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Volume 40, Number 11

INSIDE

St. Patrick’s Day

Aliens, Dragons and Lasers, Oh My! Hollywood Continues Its Love Affair With Leveling Downtown

Shepard Fairey visits the library.

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Urban Scrawl on a city election.

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Is that mayoral talk from Austin Beutner?

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In the 2009 film 2012, a plane weaves through a crumbling Downtown, continuing an old Hollywood penchant for destroying the Central City. The community also takes its hits in the new Battle: Los Angeles.

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destroyed on the big screen. The sadistic affection hasn’t softened a bit since Paramount Pictures’ 1953 take on the H.G. Wells classic War of the Worlds, in which an alien ship uses a laser beam to reduce City Hall to rubble.

The fictional evisceration of Downtown continued March 11, in a major way, when Sony Pictures opened its man vs. alien showdown Battle: Los Angeles.

The movie takes place mostly in Santa Monica, but several flyover shots of a fiery, apocalyptic Los Angeles shrouded in smoke feature the Downtown skyline. Locals will recognize the silhouette of U.S. Bank Tower and other Central City skyscrapers

(though due to copyright strictures, corporate logos are blurred out). Some close-ups depict the Financial District in smoldering ruins — one shot shows the Wedbush Building at 1000 Wilshire Blvd. utterly obliterated.

The film was actually shot in Shreveport and Baton Rouge, La., but special effects coordinators spent a day in a helicopter shooting Los Angeles from above, and several more days taking pictures throughout the city. Then they imported the footage and thousands of photographs into a three-dimensional image programming system to recreate a cityscape facsimile. see Movies, page 12

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ity Hall was blown to smithereens by Martians. A dragon coiled around U.S. Bank Tower, lunged at attacking helicopters and tore away the building’s skin. Asteroids blasted into the corner of Fourth and Main streets.

In fact, the whole of Downtown’s urban fabric has been shattered, rattled, caved-in and burned out. And billions of people have paid to watch the action, thanks to movie producers and scriptwriters from Hollywood and beyond.

The film industry has a penchant for portraying Downtown, and greater Los Angeles, getting

L.A. Opera turns the Screw.

Hope? Yes! Change? Maybe Later

A man, girls soccer, and ugly results.

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José Huizar and the Council Incumbents Get Four More Years

by Jon Regardie executive editor

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n Tuesday, March 8, the voters of Los Angeles came together and spoke with a unified voice. Their message was loud and crystal clear: Change is overrated.

That’s the takeaway from an election in which, during the tense pre-voting weeks, several officeTHE REGARDIE REPORT

holders were presumed to be at risk. However, when the smoke cleared, the City Council incumbents finished a perfect 6-0. In five of those contests, the victor bested the second-place finisher by 24% or more.

Interestingly, the race that many observers deemed to be the most competitive begat a brutal

bludgeoning. When the final returns rolled in, 14th District City Councilman José Huizar had taken restaurateur Rudy Martinez off the menu, obliterating him by nearly 29 percentage points.

This was like Ronald Reagan winning 49 of the 50 states in 1984 over Walter Mondale. This was Clippers’ phenom Blake Griffin-dunking-over-acar triumphant.

Huizar pulled 64.22% of the vote, just shy of the 65.68% he notched in a 2007 win over a nochance candidate named Alvin Parra. The big difference? In that race, Parra raised $71,000 from donors. By contrast, Martinez reported $283,618 in campaign contributions, including $200,000 in personal funds, according to documents filed with the City Ethics Commission. see Election, page 10

The Voice of Downtown Los Angeles

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Before March 8, many political observers believed 14th District City Councilman José Huizar was in a tight race with businessman Rudy Martinez. Huizar ended up trouncing his opponent by nearly 29 percentage points.

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AROUNDTOWN Wilshire Grand Gets Key Approval

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he plan by Thomas Properties Group and Hanjin International to raze the Wilshire Grand Hotel and build a $1 billion, two-tower project in its place received a key approval last week. On Wednesday, March 9, the City Council cleared the project’s environmental impact report and greenlighted a slew of entitlements, including the developer’s request to include architectural lighting and a bevy of digital signage on the luxury hotel/condo structure and, in a later phase, an office skyscraper. However, one key approval remains: On March 29, the council is slated to consider a 20-year development agreement and a proposal from Ninth District Councilwoman Jan Perry to require the developer to pay $400,000 to fund a study of a special sign district that would stretch along Figueroa Street between Seventh Street and Olympic Boulevard. Perry wants the district to serve as a tool to visually and architecturally link the revamped Wilshire Grand site with L.A. Live and the Convention Center in hopes of spurring a tourist-friendly pedestrian corridor between the Financial District and South Park.

Six Firms Vying for Blossom Plaza

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he long-delayed Blossom Plaza project may finally be back on track.

Last week, officials with the Community Redevelopment Agency said that six firms have responded to a public bidding process to find a developer for the 1.9-acre plot on Broadway between College and Spring streets in Chinatown. Bids were due March

4, and the agency will now form an evaluation committee to review the proposals.

There is no timeline yet on when that process will be complete. The once-heralded $165 million project from developer Bond Companies stalled due to the downturn in the economy. Last July, the city spent $9.9 million to acquire the fully entitled plot that holds the shuttered restaurant Little Joe’s.

AEG Begins Environmental Process For Football Stadium

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he Anschutz Entertainment Group last week began the environmental review process for a proposed $1 billion NFL football stadium. On Monday, March 7, land-use attorney William Delvac, a representative of the project that would create a 64,000-seat stadium and events facility on the site of the current West Hall of the Convention Center, sent a letter to City Planning Director Michael LoGrande stating that AEG wants to have its first public “scoping” meeting on the project on March 30. The meeting, the letter said, “will provide the public an important opportunity to give direct input as to the nature of the City’s environmental review and how to mitigate potential impacts.” Delvac’s letter said that the developer anticipates that the issues drawing the most attention will be transportation and parking. To address those matters, AEG has reassembled the teams that prepared the environmental and traffic analyses for Staples Center and L.A. Live. The developer hopes to have a draft environmental document for the stadium that would be called Farmers Field ready by the end of the year, Delvac said in the letter.

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A huge crowd turned out at the Central Library on Monday, March 7, when street artist Shepard Fairey (left, with moderator Aaron Rose), known for the ubiquitous Andre the Giant “Obey” works and the Barack Obama “Hope” poster, spoke as part of the Aloud series.

Big Traffic For the Big Race

Center. A full list of street closures is at commuterama.com/lamarathon/map.

hose hoping to get somewhere in Downtown on the morning of Sunday, March 20, be warned: It’s marathon day, and there will be a slew of street closures. Although the Honda Los Angeles Marathon no longer begins and ends in Downtown, the “Stadium to the Sea” route still impacts the Central City; about three miles of the 26.2-mile trek will traverse the northeastern corner of Downtown when the race starts at 6:55 a.m. Street closures will begin at 3:30 a.m. for the race that draws about 20,000 runners. Some of the affected streets include parts of Figueroa, Hill, Temple, Broadway, Olive and Grand.

Participants will pass by landmarks including Olvera Street, City Hall, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and the Music

Streetcar Gets Its Money

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The money is part of the $10 million the CRA had pledged for the project in 2009. see Around Town, page 5

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EDITORIALS A Good Cup of Coffee­houses

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o one will argue that 21st century Downtown Los Angeles has been sparked and shaped by mega-projects such as Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, L.A. Live, the Old Bank District housing hub and the trio of South Group condominium towers in South Park.

These developments represent billions of dollars worth of investment, and are the base upon which residents and nightlife have arrived.

However, they have not turned Downtown around on their own. As this page has noted before, the Central City’s emergence in the past decade has required more than the “tent pole” mega-projects; they need to be connected by smaller investments, whether that means a restaurant, a bar, a park or even a relatively inexpensive housing complex.

This has resulted in a sort of patchwork develop­ ment, a Downtown where there are core concentra­ tions of activity (in addition to obvious examples like L.A. Live and Fourth and Main streets, think of Third Street and Traction Avenue in the Arts District) separated by uncomfortable-to-walk-inafter-dark dead zones. In the best cases, the masterplan investments and the organic business or cul­ tural hubs benefit each other. It is what happened when numerous mid-level and upscale restaurants opened within a few blocks of Staples Center, and a clutch of bars and neighborhood-style eateries landed in the Historic Core.

