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Wow, I am forever fortunate and very, very grateful. Growing up in L.A. and meeting my partner, Al Roberts, on the main beach in Laguna in 1970; building a beautiful home together here in 1975; starting a business at twenty-seven which, although now sold, is still thriving; starting a non-profit foundation in the mid-80's to help people with HIV/AIDS; traveling the world, and managing to stay together for 50 years until he sadly left us last year.

Early on in the pandemic, the World Health Organization warned that the world was facing an "infodemic," a mass outbreak of false and misleading information. While the WHO did not coin the term, it certainly made it popular, and contributed to the idea that it was the internet that was the leading cause of this…

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Ark Aid Street Mission says it has been given a deadline to comply with municipal zoning rules by Oct. 4, or the homeless drop-in space will be forced to cease services. The organization relocated to First Baptist Church on Clarence Street, behind the Victoria Park bandshell, during the renovation of its building in the Old East Village.

It’s a form of comedy that has fallen out of favour with TV, but a trio of fun acts are keeping the sketch flame alive

After many successful years of leading the Southside Virginia Community College men’s basketball team, Dennis Smith recently announced that he is stepping down as head coach of the Panthers.

Emina Melonic returns to our page this week with a detour for a look at Detour, a film I must confess I didnt know about at all. Always a great comeuppance when someone from a younger cohort than me fills in my cultural deficiencies (and adds to my to-watch list): You wouldn’t think that one man can be plagued with a long and consecutive series of unfortunate events but it

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Inbetweeners and Friday Night Dinner actor Simon Bird looks unrecognisable in Channel 4 comeback role, as he is pictured filming for comedy Everyone Else Burns.