Los Angeles is a very lively place.

There's STAPLES CENTER, home to the Los Angeles Lakers, Clippers, Kings and Sparks.

STAPLES puts the first and last S in Special EventS, from major concerts by major talent to Michael Jackson's Memorial. U.S. Figure Skating Championships to Championship Boxing. Grammy Awards Shows to Alien Spaceship landings. O'k, I'm kidding about the Aliens. But when they do come I bet they book STAPLES! And, the way the building looks, they may just fly it away.

The HUGE L.A. Convention Center is just up the block from STAPLES. Everything thats anything meets there so its too HUGE to cover here. But I will say the Anime Expo is quite a site when thousands of costumed characters take to the streets for "Cos-Play". Mere passerbys look like pedestrians in a video game wandering about wondering where the portal is.

Across the street from STAPLES you have L.A. LIVE, home to Club Nokia, The GRAMMY Museum, a 14-screen Regal Cineplex, ESPN ZONE restaurant, sports bar and TV studio, Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE, the Conga Room and the public hang-out space, Nokia Plaza --with monsterous, quad-eyed, TV towers that remind me of the leggy rayguns in War Of The Worlds.

Yep, downtown L.A. is a lively wonder. And I only covered six blocks. Don't get me going on the 30,000 strong monthly Downtown Art Walk. Disney Music Center, knockout nightclubs, or healthy serving of melt-in-your-mind restaurants.

Downtown is also destined to have a sweet collision with NFL Football on Farmers Field.

Bottom line: Downtown Los Angeles is the liveliest place on Earth. So get lively. L.A. LIVELY!