It's a Theatre, not a Theater

By Eric Richardson
Published: Wednesday, October 24, 2007, at 06:14PM

Eric Richardson

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — Walking down 9th between Figueroa and Flower just now I passed a guy putting out this new parking sign that advertises its convenience to the “Nokia Theater Center.” It seems the Nokia Theatre’s advertising message played a little telephone trickling down to the parking signage level.

One would have to assume the “Center” part follows from the Staples Center and Convention Center and not from the Los Angeles Theatre Center, also reopening this week.

Comments

Rico A writes:

Also on 9th Street is a parking sign for the "Orphem Theater."

Wrong on both counts.

# on Oct.24.2007 AT 06:45 PM

BusTard writes:

Please pardon my not being a “cheerleader yet again” (get back to me in eight years when the Grand Avenue project does to downtown what has already happened to LES in New York), but why is there such tiff about a place that debuts the big brother of Staples with the Eagles? My ex-girlfriend, who happens to be closely associated with Beck by way of having a child with his brother), landed a baby-sitting gig for the Staples Center's 1999 "Hell Freezes Over"gig owing to my knowing the personal manager of the Stones, Bowie and Joe Walsh (said manager's husband was one of my feature writers: this is yet one more clue for the klutzes what talk crap about the arts, finances and SEMANTICS.) (I know I keep weighing in with what I do and how much I do it and have been doing so, but the sloth that seems to define L.A. is fuel for me.) And now we have you blogdowntown (no offence, Eric; it is your colleagues who need a good padding) allowing someone to make an insignificant difference where the real difference is not discussed owing to the real estate cheerleaders. get back to me in eight years, boys, after Eli, Tom and Ed, et al, have long since ousted you lot.

# on Oct.25.2007 AT 12:09 AM

Fred Camino writes:

Way way WAY too many parenthesis BusTard.

# on Oct.25.2007 AT 01:06 AM

BusTard writes:

Not so. I neglected to add one, so there are too few. Even if there were too many, however, surely you could have bent one into a comma, Fred.

# on Oct.25.2007 AT 06:38 AM

Browne writes:

Come now, any place that houses Larry the Cable Guy for a night is probably really a theater and not a theatre anyway.

Look at the bookings for that place. It's quality trash.

Browne

# on Nov.07.2007 AT 08:59 PM