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by RichaRd Guzmán city editoR

Inside his spacious studio in a building near Downtown, famed muralist Kent Twitchell has covered a wall with a handful of colorful

images of people ready to cast votes. The acrylic designs have nothing to do with the upcoming state ballots or the November

presidential election. Instead, they are hom-ages to that past that, in a few months, will be revealed to Downtowners. At the same time, the works will mark a return to the community for an artist who six years ago endured a well-publicized setback. The images, consisting mostly of veterans or others associated with the military, including his

own father, will make up one of three murals that Twitchell was commissioned to create for the Bob Hope Patriotic Hall. The building at 1816 S. Figueroa St. is undergoing a $45 million county-funded renovation, and as part of it, Twitchell will replace the “lost” murals created by Helen Lundeberg in 1942 (the year Twitchell was born).

Artwork Lost, Artwork FoundMuralist Kent Twitchell Channels the Past With New Creations

Trouble in Paradise

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Kent Twitchell in front of the unfinished “Free Ballot,” one of three murals he is working on for the renovation of Bob Hope Patriotic Hall. The artworks will replace “lost” murals created by Helen Lundeberg in 1942.

by RichaRd Guzmán

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Wal-Mart’s effort to open a 33,000-square-foot grocery store on Cesar Chavez Avenue near Chinatown has hit a speed

bump, with a City Councilman surprising many with a recent introduction of a retail-related mo-tion. Although the proposed ordinance authored March 16 by First District Councilman Ed Reyes does not specifically mention Wal-Mart or any

retailer, local observers and even Wal-Mart repre-sentatives say it could impact the Bentonville-Ark.-based company’s plan to open its first outpost in Downtown Los Angeles. Reyes denied that the motion, which was scheduled to go before the full City Council for a vote on Friday, March 23 (after Los Angeles Downtown News went to press), was intended to target the proposed Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market. The motion calls for the City Attorney’s of-fice and the city Planning Department to prepare

an Interim Control Ordinance that would pro-hibit the issuance of demolition, building and all other permits for “New Formula Retail Uses” in Chinatown. Reyes told Downtown News that the ordinance is intended to address concerns about traffic and public safety, and to preserve the historic na-ture, the balance and diversity of services in the Chinatown community. He also said the motion is meant to protect small business owners.

see Wal-Mart, page 8

see Mural, page 9

Wal-Mart Battle Takes a TurnCouncilman Introduces Retail Ordinance That Some Believe Could Thwart Controversial Project

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Police Investigate Stabbing

Detectives are looking for a man wanted in connection with a March 19 stabbing

in the Historic Core. The victim is in stable condition. Police believe two men followed a man into the bathroom shared by Rocket Pizza and Urban Noodle and stabbed him multiple times in the neck, Lt. Paul Vernon said. Shortly after the incident, police arrested a 17-year-old suspect, who they say was seen by a witness fleeing wearing red earmuffs. Police are still looking for the second sus-pect and Vernon said detectives are following multiple leads.

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Although the $40 million upgrade of the shopping center at Seventh and

Figueroa streets won’t open until the fall, Downtowners can already start making plans for where they’ll grab a bite after shop-ping. On Tuesday, March 20, land owner Brookfield Properties announced that it has signed six “chef-driven” restaurants for its Taste Figat7th, the 25,000-square-foot dining area on the project’s courtyard. The lineup, which is tied to the opening of Downtown’s first Target, will include Silver

Lake’s Lamill Coffee, Hollywood’s Loteria Grill and Juicy Lucy, a burger establish-ment. Also coming are Oleego, a Korean barbeque restaurant, Indian establishment Indus and gourmet sandwich joint Choppe Choppe. “We planned this unique dining experience to reflect the heart and soul of Downtown — fresh, creative and eclectic,” said Edward Hogan, Brookfield’s national director of retail leasing, in a statement. The renovated retail center on the southwest corner of Seventh and Figueroa streets is slated to open in October. The new restau-rants will fill the first of up to 18 spots avail-able for eateries in the dining area.

Broad Museum Cleared For Takeoff

So far, construction activity at the Grand Avenue site of philanthropist Eli Broad’s

$100 million museum has been limited to a three-level parking structure. Now, it’s time to build the art venue itself. On March 16, the city Department of Building and Safety issued building permits for the three-level structure designed by New York architecture firm Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, and crews are already at work. The garage extends from lower to upper Grand Avenue, allowing the museum to have a street-level entrance.

Broad Art Foundation spokeswoman Karen Denne said the project is on schedule, with completion expected in late 2013. Those in-terested in watching the construction can see the site in real time via a webcam feed streaming at broadartfoundation.org.

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EDITORIALSEDITORIALSUrban Scrawl by Doug Davis

It’s fitting that the effort to rejigger the boundaries of Los Angeles’ 15 City Council districts ended so close to the Ides of March. On March 16, 2012, City Council members Jan Perry and Bernard

Parks may have felt a bit like Julius Caesar, who on March 15 in 44 BC was stabbed to death by political conspirators in the Roman Senate. A dying Caesar uttered the phrase, “Et tu, Brute,” after a trusted friend was among those who stuck a knife in him. Like Caesar, Parks and Perry were vanquished. In being on the very short end of a 13-2 vote, they saw many longtime allies cast ballots that may have been motivated less by civic consideration and more by political fear. It seems no one dared to cross the most powerful players for worry of future repercussions. It was stab or be stuck with the losers. OK, we’re overstating it — but only to a degree. Unlike Caesar’s comeuppance, no one was surprised by what was formalized that day in Council Chambers. The lines that will impact the city for the next decade had been drawn, literally and figuratively, months before. Still, we’re severely disappointed by how the full council behaved over the past several months with regard to redistricting, and in par-ticular with how it ended. In the final vote, council members skewered the territory and the records of two of their colleagues. It’s hard to think that any of these individuals would have accepted such a fate if they were the ones being singled out. The redistricting saga has been ugly. The loudest cries have come from the Korean-American community and from stakeholders in Downtown and South Los Angeles. Lawsuits have been threatened, and we’ll soon see if they are filed. Although this page agrees that in an ideal world Downtown would be unified in a single district, we were unable to support the current maps because doing so would have meant essentially ghet-toizing the Ninth District, long represented by Perry, and the Eighth District, served for years by Parks. We reasoned that our gains — in this case moving nearly all of Downtown into José Huizar’s 14th District — should not come at the expense of creating two districts that lack viable economic engines that could be leveraged for a greater community good. Although redistricting is ultimately a policy issue, the process was hampered from the beginning by politics. Parks and Perry were war-ring with City Council President Herb Wesson, who almost everyone

