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Bumps in The Mayor’s Race

A Batch of Food News

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Hasty and the Chocolate Factory A One-Woman Sweets Empire Grows in Downtown

photo by Gary Leonard

Hasty (rhymes with fast-ee) Torres closed her Beverly Hills store Madame Chocolat last year. In December, she opened a 5,700-square-foot chocolate factory in the Arts District.

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here are no chocolate rivers flowing inside the building on Industrial Street in a gritty section of the Arts District. There are no Oompa Loompas or trained squirrels either.

Still, beyond the white metal door on the simple gray structure is a chocolatier with a sweet tooth, a constant smile and a clear sense of what it will take to create a Downtown chocolate empire.

“It was definitely time to grow,” said Hasty Torres on a recent weekday morning, reflecting on her decision to move her business last year from Beverly Hills to Downtown Los Angeles.

Torres, 37, is the founder of Madame Chocolat. From her Downtown location she manufactures French-style sweets with names such as the Cafe, a dark chocolate with espresso, and the daring Monsieur, a dark chocolate spiked with Johnnie Walker Blue Label. Then there’s Le Papa, made with two kinds of French cognac and dark chocolate.

“I just simply love, love, love chocolate,” enthused Torres.

What might separate Torres from other chocolatiers is what she terms her “feminine approach” to the sweet. This means everything from using edible glitter to decorate chocolates to creating feminine novelty items. The Madame Chocolat line includes a dark chocolate Rolex watch, red chocolate lipstick, mini glitter Louboutin high heels and a chocolate Channel clutch bag.

Chocolate has long been a big part of the life of the woman who was born in Iran and raised in the San Fernando Valley for as long as she can remember. She said she was “obsessed” with chocolate as a child, and always had it in her pockets or, sometimes, under her pillow at night. Her favorites were Kit Kats, M&Ms and Twix bars.

She was also a fan of the 1971 Gene Wilder film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. That and the 2000 Johnny Depp movie Chocolat, she said, helped inspire her to open a chocolate shop.

As Torres grew up, however, more practical pursuits beckoned. She graduated from USC in 1998 with a degree in business and took a job in the financial industry with the firm Assante Wealth Management, where she worked as operations manager.

Six years later, her passions took over. She moved back in with her parents and enrolled at Le Cordon Bleu in Pasadena, finishing in 2004. Then, after being turned down a few times, she landed a job with Jacques Torres, a respected Brooklyn chocolatier.

She learned everything she could and a year later decided it was time to return to L.A. and open her own chocolate shop.

A couple of weeks before she left, Jacques asked her out. The two eventually married, but not before she returned home to open her business.

“At that point in my life I wasn’t willing to put my dream on hold for a guy I was dating,” she said.

The Beverly Hills Madame Chocolat opened in 2006 and

gained a loyal following.

“She has a fabulous product,” said Manfred Lassahn, the executive chef at the Hyatt Century Plaza and a longtime Torres customer. “It’s all great quality and unique flavors,” He recently ordered 600 boxes of chocolate for a private event.

Torres also has Downtown fans familiar with her Beverly Hills business.

“You can see her personality in what she makes,” said Stephane Bombet co-owner Mo-Chica on Seventh Street.

The restaurant doesn’t order from her, since they make their own desserts, but Bombet is a personal fan.

“Her chocolates are fun and the quality is fantastic,” he said.

Finding the Factory In Beverly Hills, Torres was making about 20 tons of chocolate per year with sales of approximately $1 million. Her primary business was retail and she worked inside a pretty shop with a chandelier, pistachio green walls and a gold ceiling.

Chocolates were displayed in glass cases as if they were fine jewelry.

Despite the luxurious storefront, Torres felt she had hit a ceiling. She wanted to expand her production and ultimately open more stores.

“I was making and selling it all under the same roof in about 1,800 square feet,” she recalls. “Today I have a 5,700-square-foot facility. Now that we have a big hub I’ll be see Chocolate, page 12

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n empty five-story building in South Park is on its way to becoming a creative office and retail complex. Downtown-based Lincoln Property Company announced last week that it has acquired the 78,500-squarefoot Desmond Building at 11th and Hope streets from Evoq Properties, the firm formerly known as Meruelo Maddux. The Los Angeles Times reported that Lincoln spent $16.25 million on the deal that includes an adjacent parking lot, and plans a $9 million renovation of the 1917 structure. Work will include creating open floor plans, updating the building’s mechanical systems and replacing windows.

Plans also call for a restaurant and stores on the ground floor. Construction is expected to take a year with tenants moving in by mid-2014, according to the company. “Several potential tenants have already toured the property and have expressed interest in creative office space, restaurant and retail uses at the Desmond,” said Rob Kane, vice president of Lincoln Property Company, in a statement. The brick building was originally a car dealership and assembly plant for the Willis-Overland Motors company and later became a Desmond’s department store warehouse. Evoq last year announced plans to renovate the structure. Instead, the firm put the building, which is two blocks from Staples Center, on the market.

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seasons. Metro officials announced last week that the Dodger Stadium Express bus will continue through at least the 2014 season. A two-year $1.1 million environmental protection grant — provided by a coalition of city and county entities — was recently awarded to Metro to fund the service. Buses will start rolling 90 minutes before games and will stop picking up passengers 45 minutes after the final out. The ride is free to Dodger ticket holders and $1.50 for those without tickets.

The express will depart from the Patsaouras Bus Plaza adjacent to the east portal of Union Station. Passengers will be dropped off and then picked up in the Dodger parking lot behind left-center field. This is the fourth year the Dodger Express has been provided. Last year the program transported more than 136,000 fans to games.

First District Race Moves to Runoff

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hree weeks after election day, the City Clerk conducted the final vote tally from the March 5 elections. The new count in the First District, which included thousands of provisional ballots that were not accounted for on election night, found that longtime state legislator Gil Cedillo fell just short of the 50% level needed to win outright. He’ll face Jose Gardea, the chief of staff to termed out Councilman Ed Reyes, in the May 21 runoff. According to the City Clerk, Cedillo finished with 49.32%, eclipsing Gardea’s 43.45%. A third candidate, Jesses Rosas, received 7.21%. A total of 17,010 ballots were cast in the district. The race for the seat that includes Chinatown and City West was frequently contentious, with Gardea arguing that Cedillo was a Sacramento politician un-

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familiar with the specific needs of district inhabitants. Cedillo countered that Gardea, as part of Reyes’ team for the past 12 years, had let the community down as other portions of the city saw far more progress. Although they were fairly close in fundraising, business and labor groups spent approximately $385,000 for mailers and ads that either supported Cedillo or opposed Gardea.

