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Westlake

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    $10 Million L.A. City Loan Benefited Developer Under Federal Investiation

    Google MapsBonnie Brae Village, under construction.​The Los Angeles Housing Department was in hot water Thursday after City Controller Wendy Greuel revealed that a 2008 loan it administered benefited a developer who was under federal investigation for misusing public funds. The $10.3 million ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    Lily Burk's Alleged Killer Charged with New Felony Counts at Preliminary Hearing

    A parolee who is accused of kidnapping and killing a 17-year-old Los Feliz teen was charged today with two new felony counts at a preliminary hearing in downtown Los Angeles. ​ Los Angeles County prosecutors charged 50-year-old Charlie Samuel with one felony count each of carjacking and kid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    Stop the Presses: Tomorrow's National Pastrami Day!

    Langer's, the Westlake institution often considered the best delicatessen in America, is celebrating National Pastrami Day tomorrow, January 14. What this means, I think, is that if you order a pastrami sandwich, they'll serve you one. Mavens often recommend the #19, Langer's double-baked bread la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2009

    Murder was the Case: LA Homicide No. 279, Victim Identified in Westlake Beating

    The male body discovered near the corner of Pico Boulevard and Orchard Avenue in the Westlake area on November 25 has been identified as 49-year-old Humberto Rodriguez. Police officers found Rodriguez's body around 6:40 a.m. View Larger Map Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. The moti ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    August 13, 2009

    Cuban Corn on the Cob, con Clown

    The male body discovered near the corner of Pico Boulevard and Orchard Avenue in the Westlake area on November 25 has been identified as 49-year-old Humberto Rodriguez. Police officers found Rodriguez's body around 6:40 a.m. View Larger Map Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. The moti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2009

    Ask Mr. Gold: Cuban Corn on the Cob, Con Clown

    Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menuDear Mr. Gold: Okay, so I just got back from New York, where I ate, for the first time in my life and hopefully not my last, this Cuban corn on the cob on a stick with cheese and spices and lime. Where in Los Angeles can I find this? --Dave, Wes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2009

    Stage Raw: bobrauschenbergamerica

    The latest NEW REVIEWS are embedded in this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, this week's STAGE FEATURE on improvised musicalsBOBRAUSCHENBERGAMERICA, AND THEATER IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS​Photo by Josh HeislerTheatricians Theater Group -- a new company consisting of mostly university students and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    Fingerprints Link Parolee to Murder of Lily Burk, 17

    The Los Angeles Police Department held a packed, late-morning press conference today, one day after they arrested a former convict who had been on parole since last August. Charlie Samuel, 50, has been charged with the murder of Lily Burk, 17. Detectives received confirmation Saturday that latent fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    LAPD: "Parolee Charlie Samuel killed Lily Burk"

    The Los Angeles Police Department announced this morning the arrest of 50-year-old Charlie Samuel, a parolee with a history of violence, for the shocking, daylight carjacking murder of 17-year-old Lily Burk. Detectives learned on Saturday that latent fingerprints collected from Lily's car were ex-co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 175, Teenager Found Murdered Downtown

    Lily Belle Burk, 17, was found dead in the passenger seat of her black Volvo 6:30 a.m. Saturday morning. View Larger Map The teenager had left her home in Los Feliz at 2 p.m. to pick up some papers for her mother at Southwestern University School of Law in the Westlake area. Burk had called each of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    New MacArthur Park Blog Debuts

    The new MacArthur Park Media blog is the creation of Westlake neighborhood resident Devin Anna Bosch/Ruido PhotoBrowne, a young journalist whose reporting you may have heard on KPCC and Marketplace, or read in the L.A. Weekly. The site's mission is straightforward enough -- to "tell stories set in a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    Villaraigosa's Million Tree Planting: 55 Down -- 799,945 to Go

    Today Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa helped plant 55 new trees in a Westlake neighborhood as part of his Million Trees L.A. initiative, which aims to plant that many trees in the city. However, a Department of Public Works spokeswoman tells the L.A. Weekly that, since the program began in 2006, only 200 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2009

    Vendor Beware: Street Peddlers Are Vulnerable to Crime, But One Robber Gets Hard Time

    There are no hard figures on whether crime against the county's uncountable street vendors has gone up during the recession, but occasionally there are glimmers of the tough life they endure. Many in places like L.A.'s MacArthur Park neighborhood are forced to pay protection money to gangs and some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2009

