Architect Eugene Kinn Choy overcame the anti-Chinese covenants and racism of 1940s Los Angeles to settle in Silver Lake and build this modernist home on Castle Street, near the reservoir.
The secret City Council district maps were released publicly today, revealing whose ox is being gored. As she foreshadowed, Councilwoman Jan Perry is among the gored.
Reiner never got to live there, but the home has become a modernist landmark considered one of John Lautner's masterpieces.
But don't buy any advance tickets, and if you're a band, cash the check quick and get out of town.
Questions now are whether $140,000 or so is enough and whether the city will reconsider the denial of a permit for this weekend's scheduled street fair.
We'll see if this holds up once people realize it could mean this weekend's Sunset Junction street festival has to be cancelled
A city inspector from the Department of Building and Safety showed up at the KCET studios on Sunset Boulevard on Wednesday.
Jenny Burman excerpts at Chicken Corner a lively online discussion on the identity and history of the term Eastside, as a descriptor of place in Los Angeles. Plus some past posts on the subject.
Tonight's episode kicked off the first Los Angeles project ever of the venerable public television franchise.
The death of Dr. Marc Abrams, the popular Walking Man of Silver Lake, is now officially a suicide.
Despite reports that Dr. Marc Abrams was under criminal investigation and may have committed suicide, the community fixture known as the walking man of Silver Lake was honored Sunday by a gathering at the reservoir and a walk through the area.
Rico Gagliano of radio's Dinner Party Download has started a Facebook group proposing that the path around Silver Lake Reservoir be re-named the Marc Abrams Memorial Loop, in honor of the walking man of Silver Lake.
It's come to this. The Los Angeles Times website seems now to think the Silver Lake section of L.A. is a city unto itself.
As part of the promotion for his new movie, actor Adam Goldberg drives around Los Angeles pointing out some of the things he dislikes. Among them are the food,...
Donna Barstow takes some pics and blogs her thoughts about the Department of Water and Power....
The DWP has decided to dump all the water in Silver Lake and the Elysian reservoir because of unusually high traces of the carcinogen bromate, which formed in the water...