Eastside Caf News Today

A group of student café managers in Chris Linderman’s business class designed new tables and brought in new chairs.

Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement

The disgraced Los Angeles councilman says he wants to address homelessness. Advocates say he’s hurting any real progress.

The team behind national sensation Suerte opens Este, which focuses on seafood, raw and cooked over charcoal.

The team behind national sensation Suerte opens Este, which focuses on seafood, raw and cooked over charcoal.

Roberto Flores, co-founder of the Eastside Café, saw a potential solution to the housing crisis in the vacant state-owned homes of El Sereno. He draws on lessons from Indigenous communities in Chiapas to organize for community control and stable, dignified housing.

The Virgilio’s lion rug was similar to the one pictured. Both were mounted and preserved by the Jonas Brothers Zoological Art Studios of Yonkers, N.Y. — still one of the nation’s most experienced taxidermy specialists. PHOTO PROVIDED BY JIM SHULMAN Often when I write about childhood memories, the stories behind them reveal much more than I ever anticipate. One of these dates back to 1949 or 1950, and my first experience at preschool age seeing tele...