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I Am Los Angeles is a video project documenting “real Angelenos.” The project’s latest (unembeddable) video features Broadway Boxing Gym in Watts with interviews with Sauchsee Larkins, who runs the gym with her father and son, and trainer Jesse Burnett.
Read more about the gym in a 2008 article by Times’ reporter Robert J. Lopez, and view more still shots in the accompanying photo gallery.
Photo: Old photos of fighters and celebrities adorn the walls of Broadway Boxing Gym. Credit: Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times
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Gorgeous…I love making that hike
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The Los Angeles Philharmonic Assn. is introducing a phone application designed to help you make the most of visits to the Hollywood Bowl.
The free app offers a detailed look at the season’s shows and performers and allows users to buy tickets and add concerts to a favorites list in order to receive reminders and special announcements.
The “Hollywood Bowl” application also explains how to get to the venue by car or shuttle and what to do once there. On phones with GPS the app will offer driving directions and pinpoint seat locations as well as the nearest restrooms, concessions and picnic areas. App users also can view Bowl-related videos and a fan photo gallery to which they can submit their own pictures.
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Union Station in downtown L.A. is an underrated public space. It’s full of striking architecture, Art Deco lamps, and inevitably some of the city’s best people watching.
Spend a day there, eating in the chic restaurant, drinking coffee, and watching luggage-carriers rush to their destinations. Or you could hang out and take photos all day, like we did.
Photo: A passenger walks out of Union Station. The entrance/exit way displays the landmark’s Spanish and Moorish architectural styles. Credit: Lori Kozlowski / Los Angeles Times
At this year’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 24 and 25, you can play a game through your mobile phone, which will send you to various booths and booksellers. You’ll be asked a series of questions, given clues, and led all around the beautiful UCLA campus.
The best part?
Grand prize: An iPad (what else?)
It’s man versus car.
It’ll take the winner of Sunday’s L.A. Marathon a little over two hours to cover the route. Can a motorist beat that time during morning rush hour?
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You like to run? You like to run a lot?
Or maybe you just want to live vicariously through others. In any case, check out the interactive tour of this year’s L.A. Marathon route. This year’s course stretches from Echo Park all the way to the sea.
Do you know who this Vampire-esque actor is?
It’s Rudolph Valentino.
A little background: In 1917 Rudolph Valentino, a 22-year-old Italian, arrived in Hollywood with an enticingly shady reputation as a gigolo and nightclub dancer. In 1920 “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” and “The Sheik” established him as the silent era’s greatest Latin lover, and a screen icon.
How do we know? As you walk along the Hollywood Walk of Fame, looking for your favorite stars, you can use the L.A. Times Hollywood Star Walk to find out everything about the famous and the forgotten.
Photo credit: The Bettman Archive
