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Southern California Families for Safe Streets will hold a Rainbow Halo ceremony today to honor a 32-year-old woman who was killed by a 17-year-old boy behind the wheel of a Lamborghini SUV on Feb. 17 in West L.A.
When chef Niki Nakayama opened N/Naka a decade ago on the corner of Overland and Lawler in the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles, she regularly served fewer than 10 people each night, even though the kitchen and dining room could handle four times as many. She distinctly remembers serving just two diners during a particularly slow service in those early days, when restaurant patrons were more enamored with pork belly and molecular gastronomy than in refined Japanese tasting menus. Still, she persisted, fueled by an unshakable sense of joy for her craft and duty to traditional kaiseki philosophy. “It never occurred to me that we were not going to make it. For the first time in my career I just felt this incredible sense of belief in what I was doing, and I would find a way,” she says.
Although an import to the area, the South African coral tree (
Erythrina caffra) has been the official tree of the City of Los Angeles since Arbor Day, 1966 and one of the best places to see it in L.A. is along San Vicente Boulevard between 26th Street and Brigham Avenue, in the Brentwood Park section of Brentwood. This stretch of coral trees along the median, where the Red Line trolley once ran, was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1976 and is funded and maintained by the Brentwood Community Council.
Along San Vicente Boulevard between 26th Street and Brigham Avenue, a stretch of coral trees along the median, where the Red Line trolley once ran, was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1976. | Sandi Hemmerlein
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(LOS ANGELES) For decades, California and car culture have gone hand-in-hand. Illegal races offer the chance to drive cars fast, burn rubber and get a rush of adrenaline, but it’s a lifestyle steeped in risk and recklessness. The slightest mistake can be deadly.
Sgt. Michael Downing of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department knows that risk all too well. He has spent his 17-year career patrolling LA’s streets.
“It seems lately, almost every weekend or every couple of weeks, we have a fatality somewhere in the county that s related to street racing,” he said. “You see on the freeway, all the time, the high speeds and they crash into somebody who s going slower or [an] innocent party on the freeway gets killed.”