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Farmers market cuts, a big western, and other happenings around town.

CRA’s top executive will leave the Downtown-based agency.

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The Golden Age, Part II Light Rail Connecting Downtown With East L.A. Opens This Week

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Metro CEO Art Leahy (left) and project manager Dennis Mori on the platform at the new Little Tokyo/Arts District station. The $898 million Gold Line extension to East. L.A. opens Sunday, Nov. 15.

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hen the Metropolitan Transportation Authority opened the first segment of the Red Line subway in 1993, the agency expected it to support two rush hours. But the line that now connects Downtown with North Hollywood, and has a stop in MacArthur Park, generated three peak usage times: In addition to the morning and evening work commutes, a lunchtime rush resulted, said Art Leahy, Metro’s CEO. “With the Red Line, everyone was

getting on the train to go to lunch, to go to Langer’s,” Leahy said, referring to the famous deli at Seventh and Alvarado streets.

After Sunday, Nov. 15, when Metro debuts the Gold Line Eastside Extension, which will connect Downtown with Boyle Heights and other East Los Angeles communities, Leahy won’t be surprised if there’s a similar triple rush. He anticipates Downtown workers hopping on the train to hit eateries such as the First Street Mexican seafood landmark La Serenata De Garibaldi.

“It’s going to bring some instant access to some really cool neighborhoods in East L.A.,” said Leahy. “It should really just enhance the livability of Downtown Los Angeles.”

The $848 million project has created eight stations along a six-mile route. The most prominent element for Downtown is the new Little Tokyo/Arts District station at the northeast corner of Alameda and First streets. From there, the line heads over the First Street Bridge and the Los Angeles River.

The Little Tokyo station is expect-

One Mixed Mess City Officials Scramble After Court Shoots Down Affordable Housing Mandate

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ed to increase Downtown’s access not only to East Los Angeles, but to the Gold Line alignment to Pasadena.

That line opened in 2003, but was accessible from Downtown only via Union Station or the Chinatown Metro station.

Fourteenth District City Council­ man José Huizar is hoping the Eastside Extension goes beyond facilitating more efficient transportation. He sees the line as a vehicle for integrating East L.A. with Downtown, two communities that have largely stayed on their see Gold Line, page 12

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In September 2008 Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa unveiled a $5 billion affordable housing plan. One year later he must rethink the centerpiece of the proposal, following the city’s loss of a lawsuit filed by a Downtown developer.

wo weeks ago, the California Supreme Court decided not to review a Down­ town developer’s successful lawsuit challenging the city of Los Angeles’ affordable housing policy in City West. Although it may at first glance seem to be an isolated or even inconsequential case, legal experts and city officials paint a far different picture — they say it has effectively torpedoed the centerpiece of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s sweeping $5 billion plan to increase L.A.’s low-income housing stock.

The court’s ruling in favor of developer Geoff Palmer means Villaraigosa must overhaul the proposed Mixed-Income Ordinance.

That and a similar, previous proposal, the

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Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance, have been worked on unsuccessfully by the mayor’s office and numerous council members for years.

Moving forward, experts and insiders say, the city has limited options.

“We can’t do what the City Council had intended to do, so we have to look at alternative ways of addressing the issues,” said Principal City Planner Jane Blumenfeld, who added that it would be premature to say what specific recommendations planning staff might make. “We’re meeting internally to map out how we can go back.”

City planning staff is expected to report to the City Council in the coming weeks on recommendations for revamping its proposal. see Palmer, page 11

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AROUNDTOWN Pershing Square Farmers Market Cut Back

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he Pershing Square Farmers Market, which typically sets up in the Financial District park every Wednesday from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m., will be closed for five weeks starting later this month, a market official said last week. Additionally, in the four sessions between now and Jan. 13, the market will operate with a slashed lineup — there will only be about 10 vendors, as opposed to the normal slate of approximately 40.

The cutbacks are to make more room for Pershing Square’s Downtown on Ice skating rink, which runs from Nov. 19 through Jan. 18, and upcoming holiday-themed events, said Melissa Farwell, market coordinator for Raw Inspiration, the nonprofit that operates the market. “It’s a smaller version to allow for the ice rink and all the events they have scheduled to go in,” said Farwell. “The market usually contracts at this time of year anyway. Things go out of season, that kind of stuff.” Rather than take place weekly, Farwell said the market will open during usual hours Nov. 11. It will then shut down and not return until Dec. 23 and 30. A session will also take place Jan. 13. After Jan. 13, the market is expected to return to its normal schedule and size.

Million Dollar Theater To Host ‘Wild Bunch’ Celebration

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he Historic Core’s Million Dollar Theater this week will host a star-studded screening of a film many consider to be among the greatest westerns ever made. On

Thursday, Nov. 12, the venue at Broadway and Third Street will be the site of the Jules Verne Festival’s celebration of the 40th anniversary of the release of Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch. The event will start at 7 p.m. with an awards ceremony honoring actor Ernest Borgnine, who starred in the film and is slated to appear at the event. Relatives of the late director will also be honored.

Other celebrities scheduled to attend include Ali MacGraw (who will present Pekinpah’s children with an award), Malcolm McDowell and Billy Bob Thornton. “We will reassemble the cast and crew of the movie… as well as other celebrities that are connected somehow to Peckinpah’s work, like actors that played in other movies he made,” said Jules Verne Festival director Frédéric Dieudonné. The event is open to the public and general admission tickets are $15. The Million Dollar Theater is at 307 S. Broadway. Tickets and information are at (213) 884-7005 or julesverne.org.

Chinatown Apartment Complex Fetches $4.2 Million

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n under-construction, 29-unit apartment complex in Chinatown has been sold for $4.2 million, officials involved with the deal said last week. Downtown-based Super A Logistics Services LLC, a recently formed company which includes investor Jeff Bazyler and a silent partner, purchased the property at 700-704 N. Hill St. and 709711 N. Yale St. It was sold by Cerritos-based Gateway Business Bank after it foreclosed on the project. That occurred when the previous developer, Ray Monroe, ran into finan-

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Downtown’s life as a movie going hub picked up steam last week. On Tuesday, Nov. 3, the new Regal Cinemas at L.A. Live hosted the red carpet premiere of the apocalyptic thriller 2012. Attendees included actor Jason Biggs, who posed with a crashed car that was part of the opening night set-up.

cial difficulties, said Michel Hibbert, a broker for Charles Dunn Company, which represented the seller and buyer. Construction on the 26,222-square-foot building will be taken over by the new owner, and completion is slated for spring 2010. The building will include one- and two-bedroom units which will rent for $1,200-$1,600. The project is being marketed as luxury apartments.

“It’s got the granite countertops, views of the city, central heat and air, tile bathroom and kitchens,” Hibbert said.

door stages, an art exhibit, vendor booths, guest speakers and more than 30 musical acts, including Bad Religion, Suicidal Tendencies and Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas performing a DJ set. The event will also include speeches by Congresswoman Maxine Waters, criminal defense attorney Christopher Darden and Hip-Hop Summit Action Network President Dr. Benjamin Chavis. The concert, which last year took place at Los Angeles State Historic Park, runs from 2 p.m.-1 a.m., rain or shine.

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he fourth annual, “socially conscious” music, arts and cultural festival We the People has been announced for Saturday, Nov. 21, at an unlikely Downtown location: L.A. Center Studios, at 450 S. Bixel St. The event at the sound stages will feature two out-

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All aboard! Join us as we celebrate the opening of the Edward R. Roybal Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension.

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Festivities at four stations, 9am to 5pm: East LA Civic Center Station Enjoy live performances of Chicano rock, a spectacular Farmer’s Market plus tasty food booths, local artisans and special exhibits from the County Bike Coalition and Metro Bike programs.

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Mariachi Plaza Station Expect the joy of live Mariachi music to fill your senses, as the celebration continues with a special Block Party.

Little Tokyo/Arts District Station Take your place on stage with live karaoke, then enjoy the cuisine of the area along with special family activities.

Union Station Look for a display from Madame Tussauds Hollywood, as well as bands, guitarists, food booths and a special visit from Santa.

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EDITORIALS Don’t Let Parker Center Languish

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ignificant attention has been focused on the Los Angeles Police Department in recent weeks. This makes sense, considering the Oct. 24 opening of the new $440 million headquarters building in Downtown, the Oct. 31 departure of Police Chief William Bratton, and the nomination, three days later, of Deputy Chief Charlie Beck as Bratton’s replacement.

Amidst the celebrations of careers, transitions and state-ofthe-art buildings, one thing has been easy to overlook — the future of Parker Center, which served as the headquarters of the LAPD for 54 years. Although the building is run-down (Bratton joked that it should be blown up), discussion of what comes next should not be placed on the back burner. It is imperative to find a new, active use for the structure or the site.

The current “plan” for Parker Center, and we use that word loosely, is frustrating. Although the new police building broke ground in January 2007, it will still be several years, at least, until a decision is even made about what to do with Parker Center. Perhaps we expect too many things from government, but we think the process should have begun in earnest long ago.

As Los Angeles Downtown News reported recently, the next step is an Environmental Impact Report on the 1955

building. The City Council has set aside $1 million for the study, and it is not expected to be finished until June 2011.

Considering the pace of EIRs, or for that matter any planning study the city undertakes, it will not be a surprise if that time frame is pushed.

The EIR would look at five options, including preserving Parker Center and transforming it into another use, and various demolition and rebuilding proposals. Whatever plan is selected at the culmination of the study will not be quick to materialize — the project will likely have to be put out to bid, another usually lengthy process.

Once a plan is selected and construction or demolition begins, expect another couple of years before the project is completed. All told, if one starts with the concept of an EIR completed in 2011, Downtown will be lucky to see the site reactivated by late 2013. Don’t be surprised if the usual delays — planning snafus, a search for funds, change orders, etc. — arise and nothing opens until 2015. Or much later.

Granted, this timeline is speculative, but the lack of progress on other major projects and sites in the Civic Center lend credence to the slow outlook and provide a reason why it should not be allowed in the case of Parker Center. As this page has noted before, the Civic Center, which should be one of the

jewels of the city, already deals with three black eyes: a vacant, graffiti-scarred plot immediately west of City Hall, the site of a former state office building; the cavernous hole at First Street and Broadway that is supposed to be a new federal courthouse; and the dilapidated Hall of Justice on Temple Street between Broadway and Spring Street, a stately structure which has sat vacant and fenced off since the Northridge earthquake.

