Taix French Restaurant
Long-running French restaurant in Echo Park, Los Angeles (closed 2024). The Guardian’s alt-right piece opens at a lunch there.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| ‘Call me a racist, but don’t say I’m a Buddhist’: meet America’s alt right | Sanjiv Bhattacharya | setting | William Johnson, chairman of the American Freedom Party, holds a lunch for members here, planning for a Trump victory with five young… |
‘Call me a racist, but don’t say I’m a Buddhist’: meet America’s alt right — Sanjiv Bhattacharya (2016)
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Echo Park is a trendy hood. It’s hipster and heavily Hispanic.
- Role: setting
- In the article: William Johnson, chairman of the American Freedom Party, holds a lunch for members here, planning for a Trump victory with five young alt-right men. The author notes the oddness of the venue: Echo Park is trendy, hipster and heavily Hispanic, with Latino kitchen staff.
- Why it matters: Opening scene of the piece; the mismatch of venue and politics sets the tone.
- Real vs. fictional: The highlighted line names only Echo Park; the lunch is at Taix, so the pin is Echo Park’s point.