Category Archives: General

Late-Night Caruso Preparations A reader snapped this photo of the construction at Caruso’s Palisades Village on Swarthmore last night, September 19, around 11 p.m. There is a last-minute flurry of activity to not only get the landscaping completed in time...

Caruso’s Village Festivities Begin Thursday The festivities surrounding the opening of Caruso’s Palisades Village, which is bounded by Monument, Sunset and Swarthmore, will start on Thursday and extend through the weekend.     THURSDAY: A black-tie, invitation-only party, featuring John Legend,...

Palisades Falls to Brentwood, 14-13 After starting the season 4-0, Palisades High played a disappointing football game Saturday and lost to Brentwood, 14-13. This was just a miserable, sloppy game. Even though Brentwood has a beautiful field, and the night...

Bill Hader Wins an Emmy for ‘Barry’ By BERNICE FOX Pacific Palisades has another Emmy winner for acting. Drumroll… it’s Bill Hader! Hader has won for playing Barry on “Barry.” After bounding up to the stage at Monday’s Emmy Awards,...

Who Is Caruso’s Mystery Statue? Palisades residents are really lucky. A statue will soon be unveiled at Caruso’s Palisades Village. When my children were small, we traveled standby. With a pilot for a husband, we indeed did receive free airline...

Grace Reviews Tratto (Editor’s note: Longtime Palisades restaurant critic Grace Hiney, who has been keeping residents abreast of all the great local restaurants and eateries for more than 40 years, returns to the “table” with her review of Tratto, which...

Prominent Doctor to Discuss Her Book at Library The Friends of the Palisades Library will host a lively and informative talk by Nina Shapiro, M.D., on Thursday, September 20 at 6:30 p.m. in the library’s community room, 861 Alma Real. The...

  Draycott Restaurant Features Palisades Owners (Editor’s note: The first part of the story introduced Marissa Hermer’s “fairy godmother” Palisadian Kim Clary. Today we continue the story of how the Hermers moved to Pacific Palisades.)    . . . What...

Wimaw To Speak at the Orchid Society Meeting Orchid collector Winn Winmaw will share his knowledge of the vanda orchids of Burma at 7 p.m. Tuesday, September 18, at the Woman’s Club, 901 Haverford Ave. at a regular meeting of...

Early Morning/Late Noise Ignored by the City? Yesterday, September 13, a resident was told that if there is a noise issue with late or early/morning construction at Caruso’s Palisades Village and the police are called, the police should ask for...