Specific Media Buys MYSPACE

This is the press release announcing the sale and the good news is that MYSPACE sold to a local - Irvine - company which means MYSPACE hopefully will remained headquartered in the LA area.  The other good news is that the Vanderhook brothers might just be the perfect guys to revitalize the brand.

SPECIFIC MEDIA ACQUIRES MYSPACE FROM NEWS CORPORATION

Los Angeles, Calif. — June 29, 2011 – Specific Media, a digital media company, today announced it has acquired Myspace from News Corporation. As part of the agreement, News Corporation will take a minority equity stake in Specific Media. Additional terms of the agreement are confidential and will not be disclosed.

“Myspace is a recognized leader that has pioneered the social media space. The company has transformed the ways in which audiences discover, consume and engage with content online,” said Tim Vanderhook, Specific Media CEO. “There are many synergies between our companies as we are both focused on enhancing digital media experiences by fueling connections with relevance and interest. We look forward to combining our platforms to drive the next generation of digital innovation.”

Specific Media is an innovative global interactive media company that enables advertisers to connect with consumers in meaningful, impactful and relevant ways. Founded in 1999 by brothers Tim, Chris and Russell Vanderhook, Specific Media is currently headquartered in Irvine, CA and operates offices around the world.

About Myspace

Myspace, Inc. is a leading social entertainment destination powered by the passions of fans. Aimed at a Gen Y audience, Myspace drives social interaction by providing a highly personalized experience around entertainment and connecting people to the music, celebrities, TV, movies, and games that they love. These entertainment experiences are available through multiple platforms, including online, mobile devices, and offline events.

Myspace is also the home of Myspace Music, which offers an ever-growing catalogue of freely streamable audio and video content to users and provides major, independent, and unsigned artists alike with the tools to reach new audiences. The company is headquartered in Beverly Hills, CA.  http://www.myspace.com/pressroom/

About Specific Media

Specific Media is a digital media company driving viewership for content owners, engagement for brands and relevance for consumers. With capabilities spanning original programming, cross-channel distribution and addressable advertising, the company connects audiences, content and brands, adding meaning to each touch-point. As people discover new ways to consume content, Specific Media creates impactful media experiences no matter where they are.

www.specificmedia.com.

Blogdowntown Recommends 'Secrets of Historic Downtown LA' Tours This Saturday and Sunday

Downtown's Cowboy Launching History Tours

By ERIC RICHARDSON

Published: Thursday, June 23, 2011, at 07:21AM

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — If you want to get to know the story of Downtown's development, you're not going to hear it from a much more colorful character than Brady Westwater. He's had some sort of a hand in most deals that had come through the Historic Core over the last decade, and probably done them all while wearing his trademark cowboy hat and wrestling t-shirts.

This Saturday, Westwater partners with The Last Bookstore to kick off a series of tours with "Historic Downtown 101." He promises "an overview of the multiple histories of the streets of Broadway, Spring and Main" that will offer a view of both new and old history of Downtown.

Attendance is $15, proceeds from which will go to "the revitalization and the study of the history of the neighborhood." To reserve a spot, call Westwater at 213-804-8396.

Tours are this Saturday June 25th from 11 AM - 1:30 PM and Sunday, June 26th, from Noon to 2:30 PM and the Saturday tour will include the interior of the Palace Theater.

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Guided Tours of Historic Downtown Los Angeles Start This Saturday & Sunday June 25th and 26th

The Last Bookstore Presents….

  

The Secret Lives of Downtown

A series of guided walking tours of Historic Downtown Los Angeles’s secret past, its present - and its future.

The first two tours - at only $15 per person - start this Saturday June 25th from 11 AM - 1:30 PM and Sunday, June 26th, from Noon to 2:30 PM.   All tours begin at THE LAST BOOKSTORE at 453 S. Spring Street in the Spring Arts Tower and will be led by long time Downtown resident Brady Westwater who, besides being involved with the Downtown LA Neighborhood Council, the Historic Downtown BID, Gallery Row, Art Walk, and the BOXeight & CONCEPT Fashion Weeks, has brought over 150 businesses, artists and non-profit institutions to Downtown.

The first two “Historic Downtown 101” tours will be a general introduction to our rapidly developing neighborhood and an overview of the multiple histories of the streets of Broadway, Spring and Main. 

