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The Official Recession has been upon us for fourteen official months. It’s still not a reason we can’t enjoy life. This is LA -- we’ve got plenty of inexpensive options! A Recession Obsession is food (or an activity) that is fantastic whether times are good or bad -- because it's that damn good. We last loved on Baja California’s finest fried bargains: fish tacos, and today...

PETA has a very difficult trick to pull off. They have to try to convince men to stop eating at KFC, buying leather jackets, or barbecuing meat - for starters. While we don't always get the connection between Pamela Anderson posing nude in the window of a NYC department store, we appreciate the effort. Here PETA gets us to listen to several minutes of their past accomplishments and they even figured out a way...

LAist is currently holding a Bloc Party ticket giveaway. Email LAist at gmail.com with a little something about your block and the winner gets two free tickets to see Bloc Party at the Greek next Thursday. Deadline for entry is 4pm today.

My brother was in town today, and since he's been here before, I wanted to think of something to do that was specific to LA, but not the Walk of Fame, the Getty, or the beach. He already appreciates LA: as a helicopter pilot, he takes a certain professional delight/amusement in this city's obsession with that mode of transportation, and having spent time in Naples, also enjoys LA's quasi-Mediterranean landscape. He'd already gone with his buddies from his current work visit to San Diego on a wine tour in Temecula. Complicating the situation, I've been going back and forth getting X-rays of my teeth and CT scans of my sinuses, trying to identify the exact nature of the infection that's been making me ill for weeks, and haven't been up for much exertion.

A few weeks ago we were pretty jazzed about Porto's Bakery opening up at the corner of Magnolia and Hollywood Way in Burbank. Turns out that wasn't the only local or national eatery with new digs in the little city known as the Media Center. Recently we found ourselves on that strip of commercial real estate on San Fernando on the other side of the mall, and noticed that things had been developing in terms of eating options, but on the corporate tip. Burbank, and its neighbor, Glendale, are two areas of LA not known for their broad range of stellar non-chain dining options (yes, we know there are some decent spots, just not a plethora), so it didn't come as much of a shock to see that what was once a Kenny Rogers Roasters is now a whole lineup of big names, including the ubiquitous toasted subs of Quiznos, a Robeks (our top pick for corporate smoothies), and a Starbucks complete with a drive-through window. This link of chains is anchored by an LA favorite: Zankou Chicken--which happened to be our dining destination. Just down the street the long-suffering Koo Koo Roo gave up their chicken combos for a branch of the Corner Bakery. We've never been to a Corner Bakery, and we'd rather have Zankou over Koo Koo Roo any day. The newest Zankou is all about the more upscale atmosphere, so we happily took a seat with our 1/4 chicken combo, complete with pita and that addictive garlic sauce, and drank in their new digs. The food is tasty, the price is nice ($5.49 for the chicken, pita, hummus, pickles & tomatoes, and the garlic sauce), and the orders get served up lightening fast. We're happy to have this new Zankou in Burbank, because it gives us a better option in a pinch. Next time, though, we're going to hit up the Starbucks from the driver's seat--give us one go 'round for novelty's sake, okay?

LAist recently got an e-mail from an organizer of 15 visitors en route from France, age 35-55. It reads, in part:

We can already taste the garlic. Zankou Chicken opens a new location tomorrow at Sepulveda and Little Santa Monica, their first west side location. We'll be at the Festival of Books while they are doing the whole grand opening bit but there's no reason why we can't stop in and get a #4 with no tomatoes and extra pita tomorrow night for dinner is there?