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March 25, 2001
On March 4, Charles W. Diggs Jr. wrote, "Now, what I want to say to Southpaw Jones is, 'Man, you ain't seen no blues, yet,' white or otherwise," (Letters to the Valley Edition). This was his response to Katherine Tolford's article about my music (Valley Life, Feb. 23). Frankly, he's right. As a young white male, the only "blues" I confront are shallow dilemmas like Napster lawsuits, neck hair and people who don't read articles fully before they jump to conclusions and respond. So what right do I have to wail?
NEWS
March 23, 2001 | SALLY ANN CONNELL, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Effective today, the county's chief probation officer--who once made headlines for refusing to send juvenile offenders to the California Youth Authority--has been fired for allegedly not showing up for work and not doing his job. John Lum, who believes that institutionalizing young offenders does little to rehabilitate them, maintains that the charges against him stem from a witch hunt conducted by conservative officials out to ruin his career....
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November 1, 2000 | KAREN ROBINSON-JACOBS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
As a boy, Steve Allen visited the San Fernando Valley and was captivated by "the sweet smell of the citrus," said his son Bill Allen, recalling a time when orange groves dotted the Valley landscape. When the legendary entertainer, who died suddenly Monday evening, decided to switch coasts, moving from New York to Southern California, he knew where he wanted to put down roots.
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September 24, 1999 | JAMES E. FOWLER
You're traveling in another dimension. The new fall television season brings the onslaught of about 34 new programs. But "new" is a misnomer. For your consideration, just two examples: CBS' "Judging Amy" is similar to NBC's "Providence" but different, and CBS' "Family Law" resembles ABC's "The Practice" but not quite. * While television programmers ran out of new show ideas years ago, now it seems they've even started to run out of show titles. Case in point: "Now and Again" and "Once and Again."
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September 24, 1999 | MAX JACOBSON, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
"You're the best," rejoices a regular as Hiro Matsuda hands a gaudily stuffed hand roll across the slate-gray sushi counter at his Ventura Boulevard restaurant. The man enraptured by his hand roll, I discover, was one of Matsuda's best customers when he worked down the street at Teru Sushi, before he left to open this new restaurant, named Matsuda. The man had better be right.