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East Bay food
fromTravel + Leisure
1 week ago

This Small Ozark Town Is the Midwest's Best Outdoor Destination-With Natural Waterslides, Waterfalls, and Tons of Charm

Arcadia Valley offers outdoor activities, rich history, and a small-town atmosphere, making it a popular getaway destination.
fromBrooklyn Paper
2 weeks ago

Where are Brooklyn's "recreation deserts," and what can be done to fix them? * Brooklyn Paper

"Brooklyn has always been a place where movement is part of daily life. But today, Brooklynites, like all New Yorkers, are moving less, feeling more isolated and dealing with elevated rates of chronic diseases."
Brooklyn
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

"DTF St. Louis" and the New Story of the Suburbs

'They are small stakes, but, of course, everything that is quintessentially American—property, the right to violence, the right to protect land—are all intensely operative in this space.'
Television
Chicago Cubs
fromBleacher Nation
2 weeks ago

Volleyball is Coming to Wrigley Field - Bleacher Nation

Wrigley Field will host its first-ever volleyball matches on September 6, featuring teams from Nebraska, Missouri, Penn State, and Kentucky.
London
fromianVisits
3 weeks ago

Free plants from Hyde Park for local charities

Charities and community groups in Central London can apply for free flowers from the Royal Parks to decorate their buildings.
#retirement
Silicon Valley real estate
fromTravel + Leisure
3 weeks ago

This Charming Suburb Was Just Named the Richest Place to Retire in the U.S.

Saratoga, California, is named the wealthiest retirement town in the U.S. for the second consecutive year, known for its affluent lifestyle and livability.
Beer
fromEater LA
1 month ago

The Best Beer in Los Angeles Lives in Chinatown

Highland Park Brewery in Chinatown offers accessible, excellent beer and food in a convenient location near public transit, Dodger Stadium, and downtown Los Angeles.
California
fromTravel + Leisure
1 month ago

This Suburb Was Just Named the Best Place to Live in California for Its Parks, Schools, and Quality of Life

Elk Grove, a suburban city south of Sacramento, ranks as California's best place to live based on economy, housing, amenities, safety, education, and health metrics.
Arts
fromStreetsblog
1 month ago

Talking Headways Podcast: Growing St. Louis's Arts and Culture District - Streetsblog USA

Investment in St. Louis's Grand Center Arts District focuses on connecting urban spaces and enhancing public art for community benefit.
fromSan Francisco Bay Times
1 month ago

Pleasant Ridge, Pleasant Price - San Francisco Bay Times

Pleasant Ridge Reserve is just quietly the best alpine-style cheese made in the U.S., with the awards to prove it. Rush Creek is exciting because it is limited, unusual, and heralds the coming of the food holidays. Pleasant Ridge, on the other hand, is just quietly the best alpine-style cheese made in the U.S., with the awards to prove it.
Skiing
fromLos Angeles Times
19 years ago

Lincoln Park's wealth lies in its history

Pomona's Lincoln Park neighborhood offers buyers seeking classic vintage homes an affordable alternative for early 20th century Craftsman homes, California bungalows and Prairie, Tudor and Colonial Revival styles, as well as a healthy mix of Spanish and Victorian houses. The Lincoln Park enclave, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, is home to about 900 of Pomona's more than 2,700 buildings of historic significance.
LA real estate
Los Angeles
fromLos Angeles Times
8 years ago

Neighborhood Spotlight: Woodland Hills is a power-shopper's mecca with outdoor delights

Victor Girard, a Persian rug merchant turned real estate developer, founded Woodland Hills through deceptive marketing practices, subdividing 3,000 acres into tiny lots and making false claims about proximity to the beach.
Mission District
fromSFGATE
1 month ago

Calif. city's residents win triple victory in data center fight

Monterey Park's City Council unanimously extended a data center moratorium and scheduled a June ballot measure to potentially ban data centers following organized community resistance to a proposed 247,000-square-foot server facility.
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
11 years ago

Highland Park renters feel the squeeze of gentrification

Highland Park experiences rapid gentrification as newcomers purchase properties, driving up rents and displacing long-term residents who can no longer afford to stay in their neighborhood.
Boston
fromBoston.com
1 month ago

Readers agree: Build a new Madison Park to benefit Boston's youth

Rebuilding Madison Park on parcel P-3 would provide a state-of-the-art vocational high school offering trades training and tangible public benefit for Boston youth.
#kristen-stewart
fromCurbed
1 month ago

