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Music Mavens

Squirming, I agreed to review the new book “Music Mavens: 15 Wom en of Note in the Industry,” by Ash ley Walker and Maureen Charles. I have known one of the co-authors for years, and her late husband, Jon Charles, for even longer. I prayed to Euterpe, music’s muse: “Please, please, please let me like it!” I’m extremely relieved to say, “Like it? I love it!”

I have some music industry bona fi des (more like music industry-adjacent), which helps when reading a book about the industry. My first ex-was-band, Larold Rebhun, is a sound engineer and worked at Cherokee Studios in Hollywood, which was a big deal! There, I got to meet Ringo and Harry Nilsson. I was invited to a par ty with Larold at Steve Cropper’s back yard, where I tackled John Mellencamp to everyone’s amazement — except for my husband’s. I am a singer myself and know my way around a piece of music. Larold once called me at 1:00 a.m. and said, “Can you get down to Cherokee in half an hour and sing backup? One of Nils Lofgren’s backup singers had to bail on the session.” A half-hour later, I was in the studio singing my heart out. Larold and I are good friends to this day, and his 3rd wife is one of my favorite people on the planet.

My current husband, Ken Gruberman, has been a music supervisor, contrac tor, arranger, and music preparation pro for decades. It would take too much of this column to describe what he does, although he and his teams have won Grammy awards. One of my first dates with Ken was going to the Barbra Strei sand scoring stage at Sony/MGM to re cord the score for HBO’s glorious mini-se ries “John Adams,” played by a 63-piece orchestra.

The main commonality with both Lar old and Ken is the apparent continuing

white cis-male domination of the music business. Except for the equity and inclu siveness of the players in studio orches tras, the women are, shall we say, lack ing?

This brings me back to “Music Mavens” and why it’s such an essential read for young people. A supposed-Y.A. 10-vol ume series from Chicago Review Press called “Women of Power,” “Mavens” is the ninth in the series. I say “supposed-Y.A.” because it’s utterly delightful for people of all ages.

Clichéd as it is, I could not put it down, and I highly recommend that young men also read it. To normalize female and non-binary folks in any industry, the white male-identified folks need to en vision them there. When they’re missing from the landscape of that industry, more than the M.I.A. folks will notice their ab sence, and that is how allies are created.

What a difference “Music Mavens” would have made in my life had I read it in my formative years. “If you can see it, you can be it” is not just a platitude. Luck ily for us, humanity has people whose imaginations are vivid enough to over ride the need to see someone exactly like them and say, “I want that. If he can do it, I can do it!” When I first saw BeatBoxing, I thought, “Wow, had I seen that when I was 4, I’d be doing it for sure!” I always loved making unconventional sounds with my voice and throat.

“Music Mavens” is full of women who are trailblazers, women who were en couraged by the dominant demographic to go for it even in the face of some nas ty disparagers. The most under-the-radar hostility was hurled at beatboxing champ Kaila Mullady. She won in a field that was not, and still is not, female friendly. When she triumphed, the young man she “beat” came over to her and said, “You only won because you’re a girl.” On the flip side of the coin, Kaila was encouraged and men tored by Kid Lucky, a master beatboxer

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he could be generous to Kaila.

The tome has something for everyone, nationally and globally. If relating to hu man beings simply because they are hu man is your jam, this book is full of ev ery career you can think of in the music industry, and then some: engineering, composing, music photography, per formers, and more. And, if you’re inspired by someone with a similar cultural back ground like Vietnamese, non-binary, or Latinx, you are in for a massive treat.

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Meanwhile, I asked Larold how many female recording engineers he’d met or heard of over the years. He texted that he only knew of three. “Music Mavens” is a tribute to creating possibilities for peo ple. If something seems impossible, we humans just won’t pursue it. Giving “Mu sic Mavens” to your musically inclined young friends as a gift has the potential to change their lives… and yours.

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“Music Mavens: 15 Women of Note in the Industry” is being released this week. Go to musicmavensbook.com to sign up for notices of book signings, online events, and maven updates. In the LA area, you can buy it at Vroman’s, our re

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Election results too close to call

Even though polls closed on Nov. 8, An gelenos still won’t know the results for possibly weeks to come. As of Nov. 11, just over 1.5 million ballots had been counted, with initial results not conclusive enough to determine the victor for several key municipal elections.

In the LA mayor’s race, Karen Bass leads by less than 1%, meaning the election could come down to a few thousand votes. Ear ly numbers on election night showed Bass at an advantage, but by Nov. 9, Caruso had pulled ahead by around 20,000 ballots. As LA County released more numbers through Nov. 11, Bass reclaimed her lead but only by 4,384 votes.

