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THE STORY Seven years ago, award-winning journalist, Jake Hansen, torched his life after leaking an investigative article on political corruption and the cartel, online. Now, drowning in addiction and regret, Jake is a private investigator who co-owns a dive bar with his two closest friends- a retired NYPD detective, Pete Mills and an ex-con, Lamar…
Fernando, Freddie, Rolando and Me part 6
The Dodgers would go two and four against their nearest rivals, the San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks but would start the month with a sweep of Atlanta and end the month with a sweep of the Mets. They would run a record of 16-10 for the month of May and a hold of first…
Fernando, Freddie, Rolando and Me part 5
The 2024 Dodgers season rolled along and with the turning of the calendar to May, the Dodgers injuries really took a toll. They were playing solid baseball but not dominant as many predicted. Still, in the pupae stage of the season, optimism was high. The addition of Teoscar Hernandez provided a new charm and whimsy…
Present Meets the Past
Bobby Bognar’s Handsome Music, like memory, is a living archive- an art form that evolves within us and grows as we pass through time. Before I was a young music journalist, I learned the rock musical history from the British Invasion to New Wave, to Punk and Post Punk with hints of Heavy Metal, Country…
Fernando, Freddie, Rolando and Me part 4
And so, the 2024 Dodger season began. Following two games in Korea against the hated San Diego Padres, the Dodgers returned to the mainland for another week of Spring Training. With apologies, I’ll hop on my soapbox for a moment and complain about the inanity of playing two regular season games in the Far East,…
Fernando, Freddie, Rolando and Me part 3
A moderately chilly January turned into one of the rainiest February’s in Los Angeles history and the process for Rolando’s recovery became the focus of our lives. It was slow and tedious and wasn’t progressing great. He wasn’t regressing, we just didn’t see any real improvement. His mind wandered, his strength ebbed and flowed, his…
Fernando, Freddie, Rolando and Me part 2
A scary February dissolved into a potentially terrifying but hopeful March. We brought Rolando home from the rehab facility the last week of February and after a week at home, dad seemed to be recovering into himself. He still moved slow and required a lot of help, but the mind was operating at a higher…
Heavy Metal Lives
Vinyl Cats, Saint Rocke, Hermosa Beach Saturday night has always been the best night to see a rock show and I was lucky enough this past Saturday to not only see a show but relive memories. I’ve seen hundreds of shows ranging from Motörhead to Morrissey and, yes, Cher. But my favorite memories of rock shows…
Fernando, Freddie, Rolando and Me: part 1
Since Rolando’s first fall in February of 2022 (a few days before the Rams-Bengals Super Bowl in Los Angeles) it felt like a yearly February pilgrimage to the hospital. It seemed like he was always stricken with some severe medical issue every February. February ’22 it was a Cardiac episode, February ’23 it was a…
The Last Pass
And so, another season of Football American style, comes to an end with the grandest of spectacles. As watched an event as there is in the world, the Super Bowl attracts even those who care nary about the sport. But, my friends, my friend’s care. I don’t have a horse in this fight, obviously, but…
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