Merced Theatre Could Become TV Station

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he city’s public access station, Channel 35, could get a new home in a historic structure. City officials are considering moving the station to the 1870 Merced Theatre at the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument. Fourteenth District Councilman José Huizar authored a Feb. 22 motion asking for a report on the

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feasibility and cost of relocating the station, which is currently headquartered in Little Tokyo. The move is intended to save money on rent and lower station operating costs. The Merced Theatre, which is currently vacant, is in a two-block section of El Pueblo known as the Pico-Garnier Block. It was the first theater in Los Angeles and has been part of a long-planned but never-realized restoration effort. Channel 35 airs all City Council meetings and other programs related to city departments and events. The report is expected back in early April.

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EDITORIALS Urban Scrawl by Doug Davis

Grand Park Is Not a Film Set

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rand Park, the 12-acre expanse that re-envisioned public space in the Civic Center, is one of the most important projects to open in Downtown Los Angeles in the last five years. The $56 million endeavor that stretches between the Music Center and City Hall made the Central City more attractive and friendly. It opened last summer and instantly became a destination for office workers on their lunch breaks and residents (many of them with dogs) taking a stroll in the mornings and evenings.

On warm weekends the restored Arthur J. Will Memorial Fountain beckons families. The legions of kids splashing through the spouting water is a great advertisement for an evolving Downtown.

Now, extensive public use of the public space is in danger. If county officials who oversee the facility fail to take proper precautions, then Angelenos and visitors could become second-class citizens at the park, with their needs placed behind one of the region’s most powerful industries — film companies.

The producers of commercials, movies and TV shows want to use the park, and we think they deserve the opportunity, albeit in strictly limited and clearly prescribed doses. The production industry’s desires must take a back seat to the needs of the public, and the best thing possible would be to make rates at the facility affordable, but also to have firm rules about usage beyond its stated purpose.

Although everything at the park looks calm and easy from street level, the attraction is currently a battleground.

Entertainment companies and location managers, always eager for sites that have not been filmed to death (how many times have you seen the L.A. River or the Second Street tunnel in a car commercial, though a car commercial probably would not be shot in the park), want access to the prime space. They point out, rightly, that the entertainment industry is a huge jobs provider. Every production can mean a paycheck for a hundred or more families.

As Los Angeles Downtown News recently reported, when the park opened there were no official restrictions on shooting there. Any company willing to pay the asking price was welcome to do so.

The problem, according to film industry officials, is that the rents of $20,000 a block and $80,000 for the full park for a day

functioned as a de facto restriction. The cost was too high.

That prompted a long set of discussions between county and film industry officials. The latter want the rates consistent with properties such as the verdant Descanso Gardens, where use of the entire facility is $6,400 a day, according to a county report. County officials wanted to keep the rates higher so that the park would not be overrun by film shoots.

Eventually, a sort-of compromise was hammered out. The county set new rates of $15,000 a day for the entire park in the prime period between April and October (the price drops by $3,000 a day in off-peak months). Individual blocks go for up to $5,120 a day. The new fees are slated to be taken up by the County Board of Supervisors this week.

The supervisors will also look at another option, a pilot program in which production houses could rent space at the park for free for six months. Film industry brass have complained that even the new proposed rates are too high, and free use of the space would echo a state of California move in which no fee is charged for shooting on state-owned property. The state step was taken as a response to the threat of productions fleeing to other states or countries that offer tax breaks or lower rental costs. A Grand Park advisory group recommended the pilot program.

We think there’s a middle ground, something that brings in revenue for the new attraction and continues the already impressive slate of public programming. There is no need to give away the park. On the other hand, as we say, we want to encourage the jobs. Find a fair rate, then implement a set of rules that is tolerable to the general public.

The first of these rules is that the entire park should never be rented out. Individual blocks can be utilized by individual productions, but the public should never lose the use of the whole thing. The attraction has been billed as “the park for everyone,” and despite the spin, “everyone” was always intended to be the general public, not the film industry.

Furthermore, if a certain block is to be rented, ample advance notice must be given to the public, much as it is to residents Downtown when it affects their building or street.

Among other steps, clearly visible signs regarding an upcoming production must be placed several days before a shoot at all affected entrances. This will inform people who make the park part of a daily walk.

Also, passage through the park should never be shut off. The park is designed so that people walking through can do so on one side or the other, similar to the way it works in the Biltmore’s old lobby facing Olive Street.

When filming is going on in the hotel, one of the passages is available except for brief moments. It’s the same thing with filming in the Second Street tunnel. Pedestrians are required to wait no more than a couple minutes before being allowed to proceed.

A notable amount of the foot traffic in Grand Park comes from transit riders. There are bus stops on Spring Street and Broadway, and there is a Red Line subway station on Hill Street, all of them mid-block of the park. Without a path through, riders would have an annoying and unnecessarily long hike around the various blocks.

Another key worry is that the ecosystem in most of the park is fragile, unlike the tunnel or the concrete walls of the riverbed. There is a sophisticated and carefully planned and orchestrated garden of plants from around the world. How to protect that extraordinary extended garden needs to be given very careful consideration before film crews carrying lights and other heavy equipment tromp through. It is possible that Descanso is a model for the agreement, but the gardens do not resemble each other in form or function. This issue needs to be solidified before the crews arrive.

Once these matters are settled, a cap needs to be set on how often films crews can rent out certain blocks of the park. Without a firm limit, we run the risk of a huge special effects blockbuster filling up prime parcels, such as the fountain, for a week or more. Film industry officials say that is unlikely, but “unlikely” is not a guarantee. The preventive step has to be taken.

A couple additional filming restrictions: No use of the fountain on peak period weekend days when the families come out. No renting of any single block more than one day or evening a week.

Downtown needs the green space and the public gathering point. With the community growing, we can’t create an air of uncertainty in which people wonder if their park will be open. As we say, the county created a park, not a film set. Let the Hollywood crews in, but their needs come after those of the community.

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Celebrating 40 Years

The Trouble With Wendy Campaign Stumbles Mean Greuel’s Staff Shake-Up Might Be Her Best Move Yet

by Jon Regardie executive editor

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ou didn’t need X-ray vision to see the truth obscured by the small mountain of press releases and campaign statements that Team Wendy Greuel piled up recently. In the course of a few short days, the THE REGARDIE REPORT

Greuelies slapped figurative happy face stickers on several announcements of top-level changes. Despite the sunny spin, the body swapping was tacit acknowledgement that her road to possible victory has more bumps than most Los Angeles streets.

This isn’t to say that, just three weeks after she cruised through the primary, Greuel is outgunned. Far from it, and although she finished second to Councilman Eric Garcetti in the March 5 election, her natural Valley base and the $7 kajillion that labor and other groups will likely spend on her behalf make Greuel dangerous enough to win the May 21 runoff.

