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Lincoln Heights

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2013

    Q & A With Southland's Mike Haro: Adobo Scouting, Where Cops Really Eat Manuel's Special Burrito

    When it comes to knowing Los Angeles' food mainstays, those who are visiting for the first time could do themselves a big favor by studying episodes of TNT's Southland (which also happens to be the best cop show on television). There are a handful of main characters on this Peabody-award winning ens ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2013

    Saul Robles: Dental Assistant Accused Of Sexually Molesting 15-Year-Old Patient

    Sheriff's officials this week said Saul Robles, a 36-year-old dental hygienist, has been molesting a 15-year-old patient for the past six months. Cops say the Lincoln Heights dental assistant was sexually molesting the victim during her dental visits. Robles was arrested recently ...

  • Art+Books

    January 24, 2013

    Night Gallery Opens a New Space Downtown, Transitioning From Feisty Alternative Space to a Full-Fledged Art Experience

    Sheriff's officials this week said Saul Robles, a 36-year-old dental hygienist, has been molesting a 15-year-old patient for the past six months. Cops say the Lincoln Heights dental assistant was sexually molesting the victim during her dental visits. Robles was arrested recently ...

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2012

    The Best End-of-the-World Parties In L.A. on Friday

    According to the Mayan calendar, the I-Ching and a range of biblical and secular prophecies, the world is supposed to come to an end on Friday. It's probably not true but what if it is? You're going to feel pretty dumb if you didn't spend your last evening dancing, eating, drinking and being merry. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2012

    6 Tasty Cold-Cut Subs Under $5 (Take That Subway!)

    When I was growing up, there was a little mom-and-pop supermarket in my town called Rainbow Market (over Thanksgiving I learned it had been recently replaced by a Wal-Mart, so it goes). As the main grocery in a small suburban town, it was the hub of most food shopping, and before any dedicated sandw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2012

    Woman Found Dead Near Downtown L.A.; Latest in String of Female Bodies on Eastside?

    L.A.'s Eastside and nearby neighborhoods have now seen four murders involving female victims, murders that have gone unsolved in the last two years. The LAPD has debunked community rumors that there's a serial killer on the loose, saying there are no links. (One case we've noted is in the neighbori ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2012

    Maria Castaneda's Body Found Near Tracks; Another Female Murdered in Central L.A?

    Is it our imagination, or have there been a lot of young women's bodies discovered in the central Los Angeles area in the last year or so? Another find was made yesterday morning in Vernon, just southeast of downtown. The remains were identified to the Weekly today by L.A. coroner's assistant chief ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2012

    Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Monster Drawing Rally

    This week, there's slap-dash sci-fi in Lincoln Heights, a game of consequence playing out online and mammoth, torn, dyed wool tapestries in Culver City. 5. Monster drawing rally Outpost for Contemporary Art started hosting Monster Drawing Rallies in 2008. Now that Outpost has moved its headquarters ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    January 26, 2012

    Breakfast in Los Angeles: Top 10 Spots

    Sweet, savory and in between

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    Bree'Anna Guzman-Ruiz Is Missing: Young Lincoln Heights Mom Went Out for Cough Syrup, Never Came Home

    Bree'Anna Guzman-Ruiz via Facebook​LAPD detectives are trying to track down a 22-year-old mother of two who went missing Monday night in Lincoln Heights. Bree'Anna Guzman-Ruiz, as she spells her name on Facebook, told her family on the evening after Christmas that she was going out to buy cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    5 Best Booze-and-Culture Pairings in L.A.

    We all know that a good drink -- or two, or three -- sometimes help to make high-minded cultural events somewhat more, let's say, palatable. Or it's a good way of convincing your friends to come along to the gallery exhibit you've been meaning to see for months. Either way, L.A. is a city where cock ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 24, 2011

    Doing the Work

    We all know that a good drink -- or two, or three -- sometimes help to make high-minded cultural events somewhat more, let's say, palatable. Or it's a good way of convincing your friends to come along to the gallery exhibit you've been meaning to see for months. Either way, L.A. is a city where cock ... More >>

  • Music

    November 3, 2011

    Low End Theory Anniversary

    The story of the influential party from those who created it

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    L.A. City Worker Allegedly Caught Drinking on The Job, Even Buying Alcohol Before Heading to Mayor Villaraigosa's House

    CBS2This guy.​Here's a little advice for L.A. city workers. Figure out when the quarterly "sweeps" TV ratings periods are and don't engage in any of your vices in the weeks leading up them. There, problem solved. Because if you don't take this advice, CBS2's David Goldstein might come looking ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    August 25, 2011

    Night Gallery, Museum of Public Fiction and Other Eastside Experiments

    CBS2This guy.​Here's a little advice for L.A. city workers. Figure out when the quarterly "sweeps" TV ratings periods are and don't engage in any of your vices in the weeks leading up them. There, problem solved. Because if you don't take this advice, CBS2's David Goldstein might come looking ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    Hipsteropolis Rising: Taste of the Eastside Food Festival

