I subscribed to a second publication! This time it's New York Review of Architecture, which is basically what it sounds like but also a lot more loosely culturally-focused than it sounds like. I was hooked initially by this Joanne McNeil essay on autonomous service vehicles (that's a gift link for ya), which is notably about Los Angeles? Still not totally sure how or why but NYRA became LARA for a short period of time. When I subscribed they sent me the current issue and then this week I received the latest issue, both huge newspaper-sized prints that I gotta do the quarter-fold thing to read comfortably. I love it.
I was surprised to recognize a lot of places and names in LARA #2 and so far not as many in NYRA #49. I've lived in LA for about a third of the time I lived in NY but that ratio gets larger every day. We're planning to visit NY in March and I am so excited. I wonder if I'll keep up my week reviews that long.
I finished Season 1 and started Season 2 of The Pitt. I held off for a long time because I am extremely squeamish, and there are a lot of scenes where I just have to hold my hand in front of my face and focus on one of the corners of the screen, but it's totally worth it. Phenomenal television. I cried so many times throughout the first season!
As has become tradition in the John Holdun Week In Review, here's a good place I ate this week: Daichan in Studio City. (This is apparently not their official website but it has a lot of legitimate information about the restaurant.) It's so charming inside and the food is of course Very Good. Watching the staff interact with the diners, it feels like everybody in there is an old friend. Very cozy. Check it out.
Speaking of which, have I published my photos from Japan on this website yet? You know the answer is no. Maybe this week.