If you are a participant, you will see the first motion picture theater built,  the place where Babe Ruth signed his contract with the Yankees, the hotel where Charlie Chaplin lived when he made his early films (and the place where he made his Los Angeles vaudeville debut in 1910) - plus the homes and haunts of everyone from actor Nicholas Cage, the Black Dahlia, Rudolph Valentino, LA’s version of Jack the Ripper, President Teddy Roosevelt, the Night Stalker, western outlaw Emmet Dalton,  actor Ryan Gosling and more.  And you will also visit where O. J. Simpson bought his knife.

You’ll explore an intersection where all four buildings were often visited by gunfighter/sheriff Wyatt Earp since they were all built or occupied by friends of his from Tombstone during the shoot-out at the OK Corral.  At this intersection you will also discover what John Wayne, a prime minister of Italy, Houdini, Winston Churchill, boxer Jack Dempsey, Greta Garbo, President Woodrow Wilson and multiple Mexican boxing champions all had in common here.

You will also see where the first new lofts were opened, the places where Gallery Row and the Art Walk began and where Fashion Week returned to Downtown.  You will see many of the new boutiques, designer showrooms and stores that have recently opened in the area along with getting a sneak preview of what will soon be happening in the area.

Tickets for all this are only $15 per person - free for children under 8 - and reservations can be made by calling Brady Westwater at 213-804-8396.  All credit card orders should be processed either at Last Bookstore or after you make reservations.   All proceeds will go towards the revitalization and the study of the history of the neighborhood.  

Lastly, future tours will feature specialized areas of interest such as architecture, art of all kinds, shopping and food, single streets, sports (from steer wrestling to Luchador wrestlers to a Sumo wrestler), transportation, specific periods of history, the hidden Wild West history of Los Angeles, movie locations, Downtown after hours and many other aspects of the neighborhood.

For future updates and more information go to www.historicdowntownlosangeles.blogspot.com

THE LAST BOOKSTORE has 2,000 discounted new art & architecture books on sale at tonight's Art Walk!

2,000 new art books for sale on Art Walk!  The Last Bookstore, which just moved and expanded into a 10,000 sq ft space in the Ground Floor of the Spring Arts Tower at 5th & Spring, will release 2000 new discounted art and architecture books Thursday June 8th for Art Walk.  Five live bands are playing, starting at 7 pm.  Store opens at 10 AM & closes at midnight.

Need Pharmacy with 30 MG generic adderall in stock - or new dopamine or norepinephrine agonist drug

Does any know of a pharmacy that still has 30 MG generic adderall in stock?  It's the only thing that still keeps me functioning now that all of my dopamine agonist drugs have stopped working.  Now I do not know if I have been on an 'authorized' generic or not - but would like to know if that is available, too.  I am the only person my neurologist has on this drug so he does not have a relationship with the manufacturer or distributor.

And - I am also looking for any new dopamine or norepinephrine agonist drugs that might be new to the market or are being tested right now.  I might add that the only drugs that have every fully worked for me have had the exact same three side affects.  They all 100% kicked in within a few hours of my taking them, the first change I sensed was the feeling of dryness in my nostrils which was closely followed by a feeling of alertness and then a loss of appetite.

I have already burned through over a dozen such drugs since the mid-1990's with the three best ones being desipramine; eldepryl aka selegiline aka Deprenyl ; and Provigil aka Modafinil - and they were the best three drugs as they allowed me to be not just be awake - which is all that adderall and all other stimulants (everyone one of which I have also now burned though ever does - but they also allowed me to be stay alert.  But now even the adderall is losing its effectiveness.

Was the 1970's & 1980s Soviet Union a Hotbed of Cutting Edge Contemporary Architecture?

Well, the GUARDIAN Says - Yes!

Swansongs of a superpower: Russia's secret architecture

Did this building spell the end of the Soviet empire? Jonathan Glancey on the extraordinary stories behind some of Russia's wildest architecture

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A floating metropolis … the Georgian Ministry of Highways Photograph: Frédéric Chaubin

Frédéric Chaubin was wandering through a market in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, in 2003 when an old book snared his eye. Although unable to read the words, the French photographer was mesmerised by the images it contained.

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Chronicling 70 years of post-revolution architecture, the book featured an extraordinary collection of buildings that drew on an extraordinary collection of styles: as well as the Soviet schools of suprematism (a controlled explosion of geometric forms) and constructivism (wild projections, provocative angles), there was a strong western undercurrent, with echoes of everything from Alvar Aalto and Antoni Gaudí to Oscar Niemeyer. And running through all this was a thrilling element of Soviet over-reaching, a hint of sputniks, space rockets and flying saucers.

