The OPEN Daily : Neighborhood Businesses
Active Transportation Discount at Boyle Heights Pan-American Restaurant
May 12, 2012 at 12:26 pm
la.streetsblog.org
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Un Solo Sol Kitchen started offering last week a 25 percent discount on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays for those who arrive on foot, bike, or public transportation. Photo by Kris Fortin Un Solo Sol Kitchen, a Boyle Heights restaurant that specializes in Pan-American dishes, but adds an eclectic and healthy twist, is offering a 25 [...]
52-Year-Old Chez Jay Endangered By Palisades Garden Walk
May 10, 2012 at 10:35 pm
losangeles.grubstreet.com
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In Santa Monica, plans are underway to turn a stretch of unused parking lot into a flower-sprouting promenade, giving us pedestrian-friendly change. However, City Hall officials are currently looking for a new restaurant to set up shop on the turf of the Palisades Garden Walk. Chez Jay, Ocean Avenue's character-packed 52-year-old bar and restaurant, just happens to be on the parcel of land where this new restaurant project aims to be erected, endangering one of the city's greatest and last remaining dive bars and a slice of Santa Monica history.
Main Squeeze Juicer Freshens Up Main Street in Santa Monica
May 10, 2012 at 9:35 pm
la.eater.com
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Main Squeeze is a sunny, two week old juice bar on Main Street in Santa Monica. It's less of a serious juice spot than, say, Moon Juice down the block on Rose, with its house-made chia pudding and coconut yogurt, instead Main Squeeze outsources foodstuffs like raw oatmeal, veggie sandwiches, and sells the usual selection of bars, kale chips, and granola as offered by Whole Foods.
Dangerbird Records signs Bon Jovi’s Richie Sambora?
May 10, 2012 at 8:28 pm
latimesblogs.latimes.com
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The Silver Lake label Dangerbird Records is known for adventurous, crowd-pleasing indie artists such as Silversun Pickups and Fitz & the Tantrums. But according to a curious item that ran in the LA Weekly on Wednesday, the label might soon be working with a titan of '80s arena rock -- Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora. [...]
Moon Juice in Venice Creates New Mama Package
May 9, 2012 at 10:26 pm
venice.patch.com
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Venice-based Moon Juice has created a New Mama juice package just in time for Mother's Day.Moon Juice, which opened in January at 507 Rose Ave., is a 100 percent organic juice and nut milk shop owned by Amanda Chantal Bacon, who also is a new mother.The New Mama package includes three of the store's signature [...]
Susina Owner Opens Sunset Junction Coffee Shop in Silver Lake
May 9, 2012 at 10:10 pm
losangeles.grubstreet.com
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Sunset Junction now has an eponymous coffee shop The Silver Lake space that once housed Eat Well and later Alfredo Diaz's K2, which shuttered in just a year last fall, is reopening today as a new cafe called Sunset Junction Coffee Shop. Jenna Turner, the Susina Bakery owner who recently revitalized Echo Park's Chango Coffee, [...]
Lawsuit Being Filed Against City / Venice Beach Businesses & Landlords Over Pipe Shops
May 9, 2012 at 6:44 pm
venice311.org
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We received word today that a group of residents will be filing a lawsuit against The City of Los Angeles, various Ocean Front Walk businesses and building owners / landlords over violations of Los Angeles Municipal Code 45.19. The specifics of the code at issue are as follows: No person shall operate a business establishment [...]
Google Gym? Search Engine Giant Buys Bodybuilding Landmark in Venice Beach
May 8, 2012 at 11:44 pm
www.yovenice.com
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The worst-kept secret at Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach is that the gym is closing its doors for good when its lease expires on June 30, 2014. With its 45 years of history, this Los Angeles landmark was once the second most popular tourist attraction in the LA area after Disneyland. But according to former Gold’s Gym Venice owner Ed Connors, Google has bought the building and the surrounding real estate, with grand designs on walling off the streets and creating a SoCal campus to rival its Mountain View ‘university’.
SaMo’s Yahoo Center Losing the Yahoo
May 8, 2012 at 8:05 pm
la.curbed.com
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The Yahoo Center office park in eastern Santa Monica is dropping Yahoo from its name under mysterious circumstances. Owners Equity Office say they're simply rebranding the campus and renaming it the Colorado Center (the fourth name change in 20 years). But an unnamed member of the Santa Monica Business Alliance said that Yahoo no longer rents enough square feet to have its name on the building--the internet company has fallen on hard times and gave up some SaMo space.
Simon McWilliams to unveil Shoots and Ladders at Culver City’s Skotia Gallery
May 8, 2012 at 6:39 pm
www.examiner.com
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Irish painter Simon McWilliams creates meticulous city edifices that combine an insane architectural detail with vivid color and visually stunning geometric linear-ities and compositions. Inspired by buildings that are in the progress of being...
New Pizza Place Eyes Hollywood Location
May 7, 2012 at 9:00 pm
hollywood.patch.com
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New Doggie Hotel in Hollywood Caters to Canines’ Every Whim
May 7, 2012 at 6:30 pm
laist.com
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The stretch of Highland Avenue between Santa Monica Blvd. and Melrose Ave. is quickly becoming doggie corridor. Already home to upscale doggie daycare and boarding facilities including LA Dogworks and D Pet Hotels, as of this weekend the area will welcome another high-class canine facility, Pooch Hotel. [ more › ]
