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AROUND TOWN Whole Foods Opens This Week

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n September, Downtown Los Angeles saw the opening of the $140 million museum The Broad. This week, the community gets an addition that may mean even more to its 50,000-plus residents — Whole Foods. The 42,000-square-foot supermarket, on the ground floor of Carmel Partners’ 700-apartment Eighth & Grand project, debuts on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 9 a.m. with a “bread breaking” ceremony. The event will include food and beverage demos and samples, and a photo booth will be set up throughout the day. In addition to a huge selection of grocery staples, dairy products, meats, produce, baked goods and prepared meals, the Downtown Whole Foods will have an organic salad bar and indoor and outdoor seating for 175 people. There will also be a system of 36 beverages on tap, including craft beer, wine and other seasonal options. The Whole Foods is at 788 S. Grand Ave.

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he news that the members-only social club Soho House was acquiring a six-story Arts District building broke back in March. Now, it’s official. A group of investors announced last week that escrow closed Oct. 13 on the 1917 ware-

TWITTER: @ DOWNTOWNNEWS house at 1000 S. Santa Fe Ave. The buyers paid $18.5 million for the 62,000-square-foot edifice.

“This validates the notion that the Arts District is expanding south on Santa Fe Avenue all the way to the Santa Monica Freeway,” said Mark Silverman of brokerage Major Properties, who with Bradley Luster represented both buyer and seller. “We have seen land and building prices jump five-fold in the area over the last few months.”

Developer Jon Blanchard of BLVD Hospitality, who helped create the Ace Hotel, will spearhead the renovation of the building. Soho House will include a market, restaurant, bar, spa, salon, gym, screening room, performance space, rooftop pool and 16 hotel rooms. It is slated to open in 2016. The club got its start in 1995 in London.

There are now 15 Soho Houses around the world, including one in West Hollywood.

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lenty of people are coming Downtown to see the art in the $140 million museum The Broad. This week, the man behind the Grand Avenue institution will show up across the street to talk about it. On Monday, Nov. 2, the museum’s Un-Private Collection series of public events will feature a panel discussion with Eli Broad, project architect Elizabeth Diller, Joanne Heyler, the museum’s founding director and curator of the inaugural exhibit, and architecture critic Paul Goldberger. The event, which takes place at 8 p.m. in Walt Disney Concert Hall, will delve into the decisions that shaped the design, and address how visitors are interacting with the museum’s architecture. Admission is $15 and tickets can be reserved at thebroad.org.

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he 1951 American remake of Fritz Lang’s German thriller M was shot in Downtown, and the Angels Flight railway appears in the film’s opening sequence. The funicular has been grounded since a 2013 derailment, but Angels Flight still needs money to continue testing and maintenance. Thus, on Wednesday, Nov. 5, the M remake will be shown as the centerpiece of a fundraiser. The event at the Million Dollar Theatre (307 S. Broadway) takes place from 7-11 p.m., with an introduc-

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tion from Angels Flight Railway Foundation President Hal Bastian, an appearance from M producer Harold Nebenzal, and an illustrated lecture by Bunker Hill historian Nathan Marsak. Tickets are $35 and proceeds go to the Angels Flight Railway Foundation. Tickets and more information are at angelsflight.org. In the meantime, the foundation and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority are considering ways to get Angels Flight running again — the state agency that regulates railways has said it needs an evacuation walkway before it can resume operations.

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he grocery industry is brutal. Razor-thin profit margins that depend on a huge volume of sales, and the immense challenge of figuring out exactly what customers want, can crush a business. Just look at the current closing of the Fresh & Easy chain or, a few weeks before that, Haggen’s anEDITOR & PUBLISHER: Sue Laris nouncement that it is pulling out of the California GENERAL MANAGER: Dawn Eastin supermarket scene.

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Trust, Tricks and the NFL After Two Decades of Being Kicked Around, Is L.A. Getting Sucked in Again by a Football Frenzy?

By Jon Regardie ast week, the National Football League orchestrated a series of town hall events in the three cities that could lose their teams. For many people in Los Angeles, the dog-and-pony show in front of St. Louis Rams,

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THE REGARDIE REPORT San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders loyalists boiled down to one thing: our gain, and a second-tier city’s big loss.

All you need to do is throw a brick, preferably a big one, and it’ll hit an Angeleno eagerly espousing the idea that at least one team, and possibly two, will be playing in a temporary local venue next fall, and that a permanent, billion-dollar stadium will open a few years later, either in the city of Sodom or Gomorrah. Sorry, I meant Inglewood or Carson.

It’s an understandable and enticing narrative, the idea that after a two-decade football drought we’ll receive a pigskin El Niño.

There’s only one problem with this scenario: It relies on the NFL. The Rams and Raiders both blew town after the 1994 season, and if there’s anything the ensuing two decades should have taught us, it’s that the NFL can’t be trusted. Time and again league brass and a coterie of teams have flirted with and teased Angelenos, implying that the time was right to return to L.A., and indicating that the longstanding stadium issue was about to be resolved in a manner that would have

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fans tailgating on Sundays and beating each other up in the parking lot after games. Wait, that’s not right — those are Dodgers fans.

Felony assaults aside, everyone who is eagerly chirping that, “This time is different!” and “The process has never been farther along!” should remember the past. All those excited by the idea of three teams filing relocation paperwork need to recognize that the 32 NFL owners are basically the modern-day Illuminati, and they’ll run the show however they please.

Do things look different this time? Yes, but they always look different to Charlie Brown right before Lucy pulls the ball away and he ends up flat on his back.

After all, this is the league where former Commissioner Paul Tagliabue — the freaking commissioner — finished a meeting with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in Downtown Los Angeles and all but promised that football was coming back.

An Associated Press story at the time began: “NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue emerged from a closed-door meeting with the mayor, stood on the steps of City Hall and announced that a preliminary agreement had been reached to finally return a team to Los Angeles.”

That story was published Nov. 11, 2005, or just about a decade ago. In case you haven’t noticed, we have no team.

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Hate-Board or shaking up my Magic Hate Ball. I played football, poorly, in high school (just one concussion!), like to watch occasional games and would enjoy having a team with ticket prices I can’t afford, but that I could watch on TV with my kids.

My skepticism comes from having seen the league repeatedly use Los Angeles as a boogeyman, more or less threatening smallmarket governments that, unless they heavily fund a new stadium, their franchise will move.

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As Sidewalk Vending Moves Forward, Debate Continues Stakeholders in Downtown and Other Neighborhoods Remain Skeptical as City Seeks to Legalize and Regulate Practice

By Eddie Kim he city of Los Angeles is inching closer to figuring out if and how it should legalize and regulate the sale of food, merchandise and other goods by vendors operating on sidewalks and other public areas.

After reviewing input from the public and numerous city departments over the summer, the Chief Legislative Analyst’s office released a report Oct. 21 that gives the city four options to address the illegal if ubiquitous practice.

The report sets out three frameworks for the City Council to choose from: allowing permitted vending citywide, letting individual communities opt in, or a hybrid system in which vending is legalized, but communities can customize when, where and how many vendors operate. The fourth option would be to keep the practice illegal.

The council’s Economic Development Committee discussed and heard testimony on the issue on Tuesday, Oct. 27. The full council is expected to take up the matter in coming weeks.

The issue has sparked fierce debate for years, particularly among organizations and stakeholders in Downtown Los Angeles, where food and merchandise vendors frequently set up carts throughout the Historic Core, the Fashion District, South Park and other neighborhoods.

