The legendary “rolling wine bar” at Ralph’s market downtown has been reactivated from time to time in 2010 by its superlative host Mike Berger, like a rock star dropping in unexpectedly to play a stunning set of live music unbilled. This week Mr. Berger is announcing two winery-themed tastings: tonight, Wednesday the 14th, and [...]
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The Extraordinary Case Of Mike Berger
December 25, 2009 – 12:05 pm
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 [...]
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 [...]
Poets on the Corner of 5th and Main
August 26, 2009 – 12:56 pm
On Thursday, August 27th, at eight- o’clock, The Third Area presents the last poetry reading of the summer at Pharmaka gallery on the corner of 5th and Main. This is an extraordinary opportunity for readers to get a dose of vital and utterly current poetry read by the top notch poets themselves, in a setting [...]
