#WEST LA

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king's

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Table tennis tables at the Hammer Museum

West LA, CA

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Views of the runway

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los angeles at night

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Kiff Kafe, 12229 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles (West LA), CA 90064, Score: 42/50

Kiff: French slang for a small but potent pleasure. Kiff Kafe is a popular stylish coffeehouse and wine bar on the West Side of LA.

Score: 42/50

Food: 4/5 –  Fresh, high quality ingredients prepared in a simple manner (salads, tartines, sandwiches). Pastries are sourced from a local bakery, bread from Gjusta, and fruits and vegetables from a local farmer’s market.

Coffee: 4/5 – Impressive latte art, standard espresso drinks, cold brew, drip coffee, and specialty drinks, wine. No pour over coffee.

Wi-fi: 5/5 – Free, unlimited, ask for the password

Ambiance: 5/5 – White walls, clean and modern looking

Noise: 5/5 – Quiet, lots of campers

Plugs: 1/5 – One indoors that was hard to access, possibly some outside

Parking: 4/5 – You might be able to park in the small parking lot, otherwise the street parking is free but limited to two hours. Street cleaning is on Thursdays and Fridays.

Comfort: 4/5 – Some padded seating, some not. Beautiful patio in the back with some shade.  

Bathroom: 5/5 – Two restrooms, clean and pleasant

Art: 5/5 – Art for sale, maybe, and framed b/w photos

Tips: There's seating on the side of the building too (outside). They do share the parking lot with a dentist, so avoid the spaces that are designated for the dental office.

“Laptop Campers Unite!”

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Kiff Kafe, 12229 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles (West LA), CA 90064

Kiff: French slang for a small but potent pleasure

I had Kiff Kafe bookmarked for years and finally found myself in the area needing a place to camp. It’s a French inspired coffeehouse/wine bar that focuses on serving quality products, including bread from Gjusta, and fruits and vegetables sourced from a local farmer’s market.

The pastry case was a bit hard to spot but I saw some croissants. The menu includes simple items: tartines, sandwiches, salads, overnight oats, and yogurt parfaits.

Flat white, $4.75: 1% milk, the cutest foam art (a smiling cat), good flavor

Bayonne ham tartine ($15): French ham, mashed beans, fontina cheese, arugula, cornichons, Gjusta sesame seeded rye bread toasted. The thin slices of ham tasted just like prosciutto. The fontina cheese slice was very thin and I couldn’t taste it. The mashed beans tasted like hummus. Arugula and cornichons were served on the side. Quality bread. It was simple but high quality.

The place is very attractive, mostly white with light wood, a room with bottles of wine and books, and a lovely outdoor patio in the back. It’s a popular camping spot.

4.out of 5 stars

By Lolia S.

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right person, wrong time (variations on heartbreak)

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vita sackville-west & fegan’s 1924 café in dublin

everything everywhere all at once (2022)

@heavensghost on tumblr

i had to get out by indigo de souza

‘calling a wolf a wolf' by kaveh akbar

river by joni mitchell

‘english song’ in a little larger than the entire universe: selected poems by fernando pessoa

slumber by ron hicks

fish in exile by vi khi nao

penitent magdalene by antonio ciseri

@ojibwa on tumblr

this is what the drugs are for by gracie abrams & the awakening by angelo morbelli

as good as it gets by fizz

lonely this christmas by mud & picture of the christmas tree at trinity college dublin, taken by me in december of 2022

this is what the drugs are for by gracie abrams & picture by andrew collins via globalnews.ca

@inanotherunivrs on tumblr & a polaroid of me taken by my ex-boyfriend

‘in a dream you saw a way to survive’ by clementine von radics & a picture of my ex-boyfriend's window, taken by me

bluets by maggie nelson & the poolbeg generating station, dublin

‘unrequited’ by sasha m george & inheritance by matthew w. cornell

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@ faraway on instagram & lavender sprigs farm cut by linda jacobus

the museum of heartbreak by meg leder

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‘seaside improvisation’ by richard siken

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explosions by ellie goulding

‘i had a dream about you’ by richard siken

the beatrice letters by lemony snicket

la la land (2016)

‘catalog of unabashed gratitude’ by ross gay

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@deathlywounded on tumblr

some are always hungry by jihyun yun

‘speaking practice’ by franny choi

 a self-portrait in letters by anna sexton & a picture of my ex-boyfriend in a lake in Orfű, Hungary

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‘there is no absolution for the fallen, only the dying’ by p.d

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© “Not Like Us” Kendrick Lamar

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Linda De Villers – PSY 628

Linda De villers is okay, workload is light, she graded us on three papers. She is super strict about attendance though, I missed 15 min of class so she gave me an extra assignment to do because of that. I did not feel like she was understanding at all.

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i’ve been obsessed with hadestown for years now and finally got to see it yesterday on the west end, so here is a non-exhaustive, mostly in order list of things i loved:

- hermes ‘aiiiight’ ing the audience at the start

- the fates looking offended when hermes says they’re all dressed the same

- orpheus getting distracted and forgetting to greet the audience as he’s introduced

- irish orpheus and midlands eurydice healed something in me

- the fates all the time always, actually

- persephone and eurydice’s little moment of connection as persephone tells her to take what she can and make the most of it

- the trombonist dancing with the chorus during his solo

- orpheus and the cast looking out to the audience in a beat of silence as they toast the world we live in now

- everybody collectively gagging at the wine

- eurydice pushing orpheus right across the stage as she sings how she wants to hold him tight

- orpheus swooping in and popping up like a meerkat between hades and eurydice when she draws his attention

- hades putting on his dark glasses in order to immediately take them off at eurydice in hey little songbird

- eurydice holding the coins/ticket to hell out to hermes twice during chips are down and hermes only taking them on the third time

- hermes and persephone flirting at the start of act 2

- persephone not sharing her hip flask and hermes acting all offended until she gives them some

- every reference to hermes’ gender is gone

- hermes

- melanie la barrie

- hades’ slutty little strut on the revolve

- the absolute raw grief and anger and desperation in if it’s true, dónal absolutely killed it

- hades dad dancing

- hades burying his face in persephone’s shoulder after they reconcile

- orpheus’ adorable delighted ‘yes!!’ after eurydice tells him he’s done it

- the chorus’s cute af reaction when orpheus ’proposes’ eurydice to walk home with him

- orpheus’ fidgety, reaching hands as he walks and doubts (devastating)

- the centre of the revolve dropping away the MOMENT orpheus turns, almost before he’s actually set eyes on her. she’s already gone

- orpheus’ voice break on eurydice’s name as she vanishes (DEVASTATING)

- orpheus just sobbing by the gaping hole where eurydice’s gone as the theatre is in total silence (SHOOT ME ALREADY)

- the stage being set in the last minutes to match how it was when the show began. we’re really going to sing it again, aren’t we. there’s nothing else to be done

also do NOT get me started on the set and lighting design bc holy shit you guys it was PHENOMENAL. i so want to see it again to look for all the little details i inevitably missed

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The Getty

Brentwood, CA

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This cute little ramen spot on La Brea, Jan 2024

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Amazing moment in Hip-Hop history.