Whether she will is the issue, and that’s where the changes come into play.

For those not keeping score at home, here’s what happened: A handful of key advisors and strategists whom 98% of the populace have never heard of departed or were shoved down the totem pole, and were replaced by other key advisors and strategists. The revelation of the housecleaning was disguised as progress (“I’m making a number of immediate changes within my campaign so that our message breaks through more and more each

day,” Greuel wrote in a March 23 email to supporters). It was also sandwiched between the announcements of the endorsements of former Mayor Richard Riordan, Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and former President Bill Clinton. The hope was that the big name backers, especially Clinton, would make voters forget the staff shuffling.

It’s a savvy strategy, but it doesn’t eradicate the pitfalls that put Greuel in the position in the first place. Common sense dictates that you don’t jettison one group of highly paid consultants and hire another unless your internal tracking shows that you are likely to finish second in a field of two. In this way it’s a political Glengarry Glen Ross, where the top finisher becomes mayor and second place gets a set of steak knives. And no one wants the steak knives.

There’s a cliché that says change is good, and even if the staff imbroglio prompts some painful headlines, a rejiggered campaign team probably is a positive for Greuel. It’s certainly better than sticking with something doomed to fail.

Now the questions are, how will the new team repackage Wendy? How quickly can they do it? The answers are vital, as too often in the past few months Greuel came off less political and more fantastical. There were also a couple cringe-inducing cases where she was annoying or, worse, downright mean.

Emailing for Dollars I know journalists aren’t supposed to admit things like this, but I like Greuel. I like Garcetti too, and while each has their cadre

of critics, I think they both have generally been effective politicians, especially compared to our current elected class.

Maybe I’m gullible, but I believe that each truly cares about Los Angeles and its inhabitants. I have no doubt that either will be a more focused and effective leader than that guy in office whose name I suddenly can’t remember.

Despite liking Greuel, I have been repeatedly disappointed by her campaign.

Sometimes it’s the small things, like the incessant emails pleading for money.

Yes, Garcetti also emails for dollars, but Greuel’s pitches are non-stop, like an itch that won’t go away. There are more Greuel-needs-cash emails than there are disappointing Laker losses, which is saying something.

This is a minor quibble, but it gains in stature when added to some bigger stumbles.

The most prominent mistake was Greuel’s February proclamation that as mayor she would boost the LAPD photo by Gary Leonard to 12,000 cops. It sounds great on a Is she an angel? Some might not think so after the mailer, but unless the new officers are mayoral primary, during which Wendy Greuel hit a paid in Monopoly money, it’s not hap- couple of her opponents with vicious mailers. pening. For decades L.A.’s police force wobbled between 9,000 and 9,500 officers, last year. It wound up sounding like she was and mayors going back to Riordan pledged doing the bidding of the unions — which to get to 10,000, only to falter (Villaraigosa coincidentally spent about $2 million on her only reached that figure by absorbing officers during the primary — even though she has from the city General Services Department). pledged she will operate independently from This was silly because Greuel knows them. the city’s budget and history all too well. It wasn’t the only union doozy. On March Naturally, skepticism to the 20% boost was 12 the L.A. Times reported that, during a immediate, and she quickly backed off. Think bid to win the endorsement of the powerful of it as a big trial balloon that burst.

County Federation of Labor, Greuel com Greuel more recently gained attention for, pared Garcetti to Scott Walker, the Wisconsin then seemed to back off, a suggestion that the governor who tried to yank collective barcity negotiate with labor leaders over pen- gaining from labor’s toolshed. Greuel knows sion changes for new hires, even though the the association was ridiculous. Garcetti, who see Election, page 20 full council approved them unanimously

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Amid Apartment Boom, a Shortage of Condos People Want to Buy, But a Variety of Factors Have Developers Sticking With Rentals

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illions of dollars are pouring into the Downtown Los Angeles housing market and a slate of new apartment buildings is set to significantly expand the local rental stock.

That’s good news for Downtown apartment hunters, who these days can have a difficult time securing a unit amid a 98% occupancy rate.

But for those looking to buy a place in Downtown, pickings are even slimmer. In a community with an estimated 50,000 residents, there are currently only 64 active listings on the MLS, a repository of properties on the market (the number does not reflect homes that are never placed on the open market, and it only includes a portion of the residences at the Ritz-Carlton, which keeps some unsold units off public listing services). When listings hit the market, most receive multiple offers, and the majority of buyers miss out on their first choice, said broker Michael Ferguson, who owns the Loft Exchange.

With the supply shortage, many longtime Downtown residential brokers have had to take listings in other neighborhoods or veer into commercial real estate to stay afloat.

A few condominium projects conceived and partially built before the downturn that only recently opened, such as 940 E. 2nd St., the Gallery Lofts and the Beacon Lofts, all nearly sold out in less than six months.

About 10 projects that were envisioned as for-sale properties and built to condo specs from around 2007-2009 switched to rentals as the recession took hold. Many of those developers said they would revert to condos once

the market rebounds. None have done so, even as banks are increasingly lending again, and Downtown condo prices are slowly rising.

Since the fourth quarter of 2009, the median price of properties sold in Downtown is up 14%, from $345,000 to $395,000, according to data provided by the Loft Exchange.

The lack of action in the condo market stems from multiple factors, the simplest of which boils down to basic supply and demand. While the supply is indeed squeezed, demand hasn’t yet pushed prices far enough above what it costs to build a for-sale structure, said Bill Witte, president of Related California.

As the developer of the Grand Avenue project, Related has the rights to build several residential buildings on Bunker Hill.

The firm originally envisioned a veritable condo village, but is proceeding with rentals instead. It broke ground on a 22-story luxury apartment tower last year and has plans for a second tower that is also likely to be high-end rentals, though Witte has said it could contain a condo component.

When you factor in land price, Witte said construction of a steel and concrete condo tower costs around $700,000 per unit. The cost is higher than apartments because condominiums are usually larger than rentals and require a heftier marketing budget.

With the median Downtown condo sale around $400,000, “There’s still a ways to go before building condos makes sense,” Witte said.

No Easy Switch If construction costs are keeping a lid on new condo development, landlords who might be considering a switch from rentals to a for-sale effort face a different set of hurdles.

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First, there’s a tangle of administrative steps, including the subdivision of the building, which is regulated by the state. Then there’s the task and cost of relocating existing tenants.