The LA County sheriff’s race showed Long Beach Police Capt. Robert Luna at an early advantage, with 58.38% of the vote, but in cumbent Sheriff Alex Villanueva can still pull ahead. With that said, approximately 70% of voters voted to approve County Measure A, which would allow the County Board of Su pervisors to remove an elected sheriff for

misconduct.

Another controversial race yet to be de cided for LA is the race for City Council’s 11th District between Traci Park and Erin Darling. Both Democrats, the race will deter mine who is to succeed Mike Bonin. Darling has widely been described as “Bonin 2.0” and was endorsed by the sitting city coun cilmember. Park, contrary to Darling and Bo nin, takes a much harsher stance on home lessness, a prominent political issue on the Westside.

Election night results showed Park and Darling neck and neck, but Park has since pulled forward with 54.58% of the vote. Re sults for other LA City Council seats show Katy Young Yaroslavsky in the lead (57.07%) for the 5th District, Hugo Soto-Martinez (53.29%) for the 13th District, and Tim Mc Cosker (65.38%) for the 15th District.

In California, every registered voter re ceives a vote by mail ballot before the elec tion. Individuals may decide if they want to cast their ballot by mail or if they would like to take their mail-in ballot to fill out in person at a polling location. Those who ar

rive at the polling location without a ballot, both registered and unregistered voters, may vote conditionally.

Signatures for mail-in ballots received before election day are verified before the polls open, making them the first set of numbers released immediately after the polls close at 8 p.m. Following that release, all in-person ballots are counted on election night. The final batch of those numbers was released at 3:30 a.m. Nov. 9.

It’s unknown how many ballots are left to count, especially given that, in Califor

nia, ballots postmarked on election day still have one week to arrive. However, the coun ty registrar-recorder’s office estimated on Wednesday that only 985,000 more voteby-mail ballots and 21,000 conditional vot er registration ballots would need to be tab ulated.

After election night, LA County typical ly releases updated numbers twice a week, with the last count distributed on Nov. 11. The county expects to certify the results on Dec. 3, meaning the closest races could be contested until that date.

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DTWX report calls for urban parks in DTLA

For more than a decade, Downtown Works (DTWX), the nonprofit arm of Central City Association (CCA), has sought to enhance the vibrancy of Los An geles and improve Angelinos’ quality of life.

In a newly released report, DTWX found that LA ranked 71 out of 100 cities when it comes to park access, investment, acreage, amenities and equity, citing a lack of sig nature urban parks and open spaces in the city center.

“Downtown’s public realm, its walkabil ity, restaurants and energizing culture all draw people to the neighborhoods, but parks and open spaces are unfortunately still missing from the equation,” said Jessi ca Lall, DTWX board chair and CEO of CCA.

DTWX was founded to conduct research by pulling from proven models and ap plying them back into DTLA. To conduct

the nonprofit’s first report, titled “Creat ing Vibrant Urban Parks and Open Spaces through Public-Private Partnerships: Les sons for Downtown Los Angeles,” DTWX analyzed examples of 10 urban parks in other cities across the country, such as Chi cago’s Millennium Park, Cincinnati’s Foun tain Square and New York’s The High Line.

DTWX found that only 64% of Angelos have a 10-minute walk to a park, compared to 99% of New York City residents and 98% of Chicago residents. The report also pre dicted that the need for open spaces will only increase over time due to DTLA’s rap id population growth, with the number of the city’s housing units quadrupling since 1999 and the population projected to reach 250,000 people by 2040.

“Everyone, from families with children to older adults to tourists and workers, needs space to gather, to get fresh air, exercise, play and relax,” Lall explained.

The report, which can be accessed at

dtwx.org, raised concerns over potential barriers that have impeded progress in the past, namely the redesign of Persh ing Square and First and Broadway Park. According to DTWX, both projects were stalled due to a lack of financial and hu man resources, and that political term lim its can also interfere with project timelines.

“Los Angeles has ambitious plans for parks that make communities more equita ble and livable. Unfortunately, our govern ment departments face many challenges like rising costs and competing priorities that can delay project deliveries,” said Mi chael Shull, former general manager of the LA City Department of Recreation and Parks. “Working more collaboratively with our private and non-profit sector part ners would go a long way in delivering the parks that Angelenos in Downtown and elsewhere deserve.”

The report called for an increase in pub lic-private partnerships (P3s) to help create and enhance parks projects throughout DTLA. Through collaboration with the pri vate sector, DTWX expressed that the city government could provide improvements to the city’s public realm.