believes was pulling the strings. In the mapmaking sessions held over several months, the 21 members of the Redistricting Commission (all of whom were appointed by elected city officials) drew boundar-ies that benefitted the people who currently hold the most power in City Hall. Not surprisingly, Wesson was one of the winners when the Commission finished its work at the end of February and turned the proceedings over to the council. Then came an unnecessary fast-tracking. Although the council by law had months to consider the boundaries, Wesson compressed the timeframe to a little more than two weeks. No one except Parks and Perry were willing to voice opposition to the schedule. The March 16 discussion and vote was the only time that the full council publicly took up redistricting. Here is how power almost always works in City Hall: Council members are mini-mayors, and say yea or nay to projects or issues in their own district. The other 14 members go along, reasoning that they don’t want to face opposition when it comes time for them to bring something from their area to the floor for a vote. Often (though not always) this makes sense, as the individual who repre-sents the territory best knows the matter and the community. In the case of redistricting, however, individual members should have been thinking not about personal power grabs and gains, but about what is best for Los Angeles. That is why the final vote is so galling: We think any of the 13 people who cast a ballot in favor of the new maps would have protested furiously if they were the one stuck with an overwhelmingly impoverished community. We question how they can vote for treating other council members and other districts in a way they would never want to be treated. For the record, those who voted for the majority were Ed Reyes, Paul Krekorian, Dennis Zine, Tom LaBonge, Paul Koretz, Tony Cardenas, Richard Alarcon, Wesson, Bill Rosendahl, Mitch Englander, Eric Garcetti, Huizar and Joe Buscaino. In general we think highly of several of these individuals, and re-spect the work they have done for the city. In redistricting, however, their efforts to protect themselves, to ensure that they not fall on the wrong side of the majority, are a letdown. They had the opportunity to do what is right for Los Angeles. Instead, they did what is right for their own hides. It’s sad. It’s cowardly. We expected more from the city council.

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It’s hard not to feel a range of emo-tions for Rev. Andy Bales. There’s fear. There’s awe. There’s tremen-

dous respect and tremendous worry on his behalf. Most of all, there’s hope that he can overcome the hurdles that are in his path. Los Angeles Downtown News last week reported on the unenviable chal-lenges confronting Bales. The 53-year-old CEO of the Union Rescue Mission is in need of a kidney transplant, though that’s only part of it. His rare blood type, O negative, means there is a limited pool of donors. Making mat-ters worse, he has a serious heart con-dition, and until he undergoes heart surgery, he won’t be able to get on the list for a kidney transplant. The choice might seem easy to an outsider: Get the heart surgery, get on the transplant list, save your life. For Bales, it’s more complicated. He knows that having the surgery would almost certainly lead to kidney failure, which in turn would require him to go on dialysis. That would force him to cut back heavily on his job of overseeing the mission in the heart of Skid Row. It’s something Bales is reluctant to do. This is a choice almost none of us can understand in the way that Bales does. We can feel for him and guess what we might do in such a situation, but no one can really fathom having to make the decisions he faces. Bales didn’t set out to make his health a public issue. The media came to him and he only spoke out because he hopes doing so will bring attention to the work he and others do each day at the mission. That, by the way, is a tremendous amount of work, and it’s a job that has become more challenging in the past few years, as the slow economy has lessened the amount of financial donations to nearly all nonprofits. The mission at 545 S. San Pedro St. seeks to aid the impoverished community in numerous ways. There are drug and alcohol counseling for hundreds of in-dividuals. There are meals served, an average of 3,000 a day, every day of the year. There are the shelter beds pro-vided, more than 900 a night for men, women and families. There are cloth-ing and medical services dispensed. The list goes on — much of it can be glimpsed at urm.org. Bales’ condition is serious, but it would be wrong to see this as a death sentence. He continues to show up at the mission each day, to work to bet-ter the lives of others. It’s easy to find people who sing his praises. Right now all we can do is wish for the best for Andy Bales. We hope that in the coming months the community will continue to support him and the mission.

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March 26, 2012 Downtown News 5Opinion

by Jon RegaRdie

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Two things stood out on a recent Saturday afternoon as hundreds of people waited in snaking lines to en-

ter Staples Center to see the Clippers take on the Houston Rockets. One was a purple-

clad usher who, despite the swirling mass of humanity in front of her, was focused on a Sudoku puzzle. The other was the grown man and little boy playing “Ring Around the Rosie” as the line inched forward. I’m not sure why the usher felt Sudoku was more important than her job. I do, however, know that the song and the hand-holding twirling game erupted because, while wait-ing in the queue, my 3-year-old son George looked up at me and chirped, “Let’s play ‘Ring Around the Rosie,’ Daddy.” Since there was no real reason not to, we did. That wasn’t part of the plan when I de-cided to take George to his first NBA game. Although he has seen some basketball on TV, I knew he wouldn’t fully understand what was happening. Still, I figured he’d be interested in the spectacle — the noise, the Jumbotron, the snacks, etc. My wife and I often take our kids Down-town. On the way to MOCA once we saw two street performers dressed as Mary Poppins (at the time the musical was play-ing at the Ahmanson Theatre) and Bert. Our then 3-year-old daughter Vivian had no idea it wasn’t the Mary Poppins from the classic film. She was so awestruck that she literally couldn’t speak to Busker Mary.

Once inside MOCA, I told Vivian to let me know if she was interested in something, that I’d lift her up so she could see it closely. It was a great idea for the splattered Jackson Pollock paintings. It didn’t work so well when we en-tered the room with a black-and-white photo of a junky shooting up. Of course that’s what she pointed at. “What’s he doing, Daddy?” she asked, and while I generally tell her the truth, in this instance the only thing I could get out was, “He’s taking medicine.”

The Doggie Show Downtown Los Angeles, it turns out, has a lot to do for kids, as long as you don’t ex-pect it to be a suburban, playground-filled neighborhood. Many people find fun with little ones at the Central Library, Grand Hope Park, Grand Central Square and the summer concerts at Cal Plaza. We live 15 minutes away but come down for many events. We’ve made the last few Dog Day Afternoons (“the doggie show!” in the kids’ lexicon). We’ve hit several MOCA exhibits (“George, please stay back from the art”). Vivian has seen Heidi Duckler’s site-specific dance company three times and we’ve eaten sausages and fries at Wurstküche. We’ve wandered through festivals in Chinatown and Little Tokyo, taking the Gold Line when possible. I took Vivian to her first Clippers game when she was 2, which in the pre-Chris Paul/Blake Griffin era might have been tanta-mount to child abuse. She made half the game and insisted on introducing herself to people next to us (“Nice to meet you”). She’s now been to five games and likes to

stay for the whole thing, and only partly be-cause she gets an ice cream cone. She knows who Griffin is and, after yelling “De-FENSE! De-FENSE!” always asks, “Did I help the Clippers that time?” The kids have also seen the Harlem Globetrotters at Staples, and while they

laughed, they didn’t get all the nuances. Vivian was particularly concerned that the Globetrotters might lose.

