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Saturday, March 7, 2009 was a pretty memorable day for me. You wouldn’t believe me when I say it, but in the morning, I helped clean up the streets of Historic Filipinotown with boxing champ Manny Pacquiao, and in the evening I went on a bike ride with Tour de France champ Lance Armstrong (…with […] Today was the final day of paying that $80 parking ticket I got back when my car got towed on the night of August 12 in Downtown L.A. Surely, I had the option to pay online, or by phone, but there was a $2 “Convenience Fee” for making such a transaction via credit card. That’s […] After successfully evading it in 18 years of driving, my car got towed away for the first time on Thursday night as I was playing with members of my band for our Soul Barkada Lounge jam at the Downtown L.A. ArtWalk. I arrived at the Spring Street venue at around 6:45 p.m., unloaded my […] Hooray for alliteration! How’s this for a Saturday: State Senators: Cafe Cedillo I was invited to a “coffee” event with State Senator Gil Cedillo, as many (but not all) elected officials are apt to do in order to be more in touch with their constituents. It took place at Sabor y Cultura Coffeehouse in Hollywood. […] For the past couple months, I’ve been doing freelance outreach gigs for The Robert Group, a public affairs firm contracted by Metro to facilitate and do outreach for community meetings for some of their projects, such as the Westside Metro Purple Line subway extension (a.k.a. “The Subway To The Sea”). Another such project is a […] |