A New Skate Park Proposes to Take Over the Middle of Mount Prospect

It was one of four skate parks being created or revamped as part of a city initiative, and the only one that proposed building an entirely new space rather than replacing an existing skate park or asphalt rink. Intended as the city's flagship, it was also by far the largest, in the city and regionally, tied with the Lynch Family Skatepark in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is the largest skate park on the East Coast.
Brooklyn
Food & drink
fromTravel + Leisure
1 month ago

I Live in the Midwest-This Is the One Small Town Everyone Should Visit at Least Once

Bloomington, Indiana combines a major university, an exceptionally diverse restaurant scene, notable museums and cultural institutions, and vibrant local food and beverage businesses.
fromIslands
1 month ago

New Jersey's Walkable Neighborhood Is An Up-And-Coming Area With Local Hotspots And Lush Parks - Islands

It's an enclave of Jersey City, the thriving Hudson River city with delicious cuisine, and is one of the least-dense neighborhoods of the city, as Statistical Atlas shows. Its relative calm, combined with a high walking score of 81 given to the neighborhood by Apartments.com, makes Bergen-Lafayette especially suitable for exploring its relaxed, historic streets on foot at an unrushed pace.
Real estate
Los Angeles
fromLos Angeles Times
9 years ago

Neighborhood Spotlight: Canoga Park rocketing on fewer engines

Canoga Park embodied Space Age America's spirit through aerospace innovation, suburban development, and futuristic culture before experiencing decline.
fromFuncheap
2 months ago

SF History Night | Pacific Heights

The San Francisco History Association hosts monthly talks which explore our city's enchanting history in depth. Each month, a local history expert hosts a themed talk usually accompanied by a slide show with light refreshments. Monthly presentations cover a dizzyingly diverse variety of SF history aspects, from the history of the San Francisco Fire Department to appreciation of our unique Victorian houses to vintage stories and photos from Playland-at-the-Beach.
San Francisco
New York City
fromNY Carib News
2 months ago

NYC - Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center Opens by Mamdani

A new 74,000-square-foot Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center opened in East Flatbush, the first new Parks rec center in over a decade and largest in Brooklyn.
fromLos Angeles Times
24 years ago

Irvine Considers How It Can Grow Old Gracefully

The city is at a crossroads. Some areas of the town are 30, 35 years old and may need more attention than the newer areas. We have a dichotomy of needs in that we have to provide services to both the old and the new sides of town.
East Bay real estate
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

The city that swapped parking for green space

Though they're individually tiny, parking spots quietly play a dominant role in shaping urban landscapes. Most US cities dedicate at least 25% of their developable land to them. Some, even more. That land usage doesn't only determine the way a city looks. It also means covering large swathes of urban areas in heat-absorbing asphalt, which contributes to making summers hotter and heightens the risk of flooding since it prevents drainage during storms and heavy rainfall.
Miscellaneous
National Football League
fromBleacher Nation
1 month ago

Illinois Counters in Bears Stadium Talks, Caleb Williams Throwback Footage, More

The Chicago Bears will place their next home stadium outside Chicago city limits, intensifying Illinois-Indiana competition and prompting calls for the team to clarify intentions.
fromwww.archdaily.com
2 months ago

Lakeside Residence / Disbrow Iannuzzi

Located on a parklike site in a northern suburb of Detroit with the River Rouge running through it, this 4,000sf Y-shaped home opens to an elaborate landscape that the homeowner has cultivated for over 40 years.
Design
US politics
fromLos Angeles Times
2 months ago

Commentary: A walk through promising, problem-plagued MacArthur Park with its council member

MacArthur Park displays concentrated urban distress—homelessness, neglect, and symbolic improvements that struggle to counter deep structural and political challenges.
fromSan Jose Spotlight
2 months ago

Mountain View wants to add more parks - but it won't be cheap - San Jose Spotlight

City staff estimate it would cost approximately $1.2 billion to meet its goal of adding 87 more acres of parkland. That figure is based on Mountain View's current population, and does not account for future growth. "Significant funding would be needed to develop new parks or to update our parks," Assistant Community Services Director Kristine Crosby said at the Jan. 27 council meeting.
Environment
History
fromianVisits
2 months ago

The year Hyde Park was sold to propety developers for housing

Hyde Park was sold after Charles I's execution and nearly developed into housing, which would have removed the Serpentine and altered Kensington Palace's surroundings.
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
7 years ago

Neighborhood Spotlight: Baldwin Park a modest town with price tags to match

Elias Baldwin's gratitude after being caught falling in a grocery store led him to rename Vineland as Baldwin Park instead of establishing his competing town of Baldwinville.
Food & drink
fromEater LA
2 months ago

Highland Park's Modu Is a Minimalist Museum of Pastry

Modu bakery in Highland Park offers minimalist space and Korean-inflected pastries that balance striking appearance with genuine flavor and texture.
Chicago
fromTravel + Leisure
2 months ago

