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 made with publishing rights, announces the release for 11 February. The price 20,19 €. The translation of The Overlook still take months to arrive.

Moreover, according to his official website, Michael Connelly travel to Spain to promote their works between 24 and 29 February.

Visit Woodrow Wilson Drive to read more about Echo Park and Harry Bosch.

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 of Echo Park, Frogtown, Chinatown and East Hollywood have been absorbed by Silver Lake and only Atwater Village has been spared a similar fate!

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 Echo Park 5 years later. She was 23 years old.

Gilbert Joves’ Grandmother came from the Philippines in 1976 and bought 2 tiny cottages in Echo Park that now house 2 generations of her family.

The Villanueva’s have 12 family members, 3 generations, living in their 4 unit house on Mohawk St., a cherished family home that was purchased with sacrifice and patience. (more…)

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 on the proposed Los Angeles Unified School District’s 9A Site. Even though LAUSD was well aware of this downward population trend long ago the school district used fear and intimidation to cajole these longtime residents from a total of 50 housing units. Now Echo Park has boarded up homes where a vibrant community once existed. Previously.

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 co-author of The Ghost of Echo Park, Ron was a tireless advocate for Echo Park. We’ll all miss Ron and his great travel postcards.

Update: Per Ron’s request no formal memorial will be held.

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.

Echo Park Film Center is a volunteer-run, non-profit media arts organization located in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. We provide equal and affordable access to film/video education and resources via:
a community microcinema and meeting space
free and nominal cost media arts education programs
a comprehensive small format film equipment and service department
a touring film festival showcasing local established and student filmmakers

Be part of the EPFC Family! Come watch a movie, take a filmmaking class, rent a projector, telecine your home movies, check out our extensive film and book lending library, submit your film for programming, buy some Super 8 film, sign up for a membership or just drop by and say hello!

First off I want to thank Angeleno Heights resident David Gee for setting up the WordPress software on my server! David’s offer of assistance ended the hiatus and motivated me to sit down and figure out how to manipulate, through trial and a lot of error, the CSS code that I’ve never played with before.

What you see is a couple of days worth of messing around with the look of the site by modifying Sadish Balasubramanian’s very clean C4M theme more to my liking. I’ve retained the blue lake theme but dumped the always disliked blue font. I’ll be manipulating the site some more, making some subtle tweaks here and there and adding a Flickr powered photo sidebar very soon. (more…)

Los Angeles, Oct 9 (EFE) .- Echo Park, an area traditionally occupied by Latinos and is now changing its image with modern apartments for executives, has been named one of the “Best Neighborhood” in America.

The designation adopted by the American Planning Association (APA English) places the district as one of the “10 Best Neighborhoods” of the nation, renowned for the excellence of their homes, streets and public spaces.

“Echo Park is one of the brightest lights in a city full of stars …”, said Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, in making the announcement Wednesday of the name. (more…)

“Echo Park Area had disappeared from their world. As a child, had lived for a time with his mother in Apartments Sir Palmer … but times had not been happy for her or him, and now almost totally disappeared his memory. ”

In 2002 when Harry Bosch quit the LAPD (Police Department Los Angeles) records photocopied some cases failed to resolve at the time and continued to haunt him. One of the records that he took home was that of Marie Gesto, who disappeared in 1993. Despite suspecting for years the son of a prominent businessman, he could not prove his involvement in the crime. (more…)