Bathroom Visits I’ve learned a few things about visiting Staples Center with the under-5 set: you can’t get there early enough; you can’t underesti-

mate how appealing the souvenirs are; and you have no idea exactly what will capture their attention. Vivian’s favorite part of her first Clippers game was the cheerleaders who, she said, “dance real hard.” George twice wanted to visit the cell phone store on the lower concourse of the arena. There’s another important thing I’ve learned about Staples and kids: The bath-rooms are nice. Unlike Dodger Stadium’s Reserve Level, which has metal troughs and conditions more fitting for Visigoths than modern families, Staples’ spaces are clean and well-lit. I’ve changed many a diaper both in the stalls and on the fold-out kid’s Koala — yes, that’s what it’s called, and yes, I’m the guy toting the pink diaper roll. George fared pretty well at the game. He wasn’t very conversational with our neigh-bors, even when they told him, “I like your green froggy boots.” However, he was in-trigued by the Kiss Cam, and when other kids were shown waving on the Jumbotron, George usually waved back. He yelled “De-FENSE!” a lot, sometimes even when the Clippers were actually on defense. Sure, there were dull moments, which were broken up variously by food, visits to the cell phone store, and the never-gets-dull game of stuffing a small gray elephant into a seat’s cup holder so it can “sleep.” The other thing I’ve learned about kids and Staples is to bring along a book for emergencies. Nothing gets a grownup through a crucial stretch of a close game like letting a child page through “The Happy Man and His Dump Truck.” George made the whole thing, didn’t cry once, and the Clippers won. When I asked later what his favorite part of the game was, he answered, as he is wont to do, “Not anything.” However, during dinner the next evening, he couldn’t stop chanting “De-FENSE!” Contact Jon Regardie at [email protected].

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In the column “What’s for Sale,” Los Angeles Downtown News looks at every-thing from condos to multi-family build-

ings to vacant lots now on the market. We hope that regular snapshots of individual properties will make for a wide-ranging survey of the overall state of Downtown real estate. This week, the focus is on a penthouse at the Ritz-Carlton Residences at L.A. Live with a record listing price for a Downtown condo-minium.

The Property: The 5,862-square-foot penthouse, unit 51F, in the Ritz-Carlton Residences at 900 W. Olympic Blvd. is listed for $9.3 million. The building contains 224 residential units atop 1,001 hotel rooms.

Spec This Out: Unit 51F is a sprawling, two-floor condo on top of the skyline-defining Ritz-Carlton and J.W. Marriott tower at L.A. Live. The penthouse is situated on the north-ern end of the coffin-shaped tower, and has spectacular views to the north, west and east. There are three bedrooms and three-and-a-half bathrooms. The floor plan also identifies two dens (one upstairs, one downstairs), two libraries and an exercise room.

Compared to What: Quantifying the value of a two-level penthouse at the Ritz is tricky — there’s really nothing like it in Downtown. The listing price translates to $1,586 per square foot, more than three times the rate

buyers generally encounter with Central City condos (the price-per-square-foot generally decreases with larger units). The HOA dues are an additional $3,207 per month. The Ritz’s only other penthouse, which at 5,798 square feet is slightly smaller than unit 51F, recently sold for $8.55 million. A 3,436-square-foot three-bedroom condo on the 50th floor fetched $5.22 million. Buyers at the Ritz, however, are not likely considering other Downtown comps. They’ll probably measure it against units in luxury high-rises in Hollywood, on the Westside, or even in Manhattan, said Billy Rose, president of The Agency, the brokerage firm handling sales at the building. To put the price in perspective, consider the 36-unit Binford Lofts at 837 Traction Ave. The entire building is listed at $9.25 million. Before the Ritz, the record for a Down-town condo listing was believed to be a 3,500-square-foot, four-level unit in the Arts District’s Biscuit Company Lofts. In 2007 it was on the market for $4.9 million.

You Down with GAT?: The $9.3 million list-ing price will only appeal to a small portion of society, a subset Rose describes as “global affluent travelers.” “The collection of individuals are excep-tional,” Rose said. “They’re sort of like the top of their class in whatever they do.” Rose said the building might also appeal to Downtown executives and owners of Fortune 500 companies looking to live near

where they work.

Picking Up the Pace: The Ritz-Carlton Residences got off to a slower-than-expected start. In February 2011, building developer Anschutz Entertainment Group announced that it closed its first escrow — what it didn’t acknowledge was that the buyer was AEG it-self, as the Associated Press reported last year. The company also told the AP last year that it had opened escrow on 60% of the 224 con-dos. Today, only 53 sales have closed. That said, the project, where units range from $850,000-$9.3 million, is picking up steam. Eleven contracts worth a total of more than $14 million were signed in the past month, according to The Agency.

Luxury DIY: Unlike most condos, unit 51F is unfinished. Floors, cabinets and other built-ins

have not been installed. This allows the buyer to select their color and materials, whether picking from the stock of flooring and cabin-etry available through the Ritz, or by designing the unit themselves (in which case the buyer gets a credit to pay for the built-ins). Location Cubed: Among the amenities that come with living inside a four-star hotel — 24/7 valet, concierge, maid service, room service — owning 51F also buys access to a Staples Center suite, co-owned by the build-ing’s HOA, and gets the buyer privileges at Ritz-Carlton and AEG-owned venues worldwide.

Contact: The listing agent is The Agency at (213) 622-4242. Contact Ryan Vaillancourt at [email protected].

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The Hotel Clark, a centrally located but long-empty structure, could open within six months.

