http://yorkblvd.com Sat, 15 May 2010 15:56:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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.  Hope to see you at a good cause in MacArthur Park today. http://yorkblvd.com/2010/05/15/contesting-the-streets/ 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 Cinemas is the theater equivalent.  The only danger in visiting is that no other theater I've ... http://yorkblvd.com/2010/05/15/gold-class-cinema/ 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.  Before doing any research, I was hoping for an exhibit combining the eponymous Greek hero with one ... http://yorkblvd.com/2010/05/12/the-ulysses-guide-to-the-la-river/ 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 @yorkblvd for all our local thoughts, observations and witticisms. http://yorkblvd.com/2010/05/09/to-tweet-or-not-to-tweet/ 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 neighborhoods with a small town feel, dubbing it "The Indie". The Los Angeles Times positively reviewed Four Cafe on ... http://yorkblvd.com/2010/05/04/eagle-rock-in-the-news/ 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 event will be held on May 15th, in MacArthur Park, and your $50 admission ... http://yorkblvd.com/2010/04/29/vendys-2010/ 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.  If you haven't heard This American Life's episode "True Urban Legend", Poizner has some difficulty defending his depiction of his semester ... http://yorkblvd.com/2010/04/26/urban-myth/ 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 Marketplace.  Apparently, my girlfriend has been hiding this from me for months as she's dieting, but I'm pretty ... http://yorkblvd.com/2010/04/22/churros/ 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 Oktoberfest).  Before loading up your fridge with Trader Joe's carne asada (which I love) and your cooler with ... http://yorkblvd.com/2010/04/21/yorkblvds-guide-to-an-authentic-cinco-de-mayo/ 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 for The LA Times.  However, Mr. Topping has been avoiding plagiarizing local blogs and Gwyneth Paltrow ... http://yorkblvd.com/2010/04/19/yorkblvds-media-watch-goes-national/ 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 running for one of the eight At-Large Director positions, has asked us to spread the word about the election as well as ... http://yorkblvd.com/2010/04/18/vote/ 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 brass-heavy noise gypsy band/art performance Killsonic.  If my description is as confusing to you as ... http://yorkblvd.com/2010/04/16/earth-day-at-tierra-de-la-culebra/ 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 much of the credit for the award as the magazine took special note of parks with active ... http://yorkblvd.com/2010/04/15/hermon-dog-park-named-one-of-nations-best/ 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 forget his Weezer/Happy Days video), just released a robot love story called "I'm Here."  It's a ... http://yorkblvd.com/2010/03/23/eagle-rock-a-robotic-dystopia/ 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 L.A. film competition.  I just wish he had chosen any taco truck other than the "Korean taco truck ... http://yorkblvd.com/2010/03/22/get-la-film-competition-features-short-on-eagle-rock/ 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 the LAUSD Academic Decathlon. It's a tough competition that consists of speeches, essays, tests and interviews on ... http://yorkblvd.com/2010/03/14/local-high-schoolers-kick-some-academic-ass/ 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, and one more that should have based only on last night's ... http://yorkblvd.com/2010/02/27/5-things-to-eat-in-northeast-los-angeles-before-you-die/ 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 into office time and again either because they stamp the right party affiliation next ... http://yorkblvd.com/2010/02/22/parking-politics/ 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 Technical Study Team has recently completed the DRAFT Geotechnical Summary Report. The report has found that tunneling is feasible ... http://yorkblvd.com/2010/02/17/tonight-710-tunnel-technical-study-community-meeting/ 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 grappling with 80,000 undergraduates in University Park, Pennsylvania instead of 1,800 in Eagle Rock.  Still some of ... http://yorkblvd.com/2010/02/16/more-on-living-with-students/