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he red-hot Downtown real estate market continues, as an 87-year-old Jewelry District edifice has just been sold. Bonnis Properties, a Vancouver, Canada-based real estate company, paid $52 million for the Foreman and Clark Building at 404 W. Seventh St. The 13-story, 147,346-square-foot building at the southwest corner of Seventh and Hill streets was a department store when it originally opened, and more recently functioned as a jewelry mart.

The seller was Dr. Kyung Ku Cho, who acquired the property in 2012 and announced plans to turn it into a 165-unit residential complex, though that later changed to a boutique hotel; the building had been emptied in preparation for the transformation. In a press release, Bonnis Properties said it intends to rehabilitate and restore the structure, though it did not specify what the renovation would entail or when it would begin. Derrick Moore of real estate firm Avison Young represented Bonnis Properties in the deal while Philip Sample and Chris Caras of CBRE represented Cho.

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he Figueroa Corridor is getting a shakeup. The L&R Group of Companies, the

TWITTER: @ DOWNTOWNNEWS Downtown-based parking giant that owns both Joe’s Auto Parks and Wally Parks, has purchased a roughly 60,000-square-foot site at Figueroa Street and Venice Boulevard. The roughly 1.5-acre parcel is the home of Toyota of Downtown L.A. L&R paid $30 million for the property. The company’s plan for the site has not revealed, though L&R has branched into housing in Downtown, and is working on a Broadway project with prolific Downtown developer Geoff Palmer. “The property is well located and acts as a virtual end-cap to the corridor on Figueroa Street near Staples Center and L.A. Live,” said Adam Tischer of Colliers International, who represented L&R in the transaction. He added that parking is one possible option for the property, but so is a mixed-use development. Toyota of Downtown L.A. will move to Figueroa and Washington Boulevard in December 2017, according to Darryl Holter of the Shammas Group, which owns and operates the auto dealer.

Twitchell’s ‘Ed Ruscha Monument’ Replacement Is Delayed

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ast summer, artist Kent Twitchell sparked excitement across Downtown when he announced that he would create a new version of his landmark “Ed Ruscha Monument” mural, which had been whitewashed off a South Park building in 2006. He said the 30-foot replacement would be installed on a wall of the American Hotel in the Arts District by the fall.

Fall has come and gone, and now Twitchell said the new work, which will be based on an updated image of the California artist, won’t

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go up until late August. Twitchell has encountered a set of issues, the most significant of which, he told Los Angeles Downtown News, is that he lost his studio, and is still in the process of finding a new one. Until that occurs, he can’t make significant progress. The destruction of his 70-foot-tall “Ed Ruscha Monument” prompted an uproar, and Twitchell ultimately sued and won a $1.1 million settlement from a collection of parties. Those who don’t want to wait until August can get an early glimpse of the Ruscha replacement at the Lam Gallery at Highland and Willoughby avenues in Hollywood. The gallery is hosting the exhibi-

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EDITOR & PUBLISHER: Sue Laristicket by authorities outside California. It’s something no one likes The widespread and increasingly visible devastation The city homelessness plan is expected to cost about $1.85 billion EDITOR & PUBLISHER: Sue Laris to admit, but it happens. Arizona, for one, has been caught at it. on the streetsMANAGER: and the Dawn decreasing GENERAL MANAGER: Dawn Eastin over a decade, and county leaders have pledged to dedicate $100 GENERAL Eastin quality of life for both Getting that federal cooperation will be a challenge, but it’s a homeless individuals and the people who live and work million in new funds (not redirecting existing money) to the crisis anEXECUTIVE EDITOR: Jon Regardie EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Jon Regardie worthy and necessary fight. That’s where it’s good to have Becernear the encampments have finally sparked the politicians nually.

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There is talk of asking voters to approveSENIOR a homelessness re- Kim STAFF WRITER: Nicholas Slayton STAFF WRITER: Nicholas Slaytonspecifically our neighborhood. He’ll have to rope in the rest of the Becerra, whose 34th California district includes Downsponse measure placed on a city ballot, or possibly a county iniCONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Kathryn Maese CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: KathrynCalifornia Maese House of Representatives caucus and get support from town,CONTRIBUTING pointed to an improving working betiative that in turn directs a significant portion of any funds to the WRITERS: Jeff Favre, Gregrelationship Fischer S I NinCfar-flung E 19 7 2states that CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Jeff Favre, Greg Fischer our senators, too, to convince lawmakers tween levels of government. city. Yet no dollar figure for a vote has been identified, nor has ART DIRECTOR: Brian Allison Los Angeles Downtown News We hope they have a responsibility to help their former residents.

“It’s light years ahead of what it was, ” he said, before a mechanism — will a bond be floated?

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CCA Committed to Helping Metro Charter Find a Home Making Sure the School Has a Permanent Campus Is Another Piece of the Downtown Renaissance

By Carol E. Schatz he Downtown Los Angeles renaissance works because at each phase of its development we found ways to provide the community with the building blocks it needed to keep growing.

