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I’ve done this L.A. walk 400 times. Here’s how it saved me
1 month, 2 weeks ago

I’ve done this L.A. walk 400 times. Here’s how it saved me

LA Times  

“Hello, old friend.” That’s the phrase that popped into my head at the start of my favorite walk recently. This 5.4-mile trek in Griffith Park is a staple of my life in L.A. To date, I’ve traversed it about 400 times, at nearly every time of day, in every season, snaking my way up the hillside as it’s bathed in …

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I walked 27.4 miles across L.A. in one day on Washington Boulevard. Here’s what it taught me
1 month, 2 weeks ago

I walked 27.4 miles across L.A. in one day on Washington Boulevard. Here’s what it taught me

LA Times  

In early October, I walked the 27.4 miles of Washington Boulevard in one day. Minutes later I’m greeted by a sign that reads “If you lived in Pico Rivera, you would be home now!” I trek past tall pepper trees, and the red barn-like Pico Rivera Historical Museum, the classic Dal Rae restaurant where they still make bananas fosters tableside. …

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California sues LA suburb for temporary ban of homeless shelters
1 month, 2 weeks ago

California sues LA suburb for temporary ban of homeless shelters

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy California filed a lawsuit against …

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After a century, concrete plant that helped build L.A. makes way for a deluxe tower
1 month, 3 weeks ago

After a century, concrete plant that helped build L.A. makes way for a deluxe tower

LA Times  

If the new apartment tower had been planned for another plot of land, chances are good the concrete plant in the middle of the city would have helped build it. The Cemex Hollywood Concrete Plant was one of the last industrial businesses operating in West Hollywood, said Jennifer Alkire, the city’s assistant director of community development. The Cemex concrete plant …

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‘La Cocina’ raises the heat on kitchen power dynamics. It’s where Rooney Mara wants to be
1 month, 3 weeks ago

‘La Cocina’ raises the heat on kitchen power dynamics. It’s where Rooney Mara wants to be

LA Times  

I spent 7 years working as a cashier at a fast-food establishment in Southeast Los Angeles before DACA allowed for other options. The same mechanical monster taunts the staff at the Grill, the fictional Times Square restaurant at the center of Mexican writer-director Alonso Ruizpalacios’ “La Cocina,” a black-and-white reimagining of British author Arnold Wesker’s 1957 play “The Kitchen.” Almost …

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L.A. County wants to crack down on corruption. Is it worth up to $21 million?
1 month, 3 weeks ago

L.A. County wants to crack down on corruption. Is it worth up to $21 million?

LA Times  

L.A. County is considering a package of ethics reforms that could cost as much as $21 million, according to a report by county lawyers. “I’m baffled by this.” “We’re not even in the right ballpark,” said Quan, who previously told the county supervisors that he thought the ethics reforms in Measure G were “half-baked.” “If the city could do it …

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Letters to the Editor: L.A. planted the wrong trees, and our broken sidewalks are proof
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: L.A. planted the wrong trees, and our broken sidewalks are proof

LA Times  

To the editor: I share Steve Lopez’s frustration with the city of Los Angeles’ system for sidewalk repairs caused by street trees. Decades ago, city planners made the mistake of choosing fast-growing specimens like the Indian Fig Laurel, which develop massive root systems that raise the ground around the trunk. To the editor: Just days before Lopez’s column about the …

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Did Mayor Karen Bass just save outdoor dining in L.A.?
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Did Mayor Karen Bass just save outdoor dining in L.A.?

LA Times  

After an outcry from city restaurateurs, a pandemic-era outdoor dining program that was set to end Wednesday was given a last-minute reprieve by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. “It’s inspiring and truly thrilling to see the fight from this community be channeled into championing itself.” Before the extension, Wednesday was to be the last day for restaurant owners within Los …

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L.A. wants to make firing bad cops easier. Should the LAPD’s watchdog have a role?
6 months ago

L.A. wants to make firing bad cops easier. Should the LAPD’s watchdog have a role?

