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FIESTA LA BALLONA 2010 IS HERE!
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Come out and celebrate Fiesta La Ballona! Browse through the booths, taste the food, hang out in the beer garden, listen to the bands, watch the presentations, go on the carnival rides, and have some fun! AUGUST 27 28 & 29 View The OFFICIAL FIESTA LA BALLONA PROGRAM GUIDE |
Get Used To The New Pac-10
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By Mitch Chortkoff Practice has begun for the Pac-10 football season and we all have some adjusting to do. The day Pete Carroll left USC we knew a lot would change. Very quickly, we've seen the landscape has been considerably altered. It's different already. Carroll is gone, enough players have left sot there are only 71 Trojan players on scholarship and Oregon is favored to win the 2010 conference championship. My media friends who attend Trojan practices tell me the environment has changed |
Nachbar Named New City Manager
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John Nachbar, who helped to rejuvenate the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, has been named to the post of City Manager in Culver City.
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In One Ear
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Starting just this week, "Itty Bitty Sports" is back at the Culver-Palms Family YMCA -- Session 1 is Mondays & Wednesdays, August 9- September 1 (8 classes) from 4-4:45 pm; Session 2 runs Tuesdays & Thursdays, August 10- September 2 (8 classes) 4-4:45pm. This is for both boys and girls, ages 3-5 years. In this program, fun is the focus while learning the basic skills used in a variety of sports such as soccer, football, |
The Movies
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by debbie lynn elias TWELVE There is often nothing more evocative, or provocative, then the blend of teenage angst, money, madness, absent parenting, the pretense and pretend of early adulthood, too much freedom, a lack of accountability and responsibility, alcohol, sex and drugs. Just take a look at what's on television every week, or look at many of the teens in high school today in certain areas of the country. 20+ years ago, "Less Than Zero" captured the decadence and heartbreak of this teenaged turmoil with a tortured free-wheeling and drug using character in the form of Robert Downey, Jr. (who of course went on to become one of the poster children for life imitating art with his many legal entanglements). Based on Bret Easton Ellis' novel, we never looked at Beverly Hills the same as it showed the hidden side of wealth, want and need. In 2002 the time and coastline shifted when then 17 year old aspiring writer Nick McDonell penned TWELVE. Stemming from his own personal anger over class distinction and the sense of entitlement that money gave himself and his Upper East Side, New York peers, TWELVE, also dealing with money, absent parenting, sex, alcohol and a new drug called Twelve, was immediately hailed for its brutal honesty and quickly became a bestseller book of the year. And now in 2010, director Joel Schumacher adds TWELVE to his repertoire with what is destined to become one of the classic teenage genre films of our time.
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