Highland Park (Brooklyn)

Now Open: Donut Friend in Highland Park

A woman stands at the counter of the newly opened Donut Friend in Highland Park and points at a familiar plastic bottle. "What do you do with the Sriracha?" she asks. "Anything you want," the woman behind the counter responds. They settle on a chocolate doughnut with chocolate glaze and a squiggl ... More >>

A Great Bowl of Pasta at Maximiliano in Highland Park

Hidden in Plain Sight is a new series in which we take a new look at an established restaurant. In our lust for newness and our obsession with "bests," the fantastic unsung places that make up the bulk of our city's dining sometimes get overlooked. Here we aim to acknowledge, examine and (often) cel ... More >>

The Gaslamp Killer's Near-Death Account

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] The doctors told The Gaslamp Killer that he was three hours away from dying of internal bleeding. In the bedroom of his Mount Washington house, the resid ... More >>

Sorry, Echo Park: Highland Park Is L.A.'s Greatest Neighborhood

It recently came to my attention that a fellow L.A. Weekly scribe published a piece heralding Echo Park as the greatest of L.A.'s many fine neighborhoods. While I have nothing against Echo Park personally, and have spent many an evening cruising its colorful streets in search of entertainment and/or ... More >>

10 Best Taco Trucks in Los Angeles

Think back, if you can, to a time before food fusion and "mobile gourmet dining experiences." When late night eating meant a 24-hour Subway, 4 a.m. Thai joint or one of the city's finest taco trucks. Remember the off-white loncheros that have crawled the construction sites throughout Southern Califo ... More >>

El Huarache Azteca: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Highland Park America's Hottest Neighborhood For Real Estate

Bet you wish you were in on the pre-recession Flip This House phenomenon now. That's because it turns out that Highland Park, a star of the show, is getting its post-recession due. No, it's not the hippest neighborhood in Los Angeles. But it does top Redfin's list of American "Real Estate Neighbo ... More >>

Good Girl Dinette's Labor Day Pie Pop-Up

Diep Tran, chef-owner of Highland Park's Good Girl Dinette, isn't taking the day off on Labor Day -- instead, she turning her restaurant into a one-day-only pie shop, which will offer homemade pies baked with local produce. You know, just in case her customers need something to serve after their bar ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Competitive Eating, Olive Rosemary Pork Ribs Why Meat Eaters Are Less Likely To Date Vegetarians

Eatocracy: 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes, and a closer look at competitive eating. Zester Daily: A review of Marco Pasanella's book Uncorked: My Journey Through the Crazy World of Wine. Trippy Food: The Coalition for Humane and Ethical Farming Standards (CHEFS) propose an alternative take on the foie ... More >>

Why I'm Fine With the 'Hipster Flip' Phenomenon

As the lease was set to expire on the Pasadena condo we're currently renting, I, my husband and our young spawn were in the market for a home to buy. Spring selling season is upon us and we wanted to buy while the market is still crapped out. Plus, having just closed escrow on our old place back in ... More >>

Why Highland Park Is the New Echo Park

Over the last couple of months I've been doing a lot of what a writer does best -- hanging out in bars and listening to people talk. I live in Echo Park, and around these parts the bar banter is usually centered around one question: what's cool. In L.A., the answer to that changes as quickly as the ... More >>

Matthew Phillipsen: Firefighter Busted Trying to Buy 7 Balloons of Heroin, LAPD Alleges

Michelle Irish​Fighting fires is a hardcore, heroic business. You bet your ass you want your first responder to be in good shape -- able to carry you out of harm's way if worst comes to worst. That's why this suspect is so damn scary:

Good Girl Dinette: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

El Huarache Azteca: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

You Can Check Out Any Time You Like

Night Gallery, Museum of Public Fiction and Other Eastside Experiments

"Poptails" All Around: Galco's & Charles Phoenix Band Together for the Southwest Museum

J. Ritz​ Galco's Soda Pop Stop is a magical place. For carbonated beverage fans, the Highland Park shop is a retail marvel, an unparalleled source of sweet bubblies and even some sour pops, and everything else along the soda flavor spectrum you knew and didn't know existed. Even folks whose be ... More >>

Cinco de Mayo Drunk Patrol in Full Effect Tonight Through The Weekend, Says LAPD

Horia Varlan​Updated after the jump with the sheriff's department and the CHP jumping in on the fun. A victory over the French is like saying you beat Andy Dick only using your left hand. Too easy. Still, any excuse is a good excuse to party, and, to be fair, Cinco de Mayo has become America' ... More >>

Food News Roundup: York Street, Mina Group Changes More Fake Food at McDonald's

-- A stroll down York Boulevard in Highland Park. [Grub Street] -- Musical kitchen chairs at Michael Mina's Mina Group. [Nation's Restaurant News] -- McDonald's in trouble for not putting any maple in their "fruit and maple oatmeal." Big surprise, eh? [Slashfood] -- The Second Obstacle to Sensib ... More >>

