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n existing Skid Row building could be demolished to make way for a new affordable housing project. Last week the Department of City Planning released an initial study for a seven-story building at 508 E. Fourth St. The project, from the Skid Row Housing Trust, would replace the three-story Hart Residential Hotel, which currently holds 39 single room occupancy units. The new building would have 41 units, 40 affordable efficiency dwelling spaces and one management apartment.

It would also have a 433-square-foot space for supportive services. Architecture firm Togawa Smith Martin is handling the design. A starting date for the redevelopment could not be determined. No budget has been announced.

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ne of Downtown’s mega projects is turning its final, in-construction tower into apartments. Metropolis, at Eighth

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and Francisco streets, comprises four high rises, three of which are finished. The last, a 58-story edifice, planned to house 685 condos, but those units have now been converted to apartments. The tower is now called Thea at Metropolis, and will be managed by Greystar. Prices have not been announced, but units will range from studios to three bedrooms, and it will share an amenities deck with one of the complete condo towers. The project was developed

by Greenland USA, a subsidiary of the China-based Greenland. One tower holds the 350-room Hotel Indigo. Last year Greenland put the unfinished third condo tower up for sale, but secured a construction loan instead. An opening date for Thea has not been set.

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he Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced on Monday, Oct. 21 that it will continue to run bus shuttle 860, an express line that was created to ferry riders from Downtown to Long Beach while the Downtown segment of the Blue Line was under renovation. Metro provided the fleet of buses for Downtown travelers who were impacted by the Blue Line’s closure, adding a temporary dedicated lane along portions of the Flower Street along the Blue Line’s route. Metro had been working to upgrade and retrofit its oldest

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rail line since January. The southern half of the route was completed in June; Metro began work on the Downtown portion. The new bus route, dubbed 456, will operate on a five-month pilot program beginning Nov. 4 and will run six northbound trips from Long Beach to Downtown, and six evening trips heading in the opposite direction on the weekdays. The bus will operate from 6 a.m.to 8 a.m. during the morning commute and 4 p.m.-6 p.m. for the evening rush hour. More information can be found at metro.net.

ple streets and Arcadia Street to East Cesar E. Chavez Avenue. Street closures will be in effect at the listed locations from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Following the street work, changes to some of the roadway markings, traffic signals and signs will be made. Main Street is expected to return to normal operation by mid-November according to LADOT.

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his week Angelenos can head to Broadway to experience how the 1980s envisioned the future. Neotropolis Bar is a new pop-up bar in the Historic Core set to run for a month starting on Friday, Nov. n early October, the Los Angeles City 1. The space is based on the cyberpunk Council approved a plan to add a two- genre, with neon, noir-inspired décor, retway bike lane to a portion of Main Street ro televisions and plenty of Japanese-influin Downtown Los Angeles. In preparation enced advertisements. November 2019 is of the upcoming lanes, the Los Angeles the month and year that Ridley Scott’s semDepartment of Transportation has be- inal 1982 cyberpunk film Blade Runner was gun a slate of rehabilitation work along the set in, although this pop-up has no official heavily trafficked street. On Wednesday, ties to that movie. But Blade Runner and Oct. 23, LADOT released an advisory notice many of the cyberpunk stories of the 1980s with details about an upcoming slate of were filmed or set in Downtown Los Angepreparatory work along Main Street. Con- les and rooted in the city’s diversity and hisstruction crews have already started resur- tory of noir. The space comes from event facing portions of Main Street. Crews be- planners who worked on the post-apocagan a stretch between Seventh and 11th lyptic-themed Wasteland Weekend event. streets on Oct. 26-27. The work will contin- Neotropolis Bar will include actors in-char800.900.5788 I aerioconnect.com I VoiceonI WiFi I HDTV of the imagined future ue Broadband this weekend Saturday-Sunday, Nov. acter as patrons 2-3 between Second and Seventh streets world. Tickets are $82. Tickets and more inand on Nov. 9 between Second and Tem- formation are at neotropolisbar.com.

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Updated Designs for Little Tokyo/ Arts District Metro Station

The Little Tokyo Service Center’s design focused on providing a community meeting place, with plenty of space for restaurants and offices.

