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Downtown Poised for Big Role if Olympics Land in L.A.

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ill Los Angeles land the 2024 Summer Olympics? That’s still far from certain.

However, what became clear last week is that if L.A. gets the Games, Downtown would be a critical hub of venues and facilities. Documents released on Tuesday, Aug. 25, show a plethora of Central City sites, with a renovated L.A. Coliseum (possibly with a roof over seating areas) hosting the opening and closing ceremonies as well as track and field events. The planned soccer stadium on the site of the current Sports Arena would host a temporary pool for swimming and diving.

Other competition sites include the Galen Center, Shrine Auditorium, Convention Center, Staples Center, Microsoft Theater and Dodger Stadium. Other venue “clusters” include Hollywood and the Santa Monica coastline. The bid estimates the Olympics would cost $4.1 billion, and it suggests a $161 million surplus. The IOC will select the host city in 2017.

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TWITTER: @ DOWNTOWNNEWS puter or wired device on Monday, Aug. 31, at 10 a.m., because that’s when reservations can be made to check out the $140 million art museum featuring works from the collections of Eli and Edythe Broad. The Broad opens Sept. 20, and while admission will be free, and tickets will be available onsite, the online advance tickets (available at thebroad. org/tickets) allow entry at a specific date and time, without a wait; arrivals will be every 30 minutes. Museum officials last week announced that the museum at 221 S. Grand Ave. will be open Tuesday-Sunday, with 8 p.m. closings on Thursday-Saturday. Visitors will be able to download an app that offers information about the works, including audio tours of the 50,000-square-foot third-floor gallery. The opening exhibition features more than 250 works by artists including Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Mark Bradford and more. Although entrance is gratis, parking in the on-site garage is $12 for three hours on weekdays, and the same price on weekends and after 5 p.m.

Fundraising Campaign Launched for Angels Flight

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to donate money so that it can “keep the lights on” and pay for the railway’s insurance and maintenance costs. Angels Flight has received a $10,000 matching grant from the David Bohnett Foundation and additional funds from nearby stakeholders such as property owner CIM Group and the Omni Hotel. Last month, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority began looking at alternative options to get the funicular rolling. “It has meant so much to so many generations of Angelenos that we simply have to save it,” Adele Yellin, chair of the railway’s board of directors and the owner of Grand Central Market, said in a prepared state-

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Welcome Back, A+D Museum

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ast December, the head of the A+D Architecture and Design Museum announced that the institution was being forced to leave its home on Wilshire Boulevard due to construction of a Metropolitan Transportation Authority station, and would relocate to Downtown Los Angeles. She said the new facility would open in the summer of 2015.

It was easy to raise eyebrows at the timeline. Too often we hear about projects coming to the area in a relatively short period, only to see the debut pushed back three months, six months or longer. Opening a museum, even a small one, in less than a year? It didn’t seem possible.

So count this page as pleasantly surprised that museum Executive Director Tibbie Dunbar and the rest of the A+D team managed to meet their ambitious schedule. The museum opened in an 8,000-squarefoot brick building at 900 E. Fourth St. in the Arts District on Aug. 20. A huge crowd turned out for the kickoff party.

There’s a lot to like about the museum. Downtown is at an exciting time architecturally, with more than 100 projects under construction or in the development pipeline. It makes sense to have a facility dedicated to architecture in the heart of the action.

It is also fitting that the A+D is just a block from the Southern California Institute of Architecture. The institution can be a resource hub for the hundreds of students and the general community.

Then there is the “return” factor. The A+D was founded by the late Downtown developer and visionary Ira Yellin in 2001, and was housed on the ground floor of his Bradbury Building. Yellin passed away the following year, and soon the museum was on to a new home, this one out of Downtown.

Dunbar joined the staff in 2004 and has managed to keep the museum alive even as it changed locations multiple times. Give her credit for sticking with it when Metro officials declared that they had to take her property for the construction of a station for the agency’s upcoming Purple Line. The A+D had been in its Wilshire Boulevard home since 2010. It would have been easy for Dunbar to throw in the towel.

There’s also a fortuitous tie to the museum’s opening show. In Shelter: Rethinking How We Live in Los Angeles, six architecture firms have come up with ideas for homes of the future, and three of them are situated along the Los Angeles River, which could see a $1 billion upgrade in the coming decades. The news that Frank Gehry is working with the city on the project raises all sorts of architectural possibilities.

A lot of growth is happening in the Arts District, and many community members are worried that the once quiet neighborhood will lose its artistic appeal and nature as big businesses flood in. That may happen, but we think the A+D is a welcome and appropriate fit. Its lease is for two years, but hopefully it will stay much longer, and will inform a changing Downtown about the possibilities of architecture and design.

Downtown Can Be a Hub for the Music Business

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or a long time, the idea of music in Downtown meant one thing: Checking out the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Yes, there were always ancillary events, whether a summer concert at the California Plaza Watercourt or punk bands in the grimy Al’s Bar, but for years music in the Central City meant hearing classical strains in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion or, later, Walt Disney Concert Hall.

It’s amazing how much things can change in a decade. Now Downtown Los Angeles is replete with concert venues, and people flock here to enjoy rock, indie bands, electronic dance music, world music and more. The openings in the last two years of The Regent on Main Street, the Teragram Ballroom in City West and Broadway’s Theatre at Ace Hotel have kicked things into a higher, louder, more attention-generating gear. Meanwhile, the Phil continues to go strong in Disney Hall, while Pershing Square and the Watercourt each host dozens of free outdoor shows every summer, and numerous bars host live music.

