Sunset Junction 2008 Line-up - Sunset Junction MySpace Blog

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Great Silver Lake Drain of 2008: The Water Returns!

The reservoir is being filled! Check out the great coverage from Curbed LA!

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Lost Chihuahua in Hollywood

Poor lil lost doggie in Hollywood area -- please help these folks out and keep an eye out when you're in that area:

http://community.livejournal.com/los_angeles/3876214.html 

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Great Silver Lake Drain of 2008

Great Silver Lake Drain of 2008: The Birds Hang On
Great coverage of the Great Silver Lake Drain by our friends at Curbed LA!

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14 American Apparel Models Freed In Daring Midnight Raid
Category: News and Politics

14 American Apparel Models Freed In Daring Midnight Raid

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Sunset Junction performers 2007
Category: Parties and Nightlife

Sunset Junction performers 2007

(Borrowed from Sunset Junction -- thanks!)  

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Consider running for a seat on the SLNC
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes

The Silver Lake Neighborhood Council is one of the most important community organizations in Silver Lake!

Our annual elections take place on September 29th and we're looking for candidates!

Silver Lake stakeholders can run for an At-Large seat (we currently have four open seats) or as a seat for the region in which they live or work or belong to an organization. For a map of Silver Lake, log onto the SLNC page at www.silverlakenc.org.

The SLNC is looking for great candidates and WE WANT YOU TO RUN! You have until August 17th to submit a candidate declaration form and be included on the ballot.

So please consider running for a seat. For more information and a candidate declaration form, log onto www.silverlakenc.org.

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Rhythm of Silver Lake
Category: Romance and Relationships

Check out the beautiful poem from my pal Teresa Conboy!

Rhythm of Silver Lake
Chapter 2
By Teresa Conboy

Silver Lake has a certain rhythm,
a rhythm of life
flowing in and out of its hills, hilly streets,
and beaten down sidewalks and stairwells,
some repaved, repainted and sandblasted,
some holding its past glory.
These things that you don't really feel or see
unless you walk along its path.

Down Hyperion Avenue
past the greenest of green hills
in a one block stretch,
houses first sold by owner
then with a for sale by realtor sign.
Wishing no houses or property would sell
lest it make way for a block cube unit
that makes no sense
to the shape of the neighborhood.

The neighborhood that's a contradiction in terms
as a beautiful bush with red brush flowers
blooms its way out of the sidewalk
amidst empty beer bottles and condom packs

The Angel's Theatre on one side
and the boy's bar is across the street
wherein they carouse all night
and play out their own theatre
Calling out to each other after 10 o'clock at night
Bar hoppers and crawlers, restaurant goers
parking in front of stairwells and vacated garages
You tell them they can't park there
and they say 'it's their right'
And I say, 'right, but not right now'

My friends go see plays
while I can see live theatre
right on my own street.
Sometimes I just walk up Hyperion at night
and watch it all unfold
Past the theatre, the boy bar, the stretch of houses
and auto body shops,
then to the restaurants and bustling corner
where pizza is served late
and the option of three Italian diners can be had,
where the Zen restaurant looms large
and SUVs, Ramblers, VW bugs, and Toyota trucks
go in and out in a steady stream
of the Trader Joe's parking lot until 9 p.m.
Where videos can be rented
and where tacos and burritos are sold
further up the street until 2 a.m.

Where the street men before retiring for the night
after the close of Trader Joe's
hit me up for one last quarter.

And where raccoons slip in and out of storm drains
and coyotes sprint across the road
When I finally sit down on my porch and resign myself
to the fact that I'm staying home,
and a baby opossum or two
come out on the porch railing
to eat out of the catfood dish
and skunks make their way,
their time of night, their theatre,
and that is just in my backyard.

While the cars stream by,
the boys holler,
the screech of brakes goes on all night
and the honking horns persist
And when I sleep and it's past 2 a.m.
The boys invite themselves
into my broken down garage
and play out their parts
while I sleep above,
not getting any of the lust
that goes on down below.

And people are laughing,
cars are screeching by
and Hyperion becomes its own race track to the dangerous few
Nobody slows down
and really gives Hyperion a chance

And when the silent dawn sweeps over slumbering Silver Lake
that's the best time to get up.
And the cats snore near by and the dog does too
And I feed them all
and then take a walk up the street again
Either back up Hyperion to Say Cheese
for 'coffee to go,'
or to Sunset past Circus of Books,
to the French café

And I walk past others who themselves
look relieved that it's morning
and that it is quiet

And my shoes pound the pavement
through the daily Silve Lake rhythm
past the green hills
dotted by Craftsman houses
and various shaped dwellings, years and eras
entangled in morning glories in full bloom,
squirrels running across trees
and telephone lines
dogs barking at me through fences
birds in trees and in cages on porches
colorfully painted houses
freshly tagged graffiti'd walls
aromas of coffeehouses
and coffeepots brewing in windows
or stale beer from empties sitting,
next to garbage cans,
and meticulous gardens and hilly streets.

And now the facades are changing
and the boy's bar has been shuttered,
repainted and remodeled and called a tavern.
And the houses and hills go through new owners
who chop, cut, streamline,
and in their minds reinvigorate,
and the only residents who prove permanent are the raccoons and opossums,
and the men and women who look for cans and bottles.

And it is this life I wake up to everyday,
my footsteps forever cemented in this rhythm,
in this life we call Silver Lake.
***
(started in 1997, revised in 2007)
--Teresa Conboy

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Please join us at Speak Out Silver Lake!
Category: Automotive

The Silver Lake Neighborhood Council (SLNC) is holding its annual issues meeting and election kick-off this upcoming Saturday (July 14th) at Bellevue Recreation Center.

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I NEED YOUR PHOTOS
Category: Romance and Relationships

Are you as sick as I am of my profile photos? Send me new ones PLEASE to add to my profile!

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