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Photo by Ed Fuentes.After six years, Issac Ibarlucea is set to close Ay Caramba, the Arts District Mexican Cafe that has done double duty as a general store since February 2009. Ibarlucea cites a slowdown in business as the reason for the closure. The last day to dine will be Wednesday, March ...
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Visitors walk down Fiesta Broadway's main Broadway corridor during the 2009 event. Photo by Ed Fuentes.While the 21st Fiesta Broadway may still pull in 500,000 “Latino customers” to the streets of Downtown, the 2010 event will have a far different footprint than it has in years past.A short move...
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Curbed LA -- Curbed LA reader notes the new Walgreens near 7th and Hope will be opening in late April/ early May.
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LA Times -- When Neal and Amy Knoll Fraser open Grace in the St. Vibiana rectory, they plan to include a garden that will grow a quarter of the restaurant's produce.
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This story is an installment of Around the Halls. Photo by Ed Fuentes.Today is Monday, March 8, and it's a delayed edition of Around the Halls thanks to city website issues that left the calendar inaccessible well into the day. On the agendas for the rest of the week are neighborhood council fu...
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Photo by Eric Richardson.LAPD officers detained three men inside the Huntington Hotel this afternoon after their use of air rifles on the roof of the hotel brought out a major police response.The whole ordeal was over within 45 minutes, but unless the men have existing warrants, they are unlike...
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Nancy-Jean Carlson
Nancy-Jean Carlson
Can't air rifles hurt people or do they only just make a noise?
Yesterday at 5:02pm
Stephen Zeigler
Stephen Zeigler
they can get under your skin and cause a really nasty infection!! oh yeah they can!
Yesterday at 5:20pm
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This story is an installment of Ask Downtown.One of Downtown's best viewing spots, the City Hall observation deck is open to the public during normal business hours. Just tell the guard where you're headed and they'll send you on your way. Photo by Eric Richardson.Ask Downtown is an occasional ...
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content.usatoday.com -- A hacker accessed credit card information for those who spent money at any of the Westin Bonaventure's restaurants over the last eight months.
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Models walk the runway at the end of Mike Vensel's show at the March 2009 BOXeight Fashion Week event at the Los Angeles Theatre. Photo by Eric Richardson.In his typical last-minute style, Brady Westwater is again helping to put together an event that hopes to bring Fashion Week back to Downtown...
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The Los Angeles Police Emerald Society marches in the 2009 St. Patrick's Day Parade. Photo by Ed Fuentes.Leprechauns will not be marching down Main Street this year, but the party will go on.The City of Los Angeles and AEG will hold a St. Patrick's Day Festival at L.A. Live on Wednesday, March 1...
March 5 at 5:56pm · Comment · · Share it
Nancy-Jean Carlson
Nancy-Jean Carlson
Awww, bummer! I loved the parade! It made Main Street look and feel like a true Main Street! It was charming and fun. Too bad LA has to kill something that was born in the neighborhoods only to be sold off to big corporations. I do hope I end up eating my words, but we'll see.
March 5 at 6:08pm
Mucho Musica
Mucho Musica
L.A. Live is all that is evil and wrong with corporate gentrification, and the sin of homogenizing our city. It will be looked back upon with great regret.
March 5 at 6:45pm
Stephen Zeigler
Stephen Zeigler
NJ...here here, indeed, and totally
MM...truth...i like your style
March 5 at 7:39pm
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The Cornell Building, part of the Santee Village complex, is one of the projects that could benefit from changes to the city's definition of live/work units. Photo by Eric Richardson.A code change that could make Downtown condos easier to finance brought out numerous supporters to a meeting of t...
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Members of the California School Employees Association partipate in a protest against cuts in education funding. Photo by Eric Richardson.A loud but peaceful crowd gathered in the Historic Core this afternoon to protest cuts in education funding. After assembling on Hill street between 4th and ...
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Architect Raimund Abraham Photo by Courtesy SCI-Arc.Architect Raimund Abraham, a visiting faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, died just after midnight Thursday morning in a traffic accident at 5th and Main.Abraham, 76, had delivered a lecture at the school earlie...
March 4 at 2:50pm · Comment · · Share it
Ken Hall
Ken Hall
Sorry to hear the news.
March 4 at 10:37pm
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CRA-backed Prop 84 park projects: (L-R) Budokan Little Tokyo, Olympic / Grand and Ord / Yale. Photo by .The deadline for applications by park projects interested in Prop 84 funding was Monday, and this morning the Community Redevelopment Agency sent out renderings of the park designs that it sub...
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New US Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. talks with Central City East Association head Estela Lopez at the start of the March Skid Row Neighborhood Walk. Photo by Eric Richardson.A day before he is to be sworn in as the top federal prosecutor for Southern California, Andre Birotte Jr. took time on Wedn...
