Origami Vinyl  today said it will be able to offer a full refund – including service fees – on the tickets the Echo Park store sold it in advance for the cancelled Sunset Junction festival in Silver Lake.  Those refunds will apply only to the 106 ... Read More »

The skeletons of 36 unfinished Echo Park townhouses – framed in blue-tinted wood – will soon be reduced to a pile of blue firewood.  Workers this morning who were cleaning up the site of the failed Durbin project at Echo Park and Delta avenues said the ... Read More »

There are countless wood-sided and shingled bungalows across the Eastside that have been slathered in stucco to present a vaguely Spanish style or gutted to create loft-like interiors.  It turns out this kind of radical makeover – which often draws the ire of historic preservationists – ... Read More »

The extension of the Los Angeles River bike path into Elysian Valley last year has proven popular with cyclists. The once bumpy and uneven strip along the Los Angeles River was replaced with  smooth asphalt, lane stripes, landscaping and lighting.  But the  not everyone has welcomed ... Read More »

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