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FOOD FRENZY in the FAR EAST New Faces at the Chinatown Plaza Are Shaping the Neighborhood’s Dining Future

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atching a movie on one big screen is fine, but how about three screens? Regal Cinemas at L.A. Live is answering that question in a collaboration with technology company Barco. On Friday, April 1, the 14-screen complex will get the unwieldy name Regal L.A. Live: A Barco Innovation Center (no, it’s not an April Fool’s joke), with four key changes. The most significant is the turning of one of the theaters into the “Barco Escape,” which touts three screens in a panoramic layout for a more immersive viewing experience.

Additionally, the lobby will be overhauled with a bevy of digital screens, new lighting and interactive displays. The complex is getting Barco laser projectors, initially in two theaters, with the remainder being upgraded later this year. The auditoriums’ sound systems are similarly being replaced by Barco and Auro Technologies products. The April 1 change will be marked by a block party with a DJ, street performers and more. Bonus: Anyone who purchases tickets for movies starting at 6 p.m. or later on April 1 gets a voucher for a small popcorn and small fountain drink.

New Commander Takes Helm at Central Division

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TWITTER: @ DOWNTOWNNEWS Leslie is starting his new position as commander of LAPD’s Central Division. He took over the position on Sunday, March 20. Leslie previously served as the Wilshire Division’s commanding officer from 2014-2016. He also worked as part of the LAPD’s elite Metropolitan Division crime unit for eight years.

Although he said it was bittersweet to leave his previous post, Leslie is excited to work at Central and delve into Downtown’s pressing criminal and community issues. “Right now my main focus is to get to know my office, to find out the strengths and feel of it,” Leslie said. His predecessor, Capt. Michael Oreb, departs Central after two and a half years. He is now commanding officer of LAPD’s Harbor Division, based in San Pedro.

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Plans Unveiled for City West Residential Development

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hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, along with its pediatrics and labor departments. The course starts and ends at the hospital, running up Grand Avenue before cutting west to Figueroa Street where the path goes up to Seventh Street and reverses. The path passes by Downtown retail and entertainment sites such as the Bloc and L.A. Live. The race starts at 8 a.m. and a festival at the hospital’s parking lot featuring a pancake breakfast, live music and a magic show runs through noon. Adult registration is $40 in advance and $45 the day of the race.

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Granted it is a different and more expensive kind of art than was found here three and four decades ago, when the gritty creative class claimed sprawling warehouses in a district that few others cared about. However, all of Downtown, and much of Los Angeles, has changed drastically since that time. Sometimes the future is about adapting and saving elements of the past, not preserving the whole thing.

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How an Aging Chinatown Mall Became a Hipster Food Haven Red-Hot Restaurants Rush In to Chinatown’s Far East Plaza

By Eddie Kim rom the street, Far East Plaza looks like many of Chinatown’s older buildings. Its faded red awnings sport a fine layer of dust and grime, and the two-story 1979 structure hasn’t quite aged with grace — its Chinese-styled roofline, with curving green shingles and chunks of blocky red adornments, look like tacked-on afterthoughts to a regular concrete building.

Over the past few years, however, the complex at 727 N. Broadway has become a bona-fide culinary destination. Its meld of old and new tenants recalls the changes at Grand Central Market, but at a slower pace.

The roster at the complex still includes traditional establishments such as the noodle house Kim Chuy, Ten Ren’s Tea Time, and the two-floor market Wing Hop Fung Ginseng and China Products Center.

The first new-school operator to make a splash at Far East Plaza was Kogi BBQ truck mastermind Roy Choi, who opened his Asian-fusion bowl eatery Chego in May 2013. Ten months later later came the newfangled ice cream business Scoops.

They were followed by lauded chef Andy Ricker’s Thai noodle shop Pok Pok Phat Thai, which opened in 2014. Nearly ready to debut is Howlin’ Ray’s, from Johnny Zone and Amanda Chapman, the duo behind the hyped Nashville hot chicken truck of the same name.

No one is making a bigger play, however, than Alvin Cailan.

When he needed a follow-up to his mega-smash Eggslut at Grand Central Market, he looked at Far East Plaza, opening Ramen Champ in late 2014 (which he has since sold). Sensing momentum, Cailan tripled-down on the Chinatown plaza, debuting Unit 120 — an ambitious incubator restaurant where local and national chefs can conduct temporary runs of untested menus — and the attached fast-casual Filipino restaurant Amboy, which debuted in January.

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rants such as Mandarin Deli, Pho 79 and Sam Woo Barbecue, which all left and became San Gabriel Valley institutions. It’s time to honor that legacy with a new batch of small businesses, he said.

