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Plummer Park’s new dog park opens Friday, October 9. Finally. The City sent word Thursday that the small- and large-dog areas will be open daily from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

The new off-leash area is on the Vista Street side of the park, just west of the tennis and pickleball courts. Plummer Park’s address is 7377 Santa Monica Boulevard, but if you’re walking over from the neighborhood, Vista is where you’ll find it.

So what do you and the pups get? Separate fenced areas for small and large dogs, with double gates so you can get the leash on or off before letting your dog through. Both sides have drinking fountains for dogs and people, places to sit, shade sails and waste stations. There’s lighting along the fence, too, since the park will stay open until 10 p.m. And the old ramp from Vista Street to the tennis courts has been replaced with an accessible walkway.

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Keegan Allen says he was robbed at gunpoint and knifepoint in West Hollywood on Thursday evening after two masked men struck him in the head and stole his Rolex watch outside Laurel Supply market.

The robbery was reported shortly after police received a 911 call about a victim being assaulted with a gun and robbed of a Rolex. The suspects, described in sheriff’s radio communications as two Black male adults, fled north on Olive Drive in an unknown vehicle.

Allen, known for his role as Toby Cavanaugh on the television series “Pretty Little Liars,” shared a video on Instagram showing his face covered in blood following the attack.

“West Hollywood is not safe anymore,” Allen wrote in the post. “Robbed at gunpoint and knifepoint by two young men that threatened to KILL me over my watch and would have! God said no tonight. My life for a watch.”

In the Instagram reel, Allen described being confronted by two masked men, one armed with a gun and the other with a knife. He also shared surveillance footage that appeared to show the suspects pointing their weapons at him and striking him in the head three times before fleeing with his watch.

“I was just robbed of my watch outside of Laurel Supply,” Allen said in the video. “These two dudes hit me in the head, pointing a gun at me with a knife, and then took off. They had masks on. Took my watch though.”

Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the scene at 8445 Santa Monica Boulevard, with multiple units responding to the reported armed robbery.

The incident comes amid a series of reported robberies in the West Hollywood area over the past month, including a robbery involving a shooting on Oct. 1. (Credit: WeHo Times)

Clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPcCuKni-VQ

On June 16, 2024, PhD student Nicole Virzi had sat in an interview room at Pittsburgh police headquarters for more than 12 hours when her account of the previous evening she'd spent babysitting her best friend's newborn twins dramatically changed.

Having steadfastly denied ever doing anything to harm the six-week-old babies, Leon and Ari Katz, insisting she didn't know how Leon could have sustained multiple and fatal skull fractures while his parents took his brother to hospital with mysterious injuries, she abruptly asked if she could speak to the lead investigator one more time - according to prosecutors.

As Detective Janine Triolo sat down opposite the clinical psychology student, then aged 29, and evening set in, Virzi told her in a conversation recorded by police: 'Um, I'm going to tell you the truth. The biggest part of that truth is that I did not want him to die. That was not my goal. I just wanted him to feel a little pain.'

At times sounding nervous but at others remarkably calm, the sweet-faced Californian went on: 'From a very, very young age, I don't know what it is, but I always had this urge - almost like a compulsion I can't control - to hurt kids.'

The demise of little Leon came about when, just weeks away from receiving her doctorate in behavioral medicine from the University of California at San Diego, Virzi took a short vacation to fly across the country to visit her close friend and her young family at their home in the affluent Pittsburgh neighborhood of Shadyside.

However, instead of spending time with the boys' mother, Savannah Roberts, she 'kind of grew angry because I was being put to nanny work', she told the investigators in the video-recorded statement, which prosecutors played in court at a hearing last November.

'So, when I was alone with (Leon) I shook him a couple times - hard. And I dropped him a couple times - hard.'

Virzi said she 'heard some kind of crack' and also turned the infant upside down on the bathroom tile floor.

She also told detectives in the video-recorded statement: 'Something just came over me I couldn't control. I'm telling you this because I can't keep lying about it.'

That same day, she was charged with criminal homicide, aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of children – offenses that relate not only to the death of Leon but the injuries she allegedly inflicted on his twin brother. Denied bail, she has remained in jail ever since she was charged. She has pled not guilty to all of the offenses.

If she doesn't change her not-guilty plea on October 1 Virzi will go on trial on charges for which prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

Nobody has been executed in Pennsylvania since 1999 and the current Democrat governor, Josh Shapiro, refuses to sign death warrants but the District Attorney's office said it felt justified in still demanding capital punishment for Virzi given the circumstances of her alleged crimes.

