1st Annual Snow Day Fundraiser at Elysian Heights Elementary
Saturday February 27 10 am to 4 pm (In case of rain the event will be rescheduled for March 6)
Saturday, March 6 March 12, 10 am – 4 pm
1562 Baxter St. (corner of Baxter and Echo Park Ave)
Please bring family and friends out for a day of winter fun while raising money for one of our charming neighborhood schools.
Sled ride, games, crafts, face painting, delicious baked goods, hot chocolate, snow cones, pizza, tostadas, and a raffle to win gift certificates from some wonderful neighborhood businesses.
Admission is free. Activities and food are via ticket purchase day of. (Sled rides are $2. Food, games, craft tickets range from .50 to $3.00)
Special Thanks to:
LA Pizza Company, The Little Barn, BabyCakes Bakery, Sweet Estelle’s Baking Supply on Etsy,Beauty Box, Blue Collar, Fix, Echo Park Cycles, Delilah’s Bakery, and many more…
Upcoming shows:
Friday, February 26th @7pm
Corridor + Estelle Raskina
Saturday, February 27th @ 12 noon
Brunch with The Mother Hips
Sunday, February 28th @7pm
Benjamin Hoste Photography Showing SNAP!
New and restocked music as listed on their blog:
Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf – Raquel 7″
Dam Funk – Toaechizown 5 LP Box Set
J Dilla – Donuts
Judee Sill – S/T
Madlib – No. 1: Before the Verdict with Guilty Simpson
Mayer Hawthorne – The Ills 7″
Myron & E / The Soul Investigators – It’s a Shame 7″
Peanut Butter Wolf – Straight to Tape 1990-1992
V/A – Psych Funk 101
We Are The World “Clay Stones” 7″
#1 in a series of 7″s from the LA Collection on IAMSOUND
Joanna Newsom “Have One On Me”
Shout Out Louds “Work”
Holly Miranda “The Magician’s Private Library”
Four Tet “There Is Love In You”
Efterklang – Magic Chairs
Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here
Gil Scott-Heron – Me And The Devil 7″
High On Fire – Snakes For The Divine
Hockey – Learn To Lose 7”
Hockey – Too Fake 7”
Hot Chip – One Life Stand
Meat Puppets – II (reissue)
Pantha du Prince – Black Noise
Shearwater – The Golden Archipelago
The Big Pink – Velvet Remixes 12″
The Morning Benders – Promises 7″
The Rocket Summer – Of Men and Angels
Titus Andronicus – Four Score and Seven 7″
Tune Yards – Hatari 7″
Tune Yards – Real Live Flesh 7″
tUnE-yArDs – BiRd-BrAiNs
V/A – Harder Shade of Black
Ween – The Pod (Reissue)
And these restocks:
Fever Ray – S/T
Fucked Up – Couple Tracks
Hunx and His Punx – Gay Singles
Kurt Vile – Childish Prodigy
M83 – Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
M83 – Digital Shades Vol. 1
M83 – Saturdays = Youth
Mission Of Burma – Vs. (The Definitive Edition)
Pixies – Doolittle
Ratatat – Classics
Ratatat – LP3
St. Vincent – Marry Me
The Growlers – Are You In Or Out
The Horrors – Primary Colours
The National – Alligator
The National – Boxer
The XX – VCR 7″
The XX – XX
Vampire Weekend – S/T
Yo La Tengo – I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
Big Star – #1 Record
Big Star – 3rd (Sister Lovers)
Chris Bell – I Am The Cosmos
Dam Funk – It’s My Life 7″
Elliott Smith – XO
Faust – So Far
J Dilla – Ruff Draft
Mayer Hawthorne And The County – Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out (Heart Shaped 7”)
My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
Nico – Chelsea Girl
Nina Simone – The Amazing Nina Simone
Otis Redding – Pain In My Heart
Public Image Ltd – Second Edition
Serge Gainsbourg – Aux Armes Et Caetera
Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot – Bonnie & Clyde
Spacemen 3 – Performance
Television – Marquee Moon
The Cure – Three Imaginary Boys
The Kinks – United Kinksdom
The Seeds – S/T
The Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat
V/A – Dublab Presents Echo Expansion
V/A – Forge Your Own Chains: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads and Dirges 1968-1974
V/A – The Funky 16 Corners
Wire – Chairs Missing
They have new t-shirts, too.
