Blog - Krikorian Writes

After that phone call, giant waves of relief come for days, for weeks.

(EDITOR’S NOTE – At the end of the previous article, “Errand Day”, I had just heard from “my neurologist” I might have ALS, aka Lou Gehrig’s Disease.)

“Wide awake, I can make my most fantastic dream come true, my romance doesn’t need a thing….but you” - Maxine Weldon singing “My Romance” written by Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers in 1935.

Something happened one week ago, Friday, May 1, 2026, that was the single most gratifying moment of my up and down career as a journalist.

NOT PRETTI GOOD It would be pretty good and actually pretty damn easy to lower the tensions, the cuss word outrage emanating from Minnesota after the shooting death of Alex Pretti.

“It was never about the destination.

This Wednesday night I was at Chi Spacca restaurant on the Mozza Korner when a diner, going from the bathroom back to his table, bumped into me and quickly apologized with a “I’m so sorry.

Recently, at the bar of famed The French Laundry in Yountville, California, three solo diners were all reading a book while relishing the three Michelin star cuisine of Thomas Keller.

EDITOR’S NOTE - The first 65, 70% of this story was written one year ago when Michael Singer was down and out and the referee had counted “eight……. nine…” and was just about to reach a knockout.

An American woman utterly demolished the long-standing world record for going from a hospital bed for surgery to a clothing store for shopping when she left Cedars Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood on Friday at 10:00 am and was at Noodle Stories on 3…

The original newspaper The Fictional Tribune, based on the the mythical “Mozza Tribune”, is going public, Find it here at https://www.thefictionaltribune.com and check it out.

A little more than a week ago, on the day after the Golden Globe Awards, I was having coffee at Go Get Em Tiger on Larchmont Boulevard when I heard a story that made the word “surreal” come alive for me and exemplified the worst and best of L.A.

Up until about two weeks ago, the mere mention of “brain cancer” was enough to send a bone chill through anyone’s body.

A few weeks ago I cell phoned Big Cat, a legendary member of the Rollin’ 60s Crips, who the LAPD described in a 2003 injunction against his Crenshaw/Hyde Park-based street gang as “a shot caller…… who instills fear in the neighborhood.”

BY JIMMY DOLAN 8/12/2023 For those of you planning a trip to Italy - if it’s your first time or 20th - you might want to give Martina Bartolozzi a heads up.

A former gang leader once described by an FBI agent and several LAPD homicide detectives as one of the deadliest men in Los Angeles could be paroled in a few months after he pled “no contest” to a murder and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

(This was published in the Los Angeles Times’ Opinion page on April, 29, 2023) Can a man really change?

On a fine Spring day in 1969, a hard-to-believe 54 years ago, a gym coach at Peary Junior High School in Gardena had a sudden idea; find out who is the fastest runner at school.

BY JIMMY DOLAN With late night talk show hosts from countless galaxies making Earth the butt of their evening jokes, four renowned human chefs held a news conference Monday to announce they will team up to make a special pizza with the proceeds going towa…

A joint U.S.