I'm at the U2/Black Eye Peas concert with Lu and the world is watching. I love L.A. :)
"Movement in City Council today allows for LA36 to stay open for the next few months. However, we will not be running at full capacity because of the difficult financial situation we still face. The final City Council vote in a few months will ensure the remainder of our funding. Until then, we are cutting staff and some of our services. We do not have the budget to do any new productions.
It will not be pure repeats – we will endeavor to put on new content given to us from outside producers. But LA36 as an entity will not be producing things like High School sports anytime soon.
Case in point: this video, taken this past week in East Hollywood, where our dogged local parking enforcement officer uses the loading zone as a parking spot for her lunch break. This is the same parking officer who tirelessly drives up and down our neighborhood blocks all day long, looking for cars on the wrong side of the street on street cleaning days and in red zones and with expired meters.
Somewhere we missed it in the Los Angeles city code where parking enforcement officers don’t need to obey the law. Wow, what a job perk!
For a week or so the city has been digging on La Brea, and today they removed the large metal plates and unveiled their masterpiece: a car-destroying trench. I drive a compact Toyota and I thought my car was being turned into rubble. Maybe someone else drove down La Brea and also almost had their car compacted? Let the city know what a great job they did!
“Langer’s deli has been an institution in my community for decades,” said Councilmember Reyes. “Al Langer was known for his personal interactions with customers, even through economic hardships. He served up sandwiches with a smile for generations and generations of families, and helped revitalize the MacArthur Park area.”
First, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has recently made their annual inspection and will shut down the food court due to its findings. But the Militant's operative said such closures are normally only temporary...
The second issue was general complaints from the neighborhood regarding noise, traffic and loitering, which is interesting since Van Noord Ave., the residential cul-de-sac directly behind the temple, is home to not only temple members, but most of the temple's monks. The Militant's operative said that Wat Thai has worked hard to address the complaints of the neighborhood...
The third issue was not directly related to the food court, but did make P.R. matters much worse for the temple, obviously attributed to bad timing. The Militant's operative also mentioned that the LAPD is currently investigating allegations by children at the temple of sexual abuse directed at a male volunteer (none of the temple's monks were named), who is a married undocumented immigrant (and could thusly face deportation regardless of whether the charges stand or not).
In an interview with The Times two weeks ago, Burke said it was only on weekends and special occasions that she used her Brentwood home — a 4,000-square-foot residence with a swimming pool and tennis court that she and her husband have long owned. She said she lived at a 1,200-square-foot townhouse in Mar Vista, on a busy street just inside the border of her district.
But over a three-week period in which she was observed by Times reporters, Burke spent every weekday evening at her Brentwood house, in the district of Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky. When confronted by reporters Wednesday, Burke changed her story and acknowledged that she has rarely slept in the Mar Vista townhouse, which she has declared as her primary residence since she purchased it more than a year ago.
Asked whether voters would consider her primary residence as the place where she sleeps, Burke replied: "So I'll start sleeping here if that'll make you happy."
These firms — all with ties to current or former Los Angeles City Council members from the Eastside — won their contracts in bidding processes fraught with irregularities. In one case, a losing bid was submitted by a nonexistent company. Other such bids came from actual companies which, when contacted by The Times, said they were surprised to learn that bids had been submitted in their names.
What’s that? You don’t “heart” hanging out in your car for hours on the 10 and/or 405 and/or 101? Or you don’t “heart” paying $1500 for your crappy studio in Murray Hill? Or maybe you’re not “hearting” that one homeless guy who yells horrible things at you when you walk by in the morning? We here at Twee Shirts™ know and want to say, “Hey, it’s OK to just stomach your city sometimes!”. And at least now, when you’re sitting in traffic or writing the rent check, you can be wearing an adorable, printed American Apparel t-shirt that expresses that feeling!
Don't Be a Retardant -- Join the LAFD!
The Job, the Job, the Job is on FIYAH! We Don't Need No Water, Just Join the LAFD.
Join the LAFD and GET PAID to Hang Out at Griffith Park and Catalina Island!
Join the LAFD -- Less Bullet-y Than the LAPD!
LAFD -- The "F" Stands for "Fun"! (Oh, and "Fire.")
And for the pun fans: Don't Get Hosed: The LAFD is Sounding the Siren for You to Climb Its Ladder of Success.
While "Entourage" is a show about four close buddies, the HBO series gets much of its charm from what is arguably the group's fifth member: the city of Los Angeles.
El Lay's status at the...
...center of the U.S. entertainment industry means lots of shows nominally take place here. But few — if any — shows approach the city with such precision and affection for its restaurants, shops and other neighborhood institutions...
Other programs feature known Southern California landmarks, like CBS's "Shark," which places scenes in Los Angeles' Byzantine-domed City Hall, and ABC's "Brothers and Sisters" and NBC's "Raines," which both feature Venice Beach.
But "Entourage" sets its episodes in more varied — but no less specific — spots, like Hollywood's Arclight Cinemas, where movie star Vincent's first big film premieres, or Jerry's Famous Deli, the venerable lunch spot where the boys dine with Mandy Moore.
Many of the real-life locations are posh locales, out of the average Angeleno's reach. Vincent's agent Ari meets with the star's buddy-turned-manager Eric at Koi, the pricey sushi restaurant and celebrity haunt. Eric makes a reservation for himself and his girlfriend at Beverly Hills' Peninsula Hotel, where rooms start around $500 a night...
But most locations are the sorts of everyday neighborhood joints that Los Angelenos get to know and love. They grab dogs at Pink's flamboyant hot dog stand, line up for limited edition kicks at the sneaker boutique Undefeated and browse at Book Soup, ground zero for Southern California bibliophiles.
Channeled decades ago to protect the city against periodic flooding, the river has provided an ugly contrast in a city known for the natural beauty of its setting. The waterway in recent years has attracted new interest from those who would like to blast away its walls and replace them with a semblance of a natural river.
Up to now, however, visions for doing so have been vague or piecemeal. The master plan offers the first comprehensive — and as yet unfunded — proposal for a restoration.
It consists of 239 projects, most of them small. Some, however, would be immense. In two places — Chinatown and Canoga Park — residential and office villages would rise along the river's newly greened banks, replacing factories and warehouses. The plan also envisions widening the river channel in some places to preserve its flood-control capacity while creating more riparian habitat.
Advocates say that the plan offers the possibility of constructing the kind of grand public gathering places that have been in short supply in Los Angeles. The restoration's new parks would appear in many parts of the city, rich and poor, including downtown, which is undergoing a revival.
