Los Angeles officials announced a new program today where parking prices at curbside and city lot meters in Downtown L.A. will rise and fall based on the demand for spaces. more ›

As Angelenos rush to finish their taxes today -- Tax Day -- they will not be able to rush through Downtown Los Angeles during lunchtime. Over 1,000 people will march in protest of corporate tax dodgers beginning at noon. Locals may have already spotted banners hanging from Downtown overpasses and activists at Downtown intersections during their morning commutes, and the march is expected to cause serious traffic delays and rolling street closures. more ›

Marriott International executives and two investment groups announced today that they are ready to break ground on a $172 million, 23-story building that will house two Marriott hotels in Downtown Los Angeles. more ›

Five of the best local writers converged upon The Last Bookstore on Saturday evening to read selections from their favorite noir. The Last Bookstore, since its move to the corner of Fifth and Spring streets earlier this year, has established itself as a center for all things literary in Los Angeles. more ›

Downtown L.A. residents are an inspiring bunch. According to an infographic released today as part of 2011's DTLA Demographic Study, the 'hood boasts young, smart, professional, pet-loving dames and dudes. more ›

DTLA's July Art Walk experienced the tragic death of an infant boy, spurring protests and petitions demanding the city shut down traffic during the Art Walk hours. While the city has not complied with street closures, City Councilmembers José Huizar and Jan Perry are unveiling new policies to ensure safety during the monthly event. more ›

The Levi's Film Workshop is on location this summer at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in downtown Los Angeles. Starting this past Sunday, filmmakers have access to screenings, equipment rentals, and state of the art editing equipment through the workshop. The screenings include the world premiere of Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a 3D documentary focused on cave paintings in the South of France; it premieres next Saturday at the Natural History Museum downtown. more ›

"It will be paid for by the private sector Mayor, I promise.” And so Anschutz Entertainment Group President and CEO Tim Leiweke opened his remarks announcing the 30-year partnership with Farmers Insurance for the naming rights of the proposed football stadium in Downtown Los Angeles. “And I want to repeat that because some people don't seem to get this. This is about the community that it will be paid for completely, privately, I promise.” more ›

For the last few years Angelenos have seen the transformation of the LA Live area downtown. Looming overhead, a mosaic of glass windows were installed onto The Ritz-Carlton tower in a series of blue tones. Earlier this year, The Ritz-Carlton hotel and condos opened their doors to guests and residents. LAist was invited to take a peek inside to find out what it's is really like to live large in Downtown LA. more ›

Downtown at the corner of 9th and Hope a large billboard shows a Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn pointing at the LA home of Project Runway, the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM). Outside the gates food trucks park to offer up lunch options (Last Friday we spotted The Manila Machine, The Dim Sum Truck and The Patty Wagon). Inside the gates you will find fashion students bustling about. The current exhibit in the FIDM Gallery features dioramas of costumes from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. more ›

Thursday night's Art Walk had throngs of art lovers, food truck lovers and scene-loving Angelenos pack Downtown's art galleries and restaurants. more ›

At The Edison’s ice-skating and whiskey-swilling Repeal Day and holiday celebration last Saturday, all of the elements needed for some White Christmas-style cheer were in place: the drinks, the sweets, the rental ice skates and Christmas lights. And of course, whiskey. more ›

A view of Tokyo from the 52nd floor of the Mori Building next to a view looking South from the 13th floor penthouse of the California Market Center in downtown LA. more ›

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How do you insure that you will never show up to a party to find someone wearing the same dress? Buy vintage. In Los Angeles we have loads of choices for finding fun vintage clothes. We had heard of Shareen's but never had a chance to shop there. Then one day a friend suggested a trip to Shareen's instead of lunch. So we drove off through the warehouse district downtown to find it. more ›

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Several hundred people squared off in Pershing Square yesterday to help celebrate International Pillowfight Day. LAist brought you a wonderful photo essay on the event last night. And since about 500 of the 300 people at the pillowfight had cameras, I suspect these aren't the last photos you will be seeing from the event. more ›

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Local independent dance artist Liz Hoefner has directed and choreographed Fear of Drowning/Fear of Flying and will present its premiere this Friday through Sunday at the Diavolo Dance Space in the Brewery Arts Complex. According to her, the new dance theater work is a collection of stories, dialogues and dances that relate to actual and metaphorical fears of traveling, flying, drowning and dying in a post 9/11, tsunami, and Hurricane Katrina world. The cast of eight dancers, five actors and two musicians will explore the origins of fear in comic and tragic dance theater. more ›

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A reader submitted a question last week about pigeons in Downtown:

pigeons droppings are a major nuisance and a health hazard here in downtown LA, where people keep feeding the birds. Please let me know if there is an ordinance against that, and as a private citizen where does one go to enforce it. Thank you.

The 4th St. bridge and 3rd Street is closed between Alameda and Central due to an explosion at 637 E. 3rd St. Unknown in nature at this point, the explosion left one LAPD officer with minor injuries who was transported to the hospital. Another officer in the patrol car was not hurt. more ›

Downtown Los Angeles is fast becoming one of the city's new "it" places to set up a permanent address and play house. But a new worry is plaguing residents of the high-rises and converted lofts that dot the one-way streets of LA's civic center: What happens when we have kids? more ›

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Even more restaurant news is coming down the wire -- earlier today, we checked out some early reports on Bond St in Beverly Hills, and now we hear that developers The Valencia Group will be transforming Downtown's historic Union Bank building into The Union Restaurant & Lounge (it's all about the restaurant-slash-lounge concept nowadays, isn't it?). So, yes, Downtown will have another fancy-schmancy dining space; the website is promising "2 Floors of Entertainment, Upscale Dinning [sic] and Cocktail Bar, The Vault Lounge & Bar." more ›

With exactly three weeks to go until the Tuesday of Destiny, John Edwards will stop by Los Angeles tomorrow. Though he has to stand on 37 crates to equal Sen. Hillary Clinton's footing in California, according to the latest L.A. Times/CNN/Politico California poll, John Edwards will visit the city to stump for votes and reinforce his standing as a man of the people. more ›