Chaubin was hooked. And so began a seven-year odyssey to seek out and photograph some of the Soviet era's most unusual architectural creations, many now under threat. Each one, says Chaubin, was amazing. "It was like finding an undiscovered monument – a Machu Picchu of your own."

Take the highly improbable Georgian Ministry of Highways, a heroic, Jenga-like arrangement of windowed oblongs completed in the mid-1970s. Based on a concept called the Space City method, and showing an eco-awareness way ahead of its time (especially for a highways agency), the ministry takes up little ground area, allowing nature to swarm in under it. Or take the architecture department of the Polytechnic Institute of Minsk: in Chaubin's photograph – which appears in Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed, the culmination of his odyssey – it resembles some mighty passenger ferry breaking through a frozen Belarussian river.

And then there's the marvellous Druzhba sanatorium by the sea at Yalta, a stack of cogged carousels rising out of a bank of trees, each notch a living space. "It was mistaken for a missile base by Turkish intelligence and the Pentagon," says Chaubin, who is the first to admit that his book is the work of a keen-eyed amateur, not an architecture expert. Perhaps we should be grateful: it's hard to imagine any expert going to the lengths Chaubin did. His book features a ravishing shot of the president of Armenia's holiday home, a glazed modern tower perched on a peninsula that looks out like a sentinel over Lake Sevan and the mountains beyond. To get the picture of the home, which perfectly captures its air of invincibility, Chaubin had to hire a boat and bob about as near as he dared, risking the attentions of the president's well-armed security guards.

Partly because of the language barrier and partly because the creators of these wonders have rarely been feted, this Soviet capacity for exuberant architecture has passed by all but undetected in the west. It comes as a surprise, a shock even. Their openings were recorded, but usually only in Architecture SSSR, a state magazine, or in books such as the series published in 1987 for the 70th anniversary of the October Revolution, celebrating the architecture of each of the 15 Soviet republics in those years; it was this publication that so transfixed Chaubin in the market. There was also the fact that travelling through the Soviet Union, especially off the beaten track, was not exactly encouraged, so many fascinating buildings remained almost unknown outside their homelands.

The Armenian president's holiday home. Photograph: Frédéric Chaubin

What really surprised Chaubin, though, was the fact that the most stunning buildings he found had gone up in the dying days of the communist era. "They were nearly all built in the last 15 years of the Soviet Union. It seemed strange, at first, that they were realised in so many different forms – especially as most Soviet architecture was still in the prefabricated style of the mid-1950s laid down by Khrushchev, with cheap concrete, straight Modernist lines, and little place for the artistic imagination."

This, he says, was because the 1970s and 1980s saw an upsurge of local talent, as designers found themselves no longer so shackled by constraints laid down by Moscow. In this way, they could even be read as the swansong of a superpower, created by people freed from centralisation, looking to and borrowing from the west. "You can see in these buildings the break-up of the Soviet Union," says Chaubin, "before the system finally collapsed in 1991."

Universities in Russia are beginning to research the buildings of this era, many of which have been abandoned and are falling into disrepair. They generally share one problem: these were public buildings constructed on a huge scale to impress and inspire local populations, with uses that have become redundant now that the state is no longer all-powerful and all-giving. But in among all the science academies and sports training centres, the sanatoriums, swimming pools and camps for youth movement pioneers, there are also some oddities, such as the "wedding palaces".

These fascinating things, built in prominent locations, were cathedral-like in their ambitions as well as their size. Chaubin concocted a game around his photograph of the Palace of Weddings in Vilnius, capital of Lithuania. He would show it to people and ask them what it could be: a monastery, a power station, maybe even a giant laboratory? "No one guessed it was a registry office for weddings built on a huge scale to encourage people away from getting married in churches."

Druzhba sanatorium in Yalta Photograph: Frédéric Chaubin

Chaubin has a serious purpose, too, though: he wants to understand how these buildings came about and who designed them – but the architects have proved hard, if not impossible, to track down. They were civil servants, after all, working for enormous state bureaus. Had they produced such buildings in the west, they might have ended up rich and famous penthouse dwellers; instead, many lived in cramped one-bedroom flats in Soviet-style concrete housing estates.

