Ennis House Languishes
Price Reduced 50% From Original Asking Price
LOS FELIZ—For sale and recently reduced! 6,000 square foot Los Feliz mansion in a pre-Columbian style evoking the mystique of a Mayan temple. This fixer-upper was “renovated” in 1994 by the Northridge earthquake, and recent flooding has added an aquatic element to the site. [...]
A Higher Calling
Cell Phone Provider Finds Ingenious Way to Hide Tower in OMGC’s Bell Tower: But Is It Safe?
LOS FELIZ—Recently, Our Mother of Good Counsel (OMGC) church’s bell tower has been encased in scaffolding. The work being done is not for repairs, but rather to hide a cell phone tower [...]
“Guerilla Gardening”
Not Vandalism, They Say, but Beautification
Two unidentified persons snuck through the L.A. streets with their weapons of choice: a shovel and a pickaxe. Under the patchy lighting of the streetlights overhead, they led a pack of similarly covert individuals to the desired location.
The party members referred to each other by [...]
Library Cuts Hit Locally
On July 18th, both the Los Feliz and Silver Lake branches hours were reduced and staff was laid off as part of a system wide $22 million cut of the library’s budget. Overall, 328 positions were also eliminated.
This will be the third time that the city’s library hours have changed [...]
Atwater Village Struggling as Businesses Close
ATWATER VILLAGE—If Evita Corby didn’t have more than the local foot traffic generating income for her Glendale Boulevard business, she would definitely be worried.
The owner of Velvet Threads, a vintage and designer clothing store at 3203 Glendale Blvd., also commissions clothing rentals for movie studios, which, she said, is what [...]
