Tagged: Los Angeles
Testing Ain’t Easy: LA Edition
No matter what gets said at new conferences, things like “we are going to test X amount of people” involves logistics of actually getting X number of people tested.
American Sandwich Project: French Dips, Drips, and Glops
French Dips, like most things that claim to be French, aren’t French at all. And like most things that claim to be sandwiches, their origin story is shrouded
Still Better Than The Four-Level
It’s about the journey more than the destination: a glimpse into one summer day in DTLA.
Hometown!
Everyone has a hometown. Lots of places have music about them. What music defines where you’re from?
Three Cheers for Command and Control
A couple in Glendora, CA face a $500 fine for saving water by not watering their lawn. Simultaneously, the state wants to fine people who water their lawns. That is, folks can receive a...
Lessons From Bar Fight Litigation
By special request: Burt Likko reflects on a dozen or so not-particularly-glamorous cases from early in his career.
There It Is — Take It
Burt Likko celebrates the history of a city that seems all too frequently to act as though it had none, on the centennial anniversary of an important, oft-overlooked event. In the beginning was a ditch…
Gastrodestination Portland
To the left is a meal I had in Portland, Oregon this weekend. It was not the best meal I had. But it was the gayest. (Read more at NaPP…) Burt Likko is the...
Sounds of the City
Right now as I start this post, out on the street, the same somebody who comes by once a week is creating the clink-clink noise of bottles being sorted out of the neighborhood recycle...
An Andy Rooney Moment
Why is it that I need to create a not-less-than-twelve-character username, consisting of at least one capital letter, at least one lowercase letter, at least one punctuation symbol, and at least one number, and...
