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Gay and Happy at a West Hollywood Candle Shop

Patrick Range McDonald
The phone started ringing at Timothy Jay Candles a little bit after ten o’clock in the morning, and it didn’t stop for the rest of the morning. At one o’clock, the red portable phone rang again. Tim Sullivan, a bright-eyed man in his sixties and owner of the candle shop,......
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Christopher Rice

Patrick Range McDonald
On a clear, sunny day — the same day not long ago that his fourth novel came out and he turned 30 — Christopher Rice, the writer and magazine columnist, takes a long walk through the small, gun-shaped city he loves. But the neighborhood seems to be changing. (Click to......
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Karen Ocamb

Patrick Range McDonald
On a recent Monday morning, Karen Ocamb sits back on a couch and gears up for another heavy week of hard-news journalism. Her one-bedroom apartment in West Hollywood is the command center, where she calls up sources, writes copy on a MacBook Pro and always keeps the television turned on......
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Larry Bowa

Patrick Range McDonald
Three hours before game time at Dodger Stadium, the day after the team’s third-base coach, Larry Bowa, was ejected for not standing in the coach’s box and then suspended for three games, 10 or 12 re-porters huddle near the dugout, notebooks, pens and tape recorders in hand. Bowa, one of......
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John Walsh, Chris Shabel and Miki Jackson

Patrick Range McDonald
At the Time Warner television studios on Lillian Way in Hollywood, Chris Shabel, Miki Jackson, and John Walsh sit in the green room and wait to tape two half-hour shows of their long-running cable access program called Neighborhood Point of View, or, as they call it, NPOV. “You know who......
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Another Clintonite Bites the Dust

Patrick Range McDonald
The LA Times probably had its farewell lined up for weeks. Last year, the newspaper went after the California State Assembly Speaker for his sleazy handling of political contributions with a special kind of glee. On Tuesday, the Eastside pol will be termed-out and replaced, and today the Times thoughtfully......

Robert Nudelman: A Tireless Defender

Patrick Range McDonald
Several hours after I heard Robert Nudelman had died at the age of 52 at his father’s home in Tucson, Arizona, I was driving on El Centro Avenue, heading north towards Sunset Boulevard and the Hollywood sign. In front of me, I could see the Palladium and the old CBS......