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Silver Lake (Staten Island)

  • Music

    January 24, 2013

    Local Natives' Big Vaulted Ceilings

    On their new album, the rising indie-folk act show who they are and what they've become

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2013

    Atwater Village Is L.A.'s Hippest Neighborhood (Sorry, Silver Lake)

    Sorry, Silver Lake. You've been replaced as L.A.'s top hipster neighborhood, as far as we're concerned. The in-the-know readers of Curbed LA have declared this week that Atwater Village, and not the stereotypical icon of L.A. cool, Silver Lake, is the site's "neighborhood of the year" for 2012. Ye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2012

    Alt-J - Fonda Theatre - 12/12/12

    Alt-J Fonda Theatre 12/12/12 Better Than: open apple anything The primary challenges Alt-J faced during their show at the Fonda last night were improper sound mixing (not their fault), and simply not having enough material to pull from to satisfy their audience (also not really their fault). De ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2012

    The Other Side of the Now Defunct Other Side: A Visit to Hyperion Public in Silver Lake

    It's no question that Silver Lake lost one of its most beloved cultural touchstones when The Other Side, the gay piano bar with a 40 year history, closed in June. Patrons weren't much soothed when the news came that a sports bar and family friendly restaurant would replace the bar, as well as the a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2012

    Hipsters Beware: DUI Checkpoint in Silver Lake Tonight

    The last full weekend of summer is upon us. Get that last celebration of warmth in before the Santa Ana winds blow even more hot weather on you for fall. And be safe. The LAPD is targeting you hipsters in Silver Lake as well as drivers in North Hills with its weekly DUI check points. Here's your L ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2012

    The Best L.A. Albums 
So Far This Year

    We are impeccable thieves, transplanting artists both from burgs bearing but a single Waffle House and metropolises where they measure the cold in Celsius. Biggie credited the centripetal pull of L.A. to the weather, the women and the weed. The ability to work was implied. The city has been a music ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2012

    Silver Lake Shooting Takes Life of Man

    See also: An Assassination in Silver Lake. Silver Lake, land of the hipster, home of gentrification. Sure. Look at the Mercedes SLK in our Google maps photo. Still, people forget that it's also a barrio and, as such, people get murdered. Most of the city of L.A.'s streets are claimed by one gang o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2011

    Sunset Junction Building Demolished as Silver Lake Activists Tried to Preserve it

    ​Oops. A building at Sunset Junction that some local preservationists hoped they could, well, save, went under the bulldozer over the weekend. The Eastsider LA reports that the demo'd building once housed a beloved bookstore, A Different Light, that seemed to kick off Silver Lake's renaissanc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 8/8-8/12

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Because I have been at parties where I was asked about the pizzeria up to half a dozen times, and the smug Silver Lake dudes, the ones always trying to make excuses for their neighborhood's depress ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Aqua Frescas, Sharbat Algerian Limonada: 4 Summertime Drink Recipes

    Eugen Ahn of Forage in Silver LakeAprium. Strawberry and Blackberry, and Lemonade Agua Frescas at Forage​ Mexican agua frescas, French and Italian syrups, and British sherbet powders are all derived from North African and Middle Eastern sharbats: sweetened drinks flavored with fruit, ground n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    A Recipe From the Chef: Kristin Ferguson's Strawberry Galette

    Eugene Ahn of Forage Restaurant in Silver LakeChef Kristin Ferguson's Strawberry Galette​ A traditional French fruit galette is a free-form tart made with a basic pâte brisée dough. The galette shell is rolled out into a disk, topped with fresh berries or fruit and the edges folded over by h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    Garage Pizza to Open in DTLA on Memorial Day Weekend

    Guzzle & NoshA slice of cheese pizza (left) from Garage Pizza in Silver Lake (right).​After reporting last month that a new location of Silver Lake pizza emporium Garage Pizza was set to open near in downtown L.A., we finally have confirmation on the date. Owner Jason Batten tells us if all g ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 12, 2011

    What Does Hipster Taste Like?

