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

happy new year! good shows coming up: nels cline, holly herndon, pharmakon. what else?

this looks cool also!

http://www.thenewbev.com/dfsource/2014/12/5/january-7-amp-8-10-rillington-place-x2fx2f-see-no-evil

http://laist.com/2015/01/31/vidiots_saved_megan_ellison.php

i saw! well done.

record parlour in hollywood is doing another dollar-vinyl blowout this weekend. i picked up a nice stack from there during their last big sale.

https://www.facebook.com/events/691928517586389/

i'm glad a new record store still places value on good older vinyl and isn't just a wall of bins of $30 animal collective reissues or whatever.

i am also going to six organs of admittance on the 27th, the pop group on march 10th, and faith no more in april. anyone going to that sparks valentine's day show? or babes in toyland at the roxy? (i see that babes are also doing a set at pappy & harriet's; there are still tix for that and they're only $20, if anyone wants to offer up their car for a road trip.)

Would normally be at Sparks but I'm up in the Bay Area next weekend. And will have to mix Six Organs, sadly! Timing, it happens.

My sis and I will be at the Sparks V-day show.

Will definitely be at The Pop Group show on March 10th and at The Church at the El Rey on Feb 27th.

Is it possible to drive mulholland drive to Malibu? Last time she tried my sis says she ended up on a dirt road. What do we do at that point?

There's a section that's unpaved between the 405 and Topanga Canyon. Go to Topanga and catch Mulholland west from there.

WTF? The Tiki-Ti is closed indefinitely...
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tiki-Ti/39568358564

Oh dear. Not much going on in this thread, is there?

I just noticed there was a new thread. I linked this one in the #10 thread.

haha sorry, i got self-conscious about posting stuff that no one responded to and then the thread died.

^^^ story of my life.

we're all still hung over from the pizza party

Brush fire in the Cajon Pass (with pics).

http://laist.com/2015/07/17/north_fire_cajon_pass.php

Have a feeling the burning carrier of SUVs is going to be the symbolic takeaway

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKJxW1KVAAAYEYe.jpg

hey so how does one find an apartment (/room) in this city

Craigslist is probably the most common way. Westside Rentals is an agency you pay that is widespread, but I've heard mixed reports about them.

yeah, definitely craiglist.

Another way is to go to the neighborhood in which you want to live and walk around, looking for "For Rent" signs. I've had luck with this approach more than once.

hey thanks folks! i'm craigslisting, i was just checking in case there was some slightly tidier route i hadn't noticed (apparently the closed facebook group los angeles apartments is pretty okay).

I was convinced this dude lived in the IE, but nope.. pacific palisades all the way.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3172296/It-s-worse-Twilight-Zone-movie-Decomposing-body-car-hidden-5M-gun-arsenal-missing-mother-two-believed-dead-man-alien-secret-agent-sent-save-human-race.html

also great url, thanks daily mail

Someone in the IE couldn't have afforded that many guns.

Just saw this posted. a 2-day free music fest at the Hammer. Artist list at the link below.

ALL THE INSTRUMENTS AGREE: an exhibition or a concert is a two-day program of back-to-back live performances by over 25 local, national, and international sound artists, music collectives, art bands, and visual artists whose practices extend into the production of sound. Conceived as an exhibition in the form of a concert, the continuous program of performances will alternate between two outdoor stages in the Hammer courtyard from noon to 10 p.m. each day.

http://hammer.ucla.edu/instruments/

^^^ Sept 26 and 27

DJ'ing at Blipsy Barcars in Koreatown tonight - starting at 10pm!

I can guarantee that $5 in quarters, cheap drinks, and a strangely bizarre jukebox is a far better return-on-investment than six months of therapy!
369 N Western Ave, Los Angeles CA 90004
http://www.yelp.com/biz/blipsy-bar-los-angeles

hammer event looks dope but what a weird line to pull out of context for the title

http://laist.com/2015/09/15/some_rich_jerks_claim_diplomatic_im.php

I drive through these neighborhoods every day and loathe everyone who lives there.. mostly because of jealousy..

in reality the only victims are other rich entitled fucks?

don't hate me, man (though not technically in a bh zip code)

i don't like these people either. i've seen race cars almost kill people, go on incoming traffic lanes, been cut off by them a handful of times, seen a totalled lamborghini on a light post, and hear their engines revving up a lot, and this is all in the course of 8 months

when I was in the airport in a mexico at some terrible bubba gump a kid working there asked me since I live in LA, do I see lamborghini's every day.. unfortunately the answer is basically yes.

haha.

funny thing is these cars are usually driving on streets with a lot of traffic so they never go more than 35 miles per hour, yet you hear this huge engine sound

i may rob some banks so i can go to Mets-Dodgers playoff games

NYT discovers Boyle Heights.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/arts/design/new-art-galleries-enjoy-a-los-angeles-advantage-space.html?smid=fb-share

so what's going on halloween night, la?

My gf is DJ'ing at Blipsy on Halloween
http://www.yelp.com/biz/blipsy-bar-los-angeles

Looking to move by the end of the year and I just revised my "things to look out for in a new neighborhood" to read:

- Local flooding
- Can record drums in it.
- Violent crime statistics
- Mudslides
- Close to metro train line station
- Sharks
- Nearby (not close) In-N-Out burger

need to add: poisonous sea snakes

how many of those are positives?

elvis, e.g., el segundo, hermosa beach, manhattan beach, redondo beach, and long beach. culver city seems a bit of a ways?

are you willing to wait til the "early 2016" opening of the santa monica station?

I'm actually looking at places along the new segment of the Gold Line.

nice. i'm eyeing the (south) pasadena area myself.

I work a couple days a week in S. Pasadena and commute in via Metrolink/Gold Line. I'd absolutely move there if my income could support it.

Try El Sereno or Hermon, now that Highland Park proper is also getting pricey.

I've seen a couple of new stainless steel garage door things in El Sereno. Word is out.

Forces out of my control intervened - looks like I'm bunkering through El Nino here in the OC.

In the city of South Pasadena itself, add $100K-200K to the price of any house due to the school district.

should have said "value" as opposed to "price"

Big Bowie remembrance gig at HM157 on Saturday night. Should be fun!
https://www.facebook.com/events/177258945965503/

Saw that, and am thinking of going.

Me and my family will be in town Feb. 3-10. We've got a lot of places to visit and touristy things to do on our list, but any recommendations for specific events or happenings, family-friendly or otherwise, during that time period would be appreciated.

if your kids like trains, check out the train rides at Griffith Park. I don't know how old your kids are obv but:

http://www.griffithparktrainrides.com

Also, the California Science Center down by USC is cheap and they have the Space Shuttle Endeavour there. I recommend Super Bowl Sunday (assuming you're not watching the game); we just went this past Sunday and it wasn't a big crowd, I suspect bc of the playoff games.

http://californiasciencecenter.org

I can recommend a few family friend joints to eat at too, finding places that are good with kids can be hit or miss. This ain't Chicago or Portland.

