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More Than Red Cars , a blog examining “the obscure, offbeat and half-forgotten transportation history of Southern California,” recently ranked L.A’s Metro Rail stations by their Walk Score , a number assigned to a location illustrating its proximity to amenities like grocery stores, coffee shops and eateries. more › Read the original: How Walkable Is Your Metro Rail Station?
Caitlin Doughty believes her fascination with death started when she was a little girl and she witnessed a girl fatally fall from the balcony of a local mall. She went on to get a degree in mortuary science and start a delightful (no, really!) web series about death. more › Read more: ‘Ask a Mortician’ and She’ll Tell You About Space Burials, Where the Famous Go to Die and How to Bake Your Remains into Chocolate Cake
It’s been three years since the “L Word” aired its last episode and seven since “Queer as Folk” finished its run, and some of the folks involved with those shows are pitching their a new TV show featuring a gay, multi-ethnic ensemble cast. The show’s location and name is “DTLA,” and its creators says it’s like “Queer As Folk” meets “Swingers.” more › Read this article: New TV Show Features Gay Ensemble Cast Living the Dream in ‘DTLA’
40 years may have passed since the infamous break in that eventually brought down a president, but there are still repercussions rippling through politics, and lessons to be learned. Read the original post: Lessons from Watergate
Weather advisories for Southern California. See the article here: Weekend Weather: High Surf, Red Flag Warnings
Weather advisories for Southern California. See the article here: Weekend Weather: High Surf, Red Flag Warnings
The sprawling, massive and sometimes overwhelming Pacific Standard Time art festival has focused its attention on the birth of the Southern California art scene from the end of World War II until 1980. So what exactly do the heirs to this era think of the festival? more › See original here: Young Local Artists Critique ‘Pacific Standard Time’: ‘It Is Only Superstars Promoting Other Superstars’
An equestrian center in San Juan Capistrano is under a state-issued quarantine after horses contract contagious virus. Original post: OC Stable Quarantined After Horses Contract Virus
A rainy weekend forecast has Southern California homeowners doing what they can to plug up leaks View original post here: Getting Ready for Rain
Global Cultural Ambassador Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has just been appointed to the diplomatic post by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the State Department in Washington, DC. A legendary Los Angeles Lakers basketball champion, best-selling author and Hollywood actor, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 64, will now travel the world to engage a generation of young people to help promote diplomacy on behalf of the United States of America. “It’s a great honor and I’m thrilled that they see me as the person that could get this done,” Abdul-Jabbar declared.
