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ig changes are coming to a long-overlooked structure in the Arts District. The Challenge Cream and Butter warehouse, which was built in 1926, has been sold for $21.6 million, real estate services firm CBRE announced last week. The 44,547-square-foot, two-story structure at 929 E. Second St. was bought by developer Estate Four, which plans to add additional floors and turn the structure into a creative industry hub with a retail component. It was sold by Thirty By Investments,

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rivers in Little Tokyo, beware: The heavily trafficked stretch of Central Avenue between First and Second streets will be completely closed for about two weeks as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority continues building a station for the Regional Connector. During this time, construction will take place from 7 a.m.-11 p.m. daily, with crews drilling the foundation and installing temporary street decking. Access to the Japanese Village Plaza and Hikari apartments’ parking garages will be maintained at the Second Street and Central Avenue intersection. The Regional Connector is a 1.9-mile circulator that will connect Metro’s Blue, Expo and Gold lines, with three new stations planned at First Street and Central Avenue, Second Street and Broadway, and Second Place and Hope Street. The $1.46 billion project is expected to be completed in 2020

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or more than a decade, Downtown business leaders have been wooing, and area residents and workers have been clamoring for, a Trader Joe’s. Yet despite entreaties and multiple demographic studies that tout the EDITOR & PUBLISHER: Sue Laris community’s spending power and inhabitants’ willingness GENERAL MANAGER: Dawn Eastin to shop at a local store, the Monrovia-based grocery chain EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Jon Regardie has always demurred. Last year Trader Joe’s announced SENIOR WRITER: Eddie Kim that it will open a supermarket in 2017 as part of the mamSTAFF WRITER: Nicholas Slayton moth USC Village project, and while that will be great for CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Kathryn Maese S I N C E 19 7 2 college students and people in the immediate vicinity, relCONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Jeff Favre, Greg Fischer Los Angeles Downtown News atively few Downtowners will likely shop there.

1264 W. First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026 There are several reasons for this. Some won’t want to ART DIRECTOR: Brian Allison phone: 213-481-1448 • fax: 213-250-4617 fight traffic down the Figueroa Corridor. Others will probASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR: Yumi Kanegawa web: DowntownNews.com ably remain in the Central Business District because the email: realpeople@downtownnews.com PHOTOGRAPHER: Gary Leonard area now meets nearly all of their supermarket needs. The facebook: list of local grocery options has been growing steadily in ACCOUNTING: Ashley Schmidt L.A. Downtown News the last eight years, and the most celebrated arrival to date CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING MANAGER: Catherine Holloway twitter: came last week.

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Decking Out the Desmond

The 1916 Desmond Building, originally the home of a WillysOverland Car Company dealership, has been transformed into modern creative office space by developer Lincoln Property Company. It will hold 500 employees from Anschutz Entertainment Group, including workers in its Goldenvoice concert promotion division.

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By Eddie Kim he 1916 Desmond Building once served as the Downtown hub of the Willys-Overland Car Company. Customers roamed the showroom on the ground floor, while mechanics customized and repaired vehicles on the four upper levels.

In the 1940s, the brick building served as the distribution center of the Desmond furniture company, complete with a gaudy neon sign on the rooftop. For the past two decades, however, it stood mostly empty, a defunct space as glossy new housing complexes rose on surrounding blocks.

Even before Lincoln Property Company purchased the Desmond in early 2013, the building on the northeast corner of 11th and Hope streets caught the eye of Senior Vice President Rob Kane. For a few years, he had driven past the Desmond on the way to work, wondering about its potential in a resurgent Downtown.

Now, after two years of renovations, the Desmond is seeing new life.

Anschutz Entertainment Group is consolidating more than 500 employees from offices around the city into the Desmond. The company has signed a long-term lease for the 82,000-square-foot building, which includes a new sixth floor.

The interior has been stripped and remade into modern open-floor office space, with high ceilings, polished concrete and wood floors,

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The exterior, meanwhile, has been refurbished, with extra care given to what Kane calls the “heart and soul” of the edifice: the vintage factory-style windows, which were repaired by hand.

“They give the building its character and fantastic natural light,” Kane remarked during a recent tour of the Desmond, a short walk from L.A. Live. “If you change the window systems, you change the exterior look but also the feel inside. I think it becomes less authentic. And people notice that.”

Seismic Standards AEG initially outbid Lincoln Property Company to buy the structure from now-defunct Downtown landlord Evoq Properties, but the deal fell through, Kane said. AEG returned with a desire to lease the Desmond, kicking off a somewhat unusual development process in which Lincoln Property Company and architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill worked hand-in-hand with the tenant to customize the building.

The biggest challenge was structural, as the Desmond needed significant retrofitting to bring it up to seismic code. That was made all the more difficult by the plan to add the rooftop pavilion that would create a sixth floor of offices and conference rooms.