Music for Serious Midgets

The wonderfully obsessive world of Timothy Sellers' Artichoke

Cooking in Highland Park: The Book

Felicia FriesemaCooking in Highland Park...in Highland Park​ Locally focused cookbooks aren't uncommon in Los Angeles. There's the Santa Monica Farmers Market cookbook, The California Heritage Cookbook, Nancy Silverton's Sandwich Book, Sunday Suppers at Lucques, and on and on. But you can p ... More >>

Download an Entire Album for Free from Psychedelic Post-Poppers Random Patterns

"Rich Soil Pleasures" by Random Patterns​Highland Park's psychedelically inclined indie pop outfit Random Patterns has released a new album today and it's absolutely free. Rich Soil Pleasures is a seven-song set of layered-yet-light tunes that find the five-piece band laying down all manner o ... More >>

Art for Goal's Sake

Tragic Dinner Theatre: Greek Food With Your Greek Drama

Tragic Dinner Theatre​ If you like your Greek drama complete with Greek food -- and aren't feeling the urge to visit Greece anytime soon, which you wouldn't really, unless you're a member of the IMF -- there's an event for you this Sunday afternoon in Highland Park. Tragic Dinner Theatre will ... More >>

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON AT THE UCB?

Munching the Unmentionable

Where to find the foodie's equivalent of a snuff film. Or not

Highland Park's Villa Sombrero: The Return of a Neighborhood Favorite

Manuel Salazar and his family waited it out. They had operated Villa Sombrero, one of the long-standing Mexican restaurants in Highland Park , since the late 1970s. It's the sort of place you figure will always be there, because it seems it always had been. Just over a year ago, the land owner deci ... More >>

Allston Yacht Club: Where to Take the ’rents in Echo Park

Ask Mr. Gold: Where To Take Your Parents in Echo Park? Why, the Yacht Club, of Course

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menuDear Mr. Gold: My parents are coming to visit, very parenty parents, and I was wondering if you have any idea where I might take them for dinner in Echo Park or Highland Park on a Saturday night. I want to show them my neighborhood, but I'm think ... More >>

Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 258: Drunken Brawl Ends Bloody

Two neighbors are dead after a drunken early morning brawl October 31. According to police reports, both men had been drinking and the argument turned deadly around 3 a.m. in the 100 block of East Avenue 45, alongside the Pasadena (110) Freeway in Highland Park. View Larger Map Apparently, one man ... More >>

Nothing but Treats

New York Times Gentrifies Highland Park

There's nothing purer than the anger of someone whose neighborhood has been praised by the wrong people, for the wrong reason. A case in point is blogger Chimatli, who relates a story in L.A. Eastside in response to that Sunday New York Times piece on Highland Park ("few would ever confuse Highland ... More >>

Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 157, Man Beaten With Bottle in Highland Park

An unidentified Hispanic male was beaten to death with a bottle in the afternoon of July 13 in Highland Park.  View Larger Map An animal regulations officer witnessed the fatal attack and saw the culprit bash a glass bottle over the victim's head. The assailant, described as a Hispanic male in ... More >>

Sin Carne: Looking for Mexican Vegetarian Cooking

Finding the little-known Mexican herbs and vegetables at La Casita Mexicana in Bell

Ask Mr. Gold: Sin Carne, Looking for Mexican Vegetarian Cooking

Anne FishbeinCheese It: Moles La Tia's quesadillaDear Mr. Gold:       Would you happen to have a Mexican restaurant recommendation for the unemployed vegetarian librarian's budget? Gracias, Emily, Silver Lake  

Pork in the Time of Swine Flu: Mexico City's Pig Cuisine, Snout to Hoof

Highland Park's Antojitos Chilangos and Metro Balderas

Today in Photographs: March 10, 1946

Librarian's Point of View. This traffic accident occurred in front of Highland Park's Arroyo Seco branch of the public library. (Figueroa and Piedmont.) It involved a trolley car, a motorcycle and two cars. LAPL CollectionClick image to enlarge

My Taco: Frying High

Carne asada fries — the Everest of fine gabacho cuisine

Best Mask Since the Masque

Rockin’ in the Free World

Best Grooves for the Poverty Stricken

Race Divide

A white gang member is charged with threatening a black student in Pasadena

Avenues Gang Members Meet the End of the Road

But is Highland Park safe for blacks?

''They Wanted All Blacks Out''

Federal trial exposes the Avenues of hate

Blessed Homegirl

The Virgin of Guadalupe in Los Angeles

Avenues of Death

How Highland Park’s Latino gang targets African-Americans

Happy Balloons and Homicide

Entering the dangerous world of flier parties

Violations Validated

It’s cool to break zoning rules in Silver Lake for low-cost apartments

A Freeway Story

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