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Remembering an auto pioneer.

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Another chance for Metropolis.

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Tara Thomas, who in 1998 opened Traxx in Union Station, is one of the veterans of the Downtown restaurant scene. Despite the new wave of eateries, she has kept her loyal customers and plans to expand her business.

by RichaRd Guzmán

Celebrating Nisei Week.

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Sandra Bernhard takes over REDCAT.

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he crush of new restaurants in Downtown Los Angeles is impossible to miss. In the effort to capitalize on the growing residential population and the eruption of L.A. Live and other attractions, chefs and dining entrepreneurs have debuted dozens of spots in the past several years. In the first six months of 2011 alone, 20 eat-

ing and drinking establishments came online.

While the trend is heralded by Downtown boosters, it has posed something of a challenge for another sector: the Downtown restaurant veterans.

In particular, a handful of higher-end eateries that have been serving for a decade or longer have been hit with wave after wave of competition.

In the effort to keep drawing crowds, some have reinvented themselves completely. Others have

City Ready to Break Ground On Spring Street Park Historic Core Facility Slated to Open in Late 2012

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hen residents of the El Dorado and The Rowan lofts look out their windows, they see an L-shaped slab of pavement that, until recently, served as a parking lot between the two condominium buildings.

In the next year or so, they’re likely to see a lot more dust and a few construction vehicles. That

will be followed, hopefully in late 2012, by the much anticipated greenery of the Spring Street park.

Paul Tseng, a project manager with the city’s Bureau of Engineering, said work on the site could begin by early September. The year-long effort will turn the pavement into nearly an acre of walking paths, with a promenade plaza, benches, a fountain, dozens of trees and artwork.

gone through a more subtle evolution, updating menus or getting new talent in the kitchen. Still others have banked on loyal customers and conducted a facelift here and there in the effort to stay relevant among the hot new things.

There is no sure way to stave off the newcomers. In June, the operators of Zucca Ristorante shut down the Figueroa Street establishment. The see Restaurants, page 8 “We’re trying to make it happen as soon as we can,” he said.

The city purchased the site, on the east side of Spring Street between Fourth and Fifth streets, in 2009. The parking lot was closed on July 29 in preparation for work to begin on the $8 million project.

The cost includes $5 million the city spent on purchasing the parcel from Downtown Properties (developer of the condo buildings on either side of the park) and $3 million for development. The fully funded project is being financed with Quimby funds.

Community meetings have been held since September 2009 to iron out designs. While the park plans have been well received by the neighborhood, there remain concerns about maintenance. Quimby money can only legally be used for acquisition and creation of city parks.

“The city is very short on cash so we want to see Park, page 10

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AROUNDTOWN Five ‘Smash and Grab’ Suspects Arrested

walks and underlying basement ceiling slabs and the structures that support the sidewalks.

he string of “smash and grab” jewelry heists on Broadway may be over. On Monday, Aug. 1, police officers arrested five men who appeared to be preparing for a similar robbery.

The arrests came after a Jewelry District merchant noticed a silver Cadillac circling the block near Sixth Street and Broadway three times in five minutes and contacted the police. “The jewelry merchants are alert to this spree of smashand-grab robberies,” said LAPD Lt. Paul Vernon in a statement. “It was certain things about the car, how many men were stuffed inside, and how they were dressed that added up to robbery.” As officers spoke to the merchant, the Cadillac passed by again. Police saw the license plate was covered and stopped the car. A search revealed a hammer, gloves, a large canister of pepper spray used to ward off bears and a pillowcase. The five occupants were wearing hooded sweatshirts on a hot day, and the driver had a suspended license. Two of the men were gang members, police said. There have been eight smash and grab robberies in Jewelry District stores over the past two months.

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information on the monthly event can now get it via text, said Joe Moller, the event’s executive director. By texting DTAW to 55678 starting Aug. 8, people will be entered to win prizes including gift certificates to area businesses. Those who enter will receive texts with Art Walk updates including gallery openings and other events.

Chinatown Housing Project May Move Forward

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olice are looking for a man who assaulted an elderly blind woman and ripped a gold necklace off her neck. The assault, which took place on First Street between Los Angeles and San Pedro streets on Sunday, July 24, was caught by a surveillance camera. See the video at downtownnews.com.

The woman, a 68-year-old retired resident of Little Tokyo, was pushing her walker down the sidewalk around noon, when a short man in a long white T-shirt snuck up behind her. “She fights back, but the suspect gets her gold chain and jade pendant, worth about $100,” said LAPD Lt. Paul Vernon. “If this video doesn’t make you angry, little will.”

Detectives are combing through other video to see if the suspect’s face is captured elsewhere. The mugger also had a small backpack and a baseball cap turned backwards. Police believe the same suspect committed a similar robbery on Aug. 1 against a 79-year-old Little Tokyo resident. Anyone with information on the incidents is asked to call Central Division detectives at (213) 972-1251.

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he long-awaited Chinatown Metro Apartments could soon see progress. On Wednesday, Aug. 3, the City Council’s Housing and Economic Development Committee approved a financial plan presented by the Los Angeles Housing Department intended to allocate $26.2 million in tax-exempt bonds for the $44 million project at 808 N. Spring St. The plan’s approval is required before the developer, Meta Housing Corporation, can apply for the funds from the state.

The project would convert two Chinatown structures into a 123-unit apartment complex providing affordable housing to senior citizens. Financing would be supplemented with funds from other sources such as the Community Redevelopment Agency. Meta officials did not return calls for comment, but according to city officials, construction could begin this fall.

Police Seek Sexual Assault Suspects

City Could Lose Federal Funds for City Forms Art Walk Task Force Broadway Sidewalk Repairs

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he proposed football stadium isn’t the only project with a financial impact the City Council will look at on Tuesday, Aug. 9. During that session, the panel will also look at initiating sidewalk repairs on Broadway between Second and Fourth streets. If the city does not move quickly, it could lose $3.8 million in federal funding for the project. According to a motion authored by 14th District City Councilman José Huizar, the federal and Metro Call for Projects grant funds are in “imminent danger of being reprogrammed unless the project commences.” The project is part of Huizar’s Bringing Back Broadway effort, which aims to revitalize the corridor. The sidewalk repairs are an element of the initiative’s approximately $35 million effort to upgrade the corridor’s deteriorated infrastructure. The work will include reconstruction of the side-

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olice are asking for the public’s help in identifying two men wanted in connection with a July 16 sexual assault of a woman walking to work in the Fashion District. The 18-year-old woman noticed a man with long hair pass by her as she walked under the California Mart bridge near Olympic Boulevard and Main Street. The man turned back, grabbed her and dragged her to a nearby driveway entrance. A second man with shorter hair who stood nearby is wanted for acting as a lookout. The second suspect had a prominent tattoo covering most of his right cheek. The woman fought back against the longhaired suspect as he held her face down on the ground, and ultimately escaped. She punched the suspect, who ran away with his accomplice. Police drawings of the suspects are at downtownnews.com. Anyone with information on the crime is asked to call Det. Joshua Riggs at (213) 972-1235.

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n the wake of the July 14 Art Walk accident that claimed the life of a 7-week old boy, the City Council last week approved the creation of a task force to deal with safety concerns at the popular monthly event. On Wednesday, Aug. 3, the council approved a motion by Ninth District Councilwoman Jan Perry and 14th District Councilman Jose Huizar to direct the Bureau of Street Services to oversee the committee.

