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Mercedes-Benz Dealership Gets $30 Million Renovation

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t’s not only housing complexes and restaurants that are opening or being upgraded in Downtown: The Downtown L.A. Auto Group has completed a $30 million renovation of its flagship dealership, Downtown L.A. Motors, Mercedes-Benz, and will host a grand opening event on Friday, Dec. 5. The showroom at 1801 S. Figueroa St. has been expanded from 15,000 to 25,000 square feet and features all new furniture and fixtures, said Darryl Holter, CEO of the company. The project, he said, underscores the group’s desire to stay in the community when so many other dealerships have fled to the suburbs. “It shows the kind of commitment we have to maintain the traditional character of the Figueroa Corridor,” he said. The work at the Mercedes dealership continues: Holter said a new service facility with 70 bays and a parking structure will be completed by July 2015. Friday’s opening celebration runs from 4-9 p.m. and is open to the public.

Rock ‘N’ Roll Flea Market Coming to Regent Theater

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he Regent Theatre opened last month and has hosted a handful of indie rock bands. The week, the Main Street venue will be

TWITTER: @ DOWNTOWNNEWS a destination for fans of music memorabilia, vinyl records and other goodies. The Rock ‘N’ Roll Flea Market debuts Sunday, Dec. 7, at the theater at 448 S. Main St. The event runs from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. and will occur the first Sunday of every month. In addition to records, posters, instruments and other music-related items, the market will offer products from a variety of Los Angeles vendors. Participants at this week’s affair include jewelry shops Spragworks and Biological Jewels, Laura Ann’s Jams, and clothing boutique Coast to Coast Vintage. The $2 entrance fee is waived for those who dine at Prufrock, the pizzeria attached to the Regent.

Expect live music from a DJ and a bar serving mimosas and Bloody Marys. The market comes from Regent owner Mitchell Frank, and Mike Andrews and Paul Svensen of vintage/antique shop Inheritance. More information is at rnrflea.com.

28-story tower proposed for South Park received a key approval last week. On Tuesday, Nov. 25, the full City Council echoed a previous vote by the Planning and Land Use Management Committee to reject an appeal tied to a zone variance regarding bicycle parking. The move gives a green light to Vancouver, Canada-based developer Amacon, which aims to build the residential tower at 1133 S. Hope St. The project had been opposed by some residents of the adjacent four-story Flower Street Lofts over the last seven years, who charged that the high-rise would block their natural light and cause traffic problems in an alley be-

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The Glory of the Girl Scouts

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he growth of Downtown has been experienced in myriad exciting ways in the last decade. The population has swelled and housing projects have opened. Restaurants have debuted and bar owners have swarmed the area. There are rock and roll clubs, new parks and more people walking dogs on the streets than anyone could have ever predicted.

Now there’s another example of a surprising way in which the Central City is erupting: Downtown Los Angeles has four Girl Scout troops, with nearly 170 kindergarten through high school students earning badges, doing good deeds for the community and, yes, selling cookies.

This is an unexpected development. It also says a lot about how much has happened, and how much continues to happen, in Downtown.

The growth in the number of families in the Central City, and the things those families need, is a frequent topic of conversation. At the top of the needs list is high-quality elementary schools, and that desire led a group of South Park parents to found the Metro Charter Elementary School in 2013. Another priority is playgrounds, and those too are increasing in number — as Los Angeles Downtown News has written recently, a kids’ playground just opened in Grand Park, and two more playgrounds are planned for Pershing Square.

The need for a Girl Scouts troop would seem further down the list. However, there has been a grassroots movement. While the oldest of Downtown’s four troops has about 90 members (many of whom live outside Downtown) and was founded in Little Tokyo 30 years ago, the other three blossomed in the last few years and all serve local residents. In fact, the desire continues to grow — there is currently a 10-girl waiting list to join a Downtown troop.

We are pleased to see this occurring, and we hope the rest of Downtown nurtures and supports the growth of the organization. The local Girl Scouts chapter is looking for people to volunteer to be troop leaders (those interested can contact the Girl Scouts or email gs16155@gmail.com).

There are numerous advantages to having more Girl Scouts here. When troops form, so does a sense of community, and people who have never met each other will begin talking and getting together when their daughters become friends.

There is also the sense of liveliness that comes from having a collection of sash-wearing girls out in the neighborhood going on urban hikes or asking passersby if they want to buy some cookies. These things are taken for granted in more established metropolitan areas. It is refreshing to see them occurring here.

We’re glad that a few Downtown families responded to a need by taking it upon themselves to form Girl Scout troops. This is a great way to get kids active in Downtown. We hope to see even more of them in the future. Come cookie time, count us in for a few boxes of Thin Mints.

It’s Time for Hotel Clark and Embassy Owner To Contribute to Downtown

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he news that two large and long-vacant Downtown properties are scheduled to open as hotels in 2015 is potentially a great advancement for the Central City. The key word here is “potentially.” While the revival of a pair of derelict structures would normally be an unquestioned positive for Downtown, these properties are owned by a New York-based company, the Chetrit Group, that has frustrated local stakeholders for years. One can’t know quite what will happen because, even now, the principals aren’t speaking publicly.

The path is clear for the company to create a total of more than 500 rooms in the Clark Hotel, in the Historic Core, and the Embassy Hotel, in South Park. While we want to see an increase in the hotel stock, we also want the Chetrit Group to be a responsible and more active member of the community. After years of standing on the sidelines and rebuffing entreaties from those who strive to make the Central City a better place to live, work and visit, it is time for the Chetrit Group to step up.

Simply opening the hotels isn’t enough. We want the company leaders to participate in efforts to beautify and better Downtown.

We want them partnering with neighbors, particularly in the case of the Clark. That building is just north of Pershing Square, and like other area property owners, the Chetrit Group should be involved in the effort to improve and activate the concrete-heavy park.

We also want to see the Chetrit Group upgrade and activate another historic property, Giannini Place, that has been allowed to languish. The stately 1922 building on Seventh Street should be a jewel in a blossoming Downtown. Instead, it sits ugly and empty.

Are we asking for more from the Chetrit Group, which has certainly spent millions of dollars upgrading the Clark and the Embassy, than we would from other out-of-town developers? Yes, but that’s only because the company has treated Downtown so poorly for so long. Its executives need to demonstrate that they are ready to do more here than just make money.