As an example of how P3s can be coor

dinated and implemented in DTLA, the re port referenced Grand Park in its case stud ies. Grand Park is managed by the Music Center, a nonprofit entity whose budget is aided by the LA County government’s bud get. Last year, Grand Park, the Music Cen ter and County of Los Angeles entered into a new 30-year Operating Agreement, ex tending their partnership until 2051.

DTWX has expressed that public-private collaboration projects like this could not only better the lives of DTLA residents, but also set a gold standard for other Down town areas across the country.

“It’s exciting to think about the beauti ful, world-class parks and open spaces that Angelenos could enjoy if we had stronger partnerships across the public and private sectors,” Lall said. “Our report lays out best practices used to build and operate excel lent urban parks around the country. Now we have the opportunity to apply those lessons to our parks projects.

“We hope that our report jumpstarts new collaboration and partnerships be tween our government, local businesses, philanthropy and community partners to bring excellent park spaces to Downtown and across the city.”

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Marathon induction ceremony highlights diverse class

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony returned to DTLA for the first time in a decade on Saturday, Nov. 5, filling the Microsoft Theater with music legends.

Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl, Ed Sheer an, Lenny Kravitz, John Mellencamp, Pink, Janet Jackson, Steven Tyler, The Edge and LL Cool J were in attendance and/or honored inductees during the five-and-a-half-hour ceremony. It begins airing Saturday, Nov. 19, on HBO, and streaming on HBO Max.

This year’s inductees included, in the per former category, Pat Benatar and Neil Giral do; Duran Duran; Eminem; Eurythmics; Dolly Parton; Lionel Richie and Carly Simon.

Musical Excellence Awards were given to Judas Priest; Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, while Harry Belafonte and Elizabeth Cot ten were honored with the Early Influence Award.

Allen Grubman, Jimmy Iovine and Sylvia Robinson were celebrated with the Ahmet Ertegun Award.

“It’s only the third time ever it’s been in Los Angeles,” said Greg Harris, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame chief executive officer in the media room before the ceremony.

“It’s really exciting to bring it back here. The last time was in 2011, so it’s been over a decade or two since the inductions.”

After being inducted by actor Robert Downey Jr., Duran Duran cast a pall on the ceremony, revealing that original guitarist Andy Taylor could not attend due to a set back in treatment for stage-four metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Lead singer Simon Le Bon said it was “ab solutely devastating,” to find out one of his “family” wasn’t going to be around for very long.

“We love Andy dearly,” he said in the me dia room. “I’m not going to stand here and cry because I think it would be inappropri ate. But that’s what I feel like.”

Now that Duran Duran is in the Rock Hall, they are eligible to vote. Who would they like to see? Among their choices: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Japan and the New York Dolls.

Keyboardist Nick Rhodes said backstage that the honor is still special.

“I’ll tell you what, if I have a burglar in my hotel room tonight, it’s going to be OK,” he said with a laugh.

Jam and Lewis added comedy relief to the event. Lewis shared that he felt like the “luck iest guy in the whole world” because Janet

Jackson inducted him and his songwriting partner.

The quiet one of the bunch, Lewis thanked his family, as well as Prince for al lowing them to play in the Time.

“There’s no Time without the Purple One,” he said.

“That’s the most I’ve heard Terry Lewis talk in his whole life,” Jam added after his part ner’s 6 1/2-minute speech.

Jam stressed that the induction doesn’t mean the end of their career. “Hall of Fame” means excellence at something.

“In sports (hall of fames), you have to be retired to get in,” he said.

“I don’t see a gold watch just yet. I think we still got some time to get some things done.”

Backstage, Jam and Lewis revealed they’re working on their own album and recruiting fellow inductees, whom they didn’t name.

“We just want to continue to make music and have fun,” Jam said.

Sheryl Crow inducted Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo, starting her speech by holding up a 1980 Rolling Stone cover with them on it.

“I was 18 when this Rolling Stone maga zine came out,” she said. “I had just graduat ed high school in my little town of Kennett, Missouri. I headed off to college to study classical piano and voice, but what I really wanted to be was Pat Benatar.”

Wearing thigh-high leather boots, Be natar, joined by husband Giraldo, ripped through “All Fired Up,” “Love is a Battlefield” and “Heartbreaker.”

Judas Priest lead singer Rob Halford was joined on stage by, among others, estranged guitarist K.K. Downing, drummer Les Binks and guitarist Glenn Tipton, who retired from touring, for “You’ve Got Another Thing Com in’,” “Breaking the Law,” and “Living After Mid night.”

“I’m the gay guy in the band,” Halford said. “We call ourselves the heavy metal commu nity, which is all-inclusive, no matter what your sexual identity is, what you look like, or what you believe in or don’t believe in. Ev erybody’s welcome.”

