The neighborhood, block by block, since 1925.
Four days into the heat wave, the library's reopened reading room, two recreation centers and a senior center are running as cooling centers. Not everyone inside is there only for the air.
Four blocks of Hollywood Boulevard between Western and Normandie closed for two days of grilled skewers, dance and a crowd organizers put north of twenty thousand.
A block-by-block terrazzo restoration that was to finish by spring is now promised "by the holidays," while shopkeepers count the cost of fenced-off sidewalks.
A weekend pilot that began in April will run through October 31 after organizers capped the volume and neighborhood complaints fell.
A neighborhood experiment that began with a dozen stalls and a lot of empty asphalt now spans seventy vendors, several of them run by the second generation raised behind the tables.
The Hollywood branch reopens its high-windowed 1920s reading room after a 19-month seismic retrofit, keeping the old card catalog in place as furniture.
Sightings are up sharply this year in the canyon below the Hollywood Sign, and residents have settled into an uneasy coexistence of umbrellas, indoor cats and grudging respect.
A renovation crew stripping stucco from a Whitley Avenue storefront found an eight-foot painted citrus-crate label dated 1936, and the building's owner must now decide its fate.
The city set aside money to fix a handful of the public stairways threading the Hollywood hills, and the walkers who log every step have opinions about which come first.
A men's clothier closed in 1985, but the family kept the original transformer wrapped in a moving blanket — the one part no restorer could replace.
