May 2009
24 posts
More ‘Eastside’ Drama →
A battle of the Eastsides has been taking place in this city of blurry boundaries, a grudge match to reclaim a title some say a hipper crowd has stolen from the Chicano heart of Los Angeles. And with this month’s poetry slam, Rafael Cardenas and eight other poets told those also using the Eastside name—Echo Park, Silver Lake, Los Feliz and downtown—that they’re fed up. Time for...
May 30th
Los Lakers →
Four wins away from a championship. Let’s do this.
May 30th
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TMN's 2009 Eddys →
The best of the Internet, as determined by the folks at The Morning News.
May 29th
“1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry; 1 billion are overweight.”
– Mark Bittman, Food Matters
May 29th
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ListenReal Talk Episode 8: Born on a Full Moon This...
May 26th
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May 24th
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde, for INFY and WTR
May 23rd
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May 22nd
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May 19th
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Taking Back the Streets →
New York profiles Janette Sadik-Khan, the city’s transportation commissioner, whose projects include closing stretches of Broadway to cars next week and turning them into pedestrian plazas. Between her plans for Broadway and her smaller interventions scattered across the city, Sadik-Khan has unwittingly touched off New York’s latest culture war, a street fight of sorts. To her supporters,...
May 18th
May 16th
Where There's Smoke, There's Vinyl →
Territory Barbecue & Records is now open in Silver Lake. I just had lunch there with Paris Mountain. The food is pretty good, the service is working out a few early kinks, and the record-store part looks like it’s still a ways off.
May 15th
Not Lost in Translation: Cartoons Out Loud →
In which Zachary Kanin and company read New Yorker cartoons aloud. Surprisingly funny.
May 15th
May 14th
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Absinthe-minded →
The Gray Lady goes green, taste-testing 20 absinthes. Lucid wins. There’s a bottle at IRB HQ in case anyone wants to come by for a drink.
May 14th
May 11th
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Frank Sinatra Has a Cold →
Gay Talese’s famous Sinatra profile in Esquire, published in April 1966. Sinatra was ill. He was the victim of an ailment so common that most people would consider it trivial. But when it gets to Sinatra it can plunge him into a state of anguish, deep depression, panic, even rage. Frank Sinatra had a cold.In the article, Talese also describes Los Angeles as “a lovely city of sun and...
May 11th
May 11th
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“I want to burn down the world.”
– INFY, regarding his busted iPhone.
May 9th
May 8th
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Manny Suspended 50 Games →
There is no joy in Dodgertown today. From today’s L.A. Times: Manny Ramirez has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and will be suspended 50 games starting today, The Times has learned. Heartbreaking. Ramirez released this statement:Recently I saw a physician for a personal health issue. He gave me a medication, not a steroid, which he thought was okay to give me. Unfortunately,...
May 7th
Drive-by Art →
The New York Times on a new breed of public art in Los Angeles: the kind visible from the car. There’s a slide show as well. (Via LAO)
May 4th
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Follow Friday
Two blogs from two bright gentlemen. Everything Louder Paris Mountain
May 2nd
YDS Lives On* →
Former Baltimore Sun copy desk chief John McIntyre, who was laid off this week, has found a new home for his excellent You Don’t Say blog. *Update: Sun columnist Laura Vozzella has written a valediction to McIntyre.
May 1st