It has been 50 years since the Taix family, which operated a  French restaurant in downtown Los Angeles,  opened a new location in Echo Park.  Since then, the Sunset Boulevard restaurant has expanded, menu items have come and gone and the dimly-li…
- 2 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 7:02pm -

Yel-Low Pick Up, Echo Park Photo by Orrin Anderson/Flickr City Council to review proposed changes to daytime curfew laws.  ABC7 Looking for a collagen and glitz-free  L.A.? Try Northeast L.A., says British newspaper. London Evening Standard What is…
- 5 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 4:23pm -

One woman was injured early this evening after a car crashed into the dining room of Pizza Buona restaurant in Echo Park. The woman, who was standing outside the longtime pizzeria at  Sunset Boulevard and Alvarado Street, was dragged about 20 feet t…
- 20 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 1:48am -

The former chef and general manager of some Westside and West Hollywood restaurants has taken over the short-lived Cafe Lobos in Highland Park and plans to serve  “contemporary, tapas-style fare” and operate a full bar. Huntley See, who was the…
- 22 hours ago, 21 Feb 12, 11:29pm -

Bookseller Jake Zeitlin settled in the Elysian Heights section of Echo Park during the late 1920s and became part of a community of progressive writers and artists who found seclusion and a cheap place to live in the hills.  Zeitlin, who lived in Ec…
- 24 hours ago, 21 Feb 12, 9:40pm -

When it comes time to moving, many people rent a U-haul or seek out friends with pick-up trucks. But this weekend, a former Highland Park resident moving to Echo Park transported all his household belongings on bikes, reports Josef Bray-Ali, owner of…
- 1 day ago, 21 Feb 12, 8:58pm -

I juuuuust missed filming what happened before this footage, but a hint at what it was can be found in how high she’s now sitting in the nest — because she ALREADY has hatched chicks that I observed her feeding (up until this I was pretty sure th…
- 22 hours ago, 21 Feb 12, 11:34pm -

During our final evening at the Anantara Resort about 55 miles north of Chiang Rai,  Thailand, on March 25 last year, on a hilltop overlooking the Mekong River and beyond it the countries of Laos and Myanmar in the area known as the fabled Golden Tr…
- 2 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 10:12pm -

The 2012 edition of my Watts Happening Ride took place this past picture-perfect Saturday, and it was my complete pleasure to share the following landmark people, places and events I’ve discovered there with the 28 cyclists who joined me: The last…
- 2 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 3:02pm -

January 23 was the date of our last significant rainfall, though in the past week or so there had been a couple of extremely under-achieving systems that skirted Los Angeles, neither of which delivered unto our Silver Lake backyard anything in the wa…
- 6 days ago, 16 Feb 12, 2:29pm -

A fellow by the name of Joshua Siskin who writes a great greenery column for the Daily News solved a couple plant mysteries of mine last year. I accidentally stumbled upon an article of his last May detailing bear’s breeches (Acanthus mollis), whic…
- 6 days ago, 16 Feb 12, 1:46pm -

Ranger and I adjourned to the backyard this afternoon to the Wall Ball Court (really it’s just the the walkway directly behind the house), and before commencing play I decided to strap my GoPro cam to me using its chest harness and also set up a se…
- 8 days ago, 15 Feb 12, 5:30am -

Sent from Bryan Frank's iPhone Posted via email from beFrank's posterous
- 2 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 7:31pm -

Posted via email from beFrank's posterous
- 6 days ago, 16 Feb 12, 8:55pm -

I've got all of ten minutes to recount my long shift at the Grammy Awards, so pardon any typos or anything untrue that I simply make up as I go along.First off, let me repeat, covering the Grammy (or any awards show) is not the same as attending an a…
- 6 days ago, 16 Feb 12, 4:34pm -