LA Times  

The Los Angeles Police Commission is concerned about being left out of a City Council proposal to overhaul the LAPD’s disciplinary system. The Los Angeles Police Department’s much-maligned disciplinary system is on the verge of a major transformation, and members of the L.A. Police Commission expressed concern Tuesday about being left out of the discussion. The City Council’s tentative plan, …

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L.A. will pay $300,000 to settle lawsuit over undercover police officer photos
6 months, 1 week ago

L.A. will pay $300,000 to settle lawsuit over undercover police officer photos

LA Times  

The city of Los Angeles has agreed to pay the legal bills for a local journalist and a group of activists whom it took to court last year for publishing photographs of LAPD officers, part of a tentative settlement that will end a lawsuit some saw as an assault on media freedom. Stop LAPD Spying Coalition organizer Hamid Khan said …

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Burbank police ‘dumped’ shoeless homeless man in L.A., City Council president alleges
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Burbank police ‘dumped’ shoeless homeless man in L.A., City Council president alleges

LA Times  

Surveillance video provided by L.A. City Council President Paul Krekorian’s office shows a man being dropped off in Los Angeles by Burbank police officers. A video released Friday by L.A. City Council President Paul Krekorian appears to show two Burbank police officers leaving a shoeless homeless man on a Los Angeles sidewalk in front of Krekorian’s office and driving away. …

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L.A. prosecutors say recording of racist City Hall conversation was a crime but refer case to city attorney
7 months, 2 weeks ago

L.A. prosecutors say recording of racist City Hall conversation was a crime but refer case to city attorney

LA Times  

The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor building at the intersection of James M. Wood Boulevard and Lake Street in Los Angeles. A crime was committed by at least one former employee of the L.A. County Federation of Labor in connection with the recording of a racist conversation that rocked City Hall, according to L.A. County prosecutors. The covert recording …

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Walking all 28 miles of L.A.’s longest street in a day tested our limits
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Walking all 28 miles of L.A.’s longest street in a day tested our limits

LA Times  

We walked every step of Los Angeles’ longest continuous street, and we needed every minute of daylight to do it. At 7:30 a.m. on April 28, 14 friends and I set out from the Fern Dell Western Stairs beneath Griffith Park to walk Western Avenue, all 28-plus miles of it. Western doesn’t veer one iota from a 180-degree angle until …

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Former L.A. Councilmember Jose Huizar is granted delay for his 13-year prison term
8 months, 1 week ago

Former L.A. Councilmember Jose Huizar is granted delay for his 13-year prison term

LA Times  

Disgraced former Los Angeles City Councilmember Jose Huizar has been allowed to delay the start date for his 13-year prison term, citing confidential medical information, according to recent court filings. However, a separate motion to seal the application asked for secrecy because the application “contains private medical information,” Huizar’s attorney Cuahtemoc Ortega, a federal public defender, wrote in court papers. …

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To crack down on tee time brokers, L.A. golf courses will require $10 deposit
8 months, 2 weeks ago

To crack down on tee time brokers, L.A. golf courses will require $10 deposit

LA Times  

A golfer at the Wilson & Harding Golf Course in Griffith Park, one of seven 18-hole courses run by the city of Los Angeles. Rick Reinschmidt, the head of L.A.’s municipal golf division, said at the parks commission meeting that the nonrefundable deposit would cut down on brokering by “significantly cutting into a broker’s profit.” Some brokers scoop up tee …

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Security guards — not LAPD — to protect graffitied downtown L.A. towers, officials say
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Security guards — not LAPD — to protect graffitied downtown L.A. towers, officials say

LA Times  

Taggers have graffitied many floors of the Oceanwide Plaza towers, which have been empty for several years. The city of Los Angeles no longer has to deploy police officers to guard the abandoned Oceanwide Plaza buildings from graffiti taggers and other trespassers thanks to a new law that allows the city to hire private security guards to watch over the …

