Recent Streetsblog LA posts about events

Thanks Everyone! Next Event with Gehl Architects in Santa Monica!

By Damien Newton | Feb 23, 2015

Saturday night’s Streetsblog Los Angeles Birthday party saw over fifty people pack into the house of Amy, Jack and Jonathan Weiss to celebrate the 7th anniversary of our first article in Los Angeles. There are too many people to thank for our ongoing success, at one point in the night we did a hand count […]

Live.Ride.Share, L.A.’s First “Shared Mobility Conference” Comes on Monday

By Damien Newton | Feb 19, 2015 | 1 Comment

After you have spent the weekend celebrating Streetsblog Los Angeles’ 7th birthday party, you’ll probably be too exhausted to go to work. If that is the case, consider attending Live.Ride.Share, a conference on the future of mobility in the “share economy.” The all-day conference is currently at maximum registration, but you can find the RSVP […]

Got Arts?: South L.A. Weekend Happenings

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 25, 2014

When South L.A. does arts festivals, it does them right. Their efforts at community-building and/or place-making are almost always rooted in the history of the area and the experience of its people. And, as part of that experience includes the lack of traditional outlets for expression, both the events and the works are often infused […]

Riders Reclaim Central Ave. for Bikes for a Few Happy Hours

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 5, 2013

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. History was everywhere you looked, often making the connection between past and present seamless. Because so many of the […]

Art, Food Justice, and Bike Rides Make South L.A. the Place to be this Weekend

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 25, 2013 | 3 Comments

One of the really fun things about tracking South L.A. as intimately as I have over the past couple of years is seeing how the area is transforming itself, both as a site of innovation in community organizing and as a destination for arts and fun. This weekend’s events offer a perfect example of what […]

After the Fireworks, There is Still Fun to Be Had on Bikes This Weekend

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 3, 2013

Last July, the Peace, Love and Family ride took a couple hundred riders on a tour through some of the major corridors of South L.A. before returning to a festival at Manchester and Vermont to show people that the streets could be sites for recreation. The ride was a lot of fun, both for those […]

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