Arts & Culture

DotDotDash: Seeing Daylight

By Ed Fuentes — March 13, 2008

The March Downtown Art Walk will see some openings, more comics, a show in and on the Rowan Lofts, and a sunset at 7:25 pm. Brady Westwater has a complete listing for the Downtown Comedy Walk here. Other highlights are after the jump.


Raising Awareness for V-Day

By Ed Fuentes — March 13, 2008

Saturday, March 15th, brings two performances of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues to Little Tokyo’s Aratani Japan America Theatre. The Pan Asian cast includes Tamlyn Tomita, Takayo Fischer, KTLA Anchor Cher Calvin, and KTLA reporter Janet Choi in the L.A. version of the national V-Day event. Proceeds go to the Center for the Pacific Asian Family, a Southern...


Emmys' Nokia Move Made Official

By Eric Richardson — March 10, 2008
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Video Games Live at the Nokia Theatre

Variety is reporting that the Academy of TV Arts & Sciences has officially signed on to move its Emmy Awards to the Nokia Theatre. Award shows were a big target for AEG in the theatre's design, and the show's move was widely expected. The awards had previously been handed out down Figueroa in the Shrine Auditorium. Downtown gets a very positive pitch....


Musical Weekend: Grizzly Bear @ Disney Hall and Soul Exploration at Crash Mansion

By Ed Fuentes — February 27, 2008
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Grizzly Bear Pub PIX

It's a weekend for music in Downtown, with a pair of shows bookending the northern and southern ends of the neighborhood. Up at Disney Concert Hall, foursome indie group Grizzly Bear leads the wave lo-fi acoustical layers of almost meditative electric sounds. It partly samples 60s moods with a cool nerd musical awareness. Call it float folk. Ten blocks south...


Victorian Homes Highlight Two Downtown Exhibitions

By Ed Fuentes — February 23, 2008

The Victorian homes of Downtown are often portrayed as a tragic story of form and function lost to a city blinded by the future. The story of residential urban living at the top of Angel’s Flight is more complex. Much of Bunker Hill was a slum, with buildings nearing their death knell in the 50s and 60s when the hilltop was razed. It's the first part of that...


Wii Tournament Brings New Game to a Historic Theatre

By Eric Richardson — February 21, 2008
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Orpheum Sign Smash Bros. Brawl

On Saturday Nintendo brought Super Smash Bros. Brawl to the Orpheum for a 256-fan tournament. blogdowntown Staff Photographer Dave Bullock dropped by to check out the sights. After the jump, more shots of the action.


Downtown Art and Music Brought Out from the Underground

By Ed Fuentes — February 18, 2008
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Panel

Inside Red Dot’s café, “The Parties, The Punks, The Past, The Present" had a civilized panel of artists and former club owners talking about Downtown’s punk past without the sentimentality of reminiscing. Both speakers and audience shared the comfortable air of lounging in a familiar restaurant, talking about the events of the night before. The event, sponsored...


Tomorrow: Play Wii at the Orpheum

By Eric Richardson — February 15, 2008
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Orpheum Sign

Saturday afternoon Nintendo is throwing a competition at the Orpheum for the soon to be released Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It's a double win for Downtowners -- the chance to hang out inside one of our great historic theaters and the chance to play someone else's video games. The first 256 players will compete in L.A's regional tournament, with the regional...


DotDotDash: I [Heart] Art Edition

By Ed Fuentes — February 14, 2008
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Today's Downtown Art Walk falls on Valentines Day and galleries are taking that theme to heart. With more exhibits beyond Gallery Row, an Art Walk DASH may not be enough. Art walk cab service anyone? Off The Path, But Worth Noting: This morning Councilmember Jan Perry will unveil "Purple Heart," a large-scale mosaic mural crafted by residents of Skid Row working...


Documenting Past Witnesses Who Loved L.A.

By Ed Fuentes — February 14, 2008
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the curator

Mariann Gatto is one of two curators for the El Pueblo Historical Monument. Her office on the third floor of the Biscailuz Building is crammed with personal and professional photos, including a number of her son, an image of the David Alfaro Siqueiros' "Tropical America", and photocopies of photographs dating back to early days of Los Angeles. In the last three...