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Another View of DLANC: There's a Lot of Good

By Eric Richardson — January 14, 2005

Now available in the January 17th issue of the Downtown News is an opinion piece I wrote. They titled it "Another View of Downtown's Neighborhood Council: Board Member Says a Lot Is Going Right With DLANC" This is a response to last week's article, "Success and Growing Pains." I was excited when I picked up a copy of the Jan. 10 issue of the Los Angeles...


Imaginary Buildings

By Eric Richardson — January 14, 2005

During the course of my normal news reading I came across this press release a few days ago. It advertises "Olive Street Tower," which it claims will, undoubtedly become a landmark within the Los Angeles area, projecting into the ever evolving Pacific basin. Well, maybe, if anyone ever intended to build it...


Art Walk: Part Two

By Eric Richardson — January 14, 2005
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So after resting my legs a little at my apartment I headed back out. On this leg I hit Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, 626 Gallery, Gallery 727, and Milla Angelina Gallery. That made seven galleries for the day, and yet I didn't hit anywhere near all of them. There are too many these days; I can't keep up.


Art Walk: Part One

By Eric Richardson — January 13, 2005

Once classes got out today I figured I would catch some of the more southern Downtown Art Walk destinations on my way back home. I'll be walking around to more places around here in just a bit, but I wanted to take a second to give my impressions from sixspace and Downtown Art Gallery.


Welcome to blogdowntown

By Eric Richardson — January 13, 2005
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I moved Downtown in May, 2004. Since then I've spent a lot of time writing about Downtown Los Angeles, and people have started coming to my blog as a site for info about what's going on there. Eventually I decided that I should probably really have two blogs: one for Downtown stuff and one for whatever else I'm thinking about. And that's exactly what I've...


Sales Tax and the NCs

By Eric Richardson — January 13, 2005

I missed yesterday that the Daily News had printed a piece on how the proposed city sales tax to pay for cops has been presented to neighborhood councils. We just addressed this issue at the DLANC board meeting on Tuesday. A representative from LAPD was there (I can't remember his name... I'm bad at those) and presented, and he was introduced by a girl from...


The Pricey Side of Town

By Eric Richardson — January 12, 2005
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The LA Business Journal (whose website is now much more useful, thanks to more free articles) has a great piece today on the downtown housing market. You sort of know this stuff, but sometimes it doesn't really hit you over the head until you see it in black and white: Resale asking prices at the Flower Street Lofts near Staples Center are higher on a...


Blue Skies

By Eric Richardson — January 11, 2005

I got woken up this morning by something strange shining into my room. I was confused, and then realized it was the sun. But this wasn't just the sun peeking out from behind a cloud: this was the sun shining through a blue sky that you only get out here after a lot of rain. If it weren't my first day of classes, this is the day when I would start calling...


The Buildings Have No Tops

By Eric Richardson — January 10, 2005
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The weather forecast tells me that we're going to get sun this week, but the view out my window gives no hints in that direction. I opened up the windows this morning to listen to the sound of waterfalls cascading off of nearby buildings and down into the alley. In a little bit I need to make my way out to go make an ATM deposit, but it looks pretty quiet...


DLANC: Is All Press Good Press?

By Eric Richardson — January 08, 2005
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The new issue of the Downtown News is out, and the lead story (at least online... I haven't picked up a paper copy yet) is titled "Success and Growing Pains: The Downtown Neighborhood Council Learns That It's Hard to Escape the Politics." At first I wanted to blast the piece as negative to DLANC, but I'm not going to do that. It's not really a bad piece...