March 2010
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This Is How We Do It, In NYC
Someone swings in from New York asks a crowd of Angelenos to listen to how things are done in New York and what do you get? Rousing applause. Our jaw dropped at this head spinning occurrence over the weekend when Janette Sadik-Khan who heads NYC’s Department of Transportation spoke at the Los Angeles Street Summit, a bicycle-centric pow wow hosted by Occidental College’s Urban &...
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Best Square to be Down and Out in LA
While New York has its bustling Greeley Square, LA’s public space named after a journalist is far less utilized. Even the designation of Larry King Square is disregarded by the Angeleno on the street. But the intersection of Vine and Cahuenga presents a confluence of qualities that make it the hands down best city square to be homeless. Perhaps challenged by the Homeless Or Hipster...
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The Supergraphics Can Go Here
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One of our stops on Oscar night led to this revelation: “The recovery is here, it will be steady and long.” That’s what Marty Collins, co-owner of the new W Hotel ran by us at the E! party red carpet, the first glitzy event to roll into his new joint. Collins, CEO of Gate House Capital, is confident his venture’s generation of 500 jobs has been the tipping point. We...
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From the Moment I Awoke, an Endless Bout
To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind; To write is - to hold Judgment Day over the self. —Henrik Ibsen
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Bukowski Readings At the Frolic Room
The Frolic Room occupies a sliver of the ground floor in the landmark Pantages Theater where the starred pavement of Hollywood Boulevard begins. The theater opened in 1930, the bar sometime after and hasn’t closed a day since, remaining the oldest gin mill in Hollywood.* The Frolic is adorned with autographed glossies of its celebrity habitués, ones that hung around after the neighborhood...
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Architect Killed By LA Metro Bus
Raimund Abraham 1933-2010
It will be unnerving hopping on our next bus since architect Raimund Abraham was killed in Downtown LA Wednesday night. His car collided with a Metro bus at 5th and Main after lecturing at the Southern California Institute for Architecture. We once had a college room mate totally enamored with the easily quotable visionary-“Pratt (Institute) is BULLSHIT”...
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In LA, We Know What Time it Is
When we decided to head to elegant Santa Anita race track for a much needed change of luck (a recent finger crushing incident working on our veteran NYC bike messenger track bike has kept us from posting) Legman was thrilled to find Saturday a promotion day marking the track’s 75th anniversary, with park visitors getting a bad-ass wall clock. But the time displayed on Santa Anita’s...