The Downtown Blob makes a move on Lincoln Heights. LA Eastside
Maybe the Downtown Blob should bring a broom and some trash bags to Lincoln Heights. Loteria Chicana
Obama’s Occidental College years to get the Huell Howser treatment. York Blvd.
Avenues gang members plead not guilty to killing deputy in Cypress Park shooting. LA Weekly
Colombo’s: Eagle Rock’s other longtime Italian restaurant. Pasadena Weekly
Post-Christmas shoppers take a holiday. Eastside Living
Mixed use: An artist studio/home/water tank selling for $649,946. Curbed LA
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
The Echo Park studio of the artist behind the now world-famous Obama poster is less than two miles away from downtown Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art. But when it came time to organize Fairey’s first major museum retrospective, the contemporary museum that took up the task was in Boston. (I guess MOCA was too busy getting into financial trouble).
The Institute of Contemporary Art of Boston opens “Shepard Fairey: Supply & Demand” on Feb. 6. in time to celebrate the 20th anniversary of “Obey Giant,” the image that established Fairey as one of the nation’s best known street artists. It does not look like the show, based on press materials, is traveling to Los Angeles.
Image: Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday approved a preliminary gang injunction against the Temple Street gang, which claims the southern edge of Silver Lake and Echo Park. Nearly 40 gang injunctions, which restrict the activities of gang members, have been used to in other parts of the city. This is the first gang injunction to cover Echo Park and Silver Lake. The Temple Street injunction names more than 250 members, which KCBS reports are subject to a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew and other restrictions within in a one-square-mile area:
Image: Brown Kingdom
Baseball season ended months ago but Dodger Stadium has been far from quiet. The last few days of the year find the giant stadium parking lot reverberating with the sounds of tubas, trombones and drums as marching bands practice for their New Year’s Day stroll down Colorado Boulevard during the Rose Parade. The 350 members of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s All District High School Honor Band makes most of the noise. But in years past bands from other schools and organizations have also shared the parking lot to perfect their sounds and moves in time for the Pasadena parade.
Many of the residents who live near Dodger Stadium spend most of the Spring and Summer dreading baseball game traffic and noise. But come December many of those same residents look forward to what has become an annual, holiday concert series. Some people don’t just listen from their homes. Entire families trek through the stadium parking lot to watch and listen to the young musicians practice across the asphalt, say nearby residents.
“I love listening to them. They are phenomenal” said Mary-Austin Klein of the school district band. They keep playing [the theme to] “Sesame Street” this year. It’s hilarious.”
Peter Lassen is another marching band fan. But he has his limits. “I am not happy about hearing “Proud Mary” over and over again. But it’s fun.”
If you can’t make today’s final band practice at Dodger Stadium, then tune in the Rose Parade on Thursday and wait for LA Unified’s Honor Band to roll by. They are scheduled to be entry No. 83. I wonder if they will still be playing Proud Mary.
Photo by NoHo Damon.
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