Pat Saperstein
@patsaperstein.bsky.social
L.A. restaurants and history, Variety deputy editor (film/docs/TV/food/theaters). Housing and homelessness advocate. I have a lot of Trader Joe's opinions. #woolfer
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Pat Saperstein
@patsaperstein.bsky.social
· Jun 13
Secrets of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery: David Lynch’s Grave, a Stolen Head and Rudolph Valentino’s Ghost
Hollywood Forever Cemetery's Gower mausoleum and new residents like David Lynch are positioning it for another 100 years of serving Los Angeles.
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Loved exploring the secrets and lore of Hollywood Forever for this story! Who’s your favorite person memorialized there?https://variety.com/2025/film/features/hollywood-forever-cemetery-secrets-david-lynch-ghosts-1236425445/
Why "Facsist Groove Thang" got new lyrics: “When we wrote the piece, it was a warning,” recalls Heaven 17's Martyn Ware. “I didn’t, honestly, in my heart, think it would ever happen." variety.com/2025/music/n...
Heaven 17 Plans New Version of ‘Fascist Groove Thang’ Calling Out Trump Instead of Reagan: ‘It’s Not Going to Get Any Less Relevant, Is It?’
Heaven 17's new wave classic '(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang' has become a danceable protest song, with new lyrics calling out Trump.
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October 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Why "Facsist Groove Thang" got new lyrics: “When we wrote the piece, it was a warning,” recalls Heaven 17's Martyn Ware. “I didn’t, honestly, in my heart, think it would ever happen." variety.com/2025/music/n...
Noma news? "Last night, I heard from a very reliable source that Noma’s Los Angeles outpost will be in Silver Lake — specifically, at the Paramour Estate on Micheltorena Street." (via The Eastside Rag instagram.com/eastside_rag)
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July 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Noma news? "Last night, I heard from a very reliable source that Noma’s Los Angeles outpost will be in Silver Lake — specifically, at the Paramour Estate on Micheltorena Street." (via The Eastside Rag instagram.com/eastside_rag)
Loved exploring the secrets and lore of Hollywood Forever for this story! Who’s your favorite person memorialized there?https://variety.com/2025/film/features/hollywood-forever-cemetery-secrets-david-lynch-ghosts-1236425445/
Secrets of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery: David Lynch’s Grave, a Stolen Head and Rudolph Valentino’s Ghost
Hollywood Forever Cemetery's Gower mausoleum and new residents like David Lynch are positioning it for another 100 years of serving Los Angeles.
variety.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Loved exploring the secrets and lore of Hollywood Forever for this story! Who’s your favorite person memorialized there?https://variety.com/2025/film/features/hollywood-forever-cemetery-secrets-david-lynch-ghosts-1236425445/
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Thanks @patsaperstein.bsky.social for this fantastic write-up in Variety of the work we do every day!
How Every Day Action Found a Way to Feed the Hungry, Cut Waste on Film Sets — and Hire Out-of-Work Crew Members
Every Day Action cuts waste on L.A. film sets by distributing more than 85,000 leftover meals a year, and has plans to expand,
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May 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Thanks @patsaperstein.bsky.social for this fantastic write-up in Variety of the work we do every day!
Help our colleague find this person and his vicious pit bull who killed her dog in Santa Monica! x.com/haleykluge/s...
Haley Kluge on X: "Tonight @ 5:30 PM, my dog, sister and brother-in-law were violently attacked by a pitbull in SM between Main and 2nd. My dog was killed and the suspect fled the scene. If you have any information on this monster, I beg you to please contact me. @santamonicacity https://t.co/5uvl884xGf" / X
Tonight @ 5:30 PM, my dog, sister and brother-in-law were violently attacked by a pitbull in SM between Main and 2nd. My dog was killed and the suspect fled the scene. If you have any information on this monster, I beg you to please contact me. @santamonicacity https://t.co/5uvl884xGf
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April 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Help our colleague find this person and his vicious pit bull who killed her dog in Santa Monica! x.com/haleykluge/s...