As Downtown evolves, it is taking on another role, too: that of a place for people in the music business. This month Los Angeles Downtown News reported on how superstar DJ Steve Aoki moved the headquarters of his record label Dim Mak from East Hollywood to Downtown. It’s a small business, with about 20 employees, but Aoki could have taken it anywhere, and many communities would have been eager to reel in the man that Forbes magazine ranked no. 5 on its list of highest-paid DJs in 2014 (he earned $23 million). Yet for Aoki, coming to the Historic Core seemed to be a simple decision. “Downtown has an authenticity that Hollywood doesn’t give me anymore,” he said in the article. “I grew up in Hollywood, but Downtown is the true center of the city now.”

In coming here Aoki joins other dance music artists who have a local office, recording studio or home, among them the extremely popular Skrillex (aka Sonny Moore). Downtown is also the base of operations for Spaceland Productions, which in addition to operating The Regent runs The Echo and the Echoplex in Echo Park, and has programmed concerts and music schedules at numerous other venues, among them the Santa Monica Pier and Pershing Square.

All of that makes this an exciting time not just for those who want to catch a concert in Downtown, but for people on the business and real estate side. As Downtown evolves, there is an opportunity to lure even more jobs and companies here. Many landlords and brokers talk up the “creative” office movement, and in particular the idea of bringing technology firms to the loft-like spaces characterized by open floor plans and exposed ducts and pipes.

However, music companies, which are frequently filled with techsavvy employees in their 20s and 30s, are also a natural fit for these kinds of offices, whether in the Arts District, the Historic Core or another neighborhood. Many of these workers already come Downtown for shows in the evening, so they could be predisposed to working in the area.

We think landlords and business leaders would be wise to look at the music industry as a growth opportunity for Downtown, and to craft a plan to try to bring a critical mass of these companies here. They can play up the businesses that have already arrived and, as Aoki referenced, the “authenticity” that Downtown offers.

The music industry, possibly more than any other, depends on being hip and current, and no neighborhood in Los Angeles can compare on that scale with Downtown.

Those selling the community can also point to the explosion of restaurants, the plethora of bars and nightspots, and the unique opportunities available here, such as the outdoor concert that Aoki played on Broadway in May — people who signed up for Mayor Eric Garcetti’s volunteers corps got in for free.

This task won’t be easy, and landlords in other areas will fight to keep their tenants. However, Downtown could have a built-in advantage by virtue of the factors mentioned above. Plus, there could be a residential bounce — if people in the music business work here and see shows here, a natural extension would be to live here, too.

It makes sense to woo the music industry and try to convince company executives that Downtown is the right place for their business. This may not have been the situation even five years ago, but the music industry is about the future, and that future should increasingly be in Downtown.

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City Report Calls for More Storage for Homeless People’s Possessions Issue Grows as Encampments Continue to Spread, in Skid Row and Beyond

By Eddie Kim he number of sidewalks cluttered or blocked by homeless peoples’ belongings has sparked a fierce debate about what the city can and should do. The issue has been particularly pointed in Downtown Los Angeles, where homelessness has spread beyond the traditional base of Skid Row, creating problems both for those living on the streets, and the area’s new batch of businesses and residents.

In June, the City Council voted to allow city workers to clear away unattended belongings on streets and sidewalks with 24 hours notice, down from the previous 72 hours required.

Mayor Eric Garcetti, however, asked that the protocols not be enforced until some changes could be made. There are varying reports on whether confiscations of property are happening anyway.

On Wednesday, Aug. 26, the Council’s newly formed Homelessness and Poverty Committee approved a number of changes to the ordinance, based on the recommendations in joint reports from the city Chief Legislative Analyst and Chief Administrative Officer.

A key change would allow city workers to take homeless people’s attended belongings only if there is storage available nearby — one of the city’s two storage facilities, in Skid Row, is often at capacity. Property left unattended even after the 24-hour notice period would still be impounded, and “bulky” items, defined as anything other than a tent that

does not fit into a 60-gallon bin, would still be confiscated immediately.

The committee also voted to eliminate criminal penalties for failing to put belongings in storage and put tents away. Several councilmembers, including the First District’s Gil Cedillo, said that giving homeless people fines or misdemeanors for not complying with the ordinance puts them in a worse position.

The latter action was cheered by a crowd of homeless advocates attending the meeting.

“L.A. has tried to criminalize homelessness in a way never seen in this country in the past 10 years, yet we still have the most visible homeless problem in the nation,” Becky Dennison, executive director of the Los Angeles Community Action Network, told the committee earlier.

Representatives of other Downtown groups, including the Central City Association, South Park Business Improvement District and Historic Core BID, came in support of the overall ordinance, while noting the need for more storage facilities, bathrooms and showers, and services, especially in communities beyond Skid Row. “Skid Row is an excellent example of encampments growing beyond what is reasonable and it demonstrates a lack of application of law,” said the Historic Core BID’s Noah Strauss. “The conditions that result for area businesses, residents and homeless individuals themselves are a public health crisis.”

Homeless encampments and car camping grew 85% in Los Angeles County over the last two years, according to the Los Angeles Home-

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less Services Authority. During the same time period the city’s and county’s homeless population, both grew 12%.

Increased enforcement of the ordinance would require more storage space for both impounded property and belongings that homeless people voluntarily bring in, according to the city report. Eleventh District Councilman Mike Bonin stated that the city “does not have sufficient voluntary storage,” and that the spread of belongings on sidewalks is a direct result.

“We’re not going to create voluntary storage unless we’re required to,” Bonin said. “Maybe we can also incentivize communities — like, no scheduled cleanings unless you provide a storage facility.”

Whether the city can find facilities for both impound and voluntary storage remains a significant challenge, according to the joint CAO/ CLA report.

The city currently has only two facilities for homeless property. The largest, in Skid Row, contains 1,462 60-gallon bins for voluntary storage. Based on the costs to establish the facility at 507 Towne Ave., a similar storage area would cost $715,764 annually for operation and rent. The Skid Row facility also needed a $231,528 renovation to prepare it for its current use, according to the city.