Furthermore, most landlords used some form of debt to build their Downtown apartment projects. Often, developers take long-term loans that come with stiff pre-payment penalties that would make a condo conversion less appealing, said Joseph Soleiman, director of acquisitions for ICO Development, which built and recently sold the Pacific Electric Lofts and is working on a 55-unit apartment project at 430 S. Broadway. photo by Gary Leonard “It’s been a low inter- Despite evidence of strong demand, for-sale units like those at the est rate environment, with Rowan Lofts are in increasingly short supply in Downtown. long terms and in a lot of cases, guys are locked in,” Soleiman said. “If foot, which he estimates will happen in two you’re in year two or three of a seven-year to five years. Today, condos selling at Historic term, you can’t get out without some heavy Core buildings such as the Rowan Lofts and obligations.” the Douglas Building are going for closer to Historic Core apartment king Barry Shy, $350 per square foot. who owns more than 1,100 apartments in For Shy, the $500 per square foot mark, five projects, has always planned to convert which was commonplace in the neighborhis portfolio to condos. Shy is not bound by hood before the crash, is inevitable. loan obligations on the buildings, but he is “Why would I sell now when I know in a still not rushing to capitalize on the condo few years I will make more money?” he said. shortage by selling now.

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Pizza Parlor Punk: The Historic Core’s Garage Pizza has curried a crew of regulars in part because it’s one of the few reliable late-night joints. But on March 21, a different kind of customer — one with a revolver — wandered in at 2:40 p.m. The man, who was estimated to be about 6’6” and 185 pounds,

wore a black sweater, black jeans and a black ski mask. He took off with $400 in cash. It was one of two Downtown businesses that got robbed during the week. The other was Robeks in South Park.

Not So Hot Wheels: A man was arrested on March 20 for allegedly shooting another man six times in what police believe was a drug deal gone bad. The suspect was in a wheelchair when he fired at the victim at about 6:10 a.m. on Fifth Street between Wall

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Around Town Continued from page 2 corridor is making progress. A team of consultants that includes Downtown landscape architect Meléndrez plans to unveil updated designs for the MyFigueroa plan, which runs from Downtown approximately to USC, at a community meeting this month. The project, which would run on Figueroa from Seventh Street to Exposition Boulevard, would add highvisibility crosswalks, widened sidewalks, new transit platforms, more street trees and landscaping, better signalization and signage and public art. Plans also call for north- and southbound cycle “tracks,” which are dedicated bike lanes separated from traffic. The updated streetscape designs will be presented at a 5:30 p.m. meeting on April 9 at the Andrew Norman Hall at the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital at 2400 S. Flower St. Funded by $20 million from Proposition 1C, the project is expected to begin construction next January and finish by the end of 2014. More information is at myfigueroa.com.

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wo more Downtown structures are likely to be certified as HistoricCultural Monuments. The city’s Planning and Land Use Management Committee on March 19 approved the designation for the El Dorado Lofts at 416 S. Spring St. and the Union Bank and Trust Company building at 760 S. Hill St. Final approval is expected from the City Council in about two weeks.

The designation provides protections for the structural integrity and a tax break for homeowners. Built in 1913, the 12-story El Dorado is notable for its Gothic and Art Noveau design, according to the Cultural Heritage Commission. It was built as a hotel

by N.W. Stowell. The Union Bank building, now known as the Union Lofts, is an example of the Renaissance Revival/Beaux Arts style, according to the commission.

The 12-story structure was built in 1922 and was designed by Curlett & Beelman.

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How the Haynes Laid a Solid Foundation A Husband and Wife Continue to Benefit Los Angeles 75 Years After Their Deaths

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eriodically, you will see or hear a television or radio program or print piece that credits “The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.”

These credits are usually ambiguous enough that you don’t think about them, but the name appears in many places.

The Haynes were Angelenos who, more than seven decades after their deaths, continue to make a great impact on the city of Los Angeles. Although they had no surviving children, their largesse has allowed their name to live on in the form of many causes in and around the city.

The natives of Pennsylvania knew each other while growing up. Their paths continued to cross. John Haynes graduated from the

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University of Pennsylvania in 1874. Although just 21, he had earned two degrees that would serve him well: medicine and philosophy.

John and Dora married in the early 1880s.

As was popular at the time, they moved to Los Angeles, drawn by the warm and sunny climate that was far different from the conditions in Pennsylvania coal country. Other members of the Haynes family moved here as well.

John Haynes was a driven individual. He needed more than 24 hours in his day. In addition to practicing medicine, he spent time teaching the subject for a short while at USC. He joined an ever-expanding list of organizations. Some were professional. Some were social. Some were civic. All of these groups benefitted from Haynes’ long-term approach to problem solving and collegial behavior. He was a known quantity.

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John Randolph and Dora Haynes were influential in early 1900s Los Angeles and lived in a large home on South Figueroa Street. They made money in real estate, and their name lives on through a foundation they established.

The Haynes lived in Los Angeles at a time when the Progressive movement became a reality. Dora Haynes worked tirelessly for the cause of the suffragists. John Haynes took on a series of civic reform issues that read like the bible of progressive causes of the time: initiative, referendum and reform. He was considered the father of the recall movement in local government.

He also sat as a regent on the board of the University of California for many years, beginning in 1923 when UCLA was in transition. The school had left Downtown, moved to Vermont Avenue (where Los Angeles City College is today) and was considering another move, which was ultimately to Westwood. UCLA is where the Haynes papers are found today.

According to the folksy and iconic work Sixty Years in Southern California by Harris Newmark, published in 1916, John Haynes and his brother-in-law, Dr. Walter Lindley, were associated with the founding of California Hospital, a longstanding Downtown institution. Dr. Francis Haynes, John’s brother, was also a medical practitioner, but died here in the 1890s.

The Haynes lived in a large, classically French home on South Figueroa Street between Washington and Adams boulevards, a neighborhood of notable residences. Across the street from the Haynes’ former home stands one of the few remaining Figueroa Street residences in the area, the Stimson mansion. The old Haynes home would later be see Haynes, page 20

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Restaurant Buzz More Mendocino, Lounge Meals, Deli in a Bar and Other Food Happenings

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he Sandwich King Expands: Downtowners regularly throng the two local lunch locations of sandwich professionals Mendocino Farms. Now, husband-and-wife owners Mario Del Pero and Ellen Chen are making their biggest Central City play yet: On Tuesday, April 2, they’ll debut a third Downtown Mendocino Farms at the FIGat7th food court.

The 3,000-square-foot restaurant will serve favorites such as the kurobuta pork belly banh mi and the steak BLT alongside new offerings like the turkey confit with yellow rooster sauce and the braised lamb shoulder with mint pesto. This will also be the first Mendocino that is open seven days a week and serves dinner (hours are 11 a.m.-9 p.m.). To mark the opening, Mendocino Farms will host a Family Fun Day on Saturday, April 6, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. The event will include a performance from kid’s drumming band Rhythm Child, face painting, a balloon artist and a photo booth. Best of all for parents, kids will eat free when their accompanying adult buys a regular sandwich.