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Last month, I went to the Smoke House in Burbank to talk with Noah Wyle about #ThePitt, one of the very best shows of this TV season. It was a surprising and delightful conversation! variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Noah Wyle Was Nearing a ‘Nervous Breakdown.’ Then Came ‘The Pitt’: It’s ‘Infuriating We Can’t Come to a Consensus’ on Masks and Vaccines
Noah Wyle didn't want to play a doctor again after his 15 years on "ER." Then came COVID and "The Pitt."
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April 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Last month, I went to the Smoke House in Burbank to talk with Noah Wyle about #ThePitt, one of the very best shows of this TV season. It was a surprising and delightful conversation! variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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The Los Angeles Conservancy recently announced this summer’s #classicmovies lineup—screened in downtown's historic theatres! More info on the popular Last Remaining Seats series 🎬 -> www.laconservancy.org/tours-events... #DTLA
April 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The Los Angeles Conservancy recently announced this summer’s #classicmovies lineup—screened in downtown's historic theatres! More info on the popular Last Remaining Seats series 🎬 -> www.laconservancy.org/tours-events... #DTLA
How many of the coolest movie theaters in the world have you been to? variety.com/lists/best-m...
The 21 Coolest Movie Theaters in the World
Variety selected 21 of the best movie theaters in the world, based on beautiful architecture, great programming, dining and atmosphere.
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April 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
How many of the coolest movie theaters in the world have you been to? variety.com/lists/best-m...
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Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog
March 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog
When it says Goop Kitchen is coming to Silver Lake, it’s actually coming to the Echo Park ghost kitchen with the nightmarish parking. www.instagram.com/reel/DH32zYE...
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April 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
When it says Goop Kitchen is coming to Silver Lake, it’s actually coming to the Echo Park ghost kitchen with the nightmarish parking. www.instagram.com/reel/DH32zYE...
With the downturn in production, entertainment workers are turning to new careers - including working in homeless services. I wrote about LAURA, a new program helping connect career-changers with case manager jobs. variety.com/2025/biz/new...
How Entertainment Workers Are Finding New Careers in Homeless Services — With a Little Help From Keanu Reeves
LAURA Academy is training entertainment workers and others as case managers for L.A. homeless services organizations, with backing from Keanu Reeves.
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March 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
With the downturn in production, entertainment workers are turning to new careers - including working in homeless services. I wrote about LAURA, a new program helping connect career-changers with case manager jobs. variety.com/2025/biz/new...
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Readers of the @latimes.com have some thoughts about the new AI-generated analysis and labels on "Voices" (née Opinion) pieces.
Writes one reader from Santa Barbara: "Why not just publish a variety of 'Voices' or further empower your qualified human editors?" www.latimes.com/opinion/lett...
Writes one reader from Santa Barbara: "Why not just publish a variety of 'Voices' or further empower your qualified human editors?" www.latimes.com/opinion/lett...
Letters to the Editor: Allowing AI to label opinion pieces encourages 'meaningless tribalism'
To the editor: Measuring views on a left-right political spectrum might be expedient for casual conversations, but views are not one dimensional ("L.A.
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March 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Readers of the @latimes.com have some thoughts about the new AI-generated analysis and labels on "Voices" (née Opinion) pieces.
Writes one reader from Santa Barbara: "Why not just publish a variety of 'Voices' or further empower your qualified human editors?" www.latimes.com/opinion/lett...
Writes one reader from Santa Barbara: "Why not just publish a variety of 'Voices' or further empower your qualified human editors?" www.latimes.com/opinion/lett...
Oscar red carpet looks as rooms in a Silver Lake house for sale
March 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Oscar red carpet looks as rooms in a Silver Lake house for sale
@esotouric.bsky.social Question for you - our friends live on the 1400 block of Bank St. in South Pasadena. Didn't your Crime Bus tour stop there? What was the crime?
March 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
@esotouric.bsky.social Question for you - our friends live on the 1400 block of Bank St. in South Pasadena. Didn't your Crime Bus tour stop there? What was the crime?
What do you think is the most beautiful or the most historically significant movie theater in the U.S.? And what's the best overall moviegoing experience?
February 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
What do you think is the most beautiful or the most historically significant movie theater in the U.S.? And what's the best overall moviegoing experience?
Echo Park news: Pollo Campero will be taking over the space vacated by Burger King and Umigame Japanese Kitchen will move into strip mall near Hard Times Pizza, theeastsiderla.bsky.social reports.
