USC Reneges on Some Commitments to Street Improvements Along Jefferson; Neighbors are Concerned
"USC is prepared to enhance this public benefits package to include extending the boundaries of the graffiti abatement program to Western Ave., extending the bicycle lane on Jefferson to Western, [and] extending the proposed streetscape improvements and street trees to Western Ave.," said Dale Goldsmith, Land Use Counsel for USC in testimony before the Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) committee hearing in May of last year.
November 21, 2013
Learn About “Hotel Mariachi” at a Book Signing at the Mariachi Festival This Weekend
If you've been to Mariachi Plaza, then you've seen the beautiful Boyle Hotel, or Hotel Mariachi, as it is known to many, that sits on the corner of 1st and Boyle.
November 19, 2013
Ed P. Reyes River Greenway On the Verge of Opening for Business
On my way home from Boyle Heights, I often pass through the section of Lincoln Heights that is squeezed between the river and the 5 Fwy.
November 15, 2013
Improvements Along First Street in Boyle Heights Begin to Take Shape
Don't you want to take a picture of me and put it on the Internet? a man wearing two casts on his arms and a "Fall Risk" wrist band asked in Spanish.
November 12, 2013
Culture Heals at Proyecto Jardín in Boyle Heights
As I sat down to watch the performance by Kalpulli Tlaltekuhtli for the "movement is medicine" segment of the La Cultura Cura Día de los Muertos celebration at Proyecto Jardín, I was (once again) reminded of my encounter with displaced Afro-Colombian farmers in Bogotá, Colombia, a decade earlier.
November 7, 2013
Death and All His Friends Cast Long Shadows In the Public Space
“I went crazy,” Sherika Simms says quietly of the realization that she would be unable to help her brother.
November 6, 2013
Riders Reclaim Central Ave. for Bikes for a Few Happy Hours
For much of the time that I lived in Sevilla, Spain, I lived adjacent to the surprisingly still-formidable walls that once surrounded the old city and were constructed (for the second time) in the 11th century.
November 5, 2013
Stories of Place and Space Told through Dance and Theater in Boyle Heights and Watts
Starting this weekend, you have the unique opportunity to explore two important neighborhood spaces through theatrical performances.
November 1, 2013
Gardening Students in South L.A. Use Their Skills to Build Garden Beds for Local Families
Sandwiched between 110 fwy on the west, the 10 fwy and the Blue Line tracks to the north, and an industrial area to the east, the All Peoples Community Center sits in a densely packed neighborhood in Historic South Central that seems to have been forgotten by the city. You know things can't be great when a gang can take the liberty of drawing enormous hand signs in the middle of an intersection (below), for the benefit of anyone in doubt about whose territory they are in. And, every time I roll through there, I feel like I and everything around me are being liberally coated in layers of grime.
October 31, 2013