There had been aggravating factors in this case, said prosecutors, which included the victim's young age and evidence that he had been tortured.

Inevitably, the video-recorded police interviews with the accused on that day in June two years ago will be crucial in the trial.

Defense lawyers have already tried to suppress them. Virzi now insists she did not kill the baby and her attorneys have claimed she was unconstitutionally coerced into making an 'involuntary' confession after being subjected to an overly-long and oppressive detention. They told the judge 'investigators utilized nearly every trick in the book to manipulate Ms Virzi into making a statement.'

According to Virzi, she was shackled to the floor, refused a phone call and forced to urinate in front of two police escorts.

However, her judge, in Allegheny County's Court of Common Pleas, Jill Rangos, ruled the jury should be shown the evidence and reportedly pointed out that Virzi had met a defense attorney and spoken with her parents before making the statements. 'The vast majority of time she was in that [interview] room, she did not appear to be in any distress,' said the judge at a hearing in February. She ruled that Virzi’s statement was 'knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily made.'

This deeply disturbing story started when Virzi, who had grown up in the affluent New Jersey suburb of Upper Saddle River as the daughter of a successful New York cardiologist, arrived to stay with her friend Roberts and Roberts's husband, Ethan Katz, in mid-June 2024.

The two women had been friends since 2021 when they worked together as research coordinators in the graduate psychology department at Philadelphia's Drexel University.

During Virzi's stay, Roberts repeatedly asked Virzi to watch over her little boys.

According to court papers, Virzi visited their apartment on the afternoon of June 15 and, as Roberts was having a nap, she offered to change Ari's diaper.

She told police she noticed there was blood in the child's nappy and his genitals were swollen, photographing the injuries on her phone and sending the pictures to Ethan Katz. There were also small scratches on his face, which Virzi said he received when he flailed his arms as he was being placed in his car seat. Prosecutors argue that Virzi was responsible for Ari's injuries.

The parents, who denied causing the injuries themselves, said they had never previously seen them on the baby who had never had any medical emergencies. At around 6.30pm that day, they rushed Ari to hospital, leaving Virzi alone in their home with Leon.

She would later tell police that Leon had been in a baby bouncer seat and, having failed to strap him in, she then dozed off.

Virzi claimed that when she woke up, she went into the kitchen to get him a bottle of milk when he suddenly began to scream.

She returned to find the baby lying on the floor with a bump on the left side of his head having fallen out of his chair. She called 911 at around 11.15pm and later rang the Katzes from the hospital.

Leon was pronounced dead a few hours later after suffering what doctors said was blunt force trauma. An autopsy confirmed he had a severe skull fracture and a brain that was bleeding in several places.

According to the criminal complaint against Virzi, a doctor and child abuse specialist later told investigators the injuries to both twins were 'consistent with having been sustained as a result of child abuse, as these are inflicted injuries that are not natural and not accidental.'

At around 6am the following morning, Pittsburgh police arrived at the local Airbnb where Virzi had been staying and, after ascertaining she had no 'plausible explanation' for his wounds, persuaded her to come with them for questioning, according to the criminal complaint. She agreed to hand over her phone and purse but was not arrested or handcuffed.

At police headquarters, detectives said they twice read her Miranda rights to her, saying she had the right to remain silent, but she kept talking.

Detectives told her that Leon's serious injuries were inconsistent with falling from a seat that was only 12 inches off the floor, but for hours she stuck to her story.

Later, say prosecutors, she changed her mind. According to the interview recording, some of which was played at a court hearing a year ago, she also told Detective Janine Triolo: 'I did not want [Leon] to die. That was not my goal. I just wanted him to feel a little pain.'

She went on to say she'd been just three or four when she first felt she wanted to hurt children.

Virzi claimed she was seven when she locked a two-year-old child in a bathroom and pinched her until she cried. When she was in high school, she said she put a hot mug on a baby's arm and pinched the infant.

'This is the first time this happened as an adult,' Virzi said of the alleged attack on the twins. 'There's some weird drive in me that wants to see kids in pain.'

Neither Virzi's family nor the Katz's have commented on the case. The latter have described the accused as a 'trusted family friend' and little Leon as 'a happy, smiley, goofy baby boy.' Like the woman accused of killing her son, Savannah Roberts also went on to become a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology, in her case at the University of Pittsburgh.