Simon didn’t appear at the ceremony, as her two sisters, Joanna and Lucy, recently died of cancer within days of each other. In stead, Sara Bareilles and Olivia Rodrigo per formed “Nobody Does It Better” and “You’re So Vain,” respectively.

In the media room, Bareilles, who induct ed Simon, said she admired the singer’s commitment to her own courage because she was vocal about her stage fright.

“I’m someone who struggles — not as

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much as stage fright — with my own anxiet ies and fears and it was just very remarkable to me to have someone be so outspoken about their challenges and do it anyway,” she said.

Introducing Richie, Kravitz said the “All Night Long” singer doesn’t “have a preten tious bone in his body. Lionel also happens to be the funniest person I’ve ever met. I never laugh as hard as I do when I’m with him. It’s the kind of laugh that comes from the soul. When Lionel shows up, everyone gets happy.”

Richie performed “Hello,” bringing out Dave Grohl for the Commodores classic “Easy” and closed with “All Night Long.”

The ’80s vibe continued with Eurythmics, who ripped through “Would I Lie to You?” “Missionary Man,” and “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),” after an introduction by U2’s The Edge.

Lead singer Annie Lennox said in the me dia room it was easy returning to the stage with her musical partner Dave Stewart.

“It’s always a bit like getting back on a horse when you’ve fallen off,” she said with a smile.

“It was second nature; almost intuitive, I have to say.”

Highlights also included a visit by Dr. Dre. He inducted Eminem, saying the De troit-raised rapper could hold a mirror to white America while expressing pain through poverty.

“Eminem brought hip-hop to Middle

America and offered kids who looked like him a way to connect to it. Hip-hop wasn’t just for Black kids in desperate inner-city cir cumstances anymore,” Dr. Dre said.

In his coronation set, Eminem launched into “My Name Is,” before segueing into “Rap God,” “Sing for the Moment” with Tyler, and Sheeran on “Stan.” He wrapped it with “For ever” and “Not Afraid.”

Covered in a hooded sweatshirt and wear ing readers, Eminem said he was grateful as he wasn’t supposed to be there, referencing a near-fatal overdose in 2007.

“Hailie, plug your ears,” he said to his daughter, who attended the ceremony.

“Drugs were (expletive) delicious. I thought we had a good thing going, man, but I had to go (expletive) it all up. … I’m so grateful that I’m even able to be up here do ing hip-hop music mainly because I love it so much.

“They say success has many fathers. That’s definitely true for me. So whatever my im pact has been on hip-hop music. I nev er would have, could have done this (ex pletive). Without groundbreaking artists, I wouldn’t be here.”

He went on to list — in alphabetical order — all of his influences.

The show ended with Dolly Parton’s in duction by pop star Pink. After Zac Brown and Crow duetted on “9 to 5,” Parton arrived on stage and invited Le Bon, Lennox, Stew art, Pink, Benatar, Halford and Brandi Carlile to sing “Jolene.”

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Airs at 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, on HBO; streams on HBO Max

Trailer: https://youtu.be/tiT233mQqcU

Performer Category

Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo inducted by Sheryl Crow

Duran Duran inducted by Robert Downey Jr.

Eminem inducted by Dr. Dre with performances by Ed Sheer an and Steven Tyler

Eurythmics inducted by The Edge

Dolly Parton inducted by Pink with performances by P!nk, Brandi Carlile, Sheryl Crow, and Zac Brown Band

Lionel Richie inducted by Len ny Kravitz with performance by Dave Grohl

Carly Simon inducted by Sara Bareilles with performances by

Musical Excellence Category

Judas

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis in ducted by Janet Jackson

Early Influence Category

Harry Belafonte

Elizabeth Cotten

Ahmet Ertegun Award

Allen

Jimmy Iovine inducted by Bruce Springsteen Sylvia Robinson

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Margolis Family Center fetes 30 years

Special to LA Downtown News

Thirty years ago, the Hope Street Margolis Family Center opened its doors in Downtown Los Angeles as a community benefit program of Dignity Health – California Hospital Medical Center.

Its aim was to transform the lives of children and families in the surrounding, underserved communities through its educational and recreational resources and by inspiring the stu dents to follow their dreams.

Hope Street was established in 1992 as a collaboration between the University of Cali fornia, Los Angeles and CHMC. Since then, nearly 150,000 children and families have been served by the Hope Street program, which continues its proven track record of empowering and strengthening families by addressing the social determinants of health through a contin uum of care including early childhood education, child welfare, behavioral health, parent ed ucation, health, youth and social services that support the entire family from birth to adult hood.

