Highland Park (Brooklyn)

Can Echo Park Hipsters be Safe From Gangs?

The City Attorney's office wants to create a 3.8 mile gang-free zone around Echo Park. Perhaps it's a sign of gentrification and the need to protect hipsters on the streets. It'll be an uphill battle. To be fair, the office calls it a "safety zone" and doesn't seem to go so far as to say these barr ... More >>

More Events: The Hungry Cat's 2-Year Anniversary, Casino Angeleno Taste of the Eastside

The Hungry Cat's Two-Year Anniversary David Lentz is celebrating the second anniversary of The Hungry Cat's Santa Monica location by offering happy hour menu and oysters at half price all day today. WHAT: The Hungry Cat's Two-Year Anniversary WHEN: Thursday, April 25 WHERE: The Hungry Cat, 100 W. C ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, March 29 Fol Chen BOOTLEG THEATER Fol Chen is one of the most creative bands in the local electro-pop underground, conjuring unusual sounds that flutter, mutate, shimmer and trail sparks just as colorfully as the flying fish and luminous butterflies in Oz the Great and Powerful. While the m ... More >>

Pompeii east of L.A.

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including '90s Flashbacks

This week, it's all about looking back: One artist revisits 1993 L.A., another borrows the palette of teen pop from 20-some years ago and a museum show features graphically bold, grittily political art of the '80s. 5. What art even is When the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston changed its nam ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including 'The Happiness Show'

See also: *Asshole Festival 2013: Artists Yell at the Assholes of Los Angeles From a Street Corner in Chinatown *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week, a designer explains happiness in West Hollywood, a fact-blurring foreign correspondent's office opens in Highland ... More >>

Highland Park Bar Report: The York

The Place: The York, 5018 York Blvd., Los Angeles; 323-255-9675. The Hours: 10:30a.m.-2 a.m. Mon..-Sun. The Digs: At Highland Park's The York, a towering shelf of booze looms over the L-shaped bar. Televisions partially obscured by low-hanging bulbs come to life with Lakers games, and a stretch o ... More >>

4 Places to Go for Bottomless Mimosas

For those who see brunch as an extension of weekend festivities, there is the bottomless mimosa, a drink that is kept refilled until you either call it quits or brunch hours end. It's typically made of equal parts sparkling wine (more often Champagne) and chilled orange juice (preferably fresh-squee ... More >>

Matthewdavid's Psychedelic Soul Music Is Not Exactly That

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] "All profoundly original art looks ugly at first," opined art critic Clement Greenberg. He was alluding to the abstract expressionism that he helped to p ... More >>

He's OK, We're OK

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Warrior Snowman and a New Bridge Over the 210 in Arcadia

This week, artists contemplate the end of the Mayan calendar, Metro debuts its strange new Gold Line bridge and a group exhibition experiments in portraiture. 5. Live-streaming the end times The supposed upcoming apocalypse triggered by the end of the Mayan calendar has become a fixation. This wee ... More >>

The Best Musicians in L.A., 2012

Our Best Of issue just hit stands! We found our fairy tale, and now we present it to you: 435 of the most fabulous things in all of Los Angeles. From the city's most amazing restaurants to its tawdriest dive bars, from its edgiest art exhibits to the top spots for live music, we've got it all covere ... More >>

The Best Punk Shows to See in L.A. This Month

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Sunday, September 9th Restavrant Echoplex Upon seeing the spelling of Restavrant's name you may ask, "Why are they misspelled like that?" Who fucking cares? This Texas-bred, L.A.-based duo's shows will have you pogo-ing, st ... More >>

Eat This Now: Flan

Tacos, tequila and one more dish should be an ingredient for a proper Cinco de Mayo feast. On menus from Highland Park's My Taco to downtown's Border Grill to Santa Monica's El Chollo to almost every Mexican or Spanish-accented eatery in between, under desserts (postres) there will be flan. The ubiq ... More >>

From Highland Park to Venice Beach, Our New Columnist Finds That the Cocktail Moment Has Become a Movement

Henry Wolfe, Leftover Cuties, Adam Arcuragi, Jail Weddings - Some Guy's Living Room - 4/28/12

See also: East L.A. Backyard Punk Scene Rages On Henry Wolfe, Leftover Cuties, Adam Arcuragi, Jail Weddings A Highland Park living room 4/28/12 Better than... spending Saturday night in your own living room, unless you're naked and with someone special, in which case, yeah. Irony is not dead, but ... More >>

Stopping 2,000 Barking Dogs

Obnoxious L.A. pet owners face $250 fine

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Jeffrey Vallance on Blinky, the Friendly Hen

Courtesy Marc Foxx William Daniels' "Untitled" oil painting, on view at Marc Foxx Gallery through November 12​ My agenda includes a couple risks -- eight hours of United Nations-style debating and a visit to a temporary hotel room. Then there are the sure bets -- a lecture by an inimitably cle ... More >>

Larry Bell Gets a Restaurant, Larry's, Where the Opening was a Pacific Standard Time Reunion

Tibby RothmanThe man himself, artist Larry Bell (l.) and art critic Peter Frank (r.) at the recent artists' party for Larry's, a new restaurant in Venice​ Almost all you need to know about artist Larry Bell is written on a wall at Larry's, the recently-opened restaurant that bears his name, li ... More >>

Mini Sneak Peek Of L.A.'s Best Coffee App: 4 Coffee Bars

T. NguyenEspresso Cielo in Santa Monica​ If you read our interview with Mark Lamberton earlier today, you'd know that the London-based younger brother of Blue Crow Media's Derek Lamberton was recently dispatched to Los Angeles to swig untold cups of coffee as research for their upcoming L.A.'s ... More >>

Car-Free Eating

Nondrivers should look to downtown

Pork, Glorious Pork

Quell carnitas craving at Cacao Mexicatessen

Airto Moreira, Brazilian Percussion Legend (and "Bitches Brew" Sideman) Playing Intimate Gig...at Footsie's?

