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Downtown News Talks about Bikes

By Eric Richardson — April 18, 2005

The Downtown News snuck two articles by me in the Health Section this week. With the 2005 Bike Show coming up this weekend, Kathryn Meese takes a focus on cycling. In ”Gearing Up” we read that: This year the ninth annual expo rolls into Downtown Los Angeles April 23-24, and there will be no shortage of things to see, do and ride. Inside South Hall...


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Ventura County Star Drops Gauntlet on Coles v. Phillipe

By Eric Richardson — April 17, 2005

Now anyone who’s been to Downtown likely knows that we have two establishments which both claim to have created the french dip sandwich: Cole’s at 6th and Main, and Philippe the Original over on Alameda by Union Station. I don’t know that anyone’s going to be able to settle that debate. But today the Ventura County Star drops a new claim...


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April Art Walk Round Up

By Eric Richardson — April 15, 2005

I have to admit something up front here: my gallery count this month was a little low. It was Downtown Art Walk night this evening. I ended up spending a decent portion of the evening at Pete’s, and the pre-party this month was definitely at my place, but in the middle I did manage to catch a few galleries. The shows I caught were amazing. This month I...


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DLANC: April Board Meeting Wrap-Up

By Eric Richardson — April 13, 2005

Yesterday was the April meeting of DLANC’s Board of Directors. It wasn’t a particularly full agenda, but a few things of interest need to be highlighted here. The biggest topic of the night was the Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC), a topic on which you’ve seen a lot of discussion here. The Latino Theatre Company was well represented, even though...


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Council on LATC: Decide Later

By Eric Richardson — April 13, 2005

The issue of the LATC went before the full Council today. I’m not going to rehash anything, since you can get all that in previous posts. The motion before the Council was to receive and file the RFP, with a recommendation to reject all bids. The Council did not do that, instead choosing without objection to continue the matter until the May 4th Council...


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Gilmore to Council: Hold on a Minute

By Eric Richardson — April 13, 2005

I’ll post a more full summary of this shortly, but I wanted to get the text of developer Tom Gilmore’s public comment on today’s Council LATC item onto the web now, twenty minutes or so after he made them: Councilmembers, the RFP regarding the Los Angeles Theatre Center is once again before you, with a recommendation to receive and file. I...


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Second Meeting for Downtown Resident's Association

By Eric Richardson — April 11, 2005

Coming across the newdowntown mailing list the other day was notice that the second meeting of the Downtown Resident’s Association is tonight at 8pm. It’s being held at 727 Gallery (map). From their new yahoogroups page: Resident’s Association of Downtown LA is a grass roots organization formed in March 2005 to addres the needs of the growing...


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Catching Up on Last Week

By Eric Richardson — April 11, 2005

While I was being silent last week (not sure exactly what happened there), Celia over at 5th & Spring was posting some really good Downtown-related reads: big plans for south park I didn’t have to read between the lines of Tim Leiweke’s briefing on Wednesday to understand how LA Live will differentiate itself from all the other developments...


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Red Car Study Ready to Roll

By Eric Richardson — April 11, 2005

This week’s Downtown News also includes a short notice that a consultant has been selected for the Downtown Red Car Study. If you remember back to December, I covered the release of the RFP. Now the interesting part starts, as the consultant begins to do public outreach and look into feasibility. $100k isn’t a whole lot of money for a study, but it...


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More LATC Coverage

By Eric Richardson — April 11, 2005

Los Angeles Theatre Center

While I was gone over the weekend the Downtown News posted Jon Regardie’s article on the Los Angeles Theatre Center drama. Jon does a good job of giving an overview of the situation. This Wednesday’s full Council agenda (PDF, page 13) includes this: RECEIVE and FILE the Cultural Affairs Department (CAD) reports dated April 28, 2004 and October...