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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.

26264 McIntyre

It is named after Nancy McIntyre, an American educator in West Hills, California.

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).

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.

Avery Clayton

Clayton was born in Los Angeles, the eldest of three sons born to Andrew Clayton, a barbershop owner and Mayme Agnew, a librarian, who over forty years would assemble an impressive collection of African-American artifacts.

Bagrada hilaris

The bug made a sudden appearance in Los Angeles in June, 2008, its first sighting in the Western Hemisphere.

Bannered routes of U.S. Route 101

The precursor to the Santa Ana Freeway between Los Angeles and Anaheim was U.S. Route 101 Bypass from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s, when it became part of US 101.

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.

Brazil at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Since the San Pedro authorities charged one dollar for each person who disembarked in the Port of Los Angeles, the organizers only let out of the ship the athletes they felt had a chance to win medals plus swimmer Maria Lenk - the first South American woman to compete in the Olympics - to spend less.

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.

Bruce Winstein

Bruce Winstein (25 September 1943, Los Angeles – 28 February 2011) was an experimental physicist and cosmologist noted for his early work in elementary particle physics, particularly work toward demonstrating a serious asymmetry between particles and their anti-particles (CP violation).

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.

Carl Bean

Before founding the first church of the denomination, the Unity Fellowship Church, Los Angeles, in 1975, Bean was a Motown and disco singer, noted particularly for his version of the early gay liberation song "I Was Born This Way".

Carton

The next development of folded paper used to construct cartons are mentioned by Dr. Winslow of Seattle, Washington in 1908 who claimed that paper milk containers were commercially sold in San Francisco and Los Angeles as early as 1906.

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.

Classixx

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

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.

Dale Jennings

This organization became the dominant organization in Los Angeles and with the financial assistance of Jennings' sister Elaine and her husband James Porter its magazine became, for a period of time, the voice of the gay and lesbian movement.

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.

Don't Hold Your Breath

"Don't Hold Your Breath" was recorded at Kinglet Studio and The Record Plant in Los Angeles, California.

Dream Slashers

Filmed under the title Choppers, Dream Slashers was filmed in Los Angeles, Palm Springs and the Salton Sea.

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.

Elscint

The VDP1 product was displayed in trade show in Los Angeles and drew the attention of General Electric, the world leader in medical imaging; and in 1971, Elscint and General Electric signed an exclusive distribution agreement in North America.

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.

FanRocket

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

Filmmakers Alliance

Filmmakers Alliance is a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles.

Flagging dance

Flagger groups formed in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles in the late 1990s, and were often part of the backdrop of circuit party events.

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.

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.

Gorin v. United States

Mihail Gorin came to the U.S. in 1936, and operated the Los Angeles office of the Soviet tourist agency Intourist.

Hamish McIntosh

Hamish's big break came in an exhibition match at UCLA in Los Angeles, California.

Hemoglobin D-Punjab

Hemoglobin D-Punjab was first discovered in the early 1950s in a mixed British and American family of Indian origin from the Los Angeles area; hence it is also sometimes called “D Los Angeles”.

Henri Coulette

Coulette was born in Los Angeles, California, and earned a bachelor's degree in 1952 from Los Angeles State College, now known as California State University, Los Angeles.

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).

International Association of Scientologists

For U.S. citizens to qualify for tax-deduction of donations to the IAS, the funds must be paid to another corporation known as the US IAS Members' Trust, which has its office in Los Angeles, California.

Itata Incident

The Harrison Administration appointed William Howard Taft, the US Solicitor General (and later U.S. President), and Los Angeles-based federal prosecutor Henry Gage (later Governor of California), to investigate the Itata and prosecute its crew and suppliers.

Jesse Kellerman

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

Jiangshan High School

On July 6, 2013, 29 students and 5 teachers from Jiangshan High School were on board Asiana Flight 214, traveling to a summer camp at West Valley Christian School in Los Angeles, when the aircraft crashed at San Francisco International Airport.

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.

Karen Dunnell

Born Karen Williamson in Los Angeles, USA, she moved to Britain when she was a young child and was educated at Maidstone Grammar School for Girls and Bedford College, London.

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.

Kiryat Malakhi

The name was chosen to honor the Jewish community of Los Angeles, which contributed much of the funding for its establishment.

Larry Fagin

He began associating with other poets and writers in 1957, meeting David Meltzer in Los Angeles, and Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gregory Corso two years later in Europe.

Late night television in the United States

Television networks typically produce two late night shows: one taped in New York City and one in Los Angeles.

Laura Mullen

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

Lord Emp

Spartan did as asked, and inherited Marlowe's fortune, his company, and even his alias, later moving Halo's headquarter's from New York to Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Port Police Association

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.

