Screams. Gunshots. Police armed with assault rifles. That was the scene early Tuesday morning as described by an Angeleno Heights resident who lives on the 1400 block of Ridge Way: “Heard gun shots after a guy was yelling “Fuck the police” and screaming his brains out ... Read More »

News and items from other parts of the blog and beyond. Updated during the day. Vandals strike at Lincoln Heights AIDS memorial. LGBT POV Gunshots. Screams. A sleepless night on Ridge Way. Eastside 911 Shots awaken residents near Echo Park Lake.  Eastside 911 Read More »

A common complaint in Echo Park is the sight of overflowing trash cans on Sunset Boulevard. City officials have over the years recommended against installing more trash cans because there was no money to pay workers to empty them out.  Well, at least in Boyle Heights ... Read More »

A round of  early morning gunfire  today awakened numerous residents living near Echo Park  Lake but apparently left no one injured.  A man living on Laguna Avenue said he heard four shots at about 4 AM. “I went outside and didn’t hear any screaming,” he said ... Read More »

Lazaro Morales prefers to water and tend his Echo Park garden at night. Not only is it cooler but there's less of a chance that he will get hit by car while watering his radishes and green beans. Read More »

Nickel-Seong Mansion | Cypress Park Volunteers needed to maintain the Elysian Park Butterfly Garden.  Recreation & Parks Did you hear them? Apache choppers over Silver Lake. [sic] Rape reported in Eagle Rock. EveryBlock The bullet holes of 90042. 90042 Tom of Finland slept here. Echo Park ... Read More »