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A new plan would reduce confusion and allow developers to track online where their project is in the permitting pipeline.

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the plan, which was delivered on Wednesday, Nov. 17, at the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, described it as a groundbreaking proposal.

“This is the most significant step forward I’ve seen in all the years I’ve been at this,” said Chris Martin, a principal at architecture firm AC Martin, who has been working Downtown since 1968.

Gary Toebben, CEO of the Chamber, called it the “most exciting change” he has seen at City Hall

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group of top city leaders last week laid out a plan for development reform that, if successfully implemented, would significantly streamline the permitting process and vastly reduce the time, expense and complications faced by developers in Los Angeles.

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Life After the Ring

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in the four and a half years since he arrived in Los Angeles. He said the plan recognizes the role of the development community in moving the economy forward and putting people to work.

“There is a team of people at City Hall committed to development reform and reducing the amount of time and money it takes to invest in Los Angeles and create jobs,” he said. see Development, page 8

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hen Los Angeles Opera kicks back into its production cycle this week, it will be with a familiar face in the pit: company Music Director James Conlon. The 60-yearold, fresh off L.A. Opera’s first staging of Richard Wagner’s epic “Ring” cycle, dives right back into Wagner with Lohengrin, which opened Nov. 20 (after Los Angeles Downtown News went to press).

He will also conduct Verdi’s romantic masterwork Rigoletto, which debuts Nov. 27. On the eve of the double bill, Conlon, who last week inked a contract extension to stay with L.A. Opera through the 2012/2013 season, discussed Wagner, Verdi and an operatic life.

Los Angeles Downtown News: When L.A. Opera was preparing the Ring cycle, you said that staging it is akin to an opera company becoming an adult. Is the company now an operatic adult?

James Conlon: I’ve seen an immense sign of that, in the orchestra to start with. It just so happens we’ve started with another Wagner opera, an opera that many who have been in the orchestra have played, and I think the fruits of the Ring were so evident already in the rehearsal process. One of them I think is how much easier this seems in comparison to what they might have felt a few years ago. Nothing’s easy, but I see enormous growth in terms of the orchestra learning it quickly and bringing the dramatic character of this music see Conlon, page 12

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Last week, L.A. Opera Music Director James Conlon renewed his contract. For the next month, he’ll be busy at the podium conducting Lohengrin and Rigoletto.

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Main St., last month launched dogsofdowntown.blogspot. com. The blog aims to show off local dogs who walk the street, and about 45 pictures of neighborhood pets have been uploaded so far along, with a short bio about each pooch (for example, the bio of Mousa the Doberman Pinscher reads in part, “Mousa came from Russia and is currently studying French Ring training.”). For Carlson, it was a no-brainer. “I just figured that Downtown has so many dogs of all different shapes and sizes and they’re a joy to be around, so why not showcase them,” she said. “It also lets people who are thinking of moving down here know that Downtown is very dog friendly.” Pet owners who want to get their four-legged friend on the blog have to spot Carlson in Downtown, since she often walks around the neighborhood with her camera, or can email her a picture of the pet at petproject1@aol.com.

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olk and blues artist Michelle Shocked will headline a fundraiser concert at the revamped Belasco Theater on Tuesday, Nov. 23, bringing new life to the long-shuttered historic venue. In an evening titled “Women Who Rock,” the Texas born singer-songwriter, who now lives in Downtown, will headline a concert featuring several local female artists. The show benefits His Sheltering Arms, a women’s shelter on Main Street. Other performers include R&B singer Brenda Lee Eager and Magic Castle illusionist Corey Freidmann. The Belasco event, organized by LAPD Senior Lead Officer Jack Richter, goes from 7-10 p.m. with “any donation admission.” The event will include food, drinks and a silent auction. The Belasco Theater is at 1050 S. Hill St.

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fficials with the Japanese American National Museum announced last week that they have received the 2010 Institute of Museum and Library Service National Medal.

The Little Tokyo museum was one of 10 institutions and one of four museums nationally to be recognized by the IMLS this year. The award is the nation’s highest honor for museums and libraries, and institutions are presented with the prize in recognition for their “extraordinary civic, educational, economic, environmental and social contributions,” museum officials said. The honor also carries a $10,000 prize.

The Japanese American National Museum is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.

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hinatown officials are looking for a new home for Bruce Lee — well, make that a statue of the martial arts icon, who according to area historians once had a studio in the neighborhood. Bibiana Yung, an assistant project manager with the Community Redevelopment Agency, said the Bruce Lee Committee, which is comprised of members of the Chinatown Business Improvement District, the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce and other local organizations, is looking at placing a statue commemorating Lee at either the Alpine Recreation Center or in Chinatown’s Central or West plazas. “Once we get a final decision from the committee regarding the location, the CRA will help them go through the city process to make it happen,” she said. There is no timeline yet on when a decision will be made or information on what the statue would cost.

Bar Coming to Haas Building

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owntown’s nightlife scene is continuing to grow, with a new bar coming to the Haas Building at 221 W. Seventh St. The bar is slated for a former retail space in the Jewelry District apartment complex. The effort received final approval from the Department of City Planning on Wednesday, Nov. 17, and the 2,000-square-foot bar is slated to open before the end of the year, although it has yet to be named, said Veronica Becerra, a project representative. She described the 83-seat venue as a small, two-story neighbor-

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Now, so do area canines. Nancy-Jean Carlson, the owner of Pet Project, a Downtown pet supply store at 545 S.

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Downtown on Ice, the skating rink at Pershing Square, opened on Thursday, Nov. 18. Members of the Rockettes attended the festivities.

hood bar that will serve pub food. She said it is intended to serve mostly residents of the building and other locals.

Woman Dies in Little Tokyo Metro Platform Incident

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44-year-old woman was arrested last week after witnesses said she pushed an 86-year-old woman off a Little Tokyo light-rail platform. Betty Sugiyama, who was waiting for a train at the Metro Gold Line station at First and Alameda streets at about 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 14, was allegedly shoved off the platform by Jackkqueline Pogue. Sugiyama was rushed to a local hospital, where she died from injuries sustained in the fall. Pogue was arrested at the scene. Sheriff’s Department officials charged Pogue with murder after consulting with witnesses who said that the incident appeared to be unprovoked. Her bail was set at $1 million.

