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Westwater’s Downtown - The Unasked Questions By Brady Westwater I have been asked – repeatedly - about recent LA Times and LA Weekly ar...

I know, I know. Life in the fast lane Downtown must sound so exciting and so... exotic... to those of you who do not live here. I mean - goi...

UPDATE at the bottom of this post! Now for the original post - When I glanced at the below headline, I saw Castro and assumed it was someth...

subject Joel Bloom Memorial Hey Friends and Neighbors, Here's the updated agenda for Joel's Memorial on SUNDAY July 22nd, 2007. It i...

After a full day of waiting in various waiting rooms at various medical facilities, I checked out the Saturday night scene at the Ralph'...

Below is the opening of the LA Times article, but first my comments. It's bigger than I thought it'd be and there's a pretty goo...

Please join us this Friday night July 20th. for our Harry Potter Party, from 10:00 pm until 2:00 am. The latest Harry Potter novel, "De...

Several of us had a rational debate/discussion on possible reasons why the Wilshire District went into decline and how it was reborn as Kore...

A small group of downtown writers have banded together to start the Downtown Writer's Group. We will meet regularly to network, discuss ...

My CITYWATCHLA article today on the Neighborhood Council stakeholder debate: A Way We Can All Win the Stakeholder Debate By Brady Westwater ...

Yes, it is true! Denizens of the Nickel will soon be able to get their very own individualized scoops of both ice cream - and yogurt - along...

More details at New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/business/media/18bistro.html?_r=1&oref=slogin July 18, 2007 Web Site f...

It's July, it's getting hot and Downtown Blogger's thoughts are turning to... sex, among other things. Received this email from ...

My remembrance of Joel Bloom in today's CITYWATCH. Downtown - The Bloom is Gone-and, So is an Era By Brady Westwater On July Friday the ...

Seriously - you've got to wonder if anyone's editing anything at the LA Times these days when stuff like this slips through.... In a...

The idea of Cecilia Rasmussen - the LA Times maven of all things old Los Angeles ever being wrong is, of course... unimaginable. So she is,...

Good story about the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council's DASH bus service during Art Walk Nights on Gallery Row, even though it ...

A certain cowboy can be spotted at the bottom of the first photo, along with a who's who of the Downtown Arts District who gathered to c...

At tonight's impromptu wake for Joel in front of his store, the subject of the pending LA Times obituary came up when a early draft supp...

I have to admit I am totally surprised by this and don't know quite what else to say.

Today's unveiling of David and 'Posh' Beckham to Los Angeles may end up being a footnote in history compared to what happened wh...

I just received a phone call that Arts District pioneer and Downtown activist Joel Bloom just died at the Veteran's Hospital. His death ...

It you thought it was impossible to live in a Beckham free media world BEFORE they officially arrived - you ain't seen nothing yet. KNB...

Dazid Zahniser's first story appeared on the Los Angeles Times's website last night and his new LAT e-mail address is now working fo...

The Five Kings Crown a Sovereign! But is it good for Neighborhood Councils By Brady Westwater In two words - hell, yes. Champaign corks...

It may be relatively recent history - but history it still is with all the rapid changes in Downtown. This was also before both the Northri...

Way too cool for words! I once body surfed in the waves with a pair of dolphins in the Sea of Cotez many, many years ago and the first time ...

My piece on Ron Deaton in CITYWATCH - Few people have been as important to the credibility of neighborhood councils at City Hall than Ron De...

I just got the below email. I will comment on Ron later tonight when I return, but all I can say now is that all of his friends have out th...

For at least 12 hours - and likely close to 15 - the below headline story has been sitting on the front page of the Times website: Blaze bur...

FishbowlLA links to a rating blogs. Fishbowl gets a PG, the LA Times gets a G and LA Cowboy is ... unsuitable... for impressionable minds du...

The link above goes to last year's post on Cowboy Christmas and for yet another year this cowboy is city bound, on foot without a horse ...

When I saw the below story and read the distance between the house and the bluff at Little Dume Beach - I knew only two properties on Point ...

Below is my article in CITYWATCH: The Killers of Killer King! Coming Soon To Your Neighborhood! By Brady Westwater After decades of ‘refo...

Did DWP Cave in? GM Deaton Provides Some Answers Accused of caving in to their union and violating the Brown Act, DWP’s GM Ron Deaton and Pu...

At one time this morning the LA Times website between stories and headlines had three - count them - three different numbers of homes burned...

Seeing that a LA Times Forum was going to be on Tribune owned KTLA, I clicked on the link to see what the subject matter of the Forum was go...

Remaking downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood make over in full swing By PAT SAPERSTEIN "In cultural tourism, L.A. ranks at the bottom,...

Below is my article in today's CITYWATCH: The Killers of Killer King! Coming Soon To Your Neighborhood! By Brady Westwater After deca...