Los Angeles Thread #7: Busch Gardens

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/08/la-denies-permit-to-sunset-junction-festival.html

Yeah that seems like a shame. I have guests coming this weekend and wanted to take them. The city's getting pretty draconian recently, for example they gave ME a speeding ticket yesterday! in Chinatown, of all places.

OK so who knows kid/baby-friendly things in LA? I was thinking Travel Town, LACMA, Grand Central Market (it's loud), Angel's Flight. Probably won't do the beach

Meantime for anyone up for OC:

http://www.ocfoodiefest.com/

At Angels Stadium as well, meaning you could take Amtrak/Metrolink down and it'll be right there off the Anaheim stop.

Children's Museum in Pasadena?

xp

Looks good, actually we are talking about a one year-old so maybe he just needs somewhere loud.

Just take him to a movie like every other parent in the city.

Toys R Us then.

Jay Babcock
Sunset Junction hasn't been good for "the community" or the arts for many years. Good riddance.

there's the l.a. zoo in griffith park

isn't that by Travel Town? I thought it was but it was my wife's idea.

yeah

Can anyone show me a good coffee place in the chinatown/Lincoln Heights area?

homegirl cafe?

http://www.homegirlcafe.org

I like it (and I can literally walk there) but their coffee has cinamon in it, which is an acquired taste

Can anyone show me a good coffee place in the chinatown/Lincoln Heights area?

http://www.cafedecamacho.com/ on Olvera St.
http://cafeintheheights.webs.com/ on Broadway in Lincoln Heights

Cool! Yeah I will check out the latter. I basically work equidistant from each, but Broadway parking wins every time.

There is also this place but the coffee is kinda sweet and the service is slow (but very nice). Baked goods smell great, though: http://www.labaking.com/

Travel town is great. there's also a carousel in Griffith Park near the zoo and travel town. Olvera Street is pretty fun environment for a 1 year old too. lots of tschotskes, music, etc.

Yeah I have that on my list too

LA WTF!:

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Roffle:

"I feel like I'm gonna cry," Dale said happily, pointing to 20 or so people strumming ukuleles on the sidewalk. "Do you see the ukulele orchestra? They're playing Justin Bieber! It's just so, so Silver Lake."

"Like, baby, baby, baby, oh!," orchestra members sang as children danced and tattooed couples snapped pictures. "Like baby, baby, baby, no."

i'm going to this, at EPFC tonight (tho i can't stay the whole time):

Tuesday, August 30 – HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEORGE AND MIKE KUCHAR: AN EPFC VIDEO SLEEPOVER – 8PM Come celebrate George & Mike Kuchar’s birthday with an all-night pot luck pajama party at the Echo Park Film Center. Works by George and Mike will be screened until the wee hours of the morning, with a midnight toast to honor their birthday (August 31). Come dressed to act as your favorite faded starlet, and bring some B-movie props, as impromptu videotaping is liable to occur throughout the evening. A highlight of the event will be a selection of rarely screened works made with students from the San Francisco Art Institute, as well as the documentary The Smutty Professor, which chronicles the spring 2000 SFAI class AC/DC Psychotronic Teleplays as they make Planet of the Vamps. Former students are encouraged to bring their class’ project to screen!

also think i might take their S8 filmmaking class next month

Have fun!

This will be you:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/echoparkfilmcenter/5846997762/

hah! i am totally in one of those group shots, somewhere (from the paul sharits night back in june iirc)

Huh, I was there too!

ya'll goin to fyf

Nope, will be out of town

I will be dehydrated in your place

Also, barely any bands I care about

xp

^^ that, and other plans anyhow

admrl i bet we have been in the same place a bunch of times and NOT EVEN REALIZED IT

I'm sure we have! Did I see that you are going to school now or something? You have come a long way in such a short time! (sorry that reads as patronizing, but it isn't meant that way)

I do not see myself in Sharits picture, but I see quite a few people I know.

i went to school in nyc, came out here after getting job

i see a guy who looks like me in one of them but tbh a lot of guys there look like me because lolfilmnerd

KITTEN

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/08/cat-rescued-90-freeway-riverside.html

so *i* didn't feel that earthquake just now (although my coworker did? i was across the street getting coffee)

k so it was an earthquake, just thought I was imagining it

when? I was out around town, didn't feel a thing

half an hour ago

I was in library downtown

Are we gonna have a hurricane too now?

Felt it in Glendale (on the 2nd floor of office building) - just enough to go "hey, it's an earthquake"

felt nothing out in simi valley (first floor of office building), but was pretty wrapped up in something around that time.

phase two begins on the subway to the sea!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/09/los-angeles-expo-line-phase-2-groundbreaking-construction.html

downtown to culver city in 30 minutes!? give me a break.

yes, for $1.50, with no traffic.

I would love to take that thing from SM to downtown on the weekend, but what's it going to take, an hour? for what is an easy 30 minute shot straight down the 10? I mean, I'm excited about it, just shocked by how slow it's going to be.

I would love to take that thing from SM to downtown on the weekend, but what's it going to take, an hour? for what is an easy 30 minute shot straight down the 10? I mean, I'm excited about it, just shocked by how slow it's going to be.

What private Stonecutters Secret Society superhighway tunnel are you taking where downtown to SM on the 10 takes 30 minutes? Summer traffic out that way feels like it's heavier than usual.

i had dinner tonight at california canteen, a place i've passed by a hundred times but never thought twice about until someone recommended it. the name is pretty banal, but the food's good -- frenchy mediterranean bistro stuff -- and the vibe is secluded and not "sceney." they passed my "roast chicken" test, so i'm satisfied.

http://californiacanteen.com/