![[Blog] Read This Now: NY Times on Restaurant Noise](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/canele-d-solomon-3.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "[Blog] Read This Now: NY Times on Restaurant Noise")
Some of us can barely abide restaurants where we have to shout to chat with a friend or order a drink. (That’s why old fashioned spots like Taix and The Pacific Dining Car are two of my L.A. faves.) Puh-leeze, can’t this stop? Eateries can be hip and successful without the din drowning out our … Continue reading
![[Blog] Gawking at Gawker](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/gawkerhomepage-3.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "[Blog] Gawking at Gawker")
I don’t often read Gawker, the site that bills itself as “the definitive news and gossip sheet for followers of entertainment, media, and business.” But I had an eye-opening experience when one of Gawker’s sister sites helped drive traffic to an LA Times article I wrote about author Gary Shytengart and his new dystopian novel. … Continue reading
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