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Volume 40, Number 49

Looking back at Mayor Prudent Beaudry.

The End of Occupy LA

New Central Captain Horace Frank Gets a Tough Assignment

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n Monday, Nov. 28, at about 10:30 a.m., new Central Area Capt. Horace Frank wore a near constant smile as he cycled through meetings with community stakeholders. His chipper demeanor belied his fatigue: He had been at work since 3 a.m.

The early start was owed to the police action near the now dismantled Occupy LA camp at City Hall, but the grueling morning, Frank knew, was a precursor of regular long days to come in his new gig.

Frank, who assumed his post in Central’s fortress-like Sixth Street headquarters on Nov. 6, is in charge of what some say is the most diverse and demanding police area in the city. Former LAPD Chief William Bratton once likened Central, with its approximately 435 officers, to an entire department unto itself. That’s because whereas some divisions battle singular day-today crime problems such as gang violence, Central’s key challenge is that its crime issues and community interests are myriad.

From the Jewelry District to the Fashion District, from L.A. Live to Skid Row, from Chinatown to Little Tokyo, the law enforcement needs can vary vastly depending on the block, and each micro-community is vying for special attention. There is only one way to satisfy the array of special interests, said Cmdr. Andrew Smith, who served as Central area captain from 2005 to 2008.

“Be omnipresent,” Smith said. “I told Horace, be in the police car with your cops.

Be there late at night when someone’s having a late community meeting. Be there for the breakfast with the diamond dealers.

There are so many different small groups.

Let them know you’re there for them.”

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Horace Frank took over as the LAPD’s Central Area Captain on Nov. 6. The 50-year-old is a 23-year veteran of the department.

Downtown Families Hope to Start Charter School Fledgling Effort Would Bring Elementary Facility by 2013

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imon Ha has a few choices when it comes to choosing an elementary school for his 4-yearold daughter Zoe. There are several public and charter schools within a couple miles of his South Park home.

However, there’s a catch: Those options require a drive, or the schools themselves simply don’t

meet the academic standards that Ha and his wife want in a school.

Ha is far from alone. In recent years, scores of Downtown parents have encountered the same conundrum, and few have found a satisfactory solution. Some opt for charters outside the area, others pay for expensive private schools, and still others leave Downtown for a neighborhood with better public schools.

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Ha and a group of about eight other Downtown families hope to go a different route. They have joined together in an ambitious effort to open a charter school in Downtown Los Angeles by the fall of 2013. The plan calls for the school to start with kindergarten to third grade students “To support the families that are growing here, you’re going to need a school to serve the needs of see School, page 12

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A Picture of Skid Row Homelessness

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t may be impossible to fully chronicle the homeless population in Skid Row, but a new study conducted by the Los Angeles Mission as part of a larger survey provides some details about life for those in the portion of Downtown Los Angeles. During October, the Fifth Street mission took part in the 22nd annual Snapshot Survey organized by the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions.

Altogether, 19,000 individuals at 114 missions in North America responded. In Downtown, 191 individuals participated. The L.A. Mission found that 23% of those seeking help reported being homeless for the first time; nationwide the figure was 31%. The Downtown facility also reported that 87% of its clients are men (74% in the full survey). Additionally, the survey found a rise in dangerous conditions, with 27% of those in Downtown saying they have been the victim of violence. The full survey figure was 21%.

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EDITORIALS Huntington Hooray

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espite the resurgence that Down­ town Los Angeles has experienced in the past 10 years, the community still has too many problem properties. It’s not surprising — the area is large and carries a lot of old baggage.

The Historic Core buildings that had sat vacant for decades, the low occupancy rate of some skyscrapers and the crush of the homeless population of Skid Row all ensure that the Central City will never be Beverly Hills. Which, for the record, is fine.

With that understanding, it’s worth noting each important turnaround in the area, and not just the billion dollar projects. One easy-to-miss success is the transformation of the Huntington Hotel.

In October, Los Angeles Downtown News wrote about how a group of investors led by Rod Goldberg bought the property at 752 S. Main St. for $4.2 million, then spent a few million more to revamp the 196-unit building. It was no small feat — not only was the four-story edifice in lousy shape, but for years it was a crime magnet. The LAPD was repeatedly called to the building, and it gobbled up police resources that would be better spent elsewhere.

Just as Downtown won’t become Beverly Hills, the renamed Huntington Apartments won’t ever be, say, the RitzCarlton condos at L.A. Live. Again, this is fine — Downtown benefits with a diverse population. The new Huntington owners say they intend to market the units to recent college graduates and other young renters.

Getting to this point was not easy for the investment group. In addition to the physical changes, the property was stuck in the city’s Rent Escrow Account Program, or REAP. It was placed on the roster (where tenants pay reduced rents to an escrow account rather than the landlord) because it had deteriorated, under previous ownership, to slum status.

On Nov. 22, the City Council voted to remove the Huntington from REAP. It is an important step in getting the upgraded building into the mainstream of Downtown Los Angeles life.

Challenges remain — most units lack private bathrooms, and some potential tenants may scoff at early advertised rents of nearly $500 for 135 square feet of living space. However, finding the right price and the target audience could just be a matter of time. Much more important is that the renovation eradicates a blighted spot in the Historic Core. It also provides the opportunity to extend to the south the revitalization of Main Street.

The plans for ground-floor uses in the Huntington, starting with a gym, will be a key part of the effort.

The turnaround of the Huntington is proof that even problem properties can have a bright future. Often it just needs a developer willing to take a risk, someone who sees the future rather than the present. Downtown is lucky this occurred with the Huntington. The transformation is great for the building and for the community.

Beck’s Brigade Provides a Mostly Smart, Successful End to Occupy LA’s Tent City

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he Occupy LA protest at City Hall didn’t end with a bang. That’s a good thing. Nor was it a whimper. But it is over, at least in the form of a tent city on the park surrounding the building. Most significantly, it ended without violence.

The City of Los Angeles managed an effective and largely efficient culmination to the longest running of the nation’s Occupy protests. Extensive credit goes to the Los Angeles Police Department and Chief Charlie Beck, who intentionally and carefully created a situation in which the world’s eyes would be upon them, and then met the high standards they had set for themselves. The de facto leaders of the final batch of Occupy protesters, if the word “leaders” can be used for the movement that rejects the concept, also did the right thing in ensuring that the vast majority of those who remained at City Hall embraced the tenets of nonviolent civil disobedience.

Although the action that began early in the morning on Wednesday, Nov. 30, may not be the defining moment for the LAPD that some have opined, it is clearly an important indicator of how far the department has come.

Really, the police force handled the end of the protest almost perfectly. It is a marked contrast to the fracas that erupted between police and May Day demonstrators in 2007.

The approximately 1,400 officers who made 292 arrests last week were well prepared and avoided bloodshed and mass physical confrontations. In many ways this was a classic coming-of-age moment for the storied department.

Perhaps the smartest tools employed by Beck’s brigade were communication and time. Shortly after the protesters set up camp,

Beck and other police officials began a dialogue with them. Regular talks continued throughout the occupation, including in the form of officers engaging with campers while patrolling the tent city. Although the two sides had different perspectives, this helped establish a line of trust. While protesters may have ultimately seen the police as adversaries, the positive day-to-day interactions ensured that, come eviction time, the cops were not instinctively viewed as jackbooted thugs ready to crack heads. The description may sound harsh, but that’s how some communities saw the department in decades past.

