Sunset Junction Festival: Bad Press Continues

First, LAist.com reveals that last weekend's event may indeed have been an official FREE EVENT. (The blog digs up an official document noting just that.) Yesterday, a reader sent in some thoughts to Curbed on the event, noting the once-happy festival has turned into a "strange spectacle of empty streets and thuggy security guards. And $20 for what's supposed to be a neighborhood togetherness event? Aside from the suspicious and defensive nature of the promoter's response to any request for accountability, the big issue remains: why can they charge at all? I'd been under the impression that because this is held on a public street, it's supposed to be open for all and any ticket prices are to be donation only. Time to break this thing open and get the real story --- or call it off." [LAist.com/Curbed Inbox]