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aiju, the “strange beasts” of Japanese cinema, have inspired hit movies, toy lines and media franchises. Now there’s a day-long festival in Downtown Los Angeles to celebrate their legacy. Kaijucon runs 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, June 15, at the Japanese American National Museum at 100 N. Central Ave. The festival takes place in conjunction with JANM’s ongoing Kaiju vs. Heroes exhibition and will include a vendors’ hall with toys and other collectables, as well as panel discussions. Tickets start at $25 for JANM members and $30 for non-members. The event will include screenings of kaiju classics, among them 1962’s King Kong vs. Godzilla (Kong shoots lightning in this one), and culminating with an outdoor screening of 1964’s Mothra vs. Godzilla. Tickets and more information are at janm.org.
Man Gets Jail Time in Hot Dog Vendor Assault Case Sylmar man who punched two women in the face at a Downtown Los An-
geles hot dog stand last winter will serve 30 days in jail, according to the office of City Attorney Mike Feuer. Arka Sangbaran Oroojian pled guilty on May 28 to two counts of battery and was sentenced to three years of probation, 30 days in county jail and 30 days of labor. In addition, he was ordered to complete anger management classes and is barred from possessing a weapon while on probation. He will also have to pay the victims restitution and write an apology letter to each woman. On Jan. 26, Oroojian got into an argument with a hot dog vendor near Sixth and Spring streets. When the women came to the vendor’s defense, Oroojian punched them in the face and ran away. The incident was captured on video and circulated on social media before Oroojian turned himself in to police four days later. The injuries suffered by the women included a concussion, a broken finger and facial bruising, according to Feuer’s office.
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tours of the LaKretz Innovation Campus. The building at 525 S. Hewitt St. houses the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, with prototyping labs and a number of young eco-oriented businesses (the edifice also boasts a LEED Platinum certification from the United States Green Building Council). The free tours focus on the building’s sustainable elements, with interactive features and art exhibits. There is a 60-minute tour for individuals every Friday at noon, while groups of 5-25 people can take a 75-minute tour on Monday at 3 p.m., Wednesday at 10 a.m. and the first Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. (holidays excluded). Reservations are required and tours are offered on a first-come, firstserved basis. More information is at ladwp. com/lakretz.
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he first piece of art planned for a park in the Arts District has been announced: Glenn Kaino’s statue of the “L.A. fingers” salute. The 30-foot-tall sculpture depicting hands making the “LA” sign with overlapping fingers will be part of the new public space being created on either side of the Sixth Street Viaduct replacement project. The 12-acre park is split between the Arts District and Boyle Heights; the latter portion is larger and will have features including soccer fields. The decision
to put Kaino’s piece on the western side of the river drew outcry from some Boyle Heights stakeholders who said the symbol originated in their neighborhood. Additional artworks are planned, although no others have been announced. The $482 million Sixth Street Viaduct is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2020. The Downtown portion will include an art park named for late community developer Leonard Hill.
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Illness, Health Problems Hit Downtown Police Station Three Employees at Skid Row Building Show Symptoms of Typhoid Fever By Sean P. Thomas he Central Division police station in Skid Row is facing a bevy of health issues, including at least three employees potentially becoming sick with a serious illness. Last month, the California Department of Industrial Relations levied six violations and approximately $5,400 in fines against the Los Angeles Police Department and the city Department of General Services, which oversees municipal properties, for poor conditions at the station on Sixth Street between Wall Street and Maple Avenue. The violations range from a failure to provide effective illness prevention training to the lack of a viable insect and rodent extermination plan. Other violations, according to documents from the state department, include a failure to clean “dust, dirt/suspect mold/fungus” from the station’s heating and air conditioning registers in a reasonable time (the violation was corrected during the November inspection). The fines were levied on May 14. On May 30, the LAPD said in a statement that it is reviewing the report. General Services has since filed an appeal. “The State’s report is concerning and we are taking steps to ensure the men and women who work for the Los Angeles Police Department can come to work in a healthy environment,” the LAPD statement said. On May 29, the LAPD confirmed reports
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that two employees had contracted salmonella typhi, the bacteria responsible for typhoid fever. An LAPD representative told Los Angeles Downtown News that a third employee has started to show symptoms, and there are unconfirmed reports that up to five employees are exhibiting symptoms. Typhoid fever is a serious disease spread by contaminated food or water, and is different from the similarly named typhus, which has spread recently in Los Angeles, including in Skid Row. According to the Centers for Disease Control, about 350 people in the United States contract typhoid fever per year, and most of them after travelling outside of the country. The condition is potentially life threating, with 30% of untreated cases leading to death. In a second statement, the LAPD said that its Facilities Management Division worked with the General Services Department to disinfect any work areas that may have been exposed to the disease. That work was completed on May 30. “The health and well-being of every LAPD employee is vital and we will be working diligently to ensure we are creating a safe work environment,” the statement said. The situation has sparked concern from the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union that represents rank-and-file LAPD offi-
cers. The union called on the department to quickly address the concerns. “At this point we don’t care who is at fault, we just want these toxic work sites cleaned and sanitized,” the union said in a statement. “Officers worry enough about being shot or injured policing the streets of Los Angeles. They shouldn’t also have to worry about being infected with diseases they can take home to their families simply by showing up to work. Our demand is simple; clean it up and provide preventive measures before there is a massive outbreak.” The current concerns follow a decision last year to declare a large portion of Downtown the “typhus zone.” Typhus is frequently spread by fleas found on rats, cats and other animals, and there have been widespread reports of rats in Civic Center buildings, including in City Hall. Approximately 400 people work at the brick, windowless, fortress-like Central Division headquarters, which is in the heart of Skid Row. Given the conditions around the station, Dr. Neha Nanda, clinical associate professor of medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, said people should not be taken unawares by the current situation. “How surprised are we? Not extremely,” Nanda said. “This is preceded by typhus, hepatitis A, with the backdrop of an increase in
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The LAPD Central Division station in Skid Row was cited by a state agency for a number of health and safety violations.
