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Create rooms you love with Eyewondrous
Suzanne Smith has been helping friends pick a paint color or an upholstery fabric or suggest how best to arrange artwork, well, “forever.” In 2017, she turned her keen eye and passion into a business. She is “chief organizational officer” at Eyewondrous. It was a natural transformation from design to decor, as the same elements […]
Virtual mentors at Imagine LA: Donations matched through April 3
Life will return to normal, eventually, and events, parties and galas will be on social calendars once more. Meanwhile, events are being postponed, some as late as the fall as other priorities take precedence. Family Emergency Fund Windsor Village resident and Imagine LA’s CEO Jill Govan Bauman said the nonprofit is growing its Family Emergency […]
Beacons of hope, and bunches of carrots on Larchmont
Certified farmers markets are bringing fresh bread and produce and much-needed smiles to area residents on Larchmont Boulevard and in the Miracle Mile. The former market is every Sunday; the latter is every Wednesday. A new at-home delivery service is also being tested, which could start soon at both locations, according to market managers. “We’re […]
Novel times: COVID-19 on and off Larchmont Blvd.
Restaurants, shops and institutions nationwide and around the world have closed their doors or limited their hours and services in an all-out war against COVID-19. Larchmont Blvd. is no different. “Our doors are closed. I’m no longer open to the public, but I’m open for business,” said Joane Pickett of Pickett Fences. She reported sales […]
Development in the Mile continues with mostly luxury high rises
After years of construction, the Miracle Mile is breathing a collective sigh of relief. But not for long. While much has been built in recent years, there’s much more development coming down the pike. “This planning stuff has consumed us for five, 10 years,” said Miracle Mile Residential Association (MMRA) President Jim O’Sullivan. “These big […]
LACMA on track to build Geffen Galleries up and across Wilshire
A world-class art gallery that will stretch across Wilshire Blvd. over traffic below seems so quintessentially car-centric Los Angeles, it’s almost surprising it wasn’t thought of before. But the design for the David Geffen Galleries was more a process of happenstance than a clear strategy. “It was a big idea. It was a simple idea,” […]