A Proposal is Expected to be Selected by Next Year

By Sean P. Thomas n 2014, construction crews began work on one of the region’s most ambitious transportation projects, the $1.75 billion Regional Connector.

Meant to weave together three different rail lines to allow riders to ride from East Los Angeles to Santa Monica, or Long Beach to Azusa without switch trains, the massive 2.1-mile subway project beneath the streets of Downtown will see the construction of three new rail stations, one of which is the Little Tokyo/Arts District Station at First Street and Central Avenue.

Construction has been ongoing at the site for nearly five years, but soon, the community can expect to see a whole new round of work at the 1.2-acre site.

Bounded by Central Avenue, First Street and Alameda, the site was pegged for development by Metro in August 2018. In January, Metro received eight different responses from interested parties, which was later whittled down to the top four teams in June. This August, proposals were sent in.

Metro held two informational meetings on Thursday, Oct. 17 at the Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple where the four developers — Little Tokyo Service Center, Centre

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ic gateway for Little Tokyo, the Arts District and Downtown Los Angeles” Hector Rodriguez, designer at FSY Architects, said.

Early plans also call for spaces for LED screens for outside screenings, a 1,000 square-foot mobility hub, where people can work on their bicycles or other modes of transportation and a visitor’s center of the same size.

A multi-level automated parking space is also included in the designs. Portions of the restaurant and office space will rest on top of the aboveground parking lot.

The Little Tokyo Service Center is no stranger to joint development sites. The 45-year-old organization, which is currently building the Terasaki Budokan on Los Angeles Street, is also building Santa Monica

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“This is a key site and key player to both Little Tokyo and the Arts District,” Nguyen said during the presentation. “This is the crossroad of the historic and traditional history of Little Tokyo, yet the start of the innovative and new concepts that come out of the Arts District.”

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Urban Real Estate Partners, Kaji and Associates and Innovative Housing Opportunities — presented early looks at their visions for what could rise above the Little Tokyo/Arts District Station.

The designs are not final, and could change in scope once the final design team is selected, but provide the first real look at how the Little Tokyo/Arts District station could develop.

Community members were asked to provide feedback, which was recorded by Metro staff and will be presented to each design team.

Each project has a separate budget and Metro hopes to recommend a developer to the Board of Directors in early 2020. The Regional Connector is expected to open in mid-2022.

Community Meeting Place The designs from the team of the Little Tokyo Service Center and FSY Architects show a station featuring ample green space, highlighted by a six-story, multi-functional building that will house a restaurant, gallery, retail and community space.

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or the first time in 10 months, Angelenos will be able to go to the Seventh Street/Metro Center rail station and take a train down to Long Beach.

This Saturday, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority finished its $350 million renovation of its oldest rail line, the Blue Line. Now known as the A Line under Metro’s new naming system, the line received months of work to improve efficiency along the route, with upgraded signals and crossover tracks, as well as new signage and paint at the different A Line stations. The work, Metro said, was needed to avoid train slowdowns due to clogged tracks.

To celebrate the reopening, Metro is offering free rides on the line Saturday-Monday, Nov. 2-4. The reopening of the A Line — that’ll take a minute to get used to — is cause for praise for the simple fact that the more than 60,000 riders per day who rely on the A Line can return to their normal routines, but it also signals the start of a string of much needed transportation projects to improve access to one of the city’s fastest growing neighborhoods.

The development boom of the last 20 years in Downtown has seen a major residential influx, as well as businesses that opt to leave the Westside and Hollywood to take advantage of Downtown’s central location and hip demographic. However, the transit infrastructure needed to handle the amount of people commuting to Downtown for work or fun has more or less lagged behind.

With more than 105,000 people expected to move to Downtown by 2040, it needs to keep the pedal to the floor when it comes to addressing the lack of transit options.

The revitalized Blue Line is an important first step, the first of several projects to be completed in the upcoming years that are meant to help boost connectivity and access to Downtown. The 2.1mile Regional Connector, which would create three new stations in Downtown and allow people to travel from San Gabriel to Santa Monica without having to transfer, is more than halfway done and set to be complete in early 2022. Metro is finalizing plans for the West Santa Ana Branch Transit Corridor, a 19-mile light-rail line that would ferry people in and out of Downtown to and from Artesia.