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GUEST OPINION First it was housing, then entertainment, restaurants and clubs, cultural institutions, and finally retail began to fill in. We saw the telltale signs of a community taking root: first, furniture stores and a supermarket. Then, people walking dogs. That was followed by parents pushing baby strollers.

Next among the necessary ingredients for a community, of course, was a school for the children who would quickly outgrow those baby strollers.

Just as the Central City Association led the renaissance, created the Downtown Center Business Improvement District and attracted the investors and entrepreneurs and the businesses that made this renaissance possible, we also joined the effort to establish Metro Charter Elementary School, Downtown’s school, which was launched in 2013. It initially served kids in kindergarten through second grade, and today counts 205 kindergarten through fourth grade students.

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CCA assisted with fundraising and lobbying for the school’s founding and cheered its creation.

But the school’s future is now threatened by the need for a permanent location. Its temporary quarters are coming to an end. The hospital where the school is currently located has graciously extended the school’s lease for another year, but a new and long-term location is critical to Metro Charter’s survival and Downtown’s continued development.

Finding a solution is not easy. The rules on school campus sitings have not kept pace with the re-urbanization of Los Angeles. And because of the success of the renaissance, there is stiff competition among all sorts of business-

es and housing projects for every location in Downtown, and rents are on the rise.

As Los Angeles Downtown News rightfully pointed out in a recent editorial (“CCA Should Lead the Effort for a Permanent Home for Downtown’s Charter School,” March 21), CCA is well positioned to help bring together the major constituencies of Downtown to make certain that the school remains a permanent part of our community.

We are recommitting to join with the many members of the community who have already worked so hard to create and sustain the school and who have been diligently seeking a new site. We have spoken with school officials and are agreed that CCA will continue to help with fundraising, government relations and making the kinds of introductions that will help Metro Charter find a home.

The challenge is large, but so are the stakes, and success is the only option.

CCA is pleased to continue our relationship with Metro Charter and its many supporters and to redouble the effort to find a suitable, affordable location and work with the Los Angeles Unified School District, the City of Los Angeles and the businesses, employers, property owners and landlords of Downtown to get the job done.

Downtown needs a school for its growing families. But Downtown can also use a cause, one that can unite all of its constituencies in a dedicated effort to truly build for our collective future. This effort will in itself serve as a uniting force in Downtown, and will be another step in our continued evolution as a real residential community.

Carol E. Schatz is the president and CEO of the Central City Association.

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Another Take on Metro Charter Dear Editor, Thank you for your editorial urging the Central City Association to help Downtown’s Metro Charter Elementary School secure a permanent home. With thousands of families living Downtown and thousands more on the way, the need for high-quality public school choices has never been greater. This is a crucial moment in Downtown’s evolution that will require business and community leaders to step up and find new and creative ways to make Downtown welcoming to the kinds of schools that families seek out. We’re here to help.

—Sarah Angel Sarah Angel is the managing regional director for Greater Los Angeles for the California Charter Schools Association.

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Protected Bike Lanes Coming to Spring and Main Streets Work Part of Effort to Make Downtown More Pedestrian- and Bicycle-Friendly

By Eddie Kim owntown Los Angeles is one of the city’s ripest areas for pedestrian activity, and bike access is expanding with dedicated lanes and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s coming bike share pilot program.

The shifts have been noticed by 14th District City Councilman José Huizar, who last year introduced a new program to address the needs of people on both two feet and two wheels.

He recently revealed new details of the plan dubbed DTLA Forward, which aims to improve pedestrian and bike travel, create green spaces, and streamline traffic flow around the Central City.

“Every great city needs a great Downtown and DTLA Forward aims to bring smart, innovative public space policy and programs to a rapidly growing Downtown L.A. that will not only make DTLA more functional, accessible and safer, but greater,” Huizar said in a prepared statement.

While the initiative touts a number of elements, the most dramatic is the creation of protected bike lanes on Main and Spring streets between Cesar Chavez Avenue in Chinatown and Olympic Boulevard in South Park. Unlike existing painted bike lanes, these would create a physical buffer, with some designs putting street parking between traveling cars and bicyclists.

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both streets. Plans call for two phases of construction, with completion by 2017.

The streets were selected because they cut through some of Downtown’s densest areas, according to Huizar’s office. Main and Spring streets will also see Metro bike share kiosks and will be intersected by the Regional Connector and its Second Street/Broadway station.

While L.A. has trailed other cities in building up bike infrastructure, Eric Bruins, policy director for the Historic Core-based nonprofit Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, said the “stars are aligning” with proposed improvements to Main and Spring streets. A silver lining about being late to create more protected bike lanes is that L.A. can take lessons from other urban bike projects to shape its policy and promote biking, he added.

“I think upgrades will take it to the next level, but we also need some Second and Seventh street connections to create corridors and a real network,” Bruins said.

