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1 month, 3 weeks ago

November’s best is at your doorstep. Here are 10 parties, pop-ups and exhibitions for your calendar

LA Times

Louis Vuitton at the Americana Louis Vuitton has joined the lineup of designers and boutiques at shopping destination Americana at Brand in Glendale. Free the People!” explores Crenshaw Dairy Mart’s abolitionist pod project — a blend of art, architecture and science designed to address systemic issues such as food insecurity and housing instability. This November, restaurateur, chef, two-time New York …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Will an influx of Californians into Arizona tilt the battleground state’s politics?

LA Times

Michele Pitek moved to Arizona from California, her lifelong home, with her husband, Mike, about seven years ago in part because they were tired of struggling with the cost of living in the Bay Area despite both earning six-figure salaries. “I want to get stuff done.” Even before the large number of Californians moved to Arizona in recent years, the …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Valerie Gordon celebrates 20 years of the sweet life, and she’s just getting started

LA Times

Valerie Gordon at her Glendale bakery, cafe and flagship store. “I’m much happier with it now.” Gordon says she’s been making it all up as she goes since she was 8 years old. ‘A national brand from the get-go’ They put together elaborate gift sets for the holidays, complete with branding that read “Tall and Small Products.” Weightman is more …

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5 months ago

‘It was sexy, it was fun’: Why these waterbed devotees never gave up on the jiggle

LA Times

The bed in Nancy Gerrish’s bright Los Feliz home appears perfectly normal — carved wooden headboard, fuzzy brown blanket, cream-colored bed skirt. Now, these waterbed enthusiasts scour the internet for replacement mattresses, heaters and water treatment systems, determined to resist sleeping on standard mattresses — what they call “dead beds” — for as long as they can. “It was our …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Análisis: México tiene que pensar en no hacer el ridículo en 2026 y seguir con un proceso

LA Times

En junio de 2018, México fue elegido para ser sede de la Copa del Mundo junto a Estados Unidos y Canadá. El problema principal de México en los últimos 30 años es la falta de planeación deportiva, pues es algo que se necesita para tener mayores posibilidades de éxito a nivel selección. Tras el fracaso en la Liga de Naciones …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Metro rider arrested after falling asleep on the bus with a gun

LA Times

Law enforcement responds to a report of an armed suspect on a bus Monday in Glendale. Traffic was shut down and a SWAT team was sent to Glendale on Monday morning after a Metro bus driver found a sleeping passenger with a gun. Bus drivers were changing shifts at San Fernando and West Los Feliz roads about 9:44 a.m. when …

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7 months ago

Four arrested in Glendale believed to be part of ‘burglary tourism’ ring

LA Times

Four Colombian nationals were arrested this week and accused of “burglary tourism” in Glendale, police said. Glendale police arrested a group of Colombian nationals this week who are suspected of being part of a South American “burglary tourism” ring operating in Los Angeles County. Also inside the suspects’ car, officers found several jewelry boxes, along with a construction hard hat …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Meet Laura Friedman, the pool-playing assemblywoman who’ll likely succeed Adam Schiff

LA Times

There are certain candidates who have lived their lives like perfectly calibrated political arrows, arcing ever upward through all the right stops toward higher office. Friedman finished first in the March primary for California’s 30th Congressional District, a deep-blue Democratic stronghold that includes a good chunk of central Los Angeles, West Hollywood, Glendale, Burbank and several major Hollywood studios. But,” …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Laura Friedman likely to face Republican in race for Schiff’s former House seat

LA Times

California Assemblymember Laura Friedman is leading the pack in the race to replace Rep. Adam Schiff in the House of Representatives. Assemblymember Laura Friedman will likely face off against Republican intensive care physician Alex Balekian in the race to replace outgoing Rep. Adam B. Schiff in a coveted Los Angeles-area House seat. She also thanked “the Democratic candidates in this …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Behind L.A. County’s less-scrutinized cities and suburbs, a disturbing finding on arrests