Metro aims to have that route completed by 2028, just in time for Los Angeles to host the 2028 summer Olympics.

The county is trying to increase connectivity across the mesh of towns and cities. And it’s something Angelenos support, they voted for the Measure M sales tax in 2016 to fund transit options. With Downtown experiencing such growth, projects like the new A Line and the Regional Connector are vital steps in ensuring that growth happens smoothly. The last thing anyone in Downtown wants is for the Central City to become an island to itself.

Major transportation infrastructure projects take time, focus and have heavy costs. But the net payoff for increased commuter options is immeasurable.

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In response to the editorial “Criticisms of Proposition HHH Spending Are Warranted.”

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ow sad. The voters came through with the money and the politicians have acted like idiots. How [does] a unit cost upwards of $400,000? It makes no sense. The city owns lots of property. Build on it! Put up something inexpensive and small...a room with a window, hotplate, refrigerator, TV, sink and toilet and foldout bed. Not a trendy “small house” concept. Share showers. What has been proposed is ridiculous. For a couple, add some space. For a family: give money to residents to convert their garages to house families. It takes leadership. Are we without creative ideas? Who are we?

Or better, who are they? And, throw Garcetti and the existing council people out for lack of thinking (and maybe heart). My councilperson in District 14, he was busy pushing his dreamed-for trolley down Broadway throughout the tsunami of homelessness? Oh my god.

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arcetti is the worst public servant and his actions are shameful just like his leadership as mayor. What a complete freaking bust he is. The citizens of LA deserve so much better than this incompetent dishonest [expletive deleted]!

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his is a result they (politicians) should have foreseen with their ridiculous interpretation of the “housing first” policy. Instead of trying to get homeless into shelter/housing as quickly as possible, they used the policy to build expensive condos to line their pockets as well as the pockets of their developer friends. They purposely allowed homelessness to get worse and more visible so they can push the false narrative that we need more housing, when in reality we need less expensive housing. So now they are using this excuse to push through SB50, which is a developer’s dream and will ruin residential neighborhoods, with absolutely NO incentive to build any less than market-rate housing (never mind some middle and most low-income people cannot afford that).

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METRO STATION, 3 side their development partners, Stantec and Kritzinger & Rao, features 20,000 square-feet of creative office space spread across a twofloor building. Visitors will have to cross a large lawn to enter the offices, which will be focused on independent start-ups from the community.

An “urban village” will anchor the offices, Nguyen said. A total of six independent retail spaces totaling 2,500-square-feet, a 3,400-square-foot restaurant and an 18,000 square-foot “food village” than can house 22 different stalls and a bar will make up the village.

There is also a 1,700-square-feet space for a historic cafe on the Central Avenue side of the site. During the meeting, Nguyen floated the idea of the space eventually holding a revived Atomic Café. The legendary cafe’s historic brick building sat at the construction site for 100-years before being demolished in 2015 to make way for the new station.

Additional features include a 500-squarefoot mobility hub, a “smart market,” and potential for a rooftop event space.

Hotel Units Tokyo-based Kengo Kuma and Associates and Kaji and Associates’ proposal is the tallest of the four designs at 17-stories and would be one of the tallest buildings in the surrounding neighborhood if selected.

Dubbed Ekibashi (“station bridge” in Japanese), the tower would loom over the adja-

cent Office Depot, and is the only development that would include hotel units. The design indicates a 180-room hotel, space for art galleries and commercial condos that would prioritize legacy businesses from the Little Tokyo community.

Jon Kaji, president of the Little Tokyo-based Kaji and Associates, said that the project could be an iconic landmark for not just the Little Tokyo community, but for the greater Los Angeles area as well. He also highlighted the importance of the project’s hotel and retail options.

The tower is mostly glass and renderings show an ample amount of pocket gardens on each floor of the building. A large stairwell takes visitors from the ground floor of the station, to the commercial space, where they can either enter the hotel, or continue on to their designation.

Affordable Housing The project from the team of the nonprofit Innovative Housing Opportunities and Dahlin Group is called Lotus@First and is the only project of the four to include any type of housing component.