    No Good Deed Dept.: L.A. Times' Neighborhood Map Project Gets Flak

    The fact that some L.A. Times readers have treated the newspaper's attempt to map 87 Los Angeles neighborhoods as an act of capricious gerrymandering shows how fluid and volatile are our notions of community boundaries. Angelenos typically cry foul over boundary slights when their addresses, by fall ... More >>

  • Articles

    October 2, 2008

    Best Tranny Bar: The Silver Platter

    The fact that some L.A. Times readers have treated the newspaper's attempt to map 87 Los Angeles neighborhoods as an act of capricious gerrymandering shows how fluid and volatile are our notions of community boundaries. Angelenos typically cry foul over boundary slights when their addresses, by fall ... More >>

  • LA Life

    September 4, 2008

    Absolutely Reagan Heaven: Westlake Village Inn

    Inside the hotel suite where you awake to morning in America

  • Columns

    August 7, 2008

    Living Room On the Street: Public Parking on a Sofas Level

    San Francisco landscape architect takes the indoors outside in L.A. neighborhoods

  • LA Life

    February 28, 2008

    Aquarium Connection: Exotic-Fish Emporium Makes Waves

    Owner Andrew Bunya-Ananta is an industry name at 22

  • News

    May 31, 2007

    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

  • Columns

    May 24, 2007

    May Day Do-Over

    “Curiously, none of the angry protesters that I saw appeared to be actual immigrants.”

  • LA Life

    May 10, 2007

    Reyes Rodriguez

    The artist's epiphany

  • News

    January 25, 2007

    Beat the Press

    And Hoopla: harrumph, hurrah

  • News

    September 28, 2006

    Running on Empty

    And Hoopla: harrumph, hurrah

  • Eat+Drink

    September 21, 2006

    Where to Eat Now

    And Hoopla: harrumph, hurrah

  • News

    July 6, 2006

    Who Goes There?

    L.A. security guards seek more security

  • Art+Books

    April 13, 2006

    I Am Not a Housewife

    Caitlin Flanagan fights the mommy wars

  • Eat+Drink

    January 26, 2006

    South of South of the Border

    Caitlin Flanagan fights the mommy wars

  • Calendar

    December 22, 2005

    Arroz by any Other Name

    Caitlin Flanagan fights the mommy wars

  • Calendar

    August 18, 2005

    Breakfast

    Caitlin Flanagan fights the mommy wars

  • Eat+Drink

    March 24, 2005

    South L.A.

    Caitlin Flanagan fights the mommy wars

  • News

    November 25, 2004

    Tunnel Vision

    The battle over the Belmont graffiti walls

  • Eat+Drink

    July 8, 2004

    Pan-Latin

    The battle over the Belmont graffiti walls

  • News

    October 30, 2003

    Sí, Se Puede!

    L.A.’s new Freedom Riders take their quest for immigrant equality on the road

  • News

    September 25, 2003

    Up On A Roof

    Plan for school playground atop garage has critics hitting ceiling

  • News

    May 15, 2003

    Letters

    Plan for school playground atop garage has critics hitting ceiling

  • News

    December 26, 2002

    Streets, Sweet, Streets

    The battle over the future of L.A.’s Skid Row

  • News

    May 2, 2002

    The L.A. 53

    The battle over the future of L.A.’s Skid Row

  • News

    November 1, 2001

    Pushing the Envelopes

    The battle over the future of L.A.’s Skid Row

  • News

    May 31, 2001

    Politics in the Street

    The debate that matters on gang injunctions

  • News

    May 10, 2001

    Then and Now

    The debate that matters on gang injunctions

  • Stage

    October 26, 2000

    The Circle of Hype

    Can The Lion King save the world?

  • News

    October 26, 2000

    Strike Allies

    Janitors stood by bus drivers

  • News

    October 12, 2000

    Tensions on Board

    Many Latino bus riders at odds with drivers and MTA strike

  • News

    September 7, 2000

    Streetwalkin' Times Woman

    Many Latino bus riders at odds with drivers and MTA strike

  • News

    August 10, 2000

    People’s Podium

    A protester’s guide to the Democratic convention

  • News

    April 13, 2000

    Street vs. Suite

    Why L.A.’s janitors will win their strike

  • News

    March 23, 2000

    Broke on Pay Day

    The life of a $6.80 janitor with two kids

  • Calendar

    May 6, 1999

    Guns and Roses

    The Women of Noir

  • News

    January 21, 1999

    Chained Gang

    Can the city attorney's injunction stop Pico-Union's 18th Street Gang?

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