    Anne FishbeinAn egg sandwich from Auntie Em's​ Even though Hipsteropolis has completely arrived as a desirable part of town (at least if celebrity residents and real estate prices are any indication), it hasn't yet lost that little-brother, underdog feeling. Like UCLA football (not arrived) a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    Daniel Orona: Marijuana Dispensary-Adjacent Shooting in Lincoln Heights Claims Life of 25-Year-Old

    Google MapsThe Valley Boulevard block of the attack.​A man who was shot outside a Lincoln Heights pot shop last week has died, the LAPD said today. The attack in the 5400 block of Valley Boulevard not far from Cal State L.A. happened about 12:25 p.m. last Tuesday and appeared to be gang-relat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2010

    LAPD, L.A. Fire Department Shut Down Dance Club Night In Lincoln Heights

    CuriousJoshNobody move, nobody get hurt.​A Lincoln Heights dance club was shut down temporarily early Thursday as a result of alleged overcrowding, according to witnesses and authorities. It's the second such club closure since Friday, when fire and police officials put the brakes on an electr ... More >>

  • Music

    October 21, 2010

    Dance Club Pick: Where Did I Put My Undead Tony Wilson Costume?

    CuriousJoshNobody move, nobody get hurt.​A Lincoln Heights dance club was shut down temporarily early Thursday as a result of alleged overcrowding, according to witnesses and authorities. It's the second such club closure since Friday, when fire and police officials put the brakes on an electr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2010

    The heel's guide to L.A. tail: 1974's America's Best Pick Up Spots!

    ​ Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. America's Best Pick Up Spots! Author:Eric Weber & M. Rob Frazier Date: 1974 Publisher: Eric Weber Press, Tenafl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2010

    Activist Says City Park In Lincoln Heights Turned Into Dirt Parking Lot

    YouTube​Has Lincoln Park in Lincoln Heights been turned into a dirt parking lot? One activist says so, and he's not happy about it. The park houses the city's Plaza De La Raza and, according to YouTube, there's plenty of parking in the neighborhood, including curb-side spots. But for some reas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Vinyl of the Week: Stones Throw Restocks Dâm-Funk's 5LP Box o' Funk [MP3]

    In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community, believing that good music deserves much more than a handfu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2010

    HUNG- Hang The DJs Herculean Memorial Weekend Happening

    In our upcoming Nightranger column (out Thursday) we joined the mainstream masses in a major way (the American Idol finale at Nokia Theatre, a Sex and the City 2 party at Arclight and Jack Johnson on the Santa Monica Pier) but for Memorial Weekend it was all about a homier locale (as in "what up, ho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    Michael Riboli: Where The Nose Is

    Kevin ScanlonMichael Riboli​ Imagine: You need a jug of your favorite red, so you get in line behind the neighborhood locals at a lone railroad boxcar just south of the L.A. Basin, right next to Union Pacific. Your jug is filled by a proprietor who knows your name, and you fork over a few penn ... More >>

  • LA Life

    May 20, 2010

    Michael Riboli: Where the Nose Is

    Kevin ScanlonMichael Riboli​ Imagine: You need a jug of your favorite red, so you get in line behind the neighborhood locals at a lone railroad boxcar just south of the L.A. Basin, right next to Union Pacific. Your jug is filled by a proprietor who knows your name, and you fork over a few penn ... More >>

  • News

    March 6, 2010

    Black Lung Lofts

    Many children being raised in L.A.'s hip, new freeway-adjacent housing are damaged for life

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    Two New Restaurants Open: Brunch Fans Get One, Francophiles The Other

    Good news for fans of brunch on one side of town, and Francophiles on the other, as two new restaurants opened this past week. Cafe in the Heights opened on January 9th. It's not often that Lincoln Heights attracts attention west of La Brea. Not that this coffee shop has especially gourmet aims, but ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    Fire Department Cuts Could Have Contributed To Two Deaths, Union Official Says

    LAFD​City fire union president Pat McOsker called on the City Council on Wednesday to reinstate full staffing at the Los Angeles Fire Department, the lack of which, he argues, could have contributed to two recent deaths. In August the council imposed what the union calls intermittent, fire-co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2009

    Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 264, Man Kills Girlfriend Then Shoots Himself

    A 20-year-old man gunned down his 16-year-old girlfriend in Lincoln Heights, and then killed himself November 6. Juan Carlos Mendez shot his girlfriend Maria Valderrama in the back of the head about 8:35 p.m. after an argument in the 2400 block of Daly Street. View Larger Map He then ran off, but ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    Church of Fashion's Halloween Party at HM 157

    Liz OhanesianKnomi​ At close to midnight, there were twenty or thirty people inside the living room of HM157, the large, Victorian house that has become a center for the art community in Lincoln Heights and hosted Wednesday night's Church of Fashion party. Roughly half of that crowd was cram ... More >>

