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Goodbye Metropolis
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A Green Oasis in the Sky Community Garden Blooms on a Skid Row Rooftop
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South Park resident Jayne Torres provides gardening guidance on the roof of a Skid Row apartment complex. by Ryan Vaillancourt
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The two worked together to place the spuds amid a surrounding bounty of watermelons, squash, n a recent Wednesday, Willie Mae Bell tomatoes and a potpourri of rosemary, sage and was dripping with sweat under a harsh lavender. mid-morning sun. She was on the roof The aromatic oasis was all the sweeter considerof her building, preparing to plant potatoes in a ing its location on a rooftop in the heart of Skid garden. Row, five stories over streets known for harsh The formerly homeless Bell did so under the odors. tutelage of Jayne Torres, a South Park resident and Bell resides at the Charles Cobb Apartments, a see xxxxxxxxxxxx, page 8 housing complex at 521 small business owner with a passion for gardening. permanent supportive staff writer
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S. San Pedro St. run by Skid Row Housing Trust. The nonprofit developer designed the building’s expansive roof to support gardens in containers, but when the 76-unit project opened in April 2010, there wasn’t much of a plan for planting. Enter Torres, Kris Hopfenbeck and Ryan Roger, Downtown residents who had been on a quest for a local space to turn into a community garden. “When I moved Downtown five years ago, it see Cobb, page 8
Battle Erupts Over Business Group Leadership Firing of BID’s Longtime Head Riles Huizar, Prompts Concerns of Collusion
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he leader of one of Downtown’s largest business improvement districts was abruptly fired last week. The move has riled some prominent business leaders and the area’s council representative, who believe it may have violated California open-meeting laws. On Sept. 15, the 13-person board of
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the Historic Downtown Los Angeles Business Improvement District voted to oust Russell Brown, who has led the organization for about four years. At the same meeting, the board installed Roberto Saldaña, the former in-house counsel to Broadway property owner Joseph Hellen, as the new head. Board members claim the change was made to move the BID forward and ensure its renewal when its five-
year term ends in December 2013. The worries stem from a recent failed attempt to add a few residential properties to the BID’s boundaries. Only 26% of district property owners submitted a ballot. A similar low participation rate would likely doom the renewal effort. Proponents of the BID fear that its expiration would be disastrous for street cleanliness and public see BID, page 11
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Russell Brown was removed as the head of the Historic Downtown Business Improvement District.
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AROUNDTOWN Broad Pushes for New Connector Alignment
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etro’s proposed $1.44 billion Regional Connector is just three months from finishing its Environmental Impact Report, the final piece of analysis needed before it can move forward. However, the underground light-rail project, which is slated to add three new Metro stations in Downtown, may be facing a major hurdle: Billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad has signed onto a campaign calling for an almost entirely reworked route that would shift a station proposed for Second and Hope streets to Second Street and Grand Avenue. The move would put a station across from Broad’s future $100 million art museum and Walt Disney Concert Hall. The route, detailed in a letter from a group calling itself the Community Connector Coalition, would also travel along First Street to Little Tokyo, instead of Second Street. The letter, co-signed by Colburn School President Sel Kardan, claims the route would save money and get riders to the highest point of Bunker Hill, instead of dropping them at a spot requiring an uphill walk to reach Grand Avenue’s cultural and commercial venues. Any serious consideration of the proposal could delay the project’s estimated completion date in 2019. In a statement, Metro said, “We are currently reviewing the letter with the project’s
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Jewish Meets Mexican Culture for Services
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nce again this year, Jews in Downtown Los Angeles will have a place to celebrate the High Holy Days. This week, however, there will be a new location for services. When Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins on Sept. 28, the Jewish Community Center-Chabad of Downtown Los Angeles will hold services not in its temple on Seventh Street, but in property run by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. The Downtown JCC’s head, Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, said the desire for a new location came after last year’s High Holy Days attracted about 130 people to a room that comfortably holds 100. The relationship with MALDEF started with one of the temple’s members. “You have to take blessings wherever they come from, and this is where they came from this year,” said Greenwald. “In general Downtown does things out of the box, and we do things out of the box.” Rosh Hashanah services continue Sept. 29-30, and services for Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement,
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Reyes’ Chief of Staff Enters Council Race
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ose Gardea, chief of staff to First District City Councilman Ed Reyes, recently filed
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papers to raise funds for the 2013 council election. Gardea, who has served as chief of staff since Reyes was inaugurated in 2001, and started working for Reyes’ predecessor Mike Hernandez in 1991, is the first person to enter the race. “My connections to the First District have not been broken for over 20 years,” he said. Gardea said his platform will concentrate on three issues: delivering constituent services; ensuring the see Around Town, page 6
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EDITORIALS Urban Scrawl by Doug Davis
Downtown’s Development Billions Drive the Region’s Economy
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ere are three of the bitter facts we know about the Los Angeles economy and major developments: 1) A frightening number of people are out of work, and the approximately 12% unemployment rate is actually closer to 20% once those who are under-employed or who are no longer looking for work are factored in. 2) The lending markets remain tight, and while money flows for some projects, the lax standards of five years ago no longer apply. 3) It is still difficult to move big projects forward in many communities, as neighbors and businesses frequently raise protests over noise, congestion and other issues. The result is that development has slowed to a trickle in much of the region. Unemployment in the construction field has been estimated at 40%. When you look at Downtown Los Angeles, however, things are different. Construction jobs are prevalent, as is investment in the community. If the powers that be would embrace and aid not just what is happening but the most feasible and worthy of what is proposed, then Downtown could do even more than it already is in leading the region’s ailing economic engine. Some will scoff at this assertion. Valley dwellers long angry about resources being directed to the Central City instead of their communities will decry a continued Downtown focus. Others may point to the large and small projects here that stalled and at the condominiums that sell for about half of what they did at the height of the market. Anyone who broaches those points is correct. A lot of people who bought Downtown condos at their apex are under water in their mortgages, just like millions across the country. And yes, many local projects, including a few that gained huge swaths of publicity,