homelessness that has been very challenging for L.A. County. I think this is something that can happen.” Still, given that most domestic cases spring from people who traveled outside the country, she said it would be helpful to know if those diagnosed with typhoid fever had recently been abroad. Nanda said that residents of Downtown should not be concerned about contracting typhoid fever unless they are ingesting something prepared by an infected individual. sean@downtownnews.com
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L.A.’s Distressing, Stunning Homelessness Crisis
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he release last week of the latest Homeless Count gives Los Angeles an undeniable look-in-the-mirror moment. As people across the region collectively process the anger and frustration, we have no choice but to take stock of the reflection staring back and ask what have we done, what have we not done, and what can be done to change the status quo? Now is the time for elected officials to lead like never before, particularly at the City Council level. They’ll need backbone to face down constituents who fight a project in their area. It’s time to go to the mat. Whatever the Council can do — and it had better be a lot — that action does not absolve other government leaders. Our representatives at the city, county, state and federal levels must operate with urgency, recognizing that homelessness is the single greatest moral and physical challenge facing Los Angeles. They must set policy and make decisions to help those on the streets and prevent others from winding up on the streets. This is a crisis for the housed and unhoused. The 12% rise in homelessness in the county reported by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, and the 16% increase in the city, is unacceptable. Unless everyone in the region works together on this issue, we will not make sufficient progress. While the “everyone-in” idea sounds like a cliché, it’s not. Each person in L.A. County can do something to help, even if that something is as simple as no longer saying no to a proposed homeless shelter or service facility in his or her neighborhood. If that low bar has already been cleared, then maybe the next step is to speak up and help convince NIMBY-minded neighbors to say yes to a permanent supportive housing project or something else. The count, which involved three nights of tallying in January and then using statistical models, found 58,936 homeless individuals in the county, up more than 6,000 from the previous year. The city now has 36,300 homeless people, an increase of more than 5,000 people. According to LAHSA, there was a 17% rise in people experiencing homelessness for the first time in the past year. Nowhere is the situation more dire than in the 14th District, which includes Downtown Los Angeles. Here nearly 8,000 people live on the streets, many of them in rat-ridden, stomach-turning filth. What the region needs is more — more of everything, in every neighborhood. We can’t have entire council districts opt not to identify even a single parcel for an emergency transitional shelter. Communities where numerous people live in their vehicles could hold a safe parking zone with toilets and other services. A neighborhood filled with tent encampments should probably have a storage facility. Despite the shock of these numbers, it’s false to charge that nothing has been done. In 2018 an estimated 21,000 people were moved off the streets. However, the homeless population still grew, a situation propelled by myriad factors, including economic conditions and a housing shortage. Los Angeles will not soon escape this crisis, and generations in the future will judge us by how we respond to this moment. Addressing homelessness is everyone’s concern.
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Regarding the article “Metro Weighs Possible Service Reductions,” by Nicholas Slayton I read with alarm that Metro’s 2019-2020 budget assumes decreased train frequency on the Expo, Gold and Blue lines in and out of Downtown. According to the article, Metro’s argument is that trains currently bottleneck because of street traffic, and the agency plans to add cars to trains so that capacity will not be reduced. This proposal is a big mistake. Studies have shown that passengers perceive waiting time as 1.5 times longer than travel time. Metro’s proposal will virtually guarantee that ridership will decline because of the increased waiting time. Metro would do better to attack the problem at its source, namely, the surface traffic bottlenecks. To reduce them, Metro must persuade LADOT to agree to traffic signal pre-emption for trains and buses. For decades LADOT has interpreted the word “transportation” in its name to mean “automobiles.” It’s time for them to realize that public transportation is also part of their mandate. —David Kravif Why not give the trains signal priority instead of making the service worse at a time when Metro is already losing riders? —Drew Coombs EDITOR: Jon Regardie STAFF WRITERS: Nicholas Slayton, Sean P. Thomas CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Tom Fassbender, Jeff Favre
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City Seeks to Respond to Illegal Dumping Garcetti, Huizar Propose More Cleanups and Greater Enforcement By Sean P. Thomas ity leaders last week sought to respond to an epidemic of illegal garbage dumping that has infuriated people in Downtown and other communities. On Thursday, June 6, Mayor Eric Garcetti appeared at Eighth Street and Ceres Avenue, a frequent site of illegal dumping, to announce that the city will ramp up cleaning efforts while also cracking down on those who toss large bags, boxes, green waste and other refuse onto city streets and sidewalks, rather than properly dispose of it in dumpsters or other locations. “I’m here today to send a clear message that this city will take action and use every available tool to crack down on illegal dumping,” Garcetti said at a press conference. The plan includes deploying a second enforcement team to Downtown Los Angeles (one already operates in the community) and placing new lighting and video surveillance equipment in some of the more impacted areas. Garcetti also detailed plans to bolster the effort to identify businesses that do not have proper garbage-hauling service, which is required by law. Additionally, he said the city will augment the hours of inspection and undercover enforcement teams to catch perpetrators in the
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act. Downtown stakeholders have charged that people frequently come into the community after dark to dump refuse. “If you are a business who thinks you can get away with this, you may have undercover units right across from you right now,” Garcetti said. The mayor also announced an expansion of the Operation Healthy Streets program, a comprehensive street cleaning effort in Skid Row. Cleanings will now stretch south of the 10 Freeway to Washington Boulevard.
The new efforts are expected to go into effect on July 1. Leaders of Downtown business improvement groups have charged that illegal dumping has ramped up significantly in the past two years, with a notable increase since the RecycLA garbage-hauling program went into effect (that awarded exclusive trash-hauling contracts to companies in 11 large zones, eliminating previous competition). In a May 6 Los Angeles Downtown News article, a representative of the Fashion District BID said her
clean teams now haul away 14 tons of trash a day, up from 7.5 tons just two years ago. Similar increases were reported in the Industrial District and the Historic Core. According to Garcetti, the Bureau of Sanitation collected an average of 228.2 tons of illegally dumped trash per week between January and April of this year, up 9% from the same time last year. During that period 25 people received citations for dumping waste. Garcetti said that the Bureau of Sanitation last week referred 27 businesses that lack garbage-hauling agreements to the City Attorney’s office. An illegal dumping violation comes with a fine of up to $1,000 and a sixmonth jail sentence. Penalties can increase depending on the size and make-up of the trash. Garcetti’s announcement came a day after City Councilman José Huizar, whose 14th District includes the Central City, introduced a motion calling for additional resources to combat illegal dumping in Downtown. It cited the need to hire more crews to conduct cleanups, increased enforcement, fines and rewards to those who identify dumpers. “It is deplorable and a health and safety issue that should not be allowed to occur in the second-largest city in the nation,” Huizar said in a prepared statement. “We must do better and it must consist of improved cleanup practices, along with enforcement against those businesses and others who blatantly pollute our streets.” Huizar’s motion proposed further partnering with Chrysalis, a non-profit organization Continued on page 16
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Homelessness Soars in Region City Sees 16% Increase, While County Level Rises 12%. Downtown Rate Also Up by 12% By Sean P. Thomas and Jon Regardie he number of people living on the streets or without shelter in Los Angeles County shot up by 12% in a oneyear period. Homelessness in the city of Los Angeles grew by 16%, according to figures released last week. The rise in homelessness reported by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority on Tuesday, June 4, is a drastic and distressing counter to figures released last year, when homelessness in the county fell by 4%, to 52,765 individuals. The results of the new Homeless Count, conducted over three days in January by teams that fanned out across the region, found that 58,936 people are now homeless. The city’s 6% decline reported last year has also been whipsawed. There are now 36,300 homeless individuals in city limits, up from 31,285 last year. The increase in people experiencing homelessness came despite some success in placing people in housing. According to LAHSA, 21,631 people were moved off the streets last year, a significant increase over the 17,000 housed the previous year. LAHSA Executive Director Peter Lynn said that housing affordability is a primary driver in the increase. The issue, he said, makes bringing down the numbers an uphill battle. “If we’re able to house more people, and
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the numbers still leaned up, there’s a real challenge with people becoming homeless,” Lynn said. “We want to focus our attention, and the community’s attention on those dynamics, and especially the dynamics of affordability.” Homelessness also rose in Downtown Los Angeles, which continues to be the epicenter of the crisis. According to the Homeless Count, there was a 12% increase in people living without shelter in the 14th District, which includes Skid Row. Last year there
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were 7,068 homeless individuals in the district. This year, 7,896 people were counted. Fourteenth District City Councilman José Huizar said that more must be done to keep people from falling into homelessness, and that there must be a greater sense of urgency. “Bottom line, we need to continue to implement the City’s strategic homeless plan, urge the State of California to reform its mental health system, and create a triage-type emergency plan for Skid Row,” Huizar said in a statement to Los Angeles Downtown News.
