Eagle Rock -- Wildcrust sits in one of Southern California's most tempting culinary mini malls. On one side is Queen St. Raw Bar & Grill, the best oyster house this side of Swan Oyster Depot in San Francisco. In the middle is a pastry shop called Fondry, open three hours a day, five days…

Eagle Rock -- When Alan Janoyan arrived at the Altadena location of Unincorporated Coffee Roasters on Jan. 7, conditions were already fierce.

Eagle Rock -- The January wildfires never reached Eagle Rock, but after the blazes, several neighborhood businesses stepped up to help victims.

Eagle Rock --  A  smoke shop on Colorado Boulevard was vandalized by a group of thieves who rammed a vehicle through the front door in a smash-and- grab burglary Sunday morning, it was reported.

Eagle Rock -- Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters worked for more than two hours early this morning before getting the upper hand on a raging blaze at a four-story apartment building.

Jessica Caloza was sworn into the California Assembly on Dec. 2, after becoming the first Filipina elected to  the state legislature. One month later, she would be part of a different, unprecedented history.

Eagle Rock -- A half-block south of busy Colorado Boulevard is an anomaly: easy to overlook, the Eagle Rock Springs Mobile Home Community is an acre of truly affordable housing in an increasingly expensive area.

Eagle Rock -- Once the air from the wildfires cleared up, I took a walk around my neighborhood. Just to be around people and do something “ordinary.” The blazes have burned homes, memories and nerves.

It’s been more than a year since a pair of devastating entertainment industry strikes ended, with Hollywood writers agreeing to a new deal in October 2023 and actors coming to terms a month later. Yet as 2025 dawns, some local businesses are suffering a lingering hangover.

Eagle Rock — A dead body was found at Eagle Rock Recreation Center on Sunday, but the case is not being treated as a homicide, according to police and park officials.

Eagle Rock & Highland Park -- Northeast L.A. residents and businesspeople came together last week to help provide food for emergency crews and residents displaced by the Eaton Fire, which prompted widespread evacuations.

Eagle Rock -- The sun is a foggy magenta disc in an ominous charcoal sky. My Covid mask doesn’t block the soot stink that’s everywhere. Fluttering ash snows gently down on our deserted Los Angeles street. My husband and I are talking with neighbors as we load valuables into our cars. Photo a…

Eagle Rock -- Firefighters discovered a person dead while battling a fire this morning at a single-story home in Eagle Rock, authorities said.

Eagle Rock -- A 48-year-old woman suspected of an arson rubbish fire in Eagle Rock Boulevard has been taken into custody, police announced today.

Eagle Rock -- After going missing earlier this year, “Pinky,” a pink bird statue, is back, beak wide open and nesting atop a long-abandoned Colorado Boulevard construction site known as Pillarhenge.

Eagle Rock -- Haley Solar started sewing when she was five. In high school, she made money selling Halloween costumes and hemming her friends’ pants.

Eagle Rock: One of the Council District 14 Christmas tree lightings that was canceled was to be held at the former Eagle Rock City Hall on Colorado Boulevard. Unlike the events we mention here, the Eagle Rock one was permanently scrubbed.

Eagle Rock — The developers of a controversial affordable housing development on Toland Way are now cleared to seek building permits, according to a spokesperson for the City Planning Department.

Eagle Rock -- The man who was shot by police last week during an exchange of gunfire has been booked for the attempted murder of a police officer, the Los Angeles Police Department announced today.

Eagle Rock -- Police took a wounded man into custody late this afternoon following an exchange of gunfire in the 5000 block of La Roda Avenue.

Eagle Rock — It’s still unclear what’s going to happen to tenants at 4319 Toland Way. But plans to replace their homes with a large affordable housing complex are complete, according to the Los Angeles Department of City Planning. The project now waits while the department completes the next…

Eagle Rock -- Many people know Eagle Rock City Hall as the site of (now outgoing) Councilmember Kevin de León’s field office. For the next month, there’s a different reason to visit: an art exhibit featuring the output of a dozen people who recently completed a free class focused on photogra…

Eagle Rock -- I arrive back at home as the sun sets. Walking up the stairs, I stop suddenly.

News briefs, notes from the Eastside & beyond

It’s not hard nowadays to find someone in Eagle Rock sporting a tattoo. But the shop Tattoo Love & Body Piercing Co. was ahead of the curve: George Tavera opened the business 15 years ago.

Eagle Rock --  Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated near the home of U.S. Rep Jimmy Gomez this morning and then marched down Colorado Boulevard, demanding he return contributions from pro-Israel organizations.

The Los Angeles City Attorney will not prosecute the  Eagle Rock couple suspected of secretly recording a conversation between four Latino political leaders that led to the resignations of the Los Angeles City Council president and the leader of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, ac…

Eagle Rock -- Mahjong, the Chinese tile game created in the 19th century, has legions of dedicated players worldwide. Now add Eagle Rock to the list—specifically, the Occidental College campus.

Various neighborhoods on the Eastside play prominent roles in the hit Netflix series “Nobody Wants This,” which centers on the relationship between a rabbi and a podcaster. Noah, the rabbi played by Adam Brody, lives in Eagle Rock. A budding romance with Joanne, played by Kristen Bell, inclu…

Eagle Rock: Want to channel your inner biologist? Then tour the Moore Laboratory of Zoology at Occidental College, which boasts more than 65,000 bird and mammal specimens.

Let us praise the bowling alleys that exist in many forms in our Eastside neighborhoods: restored, demolished, remembered and in limbo.

Eagle Rock -- There are plenty of places in Eagle Rock to grab a coffee. There is also no shortage of spots to pick up a plant. But a newly opened establishment may be the only one that offers both.