Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The groundbreaking will herald the transformation of a dusty DWP water yard into a new slice of green space.
Councilmember Paul Krekorian, with officials from the Department of Water and Power and Recreation and Parks, along with community leaders, will break ground on a new pocket park in North Hollywood Thursday at 9 a.m. The groundbreaking will herald the transformation of a dusty DWP water yard into a new slice of green space – with benches, playground equipment, and more - at the corner of Fulton Street and Vanowen Avenue (map: http://g.co/maps/vthnp), slated to open later this year. When open, the park will continue adding to a greatly improved intersection that now includes new landscaping, trails, benches and more at all four corners. Who: Councilmember Paul Krekorian; Marty Adams, Director of Water Operations for the L.A. Dept. of Water …
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Fulton Ave & Vanowen St, North Hollywood, CA
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The honor is in connection with the launch of its reruns on the Me-TV digital television channel this month.
The City Council will declare today "My Three Sons Day" in Los Angeles, honoring the 1960-72 comedy in connection with the launch of its reruns on the Me-TV digital television channel this month. Stanley Livingston, who played Chip Douglas, his brother Barry, who played Ernie Douglas, Tim Considine, who played Mike Douglas on the show's first five seasons, and Tina Cole, who played Katie Miller Douglas, will join Councilman Tom LaBonge at a ceremony at City Hall. My Three Sons premiered on ABC on Sept. 29, 1960, and starred Fred MacMurray as widowed consulting aviation engineer Steve Douglas raising three sons (Considine, Don Grady and Stanley Livingston) with the assistance of his father-in-law, Bub (William Frawley), in the fictional …
See Los Angeles City Council member and mayoral candidate Jan Perry in conversation before a live audience at Cal-State Northridge.
(If video window doesn't appear, refresh the page.) Los Angeles City Council member Jan Perry cruised through a list of issues at Cal State Northridge Tuesday in the second of the "Talking About Los Angeles" series of interviews with mayoral candidates. Moderator Christine Essel, the CEO for the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency, started off the event by saying that she had known Perry for 20 years. Questioned by Essel, Perry touched on redevelopment, jobs, housing, transit, education, pensions and the city's budget deficit. Patch is a co-sponsor of the series, which was organized by the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, a Latino voter participation organization; and Cerrell Associates, a Los Angeles political …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The city councilwoman will be the second mayoral candidate interviewed in the Talking About Los Angeles series. Questions from Patch readers will be presented to Perry.
A series of conversations with Los Angeles mayoral candidates continues Tuesday evening with an interview of Councilwoman Jan Perry that will be shown via a live video stream you can watch on this Patch site. The interview, the second in the "Talking About Los Angeles" series, begins at 5:30 p.m. before an audience in The Grand Salon of California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff St. (See attached PDF map.) If you would like to attend the event, you can register on the Talking About Los Angeles website. The moderator for the event will be Christine Essel, the CEO for Los Angeles’ Community Redevelopment Agency. She’s a former senior vice president of government and community affairs for Paramount Pictures and had been an …
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Grand Salon at Cal State Northridge
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Sunday, May 13, 2012
BongHwan Kim to face a crowded field of potential candidates seeking to replace Councilman Eric Garcetti, who is running for mayor.
The general manager of the embattled Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (DONE) filed Friday to run for the 13th District City Council seat. It was not immediately clear whether BongHwan Kim would step down from his city job in order to run. He was appointed to the post by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. DONE, also known as Empower LA, in partnership with the current 95 Neighborhood Councils, last year fought back a City Council attempt to merge it into the Department of Community Development. On Wednesday, DONE wrested from the City Clerk the authority to run Neighborhood Council elections. The City Council has yet to allocate funds for those elections. Among the Neighborhood Councils supervised by DONE in Valley Patch communities are: …
Saturday, May 12, 2012
If the council had decided against funding the lights, the decision could have turned them off at the park for the third time in a year.
At its monthly meeting on Wednesday, the Midtown NoHo Neighborhood Council voted to fund the lights at the Whitnall Off-Leash Dog Park for a year, starting in July. Last month, in what was believed to have been a close 7-6 vote, the council voted to stop funding the lights, even though the Greater Toluca Lake Neighborhood Council had voted to fund half of the annual cost, which is $846. However, the tabulation of the votes had been miscalculated, and the vote was actually a 6-6 tie. After the meeting, the mistake was discovered, and according to Department of Neighborhood Empowerment rules, the issue had to be re-voted on, according to MTNHNC President Mary Garcia. If the council had decided against funding the lights, the decision could …
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Whitnall Off-Leash Dog Park
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Here's what he said, word for word.
(Official transcript provided by campaign) REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT CAMPAIGN EVENT Private Residence Studio City, California 7:30 P.M. PDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you! (Applause.) Good to see you, L.A.! (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you, everybody. (Applause.) Please everybody have a seat. What a extraordinary evening. It is wonderful to be with all of you. A couple of people I want to acknowledge -- first of all, your outstanding Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is in the house. (Applause.) Where's Antonio? Right here. Also the Congressman of this district, somebody who knows foreign policy as well as anybody in Congress and who has just shown extraordinary leadership on so many issues -- Congressman Howard …
See the photos of President Obama's visit.
First he landed at LAX, then he took a helicopter to Burbank, then he motorcaded to George Clooney's house. Fiona Hutton and her family live three doors away. Beth Hilton and her son sold lemonade on the corner. See their photos in the gallery above. After, he went over Laurel Canyon to the Beverly Hilton Hotel to stay the night. See the photos. Add yours if you have some. From City News Service: President Barack Obama is at the Studio City home of actor George Clooney tonight for what is projected to be the most lucrative fundraiser ever for a U.S. presidential candidate -- an event expected to generate $15 million. The president began his day in Washington, D.C., and flew on Air Force One to Seattle for a pair of campaign events. He …
Thursday, May 10, 2012
You don't want to get anywhere near Fryman Canyon.
UPDATE: Residents in the Fryman Canyon area, near Iredell, Fryman and along Laurel Canyon Avenue may be blocked in their homes and driveways from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., warn police. CLICK HERE FOR A DETAILED MAP OF ROAD CLOSURES. Ahead of President Barack Obama's planned trip to Studio City on Thursday night, City Councilman Paul Krekorian warned Studio City residents and commuters who travel through that area to expect traffic delays. Obama is scheduled to attend an evening fundraiser at actor George Clooney's home in the Fryman Canyon neighborhood. Obama is scheduled to land at Los Angeles International Airport at 6:25 p.m. He is expected to travel by helicopter and motorcade to Clooney's home, although his exact route was not being released…
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Fryman Canyon Park
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It seems calm around the neighborhood only hours before President Obama comes to visit.
UPDATE: Air Force One landed a little early at 6:20 p.m. and now he is on his way to a quick speech and then to Studio City. Stay with Patch for all the latest. People are still walking their dogs up and down the tiny streets around Fryman Canyon in Studio City. If it weren't for the couple of houses with flags out front, or all the signs that say "NO PARKING THURSDAY ONLY" all around, then it would seem like business as usual. That is, except for George Clooney's house. There's a buzz of activity. Big heat lamps are lined up outside his driveway on the street. Celebrity shuttles are already lined up. Catering trucks are parked on the steep driveway. Up the hill just behind a thin layer of trees, a giant blow-up tent, about the size of a …
Laura
12:15 pm on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
My toe is tapping in anticipation... more ›