i've been to axe in venice. is that douchebaggy? the food was very good.
― lauren, Friday, 29 February 2008 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Felicity, I DON'T LIVE IN SANTA MONICA.
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 29 February 2008 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I haven't lived in Santa Monica since the summer of 1984 :(
― Jeff LeVine, Friday, 29 February 2008 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Movies...
http://egyptiantheatre.com/sched.htm http://egyptiantheatre.com/Aero/aeromastercalendar.htm http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/public/calendar/calendar_f.html http://www.lacma.org/programs/FilmSeriesSchedule.aspx http://www.silentmovietheatre.com/
― Jeff LeVine, Friday, 29 February 2008 22:53 (sixteen years ago) link
arclight
― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 1 March 2008 01:34 (sixteen years ago) link
This is my hood!
http://www.midcitywest.org
http://www.midcitywest.org/images/M_images/midcitywestlimits.gif
― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 1 March 2008 01:46 (sixteen years ago) link
spencer lives in a good neighborhood (except for Grove congestion). definitely not "westside" in my book
― gershy, Saturday, 1 March 2008 02:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, getting around the Grove can be a pain, but I can actually walk there when I want to see a movie or go to the Farmer's Market.
― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 1 March 2008 02:19 (sixteen years ago) link
A: Away.
― ian, Saturday, 1 March 2008 02:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Gabbneb is right, we hung out at the Venice Beach House a lot because we were totally stuck in the immediate area of Venice until someone came and got us. Luckily, our kind friends drove us all over the place: Museum of Jurassic Technology, Griffith Observatory, art museum, Little Tokyo, Dim Sum in SGV, downtown, but usually after dinner we ended up chilling at the beach house because we had all just been in Vegas so we were nightlifed out and wanted to keep it low key.
It was a great place to stay without a car because there was quite a bit of stuff within walking distance, but it was a long-seeming drive to other places. So if you have people who want to drive you places then it would be good, but probably very inconvenient if you didn't have that. The moving around idea is a good one, I think.
― saudade, Saturday, 1 March 2008 02:52 (sixteen years ago) link
That's my hood also! (though I'm closer to La Brea)
Also for movies: http://www.newbevcinema.com/
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 1 March 2008 07:47 (sixteen years ago) link
What else do you recommend in Santa Monica and Venice?
I heart the Santa Monica camera obscura: http://gridskipper.com/travel/los-angeles/la-letter-camera-obscura-143840.php
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 1 March 2008 07:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, this is where I mention the Museum of Jurassic Technology and the Center For Land Use Interpretation again...
http://mjt.org/ http://clui.org/
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 1 March 2008 07:49 (sixteen years ago) link
The Wende Cold War museum in Culver City is pretty dang strange: http://www.wendemuseum.org/
Only open on Fridays though
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 1 March 2008 07:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Really, for Santa Monica there's nothing that beats a drive up PCH to the Ventura county line and a meal at Neptune's Net: http://www.neptunesnet.com/
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 1 March 2008 07:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm glad to learn the Mid-City West designation. There's something about the mix of use and the low rise and the gentle elevation and the quality of light at certain hours around there that works for me. I just wish the Grove/Farmer's Market lived up to their billing more.
― gabbneb, Saturday, 1 March 2008 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Chris, I didn't know you lived here, let's hang!
Gabbneb, yes, it's no longer a "farmer's market", but some of the food places are truly amazing! (and yeah, the magic hour here can be especially magical)
― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 1 March 2008 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Farmer's Daughter looked great and we looked forward to our stay their, until they fucked up our reservation and left us stranded making us stay at a more expensive much less nice place in Beverly Hills. That was total bullshit.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 1 March 2008 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
in that neighborhood, I might opt for the El@n Hotel Mod3rn, which may be doing renovation work at the moment
― gabbneb, Saturday, 1 March 2008 18:09 (sixteen years ago) link
dinner tonight, anybodies?
― remy bean, Saturday, 1 March 2008 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Sierra Madre beats Monrovia, easy. Pasadena has good stuff but we get enough tourists.
― Gorge, Saturday, 1 March 2008 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh dear. felicity in overexplaining making things worse shocker.
Mid-City West has a lot of favorites: Centerfold News, Pinks, Cantors, Ethiopian Village, 3rd and Fairfax, Damiano's (bad pizza, good soda pop).
Sorry, Spencer, it was all the brunch talk. Now that you've identified your coordinates, the penalty is you have to come talk to me in Los Feliz about the awesomeness of Tokyo Drift and Teriyaki Boyz.
aw, lauren, always got my back. :) I have never been to Axe (apparently pronounced "ah-shay)." Will try.
― felicity, Saturday, 1 March 2008 21:22 (sixteen years ago) link
the pronunciation might render it douchebaggy, but major points for the porterhouse pork chop.
