I’ve been hearing about Civil War reenactments for a while now, but until this year I had no idea there was one a few miles from LA County. According to the official event website, this particular reenactment (hosted by the Richmond Howitzer Battalion) is the largest in Southern California. The participants, many of whom are veterans, pay the expenses themselves and the attention to detail is amazing. This year, the event took place Nov.......

View Larger Map Ventura Blvd. is well served by three bus lines, the 750, 150 and 240. During the day on a weekday, you can pretty much walk to a stop and find a bus coming. To the north of the Valley's famous boulevard is the Orange Line, which during the same times of day seems to run every few seconds (it's only at 12 a.m. am I waiting longer than 10 minutes). Sandwiched between......

Creative apartment names are always fun. Even if it is as simple as flipping the two words that make up the name of the street that it resides on. What if other apartment complexes around town followed suit and flip-flopped syllables? Manwood Plaza Watercold Gardens Rosemel Flats Landhigh Joint Ratije La Casa Picolym Place Tanamon Huts Iceven Studios Chesterman Condos Waybroad Penthouse Radocolo Abode Claymar Co-op Hurstheyven Suites Of course if you spell some......

Does this sound like something the City of Los Angeles should do? The city of Moorpark has slapped a $25,000 fine against Time Warner Cable over what it says is poor service provided to customers. The City Council voted 4-0 to fine the company over technical problems, long waiting times and telephone prompts that didn’t lead to the right answer. “Time Warner has, for a period of time, not lived up to the obligations that......

Before Andrew of Here In Van Nuys named his eponymous blog, he lived off Moorpark Street in Studio City. Here's what Andrew had to say... I have very intimate memories of Moorpark. It is the street near where I first moved when I came to LA in 1994. I think about living in the hot, baking heat of Studio City in August, and how I walked down Moorpark near Whitsett and thought I'd never......