This is not a new situation. In 2010, Los Angeles Downtown News wrote about how area leaders had grown angry at the absentee landlord approach, with the Clark, Embassy and Giannini Place sitting empty, even though Chetrit had owned them all for about a decade, and even as other developers invested in their buildings.

This past August, 14th District City Councilman José Huizar ex-

pressed frustration over what he said was a lack of communication and cooperation from the company regarding the Clark and the Embassy.

What has changed is the status of the properties. For more than a year, Chetrit had been stymied by an influential local union, Unite HERE Local 11, which was protesting both hotel proposals, claiming issues with the environmental impact reports. Though that was widely viewed as a smokescreen to pressure Chetrit to hire union workers in the hotels, it succeeded in preventing the buildings from coming online.

As Downtown News reported last week, an October ruling by the Central Area Planning Commission cleared the way for the projects to move forward. According to the Chetrit Group’s local land-use representative, certificates of occupancy have already been secured. She said the company hopes to open the Clark, at 426 S. Hill St., as a 347-room hotel in about four months. The Embassy, at 831 S. Grand Ave. and with 183 guest rooms and a large auditorium, would come online in approximately eight months.

As with all hotels, they won’t be islands. The buildings will have restaurants that Downtowners will patronize. In turn, guests of the Embassy and the Clark will visit area bars and eateries. Those who spend the night will check out attractions such as MOCA and Walt Disney Concert Hall. They’ll go to games at Staples Center and attend local theaters.

In other words, whether the Chetrit Group executives care or not, they will be deeply intertwined with the rest of Downtown. It is in their best interest, and smart from a business sense, to participate in the evolution of the community.

The Chetrit Group brass will find that they have a rare opportunity. The upgrade of the buildings and the creation of hotel jobs, even if non-union, will earn them a degree of goodwill. People will give them the chance to correct the mistakes of the past.

In the coming months, before the hotels open, we hope to see the Chetrit Group reach out to Downtown stakeholders. A good first step would be inviting neighbors and area leaders into the buildings and asking how, as the new arrival, they can help and what they can do to partner with the greater community.

Will the Chetrit Group seize this opportunity? We can only hope they do.

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The Readers Have Their Say Website Comments to Stories on New Buildings, Playgrounds, a Football Stadium and More Regarding the editorial “The Power of Playgrounds,” about two playgrounds planned for Pershing Square, published online Nov. 12

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f I were having kids, the last place I’d bring them is Pershing Square — playground or not. There are much larger issues that need to be taken care of to draw families, starting with homelessness and the mentally ill, and building the right kind of housing (kids in a loft? Really?).

Most of the kids in Downtown live in South Park or perhaps over on Spring Street, both of which are already served by parks with playgrounds.

Grand Park is getting a playground. How about spending this money on making Pershing Square better for everyone, not just some theoretical children that don’t live close by?

—Robert, Nov. 12, 10:18 a.m.

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loved the editorial. It’s a topic that should be pushing us to question what we want Downtown to be: a place made of childless loft livers, or a real community with both kids and old people. Robert apparently will move out if he decides to have a family, probably even with playgrounds. But last year great neighbors of mine would have stayed if there was a playground for their son who was turning 2 and needed a close-by place to socialize and challenge himself.

There are a lot of reasons to raise children

Downtown. There are patches of greenery and water to play with, and the Central Library has one of the most beautiful and rich children’s rooms in the country. Kids and parents need playgrounds they can walk to and the new city kids, the ones growing up without suburban back yards, deserve the best we can give them.

A community without kids is no community at all. It is a ghetto and none of us benefit from isolation that cuts us off from knowing all ages.

That too is diversity. And Pershing Square?

There is certainly enough room for all kinds of us there. Just do it well and thoughtfully.

—Judith Hansen, Nov. 13, 11:54 p.m.

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ack in the summer of 1964 when I was an 11-year-old businessman I shined shoes on Hill Street across from Pershing Square. I’d wake up early Monday through Friday, get my wooden shoeshine box containing a black and a brown shoe brush, a can of black shoe polish and a can of brown shoe polish, some old T-shirts, bottles of black and brown liquid polish and a small box containing change. I’d also have the day’s copy of the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner for the customer to read while I shined his shoes. I charged 50 cents, a lot of money back then. That summer I made enough to buy a Schwinn Bike (Stingray model) for $30. Those were the days.

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Regarding the editorial “The Farmers Field Hail Mary,” published Oct. 6 ’d still prefer to see Farmers Field built, with dimensions that allow soccer as well as football. Since the idea behind Farmers Field is that it can be used as both convention space and as a sports field, and considering that AEG owns the Galaxy but relegates them to playing their matches in a transit-unfriendly, suburban stadium, at least giving them the option to hold some soccer games in Downtown makes sense and will help drive more use of the L.A. Live area.

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In Skid Row, Multiple Milestones Midnight Mission Turns 100; Skid Row Housing Trust Hits 25

By Donna Evans kid Row holds the city’s largest concentration of homeless individuals. It also holds Los Angeles’ largest collection of organizations and people who work to help those living on the streets or in shelters.

Two local entities have reached significant milestones. The Midnight Mission, which feeds and shelters area denizens, is in the midst of celebrating its 100th birthday. Skid Row Housing Trust, which works to create affordable housing, just marked its first quarter century in business.

Los Angeles Downtown News spoke with the heads of the Midnight Mission and SRHT to talk about some achievements from the past and goals for the future.

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The Midnight Mission moved into its current home in 2005. The century-old mission can serve more than 3,000 meals a day.

The Midnight Mission Location: 601 S. San Pedro St. Founded: 1914 Past and Future: A century ago, Tom Liddecoat, a businessman and minister who was known as the “father of the poor,” began serving meals at midnight, following church services. That marked the founding of the Midnight Mission. For the past 17 years, the non-denominational nonprofit has been run by President and CEO Larry Adamson — he is one of only four executive managers the mission has had in 10 decades.

The good news, Adamson said, is that the mission is still here, helping those on the streets. The bad news, he adds, is that there’s still a need for the services they provide.

Adamson said the $7 million annual budget comes entirely from donations (except for one city contract for $180,000 to provide four 24-hour toilets to the public). He estimates that 5001,200 meals are served per service, and there are three services a day. In 2012 and 2013, they served more than 1 million meals, and are poised to exceed that for 2014.

