Residents Unidos de Wyvernwood

Check it out at: http://ruw90023.blogspot.com

I hear that there's more to come shortly.

Chuppy Latinos!

One of the homies throws this word around loosely: Chuppies. Chicano...Latino Yuppies. Now the LA Times is up on it. Peep it:
Upscale Latinos Find A Home I suppose these folks couldn't live anywhere else, but Whittier.

L.A. River Visual + Audio Documentation

Three Cal Poly Pomona Graduate Students (myself included) set out to document the LA River for their Graduate Capstone Studio Class. Instead of opting for the typical (and bland) powerpoint presentation consisting of maps, numbers, dull pictures etc etc ... they decided to engage all the human senses by deciphering the very unique experience of the Los Angeles River through music, sounds, and imagery. This team is only focusing on researching the river’s leg consisting of the SFV to the near the Vernon area. Another team is leading research from Vernon to Long Beach.

This presentation & research is an on-going project and an entity of the Graduate Capstone’s class endeavor to create a potential Master Plan and/or the data & design schemes needed for a system of multi-use trails in Los Angeles County. Over the the length of two quarters, 5 teams will be working and researching throughout the county to continue advancing a non-motorized mobility agenda. This plan has been dubbed the Golden Necklace.

Two Options below for viewing:

Original/Higher-Res Slideshow at:

Quicktime Option (T1 recommended)

Fresh N' Easy Comes to the CPT

Just caught wind a New Fresh N' Easy just opened in Compton. "Now we won't have to drive to get to Whole Foods," said Jalom Raney of Compton, adding that it was about a 20-minute drive." ..or another 20 to Trader Joes, depending on where you live.




Article Link
Compton Article

Rent Control Under Threat!

In the midst of a housing crisis that is already squeezing the poor out of the city of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reported a couple of days ago that a June 3 ballot measure would abolish all rent control laws in California (see http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rent28jan28,0,7822882.story). While this undoing of tenant protections would be gradual (since protected units would only join the unregulated market after their current occupants move out) it could deal a fatal blow to efforts at maintaining income diversity in the city, particularly in poor- and Latino-heavy, gentrifying districts like Echo Park, Koreatown, Lincoln Heights, Boyle Heights.

Four of the most popular arguments against rent control blame such regulations for actually reducing the amount of affordable rentals in the city in the following ways: 1) by discouraging developers from creating new rental units since their ability to make a profit is reduced; 2) by keeping units occupied much longer than they would be without rent control since tenants, who would otherwise like to move, often remain in a unit to continue to pay below-market rents; 3) by encouraging landlords to leave the “low-profit” business of renting and convert their properties into condos; 4) and by encouraging landlords to jack up rents as much as possible the moment a longtime (and below-market paying) tenant moves out.

All four arguments are flawed, however.

1) While it is true that landlords whose regulated rental properties stand to make smaller profits, the fact that the law exempts all developments built after 1978 (when it was passed in Los Angeles) has meant that developers have continued enjoying considerable returns on rental housing built since then. Even if the law were to be updated so that it applies to all rental units created before February 2008, new housing developed for the next several years would continue to harness profits for both builders and landlords, especially if it took another three decades for the ordinance to be updated again. Given that a provision in the law allows for yearly increases in rent to match inflation, a landlord never sees any decrease in rent revenues throughout a protected occupant’s tenancy from the day she moves in.

2) As for the regulation encouraging the prolongation of a tenant’s stay in a rent-controlled unit, therefore keeping it unavailable to others, while true, the fact is that unless the tenant moves out of the city altogether, becomes homeless, or dies, she would always need to move into another home, meaning that the net number of units that would be made available by her moving would be null. Associated with this same argument is the point that tenants themselves suffer when they feel they cannot move into a new unit of their choice, say, closer to a new job, because they are compelled to stay put where they can pay below-market rents. However, that many people can’t afford market-rate housing is a problem that must be blamed on an unfair distribution of wages among workers, not on rent control, which actually ensures that at least one unit in the city remains affordable to a tenant.

3) Indeed, many landlords in rent-controlled markets have converted their properties into condominiums as a way of cashing in on the skyrocketing real-estate market in recent years. But laissez faire in rental housing would leave low- and moderate-income tenants no better off if they can’t afford the rising home values, be they for rent or sale. (A better protection for tenants would be to curb the condo conversion mania.)

