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

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.