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100 unusual facts about Los Angeles


1997 New York Liberty season

The Liberty's and WNBA's first game was played on June 21, 1997 in Los Angeles.

Ahmad Sohrab

Later, while living in Los Angeles, he helped write a scenario for a movie dealing with Mary Magdalene, for the actress Valeska Surratt.

Al Muratsuchi

He is a Democrat representing the 66th district, encompassing parts of the South Bay, Los Angeles region of Los Angeles County.

Ali Banisadr

Ali Banisadr's work is in the public collections of The British Museum in London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art, The Olbricht Collection in Germany, Francois Pinault Foundation in Italy, London's The Saatchi Gallery, Vienna's Sammlung Essl, and The Wurth Collection in Germany.

Am. Trucking Ass'ns, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles

In 2006 the Board of Harbor Commissioners for Los Angeles, California adopted an environmental protection plan that included an effort called Clean Truck Program (CTP).

American Cinema Editors Awards 2006

The 56th ACE Eddie Awards of the American Cinema Editors were given on 18 February 2007 in the International Ballroom, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Amerikana

When philosophy student Peter (Goorjian) is abandoned by his Danish girlfriend in Los Angeles, his friend Chris (Duval) invites him to South Dakota to claim a Harley Davidson he has inherited from an uncle.

Ark Yuey Wong

He then opened a Chinese Herb Shop and a Kung Fu school by the name of Wah Que returning to China in 1931 to teach the Wong family, and coming back to Los Angeles again in 1934, receiving the title of Grandmaster at 31.

Betty Eisner

After returning to the U.S., she earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Bill Bogash

After retirement in 1958, Bogash went on to be a restaurateur in Los Angeles, California.

Black Cat Squadron

After his retirement, he and his family immigrated to Los Angeles in 1986, where he became an ardent activist for ROCAF POWs' rights, particularly the right of POWs to return to Taiwan to reunite with their families after imprisonment in mainland China.

Brendan Mullen

Brendan Mullen (October 9, 1949 – October 12, 2009) was a British-American nightclub owner, music promoter and writer, best known for founding the seminal Los Angeles punk rock club The Masque.

Camp Drum

A Civil War era military encampment active from 1862–1873 near Los Angeles; see Drum Barracks.

Canadian soccer league system

When Major League Soccer (MLS) won the USSF's competition for USA Division 1 status in 1993, the APSL lost teams in 1996 in Denver, Los Angeles, and New York when MLS started three years later.

Charlie Croker

In the 2003 film, they were stealing the gold back from double-crossing Steve Frazelli (Edward Norton) in Los Angeles, and they had three BMW MINI Coopers to help them escape.

Christian Edward Elder

He is currently producing an untitled concert documentary about Los Angeles poets.

Claire McNab

Her latest series features Kylie Kendall, an Australian transplanted to Los Angeles, who determines to become a private investigator in order to pursue her father's business and his business partner.

Clarence Ross

On March 13, 1948, Ross won the Mr. USA contest in Los Angeles ahead of the 1947 Mr. America, Steve Reeves.

Classixx

In their early twenties, Classixx began to define a new sound for the Los Angeles electronic music scene.

Cliff Lyons

Lyons also played in the 1987 game IV - that year's exhibition match in Los Angeles.

Conrad Will

He worked closely with Valerie Silk and the Ironman Triathlon to bring the sport to a larger audience and in 1983 he produced and directed the first ever Ironman “spin-off”, the Ricoh Ironman in Los Angeles.

Courage of the West

Lewis was told that the Screen Actors Guild did not have jurisdiction at this distance from Los Angeles, although its members would have to be paid the standard rates agreed with the Guild.

Delta, Utah

One of the main sources of income for Delta is a power plant operated by the Intermountain Power Agency, known as the Intermountain Power Project or I.P.P. It is also referred to as Intermountain Power Service Corporation or I.P.S.C. This coal-powered power plant supplies power for much of Los Angeles county in California.

East Downtown Houston

The district has long been known for a relatively large homeless population (comparable to Skid Row, Los Angeles but on a far smaller scale).

