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My latest article over at CITYWATCH: If one wants a reel (i.e., Hollywood) world equivalent of the real world danger to the LA River in Down...

I had heard that Livable Places - one of the few affordable housing developers that tried to have a sustainable financial business plan whic...

My latest CITYWATCH story: Reviewing press coverage of Laura Chick's audit of the LAPD Headquarters cost overruns, there desperately nee...

It's getting harder and harder to believe anything one reads in the Los Angeles Times these days. Setting aside the special case of the ...

Former Metro news reporter is now writing an editorial column in the Metro section and her first editorial runs today. The beginning of her ...

My lastest offering at CITYWATCH: Who Really Busted the LAPD HQ Budget Or – Why Can't City Hall Ever Get Anything Right? by Brady Westwa...

Free Comedy performances at six venues within one block of 5th and Spring! Do the Famous DOWNTOWN Art Walk - and then do the DOWNTOWN Comed...

In a city where it's history is too often forgotten and ignored - and too often gotten wrong in the pages of the LA Times - one of the f...

LA City Nerd's website may still be blocked - but I just got an email saying he had accepted my months old invitation to FACEBOOK. Hope...

New York? With more lender owner - as opposed to just in foreclsoure homes - than... Los Angeles? Hell, according to the Wall Street Journ...

The impending demolition of the infamous 'erector set' parking garage across Grand Avenue from Disney Hall for the Related Group...

... he's be 160 years old today. Happy birthday, Wyatt!

Below is my essay on a plan for financially sustainable affordable housing in Los Angeles. It is written as a response to the head of the Ci...

THURSDAY March 13th 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Yes, for the third month in a row - Comedy Walk comes to the Downtown Art Walk! 90 minutes of top com...

In this morning's Los Angeles Times, the above linked article quotes the seller of a building and adjacent construction site on the sout...

.... on the Los Angeles Times website. March 12, 2008 Getty Museum Buys a Seldom-Exhibited Gauguin By EDWARD WYATT LOS ANGELES — The J. Paul...

.... and it's Monday and the Los Angeles Times still does NOT have the story up on their website.... AFTRA makes networks deal Org reach...

.... the Los Angles Times doesn't have a word about the settlement for non-prime time shows (as opposed to prime time shows which still ...

After watching the first new Saturday Night Live show after the strike and its spoofing of the mass media's love affair with Obama - it ...

My essay in today's CITYWATCH: Will Janice Hahn Save Us from Forces of Greed? Repealing Density Bonus Bill By Brady Westwater Right...

Below is my latest CITYWATCH essay: Grand Ave Project: Usual Suspects Looking for Dead Horses to Kick Dubai or Not Dubai By Brady Westw...