@Home Brew: I get the impression from this (and earlier posts) that @PlannerRama believes the state should continue to cut funding to higher education, and I was just drawing the logical conclusion to that line of thought (complete privatization of the education system, the working class be damned.) But maybe I’m reading into his/her posts… if so, my bad.
I actually think Rand Paul may be someone with his heart in the right place, but some rather scary ideas should he somehow get elected in 2016 (and the Republicans manage to take the senate and hold the house.)
As far as the Koch’s….I’m sure I don’t need to give you my opinion on them… we may agree on a couple of things, but even a broken clock is right twice a day.
As far as prop 13 and rent control, I tend to agree with you that we should probably just phase out both to a certain degree. Maybe that means restricting rent control to those who are actually living paycheck to paycheck? And perhaps we can get rid of the 2/3 supermajority clause, and eliminate tax breaks for commercial interests, without pricing out over retired folks on a fixed income?)
The New Beverly Cinema is Becoming Quentin Tarantino's Public 35mm Screening Room
@ImpatientMike!: Look, buddy, I know your kind. They come out of the woodwork any time the issue is the whims of those with the money, to lick the boots of the Great God Mammon. They are by nature serfs. They do the bidding of their masters like good little puppy dogs, and maybe they’ll be rewarded with a nice pink ribbon around their necks to show who owns them. And if it they were the only ones affected I’d say fine. Let the bosses kill them and eat them. Let the bosses shoot them for sport. But the way of the world is that the power of the dollar and the acquiescence of your kind the wage earners forfeit the power they could easily have. In America everyone believes in the law of the jungle because everyone thinks he’s a lion. But you know, the odd say that you’re not. You’re what lions eat.
Quentin Tarantino did not own the business known as the New Beverly Cinema. That business was built by and belonged to the Torgan family, and it was theirs to run as they wished. If they wanted to run their business as a shrine to motion pictures rather than a shrine to a particular material they could be projected from that was their right. Tarantino was the landlord. Tarantino had given the business money over the years to help cover operating expenses. That was a gift; it didn’t buy him an interest in the business. What Tarantino has done is to leverage his position as landlord to get Michael Torgan to surrender his business, for reasons that seem to me to be largely vanity. Clearly Torgan would have preferred not to relinquish it. Reading between the lines, Tarantino gave him an offer-you-cannot-refuse and part of the terms were that he couldn’t talk about it publicly. It’s Catch-22 Section 1(b): They can do anything you can’t stop them from doing. But as St. Paul said, not everything that is permissible is good. Tarantino may well program excellent shows. The outcome may well please celluloid fetishists. But it’s still a dick move.
First Look at Downtown's Ace-Adjacent 32-Story Condo Tower
@Paul : I think there are some things being overlooked in your bet. First of all, these projects take years to finish before they are turn-key. Second, I don’t think you appreciate how agglomeration economies and aggregate density affects street life and retail in general. This project is a force multiplier among all the other projects going on. As an aggregate, this tower will be a game changer. I’ll bet against you anyday…
First Look at Downtown's Ace-Adjacent 32-Story Condo Tower
If i were a betting man i would say this will never happen. No ground up experience combined with every market rate high rise in LA in the last 10 years getting foreclosed. The only thing that could propel you to build high rise would be sheer market fever and that’s the main reason not to.
Hint: Where Could You Get Oyster Cocktails in the 1930s?
It is on Vine St South of Hollywood Blvd.
The CBS Radio Playhouse next door was originally The Vine Street Theatre. then the Huntington Hartford Theatre. In 1964 it became the Doolittle Theatre owned by James Doolittle, owner of the Greek Theatre. It was later bought by UCLA and became the Ricardo Montalban Theater.
There's a Plan to Put a Whitewater Park on the LA River
@BrianMojo:
If it is designed similar to the one in Denver it will look very natural. They used boulders with in the existing river to create the white water course, control the natural flow and not restrict the flood control capacity of the river. It is a great little run that is there for any one to use for free.
There's a Plan to Put a Whitewater Park on the LA River
There was a white water park proposed to be built in Sepulveda Basin for the ‘84 Olympics but the Valley NIMBY’s fought having any Olympic events in the Valley. The only thing the Valley got was some practice venues.
To bad, it would of been a great asset to recreation in the LA area.