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Marijuana Raid Accomplice Receives 14 Years in Prison

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Walnut man was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison last week for his part in orchestrating a $2 million armed robbery of a commercial marijuana warehouse in Downtown Los Angeles in 2018. Christopher Myung Kim, 30, was found guilty of five felonies including conspiracy to distribute marijuana, possession with intent to distribute marijuana and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and was sentenced

by U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips to 168 months in prisons and a $500,000 fine.

According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office Central District of California, Kim had worked for the Downtown warehouse for years, but left the job weeks before the robbery due to issues with his employer.

He then conspired with Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputy Marc Antrim to conduct the raid. Kim supplied information on the warehouse and at approximately 3 a.m. on Oct. 29, 2018, Antrim and six other co-conspirators raided the location, making off with more than half a ton of marijuana, $600,000 in cash and money orders and other valuables. Antrim was later arrested and pled guilty to the crimes in March

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2019. Antrim will be sentenced on April 13.

Five additional defendants have pled guilty since the crime and more sentencing is expected in the coming months.

$2.7 Million Gift for the Music Center

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he Music Center last week announced the reception of a $2.73 million gift from a group of private foundations and individual donors that will go toward the ongoing support of the Music Center Plaza. The W.M. Keck Foundation and the S. Mark Taper Foundation’s gift will support the Plaza renovation, while a gift from Dr. Susan E. Kendall will benefit the TMC Art Fund, which supports free and low-cost programs at the plaza and the bulk of TMC campuses. In addition, Terri and Jerry Kohl, founders of Brighton Collectibles, added $889,000 in matching dollars to the art fund. “We are grateful to all our donors and the community for their embrace of the Music Center vision to deepen the cultural lives of all people in Los Angeles,” Music Center CEO and President Rachel Moore said in a prepared statement.

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istrict 14 Councilman Jose Huizar introduced a motion last week to study the possibility of removing cars from Broadway

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and creating a car-free pedestrian corridor through the heart of Downtown. The motion, filed on Wednesday, Feb. 12, instructs the Economic and Workforce Development Department, with assistance from the Bureau of Engineering, Department of Transportation and Department of City Planning, to report on the feasibility of barring cars between First and 12th streets. The motion draws on the councilman’s Bringing Back Broadway initiative, which seeks to revive Broadways commerce and pedestrian amenities. “Creating pedestrian-friendly zones where people are out of the car and walking along the street will enhance businesses and contribute to the further revitalization of the area,” Huizar said in a prepared statement. “Pedestrian-friendly zones are a sure way of creating safer streets, a sense of community, and a connection between residents and local merchants.” The motion is expected to be voted on within the next 30 days.

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an Francisco-based developer Carmel Partners has broken ground on its first Arts District project. The planned 35-story project designed by Works Progress Architecture will rise at 520 S. Mateo St., near the Fourth Street Bridge. The main tower will include 475 live/work apartments, including 50 affordable units. Plans also call for an adjacent six-story building that will house 105,000 square feet of dedicated of-

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fice space. Together, the complex will feature 20,000 square feet of commercial space and 650 parking stalls. Renderings for the project show a gleaming glass and steel structure rising next to the bridge. The budget and timeline for construction were not disclosed.

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early 66,000 people with marijuana convictions had the charges expunged from their criminal records, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced last week. Lacey filed a motion last week seeking to expunge 62,000 felony convictions dating back to 1961 and 4,000 misdemeanor convictions. The move comes via a partnership with the tech nonprofit Code for America.

California legalized the possession and purchase of marijuana products in 2016, allowing for possession of up to an ounce of marijuana and allowed for people to grow up to six plants for their own use. “The dismissal of tens of thousands of old cannabis-related convictions in Los Angeles County will bring much-needed relief to communities of color that disproportionately suffered the unjust consequences of our nation’s drug laws,” Lacey said in a prepared statement. The move is seen as a way to address decades of drug enforcement that disproportionately impacted minority communities. Similar efforts have taken root in San Francisco, Sacramento and San Joaquin counties.

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Without a Car, but with Plenty of Ways to Travel on Broadway

By Steve Needleman ast month, San Francisco took a bold step forward and officially launched a car-free Market Street. What made it possible is popular transit options such as the Market Street Streetcar, along with a network of buses and bike lanes.

Many have lauded the idea of car-free streets in Los Angeles and have called for the city to follow San Francisco’s lead, even offering ideas for how our streets could benefit from being car-free. Let’s follow Market Street’s success by selecting a Los Angeles street already planned for reviving our historic streetcars – Broadway.

My family are long-time Broadway property owners who have invested in some of the most iconic Broadway buildings, including the renowned Orpheum Theatre, since the early ‘70s. However, I have not historically been a fan of a car-free Broadway, as cars have played a key role in delivering visitors to Broadway for as long as I can remember.

