CoCo Fresh Tea and Juice, a boba shop brand with locations across Southern California, held its Westwood soft opening Wednesday, creating lines of thirsty customers out the door. Read more...
Photo: Neil Deramchi, a second year biochemistry student enjoys a drink at newly opened Coco Fresh Tea.
The Westwood Community Council meets several times a year to discuss issues relevant to the Westwood Village business and residential community. A spokesman for Senator Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) said Lieu is negotiating with Robert McDonald, secretary for Veteran Affairs, about issues regarding the VA West Los Angeles Medical Center campus. Read more...
The Westwood Neighborhood Council approved a possible design Wednesday for a new fraternity house on Gayley Avenue, the latest step in the multiple-year project to develop the empty lot. Read more...
Photo: A possible design of a new fraternity house on Gayley Avenue passed through the Westwood Neighborhood Council Wednesday with a 13-0-2 vote. The project is expected to cost about $6 million. (Westwood Neighborhood Council)
The UCLA chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha stopped operating as an official campus fraternity Wednesday because of financial problems. The fraternity internally decided to pull its charter because it could not pay off its debts of between $10,000 and $25,000 to the national Pi Kappa Alpha organization, said Matthew Li, president of the chapter and a third-year geology/engineering geology student. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha, at 555 Gayley, rescinded its charter Wednesday. (Kelsey Kong/Daily Bruin)
Kelton Avenue is empty and quiet at 8 a.m. on a Friday morning. But in Westwood, this is one of the busiest times for city parking enforcement. Read more...
Photo: A truck makes its way through North Village as street sweeping continues, causing many students to either move their cars or face parking violations. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)
In recent months, business owners have spent millions of dollars making changes to their stores in Westwood, from renovating California Pizza Kitchen to building a new UPS Store to moving the apparel store 901Westwood.com to a larger space. Read more...
Photo: The new space for 901Westwood.com, a UCLA apparel and accessory store at the intersection of Westwood Boulevard and Kinross Avenue, is twice as big and has a larger selection of blue and gold merchandise for UCLA students. (Heidy Cadena/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Instead of showing IDs or digging through pockets for quarters, students and commuters will soon be able to board the Santa Monica Big Blue Bus by using Transit Access Pass, or TAP, cards. Read more...
Photo: The Big Blue Bus line that runs to Santa Monica will be the first to adopt the TAP card system, allowing passengers to pay for their ride without cash. (Daily Bruin file photo)
