San Fernando Valley

Ann Brenoff

PHOTOS: Is Scary Spice Unseasoned In Real Estate?

HuffingtonPost.com | Ann Brenoff | Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: Scary Spice, La Real Estate, San Fernando Valley, San Fernando Valley Real Estate, Luxury Real Estate, Spice Girls, Scary Spice Girl, David Beckham, Los Angeles News

There is much to be learned from celebrities, much of it in the "don't do as they do" category. Certainly throwing away money in this housing market b...

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Route of the 405 Well-Traveled for Centuries

Mary Daily | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: San Fernando Valley, 405 Freeway, Native Americans, California History, Carmageddon, 405 Closure, Los Angeles News
Mary Daily

See all those drivers buzzing below the Getty Center on the 405? They are literally following the footsteps of their predecessors: Native Americans, Spanish explorers, mission padres, and early California settlers.

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Tribeca 2011: Kids Get High on Acting in Shakespeare High

Linda Hassler | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: San Fernando Valley, Richard Dreyfuss, Kevin Spacey, Leslie Hassler, Val Kilmer, Drama Teachers Association of Southern California, Mare Winnigham, Alex Rotaru, Nicolas Cage, Sally Field, Cuba Gooding, Dtasc, Tribeca Film Festival 2011, New York News
Linda Hassler

Every year, 75-85 high schools in and around LA County participate in this program. Students learn to act out scenes from Shakespeare's famous plays. And come together for one day to perform for each other.

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Nic Cage's Stolen Comic Book Found

AP | By ANTHONY McCARTNEY | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Academy Award Winner, San Fernando Valley, Action-Comics-No-1, Police, Comics, Found, Combic Book, Oscars, Superman, Ventury County Star, Los Angeles, Nicolas Cage, Ventura County, Nic Cage, Arts News

LOS ANGELES -- A valuable comic featuring the debut of Superman has re-surfaced in a storage locker, and police said Monday that it appears to be the ...

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An LA Idea for Moving America From Pause to Fast Forward

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: San Fernando Valley, Time Magazine, Salt Lake City, Congress, City National Bank, Los Angeles, Japan, Cnbc, Wall Street, 30/10 Initiative, La Metro, Bart, America Fast Forward, San Francisco, Westside Urban Forum, Libya, Lax, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Los Angeles News
Joel Epstein

In places as different as LA and Salt Lake City, local voters had to first recognize the benefit of public transportation by voting for sales tax increases that are helping pay for expansion projects.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Sebastian Gutierrez on Electra Luxx

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: San Fernando Valley, Tim Olyphant, Justice, Repression, Adult Films, Emotion, Marley Shelton, Sex, Romance, Carla Gugino, Drama, Controversy, Comedy, Adrianne Palicki, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Satire, Acting Legend, Off Beat, Julianne Moore, Justin Kirk, Timothy Olyphant, Sebastian Gutierrez, Kathleen Quinlan, Love, Romantic Comedy, Activism, Death, Indie, Porn, Emanuelle Chriqui, Success, Pornography, Social Drama, Racism, Fantasy, Malin Akerman, Electra Luxx, Art, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Should a movie about a pregnant porn star fleeing her past and questioning her future be this much fun?

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Lights Out For 'Armenian Power' Gang

AP | THOMAS WATKINS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: San Fernando Valley, Glendale, Operation Power Outage, Eurasian Organized Crime, Armenian Power, Armenian Power Gang, Los Angeles News

GLENDALE, Calif. — Authorities arrested dozens of suspected members of a multi-generational Armenian street gang Wednesday believed to be workin...

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Mandatory Condom Use In Pornographic Films?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: San Fernando Valley, HIV/AIDS, Pornography, Hiv, Los Angeles, Condoms, Aids, Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, Condom Mandate, Los Angeles News

Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley is a huge hub for American pornography production. And now, a vote by Los Angeles officials has begun to clear the wa...

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Rain, Snow and the Prospects for 30/10 in 2011

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LA Times, San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley, Torrance, Washington, 30/10, Wilshire Subway, Snow, Congress, Los Angeles, Orlando, The Source, Los Angeles News, California High-Speed Rail Authority, Crenshaw, Curbed La, New Jersey, Westside, New Year?S Eve, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, LA Weekly, Metro, Governor Christie, Ciclavia, Anaheim, Disney, Lax, Rain, Public Transportation, Los Angeles Streetsblog, ARC Tunnel, Los Angeles News
Joel Epstein

The end-of-year deluge is not getting me down. Instead, I see the storms, which have blanketed the East in snow and LA in rain, as more evidence of our need to build the subway.

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All I Want for Christmas Is 30/10 and the Subway to the Sea

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: San Fernando Valley, President Obama, Washington, Pakistan, Senator Menendez, Drones, Ray Lahood, 30/10, Christmas, Subway to the Sea, New Year's Eve, South Bay, Los Angeles, New York City, Harvard, Patton Boggs, Senator Lautenberg, New Jersey, Metro, Santa Claus, Fox News, Afghanistan, Lax, Public Transportation, ARC Tunnel, President Bush, Jersey Shore, Los Angeles News
Joel Epstein

Where have President Obama's and his Secretary of Transportation's backbones gone? Long time passing. I'm sitting here weeping and fuming at the sam...

