Submitted by Lisa N.
Lost: Pure white Chihuahua named Lola. Pink Collar. Has tags and Avid chip information attached. Approximately 9 pounds. Female, fixed. Got out while entertaining guests on Thanksgiving evening near Echo Park and Donaldson avenues. Could be scared or inside your yard hiding. Please help me find my baby! Call 323-284-8877 or 213-446-6728.
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The bodies of two brothers were found in a Silver Lake home Tuesday afternoon in what police say was a murder suicide, according to Daily News wire services. Officers were called by firefighters at about 3 p.m. to a residence in the 800 block of N. Coronado Street, where they found the bodies of brothers Christopher and Daniel Nguyen. Police said that Christopher Nguyen, 26, who was suffering from depression, shot and killed Daniel Nguyen, 28, while the older brother slept before shooting himself.
An Atwater Village man who feared his pit bull was going to be taken away is in custody tonight after he threatened a utility worker with an assault rifle, prompting the evacuation of neighbors during an approximately three-hour-long stand off with police.
The incident began at about noon when a pit bull owner on Casitas Avenue near Fletcher Drive apparently mistook a gas company employee for an animal control service officer intent on taking away the dog, said Lt. Mike Menza with the Northeast Division. That’s when the pit bull owner threatened the utility worker with an AK-47 rifle.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
News and items from other parts of the blog and beyond:
- Storefront Report: Has the last pupusa been served at Echo Park’s La Botana? Eastsider On The Go
The salt and pepper shakers sit atop blue tables, and a yellow and orange banner outside invites passersby to stop by for Happy Hour specials and karoke. But the tables at Echo Park’s La Botana (formerly Nuvia’s) have remained empty and the karoke machine silent since late October, leaving nearby merchants to wonder what happened to the Sunset Boulevard pupuseria and Mexican restaurant. The phone goes unanswered and unopened mail has piled up in the doorway.
“It’s been closed since Halloween,” said one merchant in an email.”I thought it closed for the holidays. But, it’s been a month now and there aren’t any signs up, no closing party, nothing … ”
The restaurant, formerly known as Nuvias, had undergone changes in recent years, broadening its menu beyond pupusas and adding alcoholic beverages to the menu. Online records indicate the restaurant’s alcohol license is still owned by the previous owners.
Atwater Village
Update: Atwater man holds police at bay in standoff over pit bull
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
An LAPD SWAT team was called out this afternoon to an Atwater Village home after a DWP employee who was going to cut off power to the residence was confronted by a man with what looked like a rifle, according to an officer with the Northeast Division. Police had the suspect contained in the home located near La Clede Avenue and Fletcher Drive. The officer said he had no further details about the incident, which prompted police to block off La Clede north of Fletcher at about 12 p.m., according to one resident.
*Update: Atwater man holds police at bay in standoff over pit bull. The Eastsider
The drone of media and police helicopters covering the last hours of Occupy L.A. last night and early this morning was heard loud and clear across many portions of Echo Park. The sound prompted Echo Park photographer Brett Van Ort to drive up to the top of nearby Victor Heights, where he spent about two hours photographing the helicopters hovering over City Hall as police prepared to clear out the demonstrators below. Van Ort took the images with his Canon 5D Mark II, setting the exposure from 30 seconds to over four minutes for different shots. He uploaded several images of the squiggles and circles of light created by the helicopters into a blog post titled Occupy L.A. Sky.
But Van Ort was not the only one taking helicopters photos from the same Victor Heights vantage point. “There were two police officers out their cars taking photos as well.”
Van Ort recently returned to Echo Park after living for a few years in London, where helicopters are rarely heard or seen, he said. He is now working on a project photographing helicopters on large format film. Click here for more Occupy L.A. Sky photos.
The living and dining rooms of many vintage Eastside homes and apartments are often separated by a built-in book cases or a simple archway. But the divider in this Angeleno Heights apartment is relatively unique because the curved archway swoops down to the floor and then curls up before ending in pedestals on either side of the room. Has anyone seen this before?
Robin Coles, property manager for Hollywood Hills Apartments, which is renovating the apartment building at the corner of East Edgeware Road and Calumet Avenue, said the plaster archway is apparently original but only one unit – on the ground floor – in the 1924 building has such a divider Coles said the new owners never considered eliminating the curvaceous room divider. “We want to keep it original as we can,” Coles said.
The renovation of the one-bedroom apartment is expected to be completed by the New Year, when it will come up for rent for $1,595 a month.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Sad Cougar, Eagle Rock | Photo by Britta Gustafson/Flickr
- Occupy L.A. ends with about 200 arrests. KPCC
- Occupy East L.A. College gets to stay until January. Alhambra Source (h/t L.A. Weekly)
- $897,ooo buys you a Mt. Washington home with a turret. Curbed L.A.
- Stolen car chase ends with a crash in El Sereno. SGV Tribune
- Charter schools would be prevented from taking over troubled and new L.A. Unified campuses under deal between district and teachers’ union. L.A. Times
- Actors pick up Silver Lake home for $1.435 million. L.A. Times
- Happening Today: PabLove Blood Drive, Silver Lake. Save the Date
- Note: The Eastsider welcomes real estate agent Liz Johnson as a new advertising sponsor.
Photos by Diane Edwardson
It only takes a brief walk or drive to discover that the city’s roads and sidewalks are in bad shape. On example can be found in the 2400 block of Lake View Avenue in Silver Lake, where a section of concrete has sunk more than three inches. Normally a call to 311 – the city’s service line – will eventually bring a city crew to fill in a pothole or fix a crack. But so far a resident of Lake View Avenue can’t get anyone’s attention, according to blogger Diane Edwardson. A portion of the street had been repaired a few years back but more needs to be done. But, given the city’s tight budget, repaving the cracked street is not going to happen soon. At this point, Lake View Avenue residents will settle for a much more modest fix, said Edwardson:
If nothing else, my size 10 boots say this is a trip & fall lawsuit against the City waiting to happen. At least the City should put up some safety cones with flashing lights at night.
The last major paving job on the street, judging from stamps in the concrete, took place in 1926.
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