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NEWS June 22, 2009

Volume 38, Number 25

INSIDE

The life and films of Tony Curtis.

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What’s on the Menu?

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Bike rides, a bake sale and other happenings Around Town.

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The coming municipal layoffs could throw City Hall into chaos.

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CHAMPIONS

Urban Scrawl on Downtown Skaters.

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Getting ready for the Gold Line.

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The latest Health news.

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Photo by Gary Leonard.

Hundreds of thousands of Laker fans thronged Downtown and the Coliseum on Wednesday, June 17, to celebrate the team’s 15th NBA title. See more photos of the Coliseum celebration on page 6.

The golden age of billboards.

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Theater of the People Troupe Takes an Unusual Route With Plays for, by and About Day Laborers

by Richard Guzmán city editor

Five great entertainment options.

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hen the white cargo van pulled into the Home Depot parking lot on Wilshire Boulevard in City West last week, several day laborers approached. As the back doors opened, they gathered closer, hoping the driver was looking for workers.

Instead of a job offer, they found something else entirely: People emerged from the van and began unloading props and clothing. They carried the gear across the parking lot to the adjacent Carecen Job Center.

As the team from the van got to

work, some of the dozens of waiting laborers appeared confused, wondering if the driver was just making room in the back so he could fit more workers. Others knew what was coming.

“It’s the show they’re doing today, the show about us,” said one day laborer.

It was exactly that: At 9 a.m. on a Monday morning, it was a theater production for, by and about day laborers.

The theater company, Teatro Jornalero Sin Fronteras, or Day Labor Theater Without Borders, see Theater, page 17

photo by Gary Leonard

In City West last week, about a dozen day laborers presented three short plays for a group of people looking for work.

Since 1972, an independent, locally owned and edited newspaper, go figure.

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lthough a handful of Downtown housing projects have tumbled into bankruptcy in the past six months, a group of housing experts last week expressed overall optimism about the community’s residential market. During the Central City Association’s 11th annual Downtown Housing Forum on Thursday, June 18, they pointed to several statistics that paint a promising picture of the area. For example, Downtown’s condominium market seems to be attracting young buyers as well as some buyers seeking second homes. They also noted that many of the deals that have closed are for smaller units going for less than $600,000.

Additionally, Downtown has approximately 11 jobs for every resident, said panelist Tom Warren, COO and a partner in Holland Development, the firm behind Downtown’s GLO apartments in City West. That is a much higher ratio than other cities’ downtowns, including Seattle and San Francisco, he added. Casualties of the uncertain for-sale market, including at least two Downtown projects that recently entered bankruptcy, could create good opportunities for savvy buyers, said Tom Muller, an attorney with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. Though, he added, “For renters, it’s a very good market.”

Pershing Square to Host ‘Neighborhood Day’

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his weekend, Pershing Square will be the site of a community celebration that also reveals new improvements to the facility in the heart of Downtown. On June 27-28,

the park bounded by Fifth, Sixth, Olive and Hill streets will host the Neighborhood Day Weekend. The festivities will begin Saturday at 10 a.m. with the Art2 Gallery show, where dozens of artists will display works in hopes of selling their pieces or getting the attention of gallery owners. It will continue until 6 p.m. On Sunday, the Pershing Square Discovery Bike Ride will begin at 9:30 a.m. The 11-mile course will take cyclists on a leisurely sightseeing tour of Downtown, with the goal of introducing riders to unique elements of the community.

Louise Capone, senior recreation director for the park, said she envisions the bike ride evolving into a mix of a Downtown pride parade and Pasadena’s goofy, satiric and extremely popular Doo Dah Parade. Helmets and registration are required for the bike ride. At 1 p.m. on Sunday, officials will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony for the redesigned Palm Court, which includes a “pet friendly” area for pets to use instead of the park’s grass. Other changes to the Palm Court that will be unveiled include new plants, lighting and walkways. More information is at (213) 847-4970 or laparks. org/pershingsquare.

Downtown News Scores Press Club Prizes

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os Angeles Downtown News had a big showing at the Los Angeles Press Club’s 51st annual Southern California Journalism Awards, winning three prizes and finishing near the top in three other categories. At the event in Universal City on Sunday, June 14, staff writer Anna Scott received the award for Investigative reporting in papers from throughout Southern California with less than 100,000 circulation for her December story

photo by Gary Leonard

AROUNDTOWN Panel Sees Positive Future for Downtown Housing

June 22, 2009

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Actor Tony Curtis was fêted at the Million Dollar Theatre on Saturday, June 13. The event titled “The Magic of Tony Curtis” featured screenings of Houdini and Some Like It Hot. It was sponsored by the Jules Verne Festival and the Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation.

“The Downtown Diamond Caper,” about a con man who bilked local jewelers out of millions of dollars worth of merchandise.

Additionally, Doug Davis won the award for Editorial Cartooning, for a series of works about Tribune Co. head Sam Zell, and executive editor Jon Regardie earned the top prize for Headline Writing, for work from throughout 2008. Scott also came in second place in the prestigious Journalist of the Year category, for a collection of in-depth articles, while city editor Richard Guzmán received a second place nod in the Business reporting category for two stories on the economic and rent problems at Olvera Street. Downtown News also received an honorable mention in design for 2008’s “Don’t Miss Summer,” overseen by art director Brian Allison.

LaBonge to Lead Downtown Bike Tour

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owntown already boasts legions of bike messengers and the occasional late-night Midnight Ridazz trek. Next week,

that critical mass of area cyclists will grow, thanks to City Councilman Tom LaBonge.

