La Cienega Boulevard

An One inexpensive way to update classics in your closet -- that cashmere crew neck, black dress or blazer-and-blouse combo -- is fun statement jewelry. At House of Love and Luck, a budget version of Fred Leighton, eye-catching vintage baubles, reworked pieces and trendy new looks such as bolo ties are priced under $300, with the bulk of them less than $100.

Most 20th century design dealers on La Cienega Boulevard are known for high-gloss refinishing and high-glam reupholstery. At Euro Chic West, a more do-it-yourself spirit prevails.

School district map -- A map in Monday's California section with an article about Wiseburn School District labeled the area bounded by Century Boulevard on the north, the 105 Freeway on the south, La Cienega Boulevard on the west and Prairie Avenue on the east as Inglewood. Most of that area is in the community of Lennox. Also, an area south of 138th Street -- between El Segundo Boulevard and Rosecrans Avenue -- and east of the 405 Freeway, was shown as being in the Wiseburn School District.

Hemmed in by warehouses, freeways and crowded neighborhoods, the fragmented bits of nature left in the Baldwin Hills might seem a doomed vestige of another era. But on Wednesday conservationists unveiled a dramatic proposal to tie those parcels together by turning a half-mile stretch of La Cienega Boulevard into a tunnel.

After the bright lights of Fattie's, the now-defunct restaurant named, improbably and unluckily, after silent film star Fatty Arbuckle, the sign of Bistrot Provencal, the new restaurant tenant in the same La Cienega Boulevard space, is remarkably discreet. Owner Jean Francois Meteigner of La Cachette is no stranger to the neighborhood. After all, he was chef up the street at L'Orangerie for years and says he's long had designs on that locale.

The city will hold the first of three planning workshops on the future of Santa Monica Boulevard on Sept. 30 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in City Hall. Associate Planning Director Hassan Hagani said ideas for the boulevard are being broken into three segments: The western end, from Doheney Drive to La Cienega Boulevard, has a grassy median strip. One option under discussion is narrowing or eliminating the median and widening the sidewalks.

Attention, Santa Monica Freeway commuters. We interrupt your honking and cheering with a word from Dorene Desenberg and her Westside neighborhood. While you are once again whipping in and out of traffic as if the dog days of the detour had never intruded upon your solo commute, it would be worthwhile to note that the freeway's "reopening" was a bit of an exaggeration in some parts of L.A.

Do appearances count? California's unemployment figures still slouch toward double digits, the austerity thing is still chic, but up on La Cienega Boulevard, the Bentleys are stacked up again, the Benzes triple-parked almost to the double yellow line, because the old L'Ermitage space is back in business as a restaurant called Drai's. It's a hot new place to wear Chanel, and the points-on-the-gross crowd is happy. Baby artichokes reign once again on this edge of Restaurant Row.