Westside Watch
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‘He had a huge following,’ an observer says, and when Edmond’s job was endangered in 2003, protesters helped save it. In 1962, he became the first African American pro to work at an L.A. city course.
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Frances Dean Smith, the mother of Charles Bukowski’s only child, published her work in journals and collections.
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A Malibu veteran’s quest to have the U.S. clean up a now-trashed site of Pacific theater carnage is the subject of a TV documentary to be shown this week.
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David Evans -- also known as the Edge -- wants to build five contemporary houses high atop a Malibu hill. Residents worry that the project would produce an environmental disaster.
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Jack Weiss accuses rival Carmen Trutanich of representing a ‘moral sinkhole’ of clients. Trutanich accuses his foe of having a ‘failed record.’
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Upscale shopping centers are crowding out small retail stores in the once-sleepy beach community. Residents gripe at having to drive to Calabasas or Agoura for basics like tools and undies.
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Program would match willing homeowners with would-be gardeners, reducing the years-long waiting list for a plot of soil.
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Carmen ‘Nuch’ Trutanich and Jack Weiss trade jabs over conflicts of interest, development, illegal billboards and gun control. The runoff election is May 19.
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The plaintiffs had sought to prevent the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy from using studies funded by state bond money to prepare a plan to increase public access to parks.
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After more than 50 years of tilling the city’s difficult seaside soil, the club is withering on the vine. It’ll take plenty of spadework to regrow its ranks with younger gardeners.
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Nearby residents suggest Bergamot Station as a site for an Expo Line maintenance yard. They don’t want the facility built, as now proposed, close to their homes.
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Chefs such as Suzanne Goin and Kerry Simon praise the cookbook store as a prized community resource with a knowledgeable staff.
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Once a destination spot with killer surf, the beach-side community has lost some of its appeal. Developers have plans for residential and retail space, but residents wonder if they’ll go too far.
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The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles considers moving its adult collection to a university in Bel-Air, a site the group says would better serve the region’s Jewish population.
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Even the legendary enclave of the wealthy is feeling the pinch.
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Edwin Shneidman knows what the end will be: You’re driving down a road in the desert, and the engine suddenly stops.
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The two-term city councilman, now seeking a new office, has drawn admiration and animosity in his district.
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The measure, which some residents have sought for more than a decade, needs Coastal Commission backing.
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Preservationists aim to learn the boundaries and burial locations of the historic Marquez Family Cemetery to develop a restoration plan and open it to the public.
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Planted by parents to spruce up the campus, the 80 trees were not appreciated by nearby neighbors. Then they disappeared. The Sheriff’s Department is investigating.