It has also been a subject of intense discussion in Hollywood and South L.A. Supporters say that legalizing sidewalk vending would bring vendors out of the shadows, allowing them to contribute to the econo-

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my and pay taxes in a system with standardized regulations and enforcement measures.

Organizations that represent businesses, including the Central City Association and the South Park, Historic Core and Fashion District Business Improvement Districts, have long suggested that an influx of sidewalk vendors could hurt brick-and-mortar shops by undercutting them on price. They continue to question whether effective enforcement of vendors’ placement, permits and sanitation is possible.

“Our neighborhood is already inundated with permitted mobile vendors every day,” Fashion District BID Executive Director Kent Smith said at the Oct. 27 meeting, referring to food trucks. “The city has no tools to regulate the location, number and type of legal mobile vendors. Please do not make the same mistake.

Allow the neighborhood to decide whether to opt into the program.”

Past Failure Others, including the L.A. Street Vendor Campaign and the Coalition of Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, say that creating an opt-in provision is a recipe for failure. They point to the Special Sidewalk Vending District program created in 1994. Though intended to regulate vending citywide, it required so many approvals from neighborhood stakeholders and the city that it resulted in only a single vending district, in MacArthur Park.

Critics of the opt-in provision say the difficulty of creating special districts led to vendors working illegally.

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“Los Angeles is the only large city that has a large population of unlicensed sidewalk vendors and no policy to allow permitted vending on sidewalks,” said Mark Vallianatos, policy director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College, at the council hearing. “We need a system that works for L.A. and that is a citywide system with no cap on permits, which has created black markets in other cities.”

If any sort of legalization and regulation is approved, many details will have to be hammered out, including whether enforcement should be handled by the city Bureau of Street Services or the Los Angeles Police Department, and what penalties should exist for scofflaws. Some suggest that fines or revoking a permit are preferable to criminal sanctions, noting that the latter could put immigrant vendors at risk of deportation or damage their ability to gain citizenship.

The LAPD has largely handled enforcement of illegal vending, which some opponents claim has led to cart seizures and inconsistent penalties ranging from verbal warnings to arrests.

A number of business groups, meanwhile, contend the city has not shown it can execute consistent enforcement, and that nothing would change in the future.

“Where there is community support or need, stationary vendors becoming part of the community with a fully funded and enforced program makes sense,” said Historic Core BID Services Coordinator Noah Strauss. “But it must be enforced in such a way that vendors lose the

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Stakeholders in Downtown and elsewhere are battling over a proposed ordinance to legalize and regulate sidewalk vending. There are an estimated 10,000 sidewalk vendors in the city, according to the L.A. Street Vendor Campaign.

ability to vend if they do not comply with regulations.”

In response to concerns from the BIDs, the council Economic Development Committee asked the City Attorney’s office to look into including additional permit fees for vendors who wish to operate in zones where a business improvement district is in place.

Other city departments, including the Department of Transportation and Bureau of Street Services, have been asked to report back with more details on the costs and requirements of the new vending options. eddie@downtownnews.com

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The Other Caffeinated Beverage Makes a Play David Barenholtz at the American Tea Room on Santa Fe Avenue, which he opened last month.

It offers hundreds of varieties of tea, a cafe, and a distribution center.

American Tea Room Opens an Arts District Headquarters

By Eddie Kim n the last two years, the Arts District has been ground zero for Los Angeles’ craft coffee boom. Hyped brands, namely Stumptown, Blue Bottle and Verve, have set up shop in the neighborhood, joining pioneering Urth Caffe and an outpost of the excellent Groundwork.

A new type of caffeinated beverage, however, is making a play. In September, American Tea Room debuted in an airy space on Santa Fe Avenue, just south of Seventh Street.

It serves as the company’s distribution headquarters and sells to walk-in customers, but the main attraction is its cafe, a first for the 12-year-old business.

The only other American Tea Room is in Beverly Hills, but sells mostly raw tea. At the Arts District spot, company founder and CEO David Barenholtz hopes to see people working on their laptops over a pot of rare Darjeeling, stopping in to grab a tea latte to-go, or just lingering with friends.

“People in this country don’t drink tea like they drink coffee,” Barenholtz, 53, said during a recent visit. “We’re trying to show a more casual side to tea. We don’t want to make it intimidating.”

In the U.S., Barenholtz said, tea is frequently associated with frou-frou mid-afternoon parties with finger sandwiches, or dismissed as cheap cups of mass-produced swill. He aims

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to introduce people to finer styles and varied price points, as well as forge the path for future tea cafes around L.A. Visit the Bar Several years ago, amid a swell in American Tea Room’s online business, Barenholtz began hunting for a distribution and storage center.

Tours of spaces in areas like Commerce and Carson, however, proved dispiriting.

“I’d drive out there and just think, ‘Where would I eat lunch?’” he said. “I wanted to be in a neighborhood I liked.”

The Arts District proved more attractive, especially after he learned about the growth in the community. It was tough to secure a property, but Barenholtz locked down the 5,600-squarefoot building at 909 S. Santa Fe Ave. in early 2014.

The renovated structure flaunts beautiful brickwork, concrete floors and bowstring-truss ceilings, with plenty of skylights to brighten the space. A patio offers firepits, seats and a green wall watered with a hightech irrigation drip system.

Inside are shelves packed with golden packages of teas, ranging from accessible offerings that go for $10 for a quarter-pound, to extravagant options such as shade-grown, hand-picked Yanagi Gyokuro from Japan that fetches $125 for a quarter-pound. There’s a high-tech feature too, with a “Tea Zone” touch-screen that allows customers to browse the inventory using criteria like region or caf-

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feine level, or by sniffing test tubes of tea and scanning their barcodes.

The tea bar offers a big menu with both traditional steeped teas and tea “cocktails” (which are non-alcoholic) with multiple flavorings and mixers. There are two $15,000 BKON brewers, which use vacuum pressure and extremely precise temperatures, and can prepare tea in about 90 seconds. The bar will also hand-steep teas that benefit from a gentle touch, as with a pricier Arya Diamond First Flush Darjeeling.

Barenholtz wasn’t always a tea lover. He worked as vice president of a film studio in the 1990s, and later dabbled in fine art, running a gallery and flying to Europe for exhibitions.

“As I traveled, I noticed that every shop I went inside that I liked was a tea shop. I saw and smelled how incredible these stores were,” Barenholtz said. “But I kept coming

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American Tea Room’s online sales have been growing 30%-40% each year, Barenholtz said, and he hopes to see that kind of progress for his cafe and store. He is aiming to debut a full food menu in the coming months, partly in an effort to attract more casual drinkers.

The biggest challenge, he said, is educating people about the world of teas, and cutting out the mythology that obscures the fact that it’s just a delicious beverage.

“No ‘monkey-picked’ teas, no virgins with gold scissors harvesting silver tips,” Barenholtz said, laughing. “No mysticism, no medical effects. It’s ridiculous.”

American Tea Room is at 909 S. Sante Fe. Ave. or americantearoom.com. eddie@downtownnews.com

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Arts District Stakeholders Clash Over Development Proposal Ordinance Supporters Say Plan Will Boost Community, While Opponents Fear Rush of Unsightly, Low-Slung Housing

By Eddie Kim he Downtown Arts District has been a hotbed of investment in recent years, with new housing complexes, restaurants and businesses rushing in. Now, with an even bigger wave of residential development on the horizon, community members, elected leaders and business interests are at odds over what should be allowed in the neighborhood.

Hoping to get a handle on the situation, city leaders have proposed new rules to shape and steer construction. The goal of the proposed Hybrid Live/Work Ordinance is multifaceted: It emphasizes, through mandates and incentives, the building of live-work residential units and commercial space on land formerly zoned for industrial uses. The policy, the city asserts, will foster job creation, retain the character of the neighborhood and create affordable housing.