If it adopts the report’s goals, the City Council would have to find the money and locations for the storage facilities. It could also explore other options such as mobile storage and dis-

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The city continues to discuss how to clear sidewalks, in Downtown and beyond, of homeless people’s belongings, and where they could be stored.

tributing vouchers to use at private facilities.

The job of finding new locations would need to utilize data culled from LAHSA’s recent homeless count and other survey info. Creating storage sites near the biggest concentrations of homeless people is a “technically complex” task with countless potential roadblocks, including resistance from businesses and residents, said LAHSA Executive Director Peter Lynn.

The committee voted to move ahead with the storage facility creation recommendations laid out in the CAO/CLA’s report. That, along with the amendments to the ordinance, now head to the full City Council for discussion. eddie@downtownnews.com

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A New Way to Drive Downtown Tech Incubator Grid110 Aims to Give Startups a Boost With Rent-Free Space and Support Services. The Mayor’s Office Is a Partner

By Heidi Kulicke ccording to the Small Business Administration, about 50% of all startups fail within the first five years. For tech companies, that number is even higher.

A new incubator is attempting to help some Downtown Los Angeles tech companies buck the trend. Along with getting free office space for six months and receiving guidance from those with experience in the sector, there’s another unlikely boost — support from Mayor Eric Garcetti’s office.

Grid110 had a kickoff party this month in its headquarters on the sixth floor of the Gas Company Tower. Currently, five Downtown fashion businesses, each with two to five employees, are in the Financial District property. They’ll stay there at least through December, with the goal of growing so that they become self-sustaining and hire other employees for high-paying tech jobs.

Grid110, named for the nearby 110 Freeway, was founded by attorney Stephen Kane, who works on the project full time while also maintaining his own private practice specializing in small business. The companies receive additional support from a half-dozen board members with entrepreneurial backgrounds who volunteer their time.

The type of help provided runs the gamut, from setting up meetings with potential investors to offering advice on the legal, accounting or public relations fronts. Kane said the businesses are asked to stay Downtown after their initial stint in Grid110.

“I grew up in Downtown, and I’ve got a lot of pride and passion for it,” Kane said. “It’s exciting to build a city within a city and work to create a

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The plan calls for Grid110 to have a series of six-month cycles, with five new companies entering each time. Fashion companies were chosen for the first period because of the number of businesses of that ilk in Downtown, Kane said. Though there will be an application process in the future, Kane said most of the current companies were recruited to the incubator.

The participating businesses are customizable Apple Watch retailer Casetify; custom tailored tuxedo online retailer SimpleTux; textile industry software developer ShapeShifter Technology; online jewelry retailer Vrai & Oro; and Team Tassy, a nonprofit that collects and recycles trash and transforms it into a fibrous material used to make fabric.

Key support has come from Garcetti’s office, said Kane, with Grid110 getting help from the tech sector division of the mayor’s economic development team. Garcetti’s office has helped make introductions, form Grid110’s advisory board and connect the incubator with sponsors. The mayor’s office is also helping it secure nonprofit status (which is still pending).

For the tech-savvy Garcetti, Grid110 is a way to help create a friendly environment for startup technology firms in Los Angeles. He pointed to the opportunity to spark economic growth and create high-paying jobs.

“L.A.’s tech ecosystem is on fire and only growing,” Garcetti said in an email. “Our partnership with Grid110 is a key strategy for those early stage startups. Connecting them with free office space enables them to spend precious capital on developing the next great product and on hiring the best talent around.”

The businesses in Grid110 are all tech companies involved in the fashion industry.

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Future cycles will still have a tech focus, but with different industries, such as financial, legal or entertainment, said Megan Sette, a Grid110 board member. She noted that all those sectors have a prominent presence in Downtown.

“We all bought into the live-work-play lifestyle of Downtown, but found it hard to sustain,” said Sette, who also owns M Collaborative, a boutique marketing agency.

Vanessa Stofenmacher and Chelsea Nicholson started Vrai & Oro (“truth” and “gold” in French and Spanish, respectively) in 2014 because they saw a niche in the market for highquality, affordable fine jewelry sold online. The company manufactures its goods in the Jewelry District and sells directly to consumers, eliminating the need for third-party markups. Nicholson said the hope is that Grid110 will allow them to build a network of professionals they can call on as the business grows.

“We’re at a crossroads right now, deciding where we want to take the company and if we’ll seek funding,” Nicholson said. “By setting milestones with Grid110, we’re able to stay on track with our goals and establish new business relationships.”

Hamish Dean, the founder of ShapeShifter Technology, also hopes to use Grid110 as a resource to build relationships with executives in the Fashion District and beyond. ShapeShifter makes a software program used in clothing manufacturing and distribution.

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Brookfield Property Partners, which owns seven skyscrapers in Bunker Hill and the Financial District, hosts Grid110 and the five startups in one of the specialty suites belonging to its DesignHive portfolio. The effort, launched this year, asked six architecture firms each to design an office of the future.

“With DesignHive, our intent was to attract nontraditional tenants to the spaces and throughout all of our properties,” said James Malone, vice president of leasing at Brookfield. “With Grid110’s mission to develop the tech ecosystem, it seemed like a natural fit for us.”

The lease is for one year but could be extended, Malone added. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

For Kane, Grid110 had an unlikely starting point. While running for a seat on the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council last spring, he met a number of young entrepreneurs who all hoped to make the community an entrepreneurial tech hub. He won the DLANC election, and the group began meeting monthly as a sort of “tech task force,” Sette noted.

