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Bunker Hill

  • 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

  • Calendar

    September 22, 2011

    Best City Ready For Its Literary Close-up

    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 >>

  • Music

    July 15, 2010

    Brick's Picks: Abstract Truth Redux

    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

    July 10, 2009

    A Streetcar Named Downtown

    Blog Downtown's Eric Richardson alerts us to progress (well, to starts) being made to create a streetcar system for downtown L.A. The streetcars, whose tracks are scheduled to be laid in 2012, should begin operating in 2014, and will connect South Park, Bunker Hill and the business district known as ... 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

  • Film+TV

    January 31, 2008

    Murder and Madness in Racy Pre-Code Hollywood

    Getting away with it on film

  • 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

  • Art+Books

    January 24, 2002

    The Father, the Son and the Holy Cop

    Dan Fante’s Mooch and Jesse Kimbrough’s Defender of the Angels

  • 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

  • Art+Books

    January 25, 2001

    Art & Commerce

    At an intersection near you

  • Stage

    December 21, 2000

    Roll Call

    At an intersection near you

  • Art+Books

    December 14, 2000

    Scavenger Hunt

    Moseying through some of “California” at the County Museum

  • News

    April 13, 2000

    Letters

    Moseying through some of “California” at the County Museum

  • Calendar

    March 23, 2000

    Snoopy's Revenge

    Moseying through some of “California” at the County Museum

  • Film+TV

    February 3, 2000

    Dystopia, Datopia

    Southern California on film

  • 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.

  • Art+Books

    March 19, 1998

    Retro Crusader

    Julius Shulman's ode to Modernism

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