Beck and various city officials also understood that, when it came to evicting the protesters, time was not of the essence. One of the wisest moves was publicly announcing the Nov. 28 deadline for camping at the park days in advance, and then doing nothing at the deadline hour. The notice differed from what occurred in New York City — there police swooped in and surprised most protesters.

In Downtown Los Angeles, those who did not want to be caught in a confrontation had plenty of time and opportunity to get out.

Not moving at the deadline of 12:01 a.m. on Nov. 28 may have surprised some observers, but it was a crafty tactical decision.

At that moment additional protesters had come to City Hall and some agitators were excited and looking forward to a public tangle. Emotions ran high. Launching the eviction then would have increased the likelihood for violent conflict.

Holding off for two more days allowed some of the tension to die down. The LAPD did not look soft by waiting — instead Beck and the department looked smart.

All this came in marked contrast to how the city initially responded to protesters angered over bank bailouts and frustrated by the power corporations have and the role of money in politics. City leaders clearly miscalculated by lavishly rolling out the welcome mat when the throngs began pitching their tents. The City Council’s passing of a resolution in favor of the protesters on their lawn would come to be used against them when it became clear that the occupiers did not intend to leave. One negotiating tool late in the game, a proposal to give the protesters free Downtown office space and some farmland, would have been ridiculous. Fortunately it was jettisoned.

While the LAPD planned well and acted appropriately when it came to making the evictions, not everything was perfect. Rather than allow full coverage by the media, access was limited to a few pool reporters and photographers who had to serve as conduits for the rest of the credentialed fourth estate.

It was surprising and unnecessary. It’s always better to get multiple perspectives on a controversial event. Additionally, it strikes at the heart at something the occupation was based on: First Amendment rights. Freedom of the press is a key part of that. It would have been terribly misleading to have had just a couple of pool reporters at the May Day melee. It was the richness of that coverage that revealed the department’s training shortcomings.

Limiting the media for this kind of action gives the impression that there is something to hide, that there are things the department does not want the public to see. That’s the wrong tack when the rest of the eviction was handled so well.

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The Big Life of Prudent Beaudry Remembering an Early Mayor and Major Landowner of Downtown

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ormer Mayor Prudent Beaudry was a single man, Canadian by birth, who developed a great deal of Downtown real estate. He died at home, at 607 W. Temple St. at Grand Avenue, on May 29, 1893. His funeral was held at the Cathedral of St. Vibiana.

Beaudry Avenue is named for him. The street is on the far west side of his Bellevue Terrace Tract (drawn in 1874), an odd-shaped sector extending east to Olive Street and lying north of Sixth Street. The centerpiece of the tract was Bellevue Terrace Park. The Los Angeles State Normal School, a teachers college and predecessor to UCLA, was built upon the undulating grounds. After the school moved to Vermont Avenue, the elegant old building was razed.

Today’s Richard J. Riordan Central Library was constructed there in the 1920s.

The term Bellevue likely is French Canadian, as Beaudry was born in Quebec province. In addition to the Bellevue Terrace Tract, Beaudry was associated with the development of Bunker Hill, named for the centennial of the Battle of Bunker Hill (and subdivided in 1876). This tract of highend homes sat atop the hills on the west side of Downtown.

Views from these grand residences stretched to Pasadena and to the Pacific. Many of the Victorian era leaders of Los Angeles lived on Bunker Hill, as did Beaudry. Life atop the hill was refined and staid.

Prudent Beaudry served on the Los Angeles City Council and as mayor from 1874-1876. He was a man who thought big thoughts. Beaudry tried and failed many times, losing large sums of money over a period of decades. The collapse of the Temple and Workman Bank in 1876 hit him very hard. However, one investment that never seemed to fail him was Los Angeles real estate. He owned enough of it to ensure himself a comfortable living.

He was involved with the first water works in Los Angeles. The privately organized company became the early version of a local utility. The water works was in charge of managing the flow of the Los Angeles River and

using that water to supply the town via “zanjas,” or ditches.

King Carlos III of Spain had granted the rights to the river to the town of Los Angeles as a part of the royal charter that established the pueblo in 1781.

Beaudry was also involved in the Second Street Cable Railway Company, which provided cable car service for the outlying community of Angelino Heights, connecting it with Downtown. Cable car service is not normally associated with

Beaudry lived life large and answered to no one but himself. He was outspoken and boastful, never shy about offering an opinion.

Los Angeles. However, Second Street from Hill Street (there was no tunnel in those days) over Bunker Hill, then down and ultimately over to Angelino Heights, required a system that could safely and reliably negotiate steep grades. Cable cars were the best option for the grades at that time.

On the Elysian Hills, there was once a Beaudry Park. This oval-shaped open space overlooked the Sonora Town section of Los Angeles, a neighborhood just north of today’s El Pueblo Plaza. In the late 19th century, the Daughters of Charity purchased the site and it became the Sister’s Hospital, operated by the Daughters of Charity near Sunset Boulevard and Figueroa Street. This was the forerunner of St. Vincent’s Hospital, which today is at Third and Alvarado streets.

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The mayoral portrait in City Hall of Prudent Beaudry, a Canadian landowner who served as mayor of Los Angeles from 1874 to 1876.

He is the name behind Beaudry Avenue.

Beaudry was instrumental in helping found the towns of Alhambra and Pasadena. He was connected with Don Benito Wilson, owner of the Rancho San Pascual, and he helped bring water to these areas.

Prudent was joined by his brother Victor in the real estate business. Prudent was in Canada a great deal, and Victor managed his brother’s interests here. Victor also had properties of his own. Victor died in Canada in 1888.

Prudent passed away five years later.

Beaudry lived life large and answered to no one but himself. He was outspoken and boastful, never shy about offering an opinion. He was quite sure of himself and was a man of action. He still lives on through his real estate.

Greg Fischer is a Downtown resident and an amateur historian.

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being envisioned for a far more modest development.

The ironic part is that, while the new plan lacks the spectacle of one with the Libeskind imprimatur, it is far more likely to happen. In fact, a developer aims to break ground on a $95 million apartment project next year and open a pair of sevenstory towers with a combined 247 units in 2013.

“This is an area that makes sense,” said Steve Fifield, CEO of Chicago-based Fifield Companies, which is partnering with Los Angeles-based Michael Sorochinsky of Cypress Equity Investments on the development currently known as 1340 S. Figueroa, though the name will likely change. “We see a tremendous demand, a growing demand for the [rental] market Downtown.”

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Construction, Fifield said, is slated to start in April 2012 with completion scheduled by the end of the following year.

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The developers have extensive experience with residential projects. Fifield Companies has built $4 billion worth of mid-rise and high-rise apartments, condominiums and office buildings in Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Las Vegas. In L.A., they developed the Beverly West and The Californian on Wilshire condo towers.

Sorochinsky purchased and rehabilitated more than 50 apartment buildings with approximately 3,500 units from 2000 to 2005. The company liquidated the vast majority of its portfolio by 2007.

The South Park project will include units that range from studios to two-bedroom apartments with rents from $1,250$2,500. The residences will sit above 11,000 square feet of ground floor retail and a 252-space garage. There are plans for a fitness center, lounge, roof deck, pool and theater room.

