Topic Archive: Westside
The new Regal Cinemas' L.A. Live Stadium 14 debuts officially on Tuesday with the first showings of Michael Jackson's "This Is It." Variety sees the new Downtown cineplex — which... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 25, 2009 11:39 PM
Phase 1, going from downtown to Culver City, was supposed to be finished in 2010, but now they're talking about only a partial opening. Spokesperson Gabriela G. Collins tells Curbed... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 11, 2009 2:43 PM
Talk about a story that's going nowhere fast (the above video is from 2007 and not much has happened since). As the FAA and the city of Santa Monica... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 11, 2009 10:42 AM
Investor Charles T. Munger's latest plan for the Barry Building in Brentwood is to tear it down, build underground parking, then put in a shopping center that shares the courtyard... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 21, 2009 7:43 AM
Tonight's main showing of "Julie and Julia" ended with applause from the crowd at the Westwood Crest Theatre, but the first ovation of the night was for owner Robert Bucksbaum.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 7, 2009 10:43 PM
News items: Westwood movie future bleak and Westwood's Mann Festival RIP. Click the cartoon to view it larger. See more by Steve Greenberg in his LA Sketchbook archive... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 3, 2009 11:33 PM
Today's L.A. Times follows on our Thursday night news about the Festival theater closing and adds a triple whammy of bad news for Westwood: Mann is giving up its leases... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 1, 2009 1:44 PM
Hat tip to the New Beverly Theater's Twitter poster for noticing that the Mann Festival has put up a final message to patrons. Known previously as the Egyptian (and as... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 30, 2009 11:35 PM
This week's exploratory subway drilling is scheduled for Monday and Tuesday at San Vicente and Gracie Allen (that's near Cedars-Sinai), Wednesday in UCLA parking lot 36 near Wilshire and Veteran,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 27, 2009 9:15 AM
Esa-Pekka Salonen's house in upper Brentwood has gone on the market for $4.1 million. It has six bedrooms, 5.5 baths and a chilly Scandinavian demeanor throughout. Check out the sauna... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 26, 2009 10:28 PM
Tomorrow's New York Times real estate page ventures into the Century Plaza preservation dispute. Diane Keaton, listing the hotel's supposed glories, likens the design to a "sexy woman surrounded by... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 21, 2009 11:15 PM
When visiting Venice, notes the blog Yo Venice, "it is advisable not to block a driveway when you park your vehicle. Odds are that two towing trucks, two parking enforcement... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 19, 2009 11:26 PM
Smoke is much reduced out here. Jonathan Alcorn shot this photo when the plume was still growing.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 8, 2009 3:43 PM
The Getty Museum is being evacuated down through Brentwood as a precaution due to a fire burning in brush a ridge or two to the north in Sepulevda Pass. Damn... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 8, 2009 1:47 PM
Local Iranian-Americans demonstrated today against the election results and ensuing violence in Tehran, in the usual spot outside the federal building on Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood. Jonathan Alcorn has... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 14, 2009 4:44 PM
Westside city councilman Bill Rosendahl admits that he is actively considering a run for the U.S. Senate if Dianne Feinstein steps down in 2012. This even though, as the LA... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 4, 2009 12:09 PM
Now that the owner of the Century Plaza wants to tear down the hotel, Dakota Smith at Curbed LA dug up what developer Michael Rosenfeld's release said when he bought... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 29, 2009 10:56 PM
A local journo wonders in email if the new Yvonne Brathwaite Burke Park in Marina del Rey, near where the retired county Supervisor used to claim she lived, will have... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 1, 2009 9:15 AM
Author and Slate blogger Mickey Kaus has several friends at the Los Angeles Times, but for years he has been advocating the demise of the paper — partly in the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 28, 2009 9:58 PM
Architectural photographer Marvin Rand was 84 when he died on Feb. 14. Along Abbot Kinney Boulevard, where he kept his studio, Rand is being called one of them — a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 26, 2009 3:25 PM
