Council President Eric Garcetti's office will host a Town Hall Meeting July 20th to discuss the Echo Park Lake Rehabilitation Project. The City's Echo Park Lake Rehabilitation Project team will be on-hand to answer questions.

Though the city's Echo Park Lake website said a fence would be erected this week around the permieter, Jenny Burman of Chicken Corner said she was told that…

The 33rd annual Lotus Festival at Echo Park Lake is sure to be memorable because it will be the last at the lake for probably two years as the lake is repaired.

The splendor of previous years has…

Prince William and his wife, Catherine, will be visiting Los Angeles from July 8 to July 10. Their itinerary is packed with official visits, businesses events to encourage U.K. investment, and, inevitably, a charity polo match. But since they’re in town anyway, we thought we’d suggest some other places we think they would like in our fair city. And some you might like,…

Despite the fact that fireworks are banned in Los Angeles and many of its sister cities, they really know how to do the Fourth of July right.

My wife loves firework displays. In LA alone, we've seen fireworks from the Colorado St. bridge in Pasadena for the Rose Bowl show and from the deck of a home in the Palos Verdes hills watching the panorama from Carson's Home Depot to San Pedro's Queen Mary.

We watched with neighbors from a bridge over Ballona Creek for…

With 37 local teens, Echo Park artist Anne Bray created two two dozen films that will be shown on Metro Buses for five minutes each hour on this week  and again for two 45-minute sessions per day on June 18 and 19.…



The World Naked Bike Ride hangs in Echo Park today as riders take off their clothes and ride bikes to protest…

The first project we tackled Marlton Square in South Los Angeles. This 20-acre redevelopment disaster has been neglected, mired in legal disputes and mismanagement for nearly 20 years. But in the last year, it became an issue. in the City Council race and in the community. The Leimert…

Throughout the month of May, every Friday night, the doors will re-open at 10:45pm (following the 8:00pm performance of Re-Animator The Musical) for Midnight Madness – featuring all ages preshow events with bands and free beer (21+ with ID) followed by a midnight performance of the musical. The final two Friday Midnight Madness shows feature the mathrock mayhem of …

Fresh off an East Coast tour, Mike Watt of the Minutemen, Firehose and now leading the Missing Men will be at intimately cool Bootleg Barfresh off an East Coast tour.

They take the stage at 10, just before the garage-punk trio Le Butcherettes, led…