Over the years, Hope Street has grown into a dynamic resource center that serves families living at or below the poverty line, particularly those who have been hit hard during the pan demic. In fact, 40% of households served by Hope Street earn less than $25,000 per year, 45% of the students ages 0 to 5 live in poverty and about 55% of the adults living below the pov erty line never completed high school. Many of Hope Street’s former students have gone on to become the first college graduates in their families, while others have pursued careers in health care, medicine, and other esteemed fields.

“What the team at the Hope Street Margolis Family Center has accomplished in the last 30 years has been nothing short of remarkable,” said Alina Moran, CHMC president.

“The lives of thousands of children and families have been positively shaped in that time span through the passion and dedication of the Hope Street staff, enabling the students to achieve so much more than they could have ever dreamt.”

In the early days of the pandemic, Hope Street’s team of educators quickly customized classrooms, computer labs, and common areas to offer a safe learning space, computers, Wi-Fi, and even breakfast and lunch, for 50 students ranging from first grade through high school.

Many of the students who attend Hope Street, as well as the families themselves, have nev er used a computer and as such, the staff at Hope Street had to teach many of them the ba sics for them to be able to distance learn.

“Over the last 30 years, the Hope Street Margolis Family Center has played such a vital role in the lives of our community’s most vulnerable children and families,” said Vickie Kropenske, Hope Street director.

“The most gratifying part of this milestone is seeing the sustaining impact that our early work with young families has had on their long-term success and well-being.”

Last year, Hope Street expanded its reach by opening The Nest, its latest state-of-the-art early childhood education center in downtown Los Angeles. The Nest provides a no-cost, high-quality, nurturing environment for up to 32 children whose parents are looking for job placement or returning to work, including families experiencing homelessness.

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FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour by Coca-Cola

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Soccer legends Christen Press and Kaká visited LA Live Nov. 5 for the fifth FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour by Coca-Cola. The solid-gold prize stopped by LA ahead of the 2022 tournament to build excitement for 2026. At the stop, Coca-Cola of fered a curated fan experience to be photographed with football’s most coveted prize, meet soccer legends, sample Coca-Cola products, and engage with interactive foot ball-themed fan experiences. Tiffany Rose/Getty Images for The Coca-Cola Company Tiffany Rose/Getty Images for The Coca-Cola Company Tiffany Rose/Getty Images for The Coca-Cola Company Tiffany Rose/Getty Images for The Coca-Cola Company Pamela Stewart, Mayor Eric Garcetti, Kaká, Jaime Jarrin and Christen Press unveil the FIFA World Cup Trophy at LA Live. The trophy was designed by Silvio Gazzaniga and is made of 5 kg of solid 18-carat gold. Ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, Brazilian legend Kaká speaks at the World Cup Trophy Tour by Coca-Cola as it touches down in Los Angeles to kick off the North American leg of the global tour. Mayor Eric Garcetti, Kaká, Christen Press and Jaime Jarrin meet beside the FIFA World Cup Trophy in DTLA on Nov. 5. Kaká, Pamela Stewart, Mayor Eric Garcetti and Christen Press attend the FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour by Coca-Cola in Los Angeles, building hype for the famed tournament’s return to the City of Angels in 2026

The champ is in town

Less than 24 hours after winning the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Champi onship at Phoenix Raceway in Avon dale, Arizona, Joey Logano flew to LA to meet with nearly 100 kids at a Boys & Girls Club of Greater Los Angeles in Venice. Lo gano answered questions from the kids, signed autographs and posed for photos with the Bill France Cup.

Later that night, Logano sat courtside for the Los Angeles Clippers’ 119-117 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers at Crypto. com Arena. The Clippers honored Logano’s championship during the second quarter, while reminding fans that the Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum is returning to the

LA Memorial Coliseum on Sunday, Feb. 5.

During halftime, Logano spent time with Super Bowl champion Jalen Ramsey of the Los Angeles Rams and posed for photos.

On Tuesday, Nov. 8, Logano returned to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for the first time after winning the inaugural Bus ch Light Clash at the Coliseum in February. Logano conducted interviews and posed for photos with his 2022 Busch Light Clash and NASCAR Cup Series Championship Trophies.

NASCAR will break ground on the quar ter-mile, asphalt oval track at the iconic LA Memorial Coliseum on Thursday, Dec. 15. Fans can purchase tickets by visiting nascarclash.com.

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Native Son Bar opens in DTLA

After Orange County native Jon Sanchez joined Nestle’s acceler ated management program as a USC Marshall School of Business grad uate, his career took him on a journey across the country. Though work had driven him far from the sun-kissed beach es and rolling hills of OC, it was Southern California craft beer that always gave him a sense of home.

