Now through Saturday, May 8, you can shop at Tavin and receive 10% off store-wide.
Tavin is located at 1543 Echo Park Avenue
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This is a really great video about what time banking in Echo Park means to residents!
Click here to visit the Echo Park Time Bank website, view the video, and learn more about how to apply. The next free workshop on time banking (attendance is the first step to applying) is coming up on Saturday, May 8th from 5:00-5:30 pm at The Echo Park Film Center.
As mentioned yesterday, there is a sobriety check going on until at least midnight tonight on Sunset and Echo Park Ave.
The Eastsider LA also posted an article earlier, be sure to check it out!
Have fun celebrating Cinco de Mayo in the neighborhood, just drive safe! DUI checkpoints are planned “somewhere” in the Northeast division area between 6:00 pm and Midnight on Wednesday.
But, instead of driving, why not stay local? Here are some great places to check out some Cinco de Mayo drinks in Echo Park:
- Nothing special going on for Cinco de Mayo, but happy hour takes place from 4-6:00 pm. Margaritas are $7, imported beer $3, and domestic beer $4. The margaritas are always delicious at El Compadre.
- Wednesday nights are $2.50 margaritas
- DJ set from 5:00 pm – Midnight
- Bucket of five beers for $20
- Appetizers at the bar (free nachos!)
- The last time we went to AYC, they served up a delicious spicy margarita with jalapeños (fresh jalapenos muddled in blanco tequila and agave nectar). YUM!
- Wednesdays are also $5 Wicked Wednesdays, where every plate on the menu is just $5
Dodger Stadium
- The Dodgers will be playing the second of three games against the Milwaukee Brewers. The Stadium is celebrating Cinco de Mayo with some “entertainment,” including: Mariachi bands, Ballet Folklórico, Latin music and a ceremonial first pitch by the host of Univision’s Accion Deportiva Extra, Bernardo Osuna.
And of course you can venture outside of Echo Park to nearby Olvera Street for festivities over the weekend (May 8-9). It’s incredibly easy to hop on a bus to get to Olvera Street, I highly recommend it.
Did we miss anything? Let us know.
Be safe!
May 4-9, 2010
Tuesday (tonight!)
Stephen Brower The Silent Majority @ Bootleg Theater
Wednesday
Dosh, White Hinterland, Baths @ The Echo
Eluvium, Bell Gardens, Benoit Piolard, Whale Fals @ Bootleg Theater
Thursday
Nicole Simone, Paige Stark @ Bootleg Theater
Spindrift, Nurses, Magic Mirror @ The Echo
Carlos Varela @ Echoplex
Friday
Hurricane Bells @ The Echo
Analog Rebellion, Mansions @ Bootleg Theater
Feed Your Head Second Anniversary Show w/ Seasons, Downtown/Union, George Glass, Radars To the Sky (Acoustic Set) @ Pehrspace
Saturday
Red Sparowes, Fang Island, Jesus Makes the Shotgun Sound @ Echoplex (Late Show; 8:30 PM)
Gwendolyn and The Good Time Gang @ Echoplex (Early Show; 11 AM)
Warpaint, Priestbird @ Bootleg Theater
60-Watt Kid, The Fritz, Centipede Eest, French Ship @ Echo Curio
Sunday
Les Savy Fav, We Barbarians, LA Ghost @ Echoplex
Dave Gleason & The Golden Cadillacs, Mojo Monkeys, The Coals @ The Echo (FREE! Early Show; 5 PM)
Bonfire Madigan @ Bootleg Theater
Collisions, Verbs, Kid Infinity @ Echo Curio
Check out info on club nights and weekly musical events on our community resource pages.
Visit the venue website for more information on the cost and times of shows, that info can also be found on our community resource pages.
This list may not represent all the musical events happening in Echo Park this week. Feel free to add more events in the comment section.
All events listed are subject to change at any time.
Photo via Virgosity's photostream on Flickr
April 24, 2010: Lauren from Westwood at Shortstop! – m4w – 23
Lauren! I talked to you at shortstop last night! You told me you were from westwood and that it was your first time out in echo park. You promised me you’d check missed connections, and I super hope this works. Email me! It will be amazing if this works! Yeeeeeeeeaaaaah!
April 27, 2010: I miss you – m4w – 47
I miss you, Kamal. I wish you’d call I would love to hear your voice. Let me know how you are. You know who this is.
