Los Angeles River

L.A. River's Army Corps Plan: Will the Feds Come Through?

Funding to re-green the concrete river could bring $1 billion, or just $444 million

Carmageddon on 5 Freeway Following Tanker Fire

The good news, if there is any, is that a tanker fire that essentially turned the 5 freeway near Atwater Village into a parking lot happened on a Saturday morning, when most of us weren't there. Of course, the rest is all bad, including the fact that the northbound 5 and much of the southbound free ... More >>

L.A. River Creatures OK After 5 Freeway Tanker Fire

The horrific spill of 8,500 gallons of blazing gas from an overturned truck at the 2 and 5 freeways that poured through storm drains -- and toward the L.A. River -- spared thousands of creatures who in the region's important bird flyway. That's right -- Los Angeles River is an important bird flyway ... More >>

L.A. River Opens for Recreation, Isn't Yucky

"I feel a little itchy, I'm not going to lie." Tyler Sedustine has just emerged from the Los Angeles River, his dripping wet two-and-a-half-year-old son Elijah ensconced in his arms. That his first instinct is to hose off will likely strike few Angelenos as strange. Just twenty-four hours previous, ... More >>

Los Angeles River Opens to Boaters For First Time Since 1930s

See also: Grand Opening of the New L.A. River Recreation Zone. For the first time ever -- well, not really ever, but almost -- the Los Angeles River will be open to kayakers and fishermen (and women). This new era of openness starts Monday, Memorial Day, and lasts through Labor Day. This welcome m ... More >>

Duck Art Wades Into Los Angeles River (PHOTOS)

You're probably more likely to see a floating body than waterfowl in the Los Angeles River. But things are improving. The federal government declared it a "traditional navigable waterway" in 2010 and LA River Expeditions will take you for a boat trip this summer. The improvements haven't stopped an ... More >>

Army Corps' Eco-Disaster in Valley

Army Corps homophobia may have prompted destruction of 40 acres of habitat

L.A. River Now Officially a River, Not a Flood Channel, Says Governor Brown

See also: "The Los Angeles River Is A 'Navigable Waterway?' Indeed, According To The EPA." No more jokes about how the Los Angeles River is more just a soggy trash chute than a place of nature, OK? Got it? Because as of yesterday, according to Friends of the Los Angeles River, California Governor ... More >>

20 Most Embarrassing Things Found in the Los Angeles River by Cleanup Volunteers

The Los Angeles "River" is sort of a joke in this town: It looks more like a long ugly concrete gutter than anything an egret or magical swamp fairy would call home. Maybe that explains why we treat it like our own personal trash chute! Beginning a couple decades ago, a group called Friends of the ... More >>

High School Students Create Environmental Billboards with Cell Phone Pictures

By Andra Lim Four billboards featuring images high school students snapped with cellphones will go up at the north side of Los Angeles State Historic Park tomorrow. As part of an eco-internship, 20 local students worked with UCLA's Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance (REMAP) ... More >>

New Farmers Market at the Autry National Museum

Not content to run just one farmers market adjacent to Griffith Park, the folks who brought us the Yamashiro Farmers Market -- which reopened for the season on April 5th -- are now aiming east and will be launching a new destination farmers market at the Autry National Center, across the street fro ... More >>

Do We Really Deserve Our River?

L.A. Redistricting: Eric Garcetti's District 13 Looks Like an Evil Squirrel

Simone Wilson​While gazing at the recently proposed boundaries for L.A.'s 15 voting districts -- which is clearly what we like to do in our spare time -- we realized that the gerrymandered City Council District 13 is the spitting image of an evil squirrel. And so begins our (badly Photoshoppe ... More >>

L.A. Beaches Are Dirtier This Year, But a Surf Spot Called 'Shitpipe' Gets an A For Water Quality (Go Figure)

Heal the Bay​We know our friends at the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau are always hard at work thinking of new ways to attract tourists to our fair city. Heal the Bay's latest L.A. Beach Report Card suggests some new attractions, such as lumpy water, waves you can smell, and, of ... More >>

An Experimental Video Smorgasbord

REDCAT's Artist Theater Program

SoCal Storm Kickoff: Long Beach Firefighters Rescue Three Homeless Men From Los Angeles River, Traffic Ensues

Hard out there on the Los Angeles River​Updated after the jump: All the storm that's fit to print, including 100 car crashes in three hours this morning. Oh, L.A. In what KNX news radio is calling a "dramatic water rescue," the Long Beach Fire Department pulled three homeless men from the Los ... More >>

Long Beach Man Who Set Self On Fire, Potentially IDed As Richard McGee, Dies In Hospital; Parents Haven't Heard From Him In Over A Decade

A Long Beach man committed suicide next to the Los Angeles River on Monday night​Yesterday morning, we reported that a badly burned Long Beach man had been discovered by firemen and paramedics on Monday night -- he was engulfed in flames next to the concrete channel that cradles the Los Angele ... More >>