LA Times

Black and Latino populations in three of L.A. County’s northeast cities were disproportionately subject to arrest by suburban police departments, a new report by the county Commission on Human Relations found. Harris noted that the South Pasadena Police Department does not identify in arrest records whether a person is Latino; it does track white, Black, Asian and “other.” Harris and …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Traffic scofflaws, beware: Speed cameras will go up next year in Los Angeles, Glendale, Long Beach

LA Times

A Honda Accord was heavily damaged from being hit by a Corvette traveling an estimated 90 to 100 mph. Automated speed cameras will capture violations later this year throughout Los Angeles, Glendale and Long Beach in a bid to curb the alarming rise of fatal car crashes, in which velocity is often a factor. Gavin Newsom this year allows the …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Bass announces task force targeting smash-and-grab robberies

LA Times

Shoppers exit the Nordstrom at the Westfield Topanga mall Monday. Following a string of flash mob robberies of luxury goods stores around Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass on Thursday announced a new task force of local and federal agencies to target the crimes. LAPD Assistant Chief Dominic Choi told reporters that “criminals don’t distinguish between city borders and county borders …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Would an occasional blackout help solve climate change?

LA Times

An aerial view of Glendale, with the Grayson gas plant in the foreground, the 134 Freeway on the right and the Verdugo Mountains on the left. When I posed my dagger-to-the-heart question to Mark Rothleder — chief operating officer at the California Independent System Operator, which oversees the state’s main electric grid — he responded that spurring power outages by …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Editorial: Talk about pride. Schools stand up against intolerance and hate

LA Times

Demonstrators gather outside Tuesday’s meeting of the Glendale Unified School District board, where pro- and anti-LGBTQ+ demonstrators faced off over how schools teach gender and sexuality. On the Tuesday agenda for the Glendale Unified School District Board of Education was an item designating June as Pride Month for the LGBTQ+ community, recognizing the month in which the 1969 Stonewall uprising …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Protesters brawl as Southern California school district decides whether to recognize Pride Month

Associated Press

GLENDALE, Calif. — Protesters briefly scuffled and punches flew Tuesday as a Southern California school district decided whether to recognize June as Pride month. Several hundred people gathered in the parking lot of the Glendale Unified School District headquarters, split between those who support or oppose exposing youngsters to LGBTQ+ issues in schools. Inside the packed meeting room, the school …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Eras tour update: Channing Tatum goes full Swiftie dad in Los Angeles

LA Times

Taylor Swift performs during the 2023 opener of her Eras tour in Glendale, Ariz. During the surprise songs segment of the show, Swift performed the “Lover” track “Death by a Thousand Cuts,” a fan favorite — which was inspired by Robinson’s 2019 romantic comedy, “Someone Great,” according to Billboard. It’s painful for everyone — every ally, every loved one, every …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Glendale City Council members accused of cutting in line for early COVID-19 vaccinations

LA Times

During the first phase of COVID-19 vaccinations in December 2020 and January 2021, Californians who qualified had to wait in long lines like this one at the Long Beach Convention Center. Members of the Glendale City Council cut in line for scarce COVID-19 vaccinations when they first became available, and the chief of the city’s Emergency Medical Services was demoted …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Flooding vulnerabilities of L.A. River’s Glendale Narrows spark concern amid record rain

LA Times

Heavy rain this week turned the Los Angeles River flood-control channel into a raging torrent, and with new storms expected on Monday, emergency officials are keeping a wary eye on a well-known stretch that has long been vulnerable to flooding. “Glendale Narrows is a choke point that we watch closely,” said Mark Pestrella, director and chief engineer of the Los …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Photos: Snow, heavy rain pummel Southern California

LA Times

A powerful winter storm carving a path through Southern California was expected to weaken Saturday, leaving heaps of sleet, snow and record-setting rain in its wake. Storm clouds move over downtown Los Angeles as more rain and snow fall across Southern California on Monday. People snowboard and sled down a hill as they revel in the rare sight of falling …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Does your drugstore lock up more products than other L.A. stores? We ran the numbers

