News

  • Los Angeles Should Adopt Japan’s Fire Building

    (Editor’s note: This editor has received several emails from readers who have told me the reason for the intense Palisades Fire, was climate change. That assumption ignores
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  • Entrance to Pacific Palisades “Do-Over”

    The beautifully landscaped corner of Temescal Canyon Road and Pacific Coast Highway was burned to a crisp. No vegetation survived, neither did the wooden fence. The entryway
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  • About the January Fires, Bass Said “Both Sides Botched It”

    L.A. Mayor Karen Bass was interviewed for Matt Welch’s “The Fifth Column” podcast in the library at the Getty House, the official mayor’s residence. The video premiered on
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  • Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Presented December 17

    “Bah, Humbug,” might be what some Palisades residents are feeling this year about Christmas. Many are displaced and for the first time in decades won’t be in their homes for
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  • Temescal Canyon Landmarks Undergo Repair

    Despite the cloudy day, with fog rolling in from the ocean, significant headway was being made at Palisades Charter High School and across Temescal at the mural. TEMESCAL
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  • Alphabet Streets to be First Site of Undergrounding

    The Pacific Palisades Infrastructure Committee, chaired by Reza Akef, met with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power on December 11 and came away with specific
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  • Holiday Luncheon for Seniors Was Packed with Good Food and Cheer

    The Palisades Long-Term Recovery Group (PLTG) hosted a festive luncheon today, December 16 at the American Legion for the town’s seniors. Food was catered by Vittorios and
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  • HO!HO!HO! Delights the Community

    By HENRY KAMER The 76th Annual HO!HO!HO! holiday event returned to Simon Meadow on December 13 in a community celebration hosted by the Palisades Malibu Lowe YMCA. Following
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  • Viewpoint: Home for the Holidays. Not This Year.

    My kids called them “crack bars,” because the cookies were so addictive you couldn’t stop eating them – a pecan pie bar on a cookie crust. Every December at our home in
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  • Tramonto Destroyed in Fire, Owner Now Offers Catering

    Tramonto, an upscale Italian eatery with an extensive wine list and Tuscan vibe that overlooked the Pacific Ocean in Southern Malibu, burned in the Palisades Fire. A reader
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