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Live from ‘75 - Forty Years of Saturday Nights

Jun 17, 2015 10:16AM ● By Don Kindred

Publisher's Message from Spring 2105

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Rainbows in July

May 01, 2010 09:06PM ● By Don Kindred

Thirty years ago I was the advertising director at Sebastian’s/West. It was during the Casino’s 1980 incarnation as a dinner playhouse. The domed structure was already a historic building by then … with its requisite share of ghost stories.

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The Graduate

May 01, 2008 10:27PM ● By Don Kindred

Four years ago, I used this space to share a letter to my daughter as she graduated from high school and went on to college. The time has passed in heartbeats. Now she graduates again. And again, I’m left trying to find words that might be appropriate for the occasion.

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Publisher Message - The Politics of Change

Feb 01, 2008 08:54PM ● By Don Kindred

Change (v.) to make or become different, to arrive at a fresh phase, become new. The word has become the theme for national politics this election, maybe it always has been. Barak Obama is lighting up the polls with the one word message. Clinton, McCain, in fact I haven’t heard a presidential campaign speech yet without some emphasis on the importance of this evolutionary verb.

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Publisher Message - Brown October

Nov 01, 2007 07:45AM ● By Don Kindred

I received this picture on October 24th, in an early morning email from photographer Dev Gregory. It had been taken the night before and from the perspective of his lens it looked like the fires I had just seen on the morning news were already in San Clemente.

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Take to the hills.

Aug 01, 2007 08:41PM ● By Don Kindred

The Summer of ‘Seven has brought the crowds again. The colorful mass of umbrellas and beach towels swells along the sand to new numbers this year, even as the beach itself seems to recede.

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Tolerating the Intolerant Lessons from the 60’s

Apr 29, 2007 09:48PM ● By Don Kindred

He was a young man, married and a father of two, the first time he came west. Walking into a restaurant in another state, he immediately assumed he had walked in the wrong door. For a moment he froze, not knowing what to do.

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Enjoy Every Sandwich

Feb 02, 2007 10:19PM ● By Don Kindred

In a little known book entitled Lost Trumpets, former Nixon aide Bruce Herschensohn observed; “People don’t grow old gradually like the spilling of sand through an hourglass.

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What if they gave an election and nobody ran?

Nov 30, 2006 09:58PM ● By Don Kindred

An adventure in politics can be a humbling experience. Those who have signed on to willingly have their public and private values splayed in open forums and harshly judged by their once-friendly neighbors are a special breed, and mostly, they deserve our respect.

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Publisher Message - Queen Mary

Aug 29, 2006 10:57PM ● By Don Kindred

A couple of hundred people gathered on the Queen Mary in July to celebrate their 31st high school reunion. We were actually a year late for our 30th, but,with most of us about to hit 50, someone probably forgot.

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