― lauren, Saturday, 1 March 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Pasadena has good stuff but we get enough tourists
srsly. it's packed every fucking minute of the day now except between 2 and 7 am
― tremendoid, Saturday, 1 March 2008 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
lord knows why anyone would want to spend their drinking time here anyway, other than a couple of spots people don't know about.
― tremendoid, Saturday, 1 March 2008 22:29 (sixteen years ago) link
March 19-21
― youn, Saturday, 1 March 2008 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link
maria at the experimental cafe in oxnard
― youn, Saturday, 1 March 2008 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Oxnard has something called the experimental cafe? What, did they get an espresso machine or something? (I kid because I love.)
Which bars are good here, Keith? How's El Rancho (I think that's the one near you)? The gallery next door seems to like it lot.
― nickn, Sunday, 2 March 2008 00:10 (sixteen years ago) link
a few weeks ago my car transmission waited until i got to oxnard to die. there are much worse places to breathe sighs of despair in. I've gotten lost enough that i feel like i know the place.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 2 March 2008 00:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I might buy a car, I think. You know, a foreign car.
― gabbneb, Sunday, 2 March 2008 01:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I think chaki has a show March 21 at the Derby.
― felicity, Sunday, 2 March 2008 01:12 (sixteen years ago) link
i do! thanks, felicity! and march 22nd at molly malones I THINK.
― chaki, Sunday, 2 March 2008 01:17 (sixteen years ago) link
from reading this thread.. am i right to think then that the best place to stay is hollywood?
i will spend 3 nights there (3rd apr - 6 apr) and will be on my own. Any recommendation as to somewhere fun to go on Saturday night appreciated also! I've heard that the Viper Room is surprisingly small.
― The smile on my face, disguises the case, I bury the truth deep down in (ken c), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 11:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Hollywood, yeah:
-breakfast/lunch at Lucky Devils-pick up an LA Weekly and see what appeals, with special notice to J. Gold's restaurant reviews-Amoeba Records-Jitlada for Thai food, or maybe this other place next to Jumbo's Clown Room. "other place" has excellent little Thai fried bar snacks-that pho place on Sunset in Silverlake/Echo Park sorry I don't remember the name-take the subway downtown, walk around-Solar de Cahuenga is a decent place to get coffee and wifi
that's what I'm going to do when I get back to LA, anyway. Which happens to be on April 2nd, so lemme know if you want to get coffee.
I haaaaate the Strip and so I've never been to the Viper Room, maybe I'm missing out.
― scratch paper (lukas), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 11:51 (fourteen years ago) link
yess will be up for meeting up deffo.
would also like to see some awesome metal shows while there obv.
― The smile on my face, disguises the case, I bury the truth deep down in (ken c), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
lukasb AT googlemail
unfortunately i don't know anything about metal in LA. but i know it's there!
― scratch paper (lukas), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
cool will email! look forward to LA FAP/FAC
― The smile on my face, disguises the case, I bury the truth deep down in (ken c), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
argghhhh.. now kind of tempted to stay on the Queen Mary... might be fun for a night but has potential to be actually pretty lame
― The smile on my face, disguises the case, I bury the truth deep down in (ken c), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 11:15 (fourteen years ago) link
PEOPLE WHERE DO I GET GOOD MEXICAN IN DOWNTOWN LA AT THIS HOUR(7PM) on A WEEKNIGHT? I AM HEAR THE STANDARD DOWNTOWN
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 03:05 (fourteen years ago) link
central market is closed at this hour : (
― lmfao @ credulity (velko), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 03:10 (fourteen years ago) link
take the gold line to mariachi plaza.
― Garden of "Eden" (get bent), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
We took the red line to olvera st and got ratty cart-style mex ^______________^
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 05:17 (fourteen years ago) link
what's the best way to get from the bay to LA without a car?
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 00:25 (nine years ago) link
and without spending a lot
or taking 12 hours
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 00:26 (nine years ago) link
craigslist rideshare
― iatee, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 00:26 (nine years ago) link
dunno where it leaves from but there's a bus from the bay that my cousin used to take that drops people off at usc or ucla I think, and according to her it took at long as a car ride or w/e
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link
how much is "a lot"? depending on when you book, you can get cheap flights between SFO->LAX and OAK->BUR (i've seen them go as low as $65 one way)
megabus is even cheaper and takes about 7 hours each way but i've never done it
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 00:44 (nine years ago) link
Is it possible to stay somewhere walkable to the beach, in redondo, Manhattan, or whatever beach, or elsewhere?
― calstars, Sunday, 21 February 2016 20:46 (eight years ago) link
airbnb maybe? That's an expensive area.
― nickn, Monday, 22 February 2016 01:54 (eight years ago) link
yeah airbnb in venice maybe?
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Monday, 22 February 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link