el debarrge at the globe

80s SENSATION EL DEBARGE COMING TO GLOBE SOULFUL SUNDAYS

In the early 80s, El Debarge, one of many rotating siblings in the band Debarge, led the family to the top ten single charts time and time again.

El Debarge, in his early twenties, was beyond handsome, with an innocent boyish charm, swooning the world over with his smooth velvety love songs, just beckoning the youth to fall in love to the Rhythm of the Night.

As a solo artist, one smiling falsetto from El Debarge could melt your clothes away as he went on to seduce his young fans across the world. By the end of the 1980s, five-time Grammy Award nominees, together or apart, the Debarge family had released nine Top 40 R&B singles, five top 40 pop singles, two Pop top 10 hits, five top 10 R&B singles, two number-one R&B singles, one number-one single on the dance chart, and three number-one hits on the adult contemporary chart.

Flash forward to 2021, a few decades to find El Debarge has not missed a beat. His old fans are just that, older, yet, anxiously awaiting two backto-back shows at the Globe Theater on Broadway, Dec 19th and 20th.

Each show opens with DW3 (today’s hardest working band in soul business), working fans into a dance/romance frenzy with their R&B, old school funk, jazz and Latin-fired-up magic.

Switch, an R&B funk band famous for their hit songs “There’ll Never Be”, “I Call Your Name”, and “Love Over & Over Again”, once toured and shared songs with Debarge. Soulful Sundays at the Globe has made it possible for two to reunite, making for a highly anticipated heartfelt performance our city can groove to.

All shows at The Globe Theatre, 740 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA. 90014. Tickets are available wl.seetickets.us/ SoulfulSundays

ASAP "SKID GROW" PLANTS SEEDS FOR MARKET RATE HOUSING IN SKID ROW

Adam Sokol Architecture Practice has completed over a year’s work reconsidering housing and homelessness in Los Angeles and has released their project redesign of Skid Row.

SKID GROW takes a radically different direction, asking how to reconsider our landuse policies to make the best possible use of LA’s vast urban areas to the most significant benefit of all Angelenos, including the unhoused and those needing more support. for affordable housing, meaning those with lower-paying jobs, yet still able to pay rent, vs. supportive, meaning those who earn government assistance and require onsite social services including shelter beds, and the remaining half, paying full suggested rental prices for their units.

Their premise is that tremendous value is inherent in the area currently known as Skid Row.

By seeking to unlock that value, they can create significant market-rate and affordable housing while also directing unprecedented resources to the benefit of the unhoused.

Their vision for SKID GROW includes 16,500 units of market-rate housing, 2,100 units of affordable housing, 8,000 units of supportive housing, and 6,500 shelter beds. To further the development, asap Skid Grow would be complemented public amenities, including new schools, a public food market, a sports center, an outdoor performance venue centered on a pedestrian-focused street grid that would be a model for sustainable development.

Surmounting the whole area would be an extensive publicly accessible park, which at 115 acres would be among the city’s largest.

asap/ is a multi-disciplinary design practice founded in 2011 and based in downtown Los Angeles with a second office in New York.