“Getting the city comfortable with what that

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meant to the existing building and its structural integrity took time and a lot of back-andforth,” Kane said. “How it was going to incorporate into a historic building was a design, permitting and construction challenge that made everything harder.”

SOM and Lincoln Property Company wanted to avoid adding unsightly metal bracing or messing with the original concrete columns in the interior, and instead devised a lateral support system that added fresh concrete around and below each window opening. Additionally, workers dug 13 feet under the foundation and bulked it up. Mechanical systems were distributed on each floor, rather than on the roof, to make way for the new pavilion and spread out the stress of the weight.

“The building is a real jewel, and it’s hard to

re-create that kind of character and spirit in new construction,” said Paul Danna, design director for SOM. “Our structural team came up with a very elegant solution that didn’t have to touch any existing columns or add visible framing.”

Lincoln Property Company declined to reveal the budget of the renovation.

Creative Pursuits The Desmond is already mostly full. The top two floors hold the offices for Goldenvoice, a concert promotion company owned by AEG. The fifth floor is adorned with a massive tile mosaic of a picturesque Coachella Valley, a nod to Goldenvoice’s acclaimed Coachella music festival.

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House of the Whole-y Downtown Gets a Long-Awaited Supermarket As Whole Foods Debuts

By Nicholas Slayton owntown Los Angeles has a new supermarket, and it’s one that that is set to change the grocery scene in the Central City, and perhaps the area’s reputation as a retail destination.

On Wednesday, Nov. 4, a “bread breaking” ceremony marked the opening of a 41,000-squarefoot Whole Foods. The business is on the ground floor of Carmel Partners’ 700-apartment Eighth & Grand project.

Patrick Bradley, president of Whole Foods’ Southern-Pacific region, said the Austin, Texasbased company had been looking at Downtown as a potential store location for a dozen years. Bradley said there are 37 Whole Foods in the region, and 431 altogether.

The expansive, bright lit store has an entrance at 788 S. Grand Ave. There are 175 underground parking spots for the supermarket, with oversized elevators that can hold shopping carts and that open directly into the store.

Parking is free with validation.

Much of the Whole Foods, including its in-store bar, features white tile and black-painted wood.

The project has created more than 200 jobs.

There are extensive sections for produce, meats, fish, frozen foods, prepared meals, dairy products and other supermarket staples. There are bulk bin containers, a cheese section with more than 350 types of cheese, an olive bar, a meat-alternatives case and a coffee bar offering Stumptown and other brands of coffee.

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The Whole Foods also stocks roughly 1,000 types of wine, four shelves with scores of beers, a wide selection of ciders, and an abundance of hard liquor and spirits.

Mike Bowen, a manager of the supermarket, said many of the elements in the store were inspired by the surrounding neighborhood.

“We really designed this for Downtown Los Angeles,” he said. “The selection of the food we carry is curated for what we feel Downtown wants.”

Paging Roy Choi The stock in the Downtown supermarket is similar to that found in Whole Foods across the region and the country, including a variety of goods from its in-house 365 label. However, certain elements have been created specifically for the new location.

One highlight is an in-store outpost of chef Roy Choi’s Chego. A portion of the counter in the prepared foods section allows diners to order a rice bowl topped with a variety of meats, similar to those served at the Chego in Chinatown. The Whole Foods Chego utilizes organic ingredients that meet the market’s standards. This marks the first time Whole Foods has partnered with a local restaurant for in-house service.

Choi said the idea was sparked after Whole Foods management invited him to speak at a regional conference. He said partnering with Whole Foods is a big deal for the company that began with a Kogi taco truck.

“We’re just proud to represent L.A. Our first

A 41,000-square-foot Whole Foods opened at 788 S. Grand Ave. last week. The store employs more than 200 people.

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food truck started right down the street here at Golden Gopher,” Choi said, referring to the nearby bar on Eighth Street.

Other items created specifically for the Downtown Whole Foods include Stumptown Coffee’s “DTLA Blend,” and elote Cabo Chips from East L.A. Both will be served exclusively at the store for 30-45 days, then will also be sold in other Southern California Whole Foods.

The store has an in-house bar and restaurant. The 8 Bar, which looks out at the corner of Eighth and Grand, has around 200 indoor and patio seats, and offers beers on tap and a fully stocked selection of liquor. That includes spirits

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Bradley said the additions beyond what are normally found in a supermarket are key to the company’s Downtown plan.

“There’s such a food scene in Downtown L.A. that we wanted to step out of the box, with Chego and even the drinks,” he said.

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A highlight of the supermarket is an in-store outpost of chef Roy Choi’s Chego.

Choi was manning the station last week.

The market, like other Whole Foods, contains vast sections of organic produce, and deep selections of other products.

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and Flower streets in 2007, it followed an early 2000s housing boom. Ralphs was the first new full-service Central City supermarket in about 50 years.