The floating metropolis

Some of the youngest architects to have worked on these late-Soviet projects are now in their 60s, and have moved onwards and upwards. Oleg Romanov – who in 1985 co-designed a young offenders camp at Bogatyr, Russia, in a zig-zagging style that became known as deconstructivism in the west – is now the vice-president of the St Petersburg Union of Architects. He has been campaigning vigorously against the vast and vulgar Gazprom tower, designed by British architects RMJM, which is threatening to destroy the skyline of what remains one of the most magnificent cities on Earth.

One of Romanov's partners on his camp, built by the inmates and photographed by Chaubrin on a bleak winter's day using a 90-second exposure, was Mark Khidekel. In 1994, Khidekel emigrated to New York to work with Philip Johnson, the personification of decadent, bourgeois capitalist design. And George Chakhava, it turns out, wasn't just lead architect on the magnificent Georgian Ministry of Highways, he was also minister of highway construction. So he allowed himself a free hand in the design, inspired by the work of El Lissitzky, one of the leaders of the suprematist movement. The result – a near metropolis in its own right, complete with roads and buildings criss-crossing each another in the sky – lifted the ministry high above a forest, letting nature and avant-garde architecture live happily together.

Will these gems survive beyond the pages of Chaubin's book? Ruthless property development may yet see most of them perish, with the now valuable land they stand on becoming a place for unimaginative hotels, casinos, resorts, and villas for the rich. In one piece of good news, Chakhava's Highways Ministry was declared a national monument in 2007, the year the architect died. There have since been plans to convert it into an office for the Bank of Georgia. But not all local people are fans: many see it as a glaring symbol of the bad old days. This has been true of many of the buildings photographed by Chaubin, despite his belief that they represent the end of the USSR rather than its continuation.

"I have no nostalgia for the Soviet Union," he says, "but in these strange and wonderful buildings, I saw the skin of a culture that fascinated me.

CONCEPT Los Angeles Fashion Week Review by Los Angeles Times

All the Rage

Concept L.A Fashion Week brings art, fashion and culture together

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The events comprising “L.A. Fashion Week” which are being held this weekend through next week may have some slapdash scheduling and production, but you wouldn’t know it from the Concept L.A event at the Ace gallery in Mid-Wilshire.

The second floor space hosted several local designers as well as an artist duo called The Date Farmers Friday night, drawing a sizable crowd, as well as shows and installations from designers both established and brand-new.

Designers Mike Vensel, Martin Martin, Valerj Pobega and Liason displayed a selection of their fall 2011 collections in small semi-secluded rooms that lined a hallway en route to a runway.

Vensel showed two vivid red dresses worn by models perched on a large rock. The dresses looked like luxe Snuggies situated in the middle of the desert. The color was intense and alluring, but the silhouettes were shapeless and robe like.

Husband and wife design duo and veterans of the L.A fashion scene Martin Martin were inspired to create their fall collection based on the idea of deconstruction. An all white, gray and black line, each piece was stark, modern and sculptural. A standout piece was a butter-soft tailored black leather jacket with an interesting pleated detail on the back.

Valerj Pobega’s line was vaudeville meets 1930s Berlin, with green wool army blanket-looking capes that had medallion brooches at the neck and were painted with star graphics. The pieces were styled on mannequins wearing gas masks and a few models who accompanied the designer at her station had Marilyn Manson-esque running eye makeup and bondage-inspired dresses festooned with an undulating ruffled collar.

Newcomer Alyson Leif, whose line of lingerie called Liason hits stores for the first time this fall, istaking a high-end approach to underpinnings. The former denim designer and current keyboard player for the band The Meek uses all silk and chiffon to create tap shorts, art deco inspired bras, robes and nightgowns. 

On the runway, sustainable fabric clothing line Chemline showed a fall collection filled with art deco-inspired pieces and attractive jumpsuits, made mostly from hemp and organic cotton and wool.  The girl here looked like she walked right out of a Tamara de Lempika painting, with a street-tough art deco aesthetic, complete with paneled skirts on dresses, strong, tailored blazers and flight suit-inspired jumpsuits styled with black leather gloves.

The show was scheduled to start at 7 pm and went up at 7:46 pm, which isn't terrible for an event put together in three weeks. Unlike the official L.A Fashion Weeks of years past, seating was a breeze, no one was clamoring for a Windex-blue drink at the bar and shows and presentations were well edited and got each designer’s point across in an efficient and organized manner.

