#lodge room

[paulftompkins]

We will be selling these glorious posters by Nathan Diffee at this Saturday's VARIETOPIA. Now you HAVE to be there.

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[vitesse-x]

Polaroid by Kev Creature (2022)

[mrindoors87]

Sir Chloe, Lodge Room, 04.02.24

[poisonousculture]

Gold Panda at Lodge Room

Photos by: @poisonousculture

https://www.poisonousculture.com

[asal-bts]

[druidpup]

got to kick it at the lodge room last night. what a legendary venue we smoked a lot of weed upstairs in the owners office; watched our drummer play with his other band Fratmouse (you should listen to them)

[theneighborhoodlisten]

LOS ANGELES!

Sunday 7pm at Lodge Room!

Tickets are almost gone!

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[formeryelpers]

Checker Hall, 104 N Ave 56, Los Angeles (Highland Park), CA 90042

We live nearby Checker Hall but had no idea that it existed (it’s upstairs, only open in the evening, and there is no signage). I also did not know that it was the sister restaurant to the music venue, Lodge Hall. Checker Hall and Lodge Hall share the same building, the restored Masonic Lodge.

The menu at Checker Hall is Mediterranean with lots of cocktails and beverages. Choose from dips, snacks, skewers, veggies/small plates, mains, and desserts. There was no printed dessert menu but the server told us about the four options as well as the two specials of the day. Vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options are clearly marked.

We received one appetizer at a time. The portions of the appetizers and small plates were decent. It was too dark, so my pictures are terrible.

Hummus ($12): parsley, garlic, chili flakes, crispy chickpeas served with fluffy hot zaatar pita. The hummus was on the smaller side. The hummus was thick and creamy, plus I loved the flavor of the zhoug. Mr. Froyo thought there was too much going on and he couldn’t really taste the hummus. The pita was the thick Israeli kind. We received two whole pitas.

Maitake mushroom skewer ($14): chili glaze, salsa verde, tahini. Our least favorite but still good. The chili glaze was sweet vs. spicy. It was a bit too sweet. Mr. Froyo said he could not taste the mushrooms. An order came with four grilled mushrooms. The tahini and salsa verde were both delicious and flavorful.

Roasted harissa carrots ($16): crispy bulgur, labneh, seed brittle, herb salad. My favorite dish though Mr. Froyo thought there was too much going on. The roasted carrots were sweet and there were so many textures and flavors. There was an unexpected but amazing smoky quality to the flavors.

Crispy whole branzino ($38): fully deboned, nuoc cham, sesame, fennel, radish, Thai basil, mint, citrus. Impressed that they deboned the branzino. Mr. Froyo liked this dish best. The skin of the branzino was quite crispy and the fennel salad tangy and fresh.

Orange sorbet: Complimentary. Not too sweet but it tasted artificial. I missed their Greek froyo offering! But they did have Greek froyo this summer.

Broken record cocktail ($11) with cantaloupe juice, fresh mint, lime, seltzer water, house ginger syrup: Light, refreshing, not super sweet. Liked it!

The server was helpful and well informed. I had a lot of questions and he could answer all of them.

The place is beautiful and very dark – like a classy cocktail lounge with booths, a triangular bar that takes up most of the room, and a few secluded nooks on a balcony that overlooks Figueroa Street. It was also noisy but it is in the same building as a music venue.

4.5 out of 5 stars

By Lolia S.

[victoriapedroza]

Soltera at The Lodge Room

7.29.23

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[paulftompkins]

At the St. Patrick’s Day Varietopia this year we did a medley of Sinéad songs. Rehearsing the medley got me to listen to her albums again for the first time in years & to watch the recent doc about her.

What an incredible artist and person. A real one among real ones.

Rest in Power to someone who personified courage.

[my-disney-days]

Breakfast in Hollywood Studios

After your Himalayan trip, are you hungry? Asian cuisine, such as beef teriyaki bowls, egg rolls, fried rice, and more, will tantalise your taste buds. There are also desserts, beers, and other beverages available. This counter service location of Yak and Yeti Quick Service at My Disney Days, also known as Local Food Cafes, is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and offers copious amounts of pan-Asian delicacies. There is outdoor seating, and some tables have umbrellas made of canvas. Due to its proximity to two of Animal Kingdom's most popular attractions, Expedition Everest and Kali River Rapids, the Yak & Yeti counter service restaurant may become crowded during peak dining hours. Also here you can explore Breakfast in Hollywood Studios

[moonoveramerica]

East Coast Ice ❄️

[zer0point5ive]

gay people never flirt normally it’s always gotta be shit like this

[sinceileftyoublog]

Sudan Archives Live Stream Review: 10/22, Mandolin

Photo by Alex Black

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw), the incredible second album from R&B singer-songwriter and violinist Sudan Archives, is a remarkably loose affair. Brittney Denise Parks is able to achieve the same level of academic thoughtfulness she did on her stunning debut Athena while expanding her sonic personality and avoiding definition. The songs on Natural Brown Prom Queen are often brief, dense layers of sound and feeling, a phenomenon on full display during her homecoming show Saturday night at Lodge Room in L.A., streamed via Mandolin.

Parks is already building upon the canonical status of her acclaimed second album, and on Saturday, her performance doubled down on the maximalism of the recordings, vocally, instrumentally, and physically. Take “Freakalizer”, her “Hot Thing”, a sexually charged percolator of synth percussion, an outpouring of desire. “I’m looking for a prom date,” she declared before jumping into the crowd to dance and scream, draping a badge that read “prom queen” over a lucky audience member. Similar in intensity was the mallet trap of “OMG BRITT”, Parks’ delivery much more forceful and throaty than the laid-back flow of the studio version’s verses. Her voice launched skyward, her melodies heavenly and ascendant on “Loyal (EDD)” as her on-stage collaborator Byron Crenshaw (aka The Growth Eternal) triggered chaotic horn and vocal samples with his drumsticks and sample pads. Crenshaw shone especially on “Copycat (Broken Notions)”; the first time I listened to that song, the panning on the layers of samples was so convincing I thought an ad popped up on a different browser tab, and I fell for it again when watching the stream.

Parks still called to her origins--her self-described “throwback stuff”--during her show celebrating her latest and greatest. She swung her hips over the plucked violin loops of “Oatmeal” and the crunchy beat of “Glorious”. She treated the crowd to a jaunty traditional fiddle tune--the first she learned on violin--before launching into the raw, soulful “Nont for Sale”, whose distortion you could effectively connect to the sheer volume of the songs on Prom Queen even more than to the lushness of Athena. But the juxtaposition of her back catalog with her new material shows just how much she explicitly went for it with Prom Queen. If opening track and set opener “Home Maker” is about giving self-love and relationships a physical space to thrive, the rest of the album and show was about demonstrating the vitality of love and sex, whether the sultriness of “Milk Me” or the forceful “NBPQ (Topless)”. The latter, a rebuke of colorism and sexism in the music industry, is a rallying cry, from the life-affirming declaration of “I’m not average!” to Parks’ third-person biographical jump rope chants: “We set her up in a pop duo / With her twin sister, Catherine Parks / And it really didn’t even work out like that / Got kicked out ‘cause she laid on her back.” At the final show of her tour, back home, Parks tied a bow on Prom Queen’s unofficial mission to show the haters that she could succeed because of her sex positivity and Blackness, all the while having a good time doing it.