LA Teams Waylaid By COVID + Riverboat Sinks + LA Holiday Dining

Paige Austin
·5 min read

Happy Thursday, people of Los Angeles! Here's everything you need to know about what's happening locallytoday.

First, today's weather:

Some sun, then clouds; cool. High: 55 Low: 45.

Here are the top stories today in Los Angeles:

  1. Rams, Lakers And Bruins Deal With COVID Outbreaks (Los Angeles Patch)

  2. COVID Hospitalizations Surge Across Los Angeles County (Los Angeles Patch)

  3. LAPD Beefs Up Patrols With District Funds Amid Rash Of Robberies (Los Angeles Patch)

  4. L.A. Christmas Dining Deals & Restaurant To-Go Specials 2021 (Los Angeles Patch)

  5. 11 art exhibitions in Los Angeles to look forward to in 2022 (Time Out New York Kids)

  6. Storied Hotel Cecil Reopens As Affordable Housing (Los Angeles Patch)

  7. Things to do New Year's Eve in L.A., O.C. (Los Angeles Times)

  8. Flooding, Mud Slides, Destruction: 11 Photos of California Storms (Los Angeles Patch)

  9. Proposed tax would fund L.A. homeless housing (Los Angeles Times)

  10. OJ Simpson A 'Completely Free Man'; Parole Ends (Associated Press)

  11. Riverboat Sinks Off Long Beach Coast (CBS Los Angeles)


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Today in Los Angeles:

  • Storytime in the Garden - Miraleste Library (10:15 AM)

  • Facebook Live Broadcast with Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) (11:00 AM)

  • "Reconnect For The Holidays" With Your GMMCC Friends (11:30 AM)

  • LIB: Secret Santa (Sheri Wiley/Tarzana Hospital) (12:00 PM)

  • Library- ASE Staff Luncheon - Cesar E. Chavez Learning Academies-Social Justice Humanitas Academy (12:00 PM)

  • 2022-23 Public Lotteries (Events) - Alliance Marine - Innovation and Technology 6-12 Complex (2:00 PM)

From my notebook:

  • Discover Los Angeles: "#TagToWin: $1,000 Holiday Shopping Spree Giveaway! 🎁 Tag a friend in the comment section below and follow @discoverLA and @WestfieldCenturyCity for a chance to win a $1000 gift card. Stop by for a photo with Santa as you visit your favo..." (Instagram)

  • LA County Museum of Art: "Believe it or not, Hollywood wasn't always the home of cinema."City of Cinema," a new exhibition coming to LACMA in February 2022 will transport visitors to 19th-century Paris to explore the connections of visual culture and technology..." (Instagram)

  • Mayor Eric Garcetti: "Now through March 31, @LAHomelessServices’ Winter Shelter Program is providing unhoused Angelenos with a warm place to sleep, free meals, housing assistance, and other supportive services in temporary emergency shelters." (Instagram)

  • Los Angeles Public Library: "Happy Holidays from Los Angeles Public Library." (Facebook)

  • Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department: "Six cities in the County of Los Angeles have been impacted by a series of armed robberies in recent days. Hard working deputies from several of our patrol stations along with detectives from Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Major ..." (Facebook)

  • Los Angeles County Fire Department: "On behalf of the #LACoFD, we send our deepest condolences to the James family, Fire Chief Terrazas, and the Los Angeles Fire Department family on the passing of Captain I William R. James. Please know you are in our thoughts and prayers...." (Facebook)

  • Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department: "*UPDATE-FOUND* #LASD Advising Missing Person John Antonie Solis has been #found Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Missing Person Unit is advising John Antonie Solis has been found. Thank you to the public, the media, and deputy per..." (Facebook)

  • Los Angeles Conservancy: "Great News!! Earlier today, the Conservancy was delighted to celebrate a historic preservation win! In 2019, Project Restore LA and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs joined forces in restoring Frank Lloyd Wright’s first proj..." (Facebook)

  • Los Angeles County Fire Department: "HELP US MAKE THE HOLIDAYS EVEN BRIGHTER! There’s still time to donate new, unwrapped toys and sports equipment to local children and teens in need! You can drop off donations at your local LACoFD fire station. Remember, your Spark of Lov..." (Facebook)

  • Los Angeles LGBT Center: ""It was hard to find any LGBTQ Christmas movies at all, and the few that did exist usually featured gay men. But finally our queer time under the mistletoe has come! 📺 🎄 ☃️" (Facebook)

  • Los Angeles, CA - Lost Dogs, Cats & Pets: "Please spread the word so we can find this pet's family! FOUND on December 15, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA 90011 near Stanford and 24th Description: Red nose pitbull breed that'd white with grey spots Do you have information? Contact finder ..." (Facebook)

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— Paige Austin

About me: Email: paige.austin@patch.comPhone: 714-721-1222Birthday: GeminiI learned how to be a reporter at the Orange County Register before moving to The Press-Enterprise in Riverside. I covered everything from cities, to the national forest, to courts and prisons. I do have some pretty colorful war stories from those beats. So if you see me around town, you tell me your stories, and I'll tell you about the time I met Gov. Schwarzenegger…in prison…while wearing a stab-proof vest. Or I can tell you about the time I watched a Manson girl give a talk on anger management.I joke around. A lot. However, journalism might be the only thing I take seriously. It's a very humbling job. Everyday, people trust you with their voice on topics that matter to them, and you have to try to live up to the responsibility. If I ever fail, I need you to tell me about it, so that I can get it right. It's important.I am insecure enough to tell you about some of the journalism awards I have won – the Associated Press Award for investigative reporting, California Newspapers Publishers Association awards for investigative reporting and best special section, the Price Child Health and Welfare Journalism award from the Children's Advocacy Institute as well as Society of Professional Journalists awards for best enterprise stories, beat reporting, feature writing, and best environmental story. I think I tried to collect awards in an effort to intimidate editors into letting me chase the kinds of stories I want to do. It doesn't really work.Working for Patch.com, my office consists of the cities I cover, Starbucks, and my house where my co-workers include a lovely gent named D'Wayne and two pugs – Monkey and Maggie. If we ever talk on the phone, it's Maggie you might hear faintly snoring in the background. Sorry, she just can't help it.Your Beliefs At Patch, we promise always to report the facts as objectively as possible and otherwise adhere to the principles of good journalism. However, we also acknowledge that true impartiality is impossible because human beings have beliefs. So in the spirit of simple honesty, our policy is to encourage our editors to reveal their beliefs to the extent they feel comfortable. This disclosure is not a license for you to inject your beliefs into stories or to dictate coverage according to them. In fact, the intent is the opposite: we hope that the knowledge that your beliefs are on the record will cause you to be ever mindful to write, report and edit in a fair, balanced way. And if you ever see evidence that we failed in this mission, please let us know. Politics: pro-environment and equality for all Religion: The unholy trinity of Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut and John Steinbeck

This article originally appeared on the Los Angeles Patch