🗒️ Notebook
Lane closures on Alvarado & Glendale
Echo Park—Lanes may be closed this week along Alvarado Street and Glendale Boulevard, as Caltrans performs curb, gutter and sidewalk work. The improvement are designed to extend the life of the pavement and increase safety. Closures are scheduled from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Monday–Friday. Caltrans
Home makeover TV: The reality behind the ‘reality’
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Atwater Village/Silver Lake: Sunny Wu writes in the L.A. Times about the personal tensions behind the scenes when she and her wife were on “House Hunters Renovation.”
Historian of ‘Cholas’
Echo Park—L.A. Public Press reports on Marcia Salmerón, a historian who has been documenting “Cholas,” the women of Los Angeles’ barrios. Salmerón herself was a member of Echo Park Locas, made famous by the 1993 film “Mi Vida Loca.”
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