One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. Davy Rothbart sits at a picnic table in Elysian Park with a Discman in his pocket. Someone actually stopped him on the street recently while he was traveling on a book tour and ... More >>
By Hillel Aron Echo Park is, depending on your point of view: the poor man's Silver Lake, the rich man's Highland Park, the Williamsburg of the West Coast, a 40,455-personl working-class burg full of diversity and a wee bit of gang violence. Or, it's that strange little neighborhood you drive throu ... More >>
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Choreographer Heidi Duckler, in her ongoing tour of dance-making at little-known and under-appreciated historic corners of Los Angeles, has turned her keen eyes for movement and architecture to the Barlow Respiratory Hospital. The Barlow was built in 1902 in Elysian Park as a sanatorium for tubercul ... More >>
Cops are planning to swarm Dodger stadium and nearby Elysian Park on opening day tomorrow. If you remember last year's opening day, then you know why. Among the violence that broke out was the horrific beating of Giant's fan Bryan Stow, who was put in a coma. The LAPD today said it was prepared to ... More >>
Bikes versus cars is a classic transportation battle in traffic-clogged Los Angeles. But bikes versus runners? Now there's a showdown we could get behind. Wolfpack Hustle, the uber-enthused cycling group most famous for racing an airplane across L.A. County during Carmageddon, has another sort-of s ... More >>
This week's list offers artists making rules, breaking rules or trying to figure out what the rules even are. It also includes a walking tour. 5. War against the photograph Around 2004, painter David Hockney, famous for slick, smart renderings of SoCal swimming pools and uncomfortably posed sociali ... More >>
Al HerrmannA view from Elysian Park.Updated at the bottom with more details from the LAPD. First posted at 7 a.m. A young woman who moments earlier tweeted her location was sexually assaulted in Elysian Park, police told the Weekly last night. It happened on Halloween afternoon to a woman i ... More >>
The winds are upon us.It may feel cooler and more wintery outside (OK, still in the upper 60s and 70s; sorry Denver), but don't be fooled: What has the potential to be SoCal's worst fire season ever is only just now settling in. We had a few scares back in the beginning of September -- inclu ... More >>
Gil Ortiz Gilbert "Magú" Luján used to laugh when described as a Chicano art icon, but he is more than deserving of the title. His irreverent, playful work across a broad spectrum of media that included cardboard, metal, ceramic tile and organic material, among others, fused a distinct visu ... More >>
ColLAboration Beer Garden Forget Bastille Day. In honor of Belgian Independence Day (actually celebrated on July 21st), ColLAboration will theoretically have Belgian brews on tap at its third summer beer garden. Technically, ColLAboration is a members-only club. For members, admission is free f; f ... More >>
With the highest number of per capita donut shops of any major metropolitan area in the United States, Los Angeles is the ideal locale for a donut confab. Following on the greasy heels of 2009's Hot Dog Death March and last year's inaugural Donut Summit, the 2nd LA Donut Summit will unite donut co ... More >>
Look at this fucking (hot) hippie "In Elysian Park, hippie tribes gather 20,000 strong ..." And so begins this hilarious BBC commentary on a love-in in L.A. that features the Steve Miller Band when they were The Miller Blues Band. "The money-hating flower children are paradoxically, produc ... More >>
Native Americans get short shrift as LA Plaza downtown opens under a cloud
KTLAThe Big EightThere was a bona fide party on the 110 South this chilly morning, when an SUV with stolen plates was pulled over after an LAPD chase on the 5 from Burbank. Guess who tumbled out?
Twice in the past month, different snooty national magazines have judged us the second most stressful city in the nation. Forbes judged our stress level on high unemployment, long commute times, long working hours, and bad health, while Portfolio also looked at heart disease, bad air, crim ... More >>
Great story from Eastsider LA, combining freakishness, gore and bureaucratic lethargy. A dog walker was on the Corralitas Red Car trail when he saw an object that turned out to be something that resembled ... a stomach. The Eastsider reports the guy didn't think it appeared to be human.
