It was Monday night and like most Monday nights, most of my friends weren’t quite up to heading deeper into downtown for some nightlife. Fraternity Row was quiet; the registered party fiascos were over and one house was silently dealing with a sexual assault case (they still are). So, with nothing better to do and [...]
Author Archives: Mark Italia
The Rumble in Vegas
April 9, 2009 – 5:57 pm
Foreword by Stan Lerner: Reading Mark’s post I could not help but to think back to my first college trip to Las Vegas, which was so good I actually can’t remember it. Subsequently, Vegas became the place of some of my most illicit behavior and “Night Tribe” one of my best live shows. I hope [...]
Death of USC Student – L.A. Reality
April 1, 2009 – 8:59 pm
Foreword by Stan Lerner: Sometimes I wonder why I got myself into all of this. My life was simple I only cared about my next indulgence. Then I get a blog like the one below from a college kid that I wanted to give a chance to be heard — and it makes me wish [...]
THE LAB Gastropub – An Actual COLLEGE HANGOUT?!
March 27, 2009 – 12:45 pm
If you’ve lived in downtown for the past five years, you’ve noticed what the rest of us have been noticing…sweatshops have turned into American Apparel factories. Dilapidated theatres are remodeled into hipster hangouts. And Sizzlers are converted into gastropubs. FINALLY, on Figueroa and McCarthy Way, or right next door to the Galen Center, USC Hospitality [...]
USC Spring Break–Mammoth Mountain. You ain’t got nothin’ on Cabo
March 19, 2009 – 1:52 pm
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 [...]
