Community News

New Covenant Academy expands, adds a second campus

New Covenant Academy is expanding with a second campus. The new location will be home to kindergarten through seventh-grade students. The school has entered into a long-term lease with Los Angeles First Church of the Nazarene, located just east of the Third and Vermont Vons Grocery, at 221 S. Juanita Ave., three blocks north of the […]

Fairfax High celebrates its 100th year

Festivities will take place Sept. 6 to 8 Fairfax High School opened its doors 100 years ago. It was originally designed to be a mechanical and agricultural school focusing on practical skills — a bit ironic, it would seem, seeing as (according to Fairfax High’s website) the school was poshly named after Lord Fairfax of Colonial America […]

Mayor brings Olympic flag to set stage for 2028

Athletes, officials join Bass on return from Paris At the far west end of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), on the morning of August 12, really big crowds of reporters and camera-people passed through a series of security checks, including of camera equipment by sniffing dogs. The goal was to be admitted to the giant […]

Olympics come to Taste of Larchmont

Event is Mon., Sept. 16 Paris 2024. Team USA. Team Larchmont! Support HopeNet food pantries and enjoy tasty cuisine on an early summer eve at this year’s Olympic-themed Taste of Larchmont. On sale now are tickets for the community dining experience to take place on Mon., Sept. 16, from 6 to 9 p.m., on Larchmont […]

What's Entertaining

ABBA, Sinatra, JFK, influential architect revealed in new releases

ABBA Forever: The Winner Takes It All (10/10): 51 minutes. Ovid.tv. Sept. 6. The music created by the Swedish group ABBA was captivating and fabulous. But it was not an easy road to even get recognized. I saw the stage play “Mamma Mia,” based on their music, in Los Angeles before it appeared on Broadway. […]

A lot to look forward to with 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games

I was impressed with the millennials at the Paris Olympics. Of course there were a few older athletes from Generation X, and some Gen Z up-and-comers, but the bulk of the competitors were born between 20 and 30 years ago. Just over 10,000 athletes participated in the Paris Olympics, and 595 represented the United States. […]

August art, history, baseball, music, birthdays, politics and more

Although a lot of people were away in August, there was a heck of a lot going on here in town involving locals in the arts and social scenes. Political, too. Beginning on Aug. 1, there was a gorgeous downtown art opening for the exhibit, “Resonance: Paintings and Prints by Gayle Garner Roski and Ruth […]

Olympics come to ‘Taste’ 2024

•HopeNet benefit to take place Sept. 16 This year’s Taste of Larchmont will have an Olympics theme when it takes place on Mon., Sept. 16, from 6 to 9 p.m. on Larchmont Boulevard. The 2024 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony takes place Fri., July 26, in Paris. With television coverage on NBC, the games will continue […]

Who's Doing What

Teaching was St. James’ new head of school’s first love

You could say Diane Rich is something of an accidental head of school. “I never wanted to be head of school. I wanted to do curriculum [and] coaching [and] create an environment where everybody can thrive,” she said last month in her new office at St. James’ Episcopal School, where she began her tenure as […]

YMCA Summer Soirée honored local leaders

On Fri., Aug. 23, the Anderson Munger Family YMCA’s Summer Soirée dinner and fundraiser marked the tenth anniversary of the “Y” facility at Third Street and Oxford Avenue. More than 200 guests answered the call to show up and honor the first decade of the “Y’s” work at this impactful Koreatown location. The rooftop sports […]

Making Larchmont even more beautiful, unified and fragrant

Romi Cortier has been tending to flowers and eyeing park benches near and far in his quest to make Larchmont even more beautiful. It’s a special neighborhood, and its main street deserves a little, or maybe a lot, of TLC, said the chair of the Larchmont Boulevard Association (LBA) Beautification Committee. Cortier’s plans include sprucing […]

Some streetlights fixed, other neighbors still in the dark

For months earlier this year, city streetlights were a constant target of copper wire theft leaving many streets in the neighborhood dark. Now in Windsor Square, “All the lights are working,” resident Paul Newman happily told the Chronicle. After months of his neighbors’ streets being dark because of 39 non-working streetlights, “the city stepped up […]

Real Estate News

Mirabel’s 42-story tower project moves ahead with release of DEIR

A Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the Mirabel, a 42-story mixed-use tower with 348 residential units in Miracle Mile, was released by the City Planning Dept. Aug. 22. The proposed development at 5411 Wilshire Blvd. includes 29 units set aside for very low-income households and 12,821 square feet of ground floor commercial uses. The […]

Public hearing on CBS expansion — TVC 2050 — set for Sept. 12

The City Planning Commission is scheduled to hold a public hearing on Thurs., Sept. 12, concerning the proposed TVC 2050 expansion and modernization project of the former CBS Television City. The hearing on plans for the 25-acre site at Beverly Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue will be a hybrid — held in-person at Los Angeles City […]

Real Estate Sales

Neighbors gather for a potluck and movie night in Windsor Village

The Windsor Village potluck and movie night on Aug. 3 was a hit! Neighbors visited, played games and shared food in the Ninth Street cul-de-sac across from Harold Henry Park. Windsor Village Association (WVA) President Barbara Pflaumer and WVA Vice President Heather Brel welcomed all who attended. They introduced neighbors and made sure young children […]