Bree seems to like what they offer at Hotcakes.
Just south of Culver on Centinela.
What do you think? Been there? Is it any good?
**UPDATE: Hotcakes are at the Mar Vista Farmer's Market on Sundays 9-1
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Flickr + Mar Vista
Discover Mar Vista with photos...
The pool:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/marvista/pool/
The tags:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%22mar+vista%22&m=text
The pool:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/marvista/pool/
The tags:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%22mar+vista%22&m=text
Sunday, August 06, 2006
Build A Basement: Mar Vista Architecture and Real Estate Analyzed
Great stuff.
Why is Mar Vista the way it is today (including pics...) by Peter McFerrin, a PhD student in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California, where he studies transportation policy. Can you sort out the transportation in Mar Vista?
Part One (with no pics)
Part 2 Add-Ons and Tear-Downs (with pictures!)
Part Two Point Five (with tons of pics including chav houses in Mar Vista!)
Part Three (with lots of good advice for you remodelling - tear down types!)
Ride Your Bike
A great way to create, learn, share and discover bike routes in LA and beyond!
Bikely.com - www.bikeley.com
Bikely.com - www.bikeley.com
Minutes from the July '06 MVCC meeting
MVCC = Mar Vista Community Council
Here are the minutes from the meeting on July 11, 2006.
Looks like Taco Bell's in trouble at their newly remodeled location at Venice and Inglewood.
Next one must be August 8, 2006 (second Tuesday of the month).
Held at the Mar Vista Park Auditorium starting at 7:15pm.
Follow up on first meeting regarding Mark Twain...
Here's a recap of the 7/18/06 meeting regarding Mark Twain. This was written by Nathalie Locas.
"Hi Everyone,
Last night (Tuesday) I attended the LA Unified reform meeting at the Boys and Girls club here in Venice. The local goal is to reform Mark Twain and turn it into a viable school option. The speakers Steve Barr (founder of Green Dot Public Schools and the Rock the Vote Campaign) and Marco Petruzzi (a Coeur d’Alene parent) were very interesting and informative. We all left there feeling like we can make this happen!
The strategy of Green Dot Schools is; To Create small, high performing college Preparatory schools in every neighborhood. In the case of Mark Twain, they are talking about making it into 3 individual schools within the whole property.
The 2000+ kids, pass them on no matter what, unsafe conditions, etc has to be a thing of the past! LA Unified currently has 19 Million dollars to create new schools across the district. It’s time that the parents have a say and get involved, because as history has shown LA Unified is not doing a good job. We Coeur d’Alene families are incredibly lucky, but it shouldn’t be luck, it should be the norm and that goes for Junior and High school as well.
At the request of many attendees, they are going to have a repeat meeting in a couple of weeks. In the mean time, I urge you to visit the small schools web site below and take a look. If it is something you agree with and would like kept ‘in the loop’, please sign up under Join the Los Angeles Parent Union If you click on the Send to School Board member it will go directly to them, and they will see the momentum building, and will know something has to be done. It does not cost any money to join!
http://www.smallschools.org/index.cfm
Thanks
Nathalie
Here's the follow up:
"Venice and surrounding area residents,
Thank you for attending our first meeting! If you weren’t able to attend, last night we held the first meeting of the Venice Chapter of the Los Angeles Parents Union. About 60 parents were present and the mood at the end was downright enthusiastic. There was absolute cohesion in the need to form a parent's union and define and demand an aggressive plan to transform Mark Twain. And the timing is now! Steve Barr, founder of Green Dot Public Schools and The Small School Alliance was there to explain how we can achieve this if we unite and build our numbers. Check out the article from the Venice Paper attached. [NOT ATTACHED]
Clearly, the devil is in the details and we intend to waste no time in getting to them. We intend to have a second meeting in two weeks where we will get 300 people to show up this time, so everyone on this email has to: a) make sure to sign up for the parent's Union atwww.smallschools.org and b) commit to signing up at least 10 new members for the next meeting.
Training Session for Leadership
We would like to hold an information and training session for community parents that are interested in being part of the leadership of the Venice chapter of LAPU. Being part of the leadership will entail participating in at least one of these aspects: organizing the community, preparing communication materials, developing/managing a website, collecting data/stats, helping draft/finalize the plans for transformation, helping set up the governance structure, etc..
If you are interested in participating actively in this effort (no specific time commitment at this point, as much as you can do), we will have a training/information session on Tuesday, July 25th (next week) at 7pm (location TBD) to cover the following topics:
- The basics of California education (key differences between public and charter schools, state and federal funding, drivers of funding)
- How LAUSD is run and governed, basic numbers and stats
- The Small Schools Alliance Plan and the Mayor's plan
- The School transformation model (this will be generic for now, not the Mark Twain specifics)
- Basic plan for how to organize our community
I will need to have your RSVP so we can plan where to have the meeting. If only a handful, we can have it at someone's house, if more people, we'll need to find a space.
We will also soon send out a date and location for the plenary meeting. I thank everyone for coming last night and let's transform together public education in Venice!
Marco Petruzzi
"Hi Everyone,
Last night (Tuesday) I attended the LA Unified reform meeting at the Boys and Girls club here in Venice. The local goal is to reform Mark Twain and turn it into a viable school option. The speakers Steve Barr (founder of Green Dot Public Schools and the Rock the Vote Campaign) and Marco Petruzzi (a Coeur d’Alene parent) were very interesting and informative. We all left there feeling like we can make this happen!