At 735 S. Figueroa St., (213) 430-9040 or mendocinofarms.com.

Ooh La La: Get ready for a French-American culinary love fest. An event called Le Grand Fooding Crush Paris-L.A. will take place at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA on April 2627. The happening, which is being organized by French food guide Le Fooding, will bring together 11 top chefs from Los Angeles and Paris. Local participants include Josef Centeno of Bar Amá and Bäco Mercat, food truck king Roy Choi of Kogi (who is also working on a restaurant in Chinatown) and popup master Ludo Lefebvre. Expect dishes such as Choi’s short rib taco and Centeno’s Amberjack ceviche. There will also be a DJ, drinks and lots of mutual admiration.

At 250 S. Grand Ave. or legrandfooding.com.

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Celebrating 40 Years Corner Lounge: Many restaurants have tried and died at Second and Hill streets. Now, get ready for a new contender. Signs for Ebanos Crossing have gone up in the long vacant space that most recently housed Pho Citi. The restaurant/lounge will have a menu inspired by the Prohibition era and is scheduled to open in late spring, said Justin Shapiro, one of the New York-based owners of the establishment. The name comes from a border crossing spot in Texas and the food is inspired by the geographic regions that smugglers travelling from Mexico to the United States used during Prohibition, he said. Expect dishes such as bourbon and blackberry short ribs, rum reduction chicken wings and mac ’n cheese cubes wrapped in chorizo. The most expensive entrees will top out at $22, Shapiro said. Drinks will cost around $12-$14 and will focus on tequila, mescal, rum and whiskey cocktails. Ebanos Crossing will be open for dinner from 5 p.m.-1 a.m.

At 200 S. Hill St., (213) 935-8825 or ebanocrossing.com.

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Cherry Fest: In honor of the 101st Cherry Blossom Festival and Tokyo’s gift of 3,000 cherry trees to Washington, D.C., Chaya in the Financial District is offering a temporary menu and decorations inspired by the plant. From April 1-19, executive chef Atsushi Kenjo will prepare dishes inspired by the cherry blossom trees, which in Japanese culture signify life and change. Items include a build-your-own three-item bento box for $22 ($28 for four items). Think Japanese eggplant baba ganoush, duck confit spring rolls, BBQ mini pork shanks and kale salad. Cocktails inspired by the cherry blossom and a variety of Japanese sake flights will also be on the menu. To add to the mood, the restaurant’s patio will be decorated with cherry blossom trees. The menu will be offered Monday-Friday from 4-10 p.m.

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“Badass” Indian: Mahatma Gandhi loved peace and deplored violence. What he thought of gastropubs is unknown, but his image is being used to tout an Indian restaurant opening soon at Second and Main streets. Father and son duo Pawan and Nakul Mahendro are set to open Badmaash, which means “badass” in Hindi, next door to Pitfire Pizza in a few weeks. The restaurant’s logo is an image of Gandhi in hot pink sunglasses. The pair is still finalizing the menu (Pawan will run the kitchen), but they said to expect Bombay street fare and American gastropub “mash-ups.” This means dishes such as “Indian-style” bouillabaisse and chicken brochette marinated in a concoction of yogurt, ginger, garlic, cumin and other spices. There’s also the Guju POW!, named after the Gujurat state of India. It’s a potato and chickpea curry with tomato, onion and cilantro.

At 104 W. Second St. One-Eyed Reubens: First the Reuben Truck took the sandwich from the Jewish deli to the streets. Now the food is coming to an Arts District bar. The truck will take over the kitchen at One-Eyed Gypsy every Tuesday and Sunday night during April. This means that along with the gypsy carnival decor you’ll be able to order Reuben and pastrami sliders, corned beef hash and latkes, the traditional potato pancakes.

The Arts District bar also just launched a locals’ night every Wednesday. Those in the “cool zip code club” will get $2 off some cocktails and access to a “secret stash” of bottled beers from local brewers. There’s also a secret menu (well, it was secret) on Wednesday nights with specials such as house-made pretzels and “Ultimate Smores,” a grilled cinnamon brioche with Nutella and marshmallow fluff.

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Chocolate Continued from page 1 able to have more than one location.”

She also got a break in rent, since she was paying $10,000 per month in Beverly Hills. Her Downtown space runs $4,300 and she has three times as much room.

Due to delays from the city permitting process, Torres didn’t start making chocolates in Downtown until December.

While she has yet to start looking for a space for a Central City store, she does expect to do so eventually.

For now she is selling her chocolates online and in popup locations. Except for her parents, who handle some of the administrative responsibilities, and her brother, who is her business partner and oversees web operations, when it comes to making chocolate, Torres’ factory is a one-woman show.

Sweet Mix While the Beverly Hills Madame Chocolat was a sweets showroom, the Downtown factory is all business. It’s sparse, since Torres needs to acquire more equipment.

Up against one wall are bags of sugar and containers of cinnamon, sea salt and other ingredients. Next to that is an area

Many of Torres’ creations have a feminine touch. She makes red chocolate lipstick, mini glitter Louboutin high heels and a chocolate Channel clutch bag.

that resembles a storage room for a bar, with bottles of wine, Alizé cognac, Johnnie Walker whiskey and Bacardi rum.

Trays of finished chocolate sit nearby waiting to be packaged.

Torres makes the chocolate every day, except for the occasional trips to New York to see her husband.

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From there she pulls from her ingredient wall to fill orders for wholesale customers. Those include Disneyland; Torres makes truffles that the company passes out during private events. She also makes chocolates for hotel events and private parties.

Her prices range from a $1 piece of chocolate to $125 for a wooden souvenir box with dozens of samples. Currently, corporate sales make up about 50% of her business, while online orders from customers account for the remainder.

It’s a good thing Torres owns her company, because the chocolate lover would likely grow broke satisfying her sweet tooth.

“I eat it all day long,” she admits.

She stays in shape by working long hours. Sometimes she’s at the Downtown warehouse until 4 a.m. She doesn’t mind.

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The Central City boasts a surprising number of walking tours, with different themes for those interested in history, food any other topics. Here are six walking options (and one in a van) for exploring and learning about the community.

Eye on Architecture: When it comes to historic structures in the city, go no further than the Los Angeles Conservancy.

