The Los Angeles City Council approved a final Redistricting map for the Los Angeles Unified School District Wednesday, retaining the current configurations of District 5 in keeping with what Board of Education Member Bennett Kayser had been pushing for... »
If your child goes to an LAUSD school—or if you have an interest in the nation’s second-largest public school network—there are three things to note about Bennett Kayser, the newest member on the District’s Board of Education. The first is that he oppo... »
Tickets are still available for this weekend's 9th Annual Theodore Payne Native Garden Tour, which will makes stops at homes from the San Gabriel Valley to Northeast Los Angeles to the Westside. Keith Malone, a spokesman for the Theodore Payne Foundati... »
For cyclists, there are few experiences less frustrating than having than having the path of bike lane blocked by trash bins. Local riders take a number of approaches to this problem--some kick them out of the way, others get off their bike and politel... »
For the loyal denizens of the Hermosillo Club on York Boulevard, the bar was beloved for its unpretentious atmosphere, cheap Mexican beer and a corridos-bumping jukebox. Those days may be coming to an end, though, as the bar has recently been sold and ... »
Saturday's overcast weather seems to be setting the perfect atmosphere for a St. Patrick's Day Celebration. Here's what Highland Park's bars are offering for St. Paddy's Day specials. Highland Park Kitchen (HPK) HPK will offer $3 shots of Jameson Iris... »
At the end of a nearly eight-hour-long meeting on Wednesday evening, filled with public testimony and debate, Los Angeles City Council Redistricting Commissioner Arturo Vargas addressed the dwindling audience with a mixture of defeat and self-absolutio... »
Officials from the Los Angeles Police Department's Northeast Division are urging residents to be on the lookout for "distraction burglaries." According to an alert email sent out by LAPD Northeast, distraction burglaries occur when one suspect will dis... »
In January, residents from Koreatown to Highland park filled St. Peter's Italian Catholic Church in Chinatown to make a plea--unite our communities. For many of those residents--whose ethnically homogeneous neighborhoods have been divided among multipl... »
On two separate occasions in the last week, Northeast LAPD arrested armed alleged gang members from neighboring cities who were in Highland Park. According to Officer Curtis Davis of Northeast LAPD's Crime Analysis Unit, an alleged gang member from Pas... »
The tiny community of Hermon has become the center of a major clash between members of the Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council. Since late last year, a task force of Hermon residents have been laying the groudwork for excluding the Northeast L.A. neighbor... »
Chef and entrepreneur Tony Yanow has been busy this year. This spring he gave up darts in Burbank to bring us Mohawk Bend in Echo Park. Now, he's back on the other side of the river, overseeing the opening of Golden Road Brewing on San Fernando Road ju... »
