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A proposed plan on how the 101 Freeway AKA - the Hollywood Freeway - between Alameda and Grand Avenue - can be capped with a park - and othe...

Here are the opening graphs from Peter Villes L.A. LAND blog on the LAT website: Zell to entertain offers for Tribune Tower, L.A. Times buil...

Once again, Evelyn Larrubia manages to break the increasing trend towards factually challenged propaganda pieces masquerading as news articl...

After an intensive first week of work, the 24 interns developing a master plan to the cap the 101 Freeway Downtown between the Civic Center ...

The only words I can add to the below editorial is that while 100 acres are technically possible for the proposed park - and while a far lar...

I try to never read any stores in the LA Times Metro section since they have become so factually challenged - why bother? But when glancing...

Yesterday, 24 interns from around the world gathered at the Cal Trans Building on Main Street to begin a two week study of how a section of ...

Secretary of State, Debra Bowen, who runs elections statewide. Below is her most recent FACEBOOK update: Debra Bowen Debra Bowen is in Monda...

Unlike the provincial reaction in the Los Angles Times, the New York Times embraces Sonny's exciting plans for South Park in Downtown Lo...

At a time when too many reporters spend five minutes talking with the usual suspects prior to re-beating the same old dead horses when writi...

That's the word on the street today. The mixed use project at 4th and Main that was postponed for one year according to an announcement ...

COMEDY WALK is the biggest monthly comedy event in Los Angeles and happens during the Gallery Row Art Walk. Now in its fifth month running, ...

My article this week in CityWatch on the CRA and the LA River: Last week in CityWatch I exposed how the CRA, no longer satisfied with stoppi...

While at the DLANC Parks Committee Meeting this dusk at Pershing Square, I saw swarms of migrating swifts (which were finally correctly iden...

I have one, maybe two tickets for 8 PM Saturday May 3rd in Santa Monica. Brady Westwater 213-804-8396

And it's not even in 90210 - or 90265. It's a converted dog kennel that once housed 40 Pekineses in... Rhode Island.

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...