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		<title>The New Yorker: Why Do We Lock-Up So Many People?&#8230;&amp; Other Must Reads</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Most Americans honestly don&#8217;t want to spend much time, energy or emotion thinking about people in jail or prison&#8212;unless, by chance they have a family member who is locked up.  
We harp on the issue here at WitnessLA since criminal justice is, after all, central to the mission of the site.   But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good bye, Darling Etta</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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There isn&#8217;t a song she sang, that she didn&#8217;t own. 

 But it was when she recorded this one in 1960, that she became immortal.
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		<title>LAPD Chief Charlie Beck Throws a Book Party for Connie Rice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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It wasn&#8217;t your usual book party.
For one thing, Monday night&#8217;s book launching event for civil rights lawyer  Connie Rice&#8217;s new memoir, Power Concedes Nothing, was held at the LAPD&#8217;s headquarters, in the over-lit Compstat room, no less&#8212;i.e. the room where the cops go to hear a rundown on the latest crime statistics and &#8216;crime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laurie Winer on Sam Zell and the Dismantling of the LA Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Former LA Times theater critic, Laurie Winer, has ostensibly written a review of James O’Shea&#8217;s book, The Deal From Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers,  in which he chronicles real estate tycoon Sam Zell&#8217;s raping and pillaging of the Tribune Corp. in general and of the Los Angeles Times in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Party for Jim Newton&#8217;s Ike Bio Draws LA Politicos &amp; Journos</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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A pile of journalist and editor types plus a gaggle of politicos gathered late Sunday afternoon to hear LA Times&#8217; columnist/editor-at-large Jim Newton talk about his new biography, Eisenhower: The White House Years.  The lit party was thrown by longtime Newton friends, former LA Times reporter (now UC Irvine law and literary journalism prof) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;One More Thing,&#8221;   Steve Jobs: R.I.P</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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My 25-year-old techie son said it well: It hits you hard when a genius dies.
Yep.
Like many, I&#8217;m still just sort of staring in shock at my computer screen-&#8211;my Apple Macbook computer screen.  I made and received calls about Steve Jobs&#8217;s death on my iPhone.  The iTunes downloaded music on my iPod, is playing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nine-Eleven, Ten Years After &#8211; Words, Sounds and Images</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Some things worth reading or listening to.  
This American Life has six stories that provide six narrative perspectives of what that day wrought.  Today you&#8217;ll have to find it on the radio.  But tomorrow, Monday, a podcast will be available for download.  Whatever the case, don&#8217;t miss listening. 
TAL also has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blaming the Rape Victim, Changing 3-Strikes, Prison Theater&#8230;. &amp; Hemingway</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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&#8220;IT&#8217;S ONCE AGAIN IT&#8217;S THE ALLEGED RAPE VICTIM WHO IS ON TRIAL, SAYS LAT&#8217;S SANDY BANKS
As the cable channels blared out the details of Dominique Strauss-Kahn being released from home confinement largely because his alleged victim turns out to have a less than squeaky clean life,  the LA Times&#8217; Sandy Banks found she has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 4th of July!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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This first video features a list of artists, so hang in and enjoy.  The other two speak&#8212;and sing&#8212;for their marvelous selves.
Happy Birthday America!



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		<title>PLEASE Get Well Clarence &#8220;Big Man&#8221; Clemons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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 Clarence Clemons, beloved rock saxophonist,  E-Street band member and FOB&#8212;Friend of Bruce (Springsteen)&#8212; has suffered a massive stroke.  At first things looked very, very bad.  But after two brain surgeries, there are reports that he is responsive and stable.  Reportedly, Clemons was initially paralyzed on his left side, but he [...]]]></description>
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