Electronic News

The paper eventually grew to have a staff of three dozen full time journalists, working out of headquarters staffed by full time journalists in New York and bureaus in Boston, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Tokyo.

Fambly 42

Fambly 42 is the fourth studio album by San Pedro-based punk band Toys That Kill, released on May 15, 2012 on Recess Records.

FanRocket

FanRocket is a Los Angeles-based creator of online content programming and technologies.

Farahnaz Amirsoleymani

Amirsoleymani is of Iranian descent, and was born in Los Angeles.

Filmmakers Alliance

Filmmakers Alliance is a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles.

Four Corners Office/Retail Complex

In 2003 Maya Properties, controleld by Los Angeles real estate investor Bob Yari, bought the complex from JP Morgan Fleming.

Francisca Flores

This organization "is one of the largest employment centers in Los Angeles," (1).

George W. Kelham

supervising architect for the Westwood campus: University of California, Los Angeles, 1927, including the design for Powell Library, Haines Hall, Kerckoff Hall, Moore Hall and the Men's Gym;

Gerald R. Allen

Gerald R. Allen (born 1942 in Los Angeles, California ) is an American born Australian ichthyologist.

Give It to Ya

A music video was directed by Jeffery Byrd in 1994 in Los Angeles.

Green National Convention

However, a group of Greens interested in a run by consumer advocate Ralph Nader met in Los Angeles in 1996 to nominate Nader for President and Winona LaDuke for Vice-President.

Hans Uwe Hielscher

In 1985 he worked at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles in exchange with Samuel Swartz, and he has been teaching at the University of Redlands in California since 1986.

Hollywood Wolves

Hollywood Wolves were a Los Angeles minor hockey team that played in the Southern California Hockey League (1941-1944) and the Pacific Coast Hockey League (1944-1950).

It Makes Me Feel Good

The creative process involved Mackay flying out beforehand to Los Angeles where he scouted for suitable song material and session musicians.

Jacques Kemp

Kemp was involved in setting up the Los Angeles office in 1982, and from 1984 to 1990 he was the General Manager in Brazil.

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

His work has been exhibited at the Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, NY; The Getty, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation in Los Angeles and Minneapolis.

Jerry Vlasak

Vlasak was convicted in Los Angeles in 2006 of "targeted protesting" for demonstrating against euthanasia at animal shelters outside the home of a Department of Animal Services employee.

Jesse Kellerman

Kellerman was born in Los Angeles, California, the oldest son of the bestselling mystery novelists Faye Kellerman and Jonathan Kellerman.

Joel L. Malter

After serving abroad, Joel and his new family returned to Los Angeles, where he began his teaching career as an instructor in history and English at Webster Junior High in Los Angeles, California.

John Bovingdon

John Bovingdon (1890–1973) was a modern dancer-turned-economic analyst who performed regularly at the Kings Road House of architect R.M. Schindler in Los Angeles in the 1920s.

John M. Fitzgerald

He received scholarships to the University of West Los Angeles School of Law, where he won several awards and was editor of the Law Review.

Joop Ave

Joop Ave Foreign Service Academy (1957), was brought up by his mother who lives in Los Angeles, USA.

Katy Garretson

She has also taught classes on sitcom directing at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.

Keith Richman

With his father, Dr. Monroe Richman, who had also previously held elective office (as a member of the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees), he practiced internal medicine in Sun Valley.

Laura Mullen

Laura Mullen (b. 1958 in Los Angeles), is a contemporary American poet working in hybrid genres and traditions.

Los Angeles Port Police Association

Additionally, LAPPA is actively involved in supporting and promoting the surrounding communities of San Pedro and Wilmington.

The purpose of the Association is to represent its active members in employment relations and matters of working conditions with the City of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles v. Alameda Books, Inc.

In 1977, the city of Los Angeles conducted a study regarding the effects of high concentrations of adult stores.

Marion Parker

Hickman took Marion from her school, Mount Vernon Junior High School in the Lafayette Square section of Los Angeles, by telling the registrar, Mary Holt, that Perry Parker had been seriously injured in an accident and wished to see his daughter.

