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Pau Gasol
King Pau
By MATTHEW FLEISCHER
When you’re seven feet tall, an inconspicuous stroll down the Venice Boardwalk is a difficult thing to pull off. When you’re Pau Gasol, the newest member of the Los Angeles Lakers and the 7-foot savior of the team’s title aspirations, it’s pretty much impossible. … Keep Reading »
Pau Gasol
King Pau
By MATTHEW FLEISCHER
When you’re seven feet tall, an inconspicuous stroll down the Venice Boardwalk is a difficult thing to pull off. When you’re Pau Gasol, the newest member of the Los Angeles Lakers and the 7-foot savior of the team’s title aspirations, it’s pretty much impossible. … Keep Reading »
Pellicano Juror Reveals Inner Workings
Juror No. 7 speaks out on Anthony Pellicano, Anita Busch and Christian values
By STEVEN MIKULAN
“I WOULD LIKE TO TALK to Mr. Pellicano for half an hour — I would never tell anyone,” says Elaine Jordison as she drives up PCH, miles away from the Anthony Pellicano trial, which ended just hours before. “Why didn’t he testify or have a lawyer? I feel bad for his family. He has children. I cried.” … Keep Reading »
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The dragon keepers
By JOHNNY NAVARRO
When you walk down a flight of steps to a basement off an alleyway behind Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, you leave the yuppie bustle of Old Town and enter the dragon. At least, that’s how it felt about six months ago when four… Keep Reading »
Chelsea Handler
Horizontal hostess
By SIRAN BABAYAN
With Heather Locklear–like blond tresses and a killer rack God must’ve bestowed on her as a very early bat mitzvah gift (“sweater rockets,” she calls them), Chelsea Handler looks more like an Aaron Spelling muse than cable television’s female version of David Spade… Keep Reading »
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