Birrieria & Bougainvillea, Boyle Heights | Photo by Mary-Austin Klein/Flickr Chinatown “concept shop” opens Boyle Height branch with a party featuring music, art and ping pong. Racked L.A. How to get the freeway lights turned back on in Montecito Heights. ASNC Happening Today: Issues, Visions & ... Read More »
Photo by Martha Benedict It’s hard to appear like a serious-minded candidate running for public office when decorative stars dangle overhead and the giant figure of a snowman is looking over your shoulder. That was the scene on Saturday at the Montecito Heights Recreation Center during ... Read More »
Photo by Martha Benedict Today was probably colder than many Eastsiders would have liked but clear skies made for some great vistas, including at dusk when Martha Benedict of Montecito Heights aimed her new telephoto lens and captured the image above of a golden sky over ... Read More »
Pharmacists were not always relegated to work at the back of a CVS store behind aisles of cold and sinus pills, racks of greeting cards and lipstick displays. Many once were known as prominent neighborhood business owners, dispensing made-on-the-spot remedies, medical advice and drinks from the ... Read More »
Montecito Heights Improvement Assn. members prepare to deliver candy to recreation center. Photo by Martha Benedict Halloween would have been less sweet and fun in Echo Park and Montecito Heights if two neighborhood organizations did not get involved. In Montecito Heights, members of the Montecito Heights ... Read More »
Frank Linares, a volunteer in a community emergency response team, was in Debs Park Monday night as part of a monthly radio drill when he spotted three men dressed in camouflage clothing near a hilltop pond. These men, however, were not part of the drill. They ... Read More »
In a neighborhood where many homes are cantilevered from steep hillside, this 1926-Spanish Colonial home sits on one of the rare flat lots at the top of Montecito Heights. Sitting on the perimeter of the aptly named Montecito Circle, the tw0-story, three-bedroom home with a blue ... Read More »
Photos by Martha Benedict It was a fine morning for a disaster on Saturday when more than 200 residents of Northeast Los Angeles participated in a mock earthquake drill complete with disaster-make up (moulage), heroic rescues and the low rumbling sounds of a magnitude 7.8 tumbler. ... Read More »
Martha Benedict from Montecito Heights snapped the above photo tonight as smoke from the Sepulveda Pass fire drifted across the western sky. Read More »
Photo by Martha Benedict A sell out crowd attended Saturday’s night outdoor performance by actor Troy Evans at the Audubon Center at Debs Park. His storytelling performance - “Troy Evans’ Montana Tales & Other Bad Ass Business” – served as a benefit for the Friends of ... Read More »