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here are changes in the executive ranks of the Los Angeles Convention Center. Last month, Anschutz Entertainment Group, which operates and manages the South Park complex through a contract with the city, announced that Ellen Schwartz will become general manager of the facility. Promoted from assistant general manager, she replaces Brad Gessner who will become Senior Vice President of the LACC, in charge of contract administration, strategic planning and other duties.

Schwartz will oversee the daily management of the 867,000-square-foot Convention Center. The change comes in the wake of AEG’s May announcement that it intends to undertake a $1.2 billion project that will both expand the Convention Center and build a new hotel.

‘Cheat Day’ Pop-Up Coming to Arts District

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rience-focused pop-up spaces, themed locales with artistic rooms and installations such as the Museum of Ice Cream and Happy Place. Next up is Cheat Day Land, which will occupy the former Museum of Ice Cream space at 2018 E. Seventh St. for the month of October. The space is themed around “cheat days,” as in taking time off of a diet to indulge in unhealthy foods. As with past experience-focused spaces, the Arts District pop-up will utilize Instagram-friendly backgrounds. The project will hold a dozen spaces, including a taco room, a room where visitors can “swim” in an oversized bowl of cereal, and a gym with “donut barbell” and other pastry “weights.” Cheat Day Land will also include suggestions and guides for healthy living and lifestyles. Tickets are $38. More information is at cheatdayland.com.

Skid Row Coffee to Open Location in the Central Library

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or the last two years Skid Row Coffee has been serving up fresh hot drinks across Skid Row with its pop-up stands and training people as baristas. The coffee company will be opening its first physical location inside the Central Library at 630 W. Fifth St. this fall. The space will have a full menu of coffee and espresso drinks, plus food options. The café is planning to open

by early September, according to founders Danny Park and Andrew Kang. Skid Row Coffee launched in 2016, setting up its stand around the 50 blocks of Skid Row. The proceeds from the stand go toward helping homeless individuals transition into shelters and homes. Skid Row Coffee will continue to set up pop-up locations in Skid Row after the new café opens. Los Angeles Magazine first reported the news.

City Council to Evaluate Former Museum as Temp Housing

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ity leaders are ramping up plans to address the homelessness crisis in Downtown. The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday, July 31 to have city staff evaluate both the former L.A. Children’s Museum located in the Los Angeles Civic Center Mall and a former textile building at 1426 Paloma St. as potential bridge housing for homeless people. The vacant 14,000-square-foot museum, which is within one mile from the Skid Row, would be the first city owned building to serve as temporary housing. Councilmember José Huizar, who’s 14th District includes Downtown Los Angeles said in a prepared statement that it’s “imperative” that leaders move forward with a plan to address homelessness. “While this is a step forward, there is a sea of despair and humanity in Skid Row. It is untenable. It

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is the very definition of an emergency, and we need to treat it as such.” At the meeting, Huizar also asked city staff to continue looking for city-owned and private property that could serve as emergency shelters, and ask state officials to identify state-owned property for the same purpose.

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owntown leaders and organizations are looking for community feedback on planned tree and streetlight additions to the Arts District. The city and county are looking for uniformity in the type of lights and plants that go in during the next 10 years of construction, and launched an online survey for Arts District stakeholders to vote for their preferences. The questionnaire comes from the Arts District Business Improvement District, Industrial District Green, the Arts District Community Council, the Los Angeles River and Business Association and the office of 14th District City Councilman José Huizar. The improvements are aimed to go in along Santa Fe and Traction avenues, Fourth Place, Third, Fourth, Center, Mateo, Molino, Merrick and Hewitt streets, according to a spokesman for Huizar’s office. The survey runs until 5 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 10.

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he residential revolution that began in 2000 has delivered tens of thousands of housing units to Downtown Los Angeles. The majority of these are upscale apartments, and in the newest projects the smallest homes, approximately 500-square-foot studios, can rent for $2,000 or more a month.

This is great for developers and landlords but brutal for tenants, particularly young people who are moving Downtown for the jobs being created in the area. One potential solution is beginning to be discussed: the fostering of micro-units.

Micro-units, which often measure 200-350 square feet, have appeared in large numbers in some cities, but are rarely explored in Downtown, whether because of developer and lender skepticism, or costs related to city housing regulations.

Los Angeles Downtown News wrote about micro-units in the spring, and referenced a report on their viability created by the Central City Association. That study details some of the challenges to building micro-units, as well as potential solutions.

Some people will associate micro-units with low-income housing or single room occupancy hotels. While the apartments being constructed for homeless individuals often are very small, and sometimes have shared kitchens or bathrooms, the micro-units being discussed for Downtown are different — these are market-rate homes with private bathrooms and kitchens. The CCA estimates micro-units in Downtown would rent for $1,200-$1,600 a month.

Micro-units are not for everyone. They are generally pitched to single individuals who don’t need a lot of space. Living, sleeping and work areas are compacted and often overlap.

This type of housing, at this price point, makes sense in modern Downtown. Many people who hope to live in the community, whether for work or lifestyle reasons, may be unable to afford larger apartments. It is better to provide them an option to be in the Central City than to force them to a far-flung neighborhood and have to commute into the area each day.

