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Leimert Park rail stop gets a green light from L.A. City Council

The L.A. City Council voted Wednesday to partially fund a stop at Leimert Park on the Crenshaw Line.

Ralphs on Crenshaw closes

The Ralphs supermarket on Crenshaw Boulevard has officially closed its doors.

Crenshaw Digital Media Team gets City Council recognition

City Councilman Bernard Parks honors the Crenshaw Digital Media Team for developing a healthy eating app.

Leimert Park Beat in the News

SoCal Connected calls Leimert Park Beat "an excellent blog that chronicles the happenings in and around Leimert Park Village." Tavis Smiley - History of the Blog in 2009 and tour of Leimert Park Village New York Times - South Los Angeles says yes to no more fast food in 2008
KCRW: Warren Olney's Which Way, LA
- County supervisor race goes uncovered by the media
LAist - Neighborhood Project in 2007
Curbed LA - West Adams on the down low in 2007
LA Observed
- WeAd is the black WeHo in 2007
LA Observed - Winds knock down the sycamore trees on 42nd in 2006

Stories about Leimert Park


NPR: Leimert Park's Struggle with Identity in 2006
Washington Post - Tour of Leimert Park in 2006
Los Angeles Times - Tour of Leimert Park in 2005
LA City Beat
- Tour of Leimert Park in 2005
NY Times - Soul Central from 1993

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Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza Farmers Market - 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. EVERY Saturday
One Compton
Babe and Ricky's Inn
World Stage
Project Blowed
Najite and Olokun Prophecy
Vocalist Dwight Trible Los Angeles Jazz LA Jazz Society
Eso Won Books

Leimert Park Movie

Ernest Hardy
Leimert Park Book Fair
Crenshaw Chamber

Black Book Expo
Leimert Park Chargers
Mark Ridley-Thomas blog
LAPD Crime Map
Adopted by Aliens
West Adams Heritage Association

Los Angeles City Neighborhoods West Adams-Normandie

Neighborhood Council

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Magic Johnson at the Crenshaw Farmers Market with mayoral candidate Wendy Gruel Sat. May 18

Posted by enhager on May 17, 2013 at 9:00pm 0 Comments

The Crenshaw Farmers' Market tomorrow.

It's Every Saturday from 10am-3pm.



Magic Johnson & Wendy Greuel open the Bfit Wellness Fair at

Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Farmers Market Saturday May 18th.

Come by at 10 o'clock to see our beloved LA Laker legend and Wendy Gruel, who could become the first women mayor of LA.



Bring your E-waste to the market for safe collection and disposal.



Also at the Market: "Ask the Dietitian" is back with a yummy recipe… Continue

FREE Community Brazilian Dance Party...Sat., May 18th 1- 3:30pm Class and 3:30pm - until??? FREE Dance Party

Posted by Erica Bowen on May 17, 2013 at 11:02am 0 Comments

This Saturday artists from Bahia, Brazil are ready to dance with you! All ages are invited to move to the rhythms of Brazil.  The FREE Community Dance Party begins at 3:30pm.

Want to learn the correct movements for Brazilian Samba and Samba Reggae? Join the 1pm Samba Workshop with Slleyk da Bahia(Olodum). The workshop is $30 at the door or $25 in advance. No charge for children under 7.

Located at:

Casa Cultura Yoga and Dance

1623 Centinela…

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Movement on Crenshaw

Posted by Nina Schneider on May 6, 2013 at 5:47pm 6 Comments

If you try to avoid the traffic on Crenshaw as much as I do, you may not have noticed that progress is being made on the demolition of the former Rent-A-Center, Rite Aid Pharmacy, and another empty storefront at Rodeo Road. I've attached a few photos that I took a couple of weeks ago. Since then, the building to the north of Ralph's (Comet Clea…

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The California African American Museum Celebrates National Children’s Book Week with Heads are Turning, Children are Learning Literary Event

Posted by Terri Dixon on May 13, 2013 at 9:08am 0 Comments

The California African American Museum (CAAM) will celebrate National Children’s Book Week with the literacy event Heads are Turning, Children are Learning on Saturday, May 18, 2013, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.  Event co-hosts include actor Thomas Hobson of The Fresh Beat Band; actress Niketa Calame of The Lion King (animation); and actor Donis Leonard, Jr. from Showtime’s House of Lies.

 

During the literary event, renowned children’s author and…

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FREE Performing Arts Summer Camp for Teens | CITYstage

Posted by Lauren Munar on May 8, 2013 at 8:38pm 0 Comments

Join CITYstage for a week of free DANCE, MUSIC & THEATRE instruction for teens.

