tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35253262011-04-21T17:50:27.355-07:00Everything Reseda-esque... sporadically published news, trivia & links about the neighborhood and its neighbors<br></p> _________ <strong>A CIVIC BLOG</strong>!noreply@blogger.comBlogger2331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525326.post-1140136683646792262006-02-16T16:35:00.000-08:002006-02-16T16:38:03.656-08:00

MAKING THE MEDIA: The Daily News Editorial Board is for it ... :Community members are pinning a lot of hope on the Reseda Theater as they seek the economic resurrection of the surrounding Sherman Way commercial district.But why not? It happened just down the road in Canoga Park with the renovation of the Madrid Theatre.Indeed, if any one thing can spark the revival, it would be the reopening of

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MAKING THE MEDIA: Daily News gives Reseda an eye.More will appear here laterPhotos by Tina Burch

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CRIME: From the L.A. Times comes a story of a mom getting proactive:A mother's trip to a Reseda laundromat ended in her capturing a man suspected of sexually assaulting her son in an alley behind the coin-op, police said.The suspect, Rafael Manguia Magana, 40, of Reseda, was arrested about 9 p.m. Sunday behind the laundromat in the 7600 block of Reseda Boulevard, said Kevin Maiberger of the Los

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Ex-RESEDA: Clark Baker, former Resedan, has decided to run for the 42nd District Assembly seat held by Paul Koretz(pdf bio), who's being termed out. He writes the Ex-Liberal in Hollywood blog and IDs himself as a Libertarianish Republican.

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WEB FIND: L.A.-based photoblog Walking In L.A. has never walked in Reseda:Your keyword(s), reseda, appeared on the following pages: Sorry, No Pages Were Found With Your Keyword(s).But if blogger Neil Hopper had, it would have looked much like this in parts, and some parts much better.Blog's name is a reference to the song "Walking In L.A." by Missing Persons.

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WHAT'S IN A NAME: Local Christmas tree recycling efforts have concluded. As they have in Decatur, Georgia, where Reseda Johnson is the local recycling coordinator -- so says Emory Chase Condominiums group.Speaking of that, this: It's an asteroid.It's a fragrance.It's a shoe.It's an ink.It's a pollen speck.

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MYSTERY: In a solitary post, on a blog seemingly catalyst by the situation he posts about, Angel tells a tale that picks up at ... well, he should say:Oh yeah I forgot to tell you that I am also a hyper-sensitive person and now what that means if you mean me harm or good it does not matter I feel it , kind of a sence really.Anyway the last time I filed a complaint against my manager NICOLE THE

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Ex-RESEDA: Lisa Bonet, one-time Reseda High student, had a pivotal role in "Enemy of the State" -- which TV-now.com says is on TV tomorrow (links to month-by-month TV schedule) at 8pm on ABC. Known for "The Cosby Show" and "A Different World," the actress was smokin' in the notorious "Angel Heart" (a + review and a - review) and "High Fidelity" which annoyingly ignores her smokin' version of

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WEB FIND: There's alot of mystery behind what a Googlism of Reseda is:Googlism for: resedareseda is located in los angeles countyreseda is not one of themreseda is is a population center with a mix of light industryreseda is the use of multireseda is a suburban community in the western san fernando valley with a long established retail districtreseda is not exactlyreseda is seedyreseda is known

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NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: ResedaCouncil.org, with its Flash 7.0 mandatory requirement and its unlinkable text, says the Reseda Neighborhood Council meeting tonight at 7p.m. at Canoas will contain a Community Redevelopment Agency update on the Reseda Theater.Meeting is tonight instead of Monday because of MLK Day.Previously: The Reseda Theater

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WEB FIND: Resedan adgblue (Armen D. Grigorian) has written, as of this writing, 35 reviews for Amazon.com.I love books, music, art, and anything with any aesthetic charm!Which includes Guns'N'Roses. In his review (from Jan. 3, 06) he relates:About a couple of years ago, I was lucky enough to meet Axl by chance at a cigar shop in Santa Monica, CA. Long story short, I had a two hour conversation

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WEB FIND: Reseda.com was once in the hands of someone who had links to a tourist resort island in the Phillipines (and was asking, if I recall, about $600). Now a BuyDomains.com site appears. Thank you for you interest in this domain. Please read below carefully and complete our online request form. This domain has a value of at least $888.00.