There are 250 beds, another 50 in a “Safe Sleep” program, and there is room for an additional 200 in the courtyard and dining room if there is severe weather. The mission also holds a gym, basketball court, weight room and library.

Adamson said the responsibilities of the mission have changed with the times. The facility functioned primarily as a federal relief station during the Great Depression. He noted that homelessness decreased during World War II, and during that Continued on page 8

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time the Midnight reinvented itself as a place to help soldiers with food and housing as they re-acclimated to society.

In the 1960s and ’70s, said Adamson, there was an uptick in substance abuse. Again, Mission brass altered the program to assist drug addicts. The 1990s saw more homeless women and children on Skid Row than ever before, and the Mission opened the first homeless family center in Downtown.

The building was long located at Fourth and Los Angeles streets. It moved into a new $17 million location in 2005.

“We’ve been an agency that’s had its eye on the changing needs of the population that hangs on that lower rung of society’s ladder,” Adamson said. “We’ve been able to reinvent ourselves without ever losing the core purpose to feed and clothe the homeless.”

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Skid Row Housing Trust Location: 1317 E. Seventh St. Founded: 1989 Past and Future: A quarter century ago, Skid Row Housing Trust completed its first projects, the Pershing Roma Hotel and the Genesis Hotel on Main Street, as places for people who’d been living on the streets, said executive director Mike Alvidrez. The projects materialized after a group of activists and business leaders came together and secured funds through low-income tax credits, public money and other means.

The formation of SRHT, said Alvidrez, was a milestone in helping the public understand the value of permanent supportive housing, which in addition to a bed gives individuals on-site services such as substance abuse counseling and medical care. In its first quarter century, SRHT created 26 housing projects. Most are in Downtown Los Angeles.

“We were able to target the people most in need of supportive housing, without regard for their mental health status or their recovery status,” said Alvidrez. “We could help the people with the most impactful disabilities.”

Highlights include the New Carver Apartments, which debuted in 2007 at 17th and Hope streets. SRHT’s most recent projects are the Star Apartments at 240 E. Sixth St. and the New Genesis at Fifth and Main streets. Scheduled to begin leasing before the end of the year is the Pershing Hotel apartments at 500 S. Main St. Perhaps SRHT’s most significant achievement, Alvidrez said, is the collaboration with the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. Officials and medical staff have even opened a clinic and offices on the ground floor of the Star.

With an annual budget of $5.5 million, comprised of donations and federal grants, SRHT continues to look for ways to develop housing and supportive housing programs.

“We want to create successful buildings where people can begin to regain their lives and undertake the transformation to become functioning members of the community,” Alvidrez said. donna@downtownnews.com

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Leave the Downtown Driving to Them Bunker Hill Resident Launches Shuttle Service That Picks You Up at Home or Anywhere Downtown. Oh Yeah, It’s Free

By Donna Evans s everyone knows, driving in Downtown Los Angeles can be maddening.

If the gridlock doesn’t get you, pedestrians lollygagging through the crosswalks — sometimes even after the countdown clock has begun — will. Then there are freshly hung noleft-turn signs on a street you’ve turned left on for years, or the construction that these days is everywhere.

The constant headache gave Bunker Hill resident Michelle Thrower an idea: Start a shuttle business, Downtown Concierge, that is more like a cab service, but it’s free and the driver won’t take you the long way to get there. Customers call for a ride at a certain pick-up time within the company’s operating hours (9 a.m. to midnight Sunday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 2 a.m.

Friday and Saturday). Then, the bus will take them from wherever they are Downtown to wherever they want to go in the community, whether the Music Center, L.A. Live or someplace else.

“We had one guy last week that needed to go to Office Depot, so we took him,” Thrower said recently, adding that the passenger was part of a group staying at the Cecil Hotel for a work event at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Thrower started Downtown Concierge 14 months ago. While the rides are free to individuals, clients such as housing complex Eighth and Hope and the restaurants McCormick & Schmick’s, Café Pinot and Water Grill pay a monthly fee. Though Thrower wouldn’t reveal the amount, she said it works out to about $2 per head.

Thrower, who despises driving so much that she swapped out her car for a golf cart, had been in the parking management business for 20 years, providing valet parking and parking services for concerts and events such as Coachella. She once had accounts all over Southern California and racked up as much as 58,000 miles a year on her car.

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Michelle Thrower started shuttle bus business Downtown Concierge, which can take riders from a restaurant to the theater, or even to their Central City home.

she sold her house in Northridge and eventually rented a spot at the Barker Block (last month she moved into the recently opened Emerson). She assembled a business plan and launched Downtown Concierge in September 2013.

Shuttle services aren’t new to Downtown. There have long been small buses that bring diners, for example, from Drago Centro or Chaya at City National Plaza to the Music Center, and back to the restaurant after a show. What makes Downtown

Concierge different, Thrower said, is that in addition to contracting with bars or restaurants on familiar routes, her drivers can operate like a personal chauffeur, and will pick up and take a rider home or to a lot where his or her car is parked.

Other services are ride-share and may end up making 10 stops, she said. Thrower will take someone from their door to a restaurant and back, as long as a spot on the bus is available.

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Downtown’s Square Deals How All Those Intersections Honoring People Got Their Names

By Eddie Kim n April, the city gave the intersection of Fifth and Spring streets a second name: It was dedicated as John Parkinson Square, in honor of the legendary architect who designed several nearby structures, along with numerous Los Angeles landmarks.

John Parkinson Square joins a small but quickly growing number of Downtown intersections (and one plaza) that have been named in honor of influential business minds, community activists, musicians and others. Los Angeles Downtown News looked into the location of those intersections and the people behind them.

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Name: Ezat Delijani Square Intersection: Seventh Street and Broadway Dedicated: 2009 Who Was He?: Ezatollah Delijani gathered his family and left his home country for the United States during the Iranian Revolution. Despite traveling thousands of miles, Delijani quickly became a respected real estate investor, growing deep ties in the Fashion and Jewelry districts. In 1987, at the request of thenMayor Tom Bradley, Delijani purchased the lavish Los Angeles Theatre at 615 S. Broadway, thereby saving it from the wrecking ball. He would go on to buy the Palace, State and Tower theaters.

Although he died in 2011, his family is now working on plans to renovate and reopen the theaters, whose resurgence is seen as crucial to the future of Broadway.

