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Rod V.

Silence Is Golden, Duct Tape Is Silver.

Los Angeles, CA

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1 star rating
10/13/2009 2 photos

"Detention Center"? Let's call it what it is okay, jail, a prison. The word "Detention" reminds one of staying after school because you were late for a class or something. This is not a place you ever want to come, as a visitor and especially as an inmate.

I was here some weeks ago, visiting a friend who had never been in jail before, I could only imagine what he was going through. Sometimes in life we make decisions, out of anger, out of passion, call it what you will, a momentary loss of control can cost you your freedom, maybe your life, but enough with the philosophy on with the review.

I have never set foot in a prison either as an inmate or a visitor, and I must say the experience was very strange. The environment here reminded me of so many things, many times it felt like I was in a hospital, I also felt like I was in an airport, I felt like I was at the DMV, I felt like I was at the zoo, seriously combine all those things and that's what this place feels like.

TIPS :

- you need to come early, the processing, and the waiting all in all will take about 2 to 3 hours, visiting is only allowed on weekends and the max visiting ours you can spend is 2 hours, not a day, but the entire weekend. So you can understand why the processing of visitors takes so long.

- leave your cellphone in the car, you can stand in line, get to the end the guards will not let you in if you have a cellphone and no they will not hold your cellphone for you.

- bring water with you and a snack, waiting in line burns a lot of calories.

- you have to know the inmates processing number, you can't visit just knowing his first and last name, that won't cut it, you have to now the prisoners processing number.

After the processing you have to wait for a bus, once you board the bus it will take you to the actual building of the prison. You get off, your placed in a long hallway, and I mean long hallway that is hot, smelly, and loud. You wait there until they call out the inmates name and then you just follow the crowd. They assign you telephones stations, where you sit behind brakeproof glass, yeah you see stuff like this in the movies and on TV, I'm telling you its really weird.

My friend is out, thank God! He spent just under 2 weeks in prison, still the stories he told about it, it's something I would never what to personally experience. For my friend who has never been to prison before, he's man enough to pay his debt to society and not blame anyone else for his actions, he's taken full responsibility for what he did and did his time like a man. Prison to me is like being berried alive, the lesson I've learned from my friend and his situation, you better think before you act.

Prison to me is like being berried alive

tips would be useful to certain people fwiw

probably not people who read yelp but hey

I have read all the reviews and it looks like most people have a tourist or second-hand perspective of this place.

Well I'm here to tell you what it's like from the inside.

In 1989 when I was 17 I made the mistake of borrowing a strangers car without their permission & after many months of courtroom banter I was sentenced to the California Youth Authority.

Unbeknownst to me, California has a "scared straight" program for youthful offenders where they take unwitting sentenced juveniles to the hardest state prisons & .....

Well they let you think this is where you have been sent ..possibly by mistake.

The 4 days I spent here were miserable. We all arrive on the grey goose & are schackled and escorted to a main pen to be counted & dispersed.

This place is cold & damp and just like every prison movie -(the green mile) you have ever seen depiciting a shit hole prison.

Yeah they play baseball with local sF organizations and they have deathrow inmates but mostly its a minimum/medium security facility with a bunch of short timers.

It's kind of nostalgic because of its sorted history but...

This is not a place you wanna end up. Not all big bad & scary like the movies make it, but cold,damp and miserable with really shitty food.

AVOID AT ALL COST!

^ San Quentin review, two stars

"shitty food." ahh yelp.

This light rail is an excellent option for those who use it during the day for work but after dark its a complete waste---Crime is up when its running and crime is down when they are servicing.....Very noticeable....especially in the areas it passes through----They should close it off at 7 pm when most people are home from work...those left in the dark should seek other means....BUT this is a dream, it will never close early because of crime.....its not politically correct BUT AS I SAID ITS WONDERFUL FOR DAYTIME COMMUTER, should you question the crime---ask any police officer who works these areas and ask what the crime is like !

what is the crime like ?

what the hell is this chick talking about

Amber B.
Sticks & stones may break my bones but whips & chains excite me
Santa Monica, CA

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3 star rating
11/16/2009

Don't get me wrong, I had a nice time and yes I even won the raffle but in comparison to other Elite Events this one was just kind of "ok".