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EDITORIALS Downtown Drops the Ball on Transit Stop

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owntown Los Angeles boasts an impressive roster of active and influential business and residential stakeholders. Although their impact has been felt in almost every important development in the community, they were largely missing during the recent debate over whether the $1.3 billion Regional Connector should include a stop at Fifth and Flower streets, one of the largest concentrations of office workers in the city.

The result is a very troubling end to a somewhat strange process. The bottom line is that Downtown, and in particular the business community, has likely lost out on a seriously important link in the mass transit chain.

We think the Metro board of directors made the wrong decision. We think Downtown dropped the ball.

As Los Angeles Downtown News reported last week, community input was nearly muted when it came to the subject of including a Regional Connector station at Fifth and Flower streets. This was never an easy proposition, as the project that would establish a light-rail lynchpin in the Central City is already about $200 million over the funding level Metro thinks it can pull together, and the station in question is budgeted at $185 million. Before the Oct. 28 vote on the station — and weirdly, public testimony came after the vote was taken — Metro staff had recommended eliminating Fifth and Flower from the final environmental study.

We side with proponents of the station who point out that continuing to study the stop (the study itself was estimated at $2 million) would not have necessitated building it. Rather, they noted that keeping it alive would have extended the time to search for funding. We agree with those who argue that killing Fifth and Flower now is premature. Indeed, the station is essentially dead, as a late Metro board decision to allow the

business community to come up with $2 million for the study is a non-starter.

Only a few Downtown officials bothered to advocate for the station at the Metro meeting. Councilwoman Jan Perry spoke in favor, as did a representative of Thomas Properties Group, which owns the City National Plaza office and shopping complex on Flower between Fifth and Sixth streets.

Where was MPG Office Trust, which owns the nearby U.S. Bank Tower? For that matter, where was U.S. Bank? Where were other nearby landowners or major business players such as the Gas Company, the Biltmore Hotel, Brookfield Properties (which owns Bank of America Plaza at Third and Hope streets) and Hines (owner of Citigroup Center at 444 S. Flower St.)? For that matter, where were the Central Library officials and supporters? Where were Bank of America and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce?

Considering adjacent Bunker Hill and the two densely packed blocks surrounding Fifth and Flower, it’s a scandal that this station was allowed to drop through the cracks. In any cost/benefit analysis, the $185 million station would provide the best return on investment of any of the stations in the connector.

There is plenty of spin on why the station can’t happen and why everything will be peachy keen without it. Some officials say that pushing forward without a clear source of revenue for the entire project would have spooked federal officials who will be asked to fund a significant portion of the transit link. They might balk if they see an unfunded element, was the reasoning.

Others maintain that everything will be OK because there will still be three Regional Connector stops, plus the Seventh Street Metro Center at Seventh and Figueroa streets. Even

though this is a busy transit hub and will have additional traffic once the Regional Connector arrives, they say they can alleviate problems by building a new entry point, possibly one with a long tunnel at Sixth and Flower, perhaps forgetting that there is an extra block there, Wilshire, making it far less simple than it appears.

It still sounds like a long walk, especially if you think not just of Fifth and Flower, but of Bunker Hill office workers, for some of whom this would be the closest station. Having to trek another three blocks, especially in the warm months, could keep them in their cars.

A lot was strange about these proceedings. The fully underground route that doomed Fifth and Flower itself was a late addition, and only materialized after Little Tokyo activists protested other (less expensive) proposed alignments with aboveground portions or stations that would have adversely impacted that community. This is not to pit Fifth and Flower against that neighborhood, but rather to point out that Little Tokyo found its voice while the Financial District did not.

Then there was the curious, abrupt vote from the Metro board. Only four members of the 13-person panel voted for the Fifth and Flower station (three of these were County supervisors Mark Ridley-Thomas, Don Knabe and Mike Antonovich, none of whom represent the Central City). Seven yes votes were needed, but instead three people voted no and three were out of the room, among them Supervisor Gloria Molina and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The mayor’s three appointees to the Metro board all abstained, dooming the station.

This is distressing. Downtown has lost something that could have greatly benefited the community. Where were the voices?

A Downtown Business Bounce

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his is the week in which people traditionally give thanks. So here’s something for which Downtown Los Angeles can be thankful: The recent separate announcements of two projects that will bring jobs and tax revenue to the city.

Los Angeles Downtown News last week reported on the announcements that will bring a jeans maker to the Arts District and a five-brand auto dealership to the Figueroa Corridor. These types of business attraction

recall the era of Mayor Richard Riordan’s Business Team, when proactive efforts helped immensely during a moribund economy.

Then as now, it was a situation not of office workers locating in Financial District high-rises, but of jobs generators being lured to less dense and underused portions of Downtown.

The case of Lucky Brand Jeans in particular is worth noting. Local officials managed to pull the fashion industry company from

the city of Vernon, which is no small feat considering that for years manufacturers and other businesses have fled L.A.’s high and complex tax structure for that municipality.

In this instance, the promise of a new $15 million building at 540 S. Santa Fe Ave., and incentives including DWP discounts, enticed the company that will bring 200 jobs.

The other arrival is the batch of Fiat and Chrysler brand dealerships that will open in a long-empty building at 2025 S. Figueroa St.

in early 2011. Another 100 permanent jobs will be created there, and officials in Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s office did the right thing in making sure that the auto sales tax revenue happens in Los Angeles.

Both of these cases are important on their own, but their real effect could be felt down the road. In an economic environment that continues to be cool, attracting new revenue and jobs-generating companies to Downtown is key. Los Angeles needs to show that it wants and is willing to work to bring in new business. The arrival of these well known names is a positive indicator.

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Happy Thanksgiving Los Angeles Imagining Mister Mayor’s Nov. 25 Address

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occasionally known to lead, I will go first.

I am thankful for Mayor Aust — excuse me, I am thankful for First Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner, who has been to Los Angeles what maize was to those first Pilgrims. You too should be grateful for Brother Austin, and if you are not, just consider what life would be like if he were not here at our table.

