Topic Archive: Hollywood - the place
The new hotel going up across from the Pantages opens its recruitment officer, or "Talent Center," this morning at 11. "Available positions range from Whatever/Whenever Agents to Style Supervisors, from...
Posted August 31, 2009 8:49 AM
Charles Bukowski narrates a tour of the Hollywood and Western area, highlighting his favorite bars, hangouts, hookers and dope-dealers. From "The Charles Bukowski Tapes" (1985), by Barbet Schroeder, via...
Posted July 23, 2009 9:50 AM
It hasn't been called the Showcase for awhile now, and many longtimers still think of the movie house on La Brea Avenue south of Melrose as the Gordon. Doesn't matter...
Posted May 28, 2009 10:12 PM
The nuns at Monastery of the Angels in Hollywood are famous for their loaves of pumpkin bread, but it seems they also know how to play the game in Los...
Posted April 8, 2009 11:35 PM
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Judy Graeme | How is it that until about a week ago I'd never heard of the surrealist photographer Francesca Woodman? We even went to the same school.
Phil Wallace | Seventeen years after the Rams and Raiders left town, neither team is better off. Now both are threatening to move back.
Bill Boyarsky
Parents have won partial restoration of federal poverty funds for 23 schools in the San Fernando Valley and the Westside. Many of the schools are in middle class neighborhoods but have substantial numbers of poor students.
Jenny Burman
Elvis on the Avenue.
Here in Malibu
They're very big and they're very hungry.

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