On the parking lot next to the Cypress Park Home Depot, under the shadow of an elevated section of the 5 Freeway, the Cypress Park Community Job Center usually draws a crowd of day laborers seeking work. This morning, however, the center attracted a group of ... Read More »
One man dead and one injured after gunfire breaks out at East L.A. family party. “Parks and Recreation” star Nick Offerman owns a Glassell Park wood shop (Offerman Woodshop). Glassell Park house flip going for $799,000. Today’s News & Notes gathered from CBS2, Curbed L.A., New ... Read More »
Silver Lake has a new place to shop for groceries with the opening today of a Yummy.com store overlooking Polka Dot Plaza at Sunset Boulevard and Maltman Avenue. The focus of the small chain is on delivering orders in about 30 minutes but, according to one ... Read More »
What are those pink things floating above the water in the northwest corner of Echo Park Lake? That’s right. They are lotus blossoms. About five years after the old lotus bed died off mysteriously, the light pink-and-cream colored petals of newly planted lotus are now opening ... Read More »
Anthea Raymond, Editor of Echo Park-Silver Lake Patch, announced Thursday that she would be leaving the neighborhood news website. Raymond, who lives in Silver Lake, posted this message to her readers on the Echo Park-Silver Lake Patch Facebook page: Goodbye Patchlandia. It has been a wonderful ... Read More »
Welcome to The Listening Station, The Eastsider’s dose of must-listens from local bands. Get to know your community by getting to know the music they are making. Feel free to let us know what Eastside bands or performers – in any genre- you are listening to ... Read More »
City councilman-elect Mitch O’Farrell addressed a small number of reporters and campaign supporters on the steps of City Hall this morning to discuss his top priorities for Council District 13 and also the contentious campaign with rival John Choi. “CD 13 is on the rise,” said O’Farrell, ... Read More »
An Urban Hillside living experience in the Bohemian Elysian Heights neighborhood of Echo Park. This 1953 updated home is situated in the middle of a large lot, between Echo Park Ave and Princeton with tree top views. There will be an Open House today, Friday, May ... Read More »
The life of an artist is difficult. The art scene is fickle. Rafael Serrano of Highland Park knows that first hand. “I should be much further ahead in my career today. If only I didn’t drift away for those twelve years,” artist Rafael Serrano says inside ... Read More »
After a neighbor’s car was keyed six months ago, an Atwater Village couple living on Edenhurst Drive north of Los Feliz Boulevard installed a surveillance camera to help protect on their property. That camera may did not prevent a crime but it did capture images of ... Read More »
This weekend, the L.A. River will no longer be something to contemplate from only the shorelines, bike paths and freeway bridges. In an experiment that could change Angeleno’s perception of the river, The L.A. River Pilot Recreation Zone officially kicks off on Memorial Day, Monday May ... Read More »
Rush-hour traffic on Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles was a bit snarled late Thursday afternoon when a water line under the sidewalk apparently burst, filling the street with water. CHP had to redirect traffic at one point around the water line break in the 6100 ... Read More »
