Join fellow urban thinkers for LA 2.0, a call for fresh ideas for the 21st Century city.

Are you an urban practitioner—a designer, artist, policy maker, planner, engineer, demographer, advocate, etc., working to improve the physical urban environment? Are you passionate about the future of Los Angeles? Interested in collaborating with top-notch urban thinkers?

We hope you’ll join us for LA 2.0, a fast-paced, energetic afternoon think-tank with the best and brightest, most creative and critical urban…

GOOD has always been a huge supporter of Kiva; we covered them when they were just getting started. Four years later, Kiva has raised almost $100 million in microloans, landing them in our GOOD 100 issue. Next Tuesday, join GOOD and Hub Bay Area at The David Brower Center to celebrate Kiva’s 4th birthday. Cheers to another four years!

Kiva’s Fourth Birthday Party
Tuesday, November 3
6:30 p.m. to  9:30 p.m.
The David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA

There will be live music performances…

On Saturday, October 24, GOOD design columnist Alissa Walker will be leading a tour of Manhattan’s new High Line park (it’s part of her new book on walking tours in New York), a spectacular elevated railway-turned-public-park that made it into our GOOD 100 list.

And that’s not all. According to Alissa “We’ll also be gawking at the spanking-new architecture sprouting up around New York’s ‘Starchitect Row,’ followed by gelato in the shape of Frank Gehry’s InterActiveCorp Building.”

This…

Back in 2002, Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti helped designate the neighborhood south of the 101 Freeway and north of Beverly Boulevard, between Glendale Boulevard and Virgil Avenue, as Historic Filipinotown, lovingly known to its residents as Hi Fi. Still, many L.A. residents have little knowledge as to what makes Historic Filipinotown “Filipino” or “historic.”

Our friends over at Public Matters have been hard at work this past year, partnering up with the Pilipino Workers’…

Our friend Mark Menjivar, creator of one of our most popular Picture Shows, “You Are What You Eat,” continues to take his work on the road.

On Wednesday evening, an installation of his work (an example of which can be seen at left) will open—with much fanfare—at Ampersand in Portland, Oregon. At 7:30 p.m., Mr. Menjivar will engage in a discussion with Amanda Peden from Slow Food Portland, an event partner, and visitors can participate in an optional…

We know—and we suspect you do as well—that design can solve problems. And what better problems to solve than the ones that face our own cities? Last winter, we had seven designers present solutions to Los Angeles problems at GOOD Design LA, the fantastic event that closed out our month of goodness, GOOD December. After another event in collaboration with Art Center College of Design, and an appearance at CEOs for Cities’ annual meeting in the spring,…

Attention fans of fresh food and smart design: You have until tonight—11:59pm PST to be exact—to submit your idea for bringing locally-grown food to urban residents in our Redesign Your Farmers’ Market contest. Check out all the requirements and see three early entries we picked from the batch.

If you’re in Los Angeles, be sure to stop by the event Farmers’ Markets: 30 Years and Growing on Thursday, September 3 from 10:00am to 2:00pm. In addition to the…

By The People: The Election of Barack Obama, a film that GOOD helped make, is in a limited release this week in Los Angeles and New York. Hurry, as it is only playing through Thursday night.

In New York, it’s playing at Sunshine Cinemas (143 E Houston St).
Daily at 11:15 a.m., 1:40 p.m., 4:00 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 9:00 p.m.
Purchase tickets here.

In Los Angeles, it’s playing at Laemmle Sunset 5 (8000 Sunset Blvd.) in West Hollywood.
Daily…

For one day a year, the normally serene waters of Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles host a fierce, world-class competition: the 826LA Paddleboat Regatta. And this year, GOOD has thrown our hat into the ring. The competition is serious (see photo) but we’re determined to win—or, barring that, keep from capsizing.

It all happens at Echo Park this Sunday, July 26, at 4 p.m. It’s going to be a blast (have you ever not had fun…

Tomorrow night, Mama is keeping the place open just for us (they are usually open during the day only) and teaching this very special class herself.

Each participant will receive drinks, hors d’oeuvres, tamales to make and take home, a tamale picnic box to go (including rice and beans), and a salsa lesson from local MacArthur Park dance instructors.

Who: Anyone interested in learning about tamales from “Mama” of Mama’s Hot Tamales
What: Tamale making workshop followed by…