The ordinance would allow the city to stop approving projects in a piecemeal manner, said 14th District City Councilman José Huizar, who represents the area and is also chair of the Council’s Planning and Land Use Management Committee.

“We recognized that we didn’t have a procedure in place that would allow for a consistent and rational way to process all these applications from developers,” Huizar said. “If we were to just take all these applications on a case by case basis, they wouldn’t allow us to get to some of our goals of preserving jobs, preserving the character of the neighborhood and providing affordable housing.”

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Fourteenth District City Councilman José Huizar thinks the ordinance will lead to a comprehensive development process for the community. “We recognized that we didn’t have a procedure in place that would allow for a consistent and rational way to process all these applications from developers,” he said.

a collection of area stakeholders is protesting, charging that the ordinance will lead to a swell of cheaply built stucco apartments under the guise of “live-work” goals.

Opponents of the measure also believe the ordinance doesn’t do enough to encourage the construction of taller, concrete-and-steel buildings that they say would add to the neighborhood’s character and legacy. In addition, they are railing against the minimum size requirement for new live-work units, which they say is more appropriate for traditional apartments, not businesses. They want to see bigger requirements for commercial or industrial space

Developer Yuval Bar-Zemer is one of the numerous Arts District stakeholders who are fiercely critical of a city effort to streamline new construction in the community. They fear the Hybrid Live/Work Ordinance will lead to ugly buildings that rob the neighborhood of its character.

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on all projects that qualify for the ordinance.

“This doesn’t create meaningful jobs. There’s no proof that it will,” said Mark Borman, a developer who owns several Arts District properties.

“We have a trajectory in the Arts District where we have companies that want to be here. The ordinance kills the golden goose and smashes the egg in one shot.”

Borman is joined in opposition by community groups, such as the Historic Cultural Neighborhood Council, and other high-profile Arts District developers such as Yuval Bar-Zemer of the firm Linear City.

“We understand what made this neighborhood successful so far,” Bar-Zemer said. “We don’t want this to become a sleepy residential neighborhood. But if the city thinks it’s more important to make residential [buildings] than jobs, they should say so and justify it.”

The ordinance has been discussed in several meetings before the Council’s PLUM Committee and hit the full City Council on Oct. 6, where it was adopted and sent to the City Attorney.

It is expected to return to council for final approval by the end of this month, according to City Planning representatives.

Stucco Box Fight Under the Hybrid Live/Work Ordinance, traditional residential development would be prohibited (it would not apply to some already approved projects in the area). Instead, developers who use the ordinance would have to create “live-work” units with a minimum average size of 750 square feet, 150 square feet of which must be allocated to work uses. The goal is to ensure that workers, especially creative types, have a home in the neighborhood.

Additionally, developers must create a certain amount of non-residential commercial or industrial space — for shops, offices, businesses, etc. — for every unit they build.

This has proved particularly contentious: The original ordinance called for 200 square feet per unit, meaning a 200-residence building would need to set aside 40,000 square feet of space. That has been drastically downsized in the newest draft of the ordinance. Currently, buildings with more than 100 units would only need 50 square feet of space per unit. Critics say that the change undermines the policy’s stated goal of job creation.

Others have kinder words for the ordinance’s incentives, including “floor area ratio” density bonuses that allow developers to build bigger

and taller in exchange for providing subsidized units or creating underground parking. Dale Goldsmith, from the law firm Armbruster, Goldsmith and Delvac, told a Sept. 22 PLUM hearing that it will incentivize affordable housing, and that quality control is built-in.

“Any project using this will go through a minimum of four public hearings and through the planning commission and City Council,” said Goldsmith. “There’s ample community input to avoid stucco boxes.”

Dozens of stakeholders attended a pair of PLUM committee meetings and asked the city to set the minimum size requirement at 1,000 square feet, saying that would create legitimate live-work units with room for multiple employees. Ordinance supporters counter that this would simply make the district too expensive for many people.

At the Sept. 22 PLUM hearing, Senior City Planner Patricia Dierfenderfer acknowledged the complaint, and said that while only requiring 150 square feet for work in each unit may seem slight, many artists and others don’t need more room.

“Many different uses can happen in 750 square feet. People work on their computers,” she said.

“To make sure the cost of units are accessible to a wider range of incomes, it was a policy goal to make them large enough — but not too large.”

Others suggest that mandating larger units and concrete-and-steel construction would make projects too expensive for developers and chill construction. Bar-Zemer disagrees, saying that “more sophisticated” projects from ambitious developers would rise in place of stucco apartment boxes.

Late-Game Switch Part of the controversy around the ordinance is its history. Borman, Bar-Zemer, the HCNC and other area organizations say they have been working with the city on Arts District guidelines for more than two years. An iteration acceptable to many appeared to have been hammered out last winter.

City Planning hit the brakes, and instead debuted a citywide version of the plan with significant changes. Arts District opponents decried what they said is the excising of valuable incentives for job creation and concrete-andsteel construction. Additionally, some oppose the new 110-foot limit on building height.

Huizar said the latter element is intended to preserve the lower-slung architectural context of the district. Ironically, some community

members argue the limit hurts developers who want to build concrete-and-steel high-rises, which often last much longer than wood-construction buildings. Developers can’t justify the higher cost of concrete and steel in a shorter building, said Dan Rosenfeld, a longtime developer and land-use expert who is consulting for the SunCal Arts District mega-project.

Others fear the ordinance won’t sufficiently protect older warehouses and buildings from demolition.

“Provisions for historic buildings don’t go far enough, in our opinion,” Adrian Fine, director of advocacy for preservationist group the Los Angeles Conservancy, said at the Sept. 22 meeting. “These incentives likely won’t be utilized as ground-up development is incentivized in other parts of this zone. Too many buildings in the Arts District will fall through the cracks and in many cases won’t be flagged for [environmental] review.”

Unintended Effects The sides appear far apart, but Huizar argues that the policy wrings as many jobs and public benefits from developers as possible.

“The pressure to build just market-rate housing is there. Developers come to us for marketrate product without thinking at all about jobs or affordable housing,” Huizar said. “If we negotiate each project separately, we would getting a haphazard result across the district.”

There could be unintended effects. Simon Ha, an architect and chairman of the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council’s Planning and Land Use Committee, compared the ordinance to the City West Specific Plan that was created in the 1980s to regulate building just west of the 110 Freeway. Its requirements made the area less attractive than other parts of Downtown, ultimately slowing growth, he said (though the early ’90s recession helped doom new development).

“I have a feeling that as soon as it gets approved, every project that comes in is going to start asking for variances and deviations from the plan,” Ha added.

Borman and Bar-Zemer understand that there is a “Goldilocks” principle at play, and that not everyone will be satisfied by such a wide-reaching plan that will shape development in a formerly industrial area. But they, like others, can’t shake the feeling that the Hybrid Live/Work Ordinance won’t achieve what it set out to do. eddie@downtownnews.com

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FOOTBALL, 5 Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Seattle Seahawks and Indianapolis Colts.

That’s more than one-quarter of the 32 NFL teams, and though some were pipe dreams, in several instances things really seemed different. The Coliseum got close in 1999, only to come up short when Houston’s Bob McNair paid a then-astounding $1 billion for a stadium and an expansion franchise. And remember how everyone went gaga in 2011 and 2012 when Tim Leiweke led the Farmers Field charge (before clashing with Anschutz and leaving the company). We were already envisioning what hosting multiple Super Bowls in Downtown Los Angeles would be like.