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MAKING THE MEDIA: By way of the Washington Examiner, an Associated Press photo captured a Resedan to illustrate a "day after Christmas" feature from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.Donna Prince, of Reseda, Calif., casts a shadow across the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Thursday as she puts messages on a Christmas tree. Kevin Wolf/AP

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CULTURE: That Tom Petty song, with the "freeway runnin' through the yard..." It's texure for the day today at My So Called Life in New York City and it's song of the day, yesterday at Who I Am ... Hates Who I've Been from Wisconsin and the day before at As Told By Moi. Moi being Lena from "somewhere in California." About Lena: "The Beatles, Ben Harper, Billie Holiday, Bonnie Summerville (?),

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PICTURE PERFECT: Note the date, and the sky, in the photo on Currently This by blogger Transient. That's Dec. 28 with skyblue skies, looking north from the drive-thru of a curiously renowned Starbucks. For reasons that aren't exactly obvious, post is an excuse to rag on Parking Enforcement Officers, who get no respect anywhere:A Toronto man is facing charges in connection with an attack on a

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TV'S A MEDIUM NOT A MEDIUM: Ya want predictions, go to Nostradamus (The exit from Paris quatrain, 9-20, for example). Fansite named Trinity of Iniquity provides the proof that TV's no good for prophesy. Trinity's focus of inquiry is the TV series "Angel" (A "Buffy" spinoff which itself was a huge movie adaptation ::: Ed. note--- "M*A*S*H" notwithstanding, it's not a long list::).Angel and Wesley

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Ex-RESEDA: New blogger from the UK, K420 in his By The Left blog, introduces himself with a tale of family drama and a Reseda link:Lived in Reseda, LA till I was 5 when we moved to England cos my mom (never can write mum even though I now have an English accent) was homesick. Lived in Preston till I was 10 when my mom and dad did the whole split up thing with a twist.Story continues with

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OOPS: The Daily News' Tom Hoffarth, funny guy and great writer, dribbled out of bounds on this about the soon-to-be-renamed Reseda Post Office: Have you heard about this well-intentioned UCLA alum who supposedly has so much free time working in the budget-strapped state legislature that he's able to push a bill through that'll eventually rename the post office in Reseda after the Bruins'

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WEBFIND: Yahoo Australia has an annotated list of links to about a brazillion California media sites. This one too. Search ResedaWeb, under R.

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OOPS: Firefighters were responding to a West Hills address for a medical emergency Thursday. Sirens have a way of startling people who are breaking the law, in this case a Resedan. Via the LAFD News & Information blog: According to the man's later statements, he had been handling a variety of fireworks, including some possibly modified devices, when they inadvertently discharged. He stated this

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RECYCLING: A roundup of how to get rid of that highly flammable dead shrub is courtesy of LAist, where he notes of these entreprenuers. For the rest of us, the LA Bureau of Sanitation reminds: "Remove all decorations, tinsel and stand. Trees must be cut in half and placed in the green yard trimmings container at curb. Flocked trees can not be recycled. Cut flocked tree and place in black

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NO WEB FIND:ShutterStock stock photography has nothing in stock for "Reseda."Did you mean reseed, reused, residua, reset, reside, recede, reseeds, resider, reeds, resend, rested, reseal, Reed, raised, reed, rester, roused, reread, resets, resews, rest?They don't have anything on "residua" either.

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MISSING: Brody, a male Maltese is missing for 11 days,The FidoFinder.com site is meant to reunite lost dogs with the lost dog's owner via the finder or loser who posts at FidoFinder. In this case, someone in Reseda found a dog from Houston, Texas. Awaiting update.