On Wednesday, June 24, the Fourth District representative will launch the first stage of his Tour LaBonge. Now in its second year, the event will kick off with a ride that LaBonge expects to draw up to 300 people.

Bicyclists will meet at the south lawn of City Hall, 201 N. Main St., at 6 p.m. (“Wheels up at 6:15,” said LaBonge). The approximately 10-mile route will head north to the Los Angeles State Historic Park, turn through Chinatown, pass over the Los Angeles River and into East Los Angeles, and come back into Downtown through the Arts District, Little Tokyo and the Financial District before ending where it began. The entire ride is expected to last about two hours and the pace will be leisurely. There will be one stop, at an as-yet undetermined location, for ice cream.

Tour LaBonge will continue for four more weeks, with treks every Wednesday evening through July 22. In all events, riders must be at least 10 years old, and must wear helmets and sign waivers. see Around Town, page 8

June 22, 2009

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Layoff Labyrinth City’s Complex Process of Eliminating Jobs Could Create a Chaotic Atmosphere

by Anna Scott staff writer

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s Los Angeles city officials continue to negotiate with employee unions in an 11th-hour attempt to gain concessions, they are also bracing for perhaps the biggest round of layoffs in L.A. history. Yet with a $530 million budget gap projected for the fiscal year that starts on July 1, it is still unclear how many jobs will be lost.

About the only thing that is certain is that the city’s complex layoff system could drag the process out until the end of the year or longer. Some city department heads say that the pending layoffs, complicated by a “displacement� system where employees can bump less experienced workers out of a job, could wreak havoc. “It’s going to displace permanently my lowest-cost, most productive employees,� said Jon Kirk Mukri, general manager of the Recreation and Parks Department, one of the city’s largest departments, with approximately 8,800 full- and part-time employees.

He said recreation coordinators and new grounds maintenance people would be hit particularly hard. “They come in at a lower pay scale and their jobs are more critical to the life and maintenance of the parks than a manager sitting at a desk,� he said. “I call it the productivity death spiral.�

City departments are expected to submit a plan to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa by Wednesday, June 24, outlining how they will help address a $320 million reduction

in the city’s general fund for 2009-2010.

The decrease amounts to a 10% cut in salaries for affected departments (some, including Water and Power, and the Police and Fire departments are exempt from the

‘If they’ve manipulated the numbers, it will come back to haunt them. They may have saved somebody’s job for two minutes, but down the road they will create havoc.’

photo by Gary Leonard

City employees face an unprecedented number of layoffs over the next several months. The total number of jobs lost remains to be seen.

10%, that number will go up, and it will go up significantly,� said Assistant CAO Tom Coultas. Displacement could affect even more workers. “Where it becomes time-consuming is the displacement process; it cascades,� said Margaret Whelan, general manager of the city’s Personnel Department. As for when the entire layoff process for the upcoming fiscal year will be finished, she said, “We’re looking at seven months, start to finish, and we may be a little optimistic.�

Fluid Numbers The number of city employees who will lose their jobs over the next several months has been a moving target since Villaraigosa proposed his 2009-2010 budget in April.

On paper, the budget adopted this month eliminates approximately 1,600 positions to cover the $320 million general fund shortfall.

However, only 400 filled positions were ex-

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salary reductions, but are being asked to trim costs in other ways).

While City Administrative Officer Ray Ciranna recently estimated that only 80 filled jobs would be eliminated, his office last week said that number will likely rise. “Once the departments start to address the

pected to be lost, said Coultas — the rest of the jobs would be accounted for by cutting vacant, funded positions or moving employees to unfilled posts paid for outside of the general fund.

As city departments began shuffling employees to cut their losses, said Whelan, the ultimate number of layoffs became less certain. “The number does keep changing,� she said. “One of the things people have to keep in mind is that staffing is a very fluid thing when you’re talking about an organization that has 50,000 people.�

The issue caused some heated discussion during a June 15 meeting of the City Council’s Budget and Finance Committee.

Members of the panel urged Ciranna’s office to instruct department heads that a significant number of people must be let go rather than moved around. see Layoffs, page 8

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EDITORIALS

Skid Row ‘Citation Clinics’ Could Prove Inventive and Effective

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he Safer Cities Initiative launched in September 2006 with one very notable aspect: It deployed 50 additional police officers to Skid Row. They began cracking down on quality-of-life crimes and other criminal behavior.

The results were instant and impressive, and finally lawbreakers could no longer get away with the kind of illegal activities not tolerated in other communities. Though the SCI sparked some opposition, the effort has been applauded by a significant majority of the social service providers, businesses and residents of Downtown.

Far less successful was another aspect of Safer Cities: the role of the City Attorney’s office in prosecuting lawbreakers. Under Rocky Delgadillo (who will be termed out of office next month), the department took a while to ramp up its approach, which now operates under the enthusiastic acronym HALO, for Homeless Alternatives to Living on the streets.

Last month, however, Delgadillo’s office launched the third component of the HALO program, and it has the potential to do significant good. While time will tell how effective it will be, we think it is an intelligent and humane approach to one of Los Angeles’ most entrenched and difficult problems.

As Los Angeles Downtown News reported last week, the new part of the HALO program deals with people who are given

tickets for infractions such as jaywalking. While this at first appears minor, jaywalking is a real danger on busy city streets, not just to those crossing, but to drivers as well. A significant problem in Skid Row is that people who receive citations for this and other low-level crimes often do not pay the fines or appear for court dates. Tickets can pile up and continued inattention can lead to warrants being issued for offenders. That in turn can mean jail time for someone who arguably should not be there, as well as extra work for law enforcement, social service providers and others.

