It’s Lucky 13 Anniversary for Pips

Derrick Pipkin says he has been coming the restaurant now famously known as Pips on LaBrea located at 1356 S La Brea Ave. in Los Angeles since he was about 10 years old. That’s when his father would bring him to eat Italian cuisine, but now he comes there because he owns it.

Pips has evolved into the place where Black movers and shakers gather to meet for cigars and cocktails or where the neighborhood hangs out to watch a Lakers game over sliders and pizza.

His Argentine chef doesn’t speak a bit of English and Pipkin does know how to cook. There are two constants when anyone patronizes Pips on La Brea. First the food will always blow you away and second you will likely be entertained by Barbara Morrison’s

STANDING TALL: District 1 Councilmember Gloria Gray has brought the City of Inglewood community small and big business together for the common goal of making District she is joined by supporters who were instrumental in her stunning victory for

Inglewood City Council. Councilmember Gray will host her first Town Hall Meeting on June 1 at the Inglewood Senior Center.