All three of my kids went through Karen Dudley's parent and me classes at Palms Park and as I have posted here before, they are fantastic. Now Karen is offering fall parenting workshops and support groups. Read on for info more info on this great Rancho Park resource for families.…

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The Westside Neighborhood Council, along with several city departments, is sponsoring an Emergency Prepareness Expo today at the Westwood Public Library. No need to put off getting prepared. There will be reps from DWP, the Fire Department and…

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As kids all over Rancho Park are posing for school and soccer photos, I thought it would be a nice time to host our own Picture Day here at Rancho Park Online.

Actually it is more like Picture Week. Upload your photo - either a shot of yourself for your profile, an image in a post, or a picture for the main page gallery - and you just might win a pair…

Homes in Rancho Park don't just have curb appeal, they have star power. That is the word from Stevie Nelson, a location scout for the show House, who showed up on my doorstep recently looking for an "East Coast" style home in the area to use for a scene for the hit Fox show. Talk about opportunity knocking! Alas, the show's producers eventually decided to use a soundstage instead. But as Nelson clicked photos of my home to show to the prodcution team she explained that Rancho Park and…

The end of the line will mark a symbolic new beginning for the Expo Line project when the official groundbreaking ceremony for Phase 2 takes place this morning at 9:30 a.m. in Santa Monica, at Colorado Blvd. and 4th Street.

Recent stories in the Los Angeles Times and on CurbedLA indicate that leaders,…

Anyone in Rancho Park, Westwood or even greater Los Angeles has always known that the Bigg Chill frozen yogurt shop is a special treat. But now it is national news.

This weekend the New York Times ran a story on the enduring and endearing corner store that always seems to have lines of…

If you've been thinking about planting a tree in front of your house, now is the time. Rancho Park area streets have been identified as potential sites for planting free street trees under a new grant-funded program to mitigate the impacts of pollution from cars.

The trees will be supplied and planted by the city of Los Angeles. Residents  provide the water and care needed for the tree to become established, which the city estimates is five years.

Anyone…

Get delicous fresh produce delivered to Rancho Park every week and strengthen ties to your community and local farms in the process.

That's is the idea behind Temple…

As reported here on Rancho Park Online in an earlier post, the post office in the Westside Pavillion is among those being studied for possible closure by the U.S. Postal Service.

Now a Facebook group has formed to try and save Rancho Park's mall post office…

It is not every day you get a letter from your mailman, but that is exactly what arrived in many Rancho Park residents' mailboxes last week from Bob, our local mail carrier who for practically the last quarter century has dilengently delivered mail to the Rancho Park area south of Pico and west of Westwood Blvds.

"After 24 years of serving you, I will greatly miss you all," writes Bob. "It has been an honor and a pleasure to be your friend and…

The Pico Playhouse is currently staging the Mechanicals Theatre Group's latest production, Out of My Head, a new musical about breakdowns and breakthroughs by Ryan Scott Oliver. The show runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm and Sundays at 7:00 pm through August 21. You can purchase tickets through the Mechanicals'…

To celebrate the Santa Monica Farmers Market 30th birthday there will be a five-day festival and conference from Sept. 14-18 to discuss food and farming issues, such as. food policy, school food, hunger, the environment, farming, organic food, butterfly gardens, food preservation, beekeeping and composting.

Chipotle's Steve Ells, food activist Will Allen, food policy person Paula Daniels will also perform at rhe Good…

To celebrate the Santa Monica Farmers Market 30th birthday there will be a five-day festival and conference from Sept. 14-18 to discuss food and farming issues, such as. food policy, school food, hunger, the environment, farming, organic food, butterfly gardens, food preservation, beekeeping and composting.

Chipotle's Steve Ells, food activist Will Allen, food policy person Paula Daniels will also perform at rhe Good…

For a few years now, I've seen small wood cutouts swinging from power/phone lines over Rancho Park's intersections.  The latest version looks like a burglar complete with a fedora, trench coat and bag of money.  One side is painted gold and the other, black.  It appears to be hanging from a string and the other end is usually tied to a padlock, presumably used to toss the…

Hey Rancho Park foodies, I hope you have room in your inboxes and your stomachs because there is a new discount website in town. This one, Munch On Me, features deals on individual menu items at West LA area restaurants.

"West L.A. is dense, and the food is really good, and our users have been asking for us to add West LA for a while now," company founder Jason Wang told the…

Published in 2009, this book offers lots of pictures and details of the Palms area which 100 years ago was defined as a large area halfway between LA and the beach.  If you are a local, you will enjoy looking at the pictures and imagining what this area looked like years ago.  Wide open spaces, historic houses, two train lines, film studios, floods, factories making pasta and…

A few openings left for August Writing Camp!  

Discounts for Rancho Park Online members,…