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Landmark Awards feature a love match and a high-end jeweler
It’s Landmark Awards season again! The Windsor Square Hancock Park Historical Society will present on Sat., Aug. 3 its annual Landmark Awards for historic properties — residential and commercial — which are of architectural or historic significance in the community or in the boundaries of historic Rancho LaBrea. This year the awards went to two […]
Wildest fundraiser ever; SVMOW enjoyed Paramount Studios
The wildest fundraiser around, the Beastly Ball, took place June 1 at the Los Angeles Zoo. Attendees wandered the zoo after hours dressed in safari chic. The fundraiser has been hosted annually by the zoo and the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association since 1971. This year, it raised more than $1.25 million for the zoo’s […]
Loyola boys’ volleyball team wins CIF Division I title — again
Loyola High School’s boys varsity volleyball team looks more like a college basketball lineup; five of the six starters are 6 feet, 4 inches or taller, with a pair topping out at 6 feet, 7 inches. Very few athletes ever get the opportunity to compete for a state title, and of those who do, only […]
These young athletes are thankful on this Father’s Day
I was one of those fortunate kids who never wondered where his dad was. He didn’t belong to clubs, wasn’t in a bowling league, and never played poker with the guys at night. Our family was his interest. My dad forged memories. He took me hiking in Virginia on the Appalachian Trail for a week. […]
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 […]
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 […]
