The OPEN Daily : Health & Fitness
Palisadian Scales 27 Stories For Lung Health
May 17, 2012 at 5:36 am
pacificpalisades.patch.com
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Palisadian Amy Katch has done something that perhaps only those with "spidey sense" might try to accomplish over the weekend. Katch rappelled 27 stories down theWit Hotel at the corner of State and Lake Street in Chicago during the May 5-6 weekend. No, Katch wasn't out to nab the bad guys by swinging from building [...]
California Bike Race Visits Hollywood May 20
May 14, 2012 at 11:30 pm
hollywood.patch.com
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Cycling fans will have an up-close look for three days this weekend when the Amgen Tour of California bike race winds through the mountains of Los Angeles County and finishes Sunday on the streets of Beverly Hills, Hollywood and downtown L.A. Motorists should be braced for brief road closures on Sunday. Events at Sunday's finish line, at L.A. Live, are slated to wrap up by 1 p.m.
Cyclist Pedals Down Middle Lane Of 101 Freeway
May 12, 2012 at 8:25 pm
laist.com
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Who among us hasn't wondered if it might be faster to walk or bike on the 101 South at that stretch just before it hits downtown? We obtained a photo of someone who decided to give it a shot near the Silver Lake Blvd. exit.
New Basketball Camp Coming to Playa del Rey
May 11, 2012 at 9:00 am
marinadelrey.patch.com
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Nike Basketball Camps is expanding its program to St. Bernard High School in Playa del Rey this summer. Two summer sessions taught by coach Ed Azzam and Reggie Morris will be offered for boys and girls. Each player will be placed on a team consisting of no more than 10 players. Azzam is the head basketball coach [...]
Google Gym? Search Engine Giant Buys Bodybuilding Landmark in Venice Beach
May 8, 2012 at 11:44 pm
www.yovenice.com
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The worst-kept secret at Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach is that the gym is closing its doors for good when its lease expires on June 30, 2014. With its 45 years of history, this Los Angeles landmark was once the second most popular tourist attraction in the LA area after Disneyland. But according to former Gold’s Gym Venice owner Ed Connors, Google has bought the building and the surrounding real estate, with grand designs on walling off the streets and creating a SoCal campus to rival its Mountain View ‘university’.
Culver City Stairs Encourage Appetite for Local Food, Fitness and Nature
April 28, 2012 at 10:42 pm
www.examiner.com
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Come rediscover your inner self and encourage a voracious appetite on one of the most invigorating urban hikes in Los Angeles. Baldwin Hills Park is home of the “Culver City Stairs”. You will feel like you...
Santa Monica Bike Center named a Silver Award Level Bicycle Friendly Business
April 24, 2012 at 7:10 pm
www.smmirror.com
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The League of American Bicyclists has recognized Santa Monica Bike Center as a Silver Bicycle Friendly Business (BFB). With the announcement of 67 new BFBs today, Santa Monica Bike Center joins a visionary group of more than 400 local businesses, government agencies and Fortune 500 companies across the United States that are transforming the American [...]
Bike Nation to bring bike sharing to Westwood
April 22, 2012 at 8:58 pm
www.environment.ucla.edu
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The bike-share company Bike Nation recently announced plans to distribute 4,000 bikes across four communities in Los Angeles, including bringing hundreds of those bikes to Westwood and UCLA by mid-2013.
Tadasana Festival shakes up Santa Monica
April 21, 2012 at 7:46 pm
www.examiner.com
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Bells ring out across the lands, the colors raise and are flown. People travel from near and far, called on a pilgrimage a voice felt from somewhere they might not even know.A festival, a festival is upon us. Dearest...
Santa Monica Opening Bike Campus On Earth Day Sunday
April 20, 2012 at 7:11 pm
la.streetsblog.org
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The city of Santa Monica is hosting a grand opening opening of what is being called the Santa Monica Bike Campus this Sunday as part of April 22nd Earth Day activities. This bike campus facility is on a linear strip of what was no longer actively used roadway connecting to parking lots just east of [...]
Bike Share Eyes Venice Launch in Early 2013
April 19, 2012 at 9:11 pm
billrosendahl.wordpress.com
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A spokesman for Bike Nation says Venetians can expect to see approximately 40-50 bike share kiosks around the community by March of 2013. Over the weekend, news broke that a private bike share company made an agreement with the City of Los Angeles to operate kiosks in several communities – Venice being one of the locations. [...]
Help Shoot the Westside Transit Race
April 17, 2012 at 10:30 pm
la.streetsblog.org
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In New York, there’s a tradition to do yearly transit races where a cyclist, a bus and a transit rider race from a common starting point to jobs in Manhattan. Streetfilms captured several of those races on films one of the more dramatic ones is above. Now it’s our turn. Next Wednesday, eight days from [...]
