Don’t know how to spend Dia de los Muertos this weekend ? Need some help deciding where to go ? Well stop worrying your pretty little calaca head and let me give you a taste of all things Dia de los Muertos happening in the City of Angeles. It’s a doozy of a list and if anyone wants to add anything, please feel free to post it on the comments on send it to us OR even better yet, submit your own post under guest. So, with that being said, on with the celebration of life.
Various religious groups across the city have come together to put an end to hunger in Los Angeles. A food drive took place at Hollywood Forever this month, school children are choosing this campaign as their class project, entertainment people are joining in and volunteering at the various community food programs is being encouraged.  The organizers point out that food banks and collections are mere band-aids on the situation.  They have three major ways to end hunger in LA (check out their website at Fed Up With Hunger –below is one of the methods and the results of an assessment made on our side of town.
A community food assessment by Project CAFÉ that mapped 1273 food establishments in three low income neighborhoods in South and Central Los Angeles found that 29.6% were fast food restaurants, 21.6% were convenience/liquor stores and less than 2% were full service food markets. In Boyle Heights, there is one supermarket for the 90,000 residents of the neighborhood. Tragically, families in these neighborhoods have the highest rates of obesity, overweight and other diet related health problems; cheap foods may ease hunger pangs, but these foods also lead to chronic malnutrition, an emerging health crisis that impacts us all.
The Action: Ask your City Council member to make grocery stores, farmer’s markets and community gardens a high priority in all land-use planning, especially in central and east Los Angeles. Visit the City of Los Angeles’ website and find your Council member in the “My Neighborhood†box.
I recently observed this vehicle ad in Santa Monica and I became flushed….
Ok, is it just me? or does it seem like people on the Westside have a way deeper preoccupation with their scatological functions?
Living in the Eastside, I never once came across any signs that this colonics cottage industry (I vaguely remember hearing the word “LAVATIVA” once in Spanish) existed to the degree that I see it here in the West of L.A. It’s like an accepted part of everyday life it seems….people here budget their colonics along with their cable and cell phone bills.
Has this stuff ever been medically proven to work the wonders it promises? Does anybody from the Barrio get into this? I need to know the answers….
by the way,….eeewww.
NE corner Bonnie Beach Pl and Worth Street, East Los Angeles
Bicycling on Western Ave from the LAPL archives. Western Ave used to mark the Western edge of the city. Eastern Ave is on the Eastside and runs through City Terrace.
This Saturday is the annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar where you can discover and explore halls full of Los Angeles history resources. Representatives from local libraries, colleges and other archival places will be there to answer questions and share information. You can also pick up nifty postcards like this one from the City of Los Angeles Publishing Services Division. Film screenings, speakers and lectures will also keep you entertained and busy, so make a day of it!
The 4th Annual L.A. Archives Bazaar, October 17, 2009
Southern California history comes alive in exhibits by local historical collections and archives at the 4th-annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar on October 17, 2009. Browse rare collections, consult with experts, and learn about the hidden stories of L.A. diverse neighborhoods and communities.
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturday, October 17, 2009
USC Davidson Conference Center
Free admission
More information here.
Last year’s post on the event.
Los Angeles Times article can be read here.
Apparently the creepy consumer addict greenies over at your daily thread didn’t get the memo that the Eastside is EAST of the LA River.
Maybe they were meditating.
Browne Molyneux
H/T Franklin Avenue
So even though I already mentioned the Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights a few post ago, I’d figure I would post some of the pics form that first night. Man was t fun. But I’ll let you guys be the judge of that 🙂 Pics taken by the GF <3
Recently I went to this event:
I should have posted this before I went but I’m lame. After the jump my impressions! Continue reading
Thank you to those that were able to make it to ” Dislexicon” this past Thursday @ MOCA. Our little video turned out okay despite the fact it was homemade stilo and we only had a two week period.
Raul Vasquez and Karla Diaz appear in our movie as random characters. They came out and performed spoken word on stage immediately after the movie.
The movie is old history of Wilmington California as well as street history with an art twist check it out.
More after that dark corner…
Some stupid company once put West Hollywood on an eastside map, which was a laugh riot. But after a ritual burning and casting of spells, they saw the error of their fake eastside ways and have now given West Hollywood their own map. Good for them. It’s not often I find myself in this community but how can anyone resist a bookfair? Pa’ los libros!
Even though this post is about a bookfair, there is a fair amount of pictures up ahead. You’ve been warned.