A bridge will connect the buildings. Fifield said the majority of units would be built in the edifice that fronts Figueroa Street, with about 70 in the property fronting Flower Street.

The architect is GMP Architects.

Plans Change The Libeskind condo project was first announced in 2008, and was fully entitled as the developer tried to secure a construction loan. Plans called for the building to include 11,673 square feet of space for two restaurants, a 9,325-square-foot spa and 379 parking spaces.

That was the same time, however, that numerous projects either slowed down or fell into serious trouble. Many were never built. Others from that era were completed but remain in a state of limbo. Those include the Roosevelt Lofts on Seventh Street and the Apex, developed by Sonny Astani and formerly known as the Concerto.

Fifield said they opted for two mid-rise rental buildings rather than a high-rise full of condominiums because prices in the for-sale market still do not pencil out.

Mark Tarczynski, executive vice president of the real estate firm Colliers, said that considering the still difficult buyer’s market, and the continued demand for housing in the area, the developers are making the right move by going the rental route.

“I think the buyer’s market is difficult and still shrinking,” he said. “The rental market is what’s growing.”

In recent years, numerous Downtown buildings, including a few in South Park, have changed before opening as for-sale units to rentals. They include the Watermarke, a few blocks away in South Park. The tallest purely residential tower in Downtown at 35 stories, it was developed by Meruelo Maddux as luxury condos. However, the market turned, Meruelo Maddux filed for bankruptcy, and ultimately sold the building for $110 million. It is now apartments.

Although the party may be over for Downtown high-rise condominium buildings, at least for now, Fifield is among those who believe the appetite for apartment living in the area remains strong.

“Instead of spending more money on construction of highrise buildings, we can put that money into better amenities and finishes in a mid-rise building,” he said Contact Richard Guzmán at richard@downtownnews.com.

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ast month, few job offers seemed as unenticing as the post of executive director of the Historic Downtown Los Angeles Business Improvement District.

In September the board of the BID, which taxes Historic Core property owners to pay primarily for street cleaning and security services, fired longtime head Russell Brown in a session that many alleged violated public meeting laws.

They then hired Roberto Saldaña, whose former employer

had clashed with 14th District City Councilman José Huizar.

Under pressure from Huizar, the BID voided the Saldaña hire and opened up the position to applicants.

After a month of politically charged rhetoric and intense scrutiny, the board hired Blair Besten. The veteran of the Downtown real estate scene had worked for developers the Kor Group (Santa Fe Lofts, the Pegasus) and Amerland (the Alexandria Hotel, the Rosslyn Lofts). Most recently, she worked in commercial real estate with broker Ed Rosenthal.

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Blair Besten left a job in commercial real estate to run the Historic Downtown LA BID. She hopes to steer the organization toward more neighborhood improvement projects.

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Blair Besten: After I heard the position was available and some people suggested I go for it, it took me a week and a half to mull it over and weigh the pros and cons. I knew absolutely what I was getting into. And, for the work that’s involved, there’s talk about the salary not being adequate. But I have a deep love of Downtown and it just made sense for me. It’s the old adage, there’s more to life than just money. I knew this job would be something I could sink my teeth into and hopefully make the area better and make the BID work better.

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scale. A lot of the skill sets will be good for the job, like creative negotiating, working with the city and working with people in general. I see challenges in an optimistic way. That comes from working with developers. A developer will say, “We need to get this done,” and you don’t get to say, “That’s impossible, no.”

They’ll look at you and say, “Then what are you here for? You’re fired.” So you figure out how to get it to work.

Q: What was your first priority?

A: Expansion. We needed the money, bottom line. Secondly, on many deep levels, we needed that success. I think it could be a good indication going forward of how it will be with the renewal. Do people believe in us? We needed to reassert ourselves.

Q: Why did the expansion fail at first, and why were you successful the second time?

A: It’s my understanding that there was a technical error, which enabled us to do a vote again. Also, the language on the ballot was unclear. People were under the false impres-

sion that their assessment would go up. But ultimately, it was about campaigning and that has to be done on a grassroots, relentless level. We did that the second time.

Q: You were hired in part to steer the BID in what board members called a “new direction.” What is that direction?

A: It’s about going beyond clean and safe. Right now, that’s the bulk of our budget. Our clean and safe vendors do their job really well. That leaves us with bringing new business into the area; branding and marketing our neighborhood; unifying our building owners; and really networking with the stakeholders. This is the best neighborhood in Downtown, I think. But when you see empty storefronts, we haven’t done our job. And we need to take a more upfront role with neighborhood initiatives like Art Walk and a farmers market.

Q: State law requires BIDs to spend the majority of their budget on clean and safe services. How much wiggle room do you have to spend money on other efforts?

A: Very little. We need free help. One of the other great things

Q: In 2013, property owners will vote on whether or not to renew the BID for five years. What would be the impact of BID expiration?

A: Enjoy seeing bags of trash pile up and dog waste on the sidewalk forever. There are times when it’s overlooked, but many parts of these streets would never get power washed. We get 40 hours of power washing a month in our budget that would go away. The Christmas decorations, which I think are important, would go away. When you get scared and call the police and they are overwhelmed and can’t respond right away, our people are there in a matter of minutes. They’re first responders and liaisons. I think they make people feel more secure.

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Horace Frank Continued from page 1 Central in 2009, concurred.

“In one word I can sum up what a Central area captain needs to be in order to be successful: a relationship-builder,” Chow said.

The advice of Frank’s predecessors is already sinking in.

Since replacing Todd Chamberlain at Central, Frank said he’s been busy seeking advice from the likes of Smith, Chow and Chief Charlie Beck. He has also been meeting with Downtown community leaders.

Frank, 50, accepts that an irregular work schedule and long hours are part of the Downtown job. He understands that, in addition to functioning as a law enforcement tactician, the Central post requires someone to behave as an ambassador.

“I have to be able to accommodate the various community groups,” Frank said. “But that’s what I like about this assignment. I’m a people person.”

Wide Rotation Like most people who work their way up the LAPD ladder, Frank has done stints in divisions across the city. He entered the academy in 1988, after a career as an engineer working for Lockheed Martin. Before that, Frank, who was born in Guyana and raised in Brooklyn, served in the US Air Force for eight years.

Most recently, Frank was the commanding officer of the Emergency Services Division, where he managed units including the Bomb Squad, Hazardous Materials and Operation Arcangel, a counterterrorism program that focuses on protecting critical infrastructure in the region. The time in Emergency Services, he said, gave him experience engaging with the private sector, which owns most of the critical infrastructure, including the numerous Downtown skyscrapers.

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Frank has quickly learned that irregular hours and numerous meetings are integral parts of the job. “I have to be able to accommodate the various community groups,” Frank said. “But that’s what I like about this assignment. I’m a people person.”

Working with Downtown businesses will mean something slightly different in his new post. Instead of fine-tuning counterterrorism strategies, Frank will work with groups like the Central City Association, which has long pushed for police enforcement of “quality of life” crimes such as aggressive panhandling and drinking in public.

Those small infractions, said Anne Williams, vice president of legislative and legal affairs at the CCA, make strong impressions on people on the street, discouraging both tourism and investment in the area.

“Downtowners know that Downtown is really safe, but the perception is like everything else in L.A. — perception is reality,” Williams said.

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Frank plans to stay in the middle.

