Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Thai food invasion

Grub Street Los Angeles features two new Thai restaurants in the Mar Vista area. One is in the old Taco Bell on Washington and the other is in the former Thai Beer location.

Thai Transitions Mark Two New Mar Vista Restaurants


http://losangeles.grubstreet.com/2010/01/thai_transitions_mark_two_new.html

Mar Vista Metro - now part of Outside.in Network


Well they've done the assessing and the leader of hyperlocal news / information / community from New York City, Outside.in, have now included Mar Vista Metro in the Outside.in Network.

With this inclusion, Mar Vista Metro should start to get trafic from Outside.in and mainstream news sites such as CNN.comNYPost.comChicagoTribune.comStLToday.com,BaltimoreSun.com, and TheNewsTribune.com.

Mar Vista on Twitter - #marvista

With a focus on hyper local and finding out what's happening in our immediate neighborhood in real time, residents of Mar Vista are encouraged to report things noticed in neighborhood on Twitter using #marvista at the end of their Twitter entry. To keep up to date on what's happening, simply go to search.twitter.com and enter #marvista to see what's happening now in our neighborhood rather than waiting for it to be reported in tomorrow's or next week's paper.  

Forum on Airport and Air Pollution held

Los Angeles City Councilmember Bill Rosendahl will moderate a public forum tonight held in light of the results of a recently released UCLA air monitoring study detailing the impacts of air pollution emitted from the Santa Monica Airport into surrounding residential neighborhoods.


Here's the panel: 

Los Angeles City Councilmember Bill Rosendahl
Los Angeles City Councilmember Jan Perry
Assemblymember Ted Lieu

Professor Suzanne Paulson, UCLA
Bill Piazza, LAUSD

When: Monday, January 11, 2010 7:00 p.m.
Where: St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, 11555 National Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90064

Featured speakers will be Professor Suzanne Paulson, lead scientist for the recently published UCLA air monitoring study on aircraft emission impacts into North Westdale; and Bill Piazza, Los Angeles Unified School
District, Office of Environmental Health and Safety, who prepared the 1999 LAUSD risk assessment on the downwind extent of emissions from Santa Monica Airport.

The forum is sponsored by the North Westdale Neighborhood Association and Concerned Residents Against Airport Pollution. The public will have an opportunity to comment and ask questions.


Anyone got anything to report from it?