I am thankful for local television news, and for the men and women who work in this field, but especially the women, and especially the brunettes.

I am thankful that in 2013 I will step down from eight wonderful years leading Los Angeles, and when I do I will know that like the Lakers, who are amazing to watch from front-row seats, I scored a repeat, taking the title in two consecutive elections. Los Angeles, I am thankful that I am the Kobe Bryant of mayoral elections between the years of 2005 and 2009.

I am thankful that almost no one remembers the 2001 mayoral election, and that this country offers second chances.

And in some instances, third chances.

I am thankful for Los Angeles’ media trolls, who dutifully and with warmth in their hearts report on the successes and occasional challenges faced by those who accept the Kobe-like responsibility to lead. I am thankful that although these individuals occasionally report sad face news, that they are mere kittens compared to the media sharks in New York City.

I am thankful for the opportunity to do important city business at prominent sports events and concerts, and if the only seats available happen to be in the front row, I accept the responsibility to sit there. I do this for the betterment of Los Angeles.

I am thankful for 21st century Pilgrim Tim Leiweke, whose Anschutz Entertainment Group has been a metaphorical Mayflower, creating a new era for our fair city. I am thankful that every time one of his projects opens, I am there to speak.

If he wants to re-name part of our city Los Anschutzles, then we should be thankful for the opportunity to consider it.

I am thankful for all of my hard-working top staff and for the general managers at city of Los Angeles departments, and that in some cases I have had the good fortune to hire two or

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I come before you today, Thursday, Nov. 25, to celebrate the great American holiday of Thanksgiving.

On this day, we remember how, nearly 400 years ago, the Pilgrims took a really big boat and landed about 3,000 miles the regardie report

from Los Angeles. They arrived at Plymouth Rock without a single Listerine Breath Strip and, although circumstances were difficult in what was then called the New World, they were able to survive, thanks to their partners in labor, also known as the Indians.

Those partners in labor gave them valuable advice on what crops to plant and what projects to pass that would result in high-paying jobs and future campaign contributions. As a result, the Pilgrims grew vegetables and their descendents built skyscrapers and football stadiums and contributed to numerous elections, not just mine.

On the fourth Thursday in November, these Pilgrims invited their partners in labor to sit at a big table for a communal meal. There, they dispensed thanks, and the greatest Pilgrim of all, Brother Antonio, dished out food to his new and old friends. During this meal, 15 members of the Pilgrims’ Council of Elders stood behind Brother Antonio and watched in awe and quiet respect as he carved a turkey and showed them how to lead a great dinner. This was all dutifully recorded by New World media trolls, who dashed off sketches and stories that would be dispensed to the masses on paper thanks to Gutenberg presses.

Today, Los Angeles, we give our own thanks, not only to our current partners in labor who we pretty please hope will make cuts in their existing contracts and pare back their pensions, but also to everything else that makes the city of the 21st century great. On this day, we should each look inside our hearts — even Brother Carmen — and state the things for which we are thankful. Because I have been asked and am

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There is a lot to be thankful for in City Hall this year.

three people for those jobs after some were fired or chose to take their talents elsewhere. While people who do not believe in the power of Los Angeles may see this repeated change as a negative, I believe that turnover simply affords another opportunity to get it right.

I am thankful for most of my esteemed partners on the City Council, and for the opportunity to stand in front of them and speak before them at project openings they have worked long and hard to bring to fruition. Their success is our success, Los Angeles, and by our success, I mean my success.

I am thankful for Austin Beutner. I’m not sure if I said that already.

I am thankful for my idea to build a dozen transportation projects in 10 years rather than 30. I will work hard to make this happen, and if it does not because the Republicans won the House of Representatives in the recent election, then understand, Los Angeles, this is beyond my control. see Thanksgiving, page 10

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The Metro Board of Directors approved a two-mile, fully underground light rail line for the route of the Regional Connector Transit Corridor connecting the Metro Gold Line, Metro Blue Line, and future Expo Line through Downtown LA. > The route would connect with the Metro Blue and Expo lines at 7th Street/Metro Center Station and with the Metro Gold Line at Alameda Street. > The Regional Connector will save approximately 20 minutes of travel time by eliminating transfers through Downtown. > It is estimated to serve 90,000 passengers daily, including 17,000 new transit riders by 2035. > Under the 30/10 Initiative leveraging Measure R funding with federal dollars, construction could begin in 2014 and be completed by 2019.

For more information, visit metro.net/regionalconnector.

The Metro Board of Directors approved an extension of the Metro Purple Line running between the Wilshire/Western Station and Westwood/VA Hospital, a distance of approximately nine miles, for the route of the Westside Subway Extension. > The $4.2 billion project will extend the subway to Beverly Hills, Century City and Westwood. > A one-way trip between Union Station in Downtown LA and Westwood will take approximately 25 minutes. > By 2035, it is estimated to attract nearly 53,000 riders boarding at the new stations along the extension. > Under the 30/10 Initiative leveraging Measure R funding with federal dollars, construction could begin in 2013, with completion of the subway to the Westwood area by 2022.

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A Second Life for Santee Village New Owners Plan to Sell 167 Units in Fashion District Complex

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It didn’t work out that way, as developer MJW Investments’ $130 million, seven-building cluster of apartments and condominiums at Seventh and Los Angeles streets never drew the heat of the residential hub at Fourth and Main streets.

In 2005, MJW President Mark Weinstein spun off the three apartment buildings known as Santee Court to a Texas pension fund. In 2008, Weinstein defaulted on $67.5 million in loans used to finance the three condo buildings, with a total of 216 units, that comprised phase two of the project.

Now, those buildings are poised for a comeback. On Nov. 1, the investment team of Kennedy Wilson and RECP/Urban Partners bought the 167 unsold units in the three-building package that is still under the Santee Village name from lender Bank of America.

The 48-unit Eckhardt and the 95-condo Cornell, both partially occupied, are set to come back on the market in February, said Robert Hart, president and CEO of Kennedy Wilson’s Multifamily Management Group. They will be joined by the 73-residence Santee building, which though nearly finished has sat empty for years.

