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The social networking site and blog platform, Echo Park Online, recreates Main Street, where friends and neighbors can mingle around their online community water cooler. Then they can go and explore their little piece of the big city. We are upgrading the site right now, but it will be back in the blogging business.

Citilista builds stronger communities.
By giving residents a place to congregate, they can learn more about their neighborhood and share their knowledge about where live.
Local businesses, who have already shown their commitment to the community by investing in it, can join the conversation with their most important, and closest customers.
Keeping the buying dollars not [...]

Citilista strengthens communities.
How? Citilista is a neighborhood network that links locals, merchants, causes and events together in one hyperlocal website. By bringing together these separate aspects of your home town, Citilista provides a platform that not only lets the neighborhood know more about your community but allows it to stand [...]

If there’s ever a reason to leave Echo Park, this may be it. And hey it’s free.
The 11th Annual Eagle Rock Music Festival is ready to take over this quaint neighborhood along Colorado Boulevard with a indie rock, punk and arty experiments..
No Age, the Gaslamp Killer, Peanut Butter Wolf, Sa-Ra are
Colorado Boulevard between [...]

LAPD will hold a sobriety checkpoint at Sunset Boulevard and Echo Park Avenue tonight from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m.
Thom Yorke is at the Echoplex so there may be more than drinking going on.
According to the LAist, there have been 80 DUI incidents and 792 hit and runs this year.

Please join Citilista and EchoParkOnline as we take part in Coastal Clean Up Day at the Echo Park Lake! What does picking up trash all the way in Echo Park have to do with the ocean? Well according to Ida Talalla, who is organizing the Echo Park clean up in partnership with Central City Action [...]

At one time three channels were enough. Not so long ago, you could only buy one or two kinds of flour – now there are a dozen types at Whole Foods.
It’s not that people were all that different than they are today. You watched either Lawrence Welk or “I Love Lucy” or “The Munsters” [...]

“You don’t need to work at the L.A. Times anymore to be a significant journalist in L.A.” said Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, at a Sept. 2 presentation at USC Annenberg.
Instead of celebrating the ability to interact with the people most affected by the day’s events, instead [...]

For 500 years, those who could afford a printing press had access to influence and power.
Pulitzer, Hearst, Chandler and others bought newspapers to influence local and national politics while choosing all the news that was fit to print and charging readers to see the information. Newspapers in general don’t want a conversation with readers and [...]

Citilista is a reminiscent of the community newspapers that used to serve every neighborhood.
The difference is that in this digital age that disposable product turns into a permanent, searchable online collection of every trivial tidbit that makes your town special.
While the main audience are the locals who provide much of the content, the [...]