And when there was some downtime or you just needed a break from fashion installations, paintings from an artist duo called The Date Farmers filled the other half of the gallery for people to peruse. Armando Lerma and Carlos Ramirez draw upon graffiti, gang culture and their Latino heritage to create paintings, installations and sculptures under the name the Date Farmers. The two grew up in the Coachella Valley on date farms and eventually came together to create art that Lerma says “is a commentary on violence in general.” Most pieces didn’t look like they were rooted in violence, except for a few that literally had knives or guns slapped onto the canvas.

It was refreshing to have a multidimensional fashion-based event take place for L.A Fashion Week, creating a creative atmosphere and perpetuating the eclectic approach to fashion that really thrives in this city.

-- Melissa Magsaysay

Photos: (Top) Two looks from the Chemline fall 2011 runway show. (Right) Dresses from Mike Vensel fall 2011. (Left) Looks from Martin Martin fall 2011. (Right) Looks from Valerj Pobega fall 2011 collection all taken at Concept L.A. Fashion week at the Ace Gallery. Credits: Kirk Mckoy / Los Angeles Times. (Bottom left) Artwork by The Date Farmers. Credit: Melissa Magsaysay / Los Angeles Times

Invitation to CONCEPT LA Fashion Week Opening Night Party! Thursday March 10, 2011

Mention my name at the door for admittance tonight!

GALLERY 5514 WILSHIRE BLVD. LOS ANGELES, CA 90036

Thursday March 10th

ROARK Collective / collaboration with photographer Ian Morrison / 8:00 pm

Henry Duarte / collaboration with The Meek / 9:00 pm

The Black Ryder / 10:00 pm

rsvp10@conceptfw.com

Founded by fashion designer Mike Vensel and downtown Los Angeles visionary Brady Westwater in 2010 CONCEPT Fashion Week was founded as a new alternative for designers wanting to showcase their latest collections under their own terms. The duo have been producing fashion shows in Los Angeles since 2004 and had worked together to launch many shows over the years with various different show producers at different forums. After working on many different formats for LA Fashion Week they came to a conclusion that in order to make LA Fashion Week a success the shows need to revolve around the talent of the designers and not the flash, dazzle and expensively produced shows that have come and gone in LA over the years. They hatched a plan to find a sponsored venue, involve amazing designers and package it in a way that is both efficient and appealing to press and buyers.

After two seasons the duo began to look beyond Los Angeles to found CONCEPT New York Fashion Week at the Audi Forum on Park Avenue. With success in both LA and NYC the pair met with LA Fashion Visionary fashion designer Henry Duarte to explore a new idea. The marriage of Art and Fashion. Henry Duarte has been involved in the LA Fashion, Art and music scene for over 20 years with many relationships and respect built in all three arenas. Duarte was approached by his good friend Doug Chrismas, owner of ACE Gallery, who had an interest to get more involved in the Fashion Industry. Duarte introduced CONCEPT to ACE and the rest is history, a month later they announced their newly formed partnership.

CONCEPT LA Fashion Week at ACE Gallery is a new idea blending the ideas of efficiency and creativity with a world class venue known by tastemakers worldwide. With the evolution of the fashion industry many designers are looking for a new way to showcase their collections. Having a beautiful raw space as a blank canvas in which designers can push their creative boundaries and expand the idea of what a fashion show can be, from a traditional runway show to video projections, to live performance art, there are no boundaries restricting the way a designer can communicate their vision. 

Kicking off LA Fashion Week March 10th – 13th CONCEPT LA Fashion Week will host 8 runway shows and 12 designer installations along with live musical performances and video projections curated by Paul Young Projects in an event that will redefine LA Fashion Week and set a new standard worldwide for art and fashion collaborations.

Broadway's future: Downtown L.A.'s Broadway again looks ahead to better days - latimes.com

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-adv-broadway-20110302,0,5548667.story

I got a nice quote in the piece. The link has the entire piece - below are just the closing paragraphs:

.....nearby, at the historic Clifton's Cafeteria, new owner Andrew Meieran is counting on speedy results. The developer of the Edison bar is investing more than $3 million in Clifton's — adding four bars, a fine dining restaurant, a bakery and small shops while retaining the much-loved classic cafeteria.

For his plan to succeed, Meieran said, Broadway's theaters will need to come alive at night.

"It would be a really sad situation if we end up being the only ones out here after dark," he said.

For now, he's grateful Bringing Back Broadway has created a buzz.

And so is Brady Westwater. The director of economic development for the Downtown Business Improvement District says now "there's actually momentum because people are engaged and committed to addressing all the issues for the entire street."

Westwater helped convince Masjedi to open his store.

