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Downtown Culture: All-Star Events, "Rise," Vanessa Paradis, Experimental Dance and More


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Published Feb. 17, 2011 at 10:48 p.m.

"Fata Morgana" by choreographer Tiffany Stacey will be one of six experimental works featured at REDCAT's Winter "Studio" on Feb. 19 and 20 ... Photo by Jennifer Esteban ... Just as the Grammy Awards started packing up, L.A. Live began preparing for the NBA's All-Star Weekend. As we've noted, there are plenty of parties to choose from, but Downtown will also see a full slate of at local venues like the Redwood and The Smell ... THURSDAY FEBRUARY 17 ... PUBLIC ART: The bronze likeness of NBA

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Art Walk Preview for February 2011


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Published Feb. 10, 2011 at 7:38 a.m.
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Neon ART during Downtown Art Walk. The Museum of Neon Art gallery will be closed for this month's Art Walk. They will reopen February 17 with MONA@30, a look at 30 years of celebrating neon art ... Photo by Ed Fuentes ... The February edition of the Downtown Art Walk is Thursday, and this month galleries sent out a flurry of last-minute notices for their shows ... While this preview is always about the art, don't be afraid to indulge in a little of the event's craft scene in these last few days

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Civic Center Plans Through the Years


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Published Feb. 10, 2011 at 1:02 a.m.

Landscape architect Charles Mulford Robinson was first to propose clustering city and county buildings together in 1907 Photo by Los Angeles Times ... "The Southland is getting a new jewel to adorn a cluster of beauty that is already world-reknowned," wrote the L.A. Times on February 3, 1957 ... "What the Acropolis was to Ancient Greece during her Golden Age, the new Civic Center now being hewn from the shabby slopes of Bunker Hill will be too Los Angeles." ... Those are some pretty strong

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Asian voters offer hope for battered California Republicans


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Published Nov. 21, 2010 at 9:15 p.m.

One of the few glimmers of hope for the GOP in a poll published last week by the Los Angeles Times and the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences was the openness among Asian voters to consider Republican candidates ...

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Get Out: The Birth Of Coffee, Xander Does Sedaris, Ceramic Arts


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Published Nov. 21, 2010 at 5:30 p.m.
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Xander does Sedari s: He's played a demon, why not an elf? Nicholas Brendon serves up David Sedaris in a revival based on his book, The Santaland Diaries. At Stella Adler Theatre, $30 ... Berman Ceramic Arts Holiday Sale & Exhibit : Unique, one of a kind, decorative and functional works by 18 local potters and sculptors will be on sale today at Berman Ceramic Arts annual holiday event. BCA is Los Angeles’ longest-running ceramics studio, operating 'in the heart of NoHo' since 1972 for

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TV Junkie: MSNBC Suspends Scarborough - Too Little Too Late; 'Top Gear' USA Premieres on Sunday


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Published Nov. 19, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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--- ... Video Clips: Attention Whovians! Check out the promo vid for "Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol" at the end of this post, the special premieres Saturday, December 25, 9:00 pm ET ... --- We're also very much looking forward to the premiere of "The Onion News Network" on IFC starting on January 21, 2010. See the video at the end of this post. --- Sunday's "Futurama" Holiday Special will feature a Kwanzaa Bot voiced by Coolio ... Check it out at the end of this post ... ---- ... The TV

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Rockettes Help Kick Off Pershing Square's 13th Annual Downtown On Ice


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Published Nov. 18, 2010 at 9:59 p.m.
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"I love my job," Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said before Radio City Hall's Rockette's taught him some kicks ... Photo by David Markland ... Radio City Hall's Rockettes were among the celebrities joining Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other city officials at today's opening festivities for the 13th season of Pershing Square's "Downtown On Ice" outdoor skating rink ... "I've put on my 30 SPF and my sunglasses. It must be Pershing Square time," said Jon Kirk Mukri, General Manager, Department of

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Villaraigosa wants to rescind L.A. arts grant cuts that stirred protests


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Published May 2, 2010 at 7:38 p.m.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has backed away from his controversial plan to cut the city’s arts grants by $415,000 and give the money to four other cultural organizations he picked himself. “We were overzealous,” Ben Ceja, deputy mayor for ...

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Ventura County Sting Finds Link to Mail Theft in Downtown L.A.


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Published April 30, 2010 at 9:19 p.m.
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Photo by Eric Richardson ... Mail stolen from the Arts District may help add mail theft charges to the results of a Ventura County operation that last week led to 94 arrests and the recovery of stolen vehicles, drugs and counterfeit money ... Mail theft had been a topic of particular interest in the neighborhood, where some residents and businesses had discovered that checks they had sent out hadn't be reaching their destinations ... A community meeting was held on the topic last month, and one

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Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Opens Today, Comes Downtown Next Week


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Published April 29, 2010 at 7:36 p.m.
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SYoun Yuh-Jung, Lee Mi-Sook, Choi Ji-Woo, Ko Hyun-Jung, Kim Min-Hee, Kim Ok-Vin of "The Actresses." The South Korean film closes the 2010 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival on Saturday, May 8 ... Photo by ... The 2010 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival opens this evening in Hollywood, the start of a weekend highlighted by programming that celebrates Bruce Lee's 70th birthday ... On Monday, the festival action moves Downtown, with an extensive slate of screenings split between the

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