“The project is very functional, well put-together and there’s an opportunity to re-strategize it and re-brand it,” said Hart, though he noted that there is no plan to change the buildings’ names.

Kennedy Wilson, a real estate investment and services firm, is perhaps best known Downtown for its work coordinating auctions for properties like the Market Lofts and 655 Hope.

With Santee Village, however, the new owners have not yet decided whether to go the auction route or to proceed with traditional sales.

The buyers declined to provide the project’s exact purchase price, but Hart said the deal cost them more than $200,000 per unit. He would not specify how much the firms plan to invest in marketing and doing finishing touches at the Santee.

Seller Bank of America originally loaned MJW Investments about $50 million and Connecticut-based The Patriot Group provided approximately $17.5 million. It is unclear exactly how much debt remained on the Bank of America loan, since under Weinstein the Santee Village project sold 49 condos, and the construction lender is usually paid first in large-scale developments.

The Santee Village buyers also paid a fee that keeps the purchase price out of the public record, according to title documents on the property.

Location, Location… Location?

Santee Village’s block of Los Angeles Street, between Seventh and Eighth streets, is one of the more active Fashion District retail scenes by day. The street is lined primarily with fabric shops, perfume outlets and budget men’s suit stores.

On the east side of the complex, the wholesale flower businesses bring more foot traffic.

By night, metal roll-down gates cover most of the area’s storefronts. As much as the site is at the border of the Fashion District and the Historic Core, it is also adjacent to Skid Row. The location, coupled with slower than anticipated sales, claimed a retail victim in 2008, when Rite Aid, which occupied a space at Seventh and Los Angeles streets in Santee Court, vacated the complex.

Despite the troubles, Hart and Paul Keller, a founding principal at RECP/Urban Partners, say the location is precisely what lured them to Santee Village.

“I think that given its proximity to the Historic Core, to the Garment District, to the Arts District and then really it’s not that far from South Park, it’s very, very convenient,” Keller said.

While the area lacks nightlife activity, the buyers were sold on the location’s future, said Mark Tarczynski, senior vice president at CB Richard Ellis, who brokered the deal for Kennedy Wilson and Urban Partners.

“You look at Spring Street, you don’t see the chains — you see the entrepreneurial guys and they’re doing business,” Tarczynski said. “I think all of that is going to spill over to Main and Los Angeles as Spring Street becomes more of a cool, gentrified street.”

Priced to Sell The market for new for-sale residences Downtown is limited. According to data compiled by real estate firm the Mark Company, there are currently six Central City buildings selling new condos: 655 Hope, Barker Block, the El Dorado, Evo, Little Tokyo Lofts and the Rowan Lofts. Together, they offer 262 units (the figure does not include resales).

“There’s not a lot of new supply,” Tarczynski said. “One hundred and sixty-seven is a drop in the bucket.”

According to the Mark Company’s latest report, 39 new condo sales closed in August. There were 33 resales (the latter figure includes several buildings west of the Harbor Freeway).

In August, the average price for new condo sales was $422 per square foot, according to the report. While Kennedy Wilson and Urban Partners have not yet priced the units in Santee Village, Hart said they will likely be offered for around $300 per square foot.

“We’re going to price them to sell,” Hart said. “I think we’re taking a cautious approach to this based on where the market is at today, though nothing is set in stone.”

Contact Ryan Vaillancourt at ryan@downtownnews.com.

Condominium sales at Santee Village are expected to resume in February, though the new owners have not yet decided whether to go the auction route.

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Development Continued from page 1 The multi-tiered plan has been in development since the January arrival of First Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner. It tackles both big-and small-picture aspects of the development process, from addressing the way that city departments treat developers and interact with each other, to making it easier for developers to know where their project is in the permitting pipeline.

Some of the most important points include changing the way that the departments of Planning and Building and Safety work with developers as projects go from sketches on paper to concrete and steel.

The effort involves bringing in an outside consultant. The team of Century City-based KH Consulting Group and Woolpert, a national firm with local offices in Pasadena, won the contract in a bidding process coordinated by the Department of Building and Safety. They are scheduled to go before the City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management Committee on Tuesday, Nov. 23 Councilman Ed Reyes, who chairs PLUM and has been the council point person on the reform initiative, praised the selection.

“They are a great blend of technical expertise with a good

understanding of how you bring consensus given all the different perspectives we have in the city,” Reyes said.

In addition to cherry picking successful planning and permitting programs from other cities, Beutner said the consultant will examine the current process to see what is redundant and what exists simply from force of habit.

“We’re looking forward to the implementer saying, ‘Instead of routing the decision through these four steps, can you go from A to D?’” Beutner said. “The devil is in those type of details, where a fresh set of eyes can show us how to get from A to D while still empowering B and C.” Beutner told the Chamber audience that once the process is improved, a model for the new system is the customer service operation employed by Internet shoe seller Zappos.com. He noted that any time someone makes a Zappos purchase, they can go online and find exactly where the package is in the shipping process.

He hopes to create a similar online system that allows developers to know where their projects stand as they deal with the up to 17 city departments that can now impact a project.

Currently, he noted, developers can get bogged down trying to navigate those departments, all of which have different websites. The goal, he said, is to create efficiency and transparency.

“Anyone whose project it is can log on online and see where they stand, as opposed to the past where the proverbial phone call never gets returned or is referred to 12 other de-

partments,” he said.

Life After 12-to-2 While the new system will demand cooperation across City Hall, Beutner’s key partners in development reform are the departments of Planning and Building and Safety. Both underwent change this year, with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa appointing Michael LoGrande to replace former Planning head Gail Goldberg, and Bud Ovrom succeeding ex-Building and Safety General Manager Andrew Adelman.

“It is not by accident that we have new leadership in these departments,” Beutner said.

The new program marks a recognition that the previous development reform effort, heralded upon its 2008 launch and known as “12-to-2” for its intention to shrink the number of departments a developer would deal with, failed.

“It was really lacking the tools to make it successful,” said Julie Chapgier, managing director of the Mayor’s Office of Economic and Business Policy, who made part of the Chamber presentation.

