All Coast Metro Patrol was the hired for Sunset Junction Street Festival security As the postal worker delivered mail yesterday to businesses along Sunset Blvd., he apologized to Joe Keeper of Bar Keeper for not delivering mail on Saturday. He said that Sunset Junction Street Festival security and staff would not let him inside the festival, even with his USPS issued ID and uniform, to deliver mail to the businesses, according to Keeper. Yesterday,......

Yup, one week after the big police bust, they're back (first three photos). And did anyone notice the myriad of hot dog vendors outside the Sunset Junction Festival next to the large numbers of LAPD officers? (last three photos)......

The permit for the festival's street closure signed on August 20, 2008 | Photo by Zach Behrens/LAist As with years past, the Sunset Junction Street Festival has been somewhat of a contentious point between the community and well, let's face it, the small part of the community that puts this event on. Past issues have revolved around basics like parking, traffic and noise, but the more heated debates have been over the entrance fee.......

At Sunset Junction yesterday | Photo by Zach Behrens/LAist Tonight War Tapes @ Boardner's Radiohead @ Hollywood Bowl Sondre Lerche, Sylvie Lewis @ Troubadour Starship feat. Mickey Thomas @ Warner Park Obi Best, Juliette Commagere, Jogger @ Tangier Faster Pussycat, L.A. Guns, Bang Tango @ Key Club Sunset Junction Music Festival @ Sunset Blvd, Silver Lake Snow & Voices, Facts About Funerals, Name of the Moon @ Spaceland......

There are more photos to come soon by Koga, but here's some of what happened on the Bates Stage yesterday, which was booked by Spaceland. Today, more local bands take over The Bates Stage: Henry Clay People, Voxhual Broadcast, Oliver Future, Gram Rabbit, Health and The Germs.......

Naturewell will host their grand opening next week, but they're offering free samples this afternoon, they said earlier today as they prepped their signs and storefront. There are no alcoholic drinks, but refreshing the body is the name of the game here. It's vegan, organic and they buy as much as possible from local farmers. We tried a sweet coconut water concoction and it was quite amazing. Then they broke out the dragonfruit, which......

The Sunset Junction Margarita | Photo by Zach Behrens/LAist Malo has created a special drink for this weekend's festival called the Sunset Junction Margarita ($8). Made out of El Jimador, Cointreau, a simple syrup and lime juice, it's got a quite a nice spritzy and refreshing kick to it and soothes your quench for thirst (and alcohol) easily. Additionaly, they have some very good specialty cocktails). They're also serving mojitos, red & white sangria,......

It's about 85 degrees here in Silver Lake and the streets of Sunset Junction are starting to fill with music and the fans that love it. Here are some shots from this early afternoon as things were getting started. If you're taking public transit, check this post out.......

From Metro's full system transit map For the past three years, public transit has been our guiding way to the Sunset Junction Street Festival. To try to find reasonable parking is just not very realistic. Still, we've felt alone on the subways and buses when en route to the fest. There's maybe only a handful of people with us heading to or from the event (one LAist friend asked us if hipsters hate public......

Photo by Joey Maloney at last year's Sunset Junction | View all of his photos here This weekend is one of Los Angeles' most popular and well known music festivals out there. Sunset Junction takes place both on Saturday and Sunday. Also: As said in the comments section yesterday, anyone who wants to help out with the daily Tonight in Rock column, either by contributing or sharing more ideas to make it better, should......

Isaac Hayes was scheduled to headline at the Sunset Junction Music Festival before his death this past Sunday in Tennessee. Tonight, the festival announced that friend of Hayes and a legendary soul man himself, Sam Moore, will play during the Saturday night slot. Moore is a Grammy winner and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in1992 for his work with Sam & Dave. He will be performing on the Hoover Stage......

If you were planning to take a trip to Tempe, AZ in October for the SoCo Music Experience, cancel those plans or find something else to do. In a statement released today, Southern Comfort "announced that the SoCo Music Experience scheduled to take place on Saturday, October 18 at Phoenix Municipal Stadium has been cancelled due to an unexpected escalation in production costs. At this time, there are no plans to reschedule the event this......

Singer and legend Issac Hayes was found by relatives unconscious next to a still-running treadmill this afternoon at his home in Tennessee today. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital in Memphis around 11 a.m. PST. Hayes, who won Grammy awards and an Oscar for his theme song from "Shaft," was scheduled to headline at the Sunset Junction Music Festival in Silver Lake later this month.......

Last month, local band Radars To The Sky (MySpace) performed at Spaceland (MySpace) in Silver Lake, opening for The Republic Tigers (MySpace). As described by Andrew at Amateur Chemist, "Radars To The Sky continues to harness the buzz they built up after wrapping up their successful Echo Residency in April. Spaceland was filling up nicely as the members of Radars To The Sky took the stage. Andrew Spitser (Vocals/Guitars) announced early on that they......

Last Sunday, Little Radio's Summer Camp series Downtown continued with performances by local bands Matt Ellis (MySpace), Hypernova (MySpace), Tenlons Fort (MySpace), and Castledoor (MySpace), with The Karabal Nightlife (MySpace) as well as Ladies and Gents (MySpace) among those performing earlier in the day during Open Mic. While Hypernova, who are originally from Iran, have been living for the past year Downtown near MacArthur Park, they will be relocating to New York in two......

Yesterday, Little Radio's Summer Camp series Downtown continued with performances by New York-based Paul Dillon (MySpace) from Silver Rockets (MySpace), as well as local bands The Damselles and The TC4 (MySpace), Speedbuggy (MySpace), and The Happy Hollows (MySpace). The Damselles and the TC4 is a newly-formed supergroup, comprised of members from I Make This Sound (MySpace), Le Switch (MySpace), The Voyeurs (MySpace), and Division Day (MySpace). This was their second live performance, as their......

