Imagine what it must be like to have your life unexpectedly turned upside down.

People should seriously consider how the effects of aging, a fall or a life-changing illness might affect your life and your family and friends.

As the U.S. population ages at record numbers, chances are you will take on the role of a family caregiver or become a care receiver.

According to an Administration on Aging report entitled Profile of Older Adults: 2006, “Older adults have more chronic conditions, hospital admissions, doctor and ER visits, and expenditures for prescription drugs than younger age groups.” ... [full story]

The most recent Field Poll, conducted in early July, shows that only 42 percent of the state’s likely voters are likely to support the take-away of civil rights from gays and lesbians.

By a slight majority, however, Californians appear to support the No On 8 campaign, which would leave the historic CA Supreme Court decision allowing gays and lesbians the same civil rights as others intact.

According to their findings, 51 percent of Californians would vote no on the measure, which would define marriage as only between a man and woman.

Forty-two percent of voters support the November ballot measure ... [full story]

Yet another bar fight at The Abbey resulted in an injury and an arrest Thursday night, July 17.

According to a LA County Sheriff’s spokes person, the alleged assault occurred at 8:45 pm at the West Hollywood nightclub The Abbey.

A man allegedly hit another over the head with a beer bottle, resulting in that man suffering cuts that required treatment at the hospital ... [full story]

Wednesday night at 6:30 pm interested parties will attend a scoping meeting on the controversial ten-story development on West Hollywood’s Eastside named Movietown Plaza.

The meeting will focus on the scope of the Environmental Impact Report, allowing the public to weigh in on the issues inherent in building over half a million square feet of commercial/residential space on the property now anchored by a Trader Joe’s grocery store.

The property, which stands next door to an already entitled creative office space due to be built on The Lot (formerly Warner Bros. Studio) totaling over 300,000 sq ft ... [full story]

Catch the newest way to view the West Hollywood Crime Blotter – by Google map! You can now track the neighborhoods in which the crimes were reported, by satellite.

Crimes reported last week. Example: July 16 @ 4:30 pm, 7600 block of Norton.

Following a stop for a bicycle riding code violation, a male Hispanic suspect was arrested for reasonable cause receiving stolen property and outstanding warrants... [full story]

The West Hollywood area boasts some of the greatest entertainments in the world.

Long called the “Creative City,” West Hollywood, or WeHo, has been stage center in the Film, Television, and Music industries, with many vital performance stages where artists play live to sharpen their digital chops.

Theaters abound in and around West Hollywood, as do Art Galleries, special events of public note and great gatherings such as Halloween and Gay Pride.

From theatre to film to song, dance, gatherings and festivals, WeHo News has everything West Hollywood might like in our EVENTS PAGE.

Come on in and see what’s happening in WeHo... [full story]

Feeling good about your body is a state of mind, and can be influenced by your internal belief systems, especially negative ones.

WeHo seems obsessed with youth and beauty, and it is very easy to get down on ourselves about our bodies.

However, take into consideration that even if you did not put on any weight at all, you would still look very different at age 47 than you did at 27 ... [full story]

Special interests have successfully placed Prop 8 on the state ballot this November, a proposed amendment to the California State Constitution that would legally limit recognized marriages to those between a man and a woman.

We in West Hollywood must now organize, rally our friends, family and neighbors to the cause and Beat the Marriage Ban this November.

To kick off our campaign to protect marriage equality and keep institutional discrimination out of our State Constitution, I would like to invite you to a town hall meeting where we will discuss strategy and what we can all do to get involved ... [full story]

More and more, California judges are deciding against flawed environmental impact reports.

Now comes news that the Echo Park’s proposed new elementary school might not be built at the current proposed location.

LAUSD acted, according to LA County Superior Court Judge John A. Torribio, in bad faith by assembling a shoddy EIR; no other feasible alternatives to the site and on the site were realistically explored.

Can anyone miss the connection between this and West Hollywood’s Tara? ... [full story]

They say if Moses came down with two tablets today, they would be Advil.

This leads me to revel in the delightful fact that, while we may have major differences about rents and landlords, or about Walgreens or the City Council or “condo-ization” in West Hollywood, there seems to be little religious discrimination in WeHo.