Chapgier said that a lack of strategy for implementing 12to-2 caused projects to languish and developments to stall.

That came amid other hurdles, including the city’s early retirement program — part of the effort to lower Los Angeles’ budget deficit — that slashed the Planning Department’s staff by about 40%.

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The development reform plan has been propelled by First Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner (left). His key partners include Department of Building and Safety head Bud Ovrom (center) and recently appointed city Planning Director Michael LoGrande.

a case number and track their projects.

Currently, 15 people from various city departments are discussing what will be required to bring all the different elements into a single piece of web-based architecture, Chapgier said.

“This is a high-cost solution for us,” said Chapgier, referring to the price of the technology, “but it’s going to have very long-term benefits.”

While creating the portal could take several years, officials described short-term fixes already being enacted.

Ray Chan, executive officer of the Department of Building and Safety, detailed a system that will alter the current method of

developers completing designs before moving to the plan check stage; both of those can be lengthy. In the new “Parallel DesignPermitting Process,” plan checks will begin in the conceptual design phase. Design and permitting would then run concurrently, with problems being addressed along the way. It will allow developers to secure a building permit by the time final drawings are completed.

The process, Chan said, could save months.

Another new program, Chan said, would affect projects both before and during the building process, and seeks to improve the working relationship between contractors and city inspectors. The “Construction-

Inspection Partnership Program” aims to save time through steps including eliminating code interpretation conflicts. Near the end, it could streamline the awarding of a certificate of occupancy.

In Planning, the most significant step could be assigning a “project planner” to each development. The figure would help the developer navigate the entire city system, and in addition to fielding questions and helping troubleshoot, the planner would coordinate environmental analysis for projects that require it.

LoGrande described the challenges of revamping the department and implementing the new system at a time of staff cutbacks. He equated it to a teenager getting his first car, only to find it needs major work.

“I love the car Austin gave me, but we are rebuilding the transmission,” he said.

To that effect, the blueprint LoGrande has created for the department for the coming year is subtitled “Doing More With Less.”

Delays Kill The development reform plan earned high praise from many experienced with trying to bring projects through the city’s convoluted system. Although Beutner does not yet have a goal of how much time and money the reforms would save, architect Martin predicted that on certain major projects, the reforms could save up to 18 months.

“If you are not getting service properly, eventually things fall into disarray,” he said.

“Time is the most expensive component of construction. So a year and a half delay can kill a project completely, and I’ve seen that.”

Jerold Neuman, a partner and land-use attorney at Sheppard Mullin, also praised the vision laid out before the Chamber, saying that it seems “realistic,” and includes plans to chip away at problems on both a short- and long-term basis. However, he noted that in a city with myriad ways to slow development, some things may be be-

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“There are still political realities of land use being very local and very neighborhoodoriented by its nature,” Neuman said. “There will be pitfalls that the process alone cannot resolve, and I think we have to figure out how do we overall see the entire process, which includes the political part of it, and say how do we make sense out of that?”

Reyes sees the increased efficiency as a major strength of the plan, and hopes it can identify project opponents early in the process and prevent time in court at later stages.

He noted that major developments will still have to meet environmental regulations.

He said he hopes his council colleagues will be on board with the reform effort, and that plan proponents have to educate and inform neighborhood councils, preservation groups and other stakeholders.

“What needs to be highlighted is that more efficient doesn’t mean being exclusionary,” he said.

Another challenge could come in making sure that all the city departments truly are on board with development reform. Local observers noted that efforts to streamline the process in the city stretch back to the 1970s, and have produced, at best, piecemeal progress. Many have pointed out that 12-to-2 was partially imperiled by city department heads who either opposed it, or moved very slowly to embrace it.

Toebben predicted that would not be an issue, saying Beutner has established a new chain of command in City Hall.

“This is different from the past,” he said.

“Department heads are talking to each other and they understand clearly what their CEO, Austin Beutner, expects of their department. That’s how you make change in any organization.”

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City officials last week used the announcement of a five-brand dealership to anoint a mile-long strip of the Figueroa Corridor as the Downtown Auto District. The branding is a sort of civic stamp on what area property owner and auto dealer the Shammas Group has envisioned for the stretch of Figueroa Street between the Santa Monica (10) Freeway and USC for the past decade.

Chrysler’s formal announcement that it will activate a three-story dealership it built six years ago at 2025 S. Figueroa St. came on Tuesday, Nov. 16, two days before the start of the L.A. Auto Show. Chrysler Group Vice President Peter Grady said the dealership, which will include showrooms for Chrysler, Fiat, Dodge, Ram Truck and Jeep, will create

more than 100 permanent jobs.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and First Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner touted the Chrysler plan as they announced several new city policies aimed at beefing up auto sales in Los Angeles. Car sales generated $3.3 billion in revenue last year, netting $271 million for public coffers, Villaraigosa said. That makes cars the city’s top sales tax revenue generator, he added.

Economic forces, including high unemployment, have conspired in recent years to close dealerships and cut down on sales.

“We’re working around the clock to reverse that trend,” said Villaraigosa, who likened the Chrysler plan to a “beacon of hope.”

In an effort to bolster local purchases, the mayor’s office announced a new program with the Los Angeles Federal Credit Union to provide loans with rates as low as 1.99% for people who by a car within city limits.

Beutner, who also serves as the interim head of the Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power, announced another new plan that will guarantee installation of home charging bays for electric cars within seven days of purchase.

Chrysler officials said the dealership building, which has sat empty since 2004, will function as a “showplace” for new concepts and vehicles under the Chrysler Group umbrella.

The site will also hold one of the first North American Fiat stores. The Italian carmaker partnered with Chrysler last year when it took a 20% ownership stake in the Detroit company, helping it to emerge from bankruptcy.

The Chrysler building is perhaps most eyecatching from the rear: It backs up against the Harbor (110) Freeway and features a five-sto-

ry, LED-lit, glass-encased podium displaying cars. The company lit the structure for the first time on Monday evening, officials said.

