Dan Johnson

Former cocktail bar and blues club the Menlo

R.I.P. the Menlo Club, One of L.A.'s Last Old-School Blues Joints

Like many of L.A.'s oldest neighborhoods, Exposition Park is changing fast. The one-time site of a race track is now the light-rail accessible home to a space shuttle and (temporarily) a pro football team. A new soccer stadium and the Fig, a proposed mixed-use complex at 39th and Figueroa, foretell......
Five Star Bar

A Punk-Rock Guide to Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles is punk ground zero. Long before today’s heyday of loft living, the city center's cheap real estate, grimy nightlife and prevailing devil-may-care attitude made it the perfect incubator for L.A.’s early punk movement. Times have changed, but downtown's punk spirit lives on — especially this weekend, when......