The LA Times Daily Dish posted a mouthwatering tid-bit about the Bacon and Eggs martini at Echo Park’s Allston Yacht Club. According to the article, the martini is made from “house-made bacon-infused vodka and garnished with a pickled quail egg.”
We recommend going to AYC anytime, but you can also check out the article for the recipe if you want to try it at home.
Some of us over here aren’t fond of bacon, but do let us know what you think!
Subject: SR2 Freeway Terminus Project
Meeting, Metro Board of Governors
Thursday, Dec. 10, 9:30 a.m. 3rd Floor Boardroom
One Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles, Ca 90012
On Thursday, December 10, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Board of Governors will consider an agenda item
At the Nov. 18 meeting of Metro’s Planning and Programming Committee, the Echo Park Community Action Committee spoke against recommendations A, B and D. For item C, we do support provide additional funds to complete the environmental analysis and for preliminary studies of the hybrid, which we think should rightfully be called Alternative F.
Attached is a copy of our December newsletter, which more fully discusses our position on the hybrid alternative.
We urge you to attend the meeting at Metro on Thursday, December 10. This is your chance to voice your opposition to the hybrid.
Judy Raskin, Chairperson
Echo Park Community Action Committee
From Christine Peters on the Echo Elysian Neighborhood Council Forum:
Council member Huizar Convinces Department of Transportation (DOT) to Lower Rates during Holidays
After hearing concerns from constituents, business owners and the Eagle Rock and Highland Park Chambers of Commerce regarding increased rates at City Parking lots, Councilmember Huizar was successful in getting the City’s Department of Transportation to lower rates at two key locations for the holiday season.
Starting in November, parking rates were reduced from $1 per hour to 50 cents per hour and all-day parking rate were reduced from $4 to $2.50 in the following lots:
Lot #668 at 5058 Meridian St.
Lot #686 at 5063 Caspar Ave.
Enjoy breakfast with Santa at the Echo Park Recreation Center on Saturday, December 19, 2009
9am-11:30am at the Echo Park Recreation Center (1632 Bellevue Ave.)
Breakfast will include pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, and your choice of OJ or coffee. Tickets are $3 for youth and $5 for adults. The first 100 kids will receive a FREE stocking with goodies!
There will also be a toy give-away. Tickets for the toy give-away will be given first come, first served to kids who are under 15 years-old and have a Breakfast with Santa ticket.
For more information contact the Echo Park Recreation Center at (213) 250-3578 or (213) 250-8946.
Nance Klehm is leading a “wild medicine foraging expedition” in Echo Park on Wednesday, December 9. The expedition focuses on identifying common wild plants that can be used in herbal remedies.
The Machine Project is sponsoring the event, which takes place from 7-8:30 pm on Wednesday. The cost is only $15!
Here’s Nancy’s bio from the Machine Project website:
Nance Klehm is a radical ecologist, designer, urban forager, grower and teacher. Her solo and collaborative work focuses on creating participatory social ecologies in response to a direct experience of a place. She grows and forages much of her own food in a densely urban area. She actively composts food, landscape and human waste. She only uses a flush toilet when no other option is available. She designed and currently manages a large scale, closed-loop vermicompost project at a downtown homeless shelter where cafeteria food waste becomes 4 tons of worm castings a year which in turn is used as the soil that grows food to return to the cafeteria.
More information on Nance can be found at her website, here: http://www.spontaneousvegetation.net/
Echo Park Chamber of Commerce is doing a Toy Drive for the ages of 9 to 18 years old.
All toys will be donated to Central City Action Committee on December 17, 2009.
The Toys need to be unwrapped, and one particular wish item that the teenagers had was a skateboard, but any presents are always welcome.
Toy Drive starts on November 30 and runs to December 17, 2009
Silverwood Properties has graciously offered to allow their premises to be used as a drop-off site for this season’s toy drive. So, if it makes it easier for you to take advantage of this location then go ahead and drop off unwrapped toys at Silverwood Properties anytime Mon through Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
You can often drop stuff by on Saturday’s too, but call ahead if you want to make a Saturday delivery to make sure someone is in the office to receive it.
