Students can now use a mobile app to pay for bus fares on the Big Blue Bus. Token Transit is a mobile app that allows users to purchase bus fare on their devices. Read more...
Photo: Students can now use a mobile app called Token Transit to pay their bus fares on the Big Blue Bus, which has several stops in Westwood. (Daily Bruin file photo)
A UCLA student died in his Gayley Avenue apartment Friday following an illness. Justin Sanchez, 22, was a third-year philosophy student, said campus spokesperson Rebecca Kendall. Read more...
Westwood community members think a new bill extending alcohol service hours in bars and restaurants might not affect the area. The bill, proposed by state Senator Scott Wiener in February, would allow cities to extend their last call hours to 4 a.m. Read more...
Photo: Westwood officials said they think the proposed bill would not affect Westwood’s nightlife scene because the area is not usually busy by 2 a.m. (Kristie Hoang/Daily Bruin)
Mannequins sporting casual and athletic wear greeted customers Saturday in a new shoe and clothing store on Broxton Avenue. Footaction, a sports apparel store owned by Foot Locker, opened Saturday afternoon. Read more...
Photo: Footaction, a men’s sports and casual apparel store, opened Saturday in a building that stood vacant for about a decade. (Catherine Liberty Feliciano/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Westwood community leaders criticized the city’s latest attempt to mitigate conflicts of interest in city planning. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti signed an executive directive March 9 that will prevent developers from meeting privately with city planners in an attempt to to curb their influence in City Hall. Read more...
This post was updated on March 15 at 2:30 p.m. Police discovered the bodies of a man and a woman in a parked car on Veteran Avenue on Wednesday morning. Read more...
All ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen locations, including one on Broxton Avenue, will close Friday. Chipotle, a Mexican fast-food chain that owns the ShopHouse franchise, said in a statement that the restaurant did not generate enough revenue to justify further investment. Read more...
Photo: ShopHouse, a Southeast Asian fast food chain, will close Friday after four years in Westwood. (Erin Gong/Daily Bruin)