Now, the concentration of housing investment dollars, and the restaurants and bars that followed, is causing another sector to grow, though the op­ erative word might actually be percolate: As Los Angeles Downtown News reported recently, a swath of Spring Street near Sixth Street has quietly mor­ phed into Downtown’s “Coffee Row.” The investment isn’t quite as concentrated as it is on another emerging Downtown row, the res­ taurant corridor on Seventh between Olive and Figueroa streets. Yet the recently opened CoffeeBar, a $500,000 project from Michael Leko and Will Shamlian (they also founded Library Bar) adds a heady dose of caffeine to a rush of cafes. At 600 S. Spring St., the new shop is a very short walk from Spring for Coffee, a diminutive space at 548 S. Spring St. Other nearby spots include Syrup Desserts at 611 W. Spring St.; despite the sweet name, it is also known for serving top-notch coffee.

While it is too early to know if the neighborhood can support multiple upscale coffeehouses, the pro­ prietors subscribe to the philosophy (at least pub­ licly) that they can be complementary rather than competitive. There’s proof so far this is more than talk — before opening, a CoffeeBar representative visited Spring for Coffee to ensure they’d be pour­ ing cups sourced from different beans. They seem to recognize that multiple popular shops will keep the entire neighborhood active. The idea is that crowds will lure even larger crowds.

This coffee klatch is the type of thing no one could have predicted a decade ago. At the time, many in the Financial District were grateful just to have a Starbucks in walking distance of their office. The alternatives have been growing slowly but steadily — the addition of a Groundwork cafe near Second and Main streets a few years back also garnered attention.

The new coffee concentration is different; this is the first hint of a caffeine evolution akin to what has occurred in cities such as Seattle. No one yet knows if it will work here, especially when the weather turns warm. Still, it’s always nice to have another place for good coffee. If coffee adds life in the com­ munity, even better.

Keep It Clean in 2013

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lthough it seems like a long ways away, the 2013 Los Angeles may­ oral race has begun. On Saturday, March 5, candidates were able to register for the election that takes place more than 700 days from now.

City Controller Wendy Greuel was the first to file. She is expected to be joined by a host of experienced local leaders (as well as several dreamers and gadflies). On the political side, City Council President Eric Garcetti, Ninth District Councilwoman Jan Perry, County Supervisor Zev Yaro­ s­lavsky and state Sen. Alex Padilla are contemplating running. They could be joined by two prominent business figures: mall developer Rick Caruso, and Austin Beutner, who has spent the last year work­ ing as Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s jobs and business development czar.

The amount of knowledge and experi­ ence in this field is inspiring — though they all have shortfalls, these are people who understand the city and the challeng­ es Los Angeles faces. This crowd has expe­ rience, intelligence and in some cases wis­ dom. If the citizenry is lucky, we will bear witness to one of the most comprehensive, most substantive races in Los Angeles’ his­ tory.

If we’re fortunate, we’ll get a full, vigor­ ous debate about the issues the city is fac­ ing, now and into the future.

Of course, that’s a big “if,” and perhaps

a foolhardy one. This is the era of ven­ omous elections, where candidates at all levels allow or participate in cringe-worthy attacks on their opponents. It’s a winningis-everything mentality, one in which elec­ tion teams often believe the ends justify the ugly means. The trend is evident in national, state and county races. It was manifested in the batch of City Council elections that were decided last week: The attacks unleashed in the 14th District con­ test (where incumbent José Huizar defeat­ ed Rudy Martinez) were nearly matched in races for the Fourth District (where Tom LaBonge bested two opponents) and the Eighth District (where Bernard Parks withstood a challenge from union-backed Forescee Hogan-Rowles).

Understanding our place in electoral history, there is the (possibly fleeting) hope that the seven figures mentioned above can deliver something different. The background they possess means that, if they put their minds to it, they can all run “clean.”

There would be no better time than now for an election based on issues and plans rather than rhetoric and opposition research. The city is facing a dire and dis­ turbing future: The budget deficit is in the hundreds of million of dollars, thousands of city workers have been furloughed or laid off, and millions of Angelenos have suffered in some way due to the economic

downturn. Even if bankruptcy is not the way out, it has to be discussed by those who would lead the city. Voters would best be served by knowing how officials would respond to the myriad challenges, including negotiating with public employ­ ee unions.

Here’s the thing about an election like this one: It only takes one candidate wor­ ried about his or her chances to turn the whole race negative. If one digs into a per­ ceived front-runner’s past and goes nega­ tive, the person hit may strike back, or there could even be a pile-on. As we saw in Huizar-Martinez, things can get ugly very fast.

We’re not foolish enough to call for a pledge of cleanliness from the candidates — pledges this far out mean nothing.

Rather, we appeal to their sense of decency and decorum, and their faith in democra­ cy. We urge them to communicate to their big-budget backers and allies that they want any independent expenditures also to stay positive. All of the candidates know how this business works. They all know the pace of campaigns and the challenges of fundraising. They all know the next two years will be tough enough without a slip into negative-land.

The city of Los Angeles could be on the verge of a historic election. This crowd of candidates has the power to focus on is­ sues. The question is, will they?

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Don’t Call It a Mayoral Speech Austin Beutner Details the Past and Looks Toward the Future

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t looked like a mayoral stump speech: Austin Beutner, in a sharp gray suit and striped tie, stood at a podium in front of dozens of board members from the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce. The crowd, many of them influential titans of local industry, were exactly the people capable of writing $1,000 campaign donation checks to a probusiness candidate.

The event on Thursday, March 10, sounded like a mayoral stump speech: Beutner gave a brief bio, discussing his upbringing and his time in Russia at the behest of President Bill Clinton, mentioning meeting a then-vice mayor of St. Petersburg named Vladimir Putin. He segued into how he opened the venture capital firm Evercore (“We had a little bit of good fortune”) and after breaking his neck in a biking accident, reassessed his priorities and joined the city, where he works for Antonio Villaraigosa as first deputy mayor.

Then it sounded even more like a mayoral stump speech: Beutner detailed a (legitimately impressive) list of achievements during his first 15 months, from cutting costs at the Department of Water & Power to launching permitting reform programs for restaurants and large developments to helping get community college students trained for car repair jobs. He described plans for the future (the proposed South Park football stadium “has the potential to be transformative”) and cited troubling issues such as low high school graduation levels and a 13% unemployment rate in the city that is actually higher because it does not include those no longer looking for work.

He even got in some digs at the City Council, saying that although six members were just re-elected, they spend too much time on topics such as privatizing parking garages, and he has yet to hear one member

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of the panel broach a plan for dealing with L.A.’s impending $400 million deficit.

Despite all this, it wasn’t a mayoral stump speech.

At least not officially. At least not yet.

So is Beutner running for mayor?

“I’m seriously considering it,” he told the Chamber crowd, before uttering another line often heard from mayoral candidates. “We are at a crossroads in Los Angeles.”

Beutner said he expects to make a decision on entering the race within a month or so. When asked about his criticism of the council in a post-meeting address with reporters, he again brought up the looming deficit of the coming fiscal year, saying there need to be solutions that get to the full $400 million.

One option that should not be on the table, he said, is bankruptcy.

“I don’t think that’s a solution,” he said, referencing experience on the topic from Evercore’s bankruptcy consulting unit. He noted that it’s not a pretty picture.

“It’s not an overdraft of your checking account,” he added, citing the harmful repercussions it would have on efforts to recruit business to Los Angeles. “The city would never be the same.”

Contact Jon Regardie at regardie@downtownnews.com.

rchitecture, engineering and construction giants AECOM and Parsons Brinckerhoff have won a contract to plan, design and engineer Metro’s $1.44 billion Regional Connector. The joint venture will provide advanced conceptual engineering during phase one and preliminary engineering for phase two of the Downtown project, including preparation of technical documents. Future options in the contract include design services during construction, according to an AECOM release. “AECOM has an important opportunity to plan and design this key element of our regional transportation system,” said Jim de la Loza, senior vice president and West region planning manager with the Downtown-based firm. The Regional Connector is a 1.6-mile underground light-rail track that will link Metro’s existing light-rail lines, eliminating the need for some transfers and speeding up regional travel times.

It would also add three new Downtown underground stations. Metro is preparing a final environmental impact report on the project. The study is expected to be complete this year. Construction is tentatively pegged for a 2019 completion.

