Pacific Palisades

A Theater Festival Resurrects Broadway Movie Palaces

In 2011, much of the inaugural edition of Radar L.A. -- the biennial festival of new works by renowned international and L.A.-based theater companies and artists -- was centered around downtown's LATC on Hill St. and REDCAT in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex beneath Bunker Hill. Radar 2013 inc ... More >>

Breaking: White People Tend to Live Closer to The Beach

No big surprise here. As we bid adieu to our May heat wave, new research has "discovered" that minorities tend to live in hotter communities throughout the nation. Why is this no big surprise to us?

Top Zip Code For Top-Dollar Home Sales Includes City Of L.A?

Beverly Hills real estate is often overshadowed by pricier digs in Holmby Hills, home to the Playboy Mansion, Bel Air, which boasts of many 10,000-square-foot-plus abodes, and Pacific Palisades, where Arnold Schwarzenegger and many other celebs live. But the gilded city is back in its rightful plac ... More >>

Top 5 WTF Stories Of 2012

It's been a banner year for WTF stories, a category we helped define a few years back with "Today In WTF" headlines. If you enjoy head-scratching stories, you really couldn't ask for a better front-row seat than the one journalists get in Los Angeles. We have it all -- victims set on fire (accide ... More >>

Deer Being Cut Up In Pacific Palisades Mistaken For Bloody Crime Scene

A Pacific Palisades local who spotted a blood-spattered man with a knife phoned 911, and responding police, seeing much of the same, called for backup. Was it a real-life Silence of the Lambs in the making? Not exactly: Turns out the guy was legally "dressing down" a deer that had been fatally str ... More >>

America's Priciest Real Estate List Almost Shuts Out Los Angeles

The East Coast media has robbed us again. Forbes magazine seems to think the nation's priciest real estate is in New York, when we all know that, despite the crazy gulf between rich and poor here, some L.A.-area land is as good as gold and California has more billionaires than just about anyplace o ... More >>

David Goeser, Missing UCLA Student, Shot Self in Head; Remains Found in Pacific Palisades

Cops today said remains found along a hiking trail in Pacific Palisades were those of missing UCLA student David Goeser. The LAPD says in a statement that the 23-year-old "died from a single gunshot wound to the head" and that "a semiautomatic pistol was also found next to the body." The remains, ... More >>

Body Parts Found at Los Liones Canyon Hiking Trail in Pacific Palisades

Two hikers came across a macabre scene in Pacific Palisades over the weekend. They found a skull in Los Liones Canyon, and paramedics and police were soon on the scene. Arriving officers then apparently discovered the rest of the body, a "torso," about 20 feet away, according to an LAPD statement. ... More >>

L.A. Mayoral Hopefuls -- Eric Garcetti, Wendy Greuel -- Tap Westside For Cash

Candidates for the office of Los Angeles mayor are getting nearly half of their money (42 percent) from out of town and nearly one-fifth of it (18 percent) from ritzy Westside neighborhoods, according to a California Common Cause report released today. If you think that special interests control na ... More >>

David John Goeser, UCLA Student, Missing; Car Found in Pacific Palisades (PHOTOS)

Cops tonight were on the lookout for UCLA honors student David John Goeser, whose family says needs medication and hasn't been seen since Sunday. The 22-year-old's 2001 white Toyota Corolla was found near Los Liones Drive and Sunset Boulevard in Pacific Palisades, according to what the LAPD told Ci ... More >>

DUI Checkpoint Cheat Sheet For July 20 Weekend: Look Out, Black L.A.

We like to point out that the LAPD's DUI checkpoints are often set up in minority areas. Immigrants' rights activists have even accused the department of targeting Latino communities because so many undocumenteds don't have licenses, and their cars are easy pickin's for money making impounds. Well ... More >>

LAPD DUI Checkpoint Cheat Sheet For The Weekend: Koreatown, USC Area Targeted

You would think that the cops would give you a break after arresting 1,118 drivers for alleged DUI during 4th of July festivities in L.A. County this year. Nope. Not only are they not letting up, but the LAPD will be shooting fish in a barrel with one checkpoint this weekend:

The 5 Things You Need Know About This Week's Review of Maison Giraud

This week's review is of Maison Giraud, Alain Giraud's bakery and bistro in the Pacific Palisades. We urge you to read the review, but offer this handy cheat sheet for those with a shorter attention span.