The offerings have since expanded. In recent years Downtown has seen the arrival of a WalMart Neighborhood Market near Chinatown, a Smart and Final Extra in South Park and a hefty grocery section in the Target at the FIGat7th shopping center. There are two smaller markets in the Arts District, Urban Radish and Grow; the latter business, about 5,200 square feet, opened Oct. 24.

Additionally, the Ralphs, seemingly in ad-

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vance of the Whole Foods opening, recently underwent a multi-million dollar renovation.

The work included the addition of a bar.

After more than a decade of looking, Whole Foods announced in 2013 that the company would open the market in the Eighth & Grand complex.

While the wave of supermarkets has been good for a surging Downtown, Carol Schatz, president and CEO of the Downtown Center Business Improvement District, said the arrival of Whole Foods is a sign that the community has “arrived.”

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he Downtown Center Business Improvement District, which provides cleaning and security programs to a large portion of central Downtown, is partnering up with the nonprofit People Assisting the Homeless (PATH) to conduct more outreach to homeless individuals in the area. The groups will lead a full-time mobile outreach team with the aim of encour-

aging homeless individuals to sign up for services provided by PATH, including housing and mental health programs. PATH members will train and join the BID’s existing “Action” team, which has already been offering homeless individuals items such as clothing, blankets and bus fare, as well as access to some services. “Working together with PATH provides us an opportunity to leverage their 30 years of experience in assisting the homeless and allows us to seamlessly increase both our outreach efforts and the types and number of services we can offer,” DCBID President and CEO Carol Schatz said in a prepared statement. The partnership is slated to run for a year with a potential renewal.

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for their shopping needs,” she said.

Schatz said that the expansion of grocery stores indicates to other retailers that Downtown is a booming area. The particular debut of a high-end market such as Whole Foods, she added, could persuade other chains to invest in the community.

“There’s no question that with retail the snowball effect really helps,” Schatz said. She added that she expects to see additional businesses that complement Whole Foods. “There will be more now that that’s here.”

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There is also an Instacart option for grocery delivery. Area residents can go online, place an order, and a shopper for the company will pick up the goods and bring it to their home within two hours.

The Whole Foods is open daily from 7 a.m.10 p.m. nicholas@downtownnews.com

it’s even bigger: The Little Tokyo institution recently announced that the late artist’s daughter, Madeleine Sugimoto, has given the museum 240 oil paintings and more than 200 watercolors.

JANM now owns more than 700 works that span Sugimoto’s career. It is the largest collection of paintings in the museum. “It is important to me that my father’s work be properly cared for and made accessible,” said Madeleine Sugimoto in a prepared statement. “I could think of no better place than the Japanese American National Museum to steward the art and artifacts of his career and life.” According to JANM, Sugimoto, who was influenced by the French Post-Impressionists, had a thriving career before World War II, and frequently painted landscapes and city scenes.

However, like thousands of Japanese Americans, he was sent to an internment camp during World War II after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Following the war, according to JANM, his style changed, and he frequently portrayed the indignities that internees suffered. Sugimoto died in 1990 at the age of 90.

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In The Wong Street Journal, comic and performance artist Kristina Wong delves into an unexpected rap career and what it’s like for a ChineseAmerican woman to experience “white privilege.” The show plays at REDCAT Nov. 12-15.

At REDCAT, an Unexpected Rap Hit Sends a Frustrated Performer on a New Journey

By Nicholas Slayton n October 2013, comic and performance artist Kristina Wong traveled to Northern Uganda. It was a mission of personal escape: After growing exasperated by the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, she wanted to volunteer and get away from her disenchantment with theater work.

The trip had an unexpected result: Wong became a hip-hop star in the country after partnering with a group of local producers and rappers. It also gave her an unlikely dose of what has been termed “white privilege” — societal benefits that white people enjoy and minorities don’t. This was particularly strange, as Wong is Chinese American.

“Maybe secretly I wanted to be a rap star, and it was thrust on me in my 30s in a weird situation,” Wong said recently by phone.

Wong’s rap career, and the story behind it, are part of the narrative in her solo show The Wong Street Journal. The 85-minute work makes its Los Angeles debut at REDCAT in Downtown Los Angeles on ThursdaySunday, Nov. 12-15.

The Wong Street Journal is part twisting comedy, part concert and part discussion of privilege and inequality. Wong describes it as a “sort of Pewee’s Playhouse-esque expedition to Africa.”

Directed by Emily Mendelsohn, it is a comedic performance that explores inequality.

It is also, said the 36-year-old Wong, an effort to make sense of near-burnout and what she calls the “shouty” nature of clickbait and online debate.

Wong occupies a felt-covered stage as she takes audiences from sitting in an armchair

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REDCAT was one of Wong’s early backers, co-commissioning the work alongside other artistic organizations and the National Performance Network. After a series of workshops, The Wong Street Journal debuted in San Francisco in June, and has since traveled to the Northeast United States.