The point is, if Parker Center languishes, the Civic Center will have a fourth dead zone, a fourth area where foot traffic dies, a fourth place that sends a message of blight. All of this goes counter to the momentum and positive growth that has occurred in the rest of Downtown Los Angeles.

So what can be done? First, local officials can ensure that the EIR is fast tracked. There must be a way to expedite the mid-2011 completion. We expect that if pressure is applied from the right sources, things might move faster.

Above all, someone needs to step forward and “own” this project. This is a key parcel and it needs a champion, someone who will keep it on the front burner.

We’ll hope, perhaps foolishly, that a committed individual will step up and this will happen on a timely schedule. Parker Center is a prime location, and should not be allowed to languish.

A Skid Row Basketball Oasis

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kid Row is constantly full of surprises. Many are difficult to witness and comprehend — the horrors of intense poverty and filth, widespread drug dealing, and rampant and untreated mental illness all raise disturbing questions about how a modern, seemingly advanced society allows such suffering.

Then there are surprises that are more pleasant, things that casual observers of the neighborhood would never expect. A case in point is the Skid Row 3-on-3 Streetball League.

In a recent three-part series in Los Angeles Downtown News, staff writer Ryan Vaillancourt chronicled a year in the life of the generally overlooked league. In the process, he provided a reminder of several important things about Skid Row, including that the community should not be viewed or treated by the rest of the city as a fenced-off ghetto. Just like in every other neighborhood, the area is defined by its people, and although profound challenges exist, some of those inhabitants are working to make their home a better place.

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The growth and now success of the 3-year-old league is worth applauding. Founded by an ex-con named Manuel Compito but known in the neighborhood as OG Man, the league has been nurtured by a handful of area activists, among them Jeff Page (also more widely recognized by a nickname — General Jeff). They and others have formed partnerships with city and private entities and have overcome obstacles to create a welcoming environment. The result is they now have things that players in other basketball leagues take for granted, like uniforms and a modern court.

As the league has grown, more than just the basketball players have benefited. Games, which take place on Saturday mornings in Gladys Park, have become a community gathering point, and during those times the park becomes something of an oasis. It is a place where people hang out and kids can play safely.

Of course, the league provides a service to its players, and it may help some of them overcome the challenges that

landed them on Skid Row in the first place. In this aspect the league is not alone — the community boasts other organizations many might not expect, such as a quilting group and a photography club. All of these, as well as other pursuits that help people in the area transform their lives, should be nurtured.

The Skid Row 3-on-3 Streetball League is a wonderful, organic development. It deserves support from the rest of the city.

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LETTERS Plans for Parks Dear Editor, our story on the Department of Recreation and Parks’ use of Quimby funds (“Little Progress in Parks Plan,” Oct. 5, by Anna Scott) contains halftruths and misinformation. We would like to set the record straight.

Since July 2007 the Department has added over 115 acres of new parkland by acquiring 13 new parks and expanding eight existing parks. A search of the Quimby Quarterly Report (as of September 15, 2009, online at laparks.org/planning/quimby.htm) would have shown that nine of these park acquisitions or park expansion projects, totaling approximately 19 acres, were facilitated wholly or in part through the use of Quimby fees.

Additionally, since July 2007, approximately $64 million in Quimby fees have been allocated to park acquisition or park improvement projects throughout the city. In Council District Nine, which covers much of Downtown Los Angeles, approximately $15.7 million in Quimby monies have been collected since July 2003. In that same time frame, approximately $9.4 million in Quimby fees have been allocated to projects (including $5.2 million for the acquisition of property on Spring Street) and another $3.4 million is earmarked for the future development of the Spring Street park. Additionally, Quimby dollars supported recent improvements at Pershing Square.

The Recreation and Parks Needs Assessment project, serendipitous to Quimby planning, was conceived in early 2007, and not as a result of questions concerning Quimby expenditures. The final report of the assessment is providing crucial information to the department and is a valuable planning tool for new park development, existing park re-development, Prop 84 efforts and effective use of available funding. A department master plan, a reasonable next step, is on hold due to budget considerations, but does not in any way depreciate the efficacy of the assessment report.

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priorities and higher priority facilities that residents have expressed as desirable, as well as funding ideas and suggestions, apart from the city’s general fund, which is currently in difficulty. These priorities are important in these challenging financial times, and help focus the department and the city on the community’s higher desires and more important key issues, such as safety, youth and senior needs.

The city has a $400 million deficit and the Department of Recreation and Parks is facing more than 30% in budget cuts. These reductions will reduce positions, programming, facility hours and will impact any funds that could be used to match Quimby acquisition dollars. And any acquisitions do not guarantee resources to develop, open, maintain and cover utilities on new properties. California state grant dollars, usually assigned to acquisitions and improvements, have been cut as well.

We cannot and should not spend money we do not have. We have a new property in the works Downtown and another that is in the exploration stage. There are over a dozen new park acquisitions on the drawing board citywide. These are within our means and will make a real difference Downtown and elsewhere.

—Jon Kirk Mukri, general manager, department of Recreation and Parks Ed. note: Los Angeles Downtown News stands by its article and the accuracy of its reporting.

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os Angeles Downtown News posts comments to stories on our website. Here are some of the most recent responses.

Additional comments appear on downtownnews.com (comments follow individual articles).

Further responses are welcome.

Regarding the Nov. 2 story “The Life and Times of the Sports Arena,” by Jay Berman ou forgot to mention how the Sports Arena was the home of the Los Angeles Blades hockey team in the Western Hockey League from 1961 (?) until the Kings arrived, and also, the original home of the Ice Dogs, who moved to Long Beach before they disbanded a few years ago.

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ood remembrances, but overlooked was the first sports event staged at the Sports Arena, where French Algerian boxing champion Alphonse Halimi was defeated by Mexico’s Jose Becerra on July 9, 1959 — five days after Nixon dedicated the building. Also it might have been noted that the Sports Arena was the boxing venue for the 1984

Olympic Games.

—posted by Jack Hawn, Nov. 2, 2:36 p.m.

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have fond memories of the Sports Arena. I recall going to see the Lakers and, as a child, being riveted to the count-clock of the attendance as people came into the building. You could actually hear the clicking sound from the old electronic counter. In later years, I often went to the Sports Arena for USC basketball games.

I sat in the vacant press box at the top of the arena and practiced my basketball radio play-by-play, which led to announcing jobs after I grew up with UCLA, the Rams and others.

—posted by Paul Olden, Nov. 2, 3:29 p.m.

Regarding the Oct. 30 news brief “Smoking Ban,” about a proposed ordinance to prohibit smoking in outdoor areas in Los Angeles rime, gangs, messed-up sidewalks, potholes, panhandlers, etc., and this is what our city council spend its time on? Bunch of nannies.

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Cleantech Center Starts Over City Officials Hope to Replace Rail Car Manufacturer After Development Deal Disintegrates

by Anna Scott staff writer

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week after the demise of a deal to create a Downtown industrial park for environmentally friendly companies, local officials are scrambling to determine what to do next.

Community Redevelopment Agency officials last week said that negotiations are under way with a few potential companies to develop facilities for the proposed Cleantech Manufacturing Center. The plan for a 1 million-square-foot project was scuttled when AnsaldoBreda, an Italian rail car maker, pulled out of the project shortly before the deal was slated to close.

“We have a couple of clean tech companies that look very attractive,” said CRA CEO Cecilia Estolano, who will resign her post at the end of this month. “We’re having some very intensive internal staff discussions about the most effective way to get a strong tenant onto the site quickly.”

Estolano said her departure at the end of November is unrelated to the AnsaldoBreda deal falling apart.

Estolano would not say what businesses, or even what kind of companies, are in the running for the 20-acre property near Washington Boulevard and 15th Street. A spokeswoman for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said that the mayor’s office is also in talks with possible replacements, including solar and electric car manufacturers.

The CRA, depending on the outcome of the current negotiations, could start from scratch and begin anew the process to attract tenant-builders or tenant-developer teams, Estolano said. That could add months to the project’s timeline.

The CRA typically allows 60-90 days for companies to bid on projects, said CRA Project Manager Len Betz. After evaluating the proposals, if a suitable candidate is found, the agency’s Board of Commissioners and the City Council must approve the deal. Additionally, most companies would have to line up financing to build a manufacturing facility, a challenge in the current economy — an advantage of AnsaldoBreda was that the project was self-financed and financially ready to build.

“There would probably be quite a bit of interest in a new facility with good labor market access,” said Jack Kyser, chief economist for the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation, adding that the area surrounding the Cleantech site has just a 2.5% vacancy rate for industrial properties.

“The only limiting factor would be financing. There’s nothing available and it doesn’t look like there will be anything available for at least a year.”

Still, Betz said CRA officials are optimistic.

“It’s possible there’s someone out there that could be in the same situation” as AnsaldoBreda, he said. “I do think we will see a lot of interest in this site.”

Starting Fresh The city purchased the site from the state for $14 million in April 2008.

The property, adjacent to the L.A. River, has a long history of industrial users, which led to heavy contamination. The city spent $2.2 million cleaning it up.

AnsaldoBreda, in a deal pushed by Villaraigosa, was slated to develop a 240,000-square-foot, $70 million light rail manufacturing facility on a 14.3-acre portion of the property. The deal fell apart before its midnight deadline on Oct. 30, when AnsaldoBreda refused to sign a contract it had negotiated with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to produce 100 new rail cars.

AnsaldoBreda had come under fire previously for delivering late and overweight rail cars to Metro. That prompted Metro CEO Art Leahy to lobby against giving the manufacturing contract to the Italian company.

Villaraigosa, in a press release issued six weeks ago, touted the anticipated benefits of the AnsaldoBreda deal, including 2,200 full-time jobs and nearly 1,000 temporary jobs.

Estolano said that any new company would also have to offer desirable employment opportunities.

“We’re looking for career ladder jobs,” said Estolano.

“Then there’s all of the typical stuff — what are their financials? How solid are they?”

Other criteria, she said, would be that the company manufactures green products in an environmentally friendly way and builds a facility that meets criteria set up by the U.S. Green Building Council.

Regardless of whether the CRA finds an anchor tenant in one of the firms already under consideration or through a

new bidding process, Estolano said other clean tech companies will eventually bid on different portions of the site.