Name: Ernest Fleischmann Square Intersection: First Street and Grand Avenue Dedicated: 2010 Who Was He?: In his nearly 30 years running the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Ernest Fleischmann helped turn a second-rank orchestra into one of the country’s finest. Fleischmann had an eye

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Ezat Delijani (far right) bought four historic theaters on Broadway. The intersection of Seventh Street and Broadway was dedicated to him in 2009.

for game-changing talent, and hired Carlo Maria Giulini and, later, Esa-Pekka Salonen to serve as music directors for the Phil. The notoriously exacting and temperamental impresario also threw his weight behind the creation of the Walt Disney Concert Hall (where the square named for him stands) and the revitalization of the Hollywood Bowl. Fleischmann died on June 13, 2010.

Who Was He?: Ray Bradbury had a long history in Downtown and at the Central Library, which just happens to stand at Fifth and Flower streets. He purportedly penned some of his stories on public typewriters at the library, and decades ago gathered with other science fiction writers at Downtown destinations such as Clifton’s Cafeteria. Best known as the author of Fahrenheit 451 (some would throw in The Martian Chronicles), Bradbury shaped the worlds of American literature and pop culture with his pioneering stories and novels. He wrote episodes for the TV series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” and his own show, “The Ray Bradbury Theater,” and contributed to the stage as a playwright.

He died on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91.

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December 1, 2014 Who Was She?: A tireless business leader and community activist, Frances Hashimoto helped Little Tokyo grow into a vibrant destination. Hashimoto was born in a Japanese internment camp in Arizona during World War II, and her family returned to Little Tokyo after the war. There, she helped with the family’s Japanese confectionary business, Mikawaya.

She became CEO in 1970 and eventually turned Mikawaya into a hugely successful brand; its signature mochi ice creams are now served all over the country and in Japan. Hashimoto also served as president of the Little Tokyo Business Association from 1994 to 2008. Second and Azusa streets was named in her honor two months before her death on Nov. 4, 2012.

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concierge, 9 If Downtown Concierge sounds like a free Uber, Thrower said it is. When asked if she worries about people abusing the free ride system, she laughed, saying they are indeed giving a lot of “free rides,” but in the bigger picture, she believes that will lead to more paying clients, such as hotels.

For now, a full bus is a good bus, she said.

Plus, Downtown Concierge only operates in a four-mile radius, so the drivers are not put out by lengthy trips. She encourages riders to tip the drivers.

Thrower estimates that 1,000 people a month ride one of the company’s two 20-person buses and 15-passenger van, and that the vast majority of people go to and from a res-

taurant. In most instances, shuttles pick up from designated spots about every 15 minutes. The most popular route is McCormick & Schmick’s to the Music Center, she said.

Happier Customers On a weekday evening last summer, McCormick & Schmick’s manager Tom Weifenbach stood outdoors near the front of the restaurant.

He had made sure to communicate with the Downtown Concierge driver that guests were coming. He said Friday and Saturday nights are the busiest, with most riders heading to the theater. For the restaurant, it’s worth paying because reducing the stress of finding parking means happier customers, he said.

Magic hour light poured into the bus’ large windows. The driver, one of Thrower’s 25 employees (four are drivers), rode north on Hope

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Fabro is a veteran of Los Angeles kitchens, having worked as a line cook for 12 years after ditching a job in the entertainment industry. She spent time with Patina Group restaurants and Downtown’s Water Grill.

Then, a little more than four years ago, she hurt her back. She knew a change was in order. “My body was telling me I couldn’t cook on the line anymore,” Fabro says.

Although she didn’t have a dessert background, she decided to pursue the field, and began searching for a restaurant that lived up to her fine-dining standards, not “something dumbed down where it’s about a scoop of ice cream next to cake.”

Fabro “staged,” or interned, at several restaurants and eventually joined the pastry program at Hatfield’s, where she stayed until 2013. Then chef Josef Centeno called. She had met him prior to the Hatfield’s job (while staging at Little Tokyo’s Lazy Ox Canteen, where Centeno was the chef), and he wanted to discuss his upcoming restaurant.

Centeno gave her a tour of the raw Orsa & Winston space in the Old Bank District, and popped a question: Would she sign on as pastry chef?

“I was pretty scared when I decided to take up the challenge with Josef,” Fabro says. “He’s never had a pastry chef before.”

The collaboration has proven a success. Centeno and Fabro work together to brainstorm dessert concepts, often tossing ideas back and forth until they’re satisfied with the result.

Fabro likes to do “classic” desserts that have

both familiar flavors and surprising touches and execution, she said.

DeFININg DeSSeRT Fabro points to her cannolis. The shells are made by cutting out thin disks of tuile dough, wrapping them around metal cylinders and baking them into crunchy little tubes. She fills them with a silky whipped Mascarpone cheese mousse, garnishes them with a pinch of chopped pistachio, and plates them with mildly bitter Amarena cherries, candied kumquats and scoops of pistachio ice cream.

Orsa & Winston is at 122 W. Fourth St., (213) 6870300 or orsaandwinston.com.

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HOW HE GOT HERE Brown’s journey to becoming one of Los Angeles’ most recognizable purveyors of cupcakes was a circuitous one. It began at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he made his first carrot cake.

“It was just to impress a girl on her birthday,” Brown says. “I had a Betty Crocker cookbook and didn’t know a thing about carrot cake. The first attempt was horrible.”

He tried again, to greater success, and continued to bake casually throughout his undergraduate education. Brown then moved to California to attend medical school at UCLA, and would tweak his recipes through trial and error. “Just like the scientific method,” he points out.

Eventually, he created his own brand, Chip’s Charismatic Carrot Cakes, and began selling twoand three-layer cakes around school. Then, in his last year of medical school, he was offered a job at a web startup, and it came with a stellar salary. Brown, who stands six-feet fiveinches tall, took the gig but continued to bake, selling cakes during his lunch break.

Brown soon befriended a literary agent who loved his cakes so much that he offered to bankroll a bakery. Brown declined, but later found another partner in Claudine Grier, a former Microsoft executive. In early 2009, the duo found a storefront at the Westfield mall in Century City. Then they met Old Bank District developer Tom Gilmore, who convinced them to come Downtown instead. The store opened later that year.

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He has been selling his regular and mini-sized red velvet, carrot, peanut butter cup and other flavors of cupcakes ever since.