Martin Ralph

At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he was eliminated in the repechages of the K-2 500 m event.

Mercy Ministries

To date, Mercy Ministries has disclosed anticipated homes to be opened in Washington DC, North Carolina, Los Angeles, Florida, Vietnam, Peru and South Africa.

Metro Pictures

After Mayer's departure, Rowland continued to produce a number of films in New York City, Fort Lee, New Jersey, and in Los Angeles.

Michael Laing

He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in the field of x-ray crystallography, specializing in the determination of molecular structure.

Mike Beuttler

Beuttler retired from racing the following year and eventually moved to the United States, where he died of complications resulting from AIDS in 1988, in Los Angeles, aged 48.

Moonlight Drive

According to the Morrison biography No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman, Morrison wrote "Moonlight Ride" during his halcyon days on a rooftop in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California in 1965.

Mundialization

To date, more than 1000 cities and towns have declared themselves World Cities including Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Toronto, Hiroshima, Tokyo, Nivelles, and Königswinter.

Natalie Robinson Cole

For much of her career, Cole taught inner city children in the Los Angeles area.

National Breast Cancer Coalition

Two large fundraising events are held each year to raise funds for NBCC: the Les Girls cabaret held every October in Los Angeles and the Annual New York Gala held in November in New York City.

Next Stop Hollywood

The series captures their excitement, frustrations, struggles, fears and tears as they compete with the world's best and try to navigate the travails of the entertainment industry in Los Angeles as they pursue their dreams of fame and fortune in Hollywood's dream factory.

Nick Dompierre

Dompierre came in first in the amateur class at the 2006 Vans Downtown Showdown in Los Angeles and placed in its best trick contest, as well as the street and best trick contests at Volcom's Damn Am in Amsterdam.

NLRB v. Hearst Publications

Hearst Publications (Hearst), the publishers of four daily Los Angeles newspapers, refused to bargain collectively with their newsboys.

Norma Zarky

Zarky was the first woman to serve as President of the Beverly Hills Bar Association and was a founding member of Women in Film.

Oraristrix

Oraristix brea, the Brea Owl, is the an extinct owl reported from the upper Pleistocene asphalt deposits of Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California.

Pacific cod

A bottom dweller, it is found mainly along the continental shelf and upper slopes with a range around the rim of the North Pacific Ocean, from the Yellow Sea to the Bering Strait, along the Aleutian Islands, and south to about Los Angeles, down to the depths of 900 meters (~ 3000 feet).

Patrick Arena

The Cougars transferred to the Western Hockey League (WHL) in 1952 and left Victoria for Los Angeles in 1961.

Paul Bindrim

Paul Bindrim (born 14 August 1920, New York - died 17 December 1997, Los Angeles) was an American psychotherapist who is known as the founder of nude psychotherapy which he believed allowed people to access and express repressed feelings more easily.

Phil Daley

After breaking his jaw in the State of Origin exhibition game in Los Angeles in 1987, Daley spent five weeks on the sidelines as Manly made their charge towards the Grand Final.

Pinelands High School

In 2004, the school provided filming locations for the motion picture Ask the Dust, with the sets built to simulate Los Angeles in the 1930s.

Rainbow Sandals

Rainbow Sandals are available online and at department and specialty stores nationwide, the original factory store in San Clemente, and two company-owned retail stores in New York City and Los Angeles.

Ray Stark

On his death in 2004, Ray Stark was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Reseda

Reseda, Los Angeles, a suburb in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California

Russell Knipp

He was inducted in the USAW Hall of Fame and the Helms Amateur Athletes Hall of Fame in Los Angeles.

Saint Fabiola

The exhibit first ran at the Hispanic Society of America in New York City, then the LACMA in Los Angeles, with the exhibition going to London at the National Portrait Gallery from May to September 2009.

Salar Abdoh

When Abdoh was fourteen his family was forced to flee Iran and arrived in the U.S. His father died shortly after the family’s arrival in the States, leaving his children homeless in Los Angeles.

