Councilman Eric Garcetti today proposed creating an Echo Park Film District to “ensure that filming is a positive experience” for residents only hours after many of those same constituents learned of an upcoming film shoot involving a “helicopter explosion.” Read More »

Sorry comrades, that Obama poster by Shepard Fairey, whose studio sits on the edge of Echo Park, is not about communism or socialism. LA Metblogs $62 and a call to Auntie Em’s in Eagle Rock gets you a box of organic veggies, fruits and a recipe. ... Read More »

Echo Park photographer Tanya Sakolsky not only takes images of her surrounding neighborhood. She gives them back. That’s how my friend, Holly, came across a laminated photograph of her house — house number, actually — taped to the side of her front gate. The carefully composed ... Read More »