4) Finally, that a landlord starved for profit during years of a renter’s occupancy is more likely to raise rents to the maximum as soon as the unit becomes available is foolish, as it ignores common market sense: a) the provider of any good will always seek to make the biggest profit possible, and b) the price of any good is ultimately set by the market.

Rent control is hardly a silver bullet to our affordable-housing crisis; it does create other problems, the main one being a landlord’s lowered incentive to keep up regulated properties. But in the face of public officials’ paltry efforts to minimize poor people's displacement being brought on by gentrification, rent control is the only thing that can save Los Angeles from becoming exclusively for the rich. Now the question is whether we can save it, as the June 3 election (when no mayoral, gubernatorial or presidential candidate will be elected) will almost surely garner a low voter turnout, which always benefits conservative causes.

You're Invited to an Instant Gathering

you’re invited to an instant gathering...of planners, architects, designers, and other fresh people with a care for the urban environment.

the on going situation at the historical Wyvernwood Apartments in Boyle Heights has prompted several individuals to get together for drinks, discussion, and an opportunity to meet like-minded individuals from our great city. as our neighborhoods continue expanding, its time we extend our networks as well.

join us this Friday at fellow LUFillo Chuy’s place precisely in the Wyvernwood neighborhood.

bring a dish, some bottles (or cans), and a smile.

PLACE : 2676 East 8th Street (cross street is Soto)
DATE & TIME: Friday. Jan 18. 6pm
INFO: JESUS HERMOSILLO

Direct LUF Link

House along the Nacimiento Bike Tour 08 Route

Because of the rain we didn't get a good chance to catch a critical mass (if there was any) riding the Nacimiento Bike Tour. Then again, we were out on the street about 2 hrs. after it began. We did get a chance to visit one of the host residences along Pasadena Ave (I"ll post the address later).
This nativity scene has plenty of history.
According to the elderly mother and daughter duo which resides here, they've been doing this for decades. The mother is 90-years old and has been doing nacimientos for about 80 years (!!). Her nativity scene is an awesome collection of figurines from around the world (Middle East, South America) which came via her grandkids traveling abroad. This nativity scene took about two weeks to assemble (!). The women began arranging the scene since early December and finished just in time for Christmas Eve.

The women invited us to visit them again, but with our nephews and nieces to continue the tradition...which is why they do it year after year. They stated they receive a tremendous joy when people enter their home to witness the nacimiento, and they hope that tradition continues here in the U.S. for future generations. So we promised we'd come back on February 2nd, el Dia de La Candelaria. I will post more information soon enough so that everybody can go to the celebration of the 2nd. My other friend took some amazing shots, I will post them later. In the meantime, Imma eat this orange they gave me and head to class.

LUF Holiday (Dia de Los Reyes Magos) Party

Join us for a Los Reyes Holiday party at the Eastside Luv Café @ 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 6, 2008

1835 E. First Street,
Boyle Heights, CA. 90033

For Further information: 626 437-4446

LUF Co-Sponsored 8th Annual Nacimento Tour

Sunday, January 6, 2007 from 11 a.m – 4 p.m.
This year's tour starts at the Los Angeles River and Gardens Center, 570 W. Avenue 26, Los Angeles, 90065 at 11 am, with registration opening at 10 am. Highland Park's Bike Oven will offer free tire checks and sag support. The Latino Urban Forum, The Rare Times, Wild Women on Wheels (w20ws), C.I.C.L.E., Santa Monica Rivers and Mountains Conservancy, and the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition are co-sponsors of the tour.

For the 8th year, the annual tour will highlight mini Bethlehems, makeshift barns and stables, and in one setting, a complete living room reenactment of Jesus' birth and the arrival of the three kings. For many bicyclists, this is the first time exploring the historically and ethnically rich neighborhoods of Highland Park, Lincoln Heights, and Boyle Heights.

Listings and pictures of previous years' tours can be found on .The 2008 map will be available online and at the registration on the day of the event.


The Nacimiento Bike Tour is one of those rare LA seconds when west-sidersand east-siders, Latino and non-Latino, come together and participate in exploring LA's unique cultural traditions and physical landscape in a environmentally friendly way.Nacimientos, or nativity scenes, is a tradition that many Latino throughout Latin America follow during the Christmas season. This tradition takes place in the streets of LA where many immigrants and multi-generational families spend countless hours creating Nacimientos in their front yards, porches, on roofs, as well as in the home.