The group will come up with short-term recommendations before the Art Walk on Thursday, Aug. 11, and will look at options for the future. According to Huizar’s office, one proposed solution is limiting non-art operations such as live music, vending and food truck service on privately owned parking lots that draw large crowds. Officials have also discussed banning some street parking. Meanwhile, other nonsafety changes are in the works for Art Walk. Those who want

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EDITORIALS Opportunity At Union Station

Urban Scrawl by Doug Davis

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owntown is filled with historic gems, the edifices and landmarks that both hearken to a previous time and have a modern-day function. There are Broadway movie palaces and City Hall.

There are aged office buildings-turned housing complexes and Grand Central Market.

The list goes on.

Still, no structure commingles the past and the present more than Union Station. The 1939 building is the hub through which tens of thousands of rail, subway and bus riders pass each day. With brutal traffic and gas at $4 a gallon, the station’s role in Downtown might be more important today than at any time during the past.

Now, officials have to think not just about the past and the present of Union Station, but also the future. Metro in April completed a $75 million acquisition of the 72-year-old building and 38 surrounding acres of land.

It has begun work on a master plan regarding what to do with the station and how to develop the property.

We urge Metro to proceed carefully and to make this perhaps the most complete master plan ever undertaken in Los Angeles. In a growing Downtown, Union Station is set to become even more important and have many more users. Master plan organizers need to consider numerous possibilities and must conduct an extensive outreach campaign. There may be just one opportunity to get the future of Union Station right.

It is not clear exactly what should happen in the station and on the surrounding property, though additional services and eating options at the former seem like a no-brainer.

There are currently limited choices for the daily commuters and the people disembarking after long train trips. One thinks of the grand East Coast train stations where travelers have a surfeit of selections. Los Angeles’ choices are, comparatively, paltry.

The more intriguing aspect is what happens around Union Station. Metro’s acquisition gave it not only the station and the land, but also approximately 6 million square feet of entitlements. Metro already has the right to build. The question is, what is right for the space and the community?

One initial thought is housing. The Axis apartment complex opened a few years ago and there is always the desire to have people live close to both a commuter hub and the myriad Downtown job opportunities.

Other options include office buildings or hotels. Although Union Station at this moment might not seem the best place for either of them — the office market is still soft and the hotel trend has the most steam in the area near L.A. Live — people working on the master plan have to think about the year 2021 and beyond. Things can and do change.

Last month, Metro held a meeting with about 130 design, planning, real estate, transit engineering and other professionals as an early step in the master plan process. It was a good start but only that — a start. Metro should continue to seek out the professionals and the stakeholders and actively solicit a variety of ideas. They need to get this right.

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n Thursday, Aug. 11, tens of thousands of people will fill the Historic Core for the first time since the death last month of 7-week old Marcello Vasquez. In the wake of that tragic accident, Art Walk organizers, LAPD officials, neighborhood residents, political leaders and others have debated what, if any, steps or changes should be undertaken to ensure the event is safe.

It is a difficult dialogue due to the emotional incident. The death of the infant rocked not just those who organize and attend Art Walk, but all of Los Angeles. Even a month later it is difficult not to get choked up when walking by the spot on Spring Street where the accident occurred.

The different approaches and beliefs over what should happen now almost mask one important point: Everyone wants the same thing — a safe Art Walk. Several options and proposals have been floated, but the big issue is whether the streets of the Historic Core should be closed to cars when the crowds come on the second Thursday of each month. Also discussed is the concept of shutting a few blocks of Spring or Main streets.

We think the streets should remain open, that cars and other vehicles should continue to be allowed in the neighborhood.

Closing the streets might bring much larger crowds and additional problems to Art Walk.

To understand the reasoning for keeping the streets open, one needs to look not only at July 11, but at the nearly seven-year history of Art Walk. Although huge crowds have been coming for several years, and the streets and sidewalks teem with locals and visitors, there have been few if any vehicular-related injuries.

While the drinking occasionally produces rowdiness, Art Walk is and largely has been safe.

No one is minimizing the death of Marcello, but what happened July 11 was not a result of overcrowding, but rather a tragic accident. A similar incident could have occurred anywhere there are cars and large numbers of people on sidewalks. It could have taken place during the weekday in Downtown, or in a busy portion of Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Santa Monica or New York City.

The Art Walk accident occurred around 9:20 p.m., when an unlicensed 22-year-old man attempted to park a Cadillac on Spring Street just south of Fourth Street. For an unknown reason he began his parallel parking attempt by going in first with the front of the car. Perhaps flustered at the difficulty, he apparently stepped on the gas rather than the brake. That drove him up onto the curb and into a parking meter. The force of the collision sheared off the

meter. Three people were hit, including the baby. Marcello was pronounced dead at 2:25 a.m. on July 15.

A knee-jerk reaction is to call for banning cars from Art Walk.

Certainly, if there are no autos where 20,000-plus people gather, then pedestrians cannot get hit.

While that’s an understandable proposal, it does not take into account the greater context. Some LAPD officials worry that shutting down the streets will serve as an invitation for even more people to converge on the area. Additional revelers would mean a greater need for police and other services, and more of a party atmosphere.

Additionally, shutting down streets and adding police has a cost.

The cash-strapped city certainly doesn’t have the funds to cover that. Art Walk, which operates with an annual $200,000 budget, also has limited resources. While the proposal to eliminate cars in the effort to prevent a repeat comes from the right place, it is not the best option.

One also must consider those who live and work in the Art Walk area. Eliminating cars and allowing pedestrian-filled streets means they can’t drive to or from their homes or businesses one evening every month. That is not fair to them.

There are always steps that can be taken to make nearly any crowded environment safer. At Art Walk, pedestrians are often squeezed by vendors, musicians and other performers who set up on the sidewalk. This adds to the flavor of the gathering, but it also prompts people to dart into the streets for a few steps to get beyond the clutter. This situation could be addressed.

It should be noted that Art Walk officials have been working to make the event more manageable. In January, the first paid executive director, Joe Moller, took over. Moller and his team have taken proactive steps to make Art Walk better and more secure.

They have met regularly with the LAPD, leading to an increase in officers during the event. They have helped eliminate the practice of galleries giving out free wine.

They have also done outreach, and put ample information on their website and Facebook page preparing visitors to Art Walk.

They provide information on where to park and how to navigate the event.

These steps can and should continue. So should the conversations that are underway between various stakeholders. Local players are doing the right thing to look for any potential future trouble points, to search for ways to ensure a safe Art Walk.

Shutting down the streets, however, is not the way to go.

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Money Flows for Mayor’s Race Greuel Raises $518,000 for 2013 Election; Perry Pulls in $457,000

by Jon Regardie executive editor

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n Wednesday, July 27, Austin Beutner burst out of the mayoral fundraising gate, announcing that he had pulled in $405,000 in donations during the first campaign reporting period, which ended June 30.

His lead was short-lived.

Shortly after 11 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 1, City Controller Wendy Greuel announced that she has raised $518,152 for the 2013 election. Less than an hour later, Ninth District City Councilwoman Jan Perry, the third major candidate to enter the race to succeed a termed-out Antonio Villaraigosa, reported pulling in $456,809.

Together with the $91,000 raised by radio host Kevin James, the candidates for the 2013 race have generated just under $1.5 million in contributions.

Documents filed with the City Ethics Commission show that Greuel has more than $475,000 on hand and Perry has $419,000 in her campaign coffers. Beutner had $332,000 available at the end of the reporting period.

