Sandy Banks

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Recent Columns:
July 26, 2008
The Bluetooth was my tipping point.

July 22, 2008
Roby T. Chapel's history with Starbucks is long and sweet.

July 19, 2008
Jessica Cosby is used to snickers and raised eyebrows when someone asks what she does for a living.

July 15, 2008
I'd like to pretend that I checked into UCLA's new hospital Friday on an undercover mission, to check out patient care at the $800-million medical showpiece.

July 5, 2008
They weren't the most conventional group of college scholarship recipients.

July 1, 2008
The return address didn't ring a bell. The name wasn't one my daughter quickly recalled.

June 28, 2008
The long list of rules posted at my neighborhood public pool seems to outlaw everything except Marco Polo:

June 24, 2008
It could be the rhinestone stud in her cheek, her thin resume, or her unwillingness to interview before noon, lest job-seeking disrupt her gym routine or interrupt her beauty sleep.

June 21, 2008
I might be a little nervous walking past Carlos Caceres on the street, tattoos covering his beefy arms and the back of his hands and creeping up his neck from beneath his shirt.

June 17, 2008
Kye D'Aguilar doesn't have a traumatic story to tell about coming out. The 18-year-old said he's always known that he is gay. "My mother told me she knew when I was born."