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A few weeks ago I started noticing that some of the Ralphs Brand Carb Master Yogurt had almost no peach flavor to it and that it had a sour ...

As I thought, the earthquake was quite a few miles away (in the Chino Hills) and there seems to be no real damage Downtown other than a few ...

At Spring Arts Tower at 5th and Spring my bookcases were waving back and forth on the 10th floor - but nothing fell out of them. Started ve...

This morning the Grand Avenue Authority granted a series of extensions for the Related Group to finish their construction documents and get ...

Below is the opening for a well thought out and excellently researched story on the current condo market in Downtown: With penthouses, downt...

And also this link: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-covermak27-2008jul27,0,1379685.story For some time alien life forms from a culture...

The recent story in the Times about the health department shutting down public pools due to pollution missed one particular part of the prob...

The HABEAS INDEX presents: PARK 101, Thursday, July 24 12:30 - 1:30 PM Informal lunchtime discussion with Project Managers Gaurav Srivasta...

In "How Fiction Works", James Wood's newest collection of essays - 123 numbered mini-essays strong - Woods again tackles the q...

When I turned the corner to go back to my office at the Spring Arts Tower, where the TV series ELI STONE has been shooting this afternoon, 3...

Last Sunday, I was recovering from an exhausting Saturday night when I got a frantic call from my long time fashion stylist, Miss Kitty. He...

*** COMEDY WALK ANNOUNCEMENT *** COMEDY WALK is the biggest monthly comedy festival in the world. It's like speed-dating with comedians!...

Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council- DLANC & Historic Downtown LA Business Improvement District- HDLA BID Sponsors Re-imagining Do...

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...