[maryz]

Thanks for the info -- and your good wishes.

[VOA]

Thanks for the info -- and your good wishes.

One item I failed to include is that NewTimesLA has been very diligent in exposing
some of the nastier parts of Scientology.
This included a sordid tale of how the Scientologists managed to extract a fair amount of
case from a fellow who'd been brain-damaged in an accident (vehicular, I think).
IIRC, a civil trial found the Scientologists guilty of the appropriation and led
to a substantial judgement.

I haven't got the feeling that NewTimesLA's approach to the Scientologists or the recent
Catholic problems is "agenda-driven", as in they just go after religions or '-isms"
for sport. When NewTimesLA reports on these things, it's usually objective, cites
public records when available and defends itself well in their letters section in following
issues.

One warning: NewTimesLA is a California-cultural publication.
I would NOT recommend anyone under the age of 18 being given a copy...
occassional nudity/profanity will appear (rarely) in some articles/photos.

But, for the adult audience that can ignore that bit of objectionable content, the
publication will often have pearls of truth that can't be located between the pages of
the mainstream publications such as The Los Angeles Times.