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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Election Day!

                           Photo: FLLewis/A Writer’s Groove — Voters mark their ballots at a Glendale polling place, November 4, 2008 Go vote. The polls are open until 8 p.m. tonight.  Got questions or need to find your polling place, check the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk website, lavote.net.
Thursday, June 3, 2010

Photo Gallery: Sir Paul McCartney honored at the White House

Photo: Samantha Appleton/White House — Sir Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder performed their number one hit single from 1982, “Ebony and Ivory,” at a White House concert honoring the former-Beatle, last night. President Barack Obama presented Entertainer, Paul McCartney, with the nation’s highest award for extraordinary contributions to American music and culture in the East Room of the White House, June 2, […]
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Photo Gallery: Atlantis– A perfect ending to a successful career

Photo: Carl Winebarger/NASA — Atlantis touches down at Kennedy Space Center in Florida yesterday, May 26, 2010, ending its final scheduled flight “It was smooth as silk,” is how Commander Ken Ham described the entry into Earth’s orbit and landing of Atlantis. Yesterday’s touchdown in Florida, at 8:48 a.m. EDT, wrapped up a busy 12-day mission to the International Space Station. A fine […]
Sunday, May 16, 2010

Quick-bits: Michael Jackson, Woody Allen, Atlantis, and catching the compost bug

Sunflowers for the King of Pop   Photo: Lisa Burks/Freelance photographer — A generous flower merchant donates hundreds of sunflowers to brighten the Glendale crypt of Michael Jackson The late King of Pop’s tomb is now filled with a huge collection of sunflowers — thanks to Jason Levin who runs a San Diego company called Sunflowerguy.com. On Friday, May 14, Levin loaded up a truck with 15-hundred happy […]
Saturday, April 24, 2010

Photo Gallery: Pics of the week

Senior Inspiration: 94-year-old woman plans to graduate from college next month and look for work Photo: Paul Chin/ The San Francisco Chronicle — Hazel Soares, 94,  takes notes in one of her classes at Mills College in Oakland, California, where she is set to graduate in May with a degree in art history. After graduation Soares, who has more than 40 grandchildren, plans to search for […]
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Photo Gallery: Blue skies & warm temps in Burbank, but rain is coming!

Photo: FLLewis/A Writer’s Groove — A shot of the Burbank hills from South Sunset Canyon Drive   Photo: FLLewis/A Writer’s Groove — Three road warriors work out in the Burbank hills Photos: FLLewis/A Writer’s Groove –Flowers in bloom in Burbank Enjoy it while you can. This spring-like weather in the Southland will soon be history. While it was another sizzler in Burbank today with the […]
Monday, February 15, 2010

Presidents Day high of 80 degrees in Burbank!

Photo: FLLewis/A Writer’s Groove — Palm trees, blue skies, and sunshine on a winter day shot from Bel Aire Drive in the Burbank hills. The temperature is rising in Burbank and that’s a good thing. At 9 a.m., it’s 60 and the day will just get warmer and better. A high of 80 is expected in Media City on this February […]
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

“Bo” in the snow & sunshine in the Southland

     Pete Souza/Official White House Photo — First dog and fun loving canine, “Bo” frolics on the south grounds of the White House during a blizzard today. The East Coast is getting walloped by the second major snowstorm in a week. The storm is expected to drop upwards of 14 inches on the nation’s capital today. The snowy weather has shutdown […]