LA Times

While shopping for decongestant at Walmart in Burbank, Michelle Krider ran into a frustrating sign of the times: The nasal spray was on a shelf, locked beyond plexiglass. We checked to see whether security measures were put on 15 individual items that were included in a list by the National Retail Federation of the top targets of organized retail crime. …

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2 years, 3 months ago

‘A constant in our lives’: Readers share their favorite classic L.A. Mexican restaurants

LA Times

What makes for a great classic Mexican restaurant? 31 N. Baldwin Ave., Sierra Madre, 355-6060, casadelreyrestaurant.com — Domingo Torres-Rangel Food Old-school California Mexican restaurants, por vida Mocked, maligned and ignored, Cal-Mex dining is a testament to our state’s true history — and the food is glorious La Cabañita in Glendale. 6703 Santa Fe Ave., Huntington Park, 585-5055, avilaselranchito.com — Patty …

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2 years, 4 months ago

First came love, then a fiddle-leaf fig and a bustling plant store

LA Times

In the now-infamous summer of 2020, the Baziks’ new business had customers lining up down the block. “Instead of visiting the country, I’m sitting there at 3 in the morning on my laptop talking to her because I know she’s awake,” Tadeh said as Sarah smiled. “I fell in love with her before I even met her face to face.” …

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2 years, 6 months ago

The business of Rick Caruso: How a mayoral candidate amassed his fortune

LA Times

Encino residents weren’t happy in the early 1990s about a planned shopping center at Hayvenhurst Avenue and Ventura Boulevard. “He brought us along, and we were part of the project,” said Cathy Schutz, who was president of a local homeowners’ group and spoke with representatives of Barnes & Noble in support of Caruso. Caruso’s studied awareness of shoppers’ appetites has …

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2 years, 6 months ago

The limits to school security become clear as parents demand answers after Texas shooting

LA Times

A woman waits outside after school at Yorkdale Elementary in Highland Park on Wednesday, one day after 19 children and two adults were killed at a school in Texas. The Texas school shooting has prompted questions among Los Angeles-area parents about school security measures that could prevent similar violence on their children’s campuses. “Moments like these force us as educators …

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November’s best is at your doorstep. Here are 10 parties, pop-ups and exhibitions for your calendar

Will an influx of Californians into Arizona tilt the battleground state’s politics?

Valerie Gordon celebrates 20 years of the sweet life, and she’s just getting started

‘It was sexy, it was fun’: Why these waterbed devotees never gave up on the jiggle

Análisis: México tiene que pensar en no hacer el ridículo en 2026 y seguir con un proceso

Metro rider arrested after falling asleep on the bus with a gun

Four arrested in Glendale believed to be part of ‘burglary tourism’ ring

Meet Laura Friedman, the pool-playing assemblywoman who’ll likely succeed Adam Schiff

Laura Friedman likely to face Republican in race for Schiff’s former House seat

Behind L.A. County’s less-scrutinized cities and suburbs, a disturbing finding on arrests

Traffic scofflaws, beware: Speed cameras will go up next year in Los Angeles, Glendale, Long Beach

Bass announces task force targeting smash-and-grab robberies

Would an occasional blackout help solve climate change?

Editorial: Talk about pride. Schools stand up against intolerance and hate

Protesters brawl as Southern California school district decides whether to recognize Pride Month

Eras tour update: Channing Tatum goes full Swiftie dad in Los Angeles

Glendale City Council members accused of cutting in line for early COVID-19 vaccinations

Flooding vulnerabilities of L.A. River’s Glendale Narrows spark concern amid record rain

Photos: Snow, heavy rain pummel Southern California

Does your drugstore lock up more products than other L.A. stores? We ran the numbers

‘A constant in our lives’: Readers share their favorite classic L.A. Mexican restaurants

First came love, then a fiddle-leaf fig and a bustling plant store

The business of Rick Caruso: How a mayoral candidate amassed his fortune

The limits to school security become clear as parents demand answers after Texas shooting