Posted via email from beFrank's posterous
- 9 days ago, 13 Feb 12, 2:11pm -

Posted via email from beFrank's posterous
- 10 days ago, 12 Feb 12, 6:52pm -

It was just a lazy Saturday afternoon. I was scheduled to run a SAT Truck for the 2012 Grammy Awards, so I'd taken a little photowalk in the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles (and I must not hate on hipsters).I was sitting at my computer just tr…
- 10 days ago, 12 Feb 12, 5:00pm -

CityWatch, Feb 21, 2012Vol 10 Issue 15NO ONE IN LA EVER TAKES THE BLAME - Mayor Villaraigosa, the 11% Mayor who could balance the budget with his frequent flyer miles, has a long tradition of empowering a rotating cast of Deputy Mayors and General…
- 2 days ago, 21 Feb 12, 7:19am -

CityWatch, Feb 17, 2012Vol 10 Issue 14RETHINKING LA - LA’s leadership has a knack for dispensing with the restless residents who periodically take up pitchforks and torches, storming City Hall with demands for accountability in the delivery of c…
- 6 days ago, 17 Feb 12, 6:37am -

CityWatch, Feb 14, 2012Vol 10 Issue 13TURNING THE POWER ON - Several blind men are asked by their King to examine an elephant and then to describe its appearance.The blind man who feels a leg says the elephant is like a pillar; the one who feels…
- 8 days ago, 15 Feb 12, 8:35am -

CityWatch, Feb 10, 2012Vol 10 Issue 12RETHINKING LA - Several years ago, LA’s City Council committed to developing a Citywide Transportation Strategic Plan that would include a vision with goals and an action plan that clearly communicated to th…
- 12 days ago, 11 Feb 12, 8:29am -

CityWatch, Feb 7, 2012Vol 10 Issue 11RETHINKING LA - The City of LA is preparing to engage in another round of budget triage, an annual charade that more closely resembles Three Card Monte than an actual commitment to accountability, performance,…
- 16 days ago, 7 Feb 12, 8:25am -

CityWatch, Feb 3, 2012Vol 10 Issue 10RETHINKING LA - We, the people, have the right to attend and participate in meetings of local legislative bodies yet our elected officials regularly violate this right, creating obstacles to public attendance,…
- 19 days ago, 4 Feb 12, 2:26am -

Click here to view the full photogallery. Back in 2010, Bradbury's 91008 zip code topped Forbes's list of Most Expensive Zip Codes. The "honor" was basically a case of bad statistics--the Forbes list is based on asking prices, not sale...
- 49 mins ago, 22 Feb 12, 8:34pm -

Click here to view the full photogallery. Rendering via WeHo Patch; others via Save Hayworth on Facebook Here is an important lesson out of West Hollywood for architects and developers: when the city council tells you to make specific changes...
- 2 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 7:41pm -

Aw, poor Pico Blvd. in Santa Monica, always a bridesmaid to prettier streets like Montana and the Third Street Promenade. Well, Santa Monica Rent Board Commissioner Robert Kronovet (who is also Chairman of the Pico Improvement Organization) wants to…
- 2 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 6:55pm -

LA County Arboretum fountain via melindaloomis / Curbed LA flickr pool · NYT thinks Villaraigosa may still get his shot at the big leagues [NYT] · Two South LA car washes become second and third in US to unionize...
- 4 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 5:03pm -

CHINATOWN: A tipster sends in a few pictures of the ongoing construction at the Lotus Garden project in Chinatown, along with this description: "There's a crazy scene underway with dozens of thick iron buttresses holding up the retaining walls...
- 17 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 3:57am -

Photo by Elizabeth Daniels BEVERLY GROVE: Rumor has it that high-end lingerie boutique Kiki de Montparnasse is planning to move from its longtime location on Melrose Ave. It's new home? A storefront close by on Melrose Place. SANTA MONICA:...
- 18 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 3:49am -

Last month my husband Stephen Box and I launched LA Green Screen, a screening series to raise awareness about our environment, our planet and about the heath of our communities. We screened the film Bag It, which followed a panel discussion with Kath…
- 10 May 11, 8:48pm -

