Blog Profile / Curbed LA
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| Archived Since: | January 30, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Curbed Maps: 12 Places to Watch an Outdoor Movie in LA This Summer
There is nothing more "summer in Los Angeles" than outdoor movie screenings and guess what: it's summer in Los Angeles right this second (Memorial Day weekend counts!). Here, then: Curbed's round-up of 12 spots to catch an outdoor screening...
On the Racked: Treasure Chest in Quonset Hut, 30-Day Pop-Up, Top Indie Shops
VENICE: "Treasure chest on wheels" Styleliner opened its first West Coast outpost at the corner of Rose and Rennie in Venice today. It will reside in a Quonset hut (yes, a hut) for the next six months. DOWNTOWN: Guerilla...
Weekend Getaways: The Top 10 Places Angelenos Are Looking For Second Homes
The data-crunchers at Trulia were wondering what everyone was up to for the big holiday weekend and dug through their numbers to figure out the top markets for vacation homes. Overall, they "found that the vacation-home market is mostly...
GentrificationWatch: Revamped Ripley's Latest in Hollywood Boulevard Blandification
The latest effort to keep Hollywood Boulevard's 14 million annual visitors occupied after they're done walking on people's names and handprints comes from the Ripley's Believe It or Not museum, which has just undergone a major macabre-ectomy. It's part...
Curbed Maps: Mapping the Many Razzle-Dazzle Homes of Liberace
The great pianist/eccentric Liberace had many fabulous and over-the-top homes throughout the Los Angeles area (and as far as Vegas) during his life--to get primed for this Sunday's airing of the HBO biopic about him, Behind the Candelabra, why...
DevelopmentWatch: Lot Next to Vibiana About to Sell With Some Insurance Against Stupid Development
Old Bank District developer Tom Gilmore is in advanced talks to sell a surface parking lot next to Vibiana, the 1876 church-turned-private events venue, to another developer, the Downtown News reports. It's not quite a usual sale, though, as...
There's Always Money in the Banana Stand: Bluth's Original Frozen Banana Stand from...
Bluth's Original Frozen Banana Stand from the canceled-but-returning-to-Netflix-on-Sunday show Arrested Development has been popping up for photo ops across the country to promote the new season. But it never made an appearance in its (fictional) home town of Newport Beach,...
Semi-Celebrity Real Estate: Kat Von D Lists Gothed-Out 1927 Spanish in Outpost Estates
Tattoo artist/reality star Kat Von D is ditching the Outpost Estates house she bought and gothed up just two years ago. She's getting married to DJ Deadmau5 in August (in a Cthulhu-themed wedding) and they're looking for a new...
Beaches: LA County's 4 Grossest and 7 Cleanest Beaches of the Year
It's Memorial Day weekend and Heal the Bay has released its annual Beach Report Card, so you'll know just how nasty or delightful your beach is, based on bacterial pollution. Overall, beach water quality is up at Los Angeles County'...
New to Market: Flippers Better Shelter Add a Pool to 1960 Glassell Park Ranch
The latest effort from hipster flip shop Better Shelter is a three-bedroom ranch on half an acre in Glassell Park. The 1600-square-foot house was built in 1960 and has an open living...
Morning Linkage: Small Extra 405 Lane Now Open, Old Red Car Bridge Reopens
· First small part of long, expensive 405 widening project opens · Torrance's renovated old Red Car bridge rededicated · Diane Ladd lists her compound up in Ojai for $4.45 million · Santa Cruz Island foxes claw their way back...
CurbedWire: Sunset Guitar Center Zone Finally Gets a Safe Crossing
HOLLYWOOD: In March last year, Hollywooder/filmmaker Adam Choit made a video showing how ridiculous it was that there weren't any crosswalk on Sunset Boulevard between Gardner and Poinsettia (roughly the Guitar Center zone)--he'd written to the LADOT, which told...
Eatertastings: Melrose Getting Cheesier, Jerry's Shutters in WeHo, AIA/LA's Restaurant Design Finalists
MID-CITY WEST: Eater has a sneak peek of the forthcoming Greenspan's Grilled Cheese, opening in July at Melrose and Gardner. The restaurant is from chef Eric Greenspan, who won the 2008 Grilled Cheese Invitational with his Taleggio cheese, short...
Meanwhile, In the OC...: Everyone's moving to Irvine, weirdly! It...
Everyone's moving to Irvine, weirdly! It was the eighth fastest-growing US city between July 2011 and July 2012, according to new census data, with a current population of "nearly 230,000" and a growth rate "nearly five times as fast as...
New to Market: Inside the Renovated 1922 Harvey Mudd Estate, Asking $23MM
Last week came word that Benedict Canyon's fancy old Harvey Mudd estate was about to hit the market asking a pretty stunning $22.995 million--it last sold in 2010 for $6.25 million (and...
Checking In: One Less Bar in Updated Plans For Silver Lake's Church Hotel
Last time we checked on the proposed conversion of Silver Lake's empty Pilgrim Church into a 25-room boutique hotel plus restaurant and "Choir Lounge," neighbors were concerned about the hotel's multiple bar...
Beach Beauty: If you've been thinking that Venice's...
If you've been thinking that Venice's broad swath of beach is looking mighty fine lately, it's not just because you have sand in your eyes: it's been named one of the best restored beaches in the country. Three years of...
DevelopmentWatch: WeHo's Movietown Plaza Finally Starting Work This Year
A West Hollywood staffer tells us that the stalled-then-sold-then-revived mixed-use Movietown Plaza project has gotten all its approvals, and that the city is just waiting on building permit applications. A call to developer Avalon Bay Communities confirms it: Vice President...
Semi-Celebrity Real Estate: Judge Judy Bought That $10.7-Million Montage Condo Last Week
When a unit at the Montage popped up as the second biggest LA-area home sale last week, some commenters questioned the judgment of anyone who would pay $10.7 million plus $5,366 in monthly HOA dues for a Beverly Hills...
Los Angeles Things: 13 Facts About LA's Most Annoying Icon: the LAPD Helicopter
Blame the early '90s: one of the most widely-recognized (and definitely loudest) symbols of Los Angeles is the circling police helicopter, aka the Ghetto Bird. KPCC tried to figure out if they actually do anything besides make LA feel...