Several hundred parents, children and educators attended the first Bilingual Fair of Los Angeles on campus Sunday, featuring roughly 40 exhibits from bilingual and multilingual schools and publishers in the Los Angeles area. Read more...
Photo: Amy Conroy, a UCLA alum and founder and producer of “Habla Blah Blah,” speaks to a participant about her organization, which fosters foreign-language learning for kids through music. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
Simplethings, a sandwich and pie shop in Westwood Village, began accepting payments from BruinCards earlier last week. The store is one of four Westwood restaurants to implement the change within the last month. Read more...
One of the oldest buildings in Westwood Village will undergo a $1 million renovation project starting next month to restore the 1930s building to its original style. Read more...
Photo: The building on Kinross and Gayley avenues, which houses three restaurants, will undergo a $1 million renovation starting in May. (Courtesy of Jim Brooks)
Paper Source, an upscale stationery retailer, plans to open a new 5,000-square-foot location in the middle of Westwood Village by the start of fall quarter. As a stationery store and gift retailer, Paper Source offers high-end stationery, office supplies, custom engraved invitations, greeting cards and personalized gifts. Read more...
Photo: Paper Source, a stationery store, plans to open a new storefront in Westwood. Shoppers will be able to buy different types of paper for crafting purposes, many of which are printed with colorful patterns. (Kelsey Kong/Daily Bruin)
The Westwood Village Improvement Association’s board voted 8-1-2 Wednesday to increase the fees businesses pay to support the association by a few hundred dollars per landowner. Read more...
Eat Sweets Pastry, a boutique pastry shop that specializes in shortbread and decorated cookies, will leave Westwood when its lease ends. Its last business day will be on Saturday. Read more...
Photo: Megan Driscoll, the owner of Eat Sweets Pastry, loves the freedom that comes with being a pastry chef of her own store located on Gayley Ave. She decorates the pastries and personalizes them, baking numerous cupcakes, cookies and macarons. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Every time he sees the Pacific Ocean, Roozbeh Farahanipour said he misses the Persian Gulf and Iran. He hasn’t lived in Iran since 2000, when he fled from the Islamic regime to the United States. Read more...
Photo: Roozbeh Farahanipour was nominated for the state Senate’s California Heroes Month in late 2014 for his work against human rights violations in Iran. (Julie Song/Daily Bruin)