Elizabeth Peterson, a representative of New York-based building owner the Chetrit Group, said she anticipates the property opening as a hotel by September. Although she would not detail a specific timeframe for when business activities would begin, she said renovations to the building have been completed. “We’re really close,” she said. An official with Peterson’s consult-ing company, Elizabeth Peterson Group Inc., presented plans about the project last week to the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council. Peterson, who is seeking a liquor license for the project at 426 S. Hill St., said the Clark will be a 347-room hotel with three restau-rant spaces and an 11,500-square-foot ban-quet space. The 11-story structure is one of three large vacant Downtown properties owned by the Chetrit Group, a family-run batch of investor-developers led by Joseph Chetrit. Like the Clark, the Embassy Auditorium and Hotel in South Park and Giannini Place in the Financial District have long sat empty, frustrating area stakeholders who want to see the buildings activated. Sources familiar with the project confirmed reports that New York’s King & Grove Hotels will manage the Clark. It would be the first

West Coast property for the company, which was founded in 2010 by Ed Scheets and Ben Pundole. King and Grove officials have yet to con-firm their involvement with the Clark, but according to the hotel operator’s website, last year the Chetrit Group partnered with King & Grove to “dramatically and positively ex-pand the brand.” King & Grove currently operates the Surf Lodge and Ruschmeyer’s in the Hamptons and the Tides in Miami, which according to the website hotelchatter.com, is owned by CG Tides, a company overseen by Joseph Chetrit. Michel Attias, the Downtown-based rep-resentative for the Chetrit Group, did not return a call for comment. Jennifer Foley, vice president of media relations for King & Grove, also did not respond to requests for an interview.

Good Timing The Chetrit Group has owned the Clark since at least 2001, according to the county recorder’s office. The 1914 building stands on Hill Street just south of Fourth Street, near Pershing Square and residential projects such as Metro 417 and the Title Guarantee lofts. Bruce Baltin, senior vice president of hotel industry research firm PKF Consulting, said that if the hotel does indeed open within six months, it would come at a much-needed time in Downtown. “Downtown could support more hotels, and it’s a good time for a hotel to open with the Wilshire Grand closed,” Baltin said, refer-ring to the December shuttering of the 896-

room Financial District hotel to make way for a $1 billion replacement project. The Clark Hotel would not be the only new boutique establishment in Downtown. In January, Oregon-based Ace Hotel revealed plans to open a 180-room property in the United Artists Theater building at 933 S. Broadway. The 13-story project will include a 1,600-seat entertainment venue in the theater as well as a pool, restaurant and bar. Plans for renovating the Clark have been floated before. In 2008, Attias said that the building would open as a 350-room bou-tique hotel within eight months, but nothing happened. Daniel Swartz, who oversaw the $35 mil-lion transformation of the Title Guarantee Building at 411 W. Fifth St. into housing in 2007, said he would be happy to see the Clark open. However, he is skeptical of the timeline.

“I drove by there the other day and I looked at it specifically, and I thought it looked like there hasn’t been any progress whatsoever,” he said. “I think it’ll be fantastic if it happens.” A new hotel could add to the walkability of the area, he said. “The building is ugly, it takes up almost half the street and it has frontage on Hill Street, so it makes it an uncomfortable walk,” he said. The only currently active Downtown property owned by the Chetrit Group is an office building at 611 W. Sixth St. formerly known as the AT&T Center. In 2005, plans surfaced for a $30 million transformation of the Embassy into a Gansevoort Hotel. The project never came to fruition. Contact Richard Guzmán at [email protected].

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The Hotel Clark at 426 S. Hill St. has sat vacant for more than a decade. A Downtown business consultant said there are plans to open it as a 347-room boutique hotel within six months.


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The motion describes the “Formula Retail Uses” as businesses that contain two or more features from a defined list of specifications. The features that could be cited include a standardized façade, signage, décor, color scheme, merchandise and even a trademark. The ordinance also contains an “Urgency Clause” that would make it effective after it is adopted by the council. Traditionally, an item passed by the council doesn’t become law until it is signed by the mayor. Wal-Mart officials and several Chinatown leaders believe the ordinance is aimed directly at thwarting plans to open a grocery store on the ground floor of Grand Plaza, a 302-unit senior housing project. Wal-Mart hopes to begin operations in the store by 2013. Steven Restivo, a spokesman for the retail gi-ant, said the project is still on track, though he is unsure what impact the ordinance will have. “It’s unclear at this point,” he said. “The way it’s written now, it could pose a threat to our project.”

Community Growth In February, Wal-Mart announced that it had signed a lease for the corner space at 701 W. Cesar Chavez Ave. The building opened in 1991 and was originally intended to hold a supermarket, though one never arrived. With the lease, Wal-Mart, which has strug-gled in recent efforts to open its superstores in Los Angeles, appeared to have found a way to establish a beachhead without requiring city approvals. Indeed, the only outstanding item left for Wal-Mart’s project is a building

permit, which should come “any day now,” Restivo said. The issuance of building permits is one of the things that would be prohibited by the new ordinance. Nicki Ung, executive director of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles, said the ordinance could ban nearly all chain stores from Chinatown, including Trader Joe’s, Starbucks and Fresh and Easy, since they all meet the criteria of Formula Retail Uses. “I think it’s pretty clear that it’s targeting Wal-Mart, but it would also affect any other chain store that wants to come into the area,” she said. “This would eventually hinder the growth in our community.” Reyes said that the ordinance is in the early stage and can be amended to prevent unin-tended consequences such as eliminating or creating obstacles for new investments. Despite the urgency clause, he said the or-dinance is not aimed at Wal-Mart. However, he spoke specifically of traffic and crowd issues in the area near the planned store. He noted a large amount of pedestrian traf-fic from the Ramon C. Cortines School for the Visual and Performing Arts, which sits caddy-corner from the planned store, as well as foot traffic from senior citizens at Grand Plaza. “When we start looking at those priori-ties, this became a vehicle by which we can address it,” Reyes said. “It’s important to do it now because by the time the store opens, I would hope we could have conditions and understandings or agreements to address these concerns in a very direct way.” Union and community groups have long criticized Wal-Mart for its labor practices

and for concerns that the stores’ low prices, achieved through buying in bulk, can deci-mate nearby independent retailers. Business organizations have generally been in favor of Wal-Mart, saying the stores create jobs and sales tax revenue. The Downtown-based Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy has spoken out strongly against the proposed Wal-Mart, vowing to prepare for a “major battle.” When asked if the concerns, of LAANE and other groups played a role in the ordi-nance, Reyes said, “We listen to everybody. We listen to the property owners, we listen to people who rent stores, people who lease the stores and the workers who work at the stores, and that includes the unions.” Some Chinatown business leaders say

they feel left out of the latest move. A few lo-cal stakeholders have said that area markets carry largely ethnic fare, and would not be compromised by Wal-Mart’s mainstream merchandise. “This community wants a market and de-serves a market,” said George Yu, execu-tive director of the Los Angeles Chinatown Business Council. “The city shouldn’t need to be reminded that Chinatown’s redevelop-ment plan remains in place for the life of the plan and that a supermarket at Grand Plaza was part of the original development deal with not only the CRA but with the commu-nity as well.” It is uncertain what will happen next. Contact Richard Guzmán at [email protected].