“Neither one of those two communities is more important than the other. In fact, if you don’t take care of Skid Row, it can have a huge impact on the business community going where it needs to go,” Frank said. “So you need to make sure that your lines of communication are just as deep in both places.”

Into the Fire Frank takes over Central at a critical juncture. While Downtown is statistically among the safest areas in Los Angeles, and crime has fallen significantly over the past five years, Central is seeing an increase in felonies.

Violent and other serious crime is up about 3% year-todate compared to 2010. There are more people sleeping on the street in Skid Row and a recent prison reform plan is poised to send more early release felons to the area in part to access the neighborhood’s array of social services.

There are additional challenges. A recent court ruling forbids the city from seizing and destroying apparently abandoned items because they may be the property of a homeless individual. That has led to more sidewalk pile-ups and daytime encampments.

The situation has many stakeholders on edge.

“The question is, in this moment of historically low resources, will the city leadership continue to place its commitment to maintaining the gains that have been won in Skid Row?” asked Estela Lopez, executive director of the Central City East Association, which provides street cleaning and security services in part of Skid Row. At the moment, the answer appears to be no. The city’s

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That is leading to a change in approach. Whereas in recent years the department was hell-bent on lowering crime statistics, Frank said that for now, the objective in Central is simply to prevent crime from going back up.

“The challenge is trying to maintain a handle on crime given the forces we’re going to be battling against,” he said.

In order to do that, Frank plans to stick to the advice he got from Smith, Chow, Beck and others. He intends to be available to all, including his officers.

“While I encourage officers to use their chain of command, I also recognize that there are some people who just want to come talk to me, and I’m not going to stop them,” Frank said.

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Ha, an associate principal at Thomas P. Cox Architects, is working with fellow Downtown resident Mike McGalliard, who co-founded L.A.’s Promise, a nonprofit organization that runs three schools for the LAUSD (the schools are not charters).

McGalliard also lives in South Park and has a 3-year-old daughter named Sophia.

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‘I want to feel like we have a neighborhood school.’

Twitter/DowntownNews ment for the Downtown Center Business Improvement District, said that the BID for years has been trying to lure a school into Downtown, knowing it is fundamental to keeping families in the area long term.

“This is exactly the right idea at exactly the right time,” said Bastian.

Until recently however, Bastian said, the number of families with school age children has not been high enough for a new school to open in Downtown.

Signs of a change, said Bastian, are a recent DCBID Halloween party for kids that drew about 1,000 people, most of them Downtown residents. Additionally, a recent demographics study conducted by the BID found that approximately 1,850 children under the age of 5 live Downtown. That means 6.3% of neighborhood households have kids who are at or approaching school age.

There are several nearby options for older Downtown kids, among them the stateof-the-art High School for the Visual and Performing Arts, the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex, the Edward R. Roybal

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Simon Ha (right), with his daughter Zoe, and Mike McGalliard, with his daughter Sophia, are leading an effort to open a charter elementary school in Downtown by 2013. Costs for a new charter school can range from $250,000 to more than $2 million.

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that have freedom from some rigorous district standards and requirements, and are not bound by union contracts. Ha’s group is putting together a study to count families with kids interested in attending a Downtown charter school. The next step is conducting a feasibility study to figure out how much it would cost to open the facility. They hope to present their plan to the LAUSD by March and open the school 18 months later.

“I want to feel like we have a neighborhood school,” McGalliard said. “A regular school that my kid goes to, that your kid goes to, that other families that live close by can go to. We’re missing that.”

The Downtown families have a lot of work ahead of them. Not only do they have to find a site for the school, they also have to come up with significant funding — development costs can range from $250,000 to more than $2 million, according to the most recent figures provided by the California Charter Schools Association, an advocacy and resource group for charter schools. The costs include everything from acquiring land to hiring staff to buying office and school supplies.

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in neighborhoods parents want. They include the Para Los Niños charter school near Seventh and Alameda streets. There is also the public Ninth Street Elementary, but it was closed for refurbishment in 2009 and won’t reopen until 2013. Other LAUSD schools and several charter options are in Chinatown and on the outskirts of the area.

In recent interviews with Los Angeles Downtown News, LAUSD officials said there are no plans to open another elementary school in the core of Downtown. That poses a problem for people like Ha. “I walk to work, my wife walks to work, and having to drive to Chinatown, or Para Los Niños, it just doesn’t work for us,” Ha said.

More families are choosing the charter option. A study released last month by the CCSA found charter school enrollment growing 13% for the 2011-12 school year, with 412,000 students attending charters nationwide. This school year, 100 new charter schools opened in California. Los Angeles is leading the way with 30 of those.

Vicky Waters, a spokeswoman for the CCSA, said starting a charter school is a challenging task. Although the Downtown parents’ timeline is ambitious, she said it could be accomplished by fall 2013.

“It can take from a year to two years or even more,” she said.

While McGalliard and Ha are driven by a need for their own families, they recognize that if they are successful, the benefits will live on for years.

“In order for this community to retain the families and become a community,” Ha said, “you have to provide the services necessary to keep the families here. What it’s lacking are elementary schools.”

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owntown may be home to the Fashion District, the major hub of garment wholesalers and knockoff hawkers, but when it comes to retail, the area is decidedly deficient in designer duds. One new shop is working to change that.

In September, Kuo Yang opened Brigade, a high-end boutique on Seventh Street. The store in the Mandel building is unlike any other Downtown retailer. While small vintage shops have sprung up along Spring and Main streets, Brigade might be more at home on Robertson or Rodeo.

As part of a series highlighting local retail, Los Angeles Downtown News takes a look at what’s in store.

Local Love: Shoppers looking for mass appeal, widely available labels should trot straight past Brigade and continue on to

Macy’s. There are no Levi’s or Polos here.

Instead, the shop stocks an array of designers more likely to be found at a high-end department store, but with a decidedly local twist.

The inventory is anchored by designers including LnA (which Yang said is partly run by a FIDM grad), J Brand denim, Plastic Island and Fluxus. The store also stocks a line by Spirit Hoods, an up-and-coming Downtownbased label known for a quirky faux fur garment that doubles as an ear warming hood and a scarf. They range in color from white to tiger-brindle, and include cat-like ears on the hood. They go for $140.

It’s not all local stuff though. Brigade carries tops and dresses by London-based Vivienne Westwood for about $200 to $400; boots by the now ubiquitous Australian shoe brand Ugg for $150; and coats and other tops

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“We’re catering to the professionals who have had their fill of H&M and Forever 21,” Yang said.

The Bottega Effect: Yang has worked in or near Downtown for about 10 years, mostly as a graphic designer. He made his foray into fashion four years ago, opening a pop-up boutique at 1010 Wilshire. He’s had his eye on a Downtown store ever since, but the project that ultimately convinced him to set up shop on Seventh Street was the restaurant Bottega Louie. The eatery is not only jam-

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This One’s for the Ladies: Female fashionistas will be at home at Brigade. In fact — sorry, hombres — there are no male garments on the racks yet. The ladies’ gear features a little bit of everything, from jewelry to shoes.

Campbells: Mmm, Mmm Good: Speaking of shoes, Brigade’s footwear inventory is comprised almost entirely of creations by Jeffrey Campbell. The designer is known for the photo by Ryan Vaillancourt

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Power of Three: If Bottega Louie was Yang’s chief draw to Seventh Street, it’s also no mistake that he took a space adjacent to the sleek nail salon Neihule. Nor is it coincidence that Brigade borrows the floor-to-ceiling white color scheme in both Bottega and Neihule.

