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Skateboarding culture in L.A. inspired Hotel Erwin in Venice to create a room deal that gives guests their own roller skates and skateboards, plus $100 credit for food and drinks. The deal: The Dogtown (the name for L.A.’s skating culture epicenter) Double-Down hotel package gives guests a pair… Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times

“I’d love to sound like I knew what I was doing,” says a now-relaxed Bird, enjoying a sunny afternoon by the pool at a Hollywood hotel. “The truth is, I had two-thirds of it for a long time. I had the role-switch idea and the unexploded bomb of [infant] Jack-Jack, where the audience knew he […]

Facebook’s durability: After more scandals pointing toward Mark Zuckerberg’s virtual interconnected maze of humans and their easily shared personal data, and that the social media site has been — surprise! — far more concerned with making money than building a better world, there’s a growing sense that our actual need for Facebook or Instagram may […]

Let’s start with conservatives, who developed a special loathing for teachers unions (and public employee unions, in general) because union dues fund liberal causes and candidates come election time. Conservative think tanks and philanthropists have sown seeds of skepticism about public-education-anything for decades, which means that when teachers say that their wages are low, their […]

That outbreak was scary, but it served as a wake-up call to California lawmakers, who just months later banned all exemptions for vaccinations except those for medical reasons. Childhood immunization rates immediately rebounded statewide, reaching 95% for the first time in decade, including in school districts where rates had dropped the most precipitously. Source: latimes.com […]

Meanwhile, Whishaw’s Michael Banks, whom Poppins called a “codfish” for his oft-dropped jaw, grew up and pursued painting as a profession. But he pushed that passion aside for a more practical, part-time job as a bank teller to support his three children. Still, he’s so overwhelmed by the death of his late wife, Kate, that […]