About a year ago, Westwood Village created a Business Improvement District to work to make the area more appealing to both business owners and shoppers. Read more...

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In this Daily Bruin file photo from October, an employee of the Business Improvement District cleans up a street in Westwood Village.

Westwood Village has changed in many ways since Edwin and Harold Janss first began its development in 1928, but remnants of that past can still be spotted throughout the Village "“ if you know where to look. Read more...

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Built as a Ralphs grocery store in 1929, the building at the northeastern corner of Westwood Boulevard and Lindbrook Drive was one of the six original buildings in Westwood Village. It was divided into a multi-tenant space after the Ralphs closed in 1962, and is now home to Peet’s Coffee & Tea and 800 Degrees Neapolitan Pizza.

People purchasing electronics at the Best Buy in Westwood Village this weekend were met with a sign outside the store letting them know it would be closed for good in less than a month. Read more...

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The Best Buy on Weyburn Avenue will close next month, as part of a larger series of closures by the company across the country.

On Thursday night, the upstairs room of the Westwood Brewing Company was temporarily transformed into a barbershop for Brew-N-Shave, an event hosted by UCLA geography lecturer Justin Wilford to raise money for children's cancer research. Read more...

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UCLA lecturer Justin Wilford sits with his daughter Maesie at Westwood Brew Co. Thursday night as he has his head shaved in a fundraiser for children’s cancer research. Wilford hosted the event, inspired by his 5-year-old son Max, who is currently fighting brain cancer.