Police say that the naked, yelling and wildly gesticulating guy who climbed all the way up a tower in downtown Los Angeles and stayed there for six hours only agreed to come down once his demand for McDonald's hamburgers was met. more ›

A naked man climbed to the top of a tower in downtown this afternoon. Witnesses said not only is he naked but he's been gesticulating wildly and yelling. An LAPD spokesman confirms with City News Service that, yeah, the man might be "mentally unstable" and he's threatening to jump. more ›

Lords and Ladies of Los Angeles, prepare to feast and fall back a few hundred years in time at a new theme restaurant opening in Downtown, right across from "ye olde Staples Center," as Grub Street L.A. puts it. more ›

A suspect the Los Angeles Police Department have dubbed the "Civic Center Slapper" has "struck again," say authorities. The LAPD describes an incident from the evening of January 27, when a 51-year-old victim who works as a US attorney was walking near Aliso and Alameda streets in the vicinity of the Federal Building. more ›

Has the comfort food bubble burst, or is this restaurant closing story just another case of landlord-tenant strife? The latter seems to be the case when it comes to the impending shutter of Mac & Cheeza, the Downtown eatery that specialized in macaroni and cheese. more ›

Two robbers were thwarted last night in downtown when a woman they were trying to steal a necklace from fought back, reports City News Service. The incident happened near Seventh and Maple Streets. The two young men, 18-year-old David Ramirez, of Downey and a 17-year-old from South Los Angeles whose name hasn't been released, allegedly tried to grab the 25-year-old woman's jewelry from her neck. more ›

Downtown drivers, prepare for a few obstacles this morning. A Philadelphia-based healthcare reform group will march and rally starting at 11am to "Occupy Anthem Blue Cross." Healthcare-Now!, a volunteer group organizing for a national single-taxpayer healthcare system, will march in support of SB 810, a Sacramento bill dubbed the California Universal Healthcare Act. more ›

Statistics released by local law enforcement agencies show that crime in Los Angeles and the county is on the decline — paralleling the nationwide declines in crime. more ›

Good news, uber-trendy hotel aficionados -- soon you won't have to travel all the way to Palm Springs to get a taste of the Ace Hotel. The hospitality company just bought the old United Artists building in downtown, and plans to open their first L.A. boutique there. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the hotel will resurrect and feature prominently a movie theater that was used for premieres in the early to mid 20th century. more ›

After about four years of closure, the historic First Street Bridge has finally reopened as of last Thursday. Los Angeles city officials will gather on the viaduct in celebration Tuesday morning. Closed to accommodate the construction of the Metro Gold Line extension to East L.A., the 82-year-old bridge is one of the L.A. River spans linking Boyle Heights to downtown L.A. more ›

Hopefully you saved those 3D glasses from the last big megaplex blockbuster movie you saw, because you'll want to grab them to check out this cool set of photos taken by Abby Wilcox for Live Fast that let you see Downtown LA in a whole different way. more ›

There are some great lunches to be had in this town, and we want to celebrate the midday meal. So, let's do lunch, shall we? Today we consider the sandwich thanks to Mendocino Farms. more ›

Vista Hermosa means “beautiful view” in Spanish, and on clear days, that’s just what this park provides. When the ten-acre park opened in 2008, it was the first new park in downtown Los Angeles in more than one hundred years. more ›

Downtown Los Angeles, including Art Walk and Little Tokyo, get the time lapse treatment in this beautiful, almost zen-like short video. more ›

Devil’s Night Drive-In, a monthly downtown movie experience set atop a parking garage, is perhaps your best excuse yet to brave the onslaught of an upcoming autumn night. Whereas other Los Angeles outdoor film screening events pack up almost entirely by Labor Day, Devil’s Night is a year-round affair. more ›

It's a good question, considering the proposed Los Angeles Downtown Streetcar is (slowly) on its way to becoming a reality. A recent study has determined that opening month ridership for the public transit project will be between 6,610 and 8,390 riders daily, and those numbers have local leaders supporting the streetcar very encouraged. more ›