Mark Murphy, the executive director of REDCAT, said the combination of musical and video elements in The Wong Street Journal make it a good fit for the venue. More important, he said, is Wong’s handling of the subject matter.

“Audiences will certainly laugh out loud because she’s a very funny performer,” Murphy said. “She draws you into that safe comic land, then starts confronting some important issues, economic issues as they relate to us and the inherent racism of the global economic systems.”

Escape From L.A. Before The Wong Street Journal, Wong had been doing solo shows — one was titled Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest — but began to feel like they weren’t appreciated.

Friends would miss performances and then ask if they could be found on YouTube.

“I had been touring these older shows that I was really getting sick of and was an having an existential crisis,” she said. “I was in a film town trying to create a live experience, and at the end of the day all success seems to be weighed on whether or not it

goes viral. As an activist and an artist, I was lost.”

So she decided to get away from Los Angeles, take a break from performing and have what she called an “Eat, Pray, Love moment” by volunteering.

She traveled to Uganda to work with a microloan organization.

Three days after arriving, she met the hip-hop crew. In Northern Uganda, she recalled, she was seen as a mzungu, a term for foreign or white women, despite her Asian ancestry. Her 2013 album, titled Mzungu Price, became a hit, with songs playing on the radio.

That launched Wong into her exploration of white privilege. Despite her ethnicity, she said many of the people she met in Uganda viewed her as white. In the past, some of her work had confronted issues of ignorance and exploitation that stem from privilege. Suddenly, she felt awkward just taking photos of the community she was visiting.

Part of The Wong Street Journal, in that regard, is her attempt to make sense of being seen as white, and feeling white guilt.

Wong’s verbal exploration is abetted by the set she assembled herself. The handsewn felt set resembles a mesh of social media and a Wall Street stock market floor. It creates a soft, almost surreal atmosphere for Wong to dive into.

“It’s a very low-tech way of showing how she is a humanist in a fast-paced electronic

world,” Murphy said. “The other irony there is that she is very well known for her prominence in social media.”

Indeed, Wong has been a guest on a number of television and online shows and discussions. She has approximately 10,000 Facebook fans and more than 30,000 Twitter followers.

While the show is humorous, Wong acknowledged that many of the issues in The Wong Street Journal aren’t light or fun. But she maintains that they are worth discussing, and sharing her personal experiences with some humor can be a good way of starting a discussion.

“I did it in Vermont, and one woman said she was really uncomfortable, ‘but I appreciate that you made me uncomfortable,’” Wong said.

She said The Wong Street Journal is more engaging and a better way to get her feelings across than any social media post or essay. Plus, when people are in the audience, they can’t just click over to another website or blog.

The Wong Street Journal runs ThursdaySunday, Nov. 12-15, at REDCAT, 631 W. Second St., (213) 237-2800 or redcat.org. nicholas@downtownnews.com

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The Japanese restaurant is filling a nearly 3,000-square-foot space on the ground floor of Level Furnished Living, Onni Groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recently opened, $200 million extended-stay residential complex at Eighth and Olive streets. Sakana is expected to debut next summer, and owner David Bang will give the place a more upbeat and urban vibe than at the original restaurant, according to Avison Young broker Derrick Moore, who worked on the deal. It will have a patio, and the menu will also offer some Downtown-exclusive tweaks. For the most part, expect an array of sushi â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from traditional nigiri to Asian-fusion maki rolls â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as well as noodles, salads and entrees such as tonkatsu (crisp pork cutlets) and grilled eel over rice.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10 Giles Martin and Sam Okell at the Grammy Museum Grammy Museum, 800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 765-6800 or grammymuseum.org.

7:30 p.m.: Bob Santelli interviews Beatles collaborators to get a better handle on the newly released 1+ video footage from those Liverpudlians.

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

7:15 p.m.: The grand Pacific Ocean is the point of departure as Simon Winchester discusses the various natural and social phenomena that ring what is arguably the most important geopolitical venue of the 21st century.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14 Family Weekend Workshops at the Broad The Broad, 221 S. Grand Ave., (213) 232-6200 or thebroad.org.

Nov. 14-15: Fun for the whole family as The Broad hosts a variety of engaging programs ranging from artistic studies of self identity to creative writing labs to an urban gardening clinic.

ROCK, POP & JAZZ

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

Nov. 13, 9 p.m.: An acoustic evening with Yo La Tengo. Downtown has finally made it.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12 Downtown Art Walk Historic Core or downtownartwalk.org.

5 p.m.: The rush to view, purchase and generally participate in Downtown’s art scene begins anew.

Dr. Robert Wachter at Live Talks Business Forum Gensler, 500 S. Figueroa St., or businesslivetalksla.org.

8:15 a.m.: Breakfast is served as the Associate Chair of the Department at Medicine at UCSF speaks about the positive possibilities and complications inherent in digital medicine.

Gloria Steinem With Melissa McCarthy at the Ace Hotel 929 S. Broadway, (213) 623-3233 or acehotel.com.