San Angeles

San Angeles is a fictional futuristic concept of Southern California, United States, typically configured by commentators and films producers to include the areas of Los Angeles to San Diego and sometimes even San Bernardino to Riverside.

Shock Theater

Shock Theater continued the American tradition of horror film television shows such as Vampira (Maila Nurmi with Los Angeles KABC-TV 1954–1955).

Snak King

In 1982, Snak King moved from its original 1,200-square-foot facility in downtown Los Angeles to a 50,000-square-foot facility.

Solomon Rubinstein

Solomon Rubinstein (1868, Poland - 27 November 1931, Los Angeles, USA) was a Polish–American chess master.

Stone City, Iowa

One of the most recent uses of this limestone can be seen in the new Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Stun belt

It is also used during judicial hearings (e.g. in 1998, against Ronald Hawkins in Los Angeles, California for frequently interrupting Judge Joan Comparet-Cassani at a sentencing hearing).

Super Hornio Brothers

While noting that the films are considered to be the "holy grail" of pornographic parodies, The Cinema Snob ripped into both of them, noting the inconsistencies of the pornographic parodies, ranging from how characters were named and cast, ways that the films could better themselves using various Super Mario video game sound effects, to overt references to 1990s Los Angeles such as the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

Symbolic Manipulation Program

It was first sold commercially in 1981 by the Computer Mathematics Corporation of Los Angeles which later became part of Inference Corporation; Inference Corp. further developed the program and marketed it commercially from 1983 to 1988.

TCP Westwood plus

The first implementation of TCP Westwood in ns2 was done at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1999.

The Bachelor Canada

Tyler then moved to Los Angeles where he hosted the stunt show I Dare You! as well as Junkyard Wars and Miss America: Countdown to the Crown for TLC.

The Dharma at Big Sur

The piece was composed in 2003 for the opening of Disney Hall in Los Angeles and was conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

The Star Chamber

Judge Hardin (Douglas) is an idealistic Los Angeles jurist who gets frustrated when the technicalities of the law prevent the prosecution of two men who are accused of raping and killing a 10-year-old boy.

Torg

They later established a small realm in Los Angeles, and subsequently took partial control of Berlin, splitting their reality with the New Nile Empire.

Toys That Kill

Toys That Kill is a San Pedro-based punk rock band, formed from a previous incarnation known as F.Y.P. (1989–1999).

Union des Français de l'Etranger

The Union des Français de l'Etranger (French Foreign Union), or UFE, is a French organization with branches in more than 100 countries around the world in major world cities including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C. where there is a significant French or Francophone population.

United States v. Janis

United States v. Janis, (1976) was a Supreme Court Case that found Max Janis and Morris Levine guilty of illegal bookmaking activities in Los Angeles in a 5-3 ruling.

Vasily Shumov

After a decade of artistic activity in the Soviet Union he moved 1990 to Los Angeles (California, USA), where he remains an active musician, making records (both, with Center and solo), playing live shows in USA and Russia, shooting short films and creating multimedia art.

Viewbank, Victoria

In the 1980s Australian Aerial Freestyle Olympic Gold Medallist Alisa Camplin, Catherine Fitzsimmons (Pearsell model and founder of Dash Models, Los Angeles), Australian Olympic Runner Tamsyn Manou all attended Viewbank Primary School.

Westside Shopping and Leisure Centre

Critics, such as David Rogers of the Los Angeles-based Jerde Partnership, have faulted Bern for neglecting to integrate such a shopping centre into the city’s urban fabric.

When Christmas Comes

The music video for the song was filmed in Los Angeles in November 2011 and premiered on December 11, 2011 in the TV Show "A Very BET Christmas special".

Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia

This chapter starts with a rumor that University of California, Los Angeles is holding Hitler's brain in their basement and keeping it alive.

Wild Geese GAA

In Los Angeles there is a Gaelic football club who also go by the same name and at Lakenheath U.S. air force base there is a hurling club also called Wild Geese.


2009 Emerald Bowl

USC had won both games in the series, a 23–17 victory in Los Angeles in 1987 and a 34–7 win in Chestnut Hill in 1988.

