Thanks to Illuminate LA’s posting of a complete audio recording of the landmark City Council Transportation Committee’s bike-themed meeting last Friday, I was able to catch up on all that transpired. While it sounds as if forward progress is being made on the whole there was also a share of bureaucratic laterals launched in the …
There’s a relatively new blog in my environs — a good, informative and readable one that’s been around a few months. Based out of Echo Park its creator Jesus Sanchez opted to call it The Eastsider LA. I wasn’t so much perturbed by that at first, but I am now. And though I know there …
Here in the city of anglez, membership has its privileges on all sorts of levels — one of them being preferred access to the variety of municipal pay tennis facilities (8) and golf courses (10). It doesn’t come free, of course. There’s an annual fee attached to each; $15 for swatters of the fuzzy ball …
Cut loose from the office early this afternoon, I celebrated the beginning of my four-day Labor Day weekend with a sunshiny ride home that included a stop at Scoops in the Bicycle Zone for some green tea caramel ice cream (that I enjoy on-camera) before heading home. The surprise last frame to me is the …
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I did something amazing yesterday at the tail end of last night’s IAAL•MAF “Scoot & Shoot” Ride downtown. I was on 4th Street on the left side of the No. 2 lane when a brand new black Ford Mustang in the No. 1 lane gunned it passing close by me, leaving perhaps a foot / …
Robert F. Kennedy was shot 40 years ago yesterday, just after midnight. Just after declaring victory in the California primary in the Embassy Room Ballroom at the Ambassador Hotel, a landmark whose demolition was completed last year. It’s become tiresomely cliché to recall one’s location at the occurrence of calamitous events — especially on anniversaries. …
There are two ways you can read that headline: 1) As coming from someone whose patience is waning, or 2) As coming from someone answering “What’s this about?” From my perspective I’m way more in the No. 2 camp. See, this Thursday it will be 44 years to the day that I came into this …