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Calabasas

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    8 Craft Beer Bars in the San Fernando Valley Happy Hour Specials

    The glorious San Fernando Valley. Spatially vast, heavily populated, and wildly lacking in proper places to drink. Or so we thought. Today, it's time to put your ignorance to bed and minimize the attitude long enough to see the truth -- that from Burbank to Agoura Hills you can always find a decent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Plastic Bag Ban Watered Down by L.A. Leaders

    Updated at the bottom: The council approved the watered-down version of the ban. First posted at 6:04 a.m. The L.A. City Council almost brought home an unprecedented "double ban" on paper and plastic bags at your local market. But last-minute lobbying pressure might have caused the body to back do ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    Pedalers Fork Under Construction in Calabasas

    Bicyclists will have a new destination this fall when Pedalers Fork restaurant opens in the heart of Old Town Calabasas. Now under construction, the goal is to create a bike-friendly venue, offering food, coffee, drinks, and even bike pharaphernalia, tours and repairs. "We wanted to create a sort o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    Passover Pizza: Matzah Pizza from Fresh Brothers

    For people who have been observing Passover since Friday night, right about now you might be experiencing signs of pizza withdrawal. Fear not. Fresh Brothers Pizza has a fix for you --- a special matzah pizza, available until the holiday ends Saturday night. (We'll digress for a moment to note how m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2012

    What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Planet Carrots Why Our Winter Carrots Are Less Sweet This Year

    Carrots are an easy crop for farmers with the land for them. They don't have the stigma of Brussels sprouts or the on-again-off-again iron taste that beets sometimes have to fight. And they've been lucky enough to dance in the culinary trio of mirepoix for hundreds of years, an unintended marketin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    Francisco Rodriguez Murder: Cops Search for Gun in Calabasas Landfill

    Updated at the bottom with the search completed. First posted at 9:06 a.m. on Wednesday. Cops think they know who killed El Camino Real High School soccer player Francisco Rodriguez: Calabasas residents Jason Schumann, 24, and Elizabeth Ibarra, 19, have been arrested in connection with the Jan. 1 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2012

    Jason Schumann, Elizabeth Ibarra Arrested for Murder of El Camino High Soccer Star Francisco Rodriguez

    Update: More dirt on Elizabeth Ibarra, who appears to have known both the victim and suspected gunman well. The LAPD just announced the arrests of two suspects in the murder of El Camino Real High soccer star Francisco Rodriguez. Calabasas resident Jason Schumann, 24, and San Fernando Valley resid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2011

    Kim Kardashian Reportedly Paid $600K to Party in Vegas on NYE

    You know you've done something right, in life, when you find yourself sorting through half-million dollar offers just to show up and do a little V.I.P. shimmy at some cush Vegas hotspot on New Year's Eve, while the rest of the world panics over which miserable laser pit is worth a week's wages. The ... More >>

  • News

    November 10, 2011

    L.A. Farmers Markets Exposed

    Often, produce sold at stalls isn't organic, grown by small farms — or even spray-free

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Brian Posehn's Perfect Day In The Valley: Food, Toys More Food

    Brian Posehn is a comic, writer, actor, and food-eater. The Comedians of Comedy, Sarah Silverman Program, and Mr. Show alumnus is also a dedicated San Fernando Valleyite and gastronome. Squid Ink recently asked Posehn to describe what his most perfectest day in the Valley with his wife and baby wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    Gilani Taylor, Aspiring L.A. Singer, Loses Daughter, Burns 80% of Body in Fiery Crash on 101 Freeway; Hit-and-Run Driver Sought

    Traffic was backed up for hours on Saturday along the 101 near Calabasas, behind an almost unrecognizable 1995 Chrysler engulfed in flames. The victims inside were 9-year-old Jayla Taylor, who died in the fire; and her mom, 27-year-old Gilani Taylor, who's in critical condition with 80 percent of he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Local Eggs Iowa Egg Recall Anniversary

    Felicia FriesemaKendor Farms free range eggs at the Hollywood market.​ Eggs? Yes, eggs. This week is National Farmers Market Week, and while the bulk of what you see piled high on tables at your local market is more flora than fauna, here and there you'll likely see neatly stacked cartons of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Calabasas High School Hate Crime: L.A. Sheriff Tracks Graffiti Suspects on Facebook