I think the biggest issue was the lack of connection I felt at this event. Now this was definitely not my first rodeo (rodeo = elite event in this case!) so I'm used to knowing a lot if not most of the staff and attendees. I showed up to sign in and was greeted by someone completely unknown to me who was very cheery and nice but didn't even introduce herself (I tried to peek at her name tag but was unsuccessful at catching her name). Once inside the packed little boutique I wandered around for about 10 minutes before I finally caught sight of *gasp* someone I actually knew! Thanks to Jackie G., Katherine N., Minty, Stephanie H. and Libby for comprising the crew of "old school Yelpers" (omg collectively we're not even really "old-school" just not complete newbs) That comprised the group of people at this event that I'd ever met before. The rest was a sea of shining smiling new faces which is great for the community of LA West but just a pretty weird experience for me. I met Tiffany for the first time and while she was nice I just didn't feel the same genuinely welcoming and friendly vibe as in the past with the CMs. This is not at all to hate on Tiffany because I most definitely appreciate the event last night (although it needs to be recognized that this was originally planned by Dawson) I'm just noting the differences I felt.

The bubbly and red/white wine was a'flowing non-stop and served up by this ferociously sexy TALL athletic woman...a volleyball player we guessed and confirmed! L'Grande Orange treats were very tasty but I only got a chance to try 1 of the lettuce cups and took home a couple of the cookies for later. Those cookies are ginormous (and flourless) by the way!

The list to get your free brow wax or tint went pretty quickly and my girl Jenn did a nice neat and quick job. I just needed a bit of a cleanup but my brows look great now and she was very gentle! Waiting in line for the lipstick psychic took a looooong time but Tiffany talked to the psychic and asked her to speed things up a bit and the line moved a lot more smoothly. I always go into those kinds of things with a healthy dose of skepticism but I swear that girl was right on the mark with her reading! True or not it was a fun little treat!

You know how I mentioned earlier that I won the raffle? Well, I was the ONLY winner...kinda weird....usually there are multiple gifts being raffled AND in the event description it was written that they would be raffling away some Benefit product goodies. That definitely didn't happen. I was the only raffle winner and I won VIP tickets to the Sassy City Chicks Fashion Bash. The details of the prize are supposed to be emailed to me. EDIT: I stand corrected. Turns out someone DID win a Benefit goodie bag and a couple other pairs of VIP tix were given out as well. Where was I when this happened? Drunk maybe?

I must make note that the event photographer was pretty much a fail. For one thing, he was a HE and the only male at this "ladies only" event. I think that made the dynamic between him and us very awkward and a lot of people felt very uncomfortable by his mannerisms. Even the Benefit girls working on our brows were complaining about him because he didn't know when and where to draw the line and was being obnoxious and all up in their faces. It's like he didn't know when it's okay and when it's not okay to coerce a girl into posing for a photo. When is it not okay? Well, it's not okay for example when she's got half her makeup done or wax all over her forehead. I saw many girls covering their faces and even grimacing when the photographer would approach. I don't want to totally bash him and say he was terrible but he just was not the right fit for this event. We ALL know who WOULD have been the perfect fit and that's our well-loved Amy K. She knows when to shoot and she knows when to step back AND she's a Yelper so she KNOWS us and is one of us so she never feels like an intruder or an outsider...she's part of the COMMUNITY. Not to mention she takes FABULOUS photographs and has done so for MANY MANY MANY Yelp events (Elite or otherwise).

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lipstick psychic

i refuse to read that omar

The dude who owns the recording studio where we recorded our last two records asked very nicely for some Yelp reviews. However, once he received them, the computer/ad sales team deleted them all, without notice. Maybe the volume of good reviews in a short period of time seemed suspicious, but it seems so arbitrary. I told him to expect the call from the Yelp sales and "review placement" team any day now...

John M.

Sicklerville, NJ
3 star rating
6/3/2009

Last night while sitting side by side in the nerd room my lovely girlfriend pointed out that I haven't given any 3 star reviews. This is mainly because I don't agree with the Yelp star system. Three stars is A-Ok, I take A-Ok to be a positive rating, but 3 stars is in the middle. My next mission is to petition Yelp to make 3 stars say something like "Alright" or more accurately "Meh".
Ok that got a little out of hand, so I'm salivating about what to have for lunch (while my poor leftovers get destroyed by the microwave) when I decided a little reverse psychology was needed. I asked myself "Self, What wouldn't I like for lunch" and I received my 3 star answer....Don Pablo's.
I think success Don Pablo has had is directly attributed to location. I've eaten at the one in Easton, PA and it was also empty, but in Deptford you want to plan on waiting for a few mins on Friday/Saturday night. It's not that food is bad, but more a case of the food not being good. It's really mediocre at best. It there was a closer more ,convenient place to get some yellow cheese Mexican (my nifty little term for Americanized chain Mexican) I would go there. I've never had a issue with the service and the menu has all the regulars, but there's no wow factor...nothing that makes you think "Now that was worth 1500 calories". I don't have much more to say about Don Pablo's than Meh.....3 stars. It's not terrible, but certainly not good. I'm dumb and will probably end up eating there again.

(my nifty little term for Americanized chain Mexican)

Ok that got a little out of hand,

did it? did it really?

yelpers goin crazy

i think that long "review" i posted was likely written by someone who didn't blink the entire time she was writing it.

