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The Daily News reports that the CLA’s office recommends Latino Theatre Company as operator of the Los Angeles Theater Center. This is an issue that’s dragged on for a long, long time and even just my coverage of this latest round has comprised quite a number of posts. At the bottom of this post I’ll try and put together a timeline of what I...

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You Learn New Things In Random Places

By Eric Richardson — December 17, 2005
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Sometimes we learn our history lessons in very odd ways. For instance: until yesterday I didn’t know that the last Pershing Square redesign (the current one) was done in 1994. I learned that from a large photo of Downtown hanging in a Clark’s shoe store in the Sherman Oaks Fashion Square mall. Kathy was trying on a pair of shoes, and I got to looking...

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Another Shining Light in the City

By Eric Richardson — December 15, 2005
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The last two nights I’ve noticed the Lindbergh Beacon lit atop City Hall. I don’t know if there’s some special occasion that makes them slip the switch this time of year, but on this date in 2002 I noticed it lit (after also seeing it two days earlier. It seems that in the early 1900s Lindbergh Beacons were the thing to have. We commissioned...

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Still Feeling All Lit Up

By Eric Richardson — December 14, 2005
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I’m in Day 3 of my saga trying to find out the permit information for the shoot that’s lighting my apartment every night. To briefly recap, I called the EIDC Monday and was told I would be called back. I wasn’t. Tuesday I called back and was told they couldn’t find me in the call log. The girl took down my information and told me that...

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Now That's Good Journalism

By Eric Richardson — December 14, 2005
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I hereby present my nomination for the year’s most pointless AP article: LOS ANGELES A fire erupted today in an elevator car in an old downtown building of Los Angeles. Fire Department spokesman Ron Myers says firefighters found heavy smoke rising from the top floor and located the blaze in the elevator between the 11th and 12th floors. Myers says...

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Land of the Eternal Sun

By Eric Richardson — December 12, 2005
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For the third night in a row there’s a light shining in my bedroom window, and I have Hollywood to thank for it. Some production is shooting at the Palace Theater, in the upper floor office space. Apparently it’s supposed to be day time in their interior shots, because they’ve spent the last few nights blasting light onto surrounding buildings...

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One Spot, Two Shots

By Eric Richardson — December 12, 2005

These two shots were both taken on Grand Ave, just north of 6th. The left image is from last Sunday, the right from this one. I think it came out kind of cool. I love when LA gets fun clouds. Of course my images have nothing on the Disney Hall mosaic that hexod.us did back in September. And, as always, if you’re taking pictures of life Downtown I’...

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Some Good Music at Pershing Square

By Eric Richardson — December 12, 2005

I don’t normally try an hype events this far in advance, but on Thursday, January 6th, local musician Jay Nash plays the noon show at Pershing Square. I’ll be honest, most of the lineup at Pershing Square isn’t all that appealing to me, but I’ll definitely be there for this one. I met Jay a while back and have heard him play a few times...

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Broadway Exchange Features Commercial Condo Space

By Eric Richardson — December 09, 2005
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I finally got around to reading a Public Hearing Notice that had come in the mail a bit ago and found that it is for the Broadway Exchange Building. It’s been known for quite a while now that the former Bank of Italy building was going condo, but it’s interesting to see in the notice that they’re planning one “commercial condominium unit...

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Eye In the Sky

By Eric Richardson — December 08, 2005
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Microsoft launched its Virtual Earth back in the summer as an answer to Google’s immensely cool Google Maps. The MSN user interface was a little bit less simple to my eye, but the cool thing was that their aerial imagery of Downtown far surpassed the quality of Google’s. Now Microsoft has rebranded their service as Windows Live Local and added &...