• Weekly Observations - some thoughts on the core issues between Conservatives and Liberals: June 1, 2003 Opinion and six "Quick Hits" 
  1. Why won't those European folks admit the truth?
  2. The BBC versus We Report, You Decide, or "Tell Me A Story."
  3. Why conservative news stuff is more interesting...
  4. Can anyone challenge Bush in the next election?
  5. Where be them there Weapons of Mass Destruction?
  6. Cultivating Tolerance
• Reviews -- A Book All About Luck, How To Get Your Very Own Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Album Reviews, TSF Jazz in Paris: June 1, 2003 Reviews
• Featured Writer, Phillip Raines: Phillip's Tale
• Rick Brown's discussion of democracy and what governments are actually supposed to do: June 1, 2003 Mail
• Photographs of Hollywood (this week): June 1, 2003 Photographs

 Volume 1, Number 3  June 8, 2003

• Weekly Observations - Two Canadian writers explain the French to us, or, do words really matter? June 8, 2003 Opinion along with the open forums...
  1. Why won't those European folks admit the truth?
  2. The BBC versus We Report, You Decide, or "Tell Me A Story."
  3. Why conservative news stuff is more interesting...
  4. Can anyone challenge Bush in the next election?
  5. Where be them there Weapons of Mass Destruction?
  6. Cultivating Tolerance
• Reviews - Automatic Writing Resources, Thoughts on Chick Flicks and Puccini, and a bit on French Electro-Trance Tango: June 8, 2003 Reviews
• Photographs - Cute Animals, including a Hedgehog: June 8, 2003 Photographs
• Mail - Readers weigh in on what is "happiness" -- a riff on a speech by Susan Sontag: June 8, 2003 Mail

Volume 1, Number 4  June 22, 2003

• Weekly Observations - Church and State (God Told Me To Hate You)  June 22, 2003 Opinion
• Additional Commentary Added:
  • Follow Up: Lucky Duckies
  • The BBC versus We Report, You Decide, or "Tell Me A Story."
  • Where be them there Weapons of Mass Destruction?
  • Cultivating Tolerance
• Reviews -- Albert Camus and Woody Allen and Anhedonia, New and Old Stars in Hollywood, Duke Ellington and Tangos in Paris (current tangos, not last tangos) June 22, 2003 Reviews
• Summer Photographs - Paris, Hollywood and Pipes  June 22, 2003 Photographs
• Mailbag - Where a Canadian (Sarah Wall) answers those who dismiss our friends up north.  June 22, 2003 Mail

Volume 1, Number 5  June 29, 2003

• God Told Me To, That's Why! - a discussion of church and state and divine inspiration in June 29, 2003 Opinion plus...
  • Neo-Conservatives have no shame? Why conservative news stuff is more interesting...
  • Holmes on how liberals have all been neutralized by their own rhetoric - Can anyone challenge Bush in the next election?
  • Lying is Good!  So just who really is "The Man from Hope" these days?  Where be them there Weapons of Mass Destruction?
• Harry Potter and copyright law and how Fox News sues folks who make fun of them - I'm Just Wild About Harry -  and The Hulk Wimps Out, and Fascinação (music from Brazil) in June 29, 2003 Reviews
• Two voices from the heartland, Allen Schwartz and Bill Nichols in June 29, 2003 Mail
• Local Oddities (Hollywood) - signs and storefronts you won't see in Peoria in  June 29, 2003 Photographs

Volume 1, Number 6  July 6, 2003

• Commentary: Bush, Berlusconi and the New Diplomacy in July 6, 2003 Opinion
• Book notes on why you need not be a conspiracy theorist / Film notes on Oscar Wilde and The Hulk / Music notes on Joe Pass in July 6, 2003 Reviews
• Life and Death and other light topics in July 6, 2003 Mail
• Guest photographer John Slater in the misty mountains really high above Sunset in July 6, 2003 Photographs along with Fourth of July shots around this part of Hollywood.

Volume 1, Number 7  July 13, 2003

• Commentary on When is it Time to Walk Away from America in July 13, 2003 - Opinion 
• Phillip Raines' extraordinary photo-essay on the treehouse he built deep in the wilds of northern Florida in The Treehouse by Phillip Raines
• Kevin Klingler on "The Next Napa" and the extraordinary wines, and wineries of Paso Robles in Paso Robles - the Next Napa
• What Jonathan Swift would say about Merrill Lynch were Swift still around / A test for readers who think they know a lot about the movies / Sex and Bach and Canada in July 13, 2003 - Reviews
• Deep in the Hollywood Hills, and a Birth in Hollywood in July 13, 2003 - Photographs
• The messages have been flying between Atlanta and Paris, via Hollywood, regarding the French and the French language in July 13, 2003 - Mail 

Volume 1, Number 8  July 27, 2003

• Two Weeks of Odd Reversals in July 27, 2003 Opinion
• In July 27, 2003 Reviews
  • Books: Did Greta Garbo really want to be alone?  Does anyone?  Maybe they do.
  • Movies: I live in Hollywood. Don't we all?
  • Music: Connecting Mick Jagger, Vaclav Havel, Bill Clinton and Frank Zappa
• Who is lying about what these days and what that means for America.  Predicting the future.  More pointed email bouncing between Hollywood, New York City, Paris and Atlanta in July 27, 2003 Mail
• Los Angeles Harbor: a Korean pagoda, three lighthouses, the wind and the ocean in July 27, 2003 Photography