Origami Vinyl
1816 W. Sunset Blvd. Echo Park, Ca
213.413.3030
neil@origamiorigami.com
sean@origamiorigami.com
Hours:
Mon – Noon ’til 9pm
Tues – Noon ’til 8pm
Wed – Noon ’til 9pm
Thu – Noon ’til 9pm
Fri – Noon ’til 10pm
Sat – Noon ’til 10pm
Sun – Noon ’til 8pm
Tomorrow, Thursday, February 25 at 8pm, the Echo Park Film Center will be celebrating the release of their film “Sister Aimee: The Musical.” The film was created out of a free EPFC youth filmmaking class that introduced the kids “to the musical genre as they learned about one of Echo Park’s most dynamic historical figures: ‘Sister’ Aimee Semple McPherson.” The film features all original sets, costumes, songs and choreography created by the students. Screening is free and open to the public. Q&A with the filmmakers and refreshments to follow the screening!
Check out The Moth GrandSLAM on Tuesday, March 2, at the Echoplex in Echo Park.
The Moth is basically an unscripted story telling hour – just the speaker telling a short story without notes about certain experiences (storytellers are provided with a theme). I have personally thoroughly enjoyed listening to some of the stories – often hilarious and heartwarming.
The event is described as follows:
The Moth presents the GrandSLAM, a battle of wits and words – fierce, hilarious, heartbreaking and all points between. Listen as ten StorySLAM champs tell tales of uncharted territory. Stories of new places on the map or in the mind.
The Moth is dedicated to finding intriguing people to tell inspired stories. At The Moth StorySLAM, those people find us. On this night, using words as weapons, they word- it-out to determine The Moth’s LA GrandSLAM Story Champion.
Masa of Echo Park, along with other Los Angeles restaurants and businesses, is once again participating in Go Eat Go Drink Go Out, a one-day event that raises funds to provide direct and vital support to those impoverished and disabled by HIV/AIDS in our community.
On Thursday, February 25 all participating Los Angeles restaurants will donate a portion of their days’s receipts to Aid for AIDs and The Sierra Project.
Details:
Masa of Echo Park
Thursday, February 25th
11am to 11pm
All you have to do is stop by and have something to eat or drink, and Rhonda, Rob, Tom and Julie of Masa will take care of the rest!
According to a press release, the Dodgers are planning for an increase in price for 35% of the seats for single-game ticket starting March 6, 2010.
They’ll be increasing some low-end tickets $2-3 for Friday and Saturday games, making Top Deck tickets $15, left-field pavilion seats are up $5 to $18, and other various increases for the cheaper tickets (these numbers appear to be the price for advance purchase tickets – those purchased at the stadium are generally a couple of bucks more).
Additionally, the All-You-Can-Eat Right Field Pavilion price will decrease $5 per ticket (advance purchase), and rows X-Z on the field level between the bases will drop $20 per seat.
Parking at Dodger Stadium, currently at $15 per vehicle, will remain the same price (a good thing for us community members who live right by the stadium).
LA Observed also points out that the Yankees series coming up in June won’t be included as those tickets can only be purchased as part of a 14-, 21-, or 28-game mini plan, and cannot be purchased individually.
Join the office of Council President Eric Garcetti for the first Echo Park Clean Up Effort of the year on Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 8:45 am.
Council President Eric Garcetti’s Office and staff would love your participation, enthusiasm and action on as we prepare to do a nice clean up and beautification effort of “downtown” Echo Park.
If you would like to participate, meet up at the Echo Park Walgreens at 8:45 am for refreshments and instructions followed by 2 hours of some beautification labor all for the purpose of continuing to make Echo Park a little brighter and welcoming for our friends, neighbors and patrons.
