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To avoid conflicts among Ukrainian and Russian Jews from the former Soviet Union, organizers of this year's Victory Day commemoration in West Hollywood have scrapped the annual parade — and the microphones.

Immigrants from the former Soviet bloc were never a monolith, but they bonded over shared language and history. Now, they are shifting away from being seen as one group.

‘I don’t want to be called Russian anymore’: Anxious Soviet diaspora rethinks identity

LASD sheriffs responded to reports of a shooting where they found the victim suffering from at least one gunshot wound. The woman was taken to a hospital, where she later died.

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Canyon News WEST HOLLYWOOD—The city of West Hollywood launched its “Dockless Mobility” pilot program on Thursday, July 1, with e-scooters and e-bikes from Bird, Lime, and Wheels. The pilot program launch ceremony is expected to take place in August 2021. The city will permit the use and operation of e-scooters and e-bikes starting July 1, where Lime and Bird will operate e-scooters; Wheels will operate Class-2 throttle assist e-bikes. According to a news release from the city of West H...

Moonlight (2016), debuts on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, May 14. The 10-episode show, based on Colson Whiteheads Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, follows Cora Randall as she tries to escape the antebellum South. She finds an actual railroad — and not just a metaphorical one — for her journey north. Cora is being hunted by Arnold Ridgeway, who is determined to bring her back to Georgia because her mother is the only escapee he has never caught. The series stars Thuso Mbedu, Chase W. Dillon and...

Print The Skirball Cultural Center partially reopens this weekend with “Ai Weiwei: Trace,” the artist’s portraits of imprisoned dissidents and free-speech advocates, all crafted with Lego bricks. It’s a smaller version of Ai’s installation for his unprecedented 2014 exhibition on Alcatraz, which Times critic Christopher Knight called “an always-poignant, often-powerful meditation on soul-deadening repressions of human thought and feeling.” The Skirball show leads our weekend list...

Canyon News WEST HOLLYWOOD—The city of West Hollywood is asking residents, businesses, and stakeholders to provide public input as the city works to prioritize the remaining recommendations of the Eastside Community Priorities Plan. Adopted by the City Council in October 2017, the plan identified and prioritized improvements to be implemented in the Eastside neighborhood of the City (east of N. Hayworth Avenue) during the next few years. According to a news release from the city of West Ho...

Fighting back with hugs By Soumya Karlamangla - Los Angeles Times Jessica Holzer, 35, of West Hollywood, hugs friend Madeline Brozen, 35, of Los Angeles, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, at Plummer Park on April 11 in Los Angeles, CA. Brandon Carpenter, sitting left, is Holzer’s fiance. People are looking forward to hugging family and friends once they have their COVID-19 vaccine. LOS ANGELES – Ruth Alcantara stepped closer to her grandmother. Then closer, and closer still. ...