Echo Park Weekly

Echo Park -- Singer and actress Demi Lovato is mourning the death of her friend Thomas Trussell III, a male model found dead on Oct. 8 in the Super 8 Motel on Sunset Boulevard, according to Radar.

Echo Park --  Crews responded to a quarter-acre grass fire that broke out this afternoon near some residential buildings in the 2200 block of West Sunset Boulevard, said the L.A. Fire Department.

Echo Park - Back in 2007, a blogger at Curbed once called the corner of Alvarado and Sunset "an intersection of drugs, homelessness, and 24-hour despair."

Echo Park -- A six-week film series showcasing women and emerging artists is also serving as a coming-out party for a new screening and event space created by filmmaker and distributor Ava DuVernay.

Echo Park -- Pedestrians are going to love it. Drivers probably not so much. On Thursday afternoon, officials turned on the neighborhood's newest stop light at Sunset Boulevard and Portia Street.

Echo Park -- Firefighters responded to turn off a broken fire hydrant this morning that sent torrents of water gushing past cars.

Echo Park - A non-profit that has been helping some of the county’s most vulnerable residents has opened a facility for homeless families on the grounds of Gateways Hospital.

Echo Park -- A homeless man living in an underpass said an explosive device, perhaps a large firecracker, was set off next to his tent Sunday night, ripping a hole in the fabric and filling the tent with smoke.

Echo Park -- The residents of this cute bungalow high up on a hill were most likely celebrating Thursday night following the Dodgers' 6-0 victory over the Washington Nationals  in Game 1 of the National League Division Series.

Echo Park -- It's probably the most long-awaited stop light in Echo Park.

The artists behind Poetic Kinetics of Lincoln Heights recently turned an Elysian Park field into their studio as they assembled a section of a huge kinetic art installation composed of 120,000 streamers.

Echo Park -- A developer wants to construct a 69-unit multifamily complex on an empty lot near the Echo Park Deep Pool, according to a filing with the Planning Department.

Echo Park -- Firefighters extinguished a house fire that broke out in an attic this afternoon.

Echo Park -- Mayor Eric Garcetti Thursday announced the city's seventh New Americans Center at the Echo Park Branch Library, which is part of an initiative to help guide immigrant Angelenos to earn U.S. citizenship.

Echo Park -- The shop is perhaps 12-feet wide and there's room for only 10 customers at the counter. Welcome to Konbi, the Japanese-style sandwich shop wedged between a gas station and a raw vegan cheesecake bakery and gift shop.

Echo Park -- Decades before The Echo nightclub turned Echo Park into an indie music hot spot, a Mexican restaurant known as El Nayarit occupied the same Sunset Boulevard storefront, serving up Mexican-American favorites and acting as a social hub for many Mexican and Latino immigrants.

Echo Park -- Three persons were injured tonight in what police say is a gang-related shooting near Sunset Boulevard and Rosemont Avenue, police said.

Echo Park -- It's looking less likely that the House of Spirits will be reopening.

Echo Park -- The City Council today voted to go forward with a controversial proposal to build affordable housing on a recreation area for low-income youth.

Echo Park -- Two people were left in critical condition Monday night after a crash sent a vehicle crashing into a Super 8 Motel before it collided with a fire hydrant and tree, police said.