The kids are 5 and 1. The little one won't know what's going on for the most part.

We're doing Disney Land one day while we're there, I wonder if there will be fewer people there on Super Bowl Sunday or if a weekday would still be better.

what area are you staying in?

Echo Park

Well goddamn. The Smell in downtown is being demolished...
http://laist.com/2016/05/28/legendary_downtown_all-ages_club_th.php

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/10/travel/what-to-do-36-hours-los-angeles.html

gotta say la is pretty happening or maybe it's just growing on me

there are so many other places that weren't mentioned but worth it

i'm dying

It's only gonna be 120 today relax

it's that breezy 120
just recirculating boiled air around my apt that's killing me

Last night in the San Gabriels.

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13501847_602746799892453_37465385372245212_n.jpg?oh=049bf43e46506c2c11742ca718904a62&oe=57FB77C2

Noise fest next weekend at The Box Gallery in the Arts District. No word of it on The Box's site though.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/lafms/

Hi Los Angeles people. I'll be there on vacation all next week. Would love to meet people if feasible. Would also love any recommendations on food or shopping or other fun, easy activities. I've been out there various times, but feel like I've only ever scratched the surface. I suspect there's a lot that I'm missing I'm staying in Long Beach, so things convenient to that area would be great, but I'll have a car and am willing to drive around too.

imo the most beautiful place in la and surrounding areas is the point vicente lighthouse in palos verdes. if you go this saturday, you can get a tour but i'm not sure how good it is: http://www.palosverdes.com/pvlight/

i just love walking around there to relax and get away from all the madness. the times i've been there it's been quite peaceful

there's a couple caves if you do a bit of walking past terranea resort

for another pretty mellow walk check out the lake shrine gardens in pacific palisades -- more of a eastern religion/buddhist place but lots of different people walk in the gardens

what type of food do you like?

i can recommend some easy hiking trails if you want, but i wouldn't recommend it unless you don't mind scorching hot weather (next week is going to be really hot)

i'm assuming you've done all the popular stuff like the getty in brentwood and the newest museum the broad downtown, which you need really advanced tickets for

Nope, I think I'm going to the broad this time. But a lot of the typical stuff I haven't done and don't necessarily have on my radar.

As far as food, I'd be interested in trying out good Asian options in particular, but would really be open to anything good and fairly affordable. Not planning on doing fine dining.

korean food:

seongbukdong (my personal fave -- been here plenty of times but not recently)
beverly soon tofu restaurant (fave place to get soondubu)
ahgassi gopchang (best intestines in ktown/la i've heard, i quite like it)
kang ho dong (super popular kbbq place owned by this famous korean dude)

annnd if you like bingsoo, i highly recommend sul and beans

in terms of japanese...nothing of note (spoiled by eating in japan)

best ramen:

daikokuya in downtown la (not sawtelle)
followed closely by tsujita ANNEX (on sawtelle)

honestly i don't eat sushi in la, but if you really want to, try sushi gen but see if you're willing to put up with the prices

a lot of the better japanese places in la are fine dining. you can find a couple decent ramen places in torrance. been to a few but i don't recall their names right now.

if you're in torrance i would hit up kula, which is conveyor belt sushi. they're a small chain, but i'm told this location is the better one

and if you're into craft beer, sunset beer co in echo park!

the echo has free shows every monday night. i don't recall if it's after a specific time, but i would get there around 10pm

tonnes of mexican restaurants as i'm sure you know already

You might try la.eater.com for ideas, though it doesn't seem to be searchable for food type. There are "neighborhood" links but when I looked at Long Beach it took a bit of scrolling find any "best of" articles.

Awesome recs, thanks!

try Beachwood BBQ and Brewing in Long Beach.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/25959/

if you do get up to Echo Park i would recommend Guisados and Mexicali for tacos. the former is located close to Vin Scully Way near Dodger Stadium, the latter on Figueroa just north of Sunset Blvd, near the 110 freeway.

been meaning to go there myself

do you happen to know if they sell bottles of their melrose ipa?

xp

i know they have it in bottles, not sure if they sell them there though? maybe at the aforementioned sunset beer co.

they do have growlers, natch.

i sometimes go to sunset beer co and haven't found it yet

never tried buying growlers, intrigued though

anyone rep for t'aix? i freakin' LOVE that place. think it's the oldest resto in LA (?). the bar is a beauty, had some smoked rum last time i was there and some snails (first time) were actually great. pricey though

speaking of echo park area xxposts

never tried it but had read good stuff on yelp

i'm aways hesistant to go in because it looks so weird

like it's trying to be a bunch of different things that don't mesh well together

i used to go to masa in that area a lot tho

also been to a handful of vegetarian restaurants there and was kind of underwhelmed

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!

there's a decent filipino kiosk in grand central market - http://sarisaristorela.com/ the buko pie is next level

i'll take decent! thx for that and for reminding me i need to go to GC

yeah everything there is great (except the bathrooms good lord)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym8yJBj4Qu8

los angeles, 2018 pic.twitter.com/WH1UTGbwUx

— Kyle McDonald (@kcimc) July 28, 2018

(i live here now btw)

Go away for two weeks and return to find an infestation of scooters being parked and used all over the area. Found one leaning against our neighbor’s house this morning. Had three parked on the grass along the curb the other day.

Drive through Westwood if you want to see true infestation. Haven't been near USC but I assume its just as bad.

Some scrap metal dudes tried to take one parked outside the other day. It looked like it was put out there for free.

if you think scooters are a danger to pedestrians and an eyesore and they clutter the built environment making getting around difficult for everyone other than people who use them then wait until you hear about cars.

i have been enjoying the LA podcast a lot! i now know more about local politics than i have in any town i've ever lived in. and they added alissa walker to the roster and are very good on transit as a result.

i get the LAT and the LASD and USC seem like not good institutitions?!

What the hell are these things

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Toe-Biting-Insects-Santa-Monica-Mountains-491576221.html

Honestly you startle most infants and they’ll also fart

obviously nobody here is a climate scientist but I feel like it used to rarely be humid in LA in the summer.. that's definitely not the case the last 2-3 years. am I off-base here?

it's been pretty humid for L.A. though obviously not midwest or deep south humid. also this summer and (iirc) last were not especially hot maybe? this has been very much a summer full of 84 degree high days (with that early July weekend heat wave excepted.)

i imagine it's been a really pleasant summer for the beach communities, Santa Monica seems to be enjoying lots of 78 degree days.

