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Homelessness rises in downtown L.A. By Cara Mia DiMassa and Richard Winton April 4, 2007 Two weeks ago, downtown boosters and the LAPD were ...

All the work the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council and other groups and individuals have put into turning Main Street from the drug ...

Since I first helped bring the annual California Sumo Open Downtown - it has exploded in popularity. After filling a hotel ballroom to turn...

.... Michael Delijani, who now owns four historic Broadway theaters. The Los Angeles Theatre, the Palace Theater, the State Theater and now...

As the below Chicago Tribune story says - the break-up cost of the deal are a... puny.... twenty-five million for a multi-billion dollar dea...

Over at LAO Business, they give more details about Sam Zell's Malibu connection: Mark Lacter Sam Zell was apparently far, far away from ...

In a somewhat trickily worded phrase... the New York Times seems to imply that the LA Tmes was founded in 1884 by General Otis: It also ends...

It's official. The Tribune Company and the Los Angeles Times have a new owner. Sam Zell, of Chicago: Real estate magnate wins bidding ...

A somewhat... more favorable... view of Mr. Zell in his local paper. It's long, but worth reading every word: Tribune board weighs Zell...

Instead of whistling past the graveyard while Grave Dancer - Sam Zell - may be doing the final dance on the grave of the LA Times, the Times...

New York Times April 2, 2007 Real Estate Tycoon Increases Bid for Tribune By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and KATHARINE Q. SEELYE Sam Zell, the Chicag...

It could be... New York Times April 2, 2007 Tribune Presses Real Estate Magnate to Increase His Bid By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and KATHARINE Q. S...

Well, evicted is a bit strong. Their current Miracle Mile landlords generously gave them the space for free for more than a year but now th...

Today's Times has an article surveying the growing retail market in Downtown Los Angeles which is a switch from articles last year that ...

Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils Congress Senate Agenda Saturday March 31, 2007 (12:30 p.m.) DIFFERENT LOCATION THAN NORMAL!!! LOS ANGELES ...

At a press conference about a long overdue focus on entrepreneurship and the commercialization of ideas generated at local universities - wh...

Ignoring the insanity of the past week (more later) - and the impending Anschluss by the Grave Dancer - the quality of the writing at the LA...

Sadly, not long after I posted the good news of my father reaching age 84, I returned to my office to see that Kevin Roderick just lost his ...

Yesterday was my father's eighty-fourth birthday and he spent it like he spends most weekdays - working. He appeared in court for a cli...

In Sunday's New York Times - there's a superb look at the dramatic disconnect between the amount of art being created and housed in ...

Sounds like a pretty convincing case to me... From The Sunday Times March 25, 2007 A monstrous lie: Mary Shelley’s claim to Frankenstein dis...

Another article on one of the five Downtown Fashion Week events of last week: Downtown Flaunts A Fashion of Its Own Culver City Has Smashbox...

First, an update on the latest Art Bar incarnation of the Grand Avenue Club: Ain’t it Grand (Ave.)? It’s still too sketchy for us to live in...

This was definitely not your grandmother's fashion show - or fashions. Unless your Grandmother was Divine, of course. L.A. Fashion Week...

When I challenged fellow Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Board members Gary Warfel, Michael Delinjani and Peter Gurnz to think out...

Links above... comments later tonight.

That's what New York Magazine supposedly said according to London's Evening Standard: London is the world capital of the 21st centur...

Now that seems like a long time ago - but my father - whose birthday is in exactly one week - is alive and well and was alive and well when ...

While looking for the New York Times reviews of the fashion shows presented in Los Angeles during the past... four days.... (five of which w...