The City E-Zine

A passerby provided this unexpected supernatural consequence while I stopped during my bike ride home from work Monday night to snap a timed exposure of the actual ghost that is Johnnie’s Coffee Shop. Its brightly lighted corpse has sadly haunted this corner of Fairfax and Wilshire for the last 10 years. There may be valid [...]

1:09 a.m. Taken while biking home after an hellaciouslyIsayhellaciously long day/night at work. Tired as I was, I couldn’t resist stopping across the street and freezing this Hollywood landmark’s moment in time.

One of the article’s I read about the slaying of Ronald Barron, the former gangmember turned interventionist, stated that the shooting Sunday night after the Super Bowl took place outside a bar with a red door on the 5000 block of Pico Boulevard. So when I detoured to that block this morning — just a [...]

The LA Weekly is tackling one of my old favorite topics: carrying a gun in Los Angeles. They are specifically talking about carrying one in Starbucks but it’s worth taking the opportunity to discuss the larger issue. Yes, carrying a gun in Los Angeles is legal in a variety of different situations. For anyone who [...]

At first sight when I read the headline in this mornings Pasadena Star News my parent hat was on and thought bravo keep the child sex offenders at bay.  Then I got to thinking, do we have a civil liberty issue at hand?  What’s to stop them from crossing the city limit anyway?
Monrovia joined the [...]