Nacimientos range in size, complexity, and creativity. Some can be a simple scene of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus to elaborate landscapes with tinsel waterfalls, sparkling lights, and hundreds of pieces. Each Nacimiento reflects the creator's devotion to Christmas and can be very personal in nature. For many Latinos, the building of the sets begins the day after December 12th, which is the feast day of Our lady of Guadalupe and they stay upuntil January 6th, when the three kings arrive with gifts for the new born king.

Retro NY Times Article on Nacimiento Tour

On Tough Blocks, Divine Glitter by Patricia Leigh Brown (Dec 22, 2002 NY Times)
By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, New York Times

LOS ANGELES
IT is the season of the nacimiento, the time of year in Latino neighborhoods when porches and patches of lawn become dazzling home-grown Bethlehems. In East Los Angeles, just as in other Mexican-American communities, the deep creative urge that is Christmas flows like a seasonal torrent into the tin foil rivers and tinsel waterfalls of nacimientos, elaborate homemade Nativity scenes that subsume living rooms and whole yards.


In places like Boyle Heights, the city's easternmost neighborhood and 87 percent Latino, the nacimientos, a Mexican tradition that dates back to at least the 16th century, spring forth in baroque splendor beneath dolled-up ficus trees from which glittery snowflakes dangle. " The children today want $200 toys, which is hard for working people," said Maria R. Sandoval, 56, a home care provider whose simple family nacimiento is encircled by twinkling lights. " This gives them the deep gift of tradition."
The seasonal flurry of nacimientos in first-generation Mexican-American neighborhoods represents "a redefinition of urban space" to James T. Rojas, an urban planner and co-chairman of the Latino Urban Forum, a volunteer group of architects, community members and planners. (The forum will offer a public tour of East Los Angeles nacimientos on Jan. 5; www.theraretimes.com). "It's about personal expression and a sense of community, the social dialogue that happens on front porches and over fences," Mr. Rojas said. In neighborhoods plagued by gang activity and crime, the shrines are rarely vandalized. "They are respected," he added. "It's a sacred space."


Masterminded mostly by women, each nacimiento is a portrait of its maker. Thus Christmastime in the Mexican-American precincts of Los Angeles resembles the Academy Awards: no bit of shrubbery shall remain undecorated. In the Pico Aliso neighborhood a mile from downtown, Veronica Aguilar and 16 members of her family have assembled an idealized miniature world in front of their stucco house in which pebbled walkways meander past foil ponds and moss-shrouded milk-crate mountains. A devil lighted luridly by a red bulb animates the sidewalk.
By contrast, the nacimiento of Victoria Vazquez, 84, in Boyle Heights is a thicket of faith and tin foil flickering in a jungle of foliage. "I want people to think it's beautiful," she said of her spiritual Shangri-La, whose wattage fluctuates with the electricity bills.
Her nacimiento, like so many others, is a designated stop in las posadas, a widely practiced Mexican custom that takes place on the nine nights before Christmas. In emulation of Mary and Joseph seeking shelter in Bethlehem, neighbors and family members gather to make candlelight processions, usually ending at a church. Along the way, they visit nacimientos and have fiestas that include the breaking of piñatas and lots of tamales, pan dulce and hot chocolate. On Christmas Eve, the niño, or baby Jesus figure, is placed in the nacimiento manger.


On Amber Place in the neighborhood of El Sereno, 200 residents parade around the block carrying papier-mâché figures. They pass the sidewalk nacimiento created, with a competitive instinct, by Donald and Hilda Navarret, a husband-and-wife team who try to outdo each other. Mr. Navarret's blue lights and Mrs. Navarret's stars hover over the manger amid tuberoses, begonias, poinsettias and pine cones dipped in glitter.
The neighborhoods that are home to many Mexican immigrants are also some of the city's oldest and densest. A rarity for Los Angeles, they are pedestrian neighborhoods where art flourishes in street murals, hand-painted storefronts and shrines. The miniature nacimiento scenes are a combination of rural Mexican villages and the Holy Land. "You have to walk to appreciate them," Mr. Rojas said. "It's not like the suburbs where you drive by looking at the nice lights."


Sonia Ibarra, who lives in El Sereno, cut up old plastic window blinds and pasted the strips together to form a house, a fruit stand, a gazebo, a well and, finally, a church with a bell tower. The town of her imagination, with its blue duct-tape river, recalls her home in Jalisco. Her husband, José Guadalupe-Ibarra, 44, a produce shipper, said her handiwork "is like Universal Studios."
"It will help the children not to get lost in life," he said.