DTLA Forward also calls for kick-starting three pilot programs to activate deserted alleyways. The “Green Alleyways” program would support and springboard off three proposed alley projects in South Park, the Historic Core and the Arts District, each led by a private group.

Ideas include creating seating and installing artwork and greenery in the alleys.

Other portions of DTLA Forward include the creation of the Spring Street Community Garden, to which Huizar’s office contributed $15,000. The amenity at 220 S. Spring St.,

formed by Historic Core stakeholders, will allow people to rent a large planter to grow vegetables and other goods or work several community plots. It is slated to debut this month.

The city Department of Transportation has also installed 16 crosswalk signals that give pedestrians a four-second head start before the green light, with the aim of preventing collisions between walkers and turning cars. Finally, the City Council on March 23 approved a DTLA Forward motion to create a “Master Tree List” for Downtown so that tree-planting standards are streamlined.

Huizar broached DTLA Forward last year, when he issued a series of motions after convening a planning workshop between DOT, City Planning and other departments. It is one of several plans to improve pedestrian and bike travel in and around Downtown.

MyFigueroa, which will cut driving lanes and create protected bike lanes along the Figueroa Corridor and up through Seventh Street, is slated to begin construction this year and wrap up in 2017. The Seventh Street Improvement Project, funded by public improvement dollars tied to the Wilshire Grand replacement, would also potentially create protected bike lanes and widen sidewalks along Seventh Street between Figueroa and Olive streets.

Finally, Huizar’s own Bringing Back Broadway campaign touts the Broadway Streetscape Master Plan, which wrapped its pilot phase last year after cutting driving lanes and installing temporary public spaces and bike lanes. The

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The bike lane on Spring Street will be made safer when it is separated from traffic by a cement buffer. Spring and Main streets are expected to have protected bike lanes by next year.

second phase, estimated to cost $42 million, would widen sidewalks, create protected bike lanes, and add permanent dining and leisure spaces on Broadway between First and 11th streets.

The Broadway project expects to get about half its funding from Metro and state grants, and the city Bureau of Engineering will begin working on the first block, from Eighth to Ninth streets, in 2017, according to Huizar’s office. eddie@downtownnews.com

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A Tale of Two Bookstores A Pair of Arts-Focused Book Shops Open Within Weeks of Each Other

By Nicholas Slayton or years, bookstores have been vanishing, suffering from the rise of e-readers and brutal competition from Amazon and other online businesses that offer lower price points.

So it was a change of pace when not one, but two specialized bookstores opened in the Arts District recently.

Artbook @ Hauser Wirth & Schimmel and Hennessey + Ingalls sit just a few blocks from each other along a stretch of Third

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Street in the Arts District, and both cater to book lovers with an interest in the visual arts. They join antiquarian seller Caravan Books in the Financial District and the Historic Core’s Last Bookstore as rare places in Downtown Los Angeles where someone can buy a physical tome.

The arrivals spark a couple questions: Given the economic climate, why did two book shops with a seemingly overlapping base open so close to each other just three weeks apart? Also,

The new Hauser Wirth & Schimmel gallery in the Arts District contains an in-house bookstore, Artbook, which sells various art tomes as well as books related to current exhibitions.

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are there enough customers to go around?

For the first question, the heads of each store point to the booming Arts District, which is seeing a surge not just in residents, but also culture.

That is the case particularly for Hennessy + Ingalls, which was founded in Santa Monica in 1963 and spent more than five decades in the city. Last year the store made plans to relocate to a 5,000-square-foot space in the One Santa Fe complex in the Arts District. The shop opened on Feb. 26, after Hennessy + Ingalls closed both its Santa Monica and Hollywood locations.

Hennessy + Ingalls specializes in books on the visual arts, from older periods to tomes on animation or musicians’ photography. It also carries a heavy selection of books on architecture, including Southern California building designs. The approximately 55,000 titles are set amid rows of tables running to the back of the store, piled high with books. The shelves and tables are a light tan color, giving a canvas for the bright book covers to stand out from.

Owner Brett Hennessey said the move Downtown stemmed from a financial decision. The store’s lease in Santa Monica was up and would be too costly to renew, so he started looking elsewhere.

“We looked in Mid-City, Westwood, Culver City. We never really thought about Downtown, since we’ve always been a Westside company,” said Hennessey, the grandson of founder Reginald Hennessey. “We took a tour of Downtown about a year ago, after all of the announcements, like Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, and started thinking about it. We’ve had a strong relationship with SCI-Arc for decades. So that was a draw, the community and the property.”

Artbook, at 901 E. Third St., opened March 13 as part of the Hauser Wirth & Schimmel complex. The 2,000-square-foot store is a partnership with Distributed Arts Publishers, which puts out publications from museums and cultural institutions, mainly focused on 20th-century visual works. The store features books on art and design from the 20th and 21st centuries, along with displays that spotlight publications tied to exhibitions being held in the gallery.

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By Eddie Kim he Arts District has yet another beautiful new destination.

