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    Atwater Village Farm, a grocery featuring farm-fresh produce,  opened last week after numerous delays, reports Squid Ink.  In addition to produce, the Glendale Boulevard store will sell  “pickles, jam, honey and olive oil; locally grown grains and nuts; and imports, such as beans and California cheeses.” Echo Park’s  Mohawk Bend, which opened this summer, is [...]

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    Shopper & Diner Report

    Kellygreen Home in Echo Park will be hosting a Stowellen jewelry trunk show tonight as Benjamin Stowell Kendall  carves and creates  jewelry pieces made from natural materials. 10% off everything this weekend at Tavin boutique (mention the email blast)  in Echo Park. King Torta of El Sereno reigns supreme with its  al pastor tortas and [...]

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    Shopper & Diner Report

    The former Bobbie boutique in Echo Park has been replaced by another women’s fashion and accessories store called Myrtle. The Sunset Boulevard shop’s newly painted pink interior also features stationery and fragrances.  Racked L.A. After a couple of false starts, Atwater Village Farm, which will focus on  locally grown and sourced organic foods, has announced [...]

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    Shopper & Diner Report: Shop local and avoid getting pepper sprayed

    If you have recovered from camping out overnight at Best Buy or are wary of getting pepper sprayed by Black Friday bargain hunters, neighborhood merchants across the Eastside are offering holiday deals and discounts without the hassles of shopping at big box or chain stores this weekend.  On Saturday, for example, more than a dozen [...]

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    Eastside Shopper & Diner Report

    There are plenty of Silver Lake boutiques and shops catering primarily to women. But Eric Brightwell had the urban male in mind when last month he opened Brightwell, a store for featuring  “luxury and craft objects for the discerning cosmopolitan gentleman” at the corner of Rowena Avenue and West Silver Lake Drive. What exactly are [...]

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    Everything Goes: Former Echo Park market to reopen for one final sale

    The glass doors of the Echo Park  Save A Lot have been shut tight since March when the discount market unexpectedly closed, leaving behind a store still stocked with unsold merchandise and abandoned equipment. On November 1, however, those doors will reopen when all the remaining items in the store – from unsold boxes of [...]

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    Eastsider Shopper & Diner Report

    Kellygreen Home, a “green lifestyle boutique for sustainable home goods,”  has opened an Echo Park store on Sunset Boulevard.  Owner Kelly Van Patter opened the new store on Sunday in a former insurance office that was gutted to expose brick walls and wood ceiling beams. The Echo Park store will be open Tuesday – Sunday [...]

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    Eastside Shopper & Diner Report

    A Visit to Villainy: What does an “old timey” general store catering to the “industrious urbanite” sell? The owners of Echo Park’s Villainy General Store  invites the public to find out during a grand opening celebration, complete with food and live music, on Saturday, Oct. 15.  Merchandise ranges from sturdy cast iron skillets and pancake [...]

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    Storefront Report: Silver Lake apparel store opens in an out-of-sight location

    When Eileen Burke moved to Los Angeles from Charlotte, she looked across the city for a spot to reopen her apparel store focused on affordable clothes for young women and teens. She finally found a space in the 3300 block of Sunset Boulevard  behind a bike shop and a vintage fashion store.  Walk down a [...]

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    Storefront Report: Mohawk Bend attracts shops as well as a crowd to Echo Park

    After opening a “green-lifestyle boutique” in Silver Lake four years ago, Kelly Van Patter  closed the Sunset Junction shop – called Kelly Green – last month as the landlord pursued plans to build a 90-unit residential development.  There was no question that she would re-open the shop but she wanted a location near an anchor [...]

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    Whole Foods opening in Silver Lake? Don’t get your hopes up *

    The banner hanging today on the chain link fence surrounding the former Circuit City  on the border of Silver Lake and Los Feliz announced what many residents have long dreamed of: Coming Soon! Whole Foods Market Silverlake The sign quickly raised a lot of hopes but soon also generated questions as to whether this banner [...]

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    Echo Park merchants take advantage of “Junction Malfunction”

    After this weekend’s Sunset Junction festival was abruptly cancelled, Silver Lake merchants organized a last-minute No Function Junction featuring sidewalks sales, live-music and other events.  Now, Echo Park store owners along Sunset Boulevard are also getting into the act by holding Echo Park Rising, a weekend of sales and shows featuring some of the bands [...]

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    Storefront Report: Monah Li lands in Echo Park

    Monah Li, the Los Angeles designer whose “rich Bohemian” creations and boutique put Los Feliz on the fashionista map during the late 1990s,  has returned to retailing – in Echo Park. There will be no confusing Monah Li’s former location amid the  cafes and shops of Vermont Avenue with the 1200 block of Sunset Boulevard, [...]

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    Sunset Junction gift shop celebrates 10th anniversary with a video & sale

    Serifos in Silver Lake is celebrating its 10th anniversary with its once-a-year 25% off sale on all items in the store on Sunday, August. 7. Also, owner Peter Choi created a video to give you an idea of what to expect.

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    Shopper & Diner Report

    By Beth Zeigler I have nothing against the plant nursery of my local Home Depot – they’re super close, which equals mucho convenience in my book. But if you really want an added cool factor and have a garden with personality, you really should shop at Potted in Atwater Village. Amazing staff and unusual finds. [...]

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    Shopper & Diner Report

    By Beth Zeigler It’s not as if my derriere really needs another pastry shop to open up in the neighborhood but it certainly won’t be boycotting Proof Bakery. I like that there isn’t a cupcake in sight in the Atwater Village bakery, which leads me to believe is carving out a style of their own. [...]

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