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socalfood: The New Old Clifton’s Cafeteria Unveiled Today When...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:32:01 -0800

The New Old Clifton’s Cafeteria Unveiled Today

When Andrew Meieran, owner of Downtown nightspot The Edison, bought Clifton’s Cafeteria on Broadway about 18 months ago, there was some consternation. He was taking over a business run for generations by one family, neighborhood favorites who never turned away a penniless customer. Meieran’s known for $14 drinks and doormen.

It’s now clear that there will be many changes to Clifton’s: it will soon serve alcohol in a few differently-themed bars within the building, and one floor will be occupied by an upscale restaurant. Even the offerings at the ground-floor cafeteria will change: smaller portions, better ingredients, is the idea.

But the historical decor will be kept intact wherever possible, and it looks like it will even be treated with greater respect by Meieran than by the previous owners. To that end, on Wednesday morning Meieran unveiled the original facade of the building, covered for more than 50 years by metal grating. Contrary to some previous reports elsewhere, it has not yet been fully refurbished. But one can see the promise there — the promise of what’s to come, and what will be maintained. Check out the photos below of the scene at this morning’s ceremony. Are you excited for the new and improved Clifton’s?

See more here!

This is amazing and exciting. My block is going to be the most beautiful, urine soaked block in Downtown Los Angeles now.

spytap: coketalk: Why is anyone apologizing for this? No one...

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:37:00 -0800

spytap:

coketalk:

Why is anyone apologizing for this? No one gives a shit.

No one was offended.

No one.

There are assholes out there whose job it is to get professionally offended, and all they managed to do was phone in another poorly written press release.

Come on, even they’re not really offended. You can tell they don’t believe their own bullshit anymore. They just have to justify their ridiculous existence.

Not one person of any age, of any gender, or of any culture out of the hundred million who watched the Super Bowl is owed an apology for this fraction of a broadcast second.

Ugh. Even ranting about the irony and hypocrisy of this kind of nonsense is tiresome and irrelevant.

What Coke Talk said. The PTC actually has a total membership of only about 12,000 people - that’s it. I’m guessing CT has more followers than that on Tumblr alone. So why does NBC - or anyone else, for that matter - give a shit about what the PTC has to say again?

If anything MIA should apologize for being boring and predictable (middle finger? Edgy!), and for performing with Robodonna.

Follow this lone wolf in the Golden State on Twitter

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:40:00 -0800

This is beyond cool. From the California Wolf blog.

In 1924, an emaciated, three-legged wolf was caught by government trapper Frank W. Kaehler, 1 mile east of Litchfield, California. The wolf was believed to have straggled into the Golden State from Oregon or northern Nevada. This was the last wild wolf ever found in California.

88 years later, in the north east corner of Oregon, a male wolf known as OR7 strayed from his pack and began a thousand mile journey to find a new home, taking him across western Oregon and into the Cascade Mountains, before heading south and crossing into California in late December.

His California journey took him past Lava Bed National Monument, into Shasta-Trinity National Forest close to Shasta Lake and Interstate-5 before he headed east towards the Warner Mountions. OR7 spent several days in the southern Warner Mountains before heading south to less suitable habitat. This was the southern most point in his journey, and also his closest brush with the history and fate of his kind in California, for OR7 was only a few miles from Litchfield, where the last wild wolf in California had been caught in 1924.

A month after entering California, OR7 is still wandering the plains and forest of Lassen County, a lone wolf looking for a mate.

Follow the wolf on Twitter.

If you want it, you’ll have to carry it. (via...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:22:27 -0800

If you want it, you’ll have to carry it.

(via Revolutionary)

Lana del Rey Shooting by Sean & Seng (by Interview.de)

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:50:30 -0800

Lana del Rey Shooting by Sean & Seng (by Interview.de)

Yosemite Valley, California. This state is a lot of things to...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:50:00 -0800

Yosemite Valley, California.

This state is a lot of things to many different types of people. Beautiful. Sunny. Dark. Hilarious. Depressing. A joke. A goldmine. Lonely. Wondrous. A nightmare. The greatest place you can ever live. The greatest place you can ever live, but only for a few months, and only during the summertime. I’ve lived in California 6 years now and have seen a lot of it, but I always have a different feeling about this state almost every day I wake up. It’s a lot of things, and a part of me hopes I never fully figure it out.

Under Obama, Price of Bacon Has Risen 22 Percent

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:31:45 -0800

Under Obama, Price of Bacon Has Risen 22 Percent:

Not surprised.

(via thedailyfiona)

Yosemite HD (by Project Yosemite) From the Project Yosemite...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:04:07 -0800

Yosemite HD (by Project Yosemite)

From the Project Yosemite website:

Project Yosemite is a collaborative project by Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty. What started as an idea turned into an ongoing adventure to timelapse Yosemite in a extreme way.

So very fantastic.

The best To Do List app on the market.

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:38:14 -0800

The best To Do List app on the market.

"In my humble opinion as a loyal customer (you know I love you but the Blog View button will be the..."

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:37:00 -0800

“In my humble opinion as a loyal customer (you know I love you but the Blog View button will be the eventual cause of my death) and while I know you’re in the midst of an editor change, weekends have been allowed to go awfully fallow — and it was a fallow holiday period for those of us who check your shit 10 times a day by iphone.”

- - Brian Williams writes emails to Gawker and they are outstanding.

Billy Corgan started a wrestling. This is one of their...

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:42:16 -0800

Billy Corgan started a wrestling. This is one of their promotional trailers.

Photo

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:41:05 -0800

Photo

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:06:51 -0800

Hmm. (via Urban Dictionary)

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:15:00 -0800

Hmm.

(via Urban Dictionary)

runninggwildd: ahhhhhhhhhh I can’t wait<3333 I’ll be...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:00:39 -0800

runninggwildd:

ahhhhhhhhhh I can’t wait<3333

I’ll be there Week #1. Let me know if you’re going to be there, too.

Big Sur at sunset and the start of 2012.

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:29:01 -0800

Big Sur at sunset and the start of 2012.

Yodeling in the backyard.

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:28:12 -0800

Yodeling in the backyard.

Hanging with my dog on Holiday, telling each other knock knock...

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:36:39 -0800

Hanging with my dog on Holiday, telling each other knock knock jokes all afternoon, laughing like we’ve never laughed before. Tonight we’ll play Scrabble and watch I Love Lucy.

YouTube Rewind 2011 (by YouTube) I think this is my favorite...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:28:25 -0800

YouTube Rewind 2011 (by YouTube)

I think this is my favorite recap of 2011. It contains the only stuff I really cared about this year.

jakec: imathers: katbeee: Um — WHAT NOW? This probably...

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:34:50 -0800

jakec:

imathers:

katbeee:

Um — WHAT NOW?

This probably shouldn’t make me laugh, but I’m still laughing at it.

You think her managers wrote this tweet? Nah, man. Authentic as fuck.