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The To-Do List: October 2015’s Most Awesome Media Digestibles
STREAM: Beasts of No Nation After redefining TV with such original dramas as House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black, Netflix is getting into features. In Beasts of No Nation (October 16), Idris...
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New App to Make Parking Obsolete, Even at the Hollywood Bowl
The new smartphone valet service known as Luxe is already operating in L.A., but they just announced it’s now available at the Hollywood Bowl, site of innumerable nightmare parking scenarios. Luxe...
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5 Life Mantras from L.A. Magazine’s Breakfast Conversation About Women and...
On Monday, Los Angeles magazine hosted an L.A. Woman Breakfast Conversation about the importance of competition, in partnership with the nonprofit organization XPRIZE. The panel, moderated by...
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Drought Data: The Surprising Numbers Behind Household Water Use
By now everybody knows that the state has mandated cities to cut back on water use by 25 percent. And we’ve all given ourselves a collective pat on the back for meeting or exceeding those goals. (Well,...
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Not One But Two Experts Tell Us the Deal with Gray Water
As home owners are getting savvier about saving water, they’re turning to ideas like recycling the stuff from their washing machine and irrigating their yard with it. Gray water can be a simple way to...
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Amy Poehler Hosting a Show on NBC’s New Comedy Streaming Service? Yes, Please
As if we needed any more reasons to beach ourselves in front of the TV, NBCUniversal announced today that they will be launching a comedy-centric streaming service called SeeSo in January of 2016. For...
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Los Angeles Artists Are Revolutionizing the Game, and You Need to Start...
Artists have been migrating from New York to Los Angeles ever since Manhattan became Fort Knox for the rich and famous. Creative minds, after all, have long needed places to live that are inspiring,...
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Waze 4.0 Is a Friend to Smartphone Batteries, Clarity
Waze, that necessity for modern life in L.A., just released its latest version—the first since 2013—on the App Store, with an Android version arriving soon. So, what’s better about Waze 4.0? The most...
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The Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Gets an Opening Date
Metro CEO Phil Washington announced today that the 11.5-mile Gold Line Foothill extension will open on March 5, 2016. The extension will run from Pasadena to Azusa, connecting cities in the Gabriel...
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Marcie Edwards Leads the DWP in a Future of Massive Challenges
I began working in the public affairs division of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in 1987, writing press releases and answering media questions. Then as now, much of the public outright...
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When On the Road, Siri Is Not Safe
A new study has proven what many have already assumed: screaming into Siri while fighting bumper-to-bumper traffic is a recipe for a crash. A new AAA study highlights the dangers of voice-activated...
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Scientists Get the Hollywood Treatment in the National Geographic Channel’s...
You know the party has gotten good when people start breaking out the exoskeletons. It happened at the Pacific Design Center last night when the National Geographic Channel, GE, and exec producers Ron...
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Jon Stewart Is Back, Y’all
Jon Stewart’s prodigies, from John Oliver to Trevor Noah to Steve Carrell to Stephen Colbert to Jessica Williams, have expanded his platform of funny-meets-newsy in the best ways possible. But many...
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L.A.’s Newest Streetlight Boosts Your Cell Phone Service
Photograph courtesy lamayor.org As if smart benches weren’t enough, today Mayor Garcetti unveiled the first of many Philips SmartPoles—energy efficient LED streetlights that house small cell wireless...
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Now Possible: Buy a Car Online, Get It Delivered With a Bow
Going to the dealership to buy a new car, with all the pressure and condescension, ranks as one of life’s worst experiences. The online marketplace Beepi hopes enough people have had it with the old...
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Los Angeles Is Teaming Up with Google to Save Angelenos from the Horrors of...
The city is partnering with Google Fiber to bring high-speed internet service to L.A., the mayor’s office announced today. Wait, don’t we already have that? No, apparently we’re all working with...
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Discovering Mount Wilson Observatory
Griffith Observatory may well be, as its current director has said, the hood ornament of Los Angeles. But Mount Wilson Observatory is more like a tool kit in the city’s trunk—hidden yet essential....
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Some L.A. High School Students Are Learning Physics on a Virtual Reality Race...
Motorsports star J.R. Hildebrand and product designer Viktor Venson would like to see technology make its way into classrooms much more quickly—like Formula 1 fast. Together they’ve developed...
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Futuristic Car Technology Gets Top Billing at CES
The nation’s biggest gadget expo—held this week in Las Vegas—isn’t all about robots and segways. Cars are a big part of the Consumer Electronics Show, with 200,000 square feet of exhibit space devoted...
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Hear Patric Kuh Talk L.A.’s Best New Restaurants, and More on Our New Podcast
Reading! Who has the time, are we right? (We really hope we’re wrong.) The truth is most of us spend twice as much time in our cars as we do curled up somewhere with the comforting crinkle of our...
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