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President Joe Biden has nominated Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti as ambassador to India. Assuming the Senate confirms him, Garcetti, who would leave office early (his second term ends in December 2022), might find India familiar in certain respects. Like Mumbai or Delhi, Los Angeles now has massive homeless encampments throughout the city, even increasingly in posh neighborhoods like Brentwood and throughout the middle-class strongholds of the San Fernando Valley. Late last week, as Garcetti prepared to leave town, homeless advocates, angered by a city ordinance against indiscriminate camping on city streets, vandalized Getty House, the mayor’s official residence.
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ANGOLA — Storyteller and educator Lou Ann Homan and the Steuben County Theatre and friends present a historical theater adaptation of Mike Biesiada’s “With Courage and Conviction,” on Saturday at
How to Embrace Your Inner Weirdo
Weird Waves goes searching for eternal gromhood in Southern California and finds it!
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Backwash bizarreness in Carlsbad with Jackson Butler and a gaggle of groms. Reckless rock dodging in the OC with Parker Cohn and friends. Joining a supercharged peanut gallery before seeking the world’s smallest tube in Del Mar with Ronnie, Rusty, Chris and Mike. It’s all here, and it’s all weird. And yes, in case you were wondering, Joel Fox’s oddball visual effects have returned to Weird Waves’ WTF agenda, and are generously applied here.
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THE BUZZ: From state legislators to reluctantly homeschooling parents to mask-weary residents, Californians have a common coronavirus query: Are we there yet?
California’s miniscule transmission rate has us on the brink of a wide-scale reopening. Much of the state’s population already lives in the least-restrictive tier, which allows businesses to operate at the maximum pandemic capacity. Gov.