Tag: Highland Park
Small businesses struggle to stay open during pandemic
Chris Register has been a longtime fan of the Eagle Rock neighborhood. As the 12-year owner of the catering company Brown Paper LA, Register...
For the love of Scoops
Since it opened in 2012, Scoops in Highland Park has served customers cones stacked with vanilla cardamom ginger snap, miso maple butterfinger, cilantro mint...
Rumored erasure of Highland Park “Tenochtitlan” mural sparks community concern, building...
On the corner of North Avenue 61 and North Figueroa Street stands "Tenochtitlan — The Wall That Talks," a 75-foot-long mural painted in 1996 by the Quetzalcoatl...
LAPD proposes foot patrols on Colorado Boulevard
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Northeast Area Senior Lead Officer Fernando Ochoa proposed the implementation of foot patrols on Colorado Boulevard following a string of...
Our editors’ inside scoop on LA’s best hangouts
Between paper deadlines, club meetings and job applications, a semester flies by faster than Marine Biology classes fill up — before you know it,...
Day and night, York Boulevard bustles with life
After shuffling between areas in Los Angeles for five years, Ramon Lopez finally settled in Highland Park. He moved to the West Coast from...
Farmers markets bring live music, custom crafts to Northeast LA nightlife
Southern California is home to 229 farmers markets, three of which are within a five-mile radius of Occidental College: Echo Park Farmers Market, Highland Park Farmers Market and South...
Ancient faiths in modern times: exploring the diversity of religious life...
Driving past glitzy technicolor signs, lanky palm trees and imposing hills, thousands of cars chug through hundreds of miles of freeway in Los Angeles...
To find the history of Figueroa Street, look up
Despite opening its glass doors and marble counters to Highland Park in 2012, Civil Coffee claims to know what Figueroa Street tastes like. They’ve channeled it...
Galco’s is Highland Park’s one stop shop for soda pop
On the side of York Boulevard lies the modest-looking Galco's Soda Pop Stop. Unassuming brown tiles, gray cement pillars and red bricks make up the...