The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is coming to our neighborhood and we're all invited.

One of Southern California’s most cherished and engaging weekend celebrations kicks off its 16th storied year in a new home on USC’s University Park campus April 30 and May 1, 201.

Here are…

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Barbara Morrison was celebrating her new center and her new home, Leimert Park, in JazzTimes recently.

The Jammin Foundation & Linda Morgan, Ms. SmoothAhead Jazz Presents....

Living Legends Pavior* Night

"Honoring those that have paved* the way for others while creating memories that will last"

May, 26, 2011, June 30, 2011 & July 28, 2011

(Last Thursday of the month)…

Expo train testing activities are schedules to start this week and continue in the area for the next several months. Testing will take place intermittently along the light rail alignment.

Safety Tips from Metro:



·        Please obey all warning signs and traffic signals when crossing the tracks.

·        Always look both ways before crossing any street

·        Never walk on the railroad tracks

·        Watch for trains from both directions

·        Use the…

April is National Earthquake Preparedness Month (just in case March didn't scare you into action), according to Orli at Rancho Park Online. 

Do your best to get you and your family as ready as you can…

This ode to the tennis shoe is filmed in the coolest store - but where is this store? Do you see the Crenshaw T's? Gotta have one.



But the coolest thing (besides eating cereal and drinking milk out of hi-tops) is namedropping Earlez Grill on Crenshaw and…

Skateboarding legend and genius entrepreneur Rob Dyrdek, star of MTV's Fantasy Factory, provided $50,000 toward the $300,000 state-of-the-art skate plaza at the Rancho Cienega Sports Complex, 5001 Rodeo Road near Farmdale and La Brea. The skate spot is meant to replicate street skating with ledges, stairs, and rails. Leimert Park Beat…

UCLA's Department of Special Collections has put online 5,700 of the images spanning the past 70 years from the Daily News and the L.A. Times in a searchable new website. Here's a beautiful shot: Darryl Strawberry at bat during Crenshaw High School game in Los Angeles, Calif., 1980 Thanks LA…

Leimert Park and me go back

Like Sydney and hip hop tracks

and just the way the sounds in Brooklyn and the Bronx

make my head nod

The drum circles within you

sync up with the way my heart throbs

The way the sun shines on you at dusk…