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LA TIMES: ResedaWeb.blog beat the Morning Briefing to the ball on the John Wooden Post Office story, they highlighting the Brad Sherman connectionStamp of approval: During the time John Wooden was winning NCAA championships by the, yes, OK, bucketful at UCLA, Brad Sherman was a student on the Westwood campus.Now, Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) is in Congress, and he has introduced a bill to name the

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NEIGHBORS: Someone reading Here in Van Nuys thinks this pic is in Reseda, but it seems to me it's not. For the SavOn in the background to be what's now the site of the Country Club, this pic would have to be at Etiwanda Ave, looking west. From the corner now, on the right side of the street in the photo, is a 2 story office building, a huge catholic church, then the Jons (nee Vons) Market/

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NEIGHBORHOOD: ... and We're Still at War." Brett Dennen offers this Christmas song on a free download at his site. NPR did a report on him. He plays Wednesday in Laguna and Saturday, Jan. 7 at 8pm (info) at the Pickin Parlor, 17828 Chatsworth St., Granada Hills as part of the The Blue Ridge Pickin' Parlor - Acoustic Series. Tickets are $15, $10 in advance. For info, (818) 282-9001.:::: Ed. note -

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COHASSET St.: Lighting up Reseda, one Santa head at a time.

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NEIGHBORS: Some people can live a lifetime in L.A. and miss the details of community that newbies see. Documenting the arrival of Gareth and Danya fresh from Winnipeg, Manitoba (that's in Canada, link is of a summer view), is the We's in California blog:When we came we were expecting nothing but big box stores and fast food chains with little or no sense of community. It turns out that on every

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BARGAIN CITY: Amy's Guide to All Things Bride blogvia Loehmann's trumpets:In Manhattan, Beverly Hills, Reseda and North Miami only… Vera Wang bridesmaid and cocktail dresses!Save over 85% off original retail prices on a limited selection of dresses. Shop early… many are one-of-a-kind and will not be repeated.Only at Loehmann’s 49.99 to 149.99(original retail price: $395 to $700)How often do you

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ONE TO THE CHIN: Blog Here in Van Nuys went harvesting CSUN's San Fernando Valley Issues Digital Library and found a cool shot of circa-'50s Reseda. He wrapped it in a harsh but apt slam on Reseda:Yet 50 years later Reseda Boulevard is still a shabby, ugly, broken down street. The good thing is that cheap restaurants, bicycle stores, taco stands, vacuum repair outlets and pawn shops are also

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BOOKS: "The Boy from Reseda" (pic here) is a book of poetry from Randy Stern from Autumbridge Media. He publishes his Randy's Little Corner of the 'Net blog where he discusses the book and promotional events and MotorGeek v2.0 blog of "News and Commentary for the GLBT Automotive Enthusiast." What's GLBT?Previously: The O'Dooles of Reseda

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LANDMARKS: The Daily News reports the Reseda Post Office will soon be renamed for :::Ed. note-- indisputably ::: the best basketball coach ever and maybe the best player who ever became a great coach.U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman, D - Sherman Oaks, introduced legislation to name the post office at 7320 Reseda Blvd. after Wooden, who led the UCLA Bruins to several Pac-10 and NCAA championships in the

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MAKING THE MEDIA: Reported by the Daily News' Holly J. Andres. Take your time, be it work or pleasure, was the motto of Gordon "Gordy" Strange, a longtime Reseda resident who died Oct. 29 of emphysema. He was 77. And: Helping others was the passion in the life of longtime Reseda resident Ruth Falkin, who died of cancer on Sept. 30 in Tarzana. She was 80. The latter worked with Operation

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LANDMARKS: This great shot of seatbacks is among the series of images of the Reseda Theater and some anecdotes about getting in to photograph are by Scarletlark. Also, there's this awesome treated pic of the outside, with someone apparently cleaning off the marquee! Good thing there's a photo, or such an act could never be proven. Before digital technology, that look would be achieved with

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MUSIC: Back in the day, The Country Club was a live music venue as good as any in the city. Hard-rockers Manowar played there in '89. Photos (via photo host Webshots) uploaded to the web are by firehose16.