Al Ferrara

After leaving baseball, he spent four years as a greeter at the Martoni Marquis on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles before going into sales for various home-improvement companies, eventually starting his own company, Major League Construction.

Alfred McCune Home

Prior to moving to Los Angeles, they donated it to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with the intent that it be used as an official residence for President Heber J. Grant.

Alice Van-Springsteen

She had performed during the opening ceremony at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Anthony Brancato

Arriving in Los Angeles during the early stages of the feud between Los Angeles crime family boss Jack Dragna and Mickey Cohen, Brancato was immediately able to find freelance work.

Antonio F. Coronel

Antonio Francisco Coronel (October 21, 1817 Mexico City – April 17, 1894) served as the fourth mayor of Los Angeles from 1853 to 1854.

Bellylove

Lisa Rae Black, a veteran of the Los Angeles music scene, recruited Valenta after the demise of her project featuring Barbi Von Greif, which was produced by Dave Rouse and Pierre de Beauport of the Rolling Stones' road crew.

Chaim Pinto

Rabbi Pinto's followers and descendants have a number of synagogues worldwide, including the Pinto Center synagogue on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, which was founded by Rabbi Yaacov Pinto.

Craig Slaight

He graduated from Central Michigan University and taught high school at Morley-Stanwood High School for several years before moving to Los Angeles, California with his actor brother Brad Slaight.

Dan Stuart

Daniel Gordon "Dan" Stuart (born March 5, 1961, Los Angeles) is an American musician best known as the leader/singer/songwriter of 80s post punk, alt-country rock band, Green On Red (other members included Chuck Prophet, Chris Cacavas and Jack Waterson), and for his teaming with Steve Wynn as Danny & Dusty

DeviantArt

Starting May 13, 2009, deviantArt embarked on a world tour, visiting cities around the world, including Sydney, Singapore, Warsaw, Istanbul, Berlin, Paris, London, New York City, Toronto and Los Angeles.

Echo Eggebrecht

Eggebrecht has held solo exhibitions at Horton Gallery, New York; Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York; Ter Caemer Meert Contemporary, Kortijk, Belgium; Sixtyseven, New York and Sixspace in Los Angeles as well as group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; ICA; Nicole Klagsburn; and White Box in New York; Groeflin Maag Gallery in Basel, Switzerland; Poets on Painters at the Ulrich Museum.

Emily Hancock Siedeberg

She married James Alexander McKinnon (died 1949) in Los Angeles on 8 October 1928 and would be known as E.H. Siedeberg McKinnon and Emily H. Siedeberg-McKinnon.

Frankie Jaxon

In 1941 he retired from show business and worked at The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. He was transferred to Los Angeles, California.

Gobernador Horacio Guzmán International Airport

Aerolíneas Argentinas used to use Jujuy Airport for refuelling before long flights to Bogotá, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Lima.

Harald Schmid

Schmid won bronze with the 4x400 m relay team at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal as well as an individual bronze in 400 m hurdles at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in 1984.

History of the Middle Eastern people in Metro Detroit

By 2007 Metro Detroit, if defined as Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, and Washtenaw counties had the United States's largest Arab American population, larger than that of Greater Los Angeles if that region was defined as Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura counties.

Jack McEvoy

He moved to Los Angeles in the late-1990s and covered the crime beat for the Times.

John Kalbhenn

John Kalbhenn (born April 14, 1963 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a retired boxer from Canada, who competed for his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

Kathleen Sloan

Kathleen Sloan is an American violinist based in Los Angeles, CA and a member of the Sonus Quartet.

Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne

After nine years of marriage, she and her husband divorced, and Kyra moved to Los Angeles, where she became a contestant on Groucho Marx’s show You Bet Your Life.

Larry Wall

Wall grew up in south Los Angeles and then Bremerton, Washington, before starting higher education at Seattle Pacific University in 1976, majoring in chemistry and music and later Pre-med with a hiatus of several years working in the university's computing center before being graduated with a self-styled bachelor's degree in Natural and Artificial Languages.