are dead (many of them never should have been counted on in the first place, but that’s another topic). With that out of the way, one must consider the reality: Downtown Los Angeles has a level of activity that is unrivalled in the region. Additionally, the local populace generally desires not a suburban-style slowdown, but more projects, more people and more action. This is a community physically and psychologically primed for additional growth. The proof is in the roster of local projects. Last week, Los Angeles Downtown News published its Development issue. It contained the latest information on 66 projects, and while the number of efforts in the pipeline was much higher before the downturn, the concentration of construction activity here, and the number of people working to build the next wave of homes, hotels, cultural facilities, civic projects and more, far outpaces any other community in Los Angeles. To break it down further, consider the following Downtown projects. These are not dreams or proposals, but actual under-construction or already-funded developments scheduled to break ground soon: n 1111 Wilshire, a $60 million City West complex that will create 210 apartments in a seven-story building. It broke ground in June. n Alameda and Fourth, an Arts District effort that will offer 53 artist-in-residence lofts when it opens next year. It is valued at $20 million. n Chinatown Gateway, a 300,000-square-foot development that will deliver 280 apartments and nearly 600 parking spaces to the southern edge of Chinatown. A previous iteration of the project was estimated at $90 million. n Lorenzo, an Italian-inspired complex on Flower Street near USC from Geoff Palmer. The $300 million project will ultimately create more than 900 apartments, many to be
rented by students. n Piero II, also a Palmer project. The $70 million complex at Bixel and St. Paul streets in City West will add 335 apartments to the housing stock. n Wilshire Grand replacement, a mega-development featuring a 45-story building with 560 hotel rooms and some condos; a second phase will bring a 60-story office structure. The total value is $1 billion. n Grand Avenue Civic Park, a $56 million attraction stretching between City Hall and the Music Center. The 12-acre expanse will come online next summer. n The Hall of Justice upgrade, which will bring the Civic Center’s faded 1925 jewel back to life. The $231 million project will open in 2014. n The Broad, the attention grabbing $100 million Bunker Hill art museum from philanthropist Eli Broad. It will rise atop a 370car garage. n The 7+Fig renovation, a long-awaited, retail-heavy project. It is valued at $40 million and will be anchored by Downtown’s first Target. n Two Marriott hotels in a single South Park building. The $120 million effort just north of the Convention Center headquarters hotel comes from developer Homer Williams. n Good Samaritan expansion, which will enhance the City West hospital’s footprint on Wilshire Boulevard. The $80 million, 190,000-square-foot effort has a groundbreaking scheduled for Oct. 6 That’s a dozen projects right there, worth a collective $1.167 billion even before the Wilshire replacement is factored in (since it is unclear when the second tower will rise). It is also an extremely conservative roster and does not take into account many smaller sure things such as the Spring Street park, a healthy handful of low-income housing
complexes or a CRA-fueled business incubator in the Arts District. Nor does the list include a potential game changer in Farmers Field. If the $1.5 billion effort that already boasts widespread political, labor and business support comes to fruition, it will create tens of thousands of jobs during and after construction. Additionally, it will spur even more developments, especially hotels, restaurants and entertainment endeavors in the vicinity of the Convention Center. Add in the Wilshire Grand and the football stadium/Convention Center expansion and you get more than $3.6 billion worth of investment in Downtown. The point is, the Downtown development lineup is massive, and gives the region a central point of activity. These projects are already helping a lot of Angelenos in construction and other fields pay their mortgages or rents and feed their families. Most of these people, it should be noted, live outside of Downtown. The other bonus is that these projects will pay off for years to come. Each will bring people into the Central City, whether residents, workers or visitors. They will enliven the area and will generate sales tax and provide other revenue streams for city and county coffers. The question is, what happens next? One could just recognize and applaud, but the smarter step would be to grasp the full scope of the developments and use them to generate even more activity, whether that involves approaching other developers or trying to ease the concerns of still-wary lenders. As stated above, the Downtown residential population, which is under 50,000, is pushing for more amenities and attractions. There is no knee-jerk, suburban NIMBY angst here. It’s time to recognize that not only is Downtown the physical center of the region, right now it’s the community that is putting people to work and is playing a massive role in driving the broader local economy. Overall jobs and hiring are not expected to increase any time soon. Fortunately, Downtown can help keep people employed and can drive the entire region forward.
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The Exit Interview: Julie Swayze The Final Chapter for Metropolis Books by RichaRd Guzmán city editoR
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ulie Swayze is one of the quiet pioneers of Downtown Los Angeles. In December 2006, she opened the 900-square-foot Metropolis Books at 440 S. Main St. In the following years, she found a loyal clientele who gathered not just to buy the latest bestseller or an old classic, but also to hang out and talk about the neighborhood, literature or whatever else came to mind. Due to an illness in her family and the state of the bookselling business, Swayze’s last day in business will be Thursday, Sept. 29. She spoke with Los Angeles Downtown News about her experience. Los Angeles Downtown News: Why are you closing the store? Julie Swayze: We’re at the end of our lease. It’s been five good years. We’re a little reluctant on going forward with another five-year lease and I have some family issues. My mom is ill and out of state and I want to tend to her. Q: Why did you first decide to come Downtown? A: Mark Shumacher had opened up a DVD store in 2005. He said they really needed a bookstore Downtown and we were sort of looking to open a bookstore. We lived in Pasadena, which wasn’t going to work out since there were so many there. This space was available so we decided to jump on it. Q: Were you nervous about taking a chance on Downtown? A: I don’t mind risk. I knew the area and in comparison to how it was in the mid to late ’80s, it seemed like already there was a renaissance on Main Street by 2006. It didn’t scare me at all. Q: What will you miss most about the neighborhood? A: My friends, my regulars, the community. This bookstore could not have been anywhere else and have that sort of feel. I worked in suburban stores for years and didn’t have that
sort of interaction with other business owners and neighbors. I haven’t really thought about that, but I think on Oct. 1 it’s going to hit me. Q: What are some of your favorite memories of Metropolis? A: Some of the events, like the one where I stood in for John Twelve Hawks. I stood in for him for a reading [his real identity is unknown] and we live-streamed it and he saw it in Paris. We also had the colonel who captured Saddam Hussein in the store. Q: You were looking for a buyer for the store. Have you found anyone? A: We have not found anybody and at this late date I’m not sure what there is to sell because we have gone through more than half of our inventory. Q: You’re doing a documentary about Metropolis’ final days. Why? A: When bookstores close people find that a very sad thing culturally and community wise. I wanted to chronicle the last 30 days. Q: What have you learned from the documentary so far? A: People’s feelings about the bookstore, obviously. This was sort of their place to find out information. It was where we all touched base and had a communal place to gather. Q: How did you develop your love of books? A: I started reading at age 4. I’ve always had a passion for reading. I minored in literature and majored in business. I was always a voracious reader and have been in book clubs. When I was a buyer for a department store, I thought it would be kind of nice to focus on just buying books. It was sort of a lifelong passion. Q: So what’s your favorite book? A: Oooh. Probably my favorite in recent times is The Traveler
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After nearly five years in Downtown, Julie Swayze is closing Metropolis Books. Sept. 29 will be the last day for one of the first retail spots to open in the Historic Core.