“So off I went on a journey driving across the country with a buddy of mine, dropped him off at a job in Pittsburgh and I continued on to live at the Jersey Shore,” Sanchez began. “He was about to get married, and I was in charge of se lecting the beer for the bachelor party. In Pennsylvania, the liquor laws are that you can’t just go buy a six pack. You have to go to a state-run alcohol store and can only buy cases of beer. Sure enough, I walk in and I see a stack of cases of Stone IPA and Arrogant Bastard.

“Both of us are from Southern Califor nia, so I immediately I was like, ‘Yes, this is great.’ And that was my first time being away from home having that nostalgia of the craft beer scene back here.”

It was 2008, a year after Stone Brew ing had opened their first “World Bistro & Gardens” in Escondido, and the craft beer scene in Southern California had begun to enter into a golden age. After moving to San Francisco for work, Sanchez often visited the Lagunitas and Russian River breweries, and his love for the craft sky rocketed.

“I was just thinking, this industry is so great and so creative and fun that I think I want to be a part of it and put my little effort into this grander mosaic,” Sanchez said. “I jumped ship from Nestle to actu ally start a brewery in San Diego…that didn’t work out. And so here I am with no job in San Diego and wondering what I’m going to do. I had written the busi ness plan, I had gotten some investors to come on board and I was like, ‘Hey, what if we just change it from a brew pub in San Diego to a beer bar in Orange Coun ty?’

“I wanted to bring that San Diego vibe of a great rotating 30 taps of craft beer, no macro beer, trying to educate peo ple and move their pallets along…We opened up Native Son in 2014 and it’s been a whirlwind ever since.”

Perched on a rooftop in Downtown Santa Ana, Native Son has grown to be

come a beloved destination for beer lov ers in OC and the Inland Empire through its second location in Rancho Cucamon ga’s Haven City Food Hall. On Nov. 4, the famed brewpub opened its doors to DTLA with its newest location at 832 S Ol ive Street, the old home of the Modern Times Dankness Dojo.

“We’ve been friends with them since they opened. … I think that modern Times did an amazing job running the first lap and we are taking the baton from them and we want the people of LA to love coming Downtown,” Sanchez ex plained. “When I was there having brunch on Sunday morning, people were walking by and being like, ‘Oh my goodness, it’s open again.’

“When we talk internally about what our ethos is, we love getting people to gether. … We love that feeling and I think when we were grand opening on Fri day, just to kind of do a 360 and watch everyone have a good time inside that space, even though it’s been empty for

six months, that’s the feeling that gets us out of bed in the morning.”

Sanchez expressed that Native Son’s ar rival won’t spell the end of what Modern Times had built in that space. Similar to their location in the old city hall of San ta Aa, his team is dedicated to preserving the spirit of the Dojo.

The primary changes to the location will include a spritz bar front introduced to spark more energy near the entrance. The bar will serve fortified wines, spar kling wines and cocktails inspired by bev erage director Brock Woolsey.

“We’re letting our cocktail guys in Ran cho and in Santa Ana put their minds to work to what sort of cool cocktails can we come up with given a limited ingredient list,” Sanchez said.

In addition to a craft cocktail program, the brewpub will have 35 craft beers on draft in the back. Native Son’s beer se lection will not only include Mumford & Son lager from Los Angeles, Pliny the Edler DIPA from Russian River Brewing in

Windsor and Pie of the Tiger Smoothie from Full Circle Brewing in Fresno, but for the first time ever they’ll also serve their own craft beer.

“It’s really full circle from the origins of why I left Nestle to finally actually own a brewpub,” Sanchez described. “JP Boudwin, our brewer, was Modern Times’ brewer there for four years and he want ed to come on with us. He was doing a lot of experimental brewing up there for the bigger brewery in San Diego, so we want to keep unleashing his creative abilities. Now that we can send our beer to our locations, Rancho Cucamonga and San ta Ana, he has already a guaranteed spot for the beer, so we want him to be as cre ative as possible. And then we get to see the reactions from all over California.”

Alongside Boudwin, executive chef Alec Guerrero, a Le Cordon Bleu alum ni who grew up in Los Angeles and San ta Ana, has developed the menu with fan-favorite dishes like the Downtown double sliders, grilled elote and Native

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Native Son Bar DTLA/Submitted Orange County-born beer bar Native Son has opened its newest location in Downtown Los Angeles.

fries. In addition to the burgers and bites, Sanchez stressed the importance of a well-executed brunch.

“We love brunch,” he said. “At the Dojo, brunch is probably going to be the abso lute best way to dip your toe into visiting Native Son LA.”

