Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced recently that the next CicLAvia cycling event will take place August 9 along Venice Boulevard. The “Culver City Meets Venice” event will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will span six miles allowing residents to explore more of Culver City’s neighborhoods and to connect with such famous Westside destination points as Mar Vista Farmer’s Market, Abbot Kinney and Venice Beach. The latest “CicLAvia” event corresponds with Garcetti’s “Great Streets” program.
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AV to feel immediate effect of latest water rate hike
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors this week approved water surcharges of up to two times the regular rate for customers in the Antelope Valley, Malibu and Topanga Canyon who fail to cut water use by 30 percent or more to meet new conservation measures.
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Hollywood and the ‘Big One’
Although the film “San Andreas” has been largely panned by seismologists for its accuracy in describing the “Big One” expected to hit Los Angeles, debate is ongoing over whether the catastrophe shown in the movie could actually happen. The latest disaster flick shows a massive earthquake caused by a shift in the San Andreas Fault, which forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. Angelenos have witnessed a series of small temblors this year along the Inglewood and Newport Beach fault lines which have rattled a few nerves.
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Los Lobos, Air Supply among groups slated for Summer Concert Series
From soft pop and sexy hip-hop to Latin rock, there are a number of exciting musical acts scheduled this summer at the Palmdale Amphitheater. Also, some of the most popular movies of a generation will be screened this summer as “The Amp” celebrates its 11th season.
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Scientists hold out hope on future El Nino storms
Hopes are being heightened throughout the state that the mysterious, elusive El Nino weather pattern will wind its way northward along the Pacific Coast and bring needed rain. Climatologists with the California Department of Water Resources believe that the recent moisture in the state and inversion layers may foretell storms this summer that may help alleviate the state’s historic four-year dry spell.
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Bassist Louis Johnson succumbs
Louis Johnson, who with sibling, George, founded the ’70s funk group Brothers Johnson, has died. He was 60.
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‘Food desert’ linked to early signs of childhood mental illness
The notorious “food desert” has been part of the American vernacular for about a decade. But only now have sociologists, pediatricians, nutritionists and mental health experts come to a general agreement that the lack of proper nutrition at an early age has a verifiable effect on mental health and stability during the important growth period extending from the toddler years through adolescence.
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Globetrotters great dies at 89
Long before Bob Cousy, Earl “The Pearl” Monroe and Pete Maravich graced the hardwoods, there was Marques Haynes. The famous dribbling wizzard of the Harlem Globetrotters died on Friday in Plano, Texas. He was 89.
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‘Race on the Q.T.’ explores Tarantino’s body of work
Screenwriter/director Quentin Tarantino has during the past 25 years provided to moviegoers a number of films that at best elicit responses of shock and surprise, and at worst hearken to the base racial characterizations seen prominently in the “Blaxploitation” genre of the early 1970s. Adilifu Nama’s new book, “Race on the Q.T.” (2015 The University of Texas Press, $22.95), provides a thorough albeit academic review of the prominent filmmaker’s most popular films ranging from “Reservoir Dogs” to “Django Unchained.”
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Childhood mental illness remains early stigma that can last a lifetime
Practically no one expects a child to be intentionally harmed physically, sexually or emotionally, but it happens every day. Experts have for years concluded that child abuse, in general, often leads to mental disorders that affect behavior, self esteem, identity, and social and cognitive development.