Downtown News

Take your mittens and scarves out of the closet, strap on your skates and prepare to glide into winter.

It's the area in between star-studded Los Angeles and ultra-elite Orange County.

An issue that is of great importance to many Libertarians is ending the Fed. To that end, a group of activists is holding an "End the Fed" Rally in November.

Also taking place at the Japanese chain's restaurants in Huntington Beach, Pasadena and Valencia on different nights each week, Kabuki's "Sake Night" fall series will be hosted by Yuji Matsumoto, the only Master Sake Sommelier in America, and will showcase four different sakes served both hot and cold.

For 10 years I worked in The Times building Downtown, a block away from the historic Los Angeles gay district.

November's Downtown Art Walk comes amid new Gallery Row signs and a change in the event's leadership.

As we reported previously , Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's pro-density housing policy took a hit when the state Supreme Court ruled last month that the city could not require the kind affordable housing units it tried to attach to otherwise upscale developments like Geoff Palmer's west-of-downtown Piero II.

That project has been a looooong time coming: blogdowntown reports the group purchased the land in late 2003, and a 2004 story says just acquiring the land took two years.

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Over the weekend, Metro held the second of four community meetings on the Regional Connector, which would connect the 7th/Metro stop with the new Gold Line stop in Little Tokyo via light rail.

Dating in Los Angeles can be fun and fast. In a fast paced city like L.A. meeting several people and weeding out the most desirable from the least desirable in a short amount of time is favorable, not to mention a little adventurous.

Downtown Los Angeles is among the most densely connected telecommunication hubs in the world.

Hey folks, Harry here - ack! You know - living in Austin is pretty great. We have more than our fair share of holy shit cool screenings.

THE WILD BUNCH revolutionized cinema arts and technique and has remained a tremendous influence on some of the greatest modern directors/screenwriters worldwide.

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Alex Sanders, center, practiced with the cast during a rehearsal of the Thriller re-enactment at Lexington's Mecca dance studio.

This Wednesday, October 28, at Seven Lounge in Downtown Los Angeles will mark the fifth installation of Freedom of Beats.

The Latino Legislative Caucus and State Senator Gilbert Cedillo will host the Green Jobs Summit, El Poder Verde, in downtown Los Angeles this Thursday and Friday, October 29-30. Chairwoman Karen Douglas of the California Energy Commission will give a keynote address at an opening reception on Thursday beginning at 7:00 P.M. Other speakers will ...

A film about a trio of Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles sweatshops will be screened during the noon hour on Thursday and Monday at Lincoln Park Library in Greeley, 919 7th St.

Long-awaited dynamic changes transforming the iconic "Golden Mile" back to its glory days of luster are taking shape, and the Wilshire Corridor is once again seeing the high life.