For thousands of local residents, the Hollywood Farmers’ Market offers an oasis. Each Sunday, amid the flashing lights of movie theatres and record stores on Sunset Boulevard, market patrons walk two blocks...
To many residents of West Hollywood, taxing billboards and supergraphics in the city sounds like a good idea. After all, West Hollywood corridors like the Sunset Strip offer prime outdoor advertising real...
Los Angeles voters will have the chance to decide if they want to almost double annual funding for the city’s libraries.
The city council voted unanimously on Tuesday to place an initiative on the March...
Chad Goldman and Brian Pendelton have been together for 11 years. They are legally married in California, and have built a business together during the past decade, of which Pendelton is the sole owner....
When the City of Los Angeles had to close a $485 million budget deficit this spring, the public libraries found themselves on the chopping block.
More than 300 library employees were laid off,...
David Buskila, the mayor of Sderot, Israel, remembers a time when people from the town used to go to the open-air markets in Gaza every day, and people from Gaza would come to Sderot to work in the factories.
“We...
What do you do when you get home from work every day? Do you start making dinner? Turn on the TV? Have a beer? Take off the heels and put your feet up on the coffee table?
Chances are, before you’ve...
Leather clad and driving fast, Steve McQueen became an icon of the car racing and motorcycle genres in such classic films at “The Great Escape” and “Bullitt”.
This weekend, McQueen’s...
At the end of a year in which the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) has come to be considered something of a public enemy, the city council on Tuesday moved to establish an agency to oversee...
When you flag down a taxi in Los Angeles, you’re likely to climb into the back of a Ford Crown Victoria — a wide, boat-like model that gets about 14 miles per gallon of gasoline.
Within...
As a marketing ploy, playing off the English language’s chief profanity is nothing new. The clothing line French Connection UK likes to print FCUK on the front of shirt, which only a second or third...
Through his childhood, ever since the time he was four years old, Michael Anthony Vasquez’s father listened to Christian radio programs every morning. One of the major topics on the programs, Vasquez...
Casden Properties continues to court approval from the local community to put an apartment and condominium complex on 3rd Street, across the street from Hancock Park Elementary School.
Last...
Like so many other Southern California bands, Imperial Stars were virtually unknown and looking to up their profile.
The Orange County-based band did just that on Tuesday, when they performed a set for a completely...
By any measure, AIDS Walk Los Angeles is an impressive show of solidarity and activism: Thirty thousand people will congregate in West Hollywood this Sunday, average citizens alongside movie stars...
In Los Angeles, everything is on wheels — mobile blood banks and HIV-testing units; mobile grocery stores, selling produce off the backs of trucks; mobile dental clinics; and of course the vaunted food...
Second graders at West Hollywood Elementary celebrated the 100th anniversary of the school’s incorporation with the Los Angeles Unified School District on Monday.
Throughout...