Everything Glendale

Filed Under: Celebrities, City Politics, News, Paul Krekorian, The Americana

We haven't done a news roundup for a couple of weeks now, so there's a lot to catch up on. Here's some noteworthy items that you may have missed:

• That roar you may have been hearing at night isn't in your dreams. The Glendale Police Department has issued a warning to residents to be on the lookout for a mountain lion that's been roaming the Verdugo Mountains.

• While Westfield is cutting the hours of its shopping centers across the country, The Americana at Brand will defy economic forecasts by keeping its normal hours.

• Our friendly neighborhood Assemblymember Paul Krekorian authored tax-credit legislation that aims to lure production on films and TV shows back to California.

• Time published a cool obituary of Glendale resident and punk rocker, Lux Interior, frontman of the Cramps.


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Filed Under: Airports, Celebrities, Glendale News-Press, Motley Crue, News, Tommy Lee

• A near-miss with a police helicopter in Glendale got Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee and his chopper pilot busted.

• The neighborhoods around the Bob Hope Airport may get a whole lot quieter because the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority is seeking to ban cargo carriers, airlines, and private planes between 10:00 p.m. and 6:59 a.m.

• The editor of the Glendale News-Press is packing it up and moving to Boston.


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Filed Under: Celebrities, Education, Miley Cyrus, News, Nicollette Sheridan, Shia LaBeouf, The Americana

• Did you know there's a firearms dealer in Glendale that converts old weapons into props for major motion pictures? Cinema Weaponry just made a deal to take the Santa Barbara SWAT team's old firearms in exchange for new ones.

• If the economic stimulus package that just passed the House of Representatives last week is finalized, the Burbank and Glendale unified school districts will receive a combined boost of $33 million over two years.

• Okay, so the reason why Shia LaBeouf seems to be always be "news" in Glendale is because almost every day he walks to his neighborhood liquor store to pick up an Arizona Iced Tea, like last Monday and last Tuesday. But let's give Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday a Shia LaBeouf break and point out that...

• Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana) was mobbed by screaming fans at The Americana at Brand and...

• Nicollette Sheridan was photographed on the set of Desperate Housewives in Glendale.


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Filed Under: Celebrities, Forest Lawn Cemetery, News, Shia LaBeouf, Tacori Enterprises

Here's a round-up of intriguing Glendale news stories from this past week:

• What a difference a day makes! Immigration officials who denied a Glendale-based Armenian man an application for political asylum—because he was supposedly a day late in filing—have been forced to recount.

• Glendale-based jewelers, Tacori Enterprises, won a $650,000 copyright infringement suit against an Ohio jewelry manufacturer.

• Unemployment continues to hit the San Gabriel Valley, including Forest Lawn in Glendale.

• Parents are rescued in Glendale after their kid threw a teddy bear down a hillside.

• And, finally, what Glendale news round-up would be complete without a few items about Shia LaBeouf? (Look, if more celebrities lived here, we wouldn't be so limited in our celebrity reporting.) On Wednesday, he was caught looking a bit sad on a friend's porch in Glendale. Later that day, he was seen dashing home and petting a dog. And on Thursday, he walked around with a bag over his head. Seriously.


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Filed Under: Celebrities, Joel Madden, News, Nicole Richie

Joel Madden, lead singer of Good Charlotte, has been a longtime resident of Glendale, but the blogosphere reports that his girlfriend, Nicole Richie, has convinced him to pack up and move to a Spanish Villa in the Hollywood Hills (with baby in tow).

C'mon, Joel, surely you're getting a better deal here in Glendale than the reported $6,500 per month you're forking over to lease your new home at Outpost Estates. And won't you miss The Americana?! Wont' you?!


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Filed Under: Celebrities, News, Shia LaBeouf

As long as Shia LaBeouf keeps living in Glendale, this blog will always have fodder. A couple weeks ago, the paparazzi snapped shots of the actor ambling home from a liquor store. This week—are you ready for this?!—Shia LaBeouf...gets into his car!

Yes, dear readers, it's a slow news day.

More Shia LaBeouf-in-Glendale pics here.


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Filed Under: Celebrities, News, Shia LaBeouf

Since Shia LaBeouf lives in Glendale (do any of you celebrity stalkers know where?), I'm actually surprised we don't see more paparazzi pictures of him at Zankou Chicken or Michael's or anywhere else, really, around town.

Well, alas, the star of Transformers, Eagle Eye, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (say that five times fast) was spotted on Wednesday, according to Gossip Girls, walking home from an unnamed liquor store and drinking Arizona Iced Tea.

I would stop posting about these celebrity sightings, but I know how much you love them.

More Shia LaBeouf-in-Glendale pics here.


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Filed Under: Celebrities, News, Shopping, Vanessa Anne Hudgens

Even though High School Musical's Vanessa Anne Hudgens looked all shopped out last week, she returned to Glendale on Monday to go mattress shopping. Zac Efron was once again nowhere to be seen. Doesn't he get a say as to the firmness and bounce factor of her new bed?

All the reports I checked about this celebrity sighting (which did not indicate whether or not she jumped up and down on beds like I would) did not identify the mattress store. Click the picture to enlarge, and see if you can identify the shop. I don't know. Is it one of those mattress stores on Central? Does anybody have the slightest clue?

For more Vanessa Anne Hudgens mattress-shopping pics, go here.


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Filed Under: Celebrities, Downtown Glendale, Kitson, News, Shopping, The Americana, Vanessa Anne Hudgens

What the hell is going on this month at The Americana that's drawing the Hollywood elite? Not allowing Britney Spears to hog up the Celebrities-Shopping-in-Glendale spotlight, High School Musical's Vanessa Anne Hudgens was also spotted at Kitson yesterday, looking, shall we say, a little underwhelmed. Maybe she didn't stay around for the fabulous fountain show? That would've put a smile on her face! (Or is she already jaded at 19?)

I have never been in Kitson. I don't know what it is. I don't even know where at The Americana it's located. But if Hollywood keeps this up (and perhaps sends a smiling Zac Efron to shop and pose), I might have to investigate further.

The Americana at Brand
889 Americana Way
Glendale, CA 91210
818.637.8982
www.americanaatbrand.com

[Source: Just Jared Jr.]


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Filed Under: Britney Spears, Celebrities, Downtown Glendale, Food, Kitson, News, Shopping, The Americana

We don't typically get many celebrity sightings this far east of Hollywood, but The Americana at Brand is enough of a glittery paradise to draw the likes of Britney Spears, perhaps the mother of paparazzi bait. She was seen buying some toys and pajamas for her boys and jeans for herself at Kitson last week. Earlier that day, surrounded by security, she ate at Katsuya, a Japanese restaurant. No news on her chopstick-wielding abilities. (Why don't journalists observe the things I want to know?)

And that's about as Hollywood as this blog is going to get. Unless Britney Spears returns to Glendale. And shops at Ross. And eats at Panda Express. Now that I'd like to see—her digging into a big plate of orange chicken. While admiring her marked-down skirt.

The Americana at Brand
889 Americana Way
Glendale, CA 91210
818.637.8982
www.americanaatbrand.com

[Sources: E! Online and People.]


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