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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:

Sunday:

Click here to check out The Eastsider LA weekend edition for other events going on in Silver Lake, Highland Park and other neighboring communities.

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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 have a very strong focus on the environment, including the implementation of “Zero Waste initiatives with the goal of 90% land fill diversion and sourcing power from alternative energy resources.” There will be several interactive “villages,” including a Children’s Village, Literary Village, Arts Village and Eco Village.

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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: 2501 W. Sunset Bl
Green Mile Medical Herbs: 2501 Sunset Bl, #D
Holistic Care Collective: 1302 W. Sunset Bl 90026
Innovative Health Care Collective Inc.: 3515 Sunset Bl
Natural Choice Healing Center Inc.: 2811 W. Sunset Blvd.
Sunset Discount Providers: 1498 Sunset Bl
Sunset Organic Center: 2210 Sunset Bl
Temple Herbal Collective: 2530 Temple St
The Alternate Root: 1547 Sunset Bl
West Coast Collective Inc.: 1284 W. Sunset Bl

(Click here for the PDF source of the above addresses)

LA Times map dispensaries closing down

Read the full LA Times article here, and check out the full interactive map here (there seem to be a couple of discrepancies with some addresses, so pay close attention).

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The Week In Music

For Monday, May 17th through Sunday, May 23rd

Monday
The Like, Jail Weddings, Gestapo Khazi, Starfucker at The Echo (free every Monday)
New Music Monday feat. Zach Steel, Ilo Mar, Mike Kitcher, Sleepwalkers Local at Echo Curio
Syndrome WPW, Psychic Handbook, Back to the Future the Ride, Foreign Cinema at Pehrspace

Tuesday
60-Watt Kid, VOICEsVOICEs, Pizza!, Tan Dollar at The Echo
Dos, Tsigoti, Married In Berdichev, French Quarter, Whitman at Echo Curio

Wednesday
Horse Feathers, Dawn Landes, Liz Pappademas at Bootleg Theater

Thursday
Rats perform live soundtracks at Echo Curio
Live percussion and DJs at the Echo (see our post)

Friday
Shadow Shadow Shade, Red Cortez at Bootleg Theater
Francis and The Lights, Teen Inc at The Echo
Heard Of Elephants presents Woah Hunx, Christmas Island, Tijuana Panthers at Echo Curio
Wow and Flutter, Timonium, The Lights From Here at Pehrspace

Saturday
The Babies, Heavy Hawaii at Echo Curio
Odelia, By Sunlight, Future Ghost, The break ups at Pehrspace

Silver Lake Jubilee 2010 feat. The Living Sisters, The Entrance Band, Nico Stai, Olin & the Moon, Big Whup, Tijuana Panthers, My Pet Saddle, The Black Apples, Spain, Eulogies, KILLSONIC, Mississippi Man, Dirt Bird, The Health Club, The Growlers and many more at Myra Avenue (the corner of Hoover and Santa Monica to Fountain Avenue) Not in Echo Park but close!

Sunday
Bonfire Madigan, Dubus, Patsy, The I’s at Bootleg Theater
Grand Ole Echo presents Groovy Rednecks, The Cheatin’ Kind, Robert Black at The Echo (free, 5pm)
Part Time Punks feat. Geneva Jacuzzi, Soft Metals at The Echo

Silver Lake Jubilee 2010 feat. The Like, Foreign Born, Division Day, Voxhaul Broadcast, Dios, Wet & Reckless, Seasons, Downtown/Union, Timonium, Moses Campbell, Family of the Year, Tenlons Fort, Social Stufies, So Many Wizards, Useless Keys at Myra Avenue (the corner of Hoover and Santa Monica to Fountain Avenue) Not in Echo Park but close!

Thanks to LAist

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The Edendale Library Friends Society (ELFS)

Many Echo Park residents are not aware of the existence of the Edendale Library Friends Society (ELFS) which is why I decided to take a pen and a pad to their weekly meeting the other day and find out more about them. I was amazed by how much they have done over the past few years to support both the Edendale Library and the Echo Park community.

The ELFS were founded in 2004 by Joelle and Judy when the Edendale branch of the LAPL opened. Since then, they’ve put an estimated $13,000 per year into the Edendale Library in the form of books, periodicals, DVDs, equipment and supplies and special programs. A lot of the library’s resources would not exist without their efforts. They get money from memberships, the Elysian Park Neighborhood Council and their weekly used book sales.

The weekly used book sale happens at the Edendale Library every Wednesday from 2:00 to 5:00 pm. The ELFS also help to run classes at the library for kids and adults. They are currently planning a mixer to be held sometime in the middle of June, in the hopes of getting individuals and local business owners to join. Their goal is not to raise money for themselves but to raise money for library and awareness of the kind of resources it offers.

Go to their Facebook page to learn more about them and their upcoming events. We’ve included some photos below of their postcard/letter writing campaign to save L.A.’s libraries from reduced hours and budget cuts.

