🌱 Lawsuit Over Colorado Blvd. Bus Line + Blockbuster Speakeasy Pop-Up

Hey, friends! Today we celebrate National Family Literacy Day! It's Sylvia, your host of the Daily. Here's all the local news you need to know right now, including...

• 🚘 Not a bike lane on Santa Monica Boulevard
• 🏗️ The number of building permits issued
• ⚠️ The Safety & Preparedness Fair

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Partly sunny; not as warm. High: 69 Low: 56.

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🦃 Thanksgiving Poll!
Thanksgiving is on November 24th. How do you celebrate? So far, 50% celebrate a big meal as a family tradition, while another 50% don’t celebrate and treat it like any other day.

📰 Here are the top stories in Los Angeles today:

1) On Saturday, we were told about a “$2 million bike lane to nowhere.” On Monday, we learned that this lane in front of the Liberation Coffee House on Santa Monica Boulevard is actually a road widening for cars, called “right of way dedication.” It’s not a bike lane. (Biking LA)

2) An Eagle Rock resident filed a lawsuit against Metro over the Colorado Boulevard bus line. Connecting North Hollywood and Pasadena, it “leaves only one lane in each direction for other traffic along a stretch of Colorado Boulevard.” The suit alleges failure to “follow proper procedures before holding a public meeting on April 28 by teleconference instead of in person.” We learned on Monday that a hearing is scheduled for July 25. (The Eastsider LA)

3) We learned on Monday that the city “issued 17,008 building permits” in August and 15,146 in September. At the end of the year’s third quarter, the total of issued permits is 46,668. Compare this to the same time in 2019, when the number reached 49,319. (Xtown)

4) The city invites you to join the FREE Greater Los Angeles Safety & Preparedness Fair on November 12. It runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The location is the Green Lot of Exposition Park at 3986 Hoover Street. Get an emergency kit, learn CPR, and buy tasty goodies from food trucks. (Ready LA)

5) A Blockbuster Speakeasy Pop-up Bar is coming to 7174 Melrose Avenue on November 19. Gen X, which routinely gets the short end of the stick, can finally re-live the Y2K craze and the pride of having a Blockbuster membership card. Brunch costs $55 a person and requires signup. (Bucketlisters)

📆 Today in Los Angeles:

• The Original Farmers Market at 6333 W. 3rd St. (10 AM)
• Taco Tuesday The Remix at The New Townhouse LA (4 PM)
• Día de los Muertos Rock Painting at the John C. Fremont Branch Library (4 PM)
• Audio Up and Michael Cohen present MEA CULPA LIVE at the El Rey Theatre (7 PM)
• David Spade, Alex Hooper, and Others at the Hollywood Improve Main Room (8 PM)

🛒 From my notebook:

• "Did you know that Michael Myers house from John Carpenter's original Halloween is actually located in South Pasadena? 🎃 The late 1970s through the early '90s was a golden age of the horror/slasher flick." (Discover Los Angeles via Instagram)
• "Happy Halloween from Hollywood herself! 🎃👻🦇 Check out KCET’s '10 L.A. Landmarks Made Even More Famous by Hollywood Horror Flicks' to see the ten best horror film locations in Los Angeles." (Los Angeles Conservancy via Facebook)
• A Ladera Heights neighbor says that on "Sunday, October 30th at around 3pm my grandkids saw a good-sized coyote in our backyard...we are located on Bedford in upper Ladera...my grandson yelled at it and the coyote ran into the neighbors bushes." (Nextdoor)

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Now you're in the loop and ready to head out the door on this Tuesday. I'll be in your inbox tomorrow with a new update!

— Sylvia Cochran

About me: Sylvia Cochran works out of sunny Southern California and has been freelance writing full-time since 2005. She loves dogs, cats, books, plays Best Fiends (don't judge), embraces social justice, and tries to live out Micah 6:8.

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