Asked whether AnsaldoBreda could bid on the project again, Estolano said, “They sure could.”

AnsaldoBreda did not respond to a request for comment.

Contact Anna Scott at anna@downtownnews.com.

rendering courtesy of the Community Redevelopment Agency

A 2008 rendering of the proposed Cleantech Manufacturing Center, a 20-acre project near Washington Boulevard and 15th Street. City officials are looking for a new anchor tenant for the development after an Italian rail car manufacturer abruptly pulled out of the deal.

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New Police Chief Brings Downtown Ties Mayor’s Nominee, Charlie Beck, Once Presided Over Central Division

by Ryan VaillancouRt

Beck in 2002, when he was captain of Central Division, which patrols most of Downtown.

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s everyone knows by now, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa last week nominated LAPD Deputy Chief Charlie Beck to replace William Bratton as the top cop in Los Angeles. What many even in the Central City may not realize is that Beck has deep ties to Downtown — both his own, and in his family.

Beck served as captain of Central Division, which covers most of Downtown, from January 2002 through May 2003. Those who have worked with him, in Downtown and during his other assignments throughout the department, describe him as a thoughtful, capable leader.

Current Central Capt. Blake Chow, who worked under Beck in the Real-time Analysis and Critical Response Division, which coordinates emergency operations, painted Beck as someone with the ability to look to the future. “Charlie’s really going to serve this organization well,� Chow said. “He’s a progressive thinker and he surrounds himself with people who are progressive thinkers.�

Beck joined the department in 1977 after two years in the Los Angeles Police Reserve Corps. He was promoted to sergeant in 1984, to lieutenant in 1993 and to captain in 1999.

Bratton, who arrived in 2002, made him a commander in 2005 and named him deputy chief in August 2006.

Chow said it would be beneficial for Central Division if Beck’s nomination is approved by the City Council — no opposition is expected in the vote that will likely occur within weeks — because he has lasting re-

photo by Gary Leonard

Deputy Chief Charlie Beck, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s nominee for LAPD chief, has a reputation as a down-to-earth manager who maintains a good rapport with the rank and file.

lationships with officers still in the division, and because he understands the law enforcement issues that are unique to Downtown. “It would definitely be good for Downtown,� Chow said. “He sat in the chair here and understands the dynamics of Downtown, the issues of Skid Row, Staples Center, the issues facing the different Business Improvement Districts and how important those public safety pieces are.�

During Beck’s time in Central, he helped lay the groundwork for the law enforcement component of the Safer Cities Initiative, said Ninth District City Councilwoman Jan Perry, who worked closely with Beck during that period. Although the crackdown on crime in Skid Row was not implemented until 2006, when the department deployed 50 additional officers to the area, Perry said Beck helped create the momentum that led to the initiative. “He had a strong understanding of the

problems that people face living without housing and he was highly sensitive to it,�

Perry said. “He was really willing to roll up his shirt sleeves and get in there and work with people.�

One With the Troops Beck’s father George Beck was a Los Angeles police officer too. He even worked in Central Division in the late 1960s, before retiring as a deputy chief in 1980.

Three years before George Beck retired, his son followed his father into the department.

In a July 2002 interview with the Los Angeles Downtown News, one of Charlie Beck’s former lieutenants characterized his boss as someone willing to do the gritty work. “He leads from the front,� said Lt. Dan Mulrenin. “If we were out at 2 o’clock in the morning on a holiday investigating the murder of a child, Charlie was right there as well. That’s just the type of guy he is. He

wouldn’t ask his people to do anything that he wouldn’t do himself.�

In 2002, Beck described himself as a manager with the ability to relate to officers through the ranks. “I think my strong point is being able to empathize with people and see things from their point of view, and then either try to adjust my wants to fit what they need, or to meet them halfway,� Beck said. “I have a different perspective as the captain than one of my officers who works the graveyard shift. Once you realize where someone is coming from, it becomes easier to understand why they might want something different than what you want.�

That approach has earned Beck, an avid motocross rider in his spare time, a reputation as an approachable, friendly and downto-earth boss, said Bryce Spafford, a veteran detective at Central Division. “He’s universally respected and well liked by the rank and file and he’s considered to be a good mix of the street cop and the manager,�

Spafford said. “He’s good at getting people to do what they need to do just through force of personality, and not in a bad way.�

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Opening the Barn Doors Downtown Kids Get an Indoor Playground

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owntown’s latest hot spot for young up-and-comers has everything you would expect in a place where you would want to hang out with friends or throw a private, party, although the clientele is kind of a rough-andtumble crowd.

There’s a coolly lit lounge area, a little bit of food and some drinks. There is also a bounce house, a swing set, tractor cars, a climbing wall, a huge chalkboard and a ball pit.

Little Barn, which opened Oct. 5, is making a straight-ahead pitch at something its owners think is in woefully short supply in Downtown Los Angeles — businesses that cater to kids.

“We wanted to provide a place where Downtown kids could go and have a great experience,” said 36-year-old Jennifer Frizzell, who opened Little Barn with her friend, 37-year-old Stephanie Raye. “We’ve been hugely surprised at how much support we’re getting.”

The 3,000-square-foot indoor playground is housed in an old printing shop on Beaudry Avenue in City West. It is open to kids from 6 months to 8 years old. Along with the children’s amenities, there is free Wi-Fi, as well as a snack bar serving drinks like coffee and espresso.

It is open seven days a week. Entry is $8 a day per child.

Growing Audience This is not the first business for either of the proprietors.

Raye owns the Bikram Yoga outlet on Bunker Hill, while Frizzell is a partner in the Redwood Bar on Second Street. They opened Little Barn after finding few options in Downtown for their toddler daughters.

“We would go to indoor playgrounds all over town, but we wanted some place that was clean, safe, brought the community together and that we didn’t have to leave to get lunch,” said Raye.

Little Barn’s exterior is, appropriately, designed to look like a big red barn. So far the reaction has exceeded expectations, they said, with more than a dozen kids visiting daily.

They also had booked five private parties within their first few weeks of opening.

“The official numbers may not seem that big, but we felt there’s a lot more families in Downtown than are documented,” Frizzell said.

According to a demographic study released this year by the Downtown Center Business Improvement District, 6.5% of area residents have children ages 5 or under. Another 13% plan to start a family within a few years.

At Play On a recent Tuesday afternoon, parents from nearby neighborhoods were taking advantage of Downtown’s newest place to hang out.

Bridget Levine sat in the bounce house with her 1-yearold son, Asher, who is already a regular at Little Barn. The Hollywood resident heard about the playground when she was searching for a place to hold Asher’s birthday party.

“We wanted a place that could hold a bunch of kids where they wouldn’t get bored and where the parents would have a good time,” Levine said as Asher raced around the playground. He went straight for some fake haystacks before settling in to one of the many cars parked by the swings.

Levine said she also enjoys the social interaction between parents that occurs at Little Barn. The indoor playground, she said, encourages more talking than occurs at an outdoor park.

“It’s also a place that parents can meet and talk and have a coffee. It’s so important for parents to have adult conversations too,” said Levine.

Rob Johnson, a Miracle Mile resident, heard about Little Barn through Levine as part of a parents group. During his visit, his 14-month-old daughter Annabel dove into the “bubble lounge,” a pit with thousands of clear plastic balls.

It is in a room illuminated by a low-wattage green light that imparts a lounge feel.

“It’s great, clean and fun,” Johnson said. “There’s a good variety of things to do here and she really seems to like it.”

While Annabel loved in the pit, Asher mastered the driving skills required to move the toy car around. Frizzell, dressed in barn-friendly overalls, joined him in a spontaneous bumper car game.

Raye and Frizzell said that they are already looking at ways to expand their services.

“We’re just getting started,” said Raye. “We’re going to get some morning music soon, kids yoga. We have so many more ideas we’re going to implement.”

Little Barn is at 130 S. Beaudry Ave., (213) 481-2276 or littlebarn.org.

Contact Richard Guzmán at richard@downtownnews.com.

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Estolano Leaving CRA Department Head Takes Job in Environmental Sector

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This is an expanded version of a story that appeared on downtownnews.com last week. ecilia Estolano, who for three and a half years served as CEO of the Community Redevelopment Agency, will step down from her post at the end of the month, officials announced last week.

Estolano will join an Oakland-based environmental firm, Green for All. Her last day at the agency headquartered in the Historic Core will be Nov. 30.

Estolano was hired by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in May 2006. She paid a particular focus to environmental efforts while at the agency, and said she looks forward to continuing her work in that arena and on job

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“We’ve done a lot of good for the city, and this is a wonderful opportunity for me to take my passion to a national level,” said Estolano.

“It’s hard to pass up.”

The announcement came just days after the agency suffered a major setback, when the proposed Cleantech Manufacturing Center was delayed indefinitely. That occurred after a deal to bring Italian rail car maker AnsaldoBreda to a Downtown site near the Los Angeles River fell apart. The agency has also been impacted by a state effort to take redevelopment funds from cities across California.

Estolano said that the AnsaldoBreda deal’s demise had nothing to do with her reasons for leaving.

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In a statement, Villaraigosa, said, “Cecilia was at the forefront of our efforts to create a clean tech corridor and it was her unwavering commitment to provide living wage jobs for hard-working Angelenos that resulted in project labor agreements.”

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Although last week he nominated Charlie Beck to replace LAPD Chief William Bratton, he still lacks permanent leaders for the city’s Housing Department, the Department of Building and Safety and the Department of Water and Power.

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Palmer Continued from page 1 A Villaraigosa spokeswoman said the mayor and his staff are meeting with city departments about how to proceed, and are not prepared to comment on the issue.

Palmer, in an email last week, said, “All cities ought to be setting an example of following the law and rolling back these now decided illegal affordable and inclusionary housing mandates. I find it very disappointing to learn that instead, these civil servants are again attempting to get around the law in furtherance of their social engineering objectives.”

Making a Case Palmer sued the city two years ago to avoid having to include below-market rate residences in his proposed City West apartment complex Piero II (which would not open until 2015 at the earliest). Under the 20-year-old Central City West Specific Plan, a development guide for the area created when officials anticipated a building boom just west of the 110 Freeway, Palmer would have had either to include 60 units for lowincome tenants in the project, or pay the city $5.7 million in so-called “in lieu” fees to build the housing elsewhere.

