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MacArthur Park

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Exclusive: Levitt Pavilions Announce Summer Line-ups

    In an exclusive to West Coast Sound, the Levitt Pavilions in Pasadena and MacArthur Park have revealed the lineups to their massive, free summer concert series -- almost 100 shows between the two venues. This year features everything from Latin alternative to folk, indie and world music. Highlights ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    7 Things to Do Under $7 in L.A. This Week

    Bibliophiles, engine-loathing cyclists and fans of absurd but beautiful Technicolor art can probably leave their wallets at home this week, at least if they're looking for something fun to do.

  • Calendar

    April 12, 2012

    It's Pronounced "Cic-la-VEE-a"

    Bibliophiles, engine-loathing cyclists and fans of absurd but beautiful Technicolor art can probably leave their wallets at home this week, at least if they're looking for something fun to do.

  • Blogs

    December 26, 2011

    MacArthur Park Hotel Murder on Christmas: Woman Beaten to Death in Suspect's Room

    Maids at the Olympic Hotel near MacArthur Park stumbled across a gruesome scene as the clock struck midnight, bringing Christmas to a close. A woman in her 40s whose name has not yet been released lay dead in a vacated room, LAPD homicide detectives tell City News Service. And the man who had rente ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    Food Vendor Crackdown in MacArthur Park Area Just in Time For Tamale Season: Immigrants' Rights Activists to Stage Protest

    Ryan Myers​It's tamale season in L.A. And if you haven't put your holiday order in to your friendly, neighborhood, cart-pushing vendor yet, you better get moving. Except if you live in the MacArthur Park / Westlake district near downtown, where immigrants' rights activists say cops have been ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    Street Food Vendor Protest TODAY

    Guzzle & NoshStreet food vendors in Tijuana, Mexico.​ Street food vendors are staging a protest today at 4:30 p.m. outside the Metro subway station on Alvarado and Seventh streets (that's near Langer's, for you gluttons) to protest the LAPD's crackdown on allegedly illicit street food vendors. ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 22, 2011

    Best Free Ride

    Guzzle & NoshStreet food vendors in Tijuana, Mexico.​ Street food vendors are staging a protest today at 4:30 p.m. outside the Metro subway station on Alvarado and Seventh streets (that's near Langer's, for you gluttons) to protest the LAPD's crackdown on allegedly illicit street food vendors. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Ana Tijoux and Zuzuka Poderosa - Levitt Pavilion at MacArthur Park - 8/11/11

    Giovanni SolisAna Tijoux​WHO: Ana Tijoux with Zuzuka Poderosa WHERE: Levitt Pavilion at MacArthur Park WHEN: 8/11/11 Better than ...the ol' boys club The lady rappers who owned MacArthur Park's outdoor stage last night popped thick, multilingual rhymes at the mic -- all the while, we must po ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Learn How to be a Drug Dealer Via Facebook's 'Weeds Social Club' Game

    ​So you want to be a weed dealer? You could try to open a shop in L.A. (good luck, following the city's crackdown). And there's always the sidewalk on Alvarado Street in MacArthur Park (if you don't get shot by rivals first). But maybe the most trouble-free way to become a homegrown slanger o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Manuel Jamines: MacArthur Park-Area Protest Fizzles Out After LAPD Officer Exonerated; Another Protest at D.A.'s Office Today

    Dennis RomeroA sign for the LAPD.​That protest that cops braced for near MacArthur Park? Turns out to have been a big dud. Not that we blame the LAPD for preparing. After all, the target of demonstrators' ire was the department itself. And the last time the topic came up -- the September sho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    Manuel Jamines: Protest Near MacArthur Park Tonight After L.A. Police Commission, D.A. Say Cop Was Right to Shoot Immigrant

    Ted SoquiPolice last summer in Westlake.​Update: The mayor's statement, after the jump. Following conclusions today that last summer's shooting of a Guatemalan day laborer in the Westlake district was within policy and not a crime, immigrants rights activists planned a 5 p.m. protest near Mac ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    January 20, 2011

    Car-Free Eating

    Nondrivers should look to downtown

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    Ask Mr. Gold: Where To Eat & Live In L.A. If You Don't Have A Car

    Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: What's the best neighborhood in L.A. to live in if you don't have a car? Purely within the gastronomical interest, of course. --Sophia Lee, via Facebook Dear Ms. Lee: Although my first impulse was to nominate San Gabriel or Monterey Park ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 28, 2010

    RALLY TIME!

    Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: What's the best neighborhood in L.A. to live in if you don't have a car? Purely within the gastronomical interest, of course. --Sophia Lee, via Facebook Dear Ms. Lee: Although my first impulse was to nominate San Gabriel or Monterey Park ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Is Notorious MacArthur Park The Right Place For Jon Stewart's 'Rally To Restore Sanity?'

    Does Jon Stewart know what he's getting into with MacArthur Park?​We like Jon Stewart, and he can bring levity and clarity to almost any headline. But we have to wonder if the notorious MacArthur Park is the best place for his Oct. 30 election season "Rally To Restore Sanity." After all, in 2 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2010

    L.A.'s best pick-up spots, as chosen by 1974's biggest doofs

    ​ This week, your Weekly's all about the best L.A. has to offer, then and now. In that spirit, your Crap Archivist is proud to present America's Best Pick Up Spots, a gem of horny misogyny guaranteed not to get you laid in this or any other decade! Click on over to Studies in Crap on our S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2010

    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 >>

  • Music

    August 26, 2010

    Brick's Picks: Jazzapino Sounds

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    L.A. Vendy Awards This Saturday

