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West Hollywood

  • News

    May 24, 2012

    Democratic War for L.A.'s Richest

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

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Craft Beer Crawl, Brew At The Zoo, Hudson Block Party, Porchetta Roast, Perfectasy

    Guzzle & NoshA berr sampler. Drink up.​Los Angeles Craft Beer Crawl With a beer selection curated by The Beer Chicks, you can hit seven downtown bars -- Golden Gopher, Seven Grand, Cole's, Las Perlas , Casey's, Caña and Broadway Bar -- to sample over 50 beers from 26 breweries including Alla ... More >>

  • News

    March 10, 2011

    West Hollywood Spending

    Guzzle & NoshA berr sampler. Drink up.​Los Angeles Craft Beer Crawl With a beer selection curated by The Beer Chicks, you can hit seven downtown bars -- Golden Gopher, Seven Grand, Cole's, Las Perlas , Casey's, Caña and Broadway Bar -- to sample over 50 beers from 26 breweries including Alla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    West Hollywood City Manager Paul Arevalo Appears To Be Second Big Spender in City Credit Card Scandal

    City of West HollywoodWeHo City Manager Paul Arevalo made $309,186 in 2009 -- apparently not enough to cover meals​Updated after the jump: Fran Solomon, the other cardholder, was so not having us at last night's City Council meeting. Also, the candidates' final words! Update: West Hollywood e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Democratic Boss Eric Bauman to L.A. Weekly: Your Paper is 'Trash'

    Democratic boss Eric Bauman​Los Angeles County Democratic Party Chairman Eric Bauman ripped into L.A. Weekly at a West Hollywood/Beverly Hills Democratic Club meeting last night. He was apparently steaming over our cover story, "Dethroning West Hollywood's Martinets." According to West Holly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2011

    West Hollywood Councilwoman Lindsey Horvath Invokes Arizona Shootings To Win Votes?

    West Hollywood City Councilwoman Lindsey Horvath​West Hollywood City Councilwoman Lindsey Horvath apparently thinks that West Hollywood's lively political culture is destined for a major tragedy if she's not elected and can help tone things down. During a West Hollywood candidate's forum on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    Term Limits Hot Button Issue at West Hollywood City Council Debate, Incumbents Oppose Them

    West Hollywood City Council candidate Mito Aviles​Term limits for West Hollywood City Council members was the hot button issue at a candidates' forum held at the West Hollywood Park Auditorium last night. Nearly all challenging candidates supported term limits while incumbents Abbe Land and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Prop. 8 Stay May Be Lifted Today, West Hollywood Ready to Marry Gay Couples

    Ted SoquiGay marriage supporter in West Hollywood last week.​U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker will issue a ruling today on whether or not he will continue a stay on his Proposition 8 decision, which found the anti-gay marriage ballot measure to be unconstitutional. If Walker lifts the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Same-Sex Marriages To Resume In California Next Week: Federal Judge Lifts Stay On Decision Overturning Prop. 8

    Via TwitpicCelebration earlier this month at San Francisco City Hall.​ By Dennis Romero and Patrick Range McDonald, with reporting by Steve La from Norwalk Updated with reporting from the county clerk's office. First posted at 12:40 p.m. U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker on Thursday mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    Prop. 8 Stay Messes With Big Wedding Day in West Hollywood

    Patrick Range McDonaldWest Hollywood officials celebrate gay weddings in June, 2008.​Unlike the summer of 2008, the city of West Hollywood doesn't plan to hold a major ceremony if U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker lifts his stay on the Proposition 8 ruling, which would allow gay and les ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2010

    CNN To Televise West Hollywood Rally for Prop. 8 Ruling

    WeHo NewsThe Abbey in West Hollywood​As expected, national and local news outlets are setting up in West Hollywood, ready to televise reactions to today's ruling for the Proposition 8 federal trial. The ruling will be handed down sometime between 1 and 3 p.m. this afternoon. A CNN truck as w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2010

    Will More West Hollywood News Outlets Mean Increased Scrutiny for Local Politicians?