Palmer won his case in 2007. The city appealed, and Palmer prevailed again in the state Court of Appeal earlier this year.

The decision was significant, because while the original ruling applied only to Palmer’s case, the appellate court outcome set a precedent throughout California. It allows challenges to affordable housing mandates throughout the state.

The city then asked the California Supreme Court to review the case. The panel denied the request on Oct. 22, making the appellate court ruling final and putting a dent in the housing proposal Villaraigosa had announced in September 2008.

Specifically, the Mixed-Income Ordinance would have required developers of large projects across the city either to include a certain percentage of below-market rate units in their buildings, or pay the city to build the residences elsewhere. It had been discussed by City Council committees this year, and in April, Council president Eric Garcetti told a lunch meeting of the Los Angeles Current Affairs Forum that he was “optimistic that we can do it this year.”

Garcetti has backed away from the proposal, since “the mayor’s office made it clear that they were taking the lead,” said a Garcetti spokeswoman. Other City Hall officials who championed the measure, however, are scrambling to figure out how to proceed.

“I’m very disappointed,” said First District City Councilman Ed Reyes, who also worked on the Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance, which died in 2005. Reyes said he might pursue changing the state law that Palmer built his case on.

“I’m dropping some seeds with some legislators,” he said.

Not everyone is disappointed by the recent rulings. Some in the business community see the judicial decision as an overdue end to an ill-conceived affordable housing measure. Though laws similar to the City West requirement are on the books in cities throughout the country, multiple attempts to create such a policy in Los Angeles have failed amid heated controversy.

“While the need for affordable housing in the city is clear, we always believed that we could produce more by incentivizing developers to do it,” rather than requiring it, said Central City Association President Carol Schatz. “We’ve provided the city with several recommendations that came from just about every major business organization in the city and we would encourage the city to take a new look at those.”

Reworking a Proposal While Blumenfeld would not discuss specific alternatives planning staff might recommend to salvage the ordinance, she confirmed that the possibilities include creating an affordable housing requirement only for condominium projects, or a voluntary program based on incentives.

She noted that the city already has voluntary affordable housing programs in many areas, including Downtown.

A third option, legal experts say, would be for the city to impose a fee on large projects to fund affordable housing construction elsewhere. The assessment, unlike in lieu fees, would have to be calculated based on an estimate of the city’s affordable housing needs over the next several years and the cost of meeting them.

Santa Monica instituted that type of system in 1998, when it faced a lawsuit similar to the Palmer case, said Santa Monica senior land use attorney Barry Rosenbaum.

Some affordable housing advocates say that, like Reyes, they are starting to band together to push for changes to the 1995 statewide rent-decontrol measure that Palmer built his case on. The Costa-Hawkins Act entitles owners of apartment buildings constructed in the past 14 years to set the rents for new or vacant units.

“Going forward I think there will be legislation proposed to exempt inclusionary zoning ordinances from Costa Hawkins; that was the original intention of Costa Hawkins,” said attorney Michael Rawson, co-director of the nonprofit Public Interest Law Project. “There’s discussion going on among

DowntownNews.com groups all over the state about what that would be and how it would be proposed.”

Still, that would not likely produce immediate results, said one legal expert.

“That’s going to be a legal battle, because the building industry and the realtors don’t love inclusionary [zoning],” said attorney Thomas B. Brown of the San Francisco firm Hanson Bridgett LLP, who wrote a letter on behalf of the League of California Cities supporting Los Angeles’ petition for the Supreme Court to review the Palmer case. In the short-term, he said, the Palmer decision “is going to require cities to rethink their strategies.”

Indeed, officials with other California cities are already grappling with how the Palmer case could affect their affordable housing laws.

The San Jose City Council is scheduled to vote on an inclusionary housing policy on Nov. 17, said San Jose Housing Department Assistant Director Jacky Morales-Ferrand. The

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measure, like the City West policy, would require developers of large rental and for-sale projects either to set aside belowmarket rate units or pay an in lieu fee.

If the measure is approved, said Morales-Ferrand, it would not take effect until mid-2013 at the earliest, because it includes a stipulation that it will only kick in when the housing market improves — a determination based on the number of building permits issued in the city. San Jose officials are hoping that by then, the Palmer case will be moot.

“San Jose is in a different court circuit than the L.A. case, so there is a potential that a case could be heard in our circuit where we would have a different decision,” said MoralesFerrand. “We’re waiting to see if a ruling in our circuit comes, or if there’s a legislative fix.”

If neither of those things happens in the next four years, she said, “then we would strike the rental provisions of the ordinance.”

Contact Anna Scott at anna@downtownnews.com.

Gold Line Continued from page 1 respective halves of the Los Angeles River, he said.

“You’re talking about a low-income neighborhood in Boyle Heights that doesn’t have the means to get around and there’s also a cultural divide, but with the Gold Line, it’s going to solve both those problems,” Huizar said. “I think overall, with rail lines and public transportation, it’s good for the city because it not only provides good transportation and is good for the environment, but from the social perspective it brings people together.”

Safe Travels The project, formally titled the Edward R. Roybal Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension, broke

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DowntownNews.com ground in June 2004. It runs from Union Station to Atlantic Boulevard in East L.A. Most of the track is aboveground light-rail, but for 1.7 miles, twin tunnels snake under Boyle Heights. Officials expect the line to serve 13,000 daily riders by the end of the year.

About half of the project was funded by the federal government. The rest was covered by a mix of state and local funds, said Dennis Mori, Metro’s project manager for the extension.

While train projects come with inherent public safety concerns, especially for aboveground light-rail lines, Mori said the more than five-year construction process was flawless from a safety perspective.

Still, some officials, including County Supervisor Gloria Molina, have expressed concern about safety once the line opens. She is afraid children in

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The granite benches at the Little Tokyo station are inspired by the targets in traditional Zen archery.

particular will be tempted to cross the tracks.

“There are so many signals out there and one of them is a no left turn signal, and my concern is that that is not going to be enough to prevent accidents,” said Molina, who has urged Metro to install permanent fencing along the aboveground portions of the route.

Though no permanent fencing will be installed by the time the line opens, last month the Metro board of commissioners approved $4.5 million for safety enhancements to the line, said Metro spokesman Jose Ubaldo. Those funds will pay for fencing along most of the route, but the agency first needs to collect bids and hire a contractor, Ubaldo said.

Metro has attempted to educate Downtown and East L.A. residents and workers about the new line through community outreach meetings over the past year. The agency has also employed so-called safety ambassadors since June. The ambassadors, all retired Metro employees, wear yellow Metro vests and stand near the new stations, Ubaldo said.

After starting with 12 ambassadors, the agency recently increased the number to 24, and expanded their hours. They are at the stations seven days a week, and will remain there for three months after the line opens, Ubaldo said.

Station Art With the Gold Line extension, Metro sought to make the eight new stations not just transit hubs, but community landmarks, said Mori “All of our projects are designed by an architect and artists, but what you’ll see along this alignment is a lot of architecture and artwork that reflects the cultural influences of East Los Angeles and Little Tokyo,” Mori said.

A different artist designed aspects of each station. For the Little Tokyo/Arts District stop, Hirokazu Kosaka created six smooth granite benches with concentric circles of black and white. The bull’s-eyes are meant to symbolize the targets common to the Japanese tradition of Zen archery, said Maya Emsden, director of Metro’s public art program.

Lead station architect Ted Tokio Tanaka took a cue from Kosaka in designing the rest of the facility, fashioning a series of white canopies with arched support frames meant to mimic an archer’s bow, Emsden said.

That station and the seven others will be shown off on Sunday. Metro is hoping to bring out droves of riders on opening day with a series of celebratory events at various stations from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. The Little Tokyo/Arts District stop will hold karaoke, food from nearby restaurants, and information booths representing businesses and organizations in the area.

Across the river, the new subway stop at Mariachi Plaza will host the 19th annual Mariachi Festival and a Boyle Heights block party.

“I think we’re at a critical moment right now where we’re getting people to understand that they can get out of their cars and not adversely affect their timetable and commute,” said Ara Najarian, chairman of the Metro board of commissioners. “That’s what we sell when we go to Washington. We say, ‘Look, we’re changing L.A. We’re not just the single occupancy vehicle anymore.”

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Gold Line, by The Numbers Key Figures for the Metro Eastside Extension 898,000,000: Total project cost, in dollars.

1.7: Length, in miles, of tunnels under Boyle Heights.

6: Length, in miles, of entire Eastside Extension.

19.4: Length, in miles, of entire Metro Gold Line, connecting to Pasadena.

79: Length, in miles, of entire Metro rail system.

65: Top speed, in miles per hour, of Gold Line trains.

144,000: Weight, in pounds, of each Metro rail car on the line.

76: Seats per car.

13,000: Expected average daily ridership after one year.

7: Frequency of train stops, in minutes, during peak hours.

12: Frequency of train stops, in minutes, during non-peak hours.

20: Frequency of train stops, in minutes, during evening and night hours.

20: Approximate time, in minutes, it takes to travel Gold Line from Union Station to Atlantic Avenue in East L.A., or vice versa.

64: Duration of construction, in months.

Around Town Continued from page 2 nine-month upgrade of the online map pages was launched in late October and offers more detailed images of the landscape in North America and Europe. The new maps show crisp, sharp images of vegetation and terrain. “It looks a lot like an atlas,� said company co-founder Graham Marriott.

Cartifact, which has been headquartered in Downtown for 10 years, also produces printed maps. They will continue to upgrade the new MapQuest program with additional zoom levels this month. Those will provide even closer views of the terrain. Other continents will follow in the coming months, said Marriott.

Call for Arts District Artists

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owntown-based artist Lilli Muller, who produced the September Autumn Lights event at Pershing Square, is looking for creative types willing to open the doors to their workspaces for an Arts District open studio tour on Saturday, Dec. 5. The event, which will run from noon-7 p.m., will provide attendees with a map of participating studios and access to a shuttle, which will run through the neighborhood with stops at the various lofts. Registration is $35, and $2.50 from every entry will go to the local nonprofit Artshare L.A., which runs arts programs for children.

Interested artists should contact Muller at (213) 247-8800 or lillim99@gmail.com. The deadline for registration is Nov. 15.

