Get comfy and settle in.
On an excursion to another drive-in, I scrunched into my husband’s Jetta. We were divided by a gear shift, which was probably less romantic than 65 years ago, when couples could snuggle together on the cushy bench seat of a 1955 Chevy Bel Air.
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Best advice? Streamline your space before dining in-car, eliminating clutter, clearing cup holders, and pushing back the seats. If you have a hatchback or a truck, you can set up some blankets and pillows in the back and make it your dining space.
Just remember to bring a jacket or two.
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A takeout window seems an apt location to begin thinking through some of the Los Angeles restaurants that managed not only to open in 2020, but also to enrich the city’s culture with creative achievement and personal narrative. This carryout setup operates from the quiet interior courtyard of Chinatown’s Mandarin Plaza, its mustard-colored façade embellished with a lone ribbon of red neon. Out of its sliding-glass panes appear outlandish sandwiches devised by one of the city’s defining chefs.
Wes Avila, the creator of Guerrilla Tacos, opened
Angry Egret Dinette in late October. One of his early imaginings was the Mookie Melt, a bucking bull on a bolillo roll that charged wildly and deliciously in all directions.
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When director David Fincher called to tell costume designer Trish Summerville that his long talked-about film “Mank” starring Gary Oldman as “Citizen Kane” screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz had gotten the green light, she knew it was destined to be “smart, funny, poignant, beautiful; it would tick all the boxes!”
“I definitely jumped at the chance,” says Summerville, who worked with Fincher on numerous other projects, though never before on a black and white feature film. “Besides a great story, with David I knew it was going to be incredible. I love working with him, and aside from this, he’s one of my favorite humans.”
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In the decades since engineers first blanketed the Los Angeles River with concrete, working-class communities along its armored banks have struggled with blight, poverty and crowding unintended consequences perhaps of an epic bid to control Mother Nature.
Now, as many of these neighborhoods suffer disproportionately higher rates of infection from COVID-19 and as the nation seeks to atone for racial and institutional injustices laid bare in the police killing of George Floyd famed architect Frank Gehry has unveiled a bold plan to transform the river into more than just a concrete flood channel and establish it as an unprecedented system of open space.