A private plane has crashed and burned on takeoff at Santa Monica Airport. The plane stayed on airport property. Channel 2 says two people on board are believed to have... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 28, 2009 6:01 PM
Author and former state Senator Tom Hayden, writing at the Huffington Post, praises the late sculptor Robert Graham for his quiet work with the street gangs in Venice. In the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 8, 2009 12:52 PM
The city of Santa Monica website says that Katz, a member of the City Council, died today with family and close friends by his side. The family appreciates everyone’s prayers... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 7, 2009 6:17 PM
Village Books struggles to get by in the little shopping district of Pacific Palisades, but things seem especially grim on that street this year. The bookstore has loyal fans, though,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 12, 2008 12:53 PM
Owner Robert Bucksbaum, who saved the Crest Theatre on Westwood Boulevard and turned it into one of the most fun movie venues in L.A., has listed it for sale after... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 21, 2008 3:57 PM
Sign on the Sepulveda and National Hamlet on the Westside cites loss of the lease, but skeptical Chowhound posters suspect "loss of customers" is behind the closure. "We'll certainly see... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 4, 2008 12:23 PM
Tibby Rothman's Venice Paper picks up street talk that the murder of a young man Sunday night after the Abbot Kinney Festival was a targeted gang hit. Just talk at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 30, 2008 12:25 PM
Actress-writer Heather Thomas's monthly breakfast gatherings (with her husband, entertainment lawyer Skip Brittenham) in Santa Monica lead the roundup of a "burgeoning breed of über-stylish salonistas" in the September issue... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 4, 2008 2:35 PM
Supervisor Gloria Molina joined the two Republicans on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to reject placing a sales tax increase question on the November ballot, citing friction between... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 5, 2008 1:23 PM
Excellent piece by Max Taves in the LA Weekly on elderly identical twin sisters in Pacific Palisades who "had spent years fanatically feeding the Palisades’ rat population. Although the full... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 31, 2008 10:22 PM
Oakley's Barber Shop is the last of the original businesses in Westwood Village, dating to 1929. It started on Vermont, near the original UCLA campus that now houses Los Angeles... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 30, 2008 11:55 PM
Fox Interactive Media, the News Corp subsidiary that includes Myspace, signed a 12-year lease agreement to move next June into a new facility at the Playa Vista development. TechCrunch has... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 30, 2008 9:22 PM
Eric Lynxwiler and I will be the featured speakers in Westwood today at 4 pm at the inaugural literary salon of the Friends of the Westwood Library. It's a benefit... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 22, 2008 1:05 PM
Erika Schickel chatted up Bo Diddley on a plane to New Mexico. She was ten and headed for sleep-away camp. Denise Hamilton loved Pest Control the Musical so much "my... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 3, 2008 6:14 PM
Crews this morning began cutting down the disputed ficus trees on 2nd Street near Wilshire. Activists lost a court bid to block the city from removing the trees, which it... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 16, 2008 10:34 AM
Nice photo by Lawrence K. Ho of the Los Angeles Times, to go with a story today about Westwood Village merchants hoping that the opening of the new Palazzo complex... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 6, 2008 9:15 AM
Demolition didn't take long. A crew took down the scaffolding yesterday, leaving a bare lot at the corner of Gayley and Lindbrook where the newest, most modern single-screen in Westwood... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 20, 2008 11:45 PM
The body of Alexander Merman, 35, was found shot to death in his Montana Avenue apartment last night. Over the weekend, aspiring actress Juliana Maureen Redding, 21, was found in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 20, 2008 1:23 PM
CNNMoney.com did a little web photo feature on where successful website startups such as Craigslist began. In the case of Digg, it was Kevin Rose's apartment at 3255 Sawtelle Blvd.,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 11, 2008 9:10 AM
Slope slides down to the street, knocks out power and pretty much screws traffic in that part of Westwood. LAT Also: Commuting isn't fun on Pacific Coast Highway either.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 6, 2008 10:00 AM
