News & Notes from Echo Park, Lincoln Heights, Montecito Heights & Silver Lake

Cactus under barbed wire, Atwater Village | Photo by Laurie Avocado/Flickr

• Curtain comes down on Echo Park performance space. Brand X
• L.A. Unified enrollment drops as charter schools gain. Daily News
• City looks into expanding outdoor smoking ban. Daily News
• The last stop for the little red truck of  Montecito Heights. Above the City
• The next dance move for the man behind Silver Lake’s Spaceland. Pop & Hiss
• Honor a loved one at the Lincoln Heights AIDS monument. ASNC Alert
• Happening Today: Lincoln Heights Planning & Land Use Committee meets. Save the Date
• Notes: City offices & L.A. Unified schools closed today for Veterans Day; MTA bus and rail lines remain on regular schedule