Forbes and Money magazine may think it's the best neighborhood in the United States, but a part of Silver Lake is facing a possible gang injunction, which would also cover Echo Park. Community activists are now figuring out if they support it or not. The Silver Lake Neighborhood Council will take t ... More >>
See also: Los Globos Gets A Hip New Reinvention Less than a year after Sunset Junction went down in flames, Silver Lake's music scene is again the subject of civic tension, as its neighborhood council has threatened to bring down the Los Globos nightclub. Owner Steven Edelson purchased the venue ... More >>
Alissa Walker The wall seemed to materialize overnight. Where once there was the pleasantly twee boutique, its offerings of Navajo blankets and denim shorts carefully staged like an anthropological survey of Silver Lake, now there was a cinder block bunker. A sheet of paper taped to the wi ... More >>
Facebook / The Eastsider LACruising for a bruising.If you've ever driven around Silver Lake and wondered what those "no cruising" signs are about, now we know: They're from a different era, when gay men would drive around looking for prospective casual encounters. Things have changed since t ... More >>
The so-called charity spent $12,000 on lobbyists. Needy kids got $500
Kathy A. McDonaldHerbs add kick to a community garden grown salad Chalk one up to green. Overlooking traffic-heavy Sunset Boulevard in the heart of Silver Lake, community activists have transformed a former school parking lot into vegetable, herb and flower filled garden at L.A.U.S.D's Michel ... More >>
Proposed site for Vendome Palms Apartments in Silver LakeLast Friday, the Los Angeles City Council approved a $6.2 million loan to a non-profit housing organization so it can build a 36-unit apartment complex for the homeless and mentally ill near Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake, much to the ... More >>
Robert TakataBar Keeper's neon sign.Bar Keeper proprietor Joe Keeper doesn't just sell vintage cocktail shakers and uncommonly flavored bitters at his Silver Lake store. He sells ritual. And hopefully, he'll soon be able to sell alcohol. On Tuesday, the eve of the store's fifth anniversary, ... More >>
The fate of the yearly Silver Lake music fete is far from assured. But thats nothing new
The fate of this year's annual festival has yet to be decided
Mark "Cobrasnake" HunterFreedom of information at Sunset Junction Thursday night, the auditorium of Micheltorena Elementary School was packed with supporters and detractors of the annual Sunset Junction Street Fair for a special meeting held by Silver Lake Neighborhood Council. The three hour meeti ... More >>
Lina Lecaro"To live in harmony with our neighbors," reads the legend splashed across the Web site for the Sunset Junction Neighborhood Alliance, which operates the annual Sunset Junction Street Fair. The good people of the alliance are likely to get an earful from their neighbors tonight. This is wh ... More >>
Silver Lake, Hollywood, the Valley and Westside take on City Hall's anti-green transformation of LA
Bitter homes & gardens?
An Orwellian 100 percent parking reduction rule quietly wends through City Hall
Will neighborhood power grow or go in the new regime?
On eve of big powwow, neighborhood councils ponder place in the new regime
Police, neighbors take on advancing gangs
