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April 1, 2013
West Hollywood Bans Flannel
After weeks of controversy and much public comment, the West Hollywood City Council gave final approval last night to its ban on flannel. This ban comes hot on the heels of West Hollywood's ban on fur sales, voted into law in 2012 and effective earlier this year. One important difference is that th ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2013
Santa Monica Boulevard Shut Down In West Hollywood After Vault Blows
Santa Monica Boulevard, once a lifeline called Route 66, remained closed in West Hollywood this morning following an electrical vault mishap, authorities said. The problem came up at 6:45 a.m. and prompted the L.A. County Fire Department to respond, officials said. Although West Hollywood sheriff's ... More >>
Blogs
March 6, 2013
West Hollywood Municipal Election Results: Voters Defy Political Establishment and Approve Term Limits for City Council
In one of those odd twists on election night, West Hollywood voters gave City Council incumbents Jeff Prang and John Duran another four years, but then solidly approved a term limits ballot measure for the City Council by more than 1,000 votes. The passage of Measure C is a major blow to the West H ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2013
West Hollywood City Council and Term Limits Races Turn Political Scene Upside Down But Voters Get Last Word on Election Day
After months of political contention, West Hollywood voters will decide today if term limits for City Council members should be approved and if incumbents Jeff Prang and John Duran should be re-elected. Former Councilman Steve Martin, a front-running challenger, wants to replace either Duran or Pran ... More >>
Blogs
February 20, 2013
West Hollywood Terms Limits Ballot Measure Wins Big Endorsements from Politicos John D'Amico and Sam Borelli
Will voters finally put term limits on West Hollywood City Council members, who almost never get voted office and only leave until they die or retire? That's the reality of WeHo politicians' strangle-grip on power, and now community activists are pushing forward Measure C -- the term limits initiati ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2013
More Political Intrigue in West Hollywood City Council Race, But Will Voters Care on Election Day?
Every two years, West Hollywood residents often get a startling look at how their government is actually run via City Council elections, and every two years West Hollywood residents almost always vote for the same people -- if they show up at the voting booths at all. Will this year be any different ... More >>
Blogs
February 5, 2013
Humongous Mall Project Sparks Controversy in West Hollywood City Council Race
WEHOville recently broke a jaw-dropping story that's causing a major stir in West Hollywood and could possibly impact any driver passing through that city on Santa Monica Boulevard, which is already a rush hour nightmare. Developer Charles Cohen, who owns the Pacific Design Center and recently adde ... More >>
Blogs
January 14, 2013
Are Term Limits Good For West Hollywood? Voters to Decide in Upcoming Election
The Los Angeles Times ran a piece about West Hollywood terms limits today. It's filled with the usual, and very simplified, arguments by City Council members John Heilman and Jeff Prang about why terms limits are bad. "The people in West Hollywood are smart enough to know that if there's a council ... More >>
Blogs
December 19, 2012
West Hollywood City Council 2013: Will Comedian Matt Ralston Be a Candidate That Jon Stewart Could Be Proud Of?
West Hollywood always gets crazed when election season rolls around, and this one has been no different. In fact, with a term limit ballot measure added to an already combustible City Council race, 2013 could be one for the history books. So it may be good for everyone that comedian Matt Ralston is ... More >>
Blogs
December 4, 2012
West Hollywood Gay Men Are Sluttiest In Nation
West Hollywood has come a long way since it was incorporated as its own city on the western fringe of Hollywood in 1984. While its Boys' Town strip along Santa Monica Boulevard can still rival New York's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Castro district as the gay capital of America, WeHo is a g ... More >>
Blogs
October 5, 2012
Party With Porn Stars in West Hollywood
There's another campaign battle going on out there, and it definitely doesn't involve Big Bird. (Or maybe it does). The porn industry is fighting a county ballot initiative, Measure B, that would force performers to use condoms on sets in most of L.A. And the smut biz has one thing that the pro-co ... More >>
Blogs
August 30, 2012
West Hollywood Activists Push Hard for Term Limit Petition Drive This Weekend
West Hollywood community activists are pushing hard with their petition drive to place a term-limit measure for the City Council on a 2013 ballot. They have a tight September 25 deadline to get a little over 2,300 signatures from some 23,000 registered voters in the city. If you're a West Hollywood ... More >>
Blogs
August 14, 2012
Marijuana Dispensaries Will Stay Open Despite L.A. Ban, Some Say
When Los Angeles' marijuana dispensary ban takes effect Sept. 6, there will still be plenty of pot shops open, and not just in neighboring cities like West Hollywood and Long Beach. After we called several dispensaries this week we found that many in L.A. proper were planning to stick it out, despi ... More >>