All three candidates sought to use the numbers to their advantage. In a prepared statement, Greuel said, “It’s clear that people are looking for an experienced problem solver who can bring needed reforms to City Hall to make Los Angeles work again.”

A statement from Perry, meanwhile, said, “I am honored to have found such great support for my candidacy. My record of delivering on key services and renewing the district I represent, from Downtown to

photo by Gary Leonard

City Controller Wendy Greuel, the first person to declare for the 2013 mayor’s race, leads the pack in funds raised.

South LA, has built a powerful foundation for my race for mayor.”

Beutner’s campaign put a different spin on the figures, stating that he has raised more money on a per-week basis than the overall leader. Greuel, who filed to run in early March, has generated about $30,000 per week, while Beutner, who launched an exploratory committee in mid-April, has raised about $36,000 per week.

“In the early running, Austin Beutner is clearly setting the pace in the race,” said Beutner campaign consultant Sean Clegg.

Political observers expect that candidates will have to raise about $2 million to $3 million to be competitive in the March 2013

primary. If no one earns more than 50% of the vote, the top two finishers will proceed to a May runoff.

Check Writers Greuel, who before becoming controller in 2011 spent seven years representing the Second District on the City Council, reported expenses of $52,000 in the first period. Perry, who launched her campaign in mid-March, had almost $43,000 in expenses, while Beutner recorded more than $202,000 in expenses through June 30.

Like Beutner, both Greuel and Perry raised money from a cross-section of people in and beyond Los Angeles.

Greuel had strong support from the legal community, with dozens of attorneys making donations, many of them giving the maximum allowed individual amount of $1,000. She also raised money from people in the real estate and healthcare fields, and received $1,000 each from a plumbers union and the California Teamsters Political Action Committee.

The entertainment industry showed support as well. Greuel, who once worked as an executive at Dreamworks, secured $1,000 donations from executives at Disney, Fox, Sony, Warner Brothers and Dreamworks.

Donors with Downtown ties included Michael Delijani, whose family owns four Broadway theaters, and Bill Witte of Related Cos., a firm trying to launch the Grand Avenue plan. Both gave $1,000.

Perry, who joined the council in 2001 and has represented most of Downtown during the height of the real estate boom, received extensive backing from those who

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have launched, are building or are trying to get local projects off the ground. Developer Sonny Astani, who built the Concerto in South Park (before losing it amid the recession), and four other people with the last name Astani each contributed $1,000.

Matthew and Howard Klein, the developers of an Arts District housing project, both gave $1,000, as did Witte and Delijani.

Perry also received donations from various Downtown fashion companies and architecture firms, as well as nightlife spots including Villains Tavern ($500) and the owner of the Silo Vodka Bar ($1,000). Actor and Little Tokyo activist George Takei gave $500.

Radio host James’ $91,000 raised was shy of the $100,000 his campaign had reported in a press release the previous week.

Although several attorneys and executives with businesses such as Armani Exchange and Abercrombie & Fitch each gave $1,000, the vast majority of James’ contributions were in much smaller amounts.

While the cumulative nearly $1.5 million raised so far may sound significant, it is a molehill compared to the mountainous amounts that mayoral candidates have secured during previous elections. In the contested 2001 race, a fleet of candidates raised a cumulative $20.8 million in the primary and the runoff; both winner Jim Hahn and second place finisher Villaraigosa notched about $6 million, and businessman Steve Soboroff received almost $4 million.

Four years later, the field reported nearly $14.9 million in donations, with winner Villaraigosa’s $6.5 million surpassing Hahn’s $4.7 million.

In 2009, the field raised $3.374 million, with all but $250,000 of that going to Villaraigosa. He was re-elected with 55% of the vote.

Contact Jon Regardie at regardie@downtownnews.com.

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Leader of the Packard Remembering Pioneer Earle C. Anthony

by GreG Fischer

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ifty years ago this summer, Los Angeles lost one of its most important icons.

Earle C. Anthony died on Aug. 6, 1961.

Anthony was born in 1880 in Illinois. He arrived in Los Angeles in 1892.

What did he do?

His list of accomplishments is extensive.

He was, first and foremost, a car guy. He and his father started the Western Motor Car Company in 1904. This early type of dealer represented several brands. Anthony refined his interest until he represented only one

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make: Packard.

This was a substantial and important automobile in its day and Anthony held the distributorship for the Packard in the state of California. Presidents, royalty and Hollywood stars were proud to own these cars. Packards were so fine, or at least so well marketed, that they were known by the tag line, “Ask the man who owns one.”

Anthony’s Los Angeles showroom was built in 1911. The showroom and service facility still exist, although they were extensively remodeled as the Packard Lofts (the building

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was converted through the city’s Adaptive Reuse process to housing over retail

by Venice Investments) in 2006.

The original showroom design was done by the renowned firm of Greene and Greene. A late 1920s update was an opulent design by Bernard Maybeck.

Each of these firms also designed magnificent homes for Anthony. photo by Gary Leonard Anthony brought a The Packard Lofts, a South Park apartment complex, occupies the site new invention to the where Earle C. Anthony founded an auto empire. He died 50 years ago, United States in the early on Aug. 6, 1961.

1920s. He commissioned two neon signs in France that said “Packard” and Walter O’Malley rewarded Anthony in script for his showrooms in Los Angeles with the plum prize of broadcasting Dodger and San Francisco. The “Packard” sign at the games over KFI radio. Growing up in the city, Packard Lofts was the first neon sign ever seen I couldn’t count the number of nights that I on this side of the Atlantic. fell asleep to Dodger broadcasts with the staAnthony also pioneered the gasoline tion breaks announcing that I was “listening to service station in L.A. He opened one at KFI, Los Angeles, Earle C. Anthony, Inc.” Washington Boulevard and Grand Avenue.

Anthony was always a step ahead, always tryThis was the beginning of dozens of stations ing the new and the untested. Packard was not that he branded with the red, white and blue as innovative. After World War II, the brand chevron design and sold to Standard Oil had trouble finding its way. It was a single Corporation of California. make auto manufacturer in the 1950s, a time Anthony helped found the Los Angeles when Chrysler and General Motors offered five Motorcar Dealers Association in 1905. He brands and Ford had four. After disappointing also was involved with the first Los Angeles sales in the mid-1950s, Packard merged with Automobile Show in 1907.

Studebaker and quickly disappeared.

Out of his need to communicate with felAnthony barely outlasted the demise of low Packard dealers, Anthony began a radio Packard. He died at the age of 80 in 1961. station in his Downtown dealership. It used The next time you drive by the Packard the call letters KFI. There were two enormous Lofts at Olympic Boulevard and Hope Street, radio towers on the roof of 1000 S. Hope St. look at the blue neon “Packard” sign and He grew the station until it became one of remember that it is one of the most importhe most important in the city. tant sites in the automotive and broadcasting Decades later, Anthony was very interested chapters in the ongoing story of Los Angeles. in the Dodgers’ relocating to Los Angeles. He Greg Fischer is a Downtown resident publicly supported the move from Brooklyn, and amateur historian.

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Four blocks to the south, Anschutz Entertainment Group is angling to build a $1 billion football and events stadium and replace a major section of the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Both projects are potentially transformative, but they’re uncertain too: The stadium plan needs government approval (an initial OK is expected this week) and, more importantly, an NFL team. While Target has signed a long-term lease to occupy about one-third of the outdoor mall, Brookfield has yet to announce any other new leases.

