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TV pilots, a big employer in L.A., are in limbo. How the coronavirus could change the industry
This year’s batch of TV pilots included some ominous names: “Triage,” “Wreckage” and “Housebroken.” Now, those show titles also describe network TV’s pilot season, which has been upended by the coronavirus outbreak. Broadcast networks ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and the CW were gearing up to employ thousands of workers in Los Angeles; Vancouver, Canada; New York and beyond when film and TV production shut down two weeks ago.
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LA’s Sugarfish vows to retain all 600 workers for the entirety of the pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has been disastrous to the local, federal, and global restaurant industry. In Los Angeles alone, untold thousands of restaurant workers have been laid off from their jobs in recent weeks, as those restaurants that remain open struggle to shore up lost business by offering takeout or delivery only. Remarkably one restaurant group, Sugarfish, is managing to push hard in the other direction, with a staggering plan to retain more than 600 workers across the entire company.
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L.A. County D.A.’s Office Reaches $18.8M Settlement on Behalf of 170,000 Customers Over Internet Speeds
Time Warner Cable has agreed to pay a $16.9 million settlement to thousands of consumers in California who did not receive the high-speed internet they paid for, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. More than 170,000 customers will benefit from the settlement, the largest direct restitution order ever secured in a consumer protection lawsuit by the DA's office, L.A. prosecutors said in a news release.
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LA makes it illegal to rent wild animals to parties for entertainment
The practice of supplying wild animals to house parties and other private events is set to become illegal, after the Los Angeles City Council approved a ban, Tuesday, Feb. 18, on using exotic and potentially dangerous animals for entertainment purposes. Circuses and abusive animal-training tactics have been banned in Los Angeles, but some companies that train or rent out animals were allowed to supply them to private events — such as a Hollywood Hills party that caught a councilman’s attention back in 2016.
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New LA Museum Spotlights Hollywood Costumes, From Dracula Cape to Spider Woman Dress
Ahead of its opening, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is highlighting one major aspect of its holdings: costume design.
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Los Angeles is testing “plastic asphalt” that makes it possible to recycle roads
By mixing recycled plastic bottles with chewed up asphalt, the new process repaves a road without adding any new asphalt—and makes it from a material that lasts longer.
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Waze Hijacked L.A. in the Name of Convenience. Can Anyone Put the Genie Back in the Bottle?
Traffic apps turned the city's neighborhoods into "shortcuts." Now furious residents are attempting to take them back, street by street
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Los Angeles seeks record setting solar power price under 2¢/kWh
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) Board of Commissioners was presented with the Eland Solar & Storage Center in Kern County, California, from an LADWP internal team on June 18, 2019. The team told the commissioners that on July 23, they plan to seek approval of a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) priced at 1.997¢/kWh for 400 MWac / 530 MWdc of solar electricity delivered at time of generation plus 1.3¢/kWh for the excess electricity later delivered from a co-located 200 MW / 800 MWh energy storage system.
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Study: LA Is Leaking Talent Faster Than Every Other Top Tech Hub
72% of LA's software engineering grads on AngelList left the area for their first job, compared to just 34% of Bay Area grads. Here's how LA can recover.
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A Night With a Bouncer
For this assignment, Nick Fuller Googins headed to the Venice Beach boardwalk to shadow a doorman for an evening.
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Shade
It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers. By Sam Bloch.
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John Singleton, ‘Boyz N the Hood’ Director, Dies at 51
His first film, which he began shooting when he was in his early 20s, earned an Oscar nomination for best director — the first for an African-American.
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LA City Departments Saw 40% Reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The first municipal report to cover emissions from all Los Angeles city departments, operations and facilities was released Friday and found that by the end of 2017, the city had reduced its operational emissions by 40 percent relative to its 2008 baseline. The report was a collaborative effort between LA Sanitation and other city departments.
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How Los Angeles could create the largest "virtual power plant" in the U.S.
Los Angeles could produce the nation's largest "virtual power plant" by linking homes equipped with solar panels and batteries, solar industry says.
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Santa Monica temporarily bans micro-apartments that aren’t affordable
Apartments smaller than 375 square feet are now temporarily banned in Santa Monica under an emergency ordinance adopted Tuesday night by the City Council. The ban will only be in effect until May 10, giving city leaders 45 days to mull a permanent measure to deal with a sudden boom of market-rate micro-apartments in downtown Santa Monica.
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L.A. City Council Bans the Sale of Fur
Los Angeles has just become the nation's largest city to ban the sale of fur in a major victory for animal welfare activists around the world.
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The New Punks of Los Angeles
The city of Los Angeles is steeped in a rich punk tradition that dates back to the late 1970s. The films that make up “The Decline of Western Civilization,” by Penelope Spheeris, are among its most compelling visual documents. In the first of the series, Ms. Spheeris tells the story of Hollywood at the end of the 1970s, when Black Flag, the Germs, X, Fear and other bands were coming up. By the third installment, which fast-forwards almost two decades to the mid-’90s, the scene had changed somewhat. In that film, the faces are fresher, the band names are new.
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Los Angeles Wants to be the Best City for Vegans
Los Angeles residents may soon be eating more tofu with their entertainment. A proposed city law would require movie theaters, sports stadiums, the Los Angeles Zoo, Los Angeles International Airport restaurants and other large-scale entertainment venues to sell at least one vegan protein option.
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Elon Musk's L.A. freeway tunnel won't see the light of day
Elon Musk's Boring Company announced Tuesday that it has pulled the plug on a project that appeared to be nothing more than a subterranean pipe dream. The company announced Tuesday that it was withdrawing plans, unveiled in 2017, for a high-tech transportation tunnel below the 405 freeway along Los Angeles' Westside.
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The tender, terrifying truth about what happened inside the Trader Joe's hostage siege
MaryLinda Moss took on the role of lead hostage negotiator inside the Silver Lake Trader Joe's when a gunman entered the store wounded. By Robin Abcarian.
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