Orhan Yneri, a 17-year-old junior at Hollywood High School, first started registering his classmates to vote before the 2008 presidential election. As a member of the Social Justice small leaning group, Yneri sat at a booth on the quad for a week, offering voter registration forms to other students. “It was fun, because we gave [...] [...more]
Park Labrea News & Beverly Press publishers, Michael and Karen Villalpando, were honored on Tuesday, May 25 as “Small Business of the Year” by Assembly member Mike Feuer, 42nd District, at a ceremony in Sacramento. “I’m pleased to honor the Park Labrea News and the Beverly Press as the 42nd Assembly District’s Small Business of [...] [...more]
The family of a 22-year-old man who was struck and critically injured during a hit and run collision on La Cienega Boulevard on May 19 is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the driver. In addition, Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz, 5th District, has offered a $25,000 reward for [...] [...more]
A 20-story building with a corner facade designed to look like a vintage microphone has been proposed at the corner of Argyle and Selma Avenues in Hollywood. The building would be located on property owned by Ametron Electronics, a family-owned business specializing in audio and video equipment that has been located in Hollywood since 1953. [...] [...more]
Laurel Elementary School will be offering a 7th grade for the 2010-2011 school year. The school, which already teaches students from kindergarten through 6th grade, will be the first middle school in the City of West Hollywood to offer a 7th grade. The following year, Laurel will also offer 8th grade, though in the long [...] [...more]
Billboards around Los Angeles have been called many names during the past several years — a blight, a crime, a dangerous distraction for drivers. There are a few other names for them, though: history and art. On Tuesday night, the City of West Hollywood’s annual Historic Preservation Celebration paid homage to the billboards of the [...] [...more]
Two people were shot during a domestic violence incident in Hollywood on May 20 that prompted an officer involved shooting. Officers from the LAPD’s Hollywood Division received a call shortly before 2:00pm about an assault with a deadly weapon at an apartment building in the 1200 block of N. Las Palmas Avenue. When they arrived, [...] [...more]
Approximately 35 community members joined officials from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Wilshire Division on Tuesday for a Safety Walk designed to address crime and quality of life issues in the Miracle Mile area. The event was organized by the Mid City West Community Council (MCWCC), and included participation by members of the Melrose Action [...] [...more]
My beloved Ritz Carlton Huntington Hotel in Pasadena became the Langham about two years ago. While the property is still stunning with its lush 23 acres, and the rooms are still spacious and comfortable, there are a few things that have changed, namely their signature chef, Craig Strong, moved to the Montage last January. The [...] [...more]
Last Friday, the Los Angeles City Council voted to send the rent freeze ordinance, which would have imposed a four-month moratorium on rent hikes in many apartment buildings across the city, back to committee. Though the council had approved the moratorium just two weeks earlier, Council President Eric Garcetti, 13th District, and Councilmember Bill Rosendahl, [...] [...more]
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