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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted yesterday to enter into an exclusive negotiating agreement with Genton Cockrum Partners for the potential redevelopment of the San Pedro Courthouse. The West Hollywood-based developer’s proposal for the 1.8-acre site at 505. S Centre Street calls for a mix of market-rate and affordable housing, open space, and […]

Just in time for the holiday roasting season, sweet little Thumbelina carrots are popping up at farmers markets across L.A. County. Unlike their long slim cousins, this variety is a stubby little globe the size of a baby new potato and is sweet with herbaceous undertones. Source: L.A. Weekly – Restaurants

The year is 2018 and shopping malls sit empty, while once-mighty retailers like Sears shutter stores with reckless abandon. But it wasn’t always this way. Long before Amazon Prime, residents of Los Angeles—and the United States at large—spent countless tired hours during the holiday season pushing through crowded department stores searching for gifts and the […]

DECEMBER 19, 2018 FOR ERICA JONG AND ME, poetry has always been our first and probably most sustaining love. But what we never knew, years before we knew one another, was that sharing our poetry would be our bridge to a deep and lasting friendship. I read and loved Erica’s work when I was in […]

LA County seeks proposals for Arts District redevelopment site Officials want 40K sf of new office space for the county to use and to lease out December 19, 2018 10:00AM The existing parking structure on site (Credit: iStock) Los Angeles County has issued a request for proposal to redevelop a pair of properties in the […]

The screen then cut to a collage of many, many CBS series centered on, yes, investigations, including “CSI,” “CSI: New York,” “CSI: Miami,” “CSI: Los Angeles,” “CSI: Cyber” and other shows not included in the greater “CSI” universe. Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times