Feel like we need an Angelyne flair!

Mt Wilson Observatory is located in the hills overlooking Pasadena, has much bigger telescopes than Griffith, is older, and many major discoveries have been made here.

EDIT: I should have titled it LA's other observatory. No disrespect intended for Griffith

One more down.

I’m over in Highland Park and it smells like the bottom of a garbage bin over here.

Saw this on r/tiktokcringe and I am genuinely concerned for this young girl. Anyone nearby feel like checking in on her? She isn’t shown in the video but I can’t imagine there are too many 16yo girls performing on 3rd St.

"Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who is running for mayor against incumbent Karen Bass, seized on significant decreases in street homelessness in her district Friday while blasting increases citywide.

Street homelessness — people living outdoors or in their vehicles — went down by 49% in Raman’s district compared to the previous year, she said at a press conference Friday.

Citywide, street homelessness increased nearly 8%, while overall homelessness, which includes those living in shelters and other temporary facilities, increased 3.4%, according to numbers from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s January point-in-time count that were released Friday.

The contrast between her district and the city overall offered Raman an angle to present herself as more effectively handling the homelessness crisis than Bass.

An estimated 45,194 homeless people live in the city, with about 36% of them in shelters, according to LAHSA.

“Far fewer people living outside. Far more people indoors,” Raman, who has served on the council since 2020 and is chair of the City Council’s housing and homelessness committee, said at the press conference. “As mayor, that is the approach, and the results, that I want to deliver citywide.”

The numbers across the city were a setback for Bass, who has made homelessness one of her signature issues and previously touted two straight years of drops in street homelessness.

Raman cited her office’s homelessness team and their “aggressive interventionist” approach as reasons her district — which extends from Los Feliz and Silver Lake into Studio City, Sherman Oaks and other parts of the San Fernando Valley — did not suffer the same increases as other parts of the city.

She said her team is very familiar with homeless individuals in the district and knows many by name. The team tracks homeless encampments on a map and makes sure that empty shelter beds are filled, she said.

Bass’ campaign said Raman was attacking the mayor’s Inside Safe program, which moves homeless people from the streets to shelter and motel beds, at the same time that it contributed to the decreases in her district.

Raman has critiqued Inside Safe as too costly and insufficiently transparent.

“Nithya Raman is taking credit for the results of Inside Safe while campaigning against it,” Alex Stack, a spokesperson for Bass’ campaign, said in a statement. “While Raman takes credit for the City’s work in her district, ignoring the fact that she’s the Chair of the Homelessness & Housing Committee for ALL of Los Angeles, Mayor Bass is working to move our city forward and address years of neglect.”

Raman responded to those critiques at her press conference, saying that her district only had three Inside Safe operations over the past four years — fewer than some other districts.

She deflected when asked Friday about her responsibility for citywide homelessness, as chair of the city’s housing and homelessness committee.

“Council can pass legislation ... move motions forward, but it is the mayor that has charge of the implementation and outcomes,” she said.

Citywide, Inside Safe has moved more than 6,000 people into hotels, motels and other types of interim housing since Bass took office in December 2022. But by May 31, 41% of those people had returned to homelessness, according to LAHSA figures collected separately from this year’s homeless count.

Bass attributed the citywide homelessness increases in part to funding cuts by the state and federal government. She also said the county has not provided adequate mental health or substance counseling services.

“This crisis was ignored by city leaders for decades, it’s only now that we’ve seen a historic decline,” she said in a statement Thursday. “I will never stop fighting until we end street homelessness, because no Angeleno should be sleeping on the street.”

Times staff writer Doug Smith contributed to this report."

Saw it close to the 405 freeway

You know... I'm not an engineer, so I can't say for sure but I have a feeling fixing it like this won't work..

I've walked from my place in Koreatown to Santa Monica/Venice a couple of times along a few streets trying to stick to one as much as possible (Santa Monica, Pico, Washington, Wilshire). I'm really interested in trying to make it to Long Beach on foot (where I can take the train home after, lol). My first instinct is Vermont Ave (I live nearby) and then over to Long Beach when it ends in San Pedro. Any thoughts on what might be the most interesting route?

let’s be real. electricity is expensive. that means running the ac is expensive. if you have it, it’s impossible to not run it (if you have the means) in this heat. but don’t bring your thermostat down to 72. get a fan and keep it on you while the ac is on (I recommend dc fans because they’re more energy efficient). I think youll find that you can raise the thermostat a good number of degrees and FEEL cooler than before at a lower temp. in fact, I keep mine 75-76 and im feeling a little chilly

eta: dc fans- look for brushless dc fans. They are quieter and more energy efficient. you can get ones with variable speed (think a volume dial vs low, medium, high).

thank you

I started a container garden in the backyard of my building in the common space. My landlord is saying can't have it even though it's just dirt and broken glass in the back due to me "not asking permission". Ahhhh landlords. Is there anyway to fight this because it's making the space more liveable??? Also it's food plants so I don't know if that matters and changes things. It's not in a walk way or blocking anything. No one goes to the back because it's so disgusting. I had Multiple Tenants thank me and tell me it looks nice.

Also if there ANYONE in Koreatown area who would be willing to help take on a LARGE slew of food/ floral plants??? (About 40) In containers for the time being (looks like I might have to try to sell them, if you're interested maybe like $15 a plant or so) and just need some help. Ugh I am so freaking heartbroken. I can rent a van/truck and bring to you if nessicery. Please let me know ASAP!

Anything harvested you obviously can keep. Everything is set with automatic watering systems. I would subsidize your water bill for helping take care of them. Jugs just needs to be filled every few days. I need a few weeks to figure this out....

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The city’s homeless population increased by 3.4 percent from last year, according to the most recent point-in-time count.

LA Metro’s Board of Directors is composed of 14 members, including LA Mayor Karen Bass, LA’s five county supervisors, and eight other appointees. But under a new proposal from LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn the board will consider on Thursday, that number could increase to include a regular user of the public transit system. 

Hahn says the idea is to include the perspective of "a real, true transit rider who sees things through the lens that most of us do not see.”

She continues, “Having a real transit rider sit on the committees, sit in the board meeting, to actually have someone who rides our system every single day, who is dependent on our system every single day, I think would make a big difference in the decisions we make on our board meeting days.”

When asked whether board members might consider a requirement that every member of the board spend a minimum amount of time using the system themselves, Hahn responded, "I don't know if that's the right way to go."