Arts and culture in Northeast Los Angeles
Summer is coming. For locals, that’s come to mean the Annual Lummis Day event at Heritage Square. The free event will include music, dance, poetry and art representing a rainbow of cultural traditions at two sites on Sunday, June 2. The Festival runs from 10:30am-7:00pm. The main stages for Lummis Day’s performances will again...
Has it really been that long? Cyndi Lauper is coming to the Greek Theatre June 13th to celebrate the thirty-year anniversary of her album, She’s so Unusual, and perform the record-setting album in its entirety. The show will also feature special guest Hunter Valentine. Recorded and released in 1983, Lauper’s debut solo album is...
by Eddie Rivera Looking back, it all seems so innocent. Certainly the Beatles story has been repeated so many times as to be either a fairy tale you tell your children, or some vast, multi-layered mythology, complete with heroes, villains, complex anti-heroes and fair maidens, and others simply touched by Saint Lucky. But before...
Rain clouds gave way to sunshine Sunday as art lovers fanned out across Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Garvanza, Montecito Heights and Mount Washington for The Arroyo Arts Collective’s 20th Annual Discovery Tour. Over 100 local artists participated in this year’s tour, opening their homes, studios and galleries in celebration of Los Angeles’ original arts...
Platform Gallery will hold a special holiday event featuring a group of artists offering a wide range of goods. The arts range from knit bow-ties to ceramics, prints and dyed textiles. There will be flower arrangements, jewelry and baked goods, as well as natural remedies, scrubs and scents. Part of NELAart’s Second Saturday Gallery...
By Eddie Rivera Maybe two years ago, actor/writer Troy Evans and I were sitting at a table in a Highland Park café, having lunch. He had just returned from a heart-wrenching visit to Iwo Jima, where he visited a Veterans’ reunion in his father’s stead. His veteran pilot dad, Leo Evans, was in a...
It was like visiting the radio. 70s rockers Chicago and the Doobie Brothers, both mostly still intact, led a charge of FM hits Sunday evening at the Gibson Ampitheatre. While neither has broken any new ground in the last twenty-five years, fans of a Certain Age came to hear the hits, which were...
At Urban Ranchos I and II, citified Angelenos learned how to raise chickens and keep bees in their backyards, how to identify the bugs in their gardens and how to make their own beer. A baby lamb received a full body massage administered by preschoolers. Display tables featured everything from grey water reclamation and...
Artist and arts activist and dear friend of this newspaper, Hendrik Stooker, has passed away. A Highland Park resident, Hendrik was a co-founder of the Arroyo Arts Collective and was retired as gallery curator at Occidental College. He was a highly social presence at art openings in Northeast Los Angeles and beyond. Hendrik was...
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