Featured Business

Fais Do Do. 28 Years Strong

Details: Category: Featured Local Business; Published on Wednesday, 20 June 2018 17:48; Written by D. V. Lawrence

Standing like a sentinal at the entrance of what I like to refer to as the West Adams Gateway (the strip along Adams between La Brea and Fairfax, gateway to Historic West Adams on the east and Culver City on the west) is one of the longest surviving clubs in…

Details: Category: Featured Local Business; Published on Tuesday, 20 December 2016 17:02; Written by Chelsea Lowe

When local activist and business owner Jewel Thais-Williams first considered selling her historic Pico Boulevard club Catch One, her foremost priority was to meet a buyer who’d honor the history of the nearly 100-year-old venue. In the fall of 2015, Thais-Williams found just the person: L.A. nightclub impresario Steve…

Details: Category: Featured Local Business; Published on Tuesday, 15 December 2015 14:49; Written by D.V. Lawrence

When my buddy Jeff Copeland and I decided to check out Delicious Pizza one weekend evening, we were met with a remarkable street scene that brought on wild flashbacks of the downtown mid 80's LA art scene. The street was packed with young artists and scenesters enjoying pizza, going in…

Details: Category: Featured Local Business; Published on Monday, 14 December 2015 19:04; Written by D.V. Lawrence

Delicious Pizza and Building Community on West Adams Blvd.

It started with the popular night club Fais Do Do anchoring the La Brea end of Adams and continued with Vee's Cafe and Vintique Vintage Clothes anchoring the Hauser/Fairfax end. Then along came the restaurants Los Anayas and Honey Bees. TNN interviews Mike Ross and Fredrick Sutherland the two visionary…

Details: Category: Featured Local Business; Published on Wednesday, 08 February 2012 22:45; Written by Dianne Lawrence

When Pinky opened her business in 2003 the economy was thriving and monies for investing in small businesses flowed freely, so the time seemed right for Pinky to realize her life-long desire to open her own fashion boutique. She established herself as the first upscale boutique of any kind on…

Details: Category: Featured Local Business; Published on Saturday, 26 December 2009 14:15; Written by Dianne Lawrence

Fred's Utopia Barber shop at 5276 w. Pico Blvd. has been in our community for 44 years. Recently I was invited to come by and attend their annual Christmas celebration. When I stepped in the front door I was transported back to the days when I accompanied my dad to…

Details: Category: Featured Local Business; Published on Tuesday, 06 July 2004 15:00; Written by Dianne Lawrence

By Carol Jones Have you been wondering what goes on at that beautiful, big white mansion at 3500 W. Adams (just west of Arlington) and what in the world is a labyrinth? Welcome to the headquarters of the Church of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness and Peace Theological Seminary…

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