by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | May 9, 2012 | Looks Like Beirut
California, USA 20 years after the Los Angeles riots, actor/activist Edward James Olmos describes the scene to the Hollywood Reporter: Actor and activist Edward James Olmos says Hollywood on Thursday night “looked like Beirut, like an all-out war going on.” Seeing...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Sep 22, 2011 | Looks Like Beirut
Hollywood, California Thanks to @MaryLebanese for the link. The phrase describes the winding road that leads up to the great Hollywood sign: Locals complain that tourists leave litter and cigarette butts — a mortal hazard on tinder-dry hillsides in summer...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Dec 4, 2010 | Looks Like Beirut
A good-cause initiative takes an unwarranted swipe at the Lebanese capital: There’s a new push to help volunteers who want to help mentor African-American young people. A national volunteer initiative kicked off in Oakland [California] where the response was...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 5, 2010 | Looks Like Beirut
Beirut, the play, will be hitting the performance halls of California with an apocalyptic story of sex, nudity and STDs: It’s the end of the world as we know it, and no one feels fine. Instead, the people who have contracted—or merely tested positive—for an AIDS-like...