Archive for October, 2021
Happy 100th, Larchmont Boulevard!
Community leaders, local merchants, landlords and shoppers celebrated the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the original Larchmont Boulevard shopping district on Sunday, October 24 — in person and through television. A wide array of TV station news crews and other local media descended upon the boulevard, some as early as 5 a.m. (ABC-TV’s weekend […]
New patio at a classic is perfect for food, fun, camaraderie
This year, just in time for our annual fall Dining Guide, restaurants are (mostly) back open! And life is getting back to normal, somewhat. To celebrate, the Chronicle staff headed to a classic — Pink’s Hot Dogs — on La Brea Avenue. Since we last visited the all-day-and-late-night landmark, an outdoor patio has been transformed […]
Community welcomes a friendly new Attitude Café
When Melissa Kim and Bill Gordean decided to open a café where Fiddler’s Restaurant used to be on Third Street, neither had any nuts-and-bolts experience running a restaurant. Bill is an antiques dealer who’s owned Villa Melrose Antiques for about 30 years, and Melissa has been running the Park Plaza Lodge, one block away, for […]
Sheryl Lee Ralph of ‘Dreamgirls’ opens Ebell season
The Ebell of Los Angeles launched its new programming season in style with the debut of a one-woman show, “Journey to Center Stage,” by actress Sheryl Lee Ralph, (Tony Award-nominated for her starring role in the original Broadway production of “Dreamgirls”). Nearly 100 Ebell members and guests gathered for coffee and pastries in the Wilshire […]
Halloween happenings
Halloween may be three days away, but any true Angeleno knows that the celebrating begins well before Oct. 31. From local pumpkin patches (located at the Original Farmers Market and Wilshire Rotary’s Larchmont lot) to destination events such as Descanso Gardens’ CARVED harvest festival and the immersive family-friendly playground “Haunt O’ Ween” in Woodland Hills, […]