April 28, 2010: Guy on Bike Echo Park – m4m
You were the hot guy on your bike at the corner of echo park blvd/sunset today around 1:45 by the BofA. Thought we made some eye contact as I turned corner. Wow, hot.
May 1, 2010: Blue Civic, white sunglasses – m4w
Yesterday afternoon, on Alvarado, under the 101 freeway, we were stuck waiting for the light. Cute hair, cute smile.
May 3, 2010: BAGEL GIRL IN ECHO PARK!
You ordered a bagel today and it didn’t work out! But there is more to the story and it is a riot.
Echo Park sidewalk Photo via KelsoBong Tweetphoto
The Filament Theatre Co. presents the L.A. premiere of “second” in Echo Park on Wednesday, May 6 at 8:00 pm.
While “the worst snowstorm in history” rages, a mysterious man touches a woman, seemingly brings her back to life – then disappears. The mystery and media frenzy instigates three sets of New Yorkers to question their faith in radically different ways. “Second” is a choreography of seven actors and three cameras unfolding through separate, concurrent scenes staged in a private home in Echo Park. The audience will be divided amongst three rooms: as one scene plays out live in the room, the other two scenes are captured by live cameras and presented cinematically, allowing each audience a unique experience while still sharing the same story.
“second” takes place at Laveta Villa in Echo Park at 1367 Laveta Terrace
Cost is $20 general admission (all ages)
The show runs through May 29, every Thursday and Saturday, as well on Wednesday, May 19 and May 26.
Click here for the Filament Theatre Website, and here to purchase tickets online. Purchasing your tickets ahead of time will ensure you get a seat as there is limited seating (cash only at the door).
Fliament Theatre is “A Los Angeles based performance ensemble working to create fresh contact with classic texts, new works, and emerging ideas. Our community spans beyond the boundaries of Theatre into all mediums of art that shape our cultural reality.”
Provided by: University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA.
Today is May Day, and 1910 in Echo Park saw 3,000 gatherers at the Echo Park Playground where they crowned Miss Ethel Pruett Queen of May.
“Three thousand men, women and children were present. As many came back for the evening’s part of the program. It was one of the most notable affairs that has ever been recorded in the history of Los Angeles, where children have taken apart.”
The Playground mentioned in this L.A. Herald article refers to a park that used to stretch from Bellevue Avenue south to Temple street, now bisected by the 101 Freeway.
From the Echo Park Historical Society website: “Huge May Day celebrations occupied the outdoor playground, and by 1912 the playground had thousands patrons in a single year, some of whom arrived from downtown on the Pacific Electric streetcar that moved up Glendale Boulevard (then known as Lake Shore).”
Thanks to LAHistory Twitter page for the link to this fun, historic newspaper article!
Huge May Day celebrations occupied the outdoor playground, and by 1912 the playground had thousands patrons in a single year, some of whom arrived from downtown on the Pacific Electric streetcar that moved up Glendale Boulevard (then known as Lake Shore).
Don't you just wanna sit on his lap and have him tell you stories about being a vaudeville performer?
In the first couple decades of the 20th century, Echo Park was the center of the West Coast film industry. Called Edendale at the time, it was the location of several major silent film studios including Keystone Studios, Pathe West Coast and Selig-Polyscope. Even Fox Studios was located here before William Fox changed its location to Sunset and Western in 1917. The studios were located along what is now Glendale Blvd. (called Allesandro Street at the time) near the 2 freeway terminus.
Selig-Polyscope was the first motion picture studio in Edendale and, in fact, the first motion picture studio to be located on the west coast. Its founder, William Selig, moved it here from its original location in Chicago in 1909. Selig’s story is a fascinating one as he was truly a visionary and a pioneer in the early days of film making. He developed his own way of making a motion picture camera in order to not have to pay a patent fee to Thomas Edison’s company. He was the first motion picture producer to move his studio to Los Angeles. He made almost a thousand films in his studio in Edendale before moving its location to Lincoln Heights (East Los Angeles) in 1917. He also opened up a zoo in Lincoln Park in 1915 and had plans to turn it into a big ol’ amusement park with rides and everything.