We ALL know who WOULD have been the perfect fit and that's our well-loved Amy K. She knows when to shoot and she knows when to step back AND she's a Yelper so she KNOWS us and is one of us so she never feels like an intruder or an outsider...she's part of the COMMUNITY. Not to mention she takes FABULOUS photographs and has done so for MANY MANY MANY Yelp events (Elite or otherwise).

what the fuck

they aren't even reviewing places anymore? just holding yelp events (where, what happens at them? waxing?) that yelpers can yelp later

I met Tiffany for the first time and while she was nice I just didn't feel the same genuinely welcoming and friendly vibe as in the past with the CMs. This is not at all to hate on Tiffany because I most definitely appreciate the event last night (although it needs to be recognized that this was originally planned by Dawson) I'm just noting the differences I felt.

yelp should fucking fire tiffany

that ~bitch~

scumbagssssssssssssssss

Yelp reviews of hospitals I have spent time at:

Yeah, so I don't like doctors or hospitals. I had to go to Cedars in December of 2006. I was blown away that a hospital could be so glamorous. No wonder celebrities deliver their kids at Cedars.

The first thing I noticed was the waterfall. The emergency room was spotless. I got a private room in the ER. The doctor looked like a hipster with a faux mohawk. Oh WeHo, I do love you so.

This hospital is anything but ghetto. This is the hospital of my choice and luckily close to my house and covered by insurance!

And:

At first the staff was completely unhelpful. The waiting room was dirty and people hated us, I'm sure. Who doesn't hate someone who inflicts their own pain?

Luckily I got to leave because our ride was taking us to my ride. I didn't return promptly and I didn't feel bad since they said only one of us was allowed in the room with her alone. Like I needed to sit in the waiting room with the others watching CNN, reading hospital magazines BY MYSELF. I drove and drove. L.A. is so friendly and empty at 3 am. I pondered life, mistakes, relationships. I texted my other friend some of my musings. Bad call.

She told me that I was being completely useless and to just go home if I was going to sit around (sit? I was driving our getaway car!) thinking about myself. So I got her some chicken nuggets from Wendy's on Sunset and told her she'd better come out to the waiting room.

It was still dirty when I returned and we devised a plan to get the hell out of there. Unfortunately the security guard wouldn't let me back in. "She's sleeping." Of course she is, that's why I needed to go and wake her up! We didn't come to an agreement, which forced my friend and I to sneak in another way. STAR EARNED! Although usually this would be a minus star for allowing easy access to the patients.

We tried desperately to wake our friend up, but she wasn't having it. So we rummaged through the cabinets in her room and found some sheets to stay warm. My sober friend warned me that a bitchy nurse would be coming in soon and that she would not like us. She also took our drunk friend's temperature up the butt. I enjoyed that immensely. STAR TWO.

People (and I use the term "people" loosely as I mean doctors and nurses and the like) came in and went. All of them questioned our sobriety and kept asking, "Does she have a sober person to drive her home!?" I commend them in their quest to keep everyone safe, but Geez. We had been there for four hours. My eyes were bloodshot because it was 6 in the morning and I hadn't slept. If I knew I seemed so drunk when I was sober, I wouldn't drink at all and just grab people's butts for fun.

The creepiest was this dude who took her blood. "Stay still sweetheart." Sweetheart? Very creepy, if you ask me. Like the situation of a passed out drunk girl he called sweetheart was not that unfamiliar to him...

Three lectures, 1 IV, five motivational speeches to our friend to get up, no stomach pumping, no alcohol poisoning, and no sleep later we were free at last!

The bill has yet to arrive, and I fear for my friend. That's going to suck.

Had this been a real emergency I would probably give this place more stars. Since it wasn't, they kinda hated us. We kinda hated them, which wasn't entirely their fault.

Who doesn't hate someone who inflicts their own pain?

can we hire some russian hackers to replace very yelp review with this

lol @ creep phlebotomist

"sweetheart" is hospital for "u dum slag" correct

nah, UDS is its own thing, like FLK

what

http://www.empireonline.com/images/features/100greatestcharacters/photos/69.jpg
http://www.ironrail.org/blog/uploaded_images/SS.f_for_fake-768548.jpg

haha

FLK is old-school chartspeak for "funny looking kid"

it sounds awful---and is generally frowned upon these days---but ppl used to put it on charts to indicate some kind of follow-up. ie an FLK might look "syndromey" and may have never been diagnosed

like this is beyond my purview to diagnose, but ~someone~ might want to check this kid out

i didn't even pick up on what "UDS" could be in yr post, jeezis

haha

there are other funny/rong chart memes out there, too, if you want what might not be the most pleasant revelation of what some docs are thinkin about their patients

the ER ones can either be the funniest or the worst, given who and what passes through there