The DTLA weekend brunch menu in cludes their gravlox bites, which is a ba gel topped with sesame herb cream cheese, micro dill, smoked salmon and capers, and Native slam burrito made with scrambled eggs, hashbrowns, ba con, cheese and pig sauce. All items can also be served vegan.

“Taking over a kitchen that was all veg an before we got there has really pushed us,” Sanchez said. “We’re trying to keep the menu limited to all of our favorites, but we are partnering with some chefs Downtown to come out with some col

laborative vegan stuff. That’s going to be fun, and that’ll be coming out over the next few months.”

Looking to the future, Sanchez and the Native Son team hope that they can leave a similar impact on the DTLA communi ty as the ones in Santa Ana and Rancho Cucamonga, serving food, wine-based cocktails, spritzes and curated beers from around the world.

“I just want to encourage people to go Downtown,” Sanchez said. “The true-blue urban environment of skyscrapers and buses flying by and Door Dashers wait ing on the corner for their Shake Shack order. … There’s just a vibrance to Down town LA and I really do hope that peo ple come back and enjoy it given its new state. It’s growing again. I think that it’s a flower that’s blooming and I want people to come see.”

Native Son DTLA

WHERE: 832 S. Olive Street, Los Angeles

HOURS: Open 10:30 a.m. to midnight Monday through Thursday, 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 am Friday and Saturday, and 10:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Sunday

INFO: nativesonbar.com

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Native Son Bar DTLA/Submitted Based at 832 S. Olive Street, Native Son LA is filling the Dojo left behind by Modern Times, which will now include a spritz bar serving cocktail creations dreamt up by beverage director Brock Woolsey. Native Son Bar DTLA/Submitted Native Son’s menu is overseen by executive chef Alec Guerrero.

Covered California will helpDT ARTS & CULTURE

DTLA’s Mark Taper Forum presents ‘Clyde’s’

About the last thing you’d would expect at a truck stop dive din er is a sumptuous sandwich, such as a curried quail egg salad with mint on oven-fresh cranberry pecan multigrain bread — when patrons prefer tuna fish … with ketchup.

But it’s the dichotomy between the dream and the reality — of those work ing at the restaurant and between what they aspire to make and what is re quired — that are signatures in Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynne Nottage’s plays.

This time, with “Clyde’s,” directed by Kate Whoriskey, co-produced by Chi cago’s Goodman Theatre and opening at Downtown’s Mark Taper Forum on Wednesday, Nov. 16, the sandwiches are an integral part as a team of formally in carcerated employees, including a young mother named Tish, who aspire to more than their current status.

The 90-minute show opened last year on Broadway.

With live food as a main ingredient in Clyde’s, both the actors and the Cen ter Theatre Group prop team, keep their hands busy making the work in the onstage kitchen look like a real truck stop.

Nedra Snipes, who portrays Tish, said she’s used to working with real food in productions, and how it adds to the au thenticity — even though it required leaning skills she didn’t pick up during her master’s degree at Juilliard.

“All of my shows post-grad have had things in which I eat on stage,” she said. “Just the smell of the herbs, the feel of the carrots in my hand, it really does help with the movement. But, if the audience is looking at how well you’re cutting the carrots, something else is wrong. I think we spent one day on knife work, and then from then on, it was kind of like, have it.”

Tish’s sandwich is a tuna sandwich… or rather, it’s supposed to be. That’s be cause some cast members are vegetarian or vegan, and the food must be both real and edible for them.

“I love tuna, but I never even get to eat it, darn it,” she said. “But it’s really a chickpea situation. And one time a sand wich changed from this yellow squash to one day it had grilled sweet potato. And we were like, can we keep this? It was so good.”

So where does this good, di etary-friendly food originate? In Los An

geles, it wasn’t an wasn’t an easy find, according to assistant prop director Eric Babb.

After looking at the Chicago produc tion and seeing what food was used, Babb had to find a place that could re produce similar items for the perishable food. Center Theatre Group has a rela

tionship with Homeboy Industries, which specializes with working formerly incar cerated people, because they had paired with the company on a previous Nottage play, “Sweat.”

It didn’t work, because of the specialty of the items, so Babb kept searching.

“I was scouring, looking for a small, BI

POC owned businesses, and after I got about a dozen nos, I was able to partner with chef Natasha Butler, and her busi ness is Butler Pantry Catering Company, located in South LA,” he explained. “She said, ‘No problem.’”

That means creating 40 sandwiches a week with custom recipes.

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Center Theatre Group/Submitted Nedra Snipes portrays single mother Letitia, one of the formerly incarcerated employees at the truck stop diner in “Clyde’s.”

