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Sonia Paulino’s Photos Capture Echo Park’s Dog Walkers

Jackie and Dolce by Sonia Paulino

Portrait photographer Sonia Paulino recently created a series of photos documenting both the quadru- and the bipedal citizens of Echo Park. The series is entitled “We Come Here All the Time”: Dog Walkers of Echo Park. The series “documents the diversity of a rapidly gentrifying Los Angeles neighborhood by photographing people with their dogs around the local park. The work evolves from recurring themes about companionship, care, and mutual identity.” It’s also fun to see how much owners resemble their dogs.

Cali, Jenny and Bobby

Vanessa and Ewok

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Haute Olive Boutique Moving Downtown

One of Echo Park’s vintage and modern clothing boutiques, Haute Olive, is moving downtown to the Fashion District. Their new location will be at 838 S. Spring Street (between 8th and 9th Ave.). Their hours will be Monday through Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturday from noon to 7:00 pm. No word yet from Amara on why she decided to move, but I’m sure she’ll get a lot more walk-ins in the Fashion District than she would underneath the Glendale/Sunset bridge.

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The Week In Music

Monday, May 31st – Sunday, June 6th

Monday
The Like, The Young Veins, The Living Sickness at The Echo
Foot Village, Bitches, Nicole Kidman, Forts at Pehrspace
David Scott Stone, Tom Carter, Cooling System at Echo Curio

Tuesday
When You Awake presents First Aid Kit, Samantha Crain, Whispertown at Bootleg Theater
Jeremy Dawson (DJ set), White Apple Tree, Buddy Akai at The Echo

Wednesday
Hot Hot Heat, Stone Darling, Chasing Kings at Bootleg Theater
School of Seven Bells, VOICEsVOICEs, Sister Crayon at The Echo
Socorro, Sisu, Monster at Echo Curio

Thursday
Free Kutmah Benefit Concert feat. Dam-Funk, Daedelus, Gaslamp Killer, Samiyam, Teebs, ABCNT and special guests at Echoplex
Born Ruffians, Young Rival, Random Patterns at The Echo
Spotlight, Floodlight, Lex Land at Bootleg Theater
Hand, Henry Wolfe, Black Jesus, Matthew O’Neill at Echo Curio

Friday
Club Underground feat. Quadron at The Echo
Tilt, Class Actress, Neon Indian (DJ Set), CFCF, Lexicondon, Short Circuit, B.R. at Echoplex
Infinity, Oh Darling at Bootleg Theater
The Delta Mirror, Memory at Origami Vinyl (FREE! Early Show; 7 PM)
Moses Campbell, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Big Whup, Spirit Vine at Echo Curio
Hello My Name Is Red, tomorrows tulips, Meho Plaza, Cobalt Cranes at Pehrspace

Saturday
Local Natives, Voxhaul Broadcast, Marvelous Toy at Bootleg Theater
Painted Hills at Origami Vinyl (FREE! Early Show; 7 PM)
Jack Wilson Jr., Jo and Jillinda, Sister Grizzly, Honey Loving Cells at Pehrspace
The Body Parts, The Preservation, Oh, The Future at Echo Curio

Sunday
Subhumans, Cross Stitched Eyes, A-Heads, Rayos X at The Echo

Thanks to LAist

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June Events At Echo Curio

Wed, June 2nd – SOCORRO + SISU + MONSTER

Thurs, June 3rd – HAND + HENRY WOLFE + BLACK JESUS + MATTHEW O’NEILL

Fri, June 4th – CLOSING EVENT for HEARD OF ELEPHANT’S BLUEPRINTS with MOSES CAMPBELL + MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY + BIG WHUP + SPIRIT VINE

Sat, June 5th – THE BODY PARTS + THE PRESERVATION + OH YEAH, THE FUTURE

Mon, June 7th – PU$$Y COW + PRIZZY PRIZZY PLEASE + OH BARRACUDA + THE EX-GENTLEMEN

Tues, June 8th – ART DROP for the TRUE CRIME? SHOW 7p to 10p

Fri, June 11th – TRUE CRIME? EXHIBITION opens 8p to midnight plus special dance party!!!!

Sat, June 12th – THE KRIS SPECIAL + MY FLAG IS ON FIRE + OBLIO’S ARROW + WALK

Sun, June 13th – TELEPHONE HAT + FILBERT + NICOLE KIDMAN + CARLEE HENDRIX & THE WHOLE EARTH CATALOG

Mon, June 14th – NEW MUSIC MONDAY

Tues, June 15th – THE ROOFTOP VIGILANTES + FRENCH EXIT + HORSE MARRIAGE

Thurs, June 17th – FALCON EDDY + ABE MARBER + NIGHT CONTROL

Fri, June 18th – HI HO SILVER OH + TENLON’S FORT + OLENTANGY JOHN + JUDSON & MARY

Sat, June 19th – GYPSYHAWK + LUNGBUTTER + PROFESSOR + TAP THIS (all girl tribute to SPINAL TAP!!!!)

