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Recent Columns:
Philippe's, home of the French dip sandwich, turns 100 this year, and for much of the last century local historians and foodies have been arguing over one question: How was the dish created?
"If . . . you found you could buy cakes in a windmill, ices in a gigantic cream can, and flowers in a huge pot, you might begin to wonder whether you had not stepped through a looking glass or taken a toss down a rabbit burrow and could expect Mad Hatter or White Queen to appear . . . "
You think your neighbor is a problem? The Saddleback Valley News said police received a report about a Lake Forest resident who "routinely blows a bugle-type horn and marches around the yard with a sword." I wouldn't worry -- unless the sword-waver starts yelling, "Charge!"
Budgets must be getting really tight in Hollywood.
Rick Call of Marina del Rey chanced upon a newspaper ad promoting "a rare opportunity to be in the powerful presence of a swami (one who is considered to be liberated from material desires)."
A never-ending subject of conversation in these parts is the "you'll-never-guess-what-I-saw-on-the-freeway-today" story. On the laobserved.com website, mystery novelist Denise Hamilton relates "the most horrifying thing" she's encountered recently: a guy on a sports motorcycle on the 134 Freeway, near Glendale, "popping wheelies at 70 mph.
Wardrobe!
Talk about ordering off the menu.