just saw one of these for the taking curbside. dont know if it works but thats not how garbage is done around here so my guess is it was an offering from the gods. park slope, you are on notice.
More insane than you might imagine
The Year in L.A. Restaurants Last week The Times published a very sobering story from Food reporter Stephanie Breijo on the state of the restaurant industry in Los Angeles. The gist: For many operators who thought it couldn’t get much more difficult than 2024, 2025 proved worse. Breijo outlines the topline causes: the January fires, the immigrant raids and downtown curfew, tariffs and inflation and an 8% decline in international summer tourism, according to California’s tourism board.
It’s a painful, important read, punctuated by chefs and owners across the city that Breijo interviewed. One that guts me is from Sang Yoon, who announced he was closing the Helms Bakery complex he revived a year ago, before he could open the planned full-service restaurant called Dinette.
“It feels like L.A. really lost a couple steps,” Yoon said to Breijo. “Late-night is gone. People are closing earlier. … It just doesn’t feel right. I grew up here, and it’s probably the weirdest it’s felt in my whole life. And I’ve been through a lot of weird.
Steven Heller
love this pairing. the lefts favorite former ftc chair getting busy with nyc legal codes to find some cost cutting measures. bring down those carriage fees on gas from con-ed, my friends!!!
costco wines. link is free for now.
to schwarz from santa claws
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/travel/lobster-trap-christmas-trees.html
insightful look at the reiner tragedy.
type casting
lists are often silly but had to guffaw at #1.
Architecton
sight and sound top 50 of 2025.
we might have to invade canada and venezuela because of the "drug trafficking."
anybody ever hear of frank gehry?
for our south american friends, the secret agent.
will be matching my turkey output from last year and exceeding it if you include the one i partook of in san diego. was gonna stop at two for twenty but hard to pass up a third for five bucks.
I just watched the first episode of Blossoms Shanghai, the series directed by Wong Kar Wai on criterion. The lavish production he favors is in full force. I'm intreguied by the story but find it a bit difficult to follow, partly because I can't read the subtitles fast enough and keep my eye on the beautiful cast and ever-roming shots done through the cut glass chandaliers, whisky tumblers and beveled mirrors that adorn pretty much every scene. The story jumps around in time so that also adds to my confusion but I think my ADD should take the blame. The set up is solid and I'm about to start episode 2. Some awesome food styling for skinny.
started this and I think I am loving it and its delish 99 rots
Pluribus
