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The Strategic Planning Committee / Southeast Task Force took up the issue of urban design at its most recent meeting this week in the effort to revitalize the southeast portion of Beverly Hills. While the series of monthly meetings on just how to enliven the

With the recent announcement that the 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine would be awarded jointly to professors William G. Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability, the total number of

For a decade now, Mayor John Mirisch, now in his third term as mayor, has been thick in local politics. Originally elected to the Beverly Hills City Council in 2009, a hallmark of Mirisch's tenure has been his commitment to maintaining the city's small town

With just 35,000 residents in Beverly Hills, the chance for one person to make an impact on the city is extraordinary. Residents who want to get involved in local governance have a meaningful opportunity to do so by joining one of 12 city commissions that

In this hyper competitive era, youngsters need all the help they can get in order to excel academically. However, for youth in struggling families, even getting something as commonplace as breakfast can be a challenge.  "If you didn't have breakfast this morning, how can you be

The Jewish High Holidays, which began this week with Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) and will conclude with Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) on Wednesday, ask us to take stock of what is going on in our lives and to reflect over this

With age comes the ever-growing risk that you or someone you love will develop a neurodegenerative disease such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's – diseases that strip away one's dignity.  On Tuesdays at Roxbury Park, the "Beverly Hills Treble Makers" perform from 1:30-3 p.m. as an offshoot

The Beverly Hills artSHOW returns to the city for the 46th year in a row. Taking place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 19 and 20, at Beverly Gardens Park, the upcoming art fair will feature some 250 artists, including

In the coming decade the City of Beverly Hills will be required to build hundreds of new housing units as mandated by State Housing Law.  While the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) has yet to determine just how many new units Beverly Hills must build

The World Health Organization estimates that by the year 2025, half of the world's population will be living in water-stressed areas. And in fact, when Beverly Hills helped co-found the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) almost a century ago – from which the city now derives