“The original history of Far East Plaza is that every single unit was a food place. The sign in front still says ‘Food Center,’” Cailan said. “We’re inspired by that sign from decades ago to make this into an amazing food center, and an L.A. institution, again.”

The Yu Effect Choi, the chef and restaurateur who has become perhaps L.A.’s most iconoclastic dining ambassador, brought Chego to Far East Plaza after lease renewal talks broke down at a sleepy Palms strip mall.

When Ricker began poking around in Los Angeles, it was Choi who directed him to Chinatown (Ricker also has the large Pok

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After opening Eggslut at Grand Central Market, chef/owner Alvin Cailan turned to Chinatown. In the past few years he has opened Ramen Champ, incubator restaurant Unit 120, and casual Filipino joint Amboy in Far East Plaza. He is also partnering with local chefs like Isa Fabro.

Pok L.A., with hundreds of seats, three blocks away at Mandarin Plaza). Cailan and Zone also cited Choi as a trendsetter.

“The more the merrier. That was why we set up shop,” Choi said in an email. “Good to see the dream come true and much love to our neighbors.”

There’s another thing the restaurateurs have in common: George Yu, who recruited Choi in the first place. Yu has a double role in the community, serving as executive director of the ChiContinued on page 7

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Former Mayors Debate the Future of Los Angeles Riordan and Villaraigosa Talk Development, Transit, Homelessness

By Eddie Kim os Angeles is facing the reality of major change and major problems in its near-term future, according to two former mayors. It faces a wave of real estate development and economic growth colliding with a persistent housing shortage, pervasive homelessness, and varying visions for how to make L.A. the country’s most important city.

Mayor Eric Garcetti has been navigating these murky waters for nearly three years, earning both praise and critical pressure in the process. The future of the city, however, is not Garcetti’s to analyze alone. What do his predecessors, for instance, see in the distance for L.A.?

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mer mayors Richard Riordan (1993-2001) and Antonio Villaraigosa (2005-2013) to answer that question. The conversation, hosted on Thursday, March 24, by Town Hall Los Angeles in the Financial District’s City Club, mainly focused on three broad issues facing the city: development, public education, and the homelessness crisis.

Riordan notably supports the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, a ballot measure campaign to freeze all development in the city that requires zoning variances, or negotiated tweaks to the existing zoning plan in a given community, for two years.

Villaraigosa has been fiercely opposed to the measure. At Thursday’s discussion, he acknowledged that the city’s guidelines for planning and zoning need updating. He asserted that a

moratorium, however, would damage the city’s ability to meet its housing demand. Villaraigosa also criticized NIMBYs who oppose what he called “smart density” in urban areas.

“In a place where you have public transit, you need to have vertical living. You need to develop density in those areas,” he said. “Look, we talk to the best planners in the world. This is unanimous, how you build smart. It’s not just about transit and congestion and cleaning the air. It’s about reimagining this town, and how we live.”

Riordan, meanwhile, pressed more generally on the consequences of fast growth, namely that not enough development is aimed at aiding the region’s poorest people. He questioned how a new, shiny luxury building could aid people who are already paying too much for housing. Riordan also criticized the herd mentality of the City Council, noting that it was too easy for one councilmember to approve a major zoning change and then rustle support from the rest of the council.

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Yu declined multiple phone and email interview requests for this story.

Far East Plaza tenants and area brokers credit Yu for recruiting exciting small business owners to the complex, and building some critical mass in a place that long lacked attention and traffic.

“George is, well, I hate to use the word ‘visionary,’ because that sounds pretentious, but George is a leader who genuinely cares about Chinatown,” Ricker said. “He’s clearly not doing it for the rent money. He believes that the future of Chinatown is young people coming in and making a stand.”

Yu is more than a big-picture manager, said Zone.

“George has been helping with building out the restaurant and advice on that end because he used to be a contractor, so he’s got a lot of knowledge,” Zone remarked. “He’s taken on the stresses of opening a new restaurant while also being the most supportive and understanding of what we’re trying to do. He’s done like 40% of our work here.”

Emerging Market Another lure for restaurant owners? Affordable rents.

In general, Chinatown offers rates that are significantly lower than most Downtown sub-markets. Where a tenant might pay $4.50-$5.50 per square foot in the Central Business District (along the Seventh Street corridor from Figueroa to Olive streets, for instance), Chinatown averages around $3.75$4, said Derrick Moore, a principal with bro-

kerage firm Avison Young.

“You’re not going to Far East for the architecture, that’s for sure,” Moore said. “Because of Yu and these new tenants, Far East Plaza is now a destination project in the works.”