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“I try to make each portrait look like a monument to that person,” Twitchell said last Tuesday, speaking to more than a doz-en people who had gathered at his studio near USC for a sneak peak at the unfinished artworks. In 2010, Twitchell won a $285,000 com-mission to create the murals. The 12-by-15-foot paintings will be completed in time for the fall reopening of the Patriotic Hall, which will again house the county’s Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. “The goal is for individuals who come and use this facility to remember the role of the military in preserving the values of democracy,” said Letitia Ivins, assistant di-rector of Civic Art for the L.A. County Arts Commission. “It’s also to show the diversity of those that served.”

Permanent Mark Twitchell is an Air Force veteran known for large-scale creations. His Downtown work includes “Harbor Freeway Overture,” which overlooks the 110 Freeway on the side of the Figat7th shopping center and depicts mem-bers of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Many people know Twitchell for an inci-dent that occurred in 2006. One morning, his 70-foot-tall “Ed Ruscha Monument,” which adorned a building at 1031 S. Hill St., was whitewashed by a work crew preparing the structure for its future as the YWCA Job Corps Center. The paint-over of the 1987 artwork sparked an uproar, including charges that Twitchell had no advance notice and thus no chance to preserve the piece he spent nearly a decade creating. Litigation followed, and in 2008 Twitchell won a $1.1 million settlement

from the federal government and 12 other defendants, including the YWCA of Greater Los Angeles. His current project is painted on thin paper and clipped to a wall that faces his cluttered desk, which is buried under scattered papers and a bucket filled with colored pencils. Near his desk are pictures and sketches of the Ruscha mural, which for Twitchell is a reminder of the importance of his current project. He knows he is replacing another

artist’s work while hoping to cement his own legacy in a protected setting. “It was when I lost ‘Ed Ruscha’ that this project came along, and that caused me to think about doing this work,” Twitchell re-flected. “I’m 70 and pretty soon I’m not go-ing to be able to do this anymore, so it’ll be nice to have one left.” Lundeberg’s original murals, created in the midst of World War II, depicted historic elements and some basic rights of citizens

of the United States. “The Preamble to the Constitution” showed some of the founding fathers flanking said document under the Statue of Liberty. “Free Ballot” and “Free Assembly” portrayed, respectively, people ready to vote and people speaking at a public meeting. Although Lundeberg’s art was highly praised, the murals were removed in the 1970s. Later, they were misplaced, hence their description as “lost” artworks. “Kent had a lot of empathy for Helen, hav-ing lost murals too,” Laura Zucker, the ex-ecutive director of the L.A. Arts Commission, told the group gathered at his studio. Wearing a green bomber jacket with paint-splattered sleeves, the gray-haired and bearded artist explained that he approached the project as if he were on a team with Lundeberg. His vision, he said, follows the same basic idea as the art created 70 years ago. Like Lundeberg’s work, Twitchell’s piec-es will show scenes with a few different posi-tions, though with new bodies and faces. He took most of the pictures of the models himself. Twitchell said he hopes his work does jus-tice to veterans and the country. “I’m one of those square, old-fashioned people,” he said. “I love this country, I get tears in my eyes when I hear the Pledge of Allegiance and the National Anthem. So this is an opportunity for me to do a major mural that I can honor America with.” Once the murals are completed on the thin paper, they will be transferred to a thicker canvas that in turn will be attached to the walls in the lobby of the Patriotic Hall. After they are moved, Twitchell will add the finish-ing touches to the works, which he hopes will remain in place a lot longer than some of his previous pieces. Contact Richard Guzmán at [email protected].


Downtown was outraged in 2006 when Twitchell’s 70-foot-tall “Ed Ruscha Monument” was painted over by a work crew. Twitchell ultimately won a $1.1 million settlement for the destruction of the artwork.

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For many people, the post-World War II music scene in Los Angeles was all about a worry-free lifestyle filled with sun, surf, cars and movie stars. Legions of Beach

Boys hits pop to mind. As alluring as that image is, in reality the sounds of the city were far more complex. Various genres of music were in-spired by all manner of social struggles. In turn, the struggles were inspired by the music. The Grammy Museum is exploring the clash between myth and musical reality in the decades after the war with the ex-hibit Trouble in Paradise: Music and Los Angeles 1945-1975. The show, curated by museum staff and University of Southern California professor Josh Kun, runs through June 3. It is part of Pacific Standard Time, the Getty Foundation initiative to tell the story of the region’s art scene in the period after the war. The Grammy exhibit goes beyond the well-known Los Angeles-based bands of the time. It explores jazz, R&B, Laurel Canyon folk rock, the Sunset Strip scene, East L.A. Chicano music and, yes, surf rock. “We are able to tell the musical story of L.A. and tell it in a way that was not conventional or predictable,” said Bob Santelli, the museum’s executive director. “This exhibit re-flects the ethnic, racial and cultural complexity of musical Los Angeles in that time period.” Trouble in Paradise is the first of at least three planned Grammy Museum exhibits that will dig into the musical his-tory of the city, Santelli said. Other shows will explore topics such as the punk and heavy metal scenes and the city’s musi-cal contribution to films and Hollywood. The effort includes a program to be launched in the fall focusing on capturing the oral history of the city by record-ing people involved in Los Angeles music. The organizers will speak with musicians, collectors, music store owners, fans

and others. “We will record most of them on video, some audio, and have them all available for scholars, research, fans and even-tually in the museum,” Santelli said.

L.A. Story The current exhibit includes photographs, album covers, concert posters, musical instruments, videos and a digital jukebox with more than 100 songs. Among the key figures of the era highlighted are Ritchie Valens, Lalo Guerrero, Buffalo Springfield, El Chicano, the Byrds and the Beach Boys. The show on the fourth floor of the South Park museum also holds a re-creation of a drive-in with seats made to look like classic cars and a screen projecting images of L.A. traffic. A display case shows items from pioneering local disc jokey Art Laboe, who coined the term “oldies but goodies” after as-sembling a compilation album with that title. Kun said the organizers specifically did not want to create a show that covers the entire musical landscape of that innova-tive time period. Instead, he said, Trouble in Paradise looks at the popular music that followed some of the most significant social, political and economic upheavals of the era. “The show really is about using the popular music of the period to think about the role of social change and social cri-sis in the history of Los Angeles,” he said. To that effect, the show delves into transformative events such as the 1965 Watts Riots. Trouble in Paradise features Los Angeles Times clippings about the uprising and footage of the riots. There are also posters from Wattsax, a concert held in 1972 to commemorate the riots. The show brought musicians such as Isaac Hayes and Rufus Thomas to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. “The riots came out of a place of unrest and of anger and produced a kind of cultural and artistic rebirth in Watts that gave birth to so much music and culture that we inherited,” Kun said.