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Many homeless in L.A. died from drugs in 2023, preliminary data show
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Many homeless in L.A. died from drugs in 2023, preliminary data show

LA Times  

Tents line the sidewalk at a homeless encampment in the Rampart Village neighborhood of Los Angeles in November 2021. Data released Thursday by City Controller Kenneth Mejia show at least 898 homeless people died last year on streets, in shelters, on freeways and elsewhere. Mejia’s report, which analyzed Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner preliminary data, did not break …

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Patt Morrison: Take a walk through L.A.'s spectacular, neglected and paved-over cemeteries
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Patt Morrison: Take a walk through L.A.'s spectacular, neglected and paved-over cemeteries

LA Times  

“Have you had any snow yet?” Hazel asks a correspondent in Topeka, Kan., on the reverse of this postcard, which is postmarked January 1948, from Patt Morrison’s collection. In the sylvan acreage of cemeteries like Forest Lawn, we now give death the space to be just one more extreme lifestyle choice, where the body — tanned and tended in life …

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Former aide says she was called a ‘snitch’ by L.A. City Councilman Curren Price’s staff
10 months, 1 week ago

Former aide says she was called a ‘snitch’ by L.A. City Councilman Curren Price’s staff

LA Times  

The office of L.A. City Councilmember Curren Price, pictured last year, denies allegations that he or his staff retaliated against the aide. A former longtime aide to Los Angeles City Councilmember Curren Price alleges in a claim filed against the city that she was fired from her job after Price staffers accused her of being a “snitch” in the criminal …

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La Liga yearender: Girona replicate Leicester City, Jude Bellingham runs riot
11 months, 3 weeks ago

La Liga yearender: Girona replicate Leicester City, Jude Bellingham runs riot

Hindustan Times  

With 2023 coming to a wrap, La Liga fans will have plenty to be cheerful about. With Michel at the helm, the club have become title challengers this season, and are currently second in the table, level on points with leaders Real Madrid, but with a lower goal difference. Four years without a league title, Barcelona reigned supreme in the …

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Prosecutors seek 13-year prison sentence for former L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Prosecutors seek 13-year prison sentence for former L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar

LA Times  

Former Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar, left, arrives at the federal courthouse in Los Angeles in January. Federal prosecutors are seeking a 13-year prison sentence for former Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar for his role in an expansive bribery scheme, according to court documents filed Thursday. A onetime powerful politician, Huizar represented downtown Los Angeles on the City …

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L.A. eviction cases rose significantly this year. But it’s not all bad news for renters
11 months, 3 weeks ago

L.A. eviction cases rose significantly this year. But it’s not all bad news for renters

LA Times  

Eva Garcia joins other tenants and advocates outside the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration to demand the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors extend eviction protections during a rally in September 2021. The exact reasons are unclear, but experts and advocates say that permanent tenant protections adopted as the moratoriums expired — such as a Los Angeles city rule that …

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Surprise package Girona shaking up La Liga
1 year ago

Surprise package Girona shaking up La Liga

China Daily  

Girona's Uruguayan forward Cristhian Stuani rises for a header during Monday night's Spanish league match against Athletic Bilbao at the Montilivi Stadium in Girona on Monday. At the start of the league season in August, Ignasi Mas-Baga was hoping his team could avoid a costly relegation from Spanish soccer's top tier that would badly damage the club's growth plans for …

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Opinion: My magical, small-town neighborhood in ‘Jewish L.A.’
1 year, 2 months ago

Opinion: My magical, small-town neighborhood in ‘Jewish L.A.’

LA Times  

I went on a walk one Saturday afternoon in my Los Angeles neighborhood with a friend, and as we saw many people leaving a synagogue he asked me why there was a security guard outside bidding congregants goodbye. Even though both my high school and a university I attended here were spray-painted with antisemitic slurs and I’ve heard remarks about …

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