Topics Archive: Living in Los Angeles
A Jon Weisman post at Dodger Thoughts that is not about baseball inspired a long run of comments on being a pedestrian, here and elsewhere. Jon began by addressing an L.A. sidewalk conundrum and ended up channeling Seinfeld. You know when you get to the crosswalk of an intersection when...
Posted May 4, 2007 08:49 AM
→ Los Angeles magazine executive editor Mary Melton had a scare on the Santa Monica freeway: her left rear window exploded, spraying safety glass bits over her thankfully unoccupied child seat. Her first thought, this being an L.A. freeway, was that she was under fire. When she tried filing a...
Posted January 11, 2007 01:56 AM
You might think of director Sydney Pollack as a New Yorker, but he has been here for thirty years. He answered questions for the blog of the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. It's a mix of stereotypes and local wisdom. Some highlights: Since no one actually lives “in” L.A. ,...
Posted September 21, 2006 12:57 AM
They threw a party last night in Pasadena for a Stradivarius violin. Jerry Kohl fell in love with the idea of owning a Strad after reading an L.A. Times story earlier this year. He tapped some master violinists to audition a selection of eight Strads on stage at Disney Hall...
Posted July 20, 2006 11:42 AM
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 954 AM PDT SAT JUL 15 2006 ...DANGEROUS HEAT EXPECTED TODAY ACROSS THE VALLEYS AND LOWER MOUNTAIN ELEVATIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA.....
Posted July 15, 2006 10:14 AM
Caltech has come up with a program that will put video depictions of the up-and-down ground movement produced by Southern California earthquakes on the web 45 minutes after they occur. Video of the shock waves from several past quakes are up for viewing at ShakeMovie, "Caltech's Near Real Time Simulation...
Posted July 5, 2006 12:19 PM
Filmmaker, blogger and promoter Brian Flemming has cooked up a new stunt. He announced yesterday on his blog that for the next week he will eat only what comes out of the garden behind his Los Angeles building. Since he's got thirty-five ears of corn ready for picking, looks like...
Posted July 5, 2006 10:58 AM
When LA Weekly lifestyle editor and Style Council blogger Linda Immediato lost her Venice home suddenly, she looked around and came up empty. No place she could afford would let her move in Stevie, her dog. A friend suggested the pound, but that wouldn't do. When Immediato's best prospect came...
Posted July 5, 2006 03:32 AM
T Bone Burnett did indeed play the El Rey last night, as not scheduled, then scheduled, then moved, then moved back again. If that seems crazy, see yesterday's post. One guest writes: Here's the odd solution they came up with at the venue last night: If you had a "Wilshire...
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The funeral for Mark Lacter will be held Sunday, Nov. 24 at 12 noon at Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 W. Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles 90045. Reception to follow.
More From Mark Lacter:
After 22 years of loyalty, Baylor is unceremoniously shown the door.
Before I lived in Echo Park, there was a tiny 1920s bungalow-cottage-standalone house on N. Occidental in Silver Lake. I...
