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    Twilight over Mt. Washington

    Tuesday, September 30, 2008


    Al Hermann wasted no time to capture this image of Mt. Washington from his home. “I’d just moved into this neighborhood and was pretty excited about my view of Mt. Washington. I’ve also been interested in finding a good balance of artificial light and twilight, so when the view presented itself, I grabbed my camera and went at it.”

    Photo by Al Hermann via Flickr

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    News & Notes: Ed Reyes goes to bat for Dodgertown and new stores in store for Echo Park

    Tuesday, September 30, 2008

    Do you live in Dodgertown? Daily News (near bottom of the story)

    I’m not a cholo. from City Terrace

    How did we miss this. The Church of Stop Shopping stopped in Echo Park last week. And We Shall March

    Man arrested in the fatal hit-and-run death of a Cathedral High alum leaving a football game. KTLA

    How old school: a bookstore and a record store will open in Echo Park. LA Racked

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    Singing the praises of the 110 freeway

    Tuesday, September 30, 2008

    Honking horns and screeching brakes are probably among the most common sounds you will hear along the 110 Freeway (along with the screams of drivers forced to go from 60 to zero in three seconds as they exit at Avenue 43). But come next year, L.A.’s oldest freeway will inspire a different kind of sound, an opera:

    “The 110 Project, newly commissioned by the L.A. Opera, may well erase that symbolic separation. It is a paean to the city’s first freeway, the redoubtable I-110, which turns 70 in 2009. Emmy Award–winning Angeleno composer Laura Karpman will write the score. Its libretto will incorporate themes from “story circles”—public interviews held in the racially diverse neighborhoods that the freeway traverses. And it will run 110 minutes—the time it takes in heavy traffic to get from San Pedro (at one end of the city) to Pasadena (at the other).”

    The opera mentioned at the end of a Travel & Leisure magazine story might be a little early in celebrating the freeway’s 70th anniversary; most accounts say that the northern leg of the freeway that winds through Highland Park opened in 1940 as the Arroyo Seco Parkway. But, if the 110 can inspire an opera, what’s next? How about a power ballad for the Glendale Freeway?

    Photo by Eric Richardson via Flickr

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