Entries from LAist tagged with 'elcoyote'
November 14, 2008
Around 120 people protested last night in front of El Coyote on Beverly Blvd. over the well-known restaurant manager's donation of $100 to support Prop 8 that eliminated gay marriage in California. On Wednesday, Marjorie Chrisoffersen wrote a letter to the community expressing her feelings on the matter. "I have been sick at heart that anyone has been offended by me," she said noting that the restaurant has been popular with the gay community. She......
Continue Reading "Photos from the El Coyote Prop 8 Protest"November 12, 2008
Apparently the well intentioned free lunch to discuss El Coyote manager Marjorie Chrisoffersen's $100 donation to pass Prop 8, ultimately eliminating gay marriage in California, did not go one bit well. "A floor manager stood in the middle of the back room where the community conference and stated that 'El Coyote DOES NOT share the same views as Marjorie.' He stated that 89 families were going to be affected by this boycott and one of......
Continue Reading "El Coyote Prop 8 Lunch went 'Horribly Wrong'"November 7, 2007
Nick Hogan has been criminally charged with reckless driving because he was drinking before his August car crash. Another faux- celeb headed to the clink? - TMZ Bitch Fight! George Clooney and Fabio get into a physical fight after Fabio's ladies were taking pics of Clooney and his gf at El Coyote restaurant - Defamer Britney Spears's nearest and dearest, the few that are left, claim its not drug use thats causing her irrational......
Continue Reading "Mid Week Gossip Fix"June 18, 2007
Yesterday was Father’s Day, and my father-in-law’s food choice was BBQ. He loves eating old school style: think the Smoke House, Pink’s, El Coyote – and to this day laments the closing of the Tips Restaurant on Lyons Avenue in Santa Clarita. So when he picked The Bear Pit, a 50-plus-year-old, Missouri-style BBQ restaurant in the Valley (on Sepulveda near the 118 freeway) the rest of us were only too happy to oblige. When......
Continue Reading "The Bear Pit Bar-B-Q Review"February 8, 2006
Sly Stone gets on stage for the first time in 19 years. That made the Grammy Awards worth watching. Was there anything else that did? U2 and Mary J. Blige singing "One" together — that woman can put it all on the line. Matt Dillon saying that they were a tough act to follow. Kanye winning. Dave Chapelle. Jay-Z's John Lennon t-shirt. Bruce Springsteen. Sam Cooke. What could we have skipped? The cheesy black-and-white-ification of......
Continue Reading "The Grammy Awards roundup"January 18, 2006
For the past several years, Geocaching has become more and more popular around the world. With the popularity of the internet, and the affordability of gadgets like handheld GPS units, this game is managing to reach a wider audience every day. We stumbled across this outdoor "treasure hunt" last year when we managed to find (after a lot of looking in the wrong places) our very first geocache near the Chess Park in Glendale.......
Continue Reading "Geocaching in the Southland"