Topic Archive: Wilshire corridor
The new episode of Vista LA that airs Sunday at 11:30 a.m. on Channel 7 focuses on recent improvements to MacArthur Park — led by the Levitt Pavilion — and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 6, 2009 12:40 AM
Photographer Iris Schneider enjoyed spotting people having picnics on the lawn at MacArthur Park so much that she began taking pictures. Her audio slide show from the park's new Levitt... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 8, 2009 9:58 AM
After the U.S. waived the visa requirement for South Korean tourists, and Seoul loosened controls on foreign investment, Koreatown was expected to take off. Instead, the Los Angeles Business Journal... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 26, 2009 9:45 PM
A three-year federal investigation into the Mara Salvatrucha gang's activities near Lafayette Park produced a bunch of indictments unsealed today, including that of Alex Sanchez, executive director of Homies Unidos.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 24, 2009 12:25 PM
For the last installment of NPR's This I Believe series on "All Things Considered," Muhammad Ali talks about his life with the help of his wife Lonnie. Ali is now... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 6, 2009 4:33 PM
For some reason, Los Angeles airfields used to open almost next to each other. There were three or four in and adjacent to Burbank, another in Glendale, and another on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 3, 2009 12:48 AM
Some Koreatown leaders are miffed over a push to officially carve out a Little Bangladesh section of the community. "There is a pride in calling this Koreatown," said Chang Lee,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 31, 2009 9:22 AM
Researchers at the George C. Page Museum have excavated a major new deposit of Ice Age fossils adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits — found under the former May... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 17, 2009 9:45 PM
Anti-Zionist protesters blocking the entrance to the Israeli consulate on Wilshire Boulevard today broke up after LAPD chief William Bratton showed up and intervened. The Jewish Journal posted video and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 14, 2009 3:22 PM
Ted Soqui at LA Photo has images from the scene, which closed Wilshire Boulevard at rush hour tonight.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 6, 2009 11:12 PM
I can now reveal* the answer to last week's first Where in Los Angeles am I? LA Observed Quiz. It's the statue of Harrison Gray Otis, the former Times publisher,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 8, 2008 8:22 AM
When a foot-long chunk of plaster fell from the dome over the sanctuary, temple officials decided to suspend services, says a Jewish Journal story that raises the specter of possibly... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 19, 2008 12:59 AM
The Variety name went up in giant letters today on the former People's Bank tower in the Miracle Mile stretch of Wilshire. The Hollywood trade moves into the top floor... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 12, 2008 10:41 PM
I reported last weekend that Variety would move down Wilshire Boulevard to the former People's Bank tower across from the new entrance to LACMA. Today's Times adds the news that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 6, 2008 4:53 PM
Now in the anchor chair at Fox 11, Carlos Amezcua blasts his former station in the May issue of Tu Ciudad. "When Hal Fishman died, so did the KTLA News,"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 24, 2008 12:10 AM
Crews are on hand today at the old Ambassador Hotel site on Wilshire Boulevard, taking down the Cocoanut Grove, ballrooms and last remaining remnants. The Los Angeles Conservancy recently gave... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 12, 2008 1:43 PM
Downtown blogger Angelenic has the scoop (and some nice photos): Wilshire Boulevard institution La Fonda will reopen on Valentine's Day. The new version won't appeal to Japanese tourists or homesick... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 6, 2008 8:05 PM
One of the most unusual, and storied, commercial buildings on Wilshire Boulevard is back on the market. The one-story, ranch-style office complex at the southeast corner of Wilshire and Highland... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 7, 2008 1:24 PM
In a post over at Native Intelligence, Denise Hamilton goes for a sidewalk adventure in the city with Judith Freeman, author of the new book The Long Embrace, Raymond Chandler... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 5, 2007 8:55 PM
The free monthly from Southland Publishing (CityBeat, Pasadena Weekly) is "devoted to the revival of Downtown and the 'New' Eastside." Inside New Angeles are an interview of historian Mike Davis... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 1, 2007 9:09 AM
Last month we posted on Southland Publishing's forthcoming debut of Los Angeles New City Monthly — you remember, the magazine that would "celebrate the intellectual and cultural 'renaissance' of L.A.'s... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 4, 2007 9:31 PM
Los Angeles New City Monthly, from the company behind CityBeat, will "celebrate the intellectual and cultural 'renaissance' of L.A.'s Eastside, from Hollywood through Silver Lake and Los Feliz and into... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 20, 2007 9:48 PM
Variety and the other occupants of 5700 Wilshire Boulevard have been alerted to a funky odor in the neighborhood almost across from the La Brea Tar Pits: The building management... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 11, 2007 2:28 PM
According to Amy Wilentz in today's West magazine, creationists have a theory that's wackier than anything they can pin on Darwin. In this theory, the thousands of fossils extracted from... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 20, 2006 2:25 PM