On the NFL’s side, it’s been a brilliant business tactic, as every secondary market scared of losing a team has coughed up the cash for a new stadium. At the same time, all those who once emphatically stated that the league must have a team in L.A. for TV ratings were forced to shut up after TV contracts grew fatter than the Farmers Field blimp that floated over Downtown during an AEG pep rally in 2011.

If time has proved anything, it’s that the league doesn’t need L.A., and L.A. doesn’t need the league. If one needed the other so badly, a deal would have been worked out. In fact, two decades of local leaders have actually been pretty savvy by not dedicating hundreds of millions of dollars in public money to a stadium.

Financial Hail Mary So are things different this time, what with the public meetings, the filing of relocation paperwork, Rams owner Stan Kroenke buying 60 acres in Inglewood that could potentially hold a stadium, and the Chargers and Rams proposing a shared stadium in Carson? Absolutely, we are seeing steps never before taken. But again, each NFL go-round brings something new that sounds like a sure thing.

I’m also not saying one or two teams won’t come to L.A. However, at this point we remain the back-up plan, and this market comes into play only if deals for new stadiums can’t be achieved in San Diego, Oakland and St. Louis. Be careful what happens when cities get desperate and elected officials realize the phrase “lost an NFL team” could be permanently attached to their record. We’ve seen a financial Hail Mary before.

It’s also, by the way, impossible to get into the head of a team owner and figure out what he wants. Billionaires don’t operate like regular people, which is why they’re billionaires and we’re not. Some observers talk about how an owner could make more money in L.A. than another city, but moving a team is not cheap, and you only realize maximum value if you sell the franchise. But once you sell you’re just a regular billionaire, and not part of the NFL cabal.

Is a team coming to Los Angeles next fall? Definitely maybe.

I’m 100% sure it is a possibility. I’d absolutely wager $10,000 in Monopoly money on the proposition.

But can we trust the league? I answer that with a quote from Animal House. It’s the famous line when Tim Matheson’s Otter speaks to Flounder (Stephen Furst), who is distraught after his fraternity brothers wreck a car he was responsible for.

“You [expletive-d] up,” says Otter. “You trusted us.”

NFL, thy name is Otter. regardie@downtownnews.com

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The Local Drinking Scene Explodes in 2015, With Fancy Arts District Spots, A Burst of Gay Bars and Even a Place to Sip in a Supermarket

By Dan Johnson he past 12 months have been a tumultuous time for the Downtown Los Angeles nightlife scene. Too many good bartenders are no longer behind the stick, destinations like the karaoke joint Oiwake have closed and a joyous goodbye for the divey Bar 107 devolved into a prolonged bitter bacchanal.

At the same time, this is a great moment for those looking for something to do in Downtown after dark, and Central City residents and workers have never had a wider variety of places to get a beer, glass of wine or a cocktail. As Downtown grows, so does its bar scene.

The places listed below — the 11 Best New Bars in Downtown (arranged in alphabetical order) — run the gamut in terms of style and audience, and cater to a dense and diverse population. The evolving drinking scene is proof that growing old ain’t so bad. If you think we left out someplace worthy, let us know.

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Barcito: Sleek and luxurious, the Evo condominium building has commanded the corner of 12th Street and Olympic Boulevard since 2008.

Once anchored by the now-defunct Corkbar, the nightlife at that intersection has long suffered. Enter Barcito, a Argentinian-themed small plates bar/restaurant with a short but quality list of cocktails, wine and beer. As frustrating as it can be to sit in a Los Angeles bar plastered with images of other cities that tries desperately to evoke a European vibe, the immense mirrored bar, slow-spinning fans, checkerboard floor, patio and curving bar both encourage the consumption of sangria and integrate nicely with an underutilized space.

At 403 W. 12th St., (213) 415-1821 or barcitola.com.

Barrel Down: Downtown drinkers have come to associate Seventh Street with Seven Grand and its retinue of skilled bartenders who carefully craft Old Fashioneds and Sazeracs at great expense to both time and wallet. Down the block, the new Barrel Down offers a 40-tap alternative. A variety of beers encompassing the length and breadth of this nation’s craft brew-

eries invites you to saddle up, have a burger and enjoy yourself without worrying about the simple syrups, muddled herbs and historic recipes. Better still, you can sling yourself into a plush booth for lunch any day of the week except Saturday, which means that the ceaseless drudgery of quarterly earnings projections can now be lubricated with a lager, stout or double IPA, depending on your state of being.

At 525 W. Seventh St., (213) 232-8657 or barreldowndtla.com.

Clifton’s Cafeteria: The recently revived Clifton’s Cafeteria is first and foremost a restaurant. Yet amidst owner Andrew Meieran’s fantastic collection of grottoes, synthetic sequoia groves and taxidermy is a collection of unique bars that deliver a delightful drinking odyssey.

In ways that might make John Muir a touch uncomfortable if not buzzed, the Monarch Bar just above the cafeteria pays tribute to the Golden State’s preeminent national park with a collection of California cocktails and a selection of “Yosemitiki” drinks. If you’re in the mood for over a dozen draft beers, stay put. Otherwise, head upstairs to the more intimate yet gaudier façade of the Gothic Bar, where still another assortment of unique drinks await. Want more? A basement speakeasy is on the way.

At 648 S. Broadway, (213) 627-1673 or cliftonsla.com.

Elevate at Ralphs: The recent renovation of the Ralph’s Fresh Fare supermarket wasn’t all that surprising considering the imminent arrival of a Downtown Whole Foods. What was surprising was that the redo included the addition of a bar in the market itself. Suddenly, the drudgery of weekly grocery shopping is augmented by samples from the Ralph’s “wine cellar” (which is really more of a huge cabinet because, as everyone knows, the space beneath the floor is a parking garage). The name of the bar says it all: Elevate. This is a beer and wine place (no hard liquor, though you can buy plenty of that to go) and a rare opportunity to come home tipsy from a shopping experience.

At 645 W. Ninth St., (213) 452-0840 or ralphs.com.

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The Everson Royce Bar in the Arts District includes a big patio with a bocce ball court.

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Everson Royce Bar: Past the burnt orange door of the Everson Royce Bar is a neon installation that spells out “My That’s Better.” Whether the words are a tip of the cap to perfectionism in the service industry or a knowing nod to Camper’s Corner just down the street is uncertain. What we do know is that the beautiful bar with the sprawling bocce ball patio in back is one of those establishments that make you wonder if you are actually on Seventh Street east of the Greyhound Station. Ample parking, a thick wine list of vintages by the glass or bottle, a sprawling cocktail program from Chris Ojeda and a well-heeled clientele may feel foreign to longtime Arts District residents. If you’re feeling squeamish about paying a few dozen bucks for a large bottle of barrel-aged beer, know that you can also get a $3.50 can of Modelo.

At 1936 E. Seventh St., (213) 335-6166 or erbla.com.

Little Easy: The narrow Fifth Street entrance to the Little Easy invites the thirsty to embark on a journey of wonder and majesty. The Historic Core spot is a painstakingly re-created simulacrum of New Orleans’ French Quarter carved from the former Gorbals space in the Alexandria Hotel.

There’s a full food menu, as well as two cocktailrich bars. The immense undertaking from Down and Out honcho Vee Delgadillo takes the encouraged hedonism of her past haunts and blends it with a dimly lit, intimate interior far removed from the nearby corner of Fifth and Spring streets. Stocked with liquid and solid temptations, Little Easy makes for a joyous jaunt to the mythic booze hub of the Deep South without ever leaving Downtown Los Angeles.

At 216 W. Fifth St., (213) 628-3113 or littleeasybar.com.

