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We are slowly emerging from the pandemic, and it sure looks like there are a lot of things that need fixing. I’m
Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news.
The Echo Park shutdown
Construction fence and police tape. That’s about all you’ll see this week if you pay a visit to
Echo Park Lake. Not to mention a robust (to put it mildly) police presence, which, on a recent Sunday visit, had patrols circling the park at regular intervals — as well as parked along the lake’s north end.