Silverwood Properties is located at 1545 Echo Park Ave, 90026, and phone number is 213-250-4404, ask for Ken.
Visit Tavin’s website for more info.
We just picked one of these lovely pieces created by Chandra Abel from Warwick in Echo Park. We’ve been eyeing them for a while, and they are GORGEOUS.
Ours was only $50 and is nicely sized at about 12-13″ in diameter. Each “plant dome” is unique, and there are other vase shapes available at Warwick, including larger dome-shaped items for about $200. We were very excited to find a place on our coffee table, and so will you!
Click here for Chandra Abel’s website, and here for her blog.
You can shop online at Warwick by clicking here.
Oh and, to do her justice, here are some better photos from her website:
Echo Park businesses declare December 12th 2009: Echo Park Holiday Shop Hop. Come to Echo Park for a day of holiday cheer with shopping specials, performances, and workshops throughout the neighborhood. Don’t miss this fun-filled day of events in Echo Park- you can do your holiday shopping, enjoy great food, drink and entertainment, and support local businesses!
The Echo Park Holiday Parade begins at noon, but other festivities start as early as 10 a.m., with happenings all day and night until 2 a.m.! All girl doo wop group, the Damselles, will be caroling at each establishment throughout the day.
In addition to the festivities, businesses participating in the Echo Park Holiday Shop Hop will be collecting donations for the following local charities (corresponding numbers are next to the supporting business name):
[1] Central City Action Committee http://centralcityaction.com: Toys (new, packaged)
[2] Echo Park Animal Alliance http://echoparkanimalalliance.org: Make a $ donation and get a dog cookie stocking
[3] Good Shepherd Center-Languille Emergency Shelter for Women and Children http://gschomeless.org: New/gently used Clothing and Toiletries
[4] 826LA http://826la.org: Make a $5 donation and get a book written by Echo Park kids
Participating businesses:
826LA/Echo Park Time Travel Mart [3][4]
1714 W Sunset Blvd. 213 413 3388.
1320 Echo Park Ave 213-481-0454
2150 W. Sunset Blvd 213-483-9463
Future [3][4]
1814 W Sunset Blvd. 213-568-3002
Masa of Echo Park [1][2]
1800 W Sunset Blvd. 213-989-1558
Origami Vinyl [4]
1816 W Sunset Blvd. 213-413-3030
1724 W Sunset Blvd
1161 Logan St
Stories Books & Café [2][3][4]
1716 W Sunset Blvd.
The Clinic of Echo Park
1832 W Sunset Blvd.
1822 W Sunset Blvd
For more information contact: Christina at 826LA.org
The East Side of Los Angeles on a Sunny Day from clark vogeler on Vimeo.
This video by Clark Vogeler makes the East Side look so peaceful and pretty!
The LA Times is doing neighborhood gift guides for the holidays and Echo Park establishments such as MediaNoche are mentioned. Echo Park is referred to as Silverlake’s “dicier sister to the east”. What do you think about that?
Fireworks? Gun shots? Last night some time after 9:00 pm, Echo Park residents were perplexed by loud popping noises that lasted for just a minute or two. Sounding almost like fireworks, residents are still trying to figure out what and where they came from.
Check out the conversation and chime in on the Echo Elysian Neighborhood Council Forum here.
UPDATE: From Alejandra Marroquin, Field Deputy:
Hi Everyone,
I just checked in with Senior Lead Officer Bobby Hill who informed me that he checked with the Detectives today regarding the following story:
“The guy being chased was an Echo Park resident on his way home. The guys in the Suburban followed him from a gas station on Glendale Blvd. The guy driving the Honda hit a car that was parked on Cerro Gordo as he was being chased. He came back later with his father and the police. Don’t know any other details.”
The Detectives communicated to Officer Hill that they have no such report. If there was any evidence of a shooting the Officers at the location would have taken a crime report.
Thank you,
Alejandra
Alejandra Marroquin, Field Deputy
Council President, Eric Garcetti
Los Angeles City Council
5500 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
323-957-4500
Alejandra.Marroquin@lacity.org
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At about 2 am yesterday, a driver was killed when her “car struck another vehicle at a stop sign and then crashed into a brick building in Echo Park,” according to an LA Times online article.
