Silver Lake Neighborhood Council

Silver Lake Millennials War With Boomers in America's "Most Livable" Community

Silver Lake Neighborhood Council Tackles Thorny Issue of Gang Injunction

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 >>

Los Globos Under Fire: Residents Complain of Noise, Urination, and Public Sex

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 >>

The Wall That Everyone in Silver Lake Is Talking About (and Why It's Too High)

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 >>

Silver Lake's 'No Cruising' Signs, Relics of Another Era, Targeted For Removal

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 >>

Sunset Junction's Failed Mission

The so-called charity spent $12,000 on lobbyists. Needy kids got $500

From Parking Lot to Salad: The Micheltorena School & Community Garden

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 >>

Another Homeless Housing Project Angers Silver Lake Residents

Proposed site for Vendome Palms Apartments in Silver Lake​Last 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 >>

Bar Keeper Moves One Big Step Closer to Liquor License

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 >>

Life of the Party: Sunset Junction Street Fair Hits Dead End

The fate of the yearly Silver Lake music fete is far from assured. But that’s nothing new

Is Sunset Junction on a Collision Course?

The fate of this year's annual festival has yet to be decided

Sunset Junction in 2009? Silver Lake Neighborhood Council Addresses Concerns

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 >>

Sunset Junction Dialogue Slated for Tonight

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 >>

Digital Billboards Become a Bohemian Blasphemy

Silver Lake, Hollywood, the Valley and Westside take on City Hall's anti-green transformation of LA

City Hall's "Density Hawks" Are Changing L.A.'s DNA

Bitter homes & gardens?

Take This Car and Shove It

An Orwellian “100 percent parking reduction” rule quietly wends through City Hall

Seeking Council

Will neighborhood power grow or go in the new regime?

Grasping for the Ring of Power

On eve of big powwow, neighborhood councils ponder place in the new regime

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Silver Lake Fights Back

Police, neighbors take on advancing gangs