Leo Zelada

He passed the Andes, the Amazons, the Darien, the Caribbeans and Chiapas, and finally he arrived to Los Angeles, United States of America.

Lubomyr Kuzmak

He also contributed to the symposia organized by MAL Fobi in Los Angeles and Nicola Scopinaro in Genoa, as well as to many other American and international congresses.

M. Margaret McKeown

She ruled that it was an impermissible governmental endorsement of religion: the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution bars the government from favoring any one religion, as it specifically applied to a white metal Latin cross in the Mojave National Preserve in southern California between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Maria Altmann

Traveling by way of Liverpool, England, they reached the United States and settled first in Fall River, Massachusetts, and eventually in Los Angeles, California.

Michael Allsup

He played in numerous local bands before relocating to Los Angeles in 1968, where he met a trio of vocalists (Danny Hutton, Chuck Negron, and Cory Wells), who had a recording contract with Dunhill Records and were looking for backing musicians.

Nate Perry

He grew up in Northern California and has been based in Los Angeles since 1999 where he has performed, toured and recorded with several artists including CSS, Manic, Middle Class Rut, Jesse Spencer of the Fox show House, Fractional Importance, Stars Align, Art of Chaos, and Toadies guitarist Darrel Herbert.

PADRES

After being pressured, however, the NCCB agreed to set up an "informal liaison committee" of five bishops: Furey, Manning of Los Angeles, Green of Tucson, Medeiros of Brownsville, and Buswell of Pueblo.

Phyllis Lambert

Her work also includes serving as developer on the restoration of the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles by architect Gene Summers as well as designing the Saidye Bronfman Centre in Montreal with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Rainbow Arabia

Rainbow Arabia is an electronic duo based in Los Angeles, California consisting of Future Pigeon and Whisky Biscuit keyboardist Danny Preston and wife Tiffany Preston.

Robert Verdi

Additionally, Robert is a stylist for Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria, and has designed two of her Los Angeles, California homes.

Robin Wright

She attended La Jolla High School and Taft High School in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.

Ryan Kahn

As an avid music fan, Ryan spends his free time playing bass in a Los Angeles based band, The Night Riders which has headlined on Hollywood’s world famous Sunset Strip.

Schroeder's Cat

They released a self-titled four-track EP in 1998 on LA label Emperor Norton Records owned by California oil heir Peter Getty, the grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, where their label mates included Ladytron and the soundtracks to the Sofia Coppola films The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation.

St. Martin, Minnesota

St. Martin was the setting for The Chicken Doesn't Skate, a children's novel by Canadian author Gordon Korman, in which a sixth-grade nerd is transplanted there from Los Angeles.

The D-Word

Block continues to be a co-host of The D-Word, together with documentary makers Ben Kempas in Munich (from 2001), John Burgan in the United Kingdom (from 2005) and Marjan Safinia in Los Angeles (from 2009).

The Gods of Guilt

The Gods of Guilt is the 26th novel by American author Michael Connelly, and his fifth to feature Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller.

The Paradine Case

The Paradine Case had its world premiere in Los Angeles on December 29, 1947, opening simultaneously in two theatres across the street from each other in Westwood.

The Rip Van Winkle Caper

To escape the law after stealing $1 million worth of gold bricks from a train on its way from Fort Knox to Los Angeles, a band of four gold thieves, led by foreign-accented scientist-mastermind Farwell (Oscar Beregi, Jr.), hide in a secret cave in Death Valley, California.

The Silver Chair

Mark Gordon and Douglas Gresham along with Vincent Sieber, the Los Angeles based director of The C.S. Lewis Company, will serve as producers and work with The Mark Gordon Company on developing the script.

Vedanta Society of Southern California

Swami Prabhavananda came to Los Angeles in 1929 from Portland, Oregon, and formally established the society as a non-profit corporation in 1934.

Viveka Davis

Discovered at age 11, by Alan Parker in an inner city school in south central Los Angeles, her career spanning 25 years so far has showcased her dynamic talents for drama, comedy, music and dance, won her praise and got the attention of many of the biggest names in Hollywood.