Still, the momentum generated by those two efforts is helping to revive a long-stalled mega-project that would rise between them. Metropolis is angling for a comeback. Again.

Leveraging what it hopes will be a successful retail play

by Brookfield, and an expected boom in hotel demand if the football plan moves forward, developer IDS Real Estate Group is courting hotel operators and large retailers to come to its 6.5-acre property bounded by Eighth, Ninth and Francisco streets and the Harbor (110) Freeway.

IDS shelved plans to build four high-rises when the housing and credit markets crashed about three years ago. It was the latest setback for a development that has sought to get off the ground since 1988, when it was first imagined as a major office hub. It originally stalled when the recession of the early ’90s halted the Downtown office building boom.

The most recent plan approved for construction called for nearly 1 million square feet of office space, 68,000 square feet of retail and a single hotel with about 480 rooms. Due to the changes in the local market, IDS now envisions a multiphase project with very little office space, up to two hotels and about 300,000 square feet of mostly ground level shops.

The concept aims to transform Francisco Street — a mostly quiet and largely unused two-block stretch west of Figueroa

(top) The latest concept for the long-stalled Metropolis project imagines Francisco Street as a pedestrian friendly, retail-heavy corridor. (bottom) The 6.5 acre South Park site as it appears now.

that courses through surface parking lots — into an energized pedestrian corridor feeding directly into L.A. Live.

“When it comes to the retail, we see Metropolis as having the potential to be the second wave of larger format retail for Downtown, following the success that Brookfield will have at Fig at 7th,” said Patrick Spillane, senior vice president of IDS. “The re-launched Fig at 7th will really help establish Downtown’s success in retailers’ minds and show them that we’re an underserved population.”

Metropolis still lacks a firm timeline and it is unclear whether a hotel or a retail component would mark its first phase, Spillane said.

Getting Real on Retail Downtown’s growth in the past decade was fueled primarily by housing. The residential wave sparked new investments from restaurateurs and service retailers like hair salons and spas. Retailers focusing on soft goods, like clothing, furniture and fashion accessories, have begun to trickle into the area, primarily in the Historic Core. Large chain stores, however, remain largely out of the Central City.

“I think Downtown has been retail deficient for more than 20 years,” said Carol Schatz, president and CEO of the Downtown Center Business Improvement District, which works to recruit investment in the area. “We are now a dining

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destination and a nightclub destination, a residential destination. We are not a retail destination, and we have a long ways to go. But I think Target is a game changer.”

IDS is banking on it. Spillane said he considers Target, whose opening is now just more than a year away, to be a “shadow anchor” for Metropolis’ retail component.

Metropolis has the flexibility to go after other big box chains, but IDS will also pursue independent shops. So, on top of big boxes, the company will try to lure the kinds of quirky boutiques found on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice or Montana Avenue in Santa Monica.

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The Water Grill has fared better. The heralded Financial District seafood purveyor has been in operation since 1994 and recently signed a new 20-year lease for its space at 544 S. Grand Ave. Jeff King, the chairman of the board and co-founder of King’s Seafood Company, the owner of Water Grill, said the restaurant’s longevity is due to factors like filling an early niche, constant tweaks to the menu and loyal customers.

“There was nothing around here back in those days,” he said of the opening 17 years ago. “So we filled a niche Downtown as an upscale seafood restaurant with a wine list.”

King noted that, early on, many of his customers were attorneys and other white-collar employees who worked in the area’s skyscrapers. Being one of the relatively few well-reviewed power lunch spots established a base that still comes in for lunch and dinner.

Still, he noted, the restaurant is not resting on its laurels or reputation. King said the wine list is constantly updated and new items are regularly added to the menu. Additionally, the

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“This year we’re going through some major changes,” he said. “We’ll be remodeling to open up the restaurant a little more.”

That’s the attitude a veteran restaurateur should have, said James Sinclair of OnSite Consulting, a hospitality and restaurant consulting firm based in Los Angeles. It is particularly important in a neighborhood with heightened competition.

“They can’t stay stagnant and expect to continue their business,” he said. “They have to tweak the concept consistently, think about how they can be better, listen to customers, respond to customers, recognize competition, because there’s a lot of competition.”

There’s also a new toque in the Water Grill kitchen, though not by design. Last year, longtime chef David LeFevre left to open his own restaurant (M.B. Post in Manhattan Beach). After an extensive search, King picked Amanda Baumgarten, LeFevre’s sous chef, to take over. She made a name as a contestant on Bravo’s popular “Top Chef” show. The publicity was welcomed, King said.

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In October, the owners of longtime Latin restaurant Ciudad closed the Flower Street establishment and reopened it a few days later as a Downtown outpost of the Border Grill. It was a response, they said, to what customers wanted.

lower-priced joints where the tradition in both decor and cuisine is part of the charm.

Changing things too much might drive loyal customers away.

It’s a different game for more upscale establishments like Water Grill, The Palm, Traxx, Pacific Dining Car and Engine Co. 28. Each of those veterans possess something Sinclair notes is vital: the ability to be unique without going overboard.

“Don’t be thematic,” Sinclair warns.

“Thematic goes in and out of style.”

Tara Thomas, the owner of Traxx, had that in mind when she opened her restaurant in 1997. Located inside Union Station, the Art Deco style establishment sports dark wood furniture, patio dining and a courtyard with a fountain.

The goal, Thomas noted, was to have a look that was timeless rather than trendy. She

knew she was in a space, a 1939 train station, that already has an architectural wow factor.

Still, Thomas notes that she hasn’t survived 14 years because of the look of the building.

She satisfies a loyal customer base, including a large City Hall crowd, by changing her menu seasonally. She views the new crop of Downtown restaurants more as help than competition.

“I think the critical mass of new restaurants has done nothing but benefit me because more people are attracted to Downtown,” she said.

Nevertheless, Thomas, like many other people, has embraced social media as a business tool. She has a presence on Facebook and Twitter and launched a chef’s blog on her website, which she admits she needs to update regularly.

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“I will never radically change Traxx,” she said. “It will continue to be a chef-driven seasonal restaurant. I’m not going to turn it into a nightclub.”

Actually, Thomas is changing one thing, which makes her similar to the swell of competition — she is opening a new restaurant in Downtown. She would not reveal any details.

Bigger Changes Even restaurants with deep traditions make changes to keep up with their neighbors. The Palm in South Park has been a favorite for local business figures and power brokers since it opened in 2002. Restaurant officials want not only to make sure that customers keeps coming back, but that people new to the area can easily spot The Palm.

In April, the restaurant known for its steaks and lobsters opened a 56-seat patio fronting Flower Street. General Manager Bryan Lytle said it was an effort to compete with all of the outdoor dining options at nearby L.A. Live. He said The Palm plans to host regular prix-fixe patio events to attract customers.

“The patio gives us better curb appeal,” he said. “People can see the large canopy, the dining area. You see there’s a restaurant over here.”

Not all of the changes have been cosmetic. Part of the menu has been revamped (something happening in all Palms across the nation) and some Italian dishes have been added. It even offers donuts in a bag for dessert. The restaurant has also upped its advertising, Lytle said.

“With 20 new restaurants opening in the last six months, staying fresh and current is very important to us,” Lytle remarked.

Still, the changes at The Palm seem minor compared to those effected by Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, who in 1998 launched Ciudad at Fourth and Figueroa streets. The Latin food establishment from the pioneering chefs was a quick hit with the business crowd and later with the Staples Center audience.