Kane said the ultimate goal is to have multiple Grid110 sessions running at the same time, throughout Downtown and eventually all of Los Angeles. heidi@downtownnews.com

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Secret Spaces at Seventh and Olive A Renovation at the Los Angeles Athletic Club Leads to Surprising Discoveries, Including Long-Forgotten Rooms

By Kristin Friedrich fter bouncing around Downtown for 30 years, and folding once, the Los Angeles Athletic Club opened in a sparkling new building at Seventh and Olive streets in 1912.

As the city changed over the next century, the club adapted.

But it also has a sneaky way of hanging onto its past: Recent renovations have revealed artifacts, long overlooked-staircases and even entire forgotten rooms. They, in turn, figure into the club’s future.

Three years ago, LAAC Assistant General Manager Cory Hathaway found a manila envelope in the club’s archives room from the U.S. Patent Office, dated 1909. Inside he discovered fantastical drawings by his great-great-grandfather, Frank A. Garbutt, of flying machines and winged suits.

Hathaway knew Garbutt (1869-1947) was a lot of things: involved in real estate, mining, oil manufacturing and transportation; co-founder of the Paramount Pictures Corporation; creator of the LAAC, the California Yacht Club and the Riviera Country Club; and a key player in bringing the 1932 Olympic Games to Los Angeles.

And though Hathaway knew he dabbled in the aerospace industry, he had no idea that Garbutt dreamed up contraptions himself.

Those creations inspired the club’s redesign of the third-floor bar, Invention, which opened in 2013. Shortly after Invention debuted, Hathaway discovered a staircase behind it that had

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“As soon as I found it, I wanted to open the space it led to,” he said. “Over the years the concept changed. I pictured a club library. My grandpa mentioned to me that he wanted a history room.”

His grandfather Charles Hathaway’s idea took hold, and in June, the Blue Room debuted.

Accessed by a door disguised as a bookshelf, the intimate bar space is filled with vintage sporting equipment, historic club photos from the archives and antique lockers.

Behind Locked Doors Forgotten spaces and historic objects are nothing new Downtown, where old buildings are poked at and reimagined to meet the demands of a changing neighborhood. A few years ago, SRO Housing Corp. discovered a former speakeasy, the Monterey Room, beneath the Rosslyn Hotel annex. A cabinet of decades-old candy was found behind a wall in the Stowell/El Dorado Hotel on Spring Street.

A still-flickering neon light was discovered behind a partition at Clifton’s Cafeteria in 2014.

“Making these discoveries is just one of the great things about preserving historic buildings,” said Linda Dishman, executive director of the Los Angeles Conservancy. “You never know what you’ll find. Yes, it could be some dry rot, but it could also be a fascinating piece of history no one knew existed.”

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are less known. Designed by Edwin Bergstrom and John Parkinson, the club was one of the first mixed-use buildings in the city. There were dorm-style apartments, which Charlie Chaplin would sporadically call home in his mid-’20s. There was the city’s first indoor pool, gym facilities that turned out hundreds of Olympians, and meeting spaces where city boosters planned and schemed.

As the years passed, fire codes rid the club of mezzanines and added floors. Apartments transitioned to hotel rooms. Athletic trends opened new rooms and closed others as gymnastics, fencing and boxing gave way to squash, yoga and cardio machines.

Sometimes, in the midst of that shape-shifting, things were forgotten. Hathaway, the fifth generation of his lineage to work onsite, recently led a small group around to check out the building’s secrets and its new bragging rights.

The Archives Room, where Hathaway discovered Garbutt’s patent drawings, is full of ephemera from the club’s past — programs from galas in the 1910s and ’20s, photographs of members like actor Harold Lloyd, an old barbell and a ticker tape machine that spewed stock prices in the 1930s.

Another overlooked space is a small room in the basement. Personnel files from the 1980s share shelf space with pencil-notated ledgers dating to the early 20th century.

The winding basement also has the China Room, which is just what the name implies.

It is full of boxes of dishes and cups from the last hundred years, old copper spittoons from the club’s early days, and in the mash-up of decades, computer cords from the ’90s.

Another find, dubbed the Blueprint Room, is tucked in the back of the squash courts. It has plans and drawings from the club and all

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its holdings, past and present — mines, ranches, yacht clubs and golf clubs, many of which were sold in the 1940s to alleviate debt. Here also are original drawings from Parkinson and Bergstrom, which Brian Kite, a principal at SRK Architects, said he used in his firm’s redesign of the fifth and sixth floors.

“We took the original plans and literally scanned them in and drew over them,” Kite said. “We use them to communicate to the Hathaways what’s new and old, and maintain the old design as respectfully as we can.”

There are several winks to history in SRK’s plans — dining areas around the pool, and a new exposure of the underwater pool window where swim coaches used to observe their charges.

“Parkinson worked with ship designers to create that pool, and it’s built like a submarine. We opened it up to expose the steel beams, the rivets, the historic way it’s constructed,” Kite said.

The strangest room was forgotten since the 1950s.

According to club lore, when the eighth-floor handball courts were constructed there was no agreement on standard court size. Local clubs chose their own dimensions to give their players a home-court advantage when visitors came to town. In 1954, the club built courts that aligned with the U.S. Handball Association’s regulations.

As the new, smaller courts were built, a narrow dead space was created between them. It has been occupied by a staffer who assembles gift baskets for club guests and members, but then Hathaway noticed a locked door at the end of the little lair.

He got inside, where an unwavering layer of dust covered a desk, file cabinets and a giant iron safe to which no one has the combination. Hundreds of Melodile Garbutt Hathaway’s (Cory Hathaway’s great grandmother) returned checks, dating back to 1912, are filed here. The checks and bank books tell the story of her life, the club and Downtown. She withdrew cash for club business from banks on Spring Street. She

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Hidden storage facilities were filled with decades-old financial documents, bank receipts and checks, including this one from Aug. 30, 1916.

