I'll be putting together a list by the end of the week, but I'd love to hear what moved you this year?

The Space Shuttle and the new trees? The Trayvon Martin vigil? The Expo Line? Four more years? There were a number of big and small events that occurred in the Soul of Los Angeles. Let's reflect on 2012. Photo by Kerry Roberts of 3710…

A hummingbird visited me for Christmas.

We have a feeder just outside the kitchen window. I sat my iPhone on the window frame and hit record. Within about a minute, as you can see in the video, what I believe is an Allen's hummingbird came and got some homemade nectar.

Earlier this year, we had two hummingbird nests and four babies in my Leimert Park…

Attention Leimert Park voters, the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk's office has an online tool that tells you your polling place. Just put in your address number and street name and your voting location pops up. Mine is MLK park rec center on Western. Hope to see you there.

Polls are open from 7 am - 8 pm, Tuesday, November 6.

Via…

I invite you to share your plans, memories and photos of this historic day for our neighborhood with your neighbors on Leimert Park Beat.

I am going to be riding my bike around the area between Sutro and Crenshaw / King and Vernon. Most of my time will be where Leimert Boulevard merges with King, just up the block for my house.

Where will you be?

The Space Shuttle Endeavour will be rolling through Leimert Park Saturday from about 10 a.m. to 6  p.m. on its way to the California Science Center in Exposition Park.

Sometime around 1 p.m., the greatest creation of man will be sitting in front of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza as the Debbie Allen dancers do their thing. There is a dedicated area for the public to stand and view the stage, north on Crenshaw…

Today Sunday, October 7, from 10 am-3 pm 9.1 miles of normally congested streets is a linear park for…

This looks like fun! Eso Won hosts the Debates at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Romney v. Obama.…

The California Science Center has agreed to replant four trees for every one felled along the Space Shuttle Endeavor route next month, just one in a long list of concessions won by the Empowerment Congress West Area Neighborhood Development Council and its president Lark Galloway Gilliam.

Along the route that runs through Inglewood, up Crenshaw then east on King Blvd. to Expo Park, 760 trees will be planted, according to…

The Los Angles City Board of Public Works will take up the Shuttle Parade debate on Monday Sept. 17. Click for AGENDA, The 9:30 a.m. meeting is at Edward R. Roybal BPW Session Room, Room 350,  City Hall, 200 North Spring Street.

The California Science Center will move the space shuttle Endeavour from LAX to Expo Park up Crenshaw then east on MLK. Hundreds of trees will be…

At a meeting a few months ago, residents somewhat seriously suggested they would lie down in front of the space shuttle to keep it from going through Leimert Park. Some one said the streets were already messed up (to put in new sewers and for resurfacing projects) and another said there was already too much construction (to bring the nearly billion dollar light rail to our neighborhood).

But it sounds like we are on the right path to get to see history and to save as many trees as…

As a part of the pre-construction efforts for the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Project, Metro will conduct exploratory potholing activities of the sewer main to help locate and identify underground utilities along the alignment. 

• Potholing consists of excavating a hole with a backhoe to remove…

Jordan Baylis of Leimert Park's Transfiguration School and the Southern California Running Cougars will be bringing home the gold when he returns from the …

Senior Lead Office Sunny Sasajima, LAPD Southwest Division
is hosting "Coffee with Cops" at the historic Starbuck's on Coliseum and Crenshaw.
The opportunity to meet the officers who patrol your neighborhood is 10 a.m.Tuesday, July 31.

Sunny Sasajima, Police Officer III+I
Senior Lead Officer
Southwest Area
(213) 847-5800 Office
(323) 387-9618 Cell
37508@lapd.lacity.org

Let me introduce to you one of the treasures of the Los Angeles community and part of the family of Leimert Park: Verbs.

This youngster has made quite an underground impact with his rhymes and his eclectic music tastes. I love his honest and often humorous takes on life in LA, taking public transportation, new found feelings of commitment and the challenges of growing up today, which he lays over smooth beats and sometimes a live band.

But I've gotten…

Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza - BHCP Live! concert at 6:30pm and the Fireworks Spectacular at 9pm. It's Free!

The Annual Eighth District Celebration of the 4th of July takes place in Leimert Park. Jazz is the featured music plus Vendors and Food.

EsoWon will be open from 12-5 with a Special One Day Sale, at least 10% off on how purchases.  Plus A Very Special Used CD Sale, more of James Fugate's supreme collection will be…

Celebrate the 4th of July at the LA Coliseum

The 10th annual Los Angeles Coliseum show begins at 9 p.m. on the east lawn.

Kids' activities will begin at 1:30 p.m. and music and giveaways from KJLH radio will start at 3 p.m.

Free parking at the King and Hoover entrance to the Coliseum.

*This just in (thanks to James Lee Walker):

There is a live musical performance in the plaza in front of the Rave 15 with seating opening at 5 PM. the…

The 2012 Leimert Park Village Book Fair celebrates its 3rd year of bringing a world-class event toLeimert Park from 10 to 6 Saturday.

Over 150 celebrity readings, book signings, writing workshops, panel discussions, poetry readings, stage performances and musical performance during this day-long festival.

The author lineup fromLeimertParkBookFair.com - …