At the Highland Park zine-making workshop at Pop-Hop Books and Prints, all I could think about was kindergarten, when as a child I had an endless thread of creativity. A few minutes before I was stuck in L.A. traffic, nudging along the streets. Now the sound ... Read More »

Who can resist taking a refreshing dip into a pool of crystal blue water on a hot day? But what if that pool of water is Echo Park Lake?  Despite the presence of   “No Swimming” and “No Diving” signs,  many kids and adults have been ... Read More »

School board votes to close El Sereno charter high school. 30,000 L.A. Unified students to get free iPads. Captain of LAPD Hollenbeck Division moves on. Highland Park’s Buchanan Street Elementary celebrates centennial. LADWP to hold Silver Lake Reservoirs pipeline meeting tonight. Today’s links gathered from Boyle ... Read More »

Is it a car? Is it a motorcycle? What exactly is that silver, cigar-shaped vehicle that Matt Hartman photographed this afternoon as it made its way north on Eagle Rock Boulevard through Glassell Park? Hartman did a little checking and discovered a similar looking vehicle called ... Read More »

Welcome to The Listening Station, The Eastsider’s dose of must-listens from local bands. Get to know your community by getting to know the music they are making. Feel free to let us know what Eastside bands or performers – in any genre- you are listening to ... Read More »

City Attorney Carmen Trutanich said today his office is seeking a court injunction designed to limit the activities of six rival gangs across much of Echo Park, Elysian Valley as well as a portion of Silver Lake . The injunction, if approved, would prohibit about 300 ... Read More »

There are a few more signs that Echo Park Lake is returning to normal after its grand reopening this weekend:  On Monday, workers began removing large sections of the chain link fence and green screen that had encircled the park during a two-year long  construction period.  ... Read More »

Only about a year after it opened, Hermosillo, the Highland Park beer and wine bar, is preparing to share its York Boulevard home with a brewery.  Robert James Kunz has applied for a state license to operate a “small beer manufacturer”  under the name Highland Park ... Read More »

Firefighters this morning put out a small fire that broke out in the basement of a two-story home in Elysian Heights, according to the L.A. Fire Department Twitter feed.   There were no reports of injuries from the fire, which was reported at about 8:30 a.m. in ... Read More »

The making of a  650-foot long, Echo Park tin can phone line. Northeast L.A. residents raise $1,500 to pay for surgery for a puppy named Buster. History Lesson: When the Eagle Rock was called Piedra Gorda. Links collected from KPCC, Patch & Star-News Read More »

The owners of more than 150 guns who apparently would rather shop than shoot traded in their weapons for gift cards on Saturday during a gun buyback program at the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department station in East Los Angeles.  The owners of the guns traded their ... Read More »

June has been a month of milestones for Jeffrey Bellissimo of Eagle Rock. Not only has the former meth addict been sober for five years but on Friday he graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Cal State Los Angeles. Bellissimo’s ... Read More »