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LPGA at Wilshire CC April 25 – 28

*Nelly Korda to try for sixth win in a row Everyone is invited to come to Wilshire Country Club on the weekend of April 25 to 28 for this year’s Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) championship tournament — where the world’s number-one lady golfer, Nelly Korda — will be playing to win her sixth championship […]

TV City expansion reduces size a bit, but not controversy

Hearing is May 15 While members of a community group note some positive changes in the recently revamped development project at the site of CBS Television City at Beverly and Fairfax, the proposed development is still too large for prime time, they say. Increasing the size of the production studio is not the issue. They […]

Hancock Park GC was host to 68 western gardening leaders

A masterpiece of planning and execution was the just-completed Garden Club of America (GCA) Zone II Regional Meeting held in Los Angeles. Hostesses and organizers were the members of the local GCA group, the Hancock Park Garden Club (HPGC) — founded here in 1962. Per its website, the local organization “furthers the knowledge and love […]

Historic bronze statue stolen from park

Local theft is part of an alarming trend Residents of Windsor Village recently discovered that a sculpture of the late councilman Harold A. Henry has been stolen from a park named in his honor. The bust had stood for more than 50 years upon its pedestal at the park, which sits on a peaceful stretch of […]

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Larchmont Charter volleyball is a dynasty in the making

UCLA Bruins basketball, The San Francisco 49ers and the New York Yankees. Sports dynasties are rare and wonderful for fans: the multiple titles year after year, superstar players, and every home game a sellout. But what exactly are the necessary ingredients for a sports dynasty? The coach Larchmont Charter Middle School volleyball coach Keith Harris […]

Stones’ muse story told; ‘Jeanne du Barry’ gains momentum

Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg (10/10): 113 minutes. Anita Pallenberg was the lover of one of the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, and the wife of another, Keith Richards. Anita was gorgeous and a strong woman, who was born in 1942 and raised in Europe, arriving in the United States when she was 21. […]

Letters to the Editor

Build on the boulevards Thank you for the Brian Curran column, “YIMBYs vs. Preservationists: Roundtable suggests uneasy détente” [April, 2024]. I can’t know if the YIMBYs are being correctly portrayed in the article. They come off as unreasonable and irritable. One obvious omission is the counter-term, which preceded YIMBY by decades: NIMBY. It shows that […]

Relive the glamour and Golden Age at Hollywood Heritage exhibit

See the costumes and glamour of Hollywood history in a new exhibit, “Meet The Stars: 100 Years of MGM and the Golden Age of Hollywood,” at the Hollywood Heritage Museum. The celebration of Hollywood’s golden era (1926 to 1960), with a special nod to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios’ 100th anniversary, features vintage costumes, rare photographs and more […]

Who's Doing What

Wagon Wheel preschool offers a glimpse of our diverse world

Tucked away in Hancock Park is Wagon Wheel School, a gem of a preschool that has been part of the neighborhood since 1948. When owner / director Ruth Segal purchased the school at 653 N. Cahuenga Blvd. in 1977, the school consisted of one building and a simple grassy area without trees, and it had […]

Is North Larchmont becoming a new hub for the design industry?

Staff at this newspaper began noticing a slight influx of design firms occupying spaces near our offices on North Larchmont Boulevard. Perhaps this is a trend that will continue, and maybe the area will become a satellite for West Hollywood and La Brea Avenue showrooms. Who knows? Massucco Warner Melissa Warner, a partner in the […]

Local interior designer lives, works and plays in Larchmont

“If you can build a small community within the large city of Los Angeles, that’s wonderful,” says local interior designer Sarah Shetter. And that’s just what she’s done. Shetter lives in Hancock Park, has an office on Larchmont Boulevard, and frequents the Boulevard for meals with family and friends as well as vendors for her […]

Children strut runway for CHLA; EVs cruise in to Petersen

Even though the skies were cloudy, gray and wet, the dresses and suits were colorful, spring-forward and dapper at the Children’s Fashion Show & Luncheon organized by Children’s Chain, a 66-year-old support group of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). The event took place April 13 in the newly renovated enclosed patio of The Beach Club […]

Real Estate News

The Nightmare on Wilton Place reaches a happy ending

Three years ago, I had the sad duty to report on the “Nightmare on Wilton Place,” the willful destruction of the interior of 215 S. Wilton Pl., Historic Cultural Monument #568. As City Planning’s Office of Historic Resources’ Lambert Giessinger described it, “It was one of the most egregious cases of demolition I have ever […]

More responses re: Park(let)

In the April issue of the Larchmont Chronicle, we shared reactions from readers to the very preliminary ideas about a possible “Larchmont Central Park(let)” that were presented in the March issue (tinyurl.com/4s7vsemz). These are ideas being considered by neighbors and the board of directors of the Larchmont Boulevard Association (LBA). The ideas were expressed in […]

Academy Museum pays homage to city’s filmmaker founders

Learn about the early days of filmmaking in Los Angeles at the new exhibit, “Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital,” opening Sun., May 19, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. It is the museum’s first permanent exhibition since it opened in 2021. Told in English and Spanish, the origin story […]