During a walk through the Huntington Botanical Gardens with her mother one morning, Brenda Ramirez was alarmed by the sudden squawks, warbles, and screeches of troops of parrots flying overhead at great speed in tight, precise formations. Now, at 27, she leads a team of investigators at the Free Flying Los Angeles Parrot Project based in Occidental College’s Moore Laboratory …
It’s a Saturday night in the central business district and Rosemead is buzzing to the beat of early-’80s R&B and chatty diners who have ditched ties and banker suits for T-shirts and designer sneakers. “We have to work three times harder because we don’t have the produce California has,” said Michael Goodman, co-founder of the Dandy Collection, the restaurant group …
Pimento Grove pizza at the pop-up Quarter Sheets in Glendale. Quarter Sheets, the combination pizza and dessert home operation from chefs Aaron Lindell and Hannah Ziskin, is set to open in Echo Park in September. 1305 Portia St., Los Angeles, instagram.com/quartersheets Sticky Rice’s new walk-up window in Highland Park serves curries, snacks and a Thai-inspired hamburger along York Boulevard. Sticky …