    Guzzle & NoshA slice of cheese pizza (left) from Garage Pizza in Silver Lake (right).​After reporting last month that a new location of Silver Lake pizza emporium Garage Pizza was set to open near in downtown L.A., we finally have confirmation on the date. Owner Jason Batten tells us if all g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    Silver Lake's Garage Pizza to Open in DTLA

    Guzzle & NoshA slice of cheese pizza (left) from Garage Pizza in Silver Lake (right).​ Garage Pizza of Silver Lake is expanding. The better-than-average neighborhood pizza joint is looking to open a second location at 7th and Main streets in downtown LA. Owner Jason "Jay" Batten is deep into t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    First Bite: Chips, Chips Especial, Menudo Vegan Hangovers at Mas Malo

    Jonagold apple, portion removed​I am sitting in Mas Malo's huge Beaux Arts dining room, a floor beneath the whiskey-soaked revelry of the bar Seven Grand. I am on the outside of a satisfying organic margarita, I am watching my young son tackle an enormous burrito ahogado, trying not to cringe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Dublab and Leaving Rec's Keep Cassette Culture Alive in Silver Lake (Plus: Lapti, From Russia with Fuzz)

    Raid your own collection for cassettes to "spin" at Top Tape in Silver Lake.​On Friday night (tonight) at Silver Lake's Hyperion Tavern, Dublab and Leaving Records are asking cassette owners to help DJ a night filled exclusively with reel-to-reel music. Die hard tape aficionado and casual "ju ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Walking Man Memorial Set For Sunday In Silver Lake

    Fire Monkey Fish via Flickr.​A walk to memorialize the man known to Silver Lake denizens as Walking Man is scheduled for Sunday at noon, according to Blogging.la. Marc Abrams, well-recognized for his brisk, pedestrian workouts in Silver Lake, passed away Wednesday at the age of 58. He was fou ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 20, 2010

    DON'T SAY "SUNSET." DON'T SAY "JUNCTION."

    Fire Monkey Fish via Flickr.​A walk to memorialize the man known to Silver Lake denizens as Walking Man is scheduled for Sunday at noon, according to Blogging.la. Marc Abrams, well-recognized for his brisk, pedestrian workouts in Silver Lake, passed away Wednesday at the age of 58. He was fou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2010

    Website Wants L.A.'s 'Fake Eastside' Renamed

    franklinhills.orgSee hipsters, these cholos were here before you, and they use W.S. to delineate "west side."​It's been a peeve of ours ever since the long-defunct New Angeles magazine called its core circulation zone -- Silver Lake, Echo Park, Los Feliz -- "the new Eastside." What happened to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    Cake Monkey Announces Permanent Pop Up Shop & Bake Sale Today

    Since 2008 Cake Monkey has been an underground bakery of sorts, running their business from a private kitchen, selling their cakewiches and Yo-hos at select venues including Umami Burger, Silverlake Wine, and The Sweets Truck. But the sought after company has surfaced with a permanent Pop-Up store ( ... More >>

  • Music

    April 8, 2010

    Spaceland Is the Place

    The influential mecca of the "Silver Lake scene" turns 15

  • Eat+Drink

    February 11, 2010

    Found Restaurant: Forage in Silver Lake

    The influential mecca of the "Silver Lake scene" turns 15

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    A reality show about Silver Lake?

    ​The blogs are buzzing about the Craigslist casting call for real-live hipsters to appear in a reality show about Silver Lake:A new Reality Show is casting Silver Lake's rich, wealthy, hipster GUYS and GIRLS 21-30 whose personal style is homeless chic... You must be incredibly involved in the Silv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/19 - 1/22

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "But it is in Thai Town, where the hollow-stemmed water vegetable is usually translated as "morning glory," that it seems the most compelling - possibly because of the slight buzz we imagined we were getting when we tho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    Truck Stop-themed Silver Lake Bar Stinkers to Become... Something Else, Something Classier

    courtesy of Stinkers and Lee Joseph Publicity

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    Spacerocker Imaad Wasif to Helm Spaceland Residency in February

    Spacerocker Imaad Wasif to Helm Spaceland Residency in February

  • Music

    December 31, 2009

    The 10 Best L.A. Albums of the ’00s

    From Beck and Dilla to Fiona, Jenny and Quasimoto, a mishmash decade of Southern California sounds

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    Top Cheeses To Start Eating in 2010: The LA Cheese Pros Weigh In On Their Wheels

    The Spanish greats at The Cheese Store of Silver Lake​Another year, another chance to take a new bite out of life. For motivated foodies looking for the latest and greatest edibles to sink their teeth into, this approach translates literally. The food lover is ready already to start planning t ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    October 1, 2009

    Best of L.A.: Happy Hour

    The Spanish greats at The Cheese Store of Silver Lake​Another year, another chance to take a new bite out of life. For motivated foodies looking for the latest and greatest edibles to sink their teeth into, this approach translates literally. The food lover is ready already to start planning t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2009

    Scary Silver Lake Motel Doomed?

