Lincoln Heights

August is National Sandwich Month! 31 Sandwiches in Los Angeles To Celebrate

The sandwich: named for John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, because he liked to eat his meat between bread so he could continue playing cribbage. But the sandwich actually dates back much further, to 110 BCE or so, when Jewish sage Hillel the Elder wrapped lamb and herbs in soft matzah. Today in Ame ... More >>

Party Pick of the Week: Happy Birthday, HM 157

HM 157 3110 N. Broadway, Lincoln Heights, Sat., July 20, all day Historical Monument 157 -- also known as HM 157, an events space in a Lincoln Heights Victorian house -- has been holding wild, outside-the-box events for the past five years. This weekend, its birthday party "Mega Extravaganza" offer ... More >>

DUI Checkpoints Tonight in Lincoln Heights, Van Nuys

After a flurry of anti-drunk-driving operations this spring, culminating with a massive Cinco de Mayo crackdown, the cops around here seem to be mellowing out. Maybe just a little. Our weekend DUI cheat sheet contains info on only three checkpoints (that we know of). Here you go:

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 >>

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 ...

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Breakfast in Los Angeles: Top 10 Spots

Sweet, savory and in between

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 >>

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 >>

Doing the Work

Low End Theory Anniversary

The story of the influential party from those who created it

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 >>

Night Gallery, Museum of Public Fiction and Other Eastside Experiments

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Michael Riboli: Where the Nose Is

Black Lung Lofts

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Best of L.A.: Nightlife

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 >>

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

Metal Mondays Shatters Skulls in Highland Park.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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

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 >>

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

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

Blood & Dumplings Crime Bus Tour

Davids and Goliaths

A few upstarts try to overcome the odds in four races

Not in My Neighborhood Council

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

Ask Mr. Gold

Sidewalk Service

A photo essay

By the Book

Reacting to a molestation complaint at my old parish

Troubled Solution

Calls to halt cleanup at William Mead go unheeded

Her Last Worry

Lucy Esquivel blamed the tainted soil for her cancer