by whit on March 25, 2011
Well hello Mister Man currently residing at the corner of Myers St and 7th in Downtown LA!
What a wonderful thing to stumble upon one fine sunny afternoon. I just watched Exit Through The Gift Shop so I am paying A LOT more attention to buildings and walls around my neighborhood and all over Los Angeles. There’s so much to discover once you just stop for a moment and look up. This, on the the other hand, was hard to miss. I LOVE the combination of colors happening here- the blue of the sky and faded awning with the yellow and red of the building trim and curb juxtaposed with the graphic black and white image. My eyes are pleased.
PS- just down the street from this fine fellow is Tony’s Saloon. Tony’s is a fresh juices, small batch liquor kind of spot disguised as a dive. And if you like whiskey (a lot of whiskey) and a southern rock vibe this is your jam. Hungry? Order a pizza pie from Toddy G’s next door and they’ll deliver it through an adjoining window right to the bar.
Drinking! Eating! Art!
by whit on January 12, 2010
And leaves with a 2004 Barbera d’Alba. Badum-bum.
I spent today exploring a part of LA’s hasidic Jewish neighborhood, otherwise known as N. Fairfax Ave. The street is lined with bakeries, the famed Canter’s deli and fading signs and storefronts of a once thriving strip of Orthodox outposts. I strolled into what I thought would be a wine shop named My Kosher Wine as it states on their website. But, in actuality, it is a single aisle in a seemingly nameless kosher grocery. But a long aisle. And it wasn’t stocked with only Manishewitz and Baron Herzog. There were Chateaux wines from Bordeaux, bottles from Chile, California, Spain, New York, Australia, South Africa, Israel (of course) and also…Italy. I first realized Kosher wine was being made in Italy, of all places, when I visited Andrea Pandolfo of Sant’Andrea, a winery an hour or so south of Rome. They make fantastic wine and in the past 10 years realized with just a few more steps in the process they could also add Kosher wine to their lineup. Good Italian Kosher wine. Gotta love it.
[click to continue…]
by whit on August 24, 2009
This Sunday involved a heaping pile of fried chicken, mounds of cole slaw and about 200 cupcakes. It also involved a very dear friend, Joy of Joy The Baker fame. She spent many a month preparing for this special day. A day of family, friends and fans. Hers, not mine. But still…a great time was had by all. It was a scorcher of a day. And on a day like this, I needed not a sparkling wine or an ice cold beer, but a grape drank. Yes, you heard me right. Not a drink, a drank. Kool Aid never tasted so good.
I took a moment to look out from my rooftop vantage to view this great city I live in called Los Angeles. I will leave it in a mere 5 days for other fantastic landscapes. And will miss it and the people in it dearly. And severely.