7 p.m.: Gender bias and the long road to social equality and media objectivity intersect as famed feminist theorist Steinem chats it up with actor McCarthy.

coastline carved sty waves and a set, the Pata h it w g in m Brim ng hs for the yachti with ample bert t marine backyard that lends ea cific Ocean is a gr portunities and an important op tional historiCalifornia recrea ter Simon Winchester. The t the . En sense of identity or’s latest work attempts to pu t en th es au pr , ed st pa cally obsess context with its 15 p.m., the in fic ci Pa e th at 7: vastness of esday, Nov. 10, inand future. On Tu at the Central Librar y hosts W es with Aloud seri ussion of a book chester for a disc b-title From Silicon the intriguing su ds to Brutal Dictaar Chips and Surfbo pires. Admission Em ng di tors and Fa e e reservations ar ., lin on t is free bu St At 630 W. Fifth recommended. or lfla.org.

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The brilliant minds that con verted Union Station into a venue for immersive opera have return ed to transform Downtown geography and Southern California car culture into a mobile journe y wrou in creative fusion. The Indus try’s Hopscotch, now in its fin ght al week, invites guests to select one of three routes on which the work of six composers and a bounty of creative interlopers interlock to form a multi-car aria exploration . Better still, those without the are invited to SCI-Arc, where cash the video-streamed at a site tem whole shebang is celebrated and porarily named “The Hub.” Ho pscotch features 10:45 a.m., 12:45 an d 2:45 p.m. show times on bo day and Sunday. At hopscotc th Saturhopera.com.

The galleries of the Central City yet again open their doors to throngs of visitors as the Downtown Art Walk returns on Thursday, Nov. 12.

Down at the GDCA Gallery at 727 S. Spring St., Bill Sherwood’s Chasing Momentum highlights the artist’s fascinating study of light through reverse Plexiglass paintings. Over in Santee Court, the Ren Gallery celebrates its recent move from the corner of Sixth and Los Angeles streets.

Elsewhere, the Imperial Gallery at 683 S. Santa Fe Ave. hosts the group show Dyslexia! Other surprises await the curious and intrepid.

In the Historic Core or downtownartwalk.org.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9 Write Club Los Angeles Bootleg, 2220 Beverly Blvd., (213) 389-3856 or bootlegtheater.org.

7 p.m.: Writers and bold minds square off in a battle of wits and elocution.

Los Angeles hip-hop maestro Tyler, the Creator is the irreverent, grotesque and potent MC that this city neither deserved nor expected. Intertwined with psychedelia, humor and a total disregard for a properly groomed image, the self-proclaimed goblin from Ladera Heights proudly presents his vision of L.A. hip-hop on Saturday, Nov. 14, as the grounds around the L.A. Coliseum hosts the fourth annual Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival. The festival in Exposition Park features an all-star lineup of bizarre and heavy acts including the ever-demure Tokimonsta, YG, Flosstradamus, Atmosphere, A$AP Rocky, Mac Miller, Snoop Dogg and a special performance from Tyler’s own reformed crew OFWGKTA. Doors open at 2 p.m. At 3911 S. Figueroa St., (213) 747-7111 or campfloggnaw.com.

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Enamored with poet George Crabbe’s portrayal of the secrets hidden amidst an ordinary English village, composer Benjamin Britten honed in on the narrative of a lonely fisherman, Peter Grimes, as the subject of his now famous opera. On Friday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m., the Los Angeles Philharmonic takes the stage at Walt Disney Concert Hall to dissect “Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia” from Peter Grimes with video accompaniment from visual artist Tal Rosner. Guest composer Ludovic Morlot (shown here) from the Seattle Symphony takes the baton to lead the gang through the Britten piece and the robust Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 from Beethoven. At 111 S. Grand Ave., (213) 972-7300 or laphil.com.

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Metro Art Movies Union Station, 800 N. Alameda St., (213) 683-6729 or metro.net/about/art Enjoy a free double feature of films at Union Station: Water and Power and The Sound We See: A Los Angeles City Symphony. Special introduction by director Pat O’Neill.

Thursday, Nov. 12, 7:30-9 p.m.

Holiday Boutique Good Samaritan Hospital, 616 S. Witmer St., (213) 977-2358 Good Samaritan Hospital opens its Elizabeth Vruwink Gift Shop Holiday Boutique on Monday, Nov. 9. The boutique in the hospital lobby will sell jewelry, accessories, and clothing for men, women and babies. There will also be holiday items, toys, gifts for the home, See’s candy and more. Shop hours are Monday and Friday, 10 a.m-5:30 p.m.; Tuesday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; and Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

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November 9, 2015 festival lures Brooklyn favorite TV on the Radio to DTLA where they can see their borough’s sister city.

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

Nov. 9: Jesse Harris.

Nov. 10: Jason Harnell.