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

Yesterday you were probably too busy lighting fireworks and barbecueing to immerse yourself with the exciting news of the food industry. Thus the Thursday edition of this week's newspaper story roundup. You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with th ... More >>

After-Hours Farmers Market Opening on the Sunset Strip

If you're a fan of farmers markets -- and, heck, why wouldn't you be? -- it should come as exciting news that L.A. is gaining yet another market in the coming weeks, this one being an after-hours affair located on West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Beginning June 14 and every Thursday night thereafter, ... More >>

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 >>

Bouillabaisse: Meant for the Poor, Now for the Rich

Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​Dear Mr. Gold: It's that time of year, cold and dark early, which means there is nothing more inviting than that wave of heat and spice when you enter a great Italian trattoria. I'm hunting for the best bouillabaisse in town, in a joint that is as u ... More >>

Rene Ochoa, Maintenance Man, Illegal Immigrant, Committed Lewd Acts on Girl in Pacific Palisades, Faces Deportation

Earthworm​Do yourself a favor: Never hire this guy. Rene Ochoa, a 49-year-old maintenance man and alleged illegal alien, was sentenced this week to 180 days in jail after admitting that he engaged in "repeated lewd behavior in front of a young girl" who lived at a Pacific Palisades building ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/14-11/18

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "At the end of 2011, the year that the gastropub finally wrestled formal dining into a bathtub to drown, we pretty much know what a good, new restaurant is going to look like." Cooks County: A Perf ... More >>

Opening and Closing in Your 'Hood: An October Restaurant Roundup

Guzzle & NoshR.I.P Gastrobus, Welcome Gastronomico​Attaining overnight success in the restaurant business is largely an urban myth (unless you're backed by a corporate restaurant group with tons of money to spend on marketing). Even a few empty seats in your new eatery can make you sweat. Whil ... More >>

Pacific Palisades Brush Fire Breaks Out

LAFDThe Pacific Palisades "brusher."​Updated at the bottom: The LAFD quickly nipped this one in the bud. First posted at 12:29. Off-shore winds. "Red-flag" fire warnings. And now this: A brush fire has broken out in Pacific Palisades and was threatening at least one home. Do arsonists pay ... More >>

Black Blood of the Earth: 40X Caffeine Coffee in a Mystery Location Coffee Jerky

On Sunday, October 30th, a caffeinated cabal of lucky citizens will gather at an unknown address in Pacific Palisades to celebrate the dark art of high-octane coffee-crafting. A Berkeley scientist's fast track to twitchy fingers, speed metal heartbeats, and eyes redder than an albino hamster's, bou ... More >>

Basil Max Price III Killed in Ferrari Crash on PCH: Car Split in Half

A Ferrari 360.​The second Ferrari to split in half in a crash on Pacific Coast Highway in the last five years took the life of a man ID'd by cops as 23-year-old Basil Max Price III of Glendora. He was the passenger in the 1999 car that was apparently speeding and went out of control on PCH no ... More >>

Village Books in Pacific Palisades: 14 Years From the First Book to the Last

Illustration by Jim Rugg​ In our print edition's monthly books section, David Kipen writes an elegy to the recently-closed Village Books in Pacific Palisades, and talks about his special connection to the store's history: he purchased its first book 14 years ago, and recently found himself pur ... More >>

Homebrew News: Pacific Gravity's Summer Party, Or The Hoppy Side of The 405 Closure