Writer and blogger Tom Teicholz was on the Santa Monica Promenade this afternoon when he spotted a woman strolling naked and preening for a video camera and still photographer. "This... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 28, 2008 3:20 PM
Once the home of long-running hit movies, the National at Lindbrook and Gayley in Westwood Village is most of the way demolished. The Daily Bruin at UCLA poked behind the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 14, 2008 3:25 PM
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 future with the sixth book... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 8, 2008 9:23 AM
An LA Observed reader who works at Cal State Long Beach stopped by Wilshire Books in Santa Monica and found the store cleared out. "Quietly closed at the end of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 14, 2008 10:31 PM
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 refer to freeways by their... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 13, 2007 12:41 PM
The 12-screen Landmark opens in five weeks at Pico and Westwood, in the annex to Westside Pavilion. It will be the flagship of the Landmark theater chain, featuring indie fare,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 27, 2007 3:19 PM
Allied Model Trains, which opened in 1946 and calls itself "the largest train store ever built," has been sold by longtime owner Allen Drucker. A version of the store will... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 10, 2007 11:44 PM
CityBeat columnist Andrew Gumbel enjoys spending time at The Talking Stick on Ocean Park Boulevard in lower Santa Monica. It's "pretty close to the perfect coffee shop, not only a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 15, 2007 10:20 PM
This shouldn't happen at the Los Angeles Times. In the staff-written web story about the UCLA student who got the stun gun, the Times says the incident has prompted "outrage... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 16, 2006 12:19 AM
Sure it's not the Westside stench, or even the Long Beach reek, but sensitive noses have again come through. An American Airlines 757 headed for Miami returned to LAX about... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 25, 2006 1:42 PM
This week's Palisadian Post leads with the news that Mort's Deli might be for sale. The owner isn't talking, but plenty of others are. Former mayor Richard Riordan is said... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 22, 2006 4:03 PM
Big Sunday package in the Daily Breeze details the proposed redevelopment that would see the number of boat slips reduced, some live-aboard residents displaced and older apartments replaced by newer,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 19, 2006 10:50 AM
Reader T. J. Sullivan emailed this photo from Westwood Boulevard. If you can't read the sign, the Rhino Records extinction sale is this weekend. Chris Morris had an appreciation in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 21, 2006 2:58 AM
The rumors about the Rhino record store on Westwood Boulevard closing are apparently true. Reader T.J. emailed that he went by today and the marquee said that they lost the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 4, 2006 10:35 PM
Mickey Kaus has posted a follow to my follow to my original post on his original post about a Halloween night gang fight on the border between Santa Monica and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 4, 2005 3:32 PM
Friday morning's traffic jam caused by President Bush's stay-over at Bradford Freeman's $10 million mansion in Brentwood was even worse than the night before. Today's Daily News banners a story... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 22, 2005 12:22 PM
President Bush has arrived at LAX and is heading toward Beverly Hills by helicopter. Once he lands, traffic officials are expecting a rough time in the area around UCLA during... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 20, 2005 5:31 PM
We never did get a satisfactory explanation for the unsavory odor that wafted over a wide swath of L.A. last week. But now they are complaining about a similar thing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 29, 2005 11:40 AM
More readers are reporting in that they too detected the bad smell wafting through the Westside. Author Deanne Stillman writes that it was all over Venice and Marina del Rey... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 21, 2005 9:49 AM
The first email this morning I ignored, figuring the moment would pass: Here's a scoop for you: the entire city of Beverly Hills smells like garbage this morning. My house,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 20, 2005 10:42 PM
KNBC reported that the LAPD has issued a threat advisory after federal officials received an "unsubstantiated potential threat of an attack" planned against an unspecified West Los Angeles shopping mall... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 28, 2004 11:14 PM