While their function is primarily religious, the Los Angeles nacimientos — which go up after Dec. 12, the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and usually come down after Jan. 6, the Feast of the Epiphany — also serve a cultural role. There are some common elements among the nacimientos, including the pilgrims Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus; a figure of the angel, the Three Kings; and often a cave made of mud or driftwood and a mountain with a tinsel waterfall. The figures, along with sheep, camels, cows, pigs, burros and other animals, are procured everywhere from Tijuana to Disneyland.


Many nacimientos are cultural mixed metaphors. In Monterey Park outside Los Angeles, for instance, Pedro Ruiz, a 56-year-old truck driver whose children were born in California, has divided his lawn into two zones: One is a riot of candy canes and plastic "Let It Snow" signs, and the other, a comparatively staid nacimiento. "This is America," he said, pointing to one side, "and this is Mexico," of the other.


Christmas abhors a vacuum, as Jovita Garcia, 71, who lives in Alhambra, proves in her living room every year. Her nacimiento, composed of more than 2,000 figures and counting, reflects the Mexican penchant for miniatures, sensuous surfaces and wild ornamental abandon. A two-tiered assemblage that takes months to construct, completely obscuring the fireplace, it combines heirloom ceramics with materials for the holy grottoes harvested during family vacations — pine cones from Yellowstone, sand and lava rocks from Hawaiian cruises, and tree trunks hauled back in the family station wagon from Sequoia National Park.
From its humble origins on her dining room-table, Mrs. Garcia's nacimiento has become a tableau of mesmerizing proportions, comprising thousands of tiny figures. While her sons-in-law live in fear of her daughters inheriting the collection, Mrs. Garcia prays that there not be a recurrence of the Northridge earthquake, the only quake-proofing she has being her deep faith. Her nacimiento includes tiny penguins, snowmen, swans and boats sailing on mirror lakes. "This is a part of the beauty God has given to the world," said Teresa Thompson, 48, the oldest of her eight children. "Now we're giving the beauty back to him.

On Vernacular Urbanism and Spiritual Space.

About fifteen years ago, several homeowners decided to change the name from Sepulveda to North Hills in an attempt to shake off the negative perception that people have of Sepulveda Blvd. The trivial name change did very little to improve the quality of life for many of the residents (e.g. apartment dwellers) which live immediately east of the 405. The poverty, the landlord abuse, and the image of danger persisted. North Hills’ Langdon Avenue in particular holds some of highest population densities in Los Angeles County. The demographic consists predominately of immigrants and children, plenty of them. Langdon is also home to Langdon Avenue Gang, or simply “La Langdon.” As gang violence reached its peak in the communities of Panorama City and North Hills in the 1990’s, then City Attorney Jim Hahn began pursuing the first court-backed injunctions against gangs--the quintessental in the United States. Hahn first applied this tool in my old neighborhood of Blythe Street in the neighboring community of Panorama City. He would later apply this policy against North Hills’ Columbus Street gang a couple of blocks away, and then ultimately against la Langdon. These areas would also be the site of the first LAPD designed “defensive space” policing methods (e.g. no left turns, street obstructions). While concrete barricades at the neighborhood’s perimeter functioned to curtail auto-oriented drug sales, they also served to forever create the perception of a human hazard in need of containment.
The roadblocks have long been removed but its fringe image in the Valley-based Daily News continues. Many others however know of another North Hills, a place where neighbors circumvent any type of barrier, and in effect simultaneously transform front-yards into a place of cultural celebration and civic congregation. Like so many other impoverished communities in the L.A. metropolis, this is a site where the neighborhoods’ mothers provide the thrust to reclaim ownership to the street. Nearly a decade ago, the various mothers of Langdon organized themselves to a form a tightly-knit informal advocacy group known as Familias Unidas. Familias Unidas since then continues to play a critical role in assisting the formal governmental and policing structure, despite their migratory status.
To truly understand the spirit and tenacity of Familias Unidas, one must visit the block on the evening of December 12. On this night more than 500 people, predominately apartment tenants, converge at the intersection of Orion and Langdon to begin Familias’ Virgen de Guadalupe two mile procession around the neighborhood. The multitude snowballs as it continues its passage along the thick landscape of dwelling units. Residents await at the frontage of many of these buildings with their humble roses for the la Virgen Morena. Almost every single Langdon resident, including the cholillos and the LAPD, partakes in this ritual. The streets come alive with the sounds of chants, the sound of tambora or mariachi (depending on the year’s funding), and the vigor of a community affirming their existence. What began as an unrehearsed and unofficial cavalcade consisting of a few women self-directing traffic and snaking across the autoscape has evolved into the fabric of a community’s agency. On this evening, the cars at the adjacent 405 freeway will simply have to wait--the traffic and city will have pay homage to them.
In America’s quintessential suburb of the San Fernando Valley, this ritual is repeated in numerous apartment-lined blocks of the Latin American immigrant diaspora. In Northridge’s compact Bryant Street neighborhood, or simply “Tijuanita,” cul-de-sacs become the natural stage for a tradition spanning back centuries. In Canoga Park and North Hollywood the scene is almost identical. These festivities commence the beautiful celebrations that will continue into January with posadas, and the nativity scenes that begin adorning homes. While designers and planners alike receive APA & AIA awards for creating “ground-breaking” pedestrian-oriented communities, in their own very ways, these neighborhoods have already formulated the template for us to follow. Join us for the Nacimiento Bike Tour in January 2008.

