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Academy Museum pays homage to city’s filmmaker founders
Learn about the early days of filmmaking in Los Angeles at the new exhibit, “Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital,” opening Sun., May 19, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. It is the museum’s first permanent exhibition since it opened in 2021. Told in English and Spanish, the origin story […]
TV City expansion reduces size a bit, but not controversy
Hearing is May 15 While members of a community group note some positive changes in the recently revamped development project at the site of CBS Television City at Beverly and Fairfax, the proposed development is still too large for prime time, they say. Increasing the size of the production studio is not the issue. They […]
Relive the glamour and Golden Age at Hollywood Heritage exhibit
See the costumes and glamour of Hollywood history in a new exhibit, “Meet The Stars: 100 Years of MGM and the Golden Age of Hollywood,” at the Hollywood Heritage Museum. The celebration of Hollywood’s golden era (1926 to 1960), with a special nod to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios’ 100th anniversary, features vintage costumes, rare photographs and more […]
First Ruscha retrospective in 20 years opens April 7 at LACMA
The Impressionists painted flowers and lush landscapes, and Rembrandt mastered self-portraits. Ed Ruscha’s palette, however, has been his adopted home, Los Angeles, depicting a mixture of commercial advertising, entertainment and the words and images of everyday American life. Paintings of a can of Spam, a Standard gas station and the Hollywood sign are among some […]
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 […]
Election 2024 winners and Nov. runoffs
While some City of Los Angeles candidates’ seats were secured for another term on Super Tuesday, the remainder — who ended in the “top two” of their respective statewide races — will be on the ballot in the General Election on Tues., Nov. 5, 2024. Voters have a long stretch ahead — seven months — […]
