A Low-Power Hollywood Radio Station Keeps Itself on the Air, Barely
KHWD broadcasts to a few square miles on a shoestring, kept alive by volunteers, a handful of small sponsors and a transmitter that needs constant coaxing.
Business
Commerce on the Boulevard and beyond.
A Neighborhood Hardware Store Closes After 46 Years of Keys and Advice
The owners are retiring and the rent is rising, and the shelves that carried a single odd screw for every occasion are being sold down to the pegboard.
A Hollywood Bike Shop Turns 40, Kept Alive by the Riders It Taught to Fix Their Own Flats
The small repair-and-sales shop off Sunset has outlasted three big-box competitors. Its owner credits the Thursday-night group ride it has hosted, unpaid, for most of that time.
On Santa Claus Lane, the Boulevard Puts On Its Christmas Face
The lights are strung and the trees are up along Santa Claus Lane, and the merchants of Hollywood Boulevard are pinning a season's worth of hope on the six weeks between the parade and the new year.
