List/Grid Monthly Archives: December 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.