White Boy/White Dog Move To Skid Row

Certified Beach Dude Moves To Downtown Los Angeles

This has happened a number of times in my building- dumb a** punks scribble crap with knives on the inside of the (stainless steel) doors of our elevators. Ok, I’m used to graffeti- and some is actually cool, as long as it is not defacing private property.
But what gets me pissed is the thought […]

In keeping with the new downtown blogging trend of having guest authors on blogs, I am posting (with her permission) a great piece of prose that was sent to the Higgins Building mailing list by Debbie Kim.  Debbie is a resident of the Higgins, and an “early adopter” of living downtown.  From time-to-time she will send out […]

…that does not help much when it falls (jumps?) out of an 8-story window.  This morning there was a cryptic e-mail sent to the building’s mailing list at 12:01 a.m., asking simply:
does anyone know what that was? is everyone okay? that was scary sounding…
I was curious, as we’ve had some drunks playing with fire extinguishers in […]

Due to the way the stage is set up for Groove Armada, the sound in my loft is WAY louder than the Detour Festival was.  But I like the music a lot more, so it’s cool.  When I open my windows in the corner, it sounds like “stereo” as I get sound reflections of of […]

Thanks to trainedmonkey for mentioning this site as a source of news around 2nd and Main St.  But an editorial this week by an Emmy-award winning former Fox News Reporter, Sam Hall Kaplan digs deep into what is happening on Main St. between 2nd and 3rd St - Keeping an Edge on Main Street.
For example, I […]

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 […]