How much does Beverly Hills want this subway to go away? Let us count the ways ... The city announced this week that it is suing the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for approving the Metro subway's Westside extension funding eligibility while relying on a "flawed" environmental-impact report:
Five candidates for L.A. mayor squared off last night at a debate in -- of all places -- a temple in Beverly Hills. The debate did not produce much news until the very end of the two-hour forum, when the candidates were asked their opinions on the controversial Westside subway extension route.Counci ... More >>
Five candidates for L.A. mayor squared off last night at a debate in -- of all places -- a temple in Beverly Hills. The debate did not produce much news until the very end of the two-hour forum, when the candidates were asked their opinions on the controversial Westside subway extension route.Counci ... More >>
The Century City stop planned for the Westside subway extension is turning out to be a vortex of political intrigue. Not only is it the place where a friend of L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa plans to build a 37-story high-rise (and note here that Villaraigosa holds sway over the Metro transportati ... More >>
David Dann has a DIY approach to making a hit dance album. No band? No problem -- just fire up the midi keyboard. No label or studio support? No problem -- create your own mini-studio in your parent's guest house. No marketing or promotional support? No problem -- work your social media networks and ... More >>
Two of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Before she ended up milking cows at a boarding school in Vermont, Caroline Roman cycled through the doors of numerous prestigious schools in Los Angeles: Buckley, John Thomas D ... More >>
The people who run Beverly Hills High School really, really, really don't want a subway rumbling underneath their fine, telegenic campus. And so, less than a week after the Metro board approved a leg that would run under the iconic 90210 institution, the Beverly Hills School District has filed suit ... More >>
Like Kobe Bryant to a woman in a hotel room, Metro today told Beverly Hills that this is gonna happen. Parts of the city had been dead against running the Westside subway extension underneath Beverly Hills High School, but the objections had little to do with science and much to do with NIMBYism. ... More >>
Everyone knows L.A. sits atop a vast reserve of petroleum sludge and stink (hence the Tar pits, the methane vents, the ever-bobbing drills along La Cienega Blvd. in Baldwin Hills, etc.), but would you ever suspect that's the reason for this sad, drooping, pastel colored tower on the Beverly Hills/Ce ... More >>
It looked like the fine folks of Beverly Hills had a little momentum in their opposition to a subway running under their public high school. As we reported, Metro bent its planned Westside subway extension so that it would stop under a planned high rise being built by a contributor to L.A. Mayor An ... More >>
The Beverly Hills Unified School District Parent-Teacher Associations have released one heck of a doomsday video to protest a possible subway tunnel underneath the Beverly Hills High School campus. With a solemn voiceover that declares, "Methane gas, toxic chemicals, and teenagers don't mix," it r ... More >>
The inimitable John Walsh, L.A.'s favorite gadfly (unless you work at City Hall), will show up to protest the triumphant Expo Line opening at USC today, where the train will reportedly break through a welcome banner as confetti and cannon fireworks go off in the background. The Bus Riders Union is ... More >>
When it comes to the Westside subway, the city of Beverly Hills may officially be playing hard ball in the very near future. According to The Beverly Hills Courier, the Beverly Hills City Council may call a public hearing to examine the proposed Westside subway route, which could delay the Metropol ... More >>
Update, 12 noon: Beverly Hills Unified School District responds to Metro, after the break. Update, 12:55 p.m.: Metro responds to L.A. Weekly, after the break. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority unsurprisingly gave the thumbs down to a report commissioned by the city of Be ... More >>
Update, 3:10 p.m.: Congressman Henry Waxman weighs in, after the break. The brouhaha over the Westside subway keeps getting more interesting ... by the prodding of the Beverly Hills Unified School District, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has agreed to extend its public comment for the mul ... More >>
Beverly Hills City Council members have taken the first step to possibly challenge the controversial and proposed Westside subway route that would run underneath the Beverly Hills High School campus. Beverly Hills Courier reported last night that the City Council voted to hire "a lawyer in prepara ... More >>
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority staffers have just released final recommendations for L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's $5.6 billion vanity/legacy project -- variously known as the Westside Subway, the Subway to the Sea, or the Subway to Westwood -- and guess what? Beverly H ... More >>
BHUSD is fighting until the bitter endLast week, L.A. Weekly reported on how Metro may have manipulated a seismic study to move the Westside Subway Extension station in Century City. That story can be viewed here. The move would result in $60 million more in publicly-subsidized Measure R fun ... More >>
Beverly Hills vs. Metro.Beverly Hills schools have been in a battle with Metro over its plans to tunnel under the famous 90210 high school as part of the "Westside Subway Extension." As our Patrick Range McDonald reported in an LA Weekly cover story, the line has essentially been bent from a ... More >>
Foes of a proposed Westside Subway extension route that would tunnel under Beverly Hills High School are calling on Metro this week to show them the data that proves it should head that way instead of along Santa Monica Boulevard, as had been originally intended. Those foes comprise the lead ... More >>
When it comes to the proposed Westside subway extension, the Beverly Hills City Council and board members of the Beverly Hills Unified School District haven't always gotten along -- regularly clashing over how to best stop a subway route from going underneath the Beverly Hills High School ca ... More >>
Craig SchwartzThis The Playwrights Horizons production of Melissa James Gibson's domestic comedy, This, opened on Sunday at the Kirk Douglas Theatre (presented by Center Theatre Group). In an excellent production, it's an absorbing soap opera with a metaphysical reach it can't quite grasp. See ex ... More >>
Craig SchwartzThis The Playwrights Horizons production of Melissa James Gibson's domestic comedy, This, opened on Sunday at the Kirk Douglas Theatre (presented by Center Theatre Group). In an excellent production, it's an absorbing soap opera with a metaphysical reach it can't quite grasp. See ex ... More >>
L.A. Mayor Antonio VillaraigosaHyped by Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe as a "historic" vote, Metropolitan Transportation Authority board members only approved a draft environmental impact report for the Subway to the Sea that still needs a lot of ironing out over the next several mo ... More >>
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Beverly Hills High School.With the national spotlight on it, the Beverly Hills Board of Education decided to phase out students from outside city limits to attend its schools, with all high schoolers being allowed to complete their educations in the city, but with the rest being cut. The Bev ... More >>
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Beverly HIlls High SchoolAfter a contentious year debating the matter, the Beverly Hills school board seems poised to cut about 10 percent of its student population -- outsiders on a permit program that would be phased out. To say that it has taken from the rich and given to the poor is somew ... More >>
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The LATEST NEW REVIEWS are embedded in this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, this week's STAGE FEATURE on Hair, at the Chance TheatrePEE WEE FOREVER?Photo by Greg GormanNot quite "forever," but Stage Raw just learned that The Pee Wee Herman Show, originally slated for Nov. 8 - 29 at the ... More >>
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As 2008 hobbles to the finish line and telephone calls to offices across the city go unanswered, here are a few quick freebie activities to engage in.Rose Parade Route Stakeouts Beginning at noon you can start marking your territory along the Tournament of Roses Parade route. Before that time cops w ... More >>
As 2008 hobbles to the finish line and telephone calls to offices across the city go unanswered, here are a few quick freebie activities to engage in.Rose Parade Route Stakeouts Beginning at noon you can start marking your territory along the Tournament of Roses Parade route. Before that time cops w ... More >>
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