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Tour participants looked at old receipts and theorized about the huge safe’s contents. There could be stock papers, or cash, or treasure! Hathaway was unmoved. Maybe a building’s mysteries, if your family has been surrounded by them for five generations, lose their shock value.

About three weeks later, Hathaway hired a locksmith to drill through the steel door. It turns out, there was no cash or treasure inside. Instead the safe, like so many of the club’s hidden rooms, was full of financial ledgers, member logs and legal documents that back a century.

This time, though, there was an added find: an envelope full of keys marked, “Keys that don’t seem to fit anything.”

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Hooters Fight: Two men were drinking at Hooters at 1248 S. Figueroa St. on Aug. 21 when four strangers attacked them from behind. One man was beaten until he was unconscious. The attackers ran from the bar in separate directions.

Pantry Threat: A man entered The Original Pantry Café at 877 S. Figueroa St. at 3 a.m. on Aug. 22. He was approached by a security guard, then hit the guard in the face.

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Turf War: A street vendor was placing traffic cones in a public parking space at 1031 S. Hill St. on Aug. 22 when another vendor drove into the space to claim it for himself, nearly hitting the first man. The vendors had had a previous dispute over the location, according to police.

Bar Stabbing: An intoxicated man entered a bar at Ninth and Olive streets on Aug. 17. The bartender refused to serve him, and a security guard escorted him out of the business. Ten minutes later, the man returned and stabbed the security guard multiple times with a pocketknife.

More Bike Thefts: Six bikes were stolen during the week of Aug. 1622. Four had their locks cut, including two bikes at the Central Library at 630 W. Fifth St. Police arrested a man seen riding one of the stolen bicycles.

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The Los Angeles International Short Film Festival is an eight-day event with 265 films being shown at L.A. Live. Among the works featured is Pencil Me In, about Tony Benedict, an animator who worked at Hanna Barbera in the 1960s.

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By Heidi Kulicke ince 2009, Downtown has been the location for the huge Los Angeles Film Festival. It also holds the annual Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles, and regular series such as the Los Angeles Conservancy’s Last Remaining Seats, which screens classic films in old Broadway movie palaces.

This week, a new festival joins the mix. Opening Thursday, Sept. 3, is the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. Over the course of eight days, it will screen 265 short films from 26 countries. They will be shown at the Regal Cinemas at L.A. Live.

Participants include film school students and first time directors, and among the people in front of and behind the camera are Hollywood veterans Bryce Dallas Howard and Lindsay Lohan.

Robert Arentz, founder of the festival, said the timing was right for a new location for the event launched in 1996. Arentz said he agreed to move from Hollywood to Downtown after L.A. Live owner Anschutz Entertainment Group approached him about giving the festival a new headquarters.

“L.A. Live is the perfect festival setting,” Arentz said. “It’s not just about seeing some films and leaving. It’s about having a complete entertainment experience.”

Arentz said he received more than 2,000 submissions for this year’s festival, shattering the previous record. The works could be no longer than 45 minutes.

He expects about 8,000 people to attend the screenings, which are broken into five 90-minute programs held daily at 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 and 10 p.m. (there is no 10 p.m. screening on opening night or closing night, Sept. 10). An awards ceremony will take place the last night of the festival, with prizes handed out in the categories of drama, comedy, animation, foreign, experimental and documentary, as well as overall winner prize.

The winners will be eligible for consideration for an Academy Award nomination, Arentz said.

Lindsay the Selkie Festival highlights include the 7:45 p.m. program taking place this Thursday. Eight films will be featured, beginning with the 11-minute experimental work Till Human Voices Wake Us. It stars Lindsay Lohan as a selkie, a mythical creature that is a seal in water and a beautiful woman on land.

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The program closes with Solemates, a oneminute drama about a couple’s life and commitment to each other — the twist, as the title implies, is that it is told from the perspective of shoes. The film is written and directed by Bryce Dallas Howard. There is no dialogue.

The shorts are loosely grouped by theme, and festival organizers try to bring a variety of genres and stories to each program, said Vicky Petela, director of operations for the event.

The animation program on Friday at 1 p.m. features 10 films from around the world, including Denmark, Taiwan and New Zealand.

They include veteran animator Tony Benedict’s 20-minute Pencil Me In, which recounts his time with the Hanna Barbera studio from 1960-’67.

It focuses on the people behind the animation, including founders Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.

Benedict, who was a staff writer and storyboard artist for the original “Flintstones” and “Jetsons” series, said he is looking forward to his work’s world premiere.

“I’m excited to see how the audience reacts. I still don’t know what to expect,” said Benedict, who began his animation career with Disney in 1956. “It’s about the people who worked there, what we did and how we did it. We were making more money than we ever had before and it was just a great time for us.”

Also this week is a program of films made

by Los Angeles Unified School District high school students. There were 50 submissions for the program, but only eight were chosen, said Petela. It takes place Saturday at 1 p.m.

Most festival events are open to the public, and general admission to individual programs is $14. The opening night and awards ceremony events are $30 each. An all access pass runs $199.

In addition to the screenings, there are weekend panel discussions with industry professionals. The Saturday panel is on the business of film; a Sunday panel covers marketing and distribution. Both start at 1:30 p.m. and are $14.

A kick-off party takes place Wednesday from 7-9 p.m. at Angel City Brewery on Alameda Street. The public is welcome to stop by and meet some of the filmmakers, Patela said.

The Los Angeles International Short Film Festival runs Sept. 3-10 at L.A. Live, 800 W. Olympic Blvd. Tickets, a full schedule and information at lashortsfest.com. heidi@downtownnews.com

Lindsay Lohan gets top billing in the 11-minute experimental work Till Human Voices Awake Us. She plays a selkie, a mythical creature that is a seal in water and a beautiful woman on land.

It screens Thursday, Sept. 4.

