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Today: Audition for Cornerstone's Play on Traction

By Ed Fuentes — July 14, 2008 — 8 Comments

Cornerstone Theater Company is holding a second day of auditions Monday, July 14th, looking for locals to take part in @traction, its upcoming play about, and performed...


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Around the July Art Walk: The Business of Art

By Ed Fuentes — July 12, 2008 — 8 Comments

The July Downtown Art Walk saw continued growth, with more people on the streets of the Historic Core. While there's no official count, the crowds were estimated...


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Art Walk Preview for July, 2008

By Ed Fuentes — July 09, 2008 — 2 Comments

The Downtown Art Walk is upon us once again. It's July, and the walk will be a summer affair that brings the event its longest day of the year, by one minute. Sunset...


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Free Shows Mark the Summer of 2008

By Ed Fuentes — July 08, 2008 — 2 Comments

Chuck Grub, 80, and his girlfriend of fifteen years, Trinidad Ventura (who proudly states she is 100) are regulars at Pershing Square's Summer Lunchtime series....


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Chinatown's Central Plaza Swings Into the Night

By Ed Fuentes — June 30, 2008 — 5 Comments

With a big band playing hits from the 40s, scheduled after the traditional Dragon, The 70th Anniversary Celebration of "New Chinatown" had the substance of history...


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In Chinatown, What's Old is New Again

By Ed Fuentes — June 24, 2008 — 1 Comment

It's an original mixed-use development, with ground floor retail, upstairs offices for business and levels of high density residential space. It was built around...


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Everyone Becomes a Local on MONA's Neon Cruise

By Ed Fuentes — June 16, 2008 — 2 Comments

For those who want to call themselves an Angeleno, it should be mandatory that they take the Museum of Neon Art's Neon Cruise.

It's an appreciation tour of the...


Teeth

By Ed Fuentes and Eric Richardson — June 16, 2008 — 2 Comments

The Downtown Art Walk is receiving a Planning Award from the Los Angeles Section of the American Planning Association. The award, to be conferred tomorrow at a...


the poet

By Ed Fuentes — June 13, 2008 — 3 Comments

There was excitement in the air at the June Downtown Art Walk. New sponsors, new gallery spaces, a new bus, and many in the crowd were from beyond the 110. But there...


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More Eyes on "Words"

By Ed Fuentes — June 12, 2008

After rehearsals and a weekend of previews, A Thousand Words opens on Friday, June 13th.

The Los Angeles Times also took a look at the series of plays that, according...


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Art Walk Preview for June, 2008

By Ed Fuentes — June 10, 2008 — 1 Comment

On Thursday, June 12th, the Downtown Art Walk brings new faces in old spaces, a new shuttle to get you around, and new ideas that expands Gallery Row. It all comes...



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