Yesterday, Little Radio's Summer Camp series Downtown continued with performances from local bands The Parson Redheads (MySpace), The Henry Clay People (MySpace), and Film School (MySpace). This was a rather memorable appearance for The Henry Clay People for several reasons: It was their first show at Little Radio. It was guitarist Andy Ciara's birthday. Frontman Joey Ciara vowed to put more people onstage than The Parson Redheads -- whose bandmember count can approach The......

Boing Boing co-founder and Make editor in chief Mark Frauenfelder got a tour of Silver Lake's Intelligentsia with the company's head of research and development. The Chicago-based coffee brand opened a Los Angeles storefront last summer and debuted during the Sunset Junction Music Festival.......

Earlier this month, the Sunset Junction Music Festival announced the headliners for their 28th annual street fete, which takes place on August 23 and 24. Now, the rest of the schedule has been announced with many excellent local indie bands including Radars in the Sky, Happy Hollows, Castledoor, Jonathan Rice, Henry Clay People, Oliver Future and Gram Rabbit. For a more r&b/world with a local twist, there's plenty as the festival is featuring Chana, Nikhil......

Part of an ongoing series. Last month, local band The Happy Hollows (MySpace) performed at The Echo (MySpace), opening for The Ruby Suns (MySpace) and Architecture in Helsinki (MySpace). On Sunday, The Happy Hollows' lead singer Sarah Negahdari performs a solo acoustic set at Pehrspace (MySpace) in Echo Park with The Physics of Meaning (MySpace), One Trick Pony (MySpace), and Rademacher (MySpace)'s Malcolm Sosa. Joe from Radio Free Silver Lake raves that "I'm really......

Part of an ongoing series. Last month, local band Radars to the Sky (MySpace) had a month-long residency at The Echo (MySpace). The artists who've shared their stage included The Parson Redheads (MySpace), Aushua (MySpace), The Weather Underground (MySpace), The Transmissions (MySpace), The Henry Clay People (MySpace), Death To Anders (MySpace), The Flying Tourbillion Orchestra (MySpace), The Western States Motel (MySpace), and I Make This Sound (MySpace). For April 21st, they included Rademacher (MySpace),......

Photo by Joey Maloney at last year's Sunset Junction | View all of his photos here Everyone loves (great music) or loves to hate (parking for local residents, admission) the annual Sunset Junction Street Festival, which hits Silver Lake come this August 23 and 24. And this year's schedule so far is shaping up to be quite excellent: Cold War Kids, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Issac Hayes, Kinky, Broken Social Scene and The Black Keyes......

Last Sunday there was a memorial service for beloved Sunset Junction mainstay, Bingo. If you’ve ever been on Sunset between Sanborn and Hyperion, you’ve surely enjoyed the super wiener-dog of all time strutting his stuff; greeting shoppers and friends at Pull My Daisy – the store belonging to his supercool owner, Sarah, or satisfying his legendary love of bacon just outside Eatwell. If you know me, you know that I also have a particular......

Unlike the rather tired and off-handed assessment of the LA food scene that the SF Chronicle tossed off about six months back, the New York Times has been showing how it's done: their recent piece on "36 Hours in Hollywood" and last week's survey of Sunset Junction. Okay, yes, some of their picks are probably geared to the curious tourist rather than the traveler interested in a more gritty L.A. experience -- Teddy's nightclub......

Last Friday night at Bordello, Elite Yelpers gathered for drinks and music to wish Stephy S, Community Manager of Yelp.com for Los Angeles (she's like Tom of MySpace, but goddess style), a farewell adieu as she takes on a larger responsibility for the website up at its San Francisco HQ (sister site SFist should feel so lucky). Since May 2006, Stephy has been leading the way for Yelp.com, bringing in the energy for a site......

It's called Hacienda la Esmeralda's Geisha coffee, it's award-winning, it's super rare, and for wholesalers it cost $130 a pound at auction - if you can get it. The newish Intellegencia coffee shop on Sunset (right next to the Silver Lake Conservatory) got some and will brew up cups of coffee tomorrow from those magic beans for whoever would like to experience what the most expensive coffee in the world tastes like. Eater LA......

This could be the end (maybe temporary end) of your local street festival, maybe even make your block party a bit more costly. It also could mean changes for major festivals like Sunset Junction. Yesterday, Karen Sisson, the Los Angeles City Administrative Officer (she's in charge of the money), told City Council that due to an increasing amount of financial concerns, they should "freeze all new spending and end the politically popular practice of......

The old folks will blather on about what they think is wrong with Detour, but they're wrong, as always. The real problem is you have fenced off part of downtown LA, which is a weird concept but one we can roll with. But then you fence off part of the fenced off part for people who omg want to drink a beer. Other events do this too, but those events suck. Face it. Real......

With unseasonable weather descending upon much of North America, schools getting ready to reconvene, and sports seasons getting exciting, it's a busy time of year for us here in the Ist-A-Verse. Luckily, even with all the things we have to do, we still managed to get together to let you know what we've all been up to. After cooling down from a hot weekend of many badass Sunset Junction Street Fair photo dispatches, LAist asked......

Last weekend's Sunset Junction Street Fair was so fun that another photo essay was necessary. So join us after the jump for more memories of the Silver Lake fiesta and lots and lots and lots of pictures. But instead of pics of bands like in our other bad ass photo dispatches, this essay is about the people, the food, and the services. If you were there perhaps you will see yourself.........