Emily Lerman

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• Posted PhiLAnthropist: Thanksgiving Volunteer Opportunities to LAist
  The 2008 Thanksgiving sunset in Silver Lake | Photo by sesshin via LAist Featured Photo pool on Flickr It's that wonderful time of the year again. Door-busters, pant-busters, wallet-busters. We've included some ideas for some Thanksgiving volunteer opportunities. You know, so you feel less guilty after eating 14 pounds of stuffing or to prevent you from drinking all day and making things awkward at dinner. Or perhaps you want to take part out of...
• Posted Midnight Movie: VICE Explores LA's Hidden Urban Oil Wells to LAist
  So that odd shaped flower-painted tower sticking up behind Beverly Hills High School is not some weird sculpture - it's actually an oil well. And there is one behind the Beverly Center as well. And at the Farmer's Market. And inside a building on Pico. And numerous others.
• Posted Midnight Movie: Jared Leto's New Video Features LA and Midnight Ridazz Bikers to LAist
  Jared Leto and hundreds of Midnight Ridazz bikers take over the streets of LA in the new 30 Seconds to Mars video, "Kings + Queens". We like watching as they head over the Sixth Street Bridge, through the Second Street Tunnel, around Hollywood and Highland, and finally hit the edge of the Santa Monica Pier as the Ridazz show off LA's unique and growing bike culture. We think it's pretty cool that they name each rider at the end too!
• Posted 'School On Wheels' Founder to Be Honored With 'Most Prestigious Award Given To Women' to LAist
  Photo by Atwater Village Newbie via via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr In 1993, after reading a book about homelessness, LA-resident Agnes Stevenson started teaching kids in a park in Santa Monica. From this book she learned that hundreds of thousands of children in the US do not attend school due to homelessness. And School on Wheels was born. The organization, which provides one-on-one tutoring to homeless children from Costa Mesa up...
• Favorited the lesson of The Moth on LAist