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OPEN HOUSE/ ART EXHIBIT / HURRICANE RELIEF FUND-RAISERDesigned by Lloyd Wright (son of legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright and a renowned architect himself), The Adams’ Mat House will have an Open House and Art Exhibit, October 1st and 2nd, on Saturday from noon to 7pm and on Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm, at 7400 Tampa Avenue (at Valerio St.), Reseda (cool view).Paintings, sculpture and

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POSTER DISPLAY: Entries for the BF'05 poster contest were on display Saturday and Sunday. Photos (1, 2, 3, 4)are on the pix page.

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CARNIVAL: A carnival worker with Christiansen Amusements was killed while operating a ride. According to police at the scene, the ride operator was working in a "dug-out" compartment in the base of the ride, and when he went to exit the space attempting to time the ride's movements, he was hit by the moving parts. By appearances, it was the ride called Kamikazee that was the site of the

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WATER: The Sepulveda Dam Basin water outflow rate is recorded by the US Geological Survey. Compare this year's with the median rate averaged over 50 years, other water sites too.

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WEB FIND: When you look at it from outer space, Reseda looks like the Center of the Universe. Fitting somehow.Google (maybe you've heard of them) have added a sattelite photo function to their more graphically legible mapping search services than Yahoo! Maps or MapQuest (with their arbitrarily situated red stars). Here's a mug shot of Reseda. Different than Terraserver, gets in closer than the

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HOUSING: DataQuick real estate news compiles the LA Times' home sales data, monthly and divided by zip code. House and condo prices in 91335 trend up, and the number of sales is up from Feb.Sales of Single Family Homes...85, nearly double Feb.'s 48, which was down from 55 in Jan.Median Price: Single Family Homes...$473,000 a steady increase from Feb.'s $450,000, a continued increase from Jan.'s

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HAZARDOUS WASTE: Bring them your tired computers, your huddled masses of old printers and fax machines, yearning to bypass a landfill. The LA City Bureau of Sanitation has a roving hazardous material drop-off program for residents. It's coming to CSUN this Saturday and Sunday.What's the big deal?:Cathode Ray Tubes (CRT's) are the picture tubes in computer monitors and TV's. ... Each year, an

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CLEANUP: The LAPD Police Activities League Supporters and Reseda Chamber of Commerce office spent a couple weeks holding on to their old furniture, if by "holding on" one means "dumping in the alley right by a sign that says not to." This pile was removed on Apr 12, '05, after loitering for at least 2 weeks.:::::Ed.note-- Sitting behind offices of a chamber of commerce and an LAPD-sponsored

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FROM THE STACKS: The opening sentence in the William Carlos Williams poem "The Catholic Bells" speaks to life and the new, and death and the done.Tho' I'm no CatholicI listen hard when the bellsin the yellow-brick towerof their new churchring down the leavesring in the frost upon themand the death of the flowersring out the grackletoward the south, the skydarkened by them, ring inthe new baby of

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BLOGOSHPERE: An email from Kevin Roderick says his superb Valley history site, America's Suburb, is history. His self-applied description: This website grew from the enthusiastic response to Kevin Roderick's book The San Fernando Valley: America's Suburb. You'll find book excerpts and photos from the author's files on Valley history and lore. Kevin's observations accompany the entries and are

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SCENE IN RESEDA: On his faith-flecked and sports-sprinkled Scottie's Rant blog, Scottie laments his lack of sleep and heralds his new home around a notation of a three-gig day playing guitar at a conference in Reseda.So, I have been gradually moving stuff into my apartment since Friday, and to make matters worse, I played guitar at a conference in Reseda that was a 3-sessions-in-one-day kind of

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KUDOS: KTLA sponsors the Stan Chambers Journalism Awards essay competition, named after the newsman who's been with channel 5 news since '47. Winners get $1,000 and a chance to help produce video essays from their entries to air on the station's newscast in June. From the website:Writing on the theme "What Matters Most," the winners of the Stan Chambers Journalism Awards are:Jessica Crawford,

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POP CULTURE: The rock band Motley Crue (AllMusic.com says they formed in '81) played the Country Club on Feb. 10, '81, eight months before the release of their first album -- and some bootleg recordings have made it to the eBay.com auction site where -- as of this writing -- $15 buys a CD. When that link dies, there's this. The set list for the 50+ minute show was "Black Widow," "Running Wild in

