In a time, seemingly long ago, a time before the fax machine, cell phone, and Internet there was a great metropolis called Los Angeles. And this metropolis, because of its year-round pleasant weather and friendly inhabitants attracted people from all over the world who wanted to visit and in many cases move to such a [...]
December 15, 2009 – 10:59 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 [...]
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 [...]
By Stan Lerner
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Posted in Dining
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Also tagged ahi tuna, bar crawl, bottega louie, Dining, downtown la, fish restaurant, fleming's chaya, la live, mac 'n cheese, oak grill, restaurant review, rock 'n fish, salmon sandwich, sarah maxwell, stan lerner, stan lerner blog, sunday football
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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 [...]
By Stan Lerner
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Posted in Downtown Oliver Brown
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Also tagged 1100 wilshire, chinese food, crack, david kean, downtown la, downtown oliver brown, fiction blog, hiv, homeless, howard schultz, markus kwan, oliver brown, reagan republican, serialized fiction, stan lerner, stan lerner blog, starbucks, sushi, wokcano
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September 4, 2009 – 11:33 am
“If anybody would like to join the first downtownster road to nowhere road trip I’ll be leaving Thursday or Friday,” I said to the meeting of the Marketing Round Table. “I don’t know where we’re going or when we’ll get there, but that’s the idea. And uh, you could get on or off the trip [...]
By Stan Lerner
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Posted in Travel
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Also tagged andrew franco, bergmeyer furniture, bergmeyer manufacturing company, big mountain montana, break espresso, cabin on the lake, Camp JCA, cedar city, City Brew, colorado city, dora's granola, driggs idaho, Eric Abrams, flat head lake, Gary Rappaport, grand tetons, grizzly bear, idaho, kalispell, lakeside, las vegas, mexican food, mike munoz, missoula montana, montana, motel six, mountain lion, norm's news, paula greenstein, polygamy, richard zinman, road to nowhere, ruth's diner, salt lake city utah, sandy utah, stan lerner, starbucks, the economy, the egg and I, tilly feldman, Travel, travel blog, wasabi sushi, whitefish, whitefish lake, woodsmiths
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