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The brick building at 525 S. Hewitt St., just south of Urth Caffé, looks like it could be any of those things, but one key detail betrays its intentions: a large parking lot shaded by a huge grove of solar panels.

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“We could fill this whole place tomorrow if we wanted to, with various members of the ecosystem. But we really want to make sure we get the best companies, so we’re taking our time,” Walti remarked.

Other tenants include Chai Energy, which, like Pick My Solar, was one of the first companies to join LACI. Co-founder and CEO Cole Hershkowitz said the La Kretz center is more than a new toy for its tenants — it’s also a legitimate destination that is drawing inspired ideas.

“Frankly, half the reason we were at LACI was because of the promise of that new building,” Hershkowitz said. “Our ability to connect with random organizations in L.A. has grown tenfold now. And that makes a huge difference.”

There are also some “non-portfolio” companies that rent space in La Kretz. They include Climate Resolve, a nonprofit that is benefitting from being around “like-minded” individuals who are developing clean technologies, said Climate Resolve Executive Director Jonathan Parfrey (who also co-founded the bike event CicLAvia).

A corner of La Kretz is dubbed the “International Center,” where LACI can host companies visiting from abroad. There are also “hot desks” available for anyone who wants to rent a temporary space to work.

The western edge of the complex holds a series of laboratories, with focuses on disciplines such as electricity and chemistry. Each lab is outfitted with top-notch professional equipment.

“It’s very difficult to find this type of space unless you’re inside a university. So this allows companies to do, for instance, basic chemistry,” Walti said on a recent tour. “While this was built for the LACI companies, it’s open to anyone who wants to pay a fee.”

Next to the labs is a massive prototype production room packed with nearly $2 million in heavy machinery, including 3D printers, lathes, automated water-

jet cutters and more. The southwestern portion of La Kretz, meanwhile, is managed by DWP as a customer engagement center with some additional lab spaces.

A “Smart Home” model lets the public play with new products like WiFi-connected thermostats, while a micro-grid room uses solar power to model how energy is harvested, stored and transmitted on the grid.

The DWP space is separately managed, but La Kretz is a commitment for the utility to work with new companies, Sutley said. The lease agreement also gives DWP a “first look” at products and technologies created by the incubator companies, she said.

While it’s a big achievement, it was also a long time coming.

The DWP, using money from the now-defunct Community Redevelopment Agency and other sources, spent $11.1 million to acquire the property and a 1920s building in 2011. A full seismic retrofit and overall redevelopment of the site pushed the price to $47 million. Funds came from federal grants, energy bonds, private sector investment and a contribution from LACI co-founder and developer Morton La Kretz, for whom the campus is named.

When the city was first assessing sites for the campus, the Arts District made perfect sense — the city owned several underutilized buildings along the Los Angeles River and saw a chance to create a clean- and bio-tech corridor, anchored by the LACI facility. Sutley hopes to see companies “graduate” from La Kretz and stay in the region.

“The conditions are right to have a vibrant cleantech industry in L.A. The city owns the utility, for one, and there’s a real entrepreneurial spirit here,” Sutley added.

The completion of the La Kretz Innovation Center, in other words, is just the start.

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By Nicholas Slayton he Nazis didn’t invent propaganda, but they were masters of the craft. Capitalizing on nationalist images and fears in the wake of World War I, Adolf Hitler cultivated a story of strength built around his country, his political party and himself.

Hitler and the party’s use of propaganda is the focus of a recently opened, touring exhibit at the Central Library in Downtown Los Angeles. State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., is on display at the library’s Getty Gallery through Aug. 31.

The free exhibit features artifacts from the museum, such as a bust of Hitler and a copy of Mein Kampf, along with posters, radio recordings and other displays of state-run media.

State of Deception traces the history of Nazi propaganda and the various forms it took. It is broken into four sections, starting in the period of 1918-’33. There it focuses on the antecedents to Nazi imagery, as well as how propaganda was leveraged in elections and the eventual rise to power of Hitler’s party.

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GETTING INSIDE THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE State of Deception features news articles, books, posters, flags and other items used by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

party and how it evolved and was utilized as World War II began.

“Hitler from an early age understood the importance of cultivating a public persona,” said Steven Luckert, the exhibit’s curator, during a visit to Downtown to install the exhibit. “Many things that he did were very contemporary, very modern. He tailored his message to his audience.”

The Los Angeles Public Library first started talking with the museum about bringing the exhibit to the city a year ago, said City Librarian John F. Szabo. He said the library was interested in it because it provides a commentary on the role that media plays in daily life.

That, he said, goes beyond traditional TV, radio and print, and extends to the Internet and even the use of social media.

“It’s certainly very timely,” Szabo said of the exhibit. “Social media plays such a significant role in our lives today. It’s important that people of all ages learn to evaluate the content they’re seeing in print, or digital or visual forms.”