JgarbeeLast Year's Pacific Gravity Party Goers​You could look at the upcoming 405 closure as the perfect excuse to stay home and restock your freezer with enough hamburger and hot dog buns, or sure, duck confit, to last all summer. A perfectly lovely idea. Or, as members of local homebrew club ... More >>

America, You're Beautiful — Too Bad You Have to Work Tomorrow

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Winter Fennel

Felicia Friesema​ Summertime is to warm basil and heirloom tomatoes as wintertime is to fennel and oranges. But there's so much more. If you find young and slender fennel bulbs, braise them whole. If you have larger, bulbous (and slightly tougher) bulbs, slice up and carmelize like an onion ... More >>

Former Mayor Riordan to Close Two Pacific Palisades Restaurants

Guzzle & NoshThe Original Pantry Cafe in downtown L.A., which is NOT closing but is owned by former mayor Richard Riordan.​Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan will shutter his two Pacific Palisades restaurants, The Oak Room and The Village Pantry, at the end of January. Riordan operates t ... More >>

Pacific Gravity's 15th Anniversary Party, Or The Real Reason To Join A Homebrew Club

J. GarbeeIt's Pour-Your-Own At The Pacific Gravity Party​When you've got a backyard full of rosy-cheeked, jolly sorts sporting beer t-shirts, dozens of Igloos converted into jockey boxes, a shave ice machine featuring margarita and coconut-flavored mead (honey wine), and puns flying through th ... More >>

Pacific Palisades Residents Annoyed By Late-Night Motorcycle Mayhem On Sunset Boulevard

​Residents of Pacific Palisades have rallied in opposition to motorcycle groups 'popping wheelies' late at night and vrooming louder than the state-legal 90 decibels per vehicle down Sunset Boulevard. According to the Palisades Post, a group of 21 residents went to the Los Angeles Police Dep ... More >>

Water Quality At L.A. Beaches Improving

Heal the Bay​Heal The Bay's 20th annual Beach Report Card showed "significant improvement" in the water quality of L.A.'s coastal spots from March, 2009 to April, 2010. Nearly eight in 10 of the 86 beaches tested received A or B grades verses seven in 10 last year. "After all these years of p ... More >>

Would-Be Burglar Uses Famed Museum As Escape Route

LAPD​A man who was foiled as he started to break into a home in affluent Pacific Palisades fled and ended up running through the nearby Getty Villa, home of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities, police said. No he didn't get his hands on "Victorious Youth" or any other invaluable art, but c ... More >>

L.A. Council Rejects Home Buffer Zone For Pot Shops

​Considering its long-awaited ordinance to get a grip on 545 largely unregulated medical marijuana retailers in L.A., the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday rejected a proposed 500 foot buffer zone between the shops and homes and instead drafted language that would prohibit the businesses f ... More >>

Turkeys Set To Gobble Up Good Life

​If you're like us, you'll be enjoying your turkey with some gravy, stuffing and maybe a side of beer on Thursday. But two of our feathered friends are scheduled to spend the day living it up in Pacific Palisades. That's because animal-rights activist Karen Dawn is embarking once again on an ... More >>

Palisades Rathouse Case Settled Out of Court

Exterminated rodents filled van top to bottom

Long Beach Calling!

What to do in L.A., August 29-September 4

"Parks and Wreck": Reporter's Wide-Open Spaces?

Also, Palisades residents respond to Weekly's "Rathouse" cover story

America: I Want to Be Your Flag Hag!

What to do in L.A., July 4-10

Still Trying to Figure Out What to Do on the Fourth?

Mark Sarvas on His Elegant Variation and the Inelegant Review of Harry, Revised

Yes, but can he write?

Last Chance to Be a Better Person!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Queen Week

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Ask Mr. Gold: Pot Stickers

Let’s Roll!

Fun with gravity on our city’s finest grassy hills

No Ballot, Please

Why didn’t you vote?

Winners and Losers

Snakebites

The Wordsmith

Lu Haas, 1917–2004

Ask Mr. Gold

Spare Parking, Anyone?

Santa Monica could be forced to provide free beach parking