Law Firm Trades West L.A. for Downtown

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he 70-year-old law firm Haight Brown & Bonesteel recently announced that it has signed a 10-year, 27,280-square-foot sublease from law firm Jones Day at City National Plaza at 555 S. Flower St. The firm is leaving West Los Angeles and will bring 65 employees to the Financial District. Tony Morales and Darren Eades of Jones Lang LaSalle represented Haight Brown in the transaction, while Jones Day was represented by Eric Duncanson of Cushman & Wakefield. “Moving Downtown has been part of our strategic expansion plan since I became managing partner,” said Chris Stouder, the firm’s managing partner, in a statement. “The increasing need to be in a location that allows us to attract numerous, highly qualified professionals makes the timing right for this move. We need to be located in the heart of the city.”

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WHAT’S FOR SALE An Industrial Biscuit Is Unique, and Uniquely Priced

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n the column “What’s for Sale,” Los Angeles Downtown News looks at everything from condos to multi-family buildings to vacant lots now on the market. We hope that regular snapshots of individual properties will make for a wide-ranging survey of the overall community.

This week, the focus is on a large unit at the Biscuit Company Lofts. The Arts District property can be used for a residence or an office.

The Unit: Biscuit Company Lofts unit 101, at 1850 Industrial St., measures 2,070 square feet and is listed at $879,000. The brick-lined condo is on the ground floor of the seven-story, 1926 former Nabisco factory. It occupies a part of the building that juts off from the main structure, stretching west on Industrial Street.

Compared to What?: The $879,000 price equates to $424 per square foot, which is notably higher than comparable recent sales in the building and other similar developments. Biscuit Company Loft unit 115, a 1,670-square-foot condo (also on the ground floor) sold in February 2010 for $600,006, or $359 per square foot. A 2,850-square-foot, ground level residence at the nearby Barker Block sold last September for $231 per square foot. Maybe that’s why Biscuit loft 101 has been on the market for 120 days?

Work From Home: The current owner (who paid $920,000

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Biscuit Company Lofts unit 101 is a brick-lined piece of history that opens onto the building’s pool. It is listed at $879,000.

in 2007) used the unit as the headquarters for a graphic design business, but it could accommodate a residence as well, said broker Michael Ferguson, who has the listing. The condo — a long, narrow, rectangular room — has an open floor plan and a second level loft space fit for an office or a master bedroom (though the one-and-a-half bathrooms are on the lower level).

Patio Life: Homeowner association dues run $637 per month and cover amenities including a private gym and a pool, which is directly accessible from unit 101. The residence has a private patio near the pool.

Pizza, or Escargot?: Industrial Street has become the heart of an unlikely community — unlikely because the neighborhood is predominantly, well, so darn industrial. But ever since Linear City began building, residents (lots of creative types) and creature comforts have followed. Now, area denizens can get anything from blanquette de veau (at Church & State in the Biscuit Lofts) to real New York-style

L I A R E MOR The Federal Transit Administration has given formal approval for preliminary engineering work to begin on the Westside Subway Extension and the Regional Connector, bringing both projects a step closer to actual construction.

pizza (Toddy G’s on Seventh Street) to rare Scotch whiskeys (Tony’s Saloon, also on Seventh Street) without getting in the car.

Grounded?: Is being on the ground floor a good thing? It depends. For a business, it means easy access for clients and employees. On the other hand, residents might not always be in the mood for revelers who wined and dined at Church & State ambling by their windows at night.

Plug In, Turn On, Charge Up: Ferguson points out that the unit’s tandem parking spaces immediately abut the garage’s electrical system — that means forward-thinking environmentalists who drive electric cars will have the best access to re-charge their rides of the future.

Contact: Listing agent Michael Ferguson at (213) 718-3019 or theloftexchange.com.

Contact Ryan Vaillancourt at ryan@downtownnews.com.

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Clash of the Titans A High School Girls Soccer Team Gets Their Kicks With a Rookie Goalie

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he scrapes on my shin were burning.

My ribs were sore from plopping to the ground like an exhausted walrus. I wondered if I should worry about that weird shaking in my left ring finger.

Suddenly, the advice that landed me here didn’t seem so wise after all. At least not for a nearly middle-aged man whose idea of working out consists of lifting the glass of Johnny Walker from the bar to my lips.

“Just throw yourself and don’t be afraid to get hurt, because you will get hurt,” 17-yearold Claudia Monroy had told me shortly before I stepped into the goalie’s box on the soccer field at the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center.

Monroy is the goalie for the City West school’s girl’s varsity soccer team. As part of the Downtown Challenge, where I try different jobs and activities in the community, I took over her spot one afternoon during practice.

Eleven no nonsense players ranging in

age from 15-17 took a penalty shot. My job was simple: Stop these Titans (the name of the school’s athletic teams) using my hands, body or even my shiny head.

Yes, it was the girl’s team, and yes they had been practicing before I got there and were a little worn out. So yes, I foolishly thought I stood a chance to look like I knew what I was doing.

Born to Block?

One reason I believed I would do OK was because I always thought I could have been a decent goalie.

I come from a country where soccer is like singing — everyone loves a good song, but most can’t hold a note. In El Salvador, people are crazy for the sport, though the country has only qualified for the World Cup twice and has never made it past the first round.

But what the majority of my people lack in talent, they make up for in passion.

I however, have neither.

Like every other Salvadorian kid, I played soccer when I was young. Unlike every other Salvadorian kid, it wasn’t by choice, and I

photo by Gary Leonard

A reporter dives after a ball kicked by a member of the Titans. It was one of his many missed attempts.

would have rather been riding my bike pretending I was Ponch from the ’70s TV show “CHiPS.” I knew I’d never be Pele, but my mom wanted me out on the field so she could pretend I would be the next soccer great.

I was so bad that I sometimes forgot which goal my team was shooting at. I often got so confused that I took a shot at our own goalie, since he looked familiar. More often than not, other players used the back of my jersey just to get me to move out of the way or to bounce the ball to another player.

Being a goalie seemed easier. All one has to do is stand there and block the ball, which was pretty much what I did during games

anyway, though not on purpose.

For some reason, my coaches never had enough faith to put me in the game for more than a couple of minutes, and they never would have considered putting me in such a key position. So at the age of 7, I retired from the world’s most popular game without ever getting to guard the net. And when I say “retired,” I mean my mommy finally stopped making me play.

Strong in the Air Roybal School Principal Scott Braxton thought it would be a good idea to let me guard the net. He recommended the girl’s team, since they had a practice coming up.

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Good ball handling skills? Probably not. Good positioning? Not even sure what that means so I’m going to assume I can do it.

Five out of seven isn’t bad.

Dick Fukuta, the school’s athletic director, told me how it would work: Eleven Titans would, in turn, place a ball on the penalty line, about 30 feet from the net, and take a shot. I’d do my best to protect the net, which is eight feet high and 24 feet long.

Among the kickers was Alondra Rodriguez, who at 15 towers at 6 feet tall and looks as intimidating as Manny Pacquiao on the field.

There was also Tracy Mendoza, the 15-yearold star scorer for the team.

“Watch out,” she told me, warning me that she and the rest of the Titans would easily score on me.

I was ready. I made a mental bet with myself that I could stop at least five shots or at least get within a respectable distance of every ball kicked.

Throw Now, Pain Later Monroy stood near the goal and coached me through her position.

“You ever really get hurt doing this?” I asked.

“Oh yeah. I broke my finger once and had to have surgery,” she said.

Wikihow never said anything about broken bones, so I was a little worried. But I was already sporting the Roybal colors, a pair of cranberry and black basketball shorts that Fukuta found for me, and Monroy’s goalkeeper gloves, which she generously let me borrow.

“Keep your eyes on their feet to try and see which direction the ball is going to go and just throw yourself. Really throw yourself,” Monroy instructed.

“Alright, let’s do this,” I said as I stood in the middle of the— Just like that the assault began.

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The author gets some advice from Roybal school goalie Claudia Monroy.

“That’s fine,” I said.

Like any good athlete, I had to get ready for my match, especially since I haven’t set foot on a soccer field for about twice as long as the girls on the team have been alive.

I suppose I should have done a few laps to warm up the old muscles, or maybe some jumping jacks or at least stretched a little.

Instead, this being the computer age, I went the Interwebs route and consulted Wikihow

on how to be the best goalie I could be.

