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Topic Archive: Downtown
Police and the fire department moved in today on an astonishing homeless encampment that was suspended above Figueroa Street on top of the ventilation shaft...
Posted July 8, 2008 11:35 AM
Mark Lacter isn't alone in predicting that Sam Zell would be lucky to get any value for the Los Angeles Times property in the Civic...
Posted June 25, 2008 03:38 PM
CurbedLA's sharp eyes spot a new sign on the building....
Posted June 24, 2008 11:22 PM
Artist Kent Twitchell settled his lawsuit against the U.S. government and 12 other defendants for painting over his 70-foot tall landmark mural of Ed Ruscha...
Posted April 30, 2008 09:16 AM
Sure, the Tribune Co. has owned the L.A. Times since 2000. But the Chandler family's trust kept the land at 1st and Spring streets in...
Posted April 29, 2008 05:55 PM
This week's issue of The New Yorker carries a "Letter from Los Angeles" by Dana Goodyear on the movie being made based on Steve Lopez's...
Posted April 28, 2008 09:23 AM
Doug Davis broke in as the Downtown News editorial cartoonist by lampooning the insular concerns of downtown bloggers. He ruffled feathers, but "when I saw...
Posted February 29, 2008 10:51 AM
Police were stumped trying to solve a string of nine residential heists pulled off inside Downtown's Orsini complex, a previously impenetrable place dubbed the Tuscan...
Posted February 4, 2008 10:58 PM
Music Center president Stephen Roundtree said today that the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion will close for renovations in 2013, not 2011 as originally announced. Apparently, offices...
Posted January 7, 2008 02:56 PM
Over at Native Intelligence, Judy Graeme's third offering on Los Angeles photographers introduces a group of teenagers (and younger) who use borrowed cameras to shoot...
Posted January 5, 2008 11:58 PM
Councilman Jose Huizar, downtown advocate Brady Westwater and, especially, the owner of several of the former movie palaces on Broadway are featured in a Wall...
Posted November 14, 2007 01:09 PM
Emily Banneker at Blogging.la is bummed that L.A. Freeway Kids, the 1984 Olympics-era mural that adorned a south wall of the Hollywood Freeway (or Santa...
Posted September 27, 2007 11:13 PM
Downtown's usually dark neon signs atop the old Rosslyn Hotel towers were relit last night for a film shoot. Eric Lynxwiler and friends rushed out...
Posted September 10, 2007 01:18 PM
Downtown's under-construction Nokia Theatre has booked its opening night for October 18. The theatre, part of the L.A. Live complex going up across 11th Street...
Posted August 6, 2007 09:16 PM
Motivated by yesterday's fun video of Broadway shot in the 1980s, Los Angeles photographer Robert Pacheco sent along his photo essay of Downtown in...
Posted July 12, 2007 08:59 AM
Windows Steaks & Martinis, the restaurant with the amazing views atop what's now called the At&T Center, closes July 31. There has been talk of...
Posted June 6, 2007 04:06 PM
Yesterday's number of marchers was small compared to last year, perhaps 25,000 strong, and peaceful. But the day ended with police moving in to MacArthur...
Posted May 2, 2007 07:41 AM
Another Gran Marcha to support immigrants begins Tuesday morning at Broadway and Olympic, moves north on Broadway starting at 10 am, and heads to City...
Posted April 30, 2007 08:13 AM
Last month we posted on Southland Publishing's forthcoming debut of Los Angeles New City Monthly — you remember, the magazine that would "celebrate the intellectual...
Posted April 4, 2007 09:31 PM
Mark Lacter wonders if too much attention is paid to the 29,000 people who live downtown, in a city of four million. It's one of...
Posted February 22, 2007 02:11 AM
Xeni Jardin reported on NPR's Day to Day about one of my favorite unofficial Wilshire Boulevard landmarks. One Wilshire, once a prestigious office tower, was...
Posted February 20, 2007 12:31 PM
Correction to yesterday's item: it was a homeless woman who jumped to her death from the L.A. Times parking garage yesterday while staffers were arriving...
Posted January 19, 2007 11:14 AM
Eric at Blogdowntown has posted a heat map showing where the homeless population is concentrated, based on LAPD counts. You can see distinct nodes of...
Posted January 18, 2007 12:33 PM
Times columnist Steve Lopez isn't the only one keeping a literal eye on construction of the new LAPD headquarters on the downtown block where a...
Posted January 10, 2007 12:21 PM
Cops and others who work the streets downtown call the boils, abscesses and infections they see all the time Skid Row staph — a strain...
Posted October 19, 2006 02:13 AM
Los Angeles mystery writer Naomi Hirahara, whose best-known character is Japanese American gardener Mas Arai, will be giving a private walking tour of Little Tokyo...
Posted August 30, 2006 08:52 AM
It's not unusual for someone to claim that a newspaper misinformed them. It is quite unusual, though, for the complaint to come from a Los...
Posted August 19, 2006 12:52 AM
The power outage that knocked out lights and elevators across the Civic Center this morning has been mostly over since before 9:30 am, but the...
Posted August 2, 2006 01:36 PM
Other than proximity to City Hall when the top brass has to make a visit, is there anything smart about the plans to erect the...
Posted July 5, 2006 11:26 AM
Long before Hollywood came into being, a photographer for motion picture pioneer Thomas Edison traveled the Southern Pacific railroad shooting the first movie footage of...
Posted November 28, 2004 03:47 PM
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