Pacific Palisades

Eastside vs. Westside: 5 Ways of Looking At It

How you think of as the Eastside or the Westside might not necessarily be how Latinos, African Americans, gangs, history or the map of Los Angeles see them. Yet few crosstown rivalries involve such ingrained and often wrong-headed notions as L.A.'s own Eastside-Westside divide. It's as if self-proc ... More >>

Boston Marathon's Los Angeles Runners Listed

Here's a list of Los Angeles area runners, along with their ages and towns, entered to race in today's tragic Boston Marathon. The list does not suggest any of them were injured -- it's just a list of who was at least planning to be there. At least half the field had finished before today's blasts ... More >>

Swatting Celebrities Could Cost Pranksters $10,000 Under Proposed Law

See also: SWATting, a Deadly Political Game. Swatting has hit the homes of Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Ashton Kutcher, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and others. And, while it probably is pretty funny to the braces-wearing little buttheads who dial 911 with app-enabled masked numbers to report that their fa ... More >>

Westside Mansions' Power-Use Gluttony Confirmed By Awesome UCLA Electricity Map

An awesome new electricity use map created by UCLA's California Center for Sustainable Communities shows what you probably already suspect. Those righteous Prius drivers and aficionados of all things "sustainable," a.k.a. rich Westsiders, have some of the highest power usage figures in town:

Cindy Beck, Wife of LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, Allegedly Stalked By Veronica Roberts

A crazy lady has allegedly been stalking the wife of LAPD Chief Charlie Beck. The suspect called her and said, "I'm going to ... kill you," according to a restraining order filed against the woman yesterday. The department had nothing to say. The suspect was named as Veronica Roberts, a 43-year-o ... More >>

Croissant Food Fight: B1 Breadshop vs. Bread Lounge vs. Maison Giraud

In his 1989 novel The Great Fire of London, renowned french author Jacques Roubaud spends a rather large section expounding the features of the ideal Parisian croissant, told in the kind of deliberate detail you'd expect from a professor of both poetry and advanced mathematics: [T]he croissant that ... More >>

Best Trick-Or-Treat Cities: Los Angeles Rules Halloween, But It's Not Tops

Who says L.A. isn't the best Halloween town in the world? The stink of Occupy participants. The ghoulish controversy surrounding Michael "Thriller" Jackson's estate. The hangover scene at Urth Cafe on a Saturday afternoon. Hollywood Forever cemetery! The strippers at Sam's Hofbrau. (Shudders). Rave ... More >>

Where the Chefs Eat: Maison Giraud's Alain Giraud

Where the Chefs Eat is an ongoing series in which we ask a local chef to give us his or her favorite dining options. This week, Alain Giraud, chef and owner of Maison Giraud, tells us his favorite spot to eat (when he has time) these days. Alain Giraud doesn't eat out much these days. "For the las ... More >>

Euripides' Helen Adapted for the Kardashian Era, and Other New Theater Reviews

This week our critics liked Euripides' Helen at the Getty Villa, adapted for today's celebrity age, plus the new Groundlings Sunday night show, the 24th Street Theatre's play Rome at the End of the Line, and a new political dance performance from the Indian company Navarasa Dance Theatre. In our th ... More >>

Democratic War for L.A.'s Richest

Betsy Butler and Torie Osborn woo the carbon-counting strata of Assembly District 50

Beverly Hills Real Estate Sparks Bidding Wars: The Rich Are Buying Again

After years of declining and flat-lining, Beverly Hills home prices are going up. This could either be a good sign that this Debbie Downer of an economy is turning a corner, or it could be another example of how, even in tough times, the rich are getting richer while the rest suffer. We're going t ... More >>

Councilman Eric Garcetti Throws Out The First Ball At Polo Fundraiser

Councilman Eric Garcetti, a candidate for L.A. mayor, has been on a fundraising tear lately. He had an event at Moby's house. He had one with Jimmy Kimmel. In a couple weeks, he'll have one with (OMG OMG OMG) Howard Dean.But it'll be hard to top the event he had on Sunday at a polo match at Will Rog ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Soledad Goats' Eggs

Thinking of eggs as a seasonal crop might be a paradigm line some seasonal eaters aren't ready to cross. But consider for a moment the current state of the egg. We've been conveniently and cheaply inundated with mass-produced ova for decades, and all of them are predominantly produced from static ... More >>

Twitter Parties Are The Rage With Teens, LAPD Chief Beck Warns

Concerned, apparently, by last weekend's Project X-style house party in Holmby Hills, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck expressed concern about teenage "Twitter parties." That's right, in the gang capital of the nation, where serial killing is sport, the big crime problem is teens' raging in unoccupied homes ... More >>

L.A. Woman Was the Doors' Bluesy Masterpiece, and Jim Morrison's Kiss-Off to L.A.

