Keep L.A. Hateable

Forget the scenic. The picturesque. The livable. This is L.A. Embrace the hate.

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Los Angeles: For all your traffic of the apocalypse needs

“Here’s a preview of Thanksgiving traffic facing LA travelers.”

Curbed

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golden arches | los angeles, california

ig: phdonohue

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Because in L.A., juice is redemption

“The Malibu Juice Magnate”

The stuff was called Elixir of Life, and I sat down to drink it at a communal table under a screen playing surfing videos. I became a SunLife regular that day, unwittingly joining the only cult that has ever had me for a member. There was something euphoric about the place, as though each morning, just before it opened, someone struck a giant diamond tuning fork that magically resonated till closing time. The young men and women working behind the counter, most of them no older than their late teens, were the handsomest human beings I’d ever seen outside of magazine ads for high-end underwear. As they chopped fruits and vegetables and blended smoothies beneath a large sign that read “Love Heal & Inspire,” they seemed on the verge of bursting into song.

[New York Times]

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Another day of Los Angeles uplift.

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Your day in Big One news

“Massive Earthquake Along the San Andreas Fault Is Disturbingly Imminent”

A series of quakes under the Salton Sea may be a signal that the San Andreas Fault is on the verge of buckling. For the next few days, the risk of a major earthquake along the fault is as high as 1 in 100. Which, holy crap.

[Gizmodo, h/t @paperhaus]

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Hollywood sign NIMBY drama, Chapter 8,765

“Super popular Hollywood Sign trailhead will stay open ... for now”

The Los Feliz Ledger reports the trail will remain open, as Los Angeles City Councilman David Ryu, who reps the area, says he might not have the power to close it. "Technically it can be illegal, and we have been working with the City Attorney to discuss [the option of closing it], but it is probably not possible," Ryu spokesman Estevan Montemayor told the Ledger.

Regardless, Beachwood residents continue to be outraged. "I find it scandalous that they are leaving it open," said Sarajane Schwartz, a long-time Beachwood resident who founded Homeowners on Beachwood Drive United, which has a lawsuit against the city to shut the trailhead. Schwartz has said people trying to view the Hollywood sign smoke cigarettes, slow down emergency vehicles, and defecate into pots in her driveway.

[Curbed]

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Yes, there were traffic jams in 1951, too. Here’s the 101’s Silver Lake Boulevard off-ramp.

Part of the Los Angeles Examiner Collection in the USC Digital Library.

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Another day, another pursuit .

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Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke arrives at a press conference about the Klan Border Watch, a vigilante patrol organized to capture illegal Mexican immigrants south of Fallbrook, California. October 26, 1977

via reddit

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Not Los Angeles, but within driving distance. And pretty damn hateable.

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“Photography's best-kept secret: How Anthony Hernandez put a distinctly Los Angeles lens on picture-making”

In the photographs of Anthony Hernandez, there are no swaying palm trees or cinematic sunsets. Instead, for half a century, this born-and-bred Angeleno has trained his unblinking lens on another L.A. — a city of the aged, of the working class, of the destitute.

“Cities are hard places,” the low-key Hernandez says of his work. “They’re not very accommodating, especially Los Angeles.”

[Los Angeles Times]

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@RyanPadgham

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Some density with that kale?

“The Obama Administration Is Finally Targeting the NIMBY Nonsense That’s Made Cities Unaffordable”

There can be no ambiguity about the anti-rental housing sentiment in places like Boulder, Colorado, or Westchester County, New York: It is pure, territorial NIMBYism. The report reserves a special section for Los Angeles, which both has, by some measures, the highest rents in the country and is also home to a celebrity-funded anti-growth initiative masquerading as an environmental movement. (As the situation in the Bay Area demonstrates, restrictions on infill housing either force teachers to commute two hours to their jobs—inhumane and not environmentally friendly—or force police officers to live in trailers in city parking lots—hey, that’s one way to fulfill a residency requirement!)

[Slate]

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at Los Angeles, California

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The Trumpettes of Bel-Air

“Inside the high-society circle of Trump supporters: jewel-bedecked, ideologically flexible and even less politically correct than he is.”

Those gathered at Kramer’s [Bel-Air] home were largely dismissive of criticism that Trump’s campaign has played off racial tensions (“Black Lives Matter and all that bullshit”) or that some of his supporters are motivated by bigotry (“I was raised by a black nanny, there’s no prejudice on my side”).

[Politico]

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downtownla - 1/12/11

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A woman donning a gas mask during a Los Angeles smog alert, June 1979.

via reddit