There is no opening date yet for the dealership, but the company hopes to finish the permitting process and debut in the first quarter of 2011.

The new dealership is part of a series of events and additions that could change the look and activity level of the Figueroa Corridor. A headquarters for Chinese automaker Build Your Dreams is scheduled to open next April at 1800 S. Figueroa St. Additionally, the Community Redevelopment Agency has launched a study of ways to activate the stretch between USC and L.A. Live.

Thanksgiving Continued from page 5 I am thankful for the nice, attractive and intelligent Republicans in the House of Representatives, and not only the women, and not only the brunettes.

I am really, really, really thankful for our current partners in labor, and for all that they have done for me in past and future elections.

I am thankful to Orville and Wilbur Wright, whose invention paved the way for jet airplanes, which have enabled me to travel to places near and far, not only on personal vacations, but also sometimes for business which helps the city of Los Angeles, home of my co-leader Kobe

Bryant and the two time defending NBA champion Lakers. When the Lakers win, Los Angeles, we all win.

I am thankful that the phrase “Subway to the Sea” has entered the Los Angeles lexicon, even if the choo choo will only reach the Westside. My fellow Angelenos, do not forget the impressive vision conjured up by the subway to the sea, and realize that if this magnificent idea never becomes reality, it is the fault of the Republicans in Washington.

I am thankful for the United States Senate seat that will open in 2013 because Dianne Feinstein is getting old. I am thankful that I just thought this in my head, and did not say it out loud.

I am thankful for my close personal friend Kobe Bryant.

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A: That’s what fine orchestras do, and to be honest that’s what great music directors should be capable of. As music director you’re responsible for a very broad repertory. And part of the art of playing your instrument or conducting is to be able to modulate your sound and musical approach to what you perceive as the stylistic requirements of that composer. How do you go from Wagner to Rigoletto in one day? Well I’m not doing it in one day. It reflects a lifetime of study, performing, listening, feeling, thinking about these two composers literally all my life. The first opera I saw was [Verdi’s] La Traviata.

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Q: At 25, L.A. Opera is relatively young. What’s your sense of asking the question. That gives me a great deal of satisfaction the company’s core audience? Is it growing/shrinking? Aging/ because part of my mission in life is to raise consciousness of Check Our Website for Full Movie Listings LADowntownNews.com getting younger? the general music-loving public to the existence of this enorA: What I love about the L.A. Opera audience, and I can mous volume of music, which is not played because many of feel it, is that they’re very open, very enthusiastic to hear these works and composers were suppressed during the perijust about anything if we’re able to present it well to them. od of Nazi Germany, and whose names were not sufficiently They’re completely open to music that they’ve never heard. known after the war and never gained or re-gained their due.

Before performances, I always give a talk and I encourage everybody to come because I’m able to communicate a certain Q: You recently turned 60. How physically demanding is the Starts amount of information to people, especially people listening conductor’s role, and how do you keep in shape for all of that November 12 and standing? for the first time. I’m explaining about the night’s piece’s mu- arm waving sical roots, its dramatic roots, and it’s very gratifying for me to A: I think conducting is the best profession to have. I wouldn’t know that we have well over 1,000 people who come an hour trade it for anything. I go to the cardiologist and I can tell you before who are really thirsty for a full, rich experience.

I’m in great shape. Sixty feels like a big number for me but I don’t know where the years went because I don’t feel any difQ: Financially, these have been tough times for L.A. Opera. The ferent, and as long as I’m able to keep up this pace, I will. And season was shortened, the Ring lost money. How does that affect I’ll tell you, the intellectual stimulation that you get from this, your job? it’s also the most healthy thing for your brain.

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There is a consolation in that.

A: In classical music terms, those are very short periods. I think I am in the long term optimistic. I believe that all of us will in big terms, in decades. I value very much a sustained relationcome back from this stronger. How quickly I don’t know, but ship of music directors and their opera houses. If you look at I believe we’re going to come back stronger first as a country my life you will see that in terms of music directing, I’ve mainbut all the art institutions as well. tained guest conductorships over decades, but the shortest peStarts Is it troubling? Yes. Does it affect my viewpoint about what riod I ever stayed anywhere was eight years. I spent 13 years in I do? Not at all. I think the most important tenet thatNovember we’re Germany, 19 nine years in France, and in Cincinnati my festival holding to is that there are to be no compromises to artistic has been going for 31 years. That gives you a picture of what quality. We would prefer to do one production well. Artistic value I place on long relationships. I believe that those are the quality comes first and quantity comes second. relationships that really make a difference. I’m very happy that L.A. Opera is a place where I feel that I can make an impact and Q: Your pet project, Recovered Voices, presents operas by com- I certainly want to continue to do that, and at least we’re going posers whose career was suppressed by the Nazis. The series isn’t to do that for another two or three years. on this season’s calendar. What’s the status of the project?

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I Love These Lyrics Mark Taper Forum Channels Randy Newman for Harps & Angels

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t’s something between a rock concert and a musical play. It has no real storyline and does not follow a traditional narrative.

Considering that Harps & Angels, a new production at the Mark Taper Forum, is based on the songs of Randy Newman, none of that is surprising.

The musical, which opened Nov. 21 (after Los Angeles Downtown News went to press) and continues through Dec. 22, is named for Newman’s most recent album. It is being directed by four-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks and features a six-person cast highlighted by Michael McKean, of Spinal Tap and “Laverne & Shirley” fame (he played the greaser Lenny), and Katey Sagal, best known for her role in the long-running Fox comedy “Married with Children.”

Still, the unquestioned stars are the Newman songs featured in the show, including “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today,” “Sail Away,” “My Country,” “Short People” and, of course, “I Love L.A.” “The songs are incredibly memorable pieces of music, and the lyrics are really smart,” said Jack Viertel, the creative director of Jujamcyn Theaters in New York, who conceived the show. “He has a huge emotional vocabulary and can break your heart and make you laugh.”

Just don’t expect a traditional story.

Music on Stage Born in 1943, Newman released his first album in 1968. In that rock and roll era, his

rich and orchestral sound was a critical success, but not much of a commercial hit.