The project’s primary feature is a slightly curved, seven–story building that would house community space, creative galleries, and the project’s housing units for moderate to low-income residents.

Rochelle Mills, president of Innovative Housing Opportunities, said that the project draws inspiration from Little Tokyo’s slew of cultural festivals and the traditional architecture, as well the brief period of time during Continued on page 6

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Centre Urban Real Estate Partner’s proposal focuses on melding the old with the new. The design features an expansive food fall, offices and gallery space.

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Kaji and Associates’ Ekibashi would bring 180-hotel units to the site, and is the only design to include hotel units. The tallest of the proposals at 17-stories, the building would also hold commercial condos and gallery space. image courtesy Metropolitan Transportation Authority, designs

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NOTICE OF PREPARATION OF A DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) is the lead agency under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for preparation of a Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the proposed LA River Path (Project). The proposed Project is a walking and bicycling path along an approximately 8-mile stretch of the Los Angeles River from Elysian Valley through downtown Los Angeles and the City of Vernon to the City of Maywood. Metro is soliciting the views of interested persons and agencies as to the scope and content of the environmental information, including agency comments germane to the statutory responsibilities of the agency in connection with the proposed Project. More information about the Project, including the Notice of Preparation (NOP), is available at https://www.metro.net/projects/lariverpath/.

SCOPING MEETINGS: Public scoping meetings to accept comments on the scope of the Draft EIR will be held on the following dates, times and locations: Scoping Meeting # 1: Tuesday, November 12, 2019, 6:00 – 8:00 pm. Boyle Heights Senior Center Auditorium. 2839 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90033.

Scoping Meeting # 2: Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 6:00 – 8:00 pm. St. Francis Xavier Church Japanese Catholic Center. 222 S. Hewitt St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

Scoping Meeting # 3: Thursday, November 14, 2019, 6:00 – 8:00 pm. Maywood Elementary School.

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Scoping Meeting # 4: Saturday, November 16, 2019, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm. Cypress Park and Recreation Center, Auditorium. 2630 Pepper Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90065.

The scope of the Draft EIR, including the goals and objectives, Project area and description, and the potential environmental impacts to be evaluated will be presented at the public scoping meetings. All Metro meetings are held in facilities compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Spanish translation and Spanish-speaking staff will attend all the scoping meetings. ADA accommodations and other language translations are available by calling 213.418.3423 at least 72 hours before the meeting.

COMMENT DUE DATE: Written comments on the scope of the Draft EIR, including the goals and objectives, Project area and description, potential impacts to be evaluated, and the methodologies to be used in the evaluation, will be accepted during the comment period beginning on October 23, 2019 through December 6, 2019. Comments will be accepted at the public scoping meetings and written or electronic (e-mail) comments may be sent to Metro on or before December 6, 2019 at the address below.

ADDRESS: Written or electronic (e-mail) comments may be sent to the following addresses: Lauren Cencic, Sr. Director Metro One Gateway Plaza, Mail Stop: 99-22-5 Los Angeles, CA 90012 Email at: lariverpath@metro.net

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METRO STATION, 5 and after World War II when the neighborhood was called Bronzeville, for its mix of African American and Japanese residents.

“I think it’s important that we acknowledge the multifaceted, multidimensional urban and cultural fabric that we have here,” Mills said. “That was one of the things that we were thinking of when we were thinking of what type of community we wanted to create.”

Renderings show a colorful building, with space for art and outdoor screenings.

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The building is raised in a way that allows visitors to walk through the plaza, under the building and on to their destination.

A building that is earmarked as the Lotus Center for the Arts would also hold a rooftop garden and lounge space where visitors can sit and eat lunch or catch a screening.

“One of the things that are missing in Downtown Los Angeles is a place to just be,” Mills said. “There are a lot of things that people are planning, but what happens when you’re on lunch, and have a sandwich in your hand and just want to be somewhere?” sthomas@timespublications.com.

Innovative Housing Opportunities’ Lotus@ First proposal is the only design to feature an affordable housing component. The multi-story curved building would house creative space, offices, affordable and moderate-income homes, and retail space.

