Arts District

We started inviting friends, play for one hour, brought in refs, music, jerseys, with the obvious premise, if you're someone who loves playing basketball and your friend's organizing this run and you're paying... a little bit to join the run, and you know it's from 6 to 7 p.m. or 7 to 8 p.m., and it's really good people who you want to hang out with and not just hoop with, but stay around after and play, I'm in for that.

That ultimately evolved after two years of running that in existing gyms into picking a site in the Arts District of Los Angeles.

It still is an awesome neighborhood, very raw, gritty, authentic to what we do.

took those organized pickup games and brought them to our own location instead of running out high school gyms, rec centers, et cetera, with that same basic organized pickup basketball formula where if I want to play at 5, 6, 7, 8 p.m., just like any other form of fitness, I book one of the 15 spots online that's available in the session, and I just show up at the time that I book.

That's KQED's Daisy Nguyen.

The beloved arts district bar ERB is closing its doors after 11 years in business.

Owners aren't giving a reason, but called L.A. a disturbingly difficult place to do business in.

When it opened on East 7th Street in 2015, it quickly became a hangout spot because of its cocktails, burgers, and large patio.

Is that right?

So October 29th, we'll be screening at a location in Arts District, downtown LA, called Six Degrees Studio.

It's black-owned.

And I'll be screening there at 7 a.m., doors open.

It's better – like the ones that he – like Howlin' Rays is Chinatown and there's a cluster.

Arts District, there's some breweries and there's a cluster.

So the stops have become clusters but it's not like – you still go to these places like, look at me.

I'm going to the Arts District.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like I'm being a good Angeleno.