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oops

By Eric Richardson — December 11, 2004

From a little blurb in the Downtown News about Ed Reyes getting appointed to the MTA board: The MTA oversees more than 73 miles of bus and railroad lines in Los Angeles County. That 73 miles is just about right for rail, but since what they wrote includes bus – well, there’s only so much you can include in “more than”. According to...


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art walk wrapup

By Eric Richardson — December 10, 2004

Yesterday’s Downtown Art Walk was great. If you missed it definitely plan to make the rounds next time, on January 13th. I started my walk a little around 5:45pm, when I looked at the map one final time and headed for #3, the M.J. Higgins gallery in the former Inshallah building. As with several other galleries this go ‘round, they’re very...


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the fine line between spam and not spam

By Eric Richardson — December 10, 2004

I got a mass campaign email from mayoral candidate Bernard Parks yesterday. It was announcing the opening of his new campaign headquarters, to take place Saturday. I was going to write a post about how I didn’t sign up to get emailed, and wonder how he got my address, but then I realized it’s listed on the DLANC contacts page. I’m guessing they...


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blockbusters and borders, all via the red line

By Eric Richardson — December 09, 2004

Real quick before I pop out to the Art Walk… Today in less than two hours I successfully took the subway to two Blockbusters and to a Borders, where I bought a book I’d been looking for. I left my apartment at 3:25 and walked over to 5th/Hill. There I caught the N. Hollywood red line, and took that to Hollywood/Western. Walked upstairs, crossed Hollywood...


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december downtown art walk

By Eric Richardson — December 09, 2004

This month’s Downtown Art Walk is tonight, and is definitely worth checking out. Last month I got around to 5 or 6 galleries, and I’m planning to hit up a few more tonight. To me the coolest thing looking at that map is to see the amazing concentration of galleries opening up just north of me. Look at what 5th street is becoming right there. And...


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Downtown: Red Car RFP

By Eric Richardson — December 06, 2004

CRA/LA (Community Redevelopment Agency) just posted the RFP (Request for Proposals) for their downtown Red Car study. Basically, this is will be a $100,000 study to “provide recommended development approaches for the resurrection of downtown red car trolley services.” The RFP going out means that the study is about eight months away from completion...


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ah, promises*

By Eric Richardson — December 03, 2004

So I haven’t watched last night’s debate yet – I went to sleep at 4pm yesterday and didn’t wake up until 9am this morning. I did tivo it, so I’m planning to check it out this evening. That said, I saw an interesting tidbit in today’s LA Times coverage. Villaraigosa, who represents an East Los Angeles council district, said...


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ice skating downtown

By Eric Richardson — November 26, 2004

The rink’s little: I think 50x30 or so. But it is outside at Pershing Square, and that’s a juxtaposition that still seems pretty odd. It took me a little while to get a basic feel back for not making a fool of myself, but I think I ended up ok in that regard. Kathy, despite growing up in Michigan, has never ice skated much, but she showed definite...


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Eastside gets funding

By Eric Richardson — November 24, 2004

Nice to see this morning that the eastside Gold Line extension got its funding passed in Congress. I haven’t looked at the design docs much, but here’s to hoping they’ve learned a lot from dealing with the South Pasadena folks and can actually make a line this time that doesn’t slow to a crawl for half the time.


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Newsflash: LA Times like cars

By Eric Richardson — November 23, 2004

I read ”Lunch in L.A.? Car Beats Train as Meal Ticket” in today’s LA Times and thought pretty much the same things Will Campbell did. He posted his thoughts on blogging.la, while I contented myself to just sort of scoff and move on. But here I am, commenting… The author of the article has ticket machine problems. I’ve never had...