However, in October Milliken and Feniger closed Ciudad. It reopened a few days later as a Downtown outpost of Border Grill. The duo also operate Border Grills in Santa Monica and Las Vegas.

The interior is not markedly different from Ciudad and some of the old entrees and appetizers remain. Still, the shift to a more Mexican menu reflects what customers

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In order to compete with the outdoor dining at L.A. Live, The Palm recently added patio seating. The steak and lobster restaurant has also freshened up its menu.

were asking for, Feniger said.

“We definitely made a big change,” she said. “We were looking to grow Border Grill, but in addition we felt that since Downtown has a lot of new competition…. In order to feel like we can be in that game we decided to make the restaurant feel new and fresh and exciting.”

The restaurant also offers lower price points, allowing them to reach a broader audience than before, Feniger pointed out.

As far as the new batch of eateries in Downtown, Feniger sees them as both competition and an asset to the area.

“It’s competition for sure,” she said, “but on the other hand I feel that by having more restaurants in Downtown, more people think about coming Downtown.”

In fact, the change is just one of many for the women who made a name for themselves as the Two Hot Tamales. They’ve authored five cookbooks, have both appeared on Bravo’s “Top Chef Masters” show, and jumped on the mobile food bandwagon with a Border Grill truck.

“We try to stay current and aware of what is out there,” Feniger said. “We’ve stayed very hands-on for 30 years. We know we have to work really hard and we never assume because you’re busy today, you’ll be busy tomorrow.”

Contact Richard Guzman at richard@downtownnews.com.

Continued from page 7 ment team, is simple: Downtown will struggle to become a retail destination if it’s competing against the city’s many shopping hubs, where big brands are ubiquitous. Westside residents won’t drive Downtown for Bed Bath & Beyond, but they might make a trip to visit a handful of unique shops they can’t find elsewhere, Schatz said.

While independent stores now pepper Main and Spring streets in the Historic Core — from veterans like clothier Stella Dottir and Metropolis Books, to newer ventures such as Buzz wine shop and the furniture store I-Squared — the trend has largely evaded wider Downtown.

But there are examples of unproven markets like Downtown blossoming into retail hubs soon after one big brand does well.

That’s already happening, said broker Mark Tarczynski, executive vice president of Colliers.

“Look at Ralphs,” said Tarczynski, who negotiated the deal to bring the grocery chain to South Park in 2007. The company created the first new Downtown grocery store in more than 50 years. It quickly became one of the most lucrative in the chain.

“Getting them through the door was a difficult prospect,” said Tarczynski, who believes Target’s decision to open was largely motivated by Ralphs’ success. “Now that they’re open and operational and very successful, the demand evidenced itself.”

When and how IDS proceeds with Metropolis depends partly on the fate of AEG’s proposal and the success of Brookfield, Spillane said. Metropolis would be developed in four to five phases. If AEG fails to bring an NFL franchise to Los Angeles, there would be no Convention Center expansion, and less need for new hotels.

If AEG moves forward quickly, it could accelerate IDS’ ability to ink a hotel deal, and build it as the project’s initial phase. If Brookfield finds fast success with its retail venture, that could generate wider interest among stores to be in Downtown, and lead to a shopping-oriented phase one, Spillane said.

There is no groundbreaking target, but construction on the first phase would likely take two years, Spillane said.

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The slack will be picked up by the private sector. Stevenson and a group of local stakeholders, including developer Tom Gilmore, DLANC members and homeowners association representatives from the two buildings, have formed a nonprofit called the Friends of the Old Bank District Gardens.

The group has presented the city Department of Recreations and Parks with a partnership proposal that would allow them to run the park.

“As a private group we think we could provide the assets to run and operate the park for the city,” Stevenson said.

The Partnership Under the proposal, the park would remain a public facility owned by the city and open to all. The Recreation and Parks department would set the guidelines as to how the park is operated but all costs, including repairs and maintenance, would fall on the nonprofit. Stevenson estimates the annual cost of running the park at $250,000.

While the group waits to hear back from the city regarding the partnership agreement, its members are confident a deal will be approved. One supporter of the partnership proposal is Ninth District Councilwoman Jan Perry, who has helped spearhead the project.

“This operating agreement will help Recreation and Parks reduce their costs of maintaining the site,” Perry said. “Given

the way our budgets have gone over the last several years, it is a good thing for the city to build better and stronger relationships with the community.”

Cid Macaraeg, director of real estate for Recreation and Parks, said the department is currently preparing a draft partnership agreement, but there is no timeline yet on when it will be completed. If an accord can be reached, he said it would benefit both the city and the neighborhood.

“It would provide an opportunity for the community itself to have a sense of ownership,” he said. “For the city the cost to the department would be reduced. We could divert the resources to other sites.”

Funding The proposal to privately run the park raises questions as to how the nonprofit will get the money. Stevenson said the group would seek out grants and ask local stakeholders for donations.

Josh Gray-Emmer, president of the El Dorado Homeowners’ Association, said the group already has enough pledges from residents of the buildings, as well as from Gilmore, to run the park for about two years. He noted that the pledges are voluntary and are not legally bound or part of mandatory homeowners’ association fees.

“I feel very confident they won’t go back [on those pledges],” he said.

Gray-Emmer said other plans to gather income for the park include events like outdoor movie nights or a trading post. He also said they could ask philanthropists for funds.

The proposal would not completely remove the city from responsibility. Macaraeg said the agreement will likely include a termination clause if the contract is not fulfilled. If that were to occur, the city would take over the park and look for funds

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“Ultimately, it’s still our responsibility,” he said.

Meanwhile, there could be yet another issue the nonprofit will have to deal with if they operate the park. With Downtown’s welcoming pet policy and limited grassy area, the Spring Street park could become a popular destination for pet owners to let dogs do their business.

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On the serious side, there is a tribute to Japan in the wake of the devastating earthquake that struck the northeast coast of the country in March.

Area stakeholders are excited about the event that is always a prime driver of visitors, and dollars, to the Little Tokyo community. Nisei Week runs Aug. 12-21.

“We’re sharing the Japanese American heritage with Nisei Week,” said Mark Nakagawa, president of the Nisei Week Foundation. “Throughout its 71 year history, that’s what it’s always been about.”

While tens of thousands of people are expected to flock to Little Tokyo during the 10-day event, Nisei Week started off much more modestly. It began in 1934 with a poster and essay contest, a fashphoto courtesy of Major League Eating ion show and a few exhibits that highlighted The gyoza-eating championship on Aug. 20 will bring top eaters, among Japanese culture. them 100-pound Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas, to Little Tokyo.

Some things, however, never changed. Then as now, it ended with aftermath, local officials were unsure if the Sendai festival would an “ondo,” a traditional street danc- continue this year. They considered canceling the Little Tokyo vering parade, which this year will take sion as well. place along First Street.

When Nisei Week officials got word that the Japanese festival The festival was launched by would go on, the Downtown event was back on track. a group of second-generation “They’re continuing with the festival even through the hardJapanese Americans with the ships they faced,” said Brian Kito, chair of the Tanabata Festival. hopes of attracting more business “So this year is really a tribute to Japan.” to Little Tokyo. While it has fulAs part of that tribute, several pieces made in Sendai will be filled that purpose, it is now about displayed in the middle of the locally constructed kazari. They’ll be much more, Nakagawa said. noticeable by the larger streamers, which will be up to 15 feet long “It continues the historic memory (locally made kazari will have streamers approximately seven to of the Japanese American com- eight feet in length). There will also be a live Internet feed throughmunity,” he said. “But it’s not just out the Tanabata Festival so that people in Japan can see their kaabout remembering. It’s also about zari, Kito said. cultural and ethnic awareness and The centerpiece of the Tanabata Festival will be a massive kazari introducing that to other people.” made by about 400 volunteers. It will be placed above the main stage Earthquake Aftermath and, said Kito, will be the largest kazari ever made. The ball will be A highlight in recent years has been about four feet in diameter and the streamers will stretch 18 feet. the Tanabata Festival. It will decorate Officials will also raise funds during the Tanabata Festival to Central Avenue and the MOCA Geffen help victims of the Japanese earthquake.