Whether Savannah Roberts made a terrible mistake when she was drawn to create what she perhaps hoped would be such a lasting friendship with Virzi is set to be examined in a Pittsburgh courtroom.

Source: Dailymail

On June 16, 2024, PhD student Nicole Virzi had sat in an interview room at Pittsburgh police headquarters for more than 12 hours when her account of the previous evening she'd spent babysitting her best friend's newborn twins dramatically changed.

Having steadfastly denied ever doing anything to harm the six-week-old babies, Leon and Ari Katz, insisting she didn't know how Leon could have sustained multiple and fatal skull fractures while his parents took his brother to hospital with mysterious injuries, she abruptly asked if she could speak to the lead investigator one more time - according to prosecutors.

As Detective Janine Triolo sat down opposite the clinical psychology student, then aged 29, and evening set in, Virzi told her in a conversation recorded by police: 'Um, I'm going to tell you the truth. The biggest part of that truth is that I did not want him to die. That was not my goal. I just wanted him to feel a little pain.'

At times sounding nervous but at others remarkably calm, the sweet-faced Californian went on: 'From a very, very young age, I don't know what it is, but I always had this urge - almost like a compulsion I can't control - to hurt kids.'

The demise of little Leon came about when, just weeks away from receiving her doctorate in behavioral medicine from the University of California at San Diego, Virzi took a short vacation to fly across the country to visit her close friend and her young family at their home in the affluent Pittsburgh neighborhood of Shadyside.

However, instead of spending time with the boys' mother, Savannah Roberts, she 'kind of grew angry because I was being put to nanny work', she told the investigators in the video-recorded statement, which prosecutors played in court at a hearing last November.

'So, when I was alone with (Leon) I shook him a couple times - hard. And I dropped him a couple times - hard.'

Virzi said she 'heard some kind of crack' and also turned the infant upside down on the bathroom tile floor.

She also told detectives in the video-recorded statement: 'Something just came over me I couldn't control. I'm telling you this because I can't keep lying about it.'

That same day, she was charged with criminal homicide, aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of children – offenses that relate not only to the death of Leon but the injuries she allegedly inflicted on his twin brother. Denied bail, she has remained in jail ever since she was charged. She has pled not guilty to all of the offenses.

If she doesn't change her not-guilty plea on October 1 Virzi will go on trial on charges for which prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

Nobody has been executed in Pennsylvania since 1999 and the current Democrat governor, Josh Shapiro, refuses to sign death warrants but the District Attorney's office said it felt justified in still demanding capital punishment for Virzi given the circumstances of her alleged crimes.

There had been aggravating factors in this case, said prosecutors, which included the victim's young age and evidence that he had been tortured.

Inevitably, the video-recorded police interviews with the accused on that day in June two years ago will be crucial in the trial.

Defense lawyers have already tried to suppress them. Virzi now insists she did not kill the baby and her attorneys have claimed she was unconstitutionally coerced into making an 'involuntary' confession after being subjected to an overly-long and oppressive detention. They told the judge 'investigators utilized nearly every trick in the book to manipulate Ms Virzi into making a statement.'

According to Virzi, she was shackled to the floor, refused a phone call and forced to urinate in front of two police escorts.

However, her judge, in Allegheny County's Court of Common Pleas, Jill Rangos, ruled the jury should be shown the evidence and reportedly pointed out that Virzi had met a defense attorney and spoken with her parents before making the statements. 'The vast majority of time she was in that [interview] room, she did not appear to be in any distress,' said the judge at a hearing in February. She ruled that Virzi’s statement was 'knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily made.'

This deeply disturbing story started when Virzi, who had grown up in the affluent New Jersey suburb of Upper Saddle River as the daughter of a successful New York cardiologist, arrived to stay with her friend Roberts and Roberts's husband, Ethan Katz, in mid-June 2024.

The two women had been friends since 2021 when they worked together as research coordinators in the graduate psychology department at Philadelphia's Drexel University.

During Virzi's stay, Roberts repeatedly asked Virzi to watch over her little boys.

According to court papers, Virzi visited their apartment on the afternoon of June 15 and, as Roberts was having a nap, she offered to change Ari's diaper.

