L.A. will keep its parks open until midnight if you promise not to join a gang. Summer Night Lights is a new city program that runs Wednesday through Saturday, from July 4 through Labor Day. These late hours are meant to keep kids busy with extracurricular activities like kickball so they don’t get bored and start doing bad things. They even have hip hop classes and DJ lessons! Great success!
The question has finally been answered: Kids join gangs because the parks close too early.
Vengeance more describes our passion for having a blog than the picnic itself. Kathie Reece at the Aztec went out of her way to make it a fun day for us. She opened up the Mayan room, put out REAL Table linens then plied us with a never ending supply of margaritas!
The pic is of the bloggers who willingly wanted to be shown on the net. That is the lovely Miss Havisham sitting on FCBlog co-owner, Centinel’s shoulder. To the right is equally invisible owner Publius. Invisible because no one knows who they are including those of us invited to post there know who they really are. (more…)
According to the Argonaut, work on Venice’s beachfront skate park will finally kick off this fall. Curbed has some images of the 16,000-square-foot park, which is scheduled to open late next year. Whooda thunk it would 2009, almost 2010, before the birthplace of modern skateboarding finally opened it’s own skate park?
The L.A. Times newsroom has taken on a ship-of-the-damned air lately, my old colleagues are telling me.
With corporate vandal Sam Zell threatening to lay off even more reporters and sell Times Mirror Square in a bid to save tiny cash in all the wrong places, the smart money says to jump before you’re pushed.
Luckily, the InkStained Retch makes it all easy to say goodbye by offering the Hackinator - a handy wizard for Times employees who want to write Zell the perfect f@ck-you resignation letter …
Militant Angeleno continues to blog in the 3rd person, as he discovers newly laid track for the Metro Expo Line. This excites MetBlogs. MetBlogs likes trains. MetBlogs wants to go choo-choo.
Franklin Avenue finds an Echo Park devoid of lotus plants, which doesn’t bode well for the upcoming Lotus Festival July 11-13. Experts say that our own garbage is to blame. Where’s WALL-E when you need him?
UnHip LAcompares our fair city to Chicago, where milkshakes are more important that toilet seat covers in public restrooms. Explosive combination.
And Streetsblog wonders if Metro’s rush hour ban for bikes on trains is set to become the next big transportation battleground. Eric Garcetti wants to eliminate the ban and remove some seats on trains to accommodate the growing bike movement. Garcetti for Mayor!
No, I’m not telling you to cut off your hands at the El Rey tomorrow night. I am, however, telling you to leave a note in the comment section telling me what you would do–what magical invention you would create, or in what fascinating subject you would make a major breakthrough. If you won the Nobel Prize, what “science” would you have applied?! Do tell. Leave your email addy, so I can contact you if you win; winner gets an autographed CD & poster from WeAreScientists! The band, like, wrote on them! With their names! Possibly with KITTENS! Like in the picture!
They play with Cut Off YourHands and the BloodArm, both of whom are fantastic. This should be an awesome show. If you can’t get into this one (tickets are here) I also recommend Broken Ocean at the Viper Room and the Mae Shi with Die Rockers Die & Death to Anders at Spaceland.
Well friends, Steve’s gruelingly short, but bloody battle with the DMV is over! Letters were sent, phone calls were made and many precious minutes of my life were spent on hold. Who, might you ask, is the victor in this epic Man-versus-State fiasco?
It is their morning routine. 7:00 AM terrorize the parrots and get them out of the neighborhood and off the power pole next to my garage. 7:30AM claim the pole and wait for breakfast to appear. Once fed they disappear for the day and all we hear is their screech and whistles as they move about.
Pic by me. A couple more in my urban critters flickr set.
This looks to be mostly on the 101 south heading towards downtown. Don’t ask me what is up with that final edit, I just found this thing myself.
And to preempt the comments like “OMG TEY R GOIN 2 DI LOL!” and “Dear Sirs, I do believe that my be in violation of certain applicable legal codes” here’s a little graphic whipped up by the folks at lafixed.com, I totally want a t-shirt of this:
Going to the Venice Beach Ocean Front Walk on a sunny summer Saturday afternoon is nuts. Going when there’s a festival taking place is twice as nuts. Well, call me twice as nuts. Wanting to support my local community and green causes, I walked over to the Venice Eco-Fest yesterday afternoon.
The L.A. Times newsroom has taken on a ship-of-the-damned air lately, my old colleagues are telling me.
Militant Angeleno continues to blog in the 3rd person, as he discovers 