Registration is now open for CITYstage Summer Camp and it's FREE!

Parents - Get the kids out of your hair for a week this summer.

Kids - Get out of the house and learn dance, music and theatre!

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DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. SPEECHES, SERMONS TO BE DISPLAYED AT CAAM IN RARE SHOWCASE

Posted by Terri Dixon on May 1, 2013 at 2:41pm 0 Comments

Hundreds of digitally preserved speeches, sermons and correspondence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be on view at the California African American Museum (CAAM) May 5 -11, 2013 as part of an unprecedented effort to showcase the work of the civil rights leader.

 

With the help of…

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TARGET SUNDAYS AT CAAM - EXPLORING CULTURAL STORIES

Posted by Terri Dixon on May 1, 2013 at 2:37pm 0 Comments

Sunday, May 5, 2013, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. - TARGET SUNDAYS AT CAAM…

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89.3 KPCC event on "invisible" health conditions: rheumatoid arthritis, chronic migraine headaches and chronic fatigue syndrome

If you live in the Los Angeles area, please join 89.3 KPCC on Saturday, May 13 for a panel discussion on what makes a medical condition "invisible": What is unique about the suffering of someone who has R.A. or chronic migraine headaches? What challenges does that person face in communicating her or his condition to a health provider? And is this a matter of public health?

Conditions like cancer, heart disease and AIDS strike fear into the…

Thanks a million to the Empowerment Congress North Neighborhood Council!

On Thursday, May 2, the Empowerment Congress NANDC neighborhood council voted to award a $2,000 grant to ECCLA's 22nd Annual Teacher Awards.  We honor K-12 educators who go above and beyond the call of duty at an elegant event at the Natural History Museum of L.A. County.  With all of the challenges facing education, this is our opportunity to highlight the many teachers who do extraordinary work every day with very little attention or recognition.  We hope to stream the event live, so stay…

KPCC asks: Which term best describes immigrants living in the U.S. illegally?

The Associated Press Stylebook and several newsrooms have dropped the term "illegal immigrant." On the AP website, a top editor clarified, "The Stylebook no longer sanctions the term 'illegal immigrant' or the use of 'illegal' to describe a person. Instead, it tells users that 'illegal' should describe only an action, such as living in or immigrating to a country…

LACGC's 15th Annual Family FunFest: Volunteer Opportunities Available!

The Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic is proud to announce its 15th Annual Family FunFest, a mental health awareness event open to the community to commemorate Children's Mental Health Awareness Month. This year, FunFest will be…

South LA meet on $3 billion parcel tax for street repair - TONITE

Glenn Bailey, Vice-Chair of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Coalition reports:


Tonight the "on the road" public hearing on the proposed $3 billion street repair parcel tax will be held in South Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. (agenda below and attached).  I hope your Neighborhood Council will be represented.

We all agree that many of our streets need some serious repair work -- the question is whether asking homeowners of modest means to pay $3,500 more on…

LA Streetsblog - LA Mass Transit News

What does yesterday’s election mean for L.A. transportation issues?

Newly elected Mayor Eric Garcetti campaigning at the recent CicLAvia-to-the-Sea So what does it all mean? Former City Council President and outgoing CD13 Councilperson Eric Garcetti will be our new mayor for at least the next four years. Unlike the city council, where carefully carved districts and big money campaign donations mean even the most unloved council person [...]

Infrastructure, Access, and Passage: Neighbors in West Adams Debate Fate of 4th Ave. Pedestrian Bridge

The pedestrian bridge that crosses the 10 freeway at 4th Ave. Sahra Sulaiman/LA Streetsblog “We’ve all stopped and wondered, ‘What kind of poop is this?’” a man said of the surprises the 4th Ave. pedestrian bridge sometimes holds for residents of Jefferson Park and Arlington Heights. That wasn’t reason enough to close the bridge, however, he told [...]

ELACC Scores $100,000 from L.A. 2050 to Make Life Better for Street Vendors

Photo from East Los Angeles Community Corporation Recently, a program directed to aid street vendors was awarded $100,000 as a part of the LA2050 contest. East Los Angeles Community Corporation and Leadership for Urban Renewal Now’s proposed a program that will bridge the gap between brick and mortar businesses and street vendors, and a venture capital [...]

Shameless plug: Join us tonight for a discussion of California’s Road Rules for Bicyclists with the LACBC

Just a quick note before we get on with the rest of the day’s news. I’ll be speaking tonight as part of a panel discussing the Road Rules for Bicyclists, along with Sgt. Jon Aufdemberg, LAPD South Traffic Division, Bicycle Liaison; James L. Pocrass, Attorney, Pocrass & De Los Reyes, LLP; Cynthia Rose, Co-Founder, Santa Monica Spoke; and Lt. Marjory Jacobs [...]