Delgadillo’s office seeks to deal with the issue by instituting a “citation clinic.” This involves creating an opportunity in which people who are given a ticket can have it dismissed by doing four hours of community service.

That in itself would be an interesting approach, but the impressive aspect here is the wider interpretation of “community service.” Rather than just, say, picking up trash, offenders — many of whom are mentally ill or have substance abuse issues — can address their citations by taking four hours of drug treatment, job counseling or something else that benefits the individual. In effect it interprets “community service” as bettering the neighborhood by providing help to those who need it, even if they do not ask for it outright.

There are some key caveats to this component of the

Knuckleheads Don’t Ruin a Success

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n the hours after the Lakers captured their 15th championship on June 14, those who love Downtown and love Los Angeles were aghast at the lawlessness that erupted outside Staples Center. As we all know by now, a belligerent band of yahoos — “knuckleheads,” to use Police Chief William Bratton’s apt term — got a little drunk on victory and whatever else and attacked some police cars and Downtown stores. Several businesses were looted and some cars and buses were vandalized, and a handful of officers suffered injuries that, fortunately, proved minor.

The LAPD, which had an enhanced presence in the area in anticipation of unruly activity (such as occurred in 2000 after another Lakers championship clincher) quickly gained the upper hand. Still, the damage was done, and although more

Urban Scrawl by Doug Davis

than 20 people were arrested, the scene was chronicled for posterity on television and the Internet.

It is distressing, sad and stupid, this behavior of the knuckleheads, but it also should not be overstated or over-inflated to the point that it becomes a black eye for Downtown, the city, the Lakers or their fans. More than 99.9% of the fans in Los Angeles celebrated the victory appropriately, and the massive parade on Wednesday that left from Staples Center and culminated in a party-like ceremony for 95,000 people in the Coliseum was exciting and memorable. The sea of humanity who thronged the parade route and the stadium is a far more impressive image, and in time this bit of civic pride will be what people remember about the aftermath of the NBA title.

HALO program: It involves nonviolent offenders and the city attorney’s office is required to follow up with service providers to ensure that the ticketed individual completes his or her hours. Additionally, it is being undertaken in “clinic” form (more than 200 people showed up at the first clinic, held May 28 at the Midnight Mission) and will rotate monthly to various communities. Although Downtown has the largest concentration of the region’s homeless, it is important to bring the effort to other neighborhoods, rather than lure more people to Skid Row, where temptation and predators abound.

Already some are objecting to certain elements of the program, believing this effectively coerces individuals into admitting guilt and forces them into treatment by threatening them with punishment. It will be important that HALO officials ensure that everyone offered a chance at the clinic understands that it is not mandatory, and that they have the right to fight the citation, should they desire.

If the citation clinic can be administered effectively, there could be significant benefits for residents of Skid Row and individuals in other neighborhoods. Ideally, the HALO program will introduce those who might normally resist treatment to something they will find beneficial, and they will go back for more. Any way to get a treatment-resistant person help is a positive.

We hope the citation clinic and the other parts of the HALO program will be adequately staffed and closely watched. We congratulate those in Delgadillo’s office who have launched the program, and we expect it to continue after Carmen Trutanich becomes city attorney next month. We hope it achieves its potential.

As for those arrested on vandalism and other charges, we hope they are prosecuted to the full extent of the law. They may have been having a good time, letting off steam or whatever, but there is no justification for their behavior. In their version of “celebrating” the achievements of a basketball team, they destroyed the livelihood and the possessions or threatened the safety of others. They deserve serious punishment.

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The Wheel World Bike Riding Downtown Offers a New and Nuanced Look at City Life

by Kathryn Maese contributing editor

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n weekend mornings, Downtown has a noticeably different ebb and flow, one that’s even more evident while riding through the half-deserted boulevards and byways on a bike. The frantic rush hour traffic is replaced by a few sleepy motorists, and the belching buses that usually threaten to eat you for breakfast on a Monday morning are few and far between.

It’s a kinder, gentler Downtown that breezes by as I traverse the streets on my red Schwinn beach cruiser, noticing details, smells and sounds I’ve overlooked before. I’m new to the Downtown bike culture, which is a diverse and established collective of riders that encompasses everyone from weekend enthusiasts and rookie cruisers (like myself) to hardcore devotees like the fascinat- Kathryn Maese ing bike messenger subculture and RESIDENT the boisterous Midnight Ridazz a D v I S o R who take to the streets en masse for late-night treks.

All manner of wheels roam Downtown, from the couriers on rainbow-rimmed fixed gears (fixies) to commuters on pricey road bikes to serious connoisseurs sporting one-of-akind contraptions — there’s even a guy who rides the streets on a double-decker bike nearly eight feet tall. I recently added my two wheels to the mix, partly in an effort to get some exercise and partly to entertain my 15-month-old, who has a bird’s-eye view of the city via a front-mounted baby seat.

Exploring Downtown on a bike is surprisingly fun. People are less menacing. More often than not you get to your destination faster than you can in a car. The landscape is somehow more intriguing with the wind in your face. You don’t have to pay for parking. And of course, you can work off that hamburger you ate for lunch.