“I want people to walk by and wonder if it’s all the same space,” Yang said.

Yang is banking that the customers will overlap. The female-heavy clientele at the salon will invariably notice the adjacent boutique, he believes. The challenge, Yang acknowledged, is that while certain bars and restaurants have

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So far, his clientele consists of quite a mix: Tourists happen upon the shop, along with FIDM and USC students, Yang said. But he hopes that Brigade will also draw heavily from the nearby office buildings.

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“Women are often so busy that they don’t take time for themselves, and they often don’t get regular checkups,” says Goldberg, author of Dr. Nieca Goldberg’s Complete Guide to Women’s Health and a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association. “No matter how old you are, you should take care of your health, but you need to be even more vigilant after age 35. Everyone should get a checkup once a year. Of course, if something is wrong, you’ll see the doctor more often.”

Taking care of elderly parents is something that leads to high levels of stress in women, many of whom are trying to “do it all” singlehandedly, Goldberg says. “Women, especially

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She also suggests developing a support network, and picking up relaxing pastimes such as walking or yoga. Other options, she notes, include doing something with a group, or even taking a vacation.

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Women who sleep for less than seven hours a night are at greater risk for high blood pressure and heart disease, Goldberg advises. Lack of sleep also is associated with increased cortisol levels, weight gain and Type 2 diabetes.

Then there are steps that might not seem obvious. She suggests getting away from being constantly “connected” by finding downtime and even turning off computers and email. She also professes a point mentioned frequently by others: Find time for exercise, even if no time seems available.

When doing so, she suggests keeping in mind bone health.

“To maintain good bone health, you need to do weight-bearing exercise,” she says. “Walking is a great weight-bearing exercise. Walking on a treadmill works, too, as does dancing or any other kind of upright aerobic activity.”

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Ite Laird-Offringa, an associate professor of surgery and biochemistry and molecular biology, and Zea Borok, a professor of medicine, biochemistry and molecular biology, and chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, plan to identify genome-wide changes of type 2 human lung wall cells as they transition during the course of IPF. They will also compare those cells to healthy lung cells.

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“It’s a very expensive thing to do because it requires the ability to analyze thousands and thousands of genes at the same time,” Borok explained. “It’s never been done for this population of cells before. We’re in a unique position of having the USC Epigenome Center. Ita and I are bringing together two different areas of expertise to be able to do something that neither of us could do on our own.”

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a timeline, but judging by how hard it always is to get a table at LudoBites, Restaurant Buzz would like to make a reservation for two right away. n Better Late Than Never: After months of teasing Downtown with a big red “Coming Soon” banner, Pho Citi has finally opened. The small Vietnamese chain restaurant debuted at 200 S. Hill St. on Monday, Nov. 21, and although it can’t reasonably be compared to other Downtown options with similar cuisine such as Spice Table or Blossom, you can get a decent bowl of pho. Pho Citi is open seven days a week, 24 hours a day, and delivery service will ultimately be available all day and night. The restaurant also has a bakery serv-

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Las Morelianas is at 317 S. Broadway, (213) 7250848.

Contact Richard Guzmán at richard@downtownnews.com.

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Kenneth Anger gained his greatest following for the book Hollywood Babylon. His films never A shot of a young Elizabeth Taylor at a dinner is turned by photographer Weegee into a gauche display of gluttony. It is one of the crime scene shooter’s Hollywood images on display at MOCA. found as wide an audience.

Outsiders Looking In MOCA Shows Focus on Two Creative Types on the Periphery of Hollywood

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he Los Angeles photographs of Weegee and the films of cinematic outlaw Kenneth Anger are a clever bit of curatorial juxtaposition on the part of MOCA. They also inject a delicious dose of the surreal into the oh-so-serious Pacific Standard Time series now dominating Los Angeles cultural institutions.

The artistic achievement celebrated in PST is justifiable, but those artists and their movements all existed more or less in the shadow of the motion picture industry. A New York crime photographer and a Santa Monica outcast fed off the leviathan’s carcass; what they achieved might not always have ascended to art, but it’s often fun to look at.

Their exhibitions continue through Feb. 27, 2012.

Arthur Fellig (1898-1968) lived a feral existence in New York City. In a tiny bachelor apartment stuffed with files, he slyly listened in to police radio lines and managed to get his Speed Graphic to crime scenes before New York’s finest. The stogie-chomper’s perspicacity made them wonder if he used a Ouija board — they soon dubbed him Weegee. His cold-eyed photographs of grisly crime scenes, bloody corpses, automobiles crumpled like used Kleenex, hysterical survivors, beaten victims and rousted transvestites were sold to newspapers and magazines.

He also snapped ordinary New Yorkers: society balls at the Waldorf, Bowery bar patrons, Coney Island crowds on hot days, kids on the street and such.

His East Coast celebrity grew with the publication of Naked City, a best-selling photo book. After it went into multiple printings, Weegee the Famous (as his card and photo stamp read) came west, certain that Hollywood would welcome him with open arms. While he did research

for a few movies like Naked City (1948) and even had a few walk-on roles, he was seldom credited. Hollywood was a tougher nut to crack than he anticipated.

MOCA’s Naked Hollywood: Weegee’s Los Angeles (one of the few times his work has been shown in a museum) has a seven-minute film, Weegee in Hollywood (’53).

The grainy black and white short follows him walking up and down Hollywood Boulevard, looking for a good shot. Even in “Newark with palm trees,” as he derisively referred to Los Angeles, Weegee was still a feral character, looking to sell a street photo. It’s a fun little piece of cinema, as much for the central character as the glimpses of lost places like Flagg Brothers shoe store, the old Hollywood Hotel and a passing Pacific Electric car.

Weegee shot everything from the Academy Awards to Skid Row drunk tanks. While he sold glamorous shots of celebrities to magazines, he often turned around and technically manipulated those images in the most unflattering ways. An innocent shot of ingénue Elizabeth Taylor at a dinner is turned into a gauche display of gluttony.

While he desperately wanted to be part of Hollywood, Weegee clearly had a lot of hostility toward the high and mighty of Tinseltown. A straight photo of Jane Russell at a Hollywood Stars game catches her from behind, her backside grossly exaggerated. The more celebrated and attractive the celebrity, the more he ridiculed them with his shooting angles and darkroom legerdemain.

A large display shows the many magazine covers Weegee shot, for men’s magazines, photo journals and scandal rags. He may have been a street-level businessman, but Weegee was always open for business. His model shots also display ambivalence. Beauties though

they were, he couldn’t resist giving many of them the funhouse mirror treatment.

Weegee clearly had more empathy for the “little people”: a stripper pauses after her number to drink a well-deserved glass of water in a stockroom; we can almost smell the sweat and cooking odors. Groups of people crane their necks for a glimpse of the stars, autograph books at the ready. A suite of four shots of a young woman at a parade ranges from giddiness to hysteria. These crowds aren’t far from some kind of Day of the Locust violent pandemonium.

He eventually returned to New York. A couple of photos of an elderly Weegee next to Andy Warhol, a few years before the former’s passing, are a real changing-of-the-guard moment. Both were tireless workers, but the similarity ended there. Where Weegee went out into the streets and brought sensational crime to a shocked public, Warhol took “found” crime images and committed them to canvas via silkscreen in the womblike security of his Factory.