Contemporary plaza Aug. 12-15. In adGo Blue dition to live music, food booths and The most popular element of the festival is usually the Grand arts and crafts stations, the festival’s Parade. This year, it takes place Sunday, Aug. 14, at 5:30 p.m. As it ews.com or DowntownN main draw will be the kazari, the color- rolls through the streets of Little Tokyo, the grand marshal will be nd corner at aillist ha ht rig r m l in the uppe com/forms/ ful streamers made up of approximate- Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, a prominent civil rights advocate.

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The festival traces its roots to Sendai, Japan, Referring to a popular Japanese player who became a Dodger, he and has been called the Japanese version of added, “He brought Hideo Nomo.”

Valentine’s Day. Nakagawa noted that Lasorda also traveled to Japan in 1965 as a Check Our Website for Full Movie Listings LADowntownNews.com The planning for the Downtown event was un- guest coach of the Tokyo Giants. derway when the magnitude 8.9 earthquake, and the Another popular event will be the gyoza-eating championship, set devastating ensuing tsunami, struck on March 11. In the for Aug. 20 at 1:30 p.m. This year it will be filled with a who’s-who

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If You Only Make Seven Nisei Week Events Highlights of the Festivities That Will Fill Little Tokyo

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he 71st annual Nisei Week will feature dozens of events and celebrations. It’s too much for any single person to make all of them. Here are seven of the highlights.

Tanabata Festival: More than 200 traditional streamers will flow and blow in the wind during the weekend celebration. Inspired by the Japanese version of Valentine’s Day, the streamers, called kazari, were created by hundreds of local volunteers. There will also be some kazari from Japan.

Aug. 12-15, Central Avenue and MOCA Geffen Contemporary plaza. Noon-9 p.m. with a 5 p.m. opening ceremony on Friday.

Showoff Car Show & Carnival: About 50 cars, from contemporary vehicles to classic rides, will be on display.

Aug. 13, 100 S. Alameda St., 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

Grand Parade: Rolling down the streets of Little Tokyo will be oversize Nebuta floats, dancers, World War II veterans and Tommy Lasorda, who will serve as the parade marshal.

Aug. 14, throughout Little Tokyo, 5:30 p.m.

Gyoza Eating Championship: Six of the world’s top 10 list of competitive eating’s top, umm, athletes.

Of the 20 people who have signed up, 15 are registered with the organization Major League Eating. Six of the group’s top 10 ranked eaters will be at the table, said Cory Hayashi, chair of the gyoza eating championship.

The contestants will compete for a bigger purse than in previous years. The former $1,000 prize for the person who consumes the most dumplings in 10 minutes has been doubled to $2,000.

“That got the attention of the pros, and it helps make the event a lot more fun,” Hayashi said.

Those sitting down to eat are not just large, burly men. The competitors include Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas, a 100-pound phenom from Alexandria, Virginia. Major League Eating currently has her ranked as the number five eater in the world. She’s also the women’s hot dog eating champion.

ranked eaters will compete for the $2,000 top prize, including 100-pound Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas. They will all try to break the record of 231 dumplings consumed in 10 minutes.

Aug. 20, JACCC Plaza, 224 S. San Pedro St., 1:30 p.m.

Sake Tasting Festival: Check out 40 types of sake, beer, wine and sushi appetizers.

Aug. 20, Kyoto Grand Hotel & Gardens at Azalea restaurant, 120 S. Los Angeles St., 4-8 p.m.

Cultural Exhibits: On display will be paper crafts and artwork including a bonsai and calligraphy exhibit.

Aug. 20, JACCC Plaza, 224 S. San Pedro St.; Higashi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, 505 E. Third St., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Ondo Closing Ceremony: The public dance closes the festivities. Live music will be provided by Minyo Station. Taiko Project, one of the leading taiko groups in the United States, will start the program. Get ready for a whole lot of dancing in the streets.

Aug. 21, First Street, late afternoon.

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While Thomas is the only woman ever to have eaten more than 200 gyoza in 10 minutes, she’ll have to out-gulp the secondranked eater in the world, Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti of, where else, Chicago.

They’ll be looking to break the 2008 record of 231 gyoza consumed by the top-ranked Joey Chestnut, who this year will not enter the competition.

“Hopes are high that the record can be broken,” Hayashi said. “There’s a good chance they can do it.”

While Nakagawa said he is looking forward to the eating competition, he said for him, Nisei Week is more about catching up with old friends, meeting new people and seeing Little Tokyo come alive with culture.

Nisei Week runs Aug. 12-21 in Little Tokyo.

More information and a full schedule at niseiweek.org or (213) 687-7193.

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She Loves Being Her Sandra Bernhard Comes to REDCAT, Edge Intact

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andra Bernhard’s first stand-up gigs were in the 1970sera Comedy Store, and for an Arizona-bred 19-yearold to survive that scene, edginess was a prerequisite.

Although Bernard has grown older, the edge never left. It stayed with her through sitcom gigs (most memorably on “Roseanne”), a teased affair with Madonna, a less than teasing interlude involving Sarah Palin insults and cancelled gigs, and copious comedy specials and albums.

Although a girlfriend and daughter have brought Bernhard peace, she hasn’t gone soft. On the new album I Love Being Me, Don’t You?, she incorporates touchstones from her new life — such as ridiculous overpriced furniture — in addition to satirizing pop culture, current events, and the hoards of us who follow both. Expect similar territory in the live version of the show, which runs at REDCAT Aug. 11-21.

Last week, Bernhard spoke with Los Angeles Downtown News about the show that brings together stand-up and music, and a few of her past cars.

Los Angeles Downtown News: You cut your teeth in L.A. as a young comedian. What’s it like to come back as a grown-up?

Sandra Bernhard: I always feel a big part of who I am came out of L.A. On the highway, listening to music, going to the beach, driving over Laurel Canyon from the Valley, [I spent] a lot of time spent in the car by myself thinking, which would always inspire me to write down ideas and monologues. I may have been in and out of relationships back then, but I always think of the time in L.A. as being a singular person.

Now I have a lot of friends there, and I don’t tend to see people as much as I’d like. A show like this — I know a lot of people will come, and we’ll be able to hang out afterward and catch up. There’s something very homecoming about that.

Q: I Love Being Me, Don’t You? is your first comedy album in a decade. How did it come about?

A: It happened spontaneously. I was performing [at the

Castro Theater in San Francisco] and it happened to be a great night. Afterwards, I asked my tour manager if the record company recorded it, and they had. But I had no intention of doing it that night to be recorded. That’s why it’s so good.

Anytime you do anything live and you know it’s going to be recorded, it’s never as good.

Q: How do you weave the stand-up and the songs together?

A: I never think about it intentionally. I’ll hear a song and I’ll say, “Oh my God, that would be a cool lead-in to something.”