Steve Needleman This opinion may come as a surprise, as GUEST OPINION I have served as Chair of the Los Angeles Streetcar Inc. for more than a decade, and I am a vocal advocate for bringing back the streetcar for Downtown Los Angeles. My support of the streetcar is not because I don’t support cars traveling on Broadway or the other streets that the streetcar has been approved to operate on – Hill, Seventh, 11th, Figueroa and a block of First Street. In fact, I own a parking lot on Broadway, so removing cars would have a direct impact on my business.

But, through a sincere desire to truly “Bring Back Broadway” – not just with new transportation, but with new experiences, economic development, access for all, and continued revitalization – I have come to appreciate that a car-free Broadway may be just what Downtown L.A. needs and there could not be a more perfect place or a more perfect time for L.A. to consider this bold step.

Broadway has all the right ingredients to be car-free – beginning with a fully entitled streetcar, supported by recent investments in traffic calming measures like bollards, sidewalk widening and bike lanes.

All these elements make space for more people-serving features like amazing new retail and restaurant options, historic theaters and iconic buildings where creative reuse of our historic architectural gems have spurred new hotels, exciting retail spaces, apartments and offices.

When all these elements unite, they make Broadway a perfect beginning of Los Angeles’ car-free future. I like to think that a big part of this vibrant renewal of Broadway has been because visionary investors have seen the value that a fixed transportation investment like the

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h gosh. Bins ( nice word for trash cans ) for people experiencing homelessness? And the mayor was there to say this is a good thing? Why not just open vacant luxury apartment units for those who need housing? Why not just get to work building affordable housing instead of shuffling feet or ordering another study or holding another press conference? The one thing that makes life easier for someone who is homeless is a home.

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streetcar can do to combine our historic legacy and our high-tech future. Great cities across the globe continue to encourage the growth and development of dynamic and exciting places enhanced by streets that cater to people and transit, rather than cars.

What would it take to make this vision of Broadway a reality? In San Francisco we learned that once the political leaders aligned with business leaders, it was a relatively swift transition. Mayor Eric Garcetti and our City Council member have already laid the groundwork for this type of bold initiative, through commitments to clean electric-powered transit, micro-mobility enhancements, and

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Hey You! Speak Up! Downtown News wants to hear from people in the community. If you like, or dislike, a story or editorial, let us know. Or weigh in on something you feel is important to the community.

Participation is easy. Post a comment online at the bottom of any story, or go to downtownnews.com, scroll to the bottom of the page, and click the “Letter to the Editor” link. For guest opinion proposals, email sthomas@timespublications.com. as mentioned above, the support of the electric-powered streetcar, which is approved and ready to serve as a backbone for a car-free Broadway. Broadway is already on a “road diet,” limiting car travel and prioritizing bus, pedestrian and bicycle travel. Now it’s time to think big and make bold moves. I am ready to see us take this next “step” to make Broadway car-free and an important connection to other key sites throughout downtown like Staples Center, the Fashion District, Jewelry District, South Park and the Financial District.

Steve Needleman is the owner of ANJAC Fashion Buildings, LLC and The Orpheum Theatre.

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Cedillo Proposes Acquiring Chinatown Residential Building The Motion Calls for Using Eminent Domain to Buy Hillside Villa, Following Months of Disputes

By Nicholas Slayton n the latest move in a dispute between tenants and the landlord of a Chinatown affordable housing building, First District City Councilman Gil Cedillo is now proposing using eminent domain so that the City of Los Angeles can acquire the embattled property.

In a Jan. 31 motion, Cedillo proposed that the Board of Public Works use eminent domain to buy Hillside Villa from its owner Thomas Botz. The motion, which was referred to the housing committee, calls on the Bureau of Engineering and the Housing and Community Investment Department to report back in 30 days on how viable it is to use eminent domain, if the proposal is approved.

It also calls for exploring using eminent domain for other buildings with expiring affordability covenants.

In a prepared statement, Cedillo said that although affordable housing is being constructed, the housing crisis in Los Angeles means that new units are not opening up fast enough and that other options need to be explored.

“With thousands of affordable housing covenants expiring, I am taking this unprece-

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dented action to maintain affordable rents at the Hillside Villa Apartments and may do the same at other buildings in my district,” the statement continued.

Eminent domain is a tool governments can use to acquire private land to be repurposed for public use, with compensation to the owners. It has a mixed history in L.A.; in the 1950s the city used it to acquire the land in Chavez Ravine that became Dodger Stadium. Parker Center, the former headquarters for the Los Angeles Police Department, was also constructed via eminent domain, shrinking much of Little Tokyo.

Hillside Villa, located at 636 N. Hill Pl., was built in 1988 in part with funds from the now-defunct Community Redevelopment Agency, which loaned $5.5 million in exchange for a 30-year affordable housing covenant. That covenant expired in August 2018.