Lovaas model

The Lovaas model is a form of Early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) developed by psychology professor Dr. Ivar Lovaas at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

LSU School of Music

The LSU A Cappella Choir was the featured university choral group at the finale concert for the ACDA Annual Convention at the Walt Disney Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles.

Maurice Pivar

Maurice Pivar (b. 11 August 1894 in Manchester, United Kingdom - 14 June 1982 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was an English-American film editor, producer and writer.

Mel Deschenes

In 2007 it was revealed that the week prior to the bombing, Deschenes was in Los Angeles with an International Commission on Terrorism, when he reportedly told Justice Department agent Graham Pinos that he felt Sikh extremists were "likely" to have a Canadian plane "blown out of the air".

Method Studios

Method Studios is a visual effects company founded in 1998 and located in Los Angeles, California with facilities in Vancouver, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, London, Sydney and Melbourne.

Metro Autobuses del Norte

Some bus lines cross the Mexico-USA border and reach U.S. cities such as Los Angeles, San Antonio and New York City.

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.

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.

Nexus: The Infinite City

The primary core of Nexus play is Angel City, a Los Angeles separated from Earth in 1993 and wholly subsumed into Nexus.

Nobody Walks

23 year old Martine (Thirlby) has just arrived in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles when she moves into a wealthy family's pool house, and begins working to complete work on her art film.

Operation Auca

Following graduation, he married Marilou Hobolth and enrolled in a one-year basic medical treatment program at the School of Missionary Medicine in Los Angeles.

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).

Pakistan Recovery Fund

Various discreet sponsorship opportunities also exist in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, London, Dubai/Abu Dhabi and in Pakistan itself.

Patrick Arena

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

Pedestrian scramble

In Los Angeles County, pedestrian scrambles are used in the Rodeo Drive commercial area of Beverly Hills, at the intersection of Westwood and La Conte Avenues in the Westwood section of Los Angeles immediately adjacent to the UCLA campus, and at the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and Hoover Street near the University of Southern California, as well as in Pasadena at the intersection of Raymond and Colorado.

Purse distribution

California uses this approach, paying a starter's bonus of $400 to each horse placed worse than fifth at its Los Angeles-area tracks and $300 at the tracks located in the northern part of the state.

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.

Rand Schrader

Schrader died from AIDS-related complications on June 13, 1993 in Century City, California.

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

Return to Base

It tells the tale of a near-death flying experience suffered by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea when travelling to 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.

Secret Passion

Secret Passion was a contemporary new wave dance production baring more than a fleeting resemblance to Madonna's True Blue album, mainly recorded in Los Angeles with American composers, musicians and arrangers, making it her first album to be recorded outside of Europe.

Sidique Ali Merican

He acted as deputy chef de mission for the Malaysian team at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton and the 1982 Asian Games in Delhi, and chef de mission at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Sigizmund Levanevsky

In early 1936 he flew back from Los Angeles, USA to Moscow, USSR covering 19,000 kilometers (over 11,800 miles) on his way.

Solomon Rubinstein

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

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.

The Beautiful Ones

Produced, arranged, composed, and performed by Prince, the song was recorded at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles by Peggy Mac and David Leonard in early September 1983.

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.

The Way I Want to Touch You

In September 1973, Toni and Daryl were performing at The Smokehouse Restaurant in Encino, California and two men from a small F.M. station were in the audience one night.

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).

True Self

All tracks were recorded at Bombshelter Studios in Los Angeles, California, unless otherwise noted.

Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World

It is dedicated to the Flaming Colossus nightclub in Los Angeles.

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.

Urdu Times

Over the years, Urdu Times extended the area of publication and is now being published in New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Mississauga (a suburb of Toronto), Montreal, London, Birmingham and Manchester.

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.

Wikipad

The Wikipad 7 is an enterprise and video gaming tablet, running Android (4.2.2 ) produced by the independent Los Angeles-based company, Wikipad, Inc. Handheld prototypes were first shown at CES 2012 in January with the final product hitting shops in the UK accompanied by a well received TV in campaign December 2013 initiating its global roll out.

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.

You Wanted More

"You Wanted More" is a 1999 song by the Los Angeles band Tonic that originally appeared in the 1999 film, American Pie.


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.

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.

Ali Riley

Born in Los Angeles, California to parents John Graham Riley and Beverly Fong Lowe, Ali attended Harvard-Westlake School in North Hollywood, California.

American Country Countdown

In 1974 when the show was up and running, Bustany tapped Bob Kingsley, who had been program director at country station KLAC-Los Angeles, to be ACC's producer.

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.

Calum Best

In September 2006, Best appeared in the ITV2 series Calum, Fran and Dangerous Danan, in which he was seen traveling with Paul Danan and Fran Cosgrave from Texas to Los Angeles on America's U.S. Route 66.

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.

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.

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

David Carstens

He won the gold medal in the Light heavyweight competition in Los Angeles, beating Gino Rossi of Italy in the final match.