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By Sean P. Thomas n the Air: Downtown Los Angeles has become rooftop restaurant central in recent years, with locations like the Standard and Perch LA offering sweeping views of the Central City. You can add another rooftop destination to the list on Tuesday, Oct. 29, with the grand opening of the rooftop restaurant and bar Pilot at the recently opened Hoxton Hotel. Coming from Sunday Hospitality, the same group behind the hotel’s lobby restaurant Sibling Rival, the full-service bar and restaurant offers Mediterranean-inspired cuisine, centered around live-fire cooking and paired with a long list of cocktails. The menu, which comes from Sunday Hospitality chef and partner Jaime Young, includes shareable plates including grilled prawns over basil and meyer lemon gremolata and lumache shells in spicy calabrian chili pomodoro sauce and whipped feta cheese. Ennismore Design Studio, in collaboration with Soho House, handled the design of the restaurant. Pilot will be open for dinner daily, with lighter plates available at the bar and the pool beginning at 11 a.m.

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No More Sit-down Donuts: The Downtown location of Astro Doughnuts and Fried Chicken has scrapped its sit down dining options, in lieu of pick up and delivery service only. Diners now have to get their Astro fix through order services like Doordash, Postmates and Caviar. The brand’s Santa Monica location, Astro’s second California location, will serve as the flagship and will

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Sunday, Oct. 13, after months of construction and planning. The restaurant specializes in hand rolls, packed with sustainably sourced lobster, crab, scallops, albacore, tuna and other seafood. “Our leading concern is to serve the finest and freshest products on the market,” the restaurant’s website reads.

“We work meticulously with our local and Japanese suppliers in order to attain the best possible outcome according to seasons and provenance.” The Hand Roll Bar is open daily, 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.

At 529 W. Sixth St., (213) 618-4430 or thehrbexperience.com.

NY to LA: It would have been fitting for a bar called Death & Co. to open during the throes of the Halloween season, but

Pilot opens on Tuesday, Oct.29 on the roof of the recently opened Hoxton Hotel. The kitchen serves up Mediterraneaninspired cuisines, like the Buvette Steak.

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continue to offer patio seating and alcohol. Astro also has restaurants in Washington D.C. and Falls Church, Virginia. As the name suggests, Astro serves up a mix of donuts and chicken dishes, including classic fried chicken, chicken fingers and wings.

They also serve fried chicken sandwiches, salads and sides. Astro opens at 7:30 p.m.

Monday-Friday, closing at 5 p.m. on Monday-Wednesday and 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday. Astro is open 9 a.m.-8 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m.-7 p.m. on Sunday.

At 516 W. Sixth St., (213) 622-7876 or astrodoughnuts.com.

Manual Munchies: There is a new sushi spot in Downtown Los Angeles, but this one is approaching the practice with a slightly different spin. HRB: The Hand Roll Bar Experience, opened its Sixth Street location on

it looks like the hotly anticipated cocktail bar is instead eying a November opening date. The Los Angeles Times first reported the news. The bar, which comes from Proprietors LLC, the cocktail consulting company that was behind the now-shuttered Honeycut in Downtown, will open in the increasingly busy Arts District, next to Wurstküche and Inko Nito. The original Death & Co. opened in New York’s East Village 13 years ago, quickly earning the reputation as one of the best, and most influential cocktail experiences in the United States. The Arts District version features two bars and utilizes the same tavern-feel as the original New York location. Death & Co. will be open nightly from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. The Standing Room will be open during the same time, Thursday through Saturday only.

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Australian celebrity chef Curtis Stone and his brother Luke are planning to open a restaurant at the newly renovated Trust Building.

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Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again includes more than 230 photos from the last 26 years, including her full Women of Allah series, and the multimedia work Land of Dreams (pictured).

A New Survey of Shirin Neshat’s Work Explores Nearly 30 Years of Art About Alienation and Identity

By Nicholas Slayton or photographer and filmmaker Shirin Neshat, feeling disconnected from home has been a thread of her life for decades. Born in Iran in 1957, Neshat first came to the United States in 1975 to study at the University of California, Berkley. Eventually exiled from Iran due to the 1979 Iranian revolution and the IranIraq War that followed, she did not return until 1990, only to find the country vastly different than the one she remembered.