The proposal follows months of disputes between tenants and their allies against Hillside Villa’s landlord. Of the 124 units in the property, 59 low-income spaces faced rent increases that would bring the apartments to market rates. Most other units are occupied by people using Section 8 vouchers.

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A 30-year affordable housing covenant at Chinatown’s Hillside Villa expired in 2018. Since then, tenants and the landlord have been in conflict over rising rents.

Cedillo became involved last summer, following community lobbying, and worked to negotiate a deal between the sides. Although the councilman claimed that a tentative deal had been reached, in which, in part, the loan would be forgiven in exchange for no rent hikes for 10 years, Botz denied Cedillo’s assertion and the situation deadlocked.

Cedillo’s suggestion of using eminent domain is the first major development in the conflict since the deadlock.

In a phone call with Los Angeles Downtown News, Botz said he is against the move and will fight it, and said the city is trying to change the deal it made 32 years ago.

“We don’t think the city has any legal right

for this,” Botz said. “They’re not building a freeway, they’re not building Dodger Stadium. I don’t think they have the money for this.”

He added that if the city did, that money would be better spent on new shelters.

The Hillside Villa Tenants Association and its allies have been pushing for the use of eminent domain, according to Annie Shaw, a member of the Chinatown Community for an Equitable Development, one of the community activist groups backing tenants. She said that tenants and colleagues began seriously looking at eminent domain after the deal collapsed.

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HILLSIDE VILLA, 5 “The reason for that is that there have been examples throughout the country that have used eminent domain in different ways, such as in New York City, Seattle and Palo Alto,” Shaw said.

Per Cedillo’s motion, no specific price was given for the acquisition of Hillside Villa. In his statement, Cedillo said that a “fair price” will be offered, and that affordable rents would be maintained for current tenants.

The use of eminent domain is uncommon, according to Gary Painter, a professor at USC’s Price School of Public Policy and an expert in housing markets and community development. He said that that some other cities have tried similar programs, but it is not a widespread practice in municipalities.

“The big question in these kind of deals is: does the city have the budget to participate in these deals, or is this a one-off?” Painter asked. “Is this something the city anticipates allocating much more funds to in the future?”

The fight over Hillside Villa is one of several affordable housing-related conflicts happening across the city.

Many, including the case of the Santa Fe Art Colony in the southeast corner of Downtown, are also tied to expiring or expired affordable housing covenants. Painter said that it’s part of the wider issue of affordability in Los Angeles, but added that as more covenants expire more efforts to extend the affordability they provided will spring up.

Currently Cedillo’s motion has been referred to the City Council’s housing committee, but as of press time, a hearing has not been scheduled. That is expected likely in late March, per a spokesperson for the councilman. nslayton@timespublications.com.

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Metro Secures $1.3 Billion for Purple Line Expansion The Federal Grant Will Help Complete a Funding Gap for the Final Leg of the Project

By Sean P. Thomas he last segment of funding to complete a long-gestating Los Angeles County rail line project that would ferry riders between Downtown Los Angeles and West Los Angeles has been secured, according to state officials.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is expected to accept a $1.3 billion grant from the federal government for improvements to the Purple Line — also known as the D Line — after a 30-day congressional review period. The grant was announced by Calif. Sen. Dianne Feinstein in a press release on Tuesday, Feb. 11.

The $1.3 billion loan will go toward completing Section 3 of the project, which will add 2.56 miles of rail lines and add two new stations: the Westwood/UCLA station and a station at the Westwood Veterans Affairs Hospital. The grant comes from the Federal Transit Administration’s Capital Investment Grant program and does not require any form of payments from Metro. The total cost of the final leg of the project is $3.6 billion and the remaining funds will be generated through Measure R and Measure M, two sales tax measures approved by Los Angeles County voters in 2006 and 2018 respectively to fund transportation projects.

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The construction costs for section 1 and 2 were paid primarily through revenue from Measure R and Measure M as well as two federal grants.

Metro CEO Phillip A. Washington said in a press release that the Purple Line “will revolutionize the ability to connect the Westside with the rest of Los Angeles County’s growing rail and bus networks.”

The new nine-mile line is scheduled to open in three parts, the first, being the Koreatown through Mid-Wilshire segment which is expected to open by 2023. The Beverly Hills-through-Century City portion is eying a 2025 opening and the the final West L.A. length will open by 2027 if everything remains on schedule. The plan, officials say, is to have the line open before Los Angeles hosts the 2028 Summer Olympics.

The Metro Board of Directors approved the project in 2012 after a five-year planning, analysis and environmental review process.

Most of the line will run under Wilshire Boulevard and is expected to add close to 80,000 new daily riders once completed. Rail ridership for Metro has consistently fallen over the past few years, with Metro experiencing a 4.2% drop between 2017 and 2018, and a similar drop from 2018-2019.

Bus ridership has experienced comparable issues when it comes to ridership.

In a prepared statement, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti thanked state leadership for their help in securing the funds.

