Road, one of its two main arteries, because of a hillslide during the height of the rainy season, normalcy appears about to be restored.read |
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A View on What Was More Important Than Comment Period ExtensionBy Ari L. Noonan @ 1:00 PM August 22, 2008[Editor’s Note: The County Regional Planning Commission’s next meeting on oil drilling will be in downtown Los Angeles at 9 a.m., Wednesday, at the Hall of Administration, Room 150, 320 W. Temple St.] One of the two main architects of the organized citizen pushback against expanded drilling in the Baldwin Hills oil field said this morning he is “cautiously optimistic” that Los Angeles County officials will digest, fairly assess the thousands of resident comments, and will return, around Labor Day, with redacted documents deemed satisfactory by the opposing parties.read |
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In Praise of Obama’s Plan for Applying Bright Red Lipstick to a PigBy Ari L. Noonan @ 4:00 PM August 21, 2008My sweet-tongued liberal Democratic friends, in cooperation with their duty-bound acolytes at the Los Angeles Times, once again are prowling the dark corridors of phobia, thumping their skintight drums for He Who Is Without Sin.read |