Ice Cube and Charles and Ray Eames: Gangsters Making the World Go Round

Ice Cube in the Pacific Standard Time promotional video about the Eameses​ Today was a good day for Ice Cube -- he kicked it in the Eames House. In a promotional video for Pacific Standard Time released yesterday, Cube discusses the work of husband-and-wife designers Charles and Ray Eames, an ... More >>

Now Open: Maison Giraud in the Pacific Palisades Your Pain au Chocolat Update

A. ScattergoodMaison Giraud canelé​If you're the sort of person who dreams about pain au chocolat (see: 99 Things To Eat in L.A. Before You Die, 2010) and properly made canelés de Bordeaux (beeswax, copper molds), you may also have been peering through the picture windows yesterday morning a ... More >>

Eames: The Architect and the Painter Review

Plenty to Occupy in L.A. as Area Ranks Near Top of List of Wealthy Cities in Amerca

L.A. to the bone.​Occupy L.A. is often cast as an offshoot of the epicenter of the movement -- Occupy Wall Street, where protesters are shining a light on the mess bailed-out big banks have made of the nation's economy. But there's plenty to Occupy right here in Southern California. As we not ... More >>

Frozen Tuna Recall: Histamine Illnessess From Frozen Ground Tuna Grocery Sushi

sushi from AFC​ Another day, another food recall. The latest is of frozen tuna that has been linked to illnesses caused by elevated histamine levels. According to Food Safety News, the FDA found evidence of food decomposition and elevated histamine levels in frozen tuna packed by Osamu Corpora ... More >>

LACMA's 'Living In a Modern Way' Evokes Star Trek and Other Revelations of 'Insane' Free Museum Day

Sam BlochResnick Pavilion, LACMA​This Sunday, the folks behind Pacific Standard Time leaned in close and said those three words we love to hear: free museum day! More than twenty-five Southern California art museums offered free admission yesterday. The heavy hitters and their lucky friends ... More >>

Protesters to Demand Their 'Apron' Parking Spots Back

stopLADOT.comAn example of "apron" parking​On August 28, the Department of Trasportation (LADOT), who consistently claims to have Aneglenos' best interests in mind, started to enforce a city-wide ban on "apron" parking. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this L.A. staple, "apron" parking ... More >>

Tom Hanks' Son Chet Hanks Is A Fan Of Weed, Raps About His Westside Love

GawkerThis Chet Hanks is for real.​Ah, the wealthy creative class in L.A. produces such beautiful offspring. Today's case-in-point, Chet Hanks, son of Tom, who has taken to this rap game like Sarah Palin capitalizing on a national tragedy. Word. Turns out Chet Hanks, described as a "frat boy ... More >>

Last Night at Test Kitchen with Alain Giraud

Guzzle & NoshLast night at Test Kitchen LA with Alain Giraud.​ Last night, Alain Giraud made a spectacular debut on the first of his four nights at Test Kitchen LA. Then the chef warned diners they should return later in his run because the first night is always a bit rocky. The man sets a hi ... More >>

California Coastal Commission Affirms Its Stand Against Resident-Only Parking In Venice

​The California Coastal Commission backed up its own rejection of resident-only permit parking zones for Venice, releasing a series of "revised findings" that reject claims by those who wanted the overnight parking districts (OPDs) and bringing some joy to advocates who say the zones were mean ... More >>

Drownings And Near Drownings Reported Amid Southern California Summer Heat

Google MapsVenice Breakwater.​A fisherman died as he was fishing on the rock pile known as the Venice Breakwater over the weekend, reportedly as he bent down to wash his hands in the ocean. He fell in and people flagged down police about 11 p.m. Saturday, according to Fox 11 News and other rep ... More >>

Hollywood Businessman Agrees to Take Down Giant Supergraphic across from Kodak Theatre

Kayvan Setareh, the businessman arrested February 26 for allegedly draping a gargantuan supergraphic on a historic 1927 Hollywood bank building near the site of the upcoming Oscars, has agreed to take it down. Ban Billboard Blight​ In exchange, he had his $1 million bail reduced to $100,000 d ... More >>

Plane Crash Survivor Norman Ollestad Talks Danger-Junkies and His Memoir, Crazy for the Storm

On February 19, 1979, broadcaster Walter Cronkite announced to his nightly news audience that a private plane had crashed in California. Of the four people onboard, only one had lived. His name was Norman Ollestad and he was 11-years-old. Ollestad had come-to after the crash on top of Mount Baldy ... More >>

LASPD Disarray: Hyperbole, or Fact?

Through the Past, Weekly

30 years and counting

Missing Heath; on Randall Roberts' "Masses" Feature

Also, comments on Scott Foundas' "Bud, Wiser" and Daniel Heimpel's "Mold Rush" feature

More Video and Comments from the Rathouse

Max Taves' story Rathouse of the Palisades continues to fascinate and repulse people, and not just those that live in the Palisades. On KCRW, Kevin Roderick said, "hands down the story of the week is the LA Weekly's cover piece on the rat ladies of Pacific Palisades." Read and listen to his entire ... More >>

Palisades Rathouse: Unchallenged by Health Officials, Elderly Twins Fed Local Vermin Population

Old ladies lovingly nurtured rats, turning a home in one of the nation's priciest enclaves into Willard

The Haden Clan

A family affair

Ascots and Madness

What to do in Los Angeles this week

It's Two Thousand What??????

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Summer? Summm . . . Errr?

The Human Teardown

Audit levels Andrew Adelman and his chaotic reign at L.A.’s building department

Pump It Up

USA Petroleum tests biodiesel

Freaks and Cleats

For the week of July 7-13

The Addled Department

Problems pile up for L.A.’s building czar

The Final Bow

Stumbling Toward 2006

Summer in the City

Letters

Problems in Paradise

On the campaign trail with the three who would represent the ultimate NIMBY district

Chong Family Values

Bump, Set, Spike

South Bay Volleyball with the Best of ’em

The Lady From Where?

Meet Fran Pavley: Westside winner

Taste Globally, Picnic Locally