Love Song: Too many people foolishly misidentify Main Street’s Love Song as a “venue bar.” Despite the fact that it’s attached to the rock club The Regent, the quaint neighborhood spot is not exclusive to concertgoers. In fact, we recommend you check it out on a quiet, nonshow night. A crew of generous and accommodating bartenders will help you navigate the tap list and recommend a cocktail or two while submitting your food order to next door’s Prufrock Pizza. The small-room, big-feel spot offers a cozy ambience that may just find you pursing your heavily made-up lips and quoting Robert Smith as you warble, “Whenever I’m alone with you, you make me feel like I am home again.”

That’s the whiskey talking!

At 450 S. Main St., (213) 284-5728 or theregenttheater.com.

Mattachine: The former Silo Vodka Bar between Broadway and Spring on Seventh Street

has undergone some changes. Now known as Mattachine, it is one of three gay bars that opened Downtown this year (along with Redline and Precinct). The name honors its LGBT clientele with a reference to a mid-20th century society dedicated to establishing the fight for legitimacy and equal rights in the gay community. Mattachine offers a well-adorned patio/ ground floor bar/mezzanine trio of seating options in which you can enjoy a variety of cocktails including the vodka-strewn “Bitter Queen” and a multi-rum-based joy called “The Reconditioner,” which the menu promises “will definitely turn you gay.” While we don’t necessarily agree with the science there, we are delighted to see that the cumbersome upstairs vodka freezer has been replaced with a second bar and that the phallic photograph found within is tasteful to the point of artistry.

At 221 W. Seventh St., (213) 278-0471 or facebook.com/barmattachine.

Mumford Brewing: Unlike some beer aficionados, the Mumford Brewing crew’s love for suds doesn’t involve swilling to excess at the local taproom before loudly making you feel like a chump for having never tried that sour they only read about on Beer Advocate. No, these guys have channeled their passion into a Skidrokyo microbrewery. Open from 4-9 p.m. on Thursday-Friday, noon-9 p.m. on Saturday and noon-6 p.m. on Sunday, Mumford Brewing lets you plop down at a bar stool or one of many board game-imbued tables and put down one of 12 beers brewed on the premises. A variety of IPAs, a dubbel (it’s Belgian), saison options and a delicious American Black Ale made with Stumptown Coffee represent the “deep cuts” served up in flights, $2 tasters, half pours, full pours, growlers and crowlers (that’s a giant Fosters-style can). Better still, those employed in Downtown get a buck off their full pour on Thursdays and Fridays. Fresh pretzel bits and $5 bags of jerky round out this delightful no frills-addition to the ’hood.

At 416 Boyd St., (213) 346-9970 or mumforbrewing.com.

Precinct: The previously unadorned secondstory window curving along the northwest corner of Fourth Street and Broadway now flutters with a small but mighty rainbow flag. This marks Precinct. Once inside, the sparsely adorned walls with thick rays of black light shining on black paint and exposed brick offer up a divey experience custom-tooled for the adventurous.

Precinct has a sort of cop-meets-rock-and-roll theme and upon entering the 8,500-squarefoot spot you’ll encounter a two-story cutout of a leather-clad, muscle-bound man. Elsewhere, renderings of bears of both the human and urContinued on page 13

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How He Got There: As soon as he turned 21, Robbie Reza set out to get a job behind the bar. He landed his first gig at the Silver Lake rock and roll joint The Satellite, then took a number of high-traffic bartending jobs in Eastside locations such as the Short Stop in Echo Park and the rambunctious La Cita in Downtown. Now he’s at Bar Mateo, which is inside the vegetarian Zinc Café in the Arts District. “It’s not a high-volume place, so having time to get to know people and let my hospitality side take over is real nice,” Reza says.

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By Eddie Kim What makes a great bar? Decor is important, as are location and the right vibe. Blow one of those and fickle patrons will head someplace else. After all, there are plenty of choices, particularly in Downtown Los Angeles.

Another part of the equation is the skill and personality of the person preparing the drinks. These days the bartender is more than just a hired hand who pours a splash of vodka into a glass of tonic. In many places, and particularly in Downtown, customers have come to appreciate inventive recipes, high-quality ingredients and a thoughtful approach. The man or woman behind the bar who knows how to mix a drink, and who has a pleasant bar-side manner, gets a lot of attention and accolades.

In the following pages, three Downtown drinks experts share their secrets.

Defining Drink: Reza’s favorite drink is a simple one: an Old Fashioned variation that swaps whiskey for tequila and a hit of smoky mescal, plus agave syrup in place of sugar.

“It’s still balanced like a regular Old Fashioned, but the mescal really makes things interesting,” Reza says. An orange peel squeezed over a flame adds a spray of aromatic oils, and a theatrical touch, to finish the drink.

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How He Got There: Brendan Schwartz was slinging drinks at West Hollywood’s Formosa Cafe in early 2014 when he got a call from a friend: Could he help open a bararcade in Downtown? Schwartz said yes, and he’s been with EightyTwo ever since.

While many flock to the Arts District establishment for its dozens of vintage pinball and video games, for Schwartz a huge part of the appeal is the people he works alongside. “We’re all friends and we hang out even outside of work,” Schwartz says.

“It makes handling a busy shift fun. We’ll take some shots together once in awhile.”

Defining Drink: EightyTwo gets huge crowds, so Schwartz’s favorite drink, the Woodford Gold Rush, finds big flavor in just three ingredients: Woodford Reserve bourbon, honey and lemon juice. “Citrusy drinks are big in L.A. because it’s always so hot,” he says. As for the key to the perfect Gold Rush, Schwartz’s advice is basic: “You have to shake the [expletive] out of it.”

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How She Got There: Kate Chen spent 13 years as a server and in other front-ofhouse positions at restaurants and bars. Then, about 18 months ago, she took a barback position at the Fashion District gastropub Peking Tavern. Chen soon moved up to bartender, a position she says she was prepared for after learning about alcohol and cocktails during her five years at Little Tokyo’s Far Bar. The transition has been an exciting one. “Serving is more about just putting things down in front of people,” Chen says. “But with bartending, people ask your opinion, you customize their drinks, you have a real conversation with them.”

Defining Drink: Peking Tavern is known for its impressive selection of baijiu, a potent Chinese spirit made with sorghum. Chen’s favorite drink, the baijiu sour, combines 86-proof HKB baijiu, yuzu juice, sugar and Peking Tavern’s custom bitters.

“The HKB is a little sweeter and a good introductory baijiu because it’s fruitier, with nice pear notes,” Chen says. “Baijiu can be a really intense spirit, but there are so many varieties with different flavor profiles.” The custom bitters add a spiced edge to the drink, which Chen garnishes with a curl of lemon peel.

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Giant Robot Biennale 4 marks the fourth time that the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo has partnered with Eric Nakamura, creator of Giant Robot, for a museum exhibit. The show features works by nearly two dozen artists, including Edwin Ushiro’s mixed media on plexiglass piece “A Ghost Is Also a Well-Forgotten Face” (left), and Nathan Ota’s acrylic-on-wood work “Ikiru.”

By Kelcie Pegher iant Robot has been a lot of things since the time in 1994 when Eric Nakamura started a hand-assembled zine chronicling hipster Asian-American culture. It morphed into a glossy magazine and expanded to a restaurant, an art gallery, a museum show and multiple stores, including one on Sawtelle Boulevard in West L.A. Some have survived, some have changed and others have passed on. The magazine ceased publication in 2011 and the restaurant closed in 2014. The exhibit Giant Robot Biennale 4 opened at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo this month, though contrary to the name it has been three years, not two, since the last installment.