Nov. 11: Scott Jeppesen.

Nov. 12: Nick Mancini with John Beasley and Otmaro Ruiz.

Nov. 13-14: Josh Nelson and the Discovery.

Nov. 15: Teira Church.

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

Nov. 9, 8 p.m.: The No Win residency continues its testament to contemporary hipster culture with Post Life, Moaning and Hillary Chillton.

Nov. 10, 8 p.m.: A former New Orleans street busker and onetime member of Old Crow Medicine Show, Gill Landry apparently likes to play guitar while sitting in a rocking chair. Is it a found rocking chair or a Danish Mid-Century rocking chair? Because there is a difference.

Nov. 11, 8:30 p.m.: Widowspeak sounds like a fusion of the Cocteau Twins and Tomahawk.

Nov. 13, 8 p.m.: Here We Go Magic sounds extra great when you’re cruising through an organic farmer’s market having just given a dollar to a guy who looks as if he might be a few bucks from getting it together.

Nov. 14, 8:30 p.m.: Down to the mussed-up hair non-chalantly crowding the lead singer’s eyes, Beach Slang have a next level Jimmy Eat World impression.

Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m.: Nick Rutherford and Karl Hess host a comedy show entitled “That’s Gold.” OK. Club Nokia 800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 765-7000 or clubnokia.com.

Nov. 11, 7:30 p.m.: Unlikely bedfellows as Ziggy Marley and Dwight Yoakam team up for the environment at the Earth in Concert Benefit Show.

Nov. 12, 8 p.m.: Rumor has it Syd Barrett used to trip hardest while staring directly into industrial strength lasers. Find out for yourself at the Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular.

Nov. 13, 8 p.m.: Raheem Devaughn and Leela James team up for a night of soulful sounds you won’t soon forget.

Nov. 14, 8 p.m.: Monica, or the other half of “The Boy Is Mine.”

Nov. 15, 7 p.m.: Blockbuster is delicious K-Pop and a subtle reference to the futility of all being as it pertains to massively successful video rental chains.

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

Nov. 15, 10 p.m.: Some years it’s enough that RT N the 44s survived Halloween.

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

Nov. 13: Kryder & Tom Staar.

Nov. 14: Cuff.

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

Nov. 9, 7:30 p.m.: Say what you will about Houndmouth: They have amazing shirts.

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

Nov. 12, 7 p.m.: 30 Days In L.A. continues with Flume.

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

Nov. 9: Rubber.

Nov. 13: Satin Hammer and The Nuclears.

Nov. 14, 3 p.m.: The Katellas, The Nuclears, The Savoys, Mike Williamson and Johnny Travis.

Nov. 15: Signals Midwest.

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

Nov. 8, 11 p.m.: Red Bull is putting up Lexington, Kentucky’s finest, Tinashe.

Nov. 13, 8 p.m.: Peaches has a dirty mind.

Nov. 14, 8 p.m.: This month’s Bootie LA mash-up extravaganza pits Beyonce vs. Rihanna in a battle.

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

Nov. 9: Rollercoaster Sessions, which could be a tribute to mental health issues in the larger focus of Downtown.

Nov. 10: The Makers are already getting excited for next year’s tax season!

Nov. 11: Shoshana Bush, three s’s and four vowels.

Nov. 12: The Vibrometers are the hardest working band in Downtown contemporary funk.

Nov. 15: Come indulge in the Calumette. Not an actual calumette, but a metaphor.

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

Nov. 9: Surf Curse, Jurassic Shark and Teeks.

Nov. 13: Arjuna Genome and Swings.

Nov. 14: Billy Changer, Shocking Pinks and TraPsPs. Nov. 15: Alexi’s Big Comedy Show.

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

Nov. 9, 7 p.m.: South Carolina’s Toro Y Moi spends entirely too much time in L.A. Nov. 10, 8 p.m.: The Orwells are entirely too young to be rocking George’s given name.

Nov. 11, 8 p.m.: Indie done up symphonic style with Mother Falcon.

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12 Downtown News Continued from previous page Nov. 13, 8 p.m.: Come on Blitzen Trapper, isn’t it a little early in the holiday season to begin having sadistic fantasies about Santa’s reindeer?

Nov. 14, 8 p.m.: Born Ruffians play exactly the sort of upbeat indie that will have fans wondering if the sociologists were right and their 20s were just a prolonged adolescence.

Nov. 15, 8 p.m.: Unfortunately unorthodox electro maestro Random Rab is not Raab Himself of CKY fame.

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

Nov. 9, 7 p.m.: Glen Hansard, onetime Swell Season-ite, takes his solo show to the house of the mouse.

FILM

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

Nov. 15, 1 p.m.: Actor Richard Benjamin participates in a special Q&A to accompany a showing of Westworld.

Nov. 15, 7 p.m.: PT Anderson’s recent collaboration with Radiohead guitar guy Johnny Greenwood, Junun, gets an Ace showcase.