Sun, June 20th – CHROME WINGS + ITALIC INDIANS + BARR + PROTECT ME

Mon, June 21st – TOTALLY SERIOUS + WITT + RATS + SNUFFALUFFAGUS

Tues, June 22nd – NUDE BEACH + guests

Wed, June 23rd – NO BABIES + HAWNEY TROOF + TEARIST + SIGNALS

Thurs, June 24th – LEARNING MUSIC residency

Fri, June 25th – LEMURIA + THE MONTHLIES + ROMAN CANDLES

Sat. June 26th – GABRIEL SULLIVAN + MAQUILADORA + ALINA CUTRONO + THE FRAGILE GANG (featuring ARLO AND AISLING)

Sun, June 27th – HOLY ROLLING EMPIRE + THE SEA OF CORTEZ + THE ATLANTIC LINE

Mon, June 28th – NEW MUSIC MONDAY with BUZZ OR HOWL + DARYL SHAUN + guests

Wed, June 30th – 5-TRACK ALL STAR JAM-a-THON

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Tonight in Music, Echo Park

Bootleg Theater
The Good Listeners at 9:30, Pearly Gate Music at 10:30, Walking Sleep release party at 11:30
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Echo Curio
Tom Carter, Barn Owl, Slasher Risk, Magick Orchids, Dreamcolour, The Faraday Trippers

Wooly Blvd (1840 Glendale Blvd)
NASA Space Universe, Okie Dokie, Green Screen Door, Ecoli, Soloing Over Alanis Morissette (thanks LAist for this one! Looks like this a fairly new space, never been before.)

Echoplex
Bearracuda: “San Francisco’s dance night for beards, furballs, bears, cubs, pups and beefcakes comes to Los Angeles.” DJ/Product Matt Consola, Sam Storicks.

The Echo
Funky Sole (every Saturday) with DJs Music Man Mills, and Clifton AKA Soft Touch.

Origami Vinyl
Cannoneers Of The New Command 7th release party at 7:00 pm.

Pehrspace
Easter Everywhere presents Princeton, Mystery Claws record release, Gamble House, Sleeping Bags, and a special guest.

Have fun and be safe! And as always, let us know if we’ve missed anything.

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Photo: No Phone Zone?

Photo via birttanmoore from Tweed

This photo, taken a couple of hours ago in Echo Park, reads “No Phone Zone.” Possibly part of Oprah’s campaign to encourage people to put down their cell phones while driving.

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Sobriety Checkpoint Tonight in Echo Park

The last sobriety checkpoint was not too long ago (on May 5), but another one has already been set up in Echo Park for the Memorial Day weekend drivers. The Cinco de Mayo DUI checkpoint had three DUI arrests, 15 citations issued, and 14 cars impounded (stats from Captain Bill Murphy).

The checkpoint is located at Sunset Blvd. and Portia, just in front of Little Joy and A Grocery Warehouse.

No reason to get down about the DUI checkpoint. If you’re looking for a place to hang out for a while, ECOS vintage store is having a DUI checkpoint sale with 50% off vinyl records (located at 1529 Sunset Blvd.).

Be careful out there! The checkpoints usually last until midnight or sometimes a little later.

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Flashback Friday Photos: Red Car Line

Photo via Metro Library Flickr: Red Car headed up Glendale Blvd., circa 1940s

Photo via Photo via Metro Library Flickr: Red Car travels up Echo Park Ave.

We’ve been so fascinated with the Red Car line history as of late, and thought we’d share a couple of old photographs of the Red Cars that passed through Echo Park on the way to Glendale and back. The last Red Car passenger was in 1955.

It’s Memorial weekend, you might want to take a nice walk/hike along the old Red Car property near Corralitas Drive. Click here for directions and more information.

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Your Thursday Echo Park Guide

Diaper Drive

Donate any size and brand diapers all day today at El Centro Del Pueblo – donations go to teen parents and programs that work with infants.

You can drop off your donations until 7:30 pm tonight at El Centro Del Pueblo, located at 1157 Lemoyne Street.

Ice Cream Tasting at Stories

It might be a little cool and cloudy in Echo Park today, but let’s pretend it’s summer and grab your complimentary ice cream samples from Bittersweet treats at Stories Cafe. The store will be serving up flavors like honey lavender and salted caramel, and will be including these flavors in a 5 oz. size on its menu. Stories is located at 1716 Sunset Blvd.

Mooi

Mooi did indeed open up this week, tonight might be a good night to check it out (Thursdays are the new Fridays). They are open until 3:00 pm today for lunch, and 6:00 – 11:00 pm for dinner. QuarryGirl has a rave review of the raw vegan restaurant, so it might be worth check it out.

