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Of Course the ‘When Harry Met Sally’ Cast Reunited at Katz’s for a Super Bowl Commercial It’s a Hellmann’s mayonnaise ad

"But there’s something sinister about the way brands keep finding bigger, flashier ways to repurpose great moments in art to sell products" is a thing I wrote about a mayonnaise ad because I am in a normal and cool state of mind www.eater.com/24354679/whe...

Ticket prices leaked for high-speed rail between California, Vegas In new documents, Brightline West projected cost of high-speed rail from California to Vegas to be over $100 each way.

I would still have to travel 41 miles to Rancho Cucamonga, and then pay $119 to $133 to get from LA to Las Vegas.

One-way.

"If this were all vegetation and trees, we might have a better understanding of the effects. But with all the buildings, plastics, and metals being burned in homes, we will know less about what the long-term health effects will be," Dr. Jeremy Faulk

🔗: lamag.com/news/la-wil...

Calif.'s food industry readies to fight 'the cruelty and the stupidity' of Trump SFGATE does a deep dive into how President Donald Trump’s second term may affect the food, agriculture and restaurant industries in California.

Excellent work by SF Gate's food editor Karen Palmer. She looked at this administration's proposed policies and what they could mean for California's food, agriculture, and restaurant industries.

I know books are cheaper and hand delivered to your door step if you order on Amazon. I know. I understand times are rough and things are expensive. I just ask you please consider once in a while to go to a local bookstore. Or visit a library. They'll even order books for you. Please I beg of you.

Restaurants have their preferred delivery app, just call or DM and ask which one (if any) they prefer to work with

Definitely not Postmates/Ubereats or Grubhub. But call the restaurant and ask!

If you have the resources, one of the best things you can do for them is to go out, use the restaurant's preferred delivery app (it's not Postmates or Grubhub), and have a meal.

"Customers Are Not Coming In": LA Restaurants Reach a Breaking Point Due to the 2025 Wildfires Los Angeles restaurant operators and chefs share the dramatic collapse in business due to the wildfires and evacuations

My team interviewed over 15 Los Angeles restaurant owners & chefs who are worried about their industry.

In some cases, business is down by 80%.

One of the biggest concerns: they don't want to center themselves during SoCal's biggest disaster by asking people to come in for a meal.

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The Supreme Court upheld the TikTok ban. Here's what happens now The Supreme Court upheld a law that requires TikTok's Chinese owner to sell off the app's U.S. business or face a nationwide ban Sunday.

"You’ll still have the app on your mobile device, but ByteDance might immediately shut it down in the U.S. on Sunday. Even if it doesn’t go dark right away, TikTok is expected to lose utility over time as users leave and updates aren’t rolled out."

How to Help SoCal Restaurant Workers Impacted by Wildfires Five places to donate, share, or turn to right now if you’re on the ground in Los Angeles

More resources to support wildfire survivors.

10 Recent Restaurant Closures to Know in Los Angeles Enrique Olvera’s Atla in Venice, Mel’s Fish Shack in West Adams, and Stay Zero Proof in Chinatown all closed this past month.

A more comprehensive list is here:

LA’s Best Schnitzel Spot Closes This Month After Just Over One Year of Business Lustig opened in December 2023 and tried to weather a tough year for LA restaurants

Also closing later this month is Culver City's Lustig:

Trailblazing Arts District Restaurant Guerrilla Tacos to Close Permanently on January 31 Opened in 2018, Guerrilla Tacos became a hub showcasing modern Mexican takes alongside mezcal and innovative cocktails

In restaurant closing news this week is Guerrilla Tacos. A big loss for Los Angeles.

Love the sound of that!

Thank you.

Donate to Stand with the Vox Media Union and Thrillist Union, organized by Ashok Selvam On Thursday, December 5, nearly 40 members of the Vox Media Union, Thr… Ashok Selvam needs your support for Stand with the Vox Media Union and Thrillist Union

If you can, support my colleagues: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

To be clear Eater Cities are not going away, they're just reorganizing them internally to guarantee everyone is spread too thin and has fewer resources 🙃

Been a rough day at Eater today.

Keep us in good thoughts while our organization restructures and figures out a new path in this challenging food media landscape.

Today, we were blindsided by news from Vox Media management that many of our colleagues at Thrillist and Eater would lose their jobs. We are devastated to lose writers and editors who produce invaluable work each and every day, and disgusted by Vox Media’s short-sighted decision making. As always, it is the workers who bear the brunt of management’s poor choices, and this close to the holidays, their callousness is especially galling. We are incredibly disappointed by management’s decision to decimate Thrillist, a vertical that it has invested almost nothing in since acquiring it from Group Nine. As we have made clear to management with our demand for One Union, One Contract, the WGAE-Vox Media Union views our colleagues at Thrillist as members of our union, and we will make sure that they are made whole in light of management’s decision to essentially shutter this beloved publication. Many of those impacted by today’s layoffs work on Eater’s Cities team, a group of powerhouse journalists who produce some of the most impactful local journalism in the country. Their work has always differentiated Eater and built it into the country’s most prominent food website, and management’s treatment of these workers is both irresponsible and reflects a complete lack of understanding of the journalism that is needed in this moment. We need more boots on the ground doing this essential work, not fewer. As always, the Guild will continue to demand that members are treated fairly in the aftermath of layoffs. As we approach the upcoming negotiations for our third collective bargaining agreement, we want to make abundantly clear to management that the status quo of constant, cyclical layoffs will not continue. We will fight like hell to ensure that our industry has a future, no matter how many times those in charge attempt to run it into the ground. Details on how you can support laid off workers at Vox Media will be forthcoming. Solidarity forever.

Hello Bluesky. Sucks that this is our first post. A statement from the Vox Media Union and @wgaeast.bsky.social on today's layoffs. Please stay tuned for more details on how you can support our colleagues who were impacted today.

The Original Guide to Los Angeles | High Life Magazine British Airways High Life Magazine - your trusted source of travel inspiration

I wrote a guide to Los Angeles for British Airways. Thanks to Mike Sonksen aka Mike the Poet for his expertise and music journalist Jeff Weiss for the amazing playlist: bahighlife.com/destinations...

So, What Was the Deal With the Blow-Up Trump Doll in Front of Long Beach’s Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles? Social media users have called for a boycott against the restaurant after a Donald Trump inflatable was found placed in front of its Long Beach location

Since Monday, I received at least six DMs about Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles and an inflatable DT doll stationed in front of the Long Beach location.

I asked more questions and published this today:

Please Do Not Drink Raw Milk Everything you need to know about unpasteurized milk, a distinctly dangerous food trend.

i come to you with a simple plea: please do not drink raw milk. it's gross, and maybe deadly.

www.eater.com/24300729/raw...

Rewatching Six Feet Under and watching Brenda rent an apartment for $700 a month just sent me over the 2024 edge

(Taps microphone)...how's everyone doing!?