Through it all, one question is a constant. It’s apparent in the JANM show, where a replica of a Giant Robot store features a glass countertop filled with hand-drawn comics depicting oftasked questions.

“Where is the giant robot?!” one reads.

“Where are the robots?!”

Indeed, that was on the mind of Ayako Okada, a former volunteer with the museum who now lives in Torrance, and who visited the show with a friend shortly after it opened. They had come to JANM to check out an exhibit on Japanese American history, but were lured to Giant Robot Biennale partly by the signage.

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robot,” Okada said.

What she found instead was a large exhibition that encompasses two floors featuring work by nearly two dozen Asian American artists. Just as the Giant Robot moniker can throw people, so the exhibit might be unexpected to longtime patrons of JANM, who know the institution for its focus on the Japanese-American experience. Yet, in the last three years, museum President and CEO Greg Kimura has made a concerted effort to push boundaries in terms of a diverse collection.

Hence the youth-skewing exhibit, which lured more than 1,800 people to its opening.

“I’m trying to encourage cognitive dissonance in the museum,” Kimura said.

Art Highlights While many of the artists featured in Giant Robot Biennale 4 may be unfamiliar to the majority of museum visitors, Nakamura has deeply chronicled their work. Such is the case with James Jean, a Taiwanese artist who made a name for himself as a graphic novelist, and collaborated with Prada in 2007 for a mural that was used widely in an advertising campaign.

Nakumura showcases a decade of Jean’s sketchbooks in a minimalist corner of the first floor.

“A James Jean painting is sort of what he’s known for, but I wanted to do his sketchbooks,” Nakamura said. “I want to show where you start, where your ideas form.”

The first floor items are an ode to the humble beginnings of art — pen and paper. Pieces on

display include comic book covers and replicas from Jim Lee, who has penned comics for Marvel and DC Comics, and a re-creation of the studio of Edwin Ushiro, who is known for his illustrations that often capture a sense of nostalgia.

Ushiro’s display features the drafting table he has owned since college. Visitors are invited to use it to make their own work, and a corkboard displays some of the guest sketches. It follows in line with Nakamura’s goal to change the reputation of museums, which are often seen as untouchable spaces.

The replica of the Giant Robot store is Nakamura’s most personal aspect of the exhibit. It is stocked with 50 items that have been highlighted in Giant Robot — the number is significant, as the initial Giant Robot Biennale in 2007 was timed to the publication of the magazine’s 50th issue — and that have influenced culture.

There are everything from photos of Bruce Lee to Uglydolls to copies of the original zine.

On the second floor, the art turns from drawings to paintings, watercolors, photographs and more.

One highlight is a massive installation by Yoskay Yamamoto that takes up nearly an entire wall. It uses cool blues, and has wooden sculptures of half-submerged heads, and homes that have been personified with a nose and lips where a front door should be.

As an immigrant who moved from Japan to California when he was 15, Yamamoto said he

feels the submerged head represents a feeling of isolation, a sensation of being a bit removed from most cultural aspects of America and California.

“I battle in this purgatory state not knowing where I belong,” he explains in a cell phone app created for the exhibit.

Nakamura also includes artists who he knows have a more limited following, but who he is enthusiastic about. A case in point is Ai Yamaguchi, a Japanese-based contemporary artist. Giant Robot shows her paintings of young prostitutes from the Edo period on cotton panels.

“That’s the funniest part,” Nakamura said. “I think these artists are the greatest of all time, and there are so many people who have never heard of any of them.”

The JANM show, of course, is an attempt to remedy that. While many museums have yet to latch on to the kinds of artists Nakamura features, museum head Kimura said the strong opening reception for Giant Robot Biennale 4 points to an audience. Kimura said the museum will continue to showcase this kind of contemporary work.

“There’s a broad interest and hunger for this,” Kimura said. “We would probably do this even if it was not as popular as it is.”

Just don’t go searching for the giant robot.

Giant Robot Biennale 4 runs through Jan. 24, 2016, at the Japanese American National Museum, 100 N. Central Ave., (213) 625-0414 or janm.org.

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Ric Salinas’ Auto-Focus Culture Clash Member Takes on a One-Man Show With ‘57 Chevy’

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Los Angeles Downtown News: How would you describe the spirit of 57 Chevy? Is this a straight comedy or a political one?

Ric Salinas: People expect a certain stereotype when they hear “immigrant.” This story is such a universal one. It could be a Greek family, a Vietnamese one, Iranian. When I read it, I immedi-

Culture Clash member Ric Salinas is appearing in the one-man show 57 Chevy, about a family that trades Mexico City for the San Fernando Valley. It opens this week at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.

ately jumped on board.

I didn’t really want this to be political. I wanted it to be something that shows us immigrants have a sense of humor. But all this immigrant-bashing, [Donald] Trump calling us criminals and rapists — all of a sudden it becomes political because there’s immigrant-bashing everywhere lately.

Q: How did you get connected to Franco and his script?

A: Cris and I have known each other for a long time. I’ve called him, ever since I saw him perform, the Chicano Billy Crystal, because Cris is a Mexican-American who does a lot of shtick. But he’s had some problems with his throat and he can’t speak for long periods of time, so he couldn’t perform 57 Chevy himself.

He called me out of the blue and said only I could do it. We’ve been working on this for about a year now.

Q: What’s the importance of the titular vehicle?

A: It’s about a father who buys a ’57 Chevy — he buys it at the Felix dealership, down by USC. This father buys it brand new and drives it to Mexico City to pick up his three daughters, wife and son. And that ’57 shows him that he can be American, in a way, by owning a piece of dependable American steel. With that car he can move up, work, get his kids to school.

Q: Does this story ring true to you personally?

A: I can relate so well. I was born in El Salva-

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dor, and when my parents came here it was like anyone who landed at Ellis Island. I didn’t come out here because there was a civil war. My parents just wanted a better life. We were real poor, and my parents worked their asses off to put me through school.

Q: You used to live in Downtown L.A., right?

A: I’m in Silver Lake now, but when I first moved here in the mid-’90s I was living at Fifth and Spring. You didn’t want to walk in Downtown back then. I just wanted to get into the building and off the street as fast as I could. It was scary.

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Now, Salinas is trying something new: a oneman show.

The play 57 Chevy, which opens Saturday, Nov. 7 (previews begin Thursday), at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, was written by Cris Franco, and is a loose autobiography of Franco and his family, which emigrated from Mexico City to South Los Angeles when he was a child.

It recounts the humor, frustration and weirdness of life in a new country and, later, as the only Latino family in a white San Fernando Valley neighborhood.

Salinas spoke with Los Angeles Downtown News about the show, its inspiration and the future.

where. That’s when you know a town is coming up: when there’s a pooch store for your dogs.

Q: What’s next for Culture Clash?

A: We want to do a Greek adaptation for the Getty Villa. We want to do The Frogs by Aristophanes, but we’ll call it Sapo — Spanish slang for “frog” [laughs]. And we’re hoping to take our show to Cuba! We’re almost like that band that wants to get together and gig as much as we used to. We’re all doing our own things but when we get that itch we get back together.

57 Chevy runs Nov. 5-Dec. 6 at the Los Angeles Theatre Centre, 514 S. Spring St., (866) 811-4111 or thelatc.org. eddie@downtownnews.com

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8 p.m.: Eli Broad himself will be on hand to chat it up with museum architect Elizabeth Diller, founding director Joanne Heyler and architectural critic Paul Goldberger. They’ll discuss how the museum came to be, and how audiences are interacting with it.

