Playa Del Rey

LAX Expansion Could Be Grounded by Union Lawsuit

LAX's runway expansion plans were already facing legal action by community groups and even neighboring governments (Culver City, for one). Now comes the Service Employees Union United Service Workers West, which says it will file a California Environmental Quality Act challenge in court this afterno ... More >>

Baby Sea Lion Hits The Road, Heads For Ikea In Carson

A baby sea lion was rescued on the street in Carson, more than eight miles from open water, sheriff's officials reported today. Caught near Avalon Boulevard and Dominguez Street, it appeared the pup took a wrong turn and was headed toward ... Ikea? Who knows. Sheriff's Lt. Chris Bergner told the W ... More >>

Crime's Up In One Westside L.A. Neighborhood: Del Rey

Despite news out of City Hall this month that crime was down in 2012 for the 10th-straight year, there's a felonious hot-spot of ill behavior right in the middle of the Westside. The community is called Del Rey. And while it has never been a crime-free neighborhood on a par with Bel Air, we were su ... More >>

Top Chef Seattle Cheftestants Announced

Bravo announced this morning that Top Chef Season 10 "will be coming to you shortly," that it was filmed in Seattle, and revealed the identity of the season's contestants. Judges this season will be Deadpan-Padma and Tough-Tom, of course, as well as Gail Simmons and Hugh Acheson. Wolfgang Puck will ... More >>

Meet L.A.'s Parrot Champion Mira Tweti (Yes, That's Prounounced 'Tweety')

One day in January 2011, Mira Tweti walked down to the garage of her Playa del Rey apartment where she saw -- amid the clutter of trash meant for recycling -- a small, mid-century bird cage. Clean and narrow, the 3-foot cage had a diameter roughly the size of a large dinner plate. Though a self-des ... More >>

Q & A with Adam Richman: Heartbreak, His Food Journal L.A. Food Profundity

Adam Richman spends the first several minutes of our interview discussing the best way to get places in L.A., as most Angelenos do. He can't count himself one anymore, but he used to live here, coincidentally, one block from this writer's current residence. Now, however, Richman is a citizen of the ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Westfield Culver City Food Court

L.A. Wind Fans Occidental College Fire as Students Evactuated: Power Outages Reported Across Region

Updated at the bottom with the fire out. First posted at 1:24 a.m. Among the wind-related calamitous happenings overnight, including trees into homes and power outages far-and-wide, was a grass fire on and around the Eagle Rock campus of Occidental College, President Obama's alma mater. You gotta ... More >>

11 Most Awkward Pieces of Trash Found on L.A. Coastal Cleanup Day

The least of the awkward.​Oh, Los Angeles. Not only are you way too slovenly with your dead cigarette butts, but you're super awkward about the bulkier items you choose to leave lying around this great cemented city. (All too often dangerously near a storm drain, and therefore the sea, and the ... More >>

Best Monday Night Football Party: Mo's Place

At Mo's Place in Playa Del Rey, the slick, outsized pageantry of Monday Night Football is no match for the debauched live-action carnival gleefully concocted by the proprietor. When you first walk in, you see a typical, somewhat weathered sports bar. Faded pennants, posters, and blinking screens ... More >>

Playa Del Rey Bar Report: The Tripel

razyikimasho/flickrInterior, The Tripel​ The Place: The Tripel, 333 Culver Blvd., Playa Del Rey The Hours: 5 p.m.-Midnight Mon.-Thu.; Noon-2 a.m. Fri-Sat.; Noon-Midnight Sun. The Digs: When a person is stylish and fit but somehow not entirely appealing, he or she is sometimes said to be ... More >>

Sea Lion Shot in Waters Off Venice: $5,000 Reward Offered For Info Leading to Capture of Killer

MARThe victim.​Warning: Disturbing photos after the jump. The group Marine Animal Rescue is offering $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whomever fatally shot a sea lion off Venice last week. The shooting was reported about 3:30 p.m. Aug. 3, according to the organi ... More >>

L.A. Superior Court Blocks Venice From Running Sewer Pipe Under County-Owned Marina Del Rey

pbase.comWhat we imagine the Venice Beach pipe might be looking like, right about now.​The hodge-podge of jurisdictions along the L.A. County coastline is pitting local governments (and their constituents) against each other once again -- this time, over a crappy old sewer pipeline running fro ... More >>

Andrew Bynum, Lakers Center, Caught Parking in Two Handicap Spaces

NBC Los AngelesBynum shoots for two.​NBC Los Angeles investigative reporter Joel Grover is at it again (is it sweeps?), and this time he bags a big one: Lakers center Andrew Bynum. The reporter and his crew shot the baller with his car parked in two handicap spaces as he loaded up groceries a ... More >>

Very Small Bar Report: The Harbor Room

mrhungry/flickr​The Place: The Harbor Room, 195 Culver Boulevard, Playa Del Rey; 310-821-6550 The Hours: 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Daily. The Digs: Shaped like a ragged wedge of cheese hacked carelessly from its wheel, this endearing heap is a collection of acute angeles, its profile from the outside ... More >>

Ballona Wetlands May Be at Mercy of "Fishy" State Commission: Sierra Club, Ballona Institute Allege Wrongdoing

