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September 28, 2006
The "make your own noise thing" workshop offered by Machine Project reminds me of a yard sale last weekend on...
A lot of people who live in Echo Park came originally from Mexico, or Cuba. A smaller but still significant...
September 27, 2006
One of the things that has made Echo Park such a rich place to live is that is was poor...
September 26, 2006
I went back for more. After posting a notice about the tour of the east side of Elysian Park I...
September 25, 2006
Echo Park is not mentioned In a New York Times Sunday Styles piece about Los Angeles toddlers who have significant...
It happens once every two or three months. The car clubs meet in a valley of Elysian Park. Car clubs...
September 21, 2006
The western end of Elysian Park is heavily used by residents of the surrounding communities. Every day there are hundreds...
September 20, 2006
To make a truly long story short, Mike McGonigal was in town last week with his girlfriend, Lily. They live...
September 18, 2006
There is a ghost town in the south-west corner of Echo Park. It is two blocks of houses that are...
September 17, 2006
I am sure they were from the White House. A small band of aliens abducted me when I was in...
September 15, 2006
Los Angeles is the theme of the fifth issue of Black Clock. Among other fine contributions, the issue includes a...
September 14, 2006
Oh. Hollywood rediscovers Echo Park. In the L.A. Times editorial pages today. You may have seen it. I'd sputter, but...
Martin Cox, who has evolved into Chicken Corner’s occasional waterfowl correspondent reports the following activity at Echo Park Lake: Odd...
September 12, 2006
Director Neil Abramson, along with editor Angela Wood and others, searched high and low for Bob Smiths, who happened to...
September 11, 2006
Designers Louis Montoya and Laurent Turin talk about working on projects in Echo Park.
September 07, 2006
There are a pair of enticing events in the neighborhood or near-neighborhood this weekend, which make me sorry I am...
September 06, 2006
Morgan Neville -- whom LA nerds will know as the maker of Shotgun Freeway, among dozens of music documentaries --...
September 05, 2006
I can’t remember exactly when, which month or which season, but sometime in the last 6 months or so, things...
September 04, 2006
Yes, there is more to say. I hear from Joe D'Augustine that I have mis-copyedited Fellowship Park Way. He said...
September 01, 2006
I have received a pair of notes concerning Fellowship Parkway. The first is from Richard Cromelin, pop music writer from...
It’s an iced-coffee day. I take mine to an indoor table at Chango since I hope to read and write...
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