The Chicano influence is also represented in numerous ways in the exhibit. There are videos of anti-war demon-strations in East L.A. as well as guitars and records from Thee Midnighters. The East L.A. band was one of the first Chicano groups to have a major hit (with the song “Land of a Thousand Dances”). Lalo Guerrero, who is regarded as the father of Chicano music, is highlighted in the exhibit with record covers and a poster for his regular weekend performance at the Paramount Club on Brooklyn Avenue. There is also a postcard from a nightclub Guerrero owned. While Guerrero touched on politics in some of his songs, he was not thought of as a traditional activist musician. However, Kun said the very act of opening his own venue was a seismic event. “For a Chicano musician to not just make music but to be-come an entrepreneur and create a stage and nightclub that’s a community space, and a space that helps support fellow Mexican American artists, that’s a political move,” Kun said. Some of the items that attract the most attention are those that once belonged to Ritchie Valens. The San Fernando-born artist died in a plane crash in 1959. He was just 17. Valens was immortalized in the 1987 movie La Bamba. His guitar, a shirt he wore and the handwritten lyrics to the song “La Bamba” are on display. The text is deceptively simple, blue ink on white notebook paper, and hardly hints at the posthumous legend Valens would become. Kun hopes those who attend Trouble in Paradise will leave with a richer understanding of the multicultural and multira-cial worlds of Los Angeles, and maybe even with an old song or two stuck in their head. Trouble in Paradise: Music and Los Angeles 1945-1975 runs through June 3 at the Grammy Museum, 800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 765-6800 or grammymuseum.org. Contact Richard Guzmán at [email protected].

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There’s a moment in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot that, if it’s clicking with an audience, that should receive

one of the biggest laughs of the performance. Vladimir, one of the two hobos who has waited endlessly for the non-arriving titular character, says, “This is becoming really in-significant.” Beckett’s “this” could refer to a seemingly aimless conversation between friends, to life, or to the play itself, though few critics would call Godot anything but one of the most in-fluential plays of the 20th century. Much of that praise comes directly from the ambiguity that Beckett infused into nearly every line of his 1953 masterpiece, which has finally, and triumphantly, reached the Mark Taper Forum stage. Downtown Los Angeles audiences are fortunate in that the produc-tion pairs, for the first time, two of the most renowned Beckett actors, Alan Mandell and Barry McGovern. Despite a reputation as nothing short of the Hamlet of absurdist theater, Godot scares away some people who are afraid they won’t “get it.” Anyone who fits that category should be aware that no one gets it, at least not with any certainty. That’s how Beckett wanted it. Instead of worrying about meaning, audi-ences should ask three questions: Does the meticulously crafted language sound natural? Does it feel as though things are happening? And most important of all, is it funny? In the Taper production, which runs

through April 22, the answer to all three is a hearty yes. Under the fluid and lighthearted direction of Michael Arabian, who sticks to a tradi-tional staging and costumes, Mandell and McGovern portray Estragon and Vladimir as lovable clowns without resorting to buf-foonery. As older actors (Mandell is 84 and McGovern is in his 60s), their hapless de-spair and fear of the coming night resonates strongly. Mandell also uses his age for laughs by coming across at times as impossibly fee-ble. This adds to the physical humor, in par-ticular when he tiptoes in too-tight shoes, and how he nibbles on a carrot like Bugs Bunny. The actors share a gentleness toward each other in the way they hold hands. They show looks of concern that emphasize their care for one another, despite their differences. That’s crucial, because it’s clear that these men who are waiting by a rock and a mostly barren tree along a path have been there for years — or even for lifetimes — and there’s no end in sight to their waiting. Their bond is most evident with the first arrival of Pozzo (James Cromwell) and his slave Lucky (Hugo Armstrong). Cromwell portrays Pozzo with barely restrained ego and cruelty, as witnessed by his sharp tone as he barks at Lucky, and in the way he appears only to listen to himself. Though Lucky is a mostly silent role, Armstrong delivers one of the most mem-orable renditions of the character’s famed monologue. He imbues wildness, as though this would be Lucky’s one and only chance

throughout eternity to say everything. The remaining role, Boy, who appears at the end of each act, is ably handled by LJ Benet. On its surface, this is classic Godot, includ-ing Christopher Acebo’s costumes, which include the recognizable shabby jackets and shirts and black bowlers worn by the leads. Arabian makes full use of the stage, a sparse design by John Iacovelli, which includes a foreboding backdrop of a dusk-covered cloudy evening. The director also connects with the audience by creating actor exits through the theater aisles, and by having the performers use glances to suggest that the viewers also can’t escape the waiting. Ultimately, what makes this Godot special

is Mandell and McGovern, who have spent decades with the material. Their intimate knowledge of Beckett is evident, from the way they play with simple phrases, such as “Nothing to be done,” to the refrain of the title. Every utterance sounds and feels dif-ferent, and each conveys different meaning. That, along with laughing at the absurdity of existence, is what makes Godot in creative hands such as these so exciting. The words and thoughts remain fresh, and the audience is challenged to think about life’s journey, but they are given plenty to smile and laugh about along the way. Waiting for Godot runs through April 22 at the Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave., (213) 628-2772 or centertheatregroup.org.

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Deals and Dancing at Bar 107107 W. Fourth St., (213) 625-7382, facebook.com/bar107 or twitter.com/bar107 Mondays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.: Every Monday night at Bar 107, indulge in cheap beer and Jameson. While a weekly DJ spins tunes, bar-tenders are slangin’ 10 beers at $2 a pop. Jame-son shots are $4, well drinks are $5. Thursday, March 29: GhettoBlaster is DJing so the dance floor will be packed. Well drinks for $5, $4 pints and $3 PBR and Busch.

Wednesday, March 28SCI-Arc Lecture Series960 E. Third St., (213) 613-2200 or sciarc.edu. 7 p.m.: From virtual imaging of real estate to dis-cussions of Zero-G space suits, Nicholas De Mon-chaux brings a breadth of knowledge unparalleled in these sectors. The talk is free, the topics are priceless.