Downtown Gets Kathy Griffin, Two Doses Of Dance, a Nitro Circus and a Free Film

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We tip our hat to Kathy Griffin as she prepares for a fournight stand in an unexpected comedy venue: the Mark Taper Forum. On Wednesday-Saturday, Nov. 4-7, the Grammy-winning funny lady, LGBT rights proponent and Sarah Palin antagonist will be delivering laughs as part of her “Like a Boss” tour. The sassy Scorpio has certainly stepped beyond her self-identified post on the D-List, and she’ll be delving deep into popular culture and other subjects. Expect a rollicking swell of gut-busting lines that solidify Griffin’s status on the top of the humor heap. All shows are at 8 p.m. At 135 N. Grand Ave., (213) 972-0777 or musiccenter.org.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 L.A. Fight Club Belasco, 1050 S. Hill St., (213) 746-5670 or thebelascotheater.com.

5 p.m.: Campa vs. Huerta and Gonzalez vs. Navarro are co-main fights for this round of Golden Boy Entertainment’s monthly card.

USC Master of Professional Writing Class of 2016 Student/Faculty Reading Last Bookstore, 453 S. Spring St., (213) 488-0599 or lastbookstorela.com.

7 p.m.: After attending tonight’s reading you will be able to tell your grandkids that, “Way back in my day, USC had a Master’s program in Professional Writing.”

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 David Spade at Live Talks Bootleg, 2220 Beverly Blvd., (213) 389-3856 or livetalksla.org.

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The world of unlikely dance collaborations continues this week as two Chicago institutions join forces for a show that finds itself smack in the middle of the dance/sketch comedy Venn diagram.

Since 1977, the Hubbard Street Dance Company has been choreographing the boundaries of contemporary dance, while the famed Second City troupe has been fashioning comedic minds since 1959. Together, the two will — well, we don’t know exactly what they’ll do, except for bring together an unexpected pairing of Chicago institutions. The show, The Art of Falling, arrives at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Friday-Saturday, Nov. 6-7, at 7:30 p.m. and again on Sunday at 2 p.m. Dance will never be funnier, and comedy will never be more graceful. At 135 N. Grand Ave., (213) 972-0777 or musiccenter.org.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5 David Berkeley at the Last Bookstore Last Bookstore, 453 S. Spring St., (213) 488-0599 or lastbookstorela.com.

7:30 p.m.: As Downtowners who refuse to believe in coincidence, we are obliged to attend this preview of Berkeley’s latest novel The Free Brontosaurus, for the work is advertised as “full of dark humor, sadness and glimmers of joy.”

Glenn Ligon at MOCA MOCA Grand Ave., 250 S. Grand Ave., (213) 626-6222 or moca.org.

7 p.m.: There will be commentary on America aplenty as artist Glenn Ligon pops in to discuss his influences and his recently acquired piece.

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When we say the Theater at Ace Hotel will be blending talk radio and contemporary dance this week, does your mind immediately flash to Rush Limbaugh doing the Dougie? If so, you’re a sick pup and way out of line. There’s much better in store for those who show up for “This American Life” voice and mastermind Ira Glass in a joint program with choreographer Monica Bill Barnes and her colleague Anna Bass. Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host will unfold for just two performances at 7 and 10 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7. Act quickly, as the early show is already sold out. At 929 S. Broadway, (213) 623-3233 or acehotel. com/losangeles.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Los Angeles Authors Panel Last Bookstore, 453 S. Spring St., (213) 488-0599 or lastbookstorela.com.

7 p.m.: The City of Angels will be the guest of honor as Farley Elliot, Doug Krikorian, Ruth Wallach and Kevin Break discuss their latest literary laudations of our fine city.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host Ace Hotel, 929 S. Broadway, (213) 623-3233 or acehotel.com.

7 and 10 p.m.: Ira Glass of “This American Life” fame joins choreographer Monica Bill Barnes for a night of talking and dance.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 Bob Dylan: Greatest Songwriter Ever?

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

7:30 p.m.: Lucinda Williams, Bob Santelli and Dan Wilson put their heads together to assess the truthiness of Rolling Stone’s claim that Dylan is the GOAT. Marcie Edwards at Town Hall-L.A. City Club, 555 S. Flower, (213) 628-8141 or townhall-la.org.

11:30 a.m.: The general manager of LADWP will address infrastructure, utility rates, billing miscues, secretive trusts, the effects of the drought and more.

Stacey Schiff at Aloud Central Library, Mark Taper Auditorium, 630 W. Fifth St., (213) 228-7500 or lfla.org.

7:15 p.m.: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author will discuss Tituba and all the good wives and the wolf-crying daughters that made Salem, Massachusetts a rough place to live in the late 17th century.

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Ordinarily the masters of the summer, Grand Performances is now hosting a series of al fresco fall film screenings.

On Thursday, Nov. 5, all are invited to visit the Cal Plaza Watercourt for a 7 p.m. showing of the 2012 Best Picturewinning film The Artist. The movie is free, but due to limited space at the amphitheater attendees are asked to RSVP in advance on the website. The final installment in the series will take place a week later, and, double bonus: You can catch the indie hit (500) Days of Summer in a place where you can actually see the (500) Days of Summer hill! At 300 S. Grand Ave., (213) 687-2190 or grandperformances.org.

If it’s got wheels on it and you can potentially break your neck riding it, you can safely bet that you’ll see a reckless, well-sponsored daredevil pulling tricks on said vehicle at Travis Pastrana’s Nitro Circus Live. The cavalcade motors into Staples Center on Friday, Nov. 6, at 7:30 p.m. From scooters and wheelchairs to dirt bikes and rollerblades, a dedicated crew of riders will traverse the ramp-strewn floor in a night filled with flips and falls. While many tickets are still available for purchase, it should be noted that miracle cures for bone fractures are in much shorter supply. Kids, don’t try any of this at home. At 1111 S. Figueroa St., (213) 742-7100 or staplescenter.com.

Send information and possible Don’t Miss List submissions to calendar@downtownnews.com.

November 2, 2015 8 p.m.: With a new tell-all memoir coming out, the actor and former SNL cast member is visiting Downtown. Feel free to bring up Tommy Boy or Joe Dirt 2.

ROCK, POP & JAZZ

Belasco 1050 S. Hill St., (213) 746-5670 or thebelascotheater.com.

Nov. 4, 8 p.m.: Rapper Joey Bada$$.

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

Nov. 2: Maksim Velichkin.

Nov. 3: Thelonious Monk Institute Ensemble Jam Session.

Nov. 4: Steve Lugerner’s Jacknife.

Nov. 5: Vardan Ovsepian and Tatiana Parra.

Nov. 6: Mark de Clive-Lowe.

Nov. 7: Kendrick Scott Oracle.

Nov. 8: Synchromy.

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

Nov. 2, 8 p.m.: Big Harp and Arjuna Genome contribute to the seething irony inherent in the “No Win Residency.”

Nov. 3, 8 p.m.: Unfortunately for Toronto’s Dilly Dally, they’re something my mother told me never to do.

Nov. 4, 8 p.m.: Eschewing tradition, White Sea’s October residency ends tonight… in November.

Nov. 5, 8:30 p.m.: In a musical ode to Pinocchio, Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn presents Made of Oak. Nov. 6, 8:30 p.m.: The Rocket Summer’s ever so angsty, ever so smooth “Just for a Moment Forget Who You Are” could well be co-opted into a cult’s indoctrination, if it hasn’t already.

Nov. 7, 8:30 p.m.: Laid back and spacy, Vetiver sounds like the San Francisco our aunt told us we’d like, not the San Francisco the preppy kid we went to college with moved to so he could get in on an IPO and drink a ridiculous amount of bulletproof coffee.

