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

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

This week in Grand Theft Auto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzAt5kTZl_0

Comics and LA buds. The late great Neal Adam’s comic shop is closing tomorrow (Wednesday, 7-31) in Burbank that was still being operated by his son and family. Go grab a book and send some love if you can. (Lifted from Scott Shaw!) please RT pic.twitter.com/OcZTdTS3fw

— 🎃 Dave Scheidt 🎃 (@DaveScheidt) July 31, 2024

did Adams ever live in LA?

I have no proof, but after hearing about the Pacific Dining Car burning up on Saturday my conspiracy theory is that property redevelopers are torching buildings and putting the frame on the unhoused.

not would it be too difficult to find an unhoused person willing to do the deed for a modest fee, I imagine.

yup

One thing did stand out from this report:
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-03/pacific-dining-car-building-heavily-damaged-in-fire

"A tent, mattresses and charred shopping carts could be seen along the north side of the restaurant building". It'll be interesting to see if it's immediately demolished. The story stands out because a similar thing happened here in the UK - a year ago a historic pub was sold to new owners, after which it mysteriously caught fire:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv2g2nwn3zzo

And what was left of the pub was completely demolished two days later, which was extraordinarily swift and very convenient for the new owners.

Tomorrow...

THIS SATURDAY Sep 21 | 5:30PM: Tomorrow Yesterday: Futuristic Visions from the Past, a Science/Art Film Exhibition. Short film treasures from the National Film Board of Canada & experimental filmmakers, exploring the intersection of art & science. https://t.co/gWpqhsI7wu pic.twitter.com/OSKPGNwNgI

— Mount Wilson Observatory (@MtWilsonObs) September 20, 2024

Saw my first "ALTADENA NOT FOR SALE" sign today

Story about which celebs had their house burned down.

https://www.curbed.com/article/los-angeles-wildfire-celebrity-homes-architectural-landmarks-burned.html

xp
Nextdoor is full of posts about not selling to developers, with the occasional conspiricists saying it was all planned for that end.

yeah, I know a crackpot whose facebook feed was all about the many LA chemtrails leading up to the fire, and how California has the technology to produce instant rainfall wherever they choose but that wasn't 'part of the Agenda'

Though I wonder how burning down James Woods' house was part of the Agenda, maybe he couldn't keep his mouth shut about the Agenda

Sigh...

Our Latest Report Shows Displacement Risks from Post-Eaton Fire Corporate Land Grab; Shares Urgent Policies Needed to Safeguard Altadena’s Black Community

- Corporate investors have accelerated their purchases of Altadena properties in 2025. Of the 151 post-fire sales from February 11 to July 5, 2025, 74 (49%) parcels were purchased by corporate entities – compared to only 18 of 181 (10%) during the same period the previous year.
- Post-fire property sales are notably concentrated in BIPOC communities.

Saugus Cafe closes after 139 years.
https://signalscv.com/2025/12/the-original-saugus-cafe-closing-after-almost-140-years-of-service/

Heads up! EXTREMELY thrilled that Sam Farzin, who put on a great wave of shows at UCI in the late 2000s and early 2010s before graduating and moving on to many different projects, musical and otherwise, has returned to the spirit of that earlier time with a new festival in LA in April. Details and links in his post below! I can say I had a bit of a hand in helping Sam make the case for acts like OOIOO and France to attend, and I'm *deeply* thrilled that the mighty Supercollider will be appearing for sure. Gonna be a treat!

https://openmelody.la/

See you there

Just copped my tick, what a treat

Yeah I’m stoked for this!! Great lineup

We may have to FAP as of old.

See everyone there!

Nithya Raman is running for mayor

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/nithya-raman-los-angeles-mayor-run/3842995/

not a football guy in the slightest but the villa's tacos cameo in the halftime show was cool as hell

https://www.instagram.com/p/DUhNhxbFMbE/

open melody-goers (ned, whiney, elvis, anyone else?): they've posted the full schedule on their site, plus they added four new acts. this is gonna be wild!

I appreciate this greatness. (And I really need to get my flights in place.)

Okay, Open Melody in two weeks and I've started a separate thread for it on ILM:

Open Melody (a new experimental/underground festival in LA)

what's the Mayoral race looking like over there?

there was a debate last night. I guess Raman was pretty poor, Bass held her own, Spencer Pratt did ok but I don't think he's got much of a chance, not in this political climate and not with who he is. The numbers suggest Bass has more than a pretty good shot at winning.

there's a lot of noise around the election from conservative media in other cities which i don't necessarily trust, which shows Bass running behind Raman and Pratt, in that order. but idk. Pratt is a Republican in a deep blue city and Raman is disliked by a lot of people on both sides, for socialist panic reasons and maybe personality wise too idk. She came in hoping for a Mamdani-like surge, but i don't see it.

I’ve seen way too many people hyping up Spencer on line and it’s insane to me

the first extension of the D line metro train to the westside opened today, new subway stops at la brea, fairfax and la cienega along wilshire

https://laist.com/news/transportation/metro-d-line-extension-opens