| BUT THAT DOESN'T mean that the Chowhounders who already tried it have much good to report: "Reasonable at $6.99, I opened the Styrofoam container to find a shriveled thimble size whole bird, too lanky even to be a Cornish game hen... Now of course, Monday, the grand opening, may portend a totally different and vastly improved bird, but it's up for one of you guys to find out." |
January 30, 2009
Sepan Chicken Has Menu, Officially Opens Monday
January 27, 2009
Confirmed! Tommy's Burgers Out, Sepan Chicken In
 THANKS TO A crappy drive-by cell-phone photo and some investigative work by Eater LA, we can confirm that the former Tommy's Char-Broiled Burgers, 3324 Glendale Blvd., is now something called Sepan Chicken. Someone should go try it and tell us about it. And see if you can find out if it has anything to do with Sepan Banquet Hall up the street. |
January 26, 2009
Has Tommy's Burgers Become a Chicken Joint?
A LOYAL READER crosses the road:Hmm, there's Sepan Banquet Hall up the block at 3404 Glendale Blvd. Any relation? Anyone know what the cluck is going on?Do you know anything about this new joint that seems to have literally overnight replaced the Tommy's Char-broiled Burger place in Atwater Village (I believe 3324 Glendale Blvd.)? |
January 25, 2009
And That, Angelenos, Is What We Call 'Hail'
| IT USED TO BE a regular occurrence where we lived 3 years ago, in volatile-weathered Colorado, but this is the first time we've been through a genuine hail storm since moving to Los Angeles. Almost didn't recognize the pling pling pling of pea-size ice hitting roofs and hoods at 11:15 p.m. tonight. The drop lasted maybe 10 minutes, but it was enough to make many Atwater Villagers peer outside to see what was the clatter. UPDATE: Welcome, Defamer readers! |
January 23, 2009
Shepard Fairey Propaganda Twofer: Esquire, Time
WHEN WAS THE last time 2 major national magazines put the same artist's work on their covers? (Within weeks, no less.) From neighboring neighborhood Echo Park, artist and designer Shepard Fairey has produced 2 covers featuring President Barack Obama.
Time ran what seems to be an original portrait, the President'slips parted, on its Dec. 29, 2008, issue. But Esquire's February 2009 issue, in mailboxes this week, ran what appears to be the same closed-mouth portrait from Fairey's famous "Hope" campaign poster.Good for Shepard. How did he swing it? This is surely the final nail in the mainstream-media's-in-the-tank-for-Obama coffin that certain skeptics (sore losers) have been waiting for.
January 9, 2009
Judge to 'Monster' of Atwater Village: Die!
A SUPERIOR COURT judge today honored a jury's recommendation and sentenced to death the LA gang leader known as the Monster of Atwater Village:Timothy Joseph McGhee, 35, sat handcuffed in an orange jail uniform as Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry said McGhee treated killing "as some kind of perverse sport, as if he was hunting human game." [LA Times] |
Saturday Night's All Right for Atwater
 ART AND WINE and cheese and things, all to be had in the neighborhood this weekend:
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January 8, 2009
Earthquake? Rattling in Atwater Village, Sherman Oaks
| THE SOFA SHOOK and the bookshelf rattled for 2 to 3 seconds here at home in Atwater Village, about 7:50 p.m. Meanwhile, on the other end of the phone, Mrs. Newbie felt some shaking in her car. She was at a stoplight in Sherman Oaks. Quick, gentle, couldn't have been more than a 2 or 3. Anyone else feel it? UPDATE #1: Well. It was a 5.0 near San Bernardino, about 50 miles east of Atwater Village and the Los Angeles city limits, at 7:49:46 PM. The USGS gives my shake report an estimated intensity of II. |
What 2,763 Pounds of Food Looks Like
| THIS IS WHAT the Atwater Village's Pampered Bird shop (3183 Glendale Blvd.) looked like before the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank picked up our neighborhood's donation: 3,852 items, more than a ton of food. The drive was organized by PB's Lourdes Rivas who, by the way, knows like 2,763 things about Bengalese finches. |
Woof Boutique Already Ready for Valentines Day
 SOMETHING WE'VE noticed for months now: The first (and sometimes only) Atwater Village storefront themed for each holiday is Woof Dog Boutique, 3172 Glendale Blvd. Their Christmas trees were barely recycled when their giant red heart went up for Valentines Day.We don't know yet what Woof learned from the appearance on the Peter Perfect business makeover show (their episode is Saturday) but I bet it had something to do with holiday theming. (And maybe community involvement; they've also become active sponsors of many neighborhood activities!) |
January 6, 2009
Atwater Chatter: First Full Week of 2009 Edition
NEW YEAR'S NEWS from this sliver of northeast Los Angeles that we've been calling home for nearly 3 years. (Can we still be Newbies? Hope so!) The chatter:
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