A campaign to ban the sale of fur in the city of West Hollywood kicked off Jan. 29 with a rally at Matthew Shepard Triangle Memorial Park. “Fur Free Weho” is a six-week campaign running until the election on March 8, and is designed to bring awareness of the group’s push for an ordinance to ban the sale of fur in West Hollywood. [caption id="attachment_4267" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Members of Fur Free WeHo demonstrated at the Matthew Shepard Triangle on Jan. 29 to launch their campaign. (photo courtesy of Ellen Lavinthal)"][/caption] “People don’t know about how bad it is to wear fur and that ...
During Gov. Jerry Brown’s inaugural address, he declared the year ahead will demand courage and sacrifice, noting his budget will be painful. [caption id="attachment_4272" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Hollywood & Highland center was one of the projects that the CRA/LA helped build in Hollywood. (photo by Edwin Folven)"][/caption] In his proposed budget, Brown is planning to close down all of the Community Redevelopment Agencies (CRA) statewide, using their $5 billion budget for essential local government services. Meanwhile, pundits and politicians statewide are rolling up their sleeves preparing to duke it out amidst the billions of dollars on the line, including approximately $930 million ...
Long-distance relationships have a reputation for failing and that’s what happened to University of Southern California film student A.J. Goodrich. He planned to walk across the country from Los Angeles to New York, where his boyfriend David was working as a stage manager. Goodrich planned to speak in support of gay-marriage in cities along the way and eventually get married in Boston, filming the trip to serve as Goodrich’s thesis film. But the couple broke up over the summer, when the distance proved to be too much to overcome. However, that did not derail Goodrich’s plan to walk across the ...
Summer vacation will be shorter this year for students in elementary schools operated by the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, which has announced plans to extend the school year by 20 days. [caption id="attachment_4288" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Parent Kathleen Lee, whose two daughters attend Cathedral Chapel School, said she supports the change in the school calendar. (photo by Edwin Folven)"][/caption] According to Carolina Guevara, associate director of media relations for the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the plan is moving forward, and administrators at the individual schools will be in charge of deciding exactly how to implement the change, depending on their needs. ...
The Fairfax girls’ basketball team had a great season last year, but it ended after a loss in the first round of the CIF City Section Division I playoffs to Dorsey High School. [caption id="attachment_4297" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="Fairfax High School girls basketball coach Judi Edwards said the team has the talent this year to go all the way. (photo by Rafael Guerrero)"][/caption] “It was a game we should have won,” said Judi Edwards, head coach for Fairfax High. “But they looked past Dorsey because they beat them earlier in the year in a scrimmage and it cost us the game.” The loss may ...
By Rafael Guerrero, 2/03/2011
Protesters in WeHo Seek Ordinance to Ban Fur Sales
A campaign to ban the sale of fur in the city of West Hollywood kicked off Jan. 29 with a rally at Matthew Shepard Triangle Memorial Park. “Fur Free Weho” is a six-week campaign running until the election on March 8, and is designed to bring awareness of the group’s push for an ordinance to [...]
By Jose Martinez, 2/03/2011
Opposition Mounts in Los Angeles
During Gov. Jerry Brown’s inaugural address, he declared the year ahead will demand courage and sacrifice, noting his budget will be painful. In his proposed budget, Brown is planning to close down all of the Community Redevelopment Agencies (CRA) statewide, using their $5 billion budget for essential local government services. Meanwhile, pundits and politicians [...]
By Rafael Guerrero, 2/03/2011
Team to Document Trek in Support of Same-Sex Marriage
Long-distance relationships have a reputation for failing and that’s what happened to University of Southern California film student A.J. Goodrich. He planned to walk across the country from Los Angeles to New York, where his boyfriend David was working as a stage manager. Goodrich planned to speak in support of gay-marriage in cities along the [...]
By Edwin Folven, 2/03/2011
Archdiocese Lengthens School Year by 20 Days
Summer vacation will be shorter this year for students in elementary schools operated by the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, which has announced plans to extend the school year by 20 days. According to Carolina Guevara, associate director of media relations for the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the plan is moving forward, and administrators [...]
By Rafael Guerrero, 2/03/2011
Team Hopes to Overcome Last Year’s Post-Season Loss
The Fairfax girls’ basketball team had a great season last year, but it ended after a loss in the first round of the CIF City Section Division I playoffs to Dorsey High School. “It was a game we should have won,” said Judi Edwards, head coach for Fairfax High. “But they looked past Dorsey because [...]
By Edwin Folven, 2/03/2011
Olympia Physician Assists Patients in Honduras
Dr. Steve Schwartz, a podiatrist at Olympia Medical Center, has taken his desire to help people with debilitating foot problems outside of the office and operating room, and even outside of the U.S. border. Schwartz recently returned from a trip to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where he was part of a team of 25 physicians and surgical [...]
