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Today Verdugo Skate Park became unattended - and what happened here this morning breaks my heart. There are already dudes in their late -30’s showing up in crocks with spray paint cans scoping tag spots. They weren’t even here to skate, and they actually left when the skaters wouldn’t give them space in the bowls.

I love graffiti and all urban art but skate bowls are surfaces designed for transition skateboarding. They aren’t meant to be painted over. This is a surface for us in the community to enjoy a sport and graffiti ruins that for everyone.

When these dudes showed up in their nice Ford truck to vandalize Verdugo Skate Park it actually just made me sad because I’m starting to worry we can’t have anything nice in Los Angeles anymore.

It’s not rich or poor - it’s clearly an engrained lack of civic virtue at all levels of the income bracket in this city. Just because something becomes “free” doesn’t mean someone has the right to start painting all over it or littering all over it or destroying it.

End of rant please go skate Verdugo Skate Park. I called the city’s Recreation Department and they’re going to try to up security at the park, but at the end of the day we have to police ourselves. We could use your help!

June 30, 2026
First speech by newly sworn-in Councilmember Alek Bartrosouf

I’m dying to customize my boring bmw x3. How much did you pay to wrap your 2026 BMW x3? Is it cheaper to paint? Any other customization ideas? Perhaps only wrapping the trim, etc?

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Photo is not mine, it’s my inspo.

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post this on here, but my writing group and I just finished writing and developing the pilot script for our web series. We've never filmed anything before, so this will be our first time and we have no resources to get this production up and running. We need technical help (mostly camera work) and actors, so if you're interested in helping us out please fill out this Google Form and I will get back to you. And if you know anybody who could be a help please feel free to send them the Google Form. If you'd like to read the full pilot script and watch an animatic of the pilot, they're both linked on the Google Form

Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKMAaL2fd7xki0XyQYHRDnK6OEGDZ2rjFT6GOmV68Vv5dBZA/viewform?usp=header

Sun & Stone Boots, $20
Humidifier, $10
Stuffed Animals, $5 each
TVs ~ LG $50, Insignia $100
Paintings $10 each
Glass Desk, $25
Lotte Berk, $5
Insanity, $25
P90X, $25

(2nd post attempt, hopefully don’t get censored this time)

Who do you think would be the best candidate for our next city manager?

Do you think the next city manager should come from within the city ranks or should a newcomer from another city be appointed by City Council?

The current city manager, Roubik Golanian, has been CM for the past 5 years.

Mr. Golanian is known for lacking people management skills and creating a toxic work environment that has forced out talented department heads.

Mr. Golanian has also created a culture of fear in which not all Glendalian’s are welcome. He summarily fired a highly qualified senior gay employee for no apparent reason.

Other gay staff in the city government have chosen to stay in the closet fearing that coming out would negatively impact their careers.

It’s wonderful the first openly gay council member has been elected, but there’s a lot of institutional change that is needed to transform the city government’s workplace culture —and that’s going to take a lot of hard conversations and difficult decisions.

If you’ve watched the recent city council meetings Mr. Golanian’s humanity towards his own staff has really been lacking.

For example 2 or 3 meetings ago there was the employee who gave a report to council who apparently had come running from another commitment and was seriously out of breath. And it didn’t get better, she was really struggling —looked like she might have a stroke. And it went on and on and Mr. Golanian should have stopped the report right away to let her have a few minutes to catch her breath but he didn’t.

Another recent city council meeting incident was when all the kids came to speak up in support of their local library branch to keep it from being closed from budget cuts.

District staff had obviously been directed by the City Manager’s office to provide plans on making a 5% cut across the board. So the library staff clearly complied. But after the very endearing presentations by the kids and their parents, outgoing Councilmember Ara Najarian essentially retorted:

Why are you complaining to us, it’s the library department head who proposed the cuts. Complain to her!

(And he did it again last week) This very public berating and blaming of the library department leader was no doubt an awful experience, but again, Mr. Golanian did not speak up to defend his own employee. Instead he stayed silent.

Glendale deserves so much better.

June 27, 10 a.m.- noon. Meet at Urartu!

10 a.m. - Meet

10:30 - Invocation, "Family Values."

10:45 - WALK!

All invited and welcome.

This is a chill stroll around DT Glendale, under 2 miles. BYOEverything!