Saturday, December 6, 2014
A lot of holiday cheer and great food at the festive Toluca Lake Holiday Open House , “Let There Be Light,” last night. Pink’s free hot dogs was one of the major attractions. Hundreds lined up for the famous dogs. Pink’s main location is at La Brea and Melrose Avenues in Hollywood, where they have been selling their prized hot dogs […]
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Burbank City Clerk, Zizette Mullins, sent out a notice today with the names of the candidates who have qualified for the City of Burbank’s Primary Nominating Election to be held on Tuesday, February 24, 2015. It’s a mail in ballot only election. Here are the names: City Council Candidates (2 open seats) Emily Gabel-Luddy David Nos Will Rogers Elise Stearns-Niesen Juan […]
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Preparations are in full swing for the annual Holiday Baskets program, which provides gifts for low-income families with children in Burbank schools. The program got a huge boost from the Bob Hope Airport Holiday Charity Committee at the Burbank Coordinating Council December first meeting last Monday. Several members of the committee, Sherri Himelstein, Lucy Burghdorf, and Rachael Warecki, showed up to […]
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
A TSA checkpoint at the Bob Hope Airport is back up and running today, after being knocked out by yesterday’s stormy weather. It happened around 5 p.m. Victor Gill, spokesman for the airport, says storm water caused an electrical outage. Here’s the tweet that the airport sent out late yesterday. Terminal A checkpoint currently closed due to electrical outage. […]
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
More stormy weather today so keep those umbrellas at the ready. Yesterday, the much anticipated storm rolled into Burbank and the rest of the Southland with periods of heavy rain and chilly temperatures. The chance of rain today is 90 percent. It will warm up a bit — expect the temperatures to be mostly in the mid-60s — maybe topping […]
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
A major storm is set to dump a lot of rain on the Southland today and tomorrow. The chance of rain in Burbank is 100 percent on Tuesday. The weather watchers say we could get 1 to 2 inches of rain. That kind of heavy rainfall could produce flash flooding. So the City of Burbank is offering free sandbags to […]
Monday, December 1, 2014
Sony Pctures has been hacked! The cyber attack on the entertainment studio reportedly began “… about a week ago when a group called Guardians of Peace, or #GOP for short, gained access to the studio’s system and arranged for a bizarre image and poorly worded text to appear on the computer screens of employee,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. Sony has […]
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Communications consultant and community activist, Steve Ferguson, is among several candidates making a run for three open seats on the Burbank School Board in the February 24, 2015 Burbank Municipal Primary Election. Earlier this month, Ferguson, sat down with me for a one-on-one video interview. The ground rules, no questions in advance and no subject was off-limits. In the interview, […]
Friday, November 28, 2014
Recently, I sat down with Burbank School Board candidate, Steve Ferguson. He announced his candidacy last month. No questions in advance. No subject was off-limits. In the one-on-one interview, Ferguson answers some tough questions about his candidacy, the state of Burbank schools, and what he sees as solutions to some of the district’s problems. That interview will be posted on […]
