November 27, 2008 2:43 PM  (go back to main view)
Giving Good Gobble
Beautiful bedlam for the whole family.
Beautiful bedlam for the whole family.
My favorite part about Thanksgiving?
Ok, sure, it's partly Andy's slow-roasted turkey inside the small, black clay army tank that is the Kamado grill. But what gets me up early every year like a kid on Christmas morning is the annual Gobble Gobble Give, a DIY community gathering to feed the homeless. The grassroots-organized and run event every year is crazy chaotic and crazy cool: Mostly total strangers cramming into the Echo nightclub on Sunset Boulevard and slogging side by side for a few furious hours to get as many boxed meals out the door as possible.
Making a noise in The Echo!
Making a noise in The Echo!
The Walkers
The Walkers
The annual feed-a-thon began in 1998 when Echo Park resident Barry Walker decided to cook Thanksgiving dinner and deliver the meals to homeless folks in the neighborhood. It's since grown into a magnificent mad mash of locals--possibly around 600 in all including the drivers, deejays (gotta have music!) and kids--serving up Thanksgiving meals to nearly 1,000 fellow Angelenos who because of a twist of fate or a twisted lack of governmental services for the mentally ill, drug addicted or just plain poor in this otherwise rich nation find themselves without.
The massive turnout of volunteers this year was no doubt due to the more formalized efforts (including a website and Paypal). Despite all of that, me doubts it will ever lose its punk rock soul. This is, after all, Silverlake/Echo Park. Gobble gobble.
Michelle Carr runs the
Michelle Carr runs the "boutique" of donations.




Brusha brusha brusha...
Brusha brusha brusha...

Even the news showed up this year.
Even the news showed up this year.
This guy organized the parade of cars delivering the boxes.
This guy organized the parade of cars delivering the boxes.

This ain't no disco...
This ain't no disco...

Thanksgiving dinner-to-go-go.
Thanksgiving dinner-to-go-go.


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Rose Apodaca is a pop culture and style journalist and the co-owner of A+R, the design retail lab in Los Angeles, and its online sister http://www.aplusrstore.com. She contributes to Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Glamour, Paper, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Style.com, Preen and other publications, and consulted on the launch of Image, The Los Angeles Times newest style section. Her first book, Style A to Zoe: The Art of Fashion, Beauty & Everything Glamour, an all-encompassing lifestyle guide written for celeb stylist Rachel Zoe, is now in paperback and hit The New York Times bestseller list in September 2008. She is currently wrapping up a biography on Fred Hayman, co-founder of Giorgio Beverly Hills and marketing architect of Rodeo Drive, as well as co-authoring a beauty book with neo-burlesque queen and style icon, Dita Von Teese.

A+R is located in Silverlake and on Abbot Kinney in Venice, CA.

Rose helmed the west coast bureau of fashion-industry bible Women's Wear Daily and was a contributor to W for six years until March 2006, when she left to join partner Andy Griffith in A+R and focus on related projects. She has long championed Los Angeles and California style and design, from the streets and runways to interiors and food. She is the first recipient of the Los Angeles Fashion Awards Communications Prize for bringing global attention to the region's fashion industry and style culture. With A+R, she continues to showcase rising and undiscovered talent from around the world.
 
In addition to co-owning Beauty Bar Hollywood and Las Vegas, she is a conspirator-in-camaraderie with several artists and designers showcased under A+R or related projects. Rose and Andy, who tied the knot in September 2007, live in Silverlake.

* All photographs appearing on this blog were snapped by Rose with her Leica D-Lux 3, unless otherwise noted. Please credit all photographs accordingly.

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