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    The most important artist you probably never heard of lives in Solano Canyon

    The New York Times’ T-Magazine blog visited with painter Roger Herman, who helped start the Chinatown art scene and has called Solano Canyon home since 1986.  Herman, described as “the most important artist you’ve never heard of,” and his wife,  photographer Eika Aoshima, live in two adjacent homes in a compound that has served as [...]

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    The earth moves at Dodger Stadium

    Many motocross fans might have been wowed by this past weekend’s Monster Energy Supercross at Dodger Stadium. But perhaps equally impressive as a stadium of roaring of motorcycles were the roaring trucks and earth movers that spread dirt across the playing field. The L.A. Times video below shows the transformation.

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    Snowwoman tumbles back into Elysian Park with a new look

    Despite light rain, volunteers returned this morning to the Elysian Park maintenance yard to complete the park’s holiday decorations made out of tumbleweeds. The volunteers stepped in after city budget cuts left the Recreation & Parks staff without the time to building the decorations that have been a holiday tradition for several years.  The snowwoman [...]

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    What’s the fashionable snowman & snowwomen wearing these days?

    The Elysian Park holiday decorations made out of tumbleweeds are scheduled to be spray painted white today before volunteers are  to return on Friday for the finishing touches (volunteers, by the way, are still needed).  But the pair of  12-foot-high Elysian Park snowmen and a  snowwoman are not made out of tumbleweeds and  plastic buckets [...]

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    Who needs snow to build a snowman when a tumbleweed will do?

    Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer // In colder parts of the country, making a snowman most likely does not require pruning shears, wire, spray paint and tumbleweeds. But this is sunny Elysian Park, where this morning volunteers from Echo Park and Solano Canyon gathered to assemble the first of a trio of holiday decorations [...]

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    Get your tumbleweed and spray paint. It’s time to make an Elysian Park snowman

    Last week The Eastsider reported that the Recreation and Parks Department would not be able to decorate Elysian Park with  snowmen – made from tumbleweeds -  this holiday season as a result of budget cuts.  Fans of the holiday figures, however, have come to the rescue by volunteering to build the decorations on Friday at [...]

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    City lays off Elysian Park snowmen

    The Recreation & Parks staff at Elysian Park has for several years spent the days before and after Thanksgiving  creating a new set of  holiday decorations – snowmen made out of tumbleweeds spray painted white – to greet park visitors.  This year, however, there will be no tumbleweed holiday greeters thanks to budget cuts. It’s [...]

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    Will the Dodger Express keep rolling next season?

    The county Metropolitan Transportation Authority has declared the  Dodger Stadium Express a success, with more than 117,000 Dodger fans getting a free bus ride between the stadium and downtown’s Union Station during the last playing season. The Dodger Express provided a bit of traffic relief for the fans as well as Echo Park and Solano [...]

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    Angelenos honor the patron saint of lost causes

    Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer // Hundreds of worshipers gathered Thursday night in the parking lot of the San Conrado Mission in Solano Canyon to honor St. Jude, or San Judas Tadeo, on his feast day.  Meanwhile, downtown, hundreds more gathered at La Placita Church. Photographer Aurelio Jose Barrera caught some images of the [...]

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    Dodgers try to prevent neighbors from blowing a fuse over Friday night fireworks

    The Dodgers informed Solano Canyon residents this week that the team plans to resume firework shows at the end of about a dozen Friday night home games next season to help boost attendance. The fireworks were a hit with fans but not with Solano Canyon residents, whose complaints about crying children, blaring car alarms and [...]

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    Distraction burglars get busy in the new year

    The LAPD Rampart Division and the DWP warned residents about an increase in reports of elderly minority residents being burglarized and defrauded by criminals posing as utility workers. The LAPD said 10 of these crimes have already been reported this year (compared to 55 for all of 2009), according to figures released at a press [...]

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    The Dodgers are saying very little about their big project

    The Dodgers have made plenty of noise by shooting off fireworks during every Friday night home game this season. But, on the subject of a $500 million stadium construction project, the baseball team has been very quiet – at least with neighbors in Echo Park and Solano Canyon. In April 2008, team owner Frank McCourt, [...]

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    Solano Canyon celebrates the 6th of July

    A pile of empty fireworks boxes awaits pick up on Solano Avenue.

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    Playing games with Dodger fans *

    The neighbors of Dodger Stadium frustrated over game-day traffic and a lack of parking are trying a new strategy to deal with the hordes of baseball fans: Fool them. Or, at least try. In Solano Canyon, just east of the stadium, new white and red signs reading “Resident Parking Only” have been posted along Academy [...]

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    News & Notes from East LA, Echo Park, El Sereno, Glassell Park & Solano Canyon

    Rolf McPherson, former head of Angelus Temple and son of Echo Park evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, dies at age 96. Foursquare Church Tell me, how safe is Echo Park? Yelp Prop. 8 opponents to rally in East LA on Tuesday. Day of Decision Solano Canyon resident is burned out on Friday night Dodger fireworks. LA [...]

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    News & Notes from Atwater, Eagle Rock, ELA, Echo Park, Elysian Valley, Lincoln Heights & Solano Canyon

    Wash your hands: Occidental College on swine flu alert. Oxy The Mayor’s Clean Tech Corridor starts in Lincoln Heights. LA Times Echo Park real estate gets ugly. Curbed LA Solano Canyon elementary school might get a part time principal. Echo Elysian Forum Sunset Magazine tours the L.A. River with stops in Atwater and Elysian Valley. [...]

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