A runner participating in Sunday's Los Angeles Rock 'n' Roll half-marathon in Downtown Los Angeles collapsed and died ahead of the finish line. He has been identified as 37-year-old Charles Whitmore Riske of Costa Mesa, L.A. Now reports. more ›

As the Occupy LA movement continues to bring us face to face with some of the most serious issues plaguing our city today, at least all sides can agree that we could use a good laugh. With that in mind, stand up comic Josh Androsky is hoping to bring some levity (and a bullhorn) to the south steps of City Hall with an open-air comedy show tonight at 5:30pm. more ›

Last Thursday, October 13, street activist LEBA and his groups of helping hands released 1,700 balloons into the downtown Los Angeles sky from the rooftops of five of Gallery Row's tallest buildings. The display, dubbed Project: Remember, aimed to provide the fallen soldiers of Afghanistan with a voice via public art. Each balloon was lit and tagged with the name of a late soldier. more ›

Jimmy Kimmel sent Hollywood Boulevard Chewbacca to "Wookie-py" L.A. and interview some of the folks camped out at Occupy Los Angeles at City Hall. He pokes fun gently at protesters. One of them blows a horn that sounds like a Wookie roar and another is wearing a pair of denim cut-offs that would make Tobias Funke proud. more ›

L.A. street activist LEBA will take his current social awareness mission to the sky on Thursday, October 13, at 7pm. Armed with 1,700 balloons, LEBA and five volunteer groups will release the balloons from the rooftops of five of Gallery Row's tallest buildings in downtown L.A. more ›

Anschutz Entertainment Group isn't the only big winner from a pair of bills Governor Jerry Brown signed on Tuesday that fast-tracks any lawsuits against the proposed downtown stadium. Supporters of the slow-going subway to the Westside believe these bills could help them out, too, according to The Daily News. more ›

Things are heating up at Clifton's Cafeteria in Downtown, but the kitchen is closed for now. As part of their long-term plans for renovating and updating the classic, kitschy restaurant, this week Clifton's closed down for what they anticipate will be a three to six month stretch. more ›

Brace yourselves, loft dwellers: there's not going to be a downtown Trader Joe's in the near future. If you want shrink-wrapped veggies and Charles Shaw wine, you're going to have to continue hiking up to Silver Lake or Pasadena for your fix. more ›

What better day than Park[ing] Day L.A. for Los Angeles City Council members Jan Perry and Jose Huizar to introduce a motion calling for a set of mini public green spaces called "parklets" in Downtown and Northeast Los Angeles? more ›

Another day, another suspicious package grinding our daily activities to a halt here in Los Angeles. This morning's culprit was a package found at about 8 this morning at the federal building in Downtown. more ›

Check out the hustle and bustle of L.A.'s "575,000 souls" in the retail district, shopping for curious wares from the Orient, chugging up Bunker Hill on Angels Flight, and riding their horseless carriages through Downtown's tunnels in this film from 1917. more ›

The end is near for downtown's Metropolis Book Store, a pioneer on Main Street when it opened in 2006, that will finish its last chapter at the end of this month. Don't blame Kindle and Amazon for this bookstore shuttering — owner Julie Swayze said she's closing the store to focus on caring for a sick family member. more ›

At least six activists demanding an end to the Secure Communities immigration enforcement program were arrested on Wednesday, while staging a sit-in at the Edward R. Roybal federal building downtown. Outside there were nearly 200 supporters protesting outside of the federal building where immigrants are prepared for deportation. Some protestors blocked a ramp used by immigration buses, according to the Los Angeles Times. more ›

In an effort to improve the parking situation downtown, transportation officials have created an experimental "dynamic pricing" program called ExpressPark. The pilot program, approved Friday by the City Council, "seeks to impose some logic and radically change the way meter prices are set for more than 500,000 people who work or shop each day in the city's center," according to the L.A. Times. more ›