The new tenants say that manageable rents and future potential drew their attention, but for many it was the romance of Chinatown’s history and culture that sealed the deal. Zone noted the “raw coolness” of seeing roasted ducks hanging by their necks in windows and Chinese cooks smoking cigarettes outside of kitchens (“It reminded me of Nashville,” he said). Isa Fabro, a Downtown pastry chef who collaborated at Cailan’s Unit 120 and has been selling her donut-like “malas” at Far East Plaza, added that Chinatown has an “egalitarian” feel.

“I was working in a lot of places that were expensive, for special occasions. But now I’m making food that the people I grew up with could afford,” Fabro said. “Chinatown supports that vibe and pricing approach. It’s still a fringe neighborhood compared to central Downtown.”

New restaurants have sprouted elsewhere in Chinatown, with highlights such as Little Jewel of New Orleans, Burgerlords and Lobsta Shack.

Established restaurateur Leonard Chan, meanwhile, is building a hipster food court of his own on the ground floor of the Jia Apartments, which opened in 2014.

Yet there has never been a lineup as concentrated as the one in Far East Plaza. Older tenants are paying attention — and, for now, reporting mixed reactions.

Mary Lam, the owner of Mary’s Beauty Salon at the western entrance of Far East Plaza, is buoyed by the number of people perusing the plaza. The salon has been there for 28 years,

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and Lam recalled how sleepy it felt even a decade ago.

“I really like seeing so many people come and go. Different kinds of people now, too.

Young and white, sure, but older and everything else,” she said. “Business used to be slower. I think the future will be good.”

Kelvin Guan, a four-year employee of Ten Ren’s Tea Time, had a more measured assessment, and said that while there are more visitors, that hasn’t translated to significant increases in business. He added that there are other improvements to be made in the complex.

“The building is doing a good job with security, but it’s also not enough. We still see homeless people who are bothering the customers and people by the entrance. It can be bad for business,” Guan said.

In one way, this could prefigure another moment of change for Chinatown. Though it still is dominated by traditional business and hosts cultural events, the community long ago lost its status as Los Angeles’ center of Chinese culinary life to the San Gabriel Valley.

And while Downtown’s housing boom has mostly eluded Chinatown so far, the nearly complete Blossom Plaza and projects such as the proposed College Station mega-development could bring a major demographic shift to the neighborhood.

Yu in the past expressed concern that Chinatown will turn into a nostalgic “museum” if left alone. The flipside, Cailan said, is supporting independent businesses and preventing Chinatown from becoming new but generic.

“We always have conversations with George about what some operators’ true intentions are,” Cailan said. “Are they true to themselves

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and putting in work, or are they businessmen who want the next Pinkberry?”

There remain longer-term trends at play.

The evolution of Chinatown’s dining and business landscape will prove critical to its appeal as a regional, not just local, destination, Avison Young’s Moore said. Chinatown will thrive if there are “multiple Far East Plazas” in the community, all with an intriguing blend of old and new, he added.

Many eyes, and stomachs, are waiting to see what happens. eddie@downtownnews.com

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MAYORS, 6 “We have to take a good hard look at what we want this city to be. We’re getting a lot more towers and more jobs. But we’re also getting congestion and pushing the working poor out of L.A.,” Riordan said.

But in a single half-ironic line, he summed up the conundrum of gentrification: “But they’re building tall towers by The Pantry, so…” Riordan deadpanned, referencing his ownership of the institutional diner on Figueroa. The line drew big laughs from the crowd.

The duo found more to agree on when it came to public education, with both remaining critical of the Los Angeles Unified School District and how it is run.

“Everything should be for the advantage of the kids. Not the teachers, not the politicians — the kids,” Riordan said. “But we’ve had a union that puts teachers first. If you want to fire an incompetent teacher, it takes eight years and $1 million to do it.”

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He cited poor accountability and performance among public school staffs as a key reason why charter schools, most of which are non-union, have grown as an alternative to LAUSD schools. Riordan pointed to the higher graduation rate of charter school students — 79% compared to 68% in LAUSD schools, according to the California Charter Schools Association.

Both former mayors did note that L.A. is seeing positive trends in graduation rates, especially with minority students. The graduation rate of some of the region’s struggling schools has jumped from as low as 36% to 70%-plus, Villaraigosa said, drawing applause from the audience.

“I always tell people, ‘Don’t clap for that,’” he told the crowd, which quickly quieted. “Every kid should be graduating. This is a major challenge of our time.”

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“Garcetti says he has a plan, but I don’t really see it and I don’t see money. Even if he had it, I don’t know what he could really do,” Riordan said.

