Highland Park
Lincoln Heights
On the Eastside, chainlink is so last year! No need either for those ten feet tall hedges like they have on the other side of town.
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LA Eastside on Facebook!
Sure you can keep up with our site by adding our RSS feed to your reader, or by checking in daily or maybe when you get that forwarded email of Tia Concha’s love advice that’s been making the rounds amongst bored office workers. If you’re like me though, you probably spend a nice chunk of time on Facebook so we created a Facebook page so that’s even easier to keep up on all the chisme that way. What you waiting for?
LA Eastside’s Facebook fan page
Highland Park in the NY Times
These residents don’t count when the New York Times is discussing Highland Park “culture.”
It’s been making the rounds, The New York Times did an article on the new “culture” of Highland Park and you can guess who and what culture they are referring to. The vast majority of Highland Park residents will never read this article nor would they care about it but I can imagine the boutiques and gastropubs featured and interviewed couldn’t be more thrilled about this kind of validation.
Funny though, Highland Park has always been a place of community activity and art. Back in the 90s, it was ground zero for the Chicano cultural renaissance due to spaces like (De)Center, The Popular Resource Center (bands playing here: Quetzal, Ozomatli and Rage Against the Machine), pirate radio station Radio Clandestina, community garden La Culebra and the wonderful Arroyo Bookstore. The area was buzzing with art shows, concerts, poetry, political events and other happenings.
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Film Night Fun
Film screening of Laberinto de Fauno/Pan’s Labyrinth this Thursday, July 9 at 7:30. Short presentation on the Spanish Civil War before film. If these things don’t entice you to attend, there will be popcorn!
KIWA (Korean Immigrant Workers Alliance)
3456 w 8th St
Los Angeles, CA 90005
For more information on the Southern California Anarchist Conference, please see this website.
Botanitas: July 1, 2009
East LA school playground
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Bird’s Eye Point of View
In MacArthur Park, a bird challenges the world of simulacrum.
A Saturday Afternoon with Razorcake
Razorcake Magazine
You like punk rock, right? Then you must know about Northeast LA’s very own Razorcake magazine! It’s one of the finest music publications in existence…Of course, you know! Well, it’s kinda of last minute of me to announce this but Razorcake editor Todd Taylor will be talking about the history and the DIY philosophy of punk rock today. And this talk is conveniently located in Highland Park. You can take the 81 or 83 bus! I know y’all don’t mind the late notice cause you punk rockers live for the day!
Todd Taylor reading
Sat, June 20, 2009
4pm
Arroyo Seco Library
6145 N Figueroa St
Los Angeles, CA 90042-3593
(323) 255-0537
And from East of the River…
East L.A – Lakers Celebration 2009 by Eriksarni.com
In case you missed it in the comments section, LA Eastside compadre Erik Sarni captured the joyous and peaceful Lakers victory celebration on Whittier Blvd in East LA last night. Looked like fun, that is until the cops kicked everyone off the street.
I have a suggestion for the City of Los Angeles, instead of spending a million dollars to put on a Lakers victory parade just ask the good folks in East LA to help out. They managed to have an impromptu parade and did it for free, DIY style. They’re good at catching serial killers too!
Botanitas: May 29, 2009
The Fiesta
The sun was gentle, the air clear, and the sky cloudless.
Buried in the sand, the clay pot steamed. As they went from ocean to mouth, the shrimp passed though the hands of Fernando, master of ceremonies, who bathed them in a holy water of salt, onions, and garlic. There was good wine.
Seated in a circle, we friends shared the wine and shrimp and the ocean that spread out free and luminous at our feet.
As it took place, that happiness was already being remembered by our memory. It would never end, nor would we. For we are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine, which is something everyone knows, no matter how small his or her knowledge.
-Eduardo Galeano
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Botanitas: May 16, 2009
Hat spotted at Northern Southern Winds Pow Wow at Los Angeles Historic State Park
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Click for more on historic buildings being turned into drive-through-warehouses-for-gluts-of-imported-merchandise, Reel Rasquache moving pictures with sound, Shalom at the Eastside Shul, fruity exchanges and other events and happenings around the Eastside and beyond!
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The 14th Annual Northern-Southern Winds Pow Wow
It’s time for the yearly celebration of indigenous culture, honoring mothers and recognizing no borders. Food, music, vendors, crafts, music and dance draw in thousands of participants every year. It’s the first time this pow wow will be happening outside of East Los Angeles so head downtown and show them some love!
May 8-10, 2009
Los Angeles State Historic Park
1245 North Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(click on flyer to enlarge)
For more info, please visit their website.
Just added: East LA’s Chicano/Indigena Roots Reggae group Quinto Sol will do an acoustic set Friday Night at the Pow Wow.
Botanitas: May Day Edition 2009
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May Day events!
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