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What Giant Village?
By Dave Bullock / eecue | 28 CommentsI just read this report over at LAist about Giant Village being cancelled, so I called around and talked to a few area hotels as well as the helpful 311 Los Angeles info line and YES IT IS CANCELLED! Not that I was planning on... -
Happy Birthday Pasadena Freeway
By Sean Bonner | 2 CommentsThe oldest freeway in the state turned 65 today, according to dude on KFWB thatI heard when I was driving around this afternoon. I wasn’t on the Pasadena Freeway myself at the time, but I was in a car on a road, so I felt... -
Forget those gay cowboys: check out the singing lesbians!
By la_colleen | No CommentsBrief disclaimer: I am old-time Sunday Co. friends with Patricia Cotter, the writer of the new musical, The Breakup Notebook: The Lesbian Musical (and the play it was based on). But I really, really, really liked this show when I saw it in workshop form... -
True or False: Shooting your gun into the air on New Years Eve is perfectly OK.
By Sean Bonner | 8 CommentsThat’s actually one of the questions on the California Handgun Safety test. Which you have to pass before buying a gun in California. Leagally anyway, I’m not sure if the kids down the street selling guns out of their appartment have the same requirements. Anyway,... -
GATORWATCH!!!111 Returns
By Wil | 1 CommentAs 2005 draws to a close, I look back on the year, and ask myself a lot of questions: Is it worth living here, with the traffic, and the overcrowding, and the high cost of living? Why didn’t I hike up to Mount Wilson this... -
Get Naked and Heal Thyself
By tammara | 1 CommentThe week between Christmas and New Year’s always feels a little weird to me. LA is so oddly quiet. To banish some of the residual anxiety I get from living in this city, I decided a tranquil trip was in order. That usually means going... -
Rebirth of the Arcade
By 5000! [Spencer Cross] | 4 CommentsBefore the Mitsuwa marketplace chain absorbed the Yaohan supermarket chain, Little Tokyo Shopping Center at 333 S. Alameda was called Yaohan Plaza. Back then, Yaohan Plaza had a rocking arcade that was full of cool Japanese games, like the train conductor game in which you... -
All’s Wells that ends well.
By la_robert | No CommentsInteresting little tidbit in a Boston Globe story, Sox in hunt for Tejada. While the Padres and Dodgers have been reported as the most likely ‘landing spots’ for pitcher David Wells, there were indications the last couple of days that Arizona, having cleared Troy Glaus’s... -
Re: Cyling
By Will Campbell | 1 CommentThere are a couple of unique and interesting group rides during the 10 days of Bike Winter LA 2006 coming up next month I just want to spread the word about. The first is the free Sixth Annual Nacimiento Ride at noon on January 8,... -
LA Blogger on Alaska Flight 536
By Sean Bonner | 5 CommentsThat photo is of Los Angeles bloggerJeremy Hermanns, snapped with his Treo when his flight depressurized at 30,000 feet. “Nothing can describe the helpless feeling you go through during a time like this, when you are absent any control, you cannot breathe, and everyone around... -
Metblogs Saves Room For Mumbai
By Will Campbell | 1 CommentMetblogs city roster is now The Big Four-Oh with the unveiling of Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay. That’s right, as in India. But for a taste of how small the world is, check out Sakshi Juneja’s excellent post delineating the various subspecies of gym rats... -
Local Color: Strelitzia reginae
By Will Campbell | 3 CommentsLived here all my life, but for whatever reason I’ve never before noticed the irony that it’s this least-tropical time of year that the bird of paradise begins to blossom like mad. Like jacarandas in June and floss silk trees in the fall, all of... -
LAPD Sponsoring and Recruiting at Gay Games
By Dave Bullock / eecue | No CommentsThe boys in blue are sponsoring the upcoming Gay Games VII in Chicago next year and will also be there recruiting. The LAPD is an equal opportunity employer and had this to say about the games: “The LAPD is an equal employment opportunity employer committed... -
LA Freecycle offering 25,000 Bilingual Children’s Books
By Dave Bullock / eecue | No CommentsSaw this on the LA Freecycle mailing list and thought that one of you may be interested in this: From: biguglydoofus@hotmail.com Subject: [LA Freecycle] Offer: 25,000 Bilingual Children’s Books Date: December 27, 2005 8:27:38 AM PST To: lafreecycle@yahoogroups.com I have 3 titles of an estimated... -
Dumpster Diving Gone Horribly Wrong No More Room in the Dumpster
By Dave Bullock / eecue | No CommentsSome unscrupulous person emptied out several dumpsters on 8th street south of Boyle, probably in search of valuable recyclables. I have no problem with people looking through dumpsters for trashed recyclable items, but don’t leave the trash on the street when you are done, that...