50,000-Gallon Load Of Sewage Runs Down Los Angeles River To Long Beach

Look, Billy! A turd!​Update: The stretch of Long Beach possibly contaminated by the sewage was reopened today. We hear they did tests and stuff, but still -- swim at your own risk. Originally posted on Wednesday, Nov. 4 at 1:15 p.m. Excellently timed during fall's final heat wave, a pressuriz ... More >>

CicLAvia Los Angeles Is A Facebook Environmental Bicycling Dessert-Chomping Mashup, So Just Go

Doesn't have to be a bike​At first Ciclavia looked like a lame "million trees" idea from Antonio Villaraigosa, but the bicycling community breathed big-time life into it. The city is closing 7.5 miles of Los Angeles streets, Sunday 10-3, for bicycling and walking. Get off your butts and go! Here ... More >>

The Los Angeles River Is A 'Navigable Waterway?' Indeed, According To The EPA

​Reporters, urban explorers and environmentalists have been canoeing down the Los Angeles River since at least 1958, often as a jaw-dropping stunt to draw attention to the contrast between concrete jungle and undeterred nature along the waterway. Now the river has been declared a "traditional ... More >>

First-Of-Its-Kind Injunction Filed Against Prolific L.A. Tagging Crew

waltarrrrr via Flickr​The Los Angeles City Attorney's office Wednesday stated it has filed a first-of-its-kind permanent injunction against an L.A. tagging crew. Ten adult members of the organization known as Metro Transit Assassins were targeted in the filing, according to a statement from th ... More >>

Suspect Arrested In Hotel Manager's Slaying Was Found Walking Nearby

Google MapsThe Chetwood Hotel.​Police say the 39-year-old suspect arrested in the murder of a 74-year-old Little Tokyo hotel manager was found walking nearby and taken into custody. Los Angeles police allege Jian Hong Li fatally stabbed 74-year-old residential hotel manager Hideko Oyama Jan. ... More >>

Gang-Turf Tour Of L.A. To Offer Safe View Of "Top Crime Scene Locations"

Alfred Lomas.​Los Angeles has its star maps, Starline Tours of actors' homes, even "The Real Black Dahlia" bus tour. Now our fine city has L.A. Gang Tours, a journey that promises "a true first-hand encounter of the history and origin of high profile gang areas and the top crime scene location ... More >>

L.A. River Goes Corporate: Land To Be Developed For Beautification

Friends of the Los Angeles River​The concrete jungle that is the Los Angeles River just got its own corporation this week. According to the Associated Press (via KPCC, 89.3 FM) the Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation will get to buy, sell and develop property along the river from the ... More >>

Compton Creek Cleanup OK'd

Compton Creek, an eight and a half-mile trickle of water that miraculously runs through some of L.A. County's grimiest landscapes, is a significant step closer to receiving an ecological makeover. On Wednesday the County Board of Supervisors, prodded by South L.A. Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, unan ... More >>

Return of the Native Habitat

Yesterday a ribbon-cutting ceremony marked a slight, cautious return of native environment toWikipedia the Sepulveda Basin, in the form of Bull Creek's revitalization. The "ecosystem restoration project," as it's known in bureau parlance, provides about 28 acres of aquatic and riparian habitat as it ... More >>

Stage Raw: Touch the Water

This latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded within this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; also, see this week's THEATER FEATURE on El Ogrito (The Ogreling) and Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad ZooHALF OF PLENTYHalf of Plenty Photo by John FlynnThe West Coast premiere of Lisa Dillman's play "on le ... More >>

The Gathering: Guatemalteca's Newest Snack and Chat

The beloved Beverly Boulevard bakery and chapines shop expands its reach

L.A. River Really Floats Their Boats

Lawbreaking kayakers try to change an urban river's sad course

Parks and Wreck: L.A.'s Fight for Public Green Space

In search of the Emerald City

Arroyo Seco Mural Feud

Nipples are out, as the county declares an “emergency” — and blames Friends of the L.A. River

Fight Over Arroyo Seco Mural and Whitewash Keeps Going

Matthew Flesicher wrote a piece in the news section about the County calling an "emergency" over the properly permitted art project held in the Arroyo Seco in September. Standing on a bridge overlooking the confluence of the Arroyo Seco and Los Angeles rivers, Friends of the Los Angeles River fou ... More >>

The Royal Treatment

Royal Claytons

The Lost Streams of Los Angeles

Uncovering our wet and wild past. Is it safe, or even possible, to let the water flow again?

The River Guide

Joe Linton

11 Cool Views of the L.A. River

A Scary Abundance of Water

Growing up with the San Fernando Valley

Get Wet

Green City

Four vital steps toward a better L.A. in under two weeks

Berlin Journal

Bomb the Love Republik

Take Me to the River

L.A.’s hopes for a new park

Total Immersion

Running the Salmon River

Money Fields

End of the line for L.A. River park

Landscape Desired

Los Angeles, past and future

Letters

Taming the Wild Trickle

A Gray-Water Adventure on the Mighty L.A.

Letters

Remember Him?

A River Should Run Through It

Repairing downtown, riparianly