Miles Davis' Percussionist Brings Brazil to Footsie's

Kid-Friendly Tacos

On four wheels, no later than 7 p.m.

Ask Mr. Gold: Kid-Friendly Tacos On Four Wheels, No Later Than 7 p.m.

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: As a mother of two kids young enough to still like noodles but old enough to make fun of Justin Bieber, I find myself in search of a kid-friendly taco truck. Good old-school tacos: no fusion, no Kogi lines. Anywhere from Venice to Pasaden ... More >>

Welcome To America, Now Give Us Your Car: Do Los Angeles Area DUI Checkpoints Target Poorer Areas, Immigrants?

dogwelder via Flickr​A report in La Opinion this week (Google translate) indicates that, yeah, cops tend to target immigrant neighborhoods when they set up DUI checkpoints. Why? Maybe because so many unlicensed drivers -- illegal immigrants can't get California licenses -- means police can seize l ... More >>

Procreation

Food at Dwell on Design, the 2010 Restaurant Design Awards A Cocktail Naming Competition

Matt SchodorfCafé de Leche in Highland Park designed by FreelandBuck.​ It's that time of year again, when Dwell on Design takes over the aesthetically challenged L.A. Convention Center with many food-centric events during the weekend of June 25th through 27th. First off, finalists for the s ... More >>

Alleged Cop Killer Admits to Avenues Gangster: "I Fucked Up"

An Avenues gangster testified in court that an alleged cop killer said he "fucked up" when he heard the news that he fatally shot Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Juan Escalante in the early morning hours of August 2, 2008. Deputy Juan Escalante​ Greg Mondragon, 15, was one of a handful of D ... More >>

Vampire Weekend Keyboardist to Debut New 'Boys Like Us' Project in Highland Park [MP3]

'Batman' is in his name.​This just in. On Friday, May 21, Vampire Weekend keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij will debut his new Boys Like Us project at The Highlands in Highland Park. No word as to whether or not he'll bring his own band, but Batmanglij will be accompanied by the Calder Quartet, t ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Tableside With Legends

EXCLUSIVE FREE MP3: Random Patterns' New Single 'Psychedelic Luau' Remixed by Learning Music

​Highland Park's Random Patterns revealed the first single off their new album Rich Soil Pleasures. It picks up where last summer's Creatures Of Teeth left off, pushing psychedelic post-pop through tropical sounds, rock of all ages, galactic noise, and big band hysterics. The aptly-titled "P ... More >>

The Mexican Binge

When a visitor wants nothing but

Brick's Picks: Eye and Ear Control

Eastside Sound System: Lady Kate & Stone's "Tuff Rock Soul" Tonight at Footsies

You may have noticed that Lady Kate & Stone, the impeccably hip DJ couple who man and woman the decks on Tuesday nights at Highland Park institution Footsies, have been MIA for the last few weeks. Do not worry: they are back and they have a really good excuse for their absence.Sounds that will make ... More >>

Well-Preserved: Playa del Rey, Ennio Morricone and the L.A. Burrito

Fol Chen Release Free Digital Album w/ Remixes from Liars, Rafter, Dublab (MP3s)

With all the enigma Fol Chen collective seems to ooze, it wouldn't be entirely surprising to find out that the Highland Park band has deep-seated ties to Freemasonry. And now this mysterious missive from Fol Chen's label, Asthmatic Kitty: "The pyramid was built, the plans set in motion, necessary ... More >>

Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 162, Boy, 4, Stabbed in Apparent Murder-Suicide

Homicide investigators are still trying to figure out why a woman apparently stabbed her four-year-old son with a kitchen knife and then slit her wrists in their Highland Park home on July 18. The two bodies were found around 9 a.m. at a home in the 300 block of Vista Place, near Garvanza Park. ... More >>

A Tale of Two Deaths: University Park v. Highland Park

This morning Claudia Cabrera is due to appear at the Criminal Courts Building to set the date for a preliminary hearing regarding the hit and run accident that killed USC student Adrianna Bachan and seriously injured fellow student Marcus Garfinkle. Today's L.A. Times reports on the inevitable discr ... More >>

LA People 2009: Spokesmen — Bicycle Oven's Josef and Adam Bray-Ali

Their single-gear Flying Pigeon bikes are all over the city, and on weekends the boys take to the streets of Alhambra for monthly dim sum rides, leading a parade of hungry rollers

Kid Congo Powers Covers Cramps and Gun Club at SXSW, Thrills Imo's

The first official night of South By Southwest music, you'd think, would be kind of a pace-setter, a warm-up night. But no, even if you arrive late and think you're going to do some stretching and calisthenics, grab an easy dinner, before really cooking it on Thursday, something calls you from bey ... More >>

Young Guns

Spindrift, Crooked Cowboy and how the New West was won

Sole Food

Highland Park, home of the huarache – also, links to Jonathan Gold's rounds as a public radio guest after winning the Pulizter Prize

Welcome to Gentrification City

Teardowns. Evictions. Investment. Rebirth. And the significance of that new gelato stand. The perils and pleasures of gentrification

Revels Without a Pause

The backyard party life of teens

An Anti-Pretty Pretty Boy

Charles Stolarek and His Wooden Mustache

Glendale and Vicinity

Hot Spot

Unbroken Will

Shattered window won’t silence project foe