Los Angeles Thread #11: Let's Save Vincente Minnelli's House

i think moby owns a vegan joint around there (maybe silver lake, not sure) that my friend went to and said was underwhelming, too. i guess taix are doing more than just classic French country cuisine, but i've tried the mussels, endive salad, snails and i can vouch for the French fare being excellently prepared fwiw

i fucking love taix. so romantic.

moby's got his vegan place little pine in silver lake, not to be confused with pine and crane, which is taiwanese iirc. the latter is really good, the former i hear the same mixed things.

taix is a good place to hang out, it's a bit more chill than you'd imagine and the bar area is nice too. tam o'shanter is a similarly old school and fun spot. there's a newish british-style pub in echo park called the lost knight, which is sort of the medieval times of british pubs imo. like a lot of newer spots around these parts it feels pretty transitory.

xxp

sweet dude

ya i'll definitely give it a try because i'm definitely interested in going

in terms of LB-adjacent stuff: i went to point fermin park in san pedro last weekend, which is beautiful - the lighthouse tour was fun and free (they do it three times a day, in the afternoons). a really cool thing near there is the sunken city, which is the ruins of an evacuated beachside city that was decimated in a landslide in the 1920s (you have to sneak around a gate to get there since it's technically not open to the public but it's totally worth it). you can also check out the korean friendship bell while you're there. angels gate cultural center is around there too, a former military barracks converted into arts studios (similar to the headlands up in marin) - they have art shows and the like. we ate at a *great* lebanese joint in SP called nazelie's. lots of v. old-school dive bars around there but couldn't tell you anything about any of them. LB's got tons of gay bars clustered around one strip if that's something yr into. i've only been to LB a few times but i really dig it, it's a lot cooler (temp-wise) and relaxed compared to LA.

i love taix but don't really go there very often. i really like masa and guisados (the latter is now essentially a chain - they started in boyle heights and now have branches in echo park, DTLA and west hollywood). prado wine bar in echo park is nice if you go there during non-peak hours - i don't really like going out drinking there. also be warned that with dodgers games happening that parking in echo park is sometimes next to impossible.

whoops, "i don't really like going out drinking there" = i meant in echo park, generally. but i like prado.

food-wise: will second pine & crane (i was underwhelmed by it the first time i went there but liked it a lot more on my second visit many months later). there's an upscale-ish thai street food place near there called night + market song that's great, and a newish burmese place called daw yee just opened a little further east on sunset - the tea leaf salad is crazy good

as far as mexican food in that area, i think el condor is the only sit-down joint i really like. mexico city on hillhurst isn't really that bad, i guess. just went there for the first time. better than i anticipated.

Oh yeah, Elvis Telecom to thread!

Couple of important food areas near Long Beach... Going to Westminster/Garden Grove for Vietnamese food is pretty much mandatory. Brodard on Westminster Ave. and Thanh Mai on Bolsa Ave. are my faves, Quan Long Hoa and Pho Quang Trung would be my next choice. Thanh Mai is open until 1:30am - I've become a regular.

Long Beach has a small Cambodian community with some great restaurants - Phnom Penh Noodle Shack on Cherry is the first place to go. Hak Heang on Anaheim is also very good and occasionally has a live band playing Cambodian pop classics.

There's at least a dozen or so Indian restaurants along Pioneer Blvd. in Artesia. I haven't kept up as the scene is always changing there but I usually go with whichever place has the most polarizing Yelp/Chowhound reviews.

Gardena has a couple of great ramen places. My go-to is Shin-Sen-Gumi Hakata on Redondo Beach Blvd. May just be my favorite ramen place in the Sprawl.

Jonathan Gold's essential 101 is a good place to start: http://ballots.latimes.com/lists/101-best-restaurants-jonathan-gold/

http://la.eater.com/2016/9/22/13020766/employee-suicide-los-angeles-buzz-wine-shop

a very trimeric experience

https://www.yelp.com/biz/buzz-los-angeles-3?sort_by=date_desc

just wanted to say thank you for all the great recommendations, they were very helpful. The biggest hit was Kang Ho Dong which I went to with my brother and then later talked my cousins into checking out as well.

