Dressed for celebration, a crowd turned out to celebrate the annual Echo Parenting & Education gala Saturday night.
Dogs have been our partners for a very long time. They may have helped us survive the last ice age.
In 1984, the City declared that the streets around Silver Lake's historic Garbutt house be withdrawn from public use except for residents of the Hathaway Hills Estates. Was that right?
On Saturday, November 5th, we had a cleanup event to spark a revival of the blighted portions of Glendale Boulevard between Berkeley Avenue and the 2 Freeway.
Silver Lake residents and students from King Middle School help to raise money for our local public schools
What to think about Week 9 in the NFL
Could the UTLA be following Wall Street itself more closely than they are the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters?
Local social justice writer and public education activist Robert D. Skeels interviewed live by ABC 7 News this morning to kick off OccupyLAUSD actions starting today.
A neighborhood clean up is scheduled for Saturday in the once forgotten zone.
A screening of The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman. Followed by a panel with special guests including Dr. Stephen Krashen. Event opens with introduction by Dr. Diane Ravitch via Skype.
There is something eerie about lecturing on revolutions alongside live images of white shirts beating on decent people. The streets of Manhattan have never looked at once so familiar and so foreign.
An update on The Ukulady's Fired-For-Being-Gay BFF, Silverlake Coffee & Nuclear Meltdown Larger than Three-Mile Island in LA!
Inspired by Occupy Movements for social and economic justice nationwide, educators and community members are planning to Occupy Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) starting Tuesday.
The Ukulady Loves Taix French Fries!
An update of Ukulady's Gay BFF who was fired for being Gay and Echo Park Snacks!
A developer proposes to remove protected trees in the Subdivision Map Tract between El Moran and Modeska, an historically rich part of Echo Park.
After 9/11, to remain relevant to our lives, television has become even more insistent on constructing artificial narratives.
The outgoing consul general of Japan thinks Angelenos are prepared for a big quake in spirit, if not reality.
Glendale Boulevard near the end of the 2 Freeway was once a thriving thoroughfare. Now, the corridor is a blighted "dead zone." The time is now to revive this area.
The Metro and the City of Los Angeles need to design a better plan for the Glendale Freeway Terminus. The objective should not be to speed traffic but to slow it.
The Elysian Valley Neighborhood Council will soon post signs on the new shared use trail that runs along the Los Angeles River.
The Ukulady and her gay BFF meet for Echo Park Tacos; then The Ukulady's BFF is fired for being Gay! Fight Discrimination and Homophobia and Read all about it!
When the city killed Sunset Junction, the dispute was not simply about a debtor holding an unpaid bill. It was about a vindictive landlord evicting a modestly delinquent family on a holiday eve.
A day after the community learned that Gabriella Charter Corporation had ended their week long occupation of Logan Street Elementary School's auditorium, it turns out the have taken over Room 32.
In 1934, the federal government's WPA paid artists to create public works. One of those works was Echo Park's Lady in the Lake, soon to be returned to her original location.
What not to say to our east coast friends after their first quake experience
The Ukulady discovers new stairwalks in Elysian Park!
Gabriella Charter School Corporation has illegally occupied the Auditorium the public school community at Echo Park's Logan Street Elementary School.
When the Los Angeles City Council decided not to municipalize the trolley but instead to subsidize streets and highways, it killed the electric railway.
The Ukulady meets an Echo Park Blacksmith, considers the Lotus Blossoms and Loves Taco Zone Taco Truck!
The Ukulady discovers a pioneery-general store in Silverlake!
A look at parent poaching and possible privacy violations by corporate charter school operator CNCA.
Walt and Roy Disney started their studio in their uncle's garage on Kingswell. They moved to Hyperion in 1925.
Musical Entertainer, The Ukulady, welcomes You to her UkuAdventures in Echo Park 'n' Silverlake!
The origin of the name of Allesandro Street in Edendale may be a reference to Helen Hunt Jackson's 1885 novel "Ramona," a book that changed Southern California and its architecture.
Silent film comedy in Southern California began on what is now Glendale Boulevard. We can still see the vestiges of two of the studios.
Echo Park Moms 4 Education activists to appear on John Cromshow's "Politics or Pedagogy" show on KPFK 90.7 FM on Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 8 PM, discussing education issues relevant to our community.
A reader expands on the findings that CNCA Corporation's claims about their new principal slated to run CRES #14 [now Sandra Cisneros Learning Academy] just don't add up.
Interview with the mother who was wrongly and viciously accosted by LAUSD Trustee Nury Martinez. Analysis of how Martinez was sidestepping issues of removing democracy and ignoring community voices.
The Green Bay Packers suggest a model for public ownership of the Dodgers.