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August 29, 2008
Copyeditor's note: In response to a recent Chicken Corner cluck-and-flutter about Machine Project's use of the name "South Central" instead... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
August 26, 2008
Photo: Echo Park Historical Society The Lady of the Lake is a long story. The Deco statue symbolizes many... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
August 25, 2008
I missed (until today) Friday's Curbed LA post about the construction ongoings at Chicken Corner. Dakota's post declares the future... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Quick notes on a very lively weekend up and down Echo Park Avenue, with uncoordinated parties and barbecues celebrating shop... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
August 22, 2008
Bad guys dress in costume. Speaking of fake officials, Daniel Hernandez blogged recently (Aug. 16) about a Mexico City auto-body... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
August 20, 2008
There have been reports in the last few days of fake DWP workers showing up at people's houses in Elysian... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
This just in off the Machine Project news service: PuffTron boxes will be placed "around Echo Park in discreet locations."... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
August 15, 2008
My new favorite U-turn criminal, Toks, sent me this Gary Leonard photo of Aaron Donovan painting his Chicken Corner mural... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
August 14, 2008
You say Angelino, I say Angeleno. It's a personal matter, really, a matter of style, or politics, a sense of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
August 12, 2008
A scene I semi-witnessed in passing Saturday night proves, unfortunately, that in some ways Echo Park is not so special.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
August 9, 2008
Cluck, cluck. More dysfunction on the neighborhood council in Echo Park. Recently Chicken Corner has been observing sharply worded backs... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
August 7, 2008
Chicken Corner's world got a tiny bit bigger yesterday ... Sightseeing in Chinatown. My cousin, Abigail Burman, is visiting and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
One of Echo Park's most famous residents, Room 8 the cat, once made Elysian Heights Elementary School famous too.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
...it is goofy grape! On the Episcopal Church down Echo Park Avenue! Helicopter* flew over some time recent and poured... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
August 5, 2008
Photo by Cindy Bennett Lots of paint being splashed about Echo Park recently. Cache's cute mural on Mohawk, of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>