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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Mark Scott Resigns as City ManagerBy Ari L. Noonan @ 2:00 PM February 08, 2010City Manager Mark Scott, in his ninth month on the job, “surprised” but did not “shock” City Hall staffers this morning when he declared his resignation, citing family reasons. read |
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Getting a Little Warm in Here, Isn’t It? It’s You-Know-What, says the TimesBy Ari L. Noonan @ 2:00 PM February 05, 2010Gallantly galloping through the rainy rivulets of Big Town, those courageous junior journalists down at the prescient Los Angeles Times, Pravda by the Pacific, issued another lightning bolt of junior-sized news this morning: read |
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A Gay Military? Yeah, Sure.By Ari L. Noonan @ 8:00 AM February 04, 2010Debating a liberal, commonly, is the intellectual equivalent of a dyslexic midget spitting into a hurricane. A week after his funeral. read |
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Holding Each Other TogetherBy Ari L. Noonan @ 4:00 PM February 03, 2010Part III Previously, “When the Masseys and the Davises Came Together” read |
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Quiet Zone: School Board at Work TonightBy Ari L. Noonan @ 2:00 PM February 03, 2010Contrary to earlier ballyhoo, tonight’s 7 o’clock School Board meeting, previously announced for Lin Howe School — where it will not be held — will amount to, if the City Council will forgive the borrowed concept, an in-house style of Study Session. read |