Jefferson's Blog

The following is a reprint of my column that appeared in Frontiers In L.A. magazine on June 3rd, 2010. Anyone who hasn't been living under a rock for the past two years knows that the real estate market is down by 20-40% depending on area, and that this is the time for those who have been sitting...

A few items of follow up on some recent postings from this blog.... - I posted a couple of weeks ago a story the LA Times ran about parking meters in LA, specifically what the city claims are it's rules regarding broken and/or dead meters.  Sunday was yet another parking meter related piece in t...

....does that mean I can't park at it?  This is something I imagine everyone is this city has experienced.  In the last week, probably.  If the meter's broken, I just park there.  Once in a while, I'll call the number on the meter and report it broken IF I have time (and that's big if).  When I ...

Although she SEEMS not to know it yet based on her asking price, actress Mischa Barton is the latest Hollywood starlet poised to lose a boatload of money on her mansion - IF it sells.  Purchased in 2005 for $6,400,000, the home is now on the market for $8,395,000.  I'm quite certain that that nu...

Last month I wrote about several major developments going up in and around West Hollywood.  One thing I'd left out and meant to get back to but hadn't yet, was the House Of Blues site on Sunset Blvd.  Well I may as well cover it now, as Curbed LA is reporting that the West Hollywood Planning Com...

Though it seems a bit soon, I guess that financially it makes complete sense that the mother and husband of the late Brittany Murphy have listed her Sunset Plaza house today.  I don't know how anyone is going to get past the fact that she died in the master shower just 2 1/2 short months ago.  M...

- The city of LA is cracking the eff DOWN on this whole supergraphics issue.  An 8 story "How To Train Your Dragon" wrap ad on an office building at Hollywood and Highland has landed 49 year old Kayvan Setareh in jail on ONE MILLION DOLLARS bond.  The ad had gone up just days after Los Angeles Ci...

Hidden Los Angeles has discovered on YouTube an original documentary narrated by James Fitzpatrick from his "James Fitzpatrick Traveltalks" series  of documentaries that were produced by MGM from 1930 to 1954 and ran in movie theaters before the main feature.  This particular one was produced in ...

I just discovered that American Idol judge Kara Dioguardi's Hollywood Hills home is on the market for the recently reduced price of $1,649,000.  The classic Spanish home is 3br, 3 1/2 baths in 2,736 sqft and sits on a relatively small 4,790 sqft lot.  It's a very private estate, perfect for cele...

I'm so glad you asked! I'm going to tell you.  For those who don't follow this type of stuff closely, a lot of this will be news to you.  Others, not so much.  It's not new news per se, but I find that the more people I tell about it, the less it actually seems to be known.  So here we go. First...