Thank you Julia Griswold for posting this note on facebook and for letting me reprint it here! Julia Griswold serves as a Tenant Representative and Recording Secretary on the board of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council, on the East Hollywood NC…
- 20 Apr 11, 6:34pm -

A proposal to charge $150 annual bicycle “license” fee was abruptly tabled last night in the middle of public comment being heard by the Northridge West Neighborhood Council board. After several cyclist stakeholders made comments strongly opposin…
- 17 Apr 11, 3:12am -

I’m back on stage this month, performing again in Voices From Chornobyl. This is my 4th year working with Cindy and the cast on this project, (if you search my site for Chornobyl, you’ll find my posts from previous years) and I never get tired of…
- 15 Apr 11, 9:43pm -

- 7 Apr 11, 5:51pm -

This article appeared in the on-line magazine for actors The Networker, in April 2011 and also in CityWatch. Our campaign for City Council has ended and our office is a mess. We had a great time, we learned a lot about people and politics and about o…
- 7 Apr 11, 1:44am -

Wheatpaste art cleared off the wall of Zip Fusion Sushi at Third and Traction.
- 12 days ago, 11 Feb 12, 7:41am -

- 3 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 6:00pm -

If you are a Chekhov buff, you know his short story “Ward 6.” If you are a local theater buff, you knowBoston Court (of course) and probably Theatre Movement Bazaar. BC and TMB have collaborated on an adaptation of “Ward 6,” which they’re c…
- 14 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 7:26am -

Back in October we published a post about a permaculture-based garden that was being created, replacing a 3,000 square-foot, water-greedy lawn at Throop Unitarian Universalist Church. Swale-building was on the menu the very first weekend, and in our…
- 14 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 7:04am -

You’re probably wondering, connoisseurs of Norwegian and Danish boys choirs that you are, which Norwegian and Danish boys choirs we’re referring to. Well, you’ll be pleased to know, I think, fans of Norwegian and Danish boys choirs that you are…
- 15 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 6:45am -

Not an interstellar rover, like you might expect from Caltech, but a theatrical production. TACIT, or Theater Arts at the California Institute of Technology, led by Brian Brophy, regularly puts on good shows. Next up is The Rover, written in 1667 by…
- 15 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 6:29am -

It was the sound of the helicopters that brought me outside this morning. I can ignore them when they are flying by, when they hover near the foothills I know that something is up. I suspect I’ll find out later why they were hovering. In the meanti…
- 19 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 2:23am -

For centuries, monasteries served as bastions of civility, preserving, learning and extending charity to those around them. In this context, people were orientated into a rich tradition of artisan beer making. The tradition was on…
- 22 days ago, 1 Feb 12, 3:11am -

Atwater Village Neighborhood Council (AVNC) bylaw provision meant to curb board member absenteeism has gone unenforced by the current Co-Chairs, Robert “Fixer” Smith and Leonora Gershman-Pitts. The failure to enforce the absentee bylaw provision…
- 23 days ago, 31 Jan 12, 12:30am -

Save the Date! Saturday, February 4th (9am to 2pm) is the Reading Garden Planting Day at Glenfeliz Elementary School (3955 Glenfeliz Blvd).  EnrichLA will be spearheading this event. It will be a great community day with lunch and drinks p…
- 27 days ago, 27 Jan 12, 3:57am -

It took five months and fierce community fundraising, but the students at Atwater Avenue Elementary finally got their library back.There was much rejoicing in the school grounds at Atwater Avenue Elementary this week as their School Library…
- 27 days ago, 27 Jan 12, 3:29am -

A new City Council redistricting proposal incorporates all of Atwater Village within one council district, Council District 13 (CD13/Eric Garcetti). The redistricting proposal integrates Atwater's industrial area north of Goodwin and the equestrian…
- 28 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 7:09am -

Josh Post has filed the initial paperwork at the City’s Ethic Commission to run as a candidate for Council District 13 in 2013. Post is an Echo Park resident and a Deputy Attorney General for the California Department of Justice.
- 47 days ago, 6 Jan 12, 9:00pm -