Villaraigosa, meanwhile, found a silver lining in the new partnerships formed between the city and county. He blamed some county supervisors for refusing to fund and support homeless services in their communities, and instead called for the decentralization of services and housing from hubs like Venice and Skid Row. “I don’t believe why we’re seeing more homeless is because we’re growing Downtown L.A. up,” he said. “We have to spread these services and permanent supportive housing out. And we need a lot more investment.” eddie@downtownnews.com

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A Metro report proposes dedicating $200 million for the Downtown Streetcar.

By Eddie Kim roponents of the long-planned Downtown streetcar have spent years looking for funding sources to cover the project that currently is estimated to cost $282 million.

Now, the proposed $120 billion county ballot measure to fund regional transportation projects with a half-cent sales tax increase could prove the key to the streetcar.

A report from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has proposed spending $200 million on the Downtown streetcar.

It is among hundreds of transportation projects that would be funded by the proposed tax increase, which itself would bolster the Measure R tax increase passed by voters in 2008.

The Metro report places funding for projects in three phases over the next 40 years. One hurdle is that the Downtown streetcar is currently in the third phase, which would call for completion of the project around 2050, well after its hoped-for opening in 2020.

Fourteenth District City Councilman José Huizar, who is leading the streetcar effort, said his office will work with Metro on the possibility of expediting “shovel-ready” projects into the first phase.

“This ballot initiative funding would complete the financial picture for this important regionally significant circulator project,” Huizar said in a prepared statement. “We will continue to work diligently with Mayor Garcetti, Metro, the City, LASI and all our partners, as we work toward a 2020 opening date for the Los Angeles Streetcar.”

The $200 million earmarked for the streetcar would close its funding gap, assuming its budget can be brought down to $250 million (as streetcar proponents announced they plan to do last summer). The project, which would run in a 3.8-mile loop with a main spur on Broadway, has already secured $65 million for construction via a tax levied on property owners along the route. It is also still in the hunt for a $100 million federal “Small Starts” grant.

“The $200 million gives us options, and preferably we wouldn’t have to secure the federal Small Starts grant,” said Huizar’s Chief of Staff Paul Habib in a phone interview. “But it is there should we need it, and we’re not pulling out of the grant process. It’s just another opportunity for funding.”

Streetcar officials have also explored bringing in a private partner to help fund the project, which was first announced in 2008 as part of Huizar’s bringing Back Broadway initiative.

Preliminary engineering and design efforts have begun, with 30% of the work expected to be finished by the end of the year.

A draft of the project’s environmental impact report will be released this summer and completed by the end of 2016, according to Huizar spokesman Rick Coca. Streetcar construction is projected to begin in 2018.

Metro would need to secure the approval of two-thirds of voters for the ballot measure to pass. eddie@downtownnews.com

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A World Premiere, and Also a Closing Number

Local Theater Company Loft Ensemble Stages Its First Musical in Its Final Downtown Production

By Nicholas Slayton fter 10 years, the Arts District’s Loft Ensemble is doing its first musical.

That’s the good news. The bad news is that, after 10 years, the Loft Ensemble is doing its final show in Downtown Los Angeles.

The company opened Wanting Miss Julie on Monday, March 21, in its theater at 929 E. Second St. The two-act show springboards off August Strindberg’s 1888 play Miss Julie. It follows a rich socialite who lives in the Hamptons and fills her time with sex, drugs and other hedonistic pursuits. Kevin Meoak, the show’s director and the managing director of Loft Ensemble, said the two-hour production is a dark drama, with musical numbers that provide a satirical edge.

It also marks the realization of an artistic dream.

“I’ve been wanting to do a musical for a very long time, but they’re very expensive to do properly,” said Meoak. “I wanted to do it with a band and sound system like a real musical.”

Ironically, the break from the past comes as the company faces a changing future. The building they’re housed in — originally built as the home of the Challenge Cream and Buttery company — was sold in November to the London-based investment and development company Estate Four for $21.6 million. Artistic Director Adam Chambers said that the lease for the 55-seat theater is not being renewed. It will vacate the premises on May 31.

Ties to the Past The Loft Ensemble was founded in 2007, and from the start was based in the Second Street building, which at the time was in the middle of a sleepy neighborhood with little

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nightlife. Meoak said that with time running out, a concerted effort was made to mount a musical.

Chambers said that Wanting Miss Julie has elements that set it apart from past company shows, but also many themes that resonate with previous Loft Ensemble productions.

Meoak said it touches on feelings of isolation and uncertainty that have been addressed before — it just happens to do so through song and dance.

