Dana Bartholomew
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Los Angeles, CA, United States
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PatientPop Scores $25 Million in Investor Funding
PatientPop Inc., a physician marketing platform based in Santa Monica, has raised $25 million during a Series B funding round, the company announced Oct. 31. → Read More
This pop-up drive-in will take you back to the Valley’s best ‘80s movie moments
Drive-in movie theaters across San Fernando Valley once offered a rite of passage for teens smuggled inside spacious car trunks or engaged in makeout marathons in the back seat.A Valley producer now hopes to recreate the Valley drive-in thrill → Read More
Troubled teens turn their lives around at Dough Girl pizza in Lake Balboa
LAKE BALBOA >> The “dough girl” known as Mar Diego leans over a pizza board, rolls out a New York-thin 20 inches, swirls on a layer of sauce and cheese, and tosses on a small school of shrimp.She then notices an unsavory ing → Read More
Helicopter plucks lost hiker from rugged Chatsworth canyon
CHATSWORTH -- A Los Angeles fire rescue helicopter plucked a woman from Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park on Saturday after she became lost and complained of heat exhaustion, Los Angeles fire officials said.The woman was hoisted to safety j → Read More
LA restores historic water tunnel to turn Sierra snow runoff into drinkable water
SYLMAR >> Michael Grahek trudged through the murk of a historic Los Angeles Department of Water and Power water tunnel, his flashlight sweeping its century-old concrete walls.His light then settled on some a strange outlines in the Sylmar → Read More
LA restores historic water tunnel to turn Sierra snow runoff into drinkable water
SYLMAR >> Michael Grahek trudged through the murk of a historic Los Angeles Department of Water and Power water tunnel, his flashlight sweeping its century-old concrete walls.His light then settled on some a strange outlines in the Sylmar → Read More
‘It’s chaos’: Lovelock, Nevada braces for O.J. Simpson’s parole hearing Thursday
Its six motels are packed. Its local prison is surrounded with news vans. And its community center has been taken over by national TV networks.The small desert town of Lovelock, Nevada, is besieged on account of its most notorious resident: pri → Read More
Here’s what a $17 million gift means for CSUN’s Valley Performing Arts Center
NORTHRIDGE >> The Valley Performing Arts Center at Cal State Northridge may soon change its name thanks to $17 million gift for long-term programming, university officials announced Tuesday.The world-class concert hall will likely be rena → Read More
‘It just doesn’t feel safe’: Residents demand cleanup of Orange Line bike path
VAN NUYS >> Each day as he peddles his bike to work, Robert Cable whirs along the Orange Line bike path — past syringes. Broken glass. Garbage. Homeless encampments. Even human waste.His commute and recreational rides can grow espe → Read More
Galpin Ford’s Bert Boeckmann first inductee into new Ford Dealership Hall of Fame
NORTH HILLS >> For more than a quarter century, Bert Boeckmann has led his Galpin Ford to be the top-selling Ford showroom in the nation. Now Ford Motor Co. has honored the Galpin patriarch with its first Dealership Hall of Fame Award, re → Read More
Pro-, anti-Trump forces face off at his Hollywood Boulevard star; 1 man arrested
HOLLYWOOD -- Words rumbled like thunder down Hollywood Boulevard on Saturday during a clash between demonstrators in support of President Donald Trump and against the billionaire and former reality TV celebrity.The largely nonviolent afternoon → Read More
Pro-, anti-Trump forces face off at his Hollywood Boulevard star; 1 man arrested
HOLLYWOOD -- Words rumbled like thunder down Hollywood Boulevard on Saturday during a clash between demonstrators in support of President Donald Trump and against the billionaire and former reality TV celebrity.The largely nonviolent afternoon → Read More
Delayed Woodland Hills swimming pool set to open Saturday
WOODLAND HILLS >> The new city pool and recreation center had sat empty, months behind schedule, through the record-breaking heat of early summer.But the Woodland Hills Recreation Center swimming pool was scheduled to open with a cannonba → Read More
These new Disney villain stamps will add a touch of evil to your next letter
BURBANK >> For nearly a century, dastardly villains emerging from Walt Disney Studios have loomed large in the imaginations of cartoon fans big and small.The Queen from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Captain Hook from → Read More
Towsley fire near Santa Clarita grows to 20 acres, closes Old Road
SANTA CLARITA >> A small brushfire in Santa Clarita on Thursday afternoon quickly ballooned into a 20-acre blaze that destroyed one outbuilding, while threatening more than a dozen structures, the Los Angeles County Fire Department reported. → Read More
Brushfire near Santa Clarita grows to eight acres
SANTA CLARITA >> A small brushfire in Santa Clarita on Thursday afternoon quickly ballooned into a 8-acre blaze with water-dropping helicopters working to snuff it out, the Los Angeles County Fire Department reported.The fire broke out ju → Read More
LA Community College board postpones sanction hearing vote against former president
It was supposed to have been a triumphal evening Wednesday for the Los Angeles Community College District, with the inauguration of three board members and the first woman board president in years.Instead, it turned into a tense public debate o → Read More
LA community college board president accused by trustee of ‘threats, intimidation’
The top Los Angeles community college official leaned toward a colleague’s face like a U.S. Marine drill sergeant, then allegedly unleashed a stream of verbal abuse. The alleged tirade by Los Angeles Community College District Presiden → Read More
Claims of harassment, threats have embroiled the LA community college board
The top Los Angeles community college official leaned toward a colleague’s face like a U.S. Marine drill sergeant, then allegedly unleashed a stream of verbal abuse. The alleged tirade by Los Angeles Community College District Presiden → Read More
Rumble strips to combat Valley street racing spark noise complaint
CHATSWORTH >> When Elliot Sanders moved his health insurance business to Chatsworth 11/2 years ago, he loved the balcony door he could open for fresh air.But Los Angeles laid down “rumble strips” across Plummer Street two we → Read More