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SCENE IN RESEDA: Sideways Out The Window's blogger Chris came to destination location Bu-Ba's and got a scare:We went to some beauty supply store on Saturday 'cause she has to get some things, and I saw the scariest thing of my life. They had a plastic head with a red wig on it, and this guy was standing there in front of it. He was stroking the hair, and looking into its eyes like it was a real

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SCHOOLS: MQVN's personally-anecdoted education-related Dialogue blog reacts with dismay in the tale of a local college fair where half of the tables weren't for colleges at all:I helped with some outreach event today at Reseda High School in the valley, representing UC Berkeley as an alumnus. What was really funny was that half of the tables at the "college fair" were manned by military

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MEMORIAL: When I heard the President had gone to the Vatican to pay his respects to Pope John Paul II, I was reminded of a similar (but less profund in every way) circumstance of a huge crowd viewing a deceased leader and a "dignitary" joining the line. At the Reagan Library:I had been in line, on a bus, in line again for about 2 1/2 hrs and just as I'm entering the viewing room, a woman staff

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REQUIEM: St. Catherine of Siena church is holding 2 masses Friday to honor Pope John Paul II, as stated on the pastor's blog.

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WHAT'S IN A NAME: Astromoner Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, a photo, discovered almost 400 asteroids, among them one named Reseda (the 1,081st catalogued). He spied it Aug 31, '27, five years after the town name was changed from Marian. He found Magnolia (#1060) in '25, 74 years before the movie of that name was filmed in Reseda (not mentioned here), for the climactic scenes on the street (at Sherman

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PERFORMANCE ART: When culture-jamming character Rev. Billy (Bill Talen) unleashed what the NY Times (via WWRN.org) called his unholy war on Starbucks, it was on Reseda Blvd. --- probably Reseda, maybe Northridge. The Greenwich (NY) Villager has a photo of Talen in character. INeedCoffee.com has an essay by Talen describing a raft of culture-jamming events at least a year ago in New York City. A

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FATALITY: The season's rain and last week's winds contributed to toppling a pine tree on Reseda Blvd. in Tarzana, says the Daily News. Story offers this caveat:Local tree experts said people should inspect the trees on their property, looking for what one called "mushy spots" that might indicate dry rot or newly exposed roots."Most of the time, the tree has been leaning for some time, and a big

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HOMES: Since fewer and fewer people smoke, it's likely there are more and more people who are intolerant of it for health or personal reasons. There are rental units with those people in mind; for them there's the Smokefree Apartment House Registry. Reseda has such a listing (scroll alphabetically). It's rented.A tangent: (via their links page) For those who are really, really intolerant-- you

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WHAT'S IN A NAME: Perfumer Roger & Gallet produced a limited run in '02 of White Reseda, and then discontinued it (2nd to last entry on bottom). The perfume gained a fan (4th item):Well, just bought "White Reseda" by Roger & Gallet. A lovely white floral + orange blossoms. Perhaps will stock up on another bottle, coz I hv a feeling this is just a ltd run which will be dis/c after a year or

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HEALTH: There are children who are selectively mute -- who have an inability to speak in social settings. There is a city-wide support group for people who love them. The group is starting Sunday and they'll meet in Reseda every 1st and 3rd Sunday. More on selective mutism (pdf file) and research.

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REARVIEW: A picture postcard from '35 (when it meant a photograph itself on a postcard with the place name caption hand written in the corner) shows the LA River and what appears to be a Canada goose -- that and the amount of water possibly makes this a late fall picture from the West Valley Museum via the stupendous CSUN Oviatt Digital Library.Postcards, people collect them. Be a friend. Though

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FROM THE STACKS: Michelle Shocked lived in LA for a time and knows from a long LA drive. She describes one in "Come A Long Way," comparing a Mullholland drive to the James Dean crash, and then she makes her way to Wilshire where she passes Rodeo Drive and the Tar Pits and ends up at the LACMA cafe. It's the lament of the chorus that puts this in context to the previous post:I've come a long

