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for July 2015
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Changes afoot at UCLA mean changes here. Mark Gold is moving on at UCLA. Peter Kareiva joins UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability as new director. And this column reboots.
Welcome to our annual Salute to the Toilet, spotlighting the aesthetic side of that noble apparatus and recent technological breakthroughs.
Take My Picture Gary Leonard appears weekly at LA Observed.
The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel hosted an poolside screening of "Endless Summer" for the 50th anniversary of the surfing culture...
Los Angeles is losing one of its fiercest critics and lovers just when we need her most. Emily Green is leaving LA after 17 years, a crucial, insightful voice on the essential subject of water.
Rose did his time and that should be enough, says the former baseball columnist.
Take My Picture Gary Leonard appears every Thursday at LA Observed.
Kamasi Washington and the West Coast Get Down performed at Hollywood and Highland's Wine and Jazz Summer Concerts series.
Molly Knight didn't set out to write a behind-the-scenes book when she began covering the divorce proceedings between Frank and Jamie McCourt for ESPN. But the self-confessed Dodgers fan realized she had a story with more plot twists than a soap opera. Her summertime read goes down as easily as a sudsy beer in the bleachers.
The buddy movie takes you on a wild ride along Santa Monica Boulevard one Christmas Eve -- a raucous adventure that keeps you laughing despite sordid car sex, cheating husbands, lots of drugs, angry johns, fits of rage and outright acts of cruelty.
Take My Picture Gary Leonard appears every Thursday at LA Observed.
The event I attended perfectly represented the Cinefamily mission "to reinvigorate the movie-going experience by fostering a spirit of community and a sense of discovery."
Turf Terminators will buy your lawn for the low cost of destroying it and replacing it on the cheap, sell the missing lawn at a higher cost for a public subsidy, then pocket the difference. You don't have to pay a thing. But there's no free lunch. And no free lawn removal.
Both the Lakers and Angels seem to be operating without a clue. The Lakers can't convince any top free agent to come to LA, while the Angels just had GM Jerry DiPoto resign after a feud with Mike Scioscia.
What is the role of the artist in an imperfect world? Noah Purifoy, the son of sharecroppers in the South, seemed to have it right.
Take My Picture Gary Leonard appears 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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