John Welborne
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Reinforced concrete: the modern equivalent of stone in art?
• New exhibit at LACMA A new exhibition just opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). “Eternal Medium: Seeing the World in Stone” includes 125 works from circa 2200–1800 B.C. to recent pieces by contemporary artists. The exhibit curator’s focus is on the role that imagination plays in perceiving images in the […]
Ice Cream and Cookies Land — then and now
When I was growing up in Windsor Square in the 1950s and 1960s, you could get ice cream in the Larchmont shopping block at Baskin-Robbins 31 Flavors. In my years living here, the Baskin-Robbins store was in two different locations, one on each side of the Boulevard. (We also could get donuts at Winchell’s, now […]
Magician returns to El Portal Theatre July 15
Hancock Park resident magician and mentalist Bernie Shine will be returning for his fourth show at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood on Sat., July 15 at 7:30 p.m. Shine has been a prolific entertainer ever since his first appearance in the wizarding world in the 1970s when he started performing regularly in the Close-Up Room […]
Big turnout for launch of ‘Zev’s Los Angeles’
The official book launch for Zev Yaroslavsky’s long-awaited memoir, “Zev’s Los Angeles,” gathered a crowd of locals and distinguished friends of Zev from across Southern California. The event took place at Chevalier’s Books on Larchmont Boulevard on May 30. The full house included the author’s son (and Los Angeles Superior Court Judge) David Yaroslavsky, attending […]
El Cholo, often honored, is helping hospitals by naming booths
For the past six months, the local El Cholo Spanish Café on nearby Western Avenue — as well as the other restaurants in the numerous dining outlets comprising the Family of El Cholo Restaurants — has been celebrating the 100-year anniversary of El Cholo’s founding. Now there is a new benefit available to customers who […]
Yaroslavsky / Braude Prop U is impactful still
As a new member of the City Council in 1975, Zev Yaroslavsky began to see the impacts of poorly planned high-rise office development, and he decided to do something about it. He led a successful initiative election campaign, with his City Council colleague Marvin Braude, to urge city voters to enact Proposition U in 1986. […]