Weegee never tried to fool the public that he was an artist. Warhol made the gullible believe that the Campbell’s Soup he fed them was art. If they cared to look, they could see that the emperor of pop art was naked.

Magnificent Obsession Like many Southern California natives, Kenneth Anger had a familial connection to the movie industry — his grandmother was a studio costumer. The display room of Kenneth Anger: ICONS houses scores of framed photos of early film stars like Rudolph Valentino, Greta Garbo and many others, as well as his grandmother’s prodigious scrapbooks.

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Monsters of Mariachi: The holidays will get a sonic twist with the festive horns and soaring voices of mariachi music at Nokia Theater. On Sunday, Dec. 11, the Mariachi USA Christmas concert takes place at the South Park venue. Think of it as the monsters of mariachi, as it includes prominent acts such as Mariachi Sol de Mexico de Jose Hernandez, Mariachi Campanas de America, Grammy winning singer Michael Salgado and Whittier-born mariachi singer Nydia Rojas. You’ll get to hear the soul music of Mexico at the 6 p.m. show. If you’re the kind of person who likes to do good, know that $1 from each ticket will go to the Mariachi USA Foundation, a nonprofit that supports mariachi music education.

At 777 Chick Hearn Court at L.A. Live.

Tickets at nokiatheatrelalive.com.

Downtown Amps Up the Season With Concerts, Performances and Parties

by Richard Guzmán city editor

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anukkah and Christmas may still be a few weeks away, but the workers and residents of Downtown Los Angeles don’t have to wait that long to treat themselves to some seasonal cheer. Starting this week, the community will be home to several holiday performances and events. The best part is, a few of them are free.

Activities include a noon concert that will take you back to your childhood, a snowfilled day in the park and some classic voices with a Latin flare.

Good Grief: One unavoidable part of the holiday season is that everyone who goes out in public is inundated by the same batch of annoying holiday songs (sorry for getting all Grinch-like, but you know it’s true). One Downtown twist on that comes Friday, Dec. 9, with a Grand Performances show featuring music from the “Charlie Brown Christmas Special.” At noon, the Joey Altruda Trio will perform Vince Guaraldi’s music from the classic holiday TV show based on the Peanuts comic strip.

It’s free and takes place at the California Plaza Watercourt. The lineup includes jazz inspired renditions of tunes such as “Christmas Time Is Here,” “Skating” and “The Christmas Song.” To help get people into the holiday spirit, the stage will be decorated with Christmas trees, a menorah and a couple of sleighs. No one will be dressed as Snoopy.

The Altruda event is just the first installment in Grand Performances Winter Stage,

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Crafts, snow and more will be Downtown when Pershing Square hosts the Winter Holiday Special on Saturday, Dec. 10.

a spinoff of the organization’s regular free summer slate of concerts and shows. Also on the docket is a Dec. 14 appearance by Charles Phoenix, who will host a series of holiday stories. On Dec. 16, Upground, a ska and reggae band, will close out the series with a mix of traditional and original holiday songs. Quick, why did the ska fan drop the mistletoe? So he could pick it up! Pick it up! Pick it up!

At 350 S. Grand Ave., (213) 687-2190 or grandperformances.org.

Festive Square: There may not be many chimneys in Downtown Los Angeles, but

that’s not stopping Santa, or at least a hefty guy dressed as Santa, from coming to town.

The fat white duke from the North Pole will be at Pershing Square on Saturday, Dec. 10, from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. as part of the park’s Winter Holiday Special. The gathering orchestrated by the Financial District park, and built around the Downtown On Ice skating rink, will include photos with Santa, his reindeer and even some snow. There will also be a train taking children around the park and a puppet show. The rink will open for skaters for the regular fee of $6 plus $2 for skate rentals.

Raise Your Voice: Mariachi isn’t the only kind of music that will soar to the Downtown rafters on Dec. 11. At the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Los Angeles Master Chorale will take the stage for a 7 p.m. show called Rejoice! A Classic Christmas. The program, conducted by Grant Gershon, will include four seasonal offerings: Hugo Distler’s The Christmas Story, Four Christmas Motets

by Poulenc, Frank Ferko’s 2002 composition A Festival of Carols, based on five American Christmas texts from the 18th and 19th centuries, and Morten Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium, which was commissioned for the Chorale. If you don’t sing these in the shower, no worries — the angelic voices of the chorale will do it all for you.

At 111 S. Grand Ave., (213) 972-7282 or lamc.org.

Contact Richard Guzmán at richard@downtownnews.com.

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Nov. 17-Jan. 16: Downtown on Ice returns, positing a patch of frozen water in an unlikely, but very welcome spot—Pershing Square. The seasonal facility has skates for rental for $2, with skate sessions costing $6. There will be an array of special events and programming at the rink for the next two months, including regular lunchtime concerts starting Dec. 19.

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Symphony lovers and cinema buffs will find common ground at the L.A. Philharmonic’s three-day run of a program called “The Hollywood Sound.” On Thurs.-Fri., Dec. 8-9 at 8 p.m., and again on Sunday, Dec. 11 at 2 p.m., Thomas Wilkins conducts a journey into the heart of the motion picture score with a program that includes the suite from A Streetcar Named Desire, the theme from To Kill a Mockingbird and a grandiose finale in the form of John Williams’ extraterrestrial sonic dialogue from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It’s at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, but sadly, no star-studded red carpet will be rolled out. At 111 S. Grand Ave., (323) 850-2000 or laphil.org.

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saTurday, december 10 Pershing Square Winter Holiday Festival 532 S. Olive, (213) 847-4970 or laparks.org/ pershingsquare.

11 a.m.-7 p.m.: The holidays are in full swing when Santa and his reindeer (yes, live reindeer) drop into Pershing Square. There will be actual snow, a train ride for kids, craft making, puppet shows and youth performances. Check out the Downtown ice rink while you’re at it.

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he Old Bank District is all lit for the holidays, there’s a chill in the air and Rickey the Pirate’s recruiting for his Official Fan Club. It must be the December Art Walk in the Historic Core. It has been a tumultuous year for the monthly event, but don’t expect the Thursday, Dec. 8, celebration of Downtown culture to be a silent night. The galleries will be open, the bars will be packed and new restaurants including Artisan House and Baco Mercat will be there to fill your tummies with joy and seasonal spirit. It’s more or less bounded

by Third, Ninth, Spring and Main streets, but remember, dude, that art knows no boundaries.

Prep your visit by checking out the website at downtownartwalk.org, (213) 617-4929.

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If you’re going to take economic advice from someone, you might as well listen to a guy like Howard Marks. Marks is the founder of Oaktree Capital Management, a global investment entity that manages more than $80 billion. Which is more than you have. The financial wizard stops by the City Club on Bunker Hill on Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 7:45 a.m. (yes, a.m.) for a breakfast discussion with journalist James Flanigan. It’s part of the Live Talks Business Forum.

Marks is pushing his book The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor. At 333 S. Grand Ave., (213) 620-9662 or livetalksbusiness.com.