Lenders and developers are always skeptical about the financial viability of a new kind of product in a market. So persuasive efforts on the business side will be required. One should look to Seattle, where, as the Downtown News article noted, more than 5,000 micro-units were built from 2012-2015.

There are also requirements the city could look at relaxing for micro-unit projects. Lowering the specified number of parking spaces would make sense; people living a minimalist lifestyle may choose not to have a car. Fees charged to a developer on a per-unit basis for park creation is another appropriate consideration; developers pay thousands of dollars for every apartment that comes online, but should the same rate apply if units are only one-third the size? Probably not.

As Downtown evolves, a variety of housing options are required.

In addition to traditional units, families must be served, and the area needs more workforce housing for mid-income earners such as teachers and administrative assistants. In this context, there should also be room for micro-units, even if it takes a push to get them built.

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—Rafael Chavez Regarding the article “Chinatown Medical Building Sells; Will Become Urgent Care-Facility,” by Nicholas Slayton I’m in tears reading this wonderful news.

A master plan that destroys the visual effect of the “City Beautiful”-inspired county mall/park is questionable. As viewed from the mall/park, this hulking new building will stand directly behind City Hall. Imagine if in Washington, D.C., a 27-story building were proposed directly between the Supreme Court and the Library of Congress. How would that look, as viewed from the National Mall?

—John Crandell Regarding the column “10 Suggestions for Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong,” about his purchase of the Los Angeles Times, by Jon Regardie One more suggestion: Think, act and print globally. L.A. is the largest city in California and the state is absolutely dominant among the 50 United States. California has a tremendous percentage of residents interested in more than the local or national news. Look around Southern California and ask yourself, “How can I sell more of my newspapers to these folks?”

We have a Koreatown, a Chinatown, a Little Ethiopia, and Armenian, Persian, Jewish, Mexican, Argentine, Filipino towns and so on. They are all interested in reading EDITOR: Jon Regardie STAFF WRITER: Nicholas Slayton, Sean P. Thomas CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Kathryn Maese CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Tom Fassbender, Jeff Favre,

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Chinatown Hospital to Reopen as “Healthcare City” New Owners of the Former Pacific Alliance Medical Center Plan to Launch Urgent Care Center By the End of Summer

By Nicholas Slayton he former Pacific Alliance Medical Center site will once again provide medical services to Chinatown this year, just not as a hospital. At a press conference outside the former hospital on Saturday, July 28, the site’s new owners announced plans to turn the shuttered facilities into an urgent care center and “healthcare city” that is expected to open by the end of the summer.

Leaders from Allied Pacific IPA, AHMC Healthcare and Network Medical Management, joined by elected officials and community members, outlined plans to turn the 89,137-square-foot hospital building into an outpatient clinic that will be able to provide a number of specialty services.

In July, that consortium of medical groups purchased the hospital facility at 531 W. College St. from the La Societe Francaise De Bienfaisance Mutuelle De Los Angel (also known as the French Society) for $33 million. The hospital closed late in 2017, leaving many Chinatown residents worried about the loss of specialists and bilingual care.

“Allied Healthcare City,” as the new owners are calling it, will be an outpatient center, offering urgent care services, a comprehensive clinic and an ambulatory center, according to Dr. Kenneth Sim, chairman of Allied Pacific and Network Medical Management. Al-

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though the community pushed for a reopening of Pacific Alliance Medical Center, that can’t happen, he said, as the former operators of the hospital surrendered their license.

“So today as we all sit here at this hospital facility, it is not a hospital, it does not have an active hospital license,” Sim said. “The best we can do at this time, practically, pragmatically, is not resurrect an active hospital, but instead build an outpatient center. We can at least bridge the gap in the services needed.”

Allied Healthcare City will be implemented over the course of three phases, according to Dr. Thomas Lam, CEO of Allied Pacific and Network Medical Management. By the end of summer, a comprehensive urgent care center will open. The budget for launching Allied Healthcare City was not disclosed.

The second phase will see a multispecialty clinic open in the facility, with a surgical center, laboratory, radiology center and other elements. A timeline for the second phase of the project was not specified.

The third phase would involve AHMC establishing a new hospital on the site to provide essential services for the community, Lam said.

The facility began offering medical services in 1860. In 1989, doctors from the hospital took over the facility and renamed the facility Pacific Alliance Medical Center. The 128-bed hospital remained in service until

November, when operators said they were closing the space, citing the heavy costs it would take to upgrade the building to meet seismic code. The hospital employed 638 people. Allied Healthcare City will be set up in a wing of the hospital completed in 2004, which meets the code.

After Pacific Alliance Medical Center announced in the fall that it would shut down, Chinatown stakeholders organized community meetings and lobbied elected officials to help keep the hospital open.

The closure, which was announced a month before the doors shuttered, was “nothing short of a crisis,” according to Congresswoman Judy Chu, who represents California’s 27th congressional district, covering Pasadena and San Gabriel. Chu, herself of Chinese-American descent, said that Pacific Alliance Medical Center wasn’t just the only hospital in Chinatown, it provided cultural competent care, in part through its language services.

“This was so important because not only were immigrants and non-English speakers able to access healthcare here, they were able to understand healthcare and how to navigate things like insurance,” Chu said. “But with the closure in November, there was such a sense of alarm.”

