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ANIMAL WATCH-The stern face of a Pit Bull adorns the Best Friends’ Animal Society’s Facebook  announcement, “Together, We Made LA a No-Kill City,” but there is no mention of Los Angeles Animal Services nor General Manager Brenda Barnette as part of this accomplishment. Was this an oversight?  Barnette is retiring as General Manager of LAAS after a decade of  brutal attacks by Pit Bulls and other dogs with known-aggressive behavior on innocent and unsuspecting victims—adopters, visitors, and employees at Los Angeles City animal shelters. These are dogs Barnette has made availa...

Forty years after the Hoboken music scene, Jon Klages shines on ‘Fabulous Twilight’ | Testa Updated Apr 07, 2021; Facebook Share No discussion of the Hoboken music scene of the 1980s would be complete without the Individuals. That band’s infectious mix of pop jangle and No Wave cool helped foment the Mile Square City’s cultural renaissance. But shortly after the group disbanded, guitarist Jon Klages decamped to the West Coast. Now, some 40 years later, he’s released his first solo album, “Fabulous Twilight,” on Danbury Fair Recordings. As a New York City kid, Klages didn’t ha...

  On April 1, 2021, singer-songwriter-guitarist Jon Klages, who helped create the Hoboken Sound as lead guitarist for the Individuals, will release Fabulous Twilight, a collection of original songs and instrumentals hailed as “an exceptionally broad and rich work … mature but still playful…[that] shows off Jon’s considerable songwriting and musicianship skills proudly” (Peter Holsapple of the dB’s and Continental Drifters). With a songcraft, melodic inventiveness, and humor that recalls the early albums of Harry Nilsson and Randy Newman, Fabulous Twilight is a fresh and bold add...

Obituary - Kitty Martin Wines Kitty Wines Kitty Martin Wines, aka Vickey Broughton, age 62, of Chinook MT, passed away Dec 10, 2020 after diagnosed with COVID. Kitty was born May 13th, 1958, to Ruth Solomon and Gene Broughton in Long Beach, CA. In 1969, Ruth moved her four children to Havre MT to raise her family on the ranch that was left to Ruth and her brother Ted after their father passed. Being raised on the ranch south of Havre is where Kitty found her passion and love for horses and the outdoors. While still in high school, Kitty even broke two of her own horses with the help of th...