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 [...]
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ROCK ‘N FISH – ROCKS
October 21, 2009 – 12:13 pm
Torn between readers who want stories about national topics and those who want to know what’s going on in the very happening Downtown LA always presents a conundrum for this writer. Balance being the key to most things in life and the fact that I’ve been desirous of writing about Rock ‘N Fish LA Live [...]
DOWNTOWN OLIVER BROWN AN INTERSECTION OF LOCALS
October 4, 2009 – 4:03 pm
1100 Wilshire had been an office building with no tenants before the most recent housing boom came along and made it a place that people who enjoy a sky-pool call home. Frankly, the pool at the Skyline, where I am currently borrowing a rich friend’s place, is probably the nicest in Downtown—I’ve used it once. [...]
OLIVER BROWN – HANGING WITH STRETCH
September 30, 2009 – 11:19 am
Foreword by Stan Lerner: as mentioned in a previous foreword, I’m working on the motion picture screenplay for our dear Downtown Oliver Brown, so I thought it a bit of fun to repost some of his classic adventures. Enjoy!!!
“Hey Oliver, slow down a second.”
I stopped half a block short of 7th on Flower so my [...]
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 [...]
IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME?
August 4, 2009 – 10:18 am
My writing has come to span a variety of topics. And because one can never truly know what lies beyond the next door I, on occasion, write about what was once reserved for my most personal of conversations—politics and business. You see, I admittedly have a passion for both subjects, but in the ideal sense; [...]
NO DEFENDING LA LIVE
July 24, 2009 – 4:16 pm
Funny, that hundreds of thousands of people have read my blogs either about LA Live or LA Live tenants and only two people have ever bothered to offer a comment in disagreement with the facts as I’ve presented them—that’s a pretty amazing statistic. So when the first comment of the two was submitted I had [...]
SPECIAL GUEST BARISTA
July 19, 2009 – 10:11 am
A FEW MONTHS AGO
“Another Jack and Coke,” I said, ordering my fifth drink—I try to drink minimally at Lakers’ games. “Look Ray, you have to have an espresso machine at the bakery,” I urged.
“We’re going to have coffee,” responded Ray politely. He’s from Denmark they’re polite.
“That’s great, but you have to have espresso.” I wasn’t [...]
