January 2009 Archives
links for 2009-01-16
By Pixelbot
January 16, 2009
links for 2009-01-15
By Pixelbot
January 15, 2009
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LA Observed notes the deaths of two actors, Ricardo Montalban and Patrick McGoohan.
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a *SPOILER ALERT!* from /Film: "/Film reader Stephanie O just informed me that Los Angeles vandals are tagging Marley & Me bus shelter banners and highway billboards with the film/book’s climactic spoiler." Don't click on this story if you don't want to know how the movie ends.
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from the Eastsider LA: The Mesa Grande is what some of the workers at the newly remodeled restaurant on Glendale Boulevard call the large communal table that has become a popular spot for groups of friends and families. [h/t LA Observed]
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from LA Downtown News Online: The City Planning Commission last week unanimously approved a proposal that could bring wide, tree-lined sidewalks, landscaped courtyards, more streetlights and other walking-friendly features to Downtown
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from LA Biz Observed: Paul Audley, the recently hired president of FilmLA, says "we should stop talking about 'runaway production.' It's ran-away production."
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from the Daily Breeze: "The Port of Los Angeles experienced a 6 percent drop in cargo shipments in 2008, ending more than two decades of steady growth, according to figures released Tuesday. "
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From the Los Angeles Times: The Los Angeles Police Department on Tuesday rejected the findings of a study that found its officers frequently discriminate against African Americans and Latinos when making traffic and pedestrian stops.
links for 2009-01-09
By Pixelbot
January 9, 2009
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from Los Angeles MetBlogs: "Yesterday, I asked Metro a few questions regarding their new timetables for several projects, including the Subway to the Sea. Today, Rick Jager from their Media Relations department answered:"
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from the Los Angeles Times: Lighting up on patios and other areas near restaurants could be illegal by summer if the City Council acts.
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from LA Observed: "Traffic was up an average of 83% over last year, with local readership up 54% and overall page views up 47%."
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from the Los Angeles Times: Faced with a massive budget deficit, the governor wants to stop state funding for a week of classes. Educators criticize the plan as most harmful to poor students.
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from the Los Angeles Times: " A few dozen people gathered for a vigil in South Los Angeles on Wednesday night to remember 12 people who police believe were murdered by a serial killer who has been active for more than two decades." Should that have read "a lonely vigil?"
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from our friends to the north at the SF Chronicle: A protest over the fatal shooting by a BART police officer of an unarmed black man mushroomed into several hours of violence Wednesday night as demonstrators smashed storefronts and cars, set several cars ablaze and blocked streets in downtown Oakland.
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From the Los Angeles Times: Overbuilding and foreclosures add to supply of units as the recession limits what people can pay.
Best of the SoCal Web for 2009-01-08
By Pixelbot
January 8, 2009
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Daniel Hernandez on Spanish photographer Isabel Muñoz images of the Maras of El Salvador. "The murderous Mara Salvatrucha of course was founded on the streets of the MacArthur Park-Pico Union area of inner Los Angeles, by surviving refugees of the Salvadoran Civil War."
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from the Los Angeles Times: Glenn Goldman, whose independent bookstore, Book Soup, became a Sunset Boulevard landmark known for its tall, teetering stacks and mazes of shelves crammed with titles that attracted entertainment and tourist industry clientele, died Saturday. He was 58.
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from Marc Cooper's blog: When the L.A. Weekly and I parted ways two month ago, I promised a more detailed report. Here it is. It's more like an autopsy on a paper that once was.
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Former L.A. city councilman and current member of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission Michael Woo on electronic billboards in LA
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from the Los Angeles Times: On Tuesday, a spokesman for the mayor said that [the 2032 timeline for a Westside metro extension] was unacceptable and noted that Measure R "allows us to seek federal support and advance the timeline.
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from the Los Angeles Times: State officials on Tuesday braced for the possibility of delaying tax refunds to millions of Californians, along with student grants and payments to vendors, as the latest round of budget negotiations between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic legislators collapsed.
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from the Los Angeles Times: Scores of Los Angeles Unified School District teachers could face midyear layoffs, officials said Tuesday.
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from the Los Angeles Times: Educators are alarmed over a proposal by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to lop five days off the school year, a cut that would save the state $1.1 billion.
Best of the SoCal Web for 2009-01-07
By Pixelbot
January 7, 2009
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From the Los Angeles Times: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa threw his support behind Israel this afternoon, backing the country in its latest strikes against Hamas and its invasion of the Gaza Strip.The announcement, made during a news conference, pleased Jewish leaders in Los Angeles but sparked anger among local Muslim groups.
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For a quarter of a century, De la Loza, 59, has created murals in Los Angeles -- 40 in all. But this one, which adorns a convenience store on the corner of César E. Chávez Avenue and Breed Street in Boyle Heights, is among only eight that still exist.
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from LAist: Tomorrow night, South LA community members and the LAPD will be holding a vigil "to create community awareness to a series of 12 murders over a 22 year period...
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from lefty community site Calitics: Race, it turns out, was far from determinative. The votes of African-Americans and Latinos was described better by using the variable of religiosity.
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The wonders and horrors available on the inter-tubes never ceases to amaze. The database was produced by by Jason Kandel of the LA Daily News.
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from the Los Angeles Times: Want to step aboard the subway extension to the Westside? Looks like you may have to wait until 2019...
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from the Los Angeles Times: A federal appellate court issued a ruling today upholding Los Angeles' citywide billboard ban, handing a rare victory to the city in its uphill battle to regulate outdoor signs. [h/t LA Observed]
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The City of Los Angeles has declared the month of January, 2009, "Los Angeles Arts Month.
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Andrew Breitbart's conservative leaning entertainment/Hollywood site launches. But will it play in Peoria?
Best of the SoCal Web for 2009-01-06
By Pixelbot
January 6, 2009
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From Good Magazine: if the architect Teddy Cruz gets his way, the shantytowns of Tijuana, Mexico, will act as a blueprint of sorts for a new kind of urban development.
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from We Make Money Not Art: A review of The Infrastructural City - Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles, edited by Kazys Varnelis.
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Blogger plans to eat 365 days in one year!
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from Streetsblog: [Metro] is prepared to offer 4 alternatives to extending the Gold Line at this month's Metro Board meeting.
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from Los Angeles Metroblogs: There's a metric bleep-ton of locations throughout the greater Los Angeles area where you can take your Christmas tree for recycling
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from the Los Angeles Times: Increased fees and extended meter hours have some North Hollywood business owners concerned about losing patrons in an area the city spent millions building up.
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from the comments of MetroRiderLA: "Here is a partial list of people who carry escalator keys ..." [h/t the Bus Bench]
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From the Bus Bench: Despite the alleged ease of school children being able to stop escalators, metro has ample cameras aimed at the escalators yet appears to have no policy involving a quick call to any of the many station personnel who possess keys, to turn the things back on.
Best of the SoCal Web for 2009-01-01
By Pixelbot
January 1, 2009
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From LA Observed: Noting the deaths of prominent, newsworthy or interesting Los Angeles figures and of LA Observed's colleagues in the media is a regular thing we do here.
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from the Los Angeles Times: The failure thus far of lawmakers and the governor to wipe out any of the state's projected deficit of nearly $42 billion leaves California just weeks away from running out of the cash needed to pay all its bills.
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