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Tonight: Echo Park Hospitality Night

ECHO PARK HOSPITALITY NIGHT!

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August 19 from 6p-11p (time may vary depending on business)

What: EP local businesses will keep their doors open later than usual so stop by after work!

Where:
Start just west of Alvarado and head east towards Dodgers stadium (don’t forget to stop under the bridge on Glendale to check out participating businesses under Sunset!). Finish up the crawl at Warwick around 9p for live musical performance by local Echo Park band Whiskey Circus then finish off the night with a drink at Shortstop! And don’t forget it’s $2.50 Margarita night at Barrigan’s!

Why? Because it’s about time.

Participants:

Sirens & Sailors

Beauty Box

Lemon Frog Shop

826 LA

K9 Loft

Warwick

Haute Olive

Stories

Artillery and Ammo

Luxe de Ville

Origami Vinyl

For more information on Echo Park Hospitality night please contact info@warwickshop.com or visit us at www.ephospitality.com

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Chamber of Commerce meeting Thursday

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Join the Chamber of Commerce for its general meeting tomorrow at 7:00 pm at Taix Restaurant in Echo Park.

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F Yeah Fest Lineup Announced

The F Yeah Fest has announced this year’s lineup. The fest is on September 5th at the Los Angeles Historic State Park. Apparently the Echo had enough. Last year got so big that people with tickets couldn’t get back into some of the venues for the evening performances. Visit their website for more details. Tickets got on sale tomorrow.

The Black Lips
Lightning Bolt
Tim & Eric
Lucero
Converge
F* Up
The Thermals
No Age
Matt Skiba from Alkaline Trio
Japanther
Times New Viking
Darker My Love
Carbonas
Peanut Butter Wolf
Crystal Antlers
AA Bondy
Mika Miko
Nobunny
Glass Candy
Telepathe
Cold Cave
The Strange Boys
Katie Stelmanis
Dios
NinjaSonik
Kurt Vile
Eat Skull
Avi Buffalo
+ More to be artists and comedians to be announced

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August at Echo Curio announced

Check out your neighborhood gallery/venue this month for lots of shows. Echo Curio is located on the corner of Sunset and Laveta.

The following was posted by the Echo Curio myspace.

ARE YOU CURIOUS AUGUST 2009

Tuesday, August 4th – ART DROP for IMAGINARYLAND : RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS exhibition

Friday, August 7th – IMAGINARYLAND : RAINBOWS and UNICORNS opens

Saturday, August 8th – RAVEN AMERICA + MOTH EATEN + MERMAID + BASTIDAS + ANUS KINGS + LAS SANGRONAS Y EL CABRON

Read more for the whole month’s events and summaries!

Read more

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Fallen Fruit Jam This Sunday

From Machine Project:

Public Fruit Jam 2009! Our Fourth Annual Jam with the Fallen Fruit Collective.
Sunday, August 2
10am to 1pm

Yesiree, it’s that ripe time of year again! Making jam and getting into sticky situations with Fallen Fruit collective is one of our favorite summertime traditions! Bring along your home-grown or public fruit and any clean, empty glass jars you have. At the end everyone will leave with a jar of communal jam. If enough people bring surplus, even the empty handed will leave with jam. Vats of fun for all!

The kinds of jam we make will improvise on the fruit that people provide. The fruit can be fresh or frozen. Fallen Fruit will bring public fruit. We are looking for radical and experimental jams as well, like basil guava or lemon pepper jelly. We’ll discuss the basics of jam and jelly making, pectin and bindings, as well as the communal power of shared fruit and the liberation of public fruit.

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Memorial for Arthur

Pop up memorial for Arthur on Sunset east of Laveta

Pop up memorial for Arthur on Sunset east of Laveta

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Tonight At Machine Project

From Machine Project:

Waffle Shop meets Porta Hedge

Tuesday July 28th, 2009
8pm

If you’re driving past Machine today and see it in its usual spot, don’t freak out! We haven’t gone anywhere, there’s just a portable hedge parked in front of us.

The Porta Hedge is a mobile artificial hedge with a hidden interior observation lab, replete with video surveillance, peep holes, chalkboards, and prerecorded bird audio. Justin Shull and his team are traveling the country with the Porta Hedge this summer, siting it in as diverse landscapes as possible, using the interior observation space (mainly as a defense during overnight stays at rest stops) – and trying to lend it out for other people to use. Along the way they’re also installing it at museums, colleges, and other art related venues for open house days.

Coincidentally, we also have a guest in town, our friend Jon Rubin, who’s just opened an experimental restaurant/talk show venue in Pittsburgh called the Waffle Shop. Both Jon and the Porta Hedge are here for a limited time, so please join us TONIGHT, Tuesday July 28th, at 8pm for Waffle Shop meets Porta Hedge. A brief presentation by Jon about the Waffle Shop will be followed by a talk and show-and-tell by Justin about the Porta Hedge.

Machine Project is located at 1200 N Alvarado.