Luckert said the Nazi party’s skill at utilizing propaganda can be glimpsed simply by considering its full name: the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. The name itself is contra-

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Steven Luckert, the curator of an exhibit on the Nazi propaganda machine of the 1930s and ’40s, recently came to the Central Library. State of Deception is at the library through Aug. 31.

dictory, be said, bringing up both the left and right wing. That attempt at contradiction-asmass-appeal extended to the Nazi flag, a black swastika in a white circle, surrounded by red — the same color scheme as the flag of Imperial Germany — along with an emphasis on the color red that had become associated with socialism.

Luckert also pointed to the Nazis’ skill at utilizing the most modern technology of the time: radio. The exhibit explains and dives into how the party helped manufacture and deliver cheap radios to the people as a way to spread Hitler’s messages and speeches.

They were savvy in their approach, Luckert pointed out.

“The Nazis were careful enough to realize blatant propaganda would grow things quickly and people would get bored,” Luckert said.

“So they would mix in music, along with programs for housewives and children, and so about 70% of what they put on the radio was light entertainment. That’s something current propagandists do today.”

The exhibit runs chronologically, starting with the rise of the Nazi party to power after World War I, then tracing how its propaganda machine became an official arm of the government. As visitors walk through State of Deception, they see reproductions of some of the lies and false claims produced by Nazi Germany — for example, some newspaper stories blame Jews for economic troubles in the country — and how they changed focus once World War II started.

At first, the artifacts and replicas of period propaganda come in the form of cheery posters or boisterous film and radio productions.

As the war endures, the works show frequent critiques of Jews and other groups not favored by the Nazis. The exhibit eventually changes perspective once more, to an Allied one, as it cracks down and tries to prosecute the Nazi propaganda machine.

Bringing in Teachers Along with hosting the exhibit, the library and museum are reaching out to schools and teachers around Los Angeles. They are hosting tours for classes and teacher workshops so that educators can work the exhibit into lesson plans.

Professor Perri Chasin of the Otis College of Art and Design took a group of her students to State of Deception last month as part of that outreach effort.

“I think it’s important that students understand the dangers of propaganda,” she said. “It’s important to know that words and images can be important and inspire, but also that they can be used to change opinion toward negatives.”

The final section in the exhibit is meant to challenge viewers. It looks at how the victorious Allied forces prosecuted and worked to dismantle the Nazis’ propaganda machine. In the end, it asks visitors to examine instances of contemporary propaganda.

Luckert noted that although the Third Reich ended decades ago, many of the techniques that Hitler and his regime perfected continue to be used today. He pointed to far-right groups in Europe, as well as ISIS in the Middle East, as organizations that adopted the Nazi methods of spreading propaganda.

Chasin said her class recognized that.

“We’re seeing so many different forms in media being used in really positive ways,” Chasin said, “but also some being used in negative ways. The trick is finding a way of learning what to listen to.”

Szabo agreed, noting that while the library’s focus is on sharing stories, making people understand the importance of history in daily life is just as important.

State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda runs through Aug. 31 at the Central Library, 630 W. Fifth St., (213) 228-7000 or lapl.org/ branches/central-library nicholas@downtownnews.com

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Wine Lovers, Rejoice: Those thirsty for new wine options are in luck, as two wine bars debuted in the Historic Core last month. The for-

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mer Two Bits Market at 210 W. Fifth St. is now a swanky wine spot, courtesy of Downtown bar queen Vee Delgadillo (Down ‘n’ Out, Little Easy, the deceased Bar 107). The Overflow, as she’s calling it, is pouring a rotating list of wines from around the world, with some snacks (think cheese and cured meats) also available.

A few blocks away, inside the Spring Arcade Building, is Garçons de Café, which specializes in all things French. That means more than 30 types of wine from all over France, plus a bunch of French clothes, accessories, home goods and more. Sip at the marble bar or relax in the warm leather couches and vintage chairs. The shop joins a few excellent tenants in the stillquiet arcade, including Gelateria Uli, Guisados and Green Grotto Juice Bar. The Overflow is at 210 W. Fifth St. or facebook. com/pages/the-overflow. Garçons de Café is at 541 S. Spring St. or garcons-de-cafe.com.

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Those who have eaten at B.S. Taqueria on Seventh Street won’t find any surprises. There’s pork shoulder carnitas, chicken marinated with guajillo chiles, and flank steak carne asada, all served in taco form on Garcia’s handmade tortillas. Heirloom corn tortilla chips with salsa and guacamole round out the savory options. Fried churros with chile-chocolate sauce is the lone (but righteous) dessert. Wash it all down with a few specialty drinks, ranging from cocktails to B.S. Taqueria’s signature cactus-mint agua fresca.

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Ugo’in Italian: Locals in the know last summer mourned the passing of Bruno Cafe, the affordable hole-in-the-wall on Sixth Street.

Now there’s a successor: The Italian restaurant Cafe Ugo opened last month and is offering a suite of pastas, pizzas, paninis and even gelato.

