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Student art will be on display, and KROQ's Kat Corbett and KCRW's Chris Douridas will DJ.
The Pablove's Shutterbugs launched in 2010 to teach photography to children living with cancer. A free gallery show and auction Saturday afternoon will showcase student work and raise money for the future. Students, family, friends and suprise celebrities are expected. KROQ DJ Kat Corbett and KCRW's Chris Douridas will DJ, with free food and drink for all. The event takes place from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Kopeikin Gallery at 2766 S. La Cienega Blvd. One hundred percent of auction and print proceeds benefit the Pablove Shutterbugs program.
It’s wild, it's fun, it’s Saturday
On May 19th, local artists, musicians, performers, residents, and businesses will join up to create, support, and enjoy “Public Displays of Art” at this year’s Echo Park Art Walk. (Patch is a media sponsor.) There will be music, art, and theater everywhere you look -- on sidewalks, streets, and fences; in alleys, parking lots and driveways. And while you’re in the neighborhood, stop by and say Hi. Patch will be at Yogala from 2-3 p.m., and at Sancho Gallery from 3:30 -4:30 p.m. Sancho will be playing host to KCRW DJ Mario Cotto all afternoon. Art Walk kicks off at noon, on and around Echo Park Avenue and Sunset Boulevard. For a complete list of what to find where, visit Art Needs Freedom.
Flowers, records and mementos were left on the late singer's Walk of Fame star on Hollywood Boulevard Thursday.
By late Thursday afternoon, Donna Summer's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame had amassed a variety of mementos left by fans following the announcement of her death in Florida. The Hollywood Historic Trust had placed a wreath filled with pink roses, yellow orchids, snapdragons and Queen Anne's lace. Fans had left handwritten messages, candles and a sparkling tiara on the star. (One guy passing by threw his cigarette butt, which landed on the star's name while I was there snapping photos. Oh, Hollywood.) A couple TV reporters were stationed in front of the star for the early evening broadcasts. News vans were parked close by in a line. Summer's star is located in front of 7000 Hollywood Boulevard, adjacent to the Roosevelt Hotel. She was …
The Pulitzer Prize winning critic said he doesn't do vegan, but he did recommend the popular vegan restaurant in his weekly online lunchtime chat.
Astara Calas, Scott Zwiezen and Evan Haros of Elf Cafe should be honored. Jonathan Gold sent the musician-caterers turned restauranteurs a big thumbs-up Wednesday in his online chat for the Los Angeles Times: Vegan Victor: I'm looking for good vegan restaurants in LA. Do you do vegan? Jonathan Gold: I eat vegan, but I don't DO vegan. That being said, Elf, while not strictly vegan, is quite good. There's also a great photo of the trio in a Times gallery that you can see here. Elf Cafe opened when Sunset Boulevard's Mohawk Bend, just east of Alvarado Street, was a dark throughway, punctuated only by Lucy's Laundrymart and LAFD Station 20. It was built on the back of the raw-food catering businesses that the owners (and musicians collective) …
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The Memorial Day music, craft and community festival moves into its final days of planning. Are you going? Patch will be there.
The Mexican author and diplomat, who died Tuesday at 83, worried about who would do America's jobs if the border closed.
Carlos Fuentes died Tuesday at 83. The author of books such as The Death Of Artemio Cruz, also served as Mexico's ambassador to England and France. KPCC's Leslie Berestein Rojas reviews Fuentes' views on immigration and Mexican policy in her blog Multi-American. Click through here to read Rojas's full post. Dissecting a conversation he did with the Academy of Achievement in 2006, Rojas reports that Fuentes seemed to feel that Mexican workers were filling a needed gap in the American workforce. He speculates in the interview: Let us imagine that Mexico had full employment one day. The workers would still be needed. Who would pick the fruit? Who would cook? Who would serve at tables? Who would take care of the children? Who would drive the …
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Conscientious zoning helps us protect L.A.'s past.
West of Los Feliz, Hollywood Grove is the city’s newest Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ), one of 29 established to protect historic structures in a specific area. Over in Echo Park, Angeleno Heights was the city’s first HPOZ. This weekend the 10thannual Los Angeles HPOZ conference will link both areas, and all of the city’s HPOZs, providing a wealth of information to homeowners on how to make historically appropriate design decisions and how to help protect the character of L.A.’s historic neighborhoods. Organized by the Department of City Planning's Office of Historic Resources and the L.A. Conservancy, the conference began originally as a training session for HPOZ board members who are entrusted with reviewing construction …
"Evangeline, the Queen of Make Believe" features the music of Los Lobos, but the story is inspired by drummer Louis Perez's sister.
“Evangeline, The Queen of Make Believe,” features music by Los Lobos band members David Hidalgo and Louie Pérez. It began a three-week run at the Bootleg Theater in Historic Filipinotown this weekend. Family and friends gathered after the premiere performance Saturday night to celebrate. Among them were former high school friends of Hildago and Perez, as well Perez's two sons John and Matthew, and Perez's sister Carmen. According to Perez, Carmen grew up in East L.A. but spent much of her adult life in Venice. He said she is a lot like the character of Evangeline, who leaves the tight-knit East L.A. for Laurel Canyon and adventure in the late 1960s. Friends at the party Saturday said the Lobos were open to outside influences early on too. …
Reader Julia Lopez says watch out for a woman in a Jeep Cherokee. She tried to steal Lopez's stroller from the inside an Elysian Heights apartment complex Monday.
About 10:30 Monday morning, Julia Lopez was ready to pass off her double stroller to her sister, who was coming by to take her kids on a walk. She left it inside the courtyard of her apartment complex in the 1800 block of Lucretia Avenue in Echo Park. The next thing she knew, a woman, perhaps in her mid-20s, was stuffing it into a grayish-brown Jeep Cherokee. Lopez's husband intervened and pulled the stroller away the woman, who drove off. The couple got her license plate number and have filed a police report with LAPD's Northeast Division. Says Julia: This is a $700 stroller, so it would've been a sad day if she had managed to get away with it. Yes, I will never leave it there again but this is just a warning to our neighbors to make sure…
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10:27 am on Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Why do the cops discourage reporting this kind of thing? If they were to go visit the woman and question her, that might at least let her know that she's been made and might slow her down. more ›
Anthea Raymond
2:59 pm on Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Not everyone, of course, thinks the HPOZs are a good thing, pointing to their impact on individual property rights. It's a complicated calculus that plays out every day in our neighborhoods. What do you think? Are there other ways to balance history and change? more ›