When Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) teacher Erika Jones received a Reduction in Force (RIF) notice three years ago, she was shocked. She even cried. The second time, the 32-year-old Arminta Elementary educator was prepared for it. But when the six-year teacher was handed a pink slip for the third time in a row, [...] [...more]
A proposed commercial and residential project that has bogged down in the West Hollywood City Planning Department has hit another snag, leaving some West Hollywood residents to question the ongoing approval process for the Walgreens project at Santa Monica and Crescent Heights Boulevards. The project is scheduled to begin in January 2013 and occupy nearly [...] [...more]
Like other children her age, four-year-old Sophia Rothman attends preschool, loves playing with her toys and enjoys having fun with her parents, Fairfax District residents Joel Rothman and Laura Schultz. But Sophia, who suffers from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, has not always been able to enjoy those experiences during the past two years since she was [...] [...more]
This Memorial Day weekend, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the LAPD have a message for drivers: wear your seat belt or face a $142 ticket. Add $445 for each child under the age of 16 not buckled up. As part of the nationwide “Click it or Ticket” campaign, officers across the country – [...] [...more]
A Paul Revere Williams-designed apartment building located at the corner of Almont Drive and Burton Way is being considered for designation as a cultural-historic monument. The City Council’s Planning and Land Use Committee approved the request for a cultural-historic designation on Tuesday. The full city council will consider the designation next week as a formality, [...] [...more]
Hollywood High School senior, Daion Stanford, has witnessed bullying at her school, especially towards her best friend, Anthony Cleveland, for his sexual orientation. Stanford was compelled to write an essay about the bullying, and the need for LGBT equality. She submitted the essay to the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) Stonewall Scholarship Committee, and today, [...] [...more]
Filmmaker Tim Burton is adept at creating his own unique and bizarre world onscreen, from psychedelic-overload in “Alice in Wonderland”, a dark and creepy environment in “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” and “Sleepy Hollow”, to a warped suburbia in “Edward Scissorhands”. Now, that one-of-a-kind vision is on display at The Los Angeles [...] [...more]
Hollywood and Vine is one of the most famous intersections in Los Angeles. In the 1920s, this is where the majority of radio and motion-picture businesses were located. In the 1960s, many studios moved on, and Hollywood lost a little of its luster, yet I fondly remember walking to the glamourous art-deco Pantages Theatre with [...] [...more]
CHAYA Downtown Beer Garden The second annual outdoor Japanese beer garden is open on Monday, June 6 at CHAYA. Specialty Japanese beers and grilled Yakitori skewers are available on the restaurant’s outdoor patio. From 5 p.m. every Monday through Friday, Chef de Cuisine Kazuya Matsuoka prepares a special menu offering a variety of Yakitori and [...] [...more]
Since the second installment, “Dead Man’s Chest”, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise has been trying to get back to the fun it had with the original, “The Curse of the Black Pearl”. With a name that makes little sense considering the film’s content, “On Stranger Tides” almost makes it back to square one, but [...] [...more]
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