This is important to me, as if should be to all of us, as the appointed “White Knight” of the Republican party, John McCain veers to please the Christian right, while dragging along his pasty-faced Judas goat ... [full story]

Beauty and tranquility saturated and celebrated with vibrant colors and texture; I am referring to West Hollywood’s bungalow apartments and hidden courtyards. The fountains, each one unique to its setting, statuary spewing water into quite ponds filled with fish, colorfully tiled staircases and brick walkways. A treasure trove of a colorful past, they bespeak a Spanish Revival influence and our need for aesthetic surroundings ... [full story]

On tonight’s West Hollywood City Council agenda stands a potentially controversial issue – whether to pass increased trash recycling costs onto the businesses that support WeHo 41 percent over four years.

At the same time, the city will also decide whether or not to extend Athens Services’ contract for trash removal for another four years – to 2016.

The sharp price increase stems from “changed conditions causing rising costs for provision of the food waste composting program,” according to the staff report ... [full story]

WeHo News proudly welcomes a daily video horoscope to its pages – enjoy, West Hollywood.

Updated daily, SoulGarden TV develops and promotes "Mind, Body and Soul Improvement."

Founder Christopher Witecki anchors the content with his daily online video horoscopes "Soul Horoscopes," as well as hosting and producing the daily Astroweather forecasts, Soul 360 talk show and upcoming Weekly Love Horoscopes ... [full story]

WeHo News proudly welcomes a daily video horoscope to its pages – enjoy, West Hollywood.

Updated daily, SoulGarden TV develops and promotes "Mind, Body and Soul Improvement."

Founder Christopher Witecki anchors the content with his daily online video horoscopes "Soul Horoscopes," as well as hosting and producing the daily Astroweather forecasts, Soul 360 talk show and upcoming Weekly Love Horoscopes ... [full story]

Recently the Russian-speaking population in West Hollywood threw its Annual Russian Style Festival at Plummer Park – a week later than its originally planned date.

Festival organizers, working along with the Russian Advisory Board, switched the date for the event at virtually the last second from June 22 to June 29 because the first date held special meaning to the Veterans of WWII, what the Russians call “The Great Patriotic War.”

June 22, 1941, happens to be the day Hitler invaded Russia ... [full story]

A challenge to the opponents of same-sex marriage that would have removed the constitutional amendment that threatens the historic May ruling failed Wednesday.

The case, Bennett v. Bowen, brought before the California State Supreme Court by gay rights organizations and the ACLU, claimed that the proposition would “destroy fundamental rights that cannot be legally altered by a voter initiative.”

California has an extremely high standard for altering the Constitution through legislative means – a two-thirds majority in both houses and a Constitutional Convention - but when the voters decide the issue through the initiative process, only 50 percent plus one vote is needed ... [full story]

The West Hollywood Alternative will be taking a short recess to reorganize in order to better serve the community. Effective 7/14/2008 WeHo Alt will vacate the space.

The WeHo Alt Community Advisory Board and WeHo Alt leadership, including myself, believe this is the best and most prudent way to ensure longevity to the program and what has clearly been a fantastic first year of change and opportunities.

Even as members were assisting this past week in the proper closure of the physical location at 8235 Santa Monica I was touched to have realized what an impact we have had already in the community ... [full story]

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Falls are the leading cause of injury death for Americans 65 years and older.”

Falls are also the fifth leading cause of death in older adults behind cancer, cardiovascular and pulmonary conditions and stroke. Each year, more than one-third of adults age 65 and older fall at least once ... [full story]

When I escorted Miss Bella to the veterinary clinic last week for her annual exam, I had no clue that I’d be coming back home with my cat in a carrier…and two of her teeth in a plastic baggie.

For a few weeks, I had noticed that one of my four-year-old feline’s fangs or “eye teeth” was a bit longer than the other and was pressing against her gums (which may be another way of saying that my cat is getting “a little long in the tooth”—sorry, bad joke).

I made a mental note to ask her veterinarian to file the tooth down a bit ... [full story]

The recent brawl at the Abbey and reports of drunken and lewd behavior at Gay Pride has WeHo News’s contributing staff grappling with a singular question - Is bad behavior at clubs and festivals by gay men tolerated to a greater degree than straights' bad behavior in WeHo?

Philip Hoskins’s take on it goes thus, “To start with, I guess it is a matter of definition but let’s assume that ‘bad behavior’ means illegal behavior.

“To that question, the answer is no, but ... [full story]