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• Q&A With Tim Leiweke

  The AEG CEO answers questions about the Ticketmaster / Live Nation merger and about how L.A. Live is hitting the company's projections.

  LA Times – Feb 04
• New Downtown Gallery: Control Room

  Kevin Ott reviews gallery Control Room, in the Arts District.

  la.metblogs.com – Feb 04
• Recording Mr. Ayers

  Steve Lopez helped set Nathaniel Ayers up with a recording session recently that featured Flea as accompaniment.

  LA Times – Feb 02
• Debating Safer Cities

  URM's Andy Bales leaves a lengthy comment responding to a letter asking that Safer Cities policing work on Skid Row be focused elsewhere.

  blogs.laweekly.com – Feb 02
• Budget & Finance Votes Against Layoffs

  Ten hours into their Monday meeting, Budget & Finance voted against authorizing 1,000 layoffs to help balance its budget. The full Council must still vote this week.

  LAist – Feb 01
• Eddie Vedder at the Rowan?

  Is Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder living at the Rowan? A Curbed reader in the building says yes, using the intercom listings as evidence.

  Curbed LA – Jan 29
• Job Cuts Would Hit Cultural Affairs Hard

  A City plan to cut 1,000 jobs would affect all departments, but would hit El Pueblo, Cultural Affairs and libraries particularly hard.

  LA Times – Jan 28
• Little Tokyo's Lazy Ox Canteen

  Jonathan Gold says the menu at the Lazy Ox Canteen is "controlled chaos," but that chef Josef Centeno's cooking "is the sort of thing you want to dive into."

  www.laweekly.com – Jan 28
• Gushing over downtown

  Artist Luther Thie wants to build a 100-foot high fountain inside the connection between the 110 and 10 freeways. He's talked to property owners on Wright Street, Downtown's No-Man's Land.

  LA Times – Jan 28
• Gorbals Review

  Two stars from S. Irene Virbila, who says the restaurant is "weird and fun and a little rough around the edges, but definitely from the heart."

  LA Times – Jan 26