Goat with head. But it wasn't just a headless goat last week. Also a "bird of prey" -- this according to The Eastsider LA blog, which is all over the Elysian Park mutilated animals story. Apparently, last week two woman found what appeared to be a recently deceased baby goat and bird of prey ... More >>
The Los Angeles Police Department is warning Cinco de Mayo revelers to keep it safe and sane, because they've got four DUI checkpoints planned through the weekend. "Cinco de Mayo has become a traditional time for many to celebrate California's rich cultural history," the department states on ... More >>
georgemichael.comOccupancy at Los Angeles hotels was down almost 10 percent last year (PDF). Public, out-in-the-open sex, however, has been on the rise, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Coincidence? We don't think so! People are downsizing their sex budgets. More than 90 peopl ... More >>
EATLACMA is neither Joachim Splichal's latest museum café nor an art house monster movie, but a year-long project investigating the social role of food and art and the rituals of eating. The project is a collaboration between the LA County Museum of Art and Fallen Fruit, the LA-based artist collect ... More >>
A Los Angeles police officer who died in a motorcycle crash last week had blood-alcohol content "well over" the legal limit for driving and had been imbibing at a bar at the Los Angeles Police Academy in Elysian Park as part of longstanding "payday Wednesday" festivities at the campus, police ... More >>
If you find yourself considering the current state of your lawn, or questioning how best to garden during a drought, it might be a good idea to head over to the Gathering of Community Gardens conference in downtown LA for some fresh ideas on how to nurture a sustainable garden in the city of Los Ang ... More >>
Brooke BurtonHelping kids to eat fresh foodEvery day more than 30 million public school children in America, from both rich and poor communities, are served food made from ingredients that cost less than a dollar. That's based on a breakdown of the USDA's reimbursement budget to the National Scho ... More >>
This looks like a frickin' party. The great L.A. Record is bringing New York Night Train to LA tonight to host its Soul Clap Dance Off at the Nomad Gallery, which is tucked between i-5 and the LA River just north of Elysian Park.
LA DodgersThe future according to Frank McCourtToday's Eastsider L.A. looks at what's cookin' at the Ravine. Or rather, how quiet the L.A. Dodgers and owner Frank McCourt have been over plans to spend half a billion dollars to give the team's ballpark a megaplex makeover, by developing it into ... More >>
Our ears might still be ringing and eyes burning from the sounds and sights of exploding fireworks, but big national holidays aren't behind us yet. Next up: Bastille Day on Tuesday, July 14.
Kevin Roderick recalls L.A.'s forgotten Woodstock, a three-day open-air concert in Northridge that still brings smiles to its participants. In his L.A. Observed entry, Roderick recalls that "Jimi Hendrix jammed with Buddy Miles on Sunday afternoon in a session still bootlegged around the Internet, n ... More >>
'Tis the weekend of competing wine events and food festivals. The mega LA Wine Fest happens at Raleigh Studios Hollywood on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, with hundreds of wineries representing, and special educational seminars ($55 one-day pass, $100 weekend pass). The Wine House's Santa Barbara W ... More >>
The Fire Next Time Dept.: The Eastsider L.A. has a good profile of the fire dangers facing Elysian Park -- home to the Dodgers, family picnics and Sunday lowrider-car gatherings. The piece begins with a portentous look at a tiny, obscured patch of blackened grass -- spotted against the backdrop of S ... More >>
U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas addresses members of the Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park, which would successfully block city plans to build a convention center near Dodger Stadium.Photo: L.A. Times/UCLA CollectionClick image to enlarge
Residents who live on the outskirts of Elysian Park know that their hill slopes and back yards have recently become outdoor kennels for roaming coyotes. Until the rains came, the feral canines could be spotted lolling on their backs in gardens or chewing up drip lines in search of water. The hearts ... More >>
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