My jaw kinda dropped a bit when I saw Martin Short on this YouTube video saying the most horrendous things about why he’s never tried Korean food. I know the schtick of trying to get someone to change their mind on a show is interesting, but in this case his comments are so horrendous I just don’t care if he ends up liking the food or not. How can you live somewhere with the best Koreatown, be alive in 2023 and still say these things?
In Traveller today in The Sunday Age (Melbourne) and Sun-Herald (Sydney), my travel writer colleagues and I talk about the places we always go back to in certain countries.
My nomination: The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles (it's fabulous!).
It's not online yet, so pick it up in print today and I'll share the link later if it goes online.
New post: Senior Cartographer Kelsey Taylor talks about the dreamy #SoCal-inspired map style we created for our friends at @spherical and their "Living Infrastructure Field Kit," a space to explore the potential of a resilient #LosAngeles.
▶️ Spring, 1985, I took this shot at the #NuArt#LA.
I tracked the director down in Paris (with help from a friend at Columbia) and sent him a C-print of the image about 1988. Months later I got an obviously-from-Europe-size brown envelope. The director sent me a #Polaroid of the framed image in his home with a lovely note. Both lost.
Ich hasse es wenn die verf*ckte Serienaufnahme bei #MagentaTV nicht funktioniert. Oder hat’s #Sat1 bei den Meta-Daten der Folge verkackt? Nervt auf jeden Fall tierisch wenn einem eine Folge fehlt. Zum Glück konnte ich mir die einfach bei AppleTV+ kaufen. #NCIS#LA#S14E21
Los Angeles Housing Department Will Investigate Residential Hotels
Following a Capital & Main and ProPublica investigation, which found that buildings meant for #housing are instead being rented to #tourists, the mayor’s office asked for a review.
Absolutely triumphant Los Angeles taggers cover abandoned high rise!
Also, why are 27 stories of abandoned condos vacant in downtown Los Angeles while homeless people are dying on the sidewalk below?
“With all due respect, shit’s abandoned, doing nothing. Let’s put some color on this bitch and do what we do if they ain’t gon finish the job,” one ... tagger, Hopes, said.
L.A. County faces $12.5 Billion in climate costs through 2040
A first-of-its-kind report has estimated that Los Angeles County must invest billions of dollars through 2040 to protect residents from worsening climate hazards, including extreme heat, increasing precipitation, worsening wildfires, rising sea levels and climate-induced public health threats
AEW DYNAMITE Discussion Thread 01/31/24
It's Wednesday, you know what that means!...