Friday, March 30First Fridays at the Natural History Museum900 Exposition Blvd., (213) 763-3466 or nhm.org. March 30, 5:30 p.m.: This monthly gem blends the wonders of science with the mystique of music. Lectures from Dan Keeffe and Jared Diamond wash with the delicious waves of live rock from Matthew Dear and Songodsuns. BTW, this First Friday hap-pening takes place on the last Friday in March be-cause the first Friday of April is Good Friday, which is no good for a museum gathering. Get it?

saturday, March 31Folk Art WalkOlvera St., (323) 937-4230 or cafam.org. 11 a.m.-2 p.m.: The Craft and Folk Art Museum comes Downtown to host a walking tour devoted to pre-European craft and art in Los Angeles.

sunday, april 1Easter Egg HuntPershing Square, 532 S. Olive Street., (213) 847-4970 or laparks.org/pershingsquare. 12 p.m.: Colorful eggs and community spirit as Pershing Square hosts a rollicking Easter Egg hunt. The event starts at noon and there are four separate hunts for various age groups.Sunday StudioMOCA, 250 S. Grand Ave., (213) 626-6222 or moca.org. 1 p.m.: In a workshop designed and led by artist Pearl Hsiung, participants will translate recognizable images and objects and create new narratives and personal meanings. Learn about techniques inspired by some of the artists from MOCA Permanent Col-lection Masterworks 1945-1975.

ROCK, POP & JAZZBlue Whale123 Astronaut E. S. Onizuka St., (213) 620-0908 or bluewhalemusic.com. March 27: Dwight Trible Quartet. March 28: John Escreet Group. March 29: Jesse Palter Group. March 30-31: Vardan Ovsepian Chamber En-semble.Bootleg Bar2220 Beverly Blvd., (213) 389-3856 or bootlegtheater.org. March 26, 7 p.m.: Gregory Alan Isakov practically oozes pastiche through his meaty, deep folk. March 26, 8:30 p.m.: Mondays in March mean its time to take your meds and the Janks are playing. This is the last Monday in March. Sad. March 27, 8 p.m.: If you’re not on board with Harriet’s upbeat indie the instant you hear their track “I Slept With All Your Mothers,” you either don’t have a taste for indie music or have a severe oedipal complex. Probably the former. March 28, 8 p.m.: Fashionable kids who like to make accessible music and hang out with beautiful blond girls comprise Gold Fields. They’re Austra-lians importing a little slice of Orange County elec-tro rock. March 31, 8 p.m.: Embrace the ever-molted forms of punk rock in the digital age with Dunes, Abe Vigoda and Stephanie. April 1, 8 p.m.: Charlotte Martin brings that pol-ished, yet damaged pop vibe that sounds like Mandy Moore with a bad case of PTSD.Broadway Bar830 S. Broadway, (213) 614-9909 or broadwaybar.la. March 30, 10 p.m.: HM Soundsystem’s weekly

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The Blankenship Cabaret Theatre, Downtown’s resident purveyors of pomp and pirouettes, returns on Saturday, March 31, with a show that’s decidedly risqué. The exotic decadence of Paris’ Moulin Rouge dance hall is the inspira-tion for the performance. More than 20 artistes embrace a Parisian sensibility, though some acts touch on Cuban and more traditional ballet influences. Expect a broad blend of styles and sensuous moves at the 8:15 p.m. show at the

Alexandria Hotel. At 501 S. Spring St., (866) 922-5538 or blankenshipcabarettheatre.com.

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On any other day of the year, rooting through the underbrush and secluded nooks of Pershing Square looking for prizes without protective gloves is ill-advised. On Saturday, March 31, it’s not only allowed, but encouraged. The Financial District park will host an early Easter Egg Hunt (the holiday is actually April 8) with prizes, in-flatables and live entertainment. It’s strictly for the 12-and-under set, and there will be four separate hunts for various age groups. No birth certificates required, but registration begins at noon so as to avoid overcrowding and any overzealous egg-hunting adults. At 532 S. Olive St., (213) 847-4970 or laparks.org/pershingsquare.

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From the Last Bookstore comes Downtown’s most bookish excuse to host a massive three-level party: It’s the end of the first quarter of 2012. OK, it’s a weak excuse, but who cares? On Thursday, March 29, from 7-11 p.m., Spring Street’s crown jewel of literacy is ground zero for frustrated accountants and fans of underground music alike. An eclectic lineup including Geoff “Double G” Gallegos (shown here) and the daKAH Hip-Hop Orchestra, Killsonic and HM Soundsystem provides the soundtrack for a celebration that spans the gallery space above the Last Bookstore as well as the Crocker Club below. Minimum reading ability isn’t mandatory — this event’s free for all! At 453 S. Spring St., (213) 488-0599 or lastbookstorela.com.

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Long before the dusty pueblo was known as Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles del Rio de Porciuncula, the humble area was the exclusive claim of the Gabrieleno Indians. Pre-Colombian art and the folkways of the region’s native people are the subject of a tour of the Downtown spot settled by Spanish pobladores in 1781. Join folk artist Votan Henriquez in a program hosted by the

Craft and Folk Art Museum on Saturday, March 31, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. The tour meets on the south side of the bandstand by Olvera Street

and is free of charge. RSVPs are encouraged via the museum’s website. At Olvera Street, cafam.org.

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If you subscribe to the notion that a man’s true wealth can only be measured by counting his friends, then Donovan is one of the rich-est men in the world. The Mod-styled Scot drops by the Grammy Museum on Thursday, March 29, for an informal evening of musi-cal nostalgia. Known for his gentle folk and impressive finger pick-ing technique, Donovan was an instrumental nucleus of the British Invasion, counting John Lennon, Paul McCartney and even the dark minded Jimmy Page among his friends. Donovan will sit for an interview, a Q&A session and a brief performance as he gears up to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next month. Note, the show is sold out, but there are often a few standby seats on performance nights. At 800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 765-6800 or grammymuseum.org.


