Hermosa hotels hold rooms, rates for evacuees
by Kevin Cody Fears of rate gouging by hotels during the recent fires were dispelled, at least in Hermosa Beach, by two beachside hotels that offered lower rates to fire evacuees than were offered to vacationers last month. It wasn’t because of a state law prohibiting price increases of more than 10 percent during a […]
Little robots of centuries past
Were these the first robots? “Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend,” by Elizabeth King and W. David Todd (Getty Publications, 245 pp., $45) by Bondo Wyszpolski The automaton of the subtitle is a walking and gesticulating figure of a friar, referred to, however, as “the monk,” and it dates back to mid-sixteenth-century […]
Enjoying a Few Hours in a Luxury Hotel: A Dream that can come true in L.A.
We all walk or drive in front of magnificent hotels that can be found here and there on the streets of Los Angeles, thinking how great it would be if we could just stop and enjoy the facilities for a few hours. Well, we have great news for you, as a company just launched a […]