See all the Images from procession:
North Hills Virgen de Guadalupe Slideshow

City of Los Angeles Planning Commission To Vote Today on Green Building Ordinance

The Los Angeles City Planning Commission is scheduled to vote on amending the L.A. Municipal Code to establish a Green Building Code. This would set a minimum threshold for buildings of 50,000 sq ft, or above 50 units to meet LEED certification. It would further formalize the collaboration between various city departments (e.g. LADWP, Public Works) and the mayor, I mean the city. In July Mayor Villaraigosa presented an environmental policy statement report outlining his vision for a more "sustainable" Los Angeles, this is part of it.

Expect the commission to approve the measure.

Los Angeles City Planning Commission

Google Map Mash Up

We'll be unveiling a google map mash up specific to noteworthy places, constructed and in the vernacular sense. No new luxury housing construction projects a la Curbed LA, but sites where people create vibrancy outside of formal planning and architectural processes. In communities that are park poor and lack recreation places, ingenuity and practicality takes hold..and creates better planning solutions. See Hansen Dam




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Fresh N' Easy Opens in SoCal.

The widely anticipated arrival of the euro-based grocery store Fresh N' Easy came this past Thursday, but all wasn't exactly fanfare. A coalition of community organizations, and labor groups have been pushing for Tesco (owner of Fresh N' Easy) to grant community benefits agreements since the middle of summer. The call & need for these concessions have been substantiated by a report/study released in August by Occidental College's Urban & Environmental Policy Research Institute. Look for Fresh n' Easy's expansion to not be so easy after all, considering all the fresh labor led victories against Wal Mart throughout L.A. County. The first operating store within the City of L.A. municipality is in Glassell Park, which lies within the Assembly District of labor champion Assemblymember Kevin De León (AD-45) whom I sure will be play a leading role as this thing plays out. Shoot, there's already a certificate from the office of AD-45 right near the human-operated cashiers, yes, a differentiation needs to be made, visit & see for yourself...and park in the obnoxious family parking stalls.

Below is a press conference held in front of the Glassell Park with various LA heavies, including Maria Elena Durazo, the Executive Secretary-Treasurer with the LA County Fed. of Labor




"Good Groceries Gampaign"



Good Grocery Stores

Immigrants are transforming the urban landscape of Los Angeles, and its dense

Check out the article on the Latino Urban Forum featured in Real Talk LA. Excellent commentary by both James and Hilda Delgado on the urban shaping of L.A. by immigrants.


Real Talk LA

Great Concert at La Plaza Olvera

Los Angeles: Que circo es esta ciudad

Don't miss it.

Maldita Vecindad, Aterciopelados, Alejandra Guzman, Calle 13

Saturday, Nov 10, 2007

La Plaza Olvera

5pm - 9pm

10 bucks

Tickets

Porter en Los Angeles.

For the first time ever, Porter (Guadalajara, JAL,MX.) will perform in the U.S. & they're playing in Los Angeles first! They crept up as far as Tijuana & Mexicali but now they're finally coming to L.A. This is going to be one hot azz show.

Fri. October 12 at 7:30 p.m. @ Ford Amphitheatre

Very cool... (from Elva Yanez a couple minutes ago)

In a unanimous victory, 15 to 0, the City Council voted to assert authority over the Board of Public Works’ recent action to approve the building permit and related items for Tract 35022, the controversial development of 24 luxury homes on Elephant Hill in El Sereno. This matter will now move to the Planning and Land Use Management Committee.