The strategy of Green Dot Schools is; To Create small, high performing college Preparatory schools in every neighborhood. In the case of Mark Twain, they are talking about making it into 3 individual schools within the whole property.
The 2000+ kids, pass them on no matter what, unsafe conditions, etc has to be a thing of the past! LA Unified currently has 19 Million dollars to create new schools across the district. It’s time that the parents have a say and get involved, because as history has shown LA Unified is not doing a good job. We Coeur d’Alene families are incredibly lucky, but it shouldn’t be luck, it should be the norm and that goes for Junior and High school as well.
At the request of many attendees, they are going to have a repeat meeting in a couple of weeks. In the mean time, I urge you to visit the small schools web site below and take a look. If it is something you agree with and would like kept ‘in the loop’, please sign up under Join the Los Angeles Parent Union If you click on the Send to School Board member it will go directly to them, and they will see the momentum building, and will know something has to be done. It does not cost any money to join!
http://www.smallschools.org/index.cfm
Thanks
Nathalie
Here's the follow up:
"Venice and surrounding area residents,
Thank you for attending our first meeting! If you weren’t able to attend, last night we held the first meeting of the Venice Chapter of the Los Angeles Parents Union. About 60 parents were present and the mood at the end was downright enthusiastic. There was absolute cohesion in the need to form a parent's union and define and demand an aggressive plan to transform Mark Twain. And the timing is now! Steve Barr, founder of Green Dot Public Schools and The Small School Alliance was there to explain how we can achieve this if we unite and build our numbers. Check out the article from the Venice Paper attached. [NOT ATTACHED]
Clearly, the devil is in the details and we intend to waste no time in getting to them. We intend to have a second meeting in two weeks where we will get 300 people to show up this time, so everyone on this email has to: a) make sure to sign up for the parent's Union atwww.smallschools.org and b) commit to signing up at least 10 new members for the next meeting.
Training Session for Leadership
We would like to hold an information and training session for community parents that are interested in being part of the leadership of the Venice chapter of LAPU. Being part of the leadership will entail participating in at least one of these aspects: organizing the community, preparing communication materials, developing/managing a website, collecting data/stats, helping draft/finalize the plans for transformation, helping set up the governance structure, etc..
If you are interested in participating actively in this effort (no specific time commitment at this point, as much as you can do), we will have a training/information session on Tuesday, July 25th (next week) at 7pm (location TBD) to cover the following topics:
- The basics of California education (key differences between public and charter schools, state and federal funding, drivers of funding)
- How LAUSD is run and governed, basic numbers and stats
- The Small Schools Alliance Plan and the Mayor's plan
- The School transformation model (this will be generic for now, not the Mark Twain specifics)
- Basic plan for how to organize our community
I will need to have your RSVP so we can plan where to have the meeting. If only a handful, we can have it at someone's house, if more people, we'll need to find a space.
We will also soon send out a date and location for the plenary meeting. I thank everyone for coming last night and let's transform together public education in Venice!
Marco Petruzzi
Something going on regarding Mark Twain M.S. on Wednesday!
"Please join the Venice chapter of the LA Parents Union and Concerned Parents Throughout Los Angeles to discuss:
“Transforming Mark Twain MS”
Making Mark Twain MS A Small, Safe School!
Wednesday, Aug 9th, 2006
Venice Boys and Girls Club
2232 Lincoln Blvd • Venice, CA 90291
7:00 pm
* Learn about the Mark Twain MS Transformation Plan
* See how you can play a role
* Learn More about Los Angeles Parents Union
Refreshments and childcare provided
For more information visit www.smallschools.org
To RSVP please contact Ryan J. Smith
(e-mail: rsmith@greendot.org or 213-621-0276 ext 255)
“Transforming Mark Twain MS”
Making Mark Twain MS A Small, Safe School!
Wednesday, Aug 9th, 2006
Venice Boys and Girls Club
2232 Lincoln Blvd • Venice, CA 90291
7:00 pm
* Learn about the Mark Twain MS Transformation Plan
* See how you can play a role
* Learn More about Los Angeles Parents Union
Refreshments and childcare provided
For more information visit www.smallschools.org
To RSVP please contact Ryan J. Smith
(e-mail: rsmith@greendot.org or 213-621-0276 ext 255)
Just starting...
This is the beginning of a site where people from the Mar Vista community can learn about activities, come to one central website address and get all of the relevant links to activities and organizations in the area. Ideally, down the road, this site should be a place where you can also find out what is happening in the area - be it tree planting in the local community, fires in local businesses, or delays in city planning permits - this can be a place where individuals can write about stories that they know about and share them with the rest of the Mar Vista community.
Here are some pics of the
Farmer's Market
This site is being launched on the day the Farmer's Market began on Grand View. On hand for the opening event was Bill Rosendahl, councilman for the local Mar Vista Area, and the Mar Vista Community Council. Big props to Venice Grind for being a part of making this happen. [addition: here are some pics Bree took at it ]
I guess if a private chef gives it a partial thumbs up it's a good thing.Here are some pics of the
Farmer's Market
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