Archive for March, 2024
Officials back from Paris after summit on Olympics
Readying to host Olympic Games 2028 Mayor Karen Bass returned to Los Angeles from Paris on March 10, having led a delegation of members of the Los Angeles City Council and other civic leaders as part of her efforts to ensure that Los Angeles is prepared to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2028. […]
Planning staff’s efforts seek to change city’s urban design
Do you love your neighborhood, your quaint street with leafy trees and houses that date back to the early years of the last century? So do Wall Street investors and real estate developers and brokers. It’s time to stand up, again, to defend your turf. That’s the message local homeowner groups relayed to area residents […]
Camp Hollywoodland helps girls explore, bond and grow
The City of Los Angeles opened Griffith Park Girls’ Camp in 1926. It moved to its current location at 3200 Canyon Dr. in 1951, and Camp Hollywoodland, as it is now called, is still going strong nearly 100 years later. This summer, at a series of four-night sleepaways being offered between June 17 and Aug. […]
YIMBYs vs Preservationists: Roundtable suggests uneasy détente
Hot on the heels of recent community discussions on two proposed ED1 (Mayor Bass’ Executive Directive 1) affordable housing projects in Larchmont Village at 507 N. Larchmont Blvd. and in the Windsor Village Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ) at 800 S. Lorraine Blvd., the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) held a Housing and […]
Ladies golf readies to tee off
Tickets are on sale for this year’s Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) championship tournament at Wilshire Country Club. The tournament is four days, April 25-28, with a field of 144 of the top women golfers in the world. Tickets range in price from free (for military and first responders and a child under 18 accompanied […]
Coffee brews with cops and captains
Concerns on tap A large contingent of officers from the Wilshire Community Police Station interacted with members of the community on March 5 at a Coffee with a Cop event at the Target on La Brea Avenue at Fourth Street. In attendance were both of the station’s new captains, Cliff Humphris and Julie Rodriguez, along […]
