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Highland Park (Brooklyn)

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    Highland Park Kitchen Opens on York Blvd. What's Happening in Highland Park

    Highland Park Kitchen on York Blvd. had been open for only about ten days in early March before a front page L.A. Times article declared Highland Park a soon-to-be "outpost of hipster cool" with York Blvd. its "ground zero." In recent years, the northeast L.A. neighborhood has seen an influx of hip, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    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:

  • Eat+Drink

    November 10, 2011

    Good Girl Dinette: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

    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:

  • Eat+Drink

    November 10, 2011

    El Huarache Azteca: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

    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:

  • Calendar

    September 22, 2011

    You Can Check Out Any Time You Like

    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:

  • Art+Books

    August 25, 2011

    Night Gallery, Museum of Public Fiction and Other Eastside Experiments

    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:

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    "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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    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

    September 30, 2010

    Music for Serious Midgets

    The wonderfully obsessive world of Timothy Sellers' Artichoke

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2010

    Nibble Bit Tabby Opens: L.A.'s 2nd Official Brewery

    Guzzle & NoshBrian Lethcoe, co-owner and brewer of Nibble Bit Tabby Brewery​ When Brian Lethcoe cuts the ribbon tomorrow morning, it will mark the "official" opening of Nibble Bit Tabby Brewery, only the second legal brewery within Los Angeles city limits. In fact, Lethcoe, a local boy who was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    June 3, 2010

    Art for Goal's Sake

    "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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    February 18, 2010

    WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON AT THE UCB?

    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 >>

  • Eat+Drink

    January 28, 2010

    Munching the Unmentionable

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

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    Get The Chef A Drink: What 10 LA Chefs Pour When They Need a Stiff One

    Two waiters didn't show up for their shift, the rookie line cook spilled vinegar on the $500 truffle, and Kogi just had to park a few feet from the valet stand. How do chefs cope when Saturday night's dinner service turns into a Kitchen Nightmares episode? Sometimes they pour themselves a stiff drin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2009

    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 >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 5, 2009

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    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 >>

  • Music

    October 15, 2009

    Nothing but Treats

    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 >>

  • Music

    October 1, 2009

    Best of L.A.: Nightlife

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    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 >>

  • Eat+Drink

    June 18, 2009

    Good Girl Dinette: Depression-Era Dining

    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 >>

  • Eat+Drink

    May 21, 2009

    Sin Carne: Looking for Mexican Vegetarian Cooking

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

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2009

    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  

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2009

    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

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2008

    Alleged Avenues Gangsters Plead Not Guilty to Cop Killing

    Two alleged Avenues gangsters pleaded not guilty in downtown Los Angeles today to capital murder charges stemming from the August 2 shooting of a 27-year-old Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputy as he was preparing to go to work at the Men's Central Jail. Juan Escalante was shot from behind about five ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 22, 2007

    My Taco: Frying High

    Carne asada fries — the Everest of fine gabacho cuisine

  • News

    October 5, 2006

    Best Mask Since the Masque

    Carne asada fries — the Everest of fine gabacho cuisine

  • News

    October 5, 2006

    Rockin’ in the Free World

    Best Grooves for the Poverty Stricken

  • News

    August 24, 2006

    The Evidence Room: Five Signs You're Gentrifying

    Best Grooves for the Poverty Stricken

  • News

    August 10, 2006

    Race Divide

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

  • News

    August 3, 2006

    Avenues Gang Members Meet the End of the Road

    But is Highland Park safe for blacks?

  • News

    July 27, 2006

    ''They Wanted All Blacks Out''

    Federal trial exposes the Avenues of hate

  • Columns

    May 11, 2006

    Blessed Homegirl

    The Virgin of Guadalupe in Los Angeles

  • News

    July 14, 2005

    Avenues of Death

    How Highland Park’s Latino gang targets African-Americans

  • Eat+Drink

    December 2, 2004

    Nueva York

    How Highland Park’s Latino gang targets African-Americans

  • News

    December 2, 2004

    Happy Balloons and Homicide

    Entering the dangerous world of flier parties

  • News

    April 29, 2004

    Hubert Selby Jr., 1928–2004

    Entering the dangerous world of flier parties

  • News

    April 22, 2004

    Violations Validated

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

  • Columns

    January 8, 2004

    A Freeway Story

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

  • Eat+Drink

    November 6, 2003

    Ask Mr. Gold

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

  • News

    September 5, 2002

    Letters

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

  • News

    March 4, 1999

    The Eastside’s Prague Spring

    Alatorre goeth, perestroika cometh

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