Westside Today Headlines http://www.westsidetoday.com/news-s5/1/business.html Sun, 27 May 2012 10:23:39 -0700 en-us Copyright 2012, Westside Today http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/A41XUYVb9ZI/jack-armstrong-s-unique.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-7367/jack-armstrong-s-unique.html Mon, 21 May 2012 10:23:39 -0700 Did you miss out on the Facebook IPO? Well, here is another chance to make a mint with Warhol Naked.Gainsborough Capital, LLC's offering includes immediate rights to the production of 1,500 serigraphs of the work which will be artist-signed but does not include the original painting “Warhol Naked” which is for sale separately for $6 Million. However, the rights holder is entitled to worldwide branding and distribution opportunities in fashion, automobiles, hotels, sports, entertainment, lu...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-7367/jack-armstrong-s-unique.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/NT-Crv0SlOY/whole-foods-gives-5.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-7341/whole-foods-gives-5.html Fri, 18 May 2012 10:23:39 -0700 Whole Foods market in Brentwood recently gave five percent of all net sales to The Giving Spirit, a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization that helps the homeless. Mark Sleeper, Brentwood resident, has overseen this project for several years. Money from the event will go toward “survival kits” for homeless recipients.http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-7341/whole-foods-gives-5.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/GzGDtaAW4LY/brentwood-beat-on-creating.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-7346/brentwood-beat-on-creating.html Fri, 18 May 2012 10:23:39 -0700 It has been stated many times that Charlie Munger, developer of Green Hollow Square, wants to “leave a legacy.”But by remaining so adamantly opposed to a preservation option that includes incorporating the Barry Building into some bigger, neater, design, his legacy might be one of stubbornness. It seems like fixing up and keeping the Barry Building is a small price to pay, if by doing that he gets to build Green Hollow Square. But so far, no go.But the building isn’t the only issue here. ...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-7346/brentwood-beat-on-creating.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/c7G5uXeihiU/donate-your-children-s.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-7347/donate-your-children-s.html Fri, 18 May 2012 10:23:39 -0700 BookEnds and Brentwood are working together on an unprecedented community-wide book drive to benefit children in Los Angeles who don’t have enough books to learn to read. BookEnds is a nonprofit organization that empowers children to recycle their children’s books to create libraries in Los Angeles classrooms. Brentwood friends and families are invited to join BookEnds and CityYear volunteers on Sunday, May 20th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the corner of San Vicente and Montana to help sort, ...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-7347/donate-your-children-s.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/5f1-RpFG0EU/both-sides-square-off.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-7349/both-sides-square-off.html Fri, 18 May 2012 10:23:39 -0700 The May 1, 2012 monthly meeting of the Brentwood Community Council focused entirely on the proposed Green Hollow Square (GHS) project. The agenda included presentations by Green Hollow Square, Saltair Neighbors and the Los Angeles Conservancy. Several individuals also spoke. Before the meeting, several youngsters showed solidarity with GHS opponents, carrying homemade signs to protest the proposed development. They gathered in front of the Kaufman Library, where the BCC meets, and moved insid...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-7349/both-sides-square-off.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/9dNvDtvIJ-U/angeleno-hotel-to-soften.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-7334/angeleno-hotel-to-soften.html Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:23:39 -0700 The Angeleno Hotel at Church Lane, just north of Sunset (and just west of the 405) announced that soon – probably by early May – new lighting will replace the colored lights that the hotel used to employ, much to neighbors’ chagrin. The new lighting will be much easier on the eye, we were told by General Manager Rick Gluth.http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-7334/angeleno-hotel-to-soften.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/hQFNQE3DGzo/watch-out-for-wilshire.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-7335/watch-out-for-wilshire.html Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:23:39 -0700 Be prepared to avoid Wilshire and the 405 starting in May; all eight of the on and off ramps will be torn down and replaced as part of the 405 construction project. Two ramps will be done at a time; any one ramp could take from seven to 90 days to complete. There is no estimate given for how long it will take to complete all eight ramps. For more information, go to: http://www.metro.net/projects_studies/I405/images/Past_Meeting_Presentation_2012_0322.pdfhttp://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-7335/watch-out-for-wilshire.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/M3gZwG6rHxc/light-at-darlington-and.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-7333/light-at-darlington-and.html Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:23:39 -0700 For some time, a new stoplight at the corner of Darlington and San Vicente (where Coral Tree Café, Toscana, The Tavern and Palmeri are), has been non-functioning. Funds have finally been secured to make the lights operational, according to Joaquin Macias, an aide to City Councilman Bill Rosendahl. Look for the lights to go live soon. This is a dangerous intersection; motorists are advised to remain on the lookout for pedestrians and other drivers.http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-7333/light-at-darlington-and.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/6FMiLYXSR1k/entertainment-production-arm-of.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-7148/entertainment-production-arm-of.html Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:23:39 -0700 Virgin known for creating unique consumer experiences through a long history of innovation and technological firsts continues this legacy through it’s entertainment arm launched in 2010.In addition to “ACTV8”ing current hit TV shows, ACTV8.ME is also working with TV production partners and TV networks to create new interactive TV programming. ACTV8.ME has already formed major alliances to be the second-screen interactive partner with Mark Burnett Productions, Fox Broadcasting, The Oxygen N...