LA Cowboy

Below is a warning from the Huntington Library's Carolyn Powell: Notice to all researchers: The current acting Archivist of the United S...

According to the New York Times, whenever it's branding time - and time to turn little bulls into little steers, all us cowboys take our...

First, the above link is to the LA Times post on the MOCA financial story and below is the full press release on the current financial statu...

Below are two of the top three headlines on the LA Times website's Business section: BUSINESS » • U.S. home sales fall in May despite l...

And why did the London Times bury this is the middle of their story - and give so few details of the poll? "Private polling of 5,000 vo...

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-main-street11-2009jun11,0,4047200.story From the Los Angeles Times Ordinance brings new life into do...

Few people loved architecture and Los Angeles as passionately as did Bernard Zimmerman - and none more than he did. I first met him in the ...

Whenever I see a headline on the LA Times website about a shooting near Downtown - I always fear for the worst. Not for the victims - thoug...

It took awhile after I woke up late Friday morning before I realized it was… Friday and not Thursday. And that realization was only possible...

The above link at blogdowntown describes the Lesley Gilb Taplin Memorial Celebration last night at Vibiana. At some point I will be able to...

My brain's life long craving for dopamine has finally run out of options. Meanwhile, I keep intending to lay out the whole history of t...

LA PEOPLE 2009: URBAN COWBOY — BRADY WESTWATER BY LINDA IMMEDIATO Published on April 20, 2009 at 4:35pm At a BOXeight Fashion Week show, you...

When I walked into LA Times event last night, one of the first people I saw was frequent LA Times critic - LA Observed's Kevin Roderick....

One of the founders of the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council, Lesley was killed early Tuesday morning in a car crash. The neighborh...

Liberals & Limbaugh When this glitch first appeared on the Los Angels Times website - at least 24 hours ago - I was tempted to mention i...

The new Ed Hardy Store at 433 S. Spring - which is scheduled to open in about a week - is having an unadvertised two day only end of season ...

The appellation cowboy is often used - but rarely earned. One of the last local representatives of the old style breed is Steve Tellam of R...

Read Kevin Roderick's post above on just some of the reasons why the Los Angeles Times layoff of Steve Hymon is unimaginable. What he d...

But I'm having a hard time figuring out what language the script was so... badly.... translated from. My guess is one of the more obscu...

The final line-up for BOXeight's fifth season of fashion shows once again at the Historic Los Angeles Theatre - this Friday, Saturday an...

I realize this is my FIFTH post about an error in the LA Times this weekend - but - seriously - I had no choice! They made me do it! Even t...

With the 'ID the neighborhoods project' going on at the LAT - how can a man be killed in Downtown in one sentence - and then also k...

In the above linked story, a family accuses the Army of covering up their daughter's murder by saying it was a suicide, and they present...

In today's Los Angeles Times, Steve Harvey does his usual excellent job on the re-opening of the historic Cole's bar/restaurant in t...

There has been a battle for up in the Owen's Valley Inyo County over - what else? - water rights. But instead of the local residents fi...

New York Times art critic Roberta Smith indulges in the guilty pleasures of 18th and 19th Century American naive painting - and then bemoans...

CultureGrrl blogger, Lee Rosenbaum, has an exclusive interview with former MOCA Director, Jeremy Strick reachable by the above link. The co...

After earlier saying that Prop B was going to win, the Times' last update before everyone at the paper went to sleep was before the ...

The neighborhood councils of Los Angeles and the people of Los Angeles have defeated the lies and deceit and the money of the local power st...

The above link has the Los Angeles Times editorial against the phony solar energy measure that's on today LA City ballot along with othe...

Now that the state of California is tens of billions of dollar in debt - and the situation for the next two years looks even... worse.... th...

With the underhanded way Measure B - the fraudulent 'solar power' ballot measure (which exists only to payback to union bosses for c...

Even if you're not a science freak - these 13 mysteries... about how little we know about ourselves and the world we live in.... is pre...

First, the good news. One of the most crime ridden, dangerous, gang run housing projects may be demolished and replaced with a mixed income...

I had heard the odd word about this project, but I had no idea it was of this scale- or this close to a public opening. Below is post by Sa...

When you compare attendance figures of LA's two major contemporary and comprehensive art museums with their counterparts in New York and...

According to WWW.GlobeSt.Com, Jack Kyser predicts Downtown Los Angeles will be one of the first areas of the nation to come out of the curr...

First. the above link goes to Nikke Finke's blog to show I am not alone in feeling the show was a failure And I finally realized why I ...

This is not a TV show. This is the biggest mass suicide since Johnstown.

After years of complaints from local bloggers - myself included - about the inability of the Los Angeles Times to get the names of our city...