Tomorrow night 2/13/2014 at around 10PM and all the way through to Tuesday 2/18/2014 the Northbound lanes of the 405 Freeway in West LA will have a restricted number of lanes open and at times all lanes will be closed.
This means that the closure/restricted lane openings will last for about 80 hrs. Caltrans recommend motorists stay away from this stretch of the 405 during this time. During the day two northbound lanes are supposed to be open, but nighttime all lanes will be closed. There are also on/off ramp closures on the stretch of 405 between sunset Blvd and the 405/101 Freeway interchange in the Valley.
This is part of the improvement project that will add carpool lanes to the heavily trafficked freeway.
Tonight was the last Tonight show with Jay Leno coming out of Burbank California. Johnny Carson moved the show to Burbank from New York city in May 1972 and jokingly talked about the new location as “Beautiful downtown Burbank”. The show will now move back to New York to be hosted by Jimmy Fallon.
The show was of course the spectacle you could expect, and more. 22 years is a long time and there were plenty of things and events to draw from in the opening monologue. Jay saying he would now sign up for ‘Obamacare’ (Health insurance through the Affordable Care Act) was maybe the biggest surprise… I suppose he saw the light, finally…
Jay had many of his ‘friends’ visiting, among them Billy Crystal, Garth Brooks and ‘other friends’ including taped messages from Steve Carrell, Kevin Bacon, Bob Costas swigging Jim Beam, President Obama offering the Ambassadorship on Antarctica, Bill Maher, Matt Damon, Miley Cyrus denting his car… Mark Wahlberg being himself. Dana Carvey was a favorite and Charlie Sheen of course. Martha Stewart was being sultry… and Jimmy Fallon had the last word in that segment.
Billy Crystal had a few surprises planned for Jay Leno in the form of a number of guests performing a piece inspired by the Von Trapp family in the sound of music, including Carol Burnett, Sheryl Crow, Jack Black, Kim Kardashian, Oprah Winfrey and others – nothing too exciting really.
Garth Brooks performed what Jay Leno called one of his favorite songs, wearing a “Garth Brooks World Tour hat” instead of a Cowboy hat…
Kevin Eubanks, the regular musical director/band leader was not present, he was on tour in France according to Leno.
Jay teared up at the end while thanking everyone, it was quite emotional. He quoted Johnny Carson, by saying “I bid you all a heartfelt goodbye”.
As Dennis Miller would say “That’s the news and – I’m outta here”. Let’s see if it sticks this time around… See ya at the Rock Store Jay.
There were many old timers and new talent performing at the 2014 Grammys in Los Angeles. Some performances seemed not to well rehearsed and some were just not up to the standards you would expect from performers of that caliber. I think that Ringo Starr’s ‘Photograph’ was among the better ones, but to me the Daft Punk performance with Stevie Wonder, Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers really stood out as the best performance in my mind – Quelle surprise!!!
Dora was a “subcamp” of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Nazi Germany. The focus of the camp was to supply labor for digging tunnels at the V2 rocket factory as many as 20,000 of the total of 60,000 in the camp were killed.
If you go to visit the cemetery in Paris where Jim Morrison and many other celebrities are buried, I suggest that you also take a look around in other places and you might discover some very powerful and emotional markers for people and time in history that we all need to keep in mind.
SachsenauA memorial for the Spanish nationals that died fighting in WWII
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GravesCrowds at James Douglas Morrison’s final resting placeJames Douglas Morrison’s final resting placeMadame “Lamboukas” Edith Pia
