Months of campaigning and conflict will culminate in the 2013 General Election on Tuesday, May 21, when Los Angeles residents will decide who will fill several key leadership positions in the city. Perhaps of greatest importance is the mayoral race, which pits City Councilman Eric Garcetti, 13th District, against City Controller Wendy Greuel. In the [...] [...more]
To Suzanne Nichols and other advocates, arts education is not simply an extra-curricular activity that can be dismissed when budget cuts loom; it is essential to the development of students. That is why Nichols’ organization, Save The Arts, is looking to raise $39,000 this weekend to help Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) students experience [...] [...more]
The city of Los Angeles is systematically flawed, and it will be up to business owners and community advocates to save the city from itself, Caruso Affiliated founder and CEO Rick Caruso told the Miracle Mile Chamber of Commerce last week. During the chamber’s monthly meeting last Thursday at the El Rey Theatre, Caruso outlined [...] [...more]
Filmmaker Walter Dominguez’s odyssey to unearth elements of his ancestral history began, simply enough, with a black and white photograph of a man named Praxedis G. Guerrero. It belonged to Dominguez’s grandfather, an ordained Methodist minister who died in 1973, and would be the foundation for a journey that walked Dominguez through his grandfather’s upbringing, [...] [...more]
The sign near Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue that welcomes people to the Miracle Mile is no more, after a single-vehicle car collision destroyed the sign on Monday. However, officials with the Miracle Mile Civic Coalition, which championed the effort to have the sign installed, are hopeful that the driver’s insurance covers the cost of [...] [...more]
Although officials initially suspected that the gas leak at Wilshire Boulevard and Curson Avenue was natural gas, the city’s Bureau of Sanitation has determined that the gas build-up was the result of methane coming from the La Brea Tar Pits. The bureau’s assistant director, Varouj Abkian, said workers will be venting the maintenance holes in [...] [...more]
Great Hall/Long Hall in Plummer Park has been accepted into the National Register of Historic Places after a hearing in front of the State Historic Resources Commission on May 1. The move was praised by local Protect Plummer Park activists, but lamented by the majority of the West Hollywood City Council, which wants to raze [...] [...more]
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills is slated to open on Oct. 17 in the Beverly Hills Post Office’s old stamping grounds, a historic Works Progress Administration (WPA) building on Canon Drive. The ongoing project will merge the repurposed post office building with the center’s new Goldsmith Theater, a 500-seat [...] [...more]
Action sequences are common in comic books, but fans attending a free Comic Book Day event last Saturday at Golden Apple Comics on Melrose Avenue got to witness some action first-hand. Several hundred people were lined up in front of the store and were gathered in a nearby parking lot a block east of La [...] [...more]
With a heavy heart, the Miracle Mile is mourning one of its most prominent entrepreneurs and supporters, Dave Gold, the founder of the 99 Cents Only Stores. He died of an apparent heart attack on April 22 at the age of 80. Gold started the company in 1982 after coming up with the concept for [...] [...more]
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