Happy hump day, everyone. My brother is in town and we’ve been doing most of the same things I usually do in LA (hikes, restaurants, the gym). Tonight we’re hitting Elysian Park, and tomorrow we’re going to a premiere at Vidiots.
In today’s issue: the hottest accessory at the reservoir is a horse, the legendary LA diner coming to Silver Lake, a new menswear store on Sunset, there are 20,000 vacant lots in Los Angeles, the Hotel Lucile gets delayed again, the coyote dividing Atwater Village residents, Adam Weisblatt writes a book, a new coffee and sandwich shop on Silver Lake Boulevard, and a $2.6mm penthouse at the Americana (yes, really).
On a given afternoon, one might bring sunscreen, a baseball cap, or a dog to the Silver Lake Reservoir. I’ve seen a leashed cat once or twice. On Sunday, a (currently unidentified) woman forever shifted the paradigm by bringing her pony. Below are some thoughts from neighborhood resident Jon-Kyle Mohr, who witnessed Reservoir Horse Girl in all her greatness.
I passed a horse trailer behind a Land Rover on Silver Lake Boulevard and thought, Huh? Wow. I pulled up to the meadow to rest in the limited amount of available shade, and a few minutes later, a girl walks into the meadow with a pony.
She was walking the pony in the meadow, which is a dog-free zone, but I guess this is a loophole.
The horse girl gets a bad rap — it’s [an identity] mostly women participate in, and it’s unfairly scrutinized compared to the running or cycling bro. I was on a bike ride before this, which is basically the boy equivalent of being a horse girl. And I had my bike in the meadow, so what’s the difference here? I’m Silver Lake Meadow pony girl, too. If anything, she’s just doing it better.
My friend grazes sheep on Kite Hill in Mount Washington and I think [he and Silver Lake Meadow pony girl] should go on a date. It’d be a huge moment for the Los Angeles animal kingdom.
This is exactly what my family in Tennessee imagines Los Angeles to be, and they’re right. Los Angeles is the land of dreams, and if your dream is to walk your pony around the reservoir, you’re in luck.
After the closure of LA restaurant legend Lien Ta’s All Day Baby in late 2024, the corner storefront at 3200 Sunset Boulevard was briefly home to a doomed location of the regional burger joint Heavy Handed (according to one Redditor, it had “the grossest exterior of any resto ever”). Since April, the space has been vacant. But according to several sources and some very IYKYK teaser posters, the corner’s months-long hiatus will soon end — with the unexpected second location of a truly legendary LA diner.
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