For more than 20 years Jose Mejia shopped at Shims Bargain Center in Glassell Park for deeply discounted and 99-cent packs of napkins, tape, paint rollers, disposable plates, sodas and Christmas decorations. Nearly a week did not go by when the Glassell Park resident did not ... Read More »

Little Beast, a pop up restaurant serving “progressive American comfort food,” is going to open a permanent Eagle Rock location in the former Larkin’s restaurant. Eagle Rock Patch Another Pop Up Goes Permanent: Twenty-four-year-old chef Miles Thompson returns to Echo Park with the Thursday grand opening ... Read More »

Over  the past year the owners of Figueroa Produce negotiated a lower rent as they struggled to keep the independent store open . But the owner of the York Boulevard shopping center wants a tenant that can pay more and  has put  the 10,000-square-foot space that includes ... Read More »

It’s been about a year since Hi Duk Lee opened a plant nursery next to Mi Alma Designs,  a vintage home and outdoor accessories store, at the corner of Echo Park Avenue and Avalon Street.  But instead of celebrating his nursery’s one-year anniversary, Lee is preparing ... Read More »

When Scott Quist’s moving company employees finished a job, they often returned to the  Glassell Park offices of Real Rock ‘n’ Roll Movers  with a sofa, shelf or appliance that the customer decided to leave behind or discovered did  not fit into their new place.  After ... Read More »

Never enough vinyl. Photo courtesy Dan Cook Dan Cook is well aware that Highland Park is already home to several vinyl record stores. But that did not scare him away from moving his  Gimme Gimme Records  out of its  New York City location and plunking it ... Read More »

Animals of the L.A. River guide and plush singing birds at the Audubon Center at Debs Park/Photo courtesy Audubon Center With Christmas only a little more than weekend away, there is scant time left to shop for gifts, let alone make (0kay, order) tamales  and fill ... Read More »

After teaming up to create a collection of  of menswear, friends Stacey Clark and John Swartz of Silver Lake decided that they needed a storefront to showcase their minimalist-style, Modern Nature line of t-shirts, swim trunks and underwear. The result was the opening earlier this month ... Read More »

Galco’s corners craft beer market. Photo by Martha Benedict By Nicole Possert Galco’s Soda Pop Stop has long cornered the market on being “the” place to find and buy sodas from around the world.   Now,  the Highland Park soda shop and market  has become the place ... Read More »

In fact, the fate of the entire 199-store  grocery chain is up in the air after the company’s British owner, Tesco, said it is considering shutting down the money-losing business. “It’s likely, but not certain, that our presence in America will come to an end,” Tesco ... Read More »