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Maynard James Keenan has made a career foretelling, with great delight, the City of Angels’ eventual demise. In addition to puckish harbinger of the apocalypse, Maynard’s other careers have included interior decorator, winemaker and singer for the bands A Perfect Circle and Tool. On Tuesday, Dec. 6, he’ll bring the irreverent spectacle of his solo act Puscifer to the Orpheum Theatre. The ordinarily monkish Keenan will orchestrate his rocking revue full of electronic-oriented tunes, perverse country music references and overbearing white trash affectations. There’s a surprise in every show with Maynard, so rally up your Queen B and head on out. At 842 S. Broadway, (877) 677-4386 or puscifer.com. photo by Gary Leonard

Friday, december 9 Adultcon Los Angeles Convention Center, 1202 S. Figueroa, (213) 741-1151 or lacclink.com.

Dec. 9-11: Nothing says the holiday season quite like Adultcon. Time to dust off that latex body suit, leave your parents’ basement and encounter the unattainable beings to whom you’ve devoted gigs of computer memory.

Bootleg Bar 2220 Beverly Blvd., (213) 389-3856 or bootlegtheater.org.

Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m.: Mondays during December feature Future Dancing in residency. This traditional and innovate brother sister duo has some real chops.

Country crooner Jonny Corndawg, King Devil and Coco Morier join in.

Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m.: Indie mod stylers The Postelles kick out the jams with Jjamz and Maniac.

Dec. 7, 8 p.m.: Bask in the subdued magnificence of Shana Halligan and her sultry, halcyon assault on your otherwise out of control aggressive tendencies.

Dec. 8, 8 p.m.: Ever humble electro trio Mansions on the Moon caps off a night of synth-scapes. L.A.based ESP will be slinging their brand of avant garde electronica in direct support.

Dec. 9, 8 p.m.: Someone Still Love You Boris

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Thursday, december 8 Art Talk with Rupert Garcia MOCA Geffen Contemporary, 152 N. Central Ave., (213) 621-1745 or moca.org 6:30 p.m.: In conjunction with Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, artist Rupert Garcia discusses his work.

Downtown Art Walk Roughly bounded by Third, Seventh, Main and Spring streets, Art Walk Lounge at 634 S. Spring St., downtownartwalk.org.

12-9 p.m.: The ultimate outdoor Downtown arts extravaganza, with dozens of galleries opening their doors and thousands of attendees. Check out the street life, the shops, and maybe even a bar or two.

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he music created by Ozomatli captures the marbled culture of Los Angeles and its rich history — the groove is as vibrant and free flowing as the city itself. The band’s live shows up the ante, with every neighborhood from Boyle Heights to the Valley to Venice represented in the mix. The 10-piece outfit once again brings its sonic collage to Downtown Los Angeles on Friday, Dec. 9, with a performance at Club Nokia.

You know the drill: Get ready for a mix of Latin, rock, hip-hop and every other musical sound you can think of. Then get up and dance. Showtime is 8 p.m. at 800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 765-7000 or clubnokia.com.

Tuesday, december 6 Dark Carols at Aloud 7 p.m.: Composer Peter Golub and writer/performer Philip Littell perform an original song cycle exploring the regrets, fears and losses that arise in this season. The unsung and the unsaid, the long buried and repressed, the saddened and the dead are all made welcome at the table.

sunday, december 11 Create the World Together LATC, 514 S. Spring St., (818) 823-0891 or theglobaltheatreproject.com.

7 p.m.: Theatre, panel discussions and a reception comprise this celebration of the cultural link between Italy and the United States.

Women Game Changers California African American Museum, 600 State Dr., Exposition Park, (213) 744-2024 or caamuseum.org.

2-4:30 p.m.: CAAM celebrates many of the women highlighted in the exhibit Women Game Changers, Less Known, Here Celebrated. From physicians, nurses and lawyers to athletes, these mavericks walked outside the lines and flew outside the box.

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Listings Continued from previous page Yeltsin is worth seeing for name alone. Ha Ha Tonka and Letting Up Despite Great Faults round out this night of contemporary indie.

Dec. 10, 8 p.m.: Play your cards right and maybe Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter will take a lengthy set break to pontificate on the meaning of music itself and the epistemology of the sonic landscape in modern times. The Watson Twins and The Soft White Sixties will be TAing this lecture in music appreciation.

Dec. 11, 7 p.m.: Soft patterned indie from Eliza Rickman, Correatown, Haroula Rose and Penelope Fortier.

Broadway Bar 830 S. Broadway, (213) 614-9909 or broadwaybar.la.

Dec. 8, 10 p.m.: Broader Than Broadway returns with HM Selecta, Phanmous and various and sundry friends.

Casey’s Irish Pub 613 S. Grand Ave., (213) 629-2353 or bigcaseys.com.

Dec. 9, 10 p.m.: Mamas Joy is in residency in December.

Dec. 10, 10 p.m.: Incest themed indie rock with another show by Kissing Cousins.

Club Nokia 800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 765-7000 or clubnokia.com.

Dec. 7, 8:30 p.m.: Peter Murphy and She Wants Revenge with Hussle Club.

Dec. 9, 8 p.m.: Don’t mess with the dragon, and pack your musical bags for the wondrous Ozomatli.

Nokia Theater 777 Chick Hearn Court, (213) 763-6020 or nokiatheatrelalive.com.

Dec. 5, 8 p.m.: The good wholesome kids from Hillsong take on Downtown.

Orpheum Theatre 842 S. Broadway, (877) 677-4386 or kcrw.org.

Dec. 6, 8 p.m.: Lock up your livestock, Maynard James Keenan’s in town with Puscifer.

Redwood Bar and Grill 316 W. Second St., (213) 652-4444 or theredwoodbar.com.

Dec. 5: Frank Fairfield’s fantastic folk formations find fleeting focus.

Dec. 6: Diet Thrills, Foreman and Shirley Rolls.

December 5, 2011 Dec. 7: Them Howling Bones, Marcus Very Ordinary and Rainbow Jackson.

Dec. 8: OMG, it’s the return of proto-punks the Angry Samoans, along with The Generators, the Plexi-Kill and Scaredyycat.

Dec. 9: Legal Weapon, Ravens Moreland, A Bleeding Sky and Fired.

Dec. 10: The Savoy, Long Neck Goose, Crazy Squeeze and Size Queen.

Seven Grand 515 W. Seventh St., (213) 614-0737 or sevengrand.la.

Dec. 5: The Seven Grand website features a photo of Ron King sans Quartet, playing his trumpet on a sand dune while wearing a shorty wetsuit. We can only hope.

Dec. 6: In 2011 The Makers are one of the only institutions left in this goofy world that you can count on not to be embroiled in a deviant sex scandal.

Dec. 7: The Deacon Jones Blues Review is the finest touring blues band since the Electric Mayhem.

Lady GG sits in for kicks and giggles.

The Smell 247 S. Main St., alley between Spring and Main streets, thesmell.org.

Dec. 5: Sissy Spacek, Tooth Ache, Hive Mind and Harassor conjure up disturbingly dystopic images of a future gone awry.

Dec. 7: Teeth! The band from London, that is, and not the terrifying film about the mutated wonders of human anatomy. They’ll be joined by Toasted Head, Whig Party and Brannigan’s Law. Dec. 9: Do yourself a favor and check out Jonathan Richman with Tommy Larkins on drums.

Dec. 10: Sun Foot, Secret Circuit and Lucky Dragons.

Staples Center 1111 S. Figueroa, (213) 742-7340 or staplescenter.com.