celebration of electronica, Broader Than Broadway, has spiraled way out of control and no longer re-flects the creative intent of Barrington Levy.Cana714 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 745-7090 or canarumbar.com. March 27, 10:30 p.m.: You already know — the flavor of South America with the lingering aftertaste of rum. It’s Salt Petal.Casey’s Irish Pub613 S. Grand Ave., (213) 629-2353 or bigcaseys.com. March 30, 10 p.m.: C-Horse comes directly from the L.A. underground to bump their straight-up indie jams. March 31, 10 p.m.: The Mo-Odds deliver some of that rock and roll.Club Nokia800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 765-7000 or clubnokia.com. March 27: Monster Energy Outbreak Tour Pres-ents XXL Freshmen Live featuring Big Sean. March 29: The Vans Warped Tour kick-off party will be a punk-tastic evening for you and yours. March 30: The Dan Band needs you now tonight, they blankin’ need you more than ever. See the dudes who appeared in so many movies. March 31: The club will be turned up to 11 with Mindless Self Indulgence. April 1: You’ll love the penultimate musical expe-rience of hearing rapper TYGA’s hit single “Coconut Juice” live and in person.Grammy Museum800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 765-6800 or grammymuseum.org. March 26, 8 p.m.: It doesn’t take a psychic to predict that the Grammy Museum will host Dionne Warwick alongside Burt Bacharach and Clive Davis. March 27, 8 p.m.: Songwriter Carole Bayer Sager will be on hand to discuss her career and writing process. Tickets are still available, so take a night off from the Smell and get some culture. March 29, 8 p.m.: Donovan, the sunny Scot and songwriter extraordinaire. Nokia Theater777 Chick Hearn Court, (213) 763-6020 or nokiatheatrelalive.com. March 31, 8 p.m.: Terrified of puppets? Live a humorless life? You’ll love Jeff Dunham!Nola’s734 E. Third St., (213) 680-3003 or nolasla.com. March 26, 8 p.m.: Jacques Lesure Jam Session. March 27, 7 p.m.: Sharon Ridley. March 28, 7 p.m.: Jazz guitarist Curtis Parry. March 29, 7:30 p.m.: Sam Graham Trio. March 29, 10 p.m.: Lifeswell. March 31, 7 p.m.: Yeno Quintet.Redwood Bar and Grill316 W. Second St., (213) 652-4444 or theredwoodbar.com. March 26: Ari Shine. March 27: Piss Broke Rebels, Sassafras and Hell-bat. March 28: Tough Choices. March 29: The Singles, Wild Betty and Leggy Peggy. March 30: Dirty Ed’s Birthday with the brilliant bassist Mike Watt, along with RF 7, Carnage Asada (Downtown News best band name emeritus), the X Chemical and Barrio Tiger. March 31: Black Bunny Disco.Seven Grand515 W. Seventh St., (213) 614-0737 or sevengrand.la. March 26: Louis Van Taylor Quintet, here to re-mind you that jazz is a delicious remedy to any case

of the Mondays. March 27: The Makers are this close to coalescing their brand of improvisational jazz into an aural vac-cination for Morgellons. March 28: Pack a picnic lunch for a jazzy little trip down to the public beach along the river Styx when Dante’s Inferno comes to town.The Smell247 S. Main St., alley between Spring and Main streets, thesmell.org. March 26: Performance by Yuri Landman & Or-chestra with Gagakirise and VVDBLK. March 29: Cult With No Name, Precious Medals and Kim Free. March 30: Manhattan Murder Mystery, RAD, Gibbons and the Sluts and Seasons.Staples Center1111 S. Figueroa St., (213) 742-7340 or staplescenter.com. March 27, 8 p.m.: Drunk and lonely country fans don’t just belong in the Inland Empire or East San Diego County anymore. Welcome Downtown, where your champions, Lady Antebellum are here to fill the void.The Varnish118 E. Sixth St., (213) 622-9999 or thevarnishbar.com. March 27, 9 p.m.: Jamie Elman tickles the keys. March 28, 8:30 p.m.: Somewhere deep in a Downtown back room Mark Bosserman will play you a song.Walt Disney Concert Hall

111 S. Grand Ave., (323) 850-2000 or laphil.com. March 27, 8 p.m.: Experience the music of Keith Jarrett in the pristine acoustics of Disney Hall as he celebrates the release of Rio, the latest in Jarrett’s deep portfolio of improvisational based piano musings.

FILMCalifornia African American Museum600 S. Drive, Exposition Park, (213) 744-7432 or caamuseum.org. March 31, 2 p.m.: A screening of three documen-taries by Ulysses Jenkins on the Los Angeles black art scene: Momentous Occasions: Charles White; King David; and Remnants of the Watts Festival: Parts I & II.Downtown Independent251 S. Main St., (213) 617-1033 or downtownindependent.com. March 29, 11 a.m.; April 1, 3 p.m.: National The-atre Live presents a simulcast of She Stoops to Con-quer, a play by Oliver Goldsmith. March 30, 7 p.m., April 1, 1 p.m., April 2-3, 7 p.m. and April 4-5 9 p.m.: Jiro Dreams of Sushi is the story of 85-year-old Jiro Ono, considered by many to be the world’s greatest sushi chef. IMAX TheaterCalifornia Science Center, 700 State Drive, (213) 744-2019 or californiasciencecenter.org. Soar over primordial earth in Flying Monsters 3D. Some 220 million years ago dinosaurs were

beginning their domination of Earth. But another group of reptiles was about to make an extraor-dinary leap: pterosaurs were taking control of the skies. The story of how and why these mysterious creatures took to the air is more fantastical than any fiction.

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ROSA TORRES AND IDALIA VARGAS

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DEMANDADO): VICTOR DOMENECH, AN INDIVIDUAL;

AND DOES 1 THROUGH 30 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT

(AVISO AL DEMANDADO): VICTOR DOMENECH, and DOES 1 through 30YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFFS (LO ESTA DE-MANDANDO EL DEMANDAN-TE): Norma Calderon, Jennifer Castellanos, Manuel Medina, Emilio Resendiz, Miriam Ticas, Rosa Torres and Idalia VargasNOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard un-less you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your writ-

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WAGE JUSTICE CENTER, 3435 Wilshire Blvd. Ste 470, Los Angeles, CA. 90010, Tel. (213) 273-8400. Date of Complaint (Fecha de la Demanda): May 25, 2011Date of Amended Complaint (Fecha de la Demanda Emen-dada): July 13, 2011JOHN A. CLARK Clerk (secre-tario)by VICTOR SINO-CRUZ, Depu-ty (Adjunto)NOTICE TO THE PERSON BEING SERVED (AVISO A LA PERSONA SERVIDA):You are served as an individual defen-dant (Usted está siendo servido como demandado individual).Pub. 3/19/12, 3/26/12, 4/2/12, 4/9/12

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FILE NO. 2012039957 The fol-lowing persons doing business as: JDRIVE, 600 Moulton Av-enue, Unit #102A, Los Angeles CA, 90031 is hereby registered by the following registrants: ARECARE INC., 1590 Oak-land Road, #B104, San Jose

CA 95131. This business is conducted by a corporation. Registrant(s) has not begun to transact business under the fic-titious business name or names listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on March 9, 2012.NOTICE—This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name state-ment must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Sec-tion 14411 et. seq. Business and Professions Code)Pub. 3/19, 3/26, 4/02, 4/09/12

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