Niels Bartels, senior librarian at the Edendale Library, shares why he's reading Jon Ronson's new book.
These tunes are in heavy rotation at our local Internet radio station specializing in vintage music.
Pyro shares the most recent playlist from his "Intoxica" music program on Luxuria Music, based in Frogtown.
Keeping the Golden Coast torch aflame, we catch up with Olin & The Moon as they discuss their neighborhood, Echo Park.
It's L.A.--as such there's a lot of great music happening all the time. This weekend is no exception.
The duo has crafted a folksy ode to the neighborhood. Do you have one too? Share it here.
The Echo Park resident talks about his new play "Juan and John" and its resonance right now.
L'Enfant Terrible is running a Fun Family Festival through the month of June at the Bootleg Theater.
Echo Park's The World Record have a new album in the can and are gearing up for the summer. We query founder Andy Creighton on his "Five Things."
City inspectors halted work until it is clear which parts of the lot are covered by conservation protections.
Echo Park's Les Blanks just released their sophmore LP, In Country. Blanks vocalist Josh Caldwell runs down his favorite Eastside appearances on the big screen, from Chinatown to Mi Vida Loca.
A longtime culinary cornerstone of Echo Park, neighborhood hub Taix Restaurant also has a musical side.
This Saturday, you can stroll the streets as part of a local art walk and open house, and meet Echo Park Patch outside Blue Collar Dog.
Who else but the long-standing Dub Club's Thomas Chasteen to run down his favorite Bob Marley videos? Marley died 30 years ago Wednesday.
We hear from Echo Park's Ashley Jex--of JAXART Records and the long running local music blog, Rock Insider.
Patch recently caught the organizers updating their outdoor image.
The band takes us inside bassist Senon Williams' home-based studio called "the shoebox."
Leonard's work is well-known to Echo Park Patch readers. His latest series of photos for the site is attached.
Echo Sounds new, recurring, feature returns this week with the neighborhood musician/DJ Ryan Wilson.
We kick off Echo Sounds' new, recurring feature with local music freak, Ben Kramer.
Journalist Nancy Rommelman reads from her new novel about Hollywood street kids Thursday at Skylight Books. Patch brings you this excerpt.
The Sunday open house at 10 Silver Lake homes caps off a weekend-long celebration of the architect and his legacy.
The new monthly series at Lot 1 Cafe takes a very broad view of "jazz."
The Echo Park alum stars in a new one-man show that explores the later years of the artist's life.
We catch up with the longstanding Silver Lake rock club's owner, Jeff Wolfram.
Eastside enigma Frankel is set to reemerge this Spring with the release of two EPs. Below, I catch up with the artist.
At least that's what the film HOP opening April 1st would have you believe. Enter Patch's Hop Into Spring sweepstakes and you could win tickets to a screening and $500.
A chat with vocalist and de facto leader Joey Siara
Native son Brando Skyhorse received the prestigious fiction award for his first work, The Madonnas of Echo Park.
Brando Skyhorse's collection of stories set in Echo Park gets the 2011 Hemingway Foundation/PEN award.
The legendary Echo Park street artist lives in Austin but recently a couple of new pieces of her work just "popped up."
French street artist JR's new mural at 1759 Glendale Blvd. in Echo Park is part of his project The Wrinkles of the City.
Echo Park was home to some of Los Angeles's film industry pioneers, who won a lot of Oscars. Events like the Academy Awards don't always recognize that.
From chickens on bikes to friendly ghosts to giants, Echo Park's art scene takes to the streets.
Not everything in Los Angeles revolves around the Academy Awards.
Kids and parents danced, ate and did crafts at the Echo Center's fifth annual event.
Start your spring landscaping or get crafty today.
Library activities, a big bike sale and Echo Park boundaries.
From the ashes of Echo Park's Broken West, Ross Flournoy continues his Golden Coast musical vision under a new guise--that of Apex Manor.