Jessica Langlois

Best Indie Bookfest

Jessica LangloisSeptember 30, 2015

Spring is book festival season in Los Angeles, and the best place to quench your thirst for local authors and interactive literary activities is downtown. For four years, Grand Park has partnered with indie publisher Writ Large and other local literary organizations to host Downtown Bookfest every March. There's no......

On Television, Finally, Los Angeles Is No Longer Just a Backdrop

Jessica LangloisSeptember 21, 2015

The heat is thick and the air still in a vacant lot off Mulholland Drive in Encino. Under the midday August sun, a cluster of Los Angeles Police Department cars forms a circle around an abandoned Bentley, where a soft-eyed, city-hardened detective discovers the corpse of a San Fernando Valley......

Rose McGowan, Kathleen Hanna and Barbara Kruger Say What's on Their Minds at #YesAllWomen Benefit Art Show

Jessica LangloisSeptember 17, 2015

The hashtag #YesAllWomen first surged through social media a year ago, generating a million tweets within a few days on women’s experiences with violence, abuse and harassment, after the misogynistic manifesto behind the Isla Vista shootings became public. Initially a response to the apologia #NotAllMen, #YesAllWomen was a solidarity movement......

Do You Have to Sue to Get the City of L.A. to Design With Pedestrians in Mind?

Jessica LangloisJuly 14, 2015

Just a few months after agreeing to spend $1.3 billion in sidewalk repairs to settle a lawsuit under the Americans With Disabilities Act, Los Angeles City Hall is facing new legal charges from pedestrian groups. Don Ward and Angelenos for a Great Hyperion Bridge are suing to halt a redesign......

Vote About Glendale-Hyperion Bridge Could Dash Neighbors' Hopes for Better Bike Lanes and Sidewalks

Jessica LangloisJune 9, 2015

As community activists from Los Feliz, Silver Lake, and Atwater Village battle over whether a redesign of Glendale-Hyperion Bridge should be more car-friendly, or more bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly, a Caltrans official's testimony has debunked the city's claim that L.A. would lose several million dollars in design funding if the Los......

A Theater Troupe Is Biking a Play Across the Country

Jessica LangloisMay 28, 2015

What would happen if the California drought caused such degradation that everyone was forced to abandon the West and migrate east? That’s the premise of Oakland-based theater troupe Agile Rascal Traveling Bicycle Theatre's inaugural play, Sunlight on the Brink. But this isn’t your typical slice-of-life apocalyptic drama. The play both......

What's the Best Way to Connect L.A.'s Tri-Hipster Area, With Cars or Bikes?

Jessica LangloisMay 14, 2015

This week, Los Angeles City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell unveiled plans for a new bicycle-pedestrian span connecting Atwater Village to a popular public path along the opposite bank of Los Angeles River, just south of historic Glendale-Hyperion Bridge. Tension was palpable as 50 people unexpectedly materialized at Red Car River Park for......

Carla Fernandez Created a Dinner Circuit for Millennials Who Lost Their Parents Young

Jessica LangloisMay 6, 2015

One of the 54 fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People Issue 2015. Until her senior year of college, Carla Fernandez could talk to her friends about anything — jobs, dating, trips they hoped to take. Then something happened that changed the tenor of those conversations. Fernandez's father, a vintner,......

Tabitha Soren of MTV News Is Now an Artist — and She's Been Photographing Baseball Players

Jessica LangloisApril 25, 2015

For the past five years, Tabitha Soren has been asking people to give her their bone spurs — calcium deposits that grow along joints or bones — ever since a baseball pitcher gave her one he had surgically removed after from a repetitive stress injury. Many will remember Soren as......

Can't Go to Your Friend's Birthday Party? Hire Someone

Jessica LangloisApril 3, 2015

It was Friday the thirteenth, the day before Valentines Day, and DaVette See approached the Red Lion Tavern in Silver Lake with a tingle of nerves running through her body. Her friends couldn’t believe she was doing this. Her husband was worried. He’d gone in separately a few moments before,......

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Jessica Langlois

Best Indie Bookfest

On Television, Finally, Los Angeles Is No Longer Just a Backdrop

Rose McGowan, Kathleen Hanna and Barbara Kruger Say What's on Their Minds at #YesAllWomen Benefit Art Show

Do You Have to Sue to Get the City of L.A. to Design With Pedestrians in Mind?

Vote About Glendale-Hyperion Bridge Could Dash Neighbors' Hopes for Better Bike Lanes and Sidewalks

A Theater Troupe Is Biking a Play Across the Country

What's the Best Way to Connect L.A.'s Tri-Hipster Area, With Cars or Bikes?

Carla Fernandez Created a Dinner Circuit for Millennials Who Lost Their Parents Young

Tabitha Soren of MTV News Is Now an Artist — and She's Been Photographing Baseball Players

Can't Go to Your Friend's Birthday Party? Hire Someone

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