Greg Goldin

Banners Yet Wave

Greg Goldin
Those bumblebee-yellow and black ABC-TV banners advertising Drew Carey, Dharma and Greg, All My Children and The Practice are hanging from lampposts everywhere. They’re on Olympic Boulevard in Century City, on Ventura Boulevard in Studio City. They’re even on Fairfax Avenue directly across the street from network rival CBS’s Television......

Mallywood

Greg Goldin
It’s baaack. After years of retrenchment and recriminations, and over $400 million in misspent and misdirected money, redevelopment is coming back to Hollywood Boulevard. A slew of new projects — totaling more than 3 million square feet of restaurants and stores, 4,000 movie-theater seats, half a dozen parking lots, and......

Glowing Future Dims for Dump

Greg Goldin
It appears that the decade-old battle by California authorities to acquire Ward Valley, the proposed low-level nuclear-waste dump near Needles, may now finally be over - scuttled by Pete Wilson's own frantic effort to push the project forward. The project has been at a standstill for years, most recently because......

Malling the Market

Greg Goldin
The Farmers Market, as in "Meet me Third and Fairfax," is an in spot in L.A. Some would say the in spot. And you don't have to be in yourself to get in. Just drive up, park, wander in and take your pick: doughnuts and coffee, waffles and strawberries, gumbo......
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The Titanic Transcripts

Greg Goldin
Buried in this abridged pocket-dictionary-size edition of the official transcripts of the 1912 Senate investigation into the Titanic disaster is as clear-headed an account of history’s greatest catastrophe at sea as there is. Although it is at times repetitive, the firsthand evidence, side by side with contemporaneous expert testimony, provides......