Description
Los Angeles is an ensemble of villages that overlap, blur, fade, bump into one another. To remix author Gertrude Stein, there is no clear here here, cuz’ once you veer, you’re already somewhere else, a different pueblo. For this fantastic voyage, make your way to 43rd Place, between Crenshaw and Leimert Boulevards. Welcome to Leimert Park Village, what locals refer to as “the Village” – a commercial retail, arts and cultural corridor located within the Crenshaw- Leimert Park neighborhood of South-Central Los Angeles. It’s a bustling enclave where on a daily basis you can get literary recommendations, live jazz and vocal performance, beats pulsating from an MPC, debate and discussion, Jamaican and vegan Ethiopian cuisine, visual fine arts and community youth arts, hand-made jewelry and African imports, fly gear and drop-ins by your favorite musician/emcee/producer. If you roll through on a Sunday, the blocks are packed – drummers playing djembes, dancers barefoot in the middle of a circ