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End 2018 with a #BOOM! in West Hollywood

Life, Style & Art / 0 Comment / December 27, 2018
This New Year’s Eve, as crowds across the globe count down to 2019 with Champagne and other festivities, West Hollywood will host an alcohol- and drug-free alternative, its sixth annual #BOOM! Event...

LAUSD comes marching in to Rose Parade

News / 0 Comment / December 26, 2018
Traditions abound in Pasadena’s Rose Parade, with its flower-covered floats, marching bands and equestrian teams traveling down Colorado Boulevard on Jan. 1. During the 130th annual presentation of the parade,...

Neighborhood councils kick off election season

News / 0 Comment / December 20, 2018
Los Angeles’ 99 neighborhood councils have officially launched their election season. The council board candidate filing period has begun for the first city region – which includes the Greater Wilshire,...

Kindertransport survivor recounts ‘traumatic’ ordeal

News / 0 Comment / December 19, 2018
Eighty years after the Kindertransport evacuated nearly 10,000 Jewish children to Britain to escape the brutal Nazi regime, the German government will pay recompense to the program’s survivors. Germany...

Wallace Beery home granted historic status

News / 0 Comment / December 13, 2018
The Los Angeles City Council has deemed a Streamline Moderne house on North Martel Avenue, once briefly owned by 1930s Oscar-winning actor Wallace Beery, a historic-cultural monument. “It’s...

The final plastic straw for Los Angeles restaurants

News / 0 Comment / December 12, 2018
Many restaurants are ahead of the curve when it comes to plastic straw use. In a unanimous vote by the Los Angeles City Council on Dec. 5, plastic straws will only be available by request in all restaurants...

Local students take the stage in ‘Nutcracker’ production

News / 1 Comment / December 6, 2018
Visions of sugarplums dancing will soon turn into reality for some 80 student dancers from across Southern California. The young dancers, ages seven to 17, will share the stage with the Sugar Plum Fairy,...

‘Streets for people’ coming to the Sunset Strip

News / 0 Comment / December 5, 2018
The city of West Hollywood has launched The Sunset Experience, a pilot project aiming to celebrate the history of the Sunset Strip and to make the often traffic-saturated area more walkable. “Sunset...

Beverly Fairfax neighborhood recognized on National Register of Historic Places

News / 0 Comment / November 29, 2018
Jews fleeing discrimination and seeking the comfort of shared culture and religion flocked to the Fairfax District starting in the 1920s. Nearly a century later, the area remains the center of Los Angeles’...

Hanukkah celebrations ‘add light to the world’

News / 0 Comment / November 29, 2018
Jewish communities will celebrate the first of the eight days of Hanukkah this Sunday, Dec. 2. However, the annual holiday, as Jewish leaders emphasize, is more than just menorah lightings, spinning dreidels...

Local merchants launch holiday season with Small Business Saturday

News / 0 Comment / November 21, 2018
Following the frenzy of Black Friday and before the rush of Cyber Monday, Small Business Saturday on Nov. 24 encourages communities to take time to support the merchants in their own backyards. The...

Thankful for a place to call home

News / 0 Comment / November 21, 2018
There is no place like home for the holidays. That is the goal of Court Appointed Special Advocates of Los Angeles – to bring the wishes of the foster children it serves a home not just for the holidays,...

Union looks to block Arts Club project on Sunset

News / 0 Comment / November 14, 2018
Following the West Hollywood City Council’s approval in September of a Sunset Strip redevelopment project that would house the upscale Arts Club, Unite Here Local 11, a union that represents hospitality...

Election Day results

News / 0 Comment / November 7, 2018
After nearly 2 million people casted ballots on Election Day in Los Angeles County, the semi-official results report Democrats retained their seats in the state and county. Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin...

WeHo tower project rings in final council approval

News / 0 Comment / November 7, 2018
Three years after the its introduction, the Sunset Spectacular billboard project, also known as the West Hollywood Belltower, narrowly received final approval by the West Hollywood City Council with further...

New owners of Westmor Dance highlight studio’s illustrious and famed past

News / 0 Comment / November 1, 2018
Amid the bustle and traffic around Sixth and Western, Westmor Dance Studio, tucked away in a three-story building just one block away from the Wiltern Theatre, can get overlooked – something owners and husband-and-wife...

Tom Bergin’s nomination heads to commission

News / 0 Comment / November 1, 2018
The Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission will meet today, Nov. 1, at 10 a.m. at Los Angeles City Hall for the first of two possible hearings to decide if the Tom Bergin’s Public House building, located...

Housing proposed for Vermont/Santa Monica station

News / 0 Comment / October 25, 2018
Up to 200 units of affordable housing may be coming to East Hollywood. Social services nonprofit Little Tokyo Service Center has proposed, in partnership with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit...


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