Please contact Field Deputy Alejandra Marroquin of the LA City Council at Alejandra.Marroquin@lacity.org, or call 323-957-4500 for more information.
UPDATE:
This event has been postponed due to rain, we will let you know when it has been rescheduled.
Ok this is just outside of Echo Park but many residents could still walk here so I’m going to give it a mention. If you are looking for something new this Wednesday you might be interested in a party at Dinner House M. The website for the Japanese Pub doesn’t say much but you can read their yelp reviews. The place doesn’t seem recession friendly ($$$$ on yelp) but if you like your parties to go after hours this spot may interest you. This is going to be an ongoing party every Wednesday so if you go please leave some comments here to let other locals know whether to play or pass on this one.
“Join us on the 27th for a day of knowledge! we will be hosting a tax seminar with Bruce Anderson of BTA! this class is designed fo the independent money maker that wants to get the most out of the tax year! learn to not be scared of this time of the year and all the options that are available to you! SILENUS”S EGO MICROBREW will also be providing a keg of one of their signature beers and GOG with RONIN AND BTA will provide each attendant with a limited tshirt! please email to info@theroningallery to reserve a seat.
$10 fo each attendant!
WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE
PEOPLE FOLLOW IGNORANCE!”
For more info: http://andersencpa.com/
The Long Night from 2HeadedHorse on Vimeo.
One of those filmmakers from 2headedhorse previously mentioned in a yoga class post made this beautiful video when the lights went out on Glendale a few weeks ago.
First spotted on The Eastsider LA.
Here is a post from the 2headedhorse site about their weekly yoga classes. 2headedhorse is a run by the creative team of Laban Pheidias and Ted Newsome. Their resume includes skateboarding, guerilla filmmaking, tv production, comedy and a lot of fun by the looks of this portrait of the duo. The recently started holding shows in their space on Glendale Blvd. I’ve only been able to go to one show at the space so far. The people were friendly and the sound was great so hopefully they will continue throwing events.
The guys would like to share their yoga teacher with you! You can read the post here.
Huzzah! The Echo Park Historical Society has finally put up their 2010 tour schedule! And this year, come hell or high water, I am going to drag my ass out of bed before 10am on a Saturday morning and join them!
On Saturday, February 27 Saturday, March 13 they’ll be touring the historic stairways of Echo Park. From their website: “The Echo Park Stairways tour includes the Baxter Stairs (possibly the city’s longest) as well as Fellowship Park, Red Hill and the modernist Harwell Harris house.” The tour begins at 10am and it will begin at the Elysian Heights Elementary School, 1562 Baxter St.
Here are some of their other upcoming tours:
Elysian Park Tour – Saturday, March 6
Echo Park Lake Tour – Saturday, April 24
Echo Park Stairways Tour – Saturday, May 22
Reservations are required, email ephs(at)historicechopark.org or call (323) 860-8874. Cost is $5. All tours start at 10am.
Echo Park Yoga just commenced classes at a studio in the Jensen Recreation Center (1161 Logan St.). They offer a wide variety of yoga disciplines including Hatha, Kundalini and Vinyasa. They offer classes in the mornings and evenings, Sunday through Friday all at a very reasonable price ($12 per class). You can view their schedule here.
Divine Dance Los Angeles offers dance and yoga classes for women. It’s run by Kaliyyaa who has created her own style of movement that she calls Divine Dance. The website explains that “Kaliyyaa created Divine Dance to unleash the creative power in all women. Through her own awakening process, she realized the urgency and importance of dance in the lives of women… Kaliyyaa fervently believes that women need to explore movement and their own sensuality in a safe and welcoming environment.” They also offer yoga classes for both the beginner and the experienced as well as a 4-week-long workshop on the basics of yogic philosophy, meditiation and breathing. They’re located at 1426 Sunset Blvd., Their schedule changes ever so slightly each week so be sure to look carefully, or give them a call at 213-973-2662
Here are a sampling of event flyers for this weekend. The post would be very long so I’ve split it up. Click the link below to see the rest. Have a good weekend!