Make sure to check out the “panizzi,” a sandwich made by folding fresh-baked pizza dough around fillings such as ricotta cheese, ham and artichokes (as in the case of the Michelangelo).

Most dishes are priced in the low- to mid-teens.

There are also daily lunch specials under $10.

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SPONSORED LISTINGS ¡Somos LA! Free Family Festival 501 North Main Street, (213) 542-6278, or www. lapca.org Join LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes on Sunday, April 17 from 12-4 p.m. in celebrating five years since we opened our doors to the city! Learn about the history of this great city with a sneak peek of the reopening of LA Plaza’s exhibition LA Starts Here!, hands-on workshops, and a live performance by Grammy Award-winning band Quetzal.

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L.A. Real Estate Update 555 S. Flower St., (213) 620-9662 or clubcorp.com Don’t miss the opportunity to gain valuable insight into the dynamic changes to the landscape of Los Angeles from the region’s major players on Wednesday, April 27 at the City Club Los Angeles. A cocktail reception takes place 6-7 p.m., with the panel discussion from 7-8:30 p.m. $35 per person. Make your reservations today at (213) 620-9662.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 Benjamin Bratton at SCI-Arc SCI-Arc, 960 E. Third St., (213) 613-2200 or sciarc.edu.

7 p.m.: When Bratton proposes his conceptual metaphor of “The Stack” as an accidental but cohesive totality embracing a multiplicity of smart technologies in one patchwork hole, you will either understand totally or begin to focus on the delightful pattern in the carpet.

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April 13-17: More like a World Art Week! This global celebration of visual creativity focuses in Downtown around our regularly scheduled Art Walk program. Expect tours, openings, receptions and a slew of other events.

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Just ask Joshua Silverstein.

The performance polyglot brings his acting, writing, beatboxing, spoken word and educational backgrounds into a cohesive whole as his Tell Me I’m Pretty one-man show takes over the Bootleg Theatre. Silverstein is mounting a confessional-style examination of his mixedethnic roots and the general condition of racial consciousness in today’s America.

Despite the weighty material, it’s a laugh-inducing affair facilitated with a backing band and a wit sharp enough to split hairs. Tell Me I’m Pretty runs through May 7 with shows at 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday. At 2220 Beverly Blvd., (213) 389-3856 or bootlegtheater.org.

3 he flag-slapping parking attendants who man the lots along the 1000 block of Hill Street have doubled down on push-ups to get through this week’s three events at the Belasco. On Tuesday, April 12, at 7 p.m., theatrical early 2000s rockers The Darkness return with a Back to the Future aesthetic that pays homage to their 2003 hit “I Believe in a Thing Called Love.” On Friday at 5 p.m., Jesus Soto Karass and Yoshihiro Kamegai pummel the living snot out of one another as the main attraction in this month’s L.A. Fight Club. Capping off the week, old school punks NOFX (shown here) wheel their “Hepatitis Bathtub” tour into town on Saturday. Tickets were still available for all three at press time. Parking, however, is in short supply. At 1050 S. Hill St., (213) 746-5670 or belascous.com.

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ittle is left to commemorate the original Native American occupants of Los Angeles. The fine folks at the Arts District’s Cornerstone Theater Company this week seek to address that problem. Through April 17, the space beneath the viaduct at Los Angeles State Historic Park plays host to Urban Rez, a play examining Native Americans and their place in the contemporary city. The show from writer Larissa FastHorse and directed by Michael John Garces delivers a biting examination of a cultural predicament that goes largely unnoticed. Urban Rez plays at 8 and 9 p.m. on Thursday-Friday, April 14-15, 4 and 5 p.m. on Saturday and 2 and 3 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are pay what you can, with reservations available online. At 1799 Baker St., (213) 613-1700 or cornerstonetheater.org.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 15 Carly Cylinder at the Last Bookstore Last Bookstore, 453 S. Spring St., (213) 488-0599 or

antankerous and canny craftsmen with can-do attitudes coalesce at the Farmers & Merchants Bank Building this weekend as the 10th annual Canstruction bridges the canon of design with a goal of feeding the less fortunate. Peek in to the Old Bank District space from noon-10 p.m. on Thursday, April 14 (Art Walk day), 11-8 p.m. Friday and 11-6 p.m. Saturday for a glimpse at sprawling sculptures of canned food, which will ultimately be donated to the L.A. Regional Food Bank. A panel of judges will peruse the structures and choose winners in bizarre categories from “Best Meal” to “Use of Labels.”

For a buck, you too can weigh in on which structure takes the metaphorical cake. At 401 S. Main St., (213) 924-8661 or canstructionla.com.

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MONDAY, APRIL 11 Jason Alexander at Town Hall-Los Angeles City Club, 555 S. Flower St., (213) 628-8141 or townhall-la.org.

11:30 a.m.: George Costanza himself discusses the future of theater in Los Angeles. Bet you didn’t know Alexander was on Broadway in Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along.

