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The Los Angeles Public Transit Baddie Takeover
A few months ago, I became aware of a new transit phenomenon endemic to Los Angeles: the Public Transit Baddie. You probably know the type – young women who combine streetwise confidence with femininity in a way that reminds a Gen Xers like me of the “around the way girls” of the pre-internet age. The … Continue reading The Los Angeles Public Transit Baddie Takeover
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The Car-Free Guide to the 2026 Los Angeles Indie Bookstore Crawl
In the spirit of Nobody Drives in LA’s 2017 Los Angeles Train Pub Crawl, the Car-Free Guide to the World Cup 2026, and Car-Free Guide to the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games, we bring you: The Car-Free Guide to the 2026 Los Angeles Indie Bookstore Crawl. If you’re less familiar with the Bookstore Crawl than … Continue reading The Car-Free Guide to the 2026 Los Angeles Indie Bookstore Crawl
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Ask Silver Lake — Golden Age Silver Lake Gay Bars and Other Third Places
This piece was originally written for “Ask Silver Lake.” “Ask Silver Lake” is dedicated to exploring the history and insights of our community. If you have questions or ideas you’d like us to consider, please drop a comment or send them to outreach@silverlakenc.org. The subject of this month’s “Ask Silver Lake” is Silver Lake’s historic gay bars and … Continue reading Ask Silver Lake — Golden Age Silver Lake Gay Bars and Other Third Places
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The Nobody Drives in LA Guide to the World Cup 2026
Making sense of the 2026 World Cup is no easy task. For the first time ever, it's being hosted in sixteen cities across three countries -- Canada, Mexico, and the US. One of those cities is Los Angeles. The "Los Angeles" matches are actually taking place in the city of Inglewood. The stadium in Inglewood … Continue reading The Nobody Drives in LA Guide to the World Cup 2026
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Ask Silver Lake – The Enduring Legacy of Asian Americans in Silver Lake
Screenshot of the Asian Silver Lake map If tasked with listing Los Angeles’s “Asian neighborhoods,” you’d probably first think of well-known immigrant enclaves like Chinatown, Koreatown, and Little Tokyo – or maybe less well-known ones like Cambodia Town, Little Bangladesh, or Little India. Perhaps you will think of one of the many suburbs of Los … Continue reading Ask Silver Lake – The Enduring Legacy of Asian Americans in Silver Lake
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California Fool’s Gold — Playa del Rey
A few weeks ago, I was part of a transit discussion at Frank Radio called Alternate Paths (with Lisa Kwon, Maylin Tu, Julia Beach, Greg Ruben, and Hunter Baoengstrum -- check it out!). Afterward, one of the attendees, a woman named Xochitl, asked whether I was ever going to do any more neighborhood explorations. I … Continue reading California Fool’s Gold — Playa del Rey
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Ask Silver Lake — The Glendale-Hyperion Project and the Bridges of Silver Lake
Glendale-Hyperion Viaduct, Los Angeles, California Postcard 1931 The iconic Victory Memorial Bridge (Glendale-Hyperion Viaduct), connecting Los Feliz and Silver Lake on the Los Angeles River’s west bank with Atwater on the east, has for years been beset by long-standing structural and maintenance challenges. For years, too, its muddled traffic configuration has made it as much … Continue reading Ask Silver Lake — The Glendale-Hyperion Project and the Bridges of Silver Lake
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Au revoir, Taix… or, more likely, Adieu
Taix will serve its last meal on 29 March 2026 – the birthday of famed post-Impressionist, Georges Seurat. I have always enjoyed my visits to Taix, whether for food, drinks, friendship, or to see Australian legends, the Cannanes, perform at a banquet room there, as I did back in 2015. It’s a place that I … Continue reading Au revoir, Taix… or, more likely, Adieu
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Happy Birthday “Los Angeles”; Land of History, Myths, Villages, and 19 Million Metropolitans in Search of Suburbia
INTRODUCTION Screenshot of Pendersleigh & Sons Cartography's map of Los Angeles County and Southern Califonria Los Angeles was founded on this day, 18 February, in 1850. A majority of insufferable pedants will have just jumped to the comments to let me know how wrong I am and that “Los Angleles” refers not the Los Angeles … Continue reading Happy Birthday “Los Angeles”; Land of History, Myths, Villages, and 19 Million Metropolitans in Search of Suburbia
