December 2005
Monthly Archive
12.30.05
Posted on Friday, December 30, 2005 | Tagged as: dodgers
Dodger management continues to stumble along in search of the psychic benefits of bringing football back to L.A. More on the Dodgers’ secret stadium talks at LA Observed.
12.16.05
Posted on Friday, December 16, 2005 | Tagged as: cinema, schools, echo park film center
More great press for the Echo Park Film Center, The Price of Cred: The Echo Park Film Center’s just too cool for its own good.
Echo Park Push-Back On Eminent Domain, the Los Angeles Garment & Citizen on LAUSD’s 9A school site.
12.12.05
Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 | Tagged as: television, echo park improvement association
HGTV’s ‘What You Get for the Money‘ is coming to Los Angeles in January and they’re looking for magazine-ready homes with a variety of styles to profile. For more information, please contact: Amy Levine at alevine (at) highnoonentertainment.com
12.07.05
Posted on Wednesday, December 7, 2005 | Tagged as: event, schools
This Saturday stop by the Right Site Coalitions Super Garage Sale. The garage sale will be held from 9am-2pm at the corner of Morton and Echo Park, across from Magic Gas and Chango.
Proceeds and donations from the sale will go to the Right Site Coalition Legal Defense Fund created to stop the L.A. Unified School District from taking more than 50 homes and apartments in Echo Park near Sunset Boulevard and Alvarado.
12.05.05
Posted on Monday, December 5, 2005 | Tagged as: hip, crime, echo park improvement association, hexod.us
Thanks to Hexod.us for his post last week. It wasn’t until Friday afternoon when I found this article after I opened up Thursday’s LA Times while relaxing at the Saline Warm Springs in Death Valley. The sidebar in the print addition listed EchoPark.Net under the Neighborhood heading and noted among other things that it is sporadically updated, which we felt was generous considering the quality of the text here.
Also of note this weekend was more of the ceaseless extolling of how hip and pricy Echo Park is. The fact that Holly and Christine are tied to this article (closeted hipsters) warms my heart although Hexod.us isn’t so happy. Scroll down, you’ll find no less than ten references to the H-word here.
Fortunately though we have Hollywood to perpetuate Echo Park’s shady reputation; on last weeks LOST two references were made to our neighborhood. First while the LAPD Cruiser is driving along on the Westside the radio crackles with a report of an assault at Alvarado and Reservoir then moments latter a suspect in an officer’s shooting is apprehended while committing a crime in lovely Echo Park. Some writer is trying to drive down home prices so he too can live where it is hip!