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

Nov. 5, 7 p.m.: We don’t know much about Falling in Reverse, but calling their jaunt across the States the Supervillains Tour seems a bit much. Wait. Check that. They called their first album The Drug in Me Is You. Villain status confirmed.

Nov. 6, 9 p.m.: Stand-up comedian Ralphie May’s shtick is based on his weight. He was also funny on “Last Comic Standing,” but that was a long time ago.

Nov. 7, 8 p.m.: For once you really get what you pay for with Funk Volume 2015.

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

Nov. 8, 10 p.m.: RT N the 44s make their own instruments in a process not unlike how Wonka made the Everlasting Gobstopper.

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

Nov. 6: Crookers.

Nov. 7: Stabbing bits of honesty tonight with Toolroom Live.

Mark Taper Forum 135 N. Grand Ave., (213) 628-2772 or centertheatre.org.

Nov. 4-7, 8 p.m.: Kathy Griffin gives the funny on her “Like a Boss” tour.

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

Nov. 2, 8 p.m.: For those in my generation, Grimes will always be Homer Simpson’s uptight coworker. But for the youth, she’s a hip up-and-coming voice espousing a sort of hip compliance with corporate music.

Nov. 5, 7 p.m.: When we say Japanese heavy metal, we’re talking about Dir En Grey, not the mercury content of sushi, which we should probably also talk about.

Microsoft Theatre 777 Chick Hearn Court, (213) 763-6030 or microsofttheeatre.com.

Nov. 6, 8 p.m.: Tamar Braxton, youngest of the Braxtons, will join KEM. Nov. 7, 8 p.m.: Those who frequent Preux & Proper or the Wendell may be confused to see tonight’s singer, proud Spaniard Miguel Bose. He bears a striking resemblance to Downtown bartender Jeffrey Damnit.

REDCAT 631 W. Second St., (213) 237-2800 or redcat.org.

Nov. 3, 8:30 p.m.: Ensemble noise effusions from Akiyama/Eubanks/Kahn/Nakamura.

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

Nov. 3, 7 p.m.: Crime podcast Criminal tapes from the Regent tonight. Will they mention the Hotel Cecil or have we beaten that deceased equine one too many times already?

Nov. 4, 8 p.m.: Before you strap on your Canadiens jersey and get liquored up at the DNO, you should know that Of Montreal is actually from Athens, Georgia.

Nov. 5, 7 p.m.: Be sure to ask New Orleans rapper Curren$y what he thinks of our influx of Big Easy-themed dining and drinking establishments.

Nov. 6, 8 p.m.: Beat enthusiast and turntable madman Nightmares on Wax spins a DJ set.

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

Nov. 3, 10 p.m.: If you bring in your kids’ surplus Halloween candy, The Makers will be glad to search the wrappers for needle holes.

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

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*Lease for $69 + tax per month for 24 months. Based on MSRP of $18,580 w/manual transmission. Residual Value $11,148.00 $1,656 total of payments. Security Deposit Waived. $2,199 cash or trade equity due from customer Excludes: First Payment, $625 Acquisition Fee, $80 Documentation Fee, Sales Tax, Title, and License Fee. 20,000 total miles, with 20¢ per excess mile. Closed-end lease offered on approved above average credit with VCI, excludes TDI and Hybrid Models. Four (4) at this offer FM292178, FM298351, FM298608, FM311349. Offers Expires 11/9/2015

$

per month for 36 mos

Plus tax, 36 Month closed end lease on approved credit through Mercedes-Benz Financial Services. $2,499 CAP reduction, $795 acquisition fee. Excludes title, taxes, registration, license fees, insurance, dealer prep and additional options No security deposit required. 25¢ per mile in excess of 30,000 miles. Offer good on all with MSRP $33,925.

$10,986 2011 Ford Escape XLT ......................... $12,449 Gray, 4 Dr, Auto, MPG 23 City / 28 Hwy. V151225D-2/B46670 2007 Honda Pilot EX-L ........................ $14,856 Black, 4 Dr, V6, Auto, MPG 18 City/24 Hwy. V151225D-2/024448 CARSON NISSAN

$25,981 2015 Mercedes Benz ML350 ................. $49,981 Certified, Prem Pkg 1, Nav Syst. 8408P/FA440879 2014 Mercedes Benz SL550 .................. $79,980 Certified, Prem Pkg 1, Nav Syst, 9k Miles Only! 8418P/EF027791 AUDI OF DOWNTOWN L.A.

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$10,008 2007 Subaru Outback ........................ $11,981 AWD, Lthr Seats, Dual Mnrf, Alloys, Rear Splr. CU1895P/317872 2010 Honda Accord ............................

LX Trim, Extra Clean, 5 Star Rating, Great MPG. CU1833P/084999 $12,929 FELIX CHEVROLET 2008 Buick Lucerne CXL V6 ................

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per month for 36 mos

$169 Plus tax, 36 months on above average approved credit. $1999 down, plus tax, license and fees. Payment net of $1550 Nissan Lease Rebate and $600 Nissan College Grad Rebate. College Grad Rebate requires recent college graduation and proof of employment. $0 security deposit. 12k miles per year, 36k total miles with 15 cents per mile thereafter.

Model#13115, 2 available: C151162/395208, C152528/498499. Offer expires 11/9/15.

$

2013 Mercedes Benz C250 ....................

per month for 42 mos

$

per month for 36 mos

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$27,988 2014 Audi A5 ........................................... $32,888 Certified, Blk/Blk, Low Miles. EA022094/A151051D-1 2015 Audi S4 .......................................... $47,988 Blk/Blk, 6sp manual, 1k Miles. 47FA108086/A151492-1 PORSCHE OF DOWNTOWN L.A.

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$2,999 due at lease signing P16172. 48 months, 10k miles per year, VIN#GLA10178, residual $35,136.35,1 at this price Down payment excludes tax, DMV fees, $995 Bank Acquisition fee, first payment and document fees. Rates based on approved Tier 1 credit through Porsche Financial Services. Excludes tax, title, and license fees. No security deposit required.

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Nov. 2, 8 p.m.: If you can get past the casual substation of a dollar sign for an “s,” then As I Am: The Life and Time$ of DJ AM and DJ Party could be a palatable documentary.

Nov. 3, 8:30 p.m.: Gaspar Noe’s Love screens in 3D. Downtown Independent 251 S. Main St., (213) 617-1033 or downtownindependent.com.

Nov. 2-5: With plenty of bulimia, promiscuity, envy and fashion adjacency, Excess Flesh hits a bit too close to home.

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

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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.

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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FILM

screening of Janis: Little Girl Blue are reminded that lack of popcorn is just another term for nothing left to lose.

Grand Performances California Plaza, 350 S. Grand Ave., (213) 687-2190 or grandperformances.org.

Nov. 5, 7 p.m.: The Artist harkens back to the heyday of silent films.

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!

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Continued from previous page Nov. 2: FOGG, Babylon and The Electric Magpie.

Nov. 5: TraPsPs, Glory, Georgia and cthtr.

Nov. 6: Noyes, Yogi Berra, Big Sis and No Chill.

Nov. 7: Kid Cadaver, Canyons and The Unending Thread.

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

Nov. 5, 8 p.m.: Synth guru and lanky ET enthusiast Jonathan Bates returns with Big Black Delta.

Nov. 7, 8 p.m.: Pimps of Joytime, or what the neighborhood moms used to call me after I seized the Spring Street park playground and started charging admission.

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S. Grand Ave., (323) 850-2000 or laphil.com.

Nov. 5, 8 p.m.: Killer pipes and undeniably blond hair merge in Kristin Chenoweth.

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