White Boy/White Dog Move To Skid Row

Certified Beach Dude Moves To Downtown Los Angeles

After much work and lobbying by a commitee of owners here, the building has gained “National Historic Monument” status.  In a quote from the e-mail announcing this:
“This is a moment to acknowledge the intrinsic value of our investment in this extraordinary building, and to learn about the many possibilities this prestigious status presents for us [...]

It looks like it has gone up as high as it will- now I can barely see a tip of the dome on City Hall.  I’ve seen the architectural models (early ones) and it had some triangular shape with a park in front.  I don’t see any triangle shape, but there is plenty of room [...]

Homeless issues are always hot topics downtown, at least in the media and for me as I walk my dog.  A story in today’s Los Angeles Downtown News did a good job of explaining the issues, which are many and complex.
It’s hard to make a distinction between the homeless and the beggars/panhandlers.  I have compassion [...]

I think I just spent the best $$$  ever on White Dog - I had Dave from www.walkfido.com over for 3 hours this afternoon.  I have been suffering from a pulled lumbar muscle and was ready to cancel as my back kills me, and maybe I was suffering from a little anxiety too as some [...]

Although the Detour Festival started rather slowly, it certainly finished on a high-note.  I was very lucky to have 4 tickets, so my date and I went in around 3pm, checked out the venue, and decided to go get some good sushi and saki at Takumi in Little Tokyo, then take White Dog for a [...]

The LA Weekly Detour Festival was an amazing event in my eyes, and run very smoothly, with no complaints at all from someone who lives 1 block away.
 Amazingly, at 8pm Friday night workers started to arrive to set up stages and booths, creating little turmoil on downtown streets.  I was not sure they could pull [...]

There seems to be a lot of cruelty to dogs lately, but this is so outrageous!  “Toby” the Shitzu was being drowned in the bathtub by his owner Casey Purser, for going to the bathroom inside, when a neighbor in his apartment building walked in and stopped him.  Thank goodness Ashley, the neighbor, got involved.  [...]

I am very excited to see how this event turns out on Saturday.  It’s an open-air concert 1 block from my place and last year it attracted 15,000 people - but Beck was the headliner.  This year, there are more “local bands” (which in Los Angeles is pretty damn good usually).  And Perry Ferrell’s Satellite [...]