There’s just some places you should give your business to and blu la café is one of them. After a terrible few minutes at Gen Art BoxEight’s unimportant, scam fashion show I headed over to the little place next to Cole’s to see what it was about. That’s right, if you didn’t know there’s a [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Movie Review Super Capers–Good
Growing up, just how many of you wanted to be, or during “play time” pretended to be, Superman, Batman, Spiderman, the Boy Wonder Robin, or even the villainous Riddler, Joker or Pruneface? I am willing to bet, a lot of you (and that group includes both of my brothers). Let’s face it -to kids [...]
Hello Wine and Sake Lovers
Hello Wine and Sake lovers. Tonight at 5pm until 8pm I will be serving Sushi and Sake for a fun Friday night Sushi and traditional Sake at Ralph’s. Friday is a great night to start your evening festivities at Ralph’s with a little Sushi and Sake, then head out to your favorite places in town [...]
New Gallery Is A Must See
When it comes to turning a painting into a three-dimensional piece, I get a little wary. It had better be done for a damn good reason or it will always come off kitsch. Artists have tried for years and failed to turn the surface of a canvas into a sculpture with the notable exception of [...]
USC Spring Break–Mammoth Mountain. You ain’t got nothin’ on Cabo
Foreword by Stan Lerner: downtownster is for all downtownsters, so it’s with great pleasure that I post this first blog by Mark Italia who is currently a student at USC. His Spring Break reminds me a bit of my own before I got kicked out of school. Welcome aboard my boy! SPRING BREAK! WHOOO! Where [...]
VARNISH: Getting Lucky on Sixth Street
If I wasn’t such a big fan of Eric Aleperin and Sasha Petraske’s Milk and Honey and from the years I spent in New York, I would’ve written off Varnish as just another Johnny-come-lately watering hole attempting to capitalize on the speakeasy craze. Lump it in with The Edison, Seven Grand, and that place in [...]
LA LIVE’S SAINT PATRICK’S DAY MASSACRE
Okay, I didn’t work on the script, and didn’t raise the $500,000.00 I was supposed to in order to spin downtownster.com off from its’ parent company Lerner Wordsmith Press today… Sorry shareholders, but it was a SAINT PATRICK’S DAY MASSACRE and I had to get in the middle of it—and yes like all good downtownster.com [...]
St. Patrick’s Day Downtown LA Style
11:03AM Much like every St. Patty’s for the last half-decade or so, I began my morning with a nice tall pint of Guinness and proceeded to whip up a traditional Irish breakfast of Irish Baccon, Eggs, and English Muffin toast (I couldn’t find any soda bread in the neighborhood). Main Street is quiet right now, [...]
Old Bank DVD
Mark Schumacher and Erik Loyson kicked open the doors to Old Bank DVD on Christmas Eve of 2005. Both veterans of the LA’s film industry (Mark’s a Director of Photography, Eric’s a grip) they saw an opportunity in downtown’s growing Old Bank District, found a space in the same building as the downtown staple, ‘Pete’s’ [...]
Hello Wine Lovers
Well it is time to put on the green in honor of St Patrick. Green beer will be flowing around the city I fear. Green bagels already are being sold in the bakery and “Kiss Me I’m Irish Shirts are showing up all around the city. Tonight at Ralph’s from 5pm to 8pm, we will [...]