    Vendy AwardsVendys come to L.A. this Saturday​ For the past five years in New York City, The Vendy Awards have celebrated the best street food that city has to offer. This Saturday, for the first time, they're coming to Los Angeles. This year's proceedings will take place at MacArthur Park, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2010

    The Vendy Awards Come To L.A., Honoring Top Street Food

    Ladies and gentlemen, start your food trucks. Most Angelenos haven't heard of them, but The Vendy Awards are something of a big deal in New York, awarding the city's top street food vendors. This year, for the first time, they're coming to Los Angeles. The fundraiser/cook-off will take place Saturd ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Mayor V. Gets Clue, Stays Home During Crisis

    ​Maybe the mayor has been reading all our bitching and moaning about how he's been completely offline and unplugged when it comes to the city's needs lately. We were flabbergasted when he told the Los Angeles Times over the weekend that ""I'm at a great place ..." as a result of a diet, exerci ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    May Day Cops Dodge Bullet No LAPD officers involved in the 2007 May Day melee in MacArthur Park will be fired, although Chief Bill Bratton had called for four terminations. L.A. TimesCut the Comedy Birmingham High School administrators will be disciplined for allowing Sacha Baron Cohen to use the sc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    New MacArthur Park Blog Debuts

    The new MacArthur Park Media blog is the creation of Westlake neighborhood resident Devin Anna Bosch/Ruido PhotoBrowne, a young journalist whose reporting you may have heard on KPCC and Marketplace, or read in the L.A. Weekly. The site's mission is straightforward enough -- to "tell stories set in a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2009

    May Day: An L.A. Overview

    Image: Labor ArtsToday's half dozen or so May Day marches will begin kicking off in a few hours. Here's a rough schedule, provided by the L.A. Daily News.Full Rights for Immigrant Workers  When: 1 p.m. Where: Olympic Boulevard &  Broadway. Route: North on Broadway to Temple Street & ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    Today in Photographs: March 30, 1934

    Photo taken from a Goodyear blimp reveals proposed extension of Wilshire Boulevard through Westlake Park, later renamed MacArthur Park. Asbury Apartments and Elks Club building are shown in lower left-hand corner.Photo: LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL CollectionClick image to enlarge

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2009

    Vendor Beware: Street Peddlers Are Vulnerable to Crime, But One Robber Gets Hard Time

    There are no hard figures on whether crime against the county's uncountable street vendors has gone up during the recession, but occasionally there are glimmers of the tough life they endure. Many in places like L.A.'s MacArthur Park neighborhood are forced to pay protection money to gangs and some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2009

    May Day Melee Tab: $12.85 Million

    The L.A. City Council today settled with lawyers representing demonstrators assaulted by police officersof the LAPD's Metro Division during a 2007 immigration-rights rally in MacArthur Park. The council unanimously voted to approve a $12.85 payout to clear the books of nine separate lawsuits involvi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2009

    Today in Photographs: January 11, 1947

    Members of the American Veterans Committee camp out in MacArthur Park to protest housing shortage for World War II vets in Los Angeles.Photo: L.A. Times/UCLA Digital Collection

  • LA Life

    October 2, 2008

    Best Views

    L.A. from the top and bottom

  • Columns

    February 7, 2008

    StoryCorps' Oral Historians

    Lift Every Voice

  • Columns

    December 27, 2007

    9 L.A. Flashpoints

    Lift Every Voice

  • News

    October 18, 2007

    Paddleboat Economics

    City Hall doles out riches, but stiffs the families who won back MacArthur Park

  • News

    June 7, 2007

    A Classic Diversion

    Chief Cayler Carter is publicly sacrificed, but the screwups on May 1 began with Bratton

  • Columns

    May 24, 2007

    May Day Do-Over

    “Curiously, none of the angry protesters that I saw appeared to be actual immigrants.”

  • News

    May 10, 2007

    Bratton's Mea Culpa Tour

    “You’ve obviously not been watching your own news channel,” Bratton said acidly to the KTTV reporter. “I’ve already apologized. I don’t feel the need to answer your specific question, or apologize to you.”

  • Music

    November 23, 2006

    ''Just Be Butt Naked. With Glitter.''

    Before the Music Dies screened at Circus Theatricals, November 16

  • News

    September 28, 2006

    Running on Empty

    Before the Music Dies screened at Circus Theatricals, November 16

  • News

    September 21, 2006

    Immigration Rites

    Requiem for a movement. The real aliens are in Congress

  • News

    August 24, 2006

    Welcome to Gentrification City

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

  • News

    May 4, 2006

    A Day of Power

    Can Congress pick up the vibe of the movement?

  • Film+TV

    December 29, 2005

    In MacArthur Park

    Can Congress pick up the vibe of the movement?

  • News

    April 28, 2005

    Fighting High Rents

    In L.A.? Good Luck.

  • Eat+Drink

    August 12, 2004

    Love, From Los Angeles

    In L.A.? Good Luck.

  • Eat+Drink

    April 22, 2004

    Ask Mr. Gold

    In L.A.? Good Luck.

  • LA Life

    November 20, 2003

    Drive, He Said

    Counter Intelligence throws a party — or 10 tips for no-cook entertaining

  • Music

    July 5, 2001

    Melting in the Rain

    Counter Intelligence throws a party — or 10 tips for no-cook entertaining

  • News

    August 10, 2000

    People’s Podium

    A protester’s guide to the Democratic convention

  • News

    June 1, 2000

    Urban Oases

    Finding Relief from the City’s Sweltering Heat

  • Music

    October 21, 1999

    Amen

    The World Festival of Sacred Music

  • News

    September 10, 1998

    Vicissitudes of the Victor

    Honor, history at stake as Filipino veterans press for recognition

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