She told police she noticed there was blood in the child's nappy and his genitals were swollen, photographing the injuries on her phone and sending the pictures to Ethan Katz. There were also small scratches on his face, which Virzi said he received when he flailed his arms as he was being placed in his car seat. Prosecutors argue that Virzi was responsible for Ari's injuries.

The parents, who denied causing the injuries themselves, said they had never previously seen them on the baby who had never had any medical emergencies. At around 6.30pm that day, they rushed Ari to hospital, leaving Virzi alone in their home with Leon.

She would later tell police that Leon had been in a baby bouncer seat and, having failed to strap him in, she then dozed off.

Virzi claimed that when she woke up, she went into the kitchen to get him a bottle of milk when he suddenly began to scream.

She returned to find the baby lying on the floor with a bump on the left side of his head having fallen out of his chair. She called 911 at around 11.15pm and later rang the Katzes from the hospital.

Leon was pronounced dead a few hours later after suffering what doctors said was blunt force trauma. An autopsy confirmed he had a severe skull fracture and a brain that was bleeding in several places.

According to the criminal complaint against Virzi, a doctor and child abuse specialist later told investigators the injuries to both twins were 'consistent with having been sustained as a result of child abuse, as these are inflicted injuries that are not natural and not accidental.'

At around 6am the following morning, Pittsburgh police arrived at the local Airbnb where Virzi had been staying and, after ascertaining she had no 'plausible explanation' for his wounds, persuaded her to come with them for questioning, according to the criminal complaint. She agreed to hand over her phone and purse but was not arrested or handcuffed.

At police headquarters, detectives said they twice read her Miranda rights to her, saying she had the right to remain silent, but she kept talking.

Detectives told her that Leon's serious injuries were inconsistent with falling from a seat that was only 12 inches off the floor, but for hours she stuck to her story.

Later, say prosecutors, she changed her mind. According to the interview recording, some of which was played at a court hearing a year ago, she also told Detective Janine Triolo: 'I did not want [Leon] to die. That was not my goal. I just wanted him to feel a little pain.'

She went on to say she'd been just three or four when she first felt she wanted to hurt children.

Virzi claimed she was seven when she locked a two-year-old child in a bathroom and pinched her until she cried. When she was in high school, she said she put a hot mug on a baby's arm and pinched the infant.

'This is the first time this happened as an adult,' Virzi said of the alleged attack on the twins. 'There's some weird drive in me that wants to see kids in pain.'

Neither Virzi's family nor the Katz's have commented on the case. The latter have described the accused as a 'trusted family friend' and little Leon as 'a happy, smiley, goofy baby boy.' Like the woman accused of killing her son, Savannah Roberts also went on to become a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology, in her case at the University of Pittsburgh.

Whether Savannah Roberts made a terrible mistake when she was drawn to create what she perhaps hoped would be such a lasting friendship with Virzi is set to be examined in a Pittsburgh courtroom.

Source: dailymail

Nicole Virzi, the 31-year-old daughter of a prominent New York City cardiologist, had just traveled across the country to spend time with her friend and meet her six-week-old twins for the first time in Pittsburgh two years ago.

But an enraged Virzi, who was just weeks away from getting her PhD in clinical psychology at UC-San Diego, wound up allegedly killing little Leon Katz and maiming his twin brother, Ari, after she was trusted to watch over them, prosecutors claim.

Despite denying she'd ever laid a finger on the boys, the promising student eventually admitted to harming the child, telling investigators in a disturbing videotaped confession that she was 'angry' at having to do 'nanny work' on what was supposed to be a weeklong vacation.

'Something just came over me I couldn't control,' Virzi spilled in the troubling testimony.

'From a very, very young age, I don't know what it is, but I always had this urge - almost like a compulsion I can't control - to hurt kids.'

The disturbing confession will now form part of a bombshell case as prosecutors seek the death penalty when Virzi's murder trial kicks off in October.

Virzi has pleaded not guilty to six charges of criminal homicide, aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child.

The harrowing saga first unfolded when Virzi, who grew up in the posh New Jersey suburb of Upper Saddle River, arrived to spend a week with her pal Savannah Roberts and husband, Ethan Katz, back in June 2024.

The pair had become fast friends when they both worked as research coordinators in the graduate psychology department at Philadelphia's Drexel University.

At times during the weeklong trip, the new mom - who is now a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Pittsburgh - repeatedly trusted Virzi to watch over her boys.

Things took a grim turn, however, on June 15 when Virzi claimed she spotted a mysterious, bloody injury to Ari's groin area while she was apparently keeping a watchful eye.

