Featured DTLA Sample Sale: Robert Rodriguez
Attention all fashionistas! Robert Rodriguez is having a sample sale this month. Get some of his hottest pieces for cheap! Located in the Cooper Building (860 S.Los Angeles St. Suite 800), this sample sale is this upcoming Friday, June 24th and Thursday, June 30th from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Designing for women of all [...]
Booze Clues: Cheap Fun & Pub Crawlin Action
Downtowners! There is awesome new adventure seeking out the best bars of Downtown LA, every Saturday in June! “Booze Clues” is a pub crawl event that pushes Downtowners to try out new and or classic bars that reside in their neighborhood. Starting out from $20 to $90 tickets, you and your friends get drink specials [...]
LA Film Festival June 16-26
LA Film Festival is back next week! Gear up for awesome indie flicks all next week cause we are going to bring you the reviews and all you need to know about the hottest films. WE ARE GIVING AWAY TICKETS!
The Last Book Store Moves
If you were worried that the Last Book Store on 4th and Main went out of business because of the recent boarded up windows, have no worry. They’ve actually grown in business and they made a big move into a larger space in the Spring Arts Building on Spring and 5th. The Last Book [...]
Vodka Bar Opening: Silo Bar on 7th
According to Eater LA, the vodka bar Silo Bar would be opening sometime this month. I took a stroll down 7th yesterday to see if it was ready to open for Artwalk Thursday. I happened to walk by when there was a meeting going on inside the unopened bar. I instinctively waved my hands frantically [...]
New Park in the Fashion District?
Want a new park in the Fashion District? The Community Redevelopment Agency of LA is applying to grant funds to build a park in the Fashion District. Come to the Park Alternatives Workshop this Saturday June 11 from 10 to 11:30AM upstairs a the Market Gallery. These workshops give us a chance to tell [...]
Hope for Firefighters Annual Fundraiser
Off Hope Street, the Hope for Firefighters fundraiser returned to DTLA today. The event featured live music, delicious meals prepared by over 25 different fire stations throughout the City, fire apparatus and demonstrations, LAFD gift merchandise booths, raffle drawings, prizes, trophies and exciting Firefighter “Muster” games where more than twenty sponsored teams will compete for [...]
Gaga Hosts Album Release Party For Fans @ Belasco Theater 5/25/11
This Wednesday night Lady Gaga will show her love for her devoted fans with a Born this Way Release Party at the Belasco Theater at 1050 S. Hill Street. Fans will be able to gain admittance by showing a valid proof of purchase of Born This Way or by purchasing the album at the door. [...]
Music Center Hosts Photo Essay Contest Under the Stars
On May 21 Active Arts at the Music Center will be displaying over a 1,000 photographs featuring A Day in the Life LA, submitted by amateur photographers across LA. Viewers can cast their vote for the best photo essay submission via text. As an amateur photographer myself, I decided to submit two photo essays for [...]
MAY @Artwalk: Crewest Gallery Celebrates 9 Years
With the fairly recent explosion street art in the art buying industry, the Crewest Gallery is “OG,” when it comes to galleries formally displaying this urban art form. Located on the brink of the Old Bank District, Crewest features a variety of underground artists seeking to expose the raw beauty of street art and graffiti. [...]
Simply Salad. Simply Delicious.
Being a FIDM student who juggles work and school, it always seems difficult for me to squeeze in a healthy lunch that’s satisfying. Devouring burgers and fries on my lunch break may sound like a good idea but always results in an unfriendly version-of-me. Simply Salad is a refreshing alternative to the food trucks and [...]
Capoeira Street Roda at May LA Artwalk
Often mistaken for break dancing or even dance fighting, Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that has never really had a place in Downtown until now. Capoeira Brasil Instructors Pavão, Chegado & Saracuru recently started teaching capoeira in the historical Blankenship Ballet Room in the Alexandria Hotel off Spring and 5th on Wednesday nights at [...]
One Love. GRAMMY Museum debuts Bob Marley exhibit
The GRAMMY Museum debuts Bob Marley, Messenger exhibit What: Housed on the Museum’s second floor, the exhibit will focus on Bob Marley as a private, spiritual man, as a powerful performer who used his lyrics to give a voice to the disenfranchised and as a legend who has inspired legions of fans in the 30 [...]
DTLA Bikes: Homegrown Fixie Frames
Almost completely hidden in the basement of a wholesale clothing store, you would never notice the small independent store DTLA bikes unless you were a biker. Only the multi-colored rims in the window of the clothing store could give it away. DTLA bikes is furnished with rims hanging from the ceilings, seats and handlebars [...]
The Verdict on Vegan Cupcakes: Babycakes NYC
Ever wonder if what a vegan baked good would taste like? Previously, I was convinced that all baked goods would be destroyed when turned “veganized.” With milk being the main ingredient in most desserts, custards, soufflés and creamy desserts are pretty much out of the question for vegans. They’re often left with cupcakes and cookies [...]
Unique LA Spring Show- A Mother’s Day Hit
In the early afternoon this past Sunday I flocked with “everyone and their mother” (no pun intended) to Unique LA’s Downtown LA Spring Show. With local clothing designers, visual artists, jewelry designers, chocolateirs, food preservationists, and some of Los Angeles’ best restaurants and independent food producers, Unique LA was great place to take take mom [...]
Lucinda Childs Dance: An Assault at UCLA Royce Hall
Lucinda Childs Dance was staged last night at Royce Hall, bringing together Phillip Glass music and Sol Lewitt video for a full-frontal assault on the audience and the performers. The performance is intelligent; Lucinda Childs makes powerful commentary of the impact that mechanization has on humanity, which unfolds through a three-part narrative structure. This is [...]
Incognito 2011 @ SMMOA
The Santa Monica Museum of Art’s annual fundraiser, Incognito 2011 lived up to it’s reputation as a unique and viable arts awareness event. Santa Monica Museum of Art’s highly anticipated annual art exhibition and benefit, INCOGNITO, returned for its seventh year on Saturday, April 30, with original works by 500 contemporary artists. From sophisticated art [...]
Quest for the Holy Grilled Cheesus
This past weekend, nestled in the lot of Film LA just North of Downtown LA’s most massive and expansive skyscrapers gathered a large group of cheese, bread and butter enthusiasts. The Grilled Cheese Invitational has a very distinct demographic and for many, the goal is to leave filled with the homey, gooey goodness of a [...]
What’s Hot for Summer: Orange Shorts in DTLA
It’s about time the “delightfully tacky yet unrefined” classic sports bar Hooter’s was incorporated into the DTLA scene. Finally! The orange shorts-wearing, finger-licking classic wing spot will live among the other sports bars in the LA Live neighborhood. What was once an abandoned auto dealership on Figueroa and Pico Blvd. is now in the process [...]
