zero-point is doing sound for the east hollywood music festival which has been moved to september 12th & 13th (the weekend after classes start at l.a.c.c.)
the area that is east hollywood is a relatively new distinction...when we were first at il corral we didn't know where we were and called the area koreawoodlake (between korea town, hollywood and silverlake)...then one day i received a very nice email from the head of the business association of east hollywood or something and he politely told me that the place we were in was called east hollywood,...so i should have known then that it would diversify then eventually gentrify - and it has done so pretty fast....
but who doesn't love pure luck - the vegan options there on heliotrope have expanded, first including scoops as the place of the most creative gelato on the planet...and the bicycle kitchen and darma punx (which i've never been into) it even has a unique full-sized lingerie shop...and the mandatory tattoo parlor...there are a lot of spots there now that have changed...of course my favorite place in the neighborhood is definitely synchronicity - which i found thanx to pizza paul and some very earth-shaking events!
when il corral was reviewed in city beat long ago the spot we were at was called the 'wonky' part of melrose...meaning it was far from being the notoriously hip strip of buying odd and rare things...and i remember one day i realized that more distinctly: these two fashion divas drove up in a flashy car and asked where melrose was...they were on melrose but they meant where was the famous buying grounds known as melrose by the general public, so we just pointed west....
this music festival is a great idea, but funding ran short recently so the city has had to try again in the fall. the 2 day fest : when it does go off : at the ukranian center - a huge venue - it will go off!