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Digging the scene at "This Ain't a Scene" with a gangsta lean

Posted by Eric Brightwell, May 14, 2012 02:08pm | Comments (1)

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 Angeles.

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Pendersleigh maps

Note: The “East LA” of the subtitle could be construed as a bit misleading.. East Los (whose vibrant music community produced performers like Black Eyed Peas, Cannibal & the Headhunters, Hope Sandoval, J-vibe, Kid Frost, Lalo Guerrero, Los Lobos, Los Illegals, Louie Perez, Luis Villegas, Quetzal, Suzanna Guzman, Taboo, The Bags, The Blazers, Thee Midniters and Tierra and supported live venues like Club 469, Eastside Nightclub, El Club Baion, Kennedy Hall, The Lamp Lighter, The M Club, Rudy's Past House and Vex) is not represented here. The bands and venues depicted in this show are, if I’m not mistaken, all from Echo Park, P-Town and Silver Lake -- three neighborhoods in the eastern portion of Central LA that belong to a region that no one has named with a widely-accepted term.) Enough quibbling about geography and nomenclature from me… let's start the show.

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P-Town Stay Down - Historic Filipinotown for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Posted by Eric Brightwell, May 13, 2011 01:12am | Comments (2)

HISTORIC FILIPINOTOWN

This blog entry is about Historic Filipinotown. To vote for other Los Angeles neighborhoods to be the subject of a blog entry, vote here. To vote for Los Angeles County communities, vote here. To vote for Orange County neighborhoods, vote here.

Pendersleigh & Sons' Official Map of Historic Filipinotown

Historic Filipinotown is a neighborhood in Los Angeles' Mideast Side boundried by the 101 to the north, Beverly to the south, Hoover to the West and Glendale to the East. Its neighbors are Silver Lake and Echo Park to the north, Angeleno Heights to the northeast, Temple-Beaudry to the east, Westlake to the south, and Wilshire Center to the west.

Eastside? Westside? Midtown? Northeast LA? Downtown? - A Mideast Side Primer

Posted by Eric Brightwell, March 16, 2011 05:00pm | Comments (2)

As regular (and probably irregular) readers of Eric's Blog know, I'm a bit of a Southern California wonk and a big part of my focus is writing about the culture, character and history of the many diverse communities of Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Although so far there have been around 800 votes from readers, I thought it would be fun (and hopefully entertaining) to focus on the regions and provide a brief summary of the districts within with the hope of encouraging informed voting. In this entry I'd like to focus on the Mideast Side.

You've never heard of the Mideast Side? That's probably because I made it up as a term to describe the neighborhoods of LA between the San Fernando Valley, Hollywood, Midtown, South LA, Downtown and Northeast LA. A stretch of neighborhoods west of the LA river between the peaks of Griffith Park and downtown.

Pendersleigh & Sons' Official Map of the Mideast Side

Hollywood secessionists want to claim parts, all the local gangs represent the westside, the cops consider parts of it to be in the Northeast Division, downtowners and developers claim part of it as Central City West, the LA Times covers it under Central Los Angles and mostly non-natives consider it the Eastside.

Angeleno Heights - Los Angeles' Victorian (and Craftsman) Oasis

Posted by Eric Brightwell, December 16, 2010 03:00pm | Comments (3)

ANGELENO HEIGHTS

Pendersleigh & Sons' Official Map of the Mideast Side

Angeleno Heights is a neighborhood in Los Angeles' Mideast Side. It's the second oldest suburb of the city after Bunker Hill (which is no longer suburban). After the Victorian homes of Bunker Hill were razed in the 1950s, Angeleno Heights became the largest concentration of Victorian homes, or "painted ladies" in the city.

Pendersleigh & Sons' Official Map of Angeleno Heights

Los Feliz - The Mideast Side's "Pill Hill"

Posted by Eric Brightwell, November 16, 2010 12:00pm | Comments (11)

Pendersleigh & Sons' Official Map of Los Feliz

Los Feliz is a neighborhood in Los Angeles' Mideast Side and Hollywood area, neighbored by Beachwood Canyon, Griffith Park, Atwater Village, Silver Lake, Franklin Hills, Sunset Junction, Little Armenia, Thai Town and Franklin Village. To vote for other Los Angeles neighborhoods to be covered on the blog, vote here. To vote for Los Angeles County communities, vote here. To vote for Orange County communities, vote here.

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