LOS ANGELES In Los Angeles, a number of significant event and meeting venues opened this year. Here’s our picks for the best restaurants, party rooms, hotels, corporate event venues, conference centers, private rooms, and cultural spaces that debuted in 2018. These new and renovated Los Angeles venues serve groups of all sizes for private and […]
Blog: The 18 most popular articles we published in 2018 about Los Angeles schools & the state of education across California – LA School Report
For Los Angeles, 2018 ushered in a new superintendent, new promises to students, new hiring freedoms for principals and new warnings about the school district’s precarious finances. In education news around California, graduation rates rose but the state showed no improvement in getting its high school seniors eligible for state universities — even though California students […]
Blog: Weezer is a big fan of Matt Damon’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ skit about the band
Thanks to a sketch on “Saturday Night Live,” it has become clear that the band Weezer is “ride or die” for… themselves? During Saturday’s show, a skit about a holiday party gone wrong featured host Matt Damon getting into a spat with Leslie Jones about the legacy of the aforementioned band, despite… Source: L.A. Times […]
Blog: Eldercare facility of 1M sf planned at Northrop Grumman’s Woodland Hills site
Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush and the company’s Woodland Hills facility seen from Canoga Avenue A sprawling eldercare facility is being planned on a Northrup Grumman site in Woodland Hills. A filing with the city calls for a 1.27-million-square-foot development with 566 independent living units on a 17.6-acre portion of the defense contractor’s property. The […]
Blog: Celebrity Stylist Is Hiring A Showroom Assistant In New York, NY
Looking for a person who encompasses the basics of styling with an interest in fashion. Should have strong work ethic, and a drive for success. Must also be a team player, and have excellent communication skills. Applicant will need to be well organized with ability to multitask. Must be a self-starter and good problem solver. […]
Blog: A Feast for Polymaths: Jack Miles on Gabriel Said Reynolds’s “The Qur’an and the Bible”
DECEMBER 17, 2018 JANE DAMMEN MCAULIFFE — editor of the five-volume Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān and of the Cambridge Companion to the Qur’ān — distinguishes “Two Trajectories of Textual Study” in her introduction to the 2017 Norton Critical Edition of the Qur’an. The first, “Traditional Accounts of the Qur’ān’s Origins, Collection, and Codification,” is the […]