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For the past couple months, I’ve been observing the vacant storefront in the shopping plaza on the northeast corner of Santa Monica and Vermont. It’s the westernmost storefront, on 1134 N. Vermont, which for years – every since I could remember – was a Los Burritos restaurant. But it was cleared out some time […] 
Here I am giving a tour of East Hollywood during LA Commons' Found LA Festival, October 2011. I wear many hats, and one of them is tour guide. Or rather, neighborhood docent. I’ve been involved with the nonprofit organization LA Commons for the past 5 or so years. They do wonderful […] 
Back in February, the Bicycle Kitchen announced it was seeking a new home after outgrowing its Hel-Mel location after some seven years (In fact, it was both Bicycle Kitchen cook Somerset Waters and I who coined the name “Hel-Mel” in the Fall of 2005 after we did some brainstorming for identifying that part of […] I’ve originally made this blog to document my community observations and activities, but I decided to spin-off my Cahuenga Library Botanical Garden posts into its own separate blog – CahuenGardeners. So from here on out, you can read about our Cahuenga Library gardening exploits at cahuengardeners.blogspot.com […] The apartment complex at 822 N. Mariposa Ave, where Dodger Stadium beating suspect Giovanni Ramirez was arrested on Sunday morning. I heard the Big News Story Of The Week on Sunday morning while driving. So went the radio: “There’s been a breaking development in the beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow. The LAPD […] All my life, while driving, biking or walking along Fountain Avenue, I’ve always seen it: The image of a mustachioed old man on a wall with wavy, spaghetti-like white hair staring in a gaze towards the east. Many people have (understandably) mistaken the man for 20th century scientist Albert Einstein. But somehow I’ve always known […] Today wasn’t only another Cahuenga Library Mini Clean-Up, but the one-year anniversary of the native plant garden at the Library. So I went out to European Baking Co. on the way to the Library on Santa Monica Blvd and got a small red velvet cake for the volunteers. I got to water the plants as […] One year ago today, we did our successful Big Sunday event at the Cahuenga Branch Library, and now we’re heading toward another. Just a block away from the Library is Lexington Ave. Primary Center, where I took the U-Haul cargo van onto the school campus and got to unload the mulch, water and t-shirts (and […] A Big Sunday volunteer loads in the water bottles into my rental cargo van at the Distribution Day activity at Universal Studios. It’s May already, and that means Big Sunday Weekend is just around the corner! Today was Distribution Day, a day where Big Sunday project captains pick up their event supplies from […] |