by John Twelve Hawks. And my all-time favorite would be They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie. Q: With big chains like Borders closing, what do you think is the future for bookstores? A: I think there will always be people who are readers. I think there always will be people who want books but it may be like vinyl, where people think it’s cool and nostalgic. Q: Will Metropolis continue in any way? A: We’ll still be online. People have always been able to order books online. Q: What are your parting words for Downtown? A: You’re always in my heart, Downtown. Metropolis Books is at 440 S. Main St., (213) 612-0174 or metropolisbooksla.com. Contact Richard Guzmán at richard@downtownnews.com.
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Around Town Continued from page 2 city’s “budget accountability” is maintained; and keeping neighborhoods and residents involved in the planning process for local developments. “These are the things neighborhoods care about and are important for our district,” he said. Gardea said he expects to raise between $300,000 and $350,000 for the race. The primary will take place in March 2013.
Major Renovations Start at Clifton’s
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lifton’s Cafeteria owner Andrew Meieran said a $3 million renovation will begin this week. While the historic Downtown eatery’s kitchen and buffet line will be closed, the main dining room and mezzanine will remain open, allowing diners to get grab-and-go items, including sandwiches and bakery goods. Holden Burkons, the former pastry sous chef at Craft restaurant in Century City, will be cranking out artisan bread for retail and wholesale customers starting this week, Meieran said. The kitchen and buffet area will remain closed for three to six months while Meieran updates Clifton’s and adds three bars to the four-story property at 648 S. Broadway. The project includes a restoration of the façade, an effort undertaken with the guidance of preservationist organization the Los Angeles Conservancy. The plan to keep the restaurant partially open during the work will help preserve jobs. “We’re keeping as many people as possible, and working very closely with each of them to place people who have been displaced,” Meieran
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said. When the renovation is finished in late 2012, Clifton’s will have approximately 150 jobs, about triple the current staff.
Downtown Looking For Little Parks
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ity officials have begun looking at a new effort to create micro-parks in Downtown and other areas. On Sept. 16, City Council members Jan Perry and José Huizar announced that they are working with the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council in an effort to install “parklet” demonstration projects along Spring Street. “We need to engage in creative solutions to develop green spaces throughout our urban communities and the parklets concept is a practical way in which we can activate our sidewalks and streets,” said Perry. The effort is modeled after a San Francisco program created in 2010. The issue will be taken up in the future by two council committees, although there is no timeline for implementation.
Perry Gets Endorsement From Ex-Valley Councilman Smith
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inth District Councilwoman and mayoral candidate Jan Perry went far out of Downtown last week for her first major endorsement in the 2013 race. On Monday, Sept. 19, she announced that she
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has secured the backing of former 12th District Councilman Greig Smith. The Porter Ranch Republican, who stepped down this past summer, praised Perry for her “fiscal sanity” and for striving to reform the Department of Water and Power. “I am endorsing Jan for Mayor because she is tough enough to make Los Angeles work again,” Smith said in a statement released by Perry’s campaign. “Her vision has revitalized the city core, creating tens of thousands of jobs, resulting in millions of dollars of new revenue.” Perry announced her candidacy in the spring and is facing notable competitors including Council President Eric Garcetti, City Controller Wendy Greuel, businessman and former First Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner and radio host Kevin James.
Chef Shuffle At Water Grill
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new top toque before settling on sous chef Baumgarten. At the time, Goodman said, “After rounds of interviews and menu tastings, it became crystal clear that the best chef for the job was already in our kitchen.” Baumgarten became familiar to many people long before she took over Water Grill. She was a contestant in 2010 on Bravo’s reality show “Top Chef.” She finished sixth.
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Cobb Continued from page 1 started gnawing on me that I didn’t have a place to go to get my hands dirty,” said Torres, who owns a small apparel company. Then the trio found the Charles Cobb. They soon launched their garden network, naming it Ur-bin. “Gardening is a missing component of urban life,” Torres said. “We realized early on that we weren’t going to find a big piece of dirt. That’s how we came up with the name Ur-bin.” Growing Community Officials with SRHT always imagined that the roof of its $13 million project would one day have some kind of garden. What they couldn’t predict was that it would blossom into a community meeting place, where Cobb residents would team with loft dwellers to plant and tend an impressive spread of edibles. Ur-bin members meet with Cobb residents every Wednesday morning to work
on the garden. They plant, weed, trim and harvest. Torres, Hopfenbeck and Roger have arranged major donations of materials, including plants and soil, from nurseries as far away as Carpinteria. That also means field trips, in which Ur-bin volunteers and Cobb residents pile into cars and head to garden supply shops and nurseries. “The residents pick out the plants,” Torres said. “It’s really their work.” Torres was quick to point out that the endeavor is, at least somewhat, selfish. She and the other Ur-bin members started the group not as community do-gooders, but so they could satisfy their shared hobby. In the eyes of SRHT director of external affairs Molly Rysman, the garden’s real fruit is that it allows two Downtown communities that are usually kept separate to interact regularly. “It’s hard to approach people from different backgrounds,” Rysman said. “It’s hard for our residents. This connects people from two worlds through their passion.” That passion is obvious in Cobb resident Raymond Lyons. The regular member of the garden club is also an avid pickler, so he
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n the column “What’s for Sale,” Los Angeles Downtown News looks at everything from condos to multi-family buildings to vacant lots now on the market. We hope that regular snapshots of individual properties will make for a wide-ranging survey of the overall state of Downtown real estate. This week, the focus is on an empty piece of land entitled for a 22-story residential tower in South Park. The Property: The site is 1050 S. Grand Ave., a 27,000-square-foot (or .6 acre) undeveloped lot at the northeast corner of 11th Street and Grand Avenue. It’s catty corner to the Starbucks on the ground floor of the condo building Elleven. The property is listed at $12.5 million. Shattered Glass: Amir Kalantari is selling the site after plans to build a 25-story condo building dubbed the Glass Tower faltered during the recession. Kalantari entitled the project in 2005, and went to the Community Redevelopment Agency in July to extend the entitlements, which were due to expire, for another five years. The agency approved the extension. Plans called for a $60 million project with 128 high-end condos that would have taken two years to build. Listing agent Mark Tarczynski, executive vice president at Colliers, said Kalantari, who has been unable to secure financing to build the Glass Tower, thinks the time is right to sell. Talk of a possible football stadium three blocks away, and a growing interest in South Park