Blogs
August 10, 2012
West Hollywood Activists Take First Step in Placing Term Limits on City Council
West Hollywood community activists Elyse Eisenberg, Scott Schmidt, and Sheila Lightfoot made it official this week: They've filed the paperwork at City Hall to start the process of getting a term limits initiative placed on the March 2013 ballot. "We are asking the City Council to let the voters h ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2012
Assembly District 50: Club Endorsements Up in the Air for Richard Bloom and Betsy Butler
In the always interesting California Assembly District 50 race, new developments are once again unfolding that make us wonder what's happening behind the scenes among local Democratic leaders. Last week, as WeHo News reported, both Democratic candidates Richard Bloom and Betsy Butler, who are battl ... More >>
News
July 26, 2012
West Hollywood's New Fur Ban Could Be a Model for the Nation. But Opponents Are Still Trying to Strike It Down
In the always interesting California Assembly District 50 race, new developments are once again unfolding that make us wonder what's happening behind the scenes among local Democratic leaders. Last week, as WeHo News reported, both Democratic candidates Richard Bloom and Betsy Butler, who are battl ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2012
'Latent Images': ONE Archive Connects Past Queer Culture with Today's
On Saturday, July 28, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives will have an opening reception in West Hollywood for a new exhibit, Latent Images. It features the contemporary photography of Leah DeVun along with images from ONE's vast collection of gay and lesbian art. The exhibit connects queer culture ... More >>
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June 7, 2012
Pssssst: L.A. -- Your Pride Is Showing
On Saturday, July 28, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives will have an opening reception in West Hollywood for a new exhibit, Latent Images. It features the contemporary photography of Leah DeVun along with images from ONE's vast collection of gay and lesbian art. The exhibit connects queer culture ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2012
West Hollywood City Council Considers Painting Crosswalks Rainbow
[Update: Lucas John, a well-known power gay about town who runs the WeHo Confidential news/gossip blog, says he's the one responsible for proposing the rainbow crosswalks. On May 15, he did tag multiple City Councilmembers in a post suggesting WeHo copy the Tel Aviv crosswalks. Duvander, however, sa ... More >>
Blogs
May 25, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
May 4, 2012
USC Hosts Weekend Seminar to Educate Current Politicians on Ethics, Transparency; L.A. Mayor Attends Kentucky Derby Instead
The University of Southern California isn't just for strapping young scholars anymore. Today and tomorrow, the USC Price School of Public Policy begins an ongoing series of classes that will school current politicians in "public transparency and ethics, leadership, governance and environmental polic ... More >>
Blogs
March 13, 2012
Samantha Scarano Arrested For Allegedly Setting Fire to Ex-Roommate's West Hollywood Apartment
The woman alleged to have started a fire in the apartment of her ex-roommate in West Hollywood this month was nabbed by cops this week, sheriff's officials announced today. They ID'd her as 25 year-old Samantha Scarano, who was booked on suspicion of attempted murder, according to an L.A. County Sh ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2012
Prop. 8 Ruling: Los Angeles, West Hollywood to Host Celebration Rallies Tonight
Surely you've heard the good news by now: Proposition 8 was just overturned by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. And, though the religious zealots at ProtectMarriage will inevitably appeal that decision, it's definitely time to take this Internet party to the streets. LGBT advocates and city o ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2012
Abigaile, Kitchen 24 to Open Monday
Monday, Feb. 6, sees two restaurant openings: Abigaile in Hermosa Beach and Kitchen 24 in West Hollywood. Like a phoenix, Abigaile rises from the ashes of Union Cattle Co., which closed in January. Same owner (Jed Sanford), new concept (upscale American brasserie), new chef (Max DiMare of Wood Taver ... More >>
Calendar
February 2, 2012
Power to the Poster
Monday, Feb. 6, sees two restaurant openings: Abigaile in Hermosa Beach and Kitchen 24 in West Hollywood. Like a phoenix, Abigaile rises from the ashes of Union Cattle Co., which closed in January. Same owner (Jed Sanford), new concept (upscale American brasserie), new chef (Max DiMare of Wood Taver ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2011
Hamburger Hamlet, a West Hollywood Institution, Closes for Good
They ran out of beer the last night the Hamburger Hamlet in West Hollywood was open. They ran out of a lot of things in the final hours on Dec. 19, after 51 years in business.The original Hamlet, a rarity at which African-Americans were hired as waitstaff in the still-segregated '60s, stood just ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2011
West Hollywood City Council: Will John Duran and John D'Amico Bring Change in 2012?