  • Music

    October 1, 2009

    Best of L.A.: Nightlife

    Liz OhanesianKnomi​ At close to midnight, there were twenty or thirty people inside the living room of HM157, the large, Victorian house that has become a center for the art community in Lincoln Heights and hosted Wednesday night's Church of Fashion party. Roughly half of that crowd was cram ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 227, Man Shot in Lincoln Heights

    A unidentified man standing on a Lincoln Heights sidewalk was shot in the face during a drive-by attack September 9. The victim, who was found by officers at 3:03 p.m. last Wednesday in the 2100 block of Parkside Avenue, died two days later of his injuries. View Larger Map Anyone with information ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    East of the 5: Skull-shattering Metal Mayhem Mondays at Footsies

    Metal Mondays Shatters Skulls in Highland Park.

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Don't Call Him "Padre" Sheik Qazi Asad has become the LAPD's first Muslim chaplain. The Pakistani-born cleric had previously worked as a Sheriff's Department liaison to the county's Islamic community. L.A. Times Time to Pay Los Angeles County's sales tax jumps half a percent to 9.75 percent on July ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Today in Photographs

    L.A. QuartetFour pictures in the day of the life of a city. The left-hand frames are from 1952: A 27-year-old mother of three, arrested for being drunk, sits in the Lincoln Heights jail; below, William E. McReynolds, a painter who lived at 1149 Echo Park Avenue, shows off a gizmo that traps smog. In ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2009

    Lincoln Hts. Jail: A Hard Cell for Condo Conversion?

    The Eastsider L.A. poses the tantalizing possibility that the old Lincoln Heights Jail could be converted to loft spaces. (I'm waiving all rights to jokes and puns here to cut to the chase.) The under-employed jail, whose storied cells have been home to Minsky's burlesque queen Betty Rowland, a youn ... More >>

  • Music

    November 20, 2008

    Dance Club Picks: Kraak and Smaak, West Indian Girl DJ Set, Dan Sena, Killed By Synth

    The Eastsider L.A. poses the tantalizing possibility that the old Lincoln Heights Jail could be converted to loft spaces. (I'm waiving all rights to jokes and puns here to cut to the chase.) The under-employed jail, whose storied cells have been home to Minsky's burlesque queen Betty Rowland, a youn ... More >>

  • LA Life

    October 2, 2008

    Best Costco of Thrift Stores: Lincoln Heights St. Vincent de Paul

    The Eastsider L.A. poses the tantalizing possibility that the old Lincoln Heights Jail could be converted to loft spaces. (I'm waiving all rights to jokes and puns here to cut to the chase.) The under-employed jail, whose storied cells have been home to Minsky's burlesque queen Betty Rowland, a youn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2008

    Where's the Guacamole?

    The first annual Guacamole Festival, though light on the green stuff, was a good-spirited and relatively well-attended community fundraising event to benefit Sacred Heart High School in Lincoln Heights. Unfortunately, on Saturday blistering heat kept many people away and the guacamole mostly in ... More >>

  • Stage

    March 13, 2008

    Concrete Folk Variations, Chapter One: Death of a Sugar Daddy

    The first annual Guacamole Festival, though light on the green stuff, was a good-spirited and relatively well-attended community fundraising event to benefit Sacred Heart High School in Lincoln Heights. Unfortunately, on Saturday blistering heat kept many people away and the guacamole mostly in ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 6, 2008

    Concrete Folk Variations, Chapter One: Death of a Sugar Daddy

    The first annual Guacamole Festival, though light on the green stuff, was a good-spirited and relatively well-attended community fundraising event to benefit Sacred Heart High School in Lincoln Heights. Unfortunately, on Saturday blistering heat kept many people away and the guacamole mostly in ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    Blood & Dumplings Crime Bus Tour

    The first annual Guacamole Festival, though light on the green stuff, was a good-spirited and relatively well-attended community fundraising event to benefit Sacred Heart High School in Lincoln Heights. Unfortunately, on Saturday blistering heat kept many people away and the guacamole mostly in ... More >>

  • LA Life

    July 19, 2007

    Mods & Rejects

    What to do in Los Angeles this week

  • News

    February 24, 2005

    Davids and Goliaths

    A few upstarts try to overcome the odds in four races

  • News

    August 26, 2004

    Not in My Neighborhood Council

    What can save L.A.’s broken neighborhood councils?

  • Eat+Drink

    May 15, 2003

    Ask Mr. Gold

    What can save L.A.’s broken neighborhood councils?

  • Calendar

    July 25, 2002

    Sidewalk Service

    A photo essay

  • News

    May 2, 2002

    By the Book

    Reacting to a molestation complaint at my old parish

  • News

    June 22, 2000

    Troubled Solution

    Calls to halt cleanup at William Mead go unheeded

  • News

    February 24, 2000

    Her Last Worry

    Lucy Esquivel blamed the tainted soil for her cancer

  • More >>
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