Housing Hybrid: Many investors in the Downtown real estate market think the next wave of growth will come from hotels. A Marriott project is expected to break ground next year at Olympic Boulevard and Francisco Street, and two other hotel deals have been proposed in the past several months. Tarczysnki said a development at 1050 S. Grand Ave., however, might do better as a hospitality/residential hybrid, in the style of the Convention Center hotel at L.A. Live. Sales of the Ritz-Carlton condos in the building have been slow, but a new development could offer lower prices since construction costs have fallen significantly in recent years. Compared to What?: The property is listed at $12.5 million, or about $462 per square foot. There’s no perfect comparable recent sale, but deals in the area suggest that the price tag may be a bit steep. Take the June sale of a 2.7-acre parking lot to L&R Group. The site at 1220 S. Figueroa St., across from Staples Center, was entitled for 650 housing units. It sold for $31 million, or $264 per square foot. A 5,459-square-foot commercial property with a one-story building at 1201 S. Olive St. sold recently for $1.6 million, or $293 per square foot. The city purchased a dilapidated building at 1130 S. Hope St. in July for $2.1 million, or $107 per square foot (the city plans to tear it down and build a park). Location, Cubed: Like much of the recent
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Spring Street Gardens or Old Bank District Gardens. Gray-Emmer said that Gilmore, who created the Old Bank District a decade ago, had pledged $30,000 for the project and asked for naming rights. Gilmore did not return a call for comment. “It mainly broke up over the name of the park,” Gray-Emmer said. “It’s one of the silliest and most absurd things to get caught up on.” Gray-Emmer said there were also disagreements over future programming. Although the group has split, some believe the divide can be bridged. “We hope it’s premature to say the nonprofit has dissolved,” said Steven Dormbusch, chair of the Rowan Park Committee. “There is a conflict and we hope to get past that conflict.” The acquisition of the land on the east side of Spring between Fourth and Fifth streets, and the $3 million park development cost, is being financed with Quimby funds. Those are fees assessed to housing developers that are used specifically for park creation. The proposal for private maintenance was a response to the city’s battered budget. The nonprofit would have been responsible for raising the money to operate the park on a daily basis, and the facility would have remained open to the public.
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BID Continued from page 1 safety in the Historic Core. Currently, the BID spends more than 64% of its annual budget of about $1.3 million on those services. “We have a pending renewal coming in two years and we feel that with Roberto we have a better chance at renewing our BID here,” said board president Boris Mayzels. The effort to engage property owners will involve more focused outreach on Broadway, where some building owners are considered absentee landlords who remain detached from local community and economic initiatives such as the proposed streetcar, Mayzels said. Saldaña will be charged with outreach on the street, and directing more BID resources to economic development efforts to expand the kind of commercial growth seen on Spring Street in recent years. The choice of Saldaña, however, could present new challenges. The company he previously worked for clashed repeatedly with 14th District City Councilman José Huizar. Legal Questions Brown did not respond to several calls from Los Angeles Downtown News, but board members said that he is assisting Saldaña with the transition, and will continue in that role for two weeks. In the meantime, the BID board is facing allegations that it may have acted unlawfully. Broadway theater owner Michael Delijani, the sole board member to vote against firing Brown, is pushing for the BID to reconsider the move. So is Huizar’s office. Delijani emailed a letter to Mayzels on Sept. 19 alleging that the group may have colluded. Some board members, he said, appear to have orchestrated the leadership change in a series
of secret meetings before the Sept. 15 session. “As I understand now, few Board members with your knowledge and permission have had numerous meetings to discuss firing our executive Director and hiring a new one without the knowledge and or permission of the Board,” Delijani wrote. Fred Afari, who co-owns the Chapman Building on Broadway, sent a similar letter to board members. Delijani and Afari’s letters were forwarded to the District Attorney’s office last week by an anonymous sender. Downtown News was copied on the email to the District Attorney, which prosecutes Brown Act violations. Mayzels and other board members, including vice president Eric Shomof, denied any wrongdoing. “There was no decision made before the meeting,” said Shomof, whose family owns several properties in the district, including the Premier Towers and the Hayward Hotel on Spring Street. “From our knowledge everything was done legally.” BIDs are bound by the Brown Act, a collection of public meeting laws that regulate city councils and other local governmental entities. The Brown Act mandates that groups post notice 24 hours before special meetings that, like the BID’s Sept. 15 session, are held on a day other than regularly scheduled events. The law requires the organization to post a notice of the meeting in a designated spot. While Mayzels emailed notice of the meeting to the board on Sept. 9, the agenda was not emailed until around 5 p.m. on Sept. 14, less than 24 hours before the 10 a.m. meeting. It is also unclear if the BID posted a physical notice for the session. Mayzels, the board president, did not put the notice at the BID’s meeting place at the Exchange, at 114 W. Fifth St. He said that if anyone posted the notice, it would have been Brown. On Tuesday, Mayzels said the board had
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no indication that its moves were facing any kind of legal challenge. Until that happens, he said, the BID will continue with its transition. But Huizar’s office is probing the board’s actions. “More glaring [than the issue of notice] would be the fact that they fired and hired a guy all in one meeting,” said Jessica Wethington McLean, executive director of Huizar’s Bringing Back Broadway initiative. Wethington McLean questioned the decision to hire a new director without a public search, without a search committee and without prolonged consideration for the chosen replacement in a public setting. “That would suggest that there would be some amount of major coordination before this meeting happening, which is potentially a violation of the law,” she said. Process vs. Person While Huizar’s office is raising concerns about the BID’s process, his representatives also consider the choice of Saldaña to be problematic. Saldaña’s former employer, Downtown Management, which owns nine properties on and along Broadway, has repeatedly locked horns with Huizar over development and historic preservation issues. In his role with Downtown Management, Saldaña questioned the proposed funding mechanism for the $100 million Broadway streetcar, a pillar of Huizar’s revitalization effort on the street. Huizar bristled at Downtown Management’s plan to erect a parking garage on Spring Street, saying it would block rear loading access to three historic theaters on Broadway that are also owned by the company (the venues are currently used as swap meets). Downtown Management, in turn, erected a billboard on Broadway supporting Huizar’s challenger in the March city council election, Rudy Martinez. “We can’t emphasize enough how baffled