    The Sunset Strip in West Hollywood​LAist noted the other day that West Hollywood now has three "media outlets" training their eyes exclusively on the small, 1.9-square-mile city. It's the kind of thing that makes one wonder if West Hollywood politicians will now come under more scrutiny? At ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Sunset Boulevard In West Hollywood To Shut Down Today For Hotel Workers' Demonstration

    ​As if traffic is not bad enough: Unionized hotel workers planned to block a stretch of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood Thursday in protest of job cuts and elimination of health care benefits at Hyatt Hotels, which has a property at the targeted location. In reaction, authorities granted th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    Valet Killed: West Hollywood Club Shooting Caught On Video

    ​A valet at a West Hollywood nightclub was fatally shot early Monday after two groups of party-goers got into a fracas. The man was apparently not the target of the gunman. KNX 1070 Newsradio reports that two other people were wounded in the attack. The shooting outside Guys & Dolls in the 87 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/10-5/14

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The bar side of the brasserie has superb cocktails; the crowd oozes and expands and breaks off into little budlets like the amoebas in documentaries you may remember from fifth-grade science class, and the cheese list, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Does West Hollywood Want Wide-Sweeping Smoking Ban?

    While West Hollywood City Council members have been considering such highly-publicized measures as boycotting Arizona due to its controversial immigration law and taking a stand against commercial whaling, some of those same politicians seem to be quietly pushing a wide-sweeping, anti-smoking agenda ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Suspect Arrested for West Hollywood Target Stabbings

    When you think of a violent rampage happening inside one of those big box stores, you don't necessarily think of that kind of thing happening in West Hollywood.  But that's exactly what happened a few hours ago.Target Store in West Hollywood​The details are still sketchy, but according to Cit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    The Original West Hollywood Pinkberry Closes After 5 Years

    Flickr/wEnDaLiciousKiwi and Captain Crunch topped Frozen Yogurt at Pinkberry​In a symbolic close, the original West Hollywood Pinkberry store that kicked off the national froyo craze -- and came to be affectionately known as "Crackberry" -- stopped swirling last week. The location will be tran ... More >>

  • News

    April 8, 2010

    Say It Ain't So, WeHo!

    Flickr/wEnDaLiciousKiwi and Captain Crunch topped Frozen Yogurt at Pinkberry​In a symbolic close, the original West Hollywood Pinkberry store that kicked off the national froyo craze -- and came to be affectionately known as "Crackberry" -- stopped swirling last week. The location will be tran ... More >>

  • News

    April 1, 2010

    West Follywood

    How a progressive town founded on renters' rights and diversity ended up gridlocked, angry and elitist

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    West Hollywood Councilman Gets Behind Full Legalization Of Pot

    West Hollywood city Councilman John Duran.​A West Hollywood city councilman says he's the first politician in Southern California to support a statewide initiative that would legalize marijuana for recreational use. The ballot measure, which appears to have enough signatures but which has not ... 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

    November 17, 2009

    West Hollywood's Pot Ordinance Could Be A Smoke Screen

    The Los Angeles City Council this week is looking at West Hollywood's regulation of medical marijuana dispensaries as a model for its own long-awaited ordinance, which will target the 800 or so pot shops registered in the city.​ On Monday two council committees directed city staff members to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    Queer Town: California Supreme Court Upholds Proposition 8

    Patrick Range McDonaldAnti-Prop. 8 marcher in Westwood in November, 2008.In an unsurprising ruling, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8 today. As for the fate of approximately 18,000 legally married same sex couples, the supreme court decided they remain valid. Chief Justice Ronald Geo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    Waiting for a Decision: Will State Court Overturn Prop 8?