In a powerful show of unity, the Council expressed its displeasure with the Board’s disregard for their legislative authority and action that made an already complex issue even more complicated.

Please take a moment and thank all the Councilmembers for their vote today (see email addresses below). Special thanks and recognition are due to Councilmember Huizar for his persistent and courageous defense of his constituents’ right to environmental protections under the law from those agencies responsible for land use and development. Many thanks are also due to Councilmember Reyes for his eloquent defense of equal environmental and public safety protections for eastside residents while simultaneously addressing open space conservation and watershed improvements.

Approximately 70 people showed up for the hearing including many residents from El Sereno (including among others Ramona Chavez, Olga Quinones, Michael Carreon, Sylvia Wallis, Tom Williamson and Casey Reagan) and greater Northeast LA. Many thanks to Stephanie Taylor, Jonathan Parfrey and Glen Dake of environmental coalition GREEN LA for helping organize the educational outreach and the mobilization for this hearing.

Special thanks also for the groups who turned out numerous attendees including Latino Urban Forum, SCOPE/AGENDA, Northeast Trees and LA-32 Neighborhood Council.

Local elected officials also sent representatives to the meeting including:

• Assemblymember Kevin de Leon (District 45)
• Assemblymember Anthony Portantino (District 44)
• Senator Gloria Romero (District 24)

Helping us fill out one entire side of the chamber were individual representatives from the following organizations:

• Audubon Center at Debs Park
• Baldwin Hills Conservancy
• El Sereno Residents for Responsible Land Use and Development
• Glassell Park Improvement Association
• Greater El Sereno Chamber of Commerce
• Hillside Environmental and Safety Coalition
• LA Community Garden Council
• Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority
• Mujeres de la Tierra
• National Resources Defense Council
• Rivers and Mountains Conservancy
• Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy
• Save Elephant Hill
• Scenic Arroyo Seco

Stay tuned for the details on the actual motion language, the upcoming PLUM hearing and formation of a formal coalition. A replay of the actual hearing will be aired by City of Los Angeles ’ Channel 35 tonight at 7:30 p.m.

Thanks to all those who wanted to attend but had to work, but were at the hearing in spirit. Words cannot capture our gratitude to the many individuals and organizations who submitted letters, emails, and calls, and also offered encouragement and support to help us keep pressing on with this campaign.

Mil gracias!

Elva Yanez

· Ed Reyes (CD 1) – jill.sourial@lacity.org

· Wendy Gruel (CD 2) – dale.thrush@lacity.org

· Dennis Zine (CD 3) - jonathan.brand@lacity.org

· Tom LaBonge (CD 4) – renee.weitzer@lacity.org

· Jack Weiss (CD 5) – lisa.hansen@lacity.org

· Tony Cardenas (CD 6) – vanessa.soto@lacity.org

· Richard Alarcon (CD 7) – jose.sigala@lacity.org

· Bernard Parks (CD 8) – dilara.rodriquez@lacity.org

· Jan Perry (CD 9) – greg.fischer@lacity.org

· Herb Wesson (CD 10) – andrew.westall@lacity.org

· Bill Rosenthal (CD 11) - grieg.asher@lacity.org

· Grieg Smith (CD 12) – nicole.bernson@lacity.org

· Eric Garcetti (CD 13) – sam.siegel@lacity.org

· Jose Huizar (CD 14) – jessica.wethingtonmcLean@lacity.org

· Janice Hahn (CD 15) - frank.hong@lacity.org

Route 99--San Fernando Road in their own words

A couple of my friends, San Fernando natives, are doing various mini-stories on the communities of the Northeast San Fernando Valley. This is the first of a series that they are producing, from this side of L.A.

San Fernando Road

Zoé Performs Outdoors--John Anson Theater

¿Who says LUF is pura cosa seria? For those fans of excellent indie, peep the always kick ass Zoé at the outdoor Anson. Muy nice. It's great seeing these bands getting space at this particular venue. I saw Nortec Collective perform here as well for the LA Film Festival two months ago & it was off the rails!! No doubt, Zoé will bring that same vibe to the hills of hollywood.


14.Septiembre.2007 / Zoé en Los Angeles
Venue: John Anson Ford Amphitheater
Ciudad: Los Angeles, California
Info: Zoe with Los Abandoned at Ford Amphitheatre