“They say that you have to be crazy to be a goalkeeper, but that is not all,” the website states. “You have to be mentally tough, strong in the air, and not afraid to get hurt.

Goalies have to have good positioning and they have to be fast and they have to have good ball handling skills.”

Strong in the air? Check. Crazy? Check.

Mentally tough, aka hardheaded? Check. Not

The first shot was a line drive smashed to my left. The ball moved much faster then I had anticipated. I moved much slower than I remembered from my old soccer days.

I was nowhere near it when it landed in the back of the net. Sadly, it was a sign of things to come.

One after another shots whizzed by me. I tried throwing myself like Monroy said, but I wasn’t even close; I felt like I was miles away from every ball. It must have looked like I was jumping in slow motion while the ball moved at regular speed.

There was one shot I thought I could block.

I threw myself in the air and got there in time to intercept the ball, but it slipped below me as I dropped to the ground.

I guess I even fall slow.

Fortunately, the day was not a complete loss. Seventeen-year-old Yvette Gomez lofted a slow, meaty kick toward my face. I raised my hands to block it. It fell harmlessly to the ground. I felt like Pele, or whoever the Pele of goalies is.

Then Gomez really crushed me, letting me know she had served me up a mercy ball.

“I gave you a break,” she said with a laugh.

“I’ve seen worse though.”

Unfortunately, I got the tip of my hand on a line drive from Rodriguez. The ball still went into the net and almost took my left ring and little finger with it.

Mendoza, the team’s star, missed the net entirely with her kick. She looked a little embarrassed about it, though considering I was the one who ended up laying on the field exhausted with sore ribs, busted fingers and massively defeated by a bunch of teenage girls, I should be the one embarrassed.

But I’m not. It was actually a lot of fun and the girls were great sports about it. Next time though, I’ll at least stretch first.

Contact Richard Guzmán at richard@downtownnews.com.

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Continued from page 1 Parra garnered 3,974 votes that day. The JFK and Donuts investment from Martinez, a credible candiThe 2011 14th District affair will go down date who snared the endorsement of the Los as one of the most vicious in Los Angeles hisAngeles Times, managed 5,163 yeas. tory. There were enough negative mailers to That’s a lot of cash for an increase of just give every area postal carrier a hernia. With 1,189 votes. the exposure of Huizar’s community power The outcome made Huizar as happy as lists, a reported investigation into him by the someone who had just crushed a mosquito FBI, and his campaign manager’s instantly with a sledgehammer. After all, he’s now un- famous “political bullet” email, there seemed defeated in five elections (yes, José Huizar), to be an effort at self-immolation. including two school board races.

This is not to say that Martinez was JFK. “This was the toughest one, and not be- The mysteries and mishandling of the facts cause of who my opponent was, but what he surrounding his old police badge gave plenty said, the mud that he threw,” Huizar told me of people pause. In some respects his camat Boyle Heights’ Salesian High School a few paign won the war played out in the media, minutes after his 10:51 p.m. pronunciation of but he made rookie flubs at candidate fovictory. There were white and blue balloons rums. The attacks he unleashed may have Los Angeles Downtown News everywhere, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and ultimately turned people against him.

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Movies Continued from page 1 Destroying L.A. is something of a feather in the cap for visual effects professionals, and Battle: Los Angeles was a new experience for Everett Burrell, visual effects supervisor for the film.

“This is the first time I’ve ever destroyed L.A.,” Burrell said. “And I didn’t even have to run for governor.”

Why L.A.?

The film industry has had no shortage of practical reasons to destroy the city of angels.

With the studios rooted in L.A., it wouldn’t have made sense to film War of the World anywhere else in 1953. Earthquake, from 1974, worked because of the city’s history of seismic scares. Then there were films like The Omega Man, in which Downtown was used to portray a generic urban wasteland — which was perfect, since in 1971, much of Downtown easily passed for an urban wasteland.

That doesn’t explain the narrative reasons for continuing to pummel the nation’s second largest media market. Why did Battle: Los Angeles pit the city and the US military against some angry alien robots with some serious firepower, when any other city could

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In Battle: Los Angeles, aliens obliterate the Financial District. The Wedbush Building and City National Plaza are among the properties depicted in this still.

have been leveled? Similarly, the fairly recent Resident Evil: Afterlife, about a virus that wipes out the planet, and 2012, an apocalyptic thriller with John Cusack, both seemed to delight in showing Los Angeles fall apart, though the plots were not L.A.-specific.

So why keep blasting, bombing, attacking and obliterating L.A. and Downtown?

“People love stories showing that there’s trouble in paradise,” said Harry Medved, spokesman for the film ticketing website Fandango, and an author of several filmrelated books including the recent Location Filming in Los Angeles. “Since so many movie fans dream about coming to L.A. someday, our town appears to be the perfect place to locate your disaster movie.”

Burrell agreed that studios are compelled by the idea that audiences get a semi-sadistic thrill from seeing a city often connected with glamour and wealth get eviscerated.

“L.A. and New York are pretty good targets in that they’re iconic,” he said. “But I think it’s because of the glamour and the glitz, and all the millionaires. There’s a part in peoples’ heads that likes to see that get destroyed.

What’s that Aerosmith song? ‘Eat the Rich’?”

There’s an interesting asterisk to all the local destruction, in that much of it happens beyond California. In addition to Battle: Los Angeles working in Louisiana, Resident Evil: Afterlife and 2012 were shot in Canada. Gone is the argument that blowing up L.A. is just a matter of production practicality.

Even as more films ditch Los Angeles to take advantage of production incentives in other cities and countries, the trend of destroying L.A. will probably continue unabated, said Paul Audley, president and CEO of FilmL.A., the Downtown-based nonprofit that coordinates film permitting in the region.

“L.A. is recognizable internationally as a film city and a sort of cultural capital,” Audley said.

“Frequently D.C. gets destroyed in movies as well, but I think there’s been a sensitivity to staying off the East Coast with these disaster films since 9/11, which makes a lot of sense.

That pretty much leaves you for international recognition with Chicago and L.A.” Angelenos sick of seeing the city bite the big screen dust should take note: There are film buffs from other cities that would delight in having their own community play victim to an alien attack or urban apocalypse.

Orlando Sentinel film critic Roger Moore lamented Sony’s choice to make yet another sci-fi disaster flick set in L.A. with Battle: Los Angeles as “lazy and lame.”

“Once, just once, I’d love to see a ‘Battle: Toronto.’ Or ‘Battle: St. Louis.’ ‘Battle: Jacksonville,’” he wrote.

If Battle: Los Angeles does well at the box office, Moore may get his wish.

“Obviously, the producers have plans for many sequels,” said Burrell.

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Which Way to Destroy L.A.?

A Rundown of How Filmmakers Have Ripped Apart the Central City

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he Central City has met the wreck- tened by a massive temblor by the time he ing ball — or fire-breathing dragon, arrived. or natural disaster, or alien strike — in Armageddon (1998): The Old Bank dozens of films. Here are some of the District, posing as the Big Apple, gets highlights. rocked by a shower of flaming meteors.

The War of the Worlds (1953): Martians It’s a tough day for the Hotel Barclay and descend to L.A. inside a massive meteor Farmers & Merchants Bank buildings. and come out with heat-rays blazing. In a Dragon Wars: D-War (2007): This sci-fi shoot-’em-up that won an Oscar for Korean thriller deals with some pesky special effects, City Hall is destroyed. dragons and oversized serpents that take a The Omega Man (1971): Robert Neville liking to U.S. Bank Tower as a nice perch.

(Charlton Heston) is apparently the last The building takes a beating under the man on Earth, and his playground is a de- scaly beasts. serted Downtown after biological warfare 2012 (2009): This end of the world story ladowntownnews.com/news that Neville, a doctor, survives. The Tower starring John Cusack features an earthand Olympic theaters make cameos. is-crumbling scene, with key characIndependence Day (1996): Not even ters escaping via a small plane. As they Captain Steven Hiller (Will Smith) can fly, they weave and swirl past ladowntownn falling save U.S. Bank Tower from being laser Downtown landmarks like the two towers beamed to smithereens by aliens bent on of California Plaza. wrecking Earth.

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Los Angeles Opera’s The Turn of the Screw is a 1954 work based on Henry James’ 1898 novella. The tale of a governess caring for two children in an unkempt English manor is intentionally ambiguous.

