For the first time in years, Steven Styne has a roof over his head. On Wednesday, Mayor Karen Bass went to L.A.’s Beverly Grove neighborhood to speak to residents of the San Vicente encampment — located across the street from Beverly Hills — and to monitor the latest operation of her Inside Safe initiative, which is designed to move unhoused …
Elegant in a floor-length silk gown, with her long black hair piled atop her head, Madame Sylvia Wu would step from her Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud and — smiling broadly — push open the red double doors of her pagoda-style restaurant, already teeming with customers. For decades Madame Wu’s Garden in Santa Monica was where smartly dressed Hollywood A-listers huddled in …
My name is Steve, and I’m 63 years old. Well, every time Lisa would go to the store, she’d come back with cupcakes for me. “I got sober, I’ve been sober for 14 years.” For a while Lisa and I lived in Koreatown, in Section 8 housing. The police say the people on Venice Boulevard have ‘rights.’ You know who …