    California's State Supreme Court begins hearing arguments for and against overturning Proposition 8, the same-sex marriage ban approved by voters last November. The state's high court will issue its decision within 90 days. The San Francisco proceedings, based on three separate cases challenging the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2009

    Stylist Makeover For Employees at LA's Latest Fashion Hotel

    The old Hyatt West Hollywood (unofficially known as "the riot house") on the Sunset Strip is re-opening this January 8 as the Andaz West Hollywood. It's employees won't be wearing just any old thing, however. WWD reports that management brought in a stylist to school employees on fashion. Instead of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2008

    A Changing of the Guard at the Westwood March

    Fore more photos, view Ted Soqui's Westwood protest slideshow. Related Posts: Patrick Range McDonald's "The Last, Passionate Rant of a Long Night in West Hollywood" Patrick Range McDonald's "The Long March to the Mormon Temple" Joe Donnelly's "Election 08: What Happens To A Dream Deferred? Prop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2008

    Queer Town: The Personal Choices of Proposition 8

    Election Day comes tomorrow, and I'm sitting on the couch in my West Hollywood apartment on an early Monday morning with Antony & the Johnsons playing on the stereo. The volume is not too loud, Antony sings in a quivering voice about dreams coming true, and, after covering Proposition 8 for the past ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 30, 2008

    How Do They Walk in Those Heels?

    Election Day comes tomorrow, and I'm sitting on the couch in my West Hollywood apartment on an early Monday morning with Antony & the Johnsons playing on the stereo. The volume is not too loud, Antony sings in a quivering voice about dreams coming true, and, after covering Proposition 8 for the past ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 30, 2008

    Who's Your Organ?

    Election Day comes tomorrow, and I'm sitting on the couch in my West Hollywood apartment on an early Monday morning with Antony & the Johnsons playing on the stereo. The volume is not too loud, Antony sings in a quivering voice about dreams coming true, and, after covering Proposition 8 for the past ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2008

    Queer Town: Good Craziness in West Hollywood

    At West Hollywood Park, across the street from the Pacific Design Center, Mayor Jeff Prang stood underneath the shade of a palm tree in a navy blue suit with a gold-and-blue striped tie. He had been talking to journalists from all over the world and needed to take a breather before the press confere ... More >>

  • News

    May 22, 2008

    California GOP: The Queer Enablers of Gay Marriage

    How Republicans accomplished what the Dems could not

  • Columns

    February 15, 2007

    Smoked Out

    Joint interviews with a medical-pot pharmacist and a neighbor who says, Not in My Schoolyard.

  • News

    May 25, 2006

    The Activist Candidates

    WeHo’s legacy is at stake in this Assembly race

  • News

    June 9, 2005

    A Toke for the High Court

    Stress for the medical-weed movement

  • News

    December 9, 2004

    Letters

    Stress for the medical-weed movement

  • News

    November 25, 2004

    Queerville, USA

    The free-wheeling colony makes it to 20

  • News

    November 25, 2004

    Gay Camelot

    The 20-year brief, shining moment

  • News

    November 25, 2004

    Minister of Marijuana

    Scott Imler’s war with Ashcroft over the cannabis center

  • News

    November 25, 2004

    Model City

    West Hollywood and the growing pains of rent control

  • News

    March 11, 2004

    No Wedding Bells in WeHo

    West Hollywood struggles to keep up with San Francisco

  • News

    January 8, 2004

    Letters

    West Hollywood struggles to keep up with San Francisco

  • Supplement

    December 11, 2003

    Founding Fathers and Renters

    Why West Hollywood still matters

  • Stage

    May 1, 2003

    Soliciting Customers

    Why West Hollywood still matters

  • News

    July 5, 2001

    Living With AIDS

    Helping people is never quite as easy as it seems

  • News

    April 13, 2000

    Small City, Big Plans

    West Hollywood struggles through the chaos of reconstruction

  • News

    April 13, 2000

    Community & Government Services

    West Hollywood struggles through the chaos of reconstruction

  • News

    April 13, 2000

    Health Services

    West Hollywood struggles through the chaos of reconstruction

  • Stage

    April 8, 1999

    Party Mix

    Comedy and messages from the gay stage

  • Supplement

    November 26, 1998

    1984 Timeline

    Comedy and messages from the gay stage

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