On the first day out there, we had a bunch of time to kill so I took my family to Point Fermin, lots of nice views including a bunch of sea lions chilling on some rocks, plus my son found a gold mine of pokemon out there.

awesome dude!

was at beverly soon tofu restaurant last week

still delicious!

Exile in OC has finally finished. As of today, I'm a resident of Sierra Madre... SGV represent!

SGV!

Welcome!

So are we all out of OC now?

yep seal the door

http://www.jarrodspillers.com/images/norman_conical/seal_the_door.png

https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3c4_1487772934

it made the latimes

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-anaheim-video-20170223-story.html

The 13-year-old was arrested on suspicion of battery and making criminal threats, and a 15-year-old was arrested on suspicion of assault and battery

WTF! such bullshit

Tuesday’s confrontation began over what Anaheim police described as “ongoing issues” with the juveniles walking across the officer’s property. During the argument, police said, a 13-year-old threatened to shoot the off-duty officer, prompting him to attempt to detain the teen.

the kid said he threatened to sue the cop which makes more sense

details are nebulous but it sounds like the boy was on the off-duty police officer's lawn and he told him to stay away. the kid threatens to shoot him. the off-duty police officer attempts a citizen's arrest

what is he going to sue him for?

off-duty police officer should get some type of punishment for taking out his gun and shooting it though

yeah who knows for sure . I thought it was that the cop first had a problem with a little girl and that kid got involved .

i'm moving in a year in order to attend CSU Northridge and starting to think about affordable housing in the area. a friend said i might consider: reseda, van nuys, mission hills, sylmar, san fernando or even parts of northridge. any kind ilxors have any other bits of knowledge to share? i really don't know that part of L.A. at all unfortunately but am gonna be in the area in late july for a short visit and a dodger game

2028 Olympics! better u than NYC

fuck

daily temps might be 100 or so

Good prep for Dubai 2032.

Cinefamily dudes resign over sexual misconduct allegations

http://laist.com/2017/08/22/cinefamily_founder_resigns.php

if you like movies and you live in L.A., you've probably gone there. heard shit about at least one of those guys for a long time, just the general creepy nature of women interacting with him. predictably, like a lot of "center of a culture" dudes with a fair amount of lazy charisma, he's got his share of defenders ready to pop off about "unfounded allegations."

An acquaintance of mine works there, I'm hoping he was not involved with this.

I've always been a bit uneasy w/at least one of those guys, personally.

they should play the game in Death Valley instead

Game 1 at Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium will likely set the record for the hottest temperature at a World Series game https://t.co/Gyr2V242Nr pic.twitter.com/i3ejRvRz4I

— CNN International (@cnni) October 24, 2017

Both teams are used to heat, unfortunately. It'd be funny if the Dodgers were playing the Nome Igloos.

the Astros play indoors!

that is, their 'retractable' roof is almost always closed

Ah, well they live there too, so they're used to doing other stuff in oppressive heat.

This could be good, I bought a ticket (Andy Warhol's Factory recreation).

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foxes-magazine-lolipop-records-presents-andy-warhols-factory-lives-tickets-39803749085?invite=&err=29&referrer=&discount=&affiliate=&eventpassword=#loginbox

https://i.redd.it/42ezrbpj84201.jpg

http://beta.latimes.com/resizer/tJK-PdKdcEB7M9DvBc0bItY00j0=/1400x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/JVQCHLPUL5EBBHUX2IFDO5XDQA.jpg

driving on the freeway i see signs that say

drive high
get a dui

It's like they think that everybody's going to spark up for the first time on Jan 1. I don't think they will. It's more likely that if people were prone to do it, they would have done it by now. Nobody's going to be "new," and I don't think that people who smoke are all of a sudden going to take to the roads in massively larger numbers than they already are. It'll just be no HS 11357 violations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pXLSjDkcEE

Cinefamily looks like it's coming back.

http://www.indiewire.com/2018/01/fairfax-theater-silent-movie-theatre-cinefamily-1201915500/

that's three months old, and at the time seemed likely that Dan was just transferring the title in the building, not imminently relaunching an organization

https://www.cinefamilyaccountability.org is posting all the documents

ah, he hadn't sent more emails after those first couple - ta

gonna be in LA in a couple weeks for a few days (Snail Mail concert, yay!). staying right around HiFi, anybody versed in Filipino food have any recs? thx!