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Hollywood Forever’s new mausoleum is a high-rise for the dead: ‘This is the future of cemeteries’
6 days, 9 hours ago

Hollywood Forever’s new mausoleum is a high-rise for the dead: ‘This is the future of cemeteries’

LA Times  

Hollywood Forever Cemetery, the resting place of Rudolph Valentino, Judy Garland, Alfred Hitchcock, Cecil B. DeMille and other Hollywood royalty — not to mention contemporary icons like Johnny Ramone, Chris Cornell and Quincy Jones — has always been a place of innovation. “We’re not going to build more cemeteries in L.A., so we need to come up with creative ways …

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Mia Lehrer: Designer making beauty out of blight
6 months ago

Mia Lehrer: Designer making beauty out of blight

LA Times  

Mia Lehrer, photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on Nov. 8. Few are the corners of L.A. that don’t bear the imprint of Studio-MLA, the landscape architecture firm founded by the energetic Mia Lehrer three decades ago. Currently, Lehrer’s 45-person studio is working on designs for Destination Crenshaw in South L.A. as well as the San Gabriel …

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Read This If You Regularly Go To Bed After 1 A.M.
6 months, 1 week ago

Read This If You Regularly Go To Bed After 1 A.M.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING You probably don’t feel your best when you stay up until the wee hours of the night. It didn’t matter if subjects classified themselves as early birds normally or night owls ― going to bed after 1 a.m. hurt people mentally, the study found. And you’re not going to bed for several hours after the sun has …

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Robert MacNeil, the stately journalist who brought news to PBS, dies at 93
8 months, 1 week ago

Robert MacNeil, the stately journalist who brought news to PBS, dies at 93

LA Times  

Robert MacNeil, right, and Jim Lehrer were first teamed to cover the Watergate hearings for PBS in 1973. MacNeil was the founding anchor of “PBS NewsHour,” which was first launched in 1975 as “The Robert MacNeil Report” and later renamed “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.” In the years before cable news and the internet, the program was the lone national TV alternative …

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If it seems like there are a lot of acorns this fall, you might be seeing a ‘mast’ year
1 year, 1 month ago

If it seems like there are a lot of acorns this fall, you might be seeing a ‘mast’ year

Associated Press  

Has your car been getting pelted with acorns? “On” years, called mast years, see vigorous production of nuts across an entire species throughout a region. “There’s no general consensus on why we see these mast years,” according to Jonathan M. Lehrer, associate professor and chair of the Department of Urban Horticulture and Design at Farmingdale State College in New York. …

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David Lehrer, civil rights lawyer and longtime L.A. Jewish leader, dies at 75
1 year, 1 month ago

David Lehrer, civil rights lawyer and longtime L.A. Jewish leader, dies at 75

LA Times  

David Lehrer, shown with his wife, Ariella Lehrer, helped draft California’s first hate crime laws and led legislative efforts to outlaw tax-subsidized discrimination at private social clubs. David A. Lehrer, a longtime leader in Los Angeles’ Jewish community and attorney who helped draft the state’s hate crime laws, has died. Lehrer, a lifelong resident of Los Feliz, was an active …

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Former Sheriff Alex Villanueva wants to unseat Supervisor Janice Hahn. Does he have a shot?
1 year, 1 month ago

Former Sheriff Alex Villanueva wants to unseat Supervisor Janice Hahn. Does he have a shot?

LA Times  

Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our City Hall newsletter. “He’s going to gain a lot of support from people that are center to center-right and probably in the middle,” said Berg, adding that he believed Hahn had aligned herself with the “woke progressive crowd.” Hahn’s campaign shot back in a statement, calling Villanueva the “embodiment …

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How SoFi Stadium’s landscape designer is transforming Los Angeles’ urban grid
2 years, 10 months ago

How SoFi Stadium’s landscape designer is transforming Los Angeles’ urban grid

LA Times  

Imagine the Los Angeles that might exist if it weren’t encased in a concrete crust: Contours of soft earth rather than rigid asphalt. With the arrival of Super Bowl LVI, one of Studio-MLA’s most prominent projects is now coming into view: its meticulous landscape design for the behemoth $5-billion SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, along with its adjacent Lake Park. “If …

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Tiny houses and shipping containers may help homeless people in L.A. Are they humane?
3 years, 8 months ago

Tiny houses and shipping containers may help homeless people in L.A. Are they humane?

LA Times  

It measures only 8 feet by 8 feet. This is Stephen 2.0.” The caseworker connected him with Chandler Street Tiny Home Village in North Hollywood, a shelter that is the first of its kind in Los Angeles. His specialty: “Anything GM.” A child’s painting of a home sits in the window of a tiny home at Chandler Street Tiny Home …

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Watergate docu director sues network alleging it suppressed miniseries over fear of potential backlash
3 years, 9 months ago

Watergate docu director sues network alleging it suppressed miniseries over fear of potential backlash

Firstpost  

Watergate, a four-hour documentary examining the scandal that ended Richard Nixon’s presidency, had its world premiere in 2018 at the Telluride Film Festival, an event known to foretell future Oscar nominations. “He was concerned about the impact of Watergate upon ratings in ‘red states,’ ” the lawsuit said of the executive, Eli Lehrer, “as well as the negative reaction it …

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