Julie To, a Chinatown resident, spoke on behalf of the community at the July 28 event.

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Allied Pacific IPA Chairman Dr. Kenneth Sim said that the new owners cannot restart the facility as a hospital, but can bridge the gap in services needed.

Speaking through a translator, she said that she was worried there would be no place to go that could provide overnight care or answer serious medical questions. To welcomed the news of Allied Healthcare City, adding that people, particularly seniors in the area, need access to care and for the specialists who left the neighborhood to return.

The center will have an initial staff of 1520 people, according to Sim. The facility will start with 12-hour operations, and then expand to 24 hours. Sim said that the new owners are currently working on building the new medical staff. nicholas@downtownnews.com

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Hill Street Building to House Cannabis-Related Businesses

Green Street is planned as the only business campus for members of the cannabis industry.

Former Jewelry Building to be Renovated, Reopen as Cannabis-Industry Workspace

By Sean P. Thomas n a first-of-its-kind move in Downtown Los Angeles, an entire office building is going to serve cannabis-related businesses.

Last month, Santa Monica-based real estate development firm Bow West Capital announced plans to reopen a seven-story office building at 718 S. Hill St. as a project dubbed Green Street, which will exclusively serve businesses working in the cannabis industry. Sean Beddoe, founder and president of Bow West, said the 67,000-square-foot structure will feature several floors of co-working space, office suites, an art gallery on the mezzanine level and a 5,000-square-foot restaurant.

Green Street Agency, a cannabis branding and business development and consulting agency, serves as a minority partner in the endeavor and the building’s namesake.

Bow West Capital purchased the 1913 former jewelry building from Los Angeles-based Uncommon Developers last December for $14 million. The cost of the renovation was not revealed.

M-Rad Architecture was brought on to design the renovation, which includes upgrading the roof as a space for tenants, and restoring portions of the facade.

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property. Green Street Agency will occupy 21,000 square feet spread across three floors.

Cassia Furman, managing attorney of the Los Angeles office of Vicente Sederberg, said that the Downtown space would provide clients with room to expand their team and the services they provide to clients.

“The new building is expected to bring together a variety of cannabis companies and thought leaders which should create unique community space and exciting opportunities for collaboration,” Furman said in an email to Los Angeles Downtown News.

According to a press release issued by Bow West, more than a dozen cannabis-focused early-stage and start-up ventures have signed up for the co-working space. Beddoe would not identify them, but said the structure will house everything needed to operate a cannabis company.

Beddoe said only a few thousand square feet of space remain un-leased.

Green Street is a short walk from the MedMen dispensary at 735 S. Broadway. sean@downtownnews.com

nasohn said. “The industry itself has just not gotten the respect from property owners.”

Sinasohn said that Green Street echoes a clustering trend in leasing. He noted that certain structures have been filled almost entirely with business that works in fields such as fashion, tech or automotive.

Sinasohn said that the team behind Green Street feels they are coming into the Historic Core at the right time as businesses and stores open in the neighborhood. He pointed to upcoming outlets for Nike and Jordan-brand sneakers “They are business people. As important as it was for Green Street to be somewhere close to their home, we needed this to be a real estate play as well, and we put a targeted effort on the Historic Core,” Sinasohn said.

The two biggest tenants in the building will be Green Street Agency and the Los Angeles office of the Denver-based Vicente Sederberg LLC, which bills itself as “The Marijuana Law Firm.” Both currently have office space in the Mid-Wilshire area, and will lease a combined four floors in the Downtown

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Beddoe said the plan from the outset was to serve businesses in the cannabis industry, which has exploded in California following the legalization of recreational marijuana sales to adults. He said the plan is to open Green Street in November.

“It’s a growing industry,” Beddoe said in a phone interview with Los Angeles Downtown News. “A lot of times these companies, even though they are making a lot of money and are doing well, are not taken seriously by the marketplace. They are disenfranchised and there was an opportunity to partner with Green Street Agency and create a campus for these companies.”

Some cannabis businesses beyond dispensaries have reported trouble with acquiring office space, as certain landlords are hesitant to rent to companies that operate in a field that is still illegal under federal law.

Jake Zacuto and Andrew Sinasohn of Zacuto Group represented Bow West in the deal. Sinasohn said he has seen some landlords levy a “cannabis tax” on tenants. This can mean rates up to 25% over market value.

“If you look into the cannabis industry, there is a very big gap of the people who are doing it right, and the people who are not,” Si-

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By Nicholas Slayton historic Broadway theater is going to be home to a sleek modern tech store. Representatives of Apple and the Delijani family, owners of the 1927 Tower Theatre, confirmed the tech company would not only be opening a store on the corner of Eighth Street and Broadway but restoring the aging cinema.

Apple is leasing the entire building at 802 S. Broadway, although the company did not share the terms of the lease. A spokesman for Apple did not disclose a timeline for the renovations and opening date. Shahram Delijani, speaking for the landowners, said that they were not looking for a tenant, but instead planned to program the Tower Theatre as a live theater and performance venue.

“When the opportunity came up to get Apple as a tenant, and they described it as a flagship store that would continue to be used as a performance venue as well, it became a no brainer,” said Delijani, whose family also owns the State and Palace theaters on Broadway.

