more on those l.a. live restaurants
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With LA Live’s opening right around the corner, Eater LA has compiled a comprehensive list of which restaurants are coming, and when.
From the recent debut of Club Nokia to the laggard “1Q 2009” Katsuya and Trader Vic’s, it’s all there in packaged form.
Notable inclusions: New Zealand Natural Ice Cream on December 1; grab-and-go Lawry’s Carvery December 3; and sports bar ESPN Zone the first week of December.
-Plywood Tracking: LA Live Restaurants Opening Soon (Eater LA)
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I’m definately visiting New Zealand Natural Ice Cream!
too bad we’re boycotting yard house
^ why yardhouse?
Carlito Jocson who lists himself as the Owner of Yard House, and is actually i believe the executive chef and partner donated to the Yes on 8 campaign.
The New Zealand Ice Cream place seems a little out of place but the Yard House is a home-run in terms of location. It’s perfect for a sports and entertainment themed place. It has a massive beer selection and is a relaxing place to unwind after or before a concert or game.
I want a Souvernir stand
Boycotting a business during this struggling economy and stunting the revitalization process of Downtown LA is really fruitless. What’s next? Boycotting the Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles? How about channeling your energy towards the real culprits — the AME Church…Take the fight to the gritty streets of South Central! It’s a fact homophobia is widely accepted in the black community and it’s no coincidence a large number of blacks voted overwhelmingly in favor of Prop 8. Why turn a blind eye on them? Isn’t it about time to confront the hypocrisy in the African-American community? You’d probably make a bigger difference on gay/lesbian civil rights marching in the streets of South Central on Martin Luther King Blvd.! Oh the irony!!
To FightThePower: You’ll be interested to note that there’s a protest march in Leimert Park (Corner of Vernon & Crenshaw) this Sunday at 11:00am. See you there. Don’t wear red or blue.
WOW, what’s happen to this site? I really use to enjoy reading all the feedback, but lately the tune has been so negative. From boycotting someone for their freedom to vote, to trash talking about businesses that are doing something to improve the area. What is going on??
I know that by posting this, I will received negative feedback, but what I ask before you write is,
What have you done lately to improve the life of another? Or your community?
Shut off your computer and walk outside and say “HI” to someone, make a new friend.
I know that this properly sounds stupid to some, but I just came from spending 10 days in a place where people have so much less then we do, but are so much happier then we are. The difference is that we don’t appreciate what we have!
I agree, boycott, show that there are repercussions to your actions…. but TELL them you are boycotting them.
And hope, I work daily at my spiritual/human integrity to make all life around me better. But for every invocation of of good intent there is an equal result in negative.
We like to think that we cannot cause harm by doing good -as some people believed by voting FOR prop 8- but regardless of your beliefs you can cause ill because there is no perfected action. Life is asymmetric and often incompatible to human ideas.
Hope isn’t a fluffy cloud…
And before you ask us what we have done -alluding that you have a higher moral standpoint- ask yourself that question. And, maybe, what are you REALLY “hoping” to achieve by posting it.
Passive aggressive is less attractive then the trolling.
“Hope”,
Boycotting is a democratic form of protest. They have their “freedom to vote” and we have our freedom not not financially support a business when the self proclaimed owner donated money to preventing one of our basic human rights. It just doesn’t make sense. It’s like handing your executioner the gun.
Your moral high horse tone is condescending and assumes that boycotting is mutually exclusive to activities that “improving the life of another.” Our money and time are better spent elsewhere.
Well said Teresa.
Boycotting is “voting” with your dollars. I am “voting” for businesses who don’t use their profits to actively work to take away my rights as a US citizen.
Sorry Yard House, you won’t be getting my money.
So what is exactly the goal of boycotting places like Yard House?
1) Do you want to teach them a lesson and send a message to everyone that they shouldn’t vote their conscience
2) Do you want to shut their businesses down? Is that the ultimate goal?
3) If you want to teach them a lesson but not shut them down, how do you know you can walk that line without destroying them?
51% of the people voted for Prop 8. If 51% of the businesses in downtown supported them, should they be boycotted as well? What would downtown look like with half of the businesses destroyed?
You certainly have the right to boycott but at what cost? At the cost of downtown thriving? At the cost of businesses surviving during tough times?
Let’s be clear: Gay people already have the right to get married. The state doesn’t prevent it. There will not now be police breaking up every same sex marriage ceremony. It’s the marginal economic advantages from the state that you are fighting for. Is that worth bringing down businesses, city revitalization, and job creation?
Can we stop arguing about who to boycott and where the next march will be and just talk about what the article is about.
Derrick you are clearly living in a fantasy world if you think gay people currently have the right to get married in California. To prove my point, why not take a trip today to city hall with a same sex partner and ask for a marriage license? You’d be turned away. Same sex partners do not have the right to get married anymore, thanks to prop 8.
And to answer you somewhat rehtorical question: Yes equality for all is worth bringing down businesses, revitalization, and job creation.My dollars support businesses who don’t work against me.
None of us are equal until we all are equal.
HOPE, What place did you go to?
http://www.angelenic.com/6135/proposition-8-protests-gain-steam-two-downtown-area-events-this-weekend/
Please keep the political discussion in the appropriate article:
http://www.angelenic.com/6135/proposition-8-protests-gain-steam-two-downtown-area-events-this-weekend/
I for one, am excited about the ESPN zone, correct me if Im wrong but there is nowhere in downtown LA that has NFL sunday ticket to see all the games. Even Fox Sports Grill doesnt.
Casey’s does I believe
Wow, another City Walk. Yawn. Great for tourists and the city tax base, but I can’t imagine why anyone who lives downtown would bother.
This is getting irritating; we need to keep the Prop 8 comments in the appropriate article, not waste them here in this article that realistically has absolutely nothing to do with Gay Marriage.
James - I live in downtown, and I had a great time chilling out at Lucky Strike lounge on Saturday night. And, the previous week, I was chilling out at Pete’s Cafe late in the evening. Get over it, downtown will be a place for ‘newness’ like LA Live, Staples, etc…and the historic with the Old Bank, Broadway corridor, and don’t forget the multiple districts all throughout downtown.
And it will only get better!
rich: do you know when the projects immediately around LA Live like Jardin/Fig south/etc… are going to break ground or if they even are still scheduled? The parking lot across seems to have been blocked off.
#24: Jardin (now called South Figueroa) was pushed back to 2009… and that was about a year ago. I’m sure it’s being delayed longer now.
LA Central is being developed by the Moinian Group and they’re really tight-lipped on information. I don’t think you’ll see that break ground for a year at least.
At this point we’re going to have to make do with what’s already in the pipeline and under construction for the next couple years. With the new stuff coming on the market now, we’ll be in a good position the next go-‘round.
I’m satisfied with the state of things now though.
thanks rich. Its just good to see all the momentum with LA Live opening and the other two projects would have been perfect to keep it going.
Are there any plans to tear down Holiday Inn?
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