DEFINING DESSERT The Claudine’s Chocolate Mint cupcake is named for Grier, who died two years ago. It’s a chocolate cupcake with Peppermint Patties baked inside and flavored by a touch of Bailey’s Irish Cream. It’s topped with vanilla buttercream and a Peppermint Patty. “I couldn’t have done this without her,” Brown said of Grier. “There was a little lady behind Big Man Bakes, for sure.”

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HOW SHE GOT HERE Picha started baking when she was about 7, using an Easy Bake oven in her Minnesota home. In high school she developed a habit of baking personalized birthday cakes for friends. That led her to culinary school.

After an internship at a fine-dining Italian restaurant in Minneapolis, Picha moved to Los Angeles and took a job at Santa Monica’s Fraiche. She became the pastry chef about a year and a half later and began creating her own menus and specials.

She then got a job as the pastry chef at the lauded West Hollywood restaurant Bastide, where she received accolades for sophisticated desserts that featured multiple components and beautiful plating.

Bastide closed in 2011, and Picha heard about an opportunity to craft desserts for Tender Greens. She wasn’t sure whether jumping to a casual chain operation was right for her, considering she had been running the show at a highly rated French restaurant.

“It was a big transition. At Bastide, I was making delicate mignardises, I was focused on plating desserts, I was making ice cream every day, I was baking the bread,” Picha says. “But I saw there was a lot of room for growth at Tender Greens, and I could use my fine dining skills to make great products.”

Today, Picha spends much of her time visiting the Downtown branch of Tender Greens, which is the newest of the 14 locations. Each restaurant has its own pastry staff, which Picha collaborates with to refine existing recipes and invent new ones.

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“Everything is made in-house, which surprises a lot of people,” she says. “And it’s fun to offer things that people wouldn’t expect, like a really elegant panna cotta.”

DEFINING DESSERT While the citrus olive oil cake is Tender Greens’ most popular dessert, Picha is proud of a new creation, the salted caramel apple crostada.

It has a flaky dough base topped with a layer of both tart and sweet apples that have been tossed with sugar, spices and salt.

Picha glazes the pastry with an egg wash and sprinkles on raw sugar for a mildly sweet crunch before baking it and adding the caramel.

“The secret is putting the salted caramel sauce on after it bakes,” Picha says. “It stands out more that way.”

Tender Greens is at 523 W. Sixth St., (213) 8731890 or tendergreens.com.

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Carlos Enriquez got an early taste of the pastry life, as his parents owned a bakery in Van Nuys.

His experience helping out at the shop taught him some baking fundamentals, but more importantly, it showed him the work ethic needed to succeed in the culinary world.

Enriquez’s parents separated and sold the bakery when he was 17, but he chose to stay in the food world, taking a job at the Sportmen’s Lodge in Studio City. Later, he moved to Las Vegas and joined the Paris Las Vegas hotel opening team in 1999. He would continue to work as a pastry chef in Las Vegas, Denver and Los Angeles, eventually becoming executive pastry chef at Tavistock Restaurants in L.A. and corporate pastry chef of hospitality group Block 16 in Las Vegas.

A turning point came in 2011, when Enriquez was picked to be on the second season of “Top Chef: Just Desserts.” He didn’t win, but the experience rekindled his love of working in a kitchen.

“Before the show, I was probably spending 60% of my time in the office,” Enriquez said. “Competing on ‘Top Chef’ made me want to really cook again.”

In 2012, he got a chance to do just that when he was hired as the executive pastry chef of Patina Restaurant Group, which owns a number of restaurants including Downtown’s Patina, Café Pinot and Kendall’s Brasserie and Bar. Today, most of his time is spent at Patina’s corporate kitchen at 12th and Olive streets, where he develops desserts for the group’s outlets and

catering operations.

DEFINING DESSERT One of Enriquez’s current favorite desserts utilizes pumpkin. He roasts sugar pie pumpkin with raw Mexican piloncillo sugar, vanilla beans and butter. He serves that alongside milk tea ice cream, small cinnamon sugar “churros,” white pomegranate seeds, marshmallow fluff, a sweet and tart apple reduction, and crunchy chips made from butternut squash, yams and other starchy fall vegetables.

“We thought about something that relates to pumpkin and fall,” he said. “I like desserts that have different textures, flavors and temperatures, and this has it all.”

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Performance, a show that melds modern dance with music from The Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt, is at REDCAT for four performances on Dec. 4-7.

By Eddie Kim he intertwined worlds of dance and music have, over the years, created some unexpected partnerships. Productions by contemporary choreographer Matthew Bourne have turned preconceptions of Swan Lake and The Nutcracker upside down. Perhaps even more unlikely was Twyla Tharp teaming with Billy Joel — Billy Joel! — for the musical Movin’ Out. A show coming to REDCAT this week is just as unlikely, with its own music-dance odd couple. On one end is Rashaun Mitchell, an accomplished modern dancer who has a reputation as a rising star. On the other is Stephin Merritt, a quirky singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the influential indie band The Magnetic Fields, and who also has crafted film and theater scores.

They, along with installation artist Ali Naschke-Messing, have come together to create Performance, a roughly 40-minute piece that eschews a consistent narrative in favor of a series of vignettes that range from somber to energized to dreamlike. Performance hits Downtown Los Angeles for four performances on Thursday-Sunday, Dec. 4-7.

This will be the first time the show has been performed outside the venue where it debuted, Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art. One reason for that, as Mitchell explained, is the complexity of Naschke-Messing’s set. Mitchell and three other dancers perform amid a swath of hanging pipes, finely tuned stage lights, pages of shimmering gold leaf suspended by threads and a jellyfish-like bundle of mesh tubes.

The show itself, said Mitchell, is a loose treatise on the nature of performance, its emotional impacts, and the way artists and audiences interact. Performance opens by literally setting the stage: Somebody walks out and begins sweeping, someone else washes the windows, and a third person begins marking posi-

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“It can be an elusive piece in many ways,” Mitchell said.

“There’s no story, but it has a trajectory from the mundane to the spectacular to, maybe, the spiritual, while also being playful and lighthearted.”

Merritt serves as the show’s only soundtrack, singing live with mostly just a ukulele for accompaniment. The track list is a mix of new and old songs, but the biggest quirk is that Merritt is not amplified, making the music far more intimate than expected at a dance program.

Performance was created during Mitchell’s two-week residency at the ICA in the summer of 2013, when Richard Colton, the co-founder of the Summer Stages Dance program at Concord Academy, was collaborating with the ICA’s David Henry. Colton approached Mitchell with an idea: Would he be interested in partnering with a rock musician for the first time?

