Kim Kardashian West couldn’t stop taking pictures of the Woolsey fire as she returned by private plane to L.A. last November. But it didn’t take her long to realize that the proximity of the flames to her 16,000-square-foot mansion meant that it would likely burn to the ground, like so many properties from Calabasas to […]
Protection at a price: How one home survived the Woolsey Fire
President Donald J. Trump, then-Governor Jerry Brown, Governor Gavin Newsom and FEMA Administrator Brock Long, visit a neighborhood in Malibu devastated by the Woolsey fire. (Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead) Despite an estimated $5 billion in real estate damage the Woolsey Fire inflicted, Phillip Vogt’s Malibu home was the only one in his […]
A Decade Ago, a Local Artist Predicted That Malibu Would Be Ravaged By a Wildfire
In November, as the Woolsey fire raged, Anna Mayer buried a sculpture in a Highland Park garden. Mayer, a longtime Los Angeles artist who recently moved to Houston, had just closed an exhibition at Adjunct Projects, an artist-run space in a garage, and, for it, she’d made a knee-high alkalized ceramic sculpture that resembled a […]
Malibu winery sues SoCal Edison for sparking deadly Woolsey Fire
Southern California Edison CEO Kevin M. Payne and the Woolsey Fire burning near Paramount Ranch in Agoura Hills (Credit: Flickr and Edison International) A Malibu winery is the latest to accuse Southern California Edison of sparking November’s deadly Woolsey Fire. Cielo Farms, a winery and event space, along with a pair of homeowners, filed a […]