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VOID-FILLER, Jolene Mannina says of her latest project. In this instance, the project isn’t an after-hours chefs’ competition like Back of House Brawl, or a pop-up specialty menu on secretburger.com two breakout projects from the culinary entrepreneur. No, Mannina’s latest project, Vegas Test Kitchen, fills an everyday void for both Las Vegas diners and chefs. It’s a Downtown food hall made for Vegas locals by Vegas locals.
The concept: Seven chefs share a building, each with their own space, each trying out concepts that may one day develop into their own brick-and-mortar restaurants. Or, they might flame out after their initial three-month run at Vegas Test Kitchen.
Victor Low says he was born in the hospitality field. His parents have been running a Chinese restaurant in a small village in Germany for 36 years. So Low s most recent job as a catering manager in the San Gabriel Valley was a natural progression.
But then he got laid off like so many other Angelenos in the food and hospitality industry and decided to quit the industry for good. All my colleagues and me, we got hit so hard by this pandemic, Low said.
Now Low, who s 36, is back in school, working on an associate degree in cybersecurity at Pasadena City College. It s thought to be a pandemic-proof field with good wages. And, after only a year of classes, Low expects to have three certificates, in cybersecurity, network administration and help desk/user support.
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USA TODAY Sports is marking the first anniversary of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and eight others with a six-day series of stories, photos and videos looking back at the Lakers legend and the aftermath of his death.
LOS ANGELES Close to midnight one day last week, a jogger stopped in the middle of a downtown street and surveyed a peculiar scene.
A video compilation of Kobe Bryant highlights was being projected onto the side of a four-story building.
Two homeless people were sleeping on the sidewalk, oblivious to the footage of Bryant’s drives, dunks and game-winning shots. They were unaware of a man spraying blue paint on the side of the wall.