FOREWORD BY STAN LERNER: downtownster does not celebrate its first birthday until February, but I still feel compelled to post the TEN BEST downtownster blogs of 2009. And while I think all of our blogs have been great, these are the ones that readers read the most and gave us the highest level of props [...]
Author Archives: Alec Silverman
Scenes From The DFFLA
September 9, 2009 – 8:38 pm
Foreword by Stan Lerner: before I embarked on the “Road To Nowhere” I left the trusty Alec Silverman to record for all of us the last half of the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival. Upon my recent return to Los Angeles he proffered the following account.
Well, I got in on the tail-end at the periphery [...]
More Short Short Fiction of Catherine Coan
August 31, 2009 – 11:30 pm
One thing I found surprising about Catherine Coan’s short short stories was the variety of voices and writing styles therein. I, on the other hand, seem to write “…all one, ever the same and keep invention in a noted weed…”, if I may quote the English language’s most famous sonneteer. The next surprise came in [...]
Goodbye, Wine Lovers
August 25, 2009 – 8:33 am
The last days of great wine tasting are this week at Ralphs downtown. Don’t miss it or you’ll never be able to say to your grandchildren that you were there. That you had Mike Berger personally pour your wine; that you met the “whole sick crew” of regulars who later became legendary for their association [...]
Grade School Memories ─ Dogbite
August 24, 2009 – 10:01 am
For Diane Schneider McArdle
At Colfax Avenue Elementary School in North Hollywood I had Mrs. Grover as my fifth-grade teacher. Mrs. Grover was the most elderly, in appearance, of anyone who taught me before college with her fully grey head of thick hair and her leathery pruned face and old fashioned eyeglasses. She was very alert [...]
Got More Poetry
August 17, 2009 – 12:15 pm
A reminder to poetry lovers, Pharmaka has “The Third Area” poetry reading featuring four poets with wine and noshes on Thursday, August 27th. Below the info are two poems new to downtownster by famous Persian poets.
Pharmaka Gallery
101 West 5th Street (corner of 5th and main)
Los Angeles
(213) 689-7999
“The Third Area” poetry reading series at Pharmaka takes [...]
Artwalkin’ with Stan ’n’ Al
August 14, 2009 – 6:23 pm
This morning I am writing in pain. That’s better than writhing in pain, but in this case, they are not far apart. I was involved in a single-pedestrian accident on the sidewalk in front of Arty gallery last night. The official report states that alcohol was not a contributing factor. The victim had a blood-alcohol [...]
Wine ─ To the Corps!
July 28, 2009 – 1:06 pm
The downtownster faithful have no doubt noticed the absence of “Hello Wne Lovers” of late. Our champion of the corkscrew and wine glass, Mike Berger, has been called into even more pressing service at Ralphs downtown than his usual 60-hour workweek and apparently he has to blog on his own time. Since he has so [...]