The proceedings revolve around Julie Stoddard, played by Lindsey Newell. Even as her seductions and manipulations echo femme fatales from film noirs past, Newell said that Julie is defined by loneliness and a longing for a connection. She relies on imaginary friends and uses fantasies of being a pop singer to cope.

“I think, like the music, her sexuality is another defense mechanism,” Newell said. “I think she’s just a super-charged sexual being, possibly a nymphomaniac, but she hasn’t really explored that. I keep going back and forth with whether or not she truly is.”

The music comes via a three-piece band that plays on stage. Songs bounce through a number of styles, from cabaret to disco to rock to a jazz ballad. The few upbeat numbers mostly have a sarcastic edge, such as “Everybody Loves a Princess,” a tongue-in-cheek number Julie delivers about isolation and a spoiled lifestyle.

“It’s quite utter insanity,” Newell said of the range.

Curtain Call After the building was purchased, company members began looking for a new home. The goal was to stay in Downtown Los Angeles, and they visited approximately 20 spaces, accord-

The Arts District theater company Loft Ensemble just opened Wanting Miss Julie, its first-ever musical, which is based on an 1888 play by August Strindberg. It runs through May 8.

ing to Bree Pavey, Loft Ensemble’s production manager. However, all the options were either not suitable for a theater or too expensive. The one potential fit was in Skid Row, but patrons would have to walk through a gauntlet of tents to get inside.

Chambers and Pavey said they think the company has found a new home, though it is outside of Downtown. Negotiations are ongoing and they would not reveal the location.

They admitted to mixed feelings.

“It’s bittersweet since we’re leaving where we’re comfortable with. You feel like you’re a part of the neighborhood,” Chambers said.

“At the same time, there’s an opportunity for us to grow bigger. We’ve sort of tapped out what we’re capable of doing at this space without being given an insane amount of money to update it.”

Tor Brown, the company’s technical consultant, said it is a shame that the theater is leaving just as the Arts District is starting to boom, bringing in nightlife and crowds who might see the shows. He pointed to the new Hauser Wirth

& Schimmel gallery a block away as a sign of how the area is changing.

After Wanting Miss Julie wraps in early May, the Loft Ensemble has a few more events planned before it leaves 929 E. Second St. It has its monthly late-night comedy show, and there will be a weekend of performances of scenes and monologues from past productions.

Company members hope to have the deal on a new home finalized soon. The aim is to resume programming by early summer.

Meoak acknowledged that it is a time in flux, with pressure coming from both a new production and the departure from its longtime headquarters. Still, he said the makeup of the Loft Ensemble is what will allow it to thrive wherever it lands.

“I think that Loft is the people, not the building,” he said. “We’re moving with the people and we’ll still be intact.”

Wanting Miss Julie runs through May 8, with shows on Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 7 p.m. At 929 E. Second St. or loftensemble.org. nicholas@downtownnews.com

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The art and design bookshop Hennessey + Ingalls opened at the One Santa Fe complex last month. It marked a major change for a store that was originally founded in 1963, and recently had Hollywood and Santa Monica outposts.

Bookworm, Part 2: The Arts District got another new bookstore when Artbook opened on March 13. The shop inside the new Hauser Wirth & Schimmel complex is a partnership between the gallery and the team from Distributed Art Publishers. The 2,000-square-foot store, just off the gallery’s Third Street entrance, focuses on contemporary art and design books. It will feature displays showcasing books related to ongoing exhibitions in the gallery, as well as publications from art dealer Hauser & Wirth. It opens every day at 11 a.m.

At 917 E. Third St., (213) 988-7413 or artbook.com.

Head to the Barre: Downtown Los Angeles got another barrestyle fitness studio last month, when Bar Method opened in the Historic Core at Seventh and Spring streets. The San Franciscobased company’s Downtown franchise features two studios and a locker room in 3,000 square feet of space. Workouts focus on light or body-weight movements involving a ballet barre. Bar Method offers classes mainly in packages, with a new member special of 30 days of unlimited classes for $99.

At 724 S. Spring St., Suite 203 or losangeles-downtown.barmethod.com.

Good for the Soul: The indoor-cycling chain SoulCycle has finally opened its long-awaited Downtown location. On Friday, March 25, the New York City-based business debuted on the ground floor of Level Furnished Living at Ninth and Olive streets. The 4,177-square-foot space features 54 bikes. Classes are held every day of the week, and SoulCycle said that it is looking to hold an average of six classes each day. For the uninitiated, SoulCycle is a group indoor cycling workout, led by an high-energy instructor and set to upbeat music. Classes are sold in multi-class packages, with each session costing approximately $30.

At 888 S. Olive St. or soul-cycle.com.

