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The Last Bookstore — Downtown Los Angeles
For too long, when I thought about used bookstores in downtown LA, I thought of the lyrics in X’s song “Johnny Hit and Run Pauline”: L.A. bookstores open Kicking both doors open When it rested on 6th...
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Eating Tacos in LA: Three Beloved Taco Joints
Like a billion other people, I took a trip through Los Angeles recently. Thanks to my food fanatacism, I’m going use the ’60s “Summer of Love” convention to describe my time there, except in place of...
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Pork Broth and Lard Skin: The Flavorful Variety of Ramen in Los Angeles
By the time Lucky Peach magazine did their ramen issue in the summer of 2011, ramen shops and izakayas were already multiplying in many West Coast cities. The issue’s recipes and the unprecedented...
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Sneaking on to the Set of Some Movie Whose Name I Didn’t Even Know: An Overly...
The crane offered the first sign that the Hollywood machine was operating nearby. It stood against a gray loft building in downtown Los Angeles, a powerful light perched atop it. Further down Main...
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On Any Given Day: Downtown Los Angeles and Violence in America
Police had cordoned off the intersection of Broadway and Sixth Street, in Los Angeles’s old Jewelry District, before I arrived. I was walking aimlessly downtown that afternoon, killing time and eating...
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