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ribbon cutting ceremony was held last week for a new satellite campus for the National Autonomous University of Mexico, which is scheduled to open in the Historic Core early next year. The classrooms will be on the first floor of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund offices at 634 S. Spring St. Classes will be offered in Spanish, business, art and philosophy. Ana Lydia Ochoa, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles campus, said that school officials have not yet determined how many students will attend the campus or the exact number of classes to be offered. The Downtown facility will be the third one opened by the university in the United States, following outposts in San Antonio and Chicago. The campus follows other higherlearning institutions that have opened satellite facilities in Downtown, including the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, which set up a Los Angeles facility in October 2008. UCLA Extension has a 16,000-square-foot satellite campus at Figueroa Courtyard.

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Trauma Zone When a USC Football Player Suffered a Horrifying Weightlifting Accident, a Team of California Hospital Medical Center Doctors Responded

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n Sept. 28, Stafon Johnson, a star tailback for the USC Trojans, was doing something he had done thousands of times: bench pressing in the weight room. Then the accident happened.

The bar, holding about 275 pounds, slipped from his grasp and landed on his throat, crushing his larynx. Johnson was raced to California Hospital Medical Center on Grand Avenue for what would turn out to be more than seven hours of emergency surgery. It took place under the eyes of Dr. Gudata Hinika, the Downtown facility’s chief of trauma since 2004.

Hinika and a team of three specialists worked to restore Johnson’s airway, then set about reconstructing his larynx. Recently, Hinika looked back on the experience.

Los Angeles Downtown News: So, what had you been planning on doing during those seven hours on Sept. 28?

Gudata Hinika: We have a trauma team that is on standby 24 hours a day seven days a week to actually take care of any critically injured patients that would need our attention, so we were prepared to operate on anybody during those hours. The team that took care of him was on call. They are a group of surgeons that are in house and there are other specialists that would come in based on need. I was one of the surgeons in the operating room. We have a team of surgeons that do this and mostly we coordinate those teams according to the special need and we mobilize them.

Q: What’s going through your head when you get this call and you’re briefed on the nature of the injury?

A: Whenever somebody’s critically injured there are different levels of activations. He came in at the highest level of activation.

The whole team was mobilized and we were prepared to provide appropriate care in the emergency room with all surgery tools available, and when he arrived we clearly made a

decision to move into the emergency room immediately and an emergency airway was provided to him.

Q: What was the basic situation with Johnson’s condition?

A: He was lifting about 275 pounds, benchpressing, and the bar landed on his throat, crushing his larynx and multiple tissues around his larynx. It required immediate-

When USC running back Stafon Johnson was rushed to California Hospital Medical Center after a bar holding 275 pounds fell on his throat, seven hours of surgery ensued.

Dr. Gudata Hinika, the hospital’s chief of trauma, oversaw the treatment.

‘It’s unusual for the general public when they hear “sevenhour surgery.” It’s not unusual for us.

We do 12 hours, 16 hours, even sometimes longer. So for us it’s a routine.’

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ly an emergency airway to allow him to breathe, followed by reconstructive surgery to initiate appropriate healing. The injury is mostly isolated to the neck. He was having just a tiny airflow going through this crushed airway. Obviously being athletic and having an amazing anatomical build in his neck, his neck muscles helped hold his airway in place. So he was getting a tiny bit of air but the edema, the swelling, was getting worse and worse. Had he not made it

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Q: Had you ever seen anything like his injury before?

A: We’ve seen a lot of crush injuries to the neck from car accidents, falls from heights and from penetrating trauma: stab wounds and gunshot wounds, but nothing to this level from just weightlifting.

Q: Do you specialize in neck and throat surgeries?

A: I am chief of trauma at this hospital and basically I put together, with the help of the hospital administration, multiple specialties.

We get injuries to all parts of the human body and we have 30 kinds of specialists who specialize in all those areas. In a sense it is my responsibility to coordinate all that care. I was able to get the ear/nose/throat surgeon on call on time. And the rest of the team was able to help him. But the detail of the throat reconstruction is always done by a throat specialist, which I am not.

Q: How do you keep calm in situations like this?

A: It took seven hours to do the entire reconstructive surgery but I would not be honest if I said that we were all calm initially.

It’s always an unnerving moment until you get that airway established and that usually doesn’t take that long. It’s really the training we go through and the organized thinking and the mnemonics that we have in place for a given injury: What should be done first and who should do it? These are things we train for in many, many years of schooling and residency. It helps you to consider when and what should be done.

Q: Are there any tricks or practices you have to keep your focus for so long?

A: It’s really an experience and practice that come with the years of training. It takes really a discipline. Obviously this comes from a knowledge and from experience and this is not unusual. It’s unusual for the general public when they hear “seven-hour surgery.” It’s not unusual for us. We do 12

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A PlAy you ReAlly Should Smell ‘Po Boy Tango’ at East West Players Aims to Impact the Senses photos by Michael Lamont

In Po Boy Tango, Richie Po (played by Dennis Dun) tries to re-create the recipes made famous by his late mother, Po Moma (Jeanne Sakota). He gets some help from Gloria B. (Esther Scott). The show opens at East West Players this week.

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f you’re going to attend East West Players’ latest production, make sure to eat dinner beforehand.

Otherwise, you may find the play Po Boy Tango an entertaining but torturous experience.

Written by Kenneth Lin, the play that debuts this week at EWP’s David Henry Hwang Theatre in Little Tokyo is centered around food. Not only will the audience see the Chinese and soul food, they’ll smell it, too.

Po Boy Tango, which runs Nov. 11-Dec. 6, is set in three kitchens. Although food drives the story, the play also deals with tougher, more complex subjects such as race relations and death.

“It’s really a story about people and communication and cultural differences and tensions,” said Oanh Nguyen, the director. “It’s also about finding common ground no matter what our cultures are. Food is the common ground where all communication happens.”

The play tells the story of Richie Po, a Taiwanese immigrant whose mother, Po Moma, was a great chef. She was considered the Martha Stewart of Taiwan.

Po Moma was renowned for her banquets, which attracted food lovers from throughout the island.

But while she cooked from the heart, she never wrote down her recipes until near the end of her life, when she started making videos for her son so he could learn how to cook her meals.

The second kitchen is Richie Po’s place after he moved to America. One day, with the urge to do something he can be proud of, he decides to tackle his mother’s recipes.

“The problem is that he’s not a great chef,” said Lin, an alumnus of Cornell University and the Yale School of Drama, and the winner of the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize for Excellence in Playwriting. “The only chef he knows is this soul food chef and he asks her to help him make the meal.”

That leads to the third kitchen, which belongs to a woman known as Gloria B. There, Richie and Gloria discover a deeper understanding of their cultures and the role food can play in bringing people together.

“The characters have a lot in common,” Nguyen said. “They’re all very hard working peo-

ple and they’ve all had hard lives, and the cooking has given them a way to communicate with each other.”

Food helps the characters find common ground and allows them to open up to each other while also providing physical comfort that makes it easier for them to deal with their problems.

“They are at the end of their abilities to cope with their own internal pains and culture and I needed them

to be able to provide sustenance for each other in a way that was truly nourishing,” Lin said.

Uncommon Scents Food does not only take center stage in Po Boy Tango.

It takes backstage too, where there is a fourth kitchen.

Behind the scenes, a chef will work to re-create the smells of foods the characters consume during the play, such as shark’s fin soup, drunken crab and black feather chicken.

The aroma of the dishes will be pumped into the audience to draw them deeper into the story — and possibly cause some mouthwatering experiences.

“We’re trying to get the smells of cooking out to the audience, because one way to get to the audience is through their stomachs or some kind of visceral reaction,” said Tim Dang, the producing artistic director for East West Players. “We want the smells of garlic and ginger and chicken broth and all that out there.”

The backstage chef will be John Lau, whose family runs Sam Woo BBQ in the San Fernando Valley. Lau will not actually be cooking full dishes though; instead, he will try to reproduce the smells with different cooking techniques.

Lin said the inspiration for the play came from his background in food. Lin is an avid cook, and when he was a child, his grandmother ran a restaurant on Long Island and would tell him stories as she prepared meals.

“I’ve missed that, watching someone cook and tell me stories at the same time,” he said. A family wedding made Lin think about what makes it easier for people to communicate.

With the current media fascination with food, reflected in the popularity of food programs on television, the play may also attract a more food-oriented audience.

“Food is definitely an art form that people are really appreciating now,” Lin said. “I hope there will be a lot of crossover because it’s a play by someone who has lived the food industry. I hope the audience feels nourished afterwards, whatever that means to them.”

Po Boy Tango runs Nov. 11-Dec. 6 at East West Players, 120 Judge John Aiso St., (213) 625-7000, or eastwestplayers.org.

Contact Richard Guzmán at richard@downtownnews.com.

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Standing Up Before Stonewall Exhibit Illuminates Los Angeles’ History of Gay Life and Activism staff wRiteR

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n 1969, the Stonewall Riots in New York ignited the nation’s gay rights movement, proving to be a flashpoint for organization and advocacy against discrimination and prejudice. The riots followed a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village.

Although Stonewall is widely considered the most important event for the gay rights movement, it didn’t happen in a vacuum.

Nor was New York alone as a host city for gay advocacy: Los Angeles’ homosexual community also played a major role in the fight for recognition and justice, and the organizers of a two-week exhibition in the Historic Core intend to illustrate that history.

“Lavender Los Angeles,” which began Nov. 7 and runs through Nov. 20 at The Exchange on Fifth Street, tracks the city’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender culture from the 1880s through the present.

“This is as much a gay pride exhibition as it is an L.A. pride exhibition,” said Tom De Simone, a co-founder of Roots of Equality, the organizer of the exhibition and a series of accompanying panel discussions. “It’s a story about our city.”

Throughout that story, which is filled with chapters about both acceptance and discrimination, Downtown plays a starring role.

“We wanted to show that West Hollywood wasn’t the center of gay life in Los Angeles,” De Simone said. “I think that’s true today and it’s especially true when you look back at history.”

Among the Downtown landmarks highlighted in the exhibition are Pershing Square, which functioned as a cruising site from the 1920s into the early 1960s, but was also known as a place for community-building, said De Simone.

Also featured are a cluster of former bars and hotels on Main Street, such as Cooper’s Donuts, a late-night spot frequented by drag queens, hustlers and cruisers. According to author John Rechy, an iconic chronicler of homosexual culture in Los Angeles, Cooper’s was the site of a riot in 1958 that began after a police raid of the shop.

