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Sunday, May 19, 2013
About a half hour from La Verne is Silver Lake, the No. 1 hipster community in the United States, according to Forbes magazine. Bordered by Los Feliz to the north, Echo Park to the east and south and Hollywood to the west, Silver Lake is hipper than San Francisco’s Mission District, Portland’s Pearl District and [...]
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Lots of familiar faces turned out to support the 5th Annual Memorial Kevin Normington Golf Tournament. How many can you recognize?
Expansion of local gym is setting the new trend in fitness
Somewhat surprising, from 2000 to 2012, La Verne’s population fell by 177, a 0.6% decrease, to 31,461. Over the same period, Los Angeles County’s population increased 0.32%. As of 2012, La Verne’s non-Hispanic white population was 53.8%, compared with 27.1% for Los Angeles County, or about double that of L.A. County’s. Yet, the non-White Hispanic population in [...]
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Bonita unexpectedly fell to Cathedral in the opening round of the playoffs, 3-1, last Thursday at Bonita, ending an incredible season in which the team went 26-4-1. It was the earliest playoffs exit for the team since 2007. The story that follows was written following the Bearcats’ final regular season game, which was also senior [...]
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Okay, here’s why advertising pays off and better advertising pays off even more handsomely. While enjoying a tostada at the Rose Café in Santa Barbara, I pick up the local paper, the Montecito Journal (May 2-9), and on page 5 in the upper right-hand corner, I spy a quarter-page ad that simply shows a bronzed lemony [...]
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LV Vibe
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Outside of Napoleon and Charlemagne, the French may not make the best fighters or warriors — at least my World War II veteran dad told me so — but as far as their passion for art and architecture goes, they are nonpareil. In particular, three French architectural styles have dramatically influenced the art and science of [...]
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ABCs
A Brief Collection of school events in La Verne.
Jason Collins ‘outed’ himself last week. Yes I know he plays basketball and not baseball. (Just gimme a minute to get there, ok?) Collins, in case it’s possible you are not aware, is the first active player in one of the four major United States team sports to declare his homosexuality. It’s a big deal. Once in [...]
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