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we are with the choice,” said Huizar spokesman Rick Coca. When historic preservationists balked at Downtown Management’s installation of green marble on parts of the podium of the historic Spring Arcade building, Saldaña defended his boss, Hellen, telling Downtown News, “The guy spends $45 million out of his own pocket. Can’t you just give him his green marble?” Saldaña did not respond to requests for comment. Board members say that any tension between Saldaña and Huizar’s office is rooted in misunderstanding. Broadway revitalization is among the top priorities of the BID going forward, Shomof said. They would not have hired Saldaña if he weren’t committed to Broadway’s renewal, especially the streetcar, Shomof said. Huizar’s office was not assuaged. “It doesn’t matter what they say,” Coca said. “All we have to go by are [Saldaña’s] previous actions.” Meanwhile, one board member suggested that Brown’s ouster is, ironically, partly rooted in the fact that he did too much as a Downtown advocate. A longtime volunteer with the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council — he was president from 2006 to 2010 — Brown has been nearly omnipresent at city meetings dealing with all aspects of Downtown. “This is not the first time it was felt that his mandate was interpreted too broadly,” said Ed Rosenthal, a real estate broker who represents the owners of the Chapman Building on the BID board. “It does not reflect on his communications ability or intellect or encyclopedic knowledge of Downtown. It’s only that the owners felt he wasn’t advancing their interest.” The BID was slated to discuss the executive director conflict at a special meeting last Friday, after Downtown News went to press. Contact Ryan Vaillancourt at ryan@downtownnews.com.
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couldn’t decide whether to head it or knee it, and I ended up kneeing myself in the head; and, finally, a balky knee that I blame on cumulative little injuries. None of them hurt like the eye that made me think I was half-blind. The snafu happened on the basketball court at Downtown’s Los Angeles Athletic Club. I was battling a guy, one of those familiar friendly faces at the gym, in a spirited one-on-one game. In one particular move, I tried a jab step, when you take an exaggerated step toward the basket, but keep the other foot planted, so as to get your defender off-balance. Instead of getting my opponent to back up, he antici-
pated my first step and swiped his left hand in my direction — unfortunately, he missed the ball. And that’s how another man’s finger ended up in my eye socket. After I realized my eyeball was still in my head, and after icing it for about a half-hour, I could open the eye a sliver. I thought I’d get off with just a black eye, so I rode my bike home. When my wife opened the door, the look on her face suggested it was worse. It was. As the swelling subsided, a nasty gash became apparent on my lower eyelid. My gym friend had literally sliced my lower eyelid with his fingernail, separating it smack in the middle. To the ER we went. The intake nurse at Kaiser in Hollywood immediately phoned an eye specialist. He ar-
rived about an hour later, and minutes after evaluating the situation, he announced, “You need stitches.” “On my eyelid?” I asked. “No, on your leg,” the doctor joked. “Yes, on your eyelid.” He numbed me with a local anesthetic, and zoomed in on the cut through a highpowered magnifying device. Then he meticulously (I would hope so) slipped two stitches into the lid, perfectly aligning the ridge. He told me that if the alignment wasn’t perfect, I could have a permanently ruptured tear duct, rendering me a literally constant crybaby. Instead, I got to walk around for two weeks with stitches in my eye, which I thought made me look pretty tough. “Wow, that must have hurt,” my friends said. I lied in response. “I didn’t feel a thing.” Contact Ryan Vaillancourt at ryan@downtownnews.com.
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friend, and the loss of his one chance for genuine affection. For some reason, perhaps because the story was so well known, Tchaikovsky may have felt he did not need to develop the character of Onegin or his friend in depth. Instead, he lavished much of his musical attention on the girl, Tatiana, who beStarts Sept. 19 comes a focal point on the long night she spends writing the letter. Tatiana’s longings and self-deceptions are exquisitely portrayed by Oksana Dyka in the photo by Robert Millard production that recently opened the season for Los Baritone Dalibor Jenis is the title character and soprano Oksana Dyka is Check Our Website for Full Movie Listings LADowntownNews.com Angeles Opera. The young Ukranian soprano has a the young woman who sends him a love letter in L.A. Opera’s production of see Opera, page 28 Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.
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Seduction by Voice Mozart’s Farce Flies With a Strong International Cast by Marc Porter Zasada contributing writer
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ozart’s Così Fan Tutte is a special joy. It is also not easy to pull off. Not only does it require a strong and cohesive crew of young Mozart specialists, but the serious undertones of the work must be brought out without spoiling the fun. Director Ashley Dean and conductor James Conlon, who helm the production at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion through Oct. 8, find the balance with a gifted and committed ensemble drawn from the ranks of future European stars. Four of the six principals, including potential superstar Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, are making their Los Angeles debuts. This is the finale of the three great operas created by Mozart with the brilliant librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. In many ways it’s the answer to The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni — both tales in which the males are generally cads and the females generally virtuous. The un-virtuous in the present case are two sisters, Fiordiligi and Dorabella. When their fiancés are called off to war, the sisters’ despair is undermined by the appearance of two handsome, if over-the-top “Albanian noblemen” intent on seducing them. What the sisters don’t know is that the aggressive suitors are actually their disguised fiancés testing their fidelity. It all stems from a bet offered by an aging cynic named Don Alfonso. Alfonso, wonderfully rendered as a dissolute rascal by Lorenzo Regazzo, wants to
prove that così fan tutte — all women are like that. He also hopes to reveal a deeper truth about the illusions of human affection: Often we are more in love with being in love than with one another. Alfonso succeeds both monetarily and philosophically. The women fall all too easily, and the guys get a little too caught up in getting each other’s girl. In its own time, the opera was a tad scandalous. Even Beethoven called it “amoral,” and for many years it was not performed. Today, the exquisite music and ambiguous comedy of Così make it a favorite in the canon, even as the ending, which leaves the outcome of all the affairs uncertain, continues to trouble modern audiences. The Così at L.A. Opera, which was originally mounted by England’s Glyndebourne Festival Opera, brims with energy while making sure the buffo is mixed with just enough chiaroscuro to keep a Don Alfonso happy. It’s just risqué enough for adults without threatening the psyches of children. Similar Mozartian symmetries abound. The amoral friend Alfonso is paired with the amoral maid Despina, played to the hilt by talented mezzo Roxana Constantinescu, perhaps the strongest singer among the women. The sisters have some of the loveliest duets ever penned, and they are superbly delivered. Fiordiligi, the more sensitive and thoughtful, holds out against her “Albanian” the longest. Soprano Aleksandra Kurzak makes for an engaging Fiordiligi, and if she had a bit of trouble when the score called for sudden dips
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In Così Fan Tutte, Mozart flips his regular set-up, letting his generally virtuous females run a little wild.