Nine years later, and still two years before Stonewall, hundreds of people staged a protest outside the Black Cat bar in Silver Lake (it’s now called Le Barcita) in the wake of a New Year’s Eve clash between plainclothes cops and gay revelers in the bar.

Photos and Text De Simone and event organizers scoured the archives of local gay magazines like One to produce the exhibition. Other information was culled from the archives of the Central Library. Hundreds of items and articles have been copied and hung on the walls of the

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One looks forlorn, while another flashes a bright smile as he gestures tophoto by Gary Leonard ward the third man, who Justin Emerick, Melissa Lopez, Teresa Wang and Tom De Simone are hides his face from the among the founders of Roots of Equality, organizer of Lavender Los camera. They’re wearing Angeles. The two week exhibition celebrates the evolution of gay life and drab denim shirts and the activism in Los Angeles, with a focus on Downtown. same type of jeans, each with one striped pocket.

“Masculine jail clothing was substituted for feminine attire worn by these three youths after they were nabbed early today,” reads the caption. “They said they had been employed as female domestic servants in fashionable Wilshire district.

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Los Angeles, shows a meeting of bar owners discussing plans to organize The show also includes and fight back against LAPD entrapment. an old public service announcement video from the Inglewood Police Department warning that played key roles in gay life. The following children about the dangers of homosexuals night, representatives of publications includand hitchhiking. It is one of several examples ing the Advocate and Frontiers will highlight of police treating homosexuality as a crime, gay media. On Nov. 19, former state Sen. though the Lavender organizers will also seek Sheila Kuehl, the first openly gay official to to highlight the LAPD’s evolution over the serve in the state legislature, and gay rights acyears, toward being a more gay friendly orga- tivist Torie Osborn (before taking a position nization, in a Nov. 9 panel discussion (7:30-9 with the United Way this year, she worked in p.m.) with gay officers now in the depart- Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s office) will lead ment. a LGBT political power discussion.

“If you just saw the exhibition you’d think, The two-week event closes with a mas‘Oh my God, the LAPD are the most hor- querade party on Nov. 20. rible, evil people alive and for the gay com“Nothing too raucous,” De Simone said munity, I guess they were,” De Simone said. of the closing night party. “But it’ll be a nice “But we wanted to have a panel showing end to our celebration and maybe the start of they’ve come a long way, but also on the something new, something bigger.” work that still needs to be done.”

Lavender Los Angeles is at The Exchange, The police panel is one of six events tied in 114 W. Fifth St., rootsofequality.org. with the exhibition. On Nov. 14, there will be Contact Ryan Vaillancourt at a Downtown walking tour highlighting sites ryan@downtownnews.com.

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The Nanny State Gavin Lee, Who Plays Bert the Chimney Sweep, Discusses the ‘Mary Poppins’ Musical

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he most important thing to know about the stage version of Mary Poppins, which opens at the Ahmanson Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 15, is that it is not a copy of the beloved 1964 movie musical starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. Although some of the most well-known songs remain, other numbers and scenes have been replaced by darker passages from the series of books, written by P.L. Travers, from which the film was adapted.

There are brand new elements as well in the tale of a family in Edwardian England who are visited by a nanny with some otherworldly powers.

The musical opened in London in 2004 and went to Broadway two years later.

One constant between the original and the show that arrives Downtown this week is Gavin Lee, who plays chimney sweep Bert (Broadway star Ashley Brown is also in the touring production). Speaking last week from Houston, Lee described what it’s like to follow Dick Van Dyke, and play a role where any romantic interest is nullified.

Los Angeles Downtown News: Did you grow up watching the film or reading the Mary Poppins books?

Gavin Lee: No actually. I somehow missed ever watching the movie all the way through.

When I started auditioning I didn’t watch it because I didn’t want to do a carbon copy of Dick Van Dyke. It wasn’t until I got the role

Gavin Lee originated the role of Bert the chimney sweep in the musical version of Mary Poppins, which opens in Downtown this week.

that my wife bought the DVD, and then I saw it and knew I had some big shoes to fill.

Q: You’ve played Bert in London and Broadway. Why did you want the grueling work of a nationwide tour?

A: When I first auditioned I was auditioning just for London. It was a hit. I’ve understudied a lot, played a few lead roles in regional theater, but this is by far the biggest thing that ever happened to me. When the producers called and said, “Do you want to open on Broadway?� you say yes. It’s a dream come true.

After two years I was ready to move on, but also reluctant to give up the role I’ve created.

When they offered the tour I jumped on it.

Q: What’s your favorite song or moment from the show?

A: In the beginning when someone asked I would say “Step in Time� or “Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious,� because they are great dance routines. But it is a really physical show, and after five years the most energetic parts are not your favorites any more.

Q: In your handling of the role, what do you take from what Dick Van Dyke did, and what do you add on your own?

A: Dick Van Dyke is superb in that role, but in England he gets a bum rap in that he didn’t have a great Cockney accent. I take from Dick Van Dyke his fantastic super physicality in that role. In some ways he is sharp and in other ways he is elastic. My aim is to replicate

his warmth and his charm. When he turns to the camera it is so charming and you try to get that across, but you have to make the charm 100 times bigger to reach the back wall of the balcony.

Q: Do you mine any of the darker material from the books?

A: The movie is fantastic, but it is Disney candy coated. I like the fact that there are a couple points in the show where it is a bit scary, where there is a lesson and people shout at each other. It is real life. People realize why Mary and Bert have to be there, because mom and dad and the kids can’t communicate.

Q: In the film, Bert is innocent and idyllic — pretty happy for a guy who spends his days cleaning chimneys. What’s the key to make that come across?

A: When we started the show the director said to me and the girl playing Mary, where do you think these characters comes from?

My view is Mary is from a different world, she is a spirit — she can fly for God’s sake.

I decided Bert was not from that world. He is a regular guy, a jack of all trades, and will do any job to make a couple of pennies. He is waiting for Mary to fly back because he is madly in love with her, but nothing can happen with her. The magical things Bert does only happen because Mary is there. That is why he can play it so happy, because Mary is there — everything he ever wants is there.

Q: Yet, there is absolutely nothing resembling romantic interest. It seems there is an immense pressure to play down any chemistry between Bert and Mary. Is that odd?

A: I think Ashley plays the role so well that it never enters the mind. It is like Mary Poppins is a nun.

Mary Poppins runs Nov. 15-Feb. 7, 2010 at the Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N. Grand Ave., (213) 972-4400 or centertheatregroup.com.

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The now open Regal Cinemas L.A. Live Stadium 14 continues its screenings of Michael Jackson’s This Is It through Nov. 10.

Also screening at various showtimes are The Box, Disney’s A Christmas Carol in 3D, The Fourth Kind, The Men Who Stare At Goats, Law Abiding Citizen, Where the Wild Things Are and Paranormal Activity.

Po Boy Tango David Henry Hwang Theater, 120 Judge John Aiso St., (213) 625-7000 eastwestplayers.org.

Nov. 11-13, 8 p.m.; Nov. 15, 2 p.m.: Shark Fin Soup. Drunken Crab. Black Feather Chicken. Po Mama’s Chinese cuisine evokes the joy of cooking and her son, Richie Po, has the palate to prove it. In this play, when Po Mama dies and passes her secrets on to him, he reunites with Gloria B, a “Soul Food” chef in the making. Together they use Po Mama’s TV cooking tapes to discover a deeper understanding of food, culture and the recipe for friendship. Through Dec. 6.

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City Attorney Carmen Trutanich has ruffled plenty of feathers at City Hall since taking office in July. But expect a softer tone on Tuesday, Nov. 10, when the native of San Pedro gives a lunchtime talk at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy on city issues such as medical marijuana dispensaries, gang injunctions, graffiti and lawsuits brought against the city. The broad discussion is titled “A Vision for a Better, Safer Los Angeles,” and is organized by the Town Hall Los Angeles lecture forum. Lunch begins at noon, with the program starting at 12:30. At 111 N. Central Ave., (213) 6288141 or townhall-la.org.

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Monday, nov. 9 ALOUD at the Central Library 630 W. Fifth St., (213) 228-7025 or aloudla.org.

7 p.m.: In a lyric narrative inspired by history and imagination, Rita Dove, the former U.S. Poet Laureate, re-creates the life of a biracial nineteenth-century virtuoso violinist. She’s in conversation with Gail Eichenthal, director of arts programming at Downtown-based KUSC 91.5 FM. Film Talk at REDCAT 631 W. Second St., (213) 237-2800, redcat.org.

8:30 p.m.: J. Hoberman, film critic of The Village Voice and an authority on the Jack Smith performance and film oeuvre, screens and discusses “Flaming Creatures,” Smith’s work which was simultaneously reviled, rioted over, banned as porn, and pondered by the Supreme Court.

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In addition to touring the police outpost, visitors can check out food and information booths, police equipment and meet some of Central’s finest. Maple Street between Fifth and Sixth streets will be closed to traffic as part of the event. The LAPD has also managed to snag a promised appearance by a celebrity known for playing a cop on TV (sorry, not Erik Estrada of “Chips” fame): Kent McCord, who played Officer Jim Reed on the 1960s series “Adam12.” At 251 E. Sixth St., (213) 972-1876.

Tuesday, nov. 10 Town Hall Los Angeles National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, 111 N. Central Ave., (213) 628-8141 or townhall-la.org.

Noon: City Attorney Carmen Trutanich gives a talk outlining his “Vision for a Better, Safer Los Angeles.” Trutanich will also take audience questions.

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Los Angeles has a serious smog issue, but it also has some pretty strong green credentials. Learn more about the latter on Thursday, Nov. 12, when Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Interim General Manager David Freeman delivers an afternoon address on some of the city’s environmental initiatives and other topics. He’ll appear as part of the Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute of Public Affairs’ 17th annual California Issues Conference. This year’s gathering is titled “Building a Green and Inclusive California: An Infrastructure for the 21st Century,” and takes place from 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. Freeman speaks at 2 p.m. Also on the bill during the day are Assemblyman Mike Eng, California Utilities Commissioner Michael Peevey and various environmental experts. At 506 S. Grand Ave. RSVP to Roberto Campos at PBI at (323) 343-3770 or rcampos9@cslanet. calstate.edu.

