Fallen Soldiers
1Kind (One Kind) Studios
Felt equal parts living room, overnight-camp cabin, and mid-range high school stage. In other words, the perfect venue for an intimate show with that artist you can’t believe so many other people even know about. Plus, a fucking recording studio.
Burning Paradise Video
El Duque’s cult film epicenter. Chill with Kurly, the store’s loving and devoted proprietor, and ask about the myriad films he’s produced and his collaboration with The Guild. The only real answer to Netflix (and not just cause Kurly gets new releases a month before ‘em.)
Cajun Kitchen
The Cajun Kitchen closed its doors March 11, 2011 after 24 years. They will be sorely missed.
Pornotopia
We’re not sure this qualifies as a Fallen Soldier, as Molly and Matie remain committed to seeing it rise from the ashes sex-negative politics that signaled its (hopefully temporary!) doom in 2010. Whatever: we fuckin’ miss it.
Seventh Goddess
As we launched the site in March 2011, this was still a fresh loss, and it’s terribly sad Deborah wasn’t able to keep the place running longer. An exceptionally classy lingerie and women’s intimates store.
The Blue Dragon
Man, where to begin? The vaguely philosophical, uniformly useless graffiti on the men’s bathroom walls – scrawled by 16-year-olds, scrubbed, and replaced weeks later. The food – the FOOD.
Top Dog
Tony laments:
Oh, Top Dog. Bastion of delicious kosher goodness. In its original configuration, Top Dog was the ultimate dog-slinging grease pit (no offense to the Dog House). They served delicious hot dogs, incredible fries, and remain the only place I have ever seen that served RC cola from a fountain.