A lotus doesn't grow in Echo Park.
I got my July issue of Sunset Magazine today and was surprised to see a profile of Echo Park as an L.A. day trip. Echo Park has more boiling concrete than day trip splendor. I like neighborhoods that have a bit of an inferiority complex and want to prove its shiny new finish, but there's better day trips in LA. The Eastsider LA ripped Sunset's research a new one. Apparently the lotuses at the Echo Park Lake are way dead, so is the yearly Lotus Festival, and the Echo Park Film Center is closing in July. I will offer to Sunset disappointed readers to come over for a BBQ and then a night on the town in Echo Park . We can buy used shoes and get free HIV tests at Out of the Closet, then bar crawl to Short Stop, El Prado, City Sip, and wrap up at Gold Room. Gold Room is a taco stand meets the set design of Scarface, so you need to be a little liquored up for it.
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