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Articles for Pico Boulevard

Once strongly liberal, Pico-Robertson surged for Trump in 2024. Why?
1 month ago

Once strongly liberal, Pico-Robertson surged for Trump in 2024. Why?

LA Times  

In 2020, the Jewish haven of Pico-Robertson voted for Joe Biden over Donald Trump, taking its place among the large swath of liberal Westside communities. On the Monday after the election, there weren’t many Trump signs left around the neighborhood, but there were plenty of Nathan Hochman signs — a potential insight into the tough-on-crime priorities of Pico-Robertson voters. “Trump’s …

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L.A. isn’t a walking city? The man behind Great Los Angeles Walk would like a word
2 months, 1 week ago

L.A. isn’t a walking city? The man behind Great Los Angeles Walk would like a word

LA Times  

The morning I meet Michael Schneider at a quaint coffee shop in Glendale, it quickly becomes clear that he walked here. The very first Great Walk, inspired by journalist Kevin Roderick’s 2005 book, “Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Concourse of Los Angeles,” had participants hoofing the entire 15-plus miles of Wilshire, from downtown L.A. to the ocean. 2015 - Clifton’s Cafeteria 2015 …

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Protest violence outside L.A. synagogue spurs widespread condemnation. Bass vows quick action
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Protest violence outside L.A. synagogue spurs widespread condemnation. Bass vows quick action

LA Times  

A pro-Israeli counterprotester leans in as she speaks to pro-Palestinian protesters near Adas Torah synagogue in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood in Los Angeles on Sunday. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said the protest had “cast a shadow of fear,” not just in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood — “the heart of one of our Jewish communities” — but also “regionally and nationally.” Mayor …

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How we made tacos a Black thing in L.A.
10 months, 3 weeks ago

How we made tacos a Black thing in L.A.

LA Times  

One day when she was 12 years old, Barbara “Sky” Burrell, owner of Sky’s Gourmet Tacos on Pico Boulevard, saw a neon, taco-shaped sign in the window of a local restaurant in the town where she grew up. He’s called his pocho taco a tribute to the hard-shell tacos his mom made for him as a kid and “very authentically …

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Locked gates in historic L.A. neighborhood spark debate in City Council election
11 months, 1 week ago

Locked gates in historic L.A. neighborhood spark debate in City Council election

LA Times  

A pedestrian walks along Gramercy Place inside the locked gates on Pico Boulevard in L.A.’s Country Club Park neighborhood. Resident Douglas Alston, 84, left, joined by other members of the neighborhood who don’t want the “Pico Gates” opened up, voices his concerns to Aura Vasquez, a candidate for Los Angeles City Council District 10. “This neighborhood really doesn’t want to …

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As she pushes for new homeless housing, Yaroslavsky shifts gears on no-camping zones
1 year, 5 months ago

As she pushes for new homeless housing, Yaroslavsky shifts gears on no-camping zones

LA Times  

Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our City Hall newsletter. Six months ago, Los Angeles City Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky took a firm stand on the city’s law regulating homeless encampments, saying she would not support the creation of any new no-camping zones until she had received a written report analyzing the law’s effectiveness. Yaroslavsky promised to …

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Legendary Fox Studio Lot set for $1.5-billion expansion
1 year, 10 months ago

Legendary Fox Studio Lot set for $1.5-billion expansion

LA Times  

A rendering of proposed upgrades to the Fox Studio Lot in Century City that would add soundstages and offices including high-rises on Olympic Boulevard and Avenue of the Stars. The far-reaching Fox empire now controlled by the Murdoch family was birthed in the legendary studio where Shirley Temple once danced and Marilyn Monroe showed off her comedic chops in “The …

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Jews in West L.A. are resolute, on edge after gunman targets Jewish community in 2 shootings
1 year, 10 months ago

Jews in West L.A. are resolute, on edge after gunman targets Jewish community in 2 shootings

LA Times  

Stephane Sultan, who owns a kosher restaurant on Pico Boulevard, knew his neighbors and customers were on edge because they kept confiding the same message. “I didn’t go to synagogue yesterday because I didn’t know what might happen,” said Jonathan Hassid, 23, who normally attends Adas Torah on Pico Boulevard. “It’s always concerning when there’s antisemitic, but we have faith …

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Suspect in shootings of two Jewish men in L.A. is charged with federal hate crimes
1 year, 11 months ago

Suspect in shootings of two Jewish men in L.A. is charged with federal hate crimes

LA Times  

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass along with FBI, LAPD and Jewish community leaders at a Friday news conference announcing the arrest of Jaime Tran on suspicion of shooting two Jewish men leaving religious services in Pico-Robertson this week. A man with a history of making antisemitic statements was charged Friday with federal hate crimes after he allegedly shot two Jewish men …

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L.A. hasn’t launched new inspections for oil sites years after council backed plan
3 years, 8 months ago

L.A. hasn’t launched new inspections for oil sites years after council backed plan

LA Times  

The Allenco drill site in University Park, shown in 2019. Councilman Paul Krekorian said that L.A. would not face costly liability if the phaseout included a “reasonable amortization period.” The California Independent Petroleum Assn., which represents oil producers, has insisted such a move would still be “an illegal taking.” As city officials weigh that plan, the petroleum office has shrunk …

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Tour Santa Monica’s once-vibrant Black neighborhoods, nearly erased by racism and ‘progress’
3 years, 10 months ago

Tour Santa Monica’s once-vibrant Black neighborhoods, nearly erased by racism and ‘progress’

LA Times  

Before Santa Monica was covered with concrete, traffic and pricey real estate, Cristyne Lawson remembers a town where open fields met the shore and a tight-knit community of Black Americans lived, worked and worshiped just blocks from the beach. I can’t imagine that happening today.” Not everyone has such fond memories, however, even in Lawson’s family, partly because “the Black …

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A Westside oil site was supposed to undergo regular reviews. That didn’t happen
5 years, 1 month ago

A Westside oil site was supposed to undergo regular reviews. That didn’t happen

LA Times  

Members of a neighborhood group are calling on the city to begin a “long overdue” review of the oil facility at Pico Boulevard and Doheny Drive in Los Angeles. When Westside residents battled plans to step up production at an oil drilling facility on Pico Boulevard, they picketed outside the site and once brought children to a city hearing with …

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The Fox lot is one asset Rupert Murdoch wouldn’t sell to Disney — for good reason
5 years, 9 months ago

The Fox lot is one asset Rupert Murdoch wouldn’t sell to Disney — for good reason

LA Times  

In the end, the legendary Los Angeles birthplace of what became the vast Fox film empire was just too dear to part with. The historic Century City lot on Pico Boulevard was retained by the newly formed Fox Corp., even as Walt Disney Co. absorbed much of 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets in a $71.3-billion deal that put Captain America …

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