She claimed to Roberts and Katz that the tot had simply scratched himself in his car seat, according to her initial police interview.

When the parents eventually took the baby to the hospital to be checked out at about 6.30pm that night, Virzi remained behind at home to take care of Leon.

She told police that Leon had been in a bouncer seat when she apparently dozed off. When she woke, Virzi claimed she went to the kitchen to grab him a bottle when he suddenly started screaming.

After allegedly finding the baby lying on the floor with a bump on his head, Virzi called his parents and then dialed 911.

Leon was pronounced dead a few hours later from a severe skull fracture and multiple brain bleeds. An autopsy report later determined that the injuries were a result of blunt force trauma and were consistent with child abuse. 

Virzi, who eventually retreated to her Airbnb, where she was arrested the following morning, was subsequently interrogated for more than 11 hours during which she repeatedly denied having any involvement in the boy's slaying, TribLive reported at the time.

Ultimately, she admitted to being infuriated by the constant 'nanny work.'

'Something about that built up a lot of anger in me,' Virzi told lead detective Janine Triolo in the explosive videotaped confession, part of which was played during a court hearing last fall.

'So when I was alone with (Leon) I shook him a couple times - hard. And I dropped him a couple times - hard.'

'I heard some kind of crack,' she added, allegedly admitting she also flipped the baby upside down on the tiled bathroom floor.

'Something just came over me I couldn't control,' Virzi said. 'I'm telling you this because I can't keep lying about it.'

'I did not want him to die,' she added at one point. 'That was not my goal. I just wanted him to feel a little pain.'

The alleged baby killer then claimed she had always had an urge to harm kids since she was as young as three or four – and even gave examples of some youngsters she had hurt when she was younger.

She recalled locking a two-year-old child in a bathroom and pinching her until she cried when she was just seven years of age, according to the footage. 

When she was in high school, Virzi detailed to cops how she once put a hot mug on a baby's arm and pinched them. 

'This is the first time this happened as an adult,' Virzi said in the clip of the incident involving the twins. 'There's some weird drive in me that wants to see kids in pain.'

'I don't want to hurt anyone anymore,' she said, adding that she had suffered from anxiety, depression and an eating disorder in the past. 'I know the best thing is for me to go away - or maybe worse.'

Former colleagues and peers have since told the Daily Mail that they felt there was always a fury lingering below the surface – noting Virzi's apparent 'bottled-up rage' and 'underlying anger.'

'But I don't know why because she never did anything negative to me.'

Lesser, who received her PhD in clinical psychology but is now a podcaster and journalist, said Virzi was extremely competent at her work and someone 'you could count on' – but recalled a coworker once getting some 'very biting text messages' regarding a work issue.

'It just made me feel like maybe there is a little bit of anger there,' Lesser said.

Another former psychology major, who knew Virzi from her studies at a different university, said she was always slightly wary of Virzi.

'I'm absolutely shocked and floored, but I'm not surprised,' she said.

'There always seemed to be some underlying anger. Some colleagues that I've spoken to have had similar thoughts about it, that there was this bottled-up rage or something that never came out but you felt it was right there, even though she was friendly.'

'She had this rigidity, like she would never be even a minute late for a meeting or class. In a way, because of that, I think I'd almost trust her to babysit more than anyone because she was so controlled and she followed rules to the letter.'

Others said that while there was nothing overtly abnormal about Virzi, there were some red flags.

Cindy Miller-Perrin, a clinical child psychologist and professor at Pepperdine University in Malibu, where Virzi did her undergraduate work, recommended her for a competitive slot at UCSD's doctoral psychology program.

'She was in our psychology honors program the year that I taught that program, and it's a very select program,' Miller-Perrin said.

'So she was an incredible student just to get in. I worked closely with her on her research project, so I spent a lot of time with her… She was very high-achieving, so there are, I'm sure, personality traits along with that. But I never saw anything or heard anything,' she continued.

The accounts, as well as the chilling confession, were laid bare as Virzi prepares to face trial in October for allegedly killing Leon and injuring his surviving twin brother's penis.

Prosecutors have already asked for the death penalty, but sources close to the case say a plea deal will likely be reached before trial.

It comes, too, after her lawyers unsuccessfully tried to have the confession tape banned from trial, arguing during a February hearing that the admission was coerced at the end of a lengthy interrogation.