John McWhorter and Mark Z. Danielewski at Aloud Central Library, Mark Taper Auditorium, 630 W. Fifth St., (213) 228-7500 or lfla.org.

7:15 p.m.: John McWhorter, who has made a name dissecting the English language, and Mark Z. Danielewski, who is famous for twisting the English language, ponder aloud as to the ultimate worth of dictionaries.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 14 Adam Hochschild at Aloud Central Library, Mark Taper Auditorium, 630 W. Fifth St., (213) 228-7500 or lfla.org.

7:15 p.m.: The Mother Jones originator and a history obsessive, Hochschild dishes on his latest thorough examination of the Spanish Civil War, Spain In Our Hearts.

Canstruction Farmers & Merchants Bank Building, 401 S. Main St., (213) 924-8661 or canstructionla.com.

April 14, 12-10 p.m., April 15, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. and April 16, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.: Novelty designs made entirely from canned food compete to see which is more aesthetically pleasing. After the show, all the cans will be given to the L.A. Regional Food Bank.

Helen Molesworth at the Geffen Contemporary MOCA Geffen Contemporary, 152 N. Central Ave., (213) 633-5393 or moca.org.

7 p.m.: The MOCA chief curator dons a pair of particularly comfortable clogs or equivalent footwear to traipse through her guided tour of the current MOCA ’90s retrospective, Don’t Look Back.

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or those spiritually broken by their runin with the IRS this year, April 15 has been reclaimed as World Art Day. Here in Downtown, your friendly neighborhood Downtown Art Walk is hosting a four-day celebration of creativity. The festivities kick off on Wednesday, April 13, with a gala party. On Thursday, the monthly Art Walk features pop-up exhibits at Wiznu Gallery, Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts, REN Gallery (shown here) and a night-ending art jaunt at Preux and Proper. Friday finds artist Bill Sherwood taking up residence at the Historic Core BID HQ on Fifth Street. It ends Saturday with a special artist reception at Santee Court’s REN Gallery and the Activating Pangea show at DAC Gallery on Broadway. In the Historic Core or at downtownartwalk.org.

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7 p.m.: With a name straight out of steampunk, the noteworthy florist joins moderator Hillary Gadsby to promote her latest floral opus, The Flower Chef: A Modern Guide to Do-It-Yourself Arrangements.

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

April 15, 5 p.m.: Twenty dollars gets you access to a batch of fights in which up-andcoming pugilists sublimate your urge to destroy the people you’ve interacted with on Facebook.

SATURDAY, APRIL 16 LAUSD Grand Arts Festival Grand Park, 200 N. Grand Ave., (213) 972-8080 or grandparkla.org.

10 a.m.-7 p.m.: Spanning the art spectrum from film to music and dance to theater, more than 3,000 LAUSD students show the fruits of their creative endeavors in this most public celebration of our public schools.

ROCK, POP & JAZZ

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

April 12, 8 p.m.: Lovestock, Suffolk’s own The Darkness. Yes, they still believe in a thing called love.

April 16, 8 p.m.: The NOFX “Hepatitis Bathtub” tour is a perfect opportunity to get punk in drublic.

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

April 11: Dhara World Music with Randy Gloss.

April 12: Ted Falcon and Eduardo Souza: An Evening with Brazilian Chord and Gypsy Jazz.

April 13: Greg Uhlmann Group.

April 14: Calixto Oviedo & Cuban Jazz Train.

April 15: Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom.

April 16: Flamenco from Fanny Ara. April 17: Aaron Serfaty.

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

April 11, 8:30 p.m.: Spencer Moody plays second fiddle to residents Iska Dhaaf.

April 12, 8:30 p.m.: Vimeo filmmakers be aware: Wyldr makes the perfect music to cut together with slow motion footage of effortlessly well-dressed, early-20s youths running through a field or brook or whatever bits of geography kids are into today.

April 13, 8:30 p.m.: With waxed moustache in tow, The Suitcase Junket plays the sort of music that reminds me of Bon Iver mixed with the plainspoken gentleman from my parents’ church who used to play the saw on Christmas.

April 15, 8:30 p.m.: If we’ve properly identified the hieroglyphics of Cam & China’s band bio, the duo are a female hip-hop collab steeped in the flavors of Northern California’s wonky roots.

April 16, 8 p.m.: Laura Stevenson’s upbeat folk songs practically brim with a hip optimism that says, “I sure hope my homemade kombucha doesn’t give me botulism.”

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

April 15: Headhunterz.

April 16: Dim Mak Takeover.

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

April 11, 7 p.m.: The special tribute to Sir George Martin eulogizes the Beatles producer by playing some of the most noteworthy tracks before inviting a panel of Beatles know-it-alls on stage to discuss the man, the myth, the legend.

April 12, 7:30 p.m.: See if you can guess who Grammy-nominated sitar player Anoushka Shankar is related to.