So far, I’ve discovered a few local bike resources. I’ve paid

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a visit to the El Maestro bike shop at Eighth and Main streets for inner tubes. They can also repair your bike and sell used parts. The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, a leading advocate for creating a more bikeable community, has its offices at Sixth and Spring streets. Their website (la-bike.org) is helpful and informative. And the aforementioned Midnight Ridazz offers some fun rides, usually leaving from the Arts District on the third Friday of the month, though they require a bit of stamina to keep up.

I’m learning which streets and districts are best for riding.

South Park is pretty wide open and it’s easier to ride on the sidewalk when the baby is with me. Getting to Ralphs is a breeze now, and I can put groceries in my backpack. Riding north near Chinatown and El Pueblo is pretty mellow, and I often go to the Cornfield park to check out the cute goats in their pen.

Little Tokyo and the Arts District are fairly easy to maneuver, though I did face my first case of bike discrimination at the new Korean market at Third and Alameda streets. I got hassled by the security guard for riding my bike into the mall’s outdoor plaza to park before going in to shop — where else was I supposed to go? There weren’t any bike racks in sight and I couldn’t enter the parking lot. I was a customer like everyone else. I just happened to be on a bike.

I’m a little fearful of riding on congested Broadway and Main Street since I’d have to weave in and out of traffic like the bike messengers do. I’m not that courageous or skilled. So I usually end up on the sidewalk, especially when I have the baby. I realize I’m probably not supposed to. As a cyclist, I’m subject to the same rules and penalties as a motorist, including hefty tickets for running red lights (my neighbor and fellow cyclist warned me about those). But I’d rather get fined than get creamed by a car.

I’ve learned that, although officials such as former Mayor Richard Riordan and Councilman Tom LaBonge are major bicycling advocates, in general Los Angeles isn’t the most bike friendly city. Downtown, with its stream of buses, one-way streets, motorists with a proclivity for running red lights and a lack of bike-friendly lanes, is even more challenging for urban riders. Events like the recent Bike to Work Day and the L.A. River Bike Ride are slowly helping to change that reality, but

it’s an uphill battle.

Planners are working to update the city’s bike plan to create better and safer infrastructure. This month, a draft map of city bikeways was released. In Downtown, a few new bike lanes and roads are up for consideration, including a stretch of North Spring Street and several smaller byways through Chinatown, as well as a section of Second Street. The heart of Downtown, however, is dotted with gray lines indicating that bike lanes are desirable but not feasible because they’d require road widening or removing parking or travel lanes. Main, Flower and Spring streets are already considered bike routes, while portions of Second, Hope and 11th streets are considered bike friendly.

Local bike proponents hope city planners will adopt forwardthinking concepts like those found in urban areas such as San Francisco. That city offers twowheeled commuters equal rights with designated “bike boulevards” that allow motorists and bicyclists to share right-hand lanes.

Local bike proponents hope city planners will adopt forward-thinking concepts like those found in urban areas such as San Francisco. That city offers two-wheeled commuters equal rights with designated “bike boulevards” that allow motorists and bicyclists to share right-hand lanes.

For now, riding my bike is more of a recreation than a serious pursuit. I’ve got many more miles to travel before I can consider myself a confident and competent cyclist.

Thankfully, the Downtown bike crew welcomes everyone on two wheels, even a rookie like me.

Contact Kathryn Maese at kathryn@downtownnews.com.

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Waiting for Gold Little Tokyo and the Arts District Prepare for the Metro’s Eastside Extension

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s Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority workers continue to test the Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension, the agency’s top official is banking that Downtown’s newest transit link will open this summer.

Currently, the six-mile rail project that will connect East Los Angeles to Downtown and, via the existing Gold Line, to Pasadena, is undergoing safety tests and equipment evaluations, said Art Leahy, the recently appointed Metro CEO. “It’s basically a de-bugging stage,” Leahy said during a June 16 talk at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel organized by Town Hall Los Angeles. “There’s still some construction work going on out there. The stations have not been cleaned up. We’re trying to get all the construction equipment out and get the last cosmetic things done and [make] sure all the equipment works.”

The agency is not contractually obligated to open the line until December, but Leahy said he expects passengers to climb aboard “before September.” Metro anticipates that at the opening 13,000 passengers will use the line every day.

Among other evaluations, workers are testing the ventilation system in the two tunnels that are part of the line (east and westbound tunnels run under Boyle Heights). The checks are part of a final phase before the agency conducts simulated daily operations, leaving out only the passengers, Leahy said.

“When we open a line, we have to be able to respond to a major emergency on minute one,” Leahy said. “What if one minute after we open, a 7.0 earthquake hits with people in the tunnel? We’ve got to be prepared to evacuate them.”

Safety First As Metro workers wrap up construction on the $899 million extension, agency staffers are fanning out in communities the line will serve, including Little Tokyo and the Arts District, to conduct pedestrian and vehicle safety workshops.

A safety-related meeting is scheduled for noon on Tuesday, June 23, at the Little Tokyo Arts Council’s regular meeting at the Japanese American National Museum.

The agency is also employing safety ambassadors, who wear yellow Metro vests and stand near the new stations — in Downtown, they are at First and Alameda and at Temple and Alameda streets — and answer questions, said Metro spokesman Jose Ubaldo. They will remain there for three months after the line opens, Ubaldo added.

For those not getting the agency’s message to “stop, look and listen” around the line’s eight new stations, the LAPD is cracking down on jaywalking across the rail lines. Most of the focus has been in Boyle Heights “because that community hasn’t seen trains in 50 years,” Ubaldo said.

