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So this happened.
Hours later, ignorant of this, we were walking back from the Kaufman, having caught an early afternoon movie, planning to eat at either New York Style Eats or Zen Yai, both lovely places with good food and people.
I've loved the variety of restaurants in this neighborhood, and if you asked me to pick one block that is its heart, this is the one I would point to.
I gather local businesses, including those that set up weekend markets under the elevated 7 tracks, are doing what they can to help out -- fundraisers and the like to help both owners and employees.
Austin Tappan Wright's utopian novel Islandia is about a country that has many words for love, including "alia", which describes a love of place that is also a love of family and family heritage and things like that. The narrator who will emigrate to the eponymous country realizes that this describes what his uncle feels for the company he built. Islandia is definitely problematic (oh the racism), and the imaginary country it describes is far more pastoral than any I could comfortable call home, and family heritage is a complicated concept (which I don't particularly want to simplify). And that said, I think alia describes what I feel for this neighborhood.
Hours later, ignorant of this, we were walking back from the Kaufman, having caught an early afternoon movie, planning to eat at either New York Style Eats or Zen Yai, both lovely places with good food and people.
I've loved the variety of restaurants in this neighborhood, and if you asked me to pick one block that is its heart, this is the one I would point to.
I gather local businesses, including those that set up weekend markets under the elevated 7 tracks, are doing what they can to help out -- fundraisers and the like to help both owners and employees.
Austin Tappan Wright's utopian novel Islandia is about a country that has many words for love, including "alia", which describes a love of place that is also a love of family and family heritage and things like that. The narrator who will emigrate to the eponymous country realizes that this describes what his uncle feels for the company he built. Islandia is definitely problematic (oh the racism), and the imaginary country it describes is far more pastoral than any I could comfortable call home, and family heritage is a complicated concept (which I don't particularly want to simplify). And that said, I think alia describes what I feel for this neighborhood.