Topic Archive: Los Angeles life
Remember last year when I posted on the million-dollar wedding of real estate mogul Jeffrey Greene and New York real-estate executive Mei Sze Chan, at...
Posted September 18, 2008 11:10 PM
Elaine Martin, left, and Cindy Gise have been together since meeting at Valley State College, now Cal State Northridge. They were among the first in...
Posted June 17, 2008 10:50 PM
I made a note to myself, but forgot to mention, that the base Dodger Dogs at the stadium are five bucks this season. You...
Posted April 2, 2008 12:58 AM
Metromix profiles women who are rising through the club scene. Shereen Arazm, a petite, bubbly brunette, could easily be mistaken for a Hollywood clubber at...
Posted February 28, 2008 09:48 AM
In another of those generic magazine roundups claiming to know the best of something, but really an exercise in geographic diversity, Details includes Square One...
Posted February 25, 2008 08:56 AM
The winter fruit of the gods has been fingered, crushed and tossed aside at my Westside supermarkets. But I found some yesterday in Little Tokyo,...
Posted February 24, 2008 02:45 PM
Actually it's not so new, but the Koreanization of the suburbs in the northwest Valley has really taken hold. I think every church my parents...
Posted February 23, 2008 11:00 AM
Larry Lipson wrote up restaurants for the Daily News starting in 1958. From his exit column: Sure, there have been editors who have leaned somewhat...
Posted February 15, 2008 01:25 AM
In his last piece left in the can for the LA Weekly before taking his keyboard to Mexico, Daniel Hernandez uses Elizabeth Palacios's troubles with...
Posted February 12, 2008 11:18 PM
The blogger at Spanglish Gringo lives in Boyle Heights and recently was told by the Los Angeles Times that he can no longer receive the...
Posted February 4, 2008 08:59 AM
Larry Mantle this morning took on one of the lesser issues of our time, but one that's still interesting and perplexing for locals: should we...
Posted November 13, 2007 12:41 PM
A Jon Weisman post at Dodger Thoughts that is not about baseball inspired a long run of comments on being a pedestrian, here and elsewhere....
Posted May 4, 2007 08:49 AM
Children who grow up close to busy highways "have significant impairments in the development of their lungs that can lead to respiratory problems for the...
Posted January 26, 2007 10:51 AM
→ Los Angeles magazine executive editor Mary Melton had a scare on the Santa Monica freeway: her left rear window exploded, spraying safety glass bits...
Posted January 11, 2007 01:56 AM
You might think of director Sydney Pollack as a New Yorker, but he has been here for thirty years. He answered questions for the blog...
Posted September 21, 2006 12:57 AM
They threw a party last night in Pasadena for a Stradivarius violin. Jerry Kohl fell in love with the idea of owning a Strad after...
Posted July 20, 2006 11:42 AM
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 954 AM PDT SAT JUL 15 2006 ...DANGEROUS HEAT EXPECTED TODAY ACROSS THE VALLEYS...
Posted July 15, 2006 10:14 AM
Caltech has come up with a program that will put video depictions of the up-and-down ground movement produced by Southern California earthquakes on the web...
Posted July 5, 2006 12:19 PM
Filmmaker, blogger and promoter Brian Flemming has cooked up a new stunt. He announced yesterday on his blog that for the next week he will...
Posted July 5, 2006 10:58 AM
When LA Weekly lifestyle editor and Style Council blogger Linda Immediato lost her Venice home suddenly, she looked around and came up empty. No place...
Posted July 5, 2006 03:32 AM
T Bone Burnett did indeed play the El Rey last night, as not scheduled, then scheduled, then moved, then moved back again. If that seems...
Posted June 21, 2006 01:16 PM
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