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

April 16, 8 p.m.: Dust off your cowboy hat and fetishize “real America” as the sounds of ABC’s “Nashville” hits the stage with Clare Bowen, Chris Carmack, Charles Esten and Jonathan Jackson.

April 17, 8 p.m.: Unfortunately for the six-piece Korean boy band, B.A.P. will never measure up to O.P.P. as an effective acronym.

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

April 11: Gonzophonic.

April 14: Toys That Kill, Octagrape, Die Group, Ray Rocket and Dirty Ghosts.

April 16: Edith Crash, The Great Sadness, Electric Children, 3 Hand Stephen and Aaron Jones.

April 17: Mugen Hoso, Blue Line Project and Not a Part of It. The Regent 448 S. Main St. or theregenttheater.com.

April 16, 8 p.m.: It’s the 500th episode of “Uhh Yeah Dude.” So if that’s a podcast that interests you, you may want to buy a ticket.

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

April 11: Fellow Bohemian, Dutch Party, Emerson Star and Hands.

April 12: 1st Vows, MIDOCA and a Grant Owens DJ Set. April 13: Aristophanes, Meishi Smile and Plaster Cast.

April 15: Peaking Lights vs. Gavin Hardkiss.

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

April 12: Some days The Makers really regret pursuing improvised jazz rather than Instagram model photography.

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

April 16: Tattooed women aplenty with the Suicide Girls’ Blackheart Burlesque.

The Novo 800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 765-7000 or thenovodtla.com.

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April 11; Randy Randall, former Geraldien Fibbers frontwoman Carla Bozulich, Devin Sarno, Finkbeiner and Bill Nace.

April 16: Taurus Scott, Bangplay, Born Allah, Gatsby and DJ Party Dad.

FILM

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

See website for schedule.

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

Journey to Space 3D brings audience members along on an E-ticket ride of exploration to the red planet.

Ewan McGregor is the voice of Humpback Whales 3D. Not that the whales aren’t significant enough in their own right, but Obi-Wan narrating means we’re dealing with serious power brokers here. Power brokers who know a good whale story when they see it.

Regal Cinemas LA Live 1000 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 763-6070 or lalive.com/ movies.

The schedule was not complete at press time, but you can bet your bottom dollar that there will be copious showings of The Boss, Demolition, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, God’s Not Dead 2 and more modern pictures.

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

April 17, 7 p.m.: Radio That Changed Lives tells the story of a now defunct hip-hop radio show featuring Stretch and Bobbito.

Bobbito will field your questions afterwards.

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A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N. Grand Ave., (213) 972-0777 or musiccenter.org.

April 12-15, 8 p.m., April 16, 2 and 8 p.m. and April 17, 1 and 6:30 p.m.: This Tony-Award winning musical chronicles Monty Navarro’s attempt to surpass eight older, more-beloved relatives in a line of succession due to inherit a massive fortune. A little bit of killing helps him get him there.

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The art and architecture bookstore Hennessey + Ingalls opened a space in the One Santa Fe complex in February. The store was founded in 1963 in Santa Monica. It closed locations in that city and in Hollywood before coming Downtown.

pointed to other Artbook stores at New York City’s MoMA PS1 — a branch of the Museum of Modern Art focused on contemporary art — and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In the case of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Fankhauser said that the selections at Artbook can help give context or background to the types of contemporary art on display at the gallery.

“I think the primary goal is to really provide an entry point to people coming into the gallery, if they’re interested,” Fankhauser said.

Big Enough for Two? The two bookstores are only a few blocks from each other. Although not identical, they both specialize in the world of art and design.

Still, there are enough differences, store staffers say, that they won’t cannibalize each other. Instead, the proprietors and managers believe that the two shops are actually helping to meet a demand. Although the Arts District’s boom has brought a wealth of residents, bars and restaurants, inhabitants have been starved for a bookstore.

“Now that the Arts District is growing from a living perspective, people have been really looking forward to having things, too,” Hennessey said. “What kind of makes a neighborhood a neighborhood is a cool bookstore. It’s always been the staple of a really niche community.”

The operators of Hennessey + Ingalls and Artbook are loosely collaborating. Fankhauser said that he regularly sends customers east on Third Street to Hennessey + Ingalls if a shopper might have better luck finding a specific book there, while Hennessey + Ingalls does the same for Artbook. Hennessey said part of that cross-promotion comes from both stores being new to the area. It’s also about keeping the clientele happy.

“It’s nice having other bookstores in the area,” Fankhauser said. “I think it’s all in the interest of building up a more critical discourse about arts in the Arts District. That doesn’t exist unless you have places where you can find publications.”

Hennessey said that bookstores function like car dealerships — they tend to cluster together and feed each other. While Third Street may never emerge as “Bookstore Row,” there are now more offerings than in the past.

Artbook is at 917 E. Third St., (213) 988-7413 or artbook.com.

Hennessey + Ingalls is at 300 S. Santa Fe Ave. Suite M, (213) 4372130 or hennesseyingalls.d7.indiebound.com nicholas@downtownnews.com