Saturday, April 25

Chick-fil-A holds giveaway event ahead of grand opening in Westwood

Kim Cochran arrived with a cow suit, a tent, her two kids and her husband at a Westwood parking lot early Wednesday morning. The San Fernando Valley resident set up camp a block away from Westwood’s newest addition – Atlanta-based fast-food chain, Chick-fil-A – to participate in the restaurant’s grand-opening festivities. Read more...

Photo: About 160 people, including San Fernando Valley resident Kim Cochran, participated a Chick-fil-A event, hoping to win a free meal a week for a year.



Supreme Court sends Prop. 8 back to California

In a significant victory for gay rights in California, Gov. Jerry Brown called for the state to once again allow same-sex individuals to marry, after the Supreme Court ruled on two historic cases involving same-sex marriage today. Read more...




Bruins teach children about healthy living in Venice

The red dye trickled slowly through the cotton-filled test tube like blood traveling through clogged arteries. Joseph Esdin remembered comparing the sluggishly moving dye to its quickly advancing analogue in an empty test tube during the early days of a community service club he founded as a UCLA undergraduate student. Read more...

Photo: Interns in the Together Educating and Advocating Community Health program tutor students in the Venice community. Students in TEACH create and present health-based lesson plans to the middle and elementary school students in Venice.