This past Saturday, I went to the 1650 Gallery in Echo Park to check out the opening of This Ain’t a Scene: The Vibrant Music Community of East LA which was co-presented by Radio Free Silver Lake and compiled by Jackie Lam. Radio Free Silver Lake is a website focused on Indie music in Los … Continue reading Digging the scene at “This Ain’t a Scene” with a gangsta lean
Author: Eric Brightwell
Eric Brightwell is an essayist, rambler, explorer, cartographer, and guerrilla gardener. He lives in Los Angeles, not because he was born here, but because he chose to... for all of the things for which its famous: its verticality, its mass transit, its diversity, its schools, its liminal spaces, its architecture, its wildlife, its museums, its night markets, its cinemas, its theaters, its enclaves, its restaurants, its bars, its libraries, &c
Your Tuesday night planned… Echo Park or Little Saigon — what’s it going to be?!
So I'm slated to DJ at the Short Stop in Echo Park on 15 May, 2012 (this coming Tuesday unless you're pulling this from the archives). I'll be splitting the music slanging chores with Joe Skyward (Sky Cries Mary, The Posies, Sunny Day Real Estate, Jean Jacket Shotgun), Jimmy James and Greene Candy Machine. Of … Continue reading Your Tuesday night planned… Echo Park or Little Saigon — what’s it going to be?!
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Italo sensation Den Harrow returns (sort of) for New Wave 80’s Memorial Weekend in Huntington Beach
Den Harrow, the Italo disco star famous for such timeless '80s classics as "Bad boy," "Charleston," "Future brain," "Mad desire" is coming to perform for his first time ever in California... sort of. Actually, Den Harrow was an invented character but the sources of the voice and music behind him, Tom Hooker and Miki Chieregato, … Continue reading Italo sensation Den Harrow returns (sort of) for New Wave 80’s Memorial Weekend in Huntington Beach
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Southland Parks — Exposition Park gets a little parkier at the Natural History Museum’s North Campus
The Natural History Museum and Pendersleigh & Sons Cartography's map of South LA's Westside In one week I found myself heading to the Exposition Park neighborhood in South LA’s Westside to visit the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County – a stately structure built in 1913 with Romanesque and Beaux Arts elements that film and … Continue reading Southland Parks — Exposition Park gets a little parkier at the Natural History Museum’s North Campus
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Happy Birthday, X Minus One – radio’s greatest sci-fi anthology!
Today is the 57th birthday of X Minus One, a science fiction anthology that debuted on NBC radio on 24 April 1955. It began as a sort-of revival of pioneering sci-fi program, Dimension X and the first fifteen episodes were remakes from that series. The remainder of the episodes were originals from staff writers Ernest … Continue reading Happy Birthday, X Minus One – radio’s greatest sci-fi anthology!
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Restored and renovated Rancho Los Alamitos ready to return
Members of the press were recently treated to a preview of the historic Rancho Los Alamitos, in Long Beach. The public re-opening will take place on June 10 although special events will afford interested parties an opportunity to enjoy the site before then. Rancho Los Alamitos is a deeply significant historic site – home to … Continue reading Restored and renovated Rancho Los Alamitos ready to return
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Happy Birthday to Night Watch – radio’s first reality show
With a few, shining exceptions (Blind Date, COPS, ElimiDate, Jersey Shore, Joe Millionaire, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Shahs of Sunset, The Bachelor, The Real World seasons 1 and 2 (true stor-ay!), and maybe a couple dozen others, tops) I hate reality television. To me, most reality shows are endurance-defying and totally … Continue reading Happy Birthday to Night Watch – radio’s first reality show
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California Fool’s Gold — A Hollywood Primer
HOLLYWOOD SWINGING Hollywood is famous around the world as the one-time center of the American film industry. Although Hollywood isn't the original home of the west coast film industry (nearby Edendale in Echo Park and Sycamore Grove in Highland Park both have stronger claims to that distinction), Hollywood has for almost a century continued to serve … Continue reading California Fool’s Gold — A Hollywood Primer
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All-Female Bands of the Early 20th Century
Female singers have been popular since ancient times. Earlier this year a tomb was discovered in Egypt housing the earthly remains of Nehmes Bastet, a singer who lived and died some 2,900 years ago -- around the time of Carthage's founding and that the Iron Age was making big waves in Central Europe. To date, she's … Continue reading All-Female Bands of the Early 20th Century
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California Fool’s Gold — Exploring Lincoln Heights, The Pueblo’s Bedroom
LINCOLN HEIGHTS Lincoln Heights one of the main neighborhoods of Los Angeles's Eastside. Across the Los Angeles River, it's neighbored by Downtown's Chinatown, North Industrial District (Dog Town), Civic Support, and Mideast Los Angeles's Elysian Park and Elysian Valley to the west and northwest, respectively. It's neighbored the Northeast Los Angeles's Cypress Park and Montecito Heights to the north; and fellow Eastside neighborhoods Boyle … Continue reading California Fool’s Gold — Exploring Lincoln Heights, The Pueblo’s Bedroom
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