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February 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Echo Park news: Pollo Campero will be taking over the space vacated by Burger King and Umigame Japanese Kitchen will move into strip mall near Hard Times Pizza, theeastsiderla.bsky.social reports.
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An infinitely better movie than probably 95 percent of the Valentines Day programming streamers are throwing up. And watch Chilly Scenes of Winter and Between the Lines on the Criterion Channel while you're at it!
Warner Bros. posted Joan Micklin Silver's CROSSING DELANCEY (1988) to YouTube a week ago — and it already has 82K views.
These free full film posts are often up for a limited time, so don’t miss out on this gem!
youtu.be/Ow6F8KUZ_qo #FilmSky
These free full film posts are often up for a limited time, so don’t miss out on this gem!
youtu.be/Ow6F8KUZ_qo #FilmSky
February 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
An infinitely better movie than probably 95 percent of the Valentines Day programming streamers are throwing up. And watch Chilly Scenes of Winter and Between the Lines on the Criterion Channel while you're at it!
I loved "Broken English" when it came out. Marianne was a vital part of that singular era of genius, style and debauchery. variety.com/2025/music/n...
Marianne Faithfull, ‘As Tears Go By’ Singer, Dies at 78
Marianne Faithfull, whose 1960s turn as a swinging London pop star was succeeded by a striking punk-era artistic rebirth, died Thursday. She was 78.
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January 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I loved "Broken English" when it came out. Marianne was a vital part of that singular era of genius, style and debauchery. variety.com/2025/music/n...
Glad to hear that Superba will be opening a new location in our new offices at the Lumen building on Olympic near Sawtelle! After-work drinks, sorted! www.lifesuperba.com
Superba | Café & Bakery in CA
Superba Snacks + Coffee is a fun-loving eatery and coffee stop. We serve breakfast + lunch with a selection of pastries and breads baked fresh everyday. Located across CA.
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January 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Glad to hear that Superba will be opening a new location in our new offices at the Lumen building on Olympic near Sawtelle! After-work drinks, sorted! www.lifesuperba.com
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This by @awalkerinla.bsky.social is really great—not just in terms of "what LAers need to know re AQI/air quality"—but in terms of the sometimes impossible task of getting information, people trying to run counter information and spreading bad info without even realizing it!
Clearing the air
A hearty welcome to all the new AQI obsessives!
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January 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This by @awalkerinla.bsky.social is really great—not just in terms of "what LAers need to know re AQI/air quality"—but in terms of the sometimes impossible task of getting information, people trying to run counter information and spreading bad info without even realizing it!
The push to bring production back to L.A. has taken on a new urgency with crew members desperately in need of work.
After L.A. Fires, Bringing Production Back Has Become More Urgent Than Ever
The L.A. production community was already struggling before the fires. Now, boosting local shoots has taken on a new urgency.
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January 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The push to bring production back to L.A. has taken on a new urgency with crew members desperately in need of work.
I remember getting so excited hearing about some of these David Lynch movies that never came to fruition! We broke down some of the notable ones. variety.com/2025/film/ne...
The David Lynch Projects That Never Got Made, From ‘Ronnie Rocket’ to ‘Dune Messiah’ and ‘Wisteria’
David Lynch was a groundbreaking filmmaker whose imagination ran wild with proposed movies like 'Ronnie Rocket' and 'One Saliva Bubble.'
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January 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I remember getting so excited hearing about some of these David Lynch movies that never came to fruition! We broke down some of the notable ones. variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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wrote a short tribute to david lynch, tv auteur: variety.com/2025/tv/news...
David Lynch Was a Legendary Filmmaker. With ‘Twin Peaks’, He Left His Mark on Television
Legendary filmmaker David Lynch left his mark on television with ABC's 'Twin Peaks' and Showtime's 'Twin Peaks: The Return'.
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January 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
wrote a short tribute to david lynch, tv auteur: variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Has anyone tried the new Peruvian stand Tiger Milk next to Walgreen's in Echo Park? instagram.com/tiger_milk_l...
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January 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Has anyone tried the new Peruvian stand Tiger Milk next to Walgreen's in Echo Park? instagram.com/tiger_milk_l...