Dream Center

News
January 31, 2013
Kevin Lives on Our Couch:"Aged out" of foster care, L.A. teens are put on the street, expected to be instant adults
Blogs
June 22, 2009
Angelus Temple Clash Looming in Echo Park
The Eastsider L.A. reports that the Foursquare Foundation, the money arm that operates the Angelus Temple built by Aimee Semple McPherson in 1923, is looking to develop some of the temple's properties that ring Echo Park Lake. The blog ruminates about the foundation's playing the "God card" by exerc ... More >>
Blogs
May 7, 2009
Behind the Veil: A Bigger Dream, A Bigger Dream Center
The Eastsider L.A. reports on the progress of the Dream Center's renovations -- renovations that will expand the 8.8-acre evangelical compound into a shelter that can house up to 1,200 people. Currently, massive construction tarps veil the project from public view as the renovations take shape. (Wee ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2009
They ♥ Huckabee
The problem with hearing Mike Huckabee speak at the Angelus Temple is that you first have to sit through 20 minutes of the temple's house band, Press Play, a kind of Up With Christian People rock ensemble that makes one nostalgic for the 1980s metallurgical hosannas of Stryper. A second problem is ... More >>
Columns
February 26, 2009
H8ters L.A. Vacation: Fred Phelps’ Antigay Baptists Come Out on Oscar Night
Blogs
February 24, 2009
California Is for H8ters: The Oscars' Anti-Gay Picketers
During his Oscar speech for winning the Best Actor award for Milk, Sean Penn pointedly attacked supporters of last November's victorious Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage in California:"For those who saw the signs of hatred as our cars drove in tonight," Penn said, "I think that it is a good ti ... More >>
News
April 20, 2006
Beauty and the Bounty
Kathy Potter
News
September 15, 2005
T-Bone�s Dream
Katrina victim washes ashore in Echo Park, goes to NASCAR race, kisses Sandra Bullock