Ballona Wetlands: Please don't bulldoze me​In 2003, it felt like victory: after fighting 30 years to protect Ballona Wetlands near Marina Del Rey and Playa Del Rey, environmentalists saved 600 acres, halting plans by developers for thousands of apartments and big shopping centers. With taxpayer h ... More >>

LAVA Flows Downtown at Clifton's Cafeteria

Tanja M. LadenIan Whitcomb reads from "Lotusland: An Englishman in Exile"​The Los Angeles Visionaries Association (LAVA) held its 14th free monthly Sunday Salon at Clifton's Cafeteria on April 24, attracting an eclectic crowd of salon regulars as well as first-timers. An informal gathering of ... More >>

8 Places To Get a Beer Cocktail in L.A.

Caroline on CrackSteingarten LA's Bavarian Marian beer cocktail.​ Beer cocktails are a growing trend in the Los Angeles cocktail scene, with Library Bar bartender Matthew Biancaniello's Hopping in the Rye being one of the first to start things off. Now you can take your pick of either traditio ... More >>

Monday Night Football at Mo's Place in Playa Del Rey

A. SimmonsMo of Mo's Place​At Mo's Place in Playa Del Rey, the television pageantry of Monday Night Football is no match for the debauched live-action carnival Mo concocts. When you first walk in, you see a typical sports bar. Faded pennants and posters plaster every speck of the interior ... More >>

L.A. County Warns That Venice RV Operators Who Dump Sewage Into Gutters Could See Jail Time

​Following three reports of illegal sewage dumping by RV operators in Venice last month the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works on Friday issued a warning stating that such activity could put suspects in jail for up to six months. Public Works director Gail Farber also said those co ... More >>

Michael LoGrande: How Should New Planning Director Approach The Job?

​ Now that Mayor Villaraigosa has selected Michael LoGrande to become director of planning, we've asked activists from around the city to give LoGrande advice: How should he approach the job? First up, Marcia Hanscom, Playa del Rey environmentalist.

Some In Venice Decry A Rise In Crime, Homelessness

​Some Venice residents are complaining that as city budget cuts take police from streets and county homeless officials claim Skid Row's street dwellers are decreasing, crime and homelessness are on the rise in L.A.'s bohemian beach-side community. Some crime has, in fact, been on the upswing ... More >>

Asteroid Headed For Earth; Extraterrestrial Warned Us

NBCCarnac the Magnificent, as played by Johnny Carson.​If you're a perennial, SoCal, top-down kind of driver, you might want to plan to go hard-top for this one: NASA confirmed last fall that a good-sized asteroid, called Apophis, is on a collision course with our kind planet, with an impact d ... More >>

Some Playa Del Rey Residents Say A Park Would Be Better As A Parking Lot

Google Maps​Only in L.A. would turning a park into a parking lot be floated as a sane idea, but that's exactly what's being pushed by a few residents in parking-starved Playa Del Rey. A proposal by Craig Fraulino would turn Titmouse Park on Culver Boulevard into a serene, lush place to put yo ... More >>

Carbonara Quest: Angelini Osteria

Ask Mr. Gold: In Search of the Perfect Spaghetti Alla Carbonara

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menuDear Mr. Gold: You would think, after all this time, that somebody would make a decent spaghetti alla carbonara in this town, but although I have run across good enough versions of trenette al pesto, bucatini all'Amatriciana, even tortellini in b ... More >>

Well-Preserved: Playa del Rey, Ennio Morricone and the L.A. Burrito

Paving Over Playa del Rey

The last L.A. beach town and dunes still standing have a developer drooling

Who the Hell Is Holy Grail?

An L.A. metal band with songs about “chicks, Vikings, ex-chicks, being tough, macho/machismo, FEMA, Fabio, Conan, rad dinosaurs, UFOs and Bilderberg Group,” that’s who

Fucking With "Fucking With Drew Barrymore”

And more thoughts on L.A. People 2009

Letters: Don’t Stomp the Music

Our readers write

Playa Vista Quicksand

A rare court ruling against the developer puts the kibosh — for now — on a vast Phase Two

LAX Expansion Betrayal?

Thinking they’d won, Westsiders eyeball an even more intrusive runway plan

What's Smart About Smart Growth?

City Hall's plan for the future expects you to give up the yard, the car - and learn to love density

Good Council

Bill Rosendahl

Will You Marinade Me?

Hot spots for barbecuing

Memoirs of a Bum

Unstable reminiscences, 1980–1989

Letters

Ask Mr. Gold

Ask Mr. Gold

Letters

On the Beach: What Happened at Tower 53

Redistricting Revulsion

Ruth Galanter, meet the San Fernando Valley

New Music

The Westside of the Eastside

La Luz de Jesus, Pink and Circle Elephant Art

Swap This

Sweet deal goes sour for Galanter and her Playa pals

Playa’s Problems

City wants answers to methane questions before approving money for massive project

The Last Stand

Anti-Playa forces roll the dice again

Under the Surface

Playa Vista’s earthquake fault and pockets of methane

Dog Day Afternoon

Tube steak or not tube steak? That is the question . . .