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-7148/entertainment-production-arm-of.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/oZvu7YDJIzg/re-invent-yourself.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-7140/re-invent-yourself.html Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:23:39 -0700 Are you happy with the current developments in your life? Do you find yourself sometimes wishing to do something different with your life? These are the most common signs of career and personal boredom and if you are feeling like this, you should stop whatever you are doing and decide to re-invent yourself.It is commonly known that career and personal boredom is the number one enemy of success and the primary reason people become unhappy with their lives. When people stop liking what they are d...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-7140/re-invent-yourself.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/1S_Bvt1eSsk/don-t-spoil-your.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6962/don-t-spoil-your.html Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:23:39 -0700 “Fables of Fortune” Author Richard Watts Has Advice for Those Most Concerned About Money. Q: Richard, what is Fables of Fortune: What Rich People Have That You Don’t Want all about? What’s the basic message?A: The basic message is directed at the middle class. Spending your life being critical of your own happiness in favor of a fantasy that money affords a problemless existence, endless entertainment and a life of contentment is wasting the precious time neither the “haves” nor �...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6962/don-t-spoil-your.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/pQJuhYQ2u-c/eye-on-brentwood.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6963/eye-on-brentwood.html Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:23:39 -0700 Getty Celebrates Hiring of a $600,000 Director After Limping Along for Two Confusing YearsTimothy Potts, a 53 year-old native of Sydney, Australia, has been hired by the Getty Museum in Brentwood to fill a two-year old vacancy as Museum Director. He will be working with James Cuno, the Museum President, who said he looks forward to working with Potts, who is considered to be one of the world’s best with an appetite for taking risks in acquiring extraordinary works of art. The Getty has recen...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6963/eye-on-brentwood.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/RNmKHddejq0/news-from-the-getty.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6966/news-from-the-getty.html Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:23:39 -0700 The J. Paul Getty Trust welcomes two new officers. In August, James Cuno took over as head of the J. Paul Getty Trust after serving as president and Eloise W. Martin Director of the Art Institute of Chicago. His distinguished career includes Director and Professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London 2003-4; Harvard University Art Museum 1991-2003; Hood Museum of Art Dartmouth College 1989-91; Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts UCLA 1986-89; and assistant professor of art at Vas...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6966/news-from-the-getty.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/fMr4kBp-DEE/seeks-downsizing.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6975/seeks-downsizing.html Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:23:39 -0700 For the record, I should not be cast as “the opposition” to Green Hollow Square. I will enthusiastically SUPPORT a project which has the least possible impacts on our community, in terms of traffic, noise, pollution, and destruction of historic resources – the Barry Building, and the median and Coral Trees which comprise our Scenic Corridor.I am still hopeful that we might yet be offered a project that more fully reflects the comments in the Draft EIR: specifically one that is smaller, w...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6975/seeks-downsizing.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/OcuOPKLWC_g/architect-supports-green-hollow.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6976/architect-supports-green-hollow.html Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:23:39 -0700 I have been reading all of the articles regarding Green Hollow Square over the past few issues of the Brentwood News and would like to make some professional comments and a suggestion.As a Westside resident and architect for 18 years including eight years in Brentwood, I have shopped and worked in the Barry building. I appreciate its small scale, mid-century, courtyard style. Unfortunately, the glory days of this structure have come and gone. The structure is old and showing its age. Given t...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6976/architect-supports-green-hollow.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/COgf6p7yWBI/key-challenges-ahead-and.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6921/key-challenges-ahead-and.html Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:23:39 -0700 Doors will open at 7:45am at which time breakfast will be available. The program will run 8:30am-9:30am ProgramThe Drucker Business Forum will host a conversation on leadership with Punit Renjen, Chairman of Deloitte, LLP in conversation with Bernie Jaworski the Peter F. Drucker Chair of Management and Liberal Arts at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management. Admission is FREE. To RSVP (required): http://dbfpunitrenjen-eorg.eventbrite.com/For more information: http:/...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6921/key-challenges-ahead-and.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/LMQH037jSzQ/government-meetings-professionals-announce.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6910/government-meetings-professionals-announce.html Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:23:39 -0700 The San Diego chapter of the Society of Government Meeting Professionals (SGMP) has expanded its territory and changed its name to the Southern California chapter. In conjunction with the expansion, membership fees for government meeting professionals have been reduced 55 percent through March 31, 2012. This chapter has represented SGMP in the greater San Diego area since its founding in December 1992. As the Southern California chapter, monthly meetings each year will now be held at locati...