Abel Weiss
- January 18, 2021
- 2 minutes Read
Carjacker Steals “Downtown News” Delivery Truck, Kills Biker Before Crashing Moments Later
Viewers watched in horror over Martin Luther King Holiday weekend as surveillance video footage showed an unsuspecting delivery driver being carjacked by an unknown assailant. Grainy video broadcasted on local…
Kellie Aldrich
- January 14, 2021
- 5 minutes Read
What in the Hell is Going On With Pershing Square?
It may be little, but oh, is it so mighty…mighty controversial. DTLA’s one-block wonder, Pershing Square, has seen a lot of life, a lot of transformation, and now a lot…
Keri Freeman
- January 12, 2021
- 2 minutes Read
Karate, Love & Basketball: Team Panasonic Gives Big Screens to Little Tokyo’s Terasaki Budokan
More big news for Terasaki Budokan (Little Tokyo Service Center) as Panasonic, a leading global technology company, together with Sakura Kokumai, the first U.S. Olympic karate qualifier, announce they are…
- January 10, 2021
- 2 minutes Read
Lion Real Estate HQ Leaves Downtown Den in Search of Suburbs
Lion Real Estate Group (‘Lion’) is a real estate investment and asset management firm focused on acquiring multifamily and creative office properties founded by Jeff Weller and Mory Barak in 2007. Lion manages 27 properties…
- January 8, 2021
- 3 minutes Read
Downtown Mourns the Passing of Tommy Lasorda
Hall of Fame Dodgers’ manager Tommy Lasorda, who spent seven decades in the Dodger organization and became one of the most memorable personalities in baseball history, passed away Thursday night the team…
- January 5, 2021
- 2 minutes Read
Hitz Foundation Launches Hero Theater’s 10 Year Nuestro Planeta – in Support of LatinX Theater & Film
Downtown L.A.’s Hero Theatre and Hero Multimedia have launched Nuestro Planeta, a ten-year multimedia new works initiative that focuses on educating Latinx film and theater audiences about environmental justice within the Americas. “Through industrialization, migration…
Caroline Platzman
- January 1, 2021
- 4 minutes Read
Music To Your Ears – Fhedesh: Welcome the Darkness
In the last days of two-thousand and twenty, Downtown Weekly accepted an invitation to visit and interview the underworld Goth artist known as Fhedesh. Once inside, we found ourselves surrounded…
- December 31, 2020
- 13 minutes Read
Downtown Appetite: 10 Greatest TakeOut Dishes of 2020
No doubt 2020 put a damper on our restaurant hospitality scene here in Downtown Los Angeles, yet, despite the closures, and toggling back in forth between outdoor dining and TakeOut,…
- December 30, 2020
- 3 minutes Read
Pastor Cue Jn Marie of Skid Row’s Church Without Walls: Just Put Up a Wall
Pastor Cue Jn Marie of Skid Row’s Church Without Walls along with hundreds of Skid Row advocates have no intention on allowing controversial Christian Worship leader, Sean Feucht to conduct…
Anahid G
- December 24, 2020
- 3 minutes Read
Monuments In Time: The Fine Arts Building
In its early days, The Fine arts Building was a hub for the Roaring 20s lifestyle of creation and merriment. The silent film industry was booming, and The Fine Arts…
- December 22, 2020
- 15 minutes Read
Downtown Appetite: 2o2o The Year In Food
Ahhhh… it’s January 2020! Waking up from last night’s New Year’s Eve celebrations, there is little doubt that 2020 is going to be OUR year. The past had been rough…
- December 19, 2020
- 3 minutes Read
DTLA Congratulates Tyrone Davis, Center Theater Group’s New Associate Artistic Director
Center Theatre Group has just announced organizational staff leader, Tyrone Davis will shift from the Education, Engagement and Community Partnerships Department into the Artistic Department. Davis’ new title is Associate Artistic Director.…