“It wasn’t on the top of my list, but I was interested,” Mitchell remembered. “I didn’t want it to be a big rock band with some dancers on the side.”

Colton gave him a short list of artists including indie luminaries such as Animal Collective and Grizzly Bear. The Magnetic Fields, however, was a clear frontrunner for what Mitchell had in mind. Merritt and Mitchell soon began talking through ideas and decided the best option would be to distill it to Merritt’s voice and his ukulele.

From that point on, the music and choreography unfolded organically.

“We didn’t really have time to develop a process together,” Mitchell said. “It was immediate and responsive. I sent Stephin some conceptual materials but it was mostly just showing up and being in a space together.”

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Oftentimes, Mitchell recalls, Merritt would simply sit and watch the choreography and begin pulling chords and lyrics seemingly out of thin air to accompany what he was seeing. Every hour or so, Merritt would check in with a snippet.

“We had pretty separate tasks,” Merritt said. “I’m used to having a relationship where I bring my thing and someone else brings in their thing and we see if they interfere with each other or go together. In this case, it’s pop songs on the ukulele, and it worked for Rashaun.”

Even today, the singer said he doesn’t really know what’s happening in Performance. He’s placed at various positions on and off the stage, meaning that Merritt often only sees the dancing out of the corner of his eye, or not at all. Merritt also does not use a microphone when singing in his lilting, untrained baritone.

“What interests me most is that I’m able to do a concert without being looked at all the time, and without amplification,” he said. “I can be heard as I actually sound for basically the first time in my life onstage.”

Stripping down the music complements the “simple ideas” that Performance tries to convey and investigate, Mitchell said.

Both he and Merritt have a hard time explaining what the show is supposed to mean, because it doesn’t really have a tangible message at its heart.

That’s fine by the dancer.

“I just hope this can be a space that people engage with to find a sense of peace and meditation,” Mitchell said. “I’m interested in finding ways to slow down and let something unknown emerge.”

Performance is at REDCAT Dec. 4-7, 631 W. Second St., (213) 2372800 or redcat.org. eddie@downtownnews.com

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The Farce Side Taper’s Revival of ‘What the Butler Saw’ Is a Joyous Romp

By Jeff Favre here are dozens of choices for the funniest line in Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw, but one still stands out 45 years after it was first delivered: “Why are there so many doors? Was this house designed by a lunatic?”

In that quick take, Orton made clear that he was boldly and blatantly taking a common English convention — the farce — and exploiting it for the modern audience. Yes, he would use the constant entrances and exits through multiple doors, the misidentifications and even the deus ex machina to resolve seemingly impossible situations, but he would do so while touching on the taboo subjects of pedophilia, incest, rape and homosexuality.

What the Butler Saw recently opened at the Mark Taper Forum in Downtown Los Angeles, where it runs through Dec. 21. The two-hour romp is directed with precise and wonderful mayhem

by John Tillinger, a veteran of Orton’s works.

Butler, like Orton, remains fodder for discussions about untapped potential. The English author was 34, and had written just three plays, when he was murdered by his boyfriend Kenneth Halliwell in 1967.

The play premiered in London two years after Orton’s death, but given the writer’s tendency to revise extensively, it’s quite possible the show could have been even tighter and funnier, and that Orton could have created even more impressive plays.

Setting aside maybes, What the Butler Saw, in the hands of the highly skilled Tillinger and his cast, is an acerbic and wickedly funny farce that builds toward an avalanche of laughs about things that are as wholly inappropriate now as they were in the late ’60s.

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ous psychiatrist who puts the farcical rollercoaster in motion by “interviewing” a prospective secretary, Geraldine Barclay (Sarah Manton), and convincing her to take off her clothes for an examination.

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has come for a bribe payoff in exchange for scandalous photos he has of the hard-drinking and lustful Mrs. Prentice.

It’s not until the perfectly illogical government inspector, Dr. Rance (Paxton Whitehead), shows up unannounced that lunacy truly takes hold.

At this point all that’s needed is the police. Cue Sergeant Match (Rod McLachlan), who joins the drug-addled, cross-dressing free-for-all.

On the surface there’s chaos, but careful examination reveals that Tillinger and his players are always in control. A case in point is Mrs. Prentice, and Barber’s carefully choreographed off-balance spins each time she enters a room to her husband’s seemingly insane antics are increasingly funny. In contrast, Shaughnessy never wavers from his mannered portrayal as Dr. Prentice, regardless of whether he’s hiding evidence of his failed dalliance or devising detailed lies to tell Dr. Rance.

Most crucial to the humor are Dr. Rance’s responses, and Whitehead is the poster boy for pomposity. His matter-of-fact attitude gives credence to the entire proceedings, with a twisted logic that the most absurd option must be the right one.

Farce requires space, and James Noone’s clinic set design gives room to breathe, with some high-end surprises that help deliver the laughs in key moments.

It’s hardly required that English actors play the roles, but it’s a bonus to have much of the “real thing” in this production. There’s a sensibility and attitude that is difficult for even skilled Americans to convey.

What made What the Butler Saw revolutionary is that Orton used a mainstream genre to bash social issues. Rape and incest are treated with the same offhandedness as the already accepted topics of adultery and drunkenness. Organized religion is skewered in a manner that reflects the scandals that have reverberated throughout the Catholic church in recent years.

No one knows what Orton would have thought once his play was staged, but What the Butler Saw is hardly an example of an unrealized work. It’s complete, it’s funny, it’s relevant and it’s worthy of this revival.

What the Butler Saw runs through Dec. 21 at the Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave., (213) 972-4444 or centertheatregroup.org.

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The bibliophilic minds at the Library Foundation’s Aloud series saunter over to the Orpheum Theatre this week for a program in which guitarist Carlos Santana engages in a public discussion of his life and work. What could be better than that? Well, he’ll be talking with Cheech Marin! Expect a deep exploration of music, art, Latino culture and more. Although most Aloud events are free, this one on Monday, Dec. 1, at 7:30 p.m. costs $40. Still, there’s a big upside: It includes a copy of Santana’s recent memoir, The Universal Tone. At 842 S. Broadway, (213) 228-7500 or lfla.org.

sunday, deceMber 7 The Rock ‘N’ Roll Flea Market Regent Theater, 448 S. Main St. or theregenttheatre.com.

