Westwood community members think a new bill extending alcohol service hours in bars and restaurants might not affect the area. The bill, proposed by state Senator Scott Wiener in February, would allow cities to extend their last call hours to 4 a.m. Read more...
Photo: Westwood officials said they think the proposed bill would not affect Westwood’s nightlife scene because the area is not usually busy by 2 a.m. (Kristie Hoang/Daily Bruin)
Mannequins sporting casual and athletic wear greeted customers Saturday in a new shoe and clothing store on Broxton Avenue. Footaction, a sports apparel store owned by Foot Locker, opened Saturday afternoon. Read more...
Photo: Footaction, a men’s sports and casual apparel store, opened Saturday in a building that stood vacant for about a decade. (Catherine Liberty Feliciano/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Westwood community leaders criticized the city’s latest attempt to mitigate conflicts of interest in city planning. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti signed an executive directive March 9 that will prevent developers from meeting privately with city planners in an attempt to to curb their influence in City Hall. Read more...
This post was updated on March 15 at 2:30 p.m. Police discovered the bodies of a man and a woman in a parked car on Veteran Avenue on Wednesday morning. Read more...
All ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen locations, including one on Broxton Avenue, will close Friday. Chipotle, a Mexican fast-food chain that owns the ShopHouse franchise, said in a statement that the restaurant did not generate enough revenue to justify further investment. Read more...
Photo: ShopHouse, a Southeast Asian fast food chain, will close Friday after four years in Westwood. (Erin Gong/Daily Bruin)
The impacts of a city ballot initiative that would tax and regulate marijuana are still unclear. Measure M, a ballot initiative that will allow city officials to tax and regulate recreational and medicinal marijuana, passed Tuesday with about 80 percent of the vote. Read more...
About 6 percent of registered voters in Westwood and on campus voted in Los Angeles County municipal elections Tuesday. Out of 13,081 registered voters on campus, the Hill, the North Village and Westwood Village, only 810 cast ballots. Read more...
Photo: Only 7.5 percent of students registered to vote on the Hill participated in Tuesday’s Los Angeles County municipal elections. (Stella Huang/Daily Bruin)
