Tune in through the afternoon from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m to look for our live updates via Ustream.
It's Art Walk time again. And in a bold display of enthusiasm, we're going to come at you live via the embedded widget. We'll be checking in periodically via Ustream with live hits at the site. We'll also archive all the action. So check back soon if you're not planning to be there yourself. Read more about the 2012 Art Walk here.
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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.
Umami returns with a new dish that combines pizza and the cheeseburger. Talk about comfort food! Meantime, the new Caffe VIta is hitting some snags.
As previously reported, Umami's Los Feliz location has been dark of late, closed for "spring cleaning." The light shines again Thursday when the home of the Carnitas Burger--with its nod to taco stand culture--reopens at 5 p.m. Umami will also premiere its "Umami Supreme," a $12 patty blended with sausager and pepperoni, and topped with sauce and cheese. Welcome back Umami. Meantime, a little further east, the latest outpost of Seattle's Caffe Vita chain is hitting some snags. Eater LA reports the coffeehouse won't now open in the old Uncle Jer's space next to Rudy's Barbershop until June. What a stretch that will be when it does, with El Chavo, the Vista Theater, Rudy's, Tiki Ti and a great coffee and music place. Look what you are …
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The redesigned ladwp.com offers a new layout, self-service capabilities and 24/7 service and information.
[The following news release was provided by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.] The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) Monday announced the launch of its new and improved official website, www.LADWP.com. The English/Spanish bilingual site is more user-friendly and features a modern, updated design with streamlined navigation and improved self-service capabilities. Residential and commercial water and power customers can now access improved bill view and payment options, online applications for rebates and low income discounts, view electric and water consumption charts and graphs to understand their usage trends, view past bills and track service requests. The website also features real-time neighborhood power …
A vigilant CurbedLA editor noticed the ad before it was yanked from Craigslist. It wasn't real, but it did underscore the competitiveness of our neighborhood's rental market.
How much would you pay for a 12-square-foot plastic house in the Silver Lake hills? Eight hundred dollars? That's what one short-lived ad was asking Tuesday on Craigslist. CurbedLA reports that other details of the choice property included proximity to a skunkhole and "no running water, no heat, no A/C." The property--as you can see above--was a plastic kids playhouse, and the gag was promptly pulled from the site. CurbedLA grabbed a screen snap that reminds us just how tough the rental market--especially along Silver Lake Boulevard near the Reservoir-- can be.
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 …
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 ›
"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 ›
This video tutorial shows you how to unlock the power of your directory listing by claiming your listing and also covers the benefits of doing so.
If your business needs a boost (which business doesn't, right?), consider claiming your free directory listing. Each business on the Patch site that covers your community has a free directory listing. But it's not until you, the business owner, claims your directory listing that the power is unleashed. If you don't see your business listed, send an email to anthea.raymond@patch.com. That's especially true for Silver Lake and Los Feliz businesses, who we've just started to cover. Some of the benefits of claiming your listing include: It all starts by signing up for a free membership and visiting your directory listing on the site. Check out this video tutorial that shows you, step by step, how to claim your listing and the added benefits …
Kristen Lepore
11:28 am on Thursday, May 17, 2012
Happy to hear Umami is opening again soon! One of my fav places in the area. more ›