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Amazon.com reports these best-sellers for Los Angeles, California For the week of Jan 16-22 1. City Baby L.A. by Lisa Rocchio 2. Symphony by Frank Gehry 3. Norman Klein by Rosemary Comella 4. An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles 5. Sacred Spaces by Robert Berger 6. Dancing at Ciro's by Sheila Weller 7. When Hollywood Had a King by CONNIE BRUCK 8. Dynamite Road (KLAVAN, ANDREW) Since the list is mainly composed of non-fiction,...

Well, we've survived the first leg of awards season so far. The Golden Globes are over, Industry-types are off to Park City for Sundance and the Oscar nomination/winner odds-making begins in earnest. Now is the time for out-of-town journalists to do their legwork about town in order to find new ways to describe the luxuriousness of Wolfgang Puck's Oscar Ball menu or give readers a verbal blueprint of this year's location for the Vanity...

The Los Angeles Downtown News reports that the Figueroa Corridor Partnership Business Improvement District (FCPBID) has added permanent banners to light poles lining Figueroa Street, ultimately gracing poles on Figueroa Street, Vermont Avenue, Flower Street, Jefferson Boulevard, Washington Boulevard, 23rd Street and Exposition Boulevard. This news also answers a question we've always harbored about the banner system in LA. Apparently, the the traditional canvas banners that usually grace city light poles have to be...

It's shearing season for the city's palm trees. Crews are taking advantage of the sunny weather to trim the palm tree beards, which are getting kinda scraggly. The tree pictured above is the first to get topped on the grounds of Hollywood High at Highland and Sunset. Is it us or does the little tree now look like the Muppet Beaker, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's assistant?...

Today, 1/17, 7 PM, Troy Reed signs his book "Troy's Summer" at Dutton's Brentwood Books: 11975 San Vicente Blvd. Tuesday, 1/18 Leander Kahney, author of forth coming book, "The Cult Of Mac," will discuss the Macintosh/Apple subculture and display his photos on 1/18 at the W Hotel Westwood in Los Angeles (930 Hilgard Ave., in the VIP Room)7-9 PM. You must reserve a spot so call 888-718-4764 before you arrive. Carrie Fisher appears at...

We're enchanted by Christy Hobart's new piece on the area's Storybook style homes in the 1/13/05 issue of the Los Angeles Time's Home Section. One of the treats of living in Los Angeles is sighting wee, crooked little houses with peaks shaped like witch hats. Hobart crawls inside and gets the stories of three Storybook homeowners: the Conrads who own the 'Hobbit House/Hansel & Gretel' house in Beachwood Canyon, the Lawrence Joseph's complex in...

Devin's comments on our "Swag Season" entry provides us with an essential (but unspoken) observation regarding the mudslide tragedy in Ventura. He (we assume he as his email addy begins with "dudeinla") writes, "while i am sorry for the loss of any life, living in an area that has mud as its based and being shocked by mudslides is a bit like running out onto wilshire and being shocked at getting hit by a...

It's a truism that Los Angeles is a city of contrasts. There are so many shops and services that cater to the rich that one grows used to the idea that you exist in a two or three-tiered city, where only the privileged few have access to some goods and services. It's no big deal. But we grow weary of having the news foisted on us by the media. Already, there's been news bits...

There's another Mayoral Candidates' Forum today, Thursday, January 13 at 7:30 PM Temple Beth Am 1039 La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles Scheduled to appear: Richard Alarcon, California State Senator Jim Hahn, Mayor, City of Los Angeles Robert M. Hertzberg, California State Assembly Speaker Emeritus Bernard C. Parks, Los Angeles City Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles City Councilman...

Charles Phoenix posts his impressions of this year's Tournament of Roses Parade on Eye Spy LA. ... I was invited to share some of my vintage Rose Parade slides on KTLA's live Rose Parade pre-show. My segment was scheduled at 6:10am. Frankly, I'm not used to getting up that early and I was worried my 1977 SEARS alarm clock that I got while still in high school, wouldn't go off. Sure enough it didn't....