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FYI Awesome Resource: For Your Art

Our neighbor invited us over to dinner last night and his new roommate works at For Your Art, a guide to contemporary art and culture in Los Angeles. Find out all they offer after the jump....

Blogging...4 Great Ideas from Cottage Living

Have you seen Cottage Living's 2008 Los Angeles Idea Home? It's full of ideas, and we're featuring our favorite four ideas that could be DIY projects for your home. Check out our list after the jump....

Happy Birthday LA!

Only a few days after our own, Los Angeles is having a birthday though, at 227, it's considerably older than us. Blame it on its relative youth, but Los Angeles is not a sentimental city. Like the ...

Dog Friendly Hotels
Los Angeles

The other day we blogged roadtripping with your pet. But, when it's time to get off the road and bed down for the night, what do you do? Not all hotels will be happy to accommodate you. But, if you...

Escapes: Plan A Walkable Day

With Apartment Therapy's month of weekend escapes, staycations and daycations, we have been inspired to create a walkable day away from it all right in our own city. Los Angeles really is a walkable c...

Thursday Giveaway: Colburn Sassaman $100 Gift Certificate

Product: $100 Gift Certificate for Colburn Sassaman Value: $100 Description: They say two is better than one, and Los Angeles interior designer Nicole Sassaman and Shannon Colburn have taken this axio...

CB2 To Open In LA?

We reported way back in November that CB2 was looking for a space in LA. Well, it looks like we might be one step towards getting a CB2 all to ourselves:...

16 Furniture Stores To Discover On Beverly Boulevard

Los Angeles is home to some amazing furniture stores and Beverly Boulevard is where you can find and discover many of them. If you are looking for furniture for your home or simply want to be inspired...

Staycation: Explore Your Own City
Los Angeles

Although I'm from New York, I've never been to the top of the Empire State Building. And now, living in Los Angeles, it wasn't until friends came to visit me that I took the Universal Studio Tour or ...

Free Earthquake Preparedness Consultations

We know that you don't have a ton of extra room in your home to be storing tons of back-up water and supplies but we thought we'd put you in touch with a great resource. Today we spoke with Kim of Sa...

Ork Posters Releases LA Edition

They say Los Angeles is just numerous cities contained within one larger all-encompassing demarcation. And for all its faults...urban sprawl, mini-malls, the 405 and 10 freeways...we love it [nod to R...

Green @ Home: Jackie's Green Lifestyle

Name: Jackie Location: Los Angeles Los Angeles resident Jackie wrote us directly with some shining examples of a green lifestyle that extends from the car she drives, the lighting in her house, the t...

City of Los Angeles Compost Bin Sales

The good news: we just came back home with a heavily discounted Smith & Hawken Biostack Composter bin from the City of LA Bureau of Sanitation/Griffith Park Composting Education Facility. The bad news...

Go Green Moving: Bio-diesel Powered Movers

Around our neighborhood, bio-diesel powered cars are more common than the fast food restaurants that source and power them (thank goodness). Their characteristic smell and the chortle of their diesel ...

LA Rents: The Valley Really Is Cheap, But is it the Cheapest?

Wow, having been a Westsider for most of my adult apartment-renting life, I was shocked to find recently how much cheaper the Valley really is. Long story, but a 3 bedroom house with hardwood floors,...

ATLA Reader "Work in Progress" Loft Update

We love updates from you, our readers! Reader submitted photos of renovation and home improvement projects are the gifts that keep on giving, in terms of advice and inspiration, and are amongst our mo...

LA Event: Los Angeles Art Weekend April 10-13 2008

Starting this Thursday, April 10, 2008, it's Los Angeles Art Weekend. LA's vast amount of creative talent in art, architecture, design, and film will be highlighted through a series of special events ...

LA Event: Concentric Circles, Metro LA Revealed

[images: Peter Orth, Stevie Nelson, Lori Balton]Our friend Peter just sent along the info for an exhibition of photography that centers largely on the LA Metro and its interiors. Having only been on ...

A Day in the Life: Design for Mankind's Dailies

Ever wonder what a blogger does all day? Are we all in our pj's? Are we rushing off to our real jobs? Is our house actually tidy or even stylish? Take a peek into a day in the life after the cut: ...

Ghettogloss Gallery: Garden of Delight Show

Just in time for Valentine's Day. Celebrate love with a fabulous group art show this thursday night. Christopher Bettig, Timothy Jason Reed, and Rachel T. Robertson are showing a collection of lov...

Get Outside Today!

It's such a beautiful day today (and it was such a beautiful weekend too) that we wanted to remind everyone to take a moment to take it all in. Can you spend part of your lunch break outside, can y...

Los Angeles Organizing Awards Event this Friday

Do we get an award for having a color coded shower? An awards show for organizing? You betcha. The task that only those of us that know the true meaning of organizing can understand and appreciat...

Aqua Creations Lighting

After yesterday's post about the Beverly Center's new lighting we did some digging and discovered the company behind the lights has a ton more to offer....

Ebay Scavenger: Vintage LA Posters

Maybe it's because it is super clear today and we can see the snow topped mountains from our bedroom, or maybe the wind is bringing it, but we're feeling full of pride for our beautiful city. Ebay h...

LA Good Questions: Christmas Trees in L.A.?

Hi Apartment Therapy, With the condos going in on every vacant lot, I have lost my two neighborhood tree lots. I ventured toward Chinatown to my tried and true Christmas tree lot, but this lot has al...