I don’t normally talk about what I do with my show, but you have an easy manner about you, and you’re not boxing me into a corner, which is when I tend to put up my fists.

To give you an example, I want to do a quick short piece about all the cars I’ve owned in my life, which are only like five cars, and then lead in to this song by the Saturdays, “Forever Is Over.” It’s this corny girl group song, but talking about my cars and leading into it made sense to me — I can’t even tell you why. I’m going to attempt to do that in L.A. as a new piece.

Q: How has your family life changed your work?

A: My writing and creative time are different because I’m living with my girlfriend and my daughter; I can’t wake up at three in the morning and write anymore. But I can still do what I need to do. My life has shifted so much since I had my daughter, it’s almost hard to describe. I think once you immerse yourself in being a mother, you’re just naturally in a different headspace. I don’t think I would ever want to go back to the way I was. I was unmoored and all over the place — not emotionally, I’ve always been relatively grounded. But I definitely don’t need to be running around all over the place now, and I’m much more content.

Q: Do you think that contentedness dilutes your art?

A: I can still totally be bitchy, but it’s not the driving force anymore. A lot of that was developed in my early career because I needed it to survive working onstage in a male-

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Sandra Bernhard this week begins a long stint in Downtown Los Angeles. She plays REDCAT Aug. 11-21.

dominated comedy world. It worked, and people seemed to relate to it. I was that edgy person everybody thinks is cool.

I’m not so much that now, but I can pull it out if people want it — in small doses. It’s very exhausting to maintain that if it’s not relevant to your life anymore. That doesn’t mean I have lost my edge or my concern about the survival of humanity.

There’s just different ways of expressing it.

Sandra Bernhard: I Love Being Me, Don’t You? runs Aug. 11-21 at 631 W. Second St., (213) 237-2800 or redcat.org.

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On Aug. 12, the film is American Graffiti.

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

Free audio walking tours and maps are available for download at crala.org/art. Explore Downtown’s Bunker Hill, Financial District, Historic Core and Little Tokyo neighborhoods by discovering public art and places developed through the CRA/LA Art Program.

saturday, august 13 Barneys New York Warehouse Sale L.A. Convention Center, 1202 S. Figueroa St., (213) 741-1151 or lacclink.com.

9 a.m.-7 p.m.: Huge discounts and designer threads pack the halls of the Convention Center. This enormous sale takes the New York fashion magnate to Downtown in its annual cornucopia of surplus haute duds at great prices. It continues through Aug. 21.

Drum Downtown Music Center Plaza, 135 N. Grand Ave. or musiccenter.org.

10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.: Drum Downtown invites everyone to bang on a drum and make music in the moment at this unique outdoor group experience.

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The first rule of the Outdoor Cinema Food Fest is you don’t talk about the Outdoor Cinema Food Fest. If you get the allusion, and if you’ve been photocopying subversive haikus at work or regularly attending support groups for illnesses you don’t have, this is the Outdoor Cinema Food Fest installment for you. David Fincher’s epic Fight Club screens Saturday, Aug. 13, in Exposition Park. Doors open at 5:30 so guests can indulge in food from the trucks Jose O’Malley’s, Global Soul, Fresh Fries, Atomic Hog, Dogtown Dogs, Lobsta Truck and Longboards Ice Cream.

There is also music from Monte Mar. At 8:30 the lights dim and the audience is treated to the damaged love story of Marla Singer and Tyler Durden, and the beauty of Project Mayhem. Tickets are $10. At 700 Exposition Park Dr. or outdoorcinemafoodfest.com.

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It’s the subtle ironies you have to appreciate in Los Angeles. Like a kid with Ivy League credentials plumbing rap for a show on the edge of Downtown.

Joe Hernandez-Kolski recently debuted his new production Awake at the Bootleg Theatre on Beverly Boulevard. Hernandez-Kolski, a Princeton educated writer, actor and poet, delves deep into the fractures of society with clarity and wit in a piece of hip-hop theater. His insights originate in his diverse Chicago upbringing. Half Mexican and half Polish, HernandezKolski’s split ethnic identity informs the production.

Awake runs through Aug. 20. Word. At 2220 Beverly Blvd., (213) 389-3856 or bootlegtheater.org.

sunday, august 14 WWE Summer Slam At Staples Center 1201 S. Figueroa St. or staplescenter.com.

4:45 p.m.: WWE Champs John Cena and CM Punk duke it out in the smorgasbord of body-slams and pile drives.

ART SPACES Angel City Brewing 216 S. Alameda (off Traction), angelcitybrewing.com.

Through Sept. 11: Street Brewed: An Exhibition of Contemporary Street Art features a couple dozen internationally known artists, many included in MOCA’s current street art show.

Through Sept. 15: Photographer Owen Kelly’s collection of portraits from the annual Burning Man festival. Dude.

Bert Green Fine Art 451 S. Main St. #1206, (213) 842-8574 or bgfa.us.

Through Aug. 27: Barron Storey’s RE:SEX is an exhibit of drawings in ink, acrylic, graphite and water color.

Buchanon Gallery 204 W. Sixth St., (323) 823-1922 or

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Friday, august 12 Dance Downtown At the Music Center Plaza, 135 N. Grand Ave. or musiccenter.org.

6:30 p.m.: Its ’60s dance night at the plaza. Bust out the bellbottoms, take off your shoes (actually, please don’t) and relive the wild revelry of the Summer of Love. Dance lessons will be provided for beginners as DJs spin classic hits from the tumultuous decade.

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Monday, august 8 Art in the Streets Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 152 N. Central Ave. or moca.org.

11 a.m.-5 p.m.: Monday is the celebrated Art in the Streets exhibit’s last day. Come Tuesday, the street art will be left to, well, the streets. The final day is free, courtesy of Banksy.

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When Mick Jones left The Clash in 1984, many considered it foolhardy to flee what had been labeled “the only band that matters.” But Jones scored big when he blended his own punk and reggae sensibilities with a blissful danceability in his follow-up outfit Big Audio Dynamite. On Wednesday, Aug. 10, BAD plays Club Nokia on the American leg of the band’s reunion tour (the first time since 1997 that the group has toured). After a spring date at the Coachella festival, fans can check BAD out in a more intimate setting. Tickets are still available via Ticketmaster. At 800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 765-7000 or clubnokia.com.

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Ongoing: Pop paintings by Bryon Buchanan.

CB1 Gallery 207 W. Fifth St., (213) 806-7889 or cb1gallery.com.

Through Aug. 20: The Haunted Word features works by seven California artists including York Chang, Kip Fulbeck and Norm Laich.

Charlie James Gallery 975 Chung King Road, (213) 687-0488 or cjamesgallery.com.

Through Sept. 3: “Quick Response (Within Reason) And No Regrets” is David E. Stone’s second solo show at the gallery. It revisits his meditations on “reality perception.”

Chinese Historical Society of Southern California 411 Bernard St., (323) 222-0856 or chssc.org.

Ongoing: An exhibition about the history of immigration from China to the United States.

The Company 946 Yale St., (213) 221-7082 or thecompanyart.com.

Through Aug. 13: “Live at the Acropolis” feaLos Angeles Downtown News tures the work of Kenji Fujita, Zak Kitnick and

Sam Pulitzer.

Downtown Art Center Gallery 828 S. Main St., (213) 627-7374 or dacgallery.com.

Through Sept. 2: “Roots & Formulas” is a group exhibition of painted works on canvas and paper.

Gallery Lofts 120 S. Hewitt Street or galleryloftsla.com Ongoing: “Gallery Installations,” an exhibit of work by locally based design groups Arcbureau and Archeffect, is on display.