Judge Jill E Rangos, however, ruled that her statements would be allowed into evidence at trial.

Virzi's father, Dr Peter Virzi, 70,  declined to comment when visited by the Daily Mail. 

The Mt. Sinai cardiologist got his medical degree from the Universidad Autonoma De Guadalajara and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center and fellowship in Cardiology at Beth Israel Medical Center. 

Nicole's mother, Jennifer Graham, 62, appeared to have split up with Nicole's father sometime around 2019 when she moved to a $900,000 home in nearby Nyack, NY. She could not be reached for comment.

Toi on Sunset, located at Sunset and Gardner, is in danger.

Covid really hurt their business and they lost their booming late night crowd. Toi had no choice but to took out a bunch of loans to stay afloat and now those loans are due.

A staple since 1986, their great Thai food, rock and roll interior and classic rock music playing while you eat has been an L. A. experience for tourists and locals alike. And their Pad Thai is legendary!

Let's not lose another Los Angeles restaurant.

Address: 7505 1/2 Sunset Ave, 90046

Credit: Vintage Los Angeles

Toi on Sunset, located at Sunset and Gardner, is in danger.

Covid really hurt their business and they lost their booming late night crowd. Toi had no choice but to took out a bunch of loans to stay afloat and now those loans are due.

A staple since 1986, their great Thai food, rock and roll interior and classic rock music playing while you eat has been an L. A. experience for tourists and locals alike. And their Pad Thai is legendary!

Let's not lose another Los Angeles restaurant.

Credit: Vintage Los Angeles

Address: 7505 1/2 Sunset Ave, 90046

I have a small NBA page on Facebook with about 2.5K followers. I mainly translate NBA news from English into another language, and I also follow several other media pages.

Does that mean they’re actually follow me back? If so, why would they follow a small NBA page like mine? It just doesn’t make any sense to me.

This restaurant was discussed on Reddit last week. It is closing and relocating at the end of this month.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WestHollywood/comments/1vk7fro/this_restaurant_is_is_real_trouble/

The popular Asian fusion restaurant at 8543 Santa Monica Blvd. has announced that Aug. 31 will be its final day of business. They first opened their doors in the fall of 2021.

A sign posted at the restaurant thanks customers for sticking with Queen Violet through the years and hints that the closure will bring a new beginning.

“To Our Queen Violet Family,” the sign reads. “Thank you for your love and support over the past 5+ years. We’re so grateful to have you with us as we begin our new journey.”

That new journey already has a name: BKK TABLE.

The restaurant directs customers to its new location at 8101 1/2 Beverly Blvd. in Los Angeles, where the business is continuing under the new name. BKK TABLE is also available for delivery through Uber Eats and DoorDash.

It remains unclear exactly why Queen Violet is closing its West Hollywood location. The restaurant was previously put on the market, with the 2,600-square-foot space listed for sale in January 2025. The listing offered a glimpse at what made the location attractive to potential new operators.

The second-generation restaurant space includes roughly 1,300 square feet of interior space and another 1,300 square feet of courtyard seating. Its French colonial-inspired design and outdoor patio gave Queen Violet a distinctive presence along Santa Monica Boulevard.

The restaurant is also surrounded by some of the city’s biggest names in retail, fitness and food, sitting across from Erewhon, Shake Shack and John Reed Fitness.

The previous listing advertised an asking price of $255,000, a Type 41 beer-and-wine license and a monthly rental rate of $13,000. The space was described as fully built out and ready for another restaurant or retail operator, with permitted hours from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily.

Whether the closure is related to the property being marketed for sale or sublease remains unknown.

Aug. 31 is the last day.

Credit: WeHo Times

Thai action star Tony Jaa has revealed that he has completed treatment for stage 3 bile duct cancer and currently has no detectable cancerous tissue.

Jaa said he first noticed something was wrong after returning from filming in China a couple years ago. His eyes and skin had turned yellow, he had lost a lot of weight, experienced abdominal discomfort, and his urine became very dark, almost tea-colored.

Doctors discovered a tumor around his bile duct. After further testing, he was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer, which had spread to 26 areas involving his bile duct and liver.

He underwent major surgery that lasted around 8 hours, with doctors removing the affected areas. He then went through radiation and chemotherapy. The entire treatment and recovery process took around 18 months.

“It was the most serious illness I’ve ever experienced. I spent 8 hours in the operating room, and I never expected something like this to happen.

