Seeing red over green: When L.A. painted a 1.5-mile strip of Spring Street neon green last year, it was hailed as a major step in the city’s effort to have cars and bicycles coexist. But the lane has been criticized by the film industry, which frequently uses the stretch of Spring as a stand-in for other cities and eras.
There’s a great graphic here on how drivers should handle themselves around the bike lane.
aka, Common sense.
And for the last time, I deeply don’t apologize to the film industry that Downtown L.A. is trying to create a real neighborhood for themselves and not a Hollywood backlot.
Circa 1890 view of Pershing Square, then called Sixth Street Park or Central Park
I’m sobbing. Damn you, post-World War II everything that happened to this “city”.
“It did happen here.” — snow and hail cover Broadway in downtown Los Angeles on February 20, 1944.
(via latimes)
Dear Rainbeau,
I was in Downtown picking up supplies at the flower market when I drove by these two lovebirds. They look like time travelers.
Or just two adorable old people out of touch with today’s fashion.
love,
Rainbeau
A new blog/website venture I’ve co-founded, The Heart of Los Angeles, got a sneak peak at the awesomeness that is Bäco Mercat today.
Take it away, theheartofla!:
Josef Centeno’s new solo-venture Bäco Mercat is officially open as of today, and we were privileged to be their first customers for lunch. The restaurant’s small (and currently limited) menu features three variations on the bäco, a sandwich-meets-taco-meets-pizza-meets-deliciousness that Centeno himself trademarked a few years back and has been enjoyed at his Little Tokyo restaurant Lazy Ox Canteen. The other main dish options are flat breads, nearly all of which will make any vegetarian’s mouth water.
Their limited selection of sides also looked intriguing; we really enjoyed the kiwichi salad. Bäco Pop, their signature soda, was also available for purchase.
Kiwichi Salad (left), Their current soft-opening menu (right)“This is a concept he’s had in mind for quite some time,” we were told by restaurant staff. The space is intimate and once it got going got very crowded for a hardly-announced soft opening, foreshadowing what we’re sure will be a lot of future success. We sat out on their patio, something we love seeing as an option in the Downtown dining scene (when it’s legally permissible).
While they’re only open for lunch this week, they will expand to their regular hours next week for lunch (11-3) and dinner (5-10:30). Their plan for the future holds hope that after dinner hours “the bar will stay open if there’s demand for it, maybe with a small menu.”
Bäco Mercat
408 S. Main St. / Just down from the corner 4th and Main
(next door to Pete’s Cafe)
- this list includes lots of, but is not limited to, Downtown Los Angeles (click here for more DTLA), 30 Rock, food, cheese, New York City and Paris, great music and post-ironic artifacts.
enjoy the "online museum" i co-curate, Artifacts of Modernity, at ArtofMod.com
enjoy my musical musings at last.fm