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Thursday, nov. 12 Downtown L.A. Art Walk Info and map at downtownartwalk.com.

Noon-9 p.m.: The Downtown Art Walk is a selfguided tour that showcases the many art exhibition venues in the Historic Core — art galleries, museums and nonprofit art venues.

Veterans History Project Central Library, 630 W. Fifth St., Meeting Room A, lapl.org.

12:15-1:00 p.m.: David Meyer O’Shea interviews America’s war veterans for the Veterans History Project. The project preserves oral histories that will be added to the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.

All About the 740 Club/Globe/Morosco Theatre 740 S. Broadway, lahtf.org.

6-9 p.m.: The Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation hosts a tour and presentation on the 740 Club, set in the 1913 Morosco Theatre. Ed Kelsey leads a presentation on the building’s storied history. Learn how the theater was brutally modified into a swap meet, then transformed, with sensitivity and concern for its history and architecture, into the 740.

LAPD Central Area Open House Central Area Police Station, 251 E. Sixth St., (213) 972-1876.

6-9 p.m.: The LAPD Central Division hosts an open house of its police station and a festive lineup of food, music and police exhibitions along Maple Street between Fifth and Sixth streets. Mingle with the local cops and tour the station.

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Wednesday, nov. 11 SCI-Arc Lecture Series 960 E. Third St., (213) 356-5328 or sciarc.edu. In the W. M. Keck Lecture Hall.

7 p.m.: Preston Scott Cohen, principal of Preston Scott Cohen, Inc., gives a talk entitled “Discretized Curves and Tectonic Language.”

5 Dancers dressing and undressing, improvising gestures and disappearing into a swirling roll of paper are just a small part of the action in choreographer Anna Halprin’s 1965 work Parades & Changes.

The landmark postmodern dance comes to REDCAT this week, re-interpreted by a star-studded team of choreographers led by French dancer Anne Collod. The performances will feature live music by electronica pioneer Morton Subotnick, who teamed up with Halprin on the original work, which was once banned in the United States because of its nudity. Performances are Wednesday, Nov. 11, through Saturday, Nov. 14, at 8:30 p.m. each night. At 631 W. Second St., (213) 237-2800 or redcat.org.

Contact Anna Scott at anna@downtownnews.com.

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DOWNTOWNNEWS.COM/CALENDAR : EVENTS | ROCK, POP & JAZZ | CLASSICAL MUSIC | THEATER, OPERA & DANCE ART SPACES | FILM | BARS & CLUBS | MUSEUMS | FARMERS MARKETS | TOURS ALOUD at the Central Library 630 W. Fifth St., (213) 228-7025 or aloudla.org.

7 p.m.: Three distinctive voices in contemporary American poetry, including Amy Gerstler, Juan Felippe Herrera and Ilya Kaminsky, read their work and engage in an informal discussion on their craft.

Friday, Nov. 13 Farmlab Public Salons 1745 N. Spring St. #4, (323) 226-1158 or farmlab.org.

Noon: Laura Valdés Kuri and her brother Claudio Valdés Kuri will present an overview of how the environmental movement in Mexico has evolved in the last 20 years.

Saturday, Nov. 14 Culinary Historians of Southern California Central Library, 630 W. Fifth St., (213) 228-7000 or lapl.org.

10:30 a.m.-noon: Eric Boardman of the Culinary Historians of Southern California presents “Pop Goes the Soft Drink: The History of Carbonated Beverages.”

Mosaic L.A. Film Festival The Mayan, 1038 S. Hill St., mosaiclafilmfest.com.

Noon and 4 p.m.: The Mosaic L.A. Film Festival presents 12 short films embracing the theme “Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit.”

The festival is presented in two sessions, one at noon and one at 4 p.m. Each session also includes an improv comedy, dance and spoken word performance.

L.A. Derby Dolls The Doll Factory, 1910 Temple St., derbydolls.com/la.

6 p.m.: Southern California’s all-female roller derby league prepares for one of the most anticipated season showdowns between 2008 champs, the Tough Cookies, and the Swarm. The bass n’ drum rock duo Evil Beaver will perform at halftime.

SuNday, Nov. 15 Japanese American Cultural & Community Center 244 S. San Pedro St., (213) 628-3700 or jaccc.org.

2 p.m.: In this theater performance, the Grateful Crane Ensemble presents a nostalgic musical journey back through time, to the place where Japanese American community began: Nihonmachi (Japantown).

ART SPACES Acuna-Hanse0n Gallery 427 Bernard St., (323) 441-1624 or ahgallery.com.

Andlab 600 Moulton Ave. #303, (323) 222-2225 or andlab.com.

Through Dec. 19: Group show featuring works by Andrew Byrom, Ed Fella and Sunook Park.

Automat 936 Chung King Road, (213) 617-0422.

Bank 125 W. Fourth St. #103, (213) 621-4055 or bank-art.com.

Bert Green Fine Art 102 W. Fifth St., (213) 624-6212 or bgfa.us.

Nov. 11-Dec. 19: A selection of 50 photographs from a new series of of images shot over several years

by Clive Barker.

Bonelli Contemporary 943 N. Hill St., (213) 617-8180 or bonellicontemporaryla.com.

Box Gallery 977 Chung King Road, (213) 625-1747 or theboxla.com.

BOXeight Gallery 1446 E. Washington Blvd., (213) 631-0560 or boxeight.com.

The Brewery 600 Moulton Ave, #201, (323) 580-3173 Ongoing: A survey of works by downtown artist John Schroeder (1943-2004), mounted on the walls of his studio at the Brewery. Schroeder’s assemblages from the 60s and 70s were widely exhibited in Southern California.

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

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

China Art Objects 933 Chung King Road, (213) 613-0384 or chinaartobjects.com.

Chinese Historical Society of Southern California 415 Bernard St., (323) 222-0856 or chssc.org.

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

Chung King Project 945 Chung King Road, (213) 625-1802 or chungkingproject.com.

Cirrus Gallery 542 S. Alameda St., (213) 680-3474 or cirrusgallery.com.

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

Through Nov. 14: Margo Victor’s solo show features paintings, collage and the Los Angeles premiere of the film “The Rotten Riotous West.”

Cottage Home 410 Cottage Home Road, cottagehomela.com.

Crewest 110 Winston St., (213) 627-8272, crewest.com or thelabellab.com.

Through Nov. 29: The gallery is back with its sixth annual Dia De Los Muertos Celebration exhibition, “Top of the Dome,” featuring dozens of ceramic skulls designed by Gregg Stone and transformed by tattoo artists, painters, sculptors, graffiti artists, muralists, graphic designers and fine artists.

Dalessio Gallery 838 S. Spring St., (213) 471-2977 or dalessiogallery.com.

David Salow Gallery 977 S. Hill St., (213) 620-0240 or davidsalowgallery.com.

Deborah Martin Gallery 209 W. Fifth St., (310) 428-6464 or deborahmartingallery.com Nov. 12-Dec. 5: Ashley Hagen and Howard Seth Miller present “Reflections of Innocence,” a show of paintings and mixed media works.

The Distributed Gallery 972B Chung King Rd. (213) 344-6137 or dg.telic.info.

Downtown Art Center Gallery 828 S. Main St., dacgallery.com.

Downtown Art Gallery 1611 S. Hope St., (213) 255-2067 or downtownag.com.

Tuesdays, 7:30-10:30 p.m.: Figure drawing classes are $12; bring your own materials. Ongoing: Large format drawings and different pieces by gallery artists.

Edgar Varela Fine Arts 542 S. Alameda St., second floor, (213) 494-7608 or edgarvarelafinearts.com.

Farmlab 1745 N. Spring St. #4, (323) 226-1158 or farmlab.org.

Fifth Floor 502 Chung King Court, (213) 687-8443 or fifthfloorgallery.com.

Five Thirty Three 533 S. Los Angeles St., (213) 627-1541 or fivethirtythree.org.

Nov. 12-15, 8 p.m.: “Once More, Again, One” is choreographer Hana Van Der Kolk’s exploration of the boundaries between collective encounter and traditional performance, day-to-day states of mind and states of altered awareness, popular music/dance and minimalism, and audience and performer. g727 727 S. Spring St., (213) 627-9563 or gallery727losangeles.com.

Nov. 15-Dec. 12: Professional students from the Royal University Collage of Fine Arts’ Department of Architecture in Stockholm Sweden descend on Downtown to propose an alternate future for Los Angeles in which the concrete-encased Los Angeles River is reconfigured. This team of Swedish architects, planners, artists, engineers, writers and set designers will transform g727 into a three-dimensional, full-scale day-glo pink model of a section of the L.A. Riverbank.

Gallery 1927 811 W. Seventh St., (661) 816-1136.

Nov. 12-Dec. 11: This solo show features Olga Ponomarenko’s collection of classical portraiture.

Gary Leonard 860 S. Broadway, takemypicture.com.

Ongoing: Hung on the walls of veteran lensman Leonard are several decades of Los Angeles — punkers, Dodgers, cops, politicos and wackos.

Ongoing: “The Billboard Show: Selling the SoCal Lifestyle” features photographic landscapes of the 1950s and 1960s.

George J. Doizaki Gallery Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, 244 S. San Pedro St., (213) 628-2725 or jaccc.org.

Happy Lion 963 Chung King Road, (213) 625-1360 or thehappylion.com.

Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery Watt Hall 104, USC University Park Campus, (213) 740-2787 or roski.usc.edu.

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

Through November: The gallery presents “Master Blasters of Sculpture” and “Feminality.”

I-5 Gallery 2100 N. Main St. #A9, (323) 342-0717 or breweryartwalk.com.

Jail 965 Vignes St., Suite 5A, (213) 621-9567 or

thejailgallery.com.

Julie Rico Gallery 500 S. Spring St. and 116 W. Fifth St., (213) 817-6002 or weeneez.com.

Kathryn Brennan Gallery 955 Chung King Road, 213 628 7000 or kathrynbrennan.com.

Through Nov. 14: Solo show by Danica Phelps.

KGB Studio and Gallery 1640 N. Spring St., (323) 224-1900 or kgbla.com.

Through Nov. 14: “Time Refocused” is a photography exhibition featuring portraits by Luis C. Garza.

L2kontemporary 990 N. Hill St. #205, (626) 319-3661 or l2kontemporary.com.