The agency is also installing photo enforcement cameras at 14 intersections along the line that will identify drivers turning from left-turn lanes across the tracks when it is prohibited, Ubaldo said. Offenders will receive tickets in the mail.

“We need to change peoples’ behavior,” he said.

None of those new cameras are slated for Downtown, Ubaldo said, since no Downtown intersections between Alameda Street and the Los Angeles River include a left-turn lane. The only four-way lighted intersection along that stretch is at First and Vignes streets. Once the Gold Line opens, the traffic signal will turn red in all directions when trains approach, he said.

If the agency is intent on changing pedestrian and driving behavior, the communities in Little Tokyo and the Arts District seem mostly excited to change, or at least augment, their public transit habits.

“As a resident of the Arts District, I can say we’re pretty excited about it,” artist Qathryn Brehm said. “We’re excited to be able to go to Pasadena, the art walk and galleries there, and to Boyle Heights and points beyond.”

While the portion of the Gold Line that opened in 2003 gave Downtown access to Pasadena, it was only via Union Station or the Chinatown Metro station. Soon, Arts District residents will be able to walk to the station at First and Alameda streets.

Estela Lopez, executive director of the Central City East Association, which manages the Arts District Business Improvement District, expects the new line to spur economic development in the area.

“I think we have an exciting opportunity to talk about the lifestyle in the Arts District and the restaurants in the Arts District,” Lopez said. “I’ll be looking to work with [Metro] to market those destination locations.”

Beyond safety concerns, some area residents are leery about an influx of traffic, both vehicular and pedestrian, at the Little Tokyo/Arts District station.

“I think that’s the only kind of thing that’s a little worrisome,” Brehm said. “Other than that, people are pretty excited.”

Contact Ryan Vaillancourt at ryan@downtownnews.com.

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The outreach project is part of the committee’s plan to develop a “community greening strategy” that will guide Downtown stakeholders looking to minimize their toll on the environment. In May, the American Institute of Architects’ Sustainable Design Assessment Team awarded the effort with a $15,000 grant, which in turn will go toward future community-oriented greening projects.

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Twelfth District Councilman Greig Smith added, “Don’t think that this little trick will help you. We’re not going to bail you out this year.”

In the past, moving people to vacant positions or using different funding sources to cover salaries was a generally accepted way to save jobs at City Hall, Coultas said. Last year’s budget, for example, called for eliminating about 700 jobs, but ultimately only one person was laid off.

Bumping No matter how many jobs are ultimately cut, it is certain to constitute the biggest number of layoffs the city has seen for at least two decades. Coultas said the last major round of layoffs was in the early 1980s.

“Even then, a lot of those were grantfunded positions and it wasn’t the same.

I don’t think we’ve had this scale perhaps ever,” he said.

Even less than 100 layoffs could potentially affect hundreds more people. That is because layoffs adhere to the displacement system, which applies primarily to jobs that exist in multiple departments, such as clerk typists and analysts.

The basic concept is, if a long-term employee within a particular job is threatened with a layoff, he or she can “bump

off” someone with the same job but less seniority, even in another department. The displaced person, in turn, can then either replace someone with the same job but even less seniority, or bump back to a job they previously held, displacing a third employee.

And so on.

The system means that one layoff can affect employees in multiple departments, and it can take months to eliminate a single job.

“It gets very convoluted very quickly,” said Whelan. “When the City Charter was changed in 1999, a number of us attempted to make changes to make this a more simple procedure, but no one wanted to change it because it takes the discretion out of the hands of managers.”

City employee union leaders, meanwhile, say that is exactly why the policy is important now.

“During times of financial crisis, it is important to have an equitable and transparent way of making personnel decisions that protects not only workers, but employers as well,” said Barbara Maynard, a spokeswoman for the Coalition of L.A. City Unions, which encompasses six unions representing 22,000 city employees, in a statement. “The last thing the City would need in a time of crisis would be a series of lawsuits and public allegations resulting from questionable decisions of a few managers.”

Regardless of the process, everyone agrees that layoffs are a last, very unwelcome resort.

“I have to make up this loss through totally draconian, unpalatable [methods],” said Mukri. “Those are real people we’re putting on the street. It’s terrible.”

The city faces a nearly $1 billion deficit in 2010-2011.

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“Anthropologists tell us that 5,000 years ago, the average night sleep was 11-12 hours a night. When the sun went down, it was dark, boring and dangerous outside, so people went to bed,” said Jacob Teitelbaum, medical director of the national Fibromyalgia and Fatigue Centers, Inc., and author of From Fatigued to Fantastic! ($16, Avery).

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Prominent Breast Oncologist to Join USC Debasish Tripathy Heads to Post From Position in Dallas

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national figure in breast cancer research is headed to USC to serve as co-leader of the Women’s Cancer Program at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer

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Debasish (Debu) Tripathy has been appointed professor of medicine by Keck School of Medicine Dean Carmen A. Puliafito, effective Aug. 1. Tripathy will hold the Art and Priscilla Ulene Chair in Women’s Cancer and will be head of the Section of Women’s Cancers, Division of Oncology, in the Department of Medicine. He will join Dr. Michael Press, Professor of Pathology, who has been associated with the Women’s Cancer Program for the last 16 years.

“Dr. Tripathy is a national authority in breast cancer,” said

Fund for excellence in clinical care. He also received the Award in Medicine Research by the Greater Dallas Asian American Chamber of Commerce for his outstanding research accomplishments in breast cancer.

“I am excited to come to USC because historically this place has a wonderful track record of excellence in the basic sciences and the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center is one of the original cancer centers from 1973,” said Tripathy.