Eye Spy: Downtown is getting a new high-end eyeglasses store.

The German brand Mykita is taking over 1,500 square feet of space on the ground floor of the Eastern Columbia Building. It will replace the furniture store Angelo:Home, which closed in January. It’s the company’s second American store, following a New York City shop. Mykita is known for frames made from stainless steel and acetate, and some designs lack hinges. No opening date has been set.

Coming to 849 S. Broadway or mykita.com/en.

A Taste of France: The ever-expanding Spring Arcade Building has a new addition: Garcons de Café. The dual-tinged establishment that specializes in French goods held a grand opening on March 11. One portion of the store sells clothing and accessories from French designers, with options such as the polished steel “Supernova” watch from the Mona brand, which sells for $455, and a pair of stainless steel and lambskin leather VK-1 headphones from Aedle, which go for $499. The other half is a wine bar with French organic wines, along with pastries, cheese, coffee and charcuterie.

At 541 S. Spring St., Unit 114, (213) 278-0737 or garcons-de-café.com.

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At 300 S. Santa Fe Ave. Suite M, (213) 437-2130 or hennesseyingalls.com.

Fashion Sense: In late 2013, the former Rialto Theatre on Broadway reopened as the home of Urban Outfitters. Now this theater-retail thing may be becoming a trend, as clothing shop COS (for “Collection of Style”) announced plans to take over the 9,835-square-foot space at the Olympic Theatre on Eighth Street. The news was first reported by the blog DTLA Rising. COS is a sub-brand of H&M and focuses on higher-end items such as cardigans, suit pieces and pants selling for $80-$250. It is the second COS in Los Angeles, following one in Beverly Hills. The theater was built in 1927, and the owners began looking for a tenant in 2014.

Coming to 313 W. Eighth St. or cosstores.com.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30 Hernan Diaz Alonso and Ben van Berkel: Duel and Duet SCI-Arc, 960 E. Third St., (213) 613-2200 or sciarc.edu.

7 p.m.: SCI-Arc Director Hernan Diaz Alonso so enjoyed his collaborative discussion last week, he’s back again this week.

This time he’ll be probing the mind of van Berkel, the European architect behind UNstudio.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 31 Mohamed El-Erian at Live Business Talks Forum Gensler, 500 S. Figueroa St. or business. Livetalks.org 7:45 p.m.: Help yourself to breakfast before settling in to hear the former Pimco CEO and current Allianz Chief Economic Advisor talk about fiscal crisis management. Fittingly, he’s got a new book, The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse.

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Tap Fest Zipper Hall, 200 S. Grand Ave., (213) 621-2200 or colburnschool.edu.

10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.: No, this is not a day-long drinking binge replete with craft beer pleasures. Alas, it is actually a celebration of tap dancing stocked with young artists from the Colburn’s Community School.

ROCK, POP & JAZZ

Ace Hotel 929 S. Broadway, (213) 623-3233 or acehotel.com.

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On Friday, April 1, Angelenos will jam the Natural History Museum, where research scientists have figured out a way to reanimate dinosaurs by combining frog DNA with dino-genetic material preserved in amber. April Fool’s! Instead of actual living dinosaurs, attendees of this month’s First Fridays will take in one heck of a fossil while enjoying exhibits spiked with KCRW-approved DJs and plenty of drinks. At 6:30 p.m., CalTech’s Dr. Sean Carrol and USC’s Dr. Clifford Johnson will discuss the feasibility of time travel as seen in the movies (paging Marty McFly!). Later, Will Toledo, in the form of his alias Car Seat Headrest, will deliver a collection of tunes. First Fridays starts at 5 and goes long into the night. At 900 Exposition Blvd., (213) 763-3466 or nhm.org.

It used to be that meet-ups where hordes of restless, adventure-seeking youths assembled in ritzy, high-art performance venues came with the likelihood of copping a B&E charge. Nowadays, the Music Center’s recurring Sleepless program rehashes the insomnia-catering joys of midnight reverie in a most unlikely locale: the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. On Friday, April 1, the home of L.A. Opera becomes a house of experimental art, performance happenings, soundscapes, DJs and much more.

In the past Sleepless was free, but it now it costs $20 to get in ($30 at the door). Illuminate the night from 11:30 p.m.-3 a.m. At 135 N. Grand Ave., (213) 972-0777 or musiccenter.org.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 1 Benjamin J. Smith at SCI-Arc SCI-Arc, 960 E. Third St., (213) 613-2200 or sciarc.edu.

7 p.m.: Enjoyed a program with Smith titled, we kid you not, “Architecture as Conviction — Vapid Potential or Rigorous Consequence.” No, we don’t know what to expect either.