Bryce Dallas Howard wrote and directed the one-minute film Solemates, about a couple’s life. It is told from the perspective of their shoes.

The Scarecrow stars Sandra Oh from “Grey’s Anatomy” and follows a divorced couple’s struggle with loneliness.

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In December, the Conservancy will offer a tour showcasing holiday lights in Downtown.

Also coming in December is a weekly family tour of Union Station, said Annie Laskey, program manager at the Conservancy and the overseer of the tour program. photo courtesy of L.A. Conservancy Most tours are offered every Saturday at 10 a.m. and last about two-and-a-half hours. The particularly grateful that complaints during the surge of pedestrian activity, and said crowdmost popular excursions, with titles such as “His“Downtown Renaissance” tour, which covers ed streets make it harder than ever to herd a toric Downtown” and “Broadway Historic Theatre Spring and Main streets, have subsided. group of camera-toting people on the busy and Commercial District,” attract about 30-50 “Twenty years ago the smell of urine was sidewalks. people, Laskey said. The Art Deco tour, which very pungent, and most of the buildings were The tours are led by a docent base of about stops at the Eastern Columbia Building, the Cenempty except for pigeons,” Weggeman recalled.

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“Now people are living in those buildings, walkAccording to Laskey, the Conservancy has in- tirees as well as graduate students and people ing their dogs on the sidewalk.” who work as doctors, lawyers, artists, secretartroduced more than 175,000 people to the hisThrough the walking tours, Laskey said, the ies and more. tory and architecture of Downtown since the Conservancy tries to communicate the impor“The common thread between them is they program’s inception. Tours are $10 for the gentance of the past to help people understand love their city and want to share it with otheral public and $5 for Conservancy members the present, and that someday, new buildings ers,” Laskey said. “It’s very fulfilling to make a and kids 12 and under. will be in need of preservation advocacy too.

Dishman said the revitalization of Downtown connection with people you don’t know, while “Unless people know [about history] they helping them to look at things in a new way.” has led to heightened interest in the tours. can’t care, and unless they care, they can’t adDon Weggeman has led walking tours for “There’s an increased buzz about Downtown vocate,” Laskey said.

25 years. He became a Conservancy member and people want to see what’s going on,” DishIn the future, Dishman said the Conservanin 1985, after he purchased a home built in man said. “It’s one thing to look at a book with cy hopes to create more school tours to teach pictures of beautiful buildings, but it’s something 1906. He retired from the publishing industry children about the history of the buildings, 13 years ago and is able to lead all nine tours, a completely different to stand on the street and Losmajority Angeles Downtown facebook: howNews they work together to form a neighborsignificant feat considering that the of see how they form a neighborhood in person.”

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By Heidi Kulicke n 1980, Downtown Los Angeles was on a downslide, with businesses fleeing the Central City and little to do after dark. Still, the young preservationist organization the Los Angeles Conservancy saw opportunity in the community’s history.

As part of its educational outreach effort, the Conservancy launched a self-guided walking tour called “Would You Believe L.A.?” The map included 59 sites in the Historic Core. It served as the framework for the Conservancy’s first three docent-led tours, which are still offered today.

Thirty-five years later, the program contains nine docent-led tours, with seven offered every weekend and two taking place once a month. More than 12,000 people took tours in 2014, said Linda Dishman, executive director of the Conservancy.

“We originally started giving tours because a lot of people didn’t know we had this historic Downtown area, because you can’t see it from the freeway,” Dishman said. “We needed a way to get people here on foot and have people experience the architecture in person.”

The Conservancy is celebrating the milestone with extended dates for some tours, additional tours scheduled for the coming months, as well as promotions and membersonly specials. The self-guided “Would You Believe L.A.?” has been brought back, with about half of the original 59 sites highlighted (another 11 free, self-guided tours are available on the

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

Aug. 31: Tin/Bag. Sept. 1: Jam Session with Dan Schnelle Trio.

Sept. 2: Jacob Mann Trio.

Sept. 3: Alexander Noice Sextet.

Sept. 4: Vaghan.

Sept. 5: John Daversa Small Band.

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

Sept. 4, 8:30 p.m.: The Dead Ships have been around the L.A. indie scene long enough to know that reverb is everyone’s friend.

Sept. 6, 8:30 p.m.: Diet Cig: New York-based pop rock band or tobacco industry conspiracy?

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

Sept. 6, 10 p.m.: RT N the 44s promise to purify your soul.

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

Sept. 4: Blasterjaxx.

Sept. 5: Adam Beyer.

Redwood Bar and Grill 316 W. Second St., (213) 652-4444 or theredwoodbar.com.

Aug. 31: Acoustic Punk.

The Regent 448 S. Main St. or theregenttheater.com.

Sept. 4, 8 p.m.: The Tijuana Panthers bring fine feline musical pleasures from south of the border.

Sept. 5, 8 p.m.: Notes from the sonic underground as The Sound of Tomorrow drops by for its monthly rager.

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

Sept. 1, 10 p.m.: The Makers would be pleased to explain to you the differences between the top shelf Japanese whiskies, but they’re too busy doing their damn job.

Staples Center 1111 S. Figueroa St., (213) 742-7326 or staplescenter.com.

Sept. 5, 8 p.m.: Chayanne is the dreamboat singer the Puerto Rico Board of Tourism has been praying for for years.

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

Sept. 3: Human Behavior, Red Pony Clock and Karima Walker.

Sept. 4: Peach Kelli Pop, Sloppy Jane, Joel Jerome and The Groans.

2 In an era in which band names are too often disingenuous plays on words, trite reworkings of celebrity names and all-around false advertising, the moniker of L.A.’s own Dam-Funk aptly describes his Real McCoy brand of bass-heavy funk. This week, the Stones Throw Records artist drops his latest full-length album, Invite the Light, featuring the likes of Snoop Dogg, Q-Tip and Ariel Pink.