The Downtown-based nonprofit is not only the most powerful local preservationist organization, it is also the one that conducts the most walking tours. The Conservancy has eight regular weekend tours that focus mostly on Downtown and last about 2 1/2 hours. One option is the Art Deco tour, which starts at 10 a.m. every Saturday at Pershing Square and looks at gems from the 1920s and ’30s including the Eastern Columbia Building at Ninth Street and Broadway and the Title Guarantee & Trust Building at Fifth and Hill streets. Another favorite is the Historic Downtown walking tour, which also starts at Pershing Square every Saturday at 10 a.m. It covers a range of architectural styles to give participants an overview of the historical and cultural landmarks in Downtown. Stops include Pershing Square, the Central Library and Grand Central Market. Other tours include a look at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel and Union Station.

Tours are $5 for Conservancy members and $10 for the general public.

The Los Angeles Conservancy is at 523 W. Sixth St., (213) 623-2489 or laconservancy.org.

A City Is Born: El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument is the birthplace of the city. Most people know it for Olvera Street and the dozens of Mexican-themed stores and kiosks. Many visitors are familiar with the cultural events held there like the annual Blessing of the Animals. But since 1969, a nonprofit group called Las Angelitas del Pueblo has been leading free tours that focus on the historic significance

of the area rather that the touristy feel of Olvera Street. The 50-minute treks run Tuesday-Saturday at 10 a.m., 11 a.m. and noon. They start on the south side of the main plaza near the historic firehouse. Those who attend should be ready for a thorough history lesson, since the docents start with the arrival of Columbus and the discovery of California 50 years later. From there they move on to topics such as how the state was settled, what Russia had to do with it and how the land has changed around El Pueblo. There are also visits to historic structures, among them the Pico House, the Sepulveda House and the Avila Adobe, the oldest house in the city.

El Pueblo is at 125 Paseo De La Plaza. Tour information at (213) 628-1274 or lasangelitas.org.

It’s Chinatown Jake, and Everyone Else: The hustle and bustle of Chinatown, with its mom and pop shops and dizzying Saigon Plaza and its maze of alleyways, can be overwhelming. That’s where the Chinatown Business Improvement District comes in handy. Its Undiscovered Chinatown Tour is a $20 trek that will turn participants into neighborhood insiders in one day with visits to both trendy spots and little-known shopping gems. The tour covers a temple, herbal shops, art galleries, antique stores and bargain hunter destinations. Reservations are required, since the groups are small.

The tours take place on the first Saturday of every month with the next one set for April 6 from 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Tickets at chinatownla.com.

Everybody Dim Sum Tonight: For some tours, the name says it all. Such is the case with the new Dim Sum Crawl. The three-hour food event takes place April 18 from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Tickets are $40-$60, depending on how close to the date they are purchased. Walkers will drop by four prominent dim sum restaurants and try the goods at each place. The dishes will be accompanied by beer pairings from local breweries organized by Eagle Rock Brewery.

Tickets at chinatownla.com.

Do It Yourself: Not all tours require a guide. Some don’t even need other participants. That’s the case with the Downtown L.A. Walks program, which was created by a group of local Business Improvement Districts. The program’s website

offers audio podcast tours that people can download via iTunes or directly to an MP3 player. The tours are divided into sections. The Arts and Culture segment takes people through Downtown art venues. The Shopping tour visits the St. Vincent Jewelry Center, the Flower District, Santee Alley and other locations. The downloads are free and the tours are scheduled whenever you’d like.

At downtownlawalk.com.

The Inside Man: Longtime Downtown activist and business booster Brady Westwater knows his neighborhood very well. And anyone who has ever met the cowboy hat-wearing Westwater knows that he loves to talk about Downtown. So it’s fitting that he leads weekend tours of the community. On April 6 he will conduct his Historic Downtown Los Angeles 101 tour. It looks at the evolution of Downtown by checking out places where many “firsts” happened, such as where the first movie theater was built and where the first new lofts opened. He also points out the Downtown homes and hangouts of everyone from Nicolas Cage to Rudolph Valentino to Richard Ramirez, the serial killer also known as the Night Stalker. His Sunday, April 7, tour is titled How Downtown L.A. Invented the Wild West and Why No One Knows About It. Westwater said the stops include a Downtown intersection where buildings were often occupied by figures such as Wyatt Earp.

Each tour is $15 and departs at 11 a.m. from The Last Bookstore at 453 S. Spring St. Information at historicdowntownlosangeles.blogspot.com or (213) 804-8396.

A Three-Hour Tour: It’s hard to come up with a tour that has more Downtown landmarks than Architecture Tours L.A., led by architectural historian and guidebook author Laura Massino. Since the three-hour Downtown tour covers more than 70 sites, there’s no walking. Instead, people ride in a van (two sunroofs provide better views). The tour rolls through the Historic Core, Little Tokyo, Chinatown and other areas. There’s even a visit to some Victorian homes from the 1880s in Angelino Heights. The tour is offered daily and costs $70 per person in a group or $75 for a single rider.

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A Fairy Tale Opera Cinderella Brings Great Singing And Insouciant Mice to the Stage

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id anyone ever enjoy writing music more than Gioacchino Antonio Rossini? The man brought a quicksilver wit and melodic dash to some 39 operas (depending on how you count), including such comic wonders as The Barber of Seville and The Turk in Italy. In 1817, he brought his patented panache to the most timeworn story in history: the tale of Cinderella.

His La Cenerentola messes with the tale: Gone is the silver slipper, the fairy godmother and the pumpkin coach. Added are a few disguises and confusion in the Italian style.

In this version, Cinderella actually shows a bit of backbone and flair: Before she’ll accept the prince who raises her up from sweeping the ashes, she needs him to prove his love. Then lo, she actually forgives her wicked stepsisters. Musically, it’s all fun.

The L.A. Opera presentation of Cinderella (a co-production of Houston Grand Opera and Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu) at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion through April 13 is full of clever delights, from the outrageous costumes and fun scenery by Joan Guillén to a troupe of insouciant mice. A high-speed collection of principals flies through some of Rossini’s best ensembles — sometimes a little too carefully, but happily nonetheless.

Much depends on Cinderella herself, as the opera requires a rarity — a coloratura contralto. That is, a woman with the lowest female register who can nevertheless handle a rapid and highly ornamented vocal line.

Kate Lindsey (who plays the role for the first three performances, before giving way to mezzo Ketevan Kemoklidze) brings a lovely warmth and personality to the part, even if she doesn’t quite dominate the stage or take confident flight with her coloratura.

Most impressive is Italian bass-baritone Vito Priante as the prince’s servant, Dandini.

Priante has made a bit of a career playing outrageous servants and is known for his Figaro and his Leporello. Here he provides a good portion of the onstage comedy while keeping the musical pace.

Young tenor René Barbera, who took first prize at Plácido Domingo’s Operalia competition in 2011, makes his L.A. Opera debut as the prince, Don Ramiro. He has a strong lyric tenor in what might be called “old style lyric” — refined and slightly effeminate, it’s well suited for bel canto and comic Mozart.

