List/Grid Yearly Archives: 2009
Echo Park
Good news for those addicted to Harry Bosch. Very soon we will read the Spanish edition of Echo Park, the penultimate novel by Michael Connelly. Roca Editorial, which has been…
El Santo Nino Chapel
Whatever happen to…El Santo Nino Chapel at 1034 Effie Street; find out in The Tidings the weekly newspaper of the Los Angeles Archdiocese. NPR’s Day to Day visited Echo Park…
Living Inside a Mystery
Living Inside a Mystery-Intrigued by clues their older homes reveal, owners turn to sleuthing features the home of Mathew Debois, President of the Greater Echo Park Elysian Neighborhood Council.
Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story
Now we are really back… Premiering on PBS June 8th, Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story reveals the saga of the lost communities of La Loma, Palo Verde and Bishop,…
walking tours in Los Angeles
Yesterday from my office downtown I witnessed a seemingly instantaneous thick black column of smoke rise from the hills of Echo Park. That smoke was the now destroyed home of…
Silverlake
Have you seen the new 2002-2003 Silverlake (sic) Chamber of Commerce Directory of Members? Well what they say above is true, turn to the Map of Silverlake and look, all…
LA Times Home
In today’s LA Times Home section one of the Watch Me Watch You homes in the article was repeatedly refer to as being located in Echo Park when its true…
Turning a Lens Homeward
Gentrification, hipsters, and a blessed dog. In the LA Times Turning a Lens Homeward chronicles Echo Park resident and high school junior Stephanie Cisneros video documentary of our changing neighborhood….
The Right Site Coalition
Here’s some background on the 9A site from the Right Site Coalition: Margarita Reyes came to the U.S. in 1949, from Managua, Nicaragua and saved to buy her home in…
why the paper hasn’t been reporting on LAUSD land grabs throughout LA.
Matt Welch continues his queries regarding the 9A Site, this time he asks the LA Times why the paper hasn’t been reporting on LAUSD land grabs throughout LA.
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…
There Goes the Neighborhood
The Los Angeles Times reports on declining enrollment in neighborhoods where rents and property values have been soaring. Unfortunately this news is a little late for those who owned homes…
Neighborhood Councils
Sad news of two recent deaths of longtime Echo Park activist. Julie Rosen, artist and founding member of the Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park succumb to cancer last week….
Poser Style to Make You Drool
According to local Michael O’Brien: “That’s right, Pioneer Market, our local community institution, is closing. In its place will be a Walgreen’s in the southern (eastern?) half of the building,…
Great travel postcards
On Thursday morning Echo Park lost one of its hero’s when Ron Emler passed away. Founder of the Echo Park Security Association, cofounder of the Echo Park Improvement Association and…
Gen-X stereotypes
The LA Times Real Estate section cultivates Gen-X stereotypes in Angeleno Heights! Our former landlords and old-school Echo Park resident’s Jeb & Sandy lost their Hi-Desert Hide-a-way in last weeks…
Curbed LA
Today Curbed LA picked up Matt Welch’s blog on the eviction plight facing the residents of LAUSD’s next unnecessary school site. Check back tomorrow for additional information on why this…
David Gee
EchoPark.Net is back with a blog-powered 7th version of the Echo Park community website. First off I want to thank Angeleno Heights resident David Gee for setting up the WordPress…