“Los Angeles is in the midst of a once-in-a-generation moment for public transportation — when the idea of linking the westside to Downtown is no longer a distant dream, but a reality that’s within our grasp,” Garcetti said.

The Port of Los Angeles was also awarded $18.2 million to add 11,500 feet of track and increase the capacity at the existing railyard. The Port of Long Beach also received $14.5 million for similar improvements. sthomas@timespublications.com.

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The Book of Mormon, written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez, returns to Los Angeles this week with a limited engagement run at the Ahmanson Theatre through March 29.

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ʻThe Book of Mormon’ Mixes Plenty of Heart and Humor at the Ahmanson Theatre

By Sean P. Thomas n the hit musical The Book of Mormon, one of the most controversial, yet memorable portions of the musical occurs early on during the first act.

After leaving their Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints missionary training center, our two leads, Elder Kevin Price and Elder Arnold Cunningham are sent on their first missionary trip to northern Uganda, where the villagers, who live in appalling conditions, improve their outlook on life by repeating the phrase “Hasa Diga Eebowai.”

The phrases quickly turn to song, and while the tune might spark memories of familiar Disney-esque song-pieces like “Hakuna Matata,” the lyrics to the seemingly joyful Ugandan song actually translates into something that cannot be printed in this publication.

The sequence encapsulates The Book of Mormon in a nutshell. Currently in its ninth year on Broadway, people should expect more than a little bit of vulgarity in the musical (“South Park”’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone are the minds behind the play afterall), but beneath the surface of the incredibly popular musical are intelligent themes of acceptance and friendship, wrapped within a blanket of gut-busting humor.

This week, the Broadway favorite returns to Los Angeles with a limited engagement run at the Ahmanson Theatre, running through March 29 before moving on to San Francisco. Tickets start at $49. A limited number of lottery tickets will be available

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two and a half hours prior to each performance. The tickets will be drawn and priced at $25 each.

The musical follows the previously mentioned mismatched missionaries in the midst of their first trip to Uganda.

While on the surface the two leads appear nearly identical (white short-sleeved shirt, black slacks, black tie and loafers) the two missionaries couldn’t be any different from one another. Elder Price is devout and enthusiastic, albeit a little pompous and overconfident, while Elder Cunningham is far more insecure, with a penchant for lying.

Tasked with converting the Ugandan villagers, the head-strong Price is sure he can succeed where his predecessors have failed, while the “puppy-dog”-like Cunningham doesn’t match his partners enthusiasm. The differences between the two missionaries provides much of the humor in The Book of Mormon, according to Liam Tobin, who plays Price.

“I think what is really great about the show is to really see the difference between Elder Price, who has always been the best at things, and Elder Cunningham, who has always certainly not been the best at things,” Tobin said. “To see how the two of them experience these things as they happen to them, to see how they overcome obstacles really make the show funny, and a joy to watch.”

Humor and Heart The Book of Mormon, currently the 14th

longest running show in Broadway history, was created by Parker, Stone and Robert Lopez, with Casey Nicholaw brought on during the early stages of development to co-direct and handle choreography. While Parker and Stone are well known for their comedic chops and Lopez has also earned a Tony for the puppet-filled musical comedy Avenue Q, Tobin said that where the musical really shines, is between the jokes.

“The show has a lot of heart too, mixed in with the human perspective,” Tobin said.

“These guys are all experts at comedy, but I think what really surprises people is the heart that the show has. It has all these dimensions of acceptance and love.”

Jordan Matthew Brown plays Elder Cunningham and added that the jokes that pepper The Book of Mormon only add to the overall themes.

“I love that,” Brown said. “I love that it’s such brilliant comedy writing and it has such a heart underneath it.”

That surprise is why The Book of Mormon continues to draw such massive audiences, Tobin said. The play has earned more than $500 million in revenue at the box office since 2011, making it one of the highest grossing Broadway shows of all time.

“You actually care for these characters,” Tobin said. “That’s aside from just having an awesome time and escaping for a couple of hours. But also, for seasoned theatre goers, there are a lot of nods to classic Broadway hits.”

Of the Broadway references throughout the musical, the instances that mention The Lion King are probably the most blatant and in your face. Not only does an African woman sing a variation of “Circle of Life,” the missionaries also respond to hearing the previously mentioned “Hasa Diga Eebowai” by asking if it means “no worries for the rest of your days,” a reference to “Hakuna Matata.”

Other musicals such as The Sound of Music, Hairspray, Annie and Wicked also are referenced throughout the musical’s two-and-ahalf-hour runtime.

“It’s not just for one generation [of] humor or something like that,” Tobin said. “It has something for everybody, every theatergoer at the show. I think all of those things combined, the amazing music, the script, all of it comes together to really make a one of a kind experience.”