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Styles Upon Styles Screening and Djs

Styles Upon Styles Los Angeles
Hosted by Crazy Legs of the world famous Rocksteady Crew & Onecypher.com

Thursday, May 20th

at The Echo

The night begins with a private screening of “Bouncing Cats”– an inspiring story of one man’s attempt to create better lives for Ugandan children by transcending the power of hip-hop.

*All proceeds from the screening will go straight to Breakdance Project Uganda.

RSVP: bouncingcats.la@gmail.com

Music Provided by:
Crazy Legs – Rock Steady Crew
Ervin Arana – Rock Steady Crew
Dj Dennis Infante – Onecypher.com

LIVE DJ & PERCUSSIONIST SET
PERCUSSIONISTS INCLUDE:
Melena Francis Valdes – Music credits include: Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Isaac Hayes, Barry White, Julio Iglesias, Papo Conga…
Eric Seats – Tour drummer for Patti Labelle & Lalah Hathaway
Timbali Cornwell – Tour credits – Maxwell & Album credits: Wayman Tisdale.

*SPECIAL PERFORMANCE by The World Famous Rock Steady Crew

Produced by:
Shelley Oto, Crazy Legs and Dennis Infante

RSVP Email: stylesuponstyles.la@gmail.com

7:30pm (live percussion set starts at 10pm)

$5 with RSVP, $10 without

21+

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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.

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Photo: Echo Park Avenue Project

Photo by Echo Park resident Mike Fisher

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:

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Upcoming Shows at Taix 321 Lounge

Thursday, May 13 @ 1o:30 pm –  RACHEL IN THE WEEDS (RESIDENCY)

Friday, May 14 @ 10:30 pm – MATHER LOUTH AND RADIO NOIR and CHARMKIN REBELLION @11:30 pm

Saturday, May 15 @ 10:30 pm – KINGSIZEMAYBE and @ 11:30 pm JOHNZO WEST

Wednesday, May 19 @ 10:30 pm EDEN EDEN and VIM @ 11:30 pm

Located inside Taix Restaurant (1911 Sunset Blvd.). No cover. 21+

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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:

Curbed LA votes tallied

Missing from the vote was the option to keep it the Eastside, or a “none of the above” option. A few readers on the original Curbed LA post did bring this up, one commenter writing, “I thought it was called ‘The Eastside’ while East LA was … well east of the LA River…”

Frankly, none of those names seem appealing nor will it settle any debate (Middle Earth?). However, Curbed LA seems to be following through as a recent post announces that “North Central is both geographically and culturally descriptive” for the area. So it seems from now on, Curbed LA will be referring to Silver Lake, Echo Park, Los Feliz, etc. as “North Central,” but don’t expect others to follow (The Eastsider LA renamed “North Central LA”? I don’t think so!). We’ll see how long it sticks for Curbed LA.

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A Call to Action from the Edendale Library Friends Society

Image via the Eastsider LA

The Edendale Library Friends Society and several other Library Friends groups sponsored an all-day Save The Library letter and postcard writing campaign this past Saturday. The group is protesting Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s proposed budget which, if it passes, could mean further reduced library hours and staff cuts. Letter and postcard writing has been just a small part of a larger effort which included a rally this past Friday held by Save the Los Angeles Public Library. All this is happening during the Los Angeles City Council’s review of Villaraigosa’s budget. The Budget and Finance committee is expected to give their recommendations to the full council next week.

The Edendale branch has already switched over to a 6-day-per-week schedule and had its hours reduced. Save the Los Angeles Public Library predicts that Villaraigosa’s new budget would mean further reduction of library hours (including a 5-day-per-week schedule) and well as a reduction of library staff by as much as 30%.

If you’d like to make your voice heard, stop into the Edendale Library to pick up a pre-addressed and stamped postcard or visit SaveTheLibrary.org.

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Echo Park Film Center Screenings

Tuesday, May 11 @ 7:45 pm – CINEMA SPEAKEASY PRESENTS ART BY CHANCE: The Largest Public Art Event Ever! For this festival, you don’t need to buy a ticket or go to a movie theater! Movies just pop into your lives in subways, buses, airports, shopping malls, trains, sports centers, art galleries, museums, plains, campuses, cafes and bars! Internationally selected and “TIME” themed creative short films catch you unexpectedly while traveling in the subway, waiting at the airport, shopping or just strolling around. ART BY CHANCE is taking place May 7 though June 4 in over 100 cities worldwide. Go here for more info. Bring: Your happy self and a noisemaking machine. We will be creating our own soundtrack to these silent short films!

Thursday, May 13 @ 8:00 pm – IN CELEBRATION OF NOWHERE: NEW WORK BY EVAN MEANEY This program will feature individual works from The Ceibas Cycle (2007 – present), a series of experimental videos constructed through a glitching process, wherein their codes have been rewritten and their codecs, forced into crisis. This work sings a celebration for the digitally dead, while asking us to rethink how useful a ghost might be. Following this will be the 2010 film Centralia, a piececoncerned with the archive of documents and generational trauma surrounding a Pennsylvania town that has been on fire since 1962. FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE!