    Silver Lake residents know the Jetsons-era Sunset Pacific Motel has not aged gracefully -- especially since it's been allowed to sit and rot for the past few years, ever since it was shut down as an attractive (!) nuisance. Which is why, with its psycho aura of sex, drugs and menace, and its Bates S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Local Natives on the Verge: BBC 1 Live Session, Upcoming Residency (and Friends in High Places)

    The first time West Coast Sound heard of Silver Lake band Local Natives was at Nettwerk Records' home office in Hollywood last November. The label's kingpin, Terry McBride, had convened a panel of Hollywood music biz types, including longtime PR man Mitch Schneider, Spaceland Productions' Mitchell ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    Songs for our City: Elliott Smith on Alameda Street

    Elliott Smith's songs filled in the blanks for the musical and emotional landscape of Silver Lake.

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

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

    Metal Mondays Shatters Skulls in Highland Park.

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    Meet Your Local Herb Guy Herb Tip of the Day

    For all of the tens of you out there wondering who is the skinny guy at the Saturday Silver Lake farmer's market selling all those gorgeous planting herbs (3 for 5$!) we have the answer. His name is Brandon Dimperio, he is 27 years of age and he has worked in the kitchens of Bastide and Patina. He f ... More >>

  • News

    June 18, 2009

    "Sunset Junction": One-Sided?

    For all of the tens of you out there wondering who is the skinny guy at the Saturday Silver Lake farmer's market selling all those gorgeous planting herbs (3 for 5$!) we have the answer. His name is Brandon Dimperio, he is 27 years of age and he has worked in the kitchens of Bastide and Patina. He f ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    April 9, 2009

    Reservoir of Flavor: Chef Gloria Felix Opens the Newest of Silver Lake's Grown-Up Restaurants

    The long-awaited restaurant is in the space pioneered by the takeout shack Netty's

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2008

    A Safe, Early Night at the Silver Lake March

    By the end of the weekend, the "No on 8" protests had moved out of the gay enclave of West Hollywood. Marches went down in Long Beach, East L.A., and downtown Los Angeles, and an estimated crowd of 15,000 to 20,000 people showed up in Silver Lake on Saturday night. It was probably the largest protes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2008

    Silver Lake Residents Protest Against Digital Billboard Blight

    Dozens of Silver Lake residents gathered yesterday at City Hall to protest against a pulsating digital billboard that recently popped up along Silver Lake Boulevard throwing lights into neighborhood homes. “Silver Lake is one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Los Angeles,” said Suzanne Fe ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 21, 2008

    Word on the Street

    Dozens of Silver Lake residents gathered yesterday at City Hall to protest against a pulsating digital billboard that recently popped up along Silver Lake Boulevard throwing lights into neighborhood homes. “Silver Lake is one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Los Angeles,” said Suzanne Fe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2008

    Pre-Primary Political Posters

    Above and below in Silver Lake on Sunset Blvd. Below, found in West Hollywood on Santa Monica Blvd.

  • News

    October 5, 2006

    Best Way to Reap What Others Sow

    Above and below in Silver Lake on Sunset Blvd. Below, found in West Hollywood on Santa Monica Blvd.

  • LA Life

    August 10, 2006

    Sunset Rising

    With a handful of splashy new shops, Sunset Boulevard is becoming a red-hot furniture spot

  • Columns

    April 27, 2006

    Eastside Story

    With a handful of splashy new shops, Sunset Boulevard is becoming a red-hot furniture spot

  • LA Life

    March 23, 2006

    Gays, Dames and Dogs

    With a handful of splashy new shops, Sunset Boulevard is becoming a red-hot furniture spot

  • News

    September 1, 2005

    Priceless Sunset: No $10 Tickets

    With a handful of splashy new shops, Sunset Boulevard is becoming a red-hot furniture spot

  • Calendar

    July 14, 2005

    Los Feliz / Silver Lake

    With a handful of splashy new shops, Sunset Boulevard is becoming a red-hot furniture spot

  • Eat+Drink

    June 2, 2005

    Ask Mr. Gold

    With a handful of splashy new shops, Sunset Boulevard is becoming a red-hot furniture spot

  • Eat+Drink

    May 12, 2005

    Silver Lake

    With a handful of splashy new shops, Sunset Boulevard is becoming a red-hot furniture spot

  • News

    May 27, 2004

    Jewish Resurrection

    A deals within reach to save community centers in Silver Lake and Sherman Oaks

  • News

    May 27, 2004

    Undone by Debt and Negligence

    Bills, not bullets, killed the community center that survived a racist attack. Other centers are trying to hang on.

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