For individuals who have already seen The Book of Mormon on Broadway, Brown said that the performance is pretty close to what you would get in New York, but noted that a new joke, or throwaway line is revealed on each subsequent viewing.

“For people who have seen it for the first time, or are seeing it for the second, or third time, they really need to come back because there is just so much in there.

You’re going to find something new,” Brown said.

The Book of Mormon runs through March 29 at the Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N. Grand Ave., or centertheatregroup.org. sthomas@timespublications.com.

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Immersed Under the Canopy Two New Exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth Play With Environments to Create Atmospheres of Experience

By Nicholas Slayton n one room inside a refurbished industrial building, a painting of a blue-faced person covered in frogs hangs on a brightly colored wall. A few dozen feet to the north, a squiggle of white neon hangs from a stark and bare ceiling.

They are parts of two new exhibitions at the Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles gallery.

Nicolas Party: Sottobosco is an enveloping collection of new works from the Swiss artist, drawing from a 17th century artistic movement. Meanwhile Lucio Fontana: Walking the Space: Spatial Environments, 1948-1968 recreates a series of immersive spaces by the late Italian artist. The shows both play with space in distinct ways.

Party’s exhibition Sottobosco — his first solo show in Los Angeles — is a striking, colorful mix of painting and architectural focus. New walls were constructed inside Hauser & Wirth’s south gallery, turning the cavernous building into a more claustrophobic chamber. Each wall is fully painted in a single pastel color, from forest green to a deep blue, and the only entrance to each is a tall and narrow archway.

“Sottobosco is a painting [style] that depicted what’s called the forest floor, where the light doesn’t go because of the canopy of the trees,” Party told journalists at a media preview ahead of the show’s opening.

The show includes more than two dozen of Party’s pastel paintings, created in the past two years. Almost all are

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darkly colored, incorporating elements of nature from animals to tree branches. At either end of the gallery, perfectly framed by those arched openings, are two paintings of caves at sunset.

One of the more interesting pieces is a small, constructed cathedral not far from the gallery entrance. The tiny space sports a checkered tile floor and black and white patterned ceiling. On the north wall, is a small recreation of “Three Snakes, Lizard, and Toad” by Otto Marseus van Schrieck, a leading sottobosco artist.

Spatial Awareness If Party’s show is focused on new large-scale spaces and paintings in the vein of a centuries-old style, Fontana’s work features recreations of decades-old installations that used at-the-time cutting-edge technology to try and create new types of art. Walking the Space: Spatial Environments, 1948-1968 features nine of Fontana’s enclosed art spaces, along with multiple sketches and pictures of his development process.

“I also want people to understand that traditional easel painting is dead, finished forever, and that one cannot go back,” reads a quote of Fontana’s, printed on a wall in the north gallery.

That perspective came out of a time of profound change in Fontana’s life. Coming out of, and returning to an Italy ravaged by World War II, Fontana decided to break with the past.

His studio destroyed (a photo of the ruins is the first thing visitors see in the exhibition), he decided to start using new technology to move beyond paintings and sculptures, according to Luca Massimo Barbero, guest curator of the exhibition. He settled on transforming rooms into dark canvasses for black light installations, and experimenting with how spaces are used. The first of those, “Spatial Environment in Black Light,” debuted in 1949.

One piece, “Utopie, at the 13th Milan Triennale,” features red carpet and bright red lights filling the interactive area. PeoContinued on page 15

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Nicolas Party’s first solo show in Los Angeles includes new works of pastel paintings, inside a series of boldly colored rooms.

THEATER

What The Constitution Means to Me Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave. or centertheatregroup.org.

Feb. 18-21, 8 p.m., Feb. 22, 2:30 and 8 p.m., Feb. 23, 1 and 6:30 p.m.: Heidi Schreck’s show explores what the founding document’s legacy is through stories about her teenage life learning about the document. Through Feb. 23.

The Book of Mormon The Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N. Grand Ave. or centertheatregroup.org.

Feb. 18-21 and Feb. 14, 8 p.m., Feb. 22, 2 and 8 p.m., Feb. 23, 1 p.m.: The satirical musical comes to Downtown, with its story of missionaries in over their heads. Through March 29. See story on page 12.

Eurydice Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave. or laopera.org.

Feb. 20, 7:30 p.m., Feb. 23, 2 p.m.: The L.A. Opera presents Sarah Ruhl and Matthew Aucoin’s perspective-flipped take on the Continued on page 15

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You can say a lot about pianist Yuja Wang. The one thing that you can’t say is that she is boring. Known almost as much for her flashy stage outfits as much as she is for her exquisite piano chops, Wang has been a constant partner with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, performing a number of shows to a growing fanbase here in Los Angeles. Expect that fanbase to only grow when the 33-year-old Beijing-born artist returns to the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Tuesday, Feb. 18. Kicking off at 8 p.m., Wang will play selections from Frederic Chopin, Johannes Brahms, Johann Sebastian Bach, and more. At 111 S. Grand Ave. or laphil.org.