Maybe – but not these cool cats Here are a couple of spotted icons; one dear – both near. And each with a penchant for wearing leopard prints. Sometime before Anna Nicole Smith was pulled off the chicken farm, and after Jane Mansfield lost her h…
- 6 days ago, 17 Feb 12, 9:00am -

“building an altar of unabashed sentimentality. Location: end of Tipton Way near Tipton Terrace off Figueroa St. 90042 in Highland Park – One block from Mikes studio. At the end of Tipton Way there is an abandoned driveway next to an empty lot.…
- 13 days ago, 9 Feb 12, 9:45am -

- 25 days ago, 28 Jan 12, 3:37pm -

- 29 days ago, 24 Jan 12, 2:38pm -

Evergreen Cemetery 1887 – Boyle Heights In Los Angeles, the circus never leaves town. They can’t; they’re six feet under. Evergreen Cemetery is the final resting place for members of the Pacific Coast Showmen’s Assn. An association started i…
- 38 days ago, 15 Jan 12, 4:55pm -

An English philosopher was visiting India, and was introduced to a holy man. The philosopher asked the Holy Man the nature of the world, and the old man replied, “Oh the world is a great big ball that sits on the great flat back of the Great World…
- 44 days ago, 9 Jan 12, 7:06pm -

  So the official encampment of OccupyLA has come & gone. And the bail has been set at an exorbitant, but unsurprising $5,000. La Opinion informs us that some people have set-up shop down the street at la Placita Olvera, … Continue reading →Rel…
- 79 days ago, 5 Dec 11, 6:17pm -

Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) of UCLA is holding its first “Undocumented Event” In conjunction with the ongoing L.A. Xicano exhibitions, CSRC will hold “Undocumented Event No. 1” on Friday, December 2, 3:00–8:00 p.m., at the Boyle…
- 84 days ago, 30 Nov 11, 10:40pm -

…while the forces of eviction gather. Taken earlier today at Occupy LA. Related posts: AM Drive The Spectre of City Hall Protest Of OneRelated posts:AM DriveThe Spectre of City HallProtest Of One
- 85 days ago, 30 Nov 11, 7:59am -

Related posts: ICE team takes a Starbucks break Memorial for Gilbert “Magu” LujanRelated posts:ICE team takes a Starbucks breakMemorial for Gilbert “Magu” Lujan
- 85 days ago, 29 Nov 11, 9:43pm -

Open publication – Free publishing – More sinceras   Sinceras is a great zine coming outta East L.A./Monterey Park for the last few months now. They just recently put out issue #5, and they’re still going strong.  They describe themselves ……
- 86 days ago, 28 Nov 11, 8:32pm -

As a 20-year-old coed at UCSD the newness of each day as an adventure, still had its momentum. The first female in my family to go to college, to move out at 18-years-old was at once my second-generation-immigrant family’s dream … Continue readin…
- 87 days ago, 27 Nov 11, 11:22pm -

From kyoshida78: This morning an elder man jumped off the end of Venice Pier in what appears to have been a suicide attempt. I did not quite catch that part as I was just arriving during my morning run, but I did notice a young man stripped down to h…
- 32 mins ago, 22 Feb 12, 8:51pm -

Ansel Adams: Open to the Public is open as of today at the G2 Gallery on Abbot Kinney. The exhibition will be up until May 13th. “Open to the Public” is G2 Gallery’s inaugural exhibit showcasing Ansel Adams’s original works. It was created to…
- 24 hours ago, 21 Feb 12, 9:29pm -

The Venice Ale House got a new installation this week by photographer Rich Mann that depicts the Venice Boardwalk in 1979. The panorama is 23 feet long. Mann has been documenting Venice Beach and Los Angeles for over 50 years. To view his art on his…
- 1 day ago, 21 Feb 12, 9:11pm -

Seems like the power is back on after a 30? minute outage. For up to date information from the DWP, check out their Twitter feed by clicking here. Good bookmark for your mobile phone for when the power goes out! As of 11:37 DWP says the outage was du…
- 1 day ago, 21 Feb 12, 7:33pm -

