Entries by Kelly

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Restaurant and Business News Roundup

New restaurants and businesses: Darling’s Flower Shop and Matsu, a Japanese restaurant, are now sharing the building on Temple. Read more at The Eastsider LA Marta Teegen of Homegrown is opening up a green grocery store called “Cookbook” on Echo Park Avenue along gallery row (Chicken Corner area). Read more from the Chicken Corner True […]

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Your Echo Park Weekend Guide

There’s a lot going on this weekend, and we thought it best to give it all to you in one concise post. Here goes: Saturday: Obesity Walk, 8:00 am – 12:00 noon at Echo Park Lake Silver Lake Jubilee, 10:00 am – 10:00 pm in Silver Lake Hot Dog Fest, 12:00 noon at Echo Park […]

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Silver Lake Jubilee this Weekend

The Silver Lake Jubilee is a two-day music and art event featuring 35 music acts, multi-disciplinary art, local artists and crafters, food from local restaurateurs, interactive booths, and various cultural enclaves in the Silver Lake and surrounding communities (Spaceland, Origami Vinyl, buzzbands.la and El Echo Parqeuño are curating music for the event). The event will […]

Mooi to Open Today – UPDATE

Update: The opening has been pushed back, probably to Monday. Thanks to Quarry Girl for the heads up! As we reported last week, Mooi is set to open today with its creative raw-vegan menu featuring: juices, dessert and gourmet coffee at the ice cream bar, as well as a limited menu of breakfast and lunch […]

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Cuban Music Festival in Echo Park

The 16th Annual Cuban Music Festival is taking place on Sunday, May 23, from 12:00 noon – 7:00 pm at the Echo Park Lake. Performers include: Rumbankete, The Echo Park Project, Susie Hansen Latin Band, and DJ Saoco. The event is free! As usual in the park, there will be plenty of international food, crafts, […]

Tragic Dinner Theatre: a Fundraiser for workspace

Echo Park residents Anna Wilson and Rob Doran are directing a play called Tragic Dinner Theatre on Sunday May 23 in Highland Park as a fundraiser for workspace, an art studio in Highland Park. The play description is as follows: Tragic Dinner Theatre, directed by Anna Wilson, combines the aesthetics of ancient Greek theater, Commedia […]

City May Eliminate Non-Profit Lease Program

A proposal by the Mayor’s Chief Administrative Officer is on the agenda for the City Council meeting on Wednesday, May 26, and will, if approved, eliminate the $1 per year lease subsidies for nonprofit organizations in city-owned buildings. Community organizations all across Los Angeles will be affected if approved by the City Council, just one […]

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Which Echo Park Dispensaries Will Close?

Earlier this month, the City of Los Angeles ordered 439 medical marijuana dispensaries to close by June 7, and it looks like all of those facilities in Echo Park are amongst those. According to the LA Times, the following Echo Park dispensaries may disappear in the next couple of weeks: Divine Healing, A Nonprofit Corporation: […]

L.A. Flea Market at Dodger Stadium

The L.A. Flea Market is coming to Dodger Stadium on July 18, 2010, and will take place every third Sunday of the month when there’s not a Dodger game. A few community members had expressed concern over yet more street traffic throughout the neighborhood. Noel Pallais sent out a community-wide notification at the end of […]

Saturday: Lucretia Stairway Cleanup in Echo Park

Set your alarm early tomorrow morning (Saturday, May 15) and help fellow community members clean up the neglected Lucretia Stairway (h/t Eastsider LA), located on Lucretia Avenue between Delta and Grafton (click here for map). Bring your coffee, some supplies and meet at 8:00 am on the corner of Grafton and Lucretia.

Photo: Echo Park Avenue Project

The first garage was poured last week and the second framed out for these two Echo Park single family homes, located at 1124 Echo Park Avenue. You can follow the progress of the project on the developer’s website here. Related article: Nice Project Coming to Echo Park? Curbed LA, February 23, 2010

Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog Fest at the Lake

Your summer kickoff event this year might just have to include some bacon – most likely because the smell of bacon-wrapped hot dogs will lure you to Echo Park Lake in just a couple of weekends. Yelper Javier J. is well known for hosting such bacon-wrapped hot dog events, one at the Echo Park Lake […]

Video: KPCC visits Echo Curio

The KPCC website posted an article and video yesterday about the Echo Curio space here in Echo Park. The art shows of Echo Curio lure in a different type of artist than most serious art galleries; instead, anyone from hobbyist painters, photographers, mixed media artists hand over whatever they want to show off and [owners] […]

Curbed LA Voters Rename the “Not Eastside”

As we wrote a couple of weeks ago, Curbed LA reignited the “Eastside” debate and decided to refer to everything east of Western and west of the Los Angeles River as something other than the “Eastside.” Well, they put it to an online vote, and here are the results: Missing from the vote was the […]