Mark your calendar: Echo Park TAP neighborhood cleanups
The next Echo Park Trash Abatement Program (TAP) cleanup is tomorrow morning, so make sure to get up bright and early and help out!
You can also show up after the start of the cleanup and contribute for an hour, or more!
Dates for the cleanups include:
Saturday, February 18, 2012
and Saturday, March 3, 2012
8:00 am – 12:00 noon
Meet at the corner of Sunset Blvd. and Logan Street by Walgreen’s Parking lot. Dress for weather. Bring gloves if possible.
Also, save the date for:
Friends of the Los Angeles River Cleanup
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Check the Friends of the LA River website for details.
Free workshop: How to include your pets in emergency preparedness plans
This Sunday, February 19, 2012 from 6-7:30 pm, join the P.U.P. (Prepare Ur Pet) at BlueCollar Working Dog in Echo Park for a FREE emergency preparedness class! They are, after all, our best friends, and we wouldn’t want to leave our babies behind in an emergency because we weren’t prepared.
Animal trainer and behavior specialists will be doing live demonstrations on how to handle your pet before and after a disaster, including calming your pet during stressful circumstances, what to pack in an emergency kit, as well as how to collar, harness, or leash your pets for an emergency evacuation.
RSVP is a must – simply email prepareurpet@gmail.com.
BlueCollar Working Dog is located at 1533 Echo Park Avenue
Echo Park’s Week in Music
For the week of Monday, February 13 through Sunday, February 19, 2012
Monday
42nd Anniversary of Black Sabbath’s Debut LP with Back Stabbath, Ace Diamond Experience, Special Guest DJ Pete Majors Of Harassor & Vacation Vinyl @ Pehrspace
Monday Night Residency: Electric Guest, Cuckoo Chaos, Summer Camp, Haim @ Echo
NO Record Release Party @ Origami Vinyl
LA Underground Presents: Incan Abraham, Nightmare and The Cat, Pity Party, High Rise @ Bootleg Bar
Motown Mondays @ The Short Stop
Tuesday
Valentine’s Day Song Massacre aka The Sad Hour: Grant Langston, The Driftwood Singers, Matt Adams & The Blank Tapes, Aaron Ballard, Alex Maslansky, The Far West, Yellow Red Sparks, Don Chiant, Ryan Fuller (Fort King), Steffaloo, Michael Ubaldini, Andrea Cohen, Death To Anders, Aaron Kyle, Aaron Ballard, Andy Siara & Clare Paladino, Soft Swells @ Echo
Filter Presents: The Asteroid Galaxy Tour, Vacationer, DJ Paul V @ Echoplex
The Grind: 90s Dance Party, featuring DJ Automation and Lifepartner @ Los Globos
Romantic Event In Lounge with Gem Silver and Her Jazz Rhythm Players @ Taix Lounge
A Valentine’s Day Release Show for ‘A Sleep & A Forgetting’ (Anti-): Islands, Idiot Glee @ Bootleg Theater
Wednesday
Mucho Wednesdays presents Love & Liberation featuring two performances with Las Cafeteras, Irene Diaz, Mucho DJ’s @ Echo
Dub Club @ Echoplex
Kip Boardman @ Taix Lounge
Liquid Love Letter, John Gold, Stephen Sowan @ Bootleg Bar
Live Jazz every Wednesday night at 7:00 pm @ Downbeat Café
Thursday
Howlin Rain, The Allah-Las Plus Very Special Guest Neal Casal @ Echo
Riton And Others Tba @ Los Globos
Marcus Watkins, Claremont Voodoo Society @ Taix Lounge
Tammy Faye Starlite As Nico In Chelsea Madchen, Blaqstarr @ Bootleg Bar
Friday
KSPC Presents: Space Age Bachelor, Poppet, Habits, Letters @ Pehrspace
Neutral Uke Hotel (a ukulele-fueled sing-a-long of Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea” Album), Michael Epstein Memorial Library, Golden Bloom, Miracle Parade @ Echo
Bearracuda LA, Bears Love Honey, featuring Honey Soundsystem (San Francisco) DJs Jason Kendig, P-Play, Robot Hustle @ Echoplex
Moris Tepper, Pete Fahey @ Taix Lounge
Buddha: A Fantastic Journey @ Bootleg Theater
Tammy Faye Starlite as Nico in Chelsea Madchen, Mad Planet @ Bootleg Bar
Saturday
Sara Radle (Record Release), Rachel Haden, Kissing Cousins @ Pehrspace
