Food Alert: Bargain Today

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Doubtless developers and their pals --those who are supposed to represent all of us, have tried to rip it down, but: the Original Pantry diner has stood for eight decades --today, April 29, is its 85th birthday. Ex Los Angeles Mayor Riordan bought it in the1980s and hasn't changed a thing, it still looks like the 1920s, though I'm pretty sure the waiters are newer. To celebrate: he's making stack of pancakes and cup of Jo a bargain --$.85 --for the whole day.

Downtown
The Pantry is on the corner of 9th & Figueroa, LA. Parking can be tricky, better to leave the car wherever and take DASH/or bus. If not: look on 9th (one-way) for a space, BUT mind the street signs --vicious LA meter-monsters way not celebrating --getting towed is nasty/way no bargain --City Council members have to get the fat salary some how. (Usually: coffee is $2.+! --Riordan also likes money.)

If you haven't ever(???) been: The Pantry is cash only and open 24/7 --all year. If you see a line in front, no worries, just fall in. Bon appetite! map

ALERT: UPDATE --Traffic --Sunset

UPDATE: Today - April 23, 2009
Hollywood Blvd --at Vine: will be closed

The Pea brains 'running' Los Angeles Decided
The best way for a rock group to push sales of their newest release: shut down Hollywood --during the week --during rush hour --keep it shut until morning. No, I won't say the group's name. Ya, it's an outdoor concert, ya, it's free, So what.

How the hell did we get THIS "lucky" to have these people in 'management'?

How Much did the rockers kick in --to individual "Council" members' campaign funds --to pull off shutting down Hollywood? I'd really like to know, would you?

WHO will be paying --the salary and the over-time of cops --security --Parking Enforcement, Sanitation, Garbage Collection, etc.??? Wonder if the 'geniuses' will tell us --before next month's election.... Well, whether they admit accepting money for themselves for this mess or not: Avoid Hollywood, again
-by car: until Friday afternoon, April 24
-by underground train: no changes -same schedule running
-by bus/LA Metro: forget it --all the routes will be changed for the duration

Thanks heaps, "management" --hey, the next time you want to do us a 'favor': get OUT of your protective little hot house, SEE/THINK how the rest of LA lives --TRY using Common Sense or go for Ordinary brains: DON'T schedule stuff when WE are trying use major streets --NOT week-days --NOT rush hours, sheesh.

WE don't 'need' any more 'favors.'


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ALERT: Sunset Blvd closure

Cal-Trans has put Sunset Blvd. on their list, finally --for the first time in 30 years --it will be repaved tonight, so Sunset Blvd. will be closed: from Highland to La Brea, Hollywood - from Friday April 17 -
10 pm until 8 am Saturday
--tell your friends -pick a different restaurant/club -go around.

Silver Lake daVine Calendar '09: April

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Spring ...it's cold at night, day, wind, drizzle and hail, cloudy and windy, but really it's here, the sun will be out... take a break --buy a flower, find something in nature to see, smell, sketch...go for a walk...you won't miss a thing, the pirates, the pigs, the piranhas will still be hanging when you return..forget them, the Universe will deliver justice... nothing better than the petals, the perfume of a spring flower.. buy one -cut one -plant one...or bunches....

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Sundown ~Passover - 1st night, Jewish holy day

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~ Farmer's Market - see Sidebar

~ Good Friday, Christian observance, stock markets closed, many businesses closed afternoon

Sundown ~ Passover - 2nd night, Jewish holy day

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~ Farmer's Market - see Sidebar

Film
~ "Holly Shorts Film Festival" Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado St.

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~ Easter - Christian holy day

5:30 am ~ Easter Service: Hollywood Bowl - Free, seating opens 3:30 am - Service, music, reading --if the hucksters, the bankers, the feds, the whacko media have worn you out, where's the bad in forgetting all of them/ watching the sun rise in beautiful setting, even if you aren't religious, Parking - free, donations welcomed, not expected

Games
12 noon ~ Dodgeball Tournament & Mustache Expo "No Bunny Does It Better" at Bellevue Rec Center, 826 Lucille Ave., Silver Lake -mind where you park, be respectful of surrounding residents

~ National Library Week events: 12 through 18th
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Labor Day
12 M ~ If you still have a job: this is government--City Hall, Governator, feds--Day to take their cut --of what you earned; you have until midnight to get it mailed/marked --several post offices will be open - if you miss the 5-6 PM of Silver Lake post offices, hit:
-Union Station, off Alameda or
-out to LAX, but note: they moved that office 2 yrs ago, so watch for signs if you don't look it up
If you can't get it together to tell them what you earned/they owe you by today: file for extension to pay later

