Tag: LA
LA Closes Extensions With 2 Forwards, 2 Defensemen
LOS ANGELES—The Kings announced on Friday, July 10 that they have issued one-year contract extensions to defensemen Kevin Gravel and Paul LaDue and forward...
Kings Hire 3rd Assistant Coach For 2017-2018
LOS ANGELES—Pierre Turgeon has been sworn in by the LA Kings as the newest addition to their coaching staff, Head Coach John Stevens and...
Julia
UNITED STATES—Well, I had an English student named Berta in a class I was substituting. She had a motto that she got from her...
Color It Gone
UNITED STATES—When I began this memoir I drove down by U.S.C. one tropical afternoon to visit Librería Azteca to see if I’d left anything...
Aftermath
UNITED STATES—The end of April, the city was in flames. Incredibly my new city, a week before had suffered an eight-mile explosion when a...
Dream
UNITED STATES—February 10, 1992, I said goodbye to Los Angeles. “The Strawberry Butterfly,” the screenplay that had grown from the chrysalis of “The Persecuted,”...
Lame Duck Period
UNITED STATES—In Danny’s coffee shop Uncle John looked at me levelly and said, “Someday you are going to hit it big.” He said it...
Regrets
UNITED STATES—Regrets, I’ve had a few, but not too few to mention.
In fact, regret has been a dynamic force for change and improvement. I...
The Doghouse
UNITED STATES—The Palmer House got all gussied up with the help of a threat from the city. Then came the big day of the...
Mattresside
UNITED STATES—The revamping of the Palmer House, a fleabag of over 100 rooms, didn’t just occur out of the blue. Nothing ever did in...