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Brentwood Beat: Let’s try a little more “win-win”

January 23, 2015

January 23, 2015

It’s still the start of a new year, a time for resolutions. I think a little more “win-win” thinking would...

Christian Science Monitor correspondents explain new media; Brentwood lecture Feb. 12

January 23, 2015

January 23, 2015

Dan Wood and Gloria Goodale of the Christian Science Monitor will conduct their third (out of four) lecture on the...

Brentwood Beat: History is being made right in our backyard

December 13, 2014

December 13, 2014

Everyone in one way or another wants to make the world a better place. That seems pretty universal. Many try...

Brentwood Beat: Tom Kalette, Archer School & Wendell Brown connected?

November 14, 2014

November 14, 2014

Believe it or not, I think there’s a connection between Archer School, Tom Kalette, and Wendell Brown. Let me explain....

Brentwood Beat: Let’s Cut Archer Some Slack

October 17, 2014

October 17, 2014

The anti-Archer School battle that erupted nearly 20 years ago baffled me then, but the current fight to severely curtail...

Wendell Brown, the homeless poet of Brentwood, dead at 69

September 12, 2014

September 12, 2014

Wendell Brown, everyone’s favorite homeless poet in Brentwood, has died. Wendell was a Brentwood fixture for years, selling poems he...

“Meet the Candidates” for 33rd Congressional District Oct. 12 at University Synagogue in Brentwood

August 22, 2014

August 22, 2014

Brentwood News will co-host, along with University Synagogue, a “Meet the Candidates” forum on Oct. 12 at University Synagogue from...

Sheila Kuehl County Supervisor fundraiser held in Brentwood

August 22, 2014

August 22, 2014

Tom Safran recently hosted a backyard fundraiser for Sheila Kuehl, candidate to replace Zev Yaroslavsky on the LA County Board...

Brentwood Beat: A 30-Day No Honking Experiment

August 22, 2014

August 22, 2014

My wife and I had a houseguest recently. Our friend visited from a very woodsy place near Santa Cruz. She’s...

Brentwood Beat: Steady as we go

July 11, 2014

July 11, 2014

Summer tends to be a quiet time, but things seem on an unusually even keel these days. There has been...