Angry?
Don't like welfare for dumb bankers, greedy insurance thugs? The good: Join up with like-minded to demand feds stop giving boatloads of our future to greedy-dumb class who tanked our country, at Tax Tea Parties:
-Glendale City Hall
-Dockweiler State Beach, Playa del Rey
-CA Republican Party headquarters, Burbank
-Santa Monica Pier
-Van Nuys Civic Center
Or just make signs, grab some friends-neighbors, pick a busy street and hold your own protest

The bad: Tax Day Tea Party --thought up by closet right-winger Glen Beck of sly Fox “news” corp --with their not-hidden agenda of bashing Pres. Obama; Sean H., the Newt, he, etc., etc. will Absolutely show & tell ad infinitum (probably for years) to exploit their positions, use to re-string the confused Republican Party -looking for ways to disguise right-wing nuttiness/"base" & get power in Congress --'see, lots agree with us' blah blah blah

Protest Alternate: Bargain
If getting your face on camera to help Republicans isn't your 'thing': pick up the neighbors and go for some food 'hugs'/ bargains on your travels to sending your money to the gov.
~ Cinnabon: free bite 5 - 8 pm today , not in Silver Lake of course, but nearby
~ McCormick & Schmick: a $10.40 special going for usual $15 - 20 entrees, plus bar bargains
~ PF Chang: 15% discount

Anni
If bitching & bites won't cut it, you're livid about bail-outs and bankers and budgets, consider: things could be sooo much worse --thousands paid thousands for the most elegant, expensive, "invincible" ship ever built 97 years ago --the beautiful furnishings, elegant clothes, jewels, children -women -fathers, but only 750 survived after iceberg ripped hull of the Titanic and it sank, April 15, 1912 it's 'exclusive' maiden voyage

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Art
12-5 pm ~ Municipal Gallery exhibition: “From There to Here: Contemporary Southern California Artists from Israel” – free, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Feliz details

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Produce
~ Farmer's Market - see FOOD - Friday, Sidebar

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Developer
11:00 am ~ Eric Garcetti & co ”workers” are at it again: on another ‘mixed’ use proposal, this one at 4000 Sunset Blvd, see show & tell, have your say, question developer and architect - Meeting: parking lot, Santa Monica Blvd, between Sanborn - Manzanita, across from Jiffy Lube, Silver Lake NC Urban Design & Preservation Advisory Committee – or: urbandesign@silverlakenc.org –be there or be silent, forever hold your tongue...

Produce
~ Farmer's Market - See Saturday - Sidebar

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Art & Dance
Benefit for Silver Lake History Collection:
2 – 6 pm ~ Art: exhibition of local artists' work
6 – 8 pm ~ Dance: Tango for two hours, Black Gate Space, 1052 Manzanita - Santa Monica, Sunset Junction, Sunset Blvd, Silver Lake

Tellie
9 pm ~ Hallmark Hall of Fame, KCBS
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Tellie
9 pm ~ Frontline: "Poisoned Waters" --water status of some waterways; examines household products --in waterways --in humans, on KCET
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Earth 0 Day 0 April 0 22
Many projects going for Earth Day ~ First dibs: Micheltorena Street School wants your bod –school beauty make-over, 8:30am-12:30pm – bring gloves, knee pads, tools, enthusiasm, 1511 Micheltorena Street x Sunset, Silver Lake - school parking lot

Earth
10am - 4pm ~ No Plastic: join local business neighbors for Earth Day – wind plastic bags into a giant ball, learn which local stores pledge to eliminate them, speakers, sponsored by Silver Lake Chamber

Earth
1:00 – 4:00 pm ~ Glendale Whole Foods Market celebration: speakers, local participation list, Earth month help calendar, Green products - samples; 1st 100 spending $25+: free tree sapling; 1st 100 spending $50+: reusable bag, while supplies last -Market 331 N. Glendale Ave, Glendale, betw California – Lexington
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Produce
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AM ~ Farmer's Market --see Sidebar

Book + Book + Book
10 am ~ If it's April, it's: Festival of Books, at UCLA - all day Saturday and Sunday --free, but parking on campus absurd $9 (--was $3 the first year), so park off campus and take the shuttle --Free --believe it, Westwood Meter Monsters are beyond vicious if you're thinking 'street' - besides stalls of the best books on offer: panels/authors - speakers --on media -mystery -economy -ecology -guns, gams -facts -fiction, poetry --throughout the day --free, but require ticket in advance: panels Saturday -panels Sunday
-Tip: pack a hat, very comfy shoes-thick sox, snacks & water and pay no attention to appearance: bring a cart or, better, a wagon for your own seating --carrying even a few books is a drag, Saturday: maybe an umbrella -- map, details

Concert
8 pm ~ You couldn't get --across town/the country --$250/1,000. together to see La Streisand during her last tour? You're in luck, Binky: kill the phone, grab some bubbly, get a good seat --Barbra Streisand will appear --free --in your home, Saturday night...such a deal...on CBS

Spring. . .in Silver Lake. . .daVine. . .