First Fridays Natural History Museum, 900 Exposition Blvd, (213) 7633466 or nhm.org.

5 p.m.: “First Fridays? OMG! Like out on Abbot Kinney?” No, you Venice troglodytes. This is a night of live music, lectures, gallery tours and all-around partying with KCRW DJs amid dioramas and dinosaur bones.

L.A. Fight Club 1050 S. Hill St., (213) 746-5670 or thebelascotheater.com.

5 p.m.: Fairfield, California’s own Manuel Avila has KO’d eight opponents. Nicaragua’s Rene Alvarado has KO’d 16 opponents and looks like a cross between Chris Isaak and John Turturro. Our money’s on Alvarado.

Sleepless Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., (213) 9720777 or musiccenter.org.

11:30 p.m.-3 a.m.: The art takeover recolonizes the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for an unlikely patois of late-night performance, installation, sound and visual art.

The watchword is “precision” at REDCAT, as Chile’s TeatroCinema delivers four performances of their notoriously sharp Historia de Amor. Employing a series of 2D and 3D projections, the show takes Regis Jauffret’s 1999 novel about love and submission — it concerns an English teacher who kidnaps a young woman — and adds a visual panache reminiscent of graphic novels. As actors deftly hit their marks within a dynamic stage environment, you, the audience, will be alternately delighted and mystified.

Historia de Amor runs at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday-Saturday, March 31-April 2, and again at 7 p.m. on Sunday. At 631 W. Second St., (213) 237-2800 or redcat.org.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 29 David J. Peterson and John Nein at Aloud Central Library, Mark Taper Auditorium, 630 W. Fifth St., (213) 228-7500 or lfla.org.

7:30 p.m.: The most recent installment of Lost & Found at the Movies finds linguist Peterson and Sundance programmer Nein hitching their proverbial carts to the profusion of bogus languages created to facilitate filmic fantasy. Tickets still available or chaw’ lupoQ for those who speak Klingon.

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MONDAY, MARCH 28 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S. Figueroa St., and the Ace Hotel, 929 S. Broadway or awpwriter.org.

March 28-April 2: A not-so-secret cabal of wordsmiths, page peddlers and YA pushers will assemble at the Convention Center to issue grand proclamations about the importance of the written word. At the Ace Hotel, there is a lineup of panel discussions and readings.

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When it comes to the Los Angeles Theatre Center’s world premiere play La Olla and its tale of a nightclub player and confirmed miser who stumbles upon a mystical fortune, playwright Evelina Fernandez struck gold — pun intended! Fernandez has shifted ancient Roman dramatist Titus Maccius Plautus’ morality play Aulularia from its original Athens to a 1950s L.A. nightclub. Fortuitously, the play’s original ending was long ago lost to the ages, giving Fernandez carte blanche to engineer a conclusion fit for Spring Street. You too can speculate as to the nature of man and Plautus’ original intent through April 24. This week, La Olla runs at 8 p.m. on Thursday-Saturday, March 31-April 2, and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. At 514 S. Spring St., (213) 4890994 or thelatc.org.

Those who crowd into the Walt Disney Concert Hall at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 1, will be treated to the stellar acoustics and visionary piano work of the neo-soul and jazz standout Jose James. He will finish his set and step off stage, at which point you may be tempted to depart thinking the show is over. How could it get any better? Easy: Grosse Point Woods, Michigan’s jazz wizard label, Mack Avenue, fronts their Mack Avenue Superband. Neophytes and seasoned veterans of the great American musical form alike will be blown away by this practiced septet as they swing through a lengthy set of standards and new gems. At 111 S. Grand Ave., (213) 972-0777 or musiccenter.org.

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March 28, 2016 April 2-3, 9 p.m.: Elvis Costello, our second choice of Elvis, but an Elvis nonetheless.

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April 2, 8 p.m.: Someone thought naming singer/songwriter Tinashe’s most recent string of dates the “Joyride World Tour” was a good idea.

Blue Whale 123 Astronaut E. S. Onizuka St., (213) 620-0908 or bluewhalemusic.com.

March 28: Josh Nelson Discovery Project and Carmen Staff Group.

March 29: Mario Castro & Strings.

March 30: Sinne Eeg. March 31: Josiel Perez Latin Jazz Orchestra.

April 1: One Minute Jazz Lesson with Jacob Mann.

April 2: Scott Kinsey Group.

Bootleg Bar 2220 Beverly Blvd., (213) 389-3856 or bootlegtheater.org.

March 28, 8:30 p.m.: When Fell Runner’s residency ends tonight, we encourage you to think about all the good times you spent together. No sense dwelling on the negative — that’s for the DTLA Facebook page!

