It's a long way from Bethlehem, homie. More than two thousand years* after the birth of Jesus, and at least 7,500 miles away in Venice, Calif., you're m...
Paul Anthony "Tonan" Ruiz's wheels are parked inside his girlfriend's apartment — five skateboard decks stacked vertically against a wall, a hand's reach from the front door. The boards are battered, ridden, worn transportation. Ruiz, to steal Jay Adams' mantra, is 100 percent skateboarder for life. At 43 years old,......
With all 73 Los Angeles libraries shuttered two days a week, targeted by the City Council and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in an unprecedented budget-slashing in ...
Oscar Turner, who was Tyler Perry Studios' chief operating officer before running his own Gallery Road Productions, has seen plenty of movies. But he rememb...
Updated Wednesday afternoon with unanimous vote by Coastal Commission. When Heal the Bay waded into Malibu Lagoon to devise a way to "restore" the rebuilt-by-man lagoon, they probably weren't thinking their blue chip environmental credentials might get bogged down in the swamp. An ugly floor fight over the lagoon, which......
Last Saturday, thousands of volunteers gathered for Coastal Cleanup Day, and a couple dozen of them pulled a summer's worth of trash from the Venice Grand C...
When AOL, the digital dinosaur from the Internet's dial-up days, announced its big push into hyperlocal journalism known as Patch, a network of bloglike sit...
The rooftop bar of the Hotel Erwin in Venice has intimate nooks made up of seductive couches, flaming torches, an ocean view — and a million stars as its nighttime ceiling. A back stairway leading from the roof has an entirely different vibe. It's a required exit, the kind found......
There are surf spots north of Los Angeles that offer sets of sweet, peeling summer waves. Protected by jagged cliffs, razor-wire fences, locked gates and equall...
On the surface, Dede Allen's Moviola could have belonged to anyone. Invented for editors to more easily see the films they were piecing together, the device had a small viewing screen mounted to a rolling stand with foot pedals for the editor to control the clips moving through it. What......
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