Still, it launched a career defined by an often satirical, keen sense of songwriting that frequently features first-person storytelling, even if the tales come from the point of view of a character and not the artist himself.

Newman has received every songwriting award imaginable, from Grammys to Emmys to an Oscar (in 2002, for “If I Didn’t Have You,” from Monsters, Inc.). He has reached a younger generation by doing the music for movies such as Toy Story.

His work has also propelled two stage shows: Randy Newman’s Faust opened in 1995 at the La Jolla Playhouse to mixed reviews, and in 2000, The Education of Randy Newman played at South Coast Repertory.

A Newman fan since the 1970s, Viertel said for years he also wanted to put Newman’s music on stage. But it wasn’t until he heard Harps and Angels that he decided to finally pursue his goal. In particular, he was struck by the title track, a song about a man who falls down on the street and thinks he is dying.

Newman’s tendency to write from whatever age perspective he happens to be at allowed Viertel to create a show about growing up, living and dying in America. He and Zaks worked together for about a year choosing the songs.

“I was not looking at a way to tell a chronological story of a life, but for songs that gave the impression of someone that was at a certain phase in life, many different phases in life,” Viertel said. “Randy’s written a lot of songs of political satire, so I was looking for

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(l to r) Storm Large, Michael McKean and Katey Sagal are part of the six-member cast of Harps & Angels, a musical revue featuring the music of Randy Newman at the Mark Taper Forum.

enough of the political songs to sort of salt and pepper the thing with some good laughs and a point of view.”

For McKean, taking part in a Randy Newman musical revue was a no brainier.

“I’m a big Randy Newman fan, so I said, ‘Oh boy, that’s for me,” said the 63-year-old actor.

McKean is best known for his television and movie work, but he is no stranger to the stage. He made his Broadway debut in 1990 with Rupert Holmes’ Accomplice, which earned him a Theater World Award. Other roles include Hairspray on Broadway and Woody Allen’s original stage production A Secondhand Memory.

In the show, he plays a range of characters, including one that seeks to embody the essence of Newman. That watery descriptor fits in with a show without a defined narrative,

and with little dialogue between songs.

Still, McKean is quick to point out, the performance is full of stories.

“Randy’s songs are so story rich,” McKean said. “But I can’t really go into detail of what it is because it’s more of a thing to be experienced than described.”

While Newman has attended some of the rehearsals he has had no official role with the musical. However, the show includes some visuals of Newman, and his presence has been felt.

“Randy has been like Yoda,” Viertel said.

“He’s the person you go to for the ultimate wisdom about his songs.”

Harps & Angels runs through Dec. 22 at the Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave. (213) 628-2772 or centertheatregroup.org.

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Street Saints Urban Theatre Movement Raises ‘Judas Iscariot’ In the Alexandria Hotel

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owntown Los Angeles has been no stranger to DIY theater over the years, from past presenters like Al’s National Theater, which staged plays in the famous punk club, to Poor Dog Group, which this year earned praise for Brewsie & Willie, a work based on a Gertrude Stein novella and mounted in a penthouse on Los Angeles Street.

Add to that independent minded tradition the collective Urban Theatre Movement, which last week opened The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the Company of Angels space in the Alexandria Hotel. The big production, encompassing 23 actors, continues through Dec. 12.

At a rehearsal last week, actors bustled around in costume, bringing energy to the old, somewhat fraying building. Nearly all were inspired by the script by Steven Adly Giurgis. The play, which tells the story of the hypothetical court case over the fate of Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus Christ, is the show UTM has been waiting to produce since they started the theater company last year.

The setting happens to be, well, Purgatory.

“It’s not often a company is formed for one production,” said director and Downtown resident Jeremy Aluma. “We have other objectives, but it was the catalyst.”

Last Days is UTM’s second full-length play, following Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead in January.

It looked at the characters from Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts” comic strip as teenagers.

UTM was formed by a group of Cerritos College students last October. About 20 young actors and artists are involved with the company, which its members describe as a multicultural artists’ collective. Their aim, said cofounders Paul Tully and Brenda Banda, is to produce plays that reflect underprivileged, low-income and minority communities in Los Angeles.

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“I want to produce work that mirrors the neighborhood I grew up in,” said Banda, a South Central native. “I think it’s important for people to be able to see themselves onstage.”

Aluma came into contact with Banda and Tully — who decided to pursue an acting career after serving in the military — through plays he directed with his Long Beach theater company, Alive Theatre. He cast Banda in a production of In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, another play by Giurgis.

In Last Days, lawyers call for testimonies from witnesses such as Mother Theresa, Sigmund Freud, various saints and even Satan. Saint Peter, Pontius Pilate and Saint Monica are all characters who speak in a decidedly urban vernacular.

Aluma said Saint Monica, an angelic-looking North African saint, has some of the roughest dialogue. It also makes her one of the funniest characters.

“We love to put labels, but as humans, we’re not one note,” Aluma said. “The largest theme of this play is humanity — free will, forgiveness, despair, all of it.”

Like every theater company, UTM struggles to stay within budget. It is especially difficult in a show with so many characters, who all require costumes. Then there are the props, all the backstage players, etc.

“Breaking even is often seen as a success for a nonprofit,” Tully said. “But we’re really hungry to do well.”

Company members are also hungry to do more theater.

Chris Gavilanes, who plays a soldier in the play, said without UTM, he might not have been able to continue acting.

“A lot of us come from poor neighborhoods,” he said.

“But having other people to work with encourages us to take risks in our careers, and make bolder choices.”

While this is UTM’s biggest work to date (the company has also held some short play festivals), its members are already looking to the future. Next year, they plan to stage Life and Death in South Gate Park, written by Israel Lopez, one of their founding members. He wrote it as an homage to the area where he grew up.

It is part of Tully and Banda’s vision for a bigger, meaningful future for the company.

“Some actors look at theater as a showcase for themselves,” said Nick Mills, an actor who plays God’s lawyer.

“But they’re really all here for the material, the words on the page.” photo by Ed Krieger The Last Days of Judas Iscariot runs through Dec. 12 at the Urban Theatre Movement’s The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is set Company of Angels at the Alexandria Hotel, 501 S. Spring St., in Purgatory. It concerns a hypothetical court case for the man who betrayed Jesus.

