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‘Drop Dead CRA Day’ Will Celebrate L.A. Community Redevelopment Agency’s Demise (With Special Kool-Aid)

Ding dong, the witch is dead! ​A pack of veteran L.A. City Hall gadflies will have a little fun, this Wednesday, with Governor Jerry Brown’s big bloody butchering of California’s redevelopment agencies (RDAs) — and the notorious L.A. Community Redevelopment Agency, in particular. Miki Jackson (No. 1 enemy of the slimy Community College Board) and [...]

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Jay Leno’s Sikh-Temple-as-Mitt-Romney’s-Summer-House Joke Enrages Some in Indian Religious Community

Not Mitt’s house. ​Oh no he didn’t. Jay Leno is in hot water this week after a quip about Mitt Romney’s summer house was accompanied by a photo of the Sikhs’ sacred Golden Temple in India, a grand palace indeed. Romney’s real summer home, or at least one of them, is right here in Southern [...]

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Mental Illness and Why The Skeptic Community Should Give a Shit, JT Eberhard Skepticon 4

Please subscribe. During filming, if a powerpoint slide is just a reiteration of what the speaker is saying, without any new information, I do not cut to it. If you are screaming, “What the fuck is on the projector!”… This is the answer. All Skepticon videos will be monetized this year with ads. 100% of [...]

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Hollywood Community Plan, aka Skyscraper Hell, Approved by L.A. Planning Commission at Dodgy Meeting

Illustration by Jack Balingit Forty stories? That’s nothin’! ​Hollywood is about to become a sea of skyscrapers. And our only consolation prize is a goddamned cat park. Opponents to L.A.’s new “Hollywood Community Plan” never stood a chance. As if it wasn’t off-putting enough that today’s Planning Commission meeting was scheduled for 8:30 a.m. — [...]

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Hollywood Is About to Become a Sea of Skyscrapers: Here’s Your Last Chance to Fight L.A. City Hall’s ‘Community Plan’

LA Curbed Two towering ‘scrapers adjacent to Capitol Records will only be the beginning. ​Tomorrow morning, at the ungodly hour of 8:30 a.m., the L.A. Planning Commission will vote on a new “community plan” for Hollywood that could change our city as we know it. It’s not as glamorous, PR-friendly or conveniently timed as those [...]

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WTF: L.A. Community Redevelopment Agency Loses Track of $1.7 Million, Blames Governor

Associated Press Maybe the cash fell through the cracks of Eli Broad’s city-subsidized museum? ​Of $ 27 million that the L.A. Community Development Agency was supposed to collect from property owners in blighted areas and redistribute into the community, City Controller Wendy Greuel says she can’t find $ 1.7 million. So. Did public employees at [...]

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NBC Announces Mid-Season Lineup: Community Benched…WHAT?

Very upset with NBC right now. Their mid-season lineup has been revealed and Community is not on it. Um, come again? I had to read through the program schedule twice because I thought for sure I just missed it somehow. It’s true. Community has been shelved and we. are. not. a. happy. camper. I totally [...]

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Long Beach Gay Bashings Have Community On-Edge: Police Increase Patrols

The Gay and Lesbian Center of Long Beach ​Updated at the bottom with comments from a Gay and Lesbian Center official. First posted at 3:55 p.m. West Hollywood isn’t the only community in the midst of a gay bashing scare. Gay rights activists in Long Beach are planning on bringing back long-gone street patrols after [...]

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Dan Behar, Agoura High Student, Dies in Second Reported Suicide at Malibu Creek; Community in ‘State of Shock’

Facebook Dan Behar was only 17. ​Yesterday around noon, Dan Alexander Behar, 17, became the third young Agoura Hills man to die by his own accord in less than a week. Last Wednesday, former Agoura High student Josh Feinberg committed suicide off the Rindge Dam at Malibu Creek, reportedly upset about his grades in college. [...]

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Get Ready For A Very Special Community Christmas Musical! (PerezHilton.com)

Joel McHale swingin’ his hips around as he sings Christmas music? Yes, please!! This season’s Community Christmas special is going to be super gleeful. Our favorite study group will be “forced” to sub for Greendale’s glee club for the holiday. And get this! They won’t be animated this year, but they will be producing 100% [...]

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L.A. City Hall Offers Gensler, Wealthy SaMo Architect, $1 Million in Community Grants to Move East

LA Downtown News Gensler already knows just how to decorate. ​Funny how L.A. City Councilmembers are acting all sympathetic toward the 99 percent camping on their front lawn — then making sweet deals with millionaire companies so the well-off don’t have to pay a dime. When as far as we can tell, that’s pretty much [...]

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Community Datebook: Week of March 10

Community Datebook: Week of March 10 Education The Special Education Advisory Council and the School District of Upper Dublin will present “Strategies for the ADD/ADHA Learner” March 21 at 7 p.m. at the Upper Dublin Township building, 801 Loch Alsh Ave., Fort Washington. The guest speaker is Adam DeAngelo, M. Ed, a special education teacher [...]

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