“All of those things together, along with the University’s new commitment to patient care and clinical research, told me that this is the right place and the right time.”

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Puliafito. “We are delighted that he is coming to USC as we strengthen our clinical research activities and our patientfocused programs.”

Tripathy comes to USC from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, where he served as a professor of Internal Medicine, director of the Komen/UT Southwestern Breast Cancer Research Program and holder of the Annette Simmons Distinguished Chair in Breast Cancer Research. He was also president and CEO of Physicians’ Education Resource in Dallas, a continuing medical education and publishing company specializing in oncology and hematology.

As the incoming co-leader of the Women’s Cancer Program, Tripathy has identified several goals, including developing a nationally recognized women’s cancer service; increasing the number of treatment and clinical trial options for patients; developing a clinical trials and research program that matches the needs of patients and interfaces with the areas of scientific excellence at USC; setting up community outreach programs and forums; and establishing a national and international leadership position in medical peer oncology education.

“I believe that USC is responding to a new mission that is an expansion of patient care, a bigger commitment to research, and a dedication to having the two work side by side,” said Tripathy. “I believe that clinical care, clinical research and laboratory research all go hand in hand.”

A nationally recognized figure in clinical research, Tripathy’s primary area of interest is breast cancer therapy.

For the past 20 years, he has studied growth factor receptors, important targets in breast and other cancers. Tripathy was part of the original team that brought the now commonly used drug Herceptin into clinical care. Currently, his focus is on expanding what is known about growth factor receptors and developing newer treatments for patients who are resistant to the existing therapeutic options.

“Dr. Tripathy’s work will enhance our efforts to bring basic molecular research on breast cancer from the lab to the clinic, where we can directly benefit patients,” said Peter Jones, director thewhat USC Norris Comprehensive Center.

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Beyond his expertise in clinical research, Tripathy is profoundly involved in patient care and survivorship issues.

He is particularly interested in the patient perspective of the cancer experience and dissemination of informational tools. Tripathy is co-author of the book Breast Cancer: Beyond Convention, featuring advice from other prominent physicians such as Susan Love and Dean Ornish. He also serves as editor-in-chief of Cure magazine, which is the most widely circulated cancer-specific magazine for patients.

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S ig n S o f t he t im e S Exhibit of Old Billboards Pro vides A View of Los Angeles in th e 1950s and

’60s Pictures of 130 billboards from the middle of the 20th century are on display at the Take My Picture gallery. Many of them show slices of vintage Americana.

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hey’re just about everywhere in Los Angeles — on streets as you walk, near freeways as you zoom by, on buildings as you look up. Billboards are omnipresent, selling or promoting just about anything you need and a lot that you don’t.

The billboard glut has sparked a controversy in recent years, but in a new Downtown Los Angeles exhibit, they are not out to advertise or stir up trouble. Instead, they are being considered as works of art and historical snapshots of the city.

The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle, opened June 13 at Take My Picture, a photo gallery owned by Gary Leonard (Leonard is a photographer for Los Angeles Downtown News, among other publications). The show runs through the summer and features 130 photographs of billboards from the 1950s and ’60s erected by the Pacific Outdoor billboard company, which is now CBS Outdoor.

About 30 images are displayed on the walls of the Broadway gallery, while the rest appear in a slideshow on a flat-screen television.

“The colors are still amazing,” Leonard said. “There’s art and history in each frame.”

Full of bright hues reminiscent of comic book art, and emblazoned with pop-art-like images, the billboards were captured by Pacific Outdoor photographers in locations throughout the city. Unlike today’s billboards, which are usually photographs and sometimes electronic signs, the billboards of a half century ago were actual illustrations, Leonard said.

The images in the show depict slices of vintage Americana, and appear to have been aimed at the nuclear family. They show smiling men in suits, conservative women and happy children eager to try whatever particular goods are being sold.

“It’s an incredibly rare Library), Robinson offered him some of the images, which glimpse into the late ’50s were in the form of Kodachrome slides. and early ’60s Los Angeles “When people look at it they feel like they do when they go landscape,” said Charles to an old diner and remember the old days back to the ’50s.

Phoenix, who has chronicled the era through his retro slide It echoes the sentiment, the optimism of post-war America,” shows and coffee table books. “You get to see L.A. 50 years Robinson said. ago and it was a very different place.”

Just Ads One billboard in the show features a gray-haired man Billboards have come a long way since then. smoking and looking over his shoulder. “Mildness Makes the In the past few years an explosion of outdoor advertising Difference,” reads the ad for Tareyton cigarettes. Another ad has led to acrimony and lawsuits. Recently, city leaders have for the same cigarette reads “Go Dodgers Go” and has a shot been debating an ordinance that would limit the display of of a pack cigarettes with star pitcher Sandy Koufax smiling on electronic billboards and supergraphics, the multi-story adthe side. vertisements that frequently appear on the sides of buildings.

One billboard shows two smiling girls eating Oreo cookies The ordinance has been placed on hold until August so that and changing the television channel by hand, with the legend incoming City Attorney Carmen Trutanich can study it.

“Switch to Oreo.” In an ad for New Blue Chevron Supreme Billboard critics claim the massive ads, and electronic billGasoline, a man in a white shirt, black bow tie and white hat boards in particular, are an assault on the visual environment. is next to the words “The Big Step Ahead,” a sight that har- But Leonard and Robinson agree that even today’s billboards kens back to the days when full service was a regular part of could have some artistic merit. visiting a gas station.

