Looking for some good sushi? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top sushi hot spots in Los Angeles, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of the best spots to achieve your dreams. RELATED: Quarantine Cooking: Your Essential Nonstick Cookware Guide 1. Kazunori | The Original Hand Roll Bar Topping the list is KazuNori | The Original Hand Roll Bar. Located at 421 S. Main St. downtown, the sushi bar and Japanese spot is the most popular sushi spot in Los Angeles, boasting 4.5 stars out of 2,402 reviews on Yelp. 2. Sushi Gen Next up is downtown’s Sushi Gen, situated at 422 E. Second St. With 4.5 stars out of 3,594 reviews on Yelp, the sushi bar and Japanese spot has proven to be a local favorite.RELATED: How To: 6 Easy Steps To Make Homemade Soft Pretzels 3. Sushi by H Beverly Grove’s Sushi by H, located at 480 S. San Vicente Blvd., is another top choice, with Yelpers giving the sushi bar and Japanese spot 4.5 stars out of 1,570 reviews. 4. Komasa Sushi Komasa Sushi, a sushi bar located downtown, is another much-loved go-to, with 4.5 stars out of 1,241 Yelp reviews. Head over to 351 E. Second St. to see for yourself. 5. Sushi Yuzu Over in Toluca Lake, check out Sushi Yuzu, which has earned 4.5 stars out of 1,050 reviews on Yelp. You can find the sushi bar and Japanese spot at 10118 Riverside Drive.MORE: 5 Vodka Sauce Recipes To Try This Week This story was created automatically using local business data, then reviewed and augmented by an editor. Click here for more about what we’re doing. Got thoughts? Go here to share your feedback. ...
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‘An Unprecedented 166 Days’: Los Angeles Zoo Will Reopen Aug. 26
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The Los Angeles Zoo says it will reopen on Aug. 26, nearly five months after closing its gates because of the COVID-19 pandemic . The zoo will reopen at 10 a.m. on Aug. 26. General admission and member reservations will be available starting Wednesday at noon. RELATED: Tessica Brown Arrives In Beverly Hills To Undergo Procedure To Remove Gorilla Glue (credit: Jamie Pham/Los Angeles Zoo) Since March 13, zoo officials say they’ve been working on a safe, modified reopening experience that will conform with Los Angeles County Department of Public Health safety protocols. RELATED: LA Zoo To Reopen In Mid-February “By the time we reopen our gates on Aug. 26, the L.A. Zoo will have been closed to our community for an unprecedented 166 days,” the zoo’s CEO and Director Denise M. Verret said in a statement. “The world has changed over the last several months, and so has your Los Angeles Zoo.” MORE: NBA Upholds 'Longstanding League Policy' Of Playing National Anthem After Mark Cuban Comments Capacity will be limited, tickets will be timed, face coverings will be required and signs reminding all visitors to maintain a distance of six feet from others will be posted. Indoor and high-touch spaces like the Papiano Playpark and the contact yard at the Winnick Family Children’s Zoo will also be closed. In-person talks, presentations and events will also be temporarily suspended. ...
‘Transformative’: Mount Saint Mary’s, Whittier College, YMCA Of Los Angeles Receive Million-Dollar Gifts From Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Mount Saint Mary’s University, Whittier College, the YMCA of Los Angeles and several other several non-profits serving disadvantaged communities in Southern California received million-dollar gifts from MacKenzie Scott, a philanthropist, author and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic) Scott, who had pledged to give away billions away after her divorce from one of the richest men on the planet, wrote in a Medium post that she gave away more than $4.1 billion in gifts to 384 organizations across the country. There was a theme among her chosen recipients – food banks, emergency relief funds, organizations assisting with debt relief or providing employment training, and colleges catering to historically marginalized and underserved people. RELATED: Bezos, Bloomberg Among Biggest Billionaire Donors To Charity In 2020 “This pandemic has been a wrecking ball in the lives of Americans already struggling,” Scott wrote in a Medium post announcing the gifts. “Economic losses and health outcomes alike have been worse for women, for people of color, and for people living in poverty. Meanwhile, it has substantially increased the wealth of billionaires.” Mount St. Mary’s University called the $15 million gift from Scott “transformative.” “The vast majority of our students come to us from vulnerable communities, and their lives are transformed at Mount Saint Mary’s,” Dr. Linda McMurdock, vice president for student affairs at the university, said in a statement. “It will make an immediate difference in our students’ lives.” RELATED: Con Artist Pretending To Be Bruno Mars Scams Woman Out Of $100K Whittier College says the $12 million unrestricted donation from Scott will go toward providing additional need-based scholarships and support its racial justice and equity action plan, Office of Equity and Inclusion, Gender Equity Center, environmental justice work, and faculty diversity efforts. “Whittier ...
Boeing 737 Max Jet Returns To Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The Boeing 737 Max jet returned to Los Angeles as it returns to worldwide commercial services. (credit: CBS) The jumbo jet was grounded two years ago , after a pair of deadly crashes. On Thursday, a United Airlines 737 was spotted landing at LAX for the first time since returning to service. It’s not clear if it carried any passengers, however. The jets were grounded in 2019 after flights on the Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 jets crashed in Ethiopia and Indonesia. They appeared to fall from the sky in similar ways. The FAA allowed the jets to return to service after their software was updated and pilot training was conducted. The airline says passengers who don’t feel comfortable flying on a 737 Max do not have to. United says it will make it clear which aircraft will be involved in each flight when passengers make their reservations. ...
Push For Accelerated Vaccine Rollout Continues In Los Angeles County
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Officials are continuing the push for an accelerated rollout of the coronavirus vaccine throughout Los Angeles County. Gov. Gavin Newsom made the announcement on Wednesday that the state is immediately allowing residents 65 years and older to get coronavirus vaccines, alongside frontline workers and other priority groups. RELATED: Coachella Approves $4 Hero Pay For Farm Workers As seniors can begin to get in line for vaccinations, there is still a concern throughout L.A. County about how quickly these vaccines can get distributed to the public considering what some experts have classified as an already bogged-down vaccination system. On Wednesday, L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer says they are ramping up vaccinations and still plan to finish vaccinating 500,000 additional healthcare workers by the end of this month. Ferrer also says the county needs many more doses from the state to be ready to vaccinate people 65 years and older in the next round. RELATED: CA Residents 65 And Older Can Now Receive COVID-19 Vaccine “We are now on pace to vaccinate as soon as resources are available,” Ferrer said. “I know how frustrating folks and L.A. County are. I’ve been on a call with other directors. We are not done with healthcare workers, we don’t have a vaccine to even get that quickly to healthcare workers.” UCLA business professor Christopher Tang concurred, saying that California still has a ways to go before most of the population is vaccinated. RELATED: Trevor Bauer Officially Introduced As A Dodger Tang specializes in production and operations and has been watching the slow distribution of the vaccine here locally. “Right now, the bottleneck is not the supply of the vaccine. We actually have the vaccines, but it’s not giving out,” he said. According to Tang, L.A. County did not have the infrastructure in place ahead of time to make sure the vaccines could be administered quickly, like knowing ...