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Sherman Oaks Pharmacy Worker Kidnapped

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: San Fernando Valley, Sherman Oaks, Pharmacy Kidnapping, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES — Two robbers dressed as police officers held up a pharmaceutical delivery truck Thursday and kidnapped the driver before stealing i...

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Public Private Partnerships, Public Transportation and Jobs for LA

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: San Fernando Valley, Washington, Subway to the Sea, Santa Monica, Afl-Cio, Congress, Culver City, Los Angeles, Expo Line, Paris, Move LA, Tim Geithner, Metro, Lax, Public Private Partnerships, Public Transportation, Richard Trumka, Brt, Supergraphics, Treasury, Labor, Barbara Boxer, Jobs, Barack Obama, Los Angeles News
Joel Epstein

With the financial markets gyrating and Tim Geithner talking again about the need for more economic stimulus, I'm finding it hard not to holler, "It's about investing in public transportation, stupid!"

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Citizen Murdoch: What "War at the Wall Street Journal?"

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: San Fernando Valley, Sarah Ellison, Elena Kagan, The New York Post, 20th Century Fox Television, Citizen Kane, The Wall Street Journal, WIlliam Randolph Hearst, Smart Money, Rupert Murdoch, Los Angeles Times, Harrison Grey Otis, Judith Brackley, Harpercollins, Joseph Medill, News Corp, 20th Century Fox, The Chicago Tribune, The Bancroft Family, Robert Thomson, War-at-the-Wall-Street-Journal, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Barron's, Joseph Pulitzer, Horace Greeley, Harry Chandler, Michael Wolfe, Clarence Barron, Dow Jones, The Graham Family, Marketwatch, Sulzbergers, The Man Who Owns the News, The Washington Post, Books News
Tom Alderman

We may be losing interest in newspapers but our fascination with the people who publish them has never been stronger. Our current dread-and-awe buccaneer is Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News, according to a recent bio.

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I'll Have a BRT With the Sepulveda Pass

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: San Fernando Valley, Mass Transit, Tea Party, Mexico City, San Diego, Beijing Olympics, Brooklyn, Brazil, Interstate Highway System, Sepulveda Pass, Toyota, Tijuana, Los Angeles, New York, Orange-Line, Infrastructure, Bus Rapid Transit, Manhattan, Leonard Cohen, Curitiba, Orange County, Metro, Bogota, Los Angeles Times, Aarp, Lincoln Navigator, 405, Skirball, Economic Stimulus Package, Lax, Green Living, Light Rail, Los Angeles News
Joel Epstein

Every time I go over that damn Pass there's something missing for me. And that something is a light rail line running up the center divide of the freeway.

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Friendship by the Book: Pieces of Happily Ever After

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Aging Parents, Alice Hirsch, Living News, Divorce, Author, Friendship-by-the-Book, Daughters, Dumped, Mothers, Mom Friends, Friendship by the Book, Novel, Infidelity, Friendship Expert, San Fernando Valley, Dr. Irene S. Levine, Pieces of Happily Ever After, Mommy Friendships, Relationships, IRene Zutell, Novelist, Living, Breaking Living News, Healthy Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

Journalist and author Irene Zutell's latest novel sensitively captures the inevitable struggles that women face: infidelity, divorce, achieving independence, losing friends and making them.

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'BMW Bandits' Have Extended Their Operation into The San Fernando Valley, Police Say

latimes.com | Richard Winton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: San Fernando Valley, Bmw, Bmw Bandits, Los Angeles News

The "BMW bandits," a ring of professional thieves who have stolen air bags and headlights from luxury cars across the Westside and Mid-Wilshire areas,...

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Food Forward Shares Low Hanging Fruit...and then Some

Rick Nahmias | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: San Fernando Valley, Food Forward, Los Angeles, Community Organizer, Fruit, Fruit Trees, Healthy Living News
Rick Nahmias

Myself and a growing corps of Angelinos venture out weekly to glean people's excess fruit and donate 100% of it to local food pantries.

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The Murder Of Kitty Genovese

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: San Fernando Valley, Kitty Genovese, Bystander Effect, Rape, Ny, Darfur, Being of Service, Queens, Iraq, Murder, Personal Responsibility, Gaza, Alcohol, Paramedics, Bicycle, Diffusion of Responsibility, Afghanistan, Americans, Barack-Obama-War-Zones, Politics News
Linda Milazzo

If Kitty's murder has prevented Bystander Effect or Diffusion of Responsibility in those who were offended by the human failings that resulted in her death, then she was was a hero.

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Wiped? Back to Work

Wendy Block | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California, Homelessness, Beverly Hills, Barack Obama, Buddhism and Politics, San Fernando Valley, Poverty, Impeachment, Clean Elections, Progressives, Single Payer, Democratic Party, Los Angeles, Election, Marriage Equality, Iraq War, Political Activism, Candidate, Home News
Wendy Block

This past Sunday I ran for re-election as a Delegate to the California Democratic Party. I was on the Progressive Slate, from the 42nd Assembly District which covers parts of LA and the San Fernando Valley.

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