“I think they’re just as important and just as valuable as “It tells us so much about where we’ve been,” Leonard said they were in the past,” Robinson said. of the exhibit.

While the images in the exhibit do not have specific dates, Saving History clues can be taken from the pictures. The photographs show Leonard acquired the images from Rick Robinson, a for- not only the billboards, but also the landscape around the ads. mer executive with the advertisement company. Robinson “What’s struck everybody who’s come in here are the cars, of missing salessaidopportunities? wanted to save what he saw as a historic treasure. the buildings that are around,” Leonard While the company donated several images throughWe’ve thegot theMany of the cars appear to be from the 1950s, with long solution. Juggling too many projects, deadlines and vendors? Let years to various organizations, some fell by the waysidePIP and Oldsmobiles, Fords and Chevys being mostcommuniprominent. manage the creation and re-ordering of all of your the business cations. InThere one location, your of PIPother consultants togethersuch all the were either discarded or forgotten in storage. are plenty signs bring of change, asresources a diner that you need, including: “There was a treasure trove of old slides that were hidden can be glimpsed under one billboard.

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Theater Continued from page 1 was organized by the Downtown-based Cornerstone Theater Company. For about an hour they performed three short plays for an audience of more than 50 of their colleagues.

Their purpose wasn’t merely to entertain or to invite others to peek into the often harsh life of day laborers. Instead, the group was there to speak to their community and, hopefully, to empower and inform them.

“We want to tell our own stories,” Juan Jose Magandi, a former day laborer and the artistic director and playwright for the Teatro, told the crowd in Spanish as the performance was about to begin. “We want to use this theater as an educational tool for laborers, for them to feel more empowered.”

Teatro Jornalero was founded nine months ago by Cornerstone and the National Day Labor Organizing Network, an umbrella organization for groups that advocate for day laborers. Ethan Sawyer, a project director for Cornerstone, noted that the show was intended to provide information about worker and immigrant rights.

The group performs about every three months at work centers throughout Los Angeles County. So far they have performed about 40 times for a total of more than 3,000 day laborers. The day after the City West performance, they performed in Hollywood.

The actors, which vary in number from 12 to about 15 — one did not make the Monday morning show because he was picked for a job — auditioned at labor sites as well.

“We went on daily tours of the sites and ended up auditioning about 50 people,” Sawyer said. “About 15 came back for second call and that was our group. There was an incredible amount of talent.”

The actors rehearse about three times a

week at the Cornerstone headquarters at 708 Traction Ave. in the Arts District. Before performances, they gather there and are taken to the labor locations where they present the shows.

Farm Worker Roots While it is an unconventional cast performing in unusual venues, this type of theater is not new.

The idea behind Teatro Jornalero harkens back to 1965 when, during the height of Cesar Chavez’s farm worker movement, a young playwright named Luis Valdez formed Teatro Campesino, or the Farm Workers Theater (Valdez would go on to write the play Zoot Suit and direct the 1987 hit film La

‘The best part about this is that we’re using art as a tool to empower our fellow laborers and show them that we are an important part of this society.’

—Lorena Moran

Bamba). As the artistic wing of the United Farm Workers union, Teatro Campesino used the lives and stories of farm workers to inspire socially relevant plays in hopes of igniting their movement.

“This is doing similar things,” Sawyer said.

“It’s theater by the people and for the people,

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There are numerous similarities. Most day laborers earn about $10 an hour for work that could include anything from construction to moving furniture or other forms of physical labor. Jobs are given on a daily basis and dozens of workers routinely gather at home improvement stores hoping to be picked for work.

At job centers like Carecen, the hiring practice is facilitated as people sign up at 6:30 a.m. to get on a list of daily workers. While there, they can also take English or GED classes, receive health information and, last week, the performance from Teatro Jornalero.

Three Plays The performance was broken into three plays.

Demolicion (Demolition), was a comedy about a group of day laborers desperate for work who accept a job demolishing an old house. Although none of them speak English, they happily take the job from an Englishspeaking foreman looking to save money.

“Yes boss, yes, yes,” one laborer tells the foreman, as he explains the job to the men.

But due to the language barrier, the group goes to the wrong address and demolishes the wrong house.

The second play, Camino al Paraiso (Road to Paradise) follows a group of immigrants as they ride a bus in Mexico on their way to cross the border. The storyline looks at the abuse immigrants face even before they reach the border from “thieves,” many of whom wear badges and legally carry guns.

The third play, Salud (Health), looks at the risks day laborers face in unsafe worksites, as well as danger from cultural eating habits.

Theater was a new experience for most of the laborers in the audience, and the performance was first met with bits of nervous laughter and some heckling. But as the plays pressed on, some of the issues they were touching hit home.

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In Demolicion, when the cast discovers they tore down the wrong house, they run from the job site, fearing arrest and deportation.

“It’s true, you have to be really careful sometimes. When you get hired to do something you have to make sure you know what you’re doing, or it could end up getting you into trouble,” said laborer Armando Castro, who like most others at the site was interviewed in Spanish.

Magandi followed up with a message to the audience.

“Not speaking English in this country is like being mute. You need to learn, brothers,” he told them, The most poignant part of the performance came during Camino al Paraiso, when 10 travelers sit somberly on a bus, hoping to cross into the United States. During the journey they are stopped by a Mexican police officer who proceeds to take bribes under the threat of arrest.

“Be careful, it’s a long road and there’s a lot of thieves on the way,” the officer tells them before getting off the bus.

