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Q: What’s the story behind that strange Scooby A: Turns out there’s a bunch of old TV vehicles making the rounds, from Knight Rider’s KITT to Herbie the Love Bug, most of them created by avid superfans. Warner Bros. still owns a Scooby Doo van it occasionally rolls out for charity appearances, but the one you’re seeing is probably a lime-and-aqua replica created by Edmundo Alarcon, a former Disney tour guide from La Puente who retrofitted his 1981 Volkswagen in tribute to his favorite...

Article content Often entering Essex’s historic old railway station Bill Gay was there to answer questions and softly guide you about. And there are so many others in Windsor-Essex County who, as much from interest as curiosity, share passions for preserving, recording and protecting the fabric of our collective presence. So while many others are still active perhaps it is time to recognize a few local historians who have contributed so much to our collective cultural knowledge. For exampl...

With our beloved city all but shut down, we found ourselves with a lot of extra time on our hands to read this year. Luckily, there were lots of good books about L.A. to delve into. Here’s a roundup of some of our favorites. The recently completed SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, new home of the Los Angeles Rams and Chargers, was built on the site of Hollywood Park Racetrack. Horses had raced near Prairie Avenue since 1938 and photographer Michele Asselin captured the last days of the track in her ...

And nobody loves chris more than chris, and if you dont believe me, ask chris. >> with friends like this -- >> no, but seriously, you -- and you have an amazing family. youre a great dad. he takes me out on his boat. he teaches me how to fish like ive never fished. i grew up in louisiana. >> i know. i know. >> but youre a really good guy. theres not a bad bone in your body. and, you know, you were just on with d.l. talking about race. this man right here, everybodys got a lot to learn from him w...

A friend. and this is very nice. one of the beautiful things about being here at night is to have anderson then you to be working with friends like this, what could be better? >> its a sandwich. listen, this is about you. this isnt about me. you have one of the kindest people i know. and you love to hear yourself talk. and nobody loves chris more than chris, and if you dont believe me, ask chris. >> with friends like this -- >> no, but seriously, you -- and you have an amazing family. youre a gr...

Beyond your narrow perception of reality to embrace others that arent like you and that that was somehow turned around and turned into a firing offense. again, jonathan, yesterday morning, of course, this had been going in a loop. chris and i talked before the show yesterday. chris said im going to call the department of agriculture. you know, he told the story. i have no idea why the obama administration would fire this woman without getting the full facts, especially when you consider who the ...

I said im at least 45 minutes to an hour from athens. she said, well, shirley, they want you to pull over to the side of the road and do it. because you are going to be on glenn beck tonight. >> mike barnicle, is it really possible that the federal government, based upon fear of glenn beck, fired an employee, an excerpted clip they saw on cable news? >> unfortunately it is, willie. we spoke about this earlier. its a horrific indictment of several institutions in this country of how politics is c...

Different media groups. i will give you one group of media types that looked at this tape edited and ran with it, but what youre sitting at the newspaper editor and i come and hand you a statement from the secretary of agriculture. >> ask chris lick that question. >> a statement from this lady. and i say, hey, mr. editor, it looks like the secretary of agriculture just fired a lady accused her of racism. do we run with it? >> ask chris lick. >> by the way, here is the naacp. boom. theyvalso rele...

Congratulations to chris. chris called the department of agriculture. i got to say this morning, the thing -- it doesnt surprise me that there are going to be people on the left or the right on the web in news organizations that took words from the proper context. we know that all happens time and time again. i got to say, i am stunned that the secretary of agriculture and that the obama administration would fire this woman without knowing the full story. they know its an ugly political climate ...

Of the obama transition, maybe we could solve health care just in that green room today. >> you have a got your own cabinet down there in washington. >> im telling you its going to be a wild show, youve got to watch. youve got to ask robert gibbs about wearing the canadian hockey jersey and take it go off and wearing the u.s. hockey jersey as well. >> trust me, thats going to come up. >> thank you, chris. >> curious to find out how the republicans react to lahoods comment. >> one thing i want to...