Otm on humidity

There’s also a sharp physical division between the beach cities and inland where there is a spike in temperature which I don’t remember there being in the past

I live in Studio City and work in Woodland Hills so it’s hot as fuck all the time

fwiw

Arclight will be showing some of the original Cinerama Movies for its 55th Anniversry, including HOW THE WEST WAS WON !! pic.twitter.com/m05HrqNOh5

— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) September 10, 2018

Is that actually any good

Some of it!

extremely bloody Civil War segment directed by Ford, feat. George Peppard and Russ Tamblyn

I have not seen the first two there, wd be most interested in Grand Prix.

fwiw How the West Was Won is the only film on the Arclight schedule that was filmed in Cinerama instead of just "presented" in Cinerama.

As a western fan I have to say I've never cared for it. Too aware of itself as a "stunt" and too thin.

Grand Prix seems like a much more exciting prospect. Glossy and slick, but at least a real movie.

"Holy Crap: LA’s First Ax-Throwing Bar Just Opened in a North Hollywood Warehouse"

I read about that earlier today and was like

😍

This absolutely should be the site of the next LA FAP before it's shut down for being uninsurable.

lmao I mean there was no way this wasn’t going to happen but f u NIMBYs

https://la.curbed.com/2018/10/12/17968706/beverly-hills-purple-line-subway-protest

I don’t think it counts as a walkout if the school provides buses and a packed lunch

Awful thing is that by directly appealing to trump it might work

I actively hate few things but I hate these types of places:

https://cheatdayland.com

What is that

some "museum of ice cream" type bs

It looks like you play on/with large versions of the food you like, then you get to eat that food.

Turns out the Beverly Hills walkout and legal fees to sue metro and the county were funded with revenue from a bond measure that should have paid to renovate the schools to make them healthier and safer places for the kids

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/10/beverly-hills-has-financed-its-metro-fight-13-million-local-taxes/573265/

does make you pause and consider the social and ecological benefits of eating the rich.

how's everybody doing?

The Santa Ana winds are expected to pick up today, which means Southen California could see fire tornadoes. https://t.co/fFKP5mAoYd

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) November 11, 2018

http://aqicn.org/city/losangeles/los-angeles-north-main-street/

Yeah not doing so great but it’s because the smoke just moved down plus the santa anas

Should be back to normal in a few days

Not as bad as the fires and smoke from the Vancouver/BC fires in canada a couple months ago though

everyone ready for the probable LAUSD teachers' strike? if it happens, it'll be Thursday.

stoked for the madness.

the NYT actually had a pretty solid summary of the situation afaict yesterday

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/teacher-strike-lausd-utla.html

our kid's teacher told me her daughter's class at the nearby high school has 46 students and not enough seats, so they count on students being absent to make sure no one's sitting on the floor. when we toured our school and went into the fifth grade class it was pretty nuts: 36 kids in a classroom the same size as the kindergarten classroom (which had 24 students.)

can you name the schools?

not on here i don't know what insane lurkers are reading this, but we're east of Hollywood.

yup

https://www.revealnews.org/article/the-ultimate-test-of-trumps-local-cronyism-is-playing-out-in-beverly-hills/

deep dive into the insane subway/bevery hills HS story

SCOOP: Lets break some Saturday night news. The FBI is investigating Los Angeles Councilman Jose Huizar and his family for bribery and money laundering. cc: @mattdpearce @AlpertReyes @joelrubin @ReporterCraig pic.twitter.com/Q7TE2Ddx1t

— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) January 13, 2019

At least 1/7th of the city council of the second most populous city in America is probably not corrupt.

— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) January 13, 2019

https://i.imgur.com/PFash3B.png

Abs. love (/not love) when newcomers to perennially drought stricken towns get up in arms at a little rain.

let's do this

So excited to hear Eric Garcetti is announcing his support for LA congestion pricing today at 5pm https://t.co/EpmNeYBO1p

— Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) January 29, 2019

that was apparently a joke from a transit reporter btw, but the guy in charge of the metro really is trying to make it happen

"Amazing Black and White Photos Capture SoCal's Skate, Beach and Punk Scenes From Between the Late 1960s and Early 1980s"

https://www.vintag.es/2018/03/socal-skate-culture.html

...taken by Spot (SST house engineer)

those are great.

Very cool

who voted?

This guy

Also was just at Santa Anita for some races last weekend and that day two horses had to be put down due to injuries, and today another, which makes 21 in ten weeks. Wtf is going on out there?

regular horse racing activity iirc

well they closed the track

https://laist.com/2019/03/06/santa_anita_park_closes_indefinitely_after_21st_horse_dies_in_under_three_months.php

Why do they put down the horse if it’s only a broken leg?

Hard to let heal for a horse, I would imagine ("stay off it for a few weeks..."), also, of course, the horse will never be a contender again, so of no use to the owner.

apparently you can't stop them standing up?

I'm DJ'ing this Saturday in Koreatown

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D2Jw1M-U4AApc73.jpg

never mind the above - postponed for two weeks

me irl

Before reading LA history: this is a nice picnic. Man, the weather is great.

After: holy shit this park is racist

— Frank Shyong 熊紹岡 (@frankshyong) September 26, 2019

haha no shit

https://deadline.com/2019/09/vidiots-relaunch-los-angeles-storefront-independent-theater-1202747838/amp/

(moving to eagle rock)

also: it's cold!!!

I wonder how this will affect Vidéothèque in south Pas.

super pumped about seeing Bauhaus in a couple months. surprised they're not doing more than just three shows in LA but I'll take it.

I stand by this tweet. We just got word the #GettyFire in LA was caused by a downed tree branch falling on a power line. The grid ought to be a thing of the past, it needs to be decentralized. https://t.co/6m9NLnZdeX

— Joshua Frank (@joshua__frank) October 29, 2019

Marciano Art Foundation announces it won’t reopen in wake of layoffs following union drive.

Kept meaning to go there but never did.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2019-11-06/marciano-art-foundation-announces-that-it-will-not-reopen-in-the-wake-of-layoffs

If you need fresh produce and don't want to deal with the supermarkets and/or a multi-day wait from Instacart, etc., check around and see if your local farmer's market is operating. The Pasadena market (in the parking lot of Pasadena HS) was running full-bore this morning - everyone was stocked up.

I found toilet paper and eggs at the Colorado Blvd 99 Cent store today.

la$$en$ in echo park on wednesday had *lots* of produce, and a fair amount of eggs (tho no TP and canned goods were mostly picked over)

ralph's at hollywood/western today delivered me all the kosher for passover matzo i needed, in case anyone else is looking for that sort of thing.