Other notable findings included: An estimated 75% of homeless individuals are unsheltered. Approximately 16,500 people are living in cars, vans or RVs. There was a 7% rise in senior homelessness, to 5,225 individuals. Only 970 are sheltered, and more than 4,200 are living on the streets. The county recorded a 24% surge in youth homelessness over the previous year. LAHSA attributed the large increase in part to a change in the methodology of counting homeless youth.
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Skid Row N/A 4,294 4,628 N/A N/A 3,463 4,316**
CD 14 7,869 7,068 7,386 5,590 6,292 5,500 2,207
Citywide 36,300 31,285 34,189 28,464 25,686 22,993 23,539
Notes: * Prior to 2015, the annual homeless count was conducted every two years. It does not include Glendale, Long Beach or Pasadena. ** In 2011, Skid Row was included in Council District Nine’s count. There was a 17% rise in people experiencing homeless for the first time. The number of families who are homeless also continued to rise. The 8,267 homeless family members in 2018 increased to 8,799 in 2019. Despite comprising just 8% of the population in the county, African Americans were disproportionately represented, making up 33% of the homeless population. In recent weeks, there was widespread speculation that the homeless tally would increase. Speaking before the results were revealed, Herb Smith, president of the Los Angeles Mission in Skid Row, said the mission is at around 95% capacity every night. “I think we have been sensing it for a while,” Smith said. “I think some of us were surprised with last year’s count. The jury was still out on whether we really were making that big of a dent.” After the results were revealed, Elise Buik, president and CEO of the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, which has made a push on addressing homelessness, said the jump is concerning, but not surprising. “We are doing more than ever before, but the cost and limited availability of housing is a strong headwind,” Buik said in a prepared statement. The situation also struck a chord with state Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, whose 53rd District includes Downtown. In a prepared statement, he called the increase “jaw dropping, unacceptable and no doubt the greatest challenge of our generation.” Affordable Housing The LAHSA report attributed some of the rise to economic factors beyond the control of city and county leaders. It found that 721,000 people in L.A. County are “severely rent-burdened,” and that an individual would need to earn $47.52 per hour to afford an apartment priced at the median monthly rent of $2,471. The local rise follows reports of homelessness spiking in counties across the state. San Francisco saw an increase of 17% over a oneyear period, there was a 22% boost in Riverside County, and homelessness in Ventura County rose by 28%. In Orange County there was a 43% hike. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas called the issue the “height of contradiction” across California. “It is simply not golden for everyone,” Ridley-Thomas said in a prepared statement. “We are building a robust safety net in L.A. County, but we have to work upstream to ad-
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dress the economic inequities and lack of affordable housing that are becoming, far too often, the attributing factors to our fellow Angelenos falling into homelessness.” First District Supervisor Hilda Solis also pointed to the lack of affordable housing. She cited statistics reported by the California Housing Partnership Corporation that found that Los Angeles has a shortage of 517,000 affordable housing units. “This doesn’t add up,” Solis said in a statement. “People cannot afford their rent, much less put food on the table, purchase lifesaving prescription drugs, or buy other basic necessities.” The worsening situation occurs despite hundreds of millions of dollars being spent to address the issue. In 2016, city voters approved Proposition HHH, a property tax bond to raise $1.2 billion to build permanent supportive housing. No units have yet opened; according to LAHSA, about 1,400 are expected to come online in the 2019-2020 fiscal year. In 2017, county voters passed Measure H, a quarter-cent sales tax intended to raise about $350 million annually to provide services to those living on the streets. County leaders recently approved spending $460 million on homelessness in the upcoming fiscal year. Mayor Eric Garcetti has sought to address the issue in a variety of ways, including the Bridge Home program. The initial aim was to open one project in all 15 council districts near where tent encampments have sprouted. The projects would provide beds and hygiene resources, and there would be on-site case workers. The centers would be accompanied by enhanced cleanups and police patrols in surrounding areas. Yet progress has been slow. The first bridge housing project, a 45-bed facility dubbed El Puente, opened in Downtown near Olvera Street last September, and only two others have since debuted. Additionally, security costs have been higher than anticipated, with accompanying police patrols in nearby areas estimated to run about $1.13 million a year at each site. Garcetti recognized the gravity of the overall situation, saying in a prepared statement, “That’s why we’re putting more resources than ever into meeting the urgency of the moment. We cannot let a set of difficult numbers discourage us, or weaken our resolve. And I know that, if we keep working together, believing in one another, and caring for people in desperate situations, we will end homelessness in this city.” sean@downtownnews.com
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Development Watch More Housing, a Hotel Breaks Ground, and Other Downtown Project News By Nicholas Slayton ew Project for Little Tokyo: The Go for Broke National Education Center is a nonprofit that maintains the Go for Broke Monument in Little Tokyo, which honors Japanese-American World War II veterans. It is now also entering the development game, with plans for a major expansion. Last week, the office of 14th District City Councilman José Huizar announced that the city has approved awarding a longterm ground lease for a plot on First Street just north of the monument to the nonprofit. Plans call for building a five-story mixed-use transit-oriented development, with low-income housing for veterans, as well as exhibition and commercial space. “It’s truly a winwin for the City of Los Angeles, Little Tokyo and GFBNEC,” Dr. Mitchell T. Maki, GFBNEC’s CEO and president, said in a prepared statement. “We also will be building much-needed housing for the area, which will be located in the heart of Little Tokyo’s unique mix of historic and cultural institutions.” The project will include public green space and will be within walking distance of the Little Tokyo/Arts District Metro rail station. No budget or timeline has been announced. “Go for Broke” was the motto of the 442nd Regimen-
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tal Combat Team, a segregated Army unit composed of Japanese Americans from Hawaii and the mainland. Affordable Housing for Skid Row: Three vacant Skid Row buildings could become housing for very low-income individuals. Plans filed last month with the Department of City Planning by the Coalition for Responsible Community Development detail the proposal to turn the three structures at 803-821 E. Fifth St. into 95 residential units ranging from 241-609 square feet. The project would also have a total of 16,071 square feet of commercial space on the ground floor. It is not the first pass for the project. In 2015, a previous property owner filed plans to convert the buildings into micro-units, with a portion set aside as veteran housing. That never moved forward and the buildings were sold. No timeline or budget for the current project were revealed. Work Starts on Historic Core Hotel: Work has begun for the CitizenM hotel in the Historic Core. The 11-story project, being co-developed by Amsterdam-based hospitality group CitizenM and Downtown’s BLVD Hospitality, broke ground on May 31; it will re-
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A groundbreaking was held recently for the CitizenM hotel. The 11-story project at Fourth and Spring streets will have 315 rooms.
