The Broom Man left this life this week. Many of us will have to figure out another way to buy a broom. The blind Rev. Livingston Wills walked Omaha streets peddling brooms for over 55 years. Our offices in Omaha's inner city Benson neighborhood was a place he would 'set a spell', use the phone, etc. before gathering his brooms and moving on down the steet. Here is a link to the Omaha World Herald…
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Added by Mark on August 23, 2008 at 2:00pm —
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Najee Ali, who joined LPB in October, was controversial to say the least. He was sentenced to four years in state prison Monday
after pleading guilty to trying to bribe a witness in his daughter's criminal case.
I interviewed him a few times when I was a reporter and found his one-on-one skills, demeanor and intelligence in sharp contrast to how he portrayed himself to the media, and…
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Added by enhager on August 20, 2008 at 4:30pm —
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Annual income in South and East Los Angeles - from Watts to Boyle Heights to Leimert Park and seven other neighborhoods is about
$1.9 billion more than the U.S. census has estimated. And that 82,000 more people live there than the census has counted.
Added by enhager on August 13, 2008 at 1:00pm —
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I just can't think of a reason
another fast food place would make Leimert Park or South Los Angeles a better place. I've read blog post after rant and whine - in no particular order - that says creating zoning regulations to control land use in a city is
unAmerican and part of some nanny state that white liberals are try push on the poor…
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Added by enhager on August 12, 2008 at 8:56pm —
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Parents and students marched Jefferson Park Saturday to ask authorities to make the Expo Line safer as it passes through our crowded neighborhoods.…
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Added by enhager on August 11, 2008 at 5:30pm —
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Critics are everywhere! In the bed next to us, at the family table, in the workplace and inside our own heads. They sit in judgment and watch what others do so they can find fault. They slice and dice away at your positive energy, and are happiest when you are inert, doing nothing and complaining. The power they hold over us seems real, but it's not. Scratch them and watch pus ooze from their pores like lava from a volcano. They are putrid and…
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Added by Rhonda Kuykendall-Jabari on August 1, 2008 at 3:00pm —
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I saw "Batman: The Dark Knight" this weekend (highly recommended) and immediately I noticed a strong resemblance between the suave mayor of Gotham played by Nestor Carbonell (of TV shows "Lost" and "Cane") and our own Antonio Villaraigosa.
I wasn't sure if there was a connection but at one point you see the mayor's nameplate: Anthony Garcia.
Coincidence?
Gotham's mayor, who wears an awful lot of…
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Added by enhager on July 22, 2008 at 5:00am —
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This is in our neighborhood - they took a chance and we should take a chance on them. You can get moderately priced and exotic wine, beer and tapas (appetizers that are reminiscent of what you'd find in a bar in Spain), a somewhat elegant atmosphere, owners who come and ask for your opinion of the establishment and it's where HOOVER meets UNION, just…
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Added by enhager on July 3, 2008 at 9:00am —
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Still waiting for great Mexican food to finds its way to the Leimert Park area. But this is pretty good. They have a lot of things you don't find often - squash blossoms and epazotes and nopalitos - made in homemade CORN tortillas. Also queso fundido, chilequiles, several types of tortas, huaraches and tacos. Lots for a vegetarian to try as well.
2624 Jefferson Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90018
(323) 733-3083…
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Added by enhager on July 1, 2008 at 4:00pm —
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NEW YORK - Barack Obama will fight for equal rights for gays just as he fought to help working-class families overcome poverty, the Democratic presidential hopeful's wife told a gay Democratic group Thursday.
Any support Obama would have gotten from my friends or myself just "went out the window", I quess that's why I gave up on the Democratic Party.
Added by Mr Muggles on June 27, 2008 at 12:12am —
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I was at a friend's house for dinner and we were complaining about the gas and the war and the gloomy future and George Bush.
"I hope things change in November," I said. "I just donated to Barack Obama's campaign. It was my first political donation. And it was the first time ... there was ... someone I could believe in."
I was excited, but…
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Added by enhager on June 16, 2008 at 3:00pm —
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The Famous Comedy Act Theater - once a haunt for everyone from Eddie Murphy to Dave Chappelle to Jamie Foxx - is returning to Leimert. At least according to this
YouTube video (also embedded in the LP Beat's video section).
According to a
Sept. 2000 NYT story: The seeds of the current comedy boom…
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Added by enhager on May 14, 2008 at 9:56am —
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I was doing some research on how to respond to
this story about Leimert Park, when I came upon a 1993 Rolling Stone cover story where Pulitzer Prize winning food critic Jonathan Gold interviews Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg right after "The Chronic" hit the street.…
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Added by enhager on May 1, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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Ted Rohrlich of the Los Angeles Times
wrote a great story about a decades long problem - Marlton Square/Santa Barbara Plaza.
"Los Angeles leaders gambled on a check-bouncing, politically connected developer to shepherd the project. And after $15 million in government subsidies and more than $30 million in private investment, taxpayers -- and the community -- have lost," Rohrlich…
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Added by enhager on April 28, 2008 at 9:19am —
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RAP SESSIONS: COMMUNITY DIALOGUES ON HIP-HOP
HIP-HOP, POLITICS, & THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
Clinton? Obama? McCain? A third party? Activism? A movement? What issues are the most important?
Come join renowned artists, scholars, activists, and personalities dialogue about voting, organizing, and the issues that matter to us most!
FEATURING
M-1, MC of the hip-hop group DEAD PREZ
MEDUSA, MC of PROJECT BLOWED, FELINE SCIENCE
JEFF…
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Added by Amaka on April 4, 2008 at 1:07pm —
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Some days it doesn't seem like there's much to laugh about when it comes to race. But as Hawkeye Pierce once said - If I wasn't laughing I'd be crying.
So I had to share a website that I found -
Stuff White People Like. It's funny because it's true (more or less), kind of like a Chris Rock act.
Consider this Gem, which makes…
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Added by enhager on March 21, 2008 at 10:15am —
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Earlez Grille has moved to an even better location (as much as I hate to say it) about 2 miles north on Crenshaw to Jack's Chili Factory just south of the Expo Rail (coming soon). Dwayne Earle still runs the place like a tip top ship with quality and a quantity of products, but the menu expanded, the hours expanded and the space really expanded. It's still a lot more than you'd expect. (begin original post) It has the best…
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Added by enhager on March 8, 2008 at 7:25pm —
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MTA officials released a plan Wednesday night to run the Crenshaw line along existing track through an industrial area of Inglewood, avoiding the city's main commercial thoroughfares,
according to a story in the Daily Breeze.
The Crenshaw line, still years away, would connect the Expo Line to the Green Line, and pass within a mile of Los Angeles International Airport.
Ridiculously the MTA also has shelved the idea of…
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Added by enhager on February 22, 2008 at 10:07am —
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Oscar Robertson signs "The Big O: My Life, My Times, My Game" and "The Art of Basketball," Eso Won Books, 4331 Degnan Blvd., Leimert Park, 7 p.m. (323) 290-1048.
The 6-foot-5, 220-pound Robertson played the guard position, and was a twelve-time All-Star, eleven-time member of the All-NBA Team, and one-time winner of the MVP award in fourteen professional seasons. He is the only player in NBA history to average a triple-double…
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Added by enhager on February 19, 2008 at 1:55pm —
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Leimert Park Beat started less than a year ago but I come across interesting and sometimes crazy articles about our home all the time. So I'm gonna share some of them, even if they're old.…
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Added by enhager on January 24, 2008 at 5:20pm —
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