The Los Angeles Book Festival named “Sweet Mary” by two time Pulitzer Prize Winner Liz Balmaseda its 2010 Grand Prize Winner—congratulations Liz! My novel “Stan Lerner’s Criminal”, as it did at the London Book Festival received the First Honorable Mention. So “Criminal” has now won the Grand Prize at the Hollywood Book Festival and received [...]
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NO ENCORE FOR OLIVER
December 11, 2009 – 1:23 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 [...]
DINNER AND A MOVIE – DOWNTOWN!!!
November 23, 2009 – 3:05 pm
I once went to Vegas for a weekend and stayed for a year—that would be 2003 to 2004 the year of “Stan Lerner’s Night Tribe” at the Rio, oh what a year.
My most recent 30 straight days of partying and blogging in Sin City, well a teaser by my own standards. And while I was [...]
A BLAST FROM THE PAST IN LAS VEGAS – NOT EXACTLY
November 9, 2009 – 5:41 pm
“So you’re in Vegas staying at Fat Andy’s house?” asked Norm Rosenstein, my accountant, whom I put in charge of all of my former business interests from way back in my empire building years of insanity.
“Yeah, he has an extra bedroom,” I responded…Norm usually gives me the business about my lack of interest in the [...]
MICHAEL JACKSON – THIS IS IT
October 29, 2009 – 4:01 pm
Foreword by Stan Lerner: in general blogs about Sin City / Las Vegas should read fast and fun. This blog won’t, because Michael Jackson “This Is It” is a brilliant film born from an incredible loss to the world—the musical genius of Michael Jackson.
This story, for me, begins with a text message on my iphone [...]
PRIVE, TAO, NOIR – LAS VEGAS GRAND SLAM
October 27, 2009 – 3:42 pm
Foreword by Stan Lerner: WARNING! this blog is a sexual escapade. If you are offended by promiscuity do not read any further. And for my readers who demanded some Downtown Oliver Brown salacious behavior you owe me because this really tired me out.
Roxy wanted to go to dinner—and I was confident that I could squeeze [...]
PRIVE – LAS VEGAS
October 26, 2009 – 1:42 am
Before there was Prive Las Vegas, there was lunch at Country Club at the Wynn. And this little event disserves some recollection—not easy since I got in at 7:00 this morning and I have to recollect something from 48 hours ago. First, given the thousand room nights I’ve logged at the Wynn / Wynn Tower [...]
TAO – NIGHTCLUB
October 24, 2009 – 3:08 pm
I think I mentioned last week that I had a great dinner at Tao. What I didn’t mention was that on this one night little Vegas excursion with James Westbrook, Hollywood deal maker extraordinaire, that good old (he’s not actually old) Jessie Gibson plopped down and joined us for some vittles. Jessie “James” VIP Host [...]
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 [...]
PALAZZO
October 18, 2009 – 4:54 pm
Why in the middle of writing a script, “Downtown Oliver Brown”, I would hop into James’ Hummer and road trip to Vegas I don’t know. I miss the “Road To Nowhere”, gypsy, just irresponsible, need change of scenery, all of the above—whatever, I’m in Vegas.
So why not a travel blog? This qualifies as work. But [...]
