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More on Living with Students
In a rather serendipitous moment, I listened to an archived episode of This American Life over the weekend that dealt with the issues of living in a college town. In this case, residents were...
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TONIGHT – 710 Tunnel Technical Study Community Meeting
There will be a community meeting TONIGHT to give information on the recent geotechnical study on tunneling through Highland Park. From David Baird at the HHPNC Land Use Committee: The SR-710 Tunnel...
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Parking Politics
Every nation has the government it deserves – Joseph de Maistre Maybe we Angelenos deserve to be lorded over by bar exam flunkees who couldn’t govern their way out of a wet paper bag. We vote them...
View Article5 Things to Eat in Northeast Los Angeles Before You Die
I’m a sucker for lists, so I was eager to peruse LA Weekly’s 99 Things to Eat in LA Before You Die, looking for some local representation. Here are the four dishes from Northeast LA that made the cut,...
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Local High Schoolers Kick Some Academic Ass
Franklin High is moving up again. For a school once associated more with gang fights than of academics, just about everybody was surprised when a group of nine students just took home the trophy for...
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Get L.A. Film Competition Features Short on Eagle Rock
I’m not sure why the he borrowed from the Blackhawk Down soundtrack, but filmmaker Evan Mather’s short film, Eagle Rock (Los Angeles) California, has made the final 8 in Los Angeles Magazine’s Get...
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Eagle Rock a Robotic Dystopia?
Though Eagle Rock is no stranger to the silver screen, this recent Sundance favorite caught me by surprise. Spike Jonze, who’s best known these days for Where the Wild Things Are (though I could never...
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Hermon Dog Park Named One of Nation’s Best
The websiteless Dog Fancy Magazine named NELA’s Hermon Dog Park seventh in it’s annual poll of the country’s best dog parks. Congratulations to the Friends of Hermon Dog Park who certainly can take...
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Earth Day at Tierra de la Culebra
Join your neighbors next Saturday for food, art, music, and dance at Highland Park’s favorite artist colony, Tierra de la Culebra. One late addition to the lineup after the flyer went to press is the...
View ArticleVote!
The Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council’s annual election will be taking place next Thursday, April 29th at the Highland Park Recreation Center, 6150 Piedmont Avenue. Janet Dodson, who is...
View ArticleYorkBlvd’s Media Watch Goes National
Normally, this blog is dedicated to local, or at best regional, issues. When it comes to local media, the Boulevard Sentinel gives us so much ammunition, we usually don’t even bother to play watchdog...
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YorkBlvd’s Guide to an Authentic Cinco de Mayo
So you’ve decided to celebrate a Mexican holiday that most of Mexico doesn’t observe in the American tradition of appropriating foreign holidays as an excuse to drink? (See: St. Patrick’s Day and...
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Churros!
This post would have been much more appropriate for 4/20; unfortunately, I didn’t discover Highland Park’s newest jewel in our street-food crown until last night: A churros cart at the Figueroa Street...
View ArticleUrban Myth
In honor of Ira Glass’ recent excoriation of Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner, we’ve decided to address a couple of recent descriptions of our neighborhood that don’t sit well with us....
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Vendys 2010
The Vendy Awards are moving their annual awards from New York to Los Angeles to pit bacon-wrapped hot dogs vs. tacos in a battle royale that promises to decide the best L.A. street food vendor. The...
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Eagle Rock in the News
Eagle Rock has been getting a lot of positive local publicity lately. Maybe that explains the outrageously long lines at the Oinkster. Los Angeles Magazine profiled it in a recent series on...
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To tweet or not to tweet…
Well, York Blvd. finally caved and has joined the “twitter revolution.” When we’re too lazy to blog, we might still eek out 140 characters on the latest Highland Park news fit to print. Follow us...
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The Ulysses Guide to the L.A. River
I sense a few “Beyond Northeast” posts in the works. The most time sensitive of these posts concerns the Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art’s current exhibition, The Ulysses Guide to the L.A. River....
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Gold Class Cinema
Part two in the Beyond Northeast Trilogy takes us to Old Town Pasadena for what is undoubtedly the nicest moviegoing experience of my life. I’ve never flown first class, but I imagine Gold Class...
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Contesting the Streets
We’ll be live blogging the conference and subsequent Vendys today via our twitter feed, @yorkblvd. If you’re tempted to attend, the conference is free and admission to the awards festival is $60....
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