Nomar Hosts Dodger Carne Asada Sunday
The idea was straight from local legend Nomar Garciaparra, and it’s one of the best things I’ve ever heard. A $50 donation to the Dodger Dream foundation gets you into a post-game Carne Asada taco fiesta with Nomar and Mariachis. Yes, it’s a bit pricey but it’s for charity and will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The taco lifestyle is making inroads at every level of society, and we salute the Dodgers and Nomar for getting onboard. Now, would it be so hard to get a King Taco inside Dodger Stadium?!

Taco Hound Discussion
On the Chowhound boards they’ve got yet another taco discussion going, this one has dropped some interesting taco spots, some well known and others less so. Check it, and peep the other competing taco discussion here.

American Idol Finalist: Taco Time
She didn’t win, but her heart is clearly in the right place. Lakisha Jones, upon returning home at the end of the competition had this to say: “I am still Lakisha. I am ready to eat some tacos right now and take my heels off. I am tired of being cute.”

Bandini: Delicious 80c Taco Wagon
Bandini has lots of new reviews including this one of a taco wagon with 80 cents tacos that rate a high 4 tacos on the taco meter. He’s also jazzed up his site a bit, so go check it out!

Photo Contributor: Ryan “Lush.i.ous” Jensena

Venice ~ CA

(Photo submitted by Lauren Cheak)

Los Angeles ~ CA

Private Joker: Leonard, if Hartman finds us here, we’re gonna be in a world of shit…

Private Pyle: I AM…in a world…of shit.

~ Full Metal Jacket

Venice ~ CA

“Eleven years later. Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 Americans dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning rush through crowded streets is not to cry murder but to hit that trough before somebody else gobbles our share.

An equation: 40,000 dead young men = 3,000 tons of bone and flesh, 124,000 pounds of brain matter, 50,000 gallons of blood, 1,840,000 years of life that will never be lived, 100,000 children who will never be born. (The last we can afford: there are too many starving children in the world already.)

Do we scream in the night when it touches our dreams? No. We don’t dream about it because we don’t think about it; we don’t think about it because we don’t care about it. We are much more interested in law and order, so that American streets may be made safe while we transform those of Vietnam into flowing sewers of blood which we replenish each year by forcing our sons to choose between a prison cell here or a coffin there. ‘Every time I look at the flag, my eyes fill with tears.’ Mine too.

If the dead mean nothing to us (except on Memorial Day weekend when the national freeway is clotted with surfers, swimmers, skiers, picnickers, campers, hunters, fishers, footballers, beer-busters), what of our 3000,000 wounded?

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Homeland ~ 1321 Anaheim Long Beach, CA 90813 

Project Gallery ~ 8545 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 ~ (Closes today)

Gallery LA presents the third annual exhibit of its popular showcase of affordable artwork with project: C-Note 3. project: launched the original C-Note show three years ago as a way to get new art enthusiasts involved as well as give back to their young supporters. Designed to grant the novice art collector a chance at amazing artwork at a price they can afford, every piece on the wall is priced at $100, no matter the size or medium.

This third installment of project: C-Note features artwork from 100 artists.

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Los Angeles ~ CA

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