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April 19, 2010
CROOKED COPS
A new blog series, from the Abby Normal mind of Stan Lerner!
It was a bright, sunny morning in the suburbs of Los Angeles. And from the Skinner home, a single story ranch-style, emanated rays of happiness, perhaps even more illuminating than those from the big happy face in the sky.
Eight-year-old Joshua ran down the hallway [...:]
It was a bright, sunny morning in the suburbs of Los Angeles. And from the Skinner home, a single story ranch-style, emanated rays of happiness, perhaps even more illuminating than those from the big happy face in the sky.
Eight-year-old Joshua ran down the hallway [...:]
April 14, 2010
Two Great Downtown Wine Tastings on Tap Tonight and Friday
The legendary "rolling wine bar" at Ralph's market downtown has been reactivated from time to time in 2010 by its superlative host Mike Berger, like a rock star dropping in unexpectedly to play a stunning set of live music unbilled. This week Mr. Berger is announcing two winery-themed tastings: tonight, Wednesday the 14th, and [...:]
April 8, 2010
162,000 New Jobs! Not!!!
Last week I wrote a blog that identified the fundamental flaw at the core of Health Care Legislation—FREEDOM! This week I'm compelled to write a blog that identifies not only the fundamental flaw at the core of all economic stimulus efforts to date, but the one game changing idea (for the better) that is now [...:]
March 29, 2010
PASSOVER HEALTHCARE & THE AMERICAN WAY
Foreword by Stan Lerner: a lot of people have asked me to write about healthcare legislation and while there is much to be said, I thought it best to focus on the core issue, which has little to do with healthcare.
Passover (which is observed this week) is the Jewish holiday that celebrates the exodus of [...:]
Passover (which is observed this week) is the Jewish holiday that celebrates the exodus of [...:]
March 25, 2010
THE DAILY BREW BREWS UP A NEW PARTNERSHIP
Foreword by Stan Lerner: the following article will appear in the next edition of the Montebello Spotlight. For those of you not familiar, Montebello, which means beautiful hills in Italian, is a suburb of Los Angeles about eight miles east of Downtown or just east of East LA. And Montebello is also my hometown, the [...:]
March 24, 2010
"Explorers"
So I got this little heads up from Marie Bobin who runs the Jules Verne space over at 7th and Fig. I plan on writing a whole blog about this lovely girl, great space and fantastic program for the community. But in the meantime go check out what they're doing on Thursdays for lunchtime.
"Bring your [...:]
"Bring your [...:]
March 18, 2010
SAINT PATRICK'S DAY LA LIVE 2010
I'm tough, but I'm fair!!! Last year the first of several blogs that I posted, which were critical of AEG LA Live, dealt with AEG LA Live's not doing anything for Saint Patrick's Day—meaning they should have done a free event for the community to partake in. This year, AEG LA Live did do an [...:]
March 12, 2010
THE WANDERING JEW
So I had intended to drive up to Missoula Montana, where my blog Road To Nowhere had left off, and continue my journey of self-discovery and storytelling from all over this great country of ours. But I have paved many paths with intentions that quite often differ from my deeds. I'm back in LA now, [...:]
February 26, 2010
THE LOS ANGELES BOOK FESTIVAL
The Los Angeles Book Festival named "Sweet Mary" by two time Pulitzer Prize Winner Liz Balmaseda its 2010 Grand Prize Winner—congratulations Liz! My novel "Stan Lerner's Criminal", as it did at the London Book Festival received the First Honorable Mention. So "Criminal" has now won the Grand Prize at the Hollywood Book Festival and received [...:]
February 11, 2010
SMASHWORDS.COM
Foreword by Stan Lerner: as I sit here at Break Espresso in Missoula Montana preparing once again to travel on the "Road To Nowhere" I can't help, but to write about smashwords.com because much like I wrote of in my blog post "Go Buy A Kindle" it is the invention of websites such as smashwords, [...:]