toward the low end of the scale, she handled the high cadenzas with aplomb. Angelenos have seen Romanian mezzo Ruxandra Donose before — she played the ill-fated Veronica in the ill-fated opera The Fly back in 2008. Here she faces a very different role with much better music, and handles the flightier (and if possible, more foolish) sister Dorabella with perfect musicality and comic energy. D’Arcangelo has the presence, the looks and a potent-but-crisp bass-baritone that can fill the whole Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. He plays an intelligent, thoughtful and honest Guglielmo with grace. A genuine Albanian, Saimir Pirgu, plays the dopily romantic Italian soldier Ferrando
who is pretending to be a lascivious Albanian — a nice mind-twister. Pirgu has a strong and sensitive tenor, and it would be great to see him in a truly romantic role. His high energy and comic pairing with D’Arcangelo is a delight, and their enjoyment at working together is palpable. Indeed, the comfortable and kinetic relationship between everyone in this ensemble makes it seem as if the cast has been working together for years. Conlon directs Mozart with warmth, vigor and emotion. Some may prefer a crisper, more 18th century approach, but he makes the work accessible to modern ears. Così Fan Tutte runs through Oct. 8 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., (213) 972-8001 or laopera.com.
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kept on playing. I think you were completely exposed. A: That did happen a few times, I’m proud to say. There were a group of rowdy, youthful, crazy people that I consider my friends who became followers of The Abe Lincoln Story. Q: Then everything fell apart, you got depressed and made a movie about it? A: Yes. I didn’t plan it like that, but that’s the way it unfolded. Around 2008, the great recession, when the [expletive] hit the fan, my whole life was crumbling. A girlfriend moved out, I couldn’t find work. I was in my early 40s. I was single with no job prospects. I was not in a good way for a long time, so I decided to get myself better. I started working on a screenplay. I was thinking about the show “Intervention,” and what would happen if I was super [expletive] up and my parents did an intervention. But I’m not a drug addict or heroin user. They’d have a hard time getting me an intervention. Q: Is this a happy story? A: It is. It’s a comedy. I won’t tell you how it ends, but it’s a happy story for several people in the movie. I think in a sense, from the feedback I’ve been getting, a lot of people can relate to the main character, myself, being a struggling artist: When do you give up? Do some people need an intervention like that? Give up your dream, get a job. Q: It looks like you get naked a lot in the movie, and do scary things with peanut butter.
A: It does seem like I get naked a lot. I don’t want to scare people away. The movie is about nudity, overexposure, too much information. It’s all those things, what happens if you let a camera in your life. Q: You’re also naked on a Segway. A: When researching the movie I wanted the character to take a dark turn. It starts reasonable and gets absurd. I happened to go to my friend’s house and he has this Segway. I remember reading somewhere it is technically legal to drive naked. And he said that the Segway is technically a medical device. So I created this narrative where on the Segway I’m a hospital patient and so I can go around the streets naked. photo by Leva Ann Q: You did this film for Steve Moramarco based the comedy The Great Intervention on his only $5,000, and got it from life. It premieres Sept. 26 at the Downtown Independent. Kickstarter? A: That is true. The more I started doing this, the more I realized I could changed. I’m still single, still don’t really have do this myself. I don’t need sets — it’s mostly a job, and am still semi broke, but I was able my house. I used mostly friends. I even write to change my attitude and make this bizarre into the movie that the filmmakers are ama- absurdist joke on my life. You’re supposed to teurs from Craigslist. It’s not supposed to be able to laugh at yourself. look good. I used anybody I could. I’d get The Great Intervention plays Monday, Sept. anyone and say, “Hold the camera on me 26, at 7 p.m. at the Downtown Independent, while I ride the Segway naked.” 251 S. Main St., (213) 617-1033 or downtownindependent.com. Film info at greatintervenQ: So are you happier than before you started tion.info. the film? Contact Jon Regardie at A: Yes, I am. The funny thing is, not a lot has regardie@downtownnews.com
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Saturday, october 1 How Sweet the Sound Staples Center, 1111 S. Figueroa St., (213) 742-7100 or staplescenter.com 7:30 p.m.: Its gospel time. Grammy Award winners Donald Lawrence and CeCe Williams host a night of spirit and singing some call the biggest gospel celebration of the year. Sunday, october 2 Jane Lynch in Conversation with Adam Scott Club Nokia, 800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 765-7000 or livetalksla.org. 7 p.m.: She’s tremendously funny and one damn hard worker. Jane Lynch joins Adam Scott to talk shop and get real about life in the industry and acting. She’ll also be plugging her funny/tragic/tremendous new memoir Happy Accidents.
