» WTF is up With Echo Park's Lotuses?
Echo Park’s famous lotus beds are nothing more than a scattering of a few sickly, brownish pads floating in foul-smelling water, a scene that in two weeks will greet about 150,000 visitors who are expected to attend the 2008 Lotus Festival.The last two years were disappointing too. Think it might be time to, I don’t know, do something about it?