Emily Wells (early show), Funky Sole @ Echo
Retox @ Origami Vinyl
The Lift (LA) featuring Rich Medina, Jeremy Sole, Wiseacre, Jonathan Rudnick @ Los Globos
Buddha: A Fantastic Journey @ Bootleg Theater
Tammy Faye Starlite as Nico in Chelsea Madchen, The Fling @ Bootleg Bar
Sunday
LARecord, Blundertown, City of Devils present: Vektor, Witchaven, Exmortus @ Echo
Part Time Punks presents: Smiths/Morrissey Nite with guest DJ Jose Maldonado (Sweet & Tender Hooligans) @ Echoplex
French Toast: Weekly Stand-Up Comedy @ Taix Lounge
Hi Ho Silver Oh, Keychain and Friends @ Echo Country Outpost
Broadcast Station: Cave Country, David Rosales @ Bootleg Bar
Visit the venue websites for more information on the cost and times of shows. Feel free to add more events in the comment section. All events listed are subject to change at any time, and new events announced for the week after this posting may not be included.
“Parenthood” turns Echo Park into San Francisco
Screenshot via Hulu - click to view larger image.
Tuesday night’s episode of Parenthood opened up with a strangely familiar – but different – scene. As the characters walk into the frame, we realized this is the episode they filmed in Echo Park in front of The Echo, Two Boots, and then inside Origami Vinyl (you can see The Echo on the left in the above screenshot).
But there’s something a little different with the skyline – the colorful apartments on the right hand side, and the steep hills going up are all added in. While the first hill in the distance might actually be Reservoir Street, the rest is a graphic. It’s pretty strange to watch the clip as the camera pans over!
Another part later on in the episode is filmed at 1134 Lemoyne St. in Echo Park (where the pregnant character is standing outside). Both locations were filmed on or around January 23, 2012, and rumor-mill has it the production interfered quite a bit with surrounding businesses (they take up quite a bit of parking).
While Echo Park isn’t a stranger to filming, recently there’s been a surge of filming in Echo Park, Angelino Heights, and Elysian Park, including Taco Bell commercials, and other TV series like Southland and Up All Night.
Click here to watch the episode and pay attention to the first couple of minutes.
Echo Park Lake rehab update meeting tonight
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Tonight is a meeting of the oversight committee and odor monitoring group of the Echo Park Lake rehabilitation project. All are invited to attend to get updates about the project, and share information on how you think things are going. Echo Park Lake Rehab Meeting Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 6:30 pm St. Paul’s Cathedral, [...]
Sunday: Open house for Echo Park eco-home, complete with yurt
We don’t normally write a whole lot about real estate here in Echo Park, but it’s on our minds all the time since we got married and have started to think we could buy a place in Echo Park. This particular piece of property caught our eye because, well, it’s just so COOL! There aren’t [...]
Are you going? Echo Park urban planning workshop Saturday!
SATURDAY, January 14, 2012 10:00 am – 12:30 pm @ The Echo Country Outpost, 1770 Glendale Blvd. in Echo Park Echo Park Improvement Association member and activist Josh Post, who organized the recent Glendale Boulevard community cleanup, has put together a great event this weekend that will help further the efforts to get fix up [...]
In case you missed it: Headlines from around Echo Park
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Amish journey from homespun to hipster – LA Times How Refuge salon and Form Academy owner Miriam Jones went from an Omish upbringing to Echo Park. Capping an era of L.A. oil exploration – LA Times This week the city started plugging an old oil well just south of Glendale Boulevard and Rockwood Street to [...]
