Predator Species ~ Art work by Taste Like Gold ~ GCS Clothing Store

At GCS Clothing Store
Opening Reception is
Saturday March 12th 2011.
Start time is from 7 pm.

Limited Edition Screen Printed Poster
Exclusive Taste Like Gold x GCS T-shirt Collab Product Release.
This event is FREE to attend and open to all.

GCS Clothing Store
168 West 3rd Street
Pomona, Ca. 91766
909-620-2772
www.GCSclothing.com
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From @OGRISK twitter.

Duke Snider ~ 1924-2011

In the 1950s New York City had three baseball teams, and those teams had centerfielders named Mays, Mantle, and Snider. Edwin “Duke” Snider, the Duke of Flatbush, patrolled the yard at Ebbets Field for the Dodgers from 1947 (debuting two games after Jackie Robinson) until the team decamped for Los Angeles in 1958, 11 charmed seasons that included the team’s only World Series Championship in Brooklyn, a heroic defeat of the Yankees in ’55 in which the Duke blasted 4 home runs.

Playing in an outer borough for a team of perennial bridesmaids, Snider never quite achieved the broad, iconic acclaim of his rival centerfielders. But not only did he out-slug Mantle and Mays while they all played in New York, he boasted the gaudiest numbers of anyone in the game in the ’50s — his home run (326), RBI (1,031), and slugging (.569) numbers in that golden decade were unsurpassed.

In 1958 he followed the team to Los Angeles, but the dimensions of the Dodgers’ temporary home at the L.A. Coliseum (490 down the right-field line, compared to a cozy 297 at Ebbets) contributed to sagging offensive production for the left-hand-hitting slugger. In 1963 he was traded to the Mets and the following year, in one of the saddest demises in the history of the game, he was signed by the San Francisco Giants, where he played his final year. To this day he remains one of only a handful of ballplayers to have passed through that organization unbesmirched by its vile stank.

So today we salute you, Duke. You were a hero among legends, and now a legend among the immortals.

Bonus Question: What do Duke Snider, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre and Eazy-E have in common? A: They’re all straight outta Compton. Snider was Compton High class of ’44.

LATACO and GOLDENVOICE are pleased to offer two pairs of tickets to the Talib Kweli show on April 3rd at the Nokia Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles. Opening acts are David Banner and 9th Wonder, and doors open at 7:00pm.

To enter, leave us a comment on the comments area with a link to your favorite TACO post of all time. Make sure to include your email address so we can contact you if you’re picked as the random winner.

Full details after the jump.
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Brooklyn and LA Dodger legend and native Angeleño Duke Snider died today. He will be greatly missed by Dodger fans everywhere. We were lucky enough to see what his last appearance at Dodger Stadium, in 2008, when he walked out to Center Field for the last time (and then sat and enjoyed the show on a folding chair).

Slauson Ave. ~ Los Angeles

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You know the tide has turned when a company actually wants to have anti-corporate graffiti subverting their corporate signage. But Banksy is big business these days, no matter if he is a subversive  force who’d rather compare the working stiff to a monkey than paint his name endlessly and sell t-shirts. Las Vegas-based company The Light Group is super pissed off that billboard company CBS has removed its L.A. billboard, which is thought to have been re-worked by Banksy. Heavy speculation has placed Banksy in L.A. for The Oscar he’s nominated for (in other news, he’s actually invited to the show now) and recently the billboard was liberated subverted to show an intoxicated Mickey Mouse hanging with a loaded Minnie Mouse. If it’s a real Banksy, ker-ching, it could be worth a zillion-and-a-half dollars. So guess what happened?

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Bud Selig, who originally approved McCourt as owner, now appears done with him

As his team optimistically prepares for a new season in the Arizona desert, Frank McCourt is desperately trying to line up financing after Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig denied him the chance to borrow serious money from Fox. In a move that many will interpret as Selig’s washing his hands of the distracting and embarrassing McCourt drama, MLB last month rejected a plan that would have given him an additional $200m to play with. Bill Shaiken of the LA Times reports:

Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig has rejected a proposal under which Fox would have lent about $200 million to Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, three people familiar with the discussions told The Times. McCourt would have used the Dodgers’ cable television rights as collateral, extending the team’s current contract with Fox by as many as four years if he did not repay the loan, according to the individuals, who were briefed on the proposal but who are not authorized to discuss it.

Selig made his decision several weeks ago. Since then, McCourt has continued to explore financing options that would enable him to satisfy the commissioner and manage a debt that, according to court records, exceeded $430 million as of November 2009.

The Times reported last month that Fox had advanced McCourt money from the team’s current television contract to help cover operating expenses. Sugerman declined to discuss how Selig’s decision might affect McCourt’s ability to manage the Dodgers’ finances.

Selig has indicated he might withhold approval of any minority investor or broadcast contract proposed by McCourt. The commissioner last year rejected a proposed TV deal between Fox and the Texas Rangers, one that would have eased the severe financial burdens on Tom Hicks, then the Rangers’ owner.

The team ended up in Bankruptcy Court. Fox considered bidding for the Rangers so as to secure the team’s television rights, then negotiated a contract with the team’s new owners, worth a reported $1.6 billion over 20 years.

That deal averages $80 million per year. The Fox loan to McCourt could have enabled the company to secure an extension to the Dodgers’ rights at about $50 million per year had McCourt not repaid the proposed loan.

“BAR FLIES & SNAKE EYES” ~ SOLID GALLERY ONE ~ 334 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles

new paintings by Richard “Xpres” Taylor

OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, March 5th 8PM-11PM

show runs thru April 24th, 2011

Some sample works from the show:

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Long before Los Angeles’ food truck fetish with Asian-fusion tacos, Pueblans had already traveled down that road.There are many incorrect stories about the Lebanese influence in the taco arabe, or arab tacos, but actually the original creators of these Pueblan curiosities were of Iraqi descent.

It was in 1933, that the Tabe Mena family first served what is now known as the taco arabe, an adaption of the Greek gyros sandwich, which lept from lamb and a yogurt or tahini sauce to pork loin and chipotle. Other families of Iraqi heritage dispute the Tabe Mena family’s claim, but the Tabe Mena family maintains that their grandfather Jorge Mena, who had fled the Turkish invasion of Iraq in the late 1800′s, was the first to set up shop.

The Tabe family is still behind the spit of one of the largest tacos arabes chains in Puebla, Antigua Taqueria La Oriental. There are currently over 300 taquerias in the city of Puebla that produce this iconic taste of Pueblan cuisine.

Read the entire article and review of Antigua Taqueria La Oriental on Street Gourmet LA