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Today: Los Angeles River Workshop

Learn about that Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan (LARRMP) and provide your input at today’s 5:00-7:30 pm workshop.

The meeting takes place at:

Los Angeles River Center and Gardens
The Atrium in the California Building
570 W. Avenue 26
Los Angeles, CA 90065

Click here for more information about the meeting/workshop.

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Composting Workshop & Bin Sale today!

Make sure you head over to the Griffith Park Composting Education Facility at 5400 Griffith Park Drive for its monthly Composting Workshop and Bin Sale.

Residents can learn about backyard composting, worm composting, types of compost bins, grasscycling, and other smart gardening techniques at the City’s free backyard composting workshops. In addition to the workshops, special discounted compost bin sales events are held throughout the year. The workshop takes approximately 60-75 minutes.

Click here to learn more!

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Echo Park Walking Tour, Saturday 7/25

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The Echo Park Lake Walking Tour,  sponsored by the Echo Park Historical Society,  will be held this Saturday, July 25 at 10 am.  The guided tour will include some of the neighborhood’s most prominent landmarks, such as Jensen’s Recreation Center, Angelus Temple and, of course, the lake. The tour takes about two hours to complete and includes several stairways. Building interiors are not included.

Reservations required. The tours are free for EPHS members; we ask a $5 donation of all others. Please see the Walking Tour section for details.

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Looking for something special this summer?

On Saturday, August 15, 2009, from 8PM-Midnight, you can treat your loved one, family, or birthday girl/boy to a spectacular evening in the high desert. “The Integration” is hosting a Perseid Meteor Shower Star Party near Joshua Tree, benefiting the Mojave Desert Land Trust. Each $35 ticket will get you live projections from deep space telescopes, a “Dark Skies” presentation, dessert, beer and wine, and of course, a perfect view of the gorgeous annual meteor shower that us city-folk will likely miss.

For an extra cost ($25) you can also camp overnight and receive a continental breakfast in the morning. Doing either sounds worth it for a special occasion.

Their website request that you pre-register by calling 760-366-5440 or email Leslie at leslie@mojavedesertlandtrust.org 

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Looking forward to the beach this weekend?

BeachThe LA Times is reporting that during this wonderful heat wave we’re having in Southern California, beachgoers may be warned to stay out of the water.

As the article reports, “The high surf will be the result of 50-knot winds that developed off Tahiti, producing 45-foot waves there – and that system is traveling north to Southern California.” While there is no official warning as of yet, lifeguards on the beaches will be keeping an eye out on the conditions of the water.

So it might be a little difficult for most of us to escape the heat and cool down in the water, but pro-surfers should be pretty pleased – the Hurley US Open of Surfing is going on in Huntington Beach until Sunday.

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A food Co-op from your garden

The Hillside Produce Cooperative reminds me of what it was like growing up with a huge plot for our garden and more than we could eat. We’d leave bags on the doorsteps of our neighbors full of our extras: zucchinis (the size of your forearm), tomatoes, yellow squash, and radishes.

The co-op organizes such a thing in Los Angeles neighborhoods. It is a “free neighborhood monthly exchange of all the FRUITS, VEGETABLES, HERBS and FLOWERS we grow in our yards,” and is, according to its website, “a collective in which we all get to enjoy some of what everyone grows in exchange for contributing what we don’t want or won’t use ourselves.”

In order to participate, all you have to do is sign up on their website for the email list, let them know what you can contribute, drop off the goodies (Glassell Park is the closest spot to Echo Park), and recieve some in return! The best part is, the Co-Op redistributes the items so you get a little of everything.

Makes me want to start growing some veggies of my own!

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Neighborhood Crime Update

Captain Bill Murphy of the Northeast Division has posted the following Neighborhood Crime Update for Echo Park:

NOE Crime Update

The year to date (YTD) crime statistics will cover from January 1, 2009 through July 11, 2009. The weekly crime maps I will be looking at will cover between July 5th through July 15, 2009.

I may also comment on other high profile events that have occurred the last month in NOE.

YTD Violent Crime: Down 8.5%

YTD Property Crime: Down 21.1%

YTD Part I (total): Down 18.9%

YTD Homicide: Down 55.6% (8 vs. 18 last year)

YTD Robbery: Up 0.4% (up one crime versus last year 249 vs. 248 )

  • All categories of crimes (except robbery) are down significantly compared to last year
  • We are down 688 total crimes YTD
  • NOE Area ranks FIRST in crime reduction City-wide (out of 21 police stations)

Neighborhood Crime Update

Echo Park

The area around Sunset Blvd and Glendale Blvd continues to be a problem for property crime (mostly stolen cars). We have increased patrol in this area and made a few arrests.

You can contact Captain Bill Murphy at 26152@lapd.lacity.org

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Friday Night Free Show At Show Cave

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July 17th
Living Tapes night with
Black Church, Vum, and Zombelle

@ Show Cave

10pm

Free!

1930 Echo Park Avenue in Echo Park

One of the last shows before the venue is rumored to change locations again.

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