With the Winter Olympics just around the corner—and on the heels of The District Weekly’s recent story by former Olympic hopeful Diana Bosetti about the oft-damaging hidden aspects of the world’s most-graceful sport—this piece in the New York Times caught my attention.
Basically, it’s about the obsessive, deluded stalkers that exist among skating’s fans—and how the Internet is making [...]
Posts Tagged ‘diana bosetti’
OF OLYMPIC SKATERS AND THEIR STALKERS
January 25, 2010HONESTLY, INT’L CITY BANK COULDA BEEN A LITTLE WONDERFULLER
July 9, 2009First, let’s get the George Bailey Factor out of the way. If it’s a wonderful life here in Long Beach—and sorry Frank Capra, but I happen to believe it’s at least as nice as Bedford Falls—then International City Bank (ICB) is a big reason why. The local equivalent to Bailey Building & Loan sponsors Long [...]
BOSETTI GETS HER POSITIVITY ON WITH THIS VISION FOR DOWNTOWN
March 14, 2009EDITOR’S NOTE: Among many responses to “The Ice Rink Cometh”—the March 11 story by Diana Bosetti about the Downtown Long Beach Associate’s plan to spend $300,000 on a winter ice-skating rink on The Promenade—runs the opinion that the story is arrogant, too negative and could at least have been constructively critical. Bosetti responds:
Frankly, you probably [...]
SOMETIMES, BEING A BITCH IS THE ONLY WAY TO GET LONG BEACH GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO BUDGE
November 24, 2008I cannot believe some readers’ ranting and hissing about Diana Bosetti, the parent whose actions against the Long Beach Unified School District’s (LBUSD) deceptive misuse of Title I funds at Los Cerritos School were the subject of the District Weekly’s story, “No Cinnamon Roll Left Behind.” These arrogant supporters of bad government are lame.
There is [...]
NO CINNAMON ROLL LEFT BEHIND
October 1, 2008State finds LBUSD misspent funds intended for poor kids. So where’s the party for the whistle-blower?
PHOTO by JOHN GILHOOLEY
“I just love how they keep saying I don’t understand the law,” says Diana Bosetti, and if that seems a strange thing to love consider that these have been a couple of very strange years for the [...]
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Saturday, March 20
- Dennis Vernon @ River's End
- Spazzmatics @ Shore Ultra Lounge
- Ladies Night @ Executive Suite
- Blues Jam @ Clancy's
- Flyer @ Buster's Beach House
- Helicopter and Martini Flights @ Ristorante DaVinci
- Karaoke @ Bottoms Up
- Flamenco Dancers @ Alegria
- Spazzmatics @ Shore Ultra Lounge
- DJ DeLa @ The Gaslamp
- Karaoke with Tom Terrific @ Clancy's
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