It is certainly strong enough to make up for a somewhat low-key overture and opening scene. Barbera doesn’t do a heck of a lot of acting and mostly smiles his way through the part, but that is forgiven when he unleashes his torrent of Rossini song. His love duet with Cinderella in Act I possesses great charm, and despite the artificiality of the costumes and the setting, he actually does melt the heart of the innocent.

The two stepdaughters are played to appropriate extremes by soprano Stacey Tappan and mezzo Ronnita Nicole Miller. Both offer crisp musicality even as they romp. Special mention goes to Nicola Ulivieri as the mysterious bass Alidoro, who manipulates the

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(l to r) Ronnita Nicole Miller, Alessandro Corbelli and Stacey Tappan are the stepsisters and stepfather in the L.A. Opera presentation of Cinderella.

action magically. His singing is simple but glorious.

Rounding out the principals is Alessandro Corbelli as the rotund and absurd Don Magnifico, Cinderella’s ambitious stepfather, who tries to promote his absurd daughters over the obviously superior Cinderella. Corbelli offers a well-developed sense of the boffo.

The ever-reliable L.A. Opera chorus is foppishly wonderful and musically spot on as the prince’s courtiers. Under conductor Grant Gershon they too deliver some great moments.

Director Joan Font clearly gets Rossini,

delivering just the right balance of fun and cynicism, of impending tragedy mixed with the Italian love of life. The scenes build nicely, the comedy never stoops to the ribald and the action always moves forward.

Then there are those superb mice. Under the direction of choreographer Xevi Dorca, the six dancing rodents add immeasurable fun to the evening. They comment, always exquisitely mouse-like, on the action without ever upstaging the main course of events.

Cinderella continues through April 13 at 135 N. Grand Ave., (213) 972-8001 or laopera.com.

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Monday, april 1 Pope Francis at the LA Coliseum LA Coliseum, 3911 S. Figueroa St., (213) 747-7111 or lacoliseumlive.com.

3 p.m.: April Fools! Did you honestly think the new pontiff was going to drop everything two weeks after he got the job to come to L.A.? That’s like Tom Brady winning the Super Bowl and saying, “I’m going to Dairy Queen!”

SCI-Arc Lecture Series 960 E. Third St., (213) 613-2200 or sciarc.edu.

5 p.m.: Architects Thomas Demand and Sylvia Lavin will be on hand. Consider this your opportunity to ask Lavin if her book Kissing Architecture is a literal or metaphorical text.

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ancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey did with movement what Jean-Michel Basquiat did with painting and Maya Angelou did with poetry. His patois of contemporary, classical and jazz styles forged a new sense of African-American presence and identity within the art form. His Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre became a stalwart of the terpsichorean scene, and on Saturday, April 6, the troupe moves from the concert hall to the open air. Grand Hope Park is the site of a 1-5 p.m. Ailey-fueled event titled RockaYourSoul.

The free afternoon features storytelling, gospel music, workshops in quilt making and other subjects, and dance lessons, including some based on Ailey’s piece “Revelations.” Enjoy it all amidst the hydrating geysers of the Arthur J. Will Memorial Fountain. At 200 N. Grand Ave., (213) 972-8080 or grandparkla.org.

Wednesday, april 3 John C. Williams at Town Hall LA Millennium Biltmore Hotel, 506 S. Grand Ave., 11:30 a.m.: The president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco will muse on the role of various financial institutions in economic recovery and development.

National Walking Day Union Bank Plaza, 445 S. Figueroa St. or heartwalk.org.

11:45 a.m.: There’s nothing we love more than a public rally, especially one without any political connotations! Come join your neighbors in an organized stroll for cardiovascular health.

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Tuesday, april 2 The Skatalites Last Bookstore, 453 S. Spring St., (213) 488 0599 or lastbookstorela.com.

7 p.m.: Legendary ska band The Skatalites will sign copies of their new album Walk With Me. This is your chance to pick it up pick it up pick it up!

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Thursday, april 4 Aleksandr Hemon at Aloud Mark Taper Auditorium, 630 W. Fifth St., (213) 2287500 or lfla.org.

7:15 p.m.: The author of The Lazarus Project reflects on his childhood in Sarajevo as Aloud curator Louise Steinman sits down to pick his brain.

Friday, april 5 First Fridays Natural History Museum, 900 Exposition Blvd., (213) 763-DINO or nhm.org.

5 p.m.: This month’s installment of the celebrated music and science series features a discussion on the periodic table of elements and performances by Dan Deacon and Japanther. saTurday, april 6 RockaYourSoul Grand Park, 200 N. Grand Ave., (213) 972-8080 or grandparkla.org.

1-6 p.m.: The life and work of dance luminary Alvin Ailey are the centerpiece in this day-long celebration of song, dance and storytelling. sunday, april 7 Artist Conversation at CAAM California African American Museum, 600 State DR., (213) 744-7432 or caamuseum.org.

1 p.m.: Lynn Aldrich, Edgar Arceneaux, Todd Gray and other artists featured in the Go Tell It on the Mountain exhibit offer their views on art and society in this panel discussion.

Break Down & Build Up MOCA, 250 S. Grand Ave., (213) 621-1710 or moca.org.

1 p.m.: Mechanically inclined guests, believers in odd juxtaposition or those who have ever gotten art envy from Nancy Rubins’ assembled statue outside MOCA are invited to come and arrange strange objects in an exercise in modern art.

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or the past 12 months Outfest 30, which celebrates the film festival’s 30th anniversary, has used film screenings as an opportunity to explore every possible avenue of the LGBT experience. From campy to tragic, it’s been a comprehensive year of silver screen soul searching at the Downtown Independent. To cap things off on a light note, Outfest’s climactic celebration on Wednesday, April 3, promises a movie that’s downright kinky. When Score was released in 1974 it was a watershed moment in the treatment of adult sexuality. Today, the story of two married couples locked in a waltzing weekend-long swing may seem a bit less provocative, but entertaining nonetheless. At 251 S. Main St., (213) 6171033 or downtownindependent.com.

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.A. Opera Music Director James Conlon is a Downtown icon. Just watch him wield a baton at a performance or gaze up at the mug of the maestro on the multi-story banner hanging from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. This week, Conlon and his baton are stepping across Grand Avenue to the Colburn School to lead members of the all-student Colburn Orchestra and operatic singers from the Domingo-Thornton Young Artist program in three nights of Benjamin Britten’s two-act tragedy The Rape of Lucretia. From Thursday-Saturday, April 4-6, a 5:30 p.m. Britten prelude will be followed by a pre-concert lecture by Conlon at 7:15 p.m. and the opera at 8 p.m. At 200 S. Grand Ave., (213) 6212200 or colburnschool.edu.

