Ben & Jerry’s is promoting their Free Trade Flavors up and down both coasts this summer. And on Thursday, May 19, I will both ride and direct the truck via Twitter!
The old Roosevelt Hotel still anchors Hollywood, and is a great place to stay if you travel to Los Angeles and want to be 40 minutes from everywhere in LA.
With the May 17 runoff for a Los Angeles Unified School District seat still just under three weeks away, both candidates are desperate and quite frankly, pathetic.
Los Angeles is not intuitively the most bike-friendly city, but there are plenty of workarounds. With my Altima spending the night at the mechanic’s in Echo Park, I had to bike to Beverly Hills for a networking event.
It has been a year since work on Parkman Triangle was completed, and now the micro-park is thriving. Last October, NBC 4 interviewed Ara Babaian about the work that went into this Silver Lake street corner, and this morning it make NBC 4’s segment on cool local neighborhoods.
Judging by the turnout, today’s CicLAvia in Los Angeles was a success. Bikers young and old took to the streets, and they were joined by token pedestrians, roller skaters, and a few skateboarders.
LA’s second CicLAvia is this Sunday, April 10, from 10am to 3pm. The route starts in the “Hell-Mel” area of LA (Heliotrope and Melrose) and continues to downtown Los Angeles.
Conservation International and the International League of Conservation Photographers have teamed to together to present an exhibit, “Fresh Water: The Essence of Life” from Marcy 29 to May 8.
The jewel of Koreatown is a few blocks past Western going west on Wilshire. Hwa Sun Ji Tea House, on the first floor of a nondescript office building, takes you back to the old tea shops of old Korea and touristy Insa-dong, and that is a wonderful journey indeed. Sipping the Korean teas make for a great afternoon or evening, especially after a meal.
California needs to synchronize its elections. Democracy would flourish if elections were held only every two years, not constantly as is the current situation in the Golden State.