Dec. 11, 7:30 p.m.: It’s the first night of Kanye West and Jay-Z’s show at Staples. Enjoy the warm glow of two oversized egos, but don’t forget, Occupy’s done and LAPD has a penchant for Downtown DUI checkpoints immediately after Jay-Z shows at L.A. Live.

Tony’s Saloon 2017 E. Seventh St., (213) 622-5523 or tonyssaloon.la.

Dec. 5, 9:30 p.m.: Judson McKinney returns with another iteration of his vaunted Family Hour, which, given the fact that it’s held in a 21 and over bar for more than 60 minutes, presents an apparent paradox far over the head of this Listings Editor.

The Varnish 118 E. Sixth St., (213) 622-9999 or thevarnishbar.com.

December 5, 2011 Dec. 5, 9 p.m.: Jamie Elman tickles the keys.

Dec. 6, 8:30 p.m.: Somewhere deep in a Downtown back room Mark Bosserman will play you a song on his piano.

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

Ongoing: Street Brewed: An Exhibition of Contemporary Street Art features about 25 internationally known artists.

Buchanan Gallery 204 W. Sixth St., (323) 823-1922 or byronbuchanan.com.

Ongoing: Pop paintings by Bryon Buchanan.

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

Dec. 11-Jan 15: Osvaldo Trujillo explores the fusion of nature and technology in his first solo show, Someplace Else.

Dec. 11-Jan. 15: Lisa Adams’ new show Paradise Notwithstanding continues her exploration of decay and possibility.

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

Through Jan. 7: Sacramento-based sculpture artist Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor’s Dreadful Sorry Clementine.

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

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

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

Through Jan. 7: Los Angeles based artist Joe Reihsen takes over the gallery.

Gary Leonard 860 S. Broadway, takemypicture.com.

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

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

Through Dec. 31: Price…less, the Hive’s annual holiday themed show of works for $250 or less features Josie Portillo, Michelle Romo, Catherine Kaleel and more.

Ongoing: Master Blasters of Sculpture 3 features

20 of the best sculptors in town.

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

Ongoing: Individual pieces by Gosha, Sam Flores, Kraken, Nick D’attomo, Mear One and more.

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

Through Dec. 30: Francisco Letelier and Bobby Rojas joint show.

LA Artcore at the Brewery Annex 650 A South Avenue 21, (323) 276-9320 or laartcore.org.

Through Dec. 30: Barbara Mindell memorial show.

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

Through Dec. 17: Tetsuji Aono’s Precious Balls.

The Latino Museum 514 S. Spring St., (213) 626-7600 or thelatinomuseum.com.

Ongoing: The Latino Museum holds a unique collection of work from emerging and established contemporary Mexican, Latino and Chicano artists working and living in the United States as well as throughout Latin, Central and South America.

Los Angeles Center For Digital Art 102 West Fifth St., 323 646 9427 or lacda.com.

Dec. 8-30: Snap To Grid: The Un-juried Exhibit features every work of art submitted for display.

Zero censorship art overload.

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

Ongoing: The Annenberg Gallery displays some of the materials collected by the Los Angeles Public Library since its founding in 1872. The inaugural exhibit Treasures of Los Angeles features items from the Hollywood collection, including vintage film posters, publicity photographs, postcards and more.

Norbertellen Gallery 215 W. Sixth St., (818) 662-5041 or norbertellengallery.com.

Through Jan. 28: Twenty-four artists contributed works to Convocation, an international group exhibition.

Phil Stern Gallery 601 S. Los Angeles St., (805) 300 1627 or philsterngallery.com.

Dec. 8-Feb. 4: David Flores solo show.

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Opening Dec. 10: Recent works by Jeff Eisenberg.

Temple of Visions 719 S. Spring St., templeofvisions.com.

Through Dec. 18: The art of Michael Devine.

Terrell Moore Gallery 1221 S. Hope St. (213) 744-1999 or terrellmoore.net.

Ongoing: Michael Hayden presents his show Hot Wax + One Man’s Junk=Treasure!

(12:10, 4:50 and 10:20 p.m.); Happy Feet Two 3D (2:30 and 7:40 p.m.); The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn-Part 1 (1, 1:50, 4, 5, 8 and 11 p.m.); Immortals (4:30 and 10:10 p.m.); Immortals 3D (1:40 and 7:20 p.m.); Jack and Jill (1:40, 4:10, 6:50 and 9:30 p.m.); J. Edgar (12:30, 3:40, 7 and 10:10 p.m.); Tower Heist (1, 3:50, 6:40 and 9:30 p.m.); Puss in Boots (12:20 and 10 p.m.); Puss in Boots 3D (7:40 p.m.).

Dec. 9 (Partial): New Year’s Eve (11 a.m. and 1:40, 4:30, 7:20 and 10:10 p.m.).

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Dec. 9-22, showtimes vary: Paul Goodman Changed My Life is the story of a bestselling author, poet, pacifist, visionary and therapist.

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

Through Dec. 8: The Muppets (11:30 a.m. and 2, 4:30, 7 and 9:30 p.m.); The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part One (1:45, 4:30, 7:15 and 10 p.m.); Happy Feet 2 3D (11 a.m. and 1:30, 6:15 and 8:45 p.m.); Puss in Boots 3D (11:15 a.m. and 4 p.m.).

Dec. 9 (Partial): New Year’s Eve. Grammy Museum 800 W. Olympic, (213) 765-6800 or grammymuseum.org.

Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m.: The Grammy Museum’s Reel to Reel program presents Murray Lerner’s concert film Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live at the Isle of Wight.

Million Dollar Theatre 307 S. Broadway, (213) 617-3600 or milliondollartheater.com.

Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m.: Because the UCLA Film and Television Archives have impeccable taste they have opted not to screen Pearl Harbor on the 70th anniversary of the famous battle and have instead chosen an actual classic, Superman with Christopher Reeve.

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Through Dec. 8: Arthur Christmas (12, 4:40 and 9:50 p.m.); Arthur Christmas 3D (2:20 and 7:20 p.m.); Hugo 3D (12:30, 3:30, 6:30 and 9:40 p.m.); The Muppets (12, 1:10, 2:30, 4, 5:10, 6:50, 7:50, 9:40 and 10:30 p.m.); The Descendants (11:50 a.m. and 2:20, 5:10, 7:50 and 10:50 p.m.); Happy Feet Two

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Dec. 6, 7 and 9, 8 p.m.; Dec. 10, 2 and 8 p.m.; Dec. 11, 1 and 6:30 p.m.: Set in the world of competitive cheerleading, this new show proves that winning isn’t everything when it means losing something, or someone, you really care about. Through Dec. 10.

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(No, Clara Bow never had an orgy with the USC football team that included a young John Wayne.)

Anger began fooling with film as early as 1941. He would develop into one of the most eccentric — and permanently outré — of all movie auteurs. His films don’t follow conventional narratives lines. They’re hallucinations and dreams, concerned with his private obsessions, symbolism, magic spells and incantations, all shot through with homoeroticism.

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (’54-’56) gushes like a fountain of ecstatic scenes that mean God-knowswhat. An operatic soundtrack blares out of a nearby speaker. If you can sit through it with a straight face, you’re a trouper.

Occult magic is a big ingredient to the Anger oeuvre. One of Aleister Crowley’s handbooks is on display and Lucifer Rising has music composed by Bobby Beausoleil, one of Charles Manson’s followers. His last known address was San Quentin.

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