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Top Ten Things To Wake Up to on Monday, August 8.

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Top Ten Things you may be waking up to after a long Downtown Weekend hangover.

10: You are  in a tilt-shift world.

Patient tilt-shift photographers share their work, and in the Vimeo comments share their technique.

9: Had a strange vision of goats eating grass on a downtown knoll.

You did, and downtowners love them.

8: You saw GAP dressing their outfit in American Apparel

San Francisco-based GAP becomes Downtown L.A. hipster for GAP 1969 Jeans.

7:Realizing you were lucky not to be on this street corner.

There was a hit and run at 7th and Hill.

6: Finding out a-not-rave at not-a -cornfield was not a good time for everyone.

Hard Summer music festival nets a dozen arrests. LAFD reports 31 people needed emergency medical services.

5: You find out what happened to some old street cars. They sleep with the fishes.

And you thought the tale of a transportation system allegedly whacked by special interests was just a plot line for a toon.

4: Find out there will be have to cancel your plans to have lunch today at a French cafe located on Main and Spring.

3: The downtown greenspace you have been asking for is vunerable to neglect.

Spring Street Park and caretakers of the lawn at LAPD headquarters may want to think about hiring goats to solve landscape labor issues.

2: Reminding yourself your upcoming weekend starts early. It's time for Art Walk.

1: And you wake up to find out Frank McCourt is still with the Dodgers.

Aug 1: Top Ten Things to wake up to after a Downtown Weekend Hangover

 

Angelenos, incuding Friends of the L.A. River,  tip Conan O'Brien that volunteering on behalf of the City can earn him his own street sign.

10: Villaraigosa responds to Conan O'Brien's request for street to be named after him. Maybe O'Brien should have asked for a corner. Conan O'Brien Square anyone?

9: In Skid Row, a man on a 3^rd story fire escape leaped beyond LAFD mattress. He is in critical condition. 

8: Brewhaha between street artists and business owner will be going on for a while. 

7: Brian Deegan fights Sunday traffic on Figueroa. Wins X-Games gold.

6: You can almost hear Vin Scully say "Pull up a chair. Dodgers start their fire sale."

5: New Yorkers still refer to the growth of Downtown Los Angeles as “Manhattanization"

4: Man gets released from Twin Tower jail. Gets shot and killed by LAPD after attacking medics and cop.

3: Little Tokyo Woman robbed in broad daylight.  “Shocking” says LAPD Detective.

2: Yahoo reports Kobe Byrant may play oversees during NBA lockout.

1:  The Gap takes a page from the Los Angeles ethos of American Apparel. They will even have food trucks.

Top Ten Things to Wake Up to after a Downtown Weekend Hangover

10: Monday Top Ten List posted on Tuesday.

9: Arts District BID renewal stopped by lawsuit.

8: Tim Leiweke's Hail Mary play worked.

7: A shark infestation is coming to Downtown L.A.

6: Angels Flight is "safe."

5: R.I.P Gilbert "Magu" Lujan.

4: LAPD looking for leads on Little Tokyo club shooting that left man dead.

3: Coliseum officials to be probed.

2: Breaking down the costs of the "Los Angeles" Chargers.

1: American Apparel now in bed with eBay.

Top Ten Things to Wake up to after a Downtown Weekend Hangover

LEADER OF THE PACK: Kenny "The Cat" Gutierrez, former resident of the downtown Los Angeles Arts District during the 1990's, sits in front of the former Blooms General Store July 14, 2011. The awning was taken down earlier that day.  iPhone photo by Gary Callahan.

Top Ten Things to wake up to after a downtown Los Angeles weekend hangover. 

10: Bloomfest is just a few days away.

9: An editor and writer loves living downtown, despite her crosstown commute to work. 

8: None of the downtown "Carmageddon" promotions included a seafood-based "Clamageddon."

7: A screenwriter hated living downtown and moved because he saw a neighbor being groped, and found blood in the streets.

6: A new can of worms opens with the talk of a Downtown baseball stadium is a “possibility.”

5:  Lindsey Lohan follows a screenwriter's scenario for a new video that has her being groped downtown and ends with blood in the streets.

4: There may be no one to call if your library materials are stolen in Little Tokyo.

3: The next big thing that will be seen, taped, or shot somewhere Downtown: Planking.

2: Frank McCourt is still in town.

1:  An Art Walk preview titled 'Chaos' became true in the saddest of ways.

 

Top Ten Things to wake up to after a Downtown Weekend Hangover

Monday morning's line at the new Downtown Los Angeles Hooters, across from the L.A. Convention Center. The first 100 people get free wings for a year. Says my own brother, who lives in San Diego near a Hooters: "They have wings?" Photo: Amanda Leon.

Yes, a list. Top Ten Things to wake up to after a busy weekend.

10: Newlywed British royal couple forgot they were to steer clear of undesirable Downtown locations.

9: Sequel to 500 Days of Summer to be titled 500 Days of Damage Control.

8: Los Angeles Lakers' Shannon Brown and singer Monica have back to back wedding vows .

7: Los Angeles Sparks hire Kobe Byrant's father as head coach.

6: Armed troublemakers misread memo. They thought Looters opens Monday in South Park.

5: ESPY Awards expecting to be hacked and results altered.

4: YouTube reveals Der Führer lives in the Valley and considers Metro use hyped by people "busy going to speak-easy's and art-walks."

3: Zooey responds to Patt Morrison.

2: Frank McCourt is still owner of the Dodgers.

1: You won wings for a year.