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u Manchu is like a dyspeptic sonic collage of the past 25 years of Southern California rock music. The group exploded onto the scene in the late ’80s with its virulent strain of groove metal meets punk treated with fuzz distortion. On Tuesday, April 2, the old school heroes of overdrive step into Downtown’s Bootleg Theater for a special performance of their 1997 album The Action Is Go in its entirety. If face melting riffs and heavy bass thick enough to shake the venue’s floor are your bag, snag a ticket and bear witness to rock and roll pre-skinny jeans. At 2220 Beverly Blvd., (213) 3893856 or bootlegtheater.org.

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

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

April 2: Janek Gwizdala Group with Bob Reynolds, Ruslan Sirota and Louie Palmer.

April 3-4: Gilad Hekelsman.

April 5: All three members of the Bob Sheppard Trio.

April 6: Jon Armstrong Jazz Orchestra.

April 7: Jam session.

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

April 1, 8 p.m.: Gavin Turek, because every generation needs an answer to Debbie Harry and Cyndi Lauper.

April 2, 8 p.m.: Bring your fly swatters, it’s Fu Manchu.

April 3, 7 p.m.: With accessible rock sounds, careful boy band-esque grooming, a Nashville-produced album and a Nissan Leaf commercial to their name, there doesn’t seem to be anything that can stop Broken Radio Return except hard drugs, obsessive violent fans and the IRS. April 4, 8 p.m.: OxyXMoron’s soul sample-laced country hip-hop is officially the first redeeming thing to have resulted from four months of prolonged isolation in South Carolina.

April 5, 8 p.m.: Hark Los Angeles. Here cometh Esben and the Witch, a trio from England whose dark-wave style lends substance to the indie genre. Listen and ye shall be instructed.

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She has spent 25 years exploring elements of American culture through modern dance. In A History, which lands at REDCAT this week, Miller’s subject matter is the last 25 years of the company.

The multimedia piece layers video, sound and movement and features longtime company members Angie Hauser and Darrell Jones (shown here). The shows are at 8:30 p.m. on April 4-6 and 3 p.m. on April 7.

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April 4, 10 p.m.: Rebel Rebel is a glam rock cover band.

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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 February 28, 2013.

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

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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. 3/11, 3/18, 3/25, 4/1/13

business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/14/2005. This statement was filed with DEAN LOGAN, Los Angeles County Clerk on February 14, 2013.

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).

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Fictitious Business name statement File no. 2013031510 The following person is doing business as: (1) LOS ANGELES ORTHOPAEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, (2) LA ORTHOPAEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, 2400 S. Flower St., Los Angeles, CA 90007-2697, are hereby registered by the following registrant: ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL, 2400 S. Flower St., Los Angeles, CA 90007-2697. This business is conducted by a corporation.

Registrant began to transact

Fictitious Business name statement File no. 2013039350

The following person is doing business as: PRAISE CHAPEL LOS ANGELES, 335 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026, are hereby registered by the following registrant: PRAISE CHAPEL WESTLAKE, 335 GLENDALE BLVD., LOS ANGELES, CA 90026. This business is conducted by a corporation.

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 February 27, 2013.

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. 3/18, 3/25, 4/1, 4/8/13PROBATE PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE notice oF Petition to aDministeR estate oF luZ maRia oseGueRa case no. BP140081 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Luz Maria Oseguera.

A Petition for Probate has been

filed by: Josefina Oseguera in the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles.

The Petition for Probate requests that: Josefina Oseguera be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested

person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: 05/13/13 - Time: 8:30 A.M. - Dept.: 11. Address of the court: 111 N. Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first

issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code section 9100.

The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-1 54) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250.

A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: Javier H. Castillo, Esq., 2126 W. Beverly Blvd., Montebello, CA 90640; Tel.(888) 229-0089 Pub. 4/1, 4/8, 4/15/13

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Election Continued from page 5 like Greuel is a longtime progressive Democrat and a steady supporter of workers, has about as much in common with Walker as I do with Ernest Hemingway.

I’m not saying Garcetti has run a perfect campaign.

Too frequently he’s been slick rather than substantive.

He also has failed to shake his big question: Is he tough enough to be mayor?

That said, Garcetti has generally avoided big mistakes, and if there’s a skeleton in his locked closet, then someone did a great job hiding the key. He also hasn’t been outright mean, as Team Greuel was on two recent occasions.

In the days before the Academy Awards, Greuel’s campaign sent an ugly movie-themed mailer with Garcetti’s head on a golden Oscar statue, saying he should get the prize for “Worst Performance By A Politician In A Leading Role.” Again, Garcetti has his detractors, but his years as council president showed him to be a leader rather than a follower, and at least a

half-dozen local politicos are far more deserving of the Razzie-like “honor.” The mailer reflected more poorly on Greuel than it did on her target.

It was a similar situation with a late-stage mailer/hatchet job on Councilwoman Jan Perry, who would finish fourth in the race. It blared the headline “Bankrupt Twice!” and hammered Perry for financial troubles that she and her ex-husband Douglas Galanter both acknowledged stemmed from the failure of his law firm.

I get that everything is in play come election time, and nasty sometimes equals victory. But context is important too, and neither attack was necessary. Greuel’s highly paid strategists should have known that the Garcetti mailer wouldn’t change the outcome of the primary and that Perry was not a threat to push her out of the runoff.

Instead, Greuel went vicious without purpose.

The good news for Greuel is that she is smart and tough and can jump into the presto-change-o machine (or is that something else a former operative sold her on?) and alter her approach. The bad news is, election day is just seven weeks away.

Contact Jon Regardie at regardie@downtownnews.com.

Haynes Continued from page 10 razed to make room for the construction of the Harbor Freeway.

It was another iconic piece of Los Angeles architecture lost to better the lot of the automobile.

The Haynes were married for more than 50 years. Dora died in 1934, and John was hit hard by the loss. He passed away three years later.

Why is this foundation still active some 75 years after the deaths of its founders?

In addition to his many other vocations, John Haynes invested a great deal of time, energy and money in real estate. This is a

primary source of the many gifts that the foundation continues to make. Their roster of grants in the past few years includes recipients such as the Natural History Museum, the Los Angeles Public Library, USC, UCLA and public radio stations KCRW and KPCC. The grants and the enduring name go to show that Los Angeles real estate, if held over time, will continue to benefit the owner in spite of the ups and downs of the market.

So the next time you see the foundation’s name, remember the wonderful husband and wife team of Dr. John Randolph and Dora Haynes.

Greg Fischer is a Downtown resident and amateur historian.

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