The line was met with laughter, but more serious comments followed as the familiarity of the scene kicked in.

“It’s sad but true,” said laborer Jose Lopez.

“What we go through to get here is hard, and then when we’re here it doesn’t get any easier.

That’s life. It never really changes much for us.”

But cast members like Lorena Moran are hoping their lives can be improved. Moran, one of the very few female day laborers, who has worked in construction and plumbing, also has had a lifelong interest in theater.

“When the opportunity came up to work on this project, I jumped at it,” she said. “The best part about this is that we’re using art as a tool to empower our fellow laborers and show them that we are an important part of this society.”

Information on future performances is at (213) 613-1700 or cornerstonetheater.org.

Contact Richard Guzmán at richard@downtownnews.com.

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Monday, June 22 Downtown Tree Planting Workshop Central Library, 630 W. Fifth St., 6-7:45 p.m.: The Sustainability Committee of the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council hosts a meeting intended to connect the public to existing city programs and community projects that encourage local, grassroots tree planting initiatives, streetscape improvements and open space projects.

Tuesday, June 23 ALOUD at the Central Library 630 W. Fifth St., (213) 228-7025 or aloudla.org.

7 p.m.: George Lakoff, of “The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist’s Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics,” is in conversation with Ian Masters. Lakoff, one of the world’s best-known cognitive scientists, explains why understanding language is critical in politics and why reason is not as reasonable as we think.

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et ready to break out the glow sticks, because the annual rave/ street fair known as the Electric Daisy Carnival is coming to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Exposition Park this Friday and Saturday, June 26-27. The event will offer dozens of DJs and electronica acts on six stages, with artists including Thievery Corporation, Paul Oakenfold, Paul Van Dyk (shown here) and Groove Armada.

There will also be carnival rides, art installations, aerial performers and fire twirlers. If that’s not enough, the festival’s vendor village offers a bazaar of clothing, jewelry, party items and more. 3939 S. Figueroa St., electricdaisycarnival.com.

Wednesday, June 24 ALOUD at the Central Library 630 W. Fifth St., (213) 228-7025 or aloudla.org.

7 p.m.: Cultural interpreter Tamim Ansary, a native of Afghanistan, tells the story of world history as the Islamic world sees it, from the time of Mohammed to the fall of the Ottoman Empire and beyond.

Friday, June 26 Farmlab Public Salons 1745 N. Spring St. #4, (323) 226-1158 or farmlab.org.

Noon: Kevin Kuzma, president of the Echo Park Historical Society, discusses the centennial of the first permanent movie studio to set up shop in Edendale, modern day Silverlake. The presentation will cover the founding of that first studio, Selig Polyscope, and the emergence and brief reign of Edendale as the center of the region’s movie making business.

Dance at the Music Center In the plaza at 135 N. Grand Ave., visit musiccenter.org.

6:30-10 p.m.: Dance Downtown is the popular and free Friday night series for people of any level of expertise. This evening is International Latin Ball Room night.

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Thursday, June 25 Zócalo MOCA, 250 S. Grand Ave., zocalopublicsquare.org.

7:30 p.m.: Daniel Hernandez, former Los Angeles Times and LA Weekly writer, stops by to discuss his observations about Mexico City, where he’s been blogging for the last 18 months.

Vegan Bake Sale City Hall Farmer’s Market, 200 N. Spring St., lacorps.org.

11 a.m.-2 p.m.: City Councilman Ed Reyes hosts a vegan bake sale that will benefit the L.A. River Keepers, a youth education and job program of the Los Angeles Conservation Corps.

Cutting-edge designers and architects will converge on the Los Angeles Convention Center this weekend for the annual Dwell on Design Conference and Exhibition. The three-day festival, dedicated to modern design, kicks off Friday, June 26, and runs through Sunday, June 28. Hours are 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. Friday, 6 p.m. Saturday and 5 p.m. Sunday. Hosted by Dwell magazine, the confab celebrates the latest achievements in design, with exhibitions showcasing outdoor living trends like landscape architecture, compact sustainable design and much, much more. 1201 S. Figueroa St., (213) 741-1151 or dwellondesign.com.

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Listings for additional concerts, exhibits and more in Downtown Los Angeles can be found on our website. Go to downtownnews.com/calendar for full information, including time and location, for all the happenings in Downtown.

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CHARMING LIVE/WORK studio.

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June 26-27, 7:10 p.m.; June 28, 1:10 p.m.: Now that the Lakers have completed their season by attaining a nice piece of championship hardware, the city turns its collective athletic gaze on the Dodgers. The Blue Crew, which is sort of like the Lakers’ little brother in the city sports scene, has been vying for attention with their hot hitting, solid pitching, a league-best record and a punishing hold on the NL West. Thanks to the frequent heroics of outfielder Matt Kemp, the Dodgers have been winning in style, taking close games in late innings, sometimes extra innings, and sending the Chavez Ravine faithful home with a smile. This week, they continue inter-league play, starting off on the road as they face the White Sox in Chicago. Then they come back home to host the Seattle Mariners. Keep an eye out for Adrian

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June 28, 6:30 p.m.: Lisa Leslie and the Los Angeles Sparks have not had quite enough spark in the early part of the season. The squad was 1-3 at press time, but it should not be hard for Leslie and her teammates to get pumped for this weekend’s double header against the Seattle Storm. The teams, who play in Seattle on Friday, then in Staples Center on Saturday, have developed quite a rivalry that stems from an old skirmish between Leslie and Storm standout Lauren Jackson. Expect sparks to fly.

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