Local boutique Show Pony on Echo Park Avenue is listed in the Sunday LA Times Guide to Independent Boutiques.

Grant Krajecki’s Echo Park-based Grey Ant clothing label featured in the L.A. Times. Additional fashion coverage, that mentions Echo Park in the International Herald Tribune.

I’ll bet you’ve never heard this question: Which is More Stylish NY or LA?

The Spaymobile is returning to Echo Park for a second time on Tuesday October 29 (see the Calendar below for specifics). The Spaymobile is a self-sufficient mobile spay and neuter clinic that travels to different areas of the city to provide FREE spay and neuter services for pet owners who do not have the resources to spay or neuter their dogs and cats. The Spaymobile Frequently Asked Questions (PDF).

Local Architect Barbara Bestor’s reconstruction of a shack (the article calls it a cabin) on Lake Shore in the New York Times.

Hum, Man dies after jumping into Echo Park Lake fully clothed.

This could come in handy in the neighborhood, Hipster Bingo!

Personal note: One of the reasons I attended a school formerly housed in a leaky warehouse in Santa Monica.

Are you curious about that big stainless steel flower blooming Downtown? Take a look at the Disney Concert Hall feature at Archinect.com where I’m a News Crew Contributor and the DCH photographer. The latest photos are the first interior shots I’ve been able to get.

The Foamers in Angeleno Heights would like to introduce what commuters on Sunset Boulevard might euphemistically call a ‘traffic calming element’. Community’s Trolley May Roll Again, Residents of Angelino Heights hope to resurrect a rail link to downtown. More info at the Angeleno Heights Trolley Line.

(correctly spelled I might add).

For the second time in recent memory the City of Los Angeles, in preparation of repaving, has ground away the asphalt along portions of Echo Park Avenue and exposed the long dormant rails of the Echo Park Line.

Some history from the Electric Railway Historical Association:

The Elysian Park Street Railway Company built this line in 1889 on Echo Park Avenue from Temple Street to about 600 feet north of Sunset Boulevard as a horse car line. In the fall of 1890 that part of the line between Temple and Sunset was abandoned and the rails removed. In late 1890 the line was extended about a mile up Echo Park Avenue to Cerro Gordo Street. (more…)

Moving often means a great stress due to all that that implies. The fear of missing any time to pack, and fear of damaging furniture during transport are just some of the concerns that many people feel when the big day arrives. And this is without counting the risk of injury linked to excess weight, like a stove or refrigerator to be raised,

sometimes awkward, especially when individuals are not equipped to do so. That is why many people assign the responsibility for their move to specialist firms. However, the number of complaints about movers is somewhat worrying. The Office of Consumer Industry removal has formed a working group with experts of the move, consumers and government officials to develop a checklist that consumers can consult.

The moving companies should therefore conform to very specific guidelines that will make them honest movers. First, they must give their customers a pamphlet outlining the responsibilities of both parties, either the customer or the mover.

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The mobile marketing as its name indicates, more or less used to do marketing via the mobile phone.

Since that communication professionals have understood the benefit they could derive from this object, gently campaigns using this support are emerging.

Indeed, it is a means of communication that fits in the hand, which is constantly with us, which is very rapid, substantial argument when it comes to inform the holders of these particular mobile by SMS. Simple, concise and without frills, this is the SMS short message of 160 characters arriving on your mobile to inform you very quickly such that the ordered book arrived in bookstores.

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