Apple did not share what renovations would be done for the building, but the Los Angeles Times, which first reported the deal, reported that in addition to seismic upgrades, old murals and decorations would be restored and maintained.

Renderings from Apple show a revamped upper balcony and mezzanine overlooking the shop floor, which will house display tables and shelves for products. The Los Angeles Times reports that the store will host

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Delijani said that Apple is coming to Downtown with the intention of creating a gathering space for people, not just to shop but to learn and interact.

“Being in a historic theater is a difficult task, it’s very expensive,” Delijani said. “You don’t chose to be in that space because you want a location, you do it because it’s an intentional choice. Incorporating theatrical use was important for Apple, as was giving back and creating a sense of community.”

Apple coming to Broadway is a “game changer” according to Justin Weiss, vice president with Kennedy Wilson Properties. He said that the impact will be pretty instant, and will allow landowners along the Downtown corridor to command higher rents.

Leasing the entire building allows Apple to try new things in the space as well, Weiss said, and not just be a store.

“Apple saw an opportunity to be able to do everything they wanted,” Weiss said. “It’s a freestanding structure where they can control the environment. ” The Tower Theatre with its Renaissance Revival design, is a slight departure from the more modern buildings that Apple tends to open its sleek and minimalist stores in. It has opened stores in refurbished historic buildings in the past, such as a Paris opera house and in the Carnegie Library in Washington, D.C. nicholas@downtownnews.com

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By Nicholas Slayton outh Park Could See Two More Towers: Yet another high-rise project is in the works near the 10 Freeway. Plans were recently filed for a two-tower complex at 1600 S. Flower St. One building would house a 300-room hotel, while the other would have 250 residential units. The entire project would contain 13,000 square feet of commercial space. The news was first reported by the website Urbanize L.A., which also reported that the buildings would stand 22 and 23 stories tall. The applicant is listed as Jacob Taban of the Venice Hope Group LLC; Taban is part of Jade Enterprises, a prolific Downtown developer that has stuck mostly to seven-story projects in the Central City. Calls to Jade for comment were not returned. The budget and timeline for the towers have not been announced. A block west, the L&R Group of Companies has plans for a 52-story tower at 1600 S. Figueroa St.

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Onyx Apartments Debut: Another residential building is online in South Park. The Onyx Apartments, at 424 W. Pico Blvd., opened on Monday, July 2, according to the Onyx leasing office. Developed by the Downtown-based Jade Enterprises, the seven-story building holds 410 rental units, ranging from studios to three-bedrooms. The building also has 30,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space. Rents start at $1,675 for a studio, while one- and two-bedroom units begin at $2,375 and $3,255, respectively. The building has a fitness center, a rooftop deck and a pool, and is a few blocks east of Staples Center and L.A. Live. The project debuts just three months after Jade Enterprises opened another apartment building, Topaz, in the Historic Core. More information is at onyxdtla.com.

Looking Up in the Arts District: The Los Angeles Planning Commission has given Carmel Partners the go-ahead for a housing tower in the Arts District. The developer has long been planning a large mixed-use complex at 520 Mateo St., though designs have changed during the approvals process.

The Planning Commission last month gave the green light to a 35-story structure with 475 live/work units (down from an initial 600 residences); 11% of the homes would be set aside for very low income residents. The project, not far from the replacement of the Sixth Street Viaduct, would also have 10,000 square feet of retail space and 10,000 square feet of restaurant space. A five-story building with 105,000 square feet of office space would rise next to the residential tower. Works Progress Architecture is designing the project. The development still needs approval from the City Council. No budget or timeline have been announced.

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REAL ESTATE, 9 Tower Time: One of the most anticipated projects in Downtown is the Olympia in South Park, and now there is new information. The draft environmental report for developer City Century’s three-tower complex near the 110 Freeway was filed recently with the Department of City Planning. City Century is considering two options: the first would contain 1,367 residential units and 40,000 square feet of commercial space. The second would have 1,000 hotel rooms and 879 housing units, along with the same commercial component. The two options would not greatly affect the three-tower design from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which showcases landscaped podiums and balconies. The 3.26-acre site is bounded by Bixel Street, Georgia Street, James M. Wood Boulevard and Olympic Boulevard.

No budget for Olympia has not been disclosed, but the developers has said construction could take 48 months.

South Park Plans: A fresh set of renderings reveals more details about a proposed South Park residential project.

The images, from Dallas-based architecture firm Humphreys & Partners, are for the effort dubbed 14th and Hill, after its location at 1340 S. Hill St. The project on a 1.24acre site, being developed by the Chernoff Family Trust, is a seven-story building with 235 apartments, and includes a two-story podium with 259 parking stalls. According to previously filed documents, 47 units would be priced as workforce housing, while 12 others would be for very-lowincome residents. The new designs show a mostly white façade with blue-paneled splashes, balconies on some units and a third-floor pool deck. There would also be 8,400 square feet of ground-floor commercial space. The project would be similar to a number of seven-story buildings that have opened in the neighborhood, including Jade Enterprises’ Onyx, Mack Urban’s Wren and 4D Development’s

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Developer City Century has filed a draft environmental impact report for its three-tower Olympia project near L.A. Live. It is exploring two options, including one with 1,000 hotel rooms.

E On Grand. No budget or timeline for 14th and Hill have been announced. The project is still seeking entitlements.