As noted in the California thread.

https://abc7.com/la-councilman-jose-huizar-arrested-in-federal-corruption-probe/6261864/

The SGV was a constant Battle Of Verdun from sundown to 2am or so... I've lived in SoCal all my life and this was the most full-on 4th that I can remember. Genuinely taken aback at just how much ordinance is stashed in the average LA suburb. 1 ton in just one Irwindale house. https://abc7.com/socal-police-cracking-down-on-illegal-fireworks-as-demand-skyrockets/6256295/

Good aerial video of fireworks in LA.

Sky5 got a look at fireworks lighting up the skies for Fourth of July pic.twitter.com/nkFNUh4N8O

— KTLA (@KTLA) July 5, 2020

Apparently today the air quality is very unhealthy.

Sorry for posting the video. New at this.

That video is bonkers. I can't even imagine what it would be like to be down there.

Even more bonkers is this one: 53 minutes - covers most of LA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWFey_mVmKw

The state of the Union Station upgrade. City keeps cars prioritized (shocker).

https://la.streetsblog.org/2020/08/13/l-a-city-is-nixing-metros-pedestrian-priority-plans-for-union-station/

96 on the west side right now, fuck this noise

Hahaha

In my little transportation corner of the world, Doug Emhoff is probably best known for representing the Beverly Hills school district in their lawsuit against the FTA over the ⁦@metrolosangeles⁩ Purple Line subway project. https://t.co/kGDKzVj67E

— Laura J. Nelson 🦅 (@laura_nelson) August 21, 2020

NO pic.twitter.com/Bml4oFGzsd

— Nick Sinnott (@ndsinnott) September 9, 2020

Fairing?

A long memoir-style article with many photos about Century City, with a link to a 13-min youtube doc about it (there's also a different 25-min doc later).

https://martinostimemachine.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-old-century-city-mall.html

So cool

I’ve spent some time at the Westfield century city mall, great place

Reddit starts a "best city in LA County" war.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/pwk83s/the_battle_for_los_angeles_begins/

LA Story

Families who lost their homes in South LA when a botched LAPD operation blew up a cache of illegal fireworks this summer are moving an hour away to the High Desert because of the city's high housing costs — via @brittny_mejia https://t.co/7aYCu27jGd

— Liam Dillon (@dillonliam) November 7, 2021

I hear the desert is a hip place these days

Wrong desert, probably (I didn't read the article).

https://i.imgur.com/5A1WWy2.jpg

Damn

Dream weather.

what should we do / see / eat while we're in highland park over xmas?

getty, ocean, korean food, maybe lacma if we aren't arted out. no good dj / dance parties to speak of, everyone is breaking that week, go figure. i don't drink anymore so no bars though we might go to the eagle or something.

is it worth giving the la times my bank account info for a 6 month subscription so i can figure out what restaurants we should hit up? what are people's favorite dispensaries?

In highland park: taiwanese food at joy

People seem to like Salazar in frogtown and it’s outdoors if that’s a concern. I thought it was just fine but I don’t eat meat.

both of those sound nice. not too concerned about eating in as we'll both be boosted. i'm assuming masks are de rigueur.

if you're here on 12/19 I'm opening for El Vez the Mexican Elvis at Zebulon (next to Salazar) and his legendary Mex-Mas show!

yes to masks (pretty well observed indoors ime). i think (?) vaccination checks are required but i have literally never xp been checked.

n.b. we will have a car (though will definitely be using metro) and no previous commitments so anything in the greater l.a. area is a possibility.

xp would have loved to catch you! we're there 12/23 - 12/27

no idea what to expect in LA but I was required to show proof of vaccination at a noodle restaurant in Berkeley a couple weeks ago

What kind of food do you like to eat? Check out villas tacos if they're open when you're in town

all of it lol. mexican, thai, korean, indian/pakistani, chinese. will be looking for a good koreatown place, probably bbq.

also maybe a good but $$-$$$ (not $$$$) italian place because my bf loves italian

probably need to do zankou tbh

LACMA is half torn down, but I suppose the other half is open. MOCA downtown, and the Broad (rhymes with road) downtown, though reservations are good for that (there is a wait line if you don't have them).

maybe rossoblu in the fashion district for $$-$$$ but not $$$$ italian

i've been, it was good, but i'm an easy lay for italian.

i think in outdoor areas at least you don’t need to show vax proof. ate out in Glendale the other week and was not asked.

don’t love salazar tbh. outside of the stuff I told you about, I’m fond of la farfalla in los feliz, unassuming little italian joint on hillhurst.

artwise, have heard good things about the Black portrait show at LACMA, the “witch hunt” show at the hammer, and the pipilotti rist show at MoCA, but have not yet been to any of them

oh cool, thanks! didn't want to overload you with requests on fb :)

black portrait show sounds really cool. think we'll try to do lacma & the getty.

i should know this but for hanging out and zoning out to waves should we do - venice beach, william rogers / santa monica, or malibu? or somewhere else? tidepools and a bit of wildness are a plus.

lol i love giving recs!

beaches: the malibu beaches are my fave. lots of good small less-peopled ones but you’re coming off-season so crowds won’t be a huge issue anyway i think. there’s a gay-ish stretch of will rogers beach known affectionately as “ginger rogers beach” that i like, it’s near patrick’s roadhouse. love el matador beach too. rancho palos verdes has some stunning beaches (area itself is sorta weird tho)

Museum of Jurassic Technology has reopened and is a must if you haven't been. I'm somewhat at a loss for a good $$$ Italian place but you could have a great time eating your way west down Sunset Blvd. starting with Guisados in Echo Park and then stopping at El Cochinito (Cuban) and Hoy-Ka (Thai). I'm also at a loss for a Korean BBQ place since my go-to (Soot Bull Jeep on 8th) raised their prices and cut quality.

Union in Pasadena is excellent $$$ italian. we had our most recent anniversary dinner there.

you could have a great time eating your way west down Sunset Blvd. starting with Guisados in Echo Park and then stopping at El Cochinito (Cuban) and Hoy-Ka (Thai)

this sounds like a good time. definitely need some thai food at some point.

will peep the museum of jurassic technology, thanks for the tip.

union looks amazing but for some reason all the prices on their menu online are at $0.00 lol. the hillhurst place looks fab too.

donna, it looks good from the map, but would you say that ernest debs park is good for a run?

not a runner but…probably? it is kinda steep in some spots. the main entrance of the park you’d probably have to drive to but you can access a different part of it through the park by our house. it’s a really nice park either way, love the little pond that’s up there.

cool!

thanks everyone for chiming in :)

I (and my 4 year old) like the tide pools at topanga beach in Malibu. There’s not much to see except what seems like a pretty serious surfing bro scene at high tide though.

it seems like malibu is the place. i got recommendations from a beach-loving guy i went to library school with for leo carillo, el matador, and the aforementioned ginger rogers.

la farfalla in los feliz

i lived around the block from there for several years and it is indeed a good neighborhood joint. or if you want to hit up hillhurst at a different time of day, the mustard seed cafe a block or two away is one of my favorite breakfast/lunch spots in la.

at any time of day, it's worth your time to walk 10 minutes from there to check out skylight books on vermont ave. there are a bunch of good food options on those couple blocks of vermont, too, such as figarot.

