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Bunker Hill

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2012

    Best L.A. Novel Ever: Jon Fante's Ask the Dust vs. Charles Bukowski's Post Office, Round 1

    L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading check out: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups Our first he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2012

    Grand Park Is Not L.A.'s Central Park, But It Could Become Downtown's Backyard: Our Review

    See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Best of L.A. issue and our Best of L.A. app *Fugly Buildings: Our Series on the Most Hideous Buildings in L.A. During our recent run of 95-degree autumn days -- can we be done with those? -- the last place one would think to seek relief is in ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 30, 2012

    Bunker HIll

    See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Best of L.A. issue and our Best of L.A. app *Fugly Buildings: Our Series on the Most Hideous Buildings in L.A. During our recent run of 95-degree autumn days -- can we be done with those? -- the last place one would think to seek relief is in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2012

    Grand Park's New 'Membrane Pool,' a Watery Playpen for Kids, Dogs and Billionaires

    Fountains can be found almost everywhere in downtown Los Angeles. The Department of Water and Power fortress has a sizable moat with eight sparkling backlit blasts. The pool in front of the public library has a lizard skeleton coming up for air. Even the Bunker Hill steps have a trickle of water mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2012

    Big Changes at Starry Kitchen: Temporary Shutter Movin' On Up

    Fact: Nobody does press releases like Nguyen Tran. Late afternoon Friday, the founder and proprietor of downtown's Starry Kitchen sent out a lengthy, Hunter S. Thompson-like email explaining that the popular downtown restaurant space in Bunker Hill's California Plaza would be shuttering as of July ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2012

    Los Angeles Chefs Discuss Downtown L.A. at ALOUD

    "We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares and go downtown ... everything's waiting for you!" When Petula Clark sang this line in 1964 -- albeit about New York -- who could have known she was she forecasting the future of downtown Los Angeles as a culinary destination? Numerous chefs have ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2012

    Paper-Mache Surfer Rides Los Angeles River -- Part of Ongoing Street-Art Project Downtown

    A street-art duo consisting of New York transplant Calder Greenwood and an anonymous accomplice have been leaving little paper-mache presents all over downtown L.A. They started with the now-famous sunbathers, a family of mannequins who pitched their umbrella and sunned their limbs on a dirt plot a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2012

    Can a Penny Pressing Time Machine Save L.A. Architecture?

    Los Angeles specializes in its own brand of architectural amnesia. We like to level Craftsman neighborhoods in favor of freeways and bulldoze stately Victorians in the name of "urban redevelopment." But artist Diane Meyer wants to restore the city's collective memory of our built environment -- and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2012

    More Blight-Art in Downtown L.A.: Paper-Mache Deer Spotted Grazing on Bunker Hill

    Much in the same vein as the paper-mache mannequins who recently sunbathed in an abandoned dirt plot at 1st and Broadway -- commentary on government-created blight in Los Angeles -- a family of deer has popped up in the deserted weed patch above the Metro stop at 4th and Hill. We've contacted Calde ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    Now Open: Blue Cow Kitchen & Bar

    Blue Cow, the latest project from an expanded team behind the string of Mendocino Farms sandwich shops, opened Feb. 13, bringing a brimming kitchen agenda to California Plaza. Leave it to a restaurant that comes bundled with a suite of sustainable/locavore/farm-to-table values, and an interior full ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    January 19, 2012

    L.A. Observed Preview

    Thom Andersen and others present experimental nonfiction films about Los Angeles

  • News

    August 4, 2011

    Why Brown Gave Redevelopers a Haircut

    Thom Andersen and others present experimental nonfiction films about Los Angeles

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Perch: Downtown's New Rooftop Bar [Photo Gallery]

    Guzzle & NoshPerch: a view of the lower patio from the upper patio.​ Though its planned May debut was delayed by a couple months, Perch, downtown L.A.'s newest rooftop bar is finally open. The rooftop bar takes up three floors near the corner of Fourth and Hill streets, offering lovely views ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    July 21, 2011

    Jonathan Gold Reviews Chimu

    Guzzle & NoshPerch: a view of the lower patio from the upper patio.​ Though its planned May debut was delayed by a couple months, Perch, downtown L.A.'s newest rooftop bar is finally open. The rooftop bar takes up three floors near the corner of Fourth and Hill streets, offering lovely views ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2011

    Westin Bonaventure Hotel Tour with the L.A. Urban Rangers: Great Adventure or Postmodern Dystopia?

    Sophie DuvernoyApproaching the Bonaventure from below.​ "All right! Is everyone ready for [slight, suspenseful pause] the Great Bonaventure Adventure?" asks an unusually cheery man clad in all-khaki. The resounding answer from the forty plus adventurers is yes, followed by slightly embarrasse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    Eli Broad Gets $52 Million of Your Money For Parking Garage: Thanks, L.A. City Council

    An artist's rendering of the Broad Museum.​We told you it was happening, and now it has. The cash-strapped city of L.A., which is having trouble hiring cops and keeping fire stations manned, is officially giving billionaire El Broad $52 million for a parking lot. You heard it right. The L.A. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    Today In WTF: Would-Be Robber In Lakers Uniform Gets Ass Kicked By Security Guard In Downtown Los Angeles

    ​A suspected robber dressed in a Lakers uniformed got his ass kicked by a security guard downtown but eventually got away, prompting police this week to distribute his description in an attempt to catch the low scorer. The robbery attempt at West Third and Figueroa streets in Bunker Hill was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    L.A. City Moves to Streamline Restaurant Approvals Process

    ​The City of Los Angeles announced last Thursday the implementation of the Restaurant and Hospitality Express program, designed to ease permitting headaches and shrink red tape for new restaurants, bars and grocery outlets. Developed with the input of the Central City Association, which reps L ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2010

