Mialka Bonadonna

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• Posted Countrywide is Just Part of the Mortgage Problem... to LAist
  Attorney General Jerry Brown recently announced that the State of California has filed a legal suit against Countrywide home mortgage lender for deceptive lending practices that has caused thousands of foreclosures. Brown cites that Countrywide routinely failed to explain complicated and expensive mortgage terms to consumers -- a practice that encouraged borrowers to agree to completely unaffordable mortgage terms. But according to several lending professionals working in California State (who requested that their anonymity be...
• Posted BioBlitz Gave Volunteers a Rare Look at Griffith Park to LAist
  Last weekend, National Geographic, the National Parks Service, California State Parks Department, and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy sponsored a BioBlitz biodiversity census to count the many different plant and animal species living in the Santa Monica Mountains. During the 24 hour non-stop species inventory, 200 scientist-lead teams of volunteers from the greater Los Angeles community documented 1,364 species of flora and fauna. Among the different species inventory teams was a Griffith Park bat-seeking expedition...
• Posted Lunar New Year Events in LA: Happy 4706!!! to LAist
  The Lunar New Year has officially started, and pigs are like soooo last year. To usher in the Year of the Mouse and Rat, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles is hosting the 109th Annual Golden Dragon Parade and festival on February 9th and 10th. Performers from Beijing will lead the parade, followed by assorted city officials (Villaraigosa et al.), Mickey Mouse as grand Marshall, flower drum dances, a plethora of beauty queens,...
• Posted The Neighborhood Project: Jewelry District to LAist
  These neighborhood projects are a heck of a lot of work. All of the writing, research, fact-checking, map-making, walking around, metro-riding, photographing, uploading, downloading, sun-block wearing, and image re-sizing is not easy. Trying to maximize my lazing potential, I volunteered to document the Jewelry District figuring that the neighborhood's mere six square blocks shouldn't be too much work. I got off the Metro thinking "I've been here a million times, I know where the...
• Posted LAist Cookie Exchange: Subversive Sugar Cookies to LAist
  These sugar cookies are light and yummy. But that isn't why I make them. I make them because the recipe calls for decorative icing. Which means I can write subversive sayings and cuss words on them in viscous sugary goodness. Cookie Ingredients: 1/2 cup white sugar 1/2 cup butter, softened 3 ounces cream cheese, softened 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon almond extract 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 of an egg yolk, slightly beaten (save the...