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for May 2014
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We regret to inform you that we will be experiencing delays in cleaning up Santa Monica Bay. Los Angeles World Airports--the city department that owns and operates LAX--is refusing to go along with a proposal to use airport property for a publicly financed stormwater cleanup project.
Santa Monica welcomes cyclists, no matter what species you are.
After Donald Sterling sells the Clippers, their new owners should break ties with the organization's losing past and establish a new identity with a fresh rebrand. Phil Wallace argues the case for a new name, and offers some ideas for what that name could be.
Life is complicated, cognition is dissonant, choices abound. So just read the signs already.
Take My Picture Gary Leonard is a regular weekly feature of LA Observed.
Why isn't Center Theatre Group turning out substantive and powerful dramatizations of American history that demonstrate how the past informs and affects present-day America? Or groundbreaking plays about Los Angeles?
New reports of ice sheets melting more rapidly than expected in Antarctica have renewed interest in what is likely to happen here as things melt down there. Take a look at Venice Beach--without the beach that is.
Take My Picture Gary Leonard is a regular weekly feature of LA Observed.
The state controller is custodian of unclaimed property, and he'd really, really like to give it back.
A blue-ribbon commission studying the troubled California State Parks system is proposing a surprisingly bold vision for the future of parks in California. But it has been met with a strange silence in the media.
Take My Picture Gary Leonard is a regular weekly feature of LA Observed.
We may all agree that we have an enormous transportation and pedestrian infrastructure problem here in LA. But the solution is quite contentious.
Andy McCue's new biography of Walter O'Malley was 20 years in the making. It's another look at one of the most controversial owners in the history of the game.
The Oscar winner talked about designing a look for Emily Blunt to portray Queen Victoria. "You don't always have to buy the most expensive to make things look expensive...it's what you do with them."
During my years at the Los Angeles Times, I spent time at Jordan Downs on assignment and personal projects, documenting the lives of the residents. I went back to see what, if anything, had changed.
So what do starry eminences decide when the time comes to hang it up? Leave the stage? Not Flicka. Not Misha.
Take My Picture Gary Leonard runs weekly at LA Observed.
KCET control room
A peek inside the TV station's Burbank studios.
Whitt's Wood Yard
Elon Musk wants to drill here at Pico and Sepulveda.
BCAM
The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA.
Mountain lion family
From Robert Martinez's trail cam in the San Gabriels.
Streetscape: Westwood
Westwood Boulevard looking north and a little bit skyward.
Sign from LA's past
Sign from an old Love's BBQ restaurant at the Valley Relics Museum in Chatsworth.
Visiting her old ballet costumes
Melissa Barak at LACMA Chagall exhibit with the artist's memorable designs.
Barnsdall Park
Under the trees.
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