The 8 Best Museums in Chicago

Chicago offers a diverse, world-class museum scene spanning art, science, history, and culture along the lakefront and throughout vibrant neighborhoods.
fromLos Angeles Times
7 years ago

Neighborhood Spotlight: Shadow Hills has no plans to ride away from its semirural lifestyle

Relics of L.A.'s agricultural past, when the city was more renowned as a producer of lima beans than of movie stars, these outposts provide direct links to the days when the region was knit together by a network of dusty bridle paths that have long since been paved to make way for our latest beast of burden, the car.
Los Angeles
fromwww.housingwire.com
2 months ago

Chicago's missing middle housing plan targets surplus public land

Chicago city planners are trying to solve a national problem that officials in many cities talk about but rarely tackle at scale turning idle public land into missing middle housing in neighborhoods that have seen decades of disinvestment. For a third round, planners and city officials have initiative selling tracts of surplus property for small-scale residential infill, rather than marketing these parcels for parking, speculation or short-term budget plug-ins.
Real estate
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
15 years ago

Greene in L.A.

A rare Greene brothers-designed house in Los Angeles is listed at $775,000, significantly underpriced compared to similar Pasadena properties, due to its West Adams location and historic preservation restrictions.
Chicago
fromArchitectural Digest
1 month ago

Sasha Adler Didn't Move a Single Wall in Her 19th-Century Lincoln Park Town House-but Everything Else Changed

A designer preserved a historic 1800s Chicago townhouse's original architectural details while completely modernizing all surfaces and systems for contemporary family living.
fromLos Angeles Times
38 years ago

Longtime Residents of Canoga Park Say They Stand by Their Community Despite the Stinging Defection of Affluent West Hills : Pride and Prejudice

I'm proud to live in Canoga Park. What's wrong with it? Perhaps it's not as elegant as Woodland Hills or Sherman Oaks, but I've produced two wonderful children from Canoga Park. The markets have fed my family. The shops have clothed my children. It will always be Canoga Park to me.
Los Angeles
fromLos Angeles Times
9 years ago

1930s home in Highland Park gets a revival of its own

Updated for modern living, this remodeled home in Highland Park has stayed true to its 1930s Spanish Revival beginnings. The open living and dining room features a brick fireplace and the original hardwood floors. A courtyard sits off the master bedroom.
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
9 years ago

Neighborhood Spotlight: Mid-Wilshire is alive with culture and ancient history

He would buy up land on Wilshire Boulevard between La Brea and Fairfax avenues and build the retail hub of the future, one centered around the automobile. Though critics scoffed, he believed he could draw customers from Beverly Hills and Hollywood to what was then the unfashionable hinterland of the city simply by combining luxury department store shopping with plenty of free parking.
Los Angeles
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Plan to Close DePaul Art Museum Faces Community Backlash

DePaul University will close its art museum on June 30 due to projected budget deficits, prompting over 2,000 faculty and students to oppose the decision.
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
8 years ago

Neighborhood Spotlight: Glassell Park's future looks greener and livelier

Rancho San Rafael, a 36,000-acre Spanish land grant from 1784, became the foundation for Northeast Los Angeles neighborhoods including Atwater Village, Highland Park, Eagle Rock, and Glassell Park after being partitioned in 1871.
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
22 years ago

A mingling of generations graces Sunset Park

Sunset Park in Santa Monica is a family-oriented residential neighborhood where retirees and young families coexist, attracted by excellent schools, proximity to the beach, and local employment opportunities.
Los Angeles
fromLos Angeles Times
33 years ago

Redevelopment

Commerce's redevelopment is driven by elected officials and economic necessity, transforming an industrial landscape into a diverse economy with jobs, housing, and improved infrastructure.
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
8 years ago

Neighborhood Spotlight: Granada Hills is satisfied with its suburban status, thank you very much

Granada Hills evolved from an agricultural area marketed as a rabbit-raising community in the 1920s to a residential neighborhood after the Los Angeles Aqueduct brought abundant water in 1913.
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
8 years ago

Neighborhood Spotlight: Close-knit Leimert Park is primed to be well-connected again

Leimert Park transformed from a segregated white planned community in 1923 to a major African-American cultural center by the 1960s despite violent white resistance to integration.
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
25 years ago

Double the Space in Hancock Park

Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith purchased an adjacent property in Hancock Park for $1.3 million to reunite land that was part of one estate until the 1950s.
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
27 years ago

Stepping Back in Time in California Heights

California Heights in Long Beach offers historic charm, family-friendly atmosphere, and convenient commuter access via Metro Rail and freeways at affordable prices.
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