Gary Leonard 860 S. Broadway, takemypicture.com.

Take My Picture is a gallery dedicated to Gary Leonard’s photographs, documenting the public and private culture of Los Angeles with significant guest collections.

Hive Gallery & Studios 729 S. Spring St., (213) 955-9051 or thehivegallery.com.

Through August 27: Heidi Calvery curates “XPollination,” a collection of erotic art by 30 creative types.

Hold Up Art 358 E. Second St., (213) 221-4585 or holdupart.com.

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LA Artcore at Union Center for the Arts 120 Judge John Aiso St., (213) 617-3274 or laartcore.org.

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Neither of the films have cracked AFI’s top 100, but who cares? It’s vintage Steve Martin.

Flagship Theatres University Village 3323 S. Hoover St., (213) 748-6321 or flagshipmovies.com.

Through August 11: Rise of the Planet of the Apes (12, 2:30, 5, 7:30 and 10 p.m. with late shows Friday and Saturday at 12:20 a.m.); Cowboys & Aliens (1, 3:45, 6:30 and 9:15 p.m. with late shows Friday and Saturday at Midnight); Captain America: The First Avenger 3D (1:10, 4, 7 and 9:50 p.m. with late shows Friday and Saturday at 12:30 a.m.).

August 12 (partial listing): Final Destination 5-3D (Midnight).

Friday Night Flicks Pershing Square 532 S. Olive, or laparks.org/pershingsquare.

August 12, 8 p.m.: American Graffiti. This iconic collage of 1962 America follows a very young Ron Howard on his very last night in California, before heading to college back east. Hilarity, tragedy and nostalgia ensue.

Outdoor Cinema Food Fest Exposition Park, 700 Exposition Park Dr. or outdoorcinemafoodfest.com.

Aug. 13, Gates at 5:30: Fight Club. The first rule of fight club is don’t talk about fight club, but feel free to tell your friends about this event.

Admission is $10, so come early and start a fight just to lose it. Food trucks and music from Monte Mar complete the evening.

REDCAT 631 West Second St., (213) 237-2800 or redcat.org Through Aug. 28: For her first solo exhibition in the U.S., Dublinbased artist Jesse Jones, whose work focuses on the political and social history of cinema, presents The Struggle Against Ourselves. Produced in collaboration with students from CalArts’ Schools of Film/Video and Theater and commissioned by REDCAT, Jones’ project uses the pioneering Russian theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold’s studies in biomechanics as a point of departure.

Regal Cinema L.A. Live 1000 W. Olympic Blvd., (877) 835-5734 or lalive.com.

Through Aug. 11: The Change-Up (11:40 and 11:50 a.m., 2:10, 2:30, 4:40, 5:10, 7:10, 7:50, 10 and 10:40 p.m.); Rise of the Planet of the Apes (11 a.m. and 1:20, 2, 4:20, 5, 7:20, 8, 10:20 and 11 p.m.); Cowboys & Aliens (11:20 a.m. and 1:10, 4:10, 5:10, 7, 10 and 10:40 p.m.); Crazy, Stupid, Love (11:20 a.m. and 2, 4:40, 7:30, 9:50 and 10:30 p.m.), The Smurfs 3D (11:50 a.m. and 2:20, 4:50 and 7:20 p.m.); The Smurfs (11 a.m. and 1:30, 4, 6:30 and 9:10 p.m.); Captain America: The First Avenger (12:30, 3:30, 6:30 and 9:50 p.m.); Captain America: The First Avenger 3D (2:10 and 7:50 p.m.); Friends With Benefits (11:10 a.m. and 1:40, 4:20, 6:50 and 9:20 p.m.); Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (1:10, 4, 7:10 and 10:10 p.m.); Horrible Bosses (11:30 a.m. and 1:50, 4:10, 6:40 and 9:10 p.m.); Transformers: Dark of the Moon 3D (12:10, 3:30, 6:50 and 10:20 p.m.).

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Aug. 11, 10 p.m.: Spacy synth pop from Incan Abraham and Tennis System.

Aug. 12, 9:30 p.m.: The good folks at KCRW present Swedish acoustic trio The Junip, the new project featuring songwriter Jose Gonzalez.

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Aug. 13, 8 p.m.: Gold Soil, Rarebit, Anenon and Rom-Dos. Casey’s Irish Pub 613 S. Grand Ave. or bigcaseys.com August 12, 10:30 p.m.: Indie rock with a country twist from La Font.

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August 14, 6-11 p.m.: The restaurant is transformed into an old Hollywood-style dance club every Sunday. This week the musical stylings of Cassie Miller and the Gold Standard grace the grand stage.

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Aug. 8, 8 p.m.: The Foxxhole Live, hosted by Mark Curry (known to anyone born in the mid-1980s as Mr. Cooper, as in “Hangin’ With…”), has live stand-up comedy and R&B music.

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

Aug. 11, 8 p.m.: Dee Dee Bridgewater, the legendary vocalist and three time Grammy winner, stops in to celebrate the Aug. 23 release of her latest album Midnight Sun. Grand Performances California Plaza, 350 S. Grand Ave., visit grandperformances.org.

Aug. 12, noon: Mariachi Rock-O from Guadalajara covers classic and contemporary rock.

Aug. 12, 8 p.m.: Mariachi Rock-O returns to share the stage with Mariachi Mystery Tour, which interprets Beatles classics through… can you guess?... mariachi music.

Aug. 13, 8 p.m.: Iranian vocalist and composer Sussan Deyhim takes the Watercourt stage.

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We Got Games Pile Driver Time at Staples, and Sparks Tackle Shock Los Angeles Dodgers Dodger Stadium, 1000 Elysian Park Ave., (213) 224-1400 or dodgers.mlb.com.

Aug. 8-9, 7:10 p.m.; Aug. 10, 12:10 p.m.; Aug. 12-13, 7:10 p.m.; Aug. 14, 1:10 p.m.: The cursed Dodgers, who lost promising young arm Rubby De La Rosa last week to an elbow injury (he’s expected to be out at least a year), look for hope during a homestretch this week that starts with a three-game set against the formidable Phillies. The Blue Crew are playing for pride at this point, though there’s little reason to have much of it. But give manager Don Mattingly’s team this — despite the season’s depressing elements, the dugout hasn’t imploded. You get the

sense that the boys are still fighting.

They just can’t, or don’t have the resources, to catch a break. It won’t get any easier against the Phils, but the woeful Astros should make for some pride potential later in the week.

Los Angeles Sparks Staples Center, 1111 S. Figueroa St., (213) 929-1300 or wnba.com/sparks.

Aug. 9, 7:30 p.m.; Aug. 12, 7:30 p.m.: The Sparks are better than only one team in the Western Conference. The lone worse squad? The Tulsa Shock, who have been so dismal (they’ve only won once this year) that a win against even the Sparks would be shocking.

Which puts pressure on the women

during their first game this week. Things will get more challenging Friday when Diana Taurasi and the Phoenix Mercury come to town.

WWE Summer Slam At Staples Center 1201 S. Figueroa St. or staplescenter.com.

4:45 p.m.: Are you ready to rumble?

WWE Champ John Cena and CM Punk duke it out in the smorgasbord of body-slams and pile drivers. Before they do, match-ups include Kelly Kelly vs. Beth Phoenix and Christian (who never felt like he needed a last name, or even a cool nickname) vs. Randy Orton.

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