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San Fernando Valley roundup: Whole Foods HQ set to move into Glendale, Voters in Valley supported law requiring condoms in adult films
Good morning, readers. Today is Friday, November 9. Whole Foods is moving its regional headquarters to Glendale. More than 140 employees will move in, reports the Glendale News-Press. The porn industry is ready to fight L.A. County on a new law...
Tags: Whole Foods Market, Google+, Career and Workplace, Entertainment, Labor Legislation
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Rich Moore's 'Wreck-It Ralph' is an homage to blocky video games
When animation director Rich Moore was growing up in Oxnard, he spent so much time in video arcades that his parents worried that their young son was wasting his time. “They would always tell me that I should be concentrating on the real world,&...
Tags: Pixar Animation, Gaming, Animation (genre), Entertainment, Wall-E (movie)
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Disney announces plans to acquire Lucasfilm, release 'Star Wars Episode 7' in 2015
The Walt Disney Co. will acquire Lucasfilm Ltd. in a stock and cash transaction valued at $4.05 billion, according to an announcement released Tuesday. The deal will make George Lucas -- who became a movie-making icon with his “Indiana Jones”...
Tags: George Lucas, The Walt Disney Co., Google+, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Robert A. Iger
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Firefighters get a primer on movie pyrotechnics in Burbank
Five soldiers dressed in camouflage and carrying machine guns took cover behind a stack of wooden pallets. One yelled “incoming” and a few seconds later a large explosion ignited behind them, setting off a ball of flame rising 30 feet high....
Tags: Richard Verrier, Entertainment, Los Angeles Times
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Burb's Eye View: Making their own arts community
It’s like the beginning of every joke you ever heard: A woodworker, two filmmakers and some painters are at a coffee shop. The filmmakers say, “Hey, there are enough of us here that we could really do something great if we combine our talents....Tags: Entertainment
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San Fernando Valley roundup: Woodbury University inaugurates new president, SFV filmmaker gains national attention
Good morning, readers. Today is Monday, October 22. Woodbury University in Burbank is now under new leadership. Luis Calingo was officially installed as president of the university during an inauguration ceremony Saturday. Calingo replaces Kenneth...
Tags: Christianity, American Airlines, Inc., Bob Hope, Entertainment, Religion and Belief
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Realty office coordinates Thank a Soldier day
Employees of Keller Williams Realty offices in Burbank, Glendale and La Cañada Flintridge are enlisting in an effort to send donations to military personnel serving our country abroad. The public is asked to bring donations such as personal-care items...
Tags: Jan Perry, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Boy Scouts of America, Lifestyle and Leisure, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Tim Burton reanimates his past in 'Frankenweenie'
When Tim Burton was an eager young animator and filmmaker working at Disney Studios in the early 1980s, he made an inventive live-action short film inspired by his childhood in Burbank and the love of a family dog. That 1984 short, “Frankenweenie,&...
Tags: Pixar Animation, Animation (genre), John Lasseter, The Nightmare Before Christmas (movie), Martin Short
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L.A. Planning Commission gives OK to NBCUniversal expansion
The Los Angeles City Planning Commission recommended Thursday that NBCUniversal be allowed to move to the next stage of approval for a long-planned expansion at its San Fernando Valley site, after the company agreed to fund a bikeway and make other...
Tags: NBC (tv network), Ann M. Simmons, Entertainment, NBCUniversal, Los Angeles Times
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DVD review: 'End of the Road' weirder, more abstract than the book
John Barth surely ranks among the least screen-adaptable modern (or, perhaps, postmodern) American novelists. His stories are about themselves; the words, their own subject. It's not surprising that only one of his books has made it to the big screen....
Tags: James Earl Jones, Harris Yulin, DVDs, Stacy Keach, Michael Winterbottom
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DVD review: 'Quadrophenia' gets remixed
The Who released their “Quadrophenia” double album in 1973; six years later, they collaborated with director Franc Roddam (“The Bride,” “The Lords of Discipline”) on a film version — now newly restored and being...
Tags: Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, Sting, Phil Daniels, Entertainment
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Burbank students drawn to Cartoon Network mentor program
More than 150 seventh- and eighth-grade students at Jordan Middle School were given a new task this week: to write and draw a three-minute animated cartoon. A panel of teachers and parents will select the best entry this spring and Cartoon Network will...Tags: Animation (genre), Shrek (fictional character), Entertainment, Cartoon Network (tv network)
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