Chris Nichols
Senior Editor at Los Angeles Magazine
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3 weeks ago |
lamag.com | Chris Nichols
Billy Barnes wrote and performed countless whimsical musical comedy songs for Carol Burnett, Sonny and Cher and scores of TV programs of the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Before that he created the coolest, hippest underground comedy sensation of 1950s L.A., the Billy Barnes Revue. The stage show was sort of a proto-SNL that combined topical sketches, songs, and gags from six young newcomers at a tiny club.
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1 month ago |
lamag.com | Chris Nichols
If your classy grandma grew up in L.A., chances are she loved Bullocks Wilshire. The grande dame of Los Angeles retail was an art deco beacon on the boulevard from 1929 until 1993. Now, you can see what all the fuss was about with "A Taste of Bullocks Wilshire," an evening of dining and history in the store's former Tea Room. Southwestern School of Law restored the luxury department store as a beautiful school campus and won the Los Angeles Conservancy preservation award in 1997.
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1 month ago |
lamag.com | Chris Nichols
Young women protesting the Vietnam War, wearing flowers in their hair and joining peace marches were not uncommon sights during the 1960s. When the nuns at Immaculate Heart College in Hollywood started doing it, they made headlines. Their conflicts with L.A.’s Catholic cardinal became international news when he forced them to choose between following the old ways or leaving.
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1 month ago |
lamag.com | Chris Nichols
With bare shelves and signage declaring discounts of up to 70%, the Macy’s department store on 7th Street in downtown Los Angeles is heading for its final days. Last February, the department store’s owners announced that 150 locations were going out of business. “Closing any store is never easy,” Tony Spring, chairman and chief executive officer of Macy’s, Inc. said in a statement.
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2 months ago |
yahoo.com | Chris Nichols
A: LIKE, WHAT IS AN ARTIST? What is a loft? In Beat-era Venice, poets and painters slept in an abandoned bingo parlor-turned-coffee house. Soon after the moon landing, a gym in Inglewood and a piano factory in Pasadena were commandeered in the name of art. Creativity revived neighborhoods and artists started trickling towards Downtown. “In 1975, studio space was a nickel a foot,” says pioneering developer and filmmaker Stephen Seemayer.
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