Los Angeles Thread #8: Strong and Prouty

i absolutely would've gone to the last one w/ optimo if i hadn't been flat broke. i'm in not-much-better shape this time around, but still, harvey...

Nooooooo

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/home_blog/2012/03/york-boulevard-highland-park-maximiliano-hpk.html

Lincoln Park is the new Highland Park. Get in on the ground floor!

Boyle Heights

I like where I live, but I am worried it is gonna become all douchey

Does anyone know a good bike RENTAL place in NELA/Pasadena?

From the Drive thread:

Angelenos or other, tell me about that concrete channel beloved of driving scenes in this and other movies. Is it just the course of the Los Angeles River? How come it's so empty of water? Can one normally drive along it? Would one need a lever action shotgun to blast through gates closing it off?

― ledge, Monday, March 12, 2012 10:28 AM (2 hours ago)

The 1914 flood caused $10 million in damages throughout the developing basin and brought a public outcry for action to address the recurrent flooding problems. The following year, the Los Angeles County Flood Control District was formed. Early flood control efforts included some channelization and the need for reservoirs. Taxpayers approved bond issues in 1917 and 1924 to build the initial major dams. However, taxpayers were not willing to provide enough funds for substantial infrastructure downstream of the dams. After two more destructive floods in the 1930s, Federal assistance was requested and the Army Corps of Engineers took a lead role in channelizing the River. Channelization began in 1938, and by 1960, the project was completed to form a fifty-one mile engineered waterway.

Before channelization of the River, flood control projects and utilization of the River as a source of water changed the system of streams, wetlands, and swamps of the natural lands. Channelization provided flood control for the increasingly developed region and a consistent path for the River course. Today, the banks of the River are almost fully lined along its entire length. Only three portions of the channel bottom remain unpaved: through the Sepulveda Flood Control Basin in the San Fernando Valley, near Griffith Park through Elysian Valley where ground water levels prevent it from being paved, and at the River estuary in Long Beach where the River empties into the Pacific Ocean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyOKN3cSr8g

a long-term l.a. river revitalization project is underway:

http://www.lariver.org/

The Plan provides a 25- to 50-year blueprint for transforming the City's 32-mile stretch of the river into an "emerald necklace" of parks, walkways, and bike paths, as well as providing better connections to the neighboring communities, protecting wildlife, promoting the health of the river, and leveraging economic reinvestment.

They gotta call it the Low Line.

free sneak preview of damsels in distress on the 18th.

http://www.cinefamily.org/films/special-events-march-2012/#damsels-in-distress-free-sneak-preview-whit-stillman-in-person

OOOOoooo down for that.

already have tix for sir richard bishop that night

i biked by this last night and got to see the robot!

http://laist.com/2012/03/14/man_arrested_in_hollywood_for_bogus.php

Hey guys

Are you excited that we have our own super big and important Biennial now?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2012/03/hammer-prize-new-biennial.html

Does anybody know any good restaurants in Tarzana that aren't too expensive or spicy?

i like coral tree cafe in encino (next neighborhood over). not too pricey.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/coral-tree-cafe-encino

special shoutout to bea's bakery in tarzana, which makes the best black & white cookies in town:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/beas-bakery-tarzana

aw, i know a couple folks in that biennial! exciting!

i know nothing about tarzana except that one of my coworkers is from there

tarzana is: (a) jews (b) people who aren't rich enough to live in encino

NYTimes discovers Long Beach.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/travel/36-hours-long-beach-calif.html

And of course, as a reference point:

As part of Long Beach’s push to become the most bike-centric city south of Portland, Ore...

LACMA's screening marclay's 'clock' this weekend, with free donuts across the street

(gonna try to hit it up at some point)

yuengling is here!

http://laist.com/2012/03/28/now_pouring_yuengling_lager_the_brickyard_pub.php

is that bar new? i never noticed it when i lived there. <3 yuengling but their website isn't doing a good job of making it look appetizing.

i think it is a new bar.

rip yellow aster mercantile company. when i lived in east hollywood, this was around the corner from me (jumbo's clown room was around the other corner).

http://la.racked.com/archives/2012/03/29/yellow_aster_mercantile_only_has_a_few_more_months_left.php

Finally had some Yuengling when I was out in NYC. Pretty good, yeah.

L.A. is a great big freeway.
Put a hundred down and buy a car.
In a week, maybe two, they'll make you a star
Weeks turn into years. How quck they pass
And all the stars that never were
Are parking cars and pumping gas

Weeks turn into years. How quck they pass

And all the stars that never were
Are parking cars and pumping gas

Yeah, poor Sergio, he just wanted to be a contract player at Paramount

that's my fav part of that song

It's a mix of the "songs that conjure Los Angeles" thread with Steve Erickson's top 100 LA songs plus highly subjective adamrl insertions:

http://open.spotify.com/user/tulselupero/playlist/3N6OmFlmQmrjPwRuwOMiR3

Feel free to contribute!

I don't have spotify

Also it reminded me how bomb this is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc7Lx3Jyetg

ohhhh poor ppp

pppp

All of these comps are so great too
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fj8pkcXBLB4/R6muZaerPJI/AAAAAAAAAMs/l0po2V7KGVk/s400/East+Side+Story+volume+%2312.jpg
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre000/e080/e08051pbej0.jpg
http://www.oldschoolcity.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/f/i/file_1_18.jpg

It's a mix of the "songs that conjure Los Angeles" thread with Steve Erickson's top 100 LA songs plus highly subjective adamrl insertions:

http://open.spotify.com/user/tulselupero/playlist/3N6OmFlmQmrjPwRuwOMiR3

i may have just played "malibu" twice.

and i knewwww
love would tear you aparrrrt
and i knewwww
the darkest secret of your hearrrt

exploding art!

EXPLOSIONS: Head to The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA for the opening of Cai Guo-Qiang: Sky Ladder, the first West Coast solo exhibition of Guo-Qiang's work. It will feature his new works that include what Cai is best known for—outdoor explosions and gunpowder drawings. The exhibition will open with an outdoor explosion event "Mystery Circle: Explosion Event for The Museum of Contemporary Art" on the exterior wall of The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (facing Temple Street) at 7:30 pm. The exhibit will run until July 30. Check out this entry on the MOCA blog to read more on the artist and the exhibit.

Anyone else going to Swervedriver tonight?

Anyone doing CycLAvia?

cicLAvia happens the day i fly back to LA :/

cicLAvia

I'm doin it, gotta my hands on a cyc tho

Rainy enough for ya?

smh