    LAPD Commander Calls Skid Row 'Region's Biggest Drug Bazaar'

    ​Mouthing words we also have used to describe the intractable nature of Skid Row's narcotics trade, Los Angeles police Central Division commander Paul Vernon said Monday that " ... it is both ironic and tragic that the country's largest recovery area is also the region's biggest drug bazaar.'' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2009

    Mayor's Affordable Housing Plan Takes a Hit

    ​Mayor Villaraigosa's affordable housing plan could be in for some trouble. The California Supreme Court has struck down the city's plea that a developer be forced to include low-income units in his project. Yesterday's ruling, the latest and perhaps final chapter in a two-year legal battle betwee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    L.A.ndmarks: Mapping Local Scenes from '500 Days of Summer'

    It was inevitable: A movie that is purportedly as much a love song to L.A. as was Woody Allen's Manhattan to the city of the same name had to produce its own map. And now here it is, courtesy of LAist, which lists and locates 500 Days of Summer's key L.A.-centric landmarks for our viewing and drivin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2009

    Positively Second Street: L.A.'s Tunnel Vision

    The L.A Times' car-biz writer Dan Neil has a great piece on the Second Street Tunnel -- its history, going back to 1924; its schizoid appearance, depending on which end you enter, and how it's "probably the most recognizable city landmark most Americans have never heard of," having figured in films ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    February 5, 2009

    In the Wurst Way: Downtown's Wurstkuche Serves Up Bohemia on a Toasted Roll

    Sausage that demands beer

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    MOCA's New Installation: An Unemployment Line

    The news that Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art was sacking 20 percent of its staff came in the middle of a day that seemed to be raining pink slips -- first the 300 announced layoffs at the L.A. Times, as well as 500 chainwide dismissals at newspapers owned by the A.H. Belo Corp., which inclu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    Photogs Fight Back

    It's happened again. L.A. Daily reported Monday that photographer Anthony Citrano was prevented from shooting personal pictures last Friday evening at Pacific Park, supposedly a private property enclave tucked along the municipally owned Santa Monica Pier. Sunday, a local chapter of the National P ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    January 15, 2009

    Kris Morningstar's New Casa: Guac y Roll

    A mod Mexican lounge on Bunker Hill

  • Film+TV

    August 14, 2008

    Soul and the City: Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles

    A "lost" classic makes its long overdue theatrical debut

  • Film+TV

    August 14, 2008

    Exiles on Main Street: Searching for the Ghosts of Bunker Hill's Native American Past

    Resuscitated 1961 documentary recalls stark lives of L.A.'s urban Indians

  • Calendar

    August 7, 2008

    Sets and the City

    Resuscitated 1961 documentary recalls stark lives of L.A.'s urban Indians

  • News

    August 2, 2007

    A Zillion New Neighbors

    Scared by a weakening downtown, City Hall is set to obliterate zoning protections

  • News

    July 19, 2007

    Eli Broad's Grand Illusion

    While real L.A. goes begging, City Hall pours millions into a plastic promenade

  • LA Life

    July 19, 2007

    Mods & Rejects

    What to do in Los Angeles this week

  • Film+TV

    April 12, 2007

    Noir City: Los Angeles Vs. New York: The Eighth Annual Festival of Film Noir

    What to do in Los Angeles this week

  • Eat+Drink

    March 1, 2007

    Mood Indigo

    Blue Velvet’s Kris Morningstar cooks for the night

  • LA Life

    April 13, 2006

    The Lord Giveth!

    Blue Velvet’s Kris Morningstar cooks for the night

  • LA Life

    April 6, 2006

    How Bizarro

    Blue Velvet’s Kris Morningstar cooks for the night

  • Film+TV

    March 9, 2006

    Gone With the Wind

    Robert Towne’s romantic valentine to a bygone L.A.

  • Art+Books

    September 1, 2005

    Angel of Olvera Street

    The loving politics of Leo Politi

  • News

    August 12, 2004

    The Grand Illusion?

    Downtown project may need blessing of new power - residents

  • News

    April 15, 2004

    Bunkum Hill

    Over the past 50 years, the city has tried repeatedly to turn Grand Avenue into the living, breathing heart of downtown, and has failed miserably. Now, a public-private group led by Eli Broad is trying again — with the emphasis on private

  • Columns

    November 6, 2003

    Experiencing Disney Hall

    Over the past 50 years, the city has tried repeatedly to turn Grand Avenue into the living, breathing heart of downtown, and has failed miserably. Now, a public-private group led by Eli Broad is trying again — with the emphasis on private

  • News

    July 3, 2003

    The Swinging Door

    A new council, rich lobbyists and a sheriff who doesn’t want to leave

  • News

    January 3, 2002

    L.A. Rising

    The five best new buildings

  • News

    September 20, 2001

    Remains of the Day

    The five best new buildings

  • News

    May 24, 2001

    Off My Back

    'Shirts' and homeless battle over the sidewalks of America

  • Stage

    December 21, 2000

    Roll Call

    'Shirts' and homeless battle over the sidewalks of America

  • News

    April 13, 2000

    Letters

    'Shirts' and homeless battle over the sidewalks of America

  • Calendar

    March 23, 2000

    Snoopy's Revenge

    'Shirts' and homeless battle over the sidewalks of America

  • News

    September 9, 1999

    Cracked!

    The Disaster Waiting To Happen Inside L.A.'s Steel-Frame Towers

  • News

    October 1, 1998

    Early Morning Sunset Smells

    Suzy Beal sniffs the boulevard from downtown to the 405, then gives up.

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