Nov. 21-Dec. 19: Peter Frank curates the group show “Mo’ Flow: Blots & Trails.”

LADWP John Ferraro Office Building, 111 N. Hope St., (213) 481-5411 or ladwp.com.

Ongoing: A salute to William Mulholland with historic photos, artifacts and memorabilia. Open Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-4 p.m. This is the first installment of what will be a permanent exhibition showcasing the water and power of Los Angeles.

LMAN 949 Chung King Road, (213) 628-3883 or lmangallery.com.

Los Angeles Center for Digital Art 107 W. Fifth St., (323) 646-9427 or lacda.com.

Nov. 12-Dec. 5: “Snap to Grid” is a show featuring digital art and photography submitted via email by anyone who chooses to participate.

Lot 44 257 S. Spring St., (213) 626-4646 or lot44coffee.com.

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

Los Angeles Artcore Brewery Annex 650A S. Ave. 21, (323) 276-9320.

Through Nov. 29: Ken Colorado gets a twomonth show. Colorado’s use of ice, snow, corrugated paper, steel and giant stone to create site-specific sculptures has taken him to the Patagonian ice fields, Antarctica, France, Mexico, the Czech Republic and South America.

Los Angeles Public Library Central Library, 630 W. Fifth St., (213) 228-7500 or lapl.org/events.

Through Jan. 23, 2010: In celebration of the 100th birthday of photographer Yousuf Karsh (19082002), the library hosts an exhibition of the great portraitist’s work. Karsh made a career photographing the world’s most distinguished statesmen, artists, literary figures, musicians, scientists, actors, and actresses, from Churchill to Einstein to Hemingway.

Madera Design Space 1503 S. Central Ave., castlebuilderproductions.com Main Field Projects 418 Bamboo Lane, (323) 559-1568 or mainfieldprojects.com.

Mandarin Gallery 970 N. Broadway, Suite 213, (213) 687-4107 or mandaringallery.com.

Mexican Cultural Institute Gallery 125 Paseo de la Plaza, Suite 100, (213) 624-3660 or mexicanculturalinstitute.com.

Ongoing: Joe Bravo’s tortilla artwork appears in “The Traveling Museum of Tortilla Art.” Mihai Nicodim Gallery 944 Chung King Road, (213) 621-2786 or nicodimgallery.com.

MLA Gallery 2020 N. Main St. #239, (323) 222-3400 or mlagallery.com.

Morono Kiang Gallery 218 W. Third St., (213) 628-8208 or moronokiang.com.

Through Nov. 21: “Traces of Being: Iran in the Passage of Memories” explores the primacy of personal memory against a backdrop of divergent cultural experiences and collective histories in Iran.

Curated by Shervin Shahbazi, the show features new mixed media and installation-based works by Pantea Karimi, Hushidar Mortezaie, Amitis Motevalli and Fereshteh Toosi.

Niche.LA Video Art 453 S. Spring St., Suite 443, (213) 247-0002 or niche.la.

Nov. 13-TBA: Raphael Saadiq presents “Hood Bazaar” a show of works by Upendo Taylor, a graphic designer/painter with roots in street art and skate culture.

North Hill 945 N. Hill St., (213) 500-7778 or northhillexhibitions.com.

Ongoing: “Citizen Artist” features new works by Deborah F. Lawrence.

Phyllis Stein Art 207 W. Fifth St., (213) 622-6012 or phyllissteinart.com.

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

Pico House Gallery El Pueblo Historical Monument, 424 N. Main St., (213) 485-8372 or lacity.org/elp.

POVevolving Gallery 939 Chung King Road, povevolving.com.

Nov. 13-29: Munson Industries presents a show worthy of rock and roll: Poster art, rare pieces, originals and other surprises.

PYO Gallery 1100 S. Hope St. #105, (213) 405-1488 or pyoart.com.

Through Dec. 5: “Reflections” is a show of limited edition imported prints.

Raw Materials 436 S. Main St., visit winsteadadams.com or rawmaterialsLA.com.

Raw Materials is an art and architectural supplies store.

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

Through Jan. 17, 2010: “Everyday Miracles (Extended)” brings together the work of seven artists who reflect on the dynamic shifts across Asia over the last 30 years. Curated by Hou Hanru in collaboration with REDCAT. Rouge Galerie 548 S. Spring St., Unit 108, (213) 489-7309.

Ongoing: This gallery features the work of painter Sylvain Copon.

Sabina Lee Gallery 971 Chung King Road, (323) 935-9279 or sabinaleegallery.com.

Through Nov. 28: Sook Jin Jo presents “Chairs,” an installation, and “Wishing Bells,” a series of drawings. Jo works primarily with abandoned and found wood, reclaimed windowpanes, doors, chairs and branches to evoke memory and history inherent in them.

Sam Lee Gallery 990 N. Hill St. #190, (323) 227-0275 or samleegallery.com.

Through Dec. 5: The gallery presents “Locating Landscape: New Strategies, New Technologies,” a group show guest-curated by photography historian Kate Palmer Albers.

Santa Fe Art Colony 2401 S. Santa Fe Ave., (323) 587-5513 or santafeartcolony.com SCI-Arc Gallery Southern California Institute of Architecture, 960 E. Third St., (213) 613-2200 or sciarc.edu.

Through Dec. 13: “Blow x Blow,” an installation

by Deegan Day Design, stages a bout between two trends in exhibition: the claiming of gallery space by architects, and the ceding of that space to the ambient possibilities of new media.

Tarryn Teresa Gallery 1820 Industrial St., #230, (213) 627-5100 or tarrynteresagallery.com.

Third Floor Bridge Gallery City Hall, 200 N. Spring St., (213) 202-2772.

Telic Arts Exchange 972B Chung King Road, (213) 344-6137 or telic.info.

Todd/Browning Gallery 209 W. Fifth St., (310) 926-6347 or toddbrowning.com.

Nov. 11-TBA: John Santerineross, the author of Fruit of the Secret God (1999) and Dream (2004), has his first Los Angeles solo show of contemporary, neo-symbolist photographs.

USC Gayle and Ed Roski Master of Fine Arts Gallery 3001 S. Flower St., (213) 743-1804 or roski.usc.edu.

Through Dec. 16: Phantom Presence is a group show featuring Roski faculty member Julia Paull, with Amanda Alfieri, Senna Chen, Renee Martin, Joey Lehmann Morris and Natalie Shriver.

Velaslavasay Panorama 1122 W. 24th St., (213) 746-2166 or panoramaonview.org.

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BY THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA ON THE FIVE-YEAR IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR THE BUNKER HILL REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT: (FY2010-FY2012)

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The public hearing is being conducted to hear testimony of all interested parties regarding the proposed Five-Year Implementation Plan for the Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project.

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LEGAL nAme ChAnge SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES CHATSWORTH COURTHOUSE

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. PS012120 Petitioner (name of each): QUYEN NGOC VU AND VU QUANG PHAN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: MINH HIEU RYAN PHAN PROPOSED NAME: RYAN MINH HIEU PHAN THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing, NOTICE OF HEARING Date: 12/09/09 Time: 8:30 a.m.

Dept.: F46 The address of the court is Chatsworth Courthouse, 9425 Penfield Avenue, Chatsworth CA 91311.

Date: October 23, 2009 Hon. Ronald Schmit Judge of the Superior Court Pub. 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, 11/23/09 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, NORTH VALLEY DISTRICT CHATSWORTH COURTHOUSE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. PS012144 Petitioner: ARJELIA DE LA ROSA, 13712 Judd Street, Pacoima, CA 91331 filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ARJELIA DE LA ROSA Proposed name: MONICA DE LA ROSA THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: 12/29/09 Time: 8:30 p.m.

Dept.: F46 The address of the court is 9425 Penfield Avenue, Room #1200,

Chatsworth. CA 91311.

Pub. 11/09, 11/16, 11/23, 11/30/09 proBAte petition to Administer estAte SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES CENTRAL DISTRICT NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JOHN CRISHON, SR. , DECEDENT CASE NO. BP118550 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contigent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: John Crishon, Sr. A Petition for Probate as been filed by: John Crishon, Jr. in the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles. The Petition for Probate requests that John Crishon, Jr. be appointed

as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: November 10, 2009 Time: 8:30am Dept.: 11 Address of court is Superior

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RFP No. NP-11296 will be available for downloading on the CRA/LA Web Site at www.crala.org on/after October 23, 2009 or the Los Angeles Business Area Virtual Network (BAVN) http://www.labavn.org (Web Design and Development Consulting Services RFP No. NP-11296). All inquires should be directed to Ms. De La Rosa preferably by e-mail to mdelarosa@cra.lacity.org. Ms. De La Rosa can also be reached at (213) 977-1840.

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We Got Games

Nov. 9, 11 and 13, 7:30 p.m.: The Clippers have a tough test this week as they face the New Orleans Hornets. It’s a chance for Baron Davis to square off against premier point guard Chris Paul. The Clippers took the sting out of the Hornets in the preseason, but that’s also when Blake Griffin injured his knee. Hopefully it’s not a bad omen. Later in the week, the Oklahoma City Thunder come to town on the shoulders of Kevin Durant, and then it’s the Toronto Raptors. The Clips visit Oklahoma City on Nov. 15.

Lakers Battle Injury Bug, And a Hot Start for Kings Los Angeles Lakers Staples Center, 1111 S. Figueroa St., (213) 742-7100 or nba.com/lakers.

Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 15, 6:30 p.m.: The Lakers’ twin towers, Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum, are both nursing injuries. That means Kobe and company may be relying more on Lamar Odom, and bench men Josh Powell and DJ Mbenga when the Phoenix Suns come to town on Thursday.

After a quick road trip to Denver (Nov. 13), they return for a Staples Center rematch against former Laker Trevor Ariza and the Houston Rockets.

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

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

The ice Kings are on the road all week, with stops in Chicago, Carolina, Atlanta and Tampa Bay. As of press time, the Kings were off to their best start in years, at 10-4-2.

USC Trojans Football L.A. Coliseum, 3911 S Figueroa St., (213) 747-7111 or usctrojans.com.

Nov. 14, 12:30 p.m.: The Trojans host those smartypants from up north, the Stanford Cardinal. Yes, that’s singular — that’s how smartypants do it.

—Ryan Vaillancourt

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