This plate seen in Silver Lake personifies our community feeling.

Leonardo from the Silver Lake Time Bank makes smoothies for children at Micheltorena School in the Community Garden. How? With donated produce and solar power!! Growing surplus smoothie ingredients? Leonardo invites... "If you have extra fruit please donate for Micheltorena  School garden Sun Powered…

American artist, Fulbright Scholar, and former Echo Park / Silverlake resident, Ann Chamberlin will be returning from Mexico with a brand new body of work titled Vaivén, New Paintings from Mexico.

Ann's work charmingly captures the intimate life of ordinary people and the characters that surround her. Through the eyes of the artist, we float…

Sunday, June 7, 10 am to noon, the Silver Lake Time Bank is having a Coffee Meetup at Tiera Mia coffee house, 1202 N. Alvarado Street near Sunset Blvd. It's a chance to earn time dollars, meet local friends and taste the good life. What skills and tools does each person…

Love convenience of being near Whole Foods? Enjoy the architectural style of Moreno Highlands? Then, this single story 3 bedroom 2 bath Spanish Eclectic could be the place for you.

Tour this Sunday, 2PM to 4PM at 1330 East Mountain Ave. in…

What to wear to this weekend's Silver Lake Time Bank Picnic?

Kristin Bedford (right) has created a small batch of Silver Lake Time Bank t-shirts and they will be for sale at the All-Member Time Bank Potluck in Silver Lake! The Potluck is from 1pm-3pm on Sunday, May…

Local Ben Boquist has been writing musicals since the age of six. His latest work, “Songs of the Fall,” is about messing up and coming home. He brings a different perspective to his musical play. Told through from the Creator’s POV, it’s the classic story of Adam and Eve.

Test audiences from a variety of backgrounds have been moved to tears. Want a preview? Click for more info.

The…

Free Family Workshop!

All ages welcome!…

OUR OWN SILVER LAKE STAR MEMBER Architect/Author Dion Neutra will be the featured speaker at the Architecture&Beyond Lecture Series Thursday, May 14, 6:45-7:45 p.m. at the Los Feliz Library, 1874 Hillhurst Ave. 

Neutra, son of famed Modernist architect Richard Neutra, will discuss his book, “The…

MAY MARKETING AROUND SILVER LAKE 

By Betsy M. Hall

How do businesses connect with clients, in and around Silver Lake? That is one of my niches. I grew up here and I've helped businesses grow. 

Omnipresence is one my favorite strategies. Beyond being familiar, you and your business can be known, liked and trusted. 

What tools can Marketing Directions offer for May campaigns? We've packaged five of our top products into one package, then added three…

MAY MARKETING AROUND SILVER LAKE 

By Betsy M. Hall

How do businesses connect with clients, in and around Silver Lake? That is one of my niches. I grew up here and I've helped businesses grow. 

Omnipresence is one my favorite strategies. Beyond being familiar, you and your business can be known, liked and trusted. 

What tools can Marketing Directions offer for May campaigns? We've packaged five…

"Some people collect stamps or art. I collect people. I collect relationships."

Silver Lake resident, Meher McArthur, describes her journey of selectively gifting friends with items from her house, writing about it and growing in the process.

She was just featured in an interview on…

80 stairways, 35 miles, from downtown Los Angeles through Echo Park and Silver Lake to Griffith Park in Los Feliz. Sat. and Sun., May 2-3, 2015. Music, walking, climbing, cheering, people dressed up as veggies + more. The Big Parade for details.

I wanted to share some milestones in our march toward establishing guidelines for the first-ever comprehensive affordable housing policy in the City of Los Angeles. I have been aggressively pursuing a value capture policy in particular. In September, I introduced a motion that would require developers to build low-income units or pay into the city's Affordable Housing Trust Fund in exchange for zoning changes, variances or other exceptions that increase the value of the project. The motion…

Join CD13 Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell's team, Silver Lake Improvement Assn and Wood Handcrafted Pizza on Sunset at Silver Lake Blvd. for a morning of neighborhood clean up and a genuine Italian reward. 

Look for the crew with the brooms, Thursday, 4/23, 9 a.m. to noon.

PASADENA SHOWCASE HOUSE FOR THE ARTS

This year, Pasadena Showcase House is revisiting a distinguished estate designed by Fernand Parmentier in 1910 that is an eclectic English Tudor combined with Craftsman elements. The artistic innovations and philosophy of the burgeoning Arts and Crafts movement are evident in this striking…