City Hall has spent millions trying to build a Champs-Élysées on Pine Avenue, and all we got was a downscale CityPlace that works

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
It’s the weekend, and you’re itchin’ for the night life. Or it’s midday on a weekday, and you’re lookin’ for a meal. Where to go? What’s hot, hot, hot? Pine [...]

Relishing the tiny eats at Bouchees Bistro

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
It’s only been a few years, but like so much of our redeveloped Downtown, CityPlace already seems to be struggling. Lauded as a successor to spots like Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade, the mall so far hasn’t broken new ground—a blocks-long chain of big-box facades, populated [...]