    Spring Break surprise at Calabasas High​Update: Three Calabasas High students have reportedly admitted to the crime. More to come in a sheriff's announcement at 10 a.m. How many times do we have to learn this lesson, people? If you've been bad, no matter how tempting it is to blabber your bad ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Calabasas High Graffiti: 3 Boys Who Sprayed Swastikas Say They Were Bullied

    Jewish JournalSheriff: Not hateful, just bitter​The three male Calabasas High School students who admitted to tagging their campus in swastikas, racial slurs and personal attacks will not be prosecuted for a hate crime. Why? L.A. County sheriff's officials say the graffiti was not, despite ap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    TourEiffel Replaces Fins Creekside in Calabasas

    TourEiffelescargot​ Fins, an Old Town Calabasas staple for over 16 years, closed on October 10, 2010. "It just got too expensive to stay there," said Fins' owner Moez Megji (Fins Seafood Grill and Buddha Lounge), who also closed Zin Bistro in September. After husband-and-wife team Hubert and E ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Crown Fire: Containment Of Palmdale Blaze Expected Today

    ​The Crown Fire in northern Los Angeles County that burned nearly 14,000 acres since it broke out Thursday afternoon was expected to be contained by late Monday, county fire officials said. About 2,460 structures near and in Palmdale had been threatened, they said. It was one of two fires tha ... More >>

  • Stage

    July 22, 2010

    The California International Theatre Festival

    Purl's pearl in Calabasas

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Seven Trucks, Three Hours: Street Eatz at The Commons in Calabasas

    ​It's probably safe to say that many Angelenos are pretty blasé about the whole food truck phenomenon by now. But if you live in the Valley, you may feel a bit more cut off from the trend. Although more and more trucks are venturing on to the other side of the hill, most still stay well eas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Happy Hour: Fins Creekside in Calabasas

    Celia SoudryMartini, Dirty​ The Place: Fins Creekside, 23504 Calabasas Road, Calabasas; (818) 223-3467. The Hours: Monday through Thursday, from 5 to 7 p.m.; Friday from 5 to 7 p.m., and 9 to 11 p.m.; Saturday from 9 to 11 p.m. The Deals: Free appetizers; $5 well drinks; $5 wines; $3 draft ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    Stone Ground Bakery's Kosher Oatmeal Cookie Recipe: Post-Holiday Baking

    Stone Ground Bakery in Agoura Hills, just off the 110 between Calabasas and Ventura, is one of those L.A. shopping mall treasures, a great bakery trapped in anonymous concrete that you find only if you know the happy repeat customers--or have exited to get gas and discovered great bread instead. A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2009

    West Hollywood Ponders Ban On Outdoor Smoking At Clubs, Restaurants

    Abbe Land.​We told you about a movement in Santa Monica to ban smoking at apartment and condo complexes. Now the city of West Hollywood is looking at a proposal to prohibit lighting up in outdoor areas of clubs and restaurants. The idea comes courtesy of Mayor Abbe Land and Mayor Pro Tem John ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    National Cupcake Day: Like We Needed A Reason

    SusieCakes​If you needed another excuse to eat cupcakes for breakfast, you've got one today. It's National Cupcake Day. Why? Why not. If there's a secret rationale behind these things, it's still secret. There were reports of National Cupcake Day being celebrated in August and October, so what ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    What Up My Ginger? The Healing Officially Begins

    NBC​After the middle-school hate crime that was "kick a ginger" day, an area student promoting follicle (and freckled) diversity has started to get the pendulum moving the proper direction. Andrew Cohen, a senior at New Community Jewish High School in West Hills, is organizing the official " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2009

    Anti-Gingites: Three Boys Arrested In Anti-Redhead Bullying Case

    Three middle school boys were arrested in connection with the "kick a ginger day" attacks on redheaded students at their campus in Calabasas, authorities said today. The suspects include two 12-year-olds and one 13-year-old. The older boy was arrested on suspicion of cyber-bullying -- ostensibly co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Are Redheads Safe Anywhere? Can We All Just Get Along?

