David Allen
Columnist at Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Columnist for @pressenterprise, @ivdailybulletin, @sbsun. "Inland Empire bard" -- Los Angeles Times
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dailybulletin.com | David Allen
Two years ago, I toured the long-closed Plaza Theatre. Money was pouring into a nonprofit foundation intent on restoring the 1936 Spanish Colonial Revival gem in downtown Palm Springs, including $5 million from “Frasier” co-creator David Lee. I liked what I heard from J.R. Roberts, the Plaza Theatre Foundation‘s president, as we walked the empty theater, and could only hope the dream would come to fruition. On my return visit this month, the Plaza was an active construction site.
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pressenterprise.com | David Allen
This painting at Riverside’s The Cheech seems drawn from headlines
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sbsun.com | David Allen
A crowd favorite at The Cheech is Frank Romero’s 1996 oil painting of an image both absurd and frightening. In the nighttime scene, rendered with a colorful and cartoonish verve, a phalanx of police at Los Angeles’ Echo Park have their guns drawn on a family of paleta, or popsicle, vendors, whose hands are raised. Another officer gives chase to a man selling balloons.
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sanluisobispo.com | David Allen
Jon Blickenstaff has moved out of La Verne. This is a seismic development, given that Blickenstaff, 80, had lived in town his entire life. All his schooling took place within city limits, from kindergarten at Roynon Elementary through La Verne College, to which he walked from home. Blickenstaff played among citrus groves, became an Eagle Scout and pumped gas after school at the Texaco station downtown. He married Joan Johnson, whom he met at a YMCA dance in Pomona.
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1 week ago |
pressenterprise.com | David Allen
Jon Blickenstaff has moved out of La Verne. This is a seismic development, given that Blickenstaff, 80, had lived in town his entire life. All his schooling took place within city limits, from kindergarten at Roynon Elementary through La Verne College, to which he walked from home. Blickenstaff played among citrus groves, became an Eagle Scout and pumped gas after school at the Texaco station downtown. He married Joan Johnson, whom he met at a YMCA dance in Pomona.
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What I read in May: Carey McWilliams, @LizStrout, Malcolm Gladwell and a photo book from Joshua Tree. How about you? https://t.co/EqudlJaBZm https://t.co/HsYRFzzDHN
My latest: Remembering Mickey Gallivan, who pushed to save Pomona history. Slight of stature and mild of manner, she nevertheless won protections for sites, buildings and entire neighborhoods. She died May 15 at age 80 and was buried Friday. https://t.co/dtej5x2pNm
My latest: Pioneering Black actor Clarence Muse, whose film career stretched from 1929-1979, was a longtime and active @CityofPerris resident. The Clarence Muse Art Festival on 5/31 will highlight him and raise money for a Hollywood Walk of Fame star. https://t.co/dqlaqA5jRZ
