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    News and items from other parts of the blog and beyond: East L.A. brush fire burns nearly eight acres. KPCC Tire slashers strike Silver Lake. Eastside 911

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    Eastside Mix: Thursday night shows feature Meat Puppets and Booker T.

    By Alfred Montez Tonight, Thursday June 16, is going to be a busy one  for Eastside music fans, with two great shows to pick from. Meat Puppets, the legendary and highly influential band, will be taking over The Echo for a rare SoCal appearance. Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain paid tribute  to the band, one of his favorites, by [...]

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    Around The Eastsider

    News and items from other parts of the blog and beyond: Echo Park laughs it up. Save the Date Boyle Heights and Lincoln Heights students emerge victorious at citywide science competition. School Yard

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    Save the Date: Weekend Edition

    “Eros Reconsidered,” which opens Saturday night in Highland Park, is one of several gallery openings  that will be held across Northeast L.A. as part of Second Saturday Gallery Night.  Meanwhile, admirers of modernist architect Richard Neutra will gather this weekend at locations across Eagle Rock, Los Feliz and Silver Lake for symposiums, tours and parties [...]

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    Fire fighters to come to the rescue of The Eagle Rock

    Earlier this month The Eastsider wrote about a large piece of graffiti atop The Eagle Rock, the massive rock formation and neighborhood landmark.  City officials said removing the graffiti on the 150-foot high rock was too dangerous for city clean up crews.  But on Thursday members of the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Urban Search and [...]

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    Save the Date: Weekend Edition

    The fire roads and narrow trails of Debs Park in Montecito Heights will be filled on Saturday morning with the hardy runners who signed up for the 4-mile Hill Challenge, which benefits the Audubon Center.  The event includes a  post-run party and Kiddie 1k. Less strenuous events this weekend include Saturday night gallery openings across [...]

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    Note to Eastsider email subscribers

    The Eastsider is testing a new service to send the daily digest of the blog via email.  Starting later this week, The Eastsider will be using MailChimp.com (yes, that’s the name) to deliver approximately 300 or so daily digests.  The digests will look different but you will still receive most of the blog’s daily content [...]

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    A sleepless night on Ridge Way

    Screams. Gunshots. Police armed with assault rifles. That was the scene early Tuesday morning as described by an Angeleno Heights resident who lives on the 1400 block of Ridge Way: “Heard gun shots after a guy was yelling “Fuck the police” and screaming his brains out for a bit around 3:30am.   Chopper was on [...]

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    The Eastsider has moved to its new home

    Good morning.  The Eastsider has moved to a new home on the web and also made some changes to the design and layout. As with any move, somethings got broke and a few are missing. Here are some issues that are being worked out: Emails problems.(Have been fixed) Where did the comments go? Most of [...]

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    News & Notes from Echo Park, Montecito Heights, Mt. Washington & Silver Lake

    Love scenes in Montecito Heights and Mount Washington. Above the City Best to ask first before taking pictures in Silver Lake. Seamus O’Connor Silver Lake Trader Joe’s in expansion mode. Franklin Avenue It’s never too early to claim your spot at the Echo Park Lake Swap Meet. Echo Elysian

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    News & Notes from Atwater, Boyle Heights, East LA & Echo Park

    Echo Park Film Center opening an Atwater outlet. Echo Park Now Burglars break into East LA elementary school during Teacher Appreciation Week. ABC7 Give up your gun and get a $100 today at LAPD gun buyback in Boyle Heights. LAPD Martial arts studio moving into the former Highland Park Masonic Temple. 90042 Atwater’s pot clinic [...]

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    Another lost dog finds a home

    The Eastsider ran a story on Monday about Carlos Vela and the nearly month-long search for his dog Deleno, who wandered away from Vela’s Echo Park photocopy shop. Deleno was found that same Monday near Chinatown. During the search, Vela encountered a young man who was trying to unload another dog (pictured at right) that [...]

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    Escape from the Sunset Boulevard bar crawl

    Many Echo Park residents who live near the neighborhood’s strip of Sunset Boulevard bars and night spots have been complaining about rowdy and drunken bar and club goers. Apparently the scene has also worn thin with some of the patrons themselves. Los Angeles Times restaurant and bar blogger Jessica Gelt, an Echo Park resident, praises [...]

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    News & Notes from Echo Park, El Sereno, Highland Park & Silver Lake

    Police warn of Los Feliz traffic scam. LAPD More warnings: Police searching for Silver Lake and Franklin Hills street robbers. LAPD Love and the Highland Park neighborhood council election. 90042 Women’s Center art on display in Echo Park. Huffington Post Echo Park nursery school seeks Spring Cleaning volunteers. Echo Elysian El Sereno Little League comes [...]

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    Pasadena Freeway work postponed as preservationists line up opposition

    Caltrans has postponed the first in a series of weekend closures of southbound portions of the 110 Pasadena Freeway that were supposed to begin tonight. Caltrans spokeswoman Judy Gish said the weekend closures are expected to start in about three weeks but did not know the reason for the delay or have an exact date [...]

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    The Silver Lake "Hello!" bear is still there

    It’s been a month since the owners of a Silver Lake mural featuring a smiling bear were granted 30 additional days by city officials to find a way to keep the mural, which inspectors had determined was in violation of sign laws. The new April 1 deadline came and went, and it’s not clear if [...]

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