However, Selig-Polyscope was unable to survive the transition to full-length films and closed in 1918. As for the zoo, “only a single carousel was ever built and the crowds never came” (Thanks to Wikipedia for the hear-wrenching imagery), and it finally shut down in the 1930s. Selig lost almost everything else he had in the Great Depression and spent the last few years of his life working as a literary agent. He died in 1948, but his memory lives on through Los Angeles history nerds (like me). Think of him every time you see that big empty lot on Glendale and Clifford.
Twitpic photo via ritzy_p
Could it be the real General Lee at the Vons parking lot in Echo Park? Discuss.
Looking for something new to do on Sunday night in Echo Park? Check out the newly formed Echo Park Chess Club, meeting for the first time this Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 5:00 pm, on the back patio of Stories Books and Cafe. Bring your own chess board if you have one!
Stories is located 1716 Sunset Blvd
This tickles me, because so many people chastise The Eastsider LA for covering areas like Echo Park under the “eastside” guise. Well, Curbed LA editors have apparently had enough themselves, citing a recent post where commenters argued whether or not the areas included in the video post, titled The East Side of Los Angeles on a Sunny Day, are indeed the “eastside.”
So Curbed L.A. has decided to rename everything east of Western and west of the Los Angeles River, leaving the name suggestions to a public vote:
…because it’s just too cumbersome to get all those neighborhood names out every time you want to say something condescending about hipsters, we’re giving the area a new collective handle too, with the help of the Curbed army. Leave your suggestions in the comments or send them into the tipline, and the best will be put to a vote. The winning name will designate the area from then on out and no one will ever refer to East Hollywood, Los Feliz, Silver Lake, or Echo Park as the eastside ever again for the rest of time.
So far, suggestions include North Central L.A., East Westside, Uptown, and more. View the Curbed LA article and maybe even post your suggestions here.
Granted, LA neighborhood boundaries are consistently… inconsistent. The neighborhood of Echo Park itself more often than not includes Angeleno Heights, Elysian Heights, and even sometimes Historic Filipinotown. But the eastside debate is another entity entirely, with those like the LA Eastside blog passionately arguing for the true eastside being “east of LA River,” others, like in this LA Times article, argue it’s not just a geographical issue but also a cultural identity tied to the Chicano movement, adding, “The newly gentrified area started to collectively call itself the Eastside – as in east of the riches of the Westside.” Other arguments outline a few different historical viewpoints, an arena we will be covering in a later post.
For us at Echo Park Now, there’s hopefully no question about the areas of Echo Park we cover. But one thing’s for sure – even if Curbed LA renames this area, the eastside debate will never end.
Related articles you should check out:
- “A title bout between two Eastsides.” May 31, 2009, LA Times
- “The Big Move.” April 1, 2010, LA Eastside
- “‘Eastsider’, My Ass!” January 9, 2009, LA Eastside
- “Mapping LA Neighborhoods.” LA Times
- “An Eastsider by any other name.” September 26, 2008, The Eastsider LA
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2010/04/very_fast_very_tiny_los_angeles_goes_about_its_business.php
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Now you can announce how much you “Luv” Echo Park everywhere – on your shirt, with your coffee, and even on your car bumper. Local artist Bill Rangel is 16-year resident of Echo Park. According to his website, “The light, the physical beauty, the people, and the diversity of Echo Park all play a role in the paintings of Bill Rangel… Now you can have a slice of Bill Rangel’s life in Echo Park on a canvas print or poster, a mug or a t-shirt.” Remember, Mother’s Day is fast approaching!
Click here to buy your I Luv Echo Park t-shirts and other goodies online.
Wednesday, April 28 at 7:30 pm – Julie Kausner reads from her new book I Don’t Care About Your Band. It charts a distinctly human journey of a strong-willed but vulnerable protagonist who loves men like it’s her job, but who’s done with guys who know more about love songs than love. This is the girl’s version of High Fidelity. By turns explicit, funny, and moving, Klausner’s debut shows the evolution of a young woman who endured myriad encounters with the wrong guys, to emerge with real-world wisdom on matters of the heart.
Saturday, May 1 at 7:30 pm – Reading/Signing Party for Record Store Days. Stories celebrates independent record stores and the release of authors Gary Callomar and Phil Gallo’s book, “Record Store Days: From Vinyl to Digital and Back Again.” We want it to be party and want you there! Independent pop culture was born in indie record stores and book stores across the country and we want you to hear about it! Complimentary beer and wine and snacks while they last. Special dj set from Neil from Origami Vinyl.