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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If You Are Counting Errors, Please Don’t — Unless It’s Obama’s Latest WhopperBy Ari L. Noonan @ 4:00 PM July 23, 2008If mistakes were wallpaper, we could cover Culver City this afternoon, something we endeavor to do 5 days week anyway. Ring up one more gaffe. read |
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Silbiger Makes the Chatter Lively at the End of Every MeetingBy Ari L. Noonan @ 5:00 PM July 22, 2008During the 3 months that the majority new City Council has been in office, one of the holdovers, Vice Mayor Gary Silbiger, consistently has turned the closing minutes into the most entertaining portion of the meeting. First-year Councilman Mehaul O’Leary probably has been the most outspoken voice on the dais. He criticized Mr. Silbiger for his so-called harangues at the end of meetings and that he belabors certain subjects. Make your points and move on, was Mr. O’Leary’s attitude. read |
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Camarella and Karlo Carry Stains No Dry Cleaner Can RemoveBy Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 PM July 22, 2008The City Council did not make bad choices last night — just wrong ones, quite wrong ones — for appointments to 2 city commissions, Civil Service, and Parks and Recreation. The reason for their very personal gaffe is not a mystery, just an exasperation. The result of their tilted voting — the overt snubbing of the candidates Tom Camarella and Karlo Silbiger — was as predictable as the Gregorian calendar or, in my case, ex-wives. read |
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Council Makes Ochoa, Kim Surprise Choices for Commission SeatsBy Ari L. Noonan @ 1:00 PM July 22, 2008The City Council fooled every speculator in town last night with single-seat appointments to three city commissions. They blew up formfulness, which has been the Council’s trademark, whereby friendships with private persons who carry high or rising profiles around City Hall are rewarded. read |
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Culver High Grad’s Body Is FoundBy Ari L. Noonan @ 7:00 PM July 21, 2008On Sunday, two days after a businessman pleaded with readers to contact the son of a Culver City family if they knew of his whereabouts in Panama, where he had been traveling on vacation for 3 weeks, a Panamanian fisherman discovered the dead body of Joey Lutz when it washed ashore about 2 miles from where he had drowned read |