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

See website for schedule.

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

Nov. 12, 7 p.m.: Blessedly, long gone are the days of sorority girls stopping us on the streets not to inquire about our interests, our feelings or our free time, but instead to ask for directions to the (500) Days of Summer hill. The park is closed, but the

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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 Nov. 12: The Peanuts Movie 3D (12:10, 2, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 9:30 and 10:10 p.m.); The Peanuts Movie (11:30 a.m., 4:30 and 7 p.m.); Spectre (11:20 a.m., 12, 12:40, 2:40, 3:20, 4, 6:10, 6:50, 7:30, 9:40, 10:20 and 11 p.m.); Burnt (11:20 a.m.); Our Brand Is Crisis (1:50 p.m.); The Last Witch Hunter (12:50, 3:40, 6:30 and 9:15 p.m.); Crimson Peak (1:20, 4:40, 7:30 and 10:20 p.m.); Goosebumps (11:45 a.m., 4:45 and 9:45 p.m.); Goosebumps 3D (2:15 and 7:15 p.m.); Steve Jobs (12:40, 3:30, 6:40 and 9:40 p.m.); The Martian (12:30, 3:50, 7:10 and 10:30 p.m.); Sicario (1:15, 4:10, 7:20 and 10:10 p.m.).

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’57 Chevy LATC, 514 S. Spring ST., (866) 811-4111 or thelatc.org.

Nov. 11-14, 8 p.m. and Nov. 15, 3 p.m.: Named after the car in which playwright Cris Franco’s father picked the family up in Mexico to drive them to South Central Los Angeles, this play tells the story of the Los Angeles immigrant experience circa 1964. Bonus: That one man is Ric Salinas from Culture Clash.

Through Dec. 6.

Bob Baker’s Nutcracker Bob Baker Marionette Theater, 1345 W. First St., (213) 2509995 or bobbakermarionettes.com.

Nov. 14-15, 2:30 p.m.: The dance of the Sugarplum Fairy will never be seen in quite the same way by those who bear witness to this advanced study in puppetry.

Carrie the Musical Los Angeles Theatre, 615 S. Broadway, (213) 629-2939 or experiencecarrie.com.

Nov. 10-13, 8 p.m., Nov. 14, 1, 6:30 and 11 p.m. and Nov. 15, 2 and 6:30 p.m.: Pigs’ blood aplenty as Stephen King’s high school love story takes to Broadway in musical form. Through Nov. 15.

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

Nov. 14, 8 p.m. and Nov. 15, 7 p.m.: The war on holidays goes one step further as the holidays go horrifically awry for one family.

Through Dec. 20.

Kristina Wong: The Wong Street Journal REDCAT, 631 W. Second St., (213) 237-2800 or redcat.org.

Nov. 12-14, 8:30 p.m. or Nov. 15, 3 p.m.: With inventive staging, Kristina Wong takes on the trite conventions of this, the digital age.

Moby Dick Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., (213) 9728001 or laopera.org.

Nov. 15, 2 p.m.: Split your lungs with blood and thunder when you see the white whale! James Conlon conducts this Melville interpretation for Los Angeles Opera. A hearty meal of seafood beforehand comes heartily recommended.

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

November 9, 2015 Nov. 11, 9 p.m.: Every Tuesday this irreverent stand-up comedy cavalcade takes up residence at the Downtown Independent.

CLASSICAL MUSIC THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12 LACO Concert Zipper Hall, 200 S. Grand Ave., (213) 621-2200 or colburnschool.edu.

7 p.m.: That straightforward acronym stands for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, FYI. They’ll be kicking out the jams as only an intimate band of highly skilled classical players can.

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African American Firefighter Museum 1401 S. Central Ave., (213) 744-1730 or aaffmuseum.org.

Ongoing: An array of firefighting relics dating to 1924, including a 1940 Pirsch ladder truck, an 1890 hose wagon, uniforms from New York, L.A. County and City of L.A. firefighters, badges, helmets, photographs and other artifacts.

Broad Museum 221 S. Grand Ave., (213) 232-6200 or thebroad.org.

Ongoing: The inaugural installation at the $140 million Grand Avenue institution features about 250 works from Eli and Edythe Broad’s 2,000-piece contemporary art collection. It’s big-time blue chip, with work from Rauschenberg, Warhol, Basquiat, Koons, Kruger and every other big name. Not to be missed is Yayoi Kusama’s eminently selfie-ready Infinity Mirrored Room.

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

Through Dec. 19: Inspired Eye chronicles the contributions that 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.

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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RESTAURANT BUZZ, 9 left for another project before Clifton’s even opened, he added. And Clifton’s isn’t done yet: A top-floor tiki bar and Art Deco bar, and the basement’s luxurious and elaborate Shadowbox cocktail spot, are slated to open by the end of the year.

