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 Times also probes around Mr. T’s Bowl and finds that hipsters are supposedly ruining the scene: Chavez blames the arrival of Silver Lake and Echo Park hipsters, obsessed with the coolest and the newest.
“People from over there come out here to ‘hang out,’ ” Chavez said, making sarcastic quotation marks in the air with her hands. “You know, the ‘rough part’ of town. The regulars feel intimidated.”
It’s funny to hear some folks around here reminisce about the days when Echo Park was a rough part of town, not that most of LA County doesn’t believe it still is.
On a miraculous note Councilmember Garcetti’s Planning Deputy Alison has been reunited with her Wonder Dog Eugene who was swept into the raging Arroyo Seco near Hermon over 10 days ago. He was found by a trucker in Vernon where he must have made it out of the LA River to safety!
Meanwhile at the business booster Downtown News the counter at the Brite Spot is the place to be.
