CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 29, 2010 | By Jessica Garrison, Melanie Hicken and David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times
Glendale's housing manager was blunt with his concerns about giving a prominent developer $12.2 million to build low-income housing near the city's downtown. "I strongly recommend … not funding this project at anywhere near the level currently being requested," Mike Fortney wrote in an April 2008 letter to his boss. Glendale City Council members awarded the money anyway. The following year, they paid an additional $1.7 million for the project, dubbed Vassar City Lights, a five-story stucco building on San Fernando Road.
ENTERTAINMENT
July 10, 1990 | SYLVIE DRAKE, TIMES THEATER WRITER
A funny thing happened on the way to the La Jolla Playhouse: "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" became high class entertainment. That's Entertainment with a capital E, not a capital H, as in high-brow, which "Forum" could/should never be.