Living Small: The three-story building at 830 S. Olive St. gained attention recently when brewery Modern Times opened its “Dankness Dojo” on the ground floor. In non dank news, the rest of the building has undergone a renovation into “micro-loft” housing. Studio House, a project from Vancouver-based developer the Onni Group, comprises 42 units ranging from 150-190 square feet. Construction is expected to wrap up in October, according to a project representative.

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The building is next to the former Schaber’s Cafeteria building at 620 S. Broadway, which is being renovated to house a Jordan-brand shoe store. nicholas@downtownnews.com

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By Nicholas Slayton ore than eight decades since it started, Nisei Week has remained a staple of Downtown Los Angeles. Every year, the Little Tokyo community organizes a series of events showcasing the culture and experiences of Japanese Americans and Nisei. The festival mixes everything from traditional tea ceremonies to Japanese pop songs. This weekend the celebration returns for its 78th year.

This edition of Nisei Week starts Saturday, Aug. 11 and runs through Aug. 19. A series of events will take over Little Tokyo’s streets, mostly on the weekends, with classes drawing on the arts to a gyoza eating contest where competitive eaters will test their skills. Nisei Week’s organizers have been expanding the festival’s programming over the years, and are working hard this year to maintain generational favorites while adding in contemporary attractions, according to Nisei Week President Cory Hayashi.

“We really are trying to bring the festival to the younger generation, melding that with our traditional elements,” Hayashi said.

Part of that involves simply adding more things to do.

Each year, the Nisei Week Japanese Festival is held in the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center Plaza during the day, but starting this year, Nisei Week organizers are shaking things up by adding Sunset on the Plaza, a night market at the space on Saturday, Aug. 11. There will be vendors from local businesses, a beer garden, food and live music.

“One of our big goals is to see if we can add new events, like Sunset on the Plaza and bring up a different feel to the festival,” Hayashi said. “We used to have a carnival through the 1980s that was super popular. That kind of atmosphere went away, so we’re trying to bring it back.”

Another new feature this year is “Aki’s Pup-Up Party,” which caters more to the canine side of Downtown. Starting at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 12, dog owners can bring their pets to the JACCC for a get together. There will be vendors, a dog fashion show and pet training. Helen Ota, a board member

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on the Nisei Week foundation, said the organizers try to keep the atmosphere family friendly and welcoming.

“I see the number of people walking dogs in Downtown L.A. and in Little Tokyo alone,” Ota said. “This is a great way to get people together.”

Nisei Week is a Little Tokyo tradition dating back to 1934. It started as a way to draw more people to the neighborhood and its businesses. It quickly gained popularity but was interrupted during World War II, with the Japanese American community disrupted and forced into internment camps. The festival eventually restarted after the war in 1949 and became an annual staple of Downtown.

Ota said that this year’s Nisei Week comes as Little Tokyo deals with a number of changes and developments.

The long-gestating Terasaki Budokan community and recreation center is in development, while new businesses move into the area and the neighborhood deals with disruption from the ongoing Regional Connector construction. Nisei Week, Ota said, is a chance for the community to solidify and work together to “make sure Little Tokyo remains Little Tokyo.”

The neighborhood’s traditions continue on in Nisei Week’s programming. A regular draw is the Tanabata Festival on the first weekend, Aug. 11-12, where people will be creating kazari, or paper streamers similar to kites. The finished pieces will hang outside the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and along Central Avenue.

The other big anchor to the festival is the annual Grand

Parade on Sunday, Aug. 12, with elaborate floats, Korean and Vietnam war veterans and dancers marching through the streets of Little Tokyo.

Other draws include the Day-Lee Foods World Gyoza Eating Championship and the Rubik’s Cube Open, both on Aug. 18, plus Ondo dancing on Aug. 19.

The festival is a treat for Little Tokyo residents, but it attracts a far wider audience, Ota said. Japanese Americans from across the western United States show up, and more Angelenos from a variety of backgrounds have started coming to the Downtown neighborhood to learn more about Japanese American culture and history. Some of the newer events serve as gateways or entry points for people who might not stop by otherwise, Ota said.

“Things like the gyoza eating contest brings in more people than you think,” she said. “They come here for some attraction like that, then they’ll stay because there’s a cultural exhibition in the JACCC about tea ceremonies, or they might stop by the Japanese American National Museum because they have a summer festival also.”

That’s part of why Nisei Week continues on, eight decades later, Ota said. The tradition has found ways to grow and sustain itself; all while ensuring that the culture and arts it’s built around remain strong.

Nisei Week is Aug. 11-19 in Little Tokyo. More information is at niseiweek.org. nicholas@downtownnews.com

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A Photographic Grand Slam Central Library’s ‘Baseball L.A.’ Exhibit Highlights 90 Years of the National Pastime

By Sean P. Thomas ith the second half of the baseball season underway, and the Dodgers again in first place in the National League West (as of press time), a lot of people are focused on the sport.

That focus extends to the Central Library, though there, the Dodgers are only a launch point. The just-opened exhibit L.A. Baseball: From the Pacific Coast League to the Major Leagues highlights almost 90 years of America’s pastime in Los Angeles.