place a parking lot on the northwest corner of Fourth and Spring streets. The project will have 315 rooms and 2,000 square feet of event space. The Downtown office of architecture firm Gensler is designing the project, which will have a dark steel exterior and a colorful mural on the side. The hotel will be geared toward business travelers and the arts and tech world; plans call for open-of-
fice-style meeting rooms, plus a cafe and a large ground-floor bar. New Look for Civic Center Tower: New designs have been revealed for Tribune Real Estate’s planned high-rise just south of Times Mirror Square. The initial plan called for a structure resembling stacked, offset boxes. Updated designs from architecture firm Sol-
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back from 2021 to 2022. Tribune Real Estate previously stated it would take approximately three years to build the tower. The budget has not been not disclosed.
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Tribune Real Estate’s 37-story tower would rise above a Regional Connector station at Second Street and Broadway. A revised design eschews the previous stacked-cubes look for a streamlined high-rise.
omon Cordwell Buenz show the 37-story project as a streamlined glass and steel tower. The building at 222 W. Second St. would contain 680 apartments, with 190 studios, 257 one-bedrooms, 229 two-bedrooms and four penthouses. The project would rise over the coming Regional Connector station at Second Street and Broadway. However, work on the tower would only begin after the transit project is built, and the debut of the Regional Connector was recently pushed
New Details on Financial District HighRise: A 45-story tower from Mitsui Fudosan America, the U.S. arm of the Japanese real estate firm, has taken a step forward with the publication last month of the project’s initial environmental study. The documents show a significant redesign. Mitsui Fudosan America and architecture firm Gensler initially planned a straightforward 39-story tower. New plans show a taller structure with a series of landscaped terraces, and cantilevered balconies on each floor would ring the building. The project at 754 S. Hope St. in the Financial District would have 547 apartments. There would also be approximately 37,000 square feet of space for a charter school serving kindergarten through fifth grade students, though the school could be replaced by 33 additional residential units. Parking would be on eight floors, three of them underground. No budget or timeline have been revealed. More Info on Jenga-Like Tower: There are new details on one of the more unique and ambitious projects in the works in Downtown. Fresh renderings are out for JMF Development Co.’s planned 53-story tower at 448 S. Hill St., as documents have been filed with the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council’s Planning and Land Use Com-
mittee. The designs from Arquitectonica focus on the structure’s most prominent feature: a series of cantilevered pools that jut out from the sides of the tower above empty portions, creating a look reminiscent of the building game Jenga. The project would house either 160 condominiums, or 31 condos and a 190-room hotel. Renderings also show a water feature above the entrance near Fifth Street. Initial reports said that construction would take 30 months once work begins. No budget has been revealed. Mateo Street Makeover: More than two years after plans were first filed, there are new details on the proposed transformation of a 1.43-acre site in the Arts District. Documents filed with the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council’s Planning and Land Use committee offer updated renderings and breakdowns for Dart Partners and Mateo Arts’ mixed-use project. A nine-story building at 1024 Mateo St. would replace an industrial edifice, and would have 106 live/work condos (with nine set aside for affordable housing) and nearly 120,000 square feet of commercial space; about 27,000 square feet would be used for retail and restaurants, with the remainder holding offices. Renderings from Gensler show a glass-fronted building wrapped in balconies, with a courtyard in the middle of the third floor and a landscaped amenities deck on the roof. No budget or timeline have been announced. nicholas@downtownnews.com
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New designs have been revealed for Mitsui Fudosan America’s proposed Financial District tower at 754 S. Hope St. The updated look includes a balcony-ringed building with a series of landscaped terraces.
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Yuval Sharon Again Takes the Road Less Traveled, Reviving an Experimental Work With the L.A. Phil By Nicholas Slayton n 2015, the Los Angeles Philharmonic announced that the acclaimed young composer and theater director Yuval Sharon would join the orchestra for three years as its “artist-collaborator.” Sharon, perhaps best known in los Angeles for creating the car opera Hopscotch with his company The Industry, has had an eventful run with the Phil. In 2018 he oversaw a production of Mahler’s “Song of the Earth” that stood out for the cinematic and multimedia complements to the composer’s work. The year before, he mounted a version of Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds, complete with audience spots inside Walt Disney Concert Hall and outside near various Downtown air raid sirens. The cast included Sigourney Weaver and Mayor Eric Garcetti. For the final collaboration of the residency, Sharon is reviving an opera that hasn’t been staged in 28 years, and never by anyone except its creator. It also has a dynamic and very large set. The show is Atlas: An Opera in Three Parts, from the New York City-based composer Meredith Monk. The production opens on Tuesday, June 11, at Disney Hall and the three-show run concludes on June 14. Based on the life of explorer Alexandra David-Néel, who traveled to Tibet in the 1920s, Monk’s experimental opera debuted
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in Houston in 1991 and had a subsequent tour the next year. It hasn’t been staged since 1992, in part because Monk elected not to let anyone else try their hand at it. Until now. In a phone conversation last week, Sharon said Atlas symbolizes the type of experimental opera, like works from John Cage and Lou Harrison, that spark his interest. He said he had to build up to it in his residency, and that he couldn’t mount the production early on in the partnership. “It goes beyond all traditional bounds of opera, including how it is produced,” Sharon said. “I knew putting it together would take a mammoth investment of creativity and ingenuity. I imagined that after three years of working together with the Phil, we’d be in a position to do it.” Compared to the Houston debut, the Los Angeles production is “like the difference between black and white,” according to Wayne Hankin, who worked on the original and is the music advisor for the new version. The music is mostly the same — a few pieces have been extended — but Sharon’s staging and how they approach the creative process is unique. The three-act opera features 19 cast members, including a trio of women who portray protagonist Alexandra over different periods of her life. In Sharon’s version,
Alexandra’s journey is one of imagination, rather than physical. Atlas, much like Sharon’s other productions at Disney Hall, is not limited to the stage itself, and takes advantage of parts of the Frank Gehry-designed building beyond the central concert hall. Different spaces will be transformed into the Artic, an agrarian village and the desert. The most striking part of the production is a sphere that measures 36 feet in diameter. This metaphorical world sits on the stage, with cast members singing around it and sometimes on a platform in the middle of it. Hankin said that the music mixes traditional operatic instruments with Eastern options, including a soprano sheng, a large reed instrument with a series of pipes. Hankin also said this version of Atlas features more percussion than the original, at Monk’s suggestion. Sharon, who was awarded a 2017 MacArthur “Genius” Grant, freely admits that his version of Atlas is unlike Monk’s. It maintains a focus on what he termed the “journey as metaphor,” though he noted that what it means to explore and to travel has changed greatly over three decades. That includes approaching and depicting other cultures in a more sensitive way, while still showing how exploration can expand one’s horizons.
