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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Paspalis Agrees with Gov. Brown’s Funding PlanBy Ari L. Noonan @ 8:00 AM May 24, 2013Fourth in a series. For the last two years of her first term on the School Board, Kathy Paspalis, attorney who is running for re-election, has been its most unique member – the only non-educator. She acknowledges that her four years have been a heavy learning experience, and rewarding. She immediately established a reputation for...read |
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Is It Possible the President Really Did Not Know?By Ari L. Noonan @ 8:00 AM May 24, 2013We are asked to believe that President Obama was unaware of the felonious mischief that surrounds him, from his lying attorney general Eric Holder, to the team of pompous liars infecting the IRS, to the constructors of the ever-changing fairy tale that passes as the President’s excuse for purposely avoiding any contact with the electoral disease that was Benghazi last Sept. 11.read |
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School Board More Efficient Than One Before, Silbiger SaysBy Ari L. Noonan @ 4:00 PM May 23, 2013Third in a series. A School Board member is elected, typically, for what he or she believes, without necessarily factoring in how the person’s ideas may play with a team of disparate colleagues. Even if the candidate’s philosophy is irresistible, will he be able to create a consensus with more than half of his colleagues?read |
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Let Me Snivel One More Time, Says WendyBy Ari L. Noonan @ 1:00 PM May 23, 2013Next to whining Wendy Greuel, the funniest post-election mortem was coughed up by the Los Angeles Titanic’s Jim Newton. His Uncle Sir Isaac must have bounced one of his trademark rotten apples off nephew’s cranium. Listing five reasons Ms. Greuel’s ramshackle campaign for mayor flopped like a fat lady in a broken beach chair, No. 2 was...read |
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This Won’t Take Long Did It?By Ari L. Noonan @ 11:00 AM May 23, 2013The least imaginative political minds on the Westside and in South Los Angeles convened this morning. They broke their huddle and, dully, began touting state Assemblyperson Holly Mitchell (D-Culver City) for Culver City’s vacant state Senate seat – as reported here earlier. For sheer importance, this dust-laden strategy is analogous to the newest boxboy at your least favorite supermarket changing his month-old sox – because his mother burnt the filthy ones.read |