area newsletter JANUARY 2020• LOS ANGELES
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Community News LACMA Takes First Steps in Redesign Earlier last year, LACMA was approved for the last $117 million dollars in the budget that they needed for their upcoming redesign. They placed heavy
and late-night service. Another key part of the proposal involves the consolidation of the Metro’s rapid bus lines with the “local” buses that serve similar routes, but make more stops. Once the changes roll out, the number of riders who live within walking distance of a particular line would more than double to 2 million Angelenos.
Netflix Ready To Expand in Hollywood
machinery in front of their Ahmanson Building on Wilshire Boulevard to aid in pre-construction work, namely abatement. They will find and remove any potentially hazardous materials in the marble-clad edifice as a way to make room for the new design of the museum. The new museum structure design was done by Swiss architect, Peter Zumthor. The expected cost of the structural design is expected to cost at least $650 million dollars. Demolition will begin in the first half of 2020.
Metro's Plan to Get More Angelenos on Buses Los Angeles’s largest transit agency, Metro, is planning a complete overhaul of its sprawling bus network. They submitted a $1 billion dollar proposal that would renovate busy stops and speed up the buses through maintenance. Within this proposal, they would increase the frequency of stops on their busier routes, cut off the routes that are not as busy, and extend their weekend
Construction is finished on a 13-story building, named Epic, on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, for Netflix. This building features numerous exterior terraces, fire pits, and a rooftop deck. The building is also equipped with solar energy generating tech on its outer walls to capture and convert sunlight to energy. Netflix plans to move over their offices in phases. Epic is just part of their “continuing investment in LA and
Hollywood” said Netflix CFO David Wells. Netflix also leases at the Musicians Union, Academy on Vine, and the Icon Tower in Hollywood.
Community News Gustavo Dudamel Extends Contract With Los Angeles Philharmonic The star conductor Gustavo Dudamel has extended his contract as music and artistic director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, cementing his commitment to the acclaimed orchestra. The four-year extension will keep Mr. Dudamel, 38, in Los Angeles at least through the 2025-26 season, his 17th with the Philharmonic. It maintains what has proved a winning formula: the pairing of a conductor whose fame extends beyond the classical music world and is a powerful audience draw with an orchestra that has developed perhaps the strongest reputation in the country for innovative programming and community
outreach. By the end of his contract, Mr. Dudame will have been at the Philharmonic’s podium for 17 seasons, the same as his predecessor, Esa-Pekka Salonen. Before that, the conductor with the longest tenure at the orchestra had been Zubin Mehta, who held the post for 16 years.
Fixing Traffic with Elon Musk’s “Boring Company” Elon Musk revealed plans to begin work on a transportation tunnel to alleviate traffic in Los Angeles and other cities alike. Through a Ted talk, he shared that he has started digging under his SpaceX Headquarters in Los Angeles. These headquarters also house his company “Boring Company” - the company spearheading this project. They plan to use 16-passenger autonomous electric vehicles with the potential to reach travel speeds of 130 miles per hour to 155 miles per hour. Of course, they would only allow one vehicle to travel at a time. Because of this, transit system officials are questioning if the tunnels will truly assist in improving the drive of the 350,000+ individuals who commute.
Restaurant
Spotlight
Sibling Rival
Eszett
El Ruso
1060 S Broadway Street, Downtown Los Angeles
3510 Sunset Boulevard, Silver Lake
1401 Mirasol Street Los Angeles, CA 90023
Brooklyn restaurant group Sunday in Brooklyn has taken over the ground floor (Sibling Rival) and rooftop restaurant (which is called Pilot) at Downtown LA’s new Hoxton Hotel. The menu at Sibling Rival plays all day from a chocolatehazelnut praline smothered set of pancakes to elegant seasonal dishes for dinner. Downtown LA always felt a bit like pockets of New York City, so this pairing seems pretty on point.
The former Trois Familia in Silver Lake transforms into the warm, welcoming feel of Eszett, which comes from Spencer and Sabrina Bezaire. The menu finds influence from grilled Spanish dishes, as well as familiar American comfort fare like chicken wings, beef tartare, and tuna melts. Despite its strip mall location, Eszett is primed to become a neighborhood favorite.
Enjoy some of the city’s most compelling flour tortillas at this Tijuana-style specialist serving carne asada tacos stuffed with beans and salsas. The operation now runs six days a week and even has some covered seating. Be sure to bring cash.
SIGHTS & SOUNDS in LOS ANGELES
LACMA
MOCA Grand Avenue
5905 WIlshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036
250 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012
Grammy Museum L.A. Live 800 W Olympic Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90015
CURRENT EXHIBITION:
CURRENT EXHIBITION:
CURRENT EXHIBITION:
Whitney Museum of American Art, Julie Mehretu Now –May 17, 2020
With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985 Now – May 11, 2020
Beyond Black - The Style Of Amy Winehouse Now – April 13, 2020
Co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art, Julie Mehretu is a mid-career survey that will unite nearly 40 works on paper with 35 paintings dating from 1996 to the present by Julie Mehretu (b. 1970, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia). The first-ever comprehensive retrospective of Mehretu’s career, covers over two decades of her examination of history, colonialism, capitalism, geopolitics, war, diaspora, and displacement through the artistic strategies of abstraction, architecture, landscape, movement, and, most recently, figuration.
Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Science Fiction and Fantasy explores cult classic films and stories that have envisioned fantastic futuristic worlds, technologies, characters and cars. Through props, design drawings and physical vehicle models, this exhibit brings pop culture’s visions of dystopian, utopian, and science fiction worlds to life.
Once a simple wooden box with a primitive lens and cap for controlling light, the camera has undergone enormous change since its invention in the early nineteenth century. This display explores the evolution of the camera through a selection of historic cameras and photographs.
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