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Nirvana album baby surfaces in Echo ParkToday

Remember our recent post about the 17-year-old from Eagle Rock who as a baby was photographed floating naked in a pool for Nirvana's Nevermind album cover? Well, Spencer Elden is now apparently testing the waters of commercial art as an intern at Shepard Fairey's Echo Park ad agency, reports Creativity Online. Photo: The Telegraph

Shepard Fairey can't live on Obama posters aloneToday

Artist Shepard Fairey is best known for his colorful Obama posters. But Fairey's political pop and street art have overshadow a more practical, and probably more profitable, ad agency that he runs out of his relatively new Echo Park office and gallery called Studio Number One. In this former brick law office near the Dodger Stadium main gate, the man once considered a guerrilla street artist -

Buy him a drink and he will tell you why Echo Park is so hotToday

Is it the history or rich culture that's made Echo Park so popular among a younger generation? Not really. How about that great urban planning that made it one of America's 10 Greatest Neighborhoods? Yeah, right. What's really behind Echo Park's popularity, at least according to resident and concert promoter Alexis Rivera, is a bit more basic: "Price-wise, Echo Park is good for drinks, and

Cable car service comes to Boyle HeightsYesterday

The Metro Gold Line through Boyle Heights is expected to open next year. But, about 120 years ago, the same neighborhood was already served by a cable railway line, shown here on opening day in November 1889. Photo from MTA archives.

News & Notes from Atwater, Boyle Heights, Echo Park & beyondYesterday

Get ready for more digital billboards. LA Weekly See what you missed: Echo Park Film Center screens "This was Pacific Electric" tonight. EPFC The Los Feliz Cafe (formerly Eatz) will shut down at the end of the month. Atwater Village Newbie Do we really need more caffeine? Yet another cafe for Echo Park. Daily Dish Gold Line makes more progress through Boyle Heights. Wave Newspapers