In our series How Did You Meet?, local couples tell us how they first hooked up. Five days a week, you’ll find Katie and Hank working together at the Soho House in Malibu. The collaborating couple owns a company representing social media brands. “We love being together,” confesses Katie. “I think because we are such […]
This L.A. Couple Found Love in an Uber Pool
In our new series How Did You Meet?, local couples tell us how they first hooked up. Tiffani and Lance met in an Uber Pool two years ago. As they sat in the backseat of a Honda Civic, they began discussing the meaning of clean shoes. “My mother always told me to look at a man’s […]
A Data Pro Made a Map That Tracks Where All the Scooters in L.A. Are Concentrated
Curious where scooters do and don’t wind up in L.A.? Timothy Black, a former data analyst for the L.A. Department of Transportation, has created a live, interactive map showing the current location of available scooters and dockless bikes in the city. To build the map, Black used data the city requires scooter companies to make […]
A Battle Is Brewing Over Those Digital Billboards on Rideshare Roofs
For L.A.’s billboard merchants, business is booming. As of last spring, billboards on the Sunset Strip were commanding as much as $100,000 a month, thanks to tech’s affinity for outdoor advertising. More recently, Netflix purchased nearly two dozen billboards in the area for a cool $150 mil, and since 2008, the number of digital billboards […]