There’s not much to see except what seems like a pretty serious surfing bro scene at high tide though.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, December 7, 2021

ugh as a former surfing bro who knows that break y'all are making me seriously homesick

Here's a good walkthrough of the Ernest Debs Park loop trail. We love walking around up there.
https://modernhiker.com/hike/hiking-ernest-e-debs-regional-park/

This rain!

Loving every minute of it

if this keeps up for another decade we might get through this drought

those santa anas were bonkers last night - lost power for a good 5 minutes

How’s the weather in march / April? Looking to visit for a few days

No power loss here, but I now have dozens of palm fronds in my yard.

March/April usually good, cool but not cold, and usually no rain by April (even March rain has been rare lately).

please sign this ballot measure petition if you get the chance! https://www.healthystreetsla.com/

Public transit into Angeles National Forest being planned for first time in 130 years

For the first time in 130 years, forest lovers might once again ride public transit into the Angeles National Forest, a vast area of mountains, hiking trails, creeks and pine-shaded picnic grounds that make up almost three-quarters of Los Angeles County’s open space.

Because the only way to reach the 700,176-acre green space towering above Los Angeles is by car. Access is denied to underserved county residents who don’t own a car or have no access to a private vehicle.

To change that, U.S. Rep. Judy Chu, D-Pasadena, presented the nonprofit Nature For All a check for $995,000 on Aug. 28 to begin planning and building the Mount Wilson Express Shuttle, a van or bus service starting from the Metro L Line (Gold) Memorial Park Station in Old Pasadena and connecting to western forest locations.

It is the most money received by the nonprofit in a single grant. Chu also placed a request for $750,000 in the 2023 House of Representatives appropriations bill, which would raise the shuttle program’s funding to $1,745,000, if approved.

Early plans call for a regular, weekend shuttle that will take passengers on the 210 Freeway to Angeles Crest Highway (Highway 2), with forest stops at the Mt. Wilson Observatory, the Haramokngna American Indian Cultural Center at Red Box, Clear Creek Information Center, and trailheads at Eaton Saddle, Colby Canyon and Gould Mesa, explained Bryan Matsumoto, program manager for Nature For All.

(judy chu is my rep!)

(mine too!)

new metro line opening on Oct 7th:

The K Line will serve the communities of West Adams, Jefferson Park, Baldwin Hills, Leimert Park, Hyde Park, Inglewood, Westchester and more. Seven K Line stations will open on October 7, 2022.

https://kline.metro.net/

Eater ran a nice feature on Mary's Market here in Sierra Madre. Big recommendation for their breakfast burritos.

need to go there sometime! i got married at the nearby nature friends lodge :)

Also in Sierra Madre news:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od7KGpEqnT4

(this is a trail I hike on at least 2-3 times a week)

Quite the city council we’ve got here.

great bunch

They aren't going to resign from the council completely, are they?

yeah martinez is going to try to tough it out.

IIUC 2/4 are not standing for re-election in november. they should resign, but OOTH the process by which they would be replaced is not exactly a model of good governance.

(this is a trail I hike on at least 2-3 times a week)

Is that Mt. Wilson? I haven't been that far east. I've hiked the Beaudry Loop in Glendale several times. I've seen coyotes but not bears.

i don't think he has the power he believes he does, but this is pretty spicy

The owner of the Los Angeles Times has now waded into the political firestorm after his paper broke the story of city councilmembers’ racist remarks pic.twitter.com/CJuHqoKsd1

— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) October 10, 2022

Is that Mt. Wilson? I haven't been that far east.

Yah, it's the Mt. Wilson trail

damn, RIP Art Laboe

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-10/art-laboe-dead

yeah martinez is going to try to tough it out.

Apparently not

She hasn’t resigned from the council yet right?

The stories I've seen today say she has.

she has stepped down as council president. she's still on the council.

You're right, I should have gone past the headlines.

I don’t know how any of them survive that but especially her. Am really curious about the audio leak, the who and why, considering how old it is.

yeah it's weird. i've seen speculation it's LAPD, although you'd expect leaks to be directed at council's left wing if it was them.

anyway

One hour before the public city council meeting, @CD6Nury is taking a leave of absence. She retains her seat on council. https://t.co/KHNEZ4vy1v

— Cerise Castle (@cerisecastle) October 11, 2022

The ugliness and arrogance of what’s on that tape is wild even by the usual low standards of L.A. politics.

That’s gonna quietly shift into a permanent leave of absence soon enough I gotta imagine.

looking back on it, wouldn't you love to have resigned from your job before the president of the united states and head of your political party weighed in

— Scott Frazier (@safrazie) October 11, 2022

looking back on it, wouldn't you love to have resigned from your job before the president of the united states and head of your political party weighed in

— Scott Frazier (@safrazie) October 11, 2022

The ugliness and arrogance of what’s on that tape is wild even by the usual low standards of L.A. politics.

By coincidence, I was re-re-re-re-reading City Of Quartz over the weekend and when the story broke I literally outbursted "fuck, AGAIN?!"

i've seen speculation it's LAPD

LASD, maybe?

LASD is county. i'm sure they have opinions about council but they don't necessarily have routine access.

seems more and more like it was someone inside the union though.

A source tells me that LA Fed staffers signed an NDA months ago that prevents them from publicly speaking about leadership, and that they are not to go out and protest right now, or it would be grounds for termination. Additionally, their computers are being surveilled.

— Jon peltz (@JonnyPeltz) October 11, 2022

wtf

CADOJ will investigate Los Angeles' redistricting process.

The leaked audio has cast doubt on a cornerstone of our political processes.

We will endeavor to bring the truth to light to help restore confidence in the process for the people of our state. pic.twitter.com/HpvjWf8wAp

— Rob Bonta (@AGRobBonta) October 12, 2022

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso declares he's not white because he's Italian

https://news.yahoo.com/los-angeles-mayoral-candidate-rick-184822598.html

I remember LA councilman John Ferraro (also Italian-American) saying he was an "original Latino."

Wow

Statement just in from @CD6Nury: "It is with a broken heart that I resign my seat for Council District 6, the community I grew up in and my home."