The unsung heroes of the film industry are the costume designers. Don’t believe us? Try imagining 1917 without period appropriate military uniforms or Little Women without the right late-19th Century clothing. Trust us, it’ll get weird. For the past 27 years, the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising has hosted Art of Motion Picture Costume Design, showcasing some of the award-winning costumes that have propped up some of our favorite films. The 28th iteration of the exhibit opened at the Downtown university on Feb. 4 and will run through March 21. Check out everything from Queen Ramonda’s dress from Black Panther Women The exhibit is to garbs from Little Women. open Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

At 919 S. Grand Ave., or fidmmuseum.org.

In honor of Black History Month, KCRW and Jazz is Dead are presenting one of the stalwarts of ‘90s music for an evening of classic Planets whose smooth hip-hop. Digable Planets, and jazzy sound provided inspiration for acts such as Black Star and Childish Gambino, will perform alongside a live band at The Regent Theater on Monday, Feb. 17. The three-person group, consisting of Butterfly, Doodlebug and Ladybug Mecca, leapt onto the scene in 1993 with their debut album Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space) which contained arguably their most well known track “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat).” At 448 S. Main St. or spacelandpresents.com.

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MONDAY, FEB. 17 Noel Miller Resident, 428 S. Hewitt St. or residentdtla.com.

8 p.m.: The podcast host and comedian does a new set.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19 Vicky Sambunaris: A Taxomony of a Landscape W.M. Keck Lecture Hall, SCI-Arc, 960 E. Third St. or sciarc. edu/events.

7 p.m.: The landscape and industrial photographer talks about her work and the evolution of American environments.

SATURDAY, FEB. 22 DTLA Beer and Music Festival Pershing Square, 532 S. Olive St. or laparks.org.

5 p.m.: Enjoy more than 50 craft beers in the park, and see live music from — and this calendar section cannot believe this is true — Insane Clown Posse. There will be Faygo.

Hannah Gadsby: Douglas Theatre at Ace Hotel, 929 S. Broadway or acehotel.com/ losangeles.

6:30 p.m.: The comedian’s acclaimed show comes to Broadway.

Bootleg Theater’s 5th Annual Extravaganza Bootleg Theater, 2220 Beverly Blvd. or bootlegtheater.com.

7 p.m.: The music venue celebrates its birthday with an immersive, Heaven, Hell and Purgatory-themed party with live bands, art installations, puppets and more.

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There isn’t too much that pairs better than beer and music. How about the Insane Clown Posse and the Kottonmouth Kings? Pershing Square might need to take an extra day to clean up the copious amounts of Faygo when the acts and the juggalos converge on the park for the Downtown Los Angeles Beer and Music Festival on Saturday, Feb. 22. From 5-9 p.m., over 60 craft beers, ciders and more will be available for unlimited samples, while visitors listen to music set up across two stages. There will be food trucks and games as well, and ICP will be releasing its craft beer at the event, because of course ICP has a craft beer.

At 500 S. Hill St., or rockstarbeer.com.

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There is one last week to catch Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl’s revisioning of the famous myth of Orpheus and Eurydice Pavilion Eurydice, which flips the at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. point of view in favor of the heroine of the same name, wraps up in Downtown on Sunday, Feb. 23. The opera follows Eurydice as she descends through the underworld. There are two more opportunities to catch it this week, Thursday, Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. At 135 N. Grand Ave. or laopera.org.

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1720 1720 S. Los Angeles St. or 1720.la.

Feb. 19: Veil of Pnath, Gorod, Wolf King. It’s going to be heavy.

Feb. 20: Curl Up and Die. Feb. 22: Minnesota, Of the Trees.

Feb. 23: Inspector is not an Inspectah Deck tribute act.

Blue Whale 123 Astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka St. or bluewhalemusic.com.

Feb. 17: Kaze.

Feb. 18: Richard Sears Quartet.

Feb. 19: Martin Diller Group.

Feb. 20: Milen Kirov Group.

Feb. 21: Kandace Springs.

Feb. 22: Bob Sheppard Group.

Feb. 23: Lotus Land Collective.

Bootleg Bar 2220 Beverly Blvd., (213) 389-3856 or bootlegtheater.org.

Feb. 17: Temme Scott is still doing the folk-pop stuff, every Monday this month.

Feb. 18: Katy Davidson is Dear Nora.

Feb. 19: Moses Sumney grae.

HAUSER & WIRTH, 13 ple enter and then find themselves climbing over a steep bump in the center of the space before exiting. The effect is slightly disorienting in its own way. The show is arranged chronologically, with visitors following a path through the gallery. “[He thinks] ‘I want to think of something for a new generation that inspires the new generation on a new dimension,’” Barbero said of Fontana, although he noted Fontana was already 48 at the time when he started his new discipline.

