It seems that the L.A. Times did have an obituary prepared for Joan Didion, but not for Eve Babitz. Here's Elaine Woo's Didion obit (Woo left the paper in 2015): latimes.com/obituaries/sto…
Is anybody preparing obituaries at the Los Angeles Times? There are Angelenos who merit it.
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There was a big shindig at the Barclay today, celebrating a new direction for the oldest continuously operated hotel in LA. Healthy Housing Foundation thinks SRO #DTLA hotels should be affordable housing, not boutiques. We do, too! esotouric.com/hotelbarclay/
We were giddy to see this new addition to the Barclay's lobby furniture: a chess set, in honor of Raymond Chandler's detective Philip Marlowe, who found a man with an ice pick in his neck, upstairs in room 332, in "The Little Sister." One day we'll sit and play a game.
How else to welcome a Victorian residency hotel back into service than with Christmas songs from a troupe of time travelers? Beneath the "VN" stained glass window bearing first owner Isaac Newton Van Nuys' seahorse crest, they warbled sweetly.