10 a.m.: Buy, sell and trade your old rock junk and vintage jams at this new monthly testament to the commercial potentials of rock’s past glories.

Sunday Studio at MOCA MOCA, 250 S. Grand Ave., (213) 621-1745 or moca.org.

1 p.m.: The galleries will be open, DJs will be spinning and you will be invited to participate in a multi-step print art assembly line just like Andy Warhol.

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Since 1874, symphonies eager to test the ability of their pianist and their mettle as an institution have taken on the challenge of Modest Mussorgsky’s 10-piece composition Pictures at an Exhibition. On Dec. 4-7, Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic take the stage at Walt Disney Concert Hall to accept the challenge of reproducing this journey in which each piece of music represents a separate portrait hanging in a magnificent gallery. Those in attendance Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 2 p.m. will also be treated to Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Helix and Rachmaninoff’s Isle of the Dead. At 111 S. Grand Ave., (213) 972-7211 or musiccenter.org.

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Los Angeles celebrates the arrival of the Yuletide season the best way we know how: copious film screenings! Saturday, Dec. 6, finds the L.A. Historical Society and Street Food Cinema partnering to host two movies at the Palace Theatre. There’s a 4:30 p.m. screening of A Christmas Story, an 8:30 showing of Elf (a separate ticket is required for the second film) and access to Santa Claus. On Sunday, Dec. 7, the Los Angeles Conservancy gets into the act with a 2 p.m. screening of Home Alone at the Orpheum Theatre. Please, don’t do that Macaulay Culkin hands-on-face thing all day. At the Palace Theatre, 630 S. Broadway or streetfoodcinema.com; and the Orpheum Theatre, 842 S. Broadway or laconservancy.org/holiday.

On Saturday, Dec. 6, the sound proofing at the Regent takes a night off as Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn offer a double-banjo primer on the varied schools of picking native to these United States.

Fleck is a master of the three-fingered Earl Scruggs-style in which the thumb plays the top string while the first and middle fingers pick upwards. Meanwhile, Washburn is a proponent of the traditional downstrumming clawhammer style that originated, nay, dominated the Appalachian folk music movement for a century. Knowledge is power, baby. At 448 S. Main St. or theregenttheatre.com.

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Wednesday, deceMber 3 Austin Beutner at Town Hall-Los Angeles City Club Los Angeles, 555 S. Flower St., (213) 628-8141 or townhall-la.org.

11:30 a.m.: Town Hall-L.A. examines the relationship between Los Angeles and the L.A. Times as it brings in new publisher Austin Beutner. Lunch will be served. Networking is encouraged.

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

Dec. 1, 7 p.m.: Singer/songwriter Alex Clare will let you know he’s from the British Isles by wearing that hat you expect every extra in The Hound of the Baskervilles to wear.

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

Dec. 2: Jam Session with Thelonious Monk Institute Ensemble.

Dec. 3: The Wee Trio aren’t really that small.

Dec. 4-5: Steel House.

Dec. 6: Kate McGarry and Keith Ganz.

Dec. 7: Ethio Cali.

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

Dec. 1, 8:30 p.m.: We’re thinking December resident Julio Tavarez went to a progressive Nor Cal private school, because anyone else would probably think twice about naming their band The Black and the White.

Dec. 2, 8 p.m.: Long time strummin’ LA singer/songwriter Tien takes the stage.

Dec. 3, 9 p.m.: Jonathan Richman’s latest experiment in the world of music involves spelling his name with all caps.

Dec. 4, 9 p.m.: It’s a toss-up between tonight’s free bike valet and the one dude in Animal Games that looks just like James Franco. Which is more appealing to your hipster sensibility?

Dec. 5, 9 p.m.: If Tyler Hilton and Anna Nalick put as much work into their music as they do their headshots, you’re in for something very put-together.

Dec. 6, 9 p.m.: The Girls are definitely not using their Lena Dunham-reminiscent band name to get ahead.

Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m.: Indie artist Wrabel already has the Vince Neil thousand-yard stare down pat and he hasn’t even survived the Sunset Strip in the ’80s yet.

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

Dec. 7, 7 p.m.: B2K alumna Jhene Aiko is much less abrasive than Taylor Swift.

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Monday, deceMber 1 Carlos Santana at Aloud Orpheum Theatre, 842 Broadway, (877) 677-4386 or lfla.org.

8 p.m.: The Library Foundation’s Aloud program moves from the Central Library to the Orpheum as Cheech Marin interviews Carlos Santana.

L.A. County Christmas Tree Lighting Grand Park, 200 N. Grand Ave., (213) 972-8080 or grandparkla.org.

5 p.m.: It’s hard to believe we’re not calling this a “holiday” tree. Nevertheless, this spectacle features free hot beverages from Starbucks. The event is, of course, BYOBHIFS: Bring Your Own Booze and Hide It From the Sheriffs.

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Perched on the edge of the Arts District, the Loft Ensemble has been quietly programming some of Downtown’s finest live theater for years. Opening on Thursday, Dec. 4, is SoloFest 2014, a collection of eight one-person plays. Guests this week can enjoy a candid look at the life of a contemporary young woman in Bonnie Sludikoff’s That’s What She Didn’t Say, an impression of chaos in the local mass transit scene in Chinatown Bus, a peripatetic search for identity in Amy Milano’s Dancing With Crazies and more. The festival runs through Dec. 14 and the full schedule is available online. At 929 E. Second St., (213) 680-0392 or loftensemble.org.

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Buffalo was buried the other week by a series of massive snowstorms, but that’s nothing compared to what the residents of Pompeii, Italy, experienced on Aug. 24, 79 AD. That’s when Mount Vesuvius blew its top, and in the following two days the volcano buried the town with five cubic miles of pumice and ash. The catastrophe, which killed 2,000 people, is the subject of the California Science Center show Pompeii: The Exhibition, which has only a little more than a month to go. The exhibit in the Exposition Park museum is full of artifacts, including weapons, ceramics and a replica bordello fresco that listed the sexual services possible. Yes, really! Pompeii runs through Jan. 11, 2015.

At 700 Exposition Park Blvd., (213) 744-2019 or californiasciencecenter.org.

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

Dec. 1-4: If you’re looking for films to help you rethink your stance on casual Tinder hook-ups, 25 To Life may fit the bill. It’s the story of someone who kept his HIV positive status secret for 25 years.

