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

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