Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by Carlo Capomazza
By WeHo News Staff, West Hollywood, California (February 22, 2009) Amidst calls for tabling the item in lieu of development of a citywide policy on outdoor advertising via development agreement, the West Hollywood city council unanimously approved replacement of a 144 sq ft billboard with one nine times its size in exchange for $90,000 per year. A plan to replace the current billboard atop the Rainbow Room at 9015 Sunset Strip, a restaurant co-owned by Nic Adler, who also owns the neighboring Roxy Theater music venue, with one 14′ X 48′ (672 sq ft) was originally denied by the Planning Commission, appealed to council and denied there, with urgings that a development agreement be hammered out that would fiscally benefit the city.
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Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by Carlo Capomazza
By WeHo News Staff, West Hollywood, California (February 22, 2009) In March, West Hollywood and American households everywhere around the world will receive their 2010 Census forms in the mail: an important civic milestone that happens only once every ten years. What makes this year’s Census even more historic is the unprecedented and welcoming outreach by U.S. Census leaders and managers to include the entire lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) and allied community in these efforts, as a way to achieve the nation’s most accurate count possible. Dr. Robert Groves, Director of the U.S. Census Bureau, endorsed this initiative: “We are charged each ten years to provide Congress with a Census they trust to be accurate and complete. We are grateful to our LGBT community partners in helping us achieve this significant responsibility
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Posted on February 8th, 2010 by Carlo Capomazza
By WeHo News Staff, West Hollywood, California (February 8, 2009) West Hollywood, the source of a number of natural springs with underground aquifers and rivers running below it, needs new gutters on one of its hill-climbing streets, Larrabee, to prevent run-off on the street surface.This water comes from the underground garages and basements that reach to the high water table and, until now, pumped the excess water directly into the street.With that in mind, construction begins today to install, along the curb of the street, a grated trench drain system designed to carry away the nuisance surface water.
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Posted on February 4th, 2010 by Carlo Capomazza
West Hollywood, California (February 4, 2010) A jury found West Hollywood resident David Jassy, a rapper and record producer from Sweden, guilty Monday of second-degree murder in the death of John Osnes, a 55-year-old jazz pianist, in Hollywood. Mr. Jassy stood accused of attacking Mr. Osnes, a popular local pianist and pedestrian rights activist, punching him in the head, kicking him in the face and then driving over his mortally wounded body. Commentators at the time likened the affair to an incident straight from the previous year’s Oscar winner, “Crash,” a film about racial tensions and random life changing happenstances.
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Posted on February 3rd, 2010 by Carlo Capomazza
(February 3, 2010) West Hollywood City Council Monday passed the ordinance prohibiting the sale of dogs and cats in pet stores.Nobody, however, expected the ordinance to pass by acclamation without debate after endorsement by the head of the national Humane Society’s D.C office, the Mayor Pro Tem of Yucaipa (also the chief Veterinarian for Riverside County) and a South Tahoe resident who helped pass the first such ban in that city.The new ordinance prohibits the sale of all dogs and cats at companion animal stores, providing exemptions for humanely bred, reared or sheltered animals.
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Posted on January 28th, 2010 by Carlo Capomazza
West Hollywood, California (January 28, 2010) Live Nation, Inc. and Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. announced Monday that they cleared the regulatory hurdles placed before their merger by the Federal government’s anti-trust investigation and shareholders, consummating their partnership.Immediately, the merged entity will bear the name Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.The effect on West Hollywood’s city coffers stands unclear, as Ticketmaster was WeHo’s largest employer and one of its largest tax-payers.
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Posted on January 26th, 2010 by Carlo Capomazza
SUNSET STRIP GROUNDBREAKING
The Sunset Strip in West Hollywood is getting its first facelift in 75 years, and city officials gathered last Wednesday at the Whisky A Go Go for a groundbreaking ceremony to hail the overhaul of one of the nation’s most famous stretches of road.
City officials, members of the local business community and some [...]
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Posted on January 26th, 2010 by Carlo Capomazza
New Year’s has always been a time for looking back to the past, and more importantly, forward to the year ahead. It’s a time to reflect on the changes we want (or need) to make, and resolve to follow through on those changes. But, if you’re like most of us, it’s merely time for a new start…of old habits.
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