Dec. 5, 2 and 4 p.m., Dec. 6, 1 p.m. and Dec. 7, 6 p.m.: In TwoBit Waltz, we’ve got ourselves a stylized, off-kilter coming-ofage tale featuring William H. Macy.

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

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Dec. 3: Palm Reader, Underpass and Man & The Smells.

Dec. 5: Eye Seas, Littlest Sister, Sacred Destines and Matt Kivel.

Dec. 6: Audacity, The Memories, Half Good and The High Curbs.

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Dec. 2, 10 p.m.: The Makers have already had enough eggnog for one season.

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

Dec. 5, 8 p.m.: KIIS FM Jingle Ball features Taylor Swift, 5 Seconds of Summer, Ariana Grande and Pharrell.

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Dec. 5: Late Night Alumni and Heatbeat.

Dec. 6: Sasha.

FIGat7th 735 S. Figueroa St. or artsbrookfield.com/holidaysessions.

Dec. 5, 7 p.m.: The always-passionate Raquel Rodriguez plays the outdoor shopping center.

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

Dec. 2, 8 p.m.: One of New Orleans’ most prolific and prodigious talents, Dr. John, stops by for a chat.

Nokia Theatre 777 Chick Hearn Court, (213) 763-6030 or nokiatheatrelalive.com.

Dec. 6, 8:30 p.m.: Iranian vocalist Mohsen Yeganeh makes his first trip to the U.S. Orpheum Theatre 842 Broadway, (877) 677-4386 or laorpheum.com.

Dec. 6, 8 p.m.: Former Genesis frontman Steve Hackett takes the stage.

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

Dec. 2: Turbulent Hearts.

Dec. 4: Thursday Night Booty.

Dec. 5: The Love Me Nots, Woolly Bandits, The Billy Bones and The Sound Reasons.

Dec. 6: Motorcycle Black Madonnas.

Dec. 7: Stalins of Sound.

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

Dec. 3, 8 p.m.: Molotov is more of a metaphor than an actual promise of Molotov cocktails.

Dec. 5, 9 p.m.: Aussie electro pop producers Flight Facilities touch down.

Dec. 6, 7 p.m.: Banjo by the handful with Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn.

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December 1, 2014 Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D is an eye-popping journey full of, you guessed it, lemurs.

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

Flight of the Butterflies is visually stunning.

Experience the gripping story full of hope, crushing disappointment and triumph in Hubble 3D. MOCA 250 S. Grand Ave., (213) 621-1745 or moca.org.

Dec. 4, 7 p.m.: UCLA’s Outfest Legacy Project and the One Archive co-present short films commissioned by Visual AIDS for the 25th anniversary of the benefit event Day With(out) Art. Dec. 7, 12 p.m.: Five decades later, Andy Warhol’s 16mm tribute to the Big Apple, Empire, screens.

Orpheum Theatre 842 S. Broadway or laconservancy.org/holiday.

Dec. 7, 2 p.m.: Bring your micro machines and paint cans to the Los Angeles Conservancy’s matinee screening of Home Alone.

Palace Theatre 630 S. Broadway or streetfoodcinema.com.

Dec. 6, 3 p.m.: The Los Angeles City Historical Society and Street Food Cinema team up for a holiday film affair with a 4:30 p.m. screening of A Christmas Story and an 8:30 p.m. showing of Elf. Regal Cinemas LA Live 1000 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 763-6070 or lalive.com/movies.

See website for listings.

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

Dec. 4-7, 11:30 a.m. The March of the Sugarplum Fairy will never be the same after marionettes have their way with Bob Baker’s version of The Nutcracker.

La Virgin de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, 555 W. Temple St., (213) 489-0994 or thelatc.org.

Dec. 4-5, 7:30 p.m.: The pageantry and spectacle of the virgin tale will be presented in its native 16th century Spanish.

The Magnificent Dunbar Hotel Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring St., (213) 489-0994 or thelatc.org.

Dec. 4-6, 8 p.m. and Dec. 7, 3 p.m.: The Robey Theatre Company offers the story of a Central Avenue hotel during the Jazz Age. Performance, with Rashaun Mitchell and Stephin Merritt REDCAT, 631 W. Second St., (213) 237-2800 or redcat.org.

Dec. 4-6, 8:30 p.m., Dec. 7, 7 p.m.: Dance, contemporary music and installation art collide in this collaborative effort. See story p. 17.

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

Dec. 2, 9 p.m.: Every Tuesday this irreverent stand-up comedy cavalcade takes up residence at the Downtown Independent.

Solofest 2014 Loft Ensemble, 929 E. Second St., (213) 680-0392 or loftensemble.org.

Dec. 4-14: Eight solo shows comprise this year-ending festival of genre-spanning theatre.

Takarazuka East West Players, 120 Judge John Aiso Court, (213) 625-7000 or eastwestplayers.org.

Dec. 4-6, 8 p.m. and Dec. 7, 2 p.m.: As she prepares for retirement, a Japanese showgirl in an all-female theater troupe reflects on the past and future.

What the Butler Saw Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave., (213) 628-2772 or centertheatregroup.org.

Dec. 2-5, 8 p.m. and Dec. 6, 2:30 and 8 p.m. and Dec. 7, 7 p.m.: John Tillinger directs Paxton Whitehead in this Joe Orton-penned psychiatric farce. Through Dec. 21.

CLASSICAL MUSIC Tuesday, december 2 Audra McDonald Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., (213) 972-7211 or musiccenter.org.

8 p.m.: She’s got a stack of Tonys and Grammys at home, but you will come to respect Audra McDonald for the thick slabs of show tunes she keeps tucked away.

Thursday, december 4 Pictures at an Exhibition Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., (213) 972-7211 or musiccenter.org.

Dec. 4-6, 8 p.m. and Dec. 7, 2 p.m.: Dudamel leads the L.A. Phil through a dynamic voyage of textural sound in Mussorgsky’s famous 10-part composition. saTurday, december 6 Jazz Bakery Presents Ron Carter’s Golden Striker Trio Zipper Hall, 200 S. Grand Ave., (213) 621-2200 or colburnschool.edu.

8 p.m.: Three players unite in a masterful trio of jazz giants.

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11 a.m.: Bring the wee ones for a morning of Tchaikovsky, Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. One of these things is not like the others.

7 p.m.: What’s the only thing that can improve Handel’s superlative “Messiah?” Having everyone in the seats around you singing along.

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

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