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For the week of Monday, February 13 through Sunday, February 19, 2012 Monday 42nd Anniversary of Black Sabbath’s Debut LP with Back Stabbath, Ace Diamond Experience, Special Guest DJ Pete Majors Of Harassor & Vacation Vinyl @ Pehrspace Monday Night Residency: Electric Guest, Cuckoo Chaos, Summer Camp, Haim @ Echo NO Record Release Party @ […]
Tuesday night’s episode of Parenthood opened up with a strangely familiar – but different – scene. As the characters walk into the frame, we realized this is the episode they filmed in Echo Park in front of The Echo, Two Boots, and then inside Origami Vinyl (you can see The Echo on the left in […]
Tonight is a meeting of the oversight committee and odor monitoring group of the Echo Park Lake rehabilitation project. All are invited to attend to get updates about the project, and share information on how you think things are going. Echo Park Lake Rehab Meeting Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 6:30 pm St. Paul’s Cathedral, […]
We don’t normally write a whole lot about real estate here in Echo Park, but it’s on our minds all the time since we got married and have started to think we could buy a place in Echo Park. This particular piece of property caught our eye because, well, it’s just so COOL! There aren’t […]
SATURDAY, January 14, 2012 10:00 am – 12:30 pm @ The Echo Country Outpost, 1770 Glendale Blvd. in Echo Park Echo Park Improvement Association member and activist Josh Post, who organized the recent Glendale Boulevard community cleanup, has put together a great event this weekend that will help further the efforts to get fix up […]
Amish journey from homespun to hipster – LA Times How Refuge salon and Form Academy owner Miriam Jones went from an Omish upbringing to Echo Park. Capping an era of L.A. oil exploration – LA Times This week the city started plugging an old oil well just south of Glendale Boulevard and Rockwood Street to […]
Driving along Glendale Boulevard just got a lot more colorful! LAist got the story on who’s behind the new colorful mural on the wall of Alfredo Market on Glendale Boulevard, between Alvarado and Berkeley. Street artist and Echo Park resident Kophns One (aka Koffinz) painted the mural at the end of December. According to The […]
This week is National Pizza Week, and what better way to celebrate than with a gallery of Echo Park’s most delicious pizzas? It should, after all, have its own food group. Masa of Echo Park lures people from all over Los Angeles with its authentic Chicago-style deep dish pizza. In addition to the amazing service […]
Every ten years, the city takes a look at the borders of each district to ensure those commmunities are getting fair representation in the city. That’s the idea anyways – and that’s why we’re getting involved. There have been rumors about combining Echo Park into one council district instead of two – a very small […]
This is the second neighborhood cleanup organized by the Echo Park Trash Abatement Program (TAP) in the past couple of months – the last one on December 3 collected more than 60 bags of trash (according to the LA Stormwater Blog). This weekend, treat yourself to some sunshine, pack your bottled water and work gloves, […]
For the week of Monday, January 2 through Sunday, January 8, 2012 Monday The Echo and LA Underground present Monday Night Residency with: Seasons, One Trick Pony, Count Fleet, Torches @ Echo Princeton, Lesands, Red Pony Clock @ Bootleg Bar Sean Carnage Monday Nights: Manhattan Murder Mystery, I.E., Nicole Kidman + Pawko, Philip Seymour Hoffman, […]
Join fellow bird lovers on Monday, January 2 for the 112th annual Christmas Bird Count at Echo Park Lake! Even though the lake is drained and undergoing construction, it’s important to keep track of what and how many bird species are still hanging around. Bird counters will be able to enter the construction site (with […]
A lot has happened for Echo Park in 2011… Our personal lives got a bit busier – I got married and had a grand celebration, and have been spending all my free time this year involved in many civic activities. We’re still living in the same spot, for about 6.5 years now, doing laundry across […]
Did you know…. In Portland you can go to a record store and sell your CDs? That’s right – we’re talkin’ Portlandia. They’re coming to Echo Park on January 17, 2012 and well, let’s face it – you could re-name the show EchoParklandia and it’d basically be the same show. I have to say, I’m […]
Turn your Christmas tree into compost and mulch! You can still enjoy your Christmas tree for a few more days until the next trash collection day, during which the Bureau of Sanitation will collect all those curbside trees (just make sure to place it by your cans on collection day). If your tree is small […]
