Comments on: Café, cultura y comunidad

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:55:31 +0000

Hi!
there’s an independent coffee shop off of washington blvd and sawtelleish.. like a block from my apartment if you ever wanna go check it out, let me know… it’s not as cool as Antigua, but i get work done there..

By: louis

louis — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 19:05:31 +0000

Hi Cindy!,
If you’re looking for a great place to eat tacos on the Westside, try Poquito Mas. It’s the only place I know of that makes their own fresh corn tortilla. They are located on the corner Westwood & Olympic in the same strip mall as Blockbuster and Baskin Robbins

Also, Tacos Por Favor has great food they are located in Santa Monica. I love being a reqular customer there and chatting with the owner and his family. It feels good supporting a local business! They are on Olympic Blvd and 14th street.

Here’s a blog all about the LA taco circuit
http://tacohunt.blogspot.com/
http://tacohunt.blogspot.com/2005/11/tacos-por-favor.html

By: tumbleweed

tumbleweed — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:01:23 +0000

great post. i love indie coffeehouses…i miss my old neighborhood Logan Square coffee house, NoFriction Cafe, which actually rivaled a Starbucks across the street. Regardless of the competition, it does great and also displays local artwork.

By: tin

tin — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 05:30:31 +0000

talking about drinking cultura. i’m sure that chango mango was chingon.
yeah, i never go to starbucks, i hate that fu…. company. nice to see you are back.

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 05:25:22 +0000

Great post. I love El Sereno.

By: Denise C.

Denise C. — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:11:03 +0000

Oh, how I miss my little town of El Sereno. There I was, reading about this really interesting cafe and how I wished there was one like it in my neck of the woods (Riverside)…when I saw it was located in El Sereno I got so excited! It is literally around the corner from where I grew up. And I haven’t lived there for ten years now–ever since I graduated from CSULA. That place is close to my heart and continues to be, because my grandparents still live there. That is awesome to know there is an establishment like this out there. Makes me wanna go and see my Nana so I can sneak around the corner and have a Chango Mango. Anything with the word chango in it is alright with me.

By: jennifer

jennifer — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:54:34 +0000

beautiful post, cindy.

By: KIKO

KIKO — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:46:11 +0000

hey, I go to Antigua all the time, it’s a great place & the crew there are like family, I have met some amazing people there & had great times in this space.

one thing: Yancey is cool but he doesn’t appreciate the artwork that’s currently up, and I just think I need to say something about it as a working writer and artist in my mid-30s—the work up right now is by a young El Sereno artist named Anthony Martinez, and it is brilliant work. In fact, it’s the smartest, most effective artwork Antigua has had up since I’ve been going there. Every day, Anthony comes in and changes the space of the cafe by taking down the previous day’s work and putting up something new on the main wall. This exercise in ephemerality and its subversion of the sanctified permanence of “gallery” space brings up all kinds of issues and questions about how we interact with, function in, and shape the space around us–and how it shapes us, with art, conversation, visual stimuli, and the economic forces of the almighty dollar. This show is better and more honest, intelligent, and real, than most of the many art shows I’ve seen all year around LA, and this show is from a 16-year-old student.