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ou may know Jane Lynch as a neurotic dog handler, an absentminded caterer, an oppressive gym teacher, a nymphomaniac electronics store manager or, most recently, the host of the Emmys, but on Sunday, Oct. 2, she’ll be just plain old Jane. The brilliant improviser/actor joins former “Party Down” (the cult series on Starz) castmate Adam Scott in a conversation at Club Nokia. In the event presented by Live Talks L.A., she’ll discuss life in Hollywood, the long hard road to comedic celebrity and her new memoir, Happy Accidents. Join the cavalcade of gleeks and loyal fans alike to see Sue Sylvester incarnate. At 800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 765-7000 or livetalksla.org.
t H R e e Electronica wunderkind Alan Paloma is better known by his musical moniker, Neon Indian. True to title, Paloma’s brand of cascading synths is a wall melting, face distorting river of modern psychedelia. His 2009 outing Psychic Chasms became a poster child for what modern electronica could be, with soundscapes as colorful as a chemically constructed desert sunset. September saw the release of Neon Indian’s follow-up Era Extrana, a musical trip further down the sonic rabbit hole. To celebrate his new offering, Paloma will drop by the Bootleg Theatre on Wednesday, Sept. 28, for an 11 p.m. show. Free your mind at 2220 Beverly Blvd., (213) 3893856 or bootlegtheater.org.
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The well-dressed folks at the FIDM Museum & Galleries are celebrating a decade of aggressive fashion collecting with the retrospective Fabulous! In the span of 10 years, the school’s highly regarded museum has acquired a stunning variety of garments spread across styles and eras. The fruit of that labor opened recently and is on display until Dec. 17. Festooning the exhibit’s walls and halls are 175 items created between 1800 and 2010, including court gowns and an Alexander McQueen piece. Guests are welcome to bask in the warmth of such fashion free of charge Tuesday through Saturday. At 919 S. Grand Ave., (213) 624-1200 or fidm.edu.
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In Mexico, experimental filmmaker Chick Strand found a unique inspirational synthesis of subject and medium. The avant garde musings of the camera’s lens and the mercurial swings of a Mexican floral vendor’s life blend in her short Senora Con Flores. On Monday, Sept. 26, at 8:30 p.m., Strand’s unfinished work will screen at REDCAT alongside four other uncompleted originals in a celebration of the artist. At 631 W. Second St., (213) 237-2800 or redcat.org.
Composer Hector Berlioz once fell in love with a woman he met at a performance of Othello. Years of unanswered letters and the foment of unrequited love pushed the brilliant young composer to arrange his seminal Symphonie Fantastique, an impassioned journey through the opium sick tribulations of a man lost in blind affection. On FridaySunday, Sept. 30-Oct. 2, Gustavo Dudamel conducts the L.A. Philharmonic in a stirring rendition of the symphony that helped define the early Romantic period. Berlioz’s piece caps off a night that includes the U.S. premiere of Esteban Benzecry’s Rituales Amerindios and John Adams’ Tromba Iontana. Enjoy the warm acoustics of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in the first week of the Phil’s new season, and try your best not to fall hopelessly in love with a fellow concertgoer. Friday and Saturday shows are at 8 p.m., and Sunday is a 2 p.m. matinee at 111 S. Grand Ave., (323) 850-2000 or laphil.org.
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Friday, SepteMber 30 Los Angeles Fall Home and Garden Show L.A. Convention Center, 1201 S. Figueroa St., (213) 741-1151 or lacclink.com. Through Oct. 2, 12-8 p.m.: Autumn is in the air. Come scope out the glorious possibilities of interior and exterior design to complement cool evenings and colorful foliage.
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thurSday, SepteMber 29 Jennifer Granholm at Live Talks Business 333 S. Grand Ave., 54th floor, livetalksbusiness.com Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm comes by to drop knowledge about leading the country’s eighth biggest state. She’ll also discuss jobs and the future of this here land of ours. She’s in conversation with business columnist James Flanigan. 5.Lite Art Show 125 E. Sixth St., (323) 933-4408 or mk2-projects.com 6-10 p.m.: Five Los Angeles artists premiere their work in the Historic Core. Work from Larry Bell, Laddie John Dill, Robert Irwin, Ed Moses and Robert Wilhite sees the light of day, so to speak. RSVP via the show’s website.
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tueSday, SepteMber 27 Adam Winkler at ALOUD Mark Taper Auditorium-Central Library, 630 W. Fifth St., (213) 228-7500 or lapl.org. 7 p.m.: You can pry this lecture out of my cold, dead hands. Adam Winkler of UCLA Law School fame will be exploring America’s 2nd Amendment fascinations. Reservations are still available but patrons are reminded that carrying firearms inside the library is illegal.
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Monday, SepteMber 26 Charles C. Mann at ALOUD Mark Taper Auditorium-Central Library, 630 W. Fifth St., (213) 228-7500 or lapl.org. 7 p.m.: Charles C. Mann’s noted work 1491 examines and dissects pre-Columbian American societies on the eve of European interaction. He’ll be joined by history scholar Richard Rodriguez in a discussion of the fast emerging repercussions of Columbus and the bridge between European and indigenous cultures. The event is already full. Jesse Reiser at SCI-Arc SCI-Arc, 960 E. Third St., (213) 613-2200 or sciarc.edu. 7 p.m.: The good folk at Reiser + Unemoto, RUR Architecture in New York lend us the nimble and lucid mind of Jesse Reiser for one evening to discuss design, architecture and other insightful thingamajigs that elude the average mind.
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SPONSORED LISTINGS Friday Night Flicks Pershing Square, 532 S. Olive St., laparks.org/ pershingsquare Sept. 30: The weekly outdoor film series presents Xanadu: The Greek muses incarnate themselves on Earth to inspire men to achieve. One of them encounters an artist named Sonny Malone. Sonny builds a huge disco roller rink. Need we say more? 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.