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It’s not head-scratching, postmodern, what-the-heck-isgoing-on-here ambiguity. There’s actually a tight narrative in the show that runs through March 30, but it’s riddled with unanswered questions.

“It’s not a whodunit, but it is a mystery,” said James Conlon, L.A. Opera’s music director and the conductor of this production. “I think what is ambiguous is, is this a moral tale about the conflict of good and evil, and that good wins out? Or, is it so clear who is good and evil?”

Based on the 1898 novella by Henry James, an American who was writing in England, Britten’s 1954 opera is essentially a ghost story that blurs the line between reality and imagination. A governess, here played by soprano Patricia News Racette, .Downtown is sent to care for Fa two ook.com/La.Abrother and sister named cebchildren, Miles and Flora, in an unkempt English manor. The governess soon finds herself protecting the children from a pair of ghosts apparently intent on possessing them.

Then there’s the back-story of the male ghost of Peter Quint (played by tenor William Burden), who was known to have been sexually involved with Miles. For the most part, the work’s darker material is not referenced directly, but is rather implied.

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years by readers, and about half that time by opera-goers: Are In the Schoenberg system, a 12-note tone row consists of a the two ghosts in the story real, honest-to-goodness appari- dozen different notes, organized so no tone repeats until each tions? Or are they figments of the governess’ fraught imagi- has been played once. It makes for an uneasy harmony to nation? James seems to have intentionally left this question most listeners. While Britten’s work employs a 12-note tone Starts unanswered. row as its central theme, the opera does not subscribe to the “Ambiguity is the essence of James’ literary style,” Conlon rules March 4 and form of most atonal music. First and foremost, the said. “Nothing is said directly. Everything is by suggestion.” score was written to accompany and complement the drama There is perhaps no truer testament to Turn of the Screw’s in the text and on stage, Conlon said. essential ambiguity than the fact that Conlon, director The music is also different from many classic operas in Francesca Gilpin and members of the cast can’t agree one way that Britten wrote the work as a chamber opera, or for a or the other when it comes to the ghosts specifically, or even much smaller orchestra. The score requires a certain virthe message of the production. tuosity among all the players, especially the percussionist, Conlon said he believes that Britten intended the ghosts as Conlon said. real apparitions. It would have been too hard, too unlikely, Then there’s the prominent role of Miles: In the L.A. Opera Checktwo Ourcharacters Website for Full Movie LADowntownNews.com to portray singing on a stage andListings relating with production, Miles is sung by 12-year-old treble Michael each other and the children as imaginary, he said.

Kepler Meo, a phenom with two previous Turn of the Screw Gilpin said she can’t make up her mind, and that her cast productions under his belt (in Portland and Houston). members have their own clear, but differing, interpretations.

Much of the performance hinges on Miles, who was ei“Every time I read the novella I have a different opinion,” ther violated or liberated by the opera’s ostensible villain, Gilpin said.

Peter Quint. What happened depends, again, on one’s inTonality Misunderstood terpretation.

Do a little Internet surfing for reviews of past performances “I think what is without a doubt is that there is a presence of Turn of the Screw, and it’s easy to find quibbles about of evil and the essence of this piece really is about the corrupBritten’s harsh music, or his atonality. There are misplaced tion of innocence,” Gilpin said.

Starts references aplenty to the composer’s use of dissonance deity Not exactly Hollywood storytelling — but that’s precisely Mar.4/Mar.11 Arnold Schoenberg’s famous 12-tone system of composing why it fascinates Conlon.

(Britten never employed it).

“Yes, it’s a ghost story. Absolutely. Go and see a ghost stoBritten may not be known for lush, romantic or immedi- ry,” Conlon said. “But it’s going to challenge you on a great ately familiar melodies à la Verdi, but the notes on the page number of levels, which, yes, are universal.” are not atonal.

The Turn of the Screw runs through March 30 at the “Britten anyfor form of atonality, and certainly Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., (213) 972Checknever Our adopted Website Full Movie Listings LADowntownNews.com not 12-tone music,” Conlon said. “What he did do is that he 8001 or laopera.com. took elements of it and played with it.”

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St. Patrick’s Day Green Joy Music, Drinks and Parties Fill Downtown on St. Patrick’s Day

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t. Patrick’s Day is the time of year when everyone turns a little green. Not with envy, of course, but with Irish spirit.

In Downtown Los Angeles, the celebration will take place from dawn to midnight, and maybe even beyond, on Thursday,

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L.A. Live will transform into a little Ireland with a parade, bagpipes and more music.

March 17. The Central City’s bars and restaurants are readying a day filled with music, food, drink and even a street closure.

So wear something green, try to ditch work, and party like a leprechaun at the end of the rainbow.

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Starting at 6 a.m., Casey’s Irish Pub will close down Grand Avenue for a daylong street party with live bands and DJs.

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Taking It to the Streets: When it comes to St. Patrick’s Day, Casey’s Irish Pub does not mess around. The Downtown landmark is hosting a daylong party that includes closing down part of Grand Avenue. They’re not wasting time either, starting at 6 a.m. with a “sunrise service” that includes green

beer and “Jameson enhanced Irish coffee.” Grand Avenue from Wilshire Boulevard to Sixth Street will be closed all day as live bands and DJs appear on stage in front of the bar. At 1:15, the neighborhood will rattle and hum with the sounds of Hollywood U2, a tribute band to the most famous Irish act in the world. The festivities will continue with performances by the Ollin Band, a Pogues tribute band, and Petty Cash, a Tom Petty and Johnny Cash tribute band. If you need help getting back home after the revelry, a taxi stand will be set up see St. Patrick’s Day, page 16

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St. Patrick’s Day Continued from page 15 at Wilshire and Grand.

A 613 S. Grand Ave., (213) 817-5321 or caseysirishpub.com.

Square Deal: There may not be much greenery at Pershing Square, but with enough party spirit, or spirits, you’ll swear you’re in the Irish countryside surrounded by bagpipers, Irish dancers and even a few Dubliners. OK, it’s a stretch, but the Financial District park’s St. Patrick’s Day lunchtime concert is free. The celebration starts at 11:30 a.m. when the Young Dubliners take the stage. The Celtic rockers are the go-to musicians for St. Patrick’s Day (if you miss them in Downtown, they’ll be on “The Jimmy Kimmel Show” at night).

They’ll be joined by the Los Angeles Police Emerald Society Pipes and Drum Band and Irish dancers and bagpipers. Once lunch ends, a bagpiper will lead a procession down to Casey’s.

At 532 S. Olive St., (213) 847-4970 or laparks.org/pershingsquare.

Just Dance: Even the event organizers admit that bhangra, the Indian folk dance that originated in the Punjab region, has absolutely nothing to do with St. Patrick’s Day. But who cares? It’s a fun dance and an excuse to party at the Conga Room. The San Francisco-based ensemble Non Stop Bhangra performs March 17 at 8 p.m. Expect a Bollywood dance scene breaking out in the middle of the Conga Room floor, and you can join in for the fun. Just to tie the party in to the holiday, there will be some green beer and Johnny Walker specials.

At 800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 745-0162 or congaroom.com

Hooligans Are Good: Villains Tavern has plenty of reasons to misbehave in the Arts District on March 17. The celebration starts at 5:30 p.m., with two stages set up for live music. Also on hand will be some liquid entertainment in the form of drink specials such as $4 Newcastle and Heineken. If you want something stronger, $8 buys a pint of Guinness and a shot of Jameson.

At 1356 Palmetto St., (213) 613-0766 or villainstavern.com.

Live Celebration: For a more traditional St. Patrick’s Day celebration, head to L.A. Live, which will turn into a little Emerald Isle with music, food and drink specials. The March 17 celebration starts at 4 p.m. with a mini parade featuring the Los Angeles Police Emerald Society Pipes and Drums Band (it’s a busy day for them) and Ken O’Malley and the Twilight Lords. No St. Patty’s celebration is complete without some cold ones, so there will also be a beer garden, along with some hot ones, the Los Angeles Kings Ice Girls and the Laker Girls. The nearby Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill will serve corned beef and cabbage, the Yard House will offer corned beef and shepherd’s pie and Lucky Strikes Lanes & Lounge will have drink specials.

At 800 W. Olympic Blvd., lalive.com.

Pirates Eyes Are Smiling: The Redwood Bar & Grill is known for its pirate decor and great live shows. Both will be in effect March 17.

