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October 31, 2006
This morning I heard the familiar screech from the back yard: red tailed hawks.
October 30, 2006
The ground beneath Elysian Heights is laced with faults and underground springs.
A reader takes note of the flip side of the 7 a.m. pastoral scene depicted last week at Echo Park Lake.
October 26, 2006
Here's the goose. The same one I wrote about earlier today. Photo: Ross's Goose, Echo Park Lake, October 2006 By...
Echo Park, California responds to Nancy Cleeland's Los Angeles Times story about an Echo Park family that was kicked out...
Thursday morning, Martin Cox and I are making the circle at Echo Park Lake, 7 a.m. Martin is an avid...
October 25, 2006
I am a fool for Machine Project. I never get to go to the events. They have a way of...
October 24, 2006
The story of an Echo Park family forced out of the neighborhood by rising real estate "values" is featured on...
October 23, 2006
Undesigned: the sign in the window has not changed since the chic indie clothing designer's studio and shop at Paul...
October 20, 2006
In response to my plea for more information on the chicken muralist Cache, Scott Fajack sent me the following trove...
October 19, 2006
A couple of days ago a Chicken Corner reader named Tenlay called my attention to a chicken mural on Sunset...
Coincidence? Both Chicken Corner and Native Intelligence posted this week from Nashville, Tennessee. But now Chicken Corner has fluttered back...
October 16, 2006
Here's a quick rundown of some recent books set in Echo Park, including Michael Connelly's latest.
October 11, 2006
Speaking of graffiti, this is the graffiti pit of Elysian Heights. The footprint of a house on what has...
At left is another photo taken on Delta Street the morning of the vintage car rally departure. The small crowd...
October 10, 2006
On the groceries and community watering hole front: we lost the independently operated grocery store Pioneer Market not too long...
Saturday early afternoon I filled my tank at Magic Gas, the independent gas station at the cross road of...
October 08, 2006
Echo Park, California, a site that also blogs Echo Park has a pair of posts that touch upon the return...
October 06, 2006
Our councilman Eric Garcetti is back on the blog with a report on his visit to Pensacola, Florida, where for...
October 05, 2006
Martin Cox emailed me the following: My Mother volunteers at a charity shop in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England. Princess Anne (The...
A pair of LA Times Calendar mentions in the last couple of days for Echo Park artists. The artist Ruben...
October 04, 2006
Kill City Choppers moved to Joshua Tree this week. Steg J. von Heintz showed up maybe three years ago: fiftyish...
October 03, 2006
The ducks are migrating back to Echo Park Lake, the ones who left for summer vacation. A week ago,...
It’s been a big media week for Chicken Corner. First, I hear from a freelance writer for Los Angeles Magazine....
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| Downtown's retail/entertainment complex is set to open a bunch of restaurants throughout December.
| The Mouse House will be releasing five movies in the super-sharp format, starting with "A Christmas Carol."
| Without referencing its recent layoff, the Ventura County Star's editor says the suburban LA paper is now "more streamlined and, in many ways, much more efficient."
| We stripped the Indians of their ponies, and now we're doing it to ourselves.
| When the sun looks like that, there's a big fire somewhere regardless of whether we see or smell smoke.
Lee Abrams, Tribune Company's chief innovation officer, doesn’t seem too impressed with the Los Angeles Times. That’s the feeling I got when he appeared at the Los Angeles Press Club.
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