— Brittny Mejia (@brittny_mejia) October 12, 2022

You’ll always have a home on nextdoor

My NextDoor group is less racist than them.

glad to see council back up running

Capt Castillo on mic announces he’s declaring an unlawful assembly and directing everyone to leave or be arrested or subjected to other police action, including “less lethal” ammunition. pic.twitter.com/CljSeiR0Xl

— Kate Cagle (@KateCagle) October 26, 2022

Iliad Bookstore hit with arson:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CkjIhD8P2j-/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

no one was hurt and damage was apparently minimal but still, incredibly shitty

Bookshop*

They left their flier at the scene?

Karen Bass slightly ahead now. Villanueva is OUT

this fuckin guy

rest easy, P-22

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-17/p22-obituary-celebrity-mountain-lion-cougar-puma-griffith-park-california

BrokenBookSellers on IG names Vroman's/Booksoup as #1 of the 10 worst bookstores of 2022.

Congrats to Dolores Bauer for all her hard work making Vroman's our other #1. Dolores, you win nothing.

We received more stories from Vroman's former and current employees than from any other store, some we could not publish for fear of retaliation. Almost all whistleblowers told us some of the worst bookstore stories in this page's history, many inventive in their cruelty and heartlessness. Bauer hunts her employees like sport. TW: A few of these stories in the panels to come discuss sexual harassment.

Where do we start? Where do we end? We spent half the day sorting through the stories to make these graphics and it broke our hearts all over again to read.

Well, damn. Everybody on the Pasadena fb group I'm in loves Vroman's.

I stopped going to Vroman's when they put the wine bar in, devoted more square footage to selling things that aren't books, and then whined loudly about how they were about to go out of business because it was everyone's fault for shopping elsewhere.

Book Alley just down Colorado Blvd. is where it's at anyway.

I still haven't stopped in at Book Alley's "new" location, but used to love the old one. Also RIP Cliff's Books.

every time I’ve gone to Vroman’s it’s packed like any Barnes and Noble. Didn’t know about its rep, I’d dealt with them previously on a couple different things though likely dealt with folks who could very well be sources for the stories. My preferred book spot is Iliad, which is not the type of spot that exudes any bad vibes. I’m conversely not surprised to see them talk about The Last Bookstore.

RIP Cliff's Books

Yup. While we're at it - pour one out for Either/Or Books and Acres Of Books too.

Alias Books in Atwater is worth stopping in if you haven't yet. Iliad, Arcana, and the CLUI are my faves right now.

sorry to keep adding grim notes about bookstores to this thread but Alex Maslansky, the co-owner of Stories in Echo Park passed away suddenly this week. don’t think i ever encountered him there beyond maybe a standard book-buying transaction but he was clearly hugely respected and loved, very sad news

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnxTuXcy_tf/?igshid=ZDFmNTE4Nzc=

RIP Mission Tiki Drive-In in Montclair

Big Bridget Riley exhibition just opened up at the Hammer. Everyone here should go (also it's free!)

https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2023/bridget-riley-drawings-artists-studio
http://lacmaonfire.blogspot.com/2023/02/bridget-riley-drawings-at-hammer.html

very keen to see that one!

on that note, this show of lithographs by women artists at the norton simon closes this weekend and is really good:

https://www.nortonsimon.org/exhibitions/2020-2029/ink-paper-stone-six-women-artists-and-the-language-of-lithography/

also enjoyed the henry taylor and simone forti shows at moca grand, the latter has live performances happening for the duration of the exhibition

Some assholes stole https://www.pasadenanow.com/main/octavias-bookstore-burglarized00 from Octavia's bookstore.

https://www.pasadenanow.com/main/octavias-bookstore-burglarized

Had an event at Redcat on Saturday so I officially tried out one of the new metro stations: Grand Avenue/Bunker Hill. The station is just *right there* across Hope St. The new alignment for the Gold A Line makes it a one-line shot. It's eerie when big public infrastructure just works.

FWIW, there weren't any spontaneous games of Thunderdome on the A line. I haven't ridden frequently enough to notice trends, but things seem ... less intense? My home station is still weird at night though.

haven’t gotten the chance to explore all the new stops yet, except for the new little tokyo station which looks great.

the weekend the regional connector opened i took the former gold line train, which stops near my place in highland park, all the way down to long beach without having to transfer trains - on the way down it took less than 75 minutes, no interruptions. could not say the same about the way back, unfortunately - there was an electrical issue at one of the north LB stops which added almost an extra hour (!) to the trip.

also i take the former gold line to the former red line to get to work and i much prefer transferring at 7th over union station for my commute - just having to go up/down one flight of stairs to transfer at the former beats that 5-minute schlep between trains at the latter.

haven’t ridden the blue train enough to comment but the red line has been pretty grim post-2020. more than once have had to switch train cars because of meth smokers, and the train cars in general are pretty filthy in a way that used to not be the case.

Went from unseasonably cold to hit pretty fast. I hope it's not a miserable summer, it was a fun ride from the fall til a couple weeks back. The hills are so lush. I also hope we're not in for an active fire season. Still not quite used to now living in what is the hottest *and* coldest part of L.A. -- frost on the windshield thru March, and I assume I'll be boiling my eggs on the surface of the patio starting next week.

Heads up...

https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2023/07/30/crossroads-exploding-digital-inevitable

Crossroads / The Exploding Digital Inevitable
July 30, 2023 - 7:00 pm
Billy Wilder Theater

Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event.

In 1976, groundbreaking collagist, sculptor and filmmaker Bruce Conner released his magnum opus, a 36-minute assemblage of U.S. government footage of the iconic Bikini Atoll atomic bomb test. If Conner invented the modern found footage film with A Movie in 1958, he re-invented it with Crossroads. His editing of the film's brilliant "dual" score — by seminal minimalist composer Terry Riley and synthesizer pioneer Patrick Gleeson — evokes a surreal beauty latent in the devastating images that comprises one of the most profound meditations on the nuclear era extant.

The Exploding Digital Inevitable is a live documentary essay by Ross Lipman, who oversaw the restoration of Crossroads in 2012. Integrating an array of movie and audio clips, still photographs and rare archival documents, Lipman tells the story of Crossroads' unique production, as well as the massive cultural spectacle of the original Bikini Atoll tests themselves. It also chronicles the extraordinary collaboration of Conner with Riley and Gleeson, including original interviews with both composers. As part of this program, The Exploding Digital Inevitable will be presented jointly with Crossroads for a total run time of 90 minutes.

(Crossroads is considered to be a a big obvious influence on Episode 8 of Twin Peaks - The Return. never seen it before!)