The shopkeeper invested $250,000, his life savings. He built an indoor track to attract customers. Since he opened the shop in November, he said, he's seen a range: professionals, hipsters, laborers from as far away as Long Beach and Chatsworth.

When they buy bikes, he snaps their photos to post at the store's entrance, so passersby can catch a glimpse of the street's future.

"Beautiful," he said, "with so many different types of people."

esmeralda.bermudez@latimes.com

Copyright © 2011, Los Angeles Times

Downtown Fashion Walk at Art Walk Thursday Feb. 10th, 2011

PE LOFTS Fashion, Art, Jewelry & More!

The starting point for this month’s Historic
Downtown Fashion Walk at the Downtown
Art Walk is at 600 S. Main at 6th St.

We will be featuring the perfect Valentine’s Day gifts -
Affordable Jewelry, Fashion, Art and Accessories from
6 PM - 10 or 11 PM Thursday February 10th, 2011.

Among the designers showing will be Morph Jewelry,
Nikki Michelle Jewelry, Suite 11,  Tina Summers Fashion,
Tasha Monique Carter and several vintage vendors.

Also featured will be unique bikes from the Downtown LA Bike Store.

Other Stores and Events that are Open until at least 9 and up to 10 or 11 include:

1-Man’s Trash Shoes
http://www.1mtclothing.com/
614 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90014
New Showcase for Shoes across
Street from Original Store

Gather
http://gatherla.com/
http://www.facebook.com/GatherLA
630 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Fashion, furniture, design, jewelry

Arty
634 S. Main Street
Los Angeles CA 90014
Fine art gallery
martinMARTIN
http://www.martinMARTIN.net
713 S. Los Angeles St.
Los Angeles, CA 90014
(closes early tonight)

Consignment
http://www.consignmentla.com
On Main Street at 111 W. 7th
Los Angeles CA 90014
Men’s and Women’s Vintage
Fine Collectibles

1-Man's Trash
http://www.1mtclothing.com/
111 W. 7th St. #106 (store on Main)
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Vintage inspired custom clothes
+ hard to find vintage

Fremont
www.Fremontapparelco.com
111 W. 7th St. # R1
Los Angeles CA, 90014
Four designer sample sale! Fremont,
B:Scott, Chambers and Minor Variety.
40% - 70% Off!

600 S. Spring Boutique
http://www.sixhundredla.com/
600 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Great upcoming LA Designers

Stanton James
150 W.6th Street at Spring Street

Crack Gallery
http://www.crackgallery.com/
204 W. 6th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Clothing Art Accessories

Bliss
http://www.iheartbliss.com/
204 ½ 6th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Upcoming Designers

Lexander Gallery
http://www.lexander.com
215 W. 6th St. Unit 113
LA CA 90013
Fine Art Gallery

Dialect
http://www.downtowndialect.com/
215 W. 6th #113
Los Angeles, CA 90013

ZLB
http://ww.examiner.com/affordable-fashion-in-los-angeles/denim-never-dies
215 W. 6the St. #108
Los Angeles, CA 90013
KAPSOUL
http://www.yelp.com/biz/kapsoul-los-angeles
548 S. Spring St. (store on 6th) #110
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Flea
http://www.thefleastore.com
548 Spring #112 (store on 6th St.)
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Apliiq
www.apliiq.com
548 S. Spring St. #114 (store fronts 6th St.)
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Customized Fashion

Pussy & Pooch
www.pussyandpooch.com
564 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013

SUB(URBAN)
http://www.suburban-la.com/
101 W. 5th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Designer furniture and accessories

Bolt Barbers
http://boltbarbers.com/
460 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013

CB1 Art Gallery
Spring Arts Tower
207 W. 5th Street at Spring
Los Angeles CA 90013

Elmer Ave.
www.Elmerave.Com
120 W. 4th St.
Los Angeles CA 90013

Skingraft
http://www.skingraftdesigns.com
125 W. 4th St. #102
Los Angeles CA 90013
Special in-house sale Up To 70% Off
New under $100 rack!
Just arrived Spring 2011 Collection

Blends
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Blends-Los-Angeles/231553478571#!/pages/Blends-Los-Angeles/231553478571?v=info
125 W. 5th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Nike Extravaganza!

Stelladottir
www.stelladottir.com
430 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
LA Weekly & Downtown News Clothing
Store of the Year winner!

Local Tourist
http://localtourist.biz/
450 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Latest Local Tourist Designs
and many other designers