Walking the Space also occupies the complex’s east gallery. Along with largescale photographs of Fontana at work, it includes another dark room installation, and the 1968 work “Spatial Environment at

Feb. 21: Mutual Benefit, with Sonoda.

Feb. 23: Mamalarky, Girl Friday, and Eyeshadow.

Exchange LA 618 S. Spring St., (213) 627-8070 or exchangela.com.

Feb. 21: Dash Berlin, Nick Ledesma, DJ Rico Rox. Feb. 22: Richy Ahmed, Josh Butler, Huxley, Mason Collective.

Ham and Eggs Tavern 433 W. Eighth St. or hamandeggstavern.com.

Feb. 20: Daryl Blake & The Philosopher Stones, Mars Rodriguez, Caitlin Dee. Feb. 23: Yung Bangs, Death of the Dead (runner up for band name of the week), Lauren Barth.

Moroccan Lounge 901 E. First St., (213) 395-0610 or themoroccan.com.

Feb. 17: Experimental dream pop with Tan Cologne.

Feb. 18: Alt-rock duo Illiterate Light. Then it’s Wiki, with an opening act whose name we cannot print, for the late show.

Feb. 19: Winona Oak with Georgia Ku. Then it’s The Bad Dreamers with Dresage.

Feb. 20: khai dreams, Lo Nightly. Then messy haired singer-songwriter Cody Lovaas mixes acoustic music and pop, which has never been done before.

Feb. 21: Holychild has your electropop and colorful outfit fix.

Feb. 22: Celebrate three years of emo live band karaoke with, well, emo live band karaoke.

Feb. 23: Get your synths and post punk on with Orchin, Gold Cage, Lover Girl, and Drowsy.

Resident 428 S. Hewitt St. or residentdtla.com.

Feb. 17: Fox Wilde, Kendall Rucks, Jasmine Crowe.

Feb. 18: Johnny Stranger has an album release show, backed by Desert of Talking Shadows (band name of the week) Documenta 4, in Kassel.” Like “Spatial Environment in Red Light,” it is an illuminated room split up by a series of walls, but with a bright white light instead of red. In the center, a single, narrow black chasm runs through one wall.

A third new exhibit also opened on Feb. 13; August Sander: New Women, New Men, and New Identities is on display in the complex’s Book and Printed Matter Lab. The exhibit showcases portrait photos and journals of the German LGBTQ community during the post World War I era.

Nicolas Party: Sottobosco, Lucio Fontana: Walking the Space: Spatial Environments, 1948-1968, and August Sander: New Women, New Men, and New Identities run through April 12 at Hauser and Wirth Los Angeles, 901 E. Third St. or hauserwirth.com. nslayton@timespublications.com.

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Found Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring St. or thelatc.org.

Feb. 17, 20-22, 8 p.m. and Feb. 23, 4 p.m.: A misplace note kickstarts a wild adventure for a broke person in this musical comedy. Through March 23.

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Feb. 19: Local music with Austin P. McKenzie, Leonelle, Laura Lavalle, and Penelope.

Feb. 21: Pillowtalk is a sing-along dance party.

Feb. 22: Goodies is spinning nothing but the best hiphop from 2000-2010. Which was at least a decade ago.

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Feb. 23: A very large lineup of DJs plays this charity party, with all proceeds benefiting wildlife rescue in Australia.

The Novo 800 W. Olympic Blvd. or thenovodtla.com.

Feb. 21: Hey kids, it’s Cold War Kids.

Feb. 22: Kalan.FRFR has a $10 show.

The Redwood 316 W. Second St., (213) 680-2600 or theredwoodbar.com.

Feb. 17: Octopus Tree, Headphone.

Feb. 18: Surfer Joe. Guess what style of music this is.

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Feb. 19: Big Rig Dollhouse plays retro ‘70s rock. Plus, Mojave Sun. Feb. 20: The Cave Flowers have a record release show, backed by Wyman and the Wolves.

Feb. 21: Matamoska!, Dub 8, The Steadians, Una Mas, Trinidad Square.

Feb. 22: Fatso Jetson, Dali’s Llama, The Great Sadness.

Feb. 23: Sleepspent, Todavia, Typography.

The Regent 448 S. Main St., (323) 284-5727 or spacelandpresents.com.

Feb. 17: Jazz is Dead presents Digable Planets.

Feb. 21: Thouxanbanfauni.

Feb. 22: Magic City Hippies.

Feb. 23: Destroyer.

The Smell 247 S. Main St., in the alley between Spring and Main streets or thesmell.org.

Feb. 21: No Age, Wurm, Milo Gonzalez.

Feb. 22: Not from England, MoonFuzz.

Feb. 23: YAWN, COMMANDO, Girlfriend, YGSRHSPSTFU, Greenwitch, Continuity Girls.

Teragram Ballroom 1234 W. Seventh St. or teragramballroom.com.

