I was doing some research on how to respond to
this story about Leimert Park, when I came upon a 1993 Rolling Stone cover story where Pulitzer Prize winning food critic Jonathan Gold interviews Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg right after "The Chronic" hit the street.…
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Added by enhager on May 1, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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Ted Rohrlich of the Los Angeles Times
wrote a great story about a decades long problem - Marlton Square/Santa Barbara Plaza.
"Los Angeles leaders gambled on a check-bouncing, politically connected developer to shepherd the project. And after $15 million in government subsidies and more than $30 million in private investment, taxpayers -- and the community -- have lost," Rohrlich…
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Added by enhager on April 28, 2008 at 9:19am —
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Some days it doesn't seem like there's much to laugh about when it comes to race. But as Hawkeye Pierce once said - If I wasn't laughing I'd be crying.
So I had to share a website that I found -
Stuff White People Like. It's funny because it's true (more or less), kind of like a Chris Rock act.
Consider this Gem, which makes…
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Added by enhager on March 21, 2008 at 10:15am —
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Earlez Grille has moved to an even better location (as much as I hate to say it) about 2 miles north on Crenshaw to Jack's Chili Factory just south of the Expo Rail (coming soon). Dwayne Earle still runs the place like a tip top ship with quality and a quantity of products, but the menu expanded, the hours expanded and the space really expanded. It's still a lot more than you'd expect. (begin original post) It has the best…
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Added by enhager on March 8, 2008 at 7:25pm —
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MTA officials released a plan Wednesday night to run the Crenshaw line along existing track through an industrial area of Inglewood, avoiding the city's main commercial thoroughfares,
according to a story in the Daily Breeze.
The Crenshaw line, still years away, would connect the Expo Line to the Green Line, and pass within a mile of Los Angeles International Airport.
Ridiculously the MTA also has shelved the idea of…
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Added by enhager on February 22, 2008 at 10:07am —
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Oscar Robertson signs "The Big O: My Life, My Times, My Game" and "The Art of Basketball," Eso Won Books, 4331 Degnan Blvd., Leimert Park, 7 p.m. (323) 290-1048.
The 6-foot-5, 220-pound Robertson played the guard position, and was a twelve-time All-Star, eleven-time member of the All-NBA Team, and one-time winner of the MVP award in fourteen professional seasons. He is the only player in NBA history to average a triple-double…
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Added by enhager on February 19, 2008 at 1:55pm —
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Leimert Park Beat started less than a year ago but I come across interesting and sometimes crazy articles about our home all the time. So I'm gonna share some of them, even if they're old.…
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Added by enhager on January 24, 2008 at 5:20pm —
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An
interesting article about presidential politics and the press
Added by enhager on January 21, 2008 at 3:12pm —
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Celebrate
Martin Luther King's birthday Sunday at
CAAM, which has a special
historical photo exhibit,
"King in Los Angeles" and film screenings of his speeches.
There will also be artists…
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Added by enhager on January 16, 2008 at 1:43pm —
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For Leimert Park, and one-third of Los Angeles County,
Mark Ridley-Thomas vs.
Bernard Parks, is
just as important as Barack and Hillary.
Yvonne Brathwaite-Burke has been a supervisor for nearly 16 years - once you're in you're in for life. I'd like to list her accomplishments but…
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Added by enhager on January 11, 2008 at 2:51pm —
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My head spins as Chief Bratton and Sheriff Baca argue about why people commit crimes. The number of murders is at historic lows in the city while violent crime is up in the county.
"Our economy is driving the property crimes -- burglary and larceny," the sheriff said in the
LA Times. "In some communities, with high unemployment,…
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Added by enhager on January 4, 2008 at 5:32pm —
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The Nate Holden Theater just north of us and the Vision Theater in the Leimert Park Village "serve as powerful
symbols for what is possible in black neighborhoods, creatively and
economically. Whether they will live up to this potential is an age-old
question that many hope will be answered in the affirmative," Erin Aubrey Kaplan wrote in the Sept. 26, '07(also the date of this original post),…
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Added by enhager on December 28, 2007 at 12:50am —
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The LAist is spending a lot of time in the 'hood lately -
and singing its praises."Every Sunday, you can find their truck parked on 43rd and Crenshaw
at Leimert Plaza Park. They sell not only the infamous bean pies, but
blueberry cream pies, pineapple cream pies, and a few soulful lunches.
"The red snapper sandwich is the easiest thing to eat in the park,
and probably your best option.…
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Added by enhager on December 20, 2007 at 2:33pm —
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James Fugate, co-owner of
Eso Won Bookstores in Leimert Park Village, is fighting to keep his business open and he's not mincing words.
On a
KPCC interview with Jay Kugelman (I found the actual interview at
Leimertparkvillage.org) Fugate said that about…
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Added by enhager on November 30, 2007 at 3:04pm —
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Jasmyne Cannick is in the holiday spirit and is also setting an example we should all follow - supporting our local businesses by making them part of our holiday shopping destinations.
She went to Eso-Won before it opened Friday to buy books.
"I figure if I am going to buy gifts, I am going to give the gift that keeps on giving, a book. Not…
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Added by enhager on November 26, 2007 at 10:44am —
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I've always been curious about this place, but I really have cut back on my pastrami intake. But the reviewer loves it.
Check it out.
Added by enhager on November 20, 2007 at 4:37pm —
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Neighborhood Food Watch has launched a campaign to gather data on the
quality of food and availability of fresh, healthy choices in South Los
Angeles supermarkets,…
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Added by enhager on November 20, 2007 at 4:06pm —
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The Expo light rail seems destined for delay and the effort is creating
a rift among transit advocates.
After years of planning and already millions of dollars spent, it seemed like the environmentally sound, inexpensive and alternative to the single driver car might actually get built.
But wait - not only is the $640 million project already…
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Added by enhager on November 7, 2007 at 10:08am —
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Leimert Park's own Damien Goodmon is trying to make our neighborhood safe by making the light rail safe.
The LA Times covered a meeting where it was pointed out that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board last month
approved spending an extra $23.3 million to add…
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Added by enhager on October 22, 2007 at 9:12am —
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You see the remnants of a past in Leimert Park everywhere - homes with Japanese gardens of bansai trees and exotic plants that are now being maintained by black and Latino gardeners. Where did that come from?
I've
read about the area's important Japanese culture and seen the…
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Added by enhager on October 15, 2007 at 1:49pm —
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