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/tropical-storm-hilary-expected-deluge-southern-california-heavy-rains-rcna100302

The first tropical threat to the U.S. this season isn’t on the East Coast or in the Gulf of Mexico — it’s in Southern California.

Tropical Storm Hilary formed Wednesday morning along Mexico’s western coast and is forecast to bring intense rain to Southern California early next week. If it makes landfall, it would become only the fourth storm of at least tropical storm strength to hit the area.

i have read some articles speculating this system would bring 2-3 years worth of precipitation to some areas. i take that kind of speculation with a big grain of salt, but after the shockingly intense deluges we had earlier this year, i'm also not necessarily dismissing it out of hand.

will the rain potentially help with low water levels?
(I know nothing about LA but remember the recent drought being in the news)

The lakes will benefit, but so much precipitation just runs off into the ocean.

The reservoirs are largely full now, so no help on that front. Tulare Lake may get even bigger, which is good for the aquifers but bad for farmers.

apparently the rotation means east of the mountains is going to get it much worse.

Regardless of intensity, the most dangerous aspect of #Hilary will be the rainfall, and that will be most severe in the deserts east of the Peninsular Ranges. Many areas there will see 4-8 inches of rain, with local amounts of a foot or more. That's 2-3 years worth of rain! #CAwx pic.twitter.com/DuuG4MWxb1

— Craig Ceecee, Ph.D. (@CC_StormWatch) August 18, 2023

Model average + NWS forecast has 4" of rain in Imperial, CA over the next 3-4 days.

That'd be more rain than Imperial's seen in the last 4 years combined (3.59"). #CAwx #Hilary pic.twitter.com/Q6Kb5kVKG8

— Chris Bianchi (@BianchiWeather) August 18, 2023

Some good analysis as of right now: https://weatherwest.com/archives/29462

Basically, anywhere along route 86 along the west side of the Salton Sea seems like a very bad place to be. There's cool places in Imperial County, though I grimly think of that water tank in El Centro that has "Sea Level" like 80 feet over your head. Fingers crossed for the folks out in Slab City.

I keep thinking of that chapter in Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry Of The Future, where a megastorm washes all of Sierra Madre over the 210 and into the LA basin. OTOH, we got 7" of rain here in the heaviest of the January storms. Our prep = charging everything up, putting whatever cardboard boxes we have on the garage floor either on a table or stacked in a plastic bin to keep the moisture out, and getting an extra bag of charcoal for the grill.

I was in Baja California (~750 miles south of San Diego) for Hurricane Odile and that sucked. Similar energy as this one. 4-6" of rain and 100+mph winds.

5 deaths, total damage amounted to MXN$16.6 billion (US$1.25 billion)

The house we were staying at (and evacuated from) was heavily damaged, as was the airport which made getting home a bit of a challenge. The Red Cross helped us with evacuations as roads were flooded/washed out, <3 to those folks.

In typical modern myopia, it was less than 9 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Odile

It's been raining steadily here in the canyons since before 8:00 am. Not particularly heavy, but steady.

5.0 near Ojai...

Is that why we got an alert here in L.A.?

No noticeable tremors here.

we felt it in Westwood. just a short sharp shock. I thought my daughter had jumped on to the sofa where I was lying.

I'm in Benedict Canyon, I thought the alert was a prank.

Didn't feel a thing in the SGV

our apartment wobbled a bit, it threw me for a loop

Earthquake after a long rain was the scenario for a landslide in the Canary (or Azore) Islands that would cause a huge tsunami to hit the Southeast US. Nova TV show, I believe.

Raining harder here now. Can confirm that it's miserable pissy rain

It's not raining in BH/Century City.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-30/la-golondrina-cafe-historic-olvera-street-mexican-restaurant-back-rent?

sad to hear about this

Damn...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMsz03YCtZc

yeah i had seen that story. it's absolutely crazy out there with some of the smash and grab robberies, following the recent follow-home robbery trend, and this seems to be a really extreme case of both.

my understanding is they were chasing this guy on the freeway and if anyone is familiar w/that stretch, it's extremely busy at that time.

kudos to that dude who was filming them doing that, totally without fear (i don't know that i would have done that.) i hope that car wasn't stolen, those plates are very clear.

Storybook GTA mission

opening scene of heat, except that spot is no good. 405 is 7 minutes, and the 110 is a parking lot and 4 minutes away.

here come those santa ana winds again

And again!

Found out today that the house insurance has been cancelled. We're a mile away from the state defined Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone border (hell, we're closer to the 210 freeway than we are to the hillside) but nevertheless...

i didnt know that that could happen? jeez

Background to all this from Sept. 2021: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-09-26/california-fire-insurance-moratorium-expire

A California moratorium guaranteeing insurance in wildfire-threatened areas lapsed Saturday, putting 347,000 homes in Pasadena and other Los Angeles foothills communities at the mercy of the market.

As many as 2.4 million homes are at risk of losing protection in 2021 as yearlong grace periods expire — though new disasters may extend their shields. In all, 18% of the state’s households could effectively lose protection, the largest single group since the moratorium law took effect three years ago.

“We’re going to pay the bill for climate change one way or the other, and it’s just a question of how we divvy up that cost,” said David Russell, co-director of the Center for Risk Management and Insurance at Cal State Northridge. “What California politicians are trying to do is tinker with how we do that. They’re buying time, hoping they get a break.”

Climate change has been rough on the world’s fifth-biggest economy: Wildfires torched nearly 4 million acres last year and more than 2 million so far this year; the Dixie and Caldor fires, two of the biggest, still aren’t entirely contained.

Fires in 2017 and 2018 alone wiped out more than a quarter-century of underwriting profits for the California insurance market, according to Milliman Inc., a risk assessment company. As insurers rushed to recalibrate risks, consumers were shocked by canceled policies and soaring rates.

In 2018, after the Camp fire destroyed more than 18,000 buildings, lawmakers in Sacramento prevented insurance companies from canceling homeowner policies in or adjacent to wildfire areas for 12 months after the day of an emergency declaration. The idea was to protect consumers after traumatic episodes and to give them time to make their homes more fire resistant. That, ideally, would prevent higher rates or cancellations.

“Even when these moratoriums end, they have given people time to make their homes safer,” California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, said in a statement to Bloomberg, an argument he has made on numerous occasions. “I expect insurance companies to take that into account.”

It’s hard to tell whether this is wishful thinking or effective policy. Even before the law was enacted, California’s highly regulated market was seeing insurers quit the state or refuse to write new policies. In 2019, the last period for which information was available, the state saw a 31% uptick in non-renewals. Over the same period there was a 36% increase in homeowners using the California FAIR Plan, the state’s bare-bones alternative for those who can’t get insurance in the traditional market.

ugh. for what it's worth, i owned an extremely difficult-to-insure LA house until a couple years ago, and i got my insurance through a small local brokerage, prodigy insurance, who were incredibly easy to work with and who went above and beyond repeatedly on my behalf, and i'd recommend them highly to anyone.

