Featured image credit: Prayitno Everyone’s favorite free spot to bring out-of-town guests is in trouble. With the reveal of Mayor Karen Bass’s civic budget plan for the year, it’s apparent that LA’s Department of Recreation and Parks (RAP) is a low priority in a year fraught with financial hardship. This means Griffith Park, along with […]
Los Angeles can be weird. Often it’s an endearing quality. Other times, not so much. It’s no wonder this city has conjured its own collection of crazy conspiracy theories specific to our locale. Sometimes, they even pop up in this blog, like the time we discussed the legend of Devil’s Gate Dam being a portal […]
Featured image credit: MetroLink Los Angeles is fortunate to be home to one of only three Japan-towns in the U.S. And with Japan an ocean away, many Angelenos will likely only experience a taste of Japanese culture through our city’s Little Tokyo district. Little Tokyo Los Angeles is a protected National Historic Landmark. In its […]
April 2024 brings more of that same energy we saw in March as the industry shakes off the accumulated frost of the holiday hibernation. A lot of our communities continued to climb further into the seller’s market, though with less severity. One neighborhood really ingratiated itself to sellers with a double-digit surge. But it was […]
Glendora real estate is getting redefined. JohnHart Real Estate proudly opened its much-anticipated Glendora office with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, April 25, inviting the community to get a first look at an office that visually matches our unconventional real estate ethos. Innovation has always been second nature at JohnHart. But our Glendora office created […]
Featured image credit: Ericnp On Sunday, April 21, 2024, news of an intruder infiltrating LA Mayor Karen Bass’s home was plastered across all of the country’s biggest news sites. Though Bass was present during the break-in, she was unharmed, and the perpetrator was apprehended. But the breached home wasn’t technically Karen Bass’s. Rather, it was […]
Approximately 63% of Americans are coffee drinkers, a statistic that holds weight in the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles. While a good portion of java junkies are content to line up at the closest Starbucks, a smaller sect demands a little more when caffeine cruising. Fortunately, there’s no shortage of unique local coffee shops to […]
Featured image credit: Stagecoach It’s almost that time again, partner. Grab your ten-gallon hat, your tightest pair of Wranglers, and dust off those kitshickers… errr, you know what we mean. On April 26, the 2024 Stagecoach Festival descends on Indio for a weekend of the best in country music and beyond. The hootenanny happens at […]
For a city that is decidedly not in Great Britain, Los Angeles is home to a surprising number of British pubs. Now we know what you’re thinking: can we really call an establishment a British pub if it’s in California? We suppose it’s a bit like trying to find an authentic Mexican restaurant in London. […]
Featured image credit: mosaictilehouse_venice Everyone has been transfixed at some point or another by the cascading colors and shapes of a kaleidoscope. But living in one? That takes a special kind of person. Or, in the case of the Mosaic Tile House in Venice, a special couple of people. Not content to just create art, […]