Taxes Too High? Try Building Walkable, Mixed-Use Development

Walkable, mixed-use development provides far more return for Raleigh than Walmart, on a per acre basis. Image: Smart Growth America Smart growth could increase Fresno’s tax revenue by 45 percent per acre. In Champaign, Illinois, it could save 23 percent per year on city services. Study after study has demonstrated: Walkable, mixed-use development is a much [...]

Culver City Times

Culver City Gymnasts making extraordinary accomplishments!

The men’s and women’s gymnastics teams at Broadway Gymnastics School (BGS) in Los Angeles, CA just completed their 2012-2013 competitive seasons with amazing leaps of improvements. Several gymnasts were able to obtain scores high enough to skip levels…

What Is Culver CIty Listening To? 003

These are the new and old sounds coming from my corner of Culver City. What have you been listening to?

Parquet Courts - Borrowed Time

This song by Parquet Courts is sturdily constructed with angular but melodic guitar lines and a chanted chorus that fishhooks into the reptile brain. At two and a half minutes it's an epic for the band. Most songs on their newest album, Light Up Gold, are perhaps half as long, earning Parquet Courts a…

A Look at Area C of Ballona Wetlands: Part One

In March, I reported that the Annenberg Foundation has proposed to build a $50 million interpretive center and make other improvements in Area C of the Ballona…

L.A. Film Fest Accepts CCHS Student Film

Film students at Culver City High School were recently invited to screen their short documentary film in the highly competitive Los Angeles Film Festival. Their film “Bod Mod” explores the taboo world of underage body modification, including piercings and tattoos.

In the short film, high school students…

Getty Museum Exhibits Some Masterpieces By Culver City Resident Ed Ruscha

The J. Paul Getty Museum is currently offering an exhibition of the photography of Culver City resident Ed Ruscha, including the images from some of the 16 photo books Ruscha produced between 1963 and 1978, including Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963), Some Los Angeles…

Rancho Park Online

Your duty as a citizen -- pick your shade of grey

Tomorrow's election day. We've been bombarded with mail and tv, millions of dollars worth, and it still seems to me (and I usually try to follow these things) about very few tangible effects for the neighborhoods.(Interestingly, almost all the millions on the mayoral campaign have come from our neighbors on the westside.) The differences between the mayoral candidates are…

New Blood at Saint Johns - and Some May Have Been Spilled

It's located in Santa Monica but it's a big hospital Rancho Park adjacent, and it's just undergone a total architectural overhaul largely funded by Patrick Soon Shiong, an LA billionaire with an amazing background. (Briefly: Chinese parents, born in South Africa, educated in Canada, became a surgeon in LA, got UCLA professorship, resigned UCLA professorship to found startup which exploded, now may be richest man in town, …

Bike Safety for Westwood Blvd

Westwood Blvd has been designated a backbone of the LA 2010 Bike Plan Network and targeted for the extension of now fragmentary bike lanes.

The many cyclists who ride this corridor everyday, along with those would-be cyclists who have been afraid to get out there under current conditions, have welcomed this news.  The stretch between Santa Monica and Pico presents particularly dangerous conditions for cyclists as now configured.  This…

Homeless people in Rancho Park

I do not understand why there are so many homeless people in our neighborhood. I know most of them have been here for years and have no where else to go, but why do they come specifically to Rancho Park?

WHOLE HOUSE SURGE PROTECTORS

The utilities in the Cheviot / Rancho area are old and outdated resulting in outages like we had earlier this week.  A whole house serge protector provided by DWP will prevent electrical panel burn outs caused during incidents like the one this week.  DWP will install a protector when the power enters your home.   The added charge is around $3.99 a month extra.  Our oven panel burned out several times and the appliance repair company recommended a house surge protector. .  We haven't had…

 
 
 

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Using a blend of technology and live instruments, playing favorite and familiar songs, this duo always soothes and grooves. Vic (saxophones & flute) and Juan (guitars) performing Jazz standards, Latin jazz, Bossa Nova, and contemporary popular songs, from Duke Ellington to Amy Winehouse. #DialM #Music





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Vocal & Guitar Duo. A feel-good, easy listening upbeat Pop & Classic Hits Duo featuring tight vocal harmonies. Songs ranging from classic to contemporary hits. They cover music by: Sinatra, Beatles, Colbie Caillat, Jazon Mraz, John Mayer, Mumford & Sons, Kary Perry and Lady GaGa, to name a few… #DIALM #Music





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