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The Top 9 Christmas Events Los Angeles Offers for the 2022 Holiday Seaso

  The holiday season is upon us. But if you’re not returning home for the holidays, renting a cabin at Big Bear, or hiding from Mariah Carey, what can you do to get in the spirit? Fortunately, we have a whole slew of Christmas events Los Angeles locals can enjoy without leaving the city limits. Or at least not traveling too far outside the city limits. LA has a few u...

Love You Latte: Lots to Love About This Exotic Glendale Coffee Shop

  At the base of the NEXT on Lex Apartments stands Love You Latte, the Glendale coffee shop that’s frankly more than a cafe. Its physical position as a support for a residential building draws immediate parallels to its place in Glendale’s community. This full-service, family-owned establishment opened its doors during the early days of pandemic. It was a time when ...

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Mt. Baldy is LA’s Most Infamous Mountain

  Featured image credit: Eric T. Gunther Jagged, snow ravaged peaks scrape frosty clouds; a steel gray contrast overpowering blue skies. Blankets of deceptively powdery snow, punctuated by puma prints, blanket thick, unyielding slabs of ice. Silence is broken by the cascading rustle of falling ice shards and frozen boulders gaining shudder-inducing inertia. No, we’re n...

Cucamonga Service Station Brings Route 66 History to Life

Cucamonga Service Station Brings Route 66 History to Life  Misc.   Seth Styles Featured image credit: Einbierbitte Travelers have been getting their “kicks on Route 66” since before any of us were born. Thankfully, even in those early days, there were plenty of service stations to keep motorists moving. But time has worked its magic. Gone are th...

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Putting Down the Los Feliz Murder House

  Featured image credit: Netflix For being such a gorgeous, in-demand neighborhood, Los Feliz sure has its shadows. We examined the Sowden House, rumored to be the actual site of the notorious Black Dahlia murders. We explored the ancient curse allegedly levied against Griffith Park. But we’ve yet to discuss the Los Feliz murder house. We know what you’...

The Top 25 Agents of Q1 2023

    We hear a lot of complaints about participation trophies, but we’ll be honest: any agent who has kept their heads above water during the first quarter of 2023 deserves your respect. It makes the accomplishments of our Top 25 of Q1 2023 even more astounding.  There’s so much that goes into being an agent: you need to be meticulously detail-oriented, kn...

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Rancho Cucamonga to Las Vegas in 2 Hours: New High Speed Rail Line Edges Closer

Featured image credit: Dom Blevins We’re mere months away from construction on a bullet train that will stretch from Rancho Cucamonga to Las Vegas. Forecasts are even more optimistic after Brightline, the company behind the ambitious project, signed contracts with a coalition of reputable labor unions. Eventually, the Brightline rail will connect to LA’s existing Metroli...

Mother’s Day 2023 Brunches in Los Angeles

  Lindsey Wallace Mother’s Day meals out with the family are a must for many moms across Los Angeles. Here is a hefty list of restaurants that are offering up Mother’s Day specials in the form of tasty bites. For many Los Angeles restaurants, reservation slots book up fast. So, grab your mamas and solidify your Sunday, May 14th munches! Here’s who will be serv...

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Allegations of Unethical House Flippers Prompt Call for Regulations

Nonprofit media organization ProRepublica recently published a piece drawing attention to disturbing allegations against one of the biggest corporate house flippers in the industry. Their journalistic scrutiny brings to light several tales of the unethical, bordering on horror. It’s demanding a distinction between service and abuse; two completely disparate concepts with a s...

What is June Gloom? And, More Importantly.. Why Won't it Leave?

  In Los Angeles, we don’t appreciate anyone raining on our parades. Fortunately for us, it only rains an average of 33 days a year here. That being said, we’ve seen dramatically less of the sun this spring. And that trend has been continuing throughout the month thanks to a phenomenon we affectionately refer to as June Gloom. While pretty much every Angeleno is familiar...