A newly listed $1.65 million Silver Lake home on Cedar Lodge Terrace comes with all the requisite high-end features: maple floors, stainless steel kitchen counters and Viking appliances. But in what is an increasingly popular high-end home feature, the property listing plays up a 25-foot wide, ... Read More »
Daily Archives: September 12, 2011
Found: Black bunny in Echo Park
While the search is still underway for the owner of a white bunny in Angeleno Heights, now an apparently lost blackrabbit – actually a dark chocolate brown on closer inspection- has turned up nearby in Echo Park. Sasha from Echo Park has the details: Wonder if ... Read More »
A new business culture grows in Northeast L.A.
On a recent weekday evening in Eagle Rock, a group of Northeast Los Angeles entrepreneurs – from boutique and bar owners to house flippers and sound engineers – gathered in a neighborhood shop during a time-honored, meet-and-greet affair. But don’t mistake this for your typical chamber ... Read More »
Last call at Silver Lake’s Coffee Table
Silver Lake’s Coffee Table closed its doors on Sunday after 14 years in business as workers and customers hugged each other goodbye and wrote down their best wishes and farewells in a binder. The Rowena Avenue coffee houses abruptly announced its closure earlier this month after ... Read More »
Will a fake tree or angel welcome you to Glassell Park?
Verizon Wireless wants to build a 70-foot high monopine – cell phone tower disguised like a pine tree – alongside the northbound 2 Freeway near the San Fernando Road exit in Glassell Park. But some members of the neighborhood council are tired of seeing monopines, in addition ... Read More »
Saturday night was Wonder-ful in Echo Park
The highlight of a Saturday night tribute to Stevie Wonder at the Echoplex was an appearance by the artist himself that surprised and thrilled the audience. Damien DeCottle, who heads security at the Echo Park nightclub, describes the scene after Wonder arrived at the club after ... Read More »
News & Notes from Eagle Rock, East L.A. & Echo Park
Signs of a Mount Washington garden | Photo by Martha Benedict East L.A. honors legacy of Chicano artist Gilbert “Lujan” Magu. L.A. Eastside Eagle Rock house with roof-top parking. L.A. Times Found: White bunny in Angeleno Heights. Eastsider Forums Museum of California Design honors Echo Park ... Read More »