News and items from other parts of the blog and beyond: Motorists who drive along Echo Park Avenue near Echo Park Lake will face street closures and detours in the months ahead as a result of the Echo Park Lake clean up project. A Dash bus ... Read More »

“Las Amazonas de El Paso,” an exhibit and book  “inspired by two wayward sisters from El Paso, circa 1964,” will debut on Saturday at Avenue 50 Studio. The Highland Park gallery will be among the many art spaces open this weekend as part of Northeast L.A.’s ... Read More »

Belmont High students, staff and elected officials, including Councilman Eric Garcetti, will gather tonight to dedicate a $1 million dollar overhaul of the school’s Montgomery Field, which now features a new field of artificial turf, running track and scoreboard.  The replacement of grass with plastic is ... Read More »

The Heritage Square Museum, which operates a cluster of Victorian-era buildings in Montecito Heights,  has spent several years preparing to build a corner drug store exhibit on the museum grounds next to the Arroyo Seco Parkway.  The  Simons Colonial Drug Store would contain the entire contents ... Read More »

For more about five years now,  Echo Park activist Ida Talalla has been touting the benefits of the Big Belly, a solar-powered trash can and compactor.  The Big Belly can consume five times as much trash as a conventional can because it compacts trash as the ... Read More »

Select Patrol reminds residents that the start of school at many campuses this week means that many little ones will be crossing big streets for the first time. Please drive carefully. Read More »

Playground snake, Elysian Valley | Photo by Tracy Stone/Flickr Parents of Atwater Village girl who overdosed at Electric Daisy Carnival  file suit against rave organizer. ABC7 Cypress Park spider in the news. L.A. Observed County-USC Medical center fined $50,000 for harming patient.  ABC7 Sunset Junction leader ... Read More »