Jaa said he kept his illness private during treatment because he didn't want his family, friends, or fans to worry.

He also lost a significant amount of weight and muscle during treatment. Now that the cancer treatment is finished, he is focusing on protein, proper nutrition, physical therapy, and exercise to rebuild his muscle mass and strength.

Doctors have told him that there is currently no cancerous tissue remaining, but he will continue regular follow-ups and monitoring.

“It feels like I died and was born again. Everything that was bad is behind me. I consider this a new beginning.”

He is now preparing for his return to action movies. His stunt team has already started working with him again, and he says he is putting together new projects with international actors and stunt performers.

“The action-movie world has been quiet. There aren’t many action films anymore. I want to come back.”

The good Samaritan being hailed as a “hero” for firing upon Idaho In-N-Out gunman Chad Williams in the middle of his deadly drive-thru rampage had trained for such a moment for years after witnessing another mass shooting.

Jordan Salinas, 35, a healthcare worker and the full-time caregiver of his brother, who uses a wheelchair, had been horseback riding with his girlfriend the morning of the shooting when the couple pulled into the Twin Falls In-N-Out location for lunch and immediately noticed something amiss.

A large crowd of people was rushing through the exit doors of the restaurant, which he assumed was due to a kitchen fire until he heard the unmistakable pop of gunfire.

Operating on pure instinct, Salinas sprinted toward the sound of the gunfire – a response he’d later refer to as “automatic” and “mechanical,” he told the Idaho Statesman.

He drew his FN Five-Seven – a semiautomatic pistol equipped with a suppressor – and engaged Williams using the military’s four-step “Observe, Orient, Decide Act” approach.

Salinas exited the car with his gun drawn as his girlfriend called out to him, at which point the gunfire started up again.

Video shows him slowly making his way toward the restaurant, taking cover behind In-N-Out signs and shrubs.

From his hidden vantage point, he spotted Williams standing by the drive-thru and saw him raise a rifle to his shoulder and start firing toward vehicles.

“OK, this is the guy,” he later told the outlet was his thought process upon seeing the gunman.

He raised his pistol with both hands and squeezed off a round – the first time he ever aimed his weapon at a living target, he said.

“He did not like it when bullets started firing both ways,” Salinas told the outlet.

Williams was now taking return fire from him, and an off-duty cop who was a customer at the restaurant, Twin Falls County Sheriff Jack Johnson said.

He vacated the drive-thru and made his way toward an open parking lot at the Twin Falls visitor center. Police said he later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Three people were killed and seven others were wounded in the In-N-Out shooting, but police said the death toll would have undoubtedly been higher without the quick-thinking actions of Salinas and the off-duty cop

“These people are true heroes in our community,” Johnson said of the two men who returned fire. “They diverted the shooter and without a doubt saved many lives.”

Salinas later stood down to let police officers do their job as they streamed into the parking lot.

“My part is done,” he recalled thinking at the time.

He later said when he witnessed the 2021 mass shooting at the Boise Towne Square mall, in which two people were killed and several more were wounded, he noticed gunmen deliberately went after “soft targets.”

The hero civilian reasoned that his role as a healthcare provider for his wheelchair-bound brother would make the duo sitting ducks in such a scenario.

Salinas later posted on his Facebook page about the barrage of messages he’s received in the “overwhelming” 24 hours since he was identified as the Good Samaritan.

“I want to sincerely thank my family, friends, and everyone who has reached out with messages, prayers, and support. I haven’t been able to respond to everyone yet, but please know I’ve seen your messages, and they mean more to me than I can put into words,” he wrote.

“In the coming days, I’ll share a more complete account of what happened, to the best of my recollection, when I’m able,” he promised.

“For now, my heart remains with the victims, their families, and everyone affected by yesterday’s tragedy. Thank you for continuing to keep them in your thoughts and prayers, and thank you all for the incredible support you’ve shown me and my family.”

In a video posted on his feed July 5, he’s seen wearing camouflage in a remote grassland area and firing a rifle beside an off-road vehicle decked out with American flags while touting the Second Amendment.

“Celebrating the 250th as the founding fathers intended… Exercising the inalienable right to a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep [and bear] arms, shall not be infringed.”

Credit: NY Post

I bought the MAMA Thai Connext boat noodles to try and really liked them. Now, I am thinking about trying the Panang and Tom Kha flavors.

Have anyone here tried these flavors? What are your thoughts on them?