Thursday, May 20 @ 8:00 pm –  PXL THIS 19 Join Gerry Fialka and a posse of small format fanatics for PXL This 19! “PXL THIS, featuring films made with the Fisher-Price PXL 2000 toy camcorder, is one of the longest running film festivals in the entertainment capital of the world. Celebrating “cinema povera” moving image art, it evokes Marcel Duchamp’s axiom “Poor tools require better skills.” Pixelators from across the globe hoick up inventive approaches to the unassuming throw-away of consumer culture. FESTIVAL FOUNDER AND FILMMAKER GERRY FIALKA IN ATTENDANCE! More info: http://pxlthis.ning.com/

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Cool Architecture in Echo Park: The Lento Brick Court

I was strolling around the eastern part of Echo Park the other day in search of some things to take purdy pictures of when an unusual courtyard housing complex caught my eye. Its use of brick as opposed to stucco and stoops with wrought iron railings made it look like housing you might find in New York as opposed to Los Angeles. Yay for random, cool-looking pieces of architecture!

I did some research and found out that this complex is called the Lento Brick Court. It’s a mix of storefronts (facing the street) and bungalow-style apartments built into the hillside that all face a central courtyard. It was built in 1928 by the architectural firm of Ellingson and Chambers. The original owner was an Italian-born hatter named George Lento who moved to the United States in 1899.

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Echo Park’s Week In Music

Monday
The Like, New Fidelity, Bloodbath at The Echo (free)
Let Go Of The Rail, State Rec, Güf Trüp, California Priest at Pehrspace

Tuesday
CCR Headcleaner, Back the Future the Ride, Heatrock at Echo Curio
Bro Safari, Pablo Hassan, Steady, Citymavrick, Kemst at The Echo

Wednesday
Evan Voytas, Bell Gardens, Superhumanoids at The Echo
Johnny Osborne, The Melodians at Echoplex
Woolen, The Nocturnes, Pope Anything at Echo Curio

Thursday
Mississippi Man, Pepper Rabbit, White Arrows, The Fling at The Echo
Bob Log III, Frank Fairfield at Echo Curio

Friday
Flying Lotus’ record release, Ras G, Samiyam, Dr. Strangeloop, Kutmah, Jeremiah Je at Echoplex
Turin Brakes (Acoustic show), Hard Drugs, Lucy Schwartz at The Echo
Oliver Future’s record release, London To Tokyo at Bootleg Theater
Summer Darling, Worker Bee, Golden Years, Wires in the Wall, George Glass (solo) at Pehrspace
Wreck of the Zephyr, Random Patterns, Boomsnake, Lovely Bad Things at Echo Curio

Saturday
Flying Lotus’ record release, Ravi Coltrane, The Gaslamp Killer, Gonjasufi, Matthewdavid at Echoplex
Jeremy Messersmith, Jeremiah Streeter at Bootleg Theater
Leila Adu, Howardamb, Voice on Tape at Echo Curio
Torches in Trees, Phoenix and the Turtle, WALK at Pehrspace
Le Switch and Les Blanks at Origami Vinyl (7pm)
IHEARTCOMIX and The Crush Bros present Son of Boogie Monster at 2Headedhorse (10pm)

Sunday
Bonfire Madigan, Rachael Cantu, Josh Norton at Bootleg Theater
Grand Ole Echo feat. Dan Janisch, 50 Cent Haircut, William Lee and The Modern Primitives at The Echo (Free Early Show; 5 PM)
Part Time Punks feat. Xeno & Oaklander, Epee Du Bois, Frank Alpine, Killing Spree DJs at The Echo (Late Show)

Thanks, in part, to LAist

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Plant Cloning Workshop at Machine Project Today

In case you're wondering, this is a Mother of Thousands plant. It's a type of Kalanchoe. You're welcome.

Today, Saturday May 8, Machine Project and CRITTER Salon will be hosting a plant cloning workshop entitled Clone-Home from 3:00 to 5:00 pm.

CRITTER presents Clone-Home, an afternoon open house for multiplying plants. Come with a few cuttings of your favorite plant(s) to share and trade with others. If you’re new to the world of cutting and growing, come ready to start your own little plantlets with a variety of cloning methods that will be demonstrated throughout the afternoon. No experience or green-thumb required.

Clone-Home will feature Denise King from the Exploratorium, Philip Ross and other growers from plant societies and local businesses. Clone-Home will host a wide spectrum of plant cloning, ranging from simple do-it-yourself methods to more complex recipes for making many from one, as well as music to clone plants by featuring machine’s sometime house band ing.

Enjoy some fresh herbal tea, mingle with fellow plant fans, and learn how to make your own home a little bit greener with your new buddies.

The workshop is FREE, and there is no RSVP required. Machine Project is located at 1200 N. Alvarado Street.

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