Topic Archive: Canyons
The actor gives CBS' "Person to Person" a tour of his Studio City home of 20 years. His dad became the anchor at KNBC News in 1984. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 10, 2012 11:31 AM
Police responded this morning to his Mulholland Drive home and found Cornelius dead, apparently of a self-inflicted gunshot. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 1, 2012 9:07 AM
The secret City Council district maps were released publicly today, revealing whose ox is being gored. As she foreshadowed, Councilwoman Jan Perry is among the gored. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 25, 2012 10:13 PM
Investigators believe the body parts found off a trial under the Hollywood sign belong to a man who was only dead for a day or two. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 18, 2012 11:39 PM
Metro says it has
no cause yet for the failure of a retaining wall section on the 405 freeway improvement project in Sepulveda Pass. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 10, 2011 11:36 AM
The red flag restrictions that limit parking on many streets in the hills and canyons kick in at 8 a.m. Thursday. I'm kind of surprised they are not in force tonight. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 30, 2011 11:15 PM
Vanity Fair digs into the neighbor-on-neighbor clash over plans for a big house on the five-acre estate of Saudi prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 4, 2011 1:55 PM
It's not bad out there. I came over Sepulveda Pass about 2 o'clock, and except for what seemed to be a bit of lookie-loo slowdown on both sides approaching the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 15, 2011 4:47 PM
The city Department of Transportation is slapping up new
No Stopping any Time signs for Carmageddon weekend on these streets, mostly in the Valley. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 12, 2011 10:45 PM
The mega Tower Lane construction project was withdrawn Thursday by the owner. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 8, 2011 12:10 AM
In November it will be 50 years since one of the city's scariest wind-whipped fire storms burned through Brentwood and Bel Air. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 10, 2011 12:45 AM
Runyon Canyon's mystery mansion gets some ink in the New York Times. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 15, 2011 9:44 PM
Mark Frauenfelder went for a fun Saturday walking tour of the old Hollywoodland development in Beachwood Canyon. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 8, 2011 4:52 PM
Bikers aren't happy about rumble strips being added to the loop of canyon roads off Mulholland Highway where motorcyclists have raced for decades.themselves or others. T $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 2, 2011 12:23 AM
Curbed LA's Adrian Glick Kudler goes to the numbers to put the lie to the media hype that buyers from China and Russia are lining up to buy Zsa Zsa Gabor's Bel-Air home. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 26, 2011 9:26 PM
Singer Neil Diamond's 70th birthday is Monday. On Sunday afternoon, five skywriters spelled out a birthday greeting over the Bel-Air hills. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 23, 2011 8:54 PM
Escrow closed last week on the late photographer's Raphael S. Soriano-designed home on Woodrow Wilson Drive — Los Angeles historic-cultural monument #325. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 30, 2010 8:54 PM
Caltrans and Metro have all but finally decided to alter the way the impressively high, 1959-era Mulholland Drive bridge is replaced during the I-405 widening project. It's a simple change that will reduce headaches and could save $10 million. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 29, 2010 11:55 PM
Nice piece by writer Steve Oney on the memories evoked by the city covering the old concrete pavement of Outpost Drive, with its embedded paw prints of a long ago... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 30, 2010 8:36 AM
Photojournalist and blogger Ted Soqui was riding with the L.A. Wheelmen on Mulholland Drive when they came across Jay Leno, loading his 1963 Porsche onto a truck. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 17, 2010 12:35 AM
Instead of preserving the Hollywood sign in its static condition as a legally condoned supergraphic, why not embrace its inner hotel potential? $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 30, 2010 4:10 PM
Hugh Hefner helped put up the last chunk of money in the Trust for Public Land's campaign to buy and preserve acreage west of the Hollywood sign. Councilman Tom LaBonge will talk up the effort this evening on "Which Way, L.A.?" on KCRW. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 26, 2010 1:07 PM
Three years ago, the family that owns the Hollywood property where Yamashiro and the Magic Castle sit put the 10 acres up for sale. They accepted an offer from Sean MacPherson, impresario behind the Maritime Hotel, Jones, Bar Lubitsch and other hip spots. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 18, 2010 9:38 PM
Sponsored by parents at Wonderland Avenue Elementary School in Los Angeles and posted at Funny or Die. It's pretty good. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 7, 2010 12:05 PM
About 300 volunteers helped the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department search through the hills of Malibu Canyon on Saturday without finding any evidence that sheds light on the woman's disappearance. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 10, 2010 10:32 AM
Superior Court Judge Scott T. Millington expressed doubts about Dr. Christopher Thompson's remorse for stopping short and injuring two cyclists on Mandeville Canyon Road. Millington also claimed the five-year sentence... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 9, 2010 12:46 PM
Cruising the canyons in a Gullwing and telling tales of Steve McQueen drag racing. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 3, 2010 11:05 PM
The home on Woodrow Wilson Drive designed by Raphael Soriano — and built for Shulman — is listed at $2.495 million vacant. It includes an extensively wooded yard, including redwood... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 16, 2009 6:17 PM
As part of the promotion for his new movie, actor Adam Goldberg drives around Los Angeles pointing out some of the things he dislikes. Among them are the food,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 26, 2009 12:25 AM
I visited a Los Angeles icon yesterday for the first time. Before we got there I told friends I half-expected to be disappointed. Boy, was I not disappointed. As soon... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 6, 2009 3:45 PM
Prince has lived in Los Angeles since last spring — that is, if you consider the rarefied gated nouveau complex of Beverly Park to be part of the real L.A.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 23, 2008 12:52 AM
The two halves of Beverly Park, the exclusive gated community tucked between Beverly Hills and Mulholland Drive, have gone to court against each other over blocked access and unpaid fees.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 18, 2008 9:03 AM
Mayor Villaraigosa announced some road closures in the park as the rains continue. "The park has experienced some minor to moderate debris flows and flooding on several of its main... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 25, 2008 2:15 PM
The LAFD is calling the Griffith Park fire 50% encircled and some firefighters are being taken off the line. A little more than 800 acres have been blackened. Councilman Tom... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 9, 2007 5:48 PM
Michael Walker at Laurel Canyon the Book hopes the cat run over on Barham Boulevard wasn't the one that had been using his lower deck. He also points to a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 27, 2006 3:58 PM
Since we're talking cats this week, a reader in Glendale passes along more sightings: No photographic evidence; but up here on the shoulder of the Verdugo Hills (right across the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 23, 2006 2:33 PM
Wednesday's Morning Buzz reprinted an email from the president of the Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council warning residents that a dog had fallen prey to the mountain lion (or lions)... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 22, 2006 11:25 PM
Attention hill dwellers: It's brush clearance season for you. Los Angeles Fire Department inspectors are out checking all 129,647 parcels in the scarily named Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 18, 2006 2:18 AM