It also means expressing concern for how the modern world is impacting communities. “In a more profound way, the piece in 1991 was prophetically warning that these landscapes — the Arctic, the desert — that are so based on particular ecologies are all in danger by the destructive impulse of humanity,” Sharon said. “While the opera celebrates the creative faculties of humanity, we are also simultaneously enacting a destruction, and that needs to be somehow reined in. “That was prophetic in 1991. And now with our current climate crisis, it’s an all-too alarming vision on the horizon.” Sharon said that those changes are integral to the opera, showing that different artists can adapt Atlas, which was one of his goals going into the production. The other major goal, he said, was continuing to champion works and creators he admires. Sharon said that thread has been one of the main strands of his residency with the Phil. A related goal, he added, was to bring back what he considers “true American masterpieces” that haven’t had the opportunity to be properly heard. Atlas runs Tuesday-Friday, June 11-14, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., (323) 850-2000 or laphil.com. nicholas@downtownnews.com
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Three Questions With: An Architectural Historian Antonio Gonzalez Discusses His New Book on Prominent Designers. Downtown Plays a Big Role By Nicholas Slayton uch of Downtown Los Angeles was built at the turn of the 20th century, and many landmarks from that era still stand. Antonio Gonzalez’s new book, Architects Who Built Southern California, looks at the people behind those buildings in Downtown and elsewhere in the state. The 10 chapters each focus on an architect who designed iconic structures, including Julia Morgan, who worked on the Herald Examiner Building (she also did Hearst Castle), and Albert C. Martin, architect of the Million Dollar Theater (among many others). Gonzalez spoke with Los Angeles Downtown News about his book.
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Antonio Gonzalez’s new book looks at 10 architects behind some of the biggest buildings in Los Angeles’ early boom, many of which were in Downtown.
Los Angeles Downtown News: So many buildings from the early 1900s have different styles — Spanish Colonial, Mission Revival and Art Deco, among others. Why the diversity? Antonio Gonzalez: I think a lot of architects adapted to what their clients wanted. That’s why Los Angeles looked the way it did at the time; there’s nothing wrong with that. But Los Angeles was a relatively new city.
It hadn’t been really defined at that point. I think a lot of styles were embraced. It’s not like New York City
where there were tons of brownstones next to brownstones. Here we had so much land to work with, so they could try new things.
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Q: When you were doing research, what made these architects stand out? A: I researched using Architect and Engineer, which was a journal documenting that time. Often in that journal there are names of architects who were approved by the state to be licensed architects. You’ll often see a name attached to a building that was going to be built, and then you never see those names again. A lot of architects came to Los Angeles for their career, but obviously didn’t get a foothold. The ones in my book got that foothold; they stayed here as long as they could. The architects in my book, they were awfully determined and awfully disciplined. Q: Many buildings from this era have become icons. What makes them so emblematic of the city? A: Urban renewal was the scourge of the 20th century across the country, as far as I’m concerned. And while there was that in Los Angeles, that was focused on Bunker Hill, so all of the buildings in the Historic Core survived. In most cities these buildings would have been knocked down years ago. So I think it’s just time. They were just fortunate they weren’t knocked down. Architects Who Built Southern California is available through The History Press at historypress.com. nicholas@downtownnews.com
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Restaurant Buzz Michelin Stars in Downtown, New Arrivals and a Local Favorite Closes By Sean P. Thomas tar Power: The vaunted Michelin Guide returned to California this month, and four Downtown Los Angeles destinations are among the 24 eateries selected for stars from the Bible of restaurant guides. The list was revealed on Monday, June 3, and Orsa and Winston, chef Josef Centeno’s adventurous Historic Core Asian-Italian mashup, received a star, as did David Schlosser’s Shibumi, a Hill Street spot that specializes in elegant Japanese food. Also earning a star was the vaunted Seventh Street spot Q Sushi and Row DTLA’s Hayato, which specializes in bento boxes. The last time that Michelin graded Los Angeles restau-
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Royal Addition: South Park has a new space to throw one back or sip a cocktail. The Circa 93 Group, which was responsible for Fourth Street’s Continental Club, opened The Queensberry on May 29. The basement bar leans heavily on an original members-only London drinking outpost of the same name, and borrows a moody U.K. aesthetic. The bar fills the space formerly occupied by Honeycut, which closed in January. Interestingly given its across-the-pond focus, The Queensberry includes one whiskey from each state in the U.S. The Queensberry is open Wednesday-Saturday, 5 p.m.-2 a.m., with the food menu available from 5-10 p.m. At 819 S. Flower St. or circa93.com. Bring on the Bao: The Arts District restaurant explosion continues with the opening of chef Hiroo Nagahara’s love letter to bao, the doughy, billowy steamed buns found across Asian cuisines. Armed with his mother’s recipes, Nagahara’s Bao Hiroo serves up everything bao, including sweet, savory, baked and fried takes on the dish. The first night of full service was Thursday, June 6, and the fast-casual spot is open for lunch, dinner and late nights. Cocktails are also on the menu. This isn’t Nagahara’s first stint in the Arts District, as he previously was at The Chairman. Mass Architecture and Design worked on the spot that has an open floor plan and local art on the walls. Bao Hiroo is open 11:30 a.m.-2 a.m. Monday-Saturday. At 905 E. Second St or baohiroo.com. Clayton’s Shift: There’s been a change at Clayton’s Public House. Owners Elizabeth Peterson-Gower and Tony Gower announced that James Wakefield has taken over as executive chef at the year-old restaurant in the Spring Arcade Building. Wakefield comes from England’s South Coast, where he trained in classical French cuisine. Before joining Clayton’s, he worked at New York’s three Michelin-starred restaurant Daniel. Wakefield has already started shaking things up at Clayton’s. On June 2, he introduced Sunday Roasts, featuring savory roast beef and chicken dishes. Wakefield further augmented the menu at the British pub by adding crab Louie salad, crab linguini and deviled eggs. At 541 S. Spring St., (213) 863-4327 or claytonspub.com.
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Nightshade chef Mei Lin’s shrimp toast recently won Food and Wine magazine’s Dish of the Year award.
rants was in 2009. In the new list, no restaurant in the city received three stars, and six were honored with two stars. It’s worth noting that not everyone in the restaurant industry is sold on the merits of the Michelin Guide. Some argue that it focuses too heavily on European sensibilities and cuisines, while ignoring the non-white dining experience.