I wonder how many homes have been destroyed in California over, say, the past decade?

I suppose wildfires have been prevalent enough that a) our friend's aunt died in the Camp Fire, b) a wonderful Airbnb farm we stayed at was destroyed and all the animals lost, and c) a restaurant we went to on our honeymoon was destroyed.

Adding up the yearly statistics at https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/ I get 57,751 structures destroyed since 2013.

A college friend who used to live in the hills above Santa Cruz told me that instead of resolutions, he and his wife began every new year by asking themselves "is this the year our house is going to burn down and destroy everything we own?" Eventually that did happen when the CZU Complex fire not just burned down their house but most of their town too. They got out with what they could throw in their car.

Maybe move

The ironic punch line to this is that California isn't even in the top ten of most expensive states to insure a house. It's mostly all the tornado alley states + Florida.

(an acquaintance who moved to Texas for the usual "Southern California is too expensive, shitty, etc. etc." reasons arrived in Texas just in time for the 2021 deep freeze that wrecked their house's plumbing. their home insurance is four times what they were paying in SoCal and now they're having regrets from moving in the first place)

I'm presently at the edge of a fire hazard zone, so feel pretty okay about that. But I'm in a "liquefaction" zone.

Long-timers here like to bring up "every chimmney in your neighborhood collapsed after the 1991 quake" *sigh*

Long, but worthwhile read on Long Beach's attempts to redevelop and gentrify the gravesite of Acres Of Books

https://forthe.org/perspectives/gentrification-broadway-block/

w.r.t. the killings off of the 395 - I recently listened to the Dreamtown podcast. It's a long one about Adelanto and its attempts at being one of the first legal weed grow cities. In short, it's a clusterfuck... I don't feel particularly great about saying that Inland Empire corruption is an obvious background for modern noir stories because real people are involved here, but hfs

https://crooked.com/podcast-series/dreamtown-the-story-of-adelanto/

i think what a lot of people who aren't from California don't quite get is the sense of overwhelming bleakness that can be found in some parts of the state, and the sense of lawlessness.

the above murders were enough to make Borderland Beat as a news story -- they almost exclusively cover what's been occurring in Mexico w/r/t drug violence but this could have ties to a larger cartel though nothing was concrete or pinpointed.

https://www.borderlandbeat.com/2024/01/5-arrests-made-for-6-shot-dead-in.html

some authorities are blaming marijuana legalization(!) which seems like a bad area to lay blame.

The sheriff blames illicit marijuana, which seems more reasonable. Although you could blame U.S. drug policy in general.

i suppose i err on the side of law enforcement making a dumb argument, he could however be arguing that the prop was a half-measure when a full legalization would be better.

not really related, i'm a bit astonished by crime around here and how it's covered sometimes, when i witnessed a drive-by shooting near downtown L.A. i never even found out if the guy survived, nor was it ever reported by a single news source. LAPD didn't tell me a single thing when i called them up. it never even appeared on the official crime map.

a murder that occurred one block away from me a couple years before that was reported by The Eastsider LA and seemingly just buried elsewhere (all i could determine is the guy was a drug dealer.) it makes me wonder what we never ever hear about.

A week ago there was a big raid on a storefront on E Colorado that used to be an illegal weed dispensary but something was going on that warranted a dozen police cars most of whom were unmarked. Zero news anywhere other than one person on Citizen

In other news, fuck this guy
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/fred-rosen-battle-bel-air-subway-1235807662/

In mundane news, I have been visiting relatives who live in Hermosa Beach, they've been here almost 30 years. Wanted to see music tonight, but got out-voted and we went to a comedy club here. Some funny ones. May do some tourist stuff and museums in the rain tomorrow.

Everyone stay safe & dry out there

Made it up to Griffith Observatory before rain got too heavy. Had lunch at Gualaguezta , a Oaxacan Mexican restaurant touted long ago by Jonathan Gold, then saw Joni Mitchell’s old Laurel Canyon house, and the Laurel Canyon Country Store. Rain was coming down hard on our way back to Hermosa Beach. Decided to stay in tonight

I'm putting on a c00l show if u like old punks for FREE at Canters on Thursday

https://i.imgur.com/tXsY6H5.png

That looks fun but we will be down in San Diego Thursday. Some old DC punks are doing west coast shows this week- Hammered Hulls with singer Alec Mackaye.

guelaguetza is so good. sorry you’re having such a torrential visit curmudgeon!

Glad you got back to Hermosa Beach safely. I almost didn't make it up Benedict Canyon last night. In fact, I didn't make it "up"; I had to turn around, get up to Mulholland off the 405, and come down. Lots of mud, rocks, other debris. What a mess.

BREAKING: A rain gauge at UCLA has picked up 12.46 inches of rain in 24 hours.

Per NOAA statistics, that’s 1.1 inches MORE than a thousand-year rainfall event.

The odds of an place in the Los Angeles area seeing a 11.5 inch/24 hour rain event any given year is 0.1%. pic.twitter.com/s2byz4u6Cd

— Matthew Cappucci (@MatthewCappucci) February 6, 2024

Hope Diddy Riese didn't get washed out...

LA Times says El Nino and Climate change together of course have made this so bad. So we have been safely able to get around some, and went to LACMA yesterday and saw the El Chavez Ravine exhibit by Vincent Valdes and Ry Cooder about how Latino immigrants were kicked out to build Dodgers stadium and promised a new housing project that was never delivered. It uses a painted old Good Humor truck to convey what happened. We also saw multiple other exhibits there, and wandered past outdoor La Brea Tarpits enclosures by that museum. Ate at Oste for lunch and had Korean food at Jang su Jang in Torrance for dinner.

Sounds like you're having a good visit, despite the rain!

I saw sunlight for approximately 2 minutes earlier this afternoon and now we are getting hammered again

Yeah I’m usually one of those “bring on the rain” folks, but this is starting to suuuuck

Yeah, it's starting to feel a little Blade Runner out there.

Yep. My wife and had a good visit in LA & Hermosa Beach despite the rain , and despite not seeing any music. Then we went over to Joshua Tree for a bit, and now down in San Diego.

Happy to see Measure HLA pass

the windstorm on Thursday was strong enough to knock down our backyard fence and knock out power for the block, but the power surge from multiple blackouts/brownouts was strong enough to kill the electrical outlets in our kitchen, take out our microwave, and fry a half-dozen surge protectors. can't really plug anything in and still on vague power until tomorrow when a electrician diagnoses (suspect one or more circuit breakers were killed too)