Ted SoquiWeHo City Council member John D'AmicoWe're all for protecting bicyclists, the humane treatment of puppies, reasonably guarding the health of restaurant and bar workers against second-hand smoke, and many of the other feel-good, headline-grabbing ordinances the five members of the We ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2011
Kitchen 24 West Hollywood Opening
Courtesy of SpacecraftA CG rendition of Kitchen 24 in West Hollywood.A few more details about the new Kitchen 24 outpost in West Hollywood. Co-owned by Dave Dickerson, who's also a partner in Fairfax coffee shop Commissary (one of our favorite mid-summer affogato stops), the newest Kitchen 24 ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2011
West Hollywood's Fur Ban: Is it Unlawful?
The West Hollywood City Council banned the sale of fur the other week to worldwide headlines, and now the politically correct city is feeling the backlash. Animal rights activists cooed over the new ordinance, but the West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and retailers are enraged, with some merchants ... More >>
Blogs
September 29, 2011
West Hollywood Library, an Edward Fickett Artifact, Demolished Days Before Grand Opening of New $64 Million Version
West Hollywood City Councilmembers and their right-hand planning staff have a history of imposing their own architectural desires on the LGBT townspeople. You'd think, in a town of gays, you could find someone with a little taste (and we mean that in the best way possible). But no: In this rapidly ... More >>
Calendar
September 22, 2011
The More the Scarier!
West Hollywood City Councilmembers and their right-hand planning staff have a history of imposing their own architectural desires on the LGBT townspeople. You'd think, in a town of gays, you could find someone with a little taste (and we mean that in the best way possible). But no: In this rapidly ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2011
West Hollywood Fur Ban Passed by Council: WeHo to Become Nation's First Fur-Free City
Oh no you didn't.Fancy L.A. ladies looking to add some baby seal to their fall collections, or hipsters sniffing out their own clip-on foxtail in the Burning Man/Wiz Khalifa tradition, won't be welcome in West Hollywood anymore. The city tentatively approved an ordinance last night that will ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2011
Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day is Official in West Hollywood
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Blogs
September 7, 2011
Fashion's Night Out Los Angeles: A Tacky Evening at the Mall?
Why is L.A.'s Fashion's Night Out event at the Beverly Center? Starting tomorrow, September 8, Fashion's Night Out is making a return to Los Angeles, where retailers will keep their doors open late and the fashion forward crowd will be out to party and shop. It's a big deal in New York City a ... More >>
Blogs
September 6, 2011
Burger Lounge Looks to Culver City
Guzzle & NoshBurger Lounge in West Hollywood.San Diego chain Burger Lounge, which is preparing to open its first Los Angeles location, is looking at opening a second location, possibly in the Santa Maria Barbeque space in Culver City. The first L.A. outpost, located on the sunset Strip in We ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2011
West Hollywood is California's Most Walkable City?
Nichole O'Connor.Walking in WeHo.West Hollywood was named the "Most Walkable" city in California. It's 89 out of 100 score for walkable amenities even beat out San Francisco and New York, the two major cities that duked it out for top honors (New York won). Makes you wonder if the company th ... More >>
Blogs
July 14, 2011
Venice Bar Report: Roosterfish
Katherine Sheehan The Place: Roosterfish, 1302 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice; 310-392-2123. The Hours: 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Daily. The Digs: A 2009 LA Weekly Best of Award entitled "Best Escape From West Hollywood" put it well: "Sometimes it's good, even necessary, to take a break from the glam ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2011
O Bar Closing in West Hollywood
Anne FishbeinA dish at O Bar.After eight years in business, popular West Hollywood restaurant O Bar will close. Located on Santa Monica Boulevard near Crescent Heights in the heart of West Hollywood, the popular Mediterranean restaurant will close after Sunday, July 3. It will be replaced ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2011
Yes, Madonna, You Can Legally Vogue at The Abbey in West Hollywood
Madonna can now "vogue" at The AbbeyWest Hollywood still ain't quite Calabasas yet, at least not after last night's decision by the city's planning commission to allow dancing at the world's best gay bar, The Abbey. After the West Hollywood Planning Commission failed to act in May to grant ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2011
West Hollywood City Hall, With Severe Case of New York Penis Envy, Pays $2.6 Million for Space-Age Stacked Parking (VIDEO)
Car, meet Robot.The suave, sophisticated WeHo aesthetic is about to get even sillier -- with a $2.6 million Unitronics parking garage. According to City News Service, it uses "computer-controlled lifts and conveyors to move vehicles into parking spaces." Yay for robots! Mayor John Duran is a ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2011
Despite Claims By 'Family-Friendly' Forces, West Hollywood is Getting Older (Older!), Not Younger
Ted SoquiWeHo City Councilman John HeilmanUpdate: NBCLosAngeles.com runs with WeHo Patch billboard story with no hard facts. More after jump. We keep hearing how West Hollywood needs to be more "family-friendly" -- from WeHo's Arts and Cultural Affairs commissioners to West Hollywood City C ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2011
West Hollywood vs. Lakeview, Chicago: Will the Real 'Boystown' Please Stand Up?
