Big City Forum Puts LA’s Urban Identity Into Perspective (Kind Of)

Leave it to a panel of academic architects to march out a phrase like “multiple Angeleno urbanisms” in conversation, with completely straight faces, and assume the rest of the room will play along. That’s just what Leo Bravo’s Big City Forum featured last night during the first night of its residency at Pasadena’s Armory Center for the Arts. Leo assembled a heavyweight panel of scholars and urban planners to weigh in on the multiplicity of LA’s identity, including Tim Higgins, Jessica Varner, Linda Taalman, and Edward Soja.

“L.A.” By Fanzine

Fanzine are not from Los Angeles. Not at all. They are a band from Stoke Newington, an area in London that is very, very far from Los Angeles. The band did just release a song though, that is a sort of light pop-rock ode to the city they obviously adore.

Handsome Coffee Roasters

Dorothy Parker had ambivalent feelings about the “one perfect rose” she received from a suitor. I doubt she would feel so ho-hum about one perfect cup of coffee- especially if it was from Handsome. Handsome Coffee Roasters is now open and brewing the perfect cup from its gorgeous downtown Arts District headquarters.

Food X Frame: Troop Beverly Hills / Homemade Samoas

You love Los Angeles. You love movies. You love food. Every first Wednesday of the month, Food X Frame will discuss a movie that was shot or set in LA and provide a corresponding recipe. BYOB.

Grocery shopping in Los Angeles can be stressful. For one, parking can be a nightmare. If you’re at Trader Joe’s, it’s practically impossible, because that fucking traitor, Joe, has decided to make his parking lots the size of three car garages. Finding a spot turns into a dangerous game of car Tetris, where hipsters in hybrids and moms in minivans become kamikaze pilots.

So, Yelp Says We Have Five Of The Ten Best Restaurants Of 2011–Wait: What??

While doing some research, I somehow came across the Official Yelp Blog, a little section of the famous rating website that shares statistics, behind the scenes of Yelp, and tips for active users. It’s an OK little blog, certainly nothing you’ll be constantly checking or returning to all that often. But, sometimes they do these round ups of what Yelpers have found to be the best voted places, using their crowdsourced knowledge to make people go HMMMM. While fumbling around the site, I made a big “HMMMM–Wait: WHAT???” when I found a really peculiar Top 10 Yelp Restaurants Of 2011 list, where Los Angeles swept the board. What??

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Writer and cartoonist and generally funny person Lisa Hanawalt will be at Skylight Books on June 3 to read and sign her book My Dirty Dumb Eyes. The book sounds fabulous and hysterical so you should all try to see this.

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The Hammer recently had one of their Bike Nights and they took portraits of people and their bikes. They’re really well done! You’ll also probably see some familiar faces, too.

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Big rig carrying fruit crashes on 210 Freeway, creates jam

In one of the funniest LA headlines and news stories, apparently a big rig with fruit crashed on the 210 and “created a jam.” We’re not sure if there were any injuries to people but 35K pounds of fruit got a little banged up.

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Although this article is a *little* drastic, LA Weekly threw their hate in the “Stop fucking with LA!”/#LAHaters conversation with a piece that mapped the six types of Angelenos who are ruining the city. They’re a little mean–but they aren’t entirely wrong.

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Newcomers VIA are hoping to make some printed items soon. What do they need to do that? Monday! Help them out: they only need a little over $2K and they almost have that money, too. You can catch a video they did for promotion after the jump!

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