The exhibit, on the fourth floor of the library at 630 W. Fifth St., details everything from the earliest glimpses of the sport at the turn of the 20th century to the Dodgers’ 1988 World Series win. The collection of 31 photos pulled from the library’s collection is on view until Jan. 19.

A book of the same name accompanies the exhibit and goes into further detail, compiling some 150 photos from the LAPL collection, along with articles written by members of the organization Photo Friends. The book sells for $15 and proceeds benefit the nonprofit Photo Friends, which, as the name implies, supports the LAPL’s photography collection.

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and edited the 208-page book.

“Part of what I was trying to show was this sort of intertwining between photography, the development of photography, the development of baseball, and the history of Los Angeles,” Davis said during an interview with Los Angeles Downtown News.

L.A. Baseball coincides with both the 60th anniversary of the Dodgers move to Los Angeles and the 30th anniversary of the ball club’s last World Series victory.

Photo Friends previously mounted exhibits on the history of Los Angeles crime and the ’80s music scene. The number of baseball fans on the organization’s board, and the wealth of baseball images in the LAPL collection, propelled them toward a baseball show.

It didn’t hurt that, last year, when Photo Friends was ironing out plans for the exhibit, the Dodgers were well on their way to a World Series berth, said Amy Inouye, the Photo Friends president.

The photos are arranged in almost chronological order, starting in the pre-Dodgers era. It begins with a shot of the multiracial 1900 Commercial High baseball team. Nearby, a 1935 photograph of the Aztecas, a Mexican-American team from Pacoima, hangs next to a shot of Negro Leagues and then Major League Baseball star Satchel Paige.

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David Davis, a member of the organization Photo Friends, at a recently opened Central Library exhibit celebrating 90 years of baseball in Los Angeles. Photo Friends organized the exhibit and published an accompanying 208page book.

The exhibit reminds visitors that Los Angeles had baseball long before the Dodgers bolted from Brooklyn in 1957. A 1950s photo of rival Pacific Coast League sluggers Steve Bilko of the Los Angeles Angels and Dick Stuart of the Hollywood Stars highlights the heyday of the L.A.’s minor league scene.

“That was the Angels/Dodgers of the day,” Davis said of the competition between the teams.

Christina Rose, senior librarian of the photo collection, agrees that it would have been easy to focus the exhibit on the Dodgers. She appreciates that Photo Friends opted to look

at more than just Major League Baseball.

“I like that we have representation of baseball as a whole,” Rose said. “Baseball has always been present in Los Angeles. People have embraced baseball in Southern California for a very long time.”

Koufax, Wills and Fernando-mania The exhibit doesn’t flinch from some darker moments. There’s a photograph of the forced removal of one of the last families that was living in Chavez Ravine before the Dodgers built their namesake stadium. Promised housing for the residents never materialized.

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BASEBALL, 15 L.A. Baseball also reveals how photo technology improved.

As camera equipment advanced, shooters became able to capture players in action. Perusing the exhibit leads from a group of posed images of players standing with bat in hand, to stars pitching, catching, fielding and hitting.

While the net is cast wide, the Dodgers are celebrated.

There are photos of Maury Wills kicking up dust at third base as he breaks Ty Cobb’s stolen base record in 1962, and pitcher Sandy Koufax hurling a fastball during a four-game World Series sweep of the Yankees in 1963.

“Sometimes you just need a kickass sports photo,” Davis said, pointing to the shot of Koufax.

The exhibit also showcases the emotion of baseball, perhaps most notably in Paul Chinn’s 1988 photograph of hobbled slugger Kirk Gibson after he launched a walk-off homer-

un against the highly favored Oakland Athletics in the 1988 World Series. Chinn’s shot catches Gibson’s boyish excitement as he rounds first base.

Another highlight is Herald Examiner photographer Rob Brown’s shot of the shy, hesitant, baby-faced Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela, the man who inspired Fernando-mania in the mid-’80s.

In the book, Tomas J. Benitez details Valenzuela’s role in luring Mexican-American fans to Dodger Stadium while repairing the strained relationships caused by the Chavez Ravine takeover.

“Fernando changed baseball, and Fernando changed L.A.,” Benitez said during a ceremony for the opening of the exhibit.

The majority of the photos in L.A. Baseball came from the Herald-Examiner, a product of the 1962 merger of the afternoon Herald-Express and the morning Examiner. Some of the images in the exhibit show scratch marks and paint

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“They were competing against the big bad Times,” Davis recalled. “They were the scrappy sports section that could.”

The Examiner would fold in 1989, the year after the Dodger’s last World Series win. The library was later given more than 2 million photos from the paper. The exhibit also utilizes images from the Valley Times and the Security Pacific National Bank Collection.

The final photo in the exhibit is, fittingly, a shot of former Dodgers Manager Tommy Lasorda sitting in his office, smiling, as he holds an issue of the Examiner following the team’s 1988 World Series upset, The headline simply reads: “Dodgers Are Champs.”

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Flush with color, style, flawless fashion sense and musical flair, it’s no surprise that Korean pop culture — K-Pop for short — has become such a successful export from South Korea. Hallyu (or Korean Wave) has long doused the shores of the United States, exposing Americans to the best of Korean music, television and film. On Friday-Sunday, Aug. 10-12, KCON aficionados can get their fill when KCON, a celebration of all things Hallyu, comes to the Los Angeles Convention Center. The weekend will include panels, workshops and musical performances by K-Pop stars including Ailee, Davichi and Golden Child. At 1201 S. Figueroa St. or kconla.com

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Ace Hotel 929 S. Broadway, 929 S. Broadway or acehotel.com/losangeles Aug. 7: Get back into your boy band phase with OneRepublic.

