Click here to view the full photogallery. Photos by Wendell Benedetti HOLLYWOOD: The Chinese Theatre opened on May 18, 1927, which means it’s just turned 85 (and she’s getting a little tune-up for her birthday). To celebrate, the LA Historic Theatre Foundation and Hollywood Heritage are telling all (ok, some) of the theater’s secrets on behind the scenes tours this weekend.
SOUTH PARK: Cafe Dulce in Little Tokyo is staging an indefinite residency inside the Hold Up Art gallery at Eleventh and Hope, beginning on May 29 . Cafe Dulce serves Stumptown Coffee, that delicious Portland brew.
Today’s global demand for more efficient cars follows two centuries of shifting attitudes toward fuel-guzzling vehicles, from Model T to Rambler, from Hummer to Prius.
At first glance, today’s House of the Day over on Curbed National is just your run-of-the-mill shingle-style cottage on Cape Cod. But although that’s what you can see from the street, this is just the guest house
Opens Thursday May 24 (7pm) 25 May – 30 June Daily (11am–7pm) @ Paradise Row An exhibition of new paintings and sculptures themed around portraiture and representations of the human body. Tom Gidley looks at the perception of the self in relation to the destructive and regenerative forces of the natural world.
Apr 14 – June 6 Tuesdays–Saturdays (11am–7pm) @ 101/exhibit
May 24–30 Daily @ Montalbán Theatre This year we bring you seven days of the best films that have emerged from the halls of Mexico. Action films, dramas, comedies and real stories that have changed our society. In 2011, Hola Mexico Film Festival welcomed more than 11,000 attendees.
The LADOT Bike Blog has details on the bike path running adjacent to the four-mile extension of the Orange Line busway. Wide intersection ramps–six feet across– allow cyclists to speed through street crossings with ample room to avoid walkers and joggers
Click here to view the full photogallery. Developer Casden has had a tough go of things lately, with aborted or moribund projects around the Grove and West Hollywood
The city of Santa Monica delayed a vote on the future of the nativity scene tradition in Palisades Park, reports CBS Los Angeles. The controversy follows last year’s event in which all but three of the traditional 14 nativity scenes were used for more secular purposes.