On Saturday, Sept. 5, Dam-Funk celebrates the achievement by taking the stage at the Teragram Ballroom in City West to drop some jams, new and old. There’s no telling which special friends might show up. At 1234 W. Seventh St., (213) 6899100 or teragramballroom.com.

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What began as a mid-’90s, backroom show at the Comedy Store became an important weekly incubator for black comedians. Two decades have passed since Phat Tuesday’s inception, and now creator Guy Torry has enlisted a roster of comrades in stand-up arms to celebrate the event’s 20th anniversary, though in a far bigger venue. On Tuesday, Sept.

1, Torry joins Lavell Crawford (shown here), Joe Torry, Tommy Davidson, Luenell and Tony Rock onstage at L.A. Live’s Club Nokia. Tickets were still available at press time for the 8 p.m. cavalcade of comedy. At 800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 765-7000 or clubnokia.com.

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sunday, sepTember 6 Rock N Roll Flea Market The Regent, 448 S. Main St. or theregenttheater.com.

10 a.m.: Trade in your hard earned dollars for various bits of rock and roll merch ranging from highly coveted prints to base ephemera.

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We’re still three weeks away from fall, but this week the Japanese American National Museum is saying goodbye to its pair of summer exhibits. Sunday, Sept. 6, is your last day to lay eyes on Laura Kina and Emily Hanako Momohara’s paintings and photography cuing in on trans-Pacific identity in Sugar/Islands: Finding Okinawa in Hawai’i (one of Kina’s paintings is shown here). It’s also the culmination of Before They Were Heroes: Sus Ito’s World War II Images, a collection of photos documenting life in the 442nd Regimental Combat unit, shot 70 years ago by a soldier/photographer now in his 90s. Per usual, the museum is closed on Monday, which means you have just six days to take in both shows.

At 100 N. Central Ave., (213) 625-0414 or janm.org.

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Friday, sepTember 4 L.A. Fight Club Belasco, 1050 S. Hill St., (213) 746-5670 or goldenboypromotions.com.

5 p.m.: Diego De La Hoya takes on Jesus Ruiz in the marquee fight of the night. The card is presented by Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions.

The Last Book Review Last Bookstore, 453 S. Spring St., (213) 488-0599 or lastbookstorela.com.

8 p.m.: It’s not all books at this monthly event. You can plan on music, a bit of performance, a lecture and immediate proximity to the Down and Out.

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Tuesday, sepT. 1 Phat Tuesday Club Nokia, 800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 765-7000 or clubnokia.com.

8 p.m.: A 20th anniversary celebration of Phat Tuesday, originally launched at the Comedy Store. The bill full of standup comedy features Lavell Crawford, Joe Torry, Luenell and more.

Museum Exhibits Are Ready to Close, the Nokia Theatre Is Ready to Laugh, And Downtown Brings in Da Funk

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The ring has been assembled. The spit buckets are in order. Somewhere deep within the recesses of the Belasco Theater, a crusty old man is preparing to staunch the blood flow in a fine pugilist’s nose. Yes, ’tis the hours before Golden Boy entertainment’s L.A. Fight Club, and all through the house everyone is stirring, including featherweight Diego de la Hoya, who is 11-0 with seven knockouts, and who headlines this bill. The celebrated boxing event returns this Friday, Sept. 4, for a stacked bill of fights that promise a little bloodletting and a lot of glory. At 1050 S. Hill St., (213) 746-5670 or belascous.com.

Angelenos of all stripes are invited to bask in the glory of a project 2,400 years in the making. No, we’re not talking about the comeback of Clifton’s. Instead, it’s the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit now in its final full week at the California Science Center. The papyrus text includes missing parts of ancient scripture that came to being as long ago as 408 BCE. Serendipity led Bedouins to begin rediscovering the mother lode of lost religious texts around 1946, and now you too can revel in the carefully preserved documents. Alas, most things are far more ephemeral than the scrolls. The exhibit closes on Monday, Sept.

7. So head down to Exposition Park while you can. At 700 Exposition Park Dr., (323) 724-3623 or californiasciencecenter.org.

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Sept. 5: Young Lovers, Hillary Chillton, Dustin & The Explosions and Symphonie.

Sept. 6: Sister Mantos, Signor Benedick The Moor, The Natives and No Side.

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

Sept. 4, 7 p.m.: Is the Mystic Braves’ supporting band No Parents an invitation or a threat?

Sept. 5, 8 p.m.: Dam-Funk will be kicking out the best beats L.A. has to offer.

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Aug. 31-Sept. 3: The Iron Ministry deals with Chinese railroads. Date night!

Aug. 31-Sept. 3: The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet is a 3D film from JeanPierre Jeunet, the guy who did Amelie. Helena Bonham Carter is in the cast.

IMAX California Science Center, 700 State Drive, (213) 744-2019 or californiasciencecenter.org.

Galapagos 3D. If it was good enough to blow Charles Darwin’s mind, it’s probably good enough for you!

Forces of Nature promises a panoply of nature’s worst destruction.

Experience the gripping story full of hope, crushing disappointment and triumph in Hubble 3D. Regal Cinemas LA Live 1000 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 763-6070 or lalive.com/movies.

Through Sept. 3: Unsullied (11:50 a.m. and 2:20 p.m.); War Room (1:30, 4:20, 7:10 and 10 p.m.); We Are Your Friends (12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40 and 10:20 p.m.); No Escape (1:50, 4:40, 7:30 and 10:10 p.m.); American Ultra (1:20, 4:10, 6:50 and 9:20 p.m.); Hitman: Agent 47 (1:10, 4, 6:40 and 9:10 p.m.); Sinister 2 (12:05, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50 and 10:25 p.m.); The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (12:20, 3:10, 6:20 and 9:15 p.m.); Straight Outta Compton (12, 1, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6, 7, 8, 9:30 and 10:30 p.m.); Fantastic Four (12:50 and 6:25 p.m.); The Gift (3:40 and 9:05 p.m.); Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (12:15, 3:25, 6:30 and 9:40 p.m.); Jurassic World 3D (12:30, 3:20, 6:10 and 9 p.m.).

