Community News

Oktoberfest brings generations together

  The Eagle Rock Oktoberfest celebration took place Sept. 19 as a fundraiser for the Solheim Senior Community. According to the Solheim Senior Community website,...

Read Books finds new home in Cypress Park

Jeremy and Debbie Kaplan have owned Read Books, a bookstore in Eagle Rock, since 2007. According to Jeremy Kaplan, the couple found a new...

Women’s Twentieth Century Club buzzes for bee education event

  Families, children and Occidental College students gathered at the Women's Twentieth Century Club of Eagle Rock Sept. 12 for The Buzz on Bees —...

Free Kuya Jonathan campaign presses consulate for support in Eagle Rock

  Anakbayan Eagle Rock, GABRIELA Eagle Rock and Anakbayan Inland Empire launched the Free Kuya Jonathan campaign in June to support Jonathan Canete, a 46-year-old...

Eagle Rock women's club celebrates centennial

Exactly 100 years after a group of suffragette Progressives in Eagle Rock opened the doors of their own Corinthian-style clubhouse in 1915, nearly 250...

Roster shakeups shift NBA's top teams

LeBron James’ sudden departure from Miami in June, ending the “big three” of himself, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, set off a series...

Two years after city lifts ban, mural community thrives

In the 1980s, LA was considered the mural capital of the world. But in 2002, public murals were banned after unsightly graffiti tags and...

Food trucks, vendors roll into bowling alley parking lot

Pedestrians walking along Eagle Rock Boulevard Monday night likely noticed the smell of frying oil, warm cheese and curry wafting from the parking lot...

Photographers portray climate change's effects

The photographs are haunting both in what they depict and what they predict: Low-lying slums inundated by water, the destruction of New Orleans’ Lower...

Icelandic boutique hosts LA-based designers at pop-up event

Over 4,000 miles from its namesake and currently 50 degrees warmer, Reykjavik Outpost took advantage of its LA locale to bring artists and designers...

ISIS continues spree of artifact destruction

From 1933 until the end of World War II, the Nazi Party of Germany committed art theft on a massive scale, stealing over 650,000...

Wourms helps bring hip-hop collective to LA

Kelly Wourms (senior) is putting his classroom education in Media Arts and Culture to work in the real world under his stage name, Terrys...