<![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove - Defamer Comments]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove - Defamer Comments]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> I hope you don't mean the 99 Cent Only stores because those are heaven-sent.

The one on Lankershim in NoHo actually carries good wines(Aussie, NZ, Chilean, Argentinian) sometimes.

Same stuff you see at Cost Plus/World Market, but it's 99 cents a bottle instead of $8.99.

And I've got a great movie theater in my house. ; p

Benovite

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> @Benovite:

That's not the negative. It's a great movie theatre within walking distance and that's it.

The big negative in the neighborhood is the 99cent stores...

Pay_Me_Or_Pay_Me_No_Attention

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> Granted, but my point is I didn't want to live near the Grove. It's not a factor and actually, I can imagine it being a negative.

Benovite

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> @Benovite:

I live four blocks from the Grove and I pay $1200 and get 1100sq. ft, an in home washer/dryer, dishwasher, bathtub and two off street parking spaces.

You just have to know how to look better...

Pay_Me_Or_Pay_Me_No_Attention

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> I do live near the Grove and like most of my neighbors, I usually only go over in the mornings before the rush of tourists and morons. A matinee, a quick nosh and we're out by noon. That said, I can walk so it takes some of the "Man, I could totally kill someone today" edge off. Until, that is, I walk past the Ross...

Little Mintz Sunshine

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> A few months ago me and my gf were looking to get a place. We were scouring the valley(mostly Sherman Oaks, Encino,Toluca Lake), but we looked at a few places in L.A.

We saw an ad for a place via craigslist on Gardener and Fountain. Looked good in the ad, sorta Cape Coddish in design. Went over to see it, some old Russians showed us the extremely overpriced shitty habitats available. Small as virgin pussy. As soon as the old Russian lady showed us the "kitchen" I was like, "this place is $1,800?", she replied yes and I said thank you. Me and my gf promptly left in disgust.

On the way out we ran into a young guy and he asked me what I thought of the place. I told him it sucked and it was overpriced suckage at that.

He went into this thing whole about being 'near the Grove' and trying to play it up like it's prime property, good location, because again it's by the Grove. I was like yeah dude, that's all you; Cya!

Basically, I can't believe people pay stupid high prices for garbage just because of something like the Grove. Oh brother.

Me & the gf ended up finding a sweet spot in west L.A., lower priced and I walk to work.

You can keep the Grove, I'll take Westwood village to 3rd St. promenade.

Benovite

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> I'll take the Grove's parking any day of the week over Century City. You come out of the movie theatre and then sit down and start thinking about which new car you'd like to buy because it just isn't worth trying to remember where you parked.

Whiteboyfunfark

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> @SW-2: That's more a function of the chill in February. Veggies come pre-frozen then.

The Economist did something on the Grove a few months ago, so this must be coming to NYC via Heathrow. The article is positive enough that Caruso (the Zeus whose lightning bolt brought the Grove into being) gots it on his website.

[www.carusoaffiliated.com]

CrankYank

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> @LadybirdRamone: Agreed about the Farmers Market. NYC has all manner of seasonal, weekly farmers' markets, but nothing permanent that I can think of like the one at the Grove, or the Central Market in downtown LA. Am I wrong?

SW-2

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> What the NYT doesn't appear to realize is that they can have a near-identical experience, minus perhaps the pleasant weather, just across the Hudson in any number of clone malls in Jerz.
@Steverino: This is the only possible explanation. And they're planning massive journo layoffs at NYT...why?

SW-2

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> I thought NYT only covered the Grove because writer Mike Albo (Underminer) is living in LA for a bit.

Steverino

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> The suburbs of Cleveland have a shopping area like the Grove and we drive from Buffalo just to shop there (and eat corned beef at nearby Corky and Lenny's deli). I have also been to similar ones in Miami and Lexington KY. These types of "malls" are being built all over the country because they are beautiful, pleasant places to spend time and money. Beats the hell out of shopping on traffic choked city streets where the locals will run you over on the sidewalk for daring to slow down and look in a store window.

pamelasez

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> The best thing about the Grove is the Farmer's Market. Next comes the dancing fountain, then the overpriced movie theater, and finally the easy-to-use parking lot with a great view of the sunset.

I just wanted to put all that out there. I haven't actually been in any of the stores other than Barnes and Noble and Victoria's Secret. But, the Farmer's Market has some of the best cheap Mexican, Cajun and Indonesian food in LA.

LadybirdRamone

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> My best friend in LA lives within WALKING distance of the Grove so we go there all the time,it's not that bad and there are always many celebrities to gawk at too!
Also what the article did not mention is that it is joined to the farmers market that has been there since the 1930s,it's not a Union Square kind of thing,it's actual wooden structures with great local produce and a fantastic Mexican restaurant that is our first stop after getting off the American Airlines 12 noon flight from JFK.

Saxon 212

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> Hollywood & Highland is not a state-of-the-art shopping facility, unless it exists in a spatial and temporal singularity of suburban Detroit in 1987.

nick_r

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> Arden B. gets no respect. Though some of their clothing looks like QVC workout-wear from 1993, they have the most luscious sweaters and the best sales.

Also: "[A]s long as we continue barreling along our path of unmitigated consumerism..." Somebody plagiarized every plagiarized undergrad essay written in the last 5 years.

nozzle

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> @OldTowneTavern:
"...a vituperative quote"

excellent use of a .25 word. kudos! i too, have felt that emotion, especially during the holiday season. and by emotion i mean locking myself in the vehicle so i don't jump out and strangle the idiot in the escalade that is trying to park in a 'compact' car slot. 12 tries and counting.

LLH

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> "The easy-to-master parking structure". Oh, Seth. Clearly you need to be in the car with me and my man as we debate whether it's better to be on the outside of the circle going up and the inside going down or vice versa. Now that debate has brought about many a vituperative quote.

OldTowneTavern

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> Sorry, the Grove wreaks of trying-too-hard. I fucking despise the grove with every ounce of my body. Okay, maybe I'm going a bit over board, but I really dislike that place. Gives me goose bumps.

LoveHandles

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> Someone is cashing in on their $10 words!

Lulamaybelle

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> Two paragraphs on Abercrombie & Fitch (revealing the author's fixation on shirtless men) and nothing on the movie theatre, still the best reason to visit the Grove? Those liberal elites just don't understand us in the heartland.

metroville

]]> <![CDATA[How The 'NY Times' Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grove]]> " a Frankensteinian hodgepodge of branded facades"

sounds like Times Square to me.

hughman

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