THEATER, OPERA & DANCE Bob Baker’s Musical World Bob Baker Marionette Theater, 1345 W. First St., (213) 250-9995 or bobbakermarionettes.com.

Sept. 5-6, 2:30 p.m.: Puppets playing music. How is this different than, say, any band you hear on modern rock radio? Bob Baker’s puppets are non-sentient creatures, that’s how!

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Loft Ensemble, 929 E. Second St., #105 or loftensemble.org.

Sept. 4, 8 p.m. or Sept. 5, 7 p.m.: Cohabitating, love-forsaken characters travel down a familiar road of unrequited love, social examination and the eternal obsession with romance.

Sleepaway Camp Downtown Independent, 251 S. Main St., (213) 617-1033 or downtownindependent.com.

Sept. 1, 9 p.m.: Every Tuesday this irreverent stand-up comedy cavalcade takes up residence at the Downtown Independent.

MUSEUMS 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.

FIDM Museum FIDM, second floor, 919 S. Grand Ave., (213) 624-1200 or fidmmuseum.org.

Through Sept. 26: From “Better Call Saul” to “Wolf Hall,” the Ninth Annual Outstanding Art of Television Costume Design brings the finest in TV dress up to Downtown.

Through Dec. 19: Inspired Eye chronicles the contributions Donald and Joan Damask have made to the collection at the FIDM museum.

Through Dec. 19: Fleurs: Botanicals in Dress from the Helen Larson Historic Fashion Collection is, as advertised, an exhibit highlighting floral aspects in fashion.

Ongoing: The FIDM Museum presents Artfully Adorned, a collection of fragrance, cosmetics and ephemera from the house of Lucien Lelong. This group of objects was donated by Monique Fink, wife of artist Peter Fink, who worked for Lelong as package designer and interior decorator.

Ongoing: Accessories from The Helen Larson Historic Fashion Collection surveys footwear, fans, gloves, purses and hats.

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Through Sept. 6: Shared Otherness is a group show featuring work from USC Roski School of Art and Design students… well, at least the ones that didn’t drop out en masse last year.

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Ongoing: Mission 26: The Big Endeavour presents Los Angeles’ very own Space Shuttle/tree destroyer in all its splendor.

Ongoing: Science in Toyland presents physics through favorite kids toys. This hands-on exhibit engages museum visitors with Dominos, Sails and Roller Coasters in a fun, but informational primer on friction, momentum and chain reactions.

Ongoing: The Science Center’s permanent exhibits are usually interactive and focus on human innovations and inventions as well as the life processes of living things. The lobby Science Court stays busy with the High Wire Bicycle, a Motion-Based Simulator, the Ecology Cliff Climb and Forty Years of Space Photography. The human body is another big focus: The Life Tunnel aims to show the connections between all life forms, from the single-celled amoeba to the 100-trillion-celled human being. The new Ecosystems exhibit explores how life on our planet is shaped by geophysical and biological processes.

Through September 7: Long-obscured ecclesiastical texts and the fate of the Old Testament are explored in Dead Sea Scrolls: The Exhibition.

Chinese American Museum 425 N. Los Angeles St., (213) 485-8567 or camla.org.

Permanent: Origins presents the story of the Chinese-American community in Los Angeles.

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Ongoing: The whole of El Pueblo is called a “monument,” and of this monument’s 27 historic buildings, four function as museums: the Avila Adobe, the city’s oldest house; the Sepulveda House, home to exhibits and the monument’s Visitors Center; the Fire House Museum, which houses late 19th-century fire-fighting equipment; and the Masonic Hall, which boasts Masonic memorabilia. Check its website for a full slate of fiestas, including Cinco de Mayo, Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in November and December’s beautiful candlelight procession, Las Posadas. Open daily, though hours at shops and halls vary.

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

Through January 10, 2016: Lyric journals, long forgotten interview footage, handwritten prison complaints, personalized Death Row Records memorabilia and a righteous video of an ancient Notorious B.I.G./Pac freestyle are all part of All Eyez On Me: The Writings of Tupac Shakur.

Through Sept. 20: The late great comedienne par excellence is honored in Joan Rivers: Can We Talk?

Through Spring 2016: Gowns, memorabilia and personal photography form the backbone of Legends of Motown: Celebrating the Supremes.

Through Oct. 4: Shake off your expectations and dive right in to everyone’s favorite pop country icon in The Taylor Swift Experience.

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Ongoing: White sequined gloves and other wardrobe pieces are the focal point of the new exhibit case paying tribute to the life and legacy of Michael Jackson. This special display serves as a follow-up to the Museum’s past exhibitions, Michael Jackson: HIStyle and Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy. Housed on the Museum’s third floor, the launch of the new exhibit coincided with the second anniversary of Jackson’s death.

Ongoing: Roland Live is a permanent installation courtesy of the electronic musical instrument maker, Roland Corporation. The exhibit gives visitors a chance to participate in the music-making process by playing a wide variety of Roland products, from VDrums and BOSS pedals to VIMA keyboards and the MV-8800 Production Studio.

Japanese American National Museum 369 E. First St., (213) 625-0414 or janm.org.

Through Sept. 6: The WWII campaign of the 442ndRegimental Combat Team comes into new focus with Before They Were Heroes: Sus Ito’s World War II Images.

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Downtown Theater Company Gets $100,000 Grant

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