March 29, 8:30 p.m.: In a potent confluence of the unlikely, Hibernian descendent Ian McElroy of Omaha, Nebraska performs with a live band as a hip-hop MC using the moniker RIG1.

March 31, 8 p.m.: We’re wrist deep in irony here as The Mynabirds come to town with a sound that is shockingly less derivative than their band name led us to believe.

April 1, 8 p.m.: Marco Benevento shows off his producing pedigree and jazz roots with his latest album, The Story of Fred Short.

April 2, 8:30 p.m.: Here’s something we learned about Stetson-wearing Matthew Logan Vasquez: He just moved from Brooklyn to Austin and has a child named Thor.

Escondite 410 Boyd St., (213) 626-1800 or theescondite.com.

March 28: Skip Spiros & His 10 Piece Jazz Band are spiritual descendants of Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.

March 29: Is Cody Hudock just another anagram for Chud Dockoy?

March 30: I never understood a single word Jeremiah & The Red Eyes said, but I helped them a-drink their wine.

March 31: The Ben Bostick Band is a musical homage to the Better Business Bureau.

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April 1: Maki.

April 2: Claude Vonstroke.

Grammy Museum 800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 765-6800 or grammymuseum.org.

March 28, 7:30 p.m.: Il Volo are a three-part Italian tenor singing group not to be confused with the stretch of Broadway that runs through Lincoln Heights, which could rightfully be called an Ill Volo.

Mayan 1038 S. Hill St., (213) 746-4287 or clubmayan.com.

April 3: The poster says Yasiin Bey but the event is named Mos Def. What could possibly account for this disparity?

The Novo 800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 765-7000 or thenovodtla.com.

April 1, 9 p.m.: That upstanding, law-abiding citizen Andre Nickatina will be on premises.

April 2, 9 p.m.: Scraping the bottom of the ’80s nostalgia bucket with Sandra and Patty Ryan.

Orpheum Theatre 842 Broadway, (877) 677-4386 or laorpheum.com.

April 1, 7 p.m.: Are you ready for some Steve Hackett? Well, are you?

April 2-3, 8 p.m.: Yeah, it’s Adam Lambert.

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March 28: Acoustic Punk.

March 29: Ten Pole Drunk, Egrets on Ergot, Danger Friends USA and Coop.

March 31: Ceschi, Ersatz and Andy the Doorbum.

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March 28: Black-clad metal heads will pack into Blossom for vegetarian pho and demand to know if the hamburger meat at 464 is locally sourced when the Decibel Magazine Tour rolls into town.

March 29: Freddie Gibbs is unfortunately not a relation of the brothers Gibb.

March 31: The Prufrock Party appears to be a shindig centered around poetry and a scheme to promote the in-house pizza restaurant.

April 1, 6 p.m.: Feminist as [expletive] features a reading followed by a dance party.

April 2, 6:30 p.m.: Josh Eustis’ reconstituted Telefon Tel Aviv opens for soundscape scenographer Deru.

April 2, 11 p.m.: The old double-book two-step as Gigamesh closes out the night.

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March 28, 8 p.m.: Resident plays it coy tonight with “We Deserve This,” an evening on unknown content.

March 29, 8 p.m.: Prince Rama draws influence from extreme sports in the same way that I draw influence from the prospect of the Internet disappearing one day.

March 31, 8 p.m.: Snappy Danish songwriter Lukas Graham has a long and bright future ahead of him in which he can look forward to soundtracking the emotive, turnaround moment at the 40-minute mark in a 60-minute CW television show.

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Seven Grand 515 W. Seventh St., (213) 614-0737 or sevengrand.la.

March 29: The Makers were going to pretend to quit as an April Fool’s joke, but after five or so band meetings they decided against it.

The Smell 247 S. Main St. in the alley between Spring and Main or thesmell.org.

March 31: Part Time, Brothers In Law and Crescendo.

Teragram Ballroom 1234 W. Seventh St. or teragramballroom.com.

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March 31-April 1: In case you were wondering, yes, two nights with White Denim will be more than ample.

April 2, 8 p.m.: The Floozies have refashioned their roots as the offspring of a wishful landscape of liberalism, electronica and staunchly defended jazz heritage between Kansas City and Colorado. We salute your vision.

April 3, 8 p.m.: San Francisco synth moaner Geographer reinforces our decision to avoid the Bay at all costs.

Walt Disney Hall 111 S. Grand Ave., (213) 972-0777 or musiccenter.org.

April 1, 8 p.m.: Jose James warms it up so the Mack Avenue Supergroup can nail it down.

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