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Goodbye RiceBar: Another adored Downtown spot is no more. RiceBar, chef Charles Olalia’s tiny countertop restaurant, has called it quits after four years. Olalia squeezed the Filipino establishment into a claustrophobic 275-square-foot space on Seventh Street in 2015, bringing authentic rice bowl dishes to Downtown. Olalia could not be reached for comment but told the Los Angeles Times, which first reported the news, that he opted to forego renewing his lease. A reason was not provided, though he continues to operate his Silver Lake spot Ma’am Sir. The last day of service at RiceBar was May 31, and in the final weeks before the closure long lines could be seen with diners seeking a final taste of dishes such as the pork longganisa. Olalia originally sharpened his knives in Downtown as the executive chef of Patina, the lauded restaurant in Walt Disney Charles Olalia in Concert Hall. 2015 at his then-new RiceBar. The shoebox space on Seventh A Fashionable Addition: A bit of Street, which quickly Southern comfort is now availbecame a favorite for able in the Fashion District. With Downtowners, closed a moniker befitting the neighlast month. borhood, Denim the Eatery held a grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony on May 17. The establishment delivers a mix of Southern cuisine and contemporary American dishes, and the menu plays with the denim theme, using terms such as Rephoto by Gary Leonard laxed Fit, Wranglers and Skinny
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Hiroo Nagahara has opened Bao Hiroo, an Arts District spot that specializes in his non-traditional take on bao, the Asian dumpling.
Jeans to characterize food selections. Price points are generally in the $12-$20 range, and options include ribs, burgers and sides such as macaroni and cheese. Denim also has a robust breakfast menu, with choices including French toast, pancakes, omelets and even pulled pork breakfast bowls. The restaurant serves beer and wine. Denim the Eatery is open Monday-Saturday from 9 a.m.-9 p.m. At 227 Pico Blvd., (213) 748-7888 or denimeatery.com. From Simone to Duello: After a bumpy stretch, Simone has finally made the transition into Duello. Taking on the name of the adjoining cocktail bar, the space restarted full dining service on May 18. This was about five weeks after the then-Simone closed in preparation for a new culinary program headed by new executive chef Jason Beberman. According to representatives for the restaurant, the goal was to transition the menu by offering more approachable, casual dishes including crispy pork belly and braised short ribs. Duello debuted last September with lauded young chef Jessica Largey at the helm. The restaurant stumbled and Largey left in March, shortly after a scathing review from the Los Angeles Times. Hours are currently 5:30 p.m.-midnight Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, and 5:30 p.m.-1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday. At 448 S. Hewitt St., (424)-433-3000 or duellodtla.com. Top Dish for a Top Chef: The publication Food and Wine has really taken a liking to chef Mei Lin’s Nightshade. On the heels of winning the magazine’s 2019 Best New Restaurant award last month, the Arts District establishment’s prawn toast was named its Dish of the Year. Restaurant Editor Jordana Rothman heaped praise on the simple yet unique ode to traditional shrimp toast. The dish utilizes a shallow pool of Cantonese curry and features sliced prawn topped with fried curry leaves. At 923 E. Third St. (213) 626-8888 or nightshadela.com. Have any juicy food and beverage news? Send over any tips to sean@downtownnews.com.
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Who gets to decide what is appropriate in the arts? Center Theatre Group takes up the topic as it mounts Paula Vogel’s Tony Award-nominated play Indecent at the Ahmanson Theatre this week. Indecent details the story of Sholem Asch’s play God of Vengeance, which sparked a debate over its lesbian elements and its depiction of certain Jewish traditions after debuting in New York in 1923. With some calling the play immoral, and others firmly in support, members of the cast were arrested and charged with obscenity. The show opened on Sunday, June 9, and there are 8 p.m. performances Monday-Saturday, with a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday. There are also 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. performances on Sunday. At 135 N. Grand Ave., or centertheatregroup.com. photo courtesy Sticher
As the Nazi regime rose to power in Europe, large numbers of artists and intellectuals fled the continent. That included composers Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Arnold Schoenberg, who eventually settled in Los Angeles. L.A. Opera Music Director James Conlon (shown here), who has a long history of presenting the works of composers who were silenced during the Nazi era, shines a light on Korngold and Schoenberg this week in a new concert dubbed Pittance Chamber Music: A Tale of Two Émigrés with James Conlon. Taking place at the Colburn School’s Zipper Hall on Saturday, June 15, at 3 p.m., the concert will feature the L.A. Opera Orchestra performing two of the composers’ selections, as well as a chat with Conlon. At 200 S. Grand Ave. or pittancechambermusic.org. THE
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A KCRW favorite is bringing her 1960s folk-meets-1970s country sound to Downtown this week. Bedouine (real name Azniv Korkejian) has drawn accolades for her moody melodies and lyrics that reference her Syrian upbringing. Now the artist, who spent most of her adult life honing her craft in Los Angeles, will spin her songs in a show at the Arts District’s Moroccan Lounge on Wednesday, June 13. Expect to hear tracks off of her 2017 self-titled debut album, including “Summer Cold” and “You Kill Me,” in addition to new works. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. At 901 E. First St., (213) 395-0610 or themoroccan.com. image courtesy Warner Bros. Animation
MONDAY, JUNE 10 The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation The Last Bookstore, 453 S. Spring St., (213) 488-0599 or lastbookstorela.com. 7:30 p.m.: Author Ryan Jacobs reads and discusses his new book on the cutthroat, vicious, shady and often criminal underworld that brings truffles from fields to fancy dinner tables. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12 Bar Wrestling: Sashay Away Bootleg Theater, 2220 Beverly Blvd. or bootlegtheater.com 8 p.m.: We don’t quite get the themes, but it’s wrestling in a bar. Last month former WCW champion David Arquette was in the ring. You never know what will happen next. THURSDAY, JUNE 13 Scriptnotes The Regent, 448 S. Main St. or spacelandpresents.com. 8 p.m.: Craig Mazin (writer of “Chernobyl”) and John August bring their script-focused podcast to Downtown for a live episode. They’ll be joined by Rob McElhenney, Melissa McCarthy and others. FRIDAY, JUNE 14 FigFest Fig@7th, 750 S. Figueroa St. or artsbrookfield.com. 6 p.m.-11-p.m.: The outdoor shopping mall’s plaza turns into a concert venue each Friday this month with live music and DJs. This week it’s rap group Oddisee and Good Company, plus Sudan Archives. SATURDAY, JUNE 15 Kaijucon Japanese American National Museum, 100 N. Central Ave. or janm.org. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.: It’s a celebration of all things kaiju, the “strange beasts” found in Japanese monster movies. There will be vendors, panels and screenings of kaiju classics, such as 1962’s “King Kong vs. Godzilla.” Risk! L.A. Bootleg Theater, 2220 Beverly Blvd. or bootlegtheater.com 7 p.m.: True stories told live in this podcast.
