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The Echo Park Farmers’ Market is an important errand for most Fridays, but today is especially important – next week is Thanksgiving, and we want to make sure everyone stocks up fresh, local ingredients for Turkey Day. The most important item: Herbs! These are typically very expensive in the standard grocery store if you’re buying […]
Allston Yacht Club recently won a bit of a battle with the City of Los Angeles – a permit hearing on Thursday, October 27, 2011 ended in the restaurant’s favor, granting it an exemption from the city’s strict parking requirements. This means you won’t find a valet posted out front, and while you might have […]
We’ve been following a story for quite some time now about a proposed 7-11 for the vacant storefront on the corner of Glendale Boulevard and Berkeley Avenue. The chain has been eyeing the space since the start of this year, having also applied for a license for the sale of beer and wine for the […]
Looks like we’ve got another candidate for the First District of the LA City Council – Gil Cedillo announced his aspirations two days ago in a press release to fill the seat of soon-to-be termed-out Ed Reyes in the 2013 elections, joining Reyes’ chief of staff Jose Gardea. Cedillo is currently our state assemblyman in […]
Are you a karaoke fan? The Fun and Games Committee of the Echo Park Time Bank has organized a little Tuesday night social event at Home in Silver Lake. Everyone is invited to this free, all ages event full of karaoke, socializing, and snacks. Bring your friends! Echo Park Time Bank Holiday Social Tuesday, November […]
Gobble Gobble Give This annual tradition brings lots and lots and lots of families in need out to The Echo for free turkey dinners, and they need lots of help. Bring a dish already heated (they’ll take any ‘giving sides but also need turkeys), five small toiletry kits, clothing and/or blankets on Thanksgiving Day starting […]
For the week of Monday, October 14 through Sunday, October 20, 2011 Monday The Chain Gang of 1974, Races, Polaris at Noon @ Echo Empires @ Origami Vinyl The Basketball Jones Tour: Los Angeles @ Lot 1 Café Tuesday Son Ark, Daniel Ahearn and The Jones, Aaron Embry, Marcus Very Ordinary @ Echo Y La […]
The Greater Echo Park Elysian Neighborhood Council is collecting canned foods for the Cathedral Center of St. Paul’s Food Bank program. “The state of the economy has had a negative impact on the ability for many of our neighbors to provide basics, such as food, for their families during this holiday season,” GEPENC states in […]
The Echo Park Farmers’ Market will be open today for Veterans Day! Shopping at the Farmers’ Market today means supporting some local Veterans. From the Farmers’ Market email blast: We’d like to say thank you to the wonderful veterans that are a part of our market family: Jan Bruce of Frog Dog Herbs, Dexter Scott […]
If you haven’t checked out the new pilates studio on Echo Park Avenue, Pilates & Arts, now is your chance! Join Echo Park resident and owner Tannis Kobrinsky, along with friends on Saturday, November 12 for a grand opening celebration. She’ll be hosting Pilates demos, a chance to “meet he machines,” Tarot readings, and an […]
Fellow Echo Parkian Adrian is having some problems with the Durbin Project construction lately – the condo project once known as “smurf village” at Chicken Corner on Echo Park Avenue and Delta (right by Chango). The blue treated wood that stood as the skeleton for a project that stopped dead in 2009 is now gone […]
Find yourself with too many reusable bags in the cupboard? Perhaps you overdid the free bag give-aways at the last tradeshow? Maybe you just don’t need all 50 of those bags, and they’re cluttering up your space? Echo Park resident Beth Zeigler (she’s the uber organizer who runs the local Bneato) has been collecting your […]
At the bottom of Echo Park Lake with KPCC KPCC joins Eric Garcetti to explore the bottom of the now-drained Echo Park Lake (well, before the rainy weekend we had). “We’ve polluted this lake, it’s lost its character,” Garcetti told them, “It’s time to bring it back to something that’s healthy for the next hundred […]
This weekend, the community along with the Echo Park Improvement Association (which I am a member of) will start a major cleanup of Glendale Boulevard, an almost blighted entryway to our beautiful Echo Park neighborhood. Throughout the planning process, we’ve been slowly discovering these amazing businesses located along the thoroughfare that you would honestly never […]
Weekend lunch hours in Echo Park are a great time to explore the neighborhood – it’s usually too early to witness the walk of shame by those non-Echo Parkian visitors from other corners of LA, so it’s usually nice and quiet. And, gosh darnett, The Park closes at 2:00pm! But for a couple of weeks […]
