Los Angeles, CA (Los Feliz)/When's the last time you went to see a movie?

My friend Natalie took me to Sapp Coffee House, which she discovered when she saw this clip of Anthony Bourdain eating their boat noodles. It's a yummy Thai restaurant in a Los Feliz strip mall, despite what you would think from the name. I don't even think there is coffee on the menu at all!


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Answer: Three weeks ago. Shutter Island. It's fun. It was interesting. You saw the preview right? Not scary at all. It interests me. Yea, yeah I liked it!

Question: What kind of food do you love the most?

Hacienda Heights, CA/What does community mean to you?

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Answer: Umm...I don't really know how to answer that question. To me, community is like a big group, has a lot of people. Big group of people, get involved, you can work together. A group of people who do work together, attached together, that do the same thing and have the same thinking. To me, that's what I think community is.

Question: When's the last time you went to see a movie?

Los Angeles, CA (Echo Park)/Where were you born?

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I stumbled upon the Echo Park Farmers' Market and met these women at a booth representing the Echo Park Time Bank.

Answer: (from left to right)
-El Salvador.
-Findlay, Ohio. It's a small town.
-New York City.

I ask what brought each of them to Los Angeles.
-I came here to LA when I was 6, but then we moved to the valley because of the gang violence in the city then, but I came back later because LA's fun. It's a magnet.
-We moved from Ohio to Denver to LA because my mom remarried and my stepfather got a job with the LA Philharmonic as a violinist. This was back in '81.
-I always wanted to come to LA. It was always something my mom would talk about, but we never came, so I always saw it as this place where I would eventually go.

Question: What does community mean to you?

Los Angeles, CA (Mar Vista)/How old were you when you had your first kiss?

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Answer: I was 14.

Question: Where were you born?