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6910/government-meetings-professionals-announce.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/gDz82ysZX7k/make-2012-a-lien.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6816/make-2012-a-lien.html Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:23:39 -0700 At any one time, there are millions of Americans burdened by a tax lien. Really. If you’re one of them, there are a lot of opportunists who will pray upon your tax angst for their own benefit. Be afraid; of the IRS and these folks. The too-good-to-be-true deal promises that are often made are in fact rip offs that will not deliver any tax relief and only further endanger your finances. But, there is one good apple amongst the IRS resolution bunch – a free, online solution, www.IRSExpress...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6816/make-2012-a-lien.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/j1zVjN3AS44/michael-seiden-joins-pircher.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6500/michael-seiden-joins-pircher.html Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:23:39 -0700 Michael Seiden has joined the national real estate law firm Pircher, Nichols Meeks in its Los Angeles office. Seiden is an addition to Pircher’s real estate department.Prior to joining Pircher, Nichols Meeks, Seiden worked as a research assistant to Professors Dan Bussel and Ken Klee where he researched issues in bankruptcy law. Additionally, he was a summer associate with Gibson Dunn Crutcher where he worked on employment, insurance and intellectual property matters, and a law clerk at Sul...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6500/michael-seiden-joins-pircher.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/vVUwGov8qf0/make-me-famous-ent.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6495/make-me-famous-ent.html Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:23:39 -0700 With a passion for making music and an emerging desire to be the next Katy Perry, Adele, Lil Wayne, or even the next Drake, artists are flocking to a new Web site that allows them to collaborate with other songwriters, producers, directors, and managers.Before Make Me Famous launched, artists had minimal to no resources when it came to making music. At best, they would sing a capella or re-use the instrumental beat from an old track, making it very difficult to create original music.And let’s ...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6495/make-me-famous-ent.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/7kgiLGrstfY/the-woman-behind-the.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6488/the-woman-behind-the.html Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:23:39 -0700 On a prominent corner of Canon Drive stands one of the most impressive properties in all of Beverly Hills, a gleaming white complex that serves as the world headquarters of Dr. Zein Obagi, the centerpiece of his dermatological and cosmetic empire.Samar Obagi is the guiding organizational force behind the empire that now includes international distribution of the new ZO line of dermatological products and managing the extensive research and ongoing seminars that have carried the Obagi name to the...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6488/the-woman-behind-the.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/asrc9aBiTpE/2011-casden-industrial-and.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6385/2011-casden-industrial-and.html Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:23:39 -0700 The University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate’s (http://www.usc.edu/lusk) annual analysis of industrial and office real estate in Los Angeles County, Orange County and the Inland Empire shows signs of a slow market recovery.The 10th Annual Casden Southern California Industrial and Office Forecast finds that all three areas experienced job growth and increased demand for both property types in 2011. An analysis of each area’s submarkets found lower vacancy rates in 11 of 1...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6385/2011-casden-industrial-and.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/9Er_ebvHEW4/neimark-broadens-the-phelps.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6378/neimark-broadens-the-phelps.html Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:23:39 -0700 The Phelps Group (www.thephelpsgroup.com), a leading integrated marketing communications (IMC) agency, has expanded its marketing strategy expertise with the addition of Brian Neimark as team leader. Neimark comes to The Phelps Group, having served as managing director for a globally recognized precious metals dealer and financial education company. He managed the organization’s online and offline marketing, increasing market share by more than 200 percent and revenue by 70 percent. Neimark s...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6378/neimark-broadens-the-phelps.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/3IgSHI9ei8I/hurry-pet-vendors-woofstock.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6311/hurry-pet-vendors-woofstock.html Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:23:39 -0700 The City of Beverly Hills Community Services Department is currently seeking pet-related product and service vendors for its 4th annual, WOOFSTOCK 90210 pet event, that will be held on Sunday, March 11, 2012 in the heart of Beverly Hills, Roxbury Park’s “Wiggly Field,” 11:00am 4:00pm.The event will feature contests, activities, and entertainment for dogs and their owners, music, food, 40+ pet-related vendors and cat and dog adoptions. Last year’s inaugural event attracted over 3,000 bi-...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6311/hurry-pet-vendors-woofstock.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-WestsideToday/~3/6MBqzZOuukM/hga-designed-student-center.html http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6314/hga-designed-student-center.html Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:23:39 -0700 The HGA Architects Engineers-designed Student Services Center at Monterey Peninsula College in the Northern California town has officially opened, showcasing the architectural firm’s ability to create a sustainable, flexible facility that can be re-purposed for the future.HGA provided full architectural service for the project, which is designed to meet LEED® certification guidelines and also successfully centralizes several diverse programs that were previously scattered across the college�...http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-6314/hga-designed-student-center.html