WeHo NewsCan we out-rainbow Chicago?There's a battle of the gayborhoods going down between West Hollywood and Lakeview, and we're all invited! The territorial blog-off started when West Hollywood resident Larry Block proposed that the city officially designate the stretch of Santa Monica Bou ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2011
Despite Controversy, No Children Harmed at Tom of Finland's West Hollywood Erotic Art Fair
Issues of "Physique Pictorial" were sold at WeHo-LA Erotic Art FairThe 16th Annual West Hollywood - Los Angeles Erotic Art Fair went off without a hitch this past weekend, and the kids, as far as we know, are perfectly alright. Earlier in the year, members of the West Hollywood Arts and Cult ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2011
West Hollywood 2011 City Council Election: Vote Not Completed, Abbe Land, John D'Amico and John Heilman in Lead
Update: New figures and analysis on WeHo City Council race. Since approximately 930 provisional ballots still need to be verified and counted, the hotly contested West Hollywood City Council race cannot be called tonight. So far, 522 votes separate first place Councilwoman Abbe Land from ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2011
West Hollywood 2011 City Council Election: Challenging Candidates Cast Ballots, Urge Voters To Do Same
UPDATE: Voter turnout may be much higher than in 2009. Polls in WeHo are closed. More after jump. UPDATE: Steady flow of voters at WeHo polling stations, with turnout expected to pick up after 5:30 p.m. More after jump. West Hollywood City Council candidates Mito Aviles and Scott Schmidt h ... More >>
Blogs
March 6, 2011
Big Billboards Equal Big Issue for West Hollywood Elections: Watch Out For Measure A
BanBillboardBlight.orgMeasure A: the Trojan Horse of tall wall billboards for WeHoOriginally posted 3/2/11: See update at the end of the post: Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and Congressman Henry Waxman both oppose Measure A. Measure A is expected to bring several hundred new voters out to the p ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2011
Mark Gonzaga, West Hollywood Candidate: Renters' Rights Advocate Seeks to Pull Off Major Upset Victory
WeHo City Council candidate Mark GonzagaRead the latest L.A. Weekly news story about WeHo's hotly contested City Council race: "West Hollywood Incumbents Dig In." As an apartment renter in West Hollywood, City Council candidate Mark Gonzaga knows what it's like to deal with difficult landlo ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2011
West Hollywood: Political Ad Tells WeHo Residents to Read, Vote & Kick Out Incumbents
Park LaBrea News/Beverly Press advertisementSomeone sure wants change in West Hollywood, taking out a quarter page advertisement in the March 3 issue of the Park La Brea News/Beverly Press that features two L.A. Weekly cover stories. But there's no need to Google. You can find the exposes r ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2011
Scott Schmidt, West Hollywood Candidate: Gay Republican Tried to Stop Prop. 8, Now Aims to Unseat Incumbent John Heilman
WeHo City Council candidate Scott SchmidtIn West Hollywood, City Council candidate Scott Schmidt is apparently getting the reputation as the guy who worked harder to try to defeat Proposition 8 than incumbents John Heilman, Abbe Land, and Lindsey Horvath -- combined. Schmidt sent out a camp ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2011
Lucas John, West Hollywood City Council Candidate: Meth Addiction More Pressing Issue Than Banning Fur
Jennie WarrenWeHo candidate Lucas John, with his pet poodle Forget all that talk on the campaign trail about a "fur free" West Hollywood... City Council candidate Lucas John wants to ban the sale of crystal meth pipes. If elected, the 28-year-old challenger tells L.A. Weekly, "I'm going to ... More >>
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