Los Angeles – Flung

The Culver Hotel: A Contemporary Time Capsule

Katrina Woznicki — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 20:48:48 +0000

Flatiron buildings aren’t common in Los Angeles, a city more known for horizontal mid-century sprawl than for the 1920’s desert boomtown at its true core. A few weeks after relocating from the New York City area to Culver City, a neighborhood next door to Santa Monica and a brief drive south of Beverly Hills, I was stuck in traffic—in true Southern California fashion—and found myself in the shadow of a very vertical flatiron building that looked like a slice of […]

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LAX –> JFK in JetBlue’s Mint Class

Sarah Stodola — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 17:59:29 +0000

In Flight Reviews, Flung writers provide key information about flights they take in order to leave the flying public better informed in an age of frustration, obfuscation and increasingly unfriendly skies. LAX —> JFK on JetBlue Flight 524 Flight: JetBlue 524 from Los Angeles LAX to New York JFK in Mint class (the airline’s equivalent of business class) Scheduled Date and Time: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018 at 12:43pm Check In and Security: I checked in online before arriving and was not […]

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LA Guide: Flung x Almanac of Style

Sarah Stodola — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 14:33:58 +0000

After years of wrongly dismissing Los Angeles as a temple of narcissism with a tragic lack of public transportation, I’ve recently been romanced by the place in a big way. Newer highlights like the Broad Museum, the Arts District, and even a subway system have given the city some deeper, sharper edges, remaking it as a mecca not only of the entertainment industry, but for the arts, design, fashion, and increasingly, literature. [vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Los Angeles: Readings and Recommendations After years […]

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10 Great Works of Literature About Los Angeles

Sarah Stodola — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:52:00 +0000

The city known for churning out fantastical versions of life via film tends toward a darker sensibility in its fiction. Of course, when it’s been in a more sullen mood, the Hollywood machine has adapted a good number of these novels to the silver screen. Here are 10 great novels about Los Angeles… [columns] [column size=”third” last=”no”] [/column] [column size=”third” last=”no”] The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler This atmospheric, high-brow crime novel introduced the world to Philip Marlowe, who conducted […]

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Mornings at Primo Passo Coffee Co.: LA Theater

Sarah Stodola — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 21:15:06 +0000

It was my first morning in Los Angeles and I was sleeping on my college best friend’s pullout sofa in Santa Monica. Or, not sleeping, to take it out of the theoretical. I forget that I get jetlag when I travel from New York City to LA, or vice versa, even though it happens every time, and more intensively the older I get. So I lay there at 5:30am, waiting to see what would happen, back to sleep or not, […]

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The Lowdown on Mama Shelter Los Angeles

Sarah Stodola — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:08:56 +0000

Prior to this year, the Mama Shelter brand already had five hugely popular hotels in Europe, all but one in France. They’d proven their model there: The draw of staying in a reasonably priced hotel with a ton of personality in a neighborhood in the early stages of buzzworthiness is strong, it turns out (and, by the way, not just among millennials). The Mama Shelter Los Angeles brings the concept for the first time to the US. Located a block […]

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LA Desaturated: The Black Cat in Silver Lake

Sarah Stodola — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 18:06:55 +0000

There may be no finer hour in life to sidle up to a long wooden bar than mid-afternoon on a weekday, a time during which we seldom allow ourselves the pleasure, for obvious reasons having to do with slippery slopes. Only when we are traveling does the opportunity present itself unaccompanied by guilt. Entire destinations (Las Vegas, for one) have grown up around this principle. So it was, during a recent visit to Los Angeles, that I turned up to […]

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A Closer Look at the Broad Museum in LA

Sarah Stodola — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:57:48 +0000

Getting into the newly opened Broad Museum in downtown Los Angeles takes some forethought, something I discovered almost too late during a weeklong trip to Los Angeles this September. The free advance timed tickets available via the website were long since fully booked by the time I checked. I called the museum to see about alternatives, and was advised to forget about the weekends and come on a weekday to try my luck with the limited number of tickets reserved […]

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LA’s Frogtown, on the Cusp of Change

Sarah Stodola — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 15:12:33 +0000

The Spoke Bicycle Cafe sits on the last lot of the last block of a dead-end Los Angeles street. It can be remarkably sunny here, in a way that makes your eyes hurt. The street stops at a chain-link fence, bringing what little traffic exists here to an abrupt halt. Street parking is generally not a problem. The day of my visit, in fact, I was the only customer to arrive via car. Most of Spoke’s customers arrive instead by […]

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