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DRIVE TIME: This week it was a delight to find gas at $2.31, but who among us can't see the road ahead? Lisa Mascaro of the Daily News finds, for many, $3 is the point that tips the scale to force them to hunt for alternatives. So says Resedan Efren Escarcega. Crisscrossing the southland in the house-cleaning business, he drives his supply-stocked minivan 700 miles a week."I need the car," said

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SUIT: From last July by John Scheibe and Michelle L. Klampe in the Ventura County Star, a comprehensive and well-detailed report on a lawsuit as it stood then against the privately-owned California Alternative High School. The Resedan who was among the first to file suit in California went from buying into the scheme and then mistrusting it.Bessy Echeverria, a 28-year-old El Salvadoran immigrant

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REARVIEW: Miss Teen Reseda, Terry Scott, 15, stands in the back row, at the photographer's left, among the entrants in the "Miss Teen Western United States" competition whose finals were Apr 2,'69, with the winner becoming eligible for the Miss Teen U.S.A. competition the next day. Events were in conjunction with a teen expo event at the Hollywood Palladium. Venue touts it's "the longest

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FROM THE STACKS: From Saul/Paul of Tarsus in his first letter to the congregation at Corinth, chaper 7, verse 4:The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife.

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TERRI SCHIAVO: The LA Times sent three writers to interview Easter day church-goers. At the Church of Rocky Peak in Chatsworth (:::::Ed.note-- Set at one of the most beautiful spots in the Valley.:::::) was a Resedan sure that the years of litigation was too fast and testimony by witnesses was hearsay."The whole thing just smells fishy to me," said John Wiens, a contractor from Reseda who was

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TECHNOLOGY: Crashed. Complete meltdown, dead except for the screen text telling me it was dead, back now though.:::::Ed.note-- Now: Firefox browser, Kaspersky anti-virus software, My Favorite Tech medic.:::::

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BUTTERFLIES: The annual flyby by butterflies of the painted lady variety is underway. The Daily News makes an important distinction clear: "Visually similar but smaller than the more familiar monarch butterfly, the painted lady -- vanessa cardui -- is the world's most widely seen butterfly." But the story also has either a poorly constructed notion or a poorly constructed sentence:Painted ladies

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VOX POPULI: The LA Times has a fan of their Travel section:Your articles are so vivid and intriguing that "Postcards from anywhere" would be a delight. Keep up the good work, I look forward to being transported to another world.Jane FlorentinusReseda

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WASTE: Those dead MP3 player batteries and old computer hardware don't belong in landfills, and the Los Angeles Dept. Sanitation will take them and most all other hazardous waste our digital-age lifestyles generate.On Apr 16 & 17, there'll be a drop-off site at CSUN.The Valley's regular site is in Sun Valley and is open Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. They make appointments for the 4th Wednesday

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SPORTS: The Daily News highlights the accomplishments of two Cleveland High baseball players, Andrew Lambo for hitting 3 for 5, and 3 RBIs; and Mickey Brodsky for pitching 6 innings with 11 strikeouts -- taking their school to the top in the RBI Tournament at Venice High.

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SUIT: When Reseda resident Bessie Echeverria went to the privately-owned California Alternative High School for a high school diploma, she was in classes that taught "the United States has 53 states and four branches of government. They were also told that Congress has two houses -- one for Republicans and one for Democrats," the Daily News says.Upon finding her diploma was worthless, the 28-

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IT'S A SIGN: Columnist Steve Harvey of the LA Times writes Only in L.A. and welcomes contributions from readers to share observations of the LA experience. The items that end the column are under an umbrella of MiscelLAny. An example:Judy Goldstein of Reseda saw a lunch truck that advertised a pastrami sandwich with "muster." "Wasn't sure if I should salute or not," she added.Having last item be

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WHAT'S IN A NAME: Reseda is a model of shoe made by Bruno Magli, a brand made famous by the OJ Simpson trial, but:The manufacturer no longer makes the "Lorenzo" model that the killer is supposed to have worn that fateful night in Brentwood.The Reseda shoe lists at just under $400, proving Reseda is top drawer indeed.Previously:It's a color.It's a flower.

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RAIN: Tuesday night's outage in Reseda and Winnetka, seemingly irrelevent to media, 18 hours later was still affecting traffic signals up Vanowen, here at Winnetka Ave. and also at Mason.