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Chester Gregory (James Early), Syesha Mercado (Deena), Moya Angela (Effie) and Adrienne Warren (Lorell) in “Dreamgirls.” Photo by Joan Marcus / Center Theatre Group."Dreamgirls," the 1981 musical about those who controlled the soul charts of the 1960s with payola and charm, clearly has staying p...
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Marchers protest LAUSD education funding in January of 2009. Photo by Ed Fuentes.A Thursday afternoon protest march in support of state education funding will impact afternoon commutes in the Historic Core. Participants in the "Save Public Education Rally" are scheduled to protest outside the R...
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Wolgang Puck speaks during a kickoff for the fall 2009 dineLA Week. Photo by Eric Richardson.One of Downtown's worst-kept secrets became official today, as Wolfgang Puck announced that he will be opening WP24 on the 24th floor of the Ritz Carlton at L.A. Live. The restaurant will feature "featu...
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Versus opened in October of 2008 at 618 S. Spring, but quickly closed due to improper permits. New owners have been at work on the space for over a year. Photo by Eric Richardson.A pair of Craigslist postings indicate that residents on the 600-block of Spring street should start getting ready f...
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Photo by Eric Richardson.Five months after the Huntington Hotel changed hands, the City Attorney's office is still trying to prove that previous owner Landmark Equity Partners acted in bad faith when it sold the 200-unit structure to a general contractor that it had previously employed.As part ...
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LA Times -- Facing declining readership,community members have started a campaign to revive the century old Rafu Shimpo.
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A pair of pedestrians walk along the empty 3rd street face of the Ronald Reagan State Office Building. Photo by Eric Richardson.The State of California put two of its Downtown office buildings up for sale on Friday, part of a portfolio of 11 properties state-wide that it hopes an institution inv...
March 1 at 5:49pm · Comment · · Share it
Stephen Zeigler
Stephen Zeigler
Sell the buildings in order to get some quick cash? That's the weirdest part of this article.
March 1 at 6:52pm
Helena Halog Farr Roberts
Helena Halog Farr Roberts
I agree w/ Stephen^^^^^^^makes a whole lotta sense!
March 1 at 7:35pm
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Moderator T.J. Simers and Dodgers great Sandy Koufax listen to Dodgers manager Joe Torre answer a question during Saturday night's event at Nokia Theatre. Photo by Courtesy of AEG.Saturday night's "KOUFAX & TORRE...Safe At Home" event at Nokia Theatre raised $750,000 for Joe Torre's Safe at ...
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This story is an installment of Around the Halls. Photo by Ed Fuentes.Today is Monday, March 1, and don't expect to find much policy working its way through City Hall this week. City Council's focus continues to be singularly dedicated to budget issues, as it was for all of February.Still, a fe...
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LA Times -- Michael Blosil, the 18-year-old son of Marie Osmond, died Friday night after jumping from his South Park apartment.
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LAist -- Councilman Tom LaBonge entered a verbal motion yesterday to extend rail service on already existing track to 6th Street in the Arts District.
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Photo by Eric Richardson.An opening should come next week for 213 Ventures' new mezcal and tequila-themed Las Perlas. The bar, located across 6th street from Cole's, passed inspections last week and final interior work is underway.Inside, the space shares little with the other bars in the 213 ...
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Opening Monday, new eatery Urban Noodle replaces the Old Bank District's Warung Cafe. Photo by Pamela Rouse.Residents of the Old Bank District yesterday got their first taste of Urban Noodle, the new casual eatery taking over for Warung Cafe.Warung closed Christmas week, and a mysterious "What i...
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Deb Smith
Deb Smith
I miss Warung!
February 26 at 11:55pm
Ken Hall
Ken Hall
Sad that Warung closed...but great that a new restaurant is taking it's place!
February 27 at 8:13pm
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A young crowd of revelers packs a warehouse space for a recent DANCEiSM event. Photo by Photos Operandi.DANCEiSM isn't exactly a religion, but you wouldn't know it by the way that the Downtown-based event and artist collective has earned its followers.While Downtown Los Angeles has been in the t...
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Commanding Officer Blake Chow, Deputy Chief Sergio Diaz, Reserve Officer of the Year Ali Bashar, and Councilwoman Jan Perry. Photo by Ed Fuentes.The Central City Police Boosters held its annual Police Recognition Day Luncheon and Awards Ceremony today, honoring officers and civilian staff who he...
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Crews work to construct a bridge for First Street to cross over Figueroa, smoothing out Figueroa's route to the north. Photo by Automobile Club of Southern California / USC Digital Archives.For decades, city planners have seen Downtown's Bunker Hill as an obstacle rather than a feature. They've...