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e’s baaaaack. The Los Angeles Philharmonic happily heralds the return of its former music director, and possibly Los Angeles’ favorite Finn, Esa-Pekka Salonen. It’s been 18 months since Salonen gave his Walt Disney Concert Hall baton to Gustavo Dudamel and began focusing on composing. This week, he’ll lead the troops and have a super special guest in bass-baritone Bryn Terfel in a program with selections from Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis and selected scenes from Wagner’s canon. There are three performances to be thankful for: Friday-Saturday, Nov. 26-27, at 8 p.m.; and Nov. 28 at 2 p.m. At 111 S Grand Ave., (323) 8502000 or laphil.org.

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This year, why not try an alternative medium that’ll give you and the kids visions of sugarplum fairies dancing on strings in your head. Bob Baker’s Nutcracker! is a puppet version of the classic, and features numerous styles of puppetry, from marionettes to shadow puppets. The Bob Baker Marionette Theater concludes its 50th anniversary season with the magical story of a girl named Clara and her doll and all the toys come to life. Mouse Kings and more cavort to Tchaikovsky’s score. The show runs Tuesdays through Fridays at 10:30 a.m., and Saturdays and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. through Jan. 16. At 1345 W. First St., (213) 250-9995 or bobbakermarionettes.com.

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Noon-2 p.m.: Los Angeles Visionary Association hosts a loosely structured conversational salon the last Sunday of each month featuring short presentations and opportunities to meet and connect.

Downtown Independent 251 S. Main St., (213) 617-1033 or downtownindependent.com.

Nov. 25-30, various show times: Yony Leyser’s William Burroughs: A Man Within is a portrait of the writer who shattered the boundaries of queer and drug culture in the 1950s. With works like Naked Lunch, Junkie, and Queer, Burroughs at once savaged conservative ideals, spawned countercultural movements, and reconfigured the 20th century.

Nov. 27, 6:30 p.m.: Bold Native, a daring piece of guerilla filmmaking, follows animal liberator and wanted domestic “terrorist” Charlie Cranehill as he attempts to put together a nationwide action.

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

Through Dec. 2: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part I (noon, 3:15, 6:30 and 9:45 p.m.); Megamind 2D (12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20 and 9:40 p.m.); Skyline (12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:40 and 10 p.m.); Disney’s Tangled 2D (11:30 a.m. and 2, 4:30, 7 and 9:30 p.m.).

IMAX Theater California Science Center, 700 State Drive, (213) 7442019 or californiasciencecenter.org.

Through Nov. 28: Featuring nine-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater, The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D will immerse audiences in the story of an ocean wave and the lives it impacts and transforms.

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9 p.m.: Comedian Zane Lamprey “Sings the Booze” tour.

Nokia Theatre 777 Chick Hearn Court, (213) 763-6000 or nokiatheatrelalive.com.

2 and 5 p.m.: Nov. 27, 11 a.m., 2 and 5 p.m.: Yo Gabba Gabba! Live! There’s a Party In My City! It’s got music and dancing, photo opps with the Gabba gang and healthy refreshments.

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Monday, nov. 22 ALOUD at the Central Library 630 W. Fifth St., (213) 228-7025 or aloudla.org.

7 p.m.: Peter Balakian’s new collection of poems, Ziggurat, explores the aftermath of 9/11 through layered perspectives of myth, history and personal memory. He discusses the work with Hovig Tchalian.

The Lost Art of Reading USC Doheny Memorial Library, 3550 Trousdale Parkway, (213) 740-3250 or college.usc.edu/mpw.

7-10 p.m.: Author David Ulin is in conversation with Mona Simpson.

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o yo Yo Gabba Gabba! Live! lands at the Nokia Theatre on Friday-Saturday, Nov. 26-27, though if you have kids of the appropriate age, then you’ve probably known this for a while. The popular Nickelodeon television series for children, “Yo Gabba Gabba!” features retro-style, beat-driven music with star DJ Lance Rock and colorful characters like Foofa, the pink flower bubble; Plex, the yellow robot; and Toodee, the blue cat-dragon. The live show is titled There’s a Party in My City! and features music, singing, dancing and animation.

The kids will learn how to beat box and may get a chance to join the Dancey Dance segment on stage. Best of all, there are five shows spread over two days. The Gabba gang raises the roof at 777 Chick Hearn Court, (213) 763-6000 or nokiatheatrelalive.com.

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We Got Games

Clippers play host to the league’s biggest surprise this year, the New Orleans Hornets, then have a Thanksgiving night game against Sacramento. All together now: We’ll be thankful if they finally win. On Friday, the Clips jaunt to Phoenix (Nov. 26), then return to face the Utah Jazz.

USC Hosts the Irish, Lakers Get a Bench Spark Los Angeles Lakers Staples Center, 1111 S. Figueroa St., (213) 742-7100 or nba.com/lakers.

Nov. 23, 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 28, 6:30 p.m.: Put aside Pau and Kobe for a second, and who is the most important Laker right now? It’s got to be sixth man Shannon Brown, who has worked his way from change in a bigger trade to a bona fide bench star. He’ll look to help the team fend off an upand-coming Chicago Bulls squad led by Derrick Rose. Then it’s off to Utah to play the always tough Jazz (Nov. 26). The Lakers close the week at home against the Indiana Pacers.

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Nov. 22 and 25, 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 28, 12:30 p.m.: The

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Nov. 27, 7:30 p.m.: Everyone is still trying to get used to the idea of the Kings as a Western Conference power. They’re on the road to start the week, visiting the Ottawa Senators (Nov. 22) and then the Montreal Canadiens. The boys in purple and black return home to host the latest team to capture the Stanley Cup, the Chicago Blackhawks.

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

Nov. 27, 5 p.m.: In their final home game of a disappointing season, the Trojans have a chance to leave USC fans with a pleasant memory. The Matt Barkley-led Trojans just have to muster a victory over the visiting Fighting Irish of Notre Dame.

—Ryan Vaillancourt

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