    NBC​We told you about a redheaded student being attacked at a Calabasas middle school as part of "kick a ginger day." Well, it turns out there were four other carrot tops who got kicked and hit as part of a coordinated redhead attack that was promoted via Facebook. The anti-redhead violence h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Redheaded Stepchildren Beware: Students Encouraged To "Kick A Ginger"

    Why couldn't it have been kick a Carrot Top day?​Out of the department of reverse discrimination, a redheaded Calabasas boy was allegedly kicked and beaten by middle school classmates who were apparently inspired by a Facebook post calling it "kick a ginger day." The action Friday was apparen ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 29, 2009

    Come On and Take a Hayride


    Why couldn't it have been kick a Carrot Top day?​Out of the department of reverse discrimination, a redheaded Calabasas boy was allegedly kicked and beaten by middle school classmates who were apparently inspired by a Facebook post calling it "kick a ginger day." The action Friday was apparen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    Teenage Women Arrested in Celebrity Burglaries

    Los Angeles police announced that five people, four of them female teenagers, have been arrested in connection with a string of burglaries targeting "well-known celebrities" and other well-heeled citizens of the Hollywood Hills.LAPDA hoodie-sporting young woman is captured on a security camera outsi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2009

    Real Life Robin Hoodie? Teen Charged In Audrina, Lohan Burglaries

    Prosecutors today charged an 18-year-old Calabasas man with burglary not once but twice. It isn't clear if Nicholas Prugo stole from the rich to give to the poor (you know, those Range Rover drivers in the far West Valley), but the district attorney's office believes he targeted well-heeled stars Li ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    What's in season at the Farmers Market: Persimmons

    In a land that benefits from the tinkering of an ambitious UC Davis agricultural program, it's hardly surprising to discover that the varieties of persimmons available to the average consumer has nearly doubled in the past decade. But regardless, persimmons generally fall into two categories - fuyu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    Auction Me Barbra: Babs Has a Yard Sale

    Julien's Auctions​There are no fewer than two Hollywood memorabilia auctions taking place this week. Calabasas' Profiles in History is running one of its periodic prop-and-costume bidding wars ("Ever dream of getting into Megan Fox's shorts?" asks today's L.A. Daily News. "It'll only cost you abou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2009

    Blade Runner, The Auction

    This Thursday and Friday the Profiles in History auction house will hold an auction to move the remainder of Forrest Ackerman's horror-fantasy movie treasure trove. The 1,000-item bidding event looks like a delightful mishmash of unsold Ackerman artifacts (including a Dracula ring worn byBela Lugosi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Facing the Muzak General Growth Properties Inc., the mall-owning corporation that owns the Glendale Galleria and Northridge Fashion Center, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, becoming the largest real estate bankruptcy in U.S. history. L.A. TimesHospital Triage The national streak of gunmen runnin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2008

    Weiss' Summer Jamz 08-G'Z Up, Prose Down

    Summer Jamz '08: G'Z Up, Prose Down http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4NBDRWLQ 1.Parliament-“Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) 2.N.W.A.-“Alwayz Into Somethin’” 3.Dr. Dre-“Nuthin’ But a G Thang” 4.Above the Law ft. 2Pac & Money B-“Call It What U Want” 5 ... More >>

  • LA Life

    May 15, 2008

    Meat Loaf

    Do you love me?

  • Film+TV

    March 27, 2008

    Annual Method Fest turns 10 ...

    ... looks to the Great White North

  • Music

    November 1, 2007

    System of a Down: Serj Protector

    Band's front man speaks to the people from his sofa in the Calabasas hills

  • News

    July 6, 2006

    Piano Greats

    Band's front man speaks to the people from his sofa in the Calabasas hills

  • Columns

    June 29, 2006

    The Night Belonged to (Music) Lovers

    Band's front man speaks to the people from his sofa in the Calabasas hills

  • News

    May 18, 2006

    Pavley's Dogs

    Whos the greenest one of all in the 41st Assembly race?

  • Film+TV

    March 30, 2006

    The Method Fest

    Whos the greenest one of all in the 41st Assembly race?

  • News

    December 8, 2005

    Letters

    Whos the greenest one of all in the 41st Assembly race?

  • Eat+Drink

    October 13, 2005

    Sex and the Steak House

    Whos the greenest one of all in the 41st Assembly race?

  • Eat+Drink

    December 9, 2004

    Ask Mr. Gold

    Whos the greenest one of all in the 41st Assembly race?

  • News

    August 7, 2003

    Rough Justice

    Whos the greenest one of all in the 41st Assembly race?

  • News

    January 17, 2002

    A Scary Abundance of Water

    Growing up with the San Fernando Valley

  • Calendar

    March 23, 2000

    The Lady From Where?

    Meet Fran Pavley: Westside winner

  • Music

    November 25, 1999

    TCB Rock

    Thank the makers of Incubus

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