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    Akbar throws itself a quinceañera

    It was 15 years ago this month that Scott Craig and Peter Alexander took ownership of a bar at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Fountain Avenue. Two weeks after they took the keys, the reopened the bar on the border of Silver Lake and Los Feliz under a new name: Akbar. In a short [...]

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    Save the Date: Weekend Edition

    The Santa appearing on the Echo Park Community Parade poster looks a bit crazed. But let’s just assume that this Santa – drawn by seven-year-old Jesus Campos – is excited about Saturday’s holiday parade, which will send a long line of drill teams, bands, floats and classic cars down Sunset Boulevard through the heart of [...]

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    Save the Date: Weekend Edition

    Volunteers took over a bakery kitchen in Echo Park this week to bake up enough doggie treats to fill 140 Christmas stockings that will go on sale during this weekend’s Pet Photos With Santa, a fundraiser for the Echo Park Animal Alliance.  The first weekend in December also brings several other holiday-related events, including arts [...]

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    Sharing food and goodwill on Thanksgiving

    Churches, schools and other groups across the Eastside are collecting food and preparing feasts for those who may not be able to afford a traditional Thanksgiving Day meal.  On Tuesday, for example, members of 30 families arrived at Luther Burbank Middle School in Highland Park to pick up boxes of holiday food items in addition [...]

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    Save the Date: Weekend Edition

    Materials & Application in Silver Lake will host an opening reception for one of its most ambitious projects ever. “Bloom,”  a “thermo-bimetallic”  shade structure composed of 14,000 metallic pieces, changes shape in response to the sunlight (Let’s home there is a break in the clouds this weekend). Meanwhile, in Echo Park, Machine Project has turned [...]

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    Save the Date: “Fast Food Nation” author to discuss food and worker justice issues

    Eric Schlosser, author of “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal,” will explore the links between food, worker and immigrant justice issues during a Thursday night lecture at Occidental College.   Schlosser followed up his best-selling 2001 book with the “Food, Inc.,” a 2008 documentary on the impact of corporate farming. “Eric Schlosser [...]

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    Save the Date: Performers bring “The Desert” to Echo Park

    The beauty and fearsomeness of the desert will be explored through music, comedy and a “performance lecture” during an Echo Park variety show on Saturday.  “The Desert,”  presented as part of the ongoing Variedades performance salon at The Echo, “will be a dramatic and poignant portrait of a place where Mexican migrants cross a searing [...]

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    Save the Date: Echo Park scavenger hunt to reveal neighborhood history

    The Echo Park Historical Society has teamed up with event organizer Out of the Box of Events to produce The Echo Park Challenge, a neighborhood-wide scavenger hunt and fundraiser that will be held on Saturday, Nov. 12.  One of the neighborhood’s most historic places, Echo Park Lake  is off limits as it undergoes a massive [...]

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    Labor union turns to artists to help raise social awareness

    The lobby of a union office building in Historic Filipinotown has been turned into a gallery for a show featuring artists whose work reflects their dedication to social change. “Hands on Healing,” sponsored by the SEIU United Long Term Care Workers,  “aims to shine a light on the connection between the nurturing of others and [...]

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    Save the Date: Weekend Edition

    Today’s showers are expected to give way to sunny and crisp weather on Saturday in time for several  events, including the eighth anniversary celebration of the Audubon Center at Debs Park, community cleans ups in  Echo Park and Hermon and a Victorian Circus and fundraiser at Heritage Square.  On Sunday, the Santa Cecilia Orchestra performs [...]

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    Buckle up for the holidays

    The Arts Refoundry of Lincoln Heights has come up with a new DIY holiday present: bronze belt buckles.  The foundry, started up by Cypress Park resident and artist Gorden Bowen, will be offering three “Make Your Own Buckle” workshops in November and December that will show participants how to design and sculpt buckles out of [...]

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    Save the Date: Stairway tour explores history of Mt. Angelus one step at a time

    Story and photos by Nate Nickels Mixing Halloween fun with a bit of a history lesson, the  Stair Street Ghosts tour on Sunday, Oct. 30 shines a new light on the old Mt. Angelus section of Highland Park. Free, self-guided tours will showcase nine stairway streets, some of which will reopen for the event after [...]

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    Save the Date: Pianist brings his “Tsunami of Sound” pianist to Eagle Rock

    By Becky Koppenhaver World-renowned piano virtuoso, Awadagin Pratt will perform a solo recital at Occidental College’s Thorne Hall on Saturday, Oct. 29.  The recital – featuring works by Beethoven, Liszt, Schumann and others – will be Pratt’s only California performance on a national tour, the only chance local audiences will have to see a world-renowned [...]

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    Save the Date: Weekend Edition

    The weekend calendar is filled with all sorts of Halloween-related events, from a Victorian-era funeral staged during  The Halloween & Mourning Tours at Heritage Square to a costumed-dog pageant in Silver Lake.  If you don’t want to see doggies in drag,  other events include a chili cook-off in Montecito Heights, a performance by classical music [...]

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    Save the Date: “House of Gold” explores the dark side of American childhood

    By Becky Koppenhaver Can a parent love a child just for her or himself alone? Writer Gregory Moss and director Gates Mc Fadden explore this unsettling question in the West Coast premiere of  “House of Gold,” previewing tonight, Friday, Oct. 21, at the Atwater Village Theatre. Inspired by the unsolved murder of six year-old, Jon- [...]

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    Save the Date: Echo Park Farmers’ Market celebrates fifth anniversary

    For a few hours nearly every Friday afternoon, the Echo Park Farmers’ Market transforms an oil-stained parking lot into a colorful food bazzar and gathering spot. This Friday, Oct. 21, the market will celebrate its fifth anniversary with its annual salsa making contest and other activities Market manager Holly Calhoun provided more information about what [...]

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