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TRANSIT: After vociferous opposition from the public, the MTA has slightly bailed on their plan to wholly bail on the expansion plans for bus service to tie-in with the bus-only route called the Orange Line, which will run from Warner Center to North Hollywood. The vote was 8-0 says Lisa Mascaro of the Daily News. But the ax fell on some plans, including a Reseda-specific project:The MTA had

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VOX POPULI: Looking for some public input into her role in an upcoming mayoral candidate debate, columnist Mariel Garza of the Daily News set off to find some informed voters and found one, in Reseda.Leaving the newsroom on Oxnard by Canoga, that her path went exactly this way is only a guess: Exit DN parking lot, right turn and right turn to go north on Canoga to Starbucks at Victory.

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STREET FAIR: The poster for the May 21 & 22 event is online. Design is by Reseda High student Betty Rubio.

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BLAKE TRIAL: Citing her experience in a jury pool, Resedan Rhoda Blecker wrote the Times to say that the standard for evidence set by TV crime dramas is not unreasonable:...the standard for evidence has to be rigorous or the system fails. If the state has problems with that, it might consider orienting potential jurors in a less emphatic fashion. It seems to me that holding the prosecution to the

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POEM: In honor of spring and the power outage last night, a reach back into the 18th Century to Yosu Buson,Lighting one candleWith another candle --Spring eveningHaiku translation by Robert Hass in "The Essential Haiku."

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RAIN: From West of Winnetka Av to Tampa and Roscoe to Vanowen, only a few tiny pockets could be seen with power. The Daily News said Canoga Park lost power, and didn't mention the possibly-related Reseda outage, but the 2,500 number seems low. Maybe Reseda missed dealine. In the San Fernando Valley, a utility pole caught fire, cutting power to 400 customers in Canoga Park, while an additional 750

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POWER OUTAGE: Western Reseda and seemingly most of Winnetka are without power as of this writing.

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SPORTS: The Cleveland High football team went from winning two games a season to a team that wins seven and makes the playoffs. After four years, Craig Cieslik the gridiron coach is turning over the team to someone else, says the Daily News.Cieslik received a proclamation in '99 from LA County Supervisor Mike Antonovich’s office for his efforts as athletic director at Vasquez High School.

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WHAT'S IN A NAME: Vert Reseda is a color of drawing ink from J. Herbin, a company whose ink cartridges they call cartouches and whose Verte Reseda ink grows an "e" in one.See photo

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MUSIC: The previously mentioned roundtable by the Artists Helping Artists networking group was also a potluck :::::Ed. note-- to which I forgot to contribute:::: and as with all AHA Roundtable events, performing artists are able to perform. More pix of the rock band Tessatura are on the PhotoBlog, do a search for Tessatura, and in the folder hosted at Flickr.comYoung band plays beyond their years

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LITERARY BREAK: Carole Simmons Oles' collection of poems "The Deed," offers text for the season -- "Four Bones for Late March" -- via Plowshares.com

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MEETING: The Reseda Neighborhood Council's General Meeting (unlinkable and uncopyable text, lead item on left as of this writing) is a pairing with the Community Redevelopment Agency to host a town hall-type meeting for a discussion about the privately owned parking lots south of Sherman Way, between Lindley and Etiwanda Avenues. They'll give you food with a buffet hosted by La Tortilla Loca,

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ECONOMY: Monthly home sales stats, divided by zip code. House and condo prices in 91335 trend up, and the number of sales is down from Jan.Sales of Single Family Homes...48, down from 55 in Jan.Median Price: Single Family Homes...$450,000, up from Jan.'s $438,000Price % Chg from Feb. '04...25%, down from last month's 26.2 increase of '04%Sales Count of Condos...18, down from 25 in Jan.Median

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SPOTLIGHT: When Tim Ballou and Linda Higgins wanted to get a locale for the country's singlemost dysfunctional family, Reseda must have seemed just the place. It's called "The O'Dooles of Reseda: A Year in the Life of America's Most Dysfunctional Family." There are (as of this writing) 11 or some of the '95 novel out there for sale right now.THE O'DOOLES is a one-of-a kind humor book which