The Driftwood Singers will bring their downto-earth folk songs to Downtown for a show; the duo of Kris Hutson and Pearl Charles wear 1930s-style clothing and play music described as what you would hear on a Southern front

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The Bomb: Weiland Brewery, the longstanding Little Tokyo bar, starts its March 17 celebration at 11 a.m. with drink specials like the Atomic Car Bomb. For $9 you get a pint of Guinness and a shot of whiskey.

With these kinds of drinks, the whiskey shot is usually dumped into the beer, shot glass and all, then gulped down as quickly as possible. So bring grandma! If Guinness is too much, you can substitute it with any other beer.

The bar will also have $3 green beer all day, and corned beef, cabbage and Reuben sandwiches on the menu. Although it’s not a St. Patrick’s Day special, be sure to try the garlic fries.

Then turn to a new friend and say, “Kiss me! I’m Irish!” photo by David Safian At 400 E. First St., (213) The Young Dubliners will take the stage at noon at Pershing Square 680-2881 or weilandbrewery. on St. Patrick’s Day. net.

Recovery Time: If you want something Irish Seafood Shanty: Another longtime themed after St. Patrick’s Day, head to the Downtown purveyor of St. Pat’s fun is at Walt Disney Concert Hall’s outdoor Keck it again: Seafood emporium McCormick Amphitheatre, where the World City series & Schmick’s will open at 8 a.m. to serve features the acts A Gaelic Gathering and The green eggs and ham. The holiday-inspired Tinkers. The free shows will be all about Irish food continues through the day with dishes and Scottish culture with traditional dancsuch as corned beef sliders and Guinness- es and music. A Gaelic Gathering uses the steamed shrimp and mussels. There will be fiddle, flutes and ulleann pipes (similar to plenty of drink specials and, if you want an bagpipes) to perform songs about Ireland’s actual leprechaun kiss, you’re in luck, be- heritage. The Tinkers perform music from cause there will be several green-clad men Scotland using drum sounds blended with running around the restaurant handing out bagpipes and Bronze-age Celtic horns. The hugs and kisses. They’ll be joined by bagpip- show is free and starts at 11 a.m. (tickets ers throughout the day and a live band on the distributed at 10 a.m.) with a second show at patio after 5 p.m.

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eople are not supposed to scream “Fire!” in a crowded movie house.

They’re also not supposed to shout at the screen, chug alcoholic beverages or wear a goblin outfit.

While the “Fire!” directive holds true, the other three are not only allowed, but expected this week at the Downtown Independent theater.

On Friday, March 18, the Main Street venue is hosting an event with the amazingly long and descriptive title The Never Ending Story/Labyrinth Double Feature Drink-Along & Beer Pong.

It is exactly what it purports to be, though with two additions: a costume contest and a free-for-all dance party.

“The Double Feature Drink Alongs are highly interactive,” said Tatiana Tensen, the theater’s director of operations and special events, in an email. “They are not for someone who expects silence in the theater as they enjoy their film.”

This marks the fifth installment in the series that launched in October; previous evenings have included films such as Teenwolf and Ghostbusters, and the Mel Brooks cre-

ations Spaceballs and Blazing Saddles.

Saskia Wilson-Brown, founder of Cinema Speakeasy, said the event is also a way to get people interested in good films by whatever means necessary.

Released in 1984, The Never Ending Story is about a bullied boy who travels to a mythical land described in an ancient storybook. The 1986 work Labyrinth is about a 15-year-old girl who has to rescue her baby brother before Jareth the Goblin King, played by David Bowie, turns him into a goblin.

“Labyrinth is one of my personal all-time favorite childhood films,” Tensen said.

While both movies have a cult following, a major part of the attraction will be the party vibe. The event is for a 21-and-over crowd.

The audience is encouraged to come in costume, with the website urging goblin outfits, flying dogs or anything ’80s inspired. The drinking game requests a chug every time any of a list of specific things — such as a large snail, or a goblin looking shifty — appears onscreen.

Although beer pong is in the title of the event, and the theater sells beer, Tensen did not want to discuss the details, so she is not accused of encouraging binge drinking.

“What beer pong?” she responded when asked.

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The audience at a past Double Feature Drink-Along event. The next installment is March 18 at the Downtown Independent with the films The Never Ending Story and Labyrinth.

“I want to make it very clear that when we talk about drinking, we are referring to soda and water and lemonade,” she said.

“Yes, we do serve beer and wine and yes, this is a 21 and over event, but the drinking game is intended to be played responsibly

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Friday, Mar. 18 SCI-Arc Lecture Series 960 E. Third St., (213) 356-5328 or sciarc.edu. In the W. M. Keck Lecture Hall.

1 p.m.: Mohamed Sharif, principal of Sharif Studio, talks shop.

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n the revolutionary wave that is sweeping the Middle East and Northern Africa, people struggle for freedom and change. Who are the heroes? A Google executive in Egypt, an air force pilot in Libya, young women in the streets of Tunisia.

Persian artists offer their interpretations of who the heroes of Iran are/might be in the transcontinental exhibit My Super Hero, which opened simultaneously this month at Tehran’s Aaran Gallery and Downtown’s Morono Kiang Gallery.

More than 30 Iranian artists have created new works for the show, which runs through April 30 at 218 W. Third St., (213) 628-8208 or moronokiang.com.

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Tuesday, Mar. 15 ALOUD at the Central Library 630 W. Fifth St., (213) 228-7025 or aloudla.org.

7 p.m.: Journalist and scientific investigator Annie Murphy Paul delves into the history of ideas about how we’re shaped before birth. She’ll talk with Dr. Michael Lu of UCLA.

Thursday, Mar. 17 Central Library 630 W. Fifth St., Meeting Room A, (213) 228-7000 or lapl.org.

6-8 p.m.: The “Language of Money” program is a financing and planning workshop covering budgeting, expenses, debt, saving, retirement and more.

ALOUD at the Central Library 630 W. Fifth St., (213) 228-7025 or aloudla.org.

7 p.m.: Travel writers Colin Thubron and Pico Iyer discuss pilgrimages to exceptional places, mining one’s personal history and the holiest mountain on earth (think Nepal).

anny packs are back and so is Devo.. The 1980s subversive, new wave band of the yellow jumpsuits, energy dome hats, funky robot sound and the mega-hit “Whip arch 19, at 9 It” play Club Nokia on Saturday, march p.m. It’s been more than 30 years since the debut of Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo,, and hio act’s last studio album.

20 years since the ohio Touring in support of its new release Something for Everybody,, the band has evolved, although its raison d’être remains de-evolution. The concept that mankind has actually begun to regress fuels Devo’s social commentary and satire, ongoloid” and though with tunes like “mongoloid” “Uncontrollable Urge,” you can head-bop lympic and pogo all night long. at 800 W. olympic Blvd., (213) 765-7000 or clubnokia.com.

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Monday, Mar. 14 Zócalo Public Square Downtown Independent, 251 S. Main St., zocalopublicsquare.org.

7:30 p.m.: Yale Law School professor and Guggenheim fellow John Fabian Witt tells the story of how in 1847, on the road from Veracruz to Mexico City, the United States army invented the concept of the war crime as we know it today.

Anatomy Riot #39 The Alexandria Hotel, 501 S. Spring Street, 2nd floor, showboxla.org.

8 p.m.: Show Box LA and Blankenship Ballet present low-tech performances, improvisations, rituals and a dance film.

Wednesday, Mar. 16 Celebrating Leadership Awards Dinner Millennium Biltmore Hotel, 506 S. Grand Ave., (213) 368-1616 or lwvlosangeles.org.

Mar. 16, 6 p.m.: In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in California, the event honors those whose professional and civic work are integral to the mission of the League of Women Voters.

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SPONSORED LISTINGS Free Downtown Audio Walking Tours Various Locations, crala.org/art.

Free audio walking tours and maps are available for download at www.crala.org/art.

Explore Downtown’s Bunker Hill, Financial District, Historic Core, and Little Tokyo neighborhoods by discovering public art and places developed through the CRA/LA Art Program.

Live Church LA Club Nokia, 1000 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 4934329 or livechurchla.com.

10 a.m.: Every Sunday, Live Church L.A. takes over the VIP Lounge at Club Nokia, bringing great music, people and inspiring messages.