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

Aug. 6: Rachel Eckroth, Sam Barsh.

Aug. 7: Evil Genius has a record release concert.

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During the alt-rock boom of the mid-’90s, Belly stood out for their powerful, guitar-driven yet melodic sound. Fronted by former Throwing Muses member Tanya Donelly, Belly scored a number of hits, made its way onto MTV, and earned a couple Grammy nominations before fading away. The group reunited in 2016, and is on tour this summer.

They’ll make a two-night stop at the Teragram Ballroom on Wednesday-Thursday, Aug. 8-9. Expect to hear tunes from their 2018 album Dove and a few old favorites such as “Gepetto and “Feed the Tree” (which, for the record, is about death). Also for the record: Donelly chose the name Belly because it was one of her favorite words. At 1234 W. Seventh St. or teragramballroom.com.

Composer Leonard Bernstein’s mark on music and the stage cannot be understated. Celebrate his influence with the California Philharmonic at a Bernstein 100th birthday event at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Sunday, Aug. 12. Listen as the orchestra performs numbers from On the Town, Candide, and of course, West Side Story. To top it off, Beethoven’s “Symphony 9” and “Ode to Joy” will also be performed. Tenor Orson Van Gay II, soprano Emily Dyer Reed and Los Angeles Opera bass baritone Cedric Berry are among the musicians scheduled to perform. The show begins at 2 p.m. and there’s a pre-concert talk at 1 p.m. At 111 S. Grand Ave., (323) 850-2000 or calphil.com

There are tons of Elvis impersonators across the United States, but in Los Angeles, one stands above all others.

Dubbed the “Chicano Elvis” or the “Mexican Elvis,” El Vez (real name, Robert Lopez) is a longtime favorite of the Grand Performances crew, and he’ll bring his flamboyant and sometimes risqué show back to the Cal Plaza Watercourt on Saturday, Aug. 11, at 8 p.m. Also nicknamed the Thin Brown Duke, El Vez is known for his unique renditions of the King’s songs, as well as some killer outfits. What could be better? Also on the bill is another Grand Performances favorite, the Jewish/lesbian/singer/songwriter/Tupperware-selling Phranc.

You’ll remember this night long after the music stops. At 350 S. Grand Ave. or grandperformances.org.

Who said disco is dead? Well, everyone, but you can still relive the 1970s craze in Grand Park on Friday, Aug. 10. That’s because, deep into its 14th season, the Dance DTLA program’s Dance Downtown night is all about disco. Don the white suit, whip out your best Saturday Night Fever finger point and hustle the night away in an al fresco event that is part free dance party and part free dance class. From 7-11 p.m., disco pros will be on hand to show novices how to groove to the music. Newbies need not worry, as this is a no-judgment environment. Parking is $5 after 8 p.m. At 200 N. Grand Ave., (213) 971-8080 or grandparkla.org.

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 8 Feminist Book Club at The Last Bookstore 453 S. Spring St., (213) 488-0599 or lastbookstorela.com.

7:30 p.m.: Julia Callahan leads this discussion about Porochista Khalpour’s “Sick: A Memoir.”

THURSDAY, AUG. 9 Interactive Introverts Microsoft Theater, 777 Chick Hearn Ct. or microsofttheater.com.

8 p.m.: British radio stars Dan and Phil present their new show, deeply rooted in the insecurities, comedy and weirdness of the Internet.

Art Walk Historic Core or downtownartwalk.org.

5 p.m.: It’s the second Thursday of the month, which means it’s time to weave through Downtown’s galleries.

FRIDAY, AUG. 10 KCRW Summer Nights Union Station, 800 N. Alameda St. or events.kcrw.com.

6 p.m.: KCRW DJs Raul Campos and Anthony Valadez are spinning for this evening party at Union Station.

Dance DTLA Grand Park, 200 N. Grand Ave., (213) 972-8080 or grandparkla.org.

7 p.m.: Learn classic disco moves and then enjoy an evening of dancing in the park.

Art Buzz The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1717 E. Seventh St. or theicala.org.

5:30 p.m.: Artist Norm Laich leads a happy hour tour through the exhibition “This Brush for Hire: Norm Laich & Many Other Artists.”

SATURDAY, AUG. 11 Hasan Minhaj Theatre at Ace Hotel, 929 S. Broadway, (213) 235-9614 or acehotel.com/calendar/los-angeles.

8 and 10:30 p.m.: “The Daily Show” correspondent and comedian shares his wit and wisdom with two shows on Saturday night and an 8 p.m. show on Sunday, Aug. 12.

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LISTINGS, 17 Aug. 8: Alex Schulman Quartet.

Aug. 9: Jamey Arent Group.

Aug. 10: Christian Euman Trio.

Aug. 11: Bob Sheppard Quartet.

Aug. 12: Martin Nevin Group.

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

Aug. 6: August resident Cones gets its name because one member “loves the shape of cones as well as putting them on his head and running around.” Do with that information what you will.