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We Got Games Goodbye Ailing Dodgers, Practice Time for the Kings Los Angeles Dodgers Dodger Stadium, 1000 Elysian Park Ave., (213) 224-1400 or dodgers.mlb.com. The sun officially sets on your Los Angeles Dodgers this week. OK fine, you don’t want to call ’em “your” Dodgers? We don’t blame you. The nightmare of a season ends in Arizona (Sept. 26-28) against a Diamondbacks team that has the division locked up. The Dodgers aren’t even in a position to play spoiler. They have literally nothing to play for. Except, maybe, Clayton Kershaw’s final start and the chance to get 21 wins, a milestone for the Cy Young candi-
date. It remains to be seen how the dreaded McCourt saga will play out, but the Blue Crew seems destined for ongoing mediocrity until the ownership and management shake things up. They may not even need to make drastic changes. With Kershaw, the Dodgers have arguably the best young arm in the National League, and perhaps the best position player in the West in Matt Kemp. Unfortunately, after Andre Ethier, the club’s talent level falls off a cliff. Until next spring. Los Angeles Kings Staples Center, 1111 S. Figueroa St.,
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f any band owned the 1980s, it was Duran Duran. These hitmakers helped defined the synthy, poppy, funky ’80s sound — adored on both sides of the pond — with tracks like “Girls on Film” and “Rio.” Some critics think they came undone in the 1990s, but the aughts have found that plenty of people still are watching the act whose name, for your information, came from the Jane Fonda film Barbarella. They play at Nokia Theatre on Tuesday, Sept. 27, at 8 p.m. At 777 Chick Hearn Court, (213) 763-6020 or nokiatheatrelalive.com
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1 (888) KINGS-LA or kngs.nhl.com Sept. 28, 6 p.m.: The Kings are getting their skates sharp for the regular season with several tune-ups this week. First, they play the Penguins on neutral ice in Kansas City (Sept. 27), then jet back to Downtown to host the Colorado Avalanche. If you forget about this game, the river of purple and black flowing to Staples Center will remind you — hockey fans are dedicated and they arrive early (Lakers fans could learn something from the Kings nuts). They play another game in Anaheim on Sept. 30. —Ryan Vaillancourt
ROCK, POP & JAZZ Bootleg Bar 2220 Beverly Blvd., (213) 389-3856 or bootlegtheater.org. Sept. 26, 8:30 p.m.: It’s the final night of residency for soulful strummers Cassorla and jazz pop coven Big Moves. They’ll be joined, as is custom, by Light FM and Monte Mar. Sept. 27, 8:30 p.m.: Upbeat Kentucky kids Sleeper Agent drop in to celebrate the release of their new album Celabrasion. Expect a rousing night of indie rock. Sept. 27, 9:30 p.m.: Guitar oracle and master instrumentalist Jim Campilongo sits down with his Fender Tele and a box full of reverb. Alana Amram and the Rough Gems have the distinction of opening for this six stringer. Sept. 28, 10 p.m.: Neon Indian’s new album Era Extrana finds synth boss Alan Paloma hitting his stride. The bright Nintendo glaze that hung over the first album like a saccharine veil has melted into a sticky quagmire of minor keys and crunchy guitars. He’ll be taking the stage with Com Truise.
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No need to remind Kings fans that it’s hockey season. Trust them, they know.
Sept. 29, 9:30 p.m.: Carefully crafted, well measured folk rock at the Bootleg? You’re joking! No, of course they’re not. A.A. Bondy and Nik Freitas power through some downplayed folk rock. Sept. 30, 9 p.m.: They’re one part vintage synth, one part downtempo and one part sultry beats. It’s Big Sir, helmed by Lisa Papineau and Mars Volta bass player Juan Alderete. Sea of Cortez and Greenhorse join the bill just for good measure. Oct. 1, 9 p.m.: The title of the Peach Kings’ new EP says it all. Trip Wop is a doozy of a reference to the slinky, slowform ’90s style. They’ll be joined by Emily Greene. Oct. 2, 8 p.m.: It’s Cinderella Motel, Marnie Stern, Dunes and Wet & Reckless for the win. Casey’s Irish Pub 613 S. Grand Ave., (213) 629-2353 or bigcaseys.com. Sept. 30, 10:30 p.m.: It’s their last week in the saddle down at Casey’s, so come check out Pan Am and their kick to the crotch indie rock. Club Nokia 800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 765-7000 or clubnokia.com.
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Opera Continued from page 17 full emotional grasp of the character as she matures from silly girl to sophisticated society woman, and she delivers a solid, often inspired musical performance. The show continues through Oct. 9 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Dyka is backed by the superb supporting cast of Margaret Thompson as her mother, Larina, and Ekaterina Semenchuk as her sister, Olga. Equally strong is tenor Vselvolod Grivnov as the impetuous and ill-fated best friend Lensky, whose inflated sense of drama leads him to challenge Onegin to a duel. It is beautifully rendered. Versatile conductor James Conlon has a perfect understanding of Tchaikovsky, and gives over the drama without going over-the-top with lush romanticism. It’s nicely handled in what is only L.A. Opera’s third Russian work in a quarter century. Playing Onegin has always been a dramatic challenge. Thanks to the composer’s heavy cropping of the tale, the major character seems almost incidental to the first act, and his emotions must be conveyed with searing force if the story is
to work. Baritone Dalibor Jenis offers a dark, stiff and generally unsympathetic Onegin as the show opens, and finds it hard to get into full emotional gear as the plot proceeds. His singing, however, is world-class. Jenis has a voice that carries genuine musical authority. Perhaps he will loosen up as the run continues. The production, created by the late Steven Pimlott for the Royal Opera House in London, and here directed by Francesca Gilpin, often adds to the dramatic confusion suffered by Onegin. Some scenes are gorgeously rendered, including a countryside with a real pond that freezes to a skating rink in winter. The costumes, however, are often fussy and overdone, sometimes in inexplicably jarring colors. A huge mural of a naked man opens the opera, perhaps symbolizing the subconscious of young Tatiana, but distracting mightily from the action. Other decisions seem downright amateurish. Why squeeze a big party scene, complete with dancers, onto the proscenium? Why push the most important and intimate scenes to the back of the stage? Such weaknesses, however, are incidental. This Onegin offers plenty of high-octane Russian angst and thrilling music. Eugene Onegin runs through Oct. 9 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., (213) 972-8001 or laopera.com.
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Community Amenities: ~ 24 Hr. Manned Lobby ~ Concierge ~ Pool / Spa / Saunas ~ Fitness Center ~ Gas BBQ Grills ~ Recreation Room
Apartment Amenities: ~ Refrigerator, Stove, Microwave & Dish washer (most units) ~ Central Air & Heating ~ Balconies (most units)
It’s our business to make you comfortable... at home, downtown. Corporate and long term residency is accommodated in high style at the Towers Apartments. Contemporary singles, studio, one bedroom and two bedroom apartment homes provide fortunate residents with a courteous full service lobby attendant, heated pool, spa, complete fitness center, sauna and recreation room with kitchen. Beautiful views extend from the Towers’ lofty homes in the sky. Mountain vistas and slender skyscrapers provide an incredible back drop to complement your decor. Far below are a host of businesses ready to support your pampered downtown lifestyle. With spectacular cultural events nearby, even the most demanding tastes are satisfied. Downtown, it’s not just big business anymore. Visit the Towers Apartments today.
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