MDs got in trouble for this in the UK: one of the chart terms was NFN (Normal for Norfolk) and another was GROLIES (Guardian Reader of low intelligence, ethnic skirt).

whoa

man i am thinking of stuff like MOB (minding own business) when ppl get stabbed or w/e

British chart slang: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3159813.stm

holy shit at GROLIES

Rkeezee K.
U suckkers got served
Studio City, CA

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5 star rating
1/9/2008

First to Review

i feel honored to write ghetto's first review. my fellow ghetto lovers will rejoice that it has a 5-star review! my group of friends commonly refer this place as ghetto chinese, but it is far from it in terms of taste and experience.

so how did i find this place? there used to be another chinese restaurant in the other plaza across de soto. i first ate there and it was like any other chinese fast food place. then my chinese friend told me to try the other ghetto one (abc express). so i did and i was sold.. and the name "ghetto" stuck as well.. hahah i let in a few coworkers on this place and next thing you know, when it hits lunch time, all you hear is, "ready to hit up ghetto?"

So heres the skinny. First of all, this place is really run by chinese people. very friendly. the food puts panda to shame, but is on the greasy-greasy side. i love the orange fried rice (yes its orange in color, but tastes delish!), fried chicken wings (if you get chummy with the servers, they really do pile it on), orange chicken (somehow tastes much better than pandas, must be the extra msg), beef n broccoli, and the all time favorite is the bbq pork.. mmm mmmm

it is fast food, so dont expect a nice sit down environment. On a funny note, i think this place used to be a former subway sandwich place. they have a neon light fixture above which reads "healthy fresh diet food" lol.. no joke. sadly there is nothing healthy fresh or diety about this place, but that's not what im looking for :-)

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dawson s.
Los Angeles, CA

As thrilled as I was to see the new Target (can you hear me dragging that soft 'g' out?), open up on La Brea, the parking nightmare and lack of stock has driven me back to the og location on La Cienega time, and time again.

Of course I prefer having a shiny, clean, safe, more luxury experience at the newer store, but if they don't have what I'm looking for and I still have to pay for parking - talk about adding insult to injury - what's the point?

This store feels a lot like Target's red-headed step sister, but let me tell ya, she delivers. Time and time again, I've been able to find exactly what I was in the store for (including advertised specials and sales items) when they've been sold out all over town at the other locations. Another plus is the ample garden shop area - something you won't find at the "other" location either. And of course, there's parking. Easy, free, ample parking. Just as it was meant to be.

A point off to the ghetto factor that seems to pervade virtually every element of your experience here. Once you're prepared for it and over it (which, you generally will be after getting screwed some way or another at that "other" location), it's smooth sailin'.

Oh, and there's a Micky D's at the far corner of the parking lot. What better way to wrap up a g-h-e-t-t-o afternoon than with a Big Mac, fries and a shake?

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you are just searching "ghetto" arent you

i did that before and was surprised not much turned up :/

yes : /

xpost

except (just watch "The Wire" to see how ghetto B'more really is)

11/22/2009
Nothing "ghetto" about this area or "setup" at all. However if "ghetto" is synonymous with black for some of you, well here's to cracking your codewords. You'll see plenty of us around here. It's diagonal from the Lafayette Gardens housing project, near Pratt Institute, and directly across from the G train at Classon Avenue. It's also blocks away from Sputnik and Rustik which are relatively popular haunts.

The owners are extremely nice; they'll remember you, and it's dirt cheap in comparison to spots on Myrtle like Polish Bar. I recommend it highly, and have been coming here for years since they first opened.

- Signed Koku De La Ghetto

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Caro J.
Brooklyn, NY
11/1/2009
I loooooooove this place! Don't let the ghetto area and set up fool you. The owners and employees here are very nice and do a good job with nails.
But the best part about it? TWENTY DOLLARS FOR A MANI AND PEDI! Where else can you find that but in Brooklyn! Also, it's very convenient for me (only about two blocks).
They do take on more customers than they should, so be warned that you may have to wait over an hour on busy days like the weekend.

The creepiest was this dude who took her blood. "Stay still sweetheart." Sweetheart? Very creepy, if you ask me. Like the situation of a passed out drunk girl he called sweetheart was not that unfamiliar to him...

W! T! F! project much?

People (and I use the term "people" loosely as I mean doctors and nurses and the like) came in and went.

double WTF. people that PRACTICE MEDICINE are scumbags??

yes

Joe V.

East Elmhurst, NY
3 star rating
2/26/2009

Pros- Most authentic Filipino food restaurant in NY, very low prices, fast service.

Cons- The decor and ambience is awful and staff (some are Mexicans) are not friendly.

ugh