It Wasn’t Just a Diner. It Was a Hub for Altadena.
The demands of a restaurant were never-ending, and Rena would arrive at dawn to start rolling out the biscuits. The original ...
‘Fabulous’ Little Rock native, 95, dies in LA fire last week
A Little Rock-born grandmother who appeared in the movie "The Blues Brothers" died last week at her home in Altadena, Calif., ...
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Arkansas native with ties to old Hollywood among California fire victims
CALIFORNIA, USA — At age 95 ... she was just fabulous, period." Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1929, that big personality was destined for one place: Hollywood. She settled in Los Angeles ...
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'What America should look like:' loss in the Altadena fires, and a hard road to recovery
There was no official alert about the wildfire barreling toward the mountainous community of Altadena, California ... “It’s a little more rural than Pasadena because you can see black bears ...
Octavia Butler imagined LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science ...
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Altadena has avoided California’s fire insurance hell. That won’t last.
Altadena has not yet experienced issues like these, but that might not last. California prohibits insurance companies from dropping customers in fire-struck areas for at least a year, but ...
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How Altadena became the L.A. dream for Gen X and millennial artists, writers, musicians
As a musician in an indie rock band ... with weird little knickknacks, cameras, drawings, editing and shooting tables, as well as loads of books. With large swaths of Altadena gone — and ...