Take a Hike

Photo via Corralitas Red Car Property

We’ve been doing a lot of research recently about the Red Car routes through Echo Park and Silver Lake, and a recent article on the Corralitas Red Car Property website about the Red Car Trail has got us hankering for a hike. Warm up on Corralitas staircase (with its 133 steep steps) or just start out at the end of Corralitas drive and walk right on up the trail. The mile-long corridor will take you all the way to the corner of Fletcher and Riverside.

Click here for a map of the Red Car Trail from the Corralitas Red Car Property website. The trail is clearly visible on Google maps, click here for a look.

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Get Your Time Travel Posters

The 826LA online store has some new posters for sale. Designed by Amy Martin, the time travel posters are pretty awesome:

Posters are 18″ by 24″ and are $19.99 plus tax (and shipping if you buy online), or there’s a four-pack deal for $69.99. Click here to purchase them online through the 826LA store.

Federation for the Advancement of Time posters will ship starting September 14, but you can also get them in the store at the Time Travel Mart, located at 1714 West Sunset Blvd.

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Outpost Cup Futbol Day in Echo Park

On Sunday, June 6 from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm (just five days before the start of the World Cup!!), the Outpost for Contemporary Art will be hosting Futbol Day in Vista Hermosa Park.

“The Beautiful Game, beautiful art and beautiful music will combine at the first Outpost Cup, a June 6 fundraiser to support Outpost’s next cycle of residencies that will bring six South American artists and collectives to Los Angeles over the next two years. Teams of artists, neighborhood and work groups, competitive players, parents vs. kids, and other categories will compete on the pitch for soccer/futbol/futebol/football glory, along with live music, a variety of performance artists and other performers, food and drink from local restaurants and food trucks and more.”

If you’re interested in registering teams, performing or selling food at the event or sponsoring the festivities may contact Julie Deamer at julie(at)outpost-art.org. Or if you want to sign up to play go here.

Outpost for Contemporary Art is a non-profit, Highland Park-based collective that supports “socially-engaged artists” and that “seeks to engage and enrich Los Angeles communities through cross-cultural exchanges and interdisciplinary projects.”

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Your Echo Park News of the Day

There are a few things going on in Echo Park we wanted to remind our readers about, here goes:

Non-Profit Lease Subsidy:

Today the City Council was supposed to vote on whether or not to remove the $1 per year lease program for non-profit organizations in Los Angeles. It looks like the issue has AGAIN been postponed, this time for June 1, giving you time to contact your council representative and tell them more study needs to be done before eliminating this program. Read more from us at Echo Park Now, as well as The Eastsider LA.

Elysian Park Fundraiser Banquet:

If you haven’t bought your tickets yet, get them soon! The event is June 6, just a week from this coming Sunday. Click here for more info about the event and how to get tickets. Everyone keeps telling me this really is THE Echo Park event of the year!

Neighborhood Council:

It was just yesterday I was talking with a fellow Echo Park resident about how GEPENC (Greater Echo Park Elysian Neighborhood Council) has been inactive since February. Well, with no announcement to the community, they met all of a sudden last night, and the newly elected board members sworn in. The Eastsider LA has the full story.

Upcoming Community meetings:

The Chamber of Commerce meeting was canceled last week, but there is an Elysian Park Support Group meeting on Wednesday, June 2, and an Echo Park Improvement Association meeting on Thursday, June 3. Check our Calendar for more info.

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Random Totem Pole in Elsyian Park Removed

photo via Chicken Corner

That random totem pole decorated with stuffed animals and plastic toys in Elysian Park was removed today, reports The Eastsider LA:

This morning, the approximately 20-foot high totem pole – encrusted with toys, stuffed animals, a Santa Claus mask and other odds and ends – was removed and carted off by Recreation and Parks workers in about two hours with the help of a skip loader. A park worker said no one claimed the items after signs were posted saying the structures would be removed within 72 hours.

Along with the totem pole was a half-moon planter, both apparently removed because of lack of permit. The Eastsider LA article continues:

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Silver Echo Gallery Trailer for Slasher Film

The Silver Echo Gallery recently released a gorgeous teaser trailer for a slasher film entitled “Patty at the Party.”  The gallery put out the call for artists and held several events in order to raise money for the project at the end of last year. They are working with the “progressive guerrilla movie company” Mongrel Collective and are still trying to raise money to cover post-production and marketing costs.

“In Patty at the Party, slackers & scene kids search for romance & then they get cut up by cute serial ballet dancers.”

The full-length feature will (hopefully) go into production of the middle of June. If you are an artist interested in bringing your skills to the project or are interested in becoming a producer or executive producer contact Taylor or Amber at (323) 702-2131. Or if you want to give them some money, go here.

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Photo: Coyotes in Echo Park

Echo Park Ave and Scott Ave

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