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One of my favorite things about Silver Lake is it's annual festival. For two days, you're spinning in a washing machine of local bands, hipsters from all walks of life, junkfood, cool breezes and good vibes. This year, it was another good one. My favorite acts were Dam Funk, Mayer Hawthorne, some percussionist from Cypress Hill, Ghostland Observatory and house legend, DJ Doc Martin. If you went, hope you had a good time.

Chinatown, Los Angeles. A one square mile area that some call their weekly lunch spot or see as purely a wasteland of elderly people, junk shops and wandering tourists. For those that have ventured and tasted SGV, it is futile to search for better food in Chinatown. Understandably it’s a spot for people that don't want to make the drive out to the San Gabriel Valley, where the real food is. You won’t find lip-stinging Hunan food. You’ll never kiss a juicy pork dumpling. Nor will you slurp a solid bowl of beef noodle soup. It doesn’t exist in Chinatown because it’s not what the people want. You’ll most likely find all of your food drenched with sweet n’ sour sauce and receiving your bill with a fortune cookie on top. Sadly, a lot of people consider the food to be authentic “Chinese” food. If that was Chinese food, I’d rather go vegetarian. And what a lot of people don't know about Los Angeles’s Chinatown is that it's not really comprised of Chinese. In actuality, m...