With our beloved city all but shut down, we found ourselves with a lot of extra time on our hands to read this year. Luckily, there were lots of good books about L.A. to delve into. Here’s a roundup of some of our favorites.
The recently completed SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, new home of the Los Angeles Rams and Chargers, was built on the site of Hollywood Park Racetrack. Horses had raced near Prairie Avenue since 1938 and photographer Michele Asselin captured the last days of the track in her book
Clubhouse Turn: The Twilight of Hollywood Park Race Track. The big art book traces the history of the park from Seabiscuit to Hollywood stars, then visits with gamblers and jockeys, and pays a visit to the stilled betting windows and grandstands before they made way for the new football stadium.
and nobody loves chris more than chris, and if you don t believe me, ask chris. with friends like this no, but seriously, you and you have an amazing family. you re a great dad. he takes me out on his boat. he teaches me how to fish like i ve never fished. i grew up in louisiana. i know. i know. but you re a really good guy. there s not a bad bone in your body. and, you know, you were just on with d.l. talking about race. this man right here, everybody s got a lot to learn from him when it comes to race and diversity and having friends of all different backgrounds. and that says a lot about you. i got spike lee coming up. and the mayor of charlottesville. very important conversations. happy birthday, brother. i love you. what are you, 62? yes, 62. i haven t had the work done like you. your forehead all natural. he s got a girdle on and all this stuff. when we come back, something happened on fox last night.
a friend. and this is very nice. one of the beautiful things about being here at night is to have anderson then you to be working with friends like this, what could be better? it s a sandwich. listen, this is about you. this isn t about me. you have one of the kindest people i know. and you love to hear yourself talk. and nobody loves chris more than chris, and if you don t believe me, ask chris. with friends like this no, but seriously, you and you have an amazing family. you re a great dad. he takes me out on his boat. he teaches me how to fish like i ve never fished. i grew up in louisiana. i know. i know. but you re a really good guy. there s not a bad bone in your body. and, you know, you were just on with d.l. talking about race. this man right here, everybody s got a lot to learn from him when it comes to race and diversity and having friends of all different backgrounds. and that says a lot about you. i got spike lee coming up.
beyond your narrow perception of reality to embrace others that aren t like you and that that was somehow turned around and turned into a firing offense. again, jonathan, yesterday morning, of course, this had been going in a loop. chris and i talked before the show yesterday. chris said i m going to call the department of agriculture. you know, he told the story. i have no idea why the obama administration would fire this woman without getting the full facts, especially when you consider who the people were who were peddling this story. yeah. when you look at this. on the one hand, you kind of maybe understand what happened. this hits the news. you see the clip. when you see that clip, you re like wow, she said this? she can t be here. she has to go. but what is required of all of us and particularly her bosses, the secretary and each
i said i m at least 45 minutes to an hour from athens. she said, well, shirley, they want you to pull over to the side of the road and do it. because you are going to be on glenn beck tonight. mike barnicle, is it really possible that the federal government, based upon fear of glenn beck, fired an employee, an excerpted clip they saw on cable news? unfortunately it is, willie. we spoke about this earlier. it s a horrific indictment of several institutions in this country of how politics is conducted today, of the news media s complicit in this. we ran the thing after the the peg of the story for us was after chris called agriculture and found out that tom vilsack, the secretary of agriculture, had fired the woman. vilsack now says he did so without speaking to anyone from the white house. so the logical question to tom vilsack is would you have done