By Edwin Folven, 2/03/2011
J.H. Snyder Co. Hopes to Start Work this Summer
The J.H Snyder Company, a development firm based in the Miracle Mile area, is planning to build two residential towers on a vacant lot at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Vermont Avenue. The project is designed to revitalize that portion of Wilshire Boulevard in the Wilshire Center/Koreatown area and infuse it with new residential [...]
By Edwin Folven, 2/03/2011
Actor and comedian Adam Sandler received the 2,431st star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Feb. 1 in the category of Motion Pictures. The ceremony coincided with the release of his new film, “Just Go With It”, on Feb. 11. Sandler has starred in numerous films, including “Happy Gilmore”, “Little Nicky”, “Billy Madison”, [...]
By Jill Weinlein, 2/03/2011
Creative Italian Bites and Cocktails
While working in a high rise building on San Vicente Boulevard in Brentwood, during the late 1980s, I frequented the restaurant, Toscana. It was a block from my office and the maitre’d, Francesco Greco, always welcomed my guests and me warmly. He treated us as family with a friendly smile and a heartfelt hug. I [...]
By Jill Weinlein, 2/03/2011
Ladies Brunch Girlfriends looking for a fun get together, can meet at The Beverly Hilton on Feb.13 to enjoy a champagne brunch at Circa 55 and choose either a 30-minute massage or a 30-minute facial for $99 per person. 9876 Wilshire Blvd. (310)274-7777. Off Vine’s Valentine Menu Cozy up inside one of Hollywood’s most romantic restaurants [...]
By Tim Posada, 2/03/2011
Cinematic corporate downsizing is our generation’s “Grapes of Wrath”, without the corporate muscle subduing union voices. Life, the Depression, we’ve still got a similar malcontent regarding immigrant populations (sadly a standard that has survived the test of time), and plenty of rich people who make a few key decisions that can cost the jobs of [...]
By Edwin Folven, 2/03/2011
A Los Angeles Unified School District Police Department officer who claimed that an armed assailant had shot him while he was on patrol near a school in Woodland Hills on Jan. 19 has been charged with filing a false police report after investigators determined he fabricated the story. In addition to facing the felony charge, [...]
By Edwin Folven, 2/03/2011
Detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department’s Olympic Division are searching for two suspects who shot a business owner on Jan. 24 during an attempted robbery. The incident occurred around 3:30 p.m., when the two suspects entered a cellular phone business located in the 2800 block of James M. Wood Boulevard. One suspect was armed [...]
By Edwin Folven, 2/03/2011
A transient who was convicted of kidnapping a six-year-old girl from a bus was sentenced on Jan. 27 to five years in state prison, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Terry Bork sentenced James John Thomas, 60, who pleaded no contest to one count of kidnapping with [...]
By Rafael Guerrero, 1/27/2011
Fairfax High Students Trained as Safe School Ambassadors
Bullying and mistreatment of students has evolved with the rise of Facebook, Twitter and other social media. No longer is the school bully limited to using brute force and intimidation but that does not mean those problems don’t exist. Fairfax High School held the Safe School Ambassadors program this week to teach students how to [...]
By Edwin Folven, 1/27/2011
Incumbent LaBonge Faces Two Challengers
The race for city council representative for the 4th District went into full swing on Jan. 22 when incumbent Councilmember Tom LaBonge officially launched his campaign. Three candidates are vying for the council seat, and they are all Democrats. LaBonge has represented the 4th District since 2001, when he was elected during a special [...]
By Edwin Folven, 1/27/2011
Open Enrollment for Healthcare Runs Through March 1
Parents with children who have pre-existing medical conditions can obtain health insurance for the children through a state program expanding upon provisions of the federal Healthcare Reform Act. State Assemblymember Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles) and State Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones held a press conference outside of Childrens Hospital in Hollywood on Wednesday to remind parents [...]
By Rafael Guerrero, 1/27/2011
Garcetti Proposes Ban on Carrying Guns in Public
In the wake of the recent shootings in Tucson, Ariz. and at Gardena High School in Los Angeles, gun control has become a hot button issue across the country. As a result, Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti, 13th District, introduced a motion on Jan. 21 to ban the “open carry” of handguns in [...]
By Edwin Folven, 1/27/2011
New Change Will Allow 100 Shops to Stay Open
The Los Angeles City Council approved revisions to its medical marijuana ordinance on Jan. 21 that will create a lottery to determine how many dispensaries will be issued permits to remain open for business. The decision is the latest twist in the saga involving the city’s medical marijuana ordinance, which went into effect last June [...]
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