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4 Calling all screenwriters: Scriptnotes, a weekly podcast hosted by movie writers John August (Charlie’s Angels and Big Fish) and Craig Mazin (Hangover Part II and the HBO series “Chernobyl”) is coming to the Theatre at Ace Hotel for a live taping. The podcast, which digs into everything related to screenwriting, is a must-listen for those seeking insight on the often-overlooked portion of the cinema world. Taking place on Thursday, June 13, at 8 p.m., the event will benefit the charitable organization Hollywood HEARTS. Big names Alec Berg, Rob McElhenney, Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone are expected to attend. At 929 S. Broadway, (213) 235-9614 or theatre.acehotel.com.
5 When you mention the animation industry, few people immediately think of the contributions of Italian Americans. But that population was deeply involved, from Joseph Barbera’s groundbreaking studio Hanna-Barbera, to the countless Italian-American voice actors. The subject gets drawn into the spotlight at the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles, which recently opened an exhibit titled Fantasy World: Italian Americans in Animation. The show near Olvera Street features artifacts, storyboards, rare comics, original scripts and more that detail how Italian Americans pushed the entire industry forward and were involved in “The Flintstones,” “Woody Woodpecker” and other favorites. At 644 N. Main St., (213) 485-8432 or iamla.org.
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LISTINGS, 13 Ace Hotel 929 S. Broadway or acehotel.com/los-angeles. June 11: Grammy Award-winning folk singer Patty Griffin. June 14: Eclectic duo Johnnyswim brings its mix of blues, soul, folk and pop to Broadway. Blue Whale 123 Astronaut E.S. Onizuka St. Suite 301, (213) 620-0908 or bluewhalemusic.com. June 10: Sean Harrison Group. June 11: Chris Williams Ensemble. June 12: Jordan Leicht Quartet. June 13: Adam Hersh Group. June 14: Benjamin Shepherd Quartet. June 15: Fabian Almazan Trio. June 16: Sal Lozano’s All In. Bootleg Bar 2220 Beverly Blvd., (213) 389-3856 or bootlegtheater.org. June 11: Runner’s blend of folk and electronic will get your feet moving. June 13: Bostonian rock with Pile. June 14: Fences bring that Seattle indie rock sound to Los Angeles. June 15: Electronic dance group Cobra Man got started making music for Thrasher Magazine’s videos. Now they’re in City West. June 16: Joseph the Spouse. The Escondite 410 Boyd St., (213) 626-1800 or theescondite.com. June 14: The Tens, The Night Owl Collective (which somehow does not feature this calendar writer). Exchange LA 618 S. Spring St., (213) 627-8070 or exchangela.com. June 14: Benny Benassi. June 15: Ace Ventura, Captain Hook, Emok. Grammy Museum 800 W. Olympic Blvd. or grammymuseum.org. June 10: Remember that X Ambassadors song where they just repeated “renegades” over and over? That was weird. Anyway, X Ambassadors performs. Moroccan Lounge 901 E. First St., (213) 395-0610 or themoroccan.com. June 10: Lo-fi pop singer Suzi Wu had a 2017 EP called “Teenage Witch,” which is a fun Archie Comics reference. June 11: Boyle Heights-based pop singer Vōx is actually pronounced Wokes. June 12: The Longshot, The Darts, Dead Sound. June 13: Bedouine brings her unique take on folk and Americana. June 14: R&B singer Maverick Sabre has the early show, while the jam band The Higgs headline the evening as they look for bosons. June 15: Grime is mostly a British genre you don’t hear often in L.A. AJ Tracey offers a chance to check it out. June 16: The Pink Slips, who somehow blend retro rock with ’80s-wannabe synth pop, have a record release show. Resident 428 S. Hewitt St. or residentdtla.com. June 13: The Electric West, Wax Children, Lunar Gateway, and Moon Riot promise a night of hopefully sci-fi-related songs. June 15: Tiron & Ayomari, Nonchalant Savant, and Jr. Jarris & Alima Lee play the “STFY and Dance” night. Seven Grand 515 W. Seventh St. or sevengrandbars.com/la.
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June 10: The Modern Grass Quartet. June 11: The Makers are back. As if they’d be anywhere else. June 12: William Porter. June 13: Jennifer Keith Quartet. June 14: The California Feetwarmers. June 15: M-Squad. June 16: Fabrice You Trio. The Redwood 316 W. Second St., (213) 680-2600 or theredwoodbar.com. June 11: Tom McNalley, Boikasaurus, Go Brother Go. June 13: Jessika von Rabbit, with The Flusters, You Want Fox, Princess Frank. June 14: Glitter Trash, Beggars & Choosers, Richard Duguay & F.Y.F.W., Mogg. June 15: Black Notebook, Crate Digger, Nine Necks, Into the Outro, The Night Times, The Premonitions, Thee Azmatics, The Osteoblasts, The 7 & 6. June 16: Mean Heat, Turning Violet, The Lower Echelon. The Regent 448 S. Main St. or spacelandpresents.com. June 12: Venezuelan ska with Desorden Público, plus Qunito Sol. June 14: It’s a late ’90s/early 2000s pop punk dance party called “What’s My Age Again?” The Smell 247 S. Main St. in the alley between Spring and Main or thesmell.org. June 14: Think of the Ducks (band name of the week), The Blank Minds, The Tenth. June 15: Tara & the Little Stars, Nadoyel, Corrvus, Club Embryo. Teragram Ballroom 1234 W. Seventh St. or teragramballroom.com. June 10: Indie pop group San Cisco has deep ties to Australia’s hipster scene. June 11: Alt-rockers Foxwarren. June 13: Club friendly sounds with Operators. June 14: Genre-blending alternative music from Diane Coffee, aka Shaun Fleming, former Foxygen drummer. June 15: The “Totally Gay ’80s Dance Party” spins nothing but LGBTQ musicians from the ’80s. So go enjoy some Queen, Bowie and more.