Feb. 21: Rock and roll with Dylan LeBlanc.

Feb. 22: Palace plays pop.

Feb. 23: Earth Crisis, Strife, and Snapcase. Because it’s time to get extreme.

FILM

Alamo Drafthouse 700 W. Seventh St. or drafthouse.com/los-angeles.

Through Feb. 23: 1917 (12:40, 3:40, 6:40 and 10:40 p.m.); Downhill (12, 2:30, 5 and 9 p.m.); Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey (12, 1:35, 2:55, 4:30, 5:45, 7:20 and 10:45 p.m.); Cats (9:45 p.m.); Fantasy Island (12:40, 4:40, 6:30 and 10:25 p.m.); Come to Daddy (7:55 p.m.); Parasite (12, 3:15, 6:30 and 9:45 p.m.); Sonic the Hedgehog (1:05, 3:45, 6:25 and 10:10 p.m.); The Gentlemen (12:35, 3:30, 6:25 and 9:20 p.m.); The Lodge (2:10, 5, 7:50 and 10:40 p.m.); The Photograph (1:50, 3:30, 7:30 and 9:20 p.m.); Uncut Gems (12:15, 1:25, 3:35, 4:40 and 7:05 p.m.).

Downtown Independent 251 S. Main St., (213) 617-1033 or downtownindependent.com.

Feb. 20-22: It’s a series of short romantic and erotic films as the Hump! Film Festival returns.

IMAX California Science Center, 700 State Drive, (213) 744-2019 or californiasciencecenter.org.

Dogs can do more than just slobber over your shoes. Check out all of their unique abilities in Superpower Dogs 3D. Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing with the documentary Apollo 11.

What goes on in the suburbs? The new documentary Backyard Wilderness explores the animals hanging around the house.

Regal Cinemas LA Live 1000 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 763-6070 or lalive.com/movies.

Through Feb. 23: Downhill (12:20, 3, 6:30 and 9:10

p.m.); Fantasy Island (11:10 a.m., 2, 4:50, 6:50 and 10:30 p.m.); Sonic the Hedgehog (11 and 11:30 a.m., 12, 12:30, 1:10, 1:50, 2:30, 3:20, 4, 4:40, 5:10, 5:50, 6:50, 7:30 and 9:40 p.m.); The Photograph (12:40 and 3:40 p.m.); Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey (1, 2:50, 3:50, 6:20, 7:50, 8:40, 9:10, 9:50 and 10:40 p.m.); Gretel & Hansel (10:40 p.m.); The Gentlemen (12:10, 6:30 and 9:30 p.m.); Bad Boys for Life (12, 3:20, 6:40 and 10 p.m.); 1917 (12:10 and 3:30 p.m.).

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Yuja Wang Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave. or laphil.org.

Feb. 18, 8 p.m.: The piano star takes the stage at Walt Disney Concert Hall for a slew of pieces.

Dvorak 6 & Ives 1 Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave. or laphil.org.

Feb. 20-21, 8 p.m.: Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic bring you two nights of two symphonies.

Dvorak 8 & Ives 2 Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave. or laphil.org.

Feb. 22, 8 p.m., Feb. 23, 2 p.m.: Dudamel and the Phil are back once again with the ill behavior. The ill behavior in this case is another pair of symphonies.

MUSEUMS

African American Firefighter Museum 1401 S. Central Ave., (213) 744-1730 or aaffmuseum.org.

Ongoing: An array of firefighting relics dating to 1924, including a 1940 Pirsch ladder truck, an 1890 hose wagon, uniforms from New York, L.A. County and City of L.A. firefighters, badges, helmets, photographs and other artifacts.

Broad Museum 221 S. Grand Ave., (213) 232-6200 or thebroad.org.

Ongoing: In the galleries at the Grand Avenue institution are about 250 works from Eli and Edythe Broad’s 2,000-piece contemporary art collection. It’s big-time blue chip, with work from Rauschenberg, Warhol, Basquiat, Koons, Kruger and every other big name.

California African American Museum 600 State Drive, (213) 744-7432 or caamuseum.org.

Through March 1: Catch the colorful and eclectic sculptures and installations of Timothy Washington in “Timothy Washington: Citizen/Ship.”

Ongoing: The multi-functional “Gallery of Discovery” offers visitors the opportunity to connect with the lineage of their own family, engage in artistic workshops, educational tours and other programs of historical discoveries. Hear recordings of former slaves from the Library of Congress archives and discover stories from the past.

California Science Center 700 State Drive, (323) 724-3623 or californiasciencecenter.org.

Ongoing: “Mission 26: The Big Endeavour” presents Los Angeles’ very own Space Shuttle in all of its splendor.

Ongoing: “Science in Toyland” presents physics through favorite kids’ toys. This hands-on exhibit engages museum visitors with Dominos, Sails and Roller Coasters in a fun, but informational primer on friction, momentum and chain reactions.

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