Topic Archive: San Fernando Valley
Unfortunately, the Daily News this morning bannered Dana Bartholomew's story saying the hotel and banquet center in Studio City would close. It's still big on...
Posted July 16, 2008 04:41 PM
The quirky Sportsmen's Lodge hotel on Ventura Boulevard in Studio City will shut down Dec. 31, the Daily News says. [* But the paper was...
Posted July 16, 2008 09:25 AM
The LAPD says that in a study it ran in the Valley, DNA samples collected at the scene of residential and commercial burglaries helped identify...
Posted July 2, 2008 09:55 AM
St. Bernardine of Siena Parish in Woodland Hills has donated nearly $1.5 million of its savings to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles to...
Posted April 30, 2008 11:27 AM
The Times' website today is pushing a travel feature on the West San Fernando Valley, writing that "in what we hope will be an ongoing...
Posted April 29, 2008 02:16 PM
Grant High School has been plagued for years by clashes between Latino and Armenian students — dating, some say, to hard feelings over the response...
Posted April 24, 2008 09:20 AM
The Home Depot project on Foothill Boulevard that ran into a mountain of community opposition is back on the agenda. The store applied to City...
Posted April 22, 2008 03:54 PM
I'm told by Alex Fay, legislative deputy to Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl, that Google will be fixing its maps listing Van Nuys as...
Posted April 21, 2008 10:38 PM
A few readers have sent this to me. (Thanks.) Google Maps has the Van Nuys community name just right, but the airport, boulevard and golf...
Posted April 20, 2008 11:57 PM
From ex-editor Ron Kaye's new blog: In my mind, it's time for people to make a stand for what they believe in, to act like...
Posted April 17, 2008 11:24 PM
This is a pretty good animal story, told in today's Daily News by columnist Dennis McCarthy. On Tuesday morning, John Caruso spotted a sheep and...
Posted April 17, 2008 03:05 PM
Rev. Eric Lee says the whole episode in which philanthropist (and Hillary Clinton supporter) Daphna Ziman accused him of anti-Semitic remarks has been wearing and...
Posted April 17, 2008 12:56 PM
Every so often, one of the local media outlets returns to the theme of "The Valley, it's not so bad" and pretends the concept itself...
Posted March 13, 2008 04:15 PM
Not too many musicians follow this particular career arc. Buddy Miles, who died yesterday in Austin of congestive heart failure, began as a session player...
Posted February 27, 2008 07:35 PM
OK, more loot than treasure. But when cops followed the map scrawled by burglar Roberto Caveda and dug where the X was marked near White...
Posted February 27, 2008 12:02 PM
With seven residential projects containing 900 units already under construction — and another two dozen projects approved — the most upscale shopping street across the...
Posted February 24, 2008 12:18 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
Much honored Los Angeles sci-fi writer and alternate historian Harry Turtledove writes about time travel in his Crosstime Traffic series. Could he be predicting the...
Posted February 8, 2008 09:23 AM
Valley history buffs were aghast to learn last week that the first hangar built at what's now called Van Nuys Airport was in the process...
Posted December 23, 2007 04:53 PM
A portion of Reseda with large lots wants to rename itself Reseda Ranch to help fend off developers and instill some community pride. If the...
Posted July 22, 2007 11:09 AM
Blogger Andrew Hurvitz at Here in Van Nuys sounds exasperated, or worse, at the way the onetime downtown of the Valley has gone. He writes...
Posted January 17, 2007 11:38 AM
It happened Sunday night on Woodale Avenue in Arleta, says the Daily News' Susan Abram. Filimon Ramos was killed and his 19-year-old son wounded, apparently...
Posted June 27, 2006 11:55 AM
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