PEOPLE has your first look at Nicole Richie and her daughter Harlow, born Jan. 11 in L.A. Richie, 26, and her boyfriend Joel Madden, 28, open up to PEOPLE about how parenthood has changed their lives – and the happy couple pose for an exclusive family photo album with their daughter (the latest issue of [...]

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harvard westlake – A story my local readers will appreciate: Six sophomores were expelled and more than a dozen other students faced suspensions Tuesday in a cheating scandal that has rocked Harvard-Westlake, a top-tier Los Angeles private school with a national reputation for its academics. Administrators said students conspired to steal Spanish and history tests [...]

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sacred geometry – what-is-sacred-geometry?Sacred geometry is geometry used in the design of sacred architecture and sacred art. The basic belief is that geometry and mathematical ratios, harmonics and proportion are also found in music, light, cosmology. This value system is seen as widespread even in prehistory, a cultural universal of the human condition. It is [...]

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antm cycle 10 episode 2 – What? Didn’t we just finish a season of America’s Next Top Model like two weeks ago or something? Well, the inexorable wheel of Tyra Banks spins again and here we are at ANTM Cycle… antm Source: antm cycle 10 episode 2 – America’s Top Model recap: Season 10, Episode [...]

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I’m no longer going to express any shock that my island city continues to provide a seemingly inexhaustible supply of street-parked vintage cars and trucks; we got to 150 Down On The Street posts late last year, we’re up to 200 as of today, and I’ve got enough photos in the can to get us [...]

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obama farrakhan – (updated below – Update II) Last Sunday, Barack Obama gave a speech to a group of Jewish leaders in Cleveland, rejected the manipulative claim that one must “adopt an unwavering pro-Likud approach” or else be deemed “soft or anti-Israel,” and then (delicately) made this critical point regarding the range of acceptable debate [...]

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carmen kontur gronquist – The Mayor of Arlington, a small town of 500 people along the Columbia River Gorge, was recalled from office by a margin of 3 votes last night. From the Associated Press: The mayor of an Oregon town who once stripped to her underwear and posed on a fire truck has been [...]

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keyontyli and taleon goffney – Twin brothers, 26-year-old Taleon and Keyontyli Goffney, (pictures here – NSFW) were arrested last week after burglarizing a Rite Aid pharmacy in Philadelphia. The brothers, whom Perez Hilton outed on his site as adult video actors, are suspected in a spree of at least 35 other robberies over three states. [...]

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chapter 6 – All this time I thought that, the reason for gay America’s refusal to focus on any other civil rights issue but gay marriage was because of their privilege.  But today, it’s clear to me that race and poverty aren’t of any real relevance to their movement because they’re too busy laughing at [...]

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eleven shades of red – The first stop is at a BP station down the road, just before the ramp to the freeway. I pull up next to the pump and steady myself for a moment. It’s well below freezing outside, single digits Fahrenheit, and inserting the credit card, unscrewing the tank, and holding the [...]

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