Lionel Rolfe

My Kindle, My Birds & Me

By Lionel Rolfe After several years of deliberation, I finally purchased a Kindle. I now own my very own digital reading…

11 years ago

Are We Really the Smartest Creatures on Earth?

By Lionel Rolfe More than 40 years ago, my then-wife Nigey Lennon and I were on our way home to…

11 years ago

Getting Older, Not Always Gracefully

By Lionel Rolfe Getting older was supposed to be easier than this--more like a wonderful long vacation. But of course,…

11 years ago

The Future Governor From Newhall, Calif.

By Lionel Rolfe The obituary notice of a four-term California assemblyman who died at 86 the other day brought back…

12 years ago

Penelope Sudrow

  a wandering waif with a hint of noblesse oblige By Lionel Rolfe, Contributor I met Penelope Sudrow at a…

12 years ago

Obama Will Go Down In History As One of Our Greatest Presidents

By LIONEL ROLFE In my mind, there's little doubt that Barack Obama will go down in history as one of our greatest…

12 years ago

Roots of California Bohemia Lurk in a Hollywood Alley

By Lionel Rolfe Maybe a block or so away from Paramount Pictures, deep in darkest Hollywood, there's a short alley…

12 years ago

Who Was The Real Hero Of The 1910 Bombing Of The Los Angeles Times?

By  Lionel Rolfe Lionel Rolfe , along with Nigey Lennon and Paul Greenstein, penned the book, Bread And Hyacinths: The Rise and…

12 years ago

Israel’s Mystic Pull

By Lionel Rolfe  At a point in the mid-70s, when some nefarious anti-Semitism was rearing its ugly head in the…

12 years ago

Tales of an Extraordinary Madman

By Lionel Rolfe  In 1972, when I saw fellow Los Angeles Free Press writer Charles Bukowski’s book in the window…

12 years ago