Kadampa Meditation Center Various Locations, (323) 223-0610 or meditateinla.org.

Kadampa Meditation Center California offers meditation classes for everyone — those seeking simple relaxation, and those wishing to experience authentic spiritual teachings. Join the center Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m. for Meditations for a Meaningful Life at the center’s temple in Elysian Valley. Just drop in. The center offers classes throughout L.A. Thursday, St. Patrick’s Day Bar 107, 107 W. Fourth St., (213) 625-7382.

March 17: The only day Bar 107 opens at 6 a.m. is for its 6th annual St. Patty’s Day Blowout, always the best place to celebrate the best holiday. Priests and nuns drink for half price! $3 Guinness and $4 Jameson shots from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free food from the back of Chef Boyardouche’s truck, 6 a.m.-noon. Leprechauns, unicorns and maniacs of all kinds unite for this one day! Tickle Me Winkie will shoot off Lucky Charms from his golden shaft and shamrock nuts every hour on the hour. BAR 107, where no one does any holiday better.

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We Got Games Three Big Games for the Surging Lakers Los Angeles Lakers Staples Center, 1111 S. Figueroa St., (213) 742-7100 or nba.com/lakers.

March 14 and 18, 7:30 p.m.; March 20, 6:30 p.m.: The Lakers are finally back from their road trip, which was all smooth except for a pothole in Miami, where their eight-game win streak was snapped by the Heatles. Looking to settle into a new streak, the Lakers’ frontcourt is in for a challenging week.

First, Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum have to contend with Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic. Next it’s rebound machine Kevin Love and the T’Wolves and finally on Sunday, the Lakers host an always pesky Portland

Saturday, Mar. 19 Central Library 630 W. Fifth St., Mark Taper Auditorium, (213) 2287000 or lapl.org.

10 a.m.-noon: The Used Book Sale features hundreds of bargain books, LPs, videos and more in the Rotunda.

2-4 p.m.: Hear forensic genealogist Colleen Fitzpatrick recount her firsthand story in a talk titled “The Hand in the Snow and the Crash of Northwest Flight 4422.”

Los Angeles Times Travel & Adventure Show Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S. Figueroa St., adventureexpo.com.

10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Mar. 20, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: For globetrotters and armchair travelers alike, the nation’s largest consumer travel show brings together travel experts and hundreds of exhibitors. Get the lowdown on everything from culinary tours to safaris. Roar.

California African American Museum 600 State Dr., (213) 744-7432 or caamuseum.org.

2 p.m.: “Expressions of Culture-Children’s Art” is a youth arts workshop focusing on the shared connections between American Indian and African American cultures. RSVP at (213) 744-2024.

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

8:30 p.m.: The CalArts School of Critical Studies holds a reading of the best new fiction and poetry by MFA candidates in the Writing Program.

Sunday, March 20 Brad Ellis and Friends Central Los Angeles High School #9, 450 N. Grand Ave., (800) 838-3006 or brownpapertickets.com.

Mar. 20, 2 p.m.: Barry Williams (of “The Brady Bunch”) will host a musical matinee of songs from jazz, cabaret and musical theater, headlined by “Glee” actor Brad Ellis and featuring Eydie Alyson, Julie Garnye, Stephen Kramer Glickman and more.

ROCK, POP & JAZZ 2 Street Jazz 366 E. Second St., (213) 680-0047 or 2ndstjazz.com.

Music usually starts at 9 or 10 p.m.

Mar. 19: Turn Japanese on anime/J-Pop Night.

Blue Whale 123 Astronaut E S Onizuka St. Suite 301, (213) 6200908 or bluewhalemusic.com.

Mar. 15, 8 p.m.: A jazz jam session hosted by the Kevin Kanner quintet.

Café Metropol 923 E. Third St., (213) 613-1537 or cafemetropol.com.

Mar. 19, 7:30 p.m.: Spotlight Cabaret showcases local talents.

Casey’s Irish Pub 613 S. Grand Ave., (213) 629-2353 or caseysirishpub.com.

Mar. 17, all day: Casey’s goes all out for St. Patrick’s Day, closing down a block of Grand Avenue and hosting live music outside with Hollywood U2 (Bono’s favorite tribute band), The Regulars, Petty Cash and some DJs. Mar. 18, 10 p.m.: The hardcore country twang of The Americans, and more.

Mar. 19, 10 p.m.: The Gods of Macho, down-ndirty rock-n-roll, plus guests.

Cicada 617 S. Olive St., (877) 463-7773 or clubcicada.com.

March 20, 8:30 p.m.: Dress up for the Big Band sounds of Jennifer Keith and the High Society Boys.

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

team led by perhaps 2011’s most glaring All-Star snub, LaMarcus Aldridge.

Los Angeles Clippers Staples Center, 1111 S. Figueroa St., (213) 742-7100 or nba.com/clippers.

March 16, 7:30 p.m.; March 19 and 20, 12:30 p.m.: Last week, the Clippers strung together their first four-game win streak of the season, doing so in impressive fashion by edging the Boston Celtics, in Beantown no less.

This week, Griffin, new point guard Mo Williams and the rest of the gang head to Memphis (March 14), before returning home to host the 76ers, the Cavaliers and the Suns.

Los Angeles Kings Staples Center, 1111 S. Figueroa St., 1 (888) KINGS-LA or kings.nhl.com.

March 17 and 19, 7:30: The Kings are still in the playoff hunt as they head to Nashville to take on the Predators (March 15). Then it’s back to Staples in hopes of giving the blues back to St. Louis and taking the quack out of the Ducks of Anaheim. As of press time, the Kings were in eighth place in the West, but second to last in the highly competiphoto by Gary Leonard tive Pacific Division. The Ducks, by the way, were in dead last — but only This week, Andrew Bynum has one of his biggest challenges when the Lakers take on Dwight Howard and the Orlando by a single game.

—Ryan Vaillancourt Magic.

clubnokia.com.

Mar. 19, 9 p.m.: If you only go to one concert tonight, or this year, make it Devo. Opening is the Octopus Project, but who cares about the opener?

It’s Devo!

Conga Room L.A. Live, 800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 749-0445 or congaroom.com.

Mar. 14, 8 p.m.: The Foxxhole Live, hosted by Mark Curry (known to anyone born in the mid1980s as Mr. Cooper, as in “Hangin’ With…”), has live stand-up comedy and R&B music.

Mar. 17, 8 p.m.: Non Stop Bhangra Patrick’s Day features Sandeep Kumar, Dhol Nation and Anthony Valadez. Yes, even the club knows bhangra has nothing to do with traditional Irish music.

Mar. 18, 9 p.m.: Live Fridays offers DJs spinning Top 40 hits, house and hip-hop.

Mar. 19, 9 p.m.: Salsa is Back features salsa lessons, DJs and dancers.

Grammy Museum 800 W. Olympic Blvd., 213.765.6800 or grammymuseum.org.

Mar. 23, 8 p.m.: Join R&B artist Raphael Saadiq as he talks about the days with 1980s soul group Tony!

Toni! Toné!, answers questions from the audience and performs an acoustic selection from his new album.

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

Mar. 18 and 19, 8 p.m.: Espinoza Paz. Redwood Bar & Grill 316 W. Second St., (213) 680-2600 or theredwoodbar.com.

Mar. 14, 10 p.m.: Former Blaster Phil Alvin and Blind Thomas Pickerel.

Mar. 15, 10 p.m.: Duchess Desade.

Mar. 16, 10 p.m.: Matt Sonic and The High Times, Late to the Party, The Kill Pills and Vas Defrans.

Mar. 17, 10 p.m.: St. Patty’s YNM with The Driftwood Singers.

Mar. 18, 10 p.m.: Boats! (isn’t it amazing how an exclamation mark makes things stand out?), Underground Railroad to Candyland, Jus’ Folks and Bad Antics.

Mar. 19, 10 p.m.: Thousand Needles, The Bentleys and The Never Home.

Mar. 20, 10 p.m.: Dirty Eyes, Long Neck Goose, Vows and The Embalmers.

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

Mar. 15, 10 p.m.: The Makers.

Mar. 14, 10 p.m.: Katisse Buckingham Quintet.

Mar. 16, 10 p.m.: Artwork Jamal and the Acid Blues.

The Smell 247 S. Main St., alley between Spring and Main streets, thesmell.org.

Mar. 15, 9 p.m.: Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death. Wethinks someone was inspired by the great Texas band And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead.