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KUDOS: Julie Marie Pashko, 12, Heart of the Valley Christian School in Reseda was recognized last year by the LA Times.She recruited friends to donate 700 inches of hair – including 15 inches of her own – to "Locks of Love," a non-profit organization providing hairpieces to underserved children suffering from medical hair loss.IDs her as a Santa Ana resident. Seems far. Also says "Award finalists

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FOOD: La Tortilla Loca made one of the best meals of '04 for the Daily News' Larry Lipson.Dish of the year: Aguachile (spicy lime juice-soaked shrimp with onion, cucumber and avocado) is a sort of shrimp ceviche recipe that is especially refreshing on a hot summer day.And they'll make it without cilantro.More on Lipson in this pre-re-launch post and more on Reseda as a food mecca [RIP Dish

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BOTANICA: Reseda is a genus of plant; lutea is a species of it. Here's a magnification of a piece of pollen. -- via Uppsala University, Sweden

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BOTANICA: Look what they done to our street trees, though I think recent years show better behavior toward most: Joan Citron, editor of "Selected Plants for Southern California Gardens," relishes teaching the city through its tree choices. Leading a tour of Reseda and Van Nuys, she points out small Valley streets planted with what have become such immense trees that on one side, city pruners have

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ELECTION: Following the coverage of the 27% turnout in the recent municipal primary elections, Daily News readers weighed in. Two Resedans made the letters column Sun Mar 13, one saying "why bother?" the other saying "so shut up then" ... or words to that effect. While it's true that many of us are lazy for not voting, it is also true that many of us are increasingly fed up with the political/

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CRIME: The citation is William's not Robert's."Can I see a falling tear,And not feel my sorrow's share?"Not guilty; it's been said before that the LA DA's office works well except in the light.::::::Ed. note-- Late breaking photo, by(?) Josh Stein via Flickr, a photo host site.:::::2 tangents: The chicken piccata at Vitello's is awesome (maybe not forever though).The AP pool photog is Nick Ut. He

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WATER: When I called the city's 311 line Sun Mar 6 to report the leak coming from the city's side of my water meter, the operator who took the data said "They should be out some time next week."I said, "Let me sure I got this right. I've just reported a leak and you say it'll be a week?" :::::Ed.note: Yes, she said it'd be next week, and I said she said it'd be a week::::: She proceeded to tell

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SPORTS: Reseda-based Goossen Tutor Promotions promotes fighters, Riddick Bowe and James Toney among them. Toney signed for a title bout. Daily News' Robert Morales writes that after a news conference Toney stood with the troubled ex-champ -- a title re-contender himself:While he and Bowe posed for pictures, Toney did not take kindly to Bowe's remark that he was "just a fat middleweight.' The two

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RESEDA PARK: The Sierra Pacific Flyfishers class meets at Reseda High School and the pond at Reseda Park for 3 Saturdays before heading to Piru Creek, says the LA Times.

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ECONOMY: Data Quick Real Estate News republishes the Sunday LA Times monthly home sales zip code chart. For Reseda:Sales of Singe Family Homes...55Median Price: Single Family Homes...$438,000Price % Chg from Jan 04...26.2%Sales Count of Condos...25Median Price: Condos...$335,000Price % Chg from Jan 04...31.4%Median Home Price per Sq. Ft...$337LA Voice weighs in on such things.

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CRIME: Daily News reported "An 84-year-old woman was fatally stabbed in the bedroom of her daughter's house early Wednesday by an assailant who entered through an unlocked window but took nothing from the house, police said."Police don't think it's a random murder: "Investigators did not have an immediate motive for the attack and said it was not a burglary attempt."

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BOUNDARIES: City Beat's Valley Boy column peeks at the nightspot Paladino's, at Oxnard Blvd., and their booking policy of catering to fans of tribute bands -- those who mimic popular bands who'd never play a venue like this, a phenomenon that became a phenomenon with Beatlemania. Trouble is, Paladino's is in Tarzana. Since the Coffee Machine closed, sadly, there is no live music venue in

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