Aug. 7: Let Jesse Marchant serenade you.

Aug. 8: Big Search wants you to look out there and find something.

Aug. 9: Acoustic sounds from Dan Bern, backed by “Jane’s Great Dane.” We cannot verify it is an actual dog or a band.

Aug. 10: Lemuria’s latest album “Recreational Hate” is heavy on indie rock and light on actual recreational hate.

Aug. 11: Bilingual songs from The Soft White Sixties.

Aug. 12: The Sea The Sea is an indie pop band, not a line from a nautical-themed Apocalypse Now remake.

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

Aug. 12: Blind Pony.

Exchange LA 618 S. Spring St., (213) 627-8070 or exchangela.com.

Aug. 10: Brohug, Bijou, Londonbridge, Schade.

Aug. 11: Borgeous.

Grand Performances Two California Plaza, 350 S. Grand Ave. or grandperformances.org.

Aug. 10: It’s a fusion of traditional sounds and modern genres in this showcase of indigenous musicians.

Aug. 11: Hard rock, Latin rock and captivating stage presence from El Vez and Phranc.

Aug. 12: Classical ensemble Supernova performs a new work while the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s String Quartet dives into some classic compositions.

Microsoft Theater 777 Chick Hearn Ct. or microsofttheater.com.

Aug. 10: Marisela brings her crooning vocals to the Microsoft Theater’s stage.

Moroccan Lounge 901 E. First St., (213) 395-0610 or themoroccan.com.

Aug. 6: Ruby Haunt haunts the Moroccan Lounge with its August residency.

Aug. 8: Post-punk pop sounds and corner store imagery with Bodega.

Aug. 9: Jazz Cartier is a hip-hop musician, not a jazz singer.

Aug. 10: Country sounds from Paul Cauthen.

Aug. 11: The Carnival of Dreams night includes aerialists, artists, and music from acts such as Beneath the Underdog, Jackie Vae, Bellavolent and The Dirty Diamond.

Aug. 12: Cary Brothers is an individual. He also does indie rock.

Pershing Square 532 S. Olive St., (213) 847-4970 or laparks.org/pershingsquare.

Aug. 8: Dance pop from Kismit.

Aug. 11: Love is a battlefield. Pat Benatar is a singer. She’ll probably sing that hit song when she performs with Neil Giraldo.

Resident 428 S. Hewitt St. or (323) 316-5311 or residentdtla.com.

Aug. 6: Post-punk act The Electric West is self-aware about being a post-punk act.

The band is also having an album release show.

Aug. 7: You might know Dylan Carlson as the frontman of Earth.

Aug. 8: Neo-soul group Night Owls play at 8 p.m. which honestly feels too early for insomniacs.

MORE LISTINGS Hundreds of listings of fun and interesting things to do in Downtown Los Angeles can also be found online at ladowntownnews.com/calendar: Rock, Pop & Jazz; Bars & Clubs; Farmers Markets; Events; Film; Sports; Art Spaces; Theater, Dance and Opera; Classical Music; Museums; and Tours.

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By Sean P. Thomas he Museum of Contemporary Art, which has dealt with controversy in recent months due to the firing of its chief curator and the announced departure of its current director, has turned to an established figure in both the New York and European art scene as its newest head.

Klaus Biesenbach, chief curator at the New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the director of its satellite space, MoMA PS1, will step into the role left by Philippe Vergne when his contract expires in 2019.

“It is humbling to be invited to lead a museum that has already achieved so much, and that in so many ways represents the highest aspirations of contemporary art,” Biesenbach said in a prepared statement.

Biesenbach began his career in Berlin as the founder of both the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art and the Berlin Biennale. In 1995 he moved to New York to serve as the director of the PS1 (prior to the experimental art space’s affiliation with MoMA). In 2010 he joined MoMA as its chief curator at large. photo by Casey Kelbaugh Wh i l e at M o MA , Klaus Biesenbach will replace exiting Biesenbach helped Director Philippe Vergne when his grow the institution ficontract expires in 2019. nancially, almost tripling the annual budget, bolstering the endowment fund and growing the board of trustees from 11 members to 30.

Biesenbach is joining the Bunker Hill museum during a crucial time in its near 40-year history.

In February, Mark Grotjahn, who sits on the MOCA board, declined to be honored at the museum’s annual gala citing a lack of diversity among the gala’s past honorees. The gala was subsequently cancelled.

A month later, the museum fired its chief curator Helen Molesworth to the consternation of many. In May, Vergne announced that he would not be renewing his contract and will step down from his post when his contract expires in March of next year.

Catherine Opie, a photographer who serves on the Museum’s artist board, said in a prepared statement that it was crucial to members of the board, including Grotjahn, to feel that they had a “strong voice” in the selection process.

“I want everyone in our community to know that we’re thrilled to have Klaus Biesenbach join us,” Opie said. “He comes to MOCA with a level of mutual trust with artists that is crucial for everything this museum does today, and that we hope it will be able to do in the future.”

Maria Seferian, President of MOCA’s Board of Trusteees and chair of the search committee said in a prepared statement that the board is “aligned in our support of Klaus and thrilled that he has accepted our offer.”

A start date for Biesenbach has not been determined. sean@downtownnews.com

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