David Secter

He released the low-budget sex comedy Getting Together (also titled Feelin' Up in some releases) in 1976, and subsequently moved to Los Angeles.

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.

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.

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.

Institute For Figuring

Since its founding in 2003 by Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim the IFF has staged public lectures in Los Angeles and New York on subjects such as tiling patterns, hyperbolic space, early computational devices, and tensegrity structures.

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.

Kenny Carter

He finished 5th in 1981 and repeated the result in 1982 in Los Angeles after a controversial Heat 14 exclusion following a coming together with defending champion (and eventual 1982 winner) Bruce Penhall in which Carter fell and was excluded for being the reason the race had to be stopped (Carter slid through the fence).

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.

LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin

Capt. Ernst Lehmann, who would be killed in the crash of the Hindenburg at Lakehurst eight and a half years later, served as First Officer on the flight and U.S. Navy LCDR Charles E. Rosendahl, commander of the ZR-3 USS Los Angeles (ex-LZ 126), made the westward journey during which he also stood watch as a regular ship's officer.

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.

Mulchén

Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Mulchén is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Juan Lobos (UDI) and José Pérez (PRSD) as part of the 47th electoral district, (together with Los Ángeles, Tucapel, Antuco, Quilleco, Santa Bárbara, Quilaco, Negrete, Nacimiento, San Rosendo, Laja and Alto Bío Bío).

My First Mister

In an effort to secure employment at the upscale Century City Mall in Los Angeles, Jennifer (Sobieski), a 17-year-old "goth-punk" girl, makes a nuisance of herself at a clothing store run by 49-year-old Randall Harris (Brooks), who eventually hires her on a trial basis as a stockroom clerk.

Neil Galanter

Neil Galanter is an American pianist in Los Angeles, California, who is a leading specialist in researching and performing the works of Iberian/Spanish, Catalan, Belgian, and other European composers including Mompou, Montsalvatge, Granados, Albeniz, Mompou, Blancafort, Espla, and Poot.

Orlando Scandrick

He appeared in Bravo's Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, Season 5 Episode 12 in which he enlisted the services of Josh Altman in purchasing a home in Los Angeles.

Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made

Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made is the first studio album by the Los Angeles band Fol Chen.

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.

Pepe Mantilla

During the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Mantilla was a commentator for English-language radio station KLAC while also serving as a commentator in various sports programs in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas.

Peter Bradley Adams

Adams was drawn to Los Angeles in the mid ‘90s to study film scoring at USC Thornton School of Music’s famed Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television (SMPTV) program which is the world’s most acclaimed programs of its kind.

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.

Pumper Nic

Nic the hippo, is featured among the animals that escape from the Los Angeles Zoo during an earthquake that hits Los Angeles in the short animated Oscar winning film, Logorama (2009).

R. Hyrum Savage

He grew up in West Los Angeles and Santa Monica where he attended Venice High School, Santa Monica College, and for a short period of time, Pepperdine University.

Richard Burmer

After spending time in college studying music theory and composition, Richard moved to Los Angeles where he became a sound designer for E-mu Systems in Santa Cruz and engineer/synth programmer for EFX systems in Burbank.

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.

Shabby chic

The term was coined by The World of Interiors magazine in the 1980s and became extremely popular in the US in the '90s with a certain eclectic surge of decorating styles with paints and effects, notably in metropolitan cultural centres on the West Coast of America, such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, with heavy influences from Mediterranean cultures such as Provence, Tuscany and Greece.

Sin Mirar Atrás

Sin Mirar Atrás was recorded in studios from cities as Madrid, Miami, Los Angeles, Mexico, Bratislava, London, Stockholm and São Paulo.

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 National Crittenton Foundation

The foundation is affiliated with 22 member agencies operating across the country in urban and rural areas, including Baltimore; Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Denver, Colorado; Kansas City, Missouri; Knoxville, Tennessee; Orange County, California and Los Angeles, California; Peoria, Illinois; Philadelphia; Phoenix, Arizona, San Francisco, California; Sioux City, Iowa; Washington, D.C. and Wheeling, West Virginia.

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.

Valarie Rae Miller

On summer vacation in Los Angeles, she took a course in stand-up comedy and went on to perform at such well-known clubs as The Improv and The Comedy Store.

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.

You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again

It told the stories of prostitute Michelle (who appears on the cover), prostitute Lisa, graphic artist Sophie, Jessia Sobel (b. Los Angeles, California 8 February 1968), the former stepdaughter of ex-British MP Martin Bell, OBE, the dancer Tatiana Thumbtzen (b. Clearwater, Florida 22 April 1960) and the singer Jennifer Young (b. Los Angeles, California 21 April 1964), the daughter of actor Gig Young and realtor Elaine Young.

Youth council

Many cities, including Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, and San Jose, California, have active youth councils that inform city government decision-making.