On top of that, other real food has to be on stage, along with a fair amount of fake food. Of all the creations, Babb’s fa vorite is seen at the top of the show — but he doesn’t want to reveal it and al low audiences to be surprised.

One surprise for those who have seen Nottage’s previous work “Sweat” at the Mark Taper Forum, is that the “Clyde’s” cast includes Jason, a notorious charac ter from that previous work. How his life has changed may surprise audiences.

CTG associate artistic director Lind say Allbaugh appreciates both continui ty from the playwright, but also that the company has an ongoing relationship with Nottage, which dates to her much earlier work, “Intimate Apparel.”

“It’s something we talk about a lot, how do we have ongoing relationships with playwrights, and at the same time also present new work by young and upcoming playwrights,” she said. “With Lynn, where we have that character that

crosses over to ‘Clyde’s,’ so that’s an on going conversation we’re having with the audience by an important play wright, who is writing about something that I think is important to Los Angeles and important to the country.”

Unlike, “Sweat,” Allbaugh called “Clyde’s” a heightened comedy, where we see Nottage again tackling a chal lenging part of society, but this time us ing more humor.

“Under this lens of comedy and broad humor, there still human characters re ally struggling with real challenges that anyone in the audience will under stand and face,” she said. “What I love about this play, too, is that as much as it’s talking about finding passion or food and how we can overcome circumstanc es, and that finding passion or joy in your life is so important to success and to happiness.”

And sometimes that joy can be found in something as simple as a sandwich.

“Clyde’s” WHEN: Various times Wednesday, Nov. 16, to Sunday, Dec. 18.

WHERE: Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles

COST: Tickets start at $35

INFO: 213-628-2772, centertheatregroup.org

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Nov. 19.

For the Coronas, LA is a sort of hometown show

Irish rock band The Coronas are look ing forward to returning to LA, play ing The Echo on Saturday, Nov. 19. Although hailing from Dublin, the band has recorded albums in DTLA and spent time in Echo Park and Silverlake.

“We have a lot of friends there,” said singer Danny O’Reilly.

“There’s just something about the place that I always really liked. It has a laidback vibe to it. The weather, of course, is always good. It’s one of the places in America we actually lived for a while. We recorded (the 2011 album) ‘Closer to You’ in LA.”

Helming its own label, The Coronas have recorded seven studio albums. Three of the band’s members — O’Reil ly, Graham Knox and Conor Egan — met at Terenure College where they formed a band called Kiros with a friend.

The band split and then reformed as Corona, later changing the name to The Coronas to differentiate itself from the

Italian dance act.

The Coronas’ sophomore effort “Tony Was an Ex-Con” received Best Irish Al bum at the 2010 Meteor Awards, beating Snow Patrol’s “Up to Now” and U2’s “No Line on the Horizon” among others.

“Time Stopped,” the band’s sev enth album, builds on the moment of ‘True Love Waits,” which topped the Irish charts the week of its release in July 2020, following a creative, social ly distanced “tour” of Ireland in an al bum-themed ice cream truck.

“True Love Waits” held off new releas es from Fontaines D.C. and Taylor Swift to reach No. 1 that week. It became the fastest-selling Irish album of the year and The Coronas’ most successful album to date internationally.

“It came together pretty easily,” O’Reil ly added about “Time Stopped.”

“I didn’t put much pressure on myself to write. I went through phases where I didn’t write at all. A lot of songs were coming, and I thought, ‘Listen, we’ve got an album here. Let’s plan on recording it.’

“For us, it was all we could do. We did a streams and socially distanced gigs. It was a tough time. It worked out really well in the end with the tour.”

The Coronas are renowned for their concerts. The son of legendary folk sing er Mary Black, O’Reilly said The Coro nas bring a high-energy, pop-rock show. This time, the opener is O’Reilly’s sister, Róisín.

“We try and get the crowd singing along with us,” he said. “It’s part of our process. Anything is possible.

“We always say the crowds make The Coronas show. The more enthusiastic they are, the more we are. We’re loving being back on tour. It’s nice to be back

on the road.”

They are happy to return to the stage, with sold-out appearances at the Mar quee in Cork and on the grounds of Trin ity College in Dublin. Watch “Don’t You Say You’re in Love” from that show at https://bit.ly/TheCoronasLiveLADN.

“The U.S. is a lot of fun,” O’Reilly said. “It’s probably my favorite place in the world to tour. I love the way every state is completely different. We spend a lot of time here. I worked over here as a stu dent in San Diego, lived in Chicago for another summer. We’ve been here plen ty of times over the years. We love it here.”

The Coronas w/Róisín O

WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19

WHERE: The Echo, 1822 W. Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles COST: $20 INFO: theecho.com

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