(Courtesy of Little Llama Peruvian Tacos! )
Dine and Drink Deals
Here are a few options from restaurants and bars as we work our way back toward normal.
Casa Vega in Sherman Oaks teams with The Chainsmokers for two new menu items available through the end of May a sparkling grapefruit margarita with JaJa Reposado ($13) and a Crispy Papas Tacos entree ($16.50) with potatoes, spinach-jalapeño pesto and crema served with Spanish rice and refried beans
. Profits from these items, which will be sold through the month, benefit back-of-house restaurant workers through
Filipino restaurant Sisig opened last month in Westlake, offering lumpia, BBQ pork, crisp pata (pork skin attached to tender meat) and, of course, sisig a dish made from pig’s head and chicken liver.
Yurika Isoeâs love of sewing and embroidery came from her grandma, who is from Okinawa, Japan, and was a prisoner of war in World War II.
âWhen she returned to the island, she didnât have a lot of wealth, but she knew how to sew,â Isoe says. âSo she started making clothing out of textiles, so thatâs kind of how she got her footing back post-war.â
Yurika Isoe got her start in the maker field when she began working with a dress maker who emigrated from Cameroon. Yurika Isoe
Isoeâs grandma eventually started making uniforms for schools in the area.
The Social Justice Sewing Academy Fosters Dialogue Through Quilting
Quilts with a message are just the beginning for this organization. Dec 16, 2020
What do social justice and making quilts have in common? Well, they re both core tenets of Social Justice Sewing Academy. The nonprofit organization was founded in 2016 by Sara Trail when she was an undergraduate at UC Berkeley. Four years prior, Trail had been shaken by the murder of young Trayvon Martin, an event with even more gravity given that Martin was exactly two weeks older than Trail before he was killed. However, Trail found that when she tried to talk about the event in her sewing circles, she was largely ignored. Instead of showing empathy, her fellow sewers largely disregarded her own experiences facing intolerance and prejudice.