Varnish 118 E. 6th St., (213) 622-9999 or thevarnishbar.com.

Mar. 14, 9 p.m.: Live jazz piano with Jamie Elman.

Mar. 15, 8 p.m.: Marc Bosserman entertains on the house piano.

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S. Grand Ave., 213-972-7211 or musiccenter.org.

Mar. 19, 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.: Irish and Scottish groups perform traditional Gaelic and Celtic music. Celebrating Irish culture, “A Gaelic Gathering” presents hard shoe jigs accompanied with

traditional Irish instruments like bagpipes, whistles and drums. Tribal Celtic group The Tinkers immerses the audience in sounds from the Scottish Highlands.

CLASSICAL MUSIC Monday, Mar. 14 Los Angeles Philharmonic 111 S. Grand Ave., musiccenter.org.

8 p.m.: James Galway has the distinct honor of being the most famous flutist in the world (eat your heart out, Ron Burgundy). He joins the Grammy-winning Emerson Quartet for an evening of chamber music by Mozart, Debussy, Foote and Adès.

Tuesday, Mar. 15 Los Angeles Philharmonic 111 S. Grand Ave., musiccenter.org.

8 p.m.: In this Green Umbrella concert, the L.A. Philharmonic’s New Music Group spotlights two composers: Seoul-born Unsuk Chin (her violin concerto won the Grawemeyer Award) and Swede Anders Hillborg.

Thursday, Mar. 17 Camerata Pacifica Zipper Hall, 200 S. Grand Ave., cameratapacifica.org 8 p.m.: The chamber music ensemble plays Prokofiev’s Five Melodies for Violin & Piano, Op. 35 and Sonata in D Major for Flute & Piano, Op. 94; Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp minor, Op. 19, “Sonata Fantasy”; and Beethoven’s Trio for Violin, Cello & Piano in B Flat Major, Op. 97, “Archduke.”

Los Angeles Philharmonic 111 S. Grand Ave., musiccenter.org.

8 p.m.; Mar. 18-19, 8 p.m.; Mar. 20, 2 p.m.: Gustavo Dudamel leads pianist Martha Agerich and the L.A. Phil in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Mozart’s Masonic Funeral Music and Symphony No. 35.

Saturday, Mar. 19 Colburn School 200 S. Grand Ave., voxfeminala.org 8 p.m.: Vox Femina and the activist performance ensemble Contra-Tiempo present a syncopated, sensual, sumptuous program of music and dance.

Sunday, Mar. 20 Colburn School 200 S. Grand Ave., dilijan.larkmusicalsociety.com.

3 p.m.: The Dilijan Concert Series, which features violinist Movses Pogossian, performs a bold program anchored by George Crumb’s “Madrigals, books 3 and 4,” and “Black Angels” for electric string quartet. Also on the progam are Hovhannisyan’s “Four Litanies” and Rostomyan’s “The Tagh of Angeles,” in a world premiere.

Le Salon de Musiques Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Fifth Floor, 135 North Grand Ave., (310) 498-0257 or lesalondemusiques.com.

4-6 p.m.: The one-hour chamber music concert features Debussy’s Sonata in Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp L 137, Saint-Saens’s Fantasie in A for Harp and Violin opus 124, and Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major. Will be followed by a catered one-hour interactive discussion between musicians and audience.

THEATER, OPERA & DANCE 100 Days LOFT ensemble, 929 E. 2nd St. Studio 105, (213) 680-

0392 or LOFTensemble.com.

Mar. 19, 8 p.m.; Mar. 20, 7 p.m.: After his Buddhist mother passes away, a college circuit comedian has 100 days to marry for his mother’s spirit to transition in peace in this world premiere by Weiko Lin. Through Mar. 20.

As the Globe Warms Bootleg Theater, 2220 Beverly Blvd., (213) 389-3856 or bootlegtheater.com.

Mar. 15, 7:30 p.m.: The final season of Heather Woodbury’s weekly dramatic serial is a one-of-akind solo performance narrative about God, sex and ecological disaster. Through April 5.

Bonded Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring St., (866) 811-4111 or thelatc.org.

Opening Mar. 17, 8 p.m.; Mar. 18-19, 8 p.m.: Sonny, Lily and Jack are the last remaining slaves on a crumbling, cash-strapped Virginia farm in 1820. When Asa, a “house boy” from New York, is brought in to help in the fields, repressed desires and memories of loss are unlocked. Through Apr. 9.

La Quinta Pared/The Fifth Wall Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring St., (866) 811-4111 or thelatc.org.

Mar. 17-19, 8 p.m.: An assassin for hire and his intended victim cross paths with a vagabond. The play is in Spanish.

La Razón Blindada 24th Street Theatre, 1117 West 24th St., 213-745-6516 or 24thstreet.org.

Mar. 19, 8 p.m.: Argentine playwright/director Aristides Vargas infuses Cervantes’ classic novel El Quijote with Franz Kafka’s The Truth About Sancho Panza and testimonies by Chicho Vargas and other political prisoners held in the 1970s during Argentina’s dictatorship. Two political prisoners, oppressed by physical and emotional abuse, find solace in meeting every Sunday at dusk to tell the story of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Through Mar. 26.

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Mar. 15-18, 10:30 a.m.; Mar. 19-20, 2:30 p.m.: More than 100 of Bob Baker’s fantastical marionettes in an hour-long variety revue include puppet horses frolicking on an old-fashioned merry-goround and a marionette “Day at the Circus.” After the performance, guests are invited to have refreshments in the Party Room. Open-ended run.

MORE LISTINGS Hundreds of listings of fun and interesting things to do in Downtown Los Angeles can also be found online at ladowntownnews.com/calendar: Rock, Pop & Jazz; Bars & Clubs; Farmers Markets; Events; Film; Sports; Art Spaces; Theater, Dance and Opera; Classical Music; Museums; and Tours.

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NOTICE—This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk.

A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et. seq. Business and Professions Code).

Pub. 2/21, 2/28, 3/07, 3/14/2011 naMe cHange suPeRioR couRt oF caliFoRnia, countY oF los anGeles noRtHWest DistRict oRDeR to sHoW cause FoR cHanGe oF name CASE NO. ES014708 Petitioner (name of each): PATRICIA TERESA GRAHAM, 7655 Lankershim Blvd., #20, North Hollywood CA 91605, filed a petition with this court for a decree

changing names as follows: Present name: PATRICIA TERESA GRAHAM Proposed name: DYLLON JORDEN CASON THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: 4/29/2011 Time: 8:30 a.m.

Dept.: B The address of the court is 6230 Sylmar Avenue, Van Nuys CA 91401. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in CIVIC CENTER NEWS, 1246 West 1st Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026, of general circulation, printed in this county.

Hon. Mary Thornton House Judge of the Superior Court Date: March 2, 2011 Pub. 3/7, 3/14, 3/21, 3/28/2011

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Registrants has not begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein.

This statement was filed with DEAN LOGAN, Los Angeles County Clerk on January 31,

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Talks Continued from page 17 Liljegren will take guests on a tour of her own loft at The Roosevelt and discuss what really is required to transform a historic building into a residential complex.

“People are always amazed at how long it takes to put these buildings together,” Liljegren said. She added that the series allows people not only to understand what it takes to create a neighborhood, but also to make a personal connection with the area.

Liljegren is followed by Gil Garcetti on April 16. The former district attorney will talk about his passion for photography (he published a book about the making of Walt Disney Concert Hall) and his favorite charitable causes.

On May 21, the focus is on graphic designer Amy Inouye, who is known

for rescuing Chicken Boy, a 22-foot tall Downtown landmark that once stood over a fried chicken restaurant on Broadway and now resides in her studio in Highland Park. The event will include a tour of the 1924 Highland Theatre rooftop sign.

Joe Moller, the executive director of the Downtown Art Walk, rounds out the series on June 18.

“I hope those who attend walk away with an appreciation for how rich Down­ town is,” Mills said, “and how rich the people who live in it are in talent, culture and creativity,” Tickets are $75 per conversation or $200 for the full series. Tickets are at thespiritedwoman.com or (805) 698-3555.

Contact Richard Guzmán at richard@downtownnews.com.

Self-described “Downtown aficionado” Nancy Mills created the Downtown Conversation Series. It begins March 19 with architect Karin Liljegren, who helped create thousands of housing units in the area.

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