Three fine art photography pieces are up for auction on Charity Buzz with the proceeds benefiting Venice Arts‘ mentoring & education programs for low-income youth! The auction ends at 11:30 am PST on February 23rd, so get to bidding! Reagan and Tha…
- 1 day ago, 21 Feb 12, 7:23pm -

The Venice Neighborhood Council will meet tomorrow at the Westminster Elementary School Auditorium from 7-10pm. Read the Board Meeting Agenda below or by clicking here. 1. Call to Order and Roll Call (7:00PM – 5 minutes) The meeting dedicated to th…
- 2 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 10:15pm -

Wilshire Segment (National Bl to Waterford St)Sepulveda Bl reduced to one lane each direction (left-turn pocket closed also) from Constitution to Wilshire tonight, 8pm to 6am.Cotner runs parallel to the I-405 and just east of it. The project works…
- 2 days ago, 21 Feb 12, 2:58am -

I’ve always been a huge fan of Van, and now with this video as a backdrop to one of my favorite Morrison songs, how could I resist this as a Shortcuts’ pick?!! …and a thank you to @nuisance_beaver for tweeting the video!image from owning pi…
- 4 days ago, 18 Feb 12, 10:52pm -

Wilshire Segment (National Bl to Waterford St)Update 2/17/12*Sepulveda Bl reduced to one lane each direction (left-turn pocket closed too) from Constitution to near Wilshire tonight, 8pm to 6******************************************************…
- 6 days ago, 17 Feb 12, 4:31am -

President Obama is visiting Los Angeles today and tomorrow morning Thursday February 16th, 2012Update 11:51amGetting reports of a ground hold at LAX about 20 mins ago.  President was scheduled to depart at 11:45am.Update 10:45amObama is on t…
- 7 days ago, 15 Feb 12, 11:36pm -

Tonight’s (Friday) closure cancelled! 2/17/12Beginning tonight, Monday, February 13, and each day thereafter through Friday, February 17, there will be several closures of the eastbound I-210 Freeway lanes for construction of the I-210 bridge. …
- 9 days ago, 14 Feb 12, 2:37am -

Full Street Closure AnnouncementWhat’s Happening: Capitol Records/EMI Grammy PartyDate/Time: From Sunday, February 12, 2012 5:00 a.m. to Monday, February 13, 2012 6:00 a.m.Details: All lanes of Vine Street, between Yucca St. and Hollywood Blvd.,…
- 12 days ago, 11 Feb 12, 3:52am -

It's getting harder to figure out what is influencing Little Tokyo's popularity of late: beer or food? For those who choose beer, let it be known that Little T is not a one-beer-pub area any more, and I'm in no way referencing Angel City Brewing Co.,…
- 21 Oct 11, 1:44am -

“…I felt great peace of mind knowing that my sons were under the care of people who understood what their individual preferences, leanings, and needs were." - Scarlet Sy and Eric OlsonThe Little Tokyo Service Center, located in Downtown Los Angel…
- 9 Aug 11, 8:36pm -

A couple decades ago, I shared a loft on Traction Avenue with photographer Shane Sato. The loft was a couple blocks east of Honda Plaza, an area which used to be a wide expanse of vacant parking lots and a whole lot of nothingness.But on the corner j…
- 23 Jul 11, 7:59pm -

On April 12, 2011, Enterprise Community Partners, Little Tokyo Service Center, partners, and Little Tokyo residents met in the courtyard of Casa Heiwa for a "greenbreaking" ceremony. This greenbreaking marks the start of a retrofitting project in sev…
- 28 Apr 11, 10:21pm -

The twisty path towards Little Tokyo's new subway station has just taken another turn. Literally.Both Los Angeles Downtown News and BlogDowntown are reporting that Metro has made some changes to the Regional Connector, the underground light rail line…
- 13 Jan 11, 6:23am -

- 23 Nov 10, 11:19pm -