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

New Sibling: Seventh Street in the Financial District is packed with great restaurants. Now there’s another one. Little Sister, from chef Tin Vuong and his business partner Jed Sanford, recently began serving modern Southeast Asian eats at 523 W. Seventh St., near the corner of Grand Avenue.

Little Sister originally opened in Manhattan Beach and won fans for dishes like saltand-pepper lobster and Vietnamese beef stew. Executive chef Mikey Segerstrom, who comes from the original location, leads the kitchen. “With Little Sister Downtown, we are digging a little deeper into regional Asian cuisine — Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong and Bali — to introduce a melting

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pot of techniques and flavor profiles,” Segerstrom said in a prepared statement.

The 50-seat restaurant is serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. Its drink program focuses on Korean soju cocktails.

At 523 W. Seventh. St., (213) 628-3146 or littlesisterla.com.

Cornering the Market: A familiar name is coming to One California Plaza. Corner Bakery, which has more than two dozen locations around Southern California, has signed a lease for a space opposite Mendocino Farms in the skyscraper’s ground-floor dining plaza, according to Avison Young broker Derrick Moore, who worked on the deal. The interior will be built out over the next several months, and Corner Bakery is expected to open in the second quarter of 2016, Moore said. It specializes in simple salads, sandwiches, pastas and soups, and also offers an array of baked goods and coffee drinks. The One Cal spot will join an existing Corner Bakery at 801 S. Figueroa St. The signing follows a major renovation of the dining area at the base of the high-rise. The for-

No More Lines: One of Downtown’s best coffee spots, G&B at Grand Central Market, is back after months of renovation. The tiny stall has been reworked into a sleek four-sided bar, with an island of equipment and gadgets in the center. The purpose of the design, according to owners Kyle Glanville and Charles Babinski, is to ditch the single-file line that forms at most coffee shops and instead allow patrons to belly up to the bar and order straight from the barista, as people do in actual bars. The model requires more workers but greatly increases the number of customers G&B can serve, Babinski told Los Angeles Downtown News this s`ummer. The shop’s excellent espressos, coffees and signature drinks, like a grapefruit sparkling tea and a macadamia nut-milk iced latte, remain.

At 317 S. Broadway or gandbcoffee.com.

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The comedy from playwright David Henry Hwang closed its month-long run on Oct. 11. The work drew widespread praise. A Los Angeles Downtown News review stated, in part, “[Hwang] does it with an insightful, delightful and original manner that provides Little Tokyo’s East West Players the type of smiles and laughs that it hasn’t enjoyed in years.”

Now, the nation’s oldest operating theater of color has decided to revive the production. It will play Dec. 3-13.

“The massive success and critical acclaim of EWP’s production of Chinglish really pushed the decision to meet demand and reopen,” said EWP Producing Artistic Director Tim Dang.

The story follows an American businessman, Daniel Cavanaugh, who travels to China desperate to score a big contract for his firm. Things get complicated by a consultant who might be fooling him, translators who are unreliable, and a beautiful government official, Xi Yan, who seems sympathetic but can’t quite communicate with him. The original cast, including Kara Wang as Xi Yan and Matthew Jaeger as Cavanaugh, will return for next month’s run.

Tickets and more information are at (213) 625-7000 or eastwestplayers.org.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14 Beethoven & Become Ocean Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., (213) 9720777 or musiccenter.org.

Nov. 14-15, 2 p.m.: The faces are all the same from last night, except Britten has been pulled from the lineup in favor of J.L. Adams’ Become Ocean.

‘Chinglish’ Returning for December Run

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8 p.m.: Ludovic Morlot takes the L.A. Phil through its paces as work from Britten’s maritime spectacular Peter Grimes merges with some of the old Ludwig Van.

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Other employees from AEG Live fill the third and fourth floors, while its ticketing division, AXS, occupies the first two levels.

Each floor has its own look and feel, although they all emphasize collaborative space and mostly eschew the privacy of traditional corner offices.

AEG was planning on moving these divisions to L.A. Live when the South Park complex opened in 2009, but its ensuing deal with Herbalife left AEG Live on Wilshire Boulevard near Museum Row, said AEG Live Chief Operating Officer Shawn Trell.

Over time, the offices grew cramped and inefficient for workers, he said.

“Our move to the Desmond allows us to lay out each floor exactly like we want,” Trell said. “The building’s facade and history give it a traditional and classy look and feel, but we have a completely functional, contemporary interior space. It’s the best of both worlds.”

With the Desmond complete, Lincoln Property Company is searching for another Downtown L.A. property to refurbish into creative office space. Kane said the company is especially intrigued by the North Chinatown area.

“We’re heavily invested in Playa del Rey, Culver City, Hollywood and West L.A., and we see all these companies that have a lot of employees living in Downtown,” he said. “It’s becoming a viable place for them to go. Nowhere else in the city do you have these historic buildings at this scale. And that’s the type of space that these creative companies want to be in.” eddie@downtownnews.com