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Downtown Independent 251 S. Main St., (213) 617-1033 or downtownindependent.com. June 10-14: George Takei stars in the short film American about a Japanese-American WWII veteran. June 10-13: A troubled young man experiments with reshaping his mind in the Flying Lotus-scored film Perfect. June 14-16: It’s a double feature celebration of Bong Joon-Ho, whose film Parasite recently won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Enjoy his debut Barking Dogs Never Bite and his monster film The Host. IMAX California Science Center, 700 State Drive, (213) 744-2019 or californiasciencecenter.org. Dogs can do more than just slobber over your shoes. Check out all of their unique abilities in Superpower Dogs 3D. Patrick Stewart narrates Journey to Space 3D, about the effort to send astronauts to Mars. Since we’ll never go to space ourselves, at least we can hear Captain Jean-Luc Picard talk about it. Witness the destructive and raw power of volcanoes as Volcanoes 3D: The Fires of Creation tours different hot spots around the globe. Last Remaining Seats Theatre at Ace Hotel, 929 S. Broadway or laconservancy.org June 16: It’s a matinee showing of Stanley Kubrick’s three-hour plus epic Spart-
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acus, starring Kirk Douglas, and complete with a 20-minute intermission. There’s a Q&A about the theater at the end of the movie. Now, say it with us: “I am Spartacus!” Regal Cinemas LA Live 1000 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 763-6070 or lalive.com/movies. Through June 16: Dark Phoenix (10 and 11 a.m., 12:50, 1:20, 1:50, 3:30, 3:50, 4:50, 6, 6:50, 7:50, 9:50 and 10:40 p.m.); The Secret Life of Pets 2 (10 a.m., 12, 12:50, 1:40, 2:30, 5, 7:30 and 10 p.m.); Godzilla: King of the Monsters (11:20 a.m., 12:20, 2:40, 3:40, 6:40, 8:10, 9 and 10 p.m.); Ma (1, 4, 6 and 9:50 p.m.); Rocketman (10:30 and 11:50 a.m., 3, 4:20, 6:20, 7:20, 9:30 and 10:30 p.m.); Aladdin (11:40 a.m., 2:50, 6:50 and 10:10 p.m.); Booksmart (1010 a.m. and 10:40 p.m.); John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum (12:40, 4, 7 and 10:20 p.m.); Pokémon Detective Pikachu (10:30 a.m. and 3:50 p.m.); Avengers: Endgame (12, 4:10 and 8:40 p.m.). Rooftop Cinema Club Level Furnished Living, 888 S. Olive St. or rooftopcinemaclub.com. June 11: Joseph Gordon Levitt gets way too attached to his romantic fantasy in (500) Days of Summer. Look for the late 2000s version of the Historic Core. June 12: Reservoir Dogs will make you question who among your circle of friends is a rat. June 13: Tyrese Gibson struggles with responsibility and fatherhood in John Singleton’s coming-of-age drama Baby Boy. June 14: Bill Murray does bad whiskey ads in Japan and charms Scarlet Johansson in Lost in Translation. June 15: It’s an eviscerating takedown of ’90s teen comedies in But I’m A Cheerleader. June 16: The Godfather. We don’t need to sell you on this. It’s The Godfather. Theatre at Ace Hotel 929 S. Broadway or acehotel.com/los-angeles. June 12: The Hollywood Women’s International Film Festival kicks off with Why Not Choose Love? A Mary Pickford Manifesto, based on the life of the actress and United Artists founder Pickford.
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Atlas Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave. or laphil.org. June 11-12 and June 14, 8 p.m.: Yuval Sharon and the Los Angeles Philharmonic revive Meredith Monk’s opera, which hasn’t been staged in 27 years. See story p. 10. Ludovico Einaudi Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave. or laphil.org. June 16, 7:30 p.m.: Classical pianist Einaudi performs work from his latest album, “Seven Days Walking.” SongFest: A Circle of Love Thayer Hall, 200 S. Grand Ave. or colburnschool.edu/songfest. June 11, 7:30 p.m.: This vocalist-driven concert uses the works of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms to explore the love triangle between the two men and Clara Schumann. SongFest: The Breaking of Nations Thayer Hall, 200 S. Grand Ave. or colburnschool.edu/songfest. June 12, 7:30 p.m.: Singers and pianists commemorate the Treaty of Versailles with works from World War I- and II-era composers.
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Happy Days Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave., (213) 628-2772 or centertheatregroup.org. June 11-15, 8 p.m., June 16, 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.: A lonely housewife struggles to stay upbeat against the crashing waves of life in this production of Samuel Beckett’s absurdist play. Oscar winner Dianne Wiest stars as Winnie in the production from Yale Repertory Theatre. Through June 30. Indecent Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N. Grand Ave. or centertheatregroup.org. June 11-14, 8 p.m., June 15, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and June 16,
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1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.: Based on a true story, the play follows a group of theatrical performers who risk their safety and reputation to fight censorship and bring a play to life. Through July 7. La Traviata Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave. or laopera.com. June 13, 7:30 p.m. and June 16, 2 p.m.: A hard-partying woman in the 1920s finds herself falling in love, but must contend with real heartbreak for the first time in this L.A. Opera work. Through June 22.
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African American Firefighter Museum 1401 S. Central Ave., (213) 744-1730 or aaffmuseum.org. Ongoing: An array of firefighting relics dating to 1924, including a 1940 Pirsch ladder truck, an 1890 hose wagon, uniforms from New York, L.A. County and City of L.A. firefighters, badges, helmets, photographs and other artifacts. Broad Museum 221 S. Grand Ave., (213) 232-6200 or thebroad.org. Ongoing: In the galleries at the Grand Avenue institution are about 250 works from Eli and Edythe Broad’s 2,000-piece contemporary art collection. It’s big-time blue chip, with work from Rauschenberg, Warhol, Basquiat, Koons, Kruger and every other big name. FIDM Museum FIDM, second floor, 919 S. Grand Ave., (213) 624-1200 or fidmmuseum.org. Ongoing: “Accessories from The Helen Larson Historic Fashion Collection” surveys footwear, fans, gloves, purses and hats. California African American Museum 600 State Drive, (213) 744-7432 or caamuseum.org. Through Aug. 25: “Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary” features artists working in response to the multimedia creator White. Ongoing: The multi-functional “Gallery of Discovery” offers
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A man was biking west on Eighth Street on the afternoon of May 13. An unidentified individual came out of an alley near Spring Street, hit the cyclist twice, then took his bike. Around 9 a.m. on May 14, two people at Sixth Street and Maple Avenue began arguing. They both pulled out knives and stabbed each other. They were both taken to the hospital. nicholas@downtownnews.com
ILLEGAL DUMPING, 5 that hires and trains formerly homeless individuals, and that works with many area BIDs. The motion proposes increasing cleanups. Downtown has arisen as the epicenter of illegal dumping in Los Angeles, with much of the activity taking place in alleyways and other unsupervised areas in industrial neighborhoods. Estela Lopez, executive director of the Industrial District Business Improvement District, said that although she is pleased to hear of the plan to ramp up enforcement and cleaning, this is not the time for pats on the back. “That’s the floor, not the ceiling,” Lopez said in the wake of Garcetti’s press conference. “This is what a city should do. A city should be looking for people who violate the law. A city should have cameras and lighting and should have investigators.” Lopez particularly approved of expanding enforcement to evening hours. She and others said some local flower vendors are known to dump green waste across the district. “The protection of the city’s health and safety is a 24/7 job,” Lopez said. “It’s not a 9-5 and it’s not a Monday through Friday thing.” Lopez did applaud the expansion of Operation Healthy Streets. She said the BID had previously asked for the program to be spread to Eighth Street almost a year ago, but was told that the proposal was not feasible due to a lack of resources. sean@downtownnews.com