That sense of displacement guides her artwork. A new show at The Broad museum collects 26 years of her photography series and films. Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again opened on Oct. 19 and runs through Feb. 16 in the museum’s groundfloor exhibition spaces. Tickets to the exhibit cost $20.

It’s Neshat’s first major exhibition on the west coast and the new survey traces the evolution of her style and fascinations over 30 years. I Will Greet the Sun Again also features a new multimedia work, “Land of Dreams,” in a debut showing. In the piece, Neshat addresses the status of the modern United States for the first time.

In total, the entire exhibit contains more than 230 photos of varying sizes, plus eight videos.

Neshat’s work is about finding a home outside of political and social constraints, according to The Broad’s Publications Manager Ed Schad, who curated the exhibition for The Broad. Her work, he said, is at once “Iranian, Islamic, Persian and American.

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“Her work at the heart is an encounter with individuals. It’s the direct portraiture that only enhances that,” Schad said at a media tour of the exhibition. “While some of her films can focus on large groups of people, like ‘Tooba,’ or ‘Rapture’ which focuses on a large group, she always goes back to these intense personal encounters.”

Much of Neshat’s work is built around ideas of alienation and how people interact with a wider identity. The compositions and portraits, according to Joanne Heyler, the museums’ founding director, “make as paradoxical as possible images of people who have experienced exile.”

The exhibition is arranged chronologically starting at 1993 and running through the present day; it borrows its name from a poem by Iranian writer Forugh Farrokhzad. Visitors start by walking through three rooms displaying Neshat’s breakthrough series, Women of Allah, made during return visits to Iran from 1993-1995. The piece is split into three parts, the first of which, dubbed “Unveiling,” showcases what’s become her signature style: stark, black and white close up portrait photographs of women or hands, with calligraphic poems or images imposed over them.

The second part, “Martyrs,” places women alongside guns and rifles, creating striking imagery. I Will Greet the Sun Again also includes the series’ rarely seen third part, the “garden series,” capturing women in an Iranian garden, framed by flowers and vines.

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other series of images called “Soliloquy,” which stands out for featuring mostly color images. The works in the space are wide, moving away from portrait shots to capture women against looming architectural works.

Three video screening rooms are also set up throughout the exhibition, each one alternating between two of her works. These immersive works are projected on two screens, facing each other.

Viewers must take in both for the full effect, such as the interpretive movement in a hillside garden in “Tooba,” depicted in close up and wide shots.

Land of Dreams The exhibition takes a turn halfway through. The first few gallery rooms focus on works Neshat made while visiting Iran. After her long-term exile, she turned to works made exploring diaspora. Many of the motifs remain the same — graphics or text overlaid over portraiture, but with new subjects and approaches.

The 2012 series “Book of Kings” shows Iranian activists with images from the titular Persian folklore book imposed over them. Neshat’s 2013 follow-up “Our House Is on Fire” looks at impoverished Egyptians who took part in the 2011 democratic revolution.

Turning a corner, visitors find themselves in “The Home of My Eyes,” a densely packed set of portraits shot in Azerbaijan. Once again the works feature poetry placed on top of the images, but here each Azerbaijani person captured in the picture stands with arms folded or hands clasped,

with a reflective look on their faces.

“She was inspired by the people of Azerbaijan but also religious painting,” Schad said. “I like to think of this like an iconostasis wall you’d find at an Orthodox church. We installed it that way.”

The last portion of the space is dedicated to a new work commissioned by The Broad. Land of Dreams is a multimedia work, comprising a series of new portraits and a two-part short film, each screened in a separate room. In the film, Neshat explores 2019 America by photographing people across the American Southwest.

The accompanying two-part films “Land of Dreams” and “The Colony” follow Iranian photographer Simin (actress Sheila Vand) as she travels through the Southwest taking the very pictures in the gallery. She’s not quite a full stand-in for Neshat, as the films quickly veer into a fictional narrative about studying dreams and hidden bunkers, with a tinge of science fiction and dystopian motifs.

The videos touch on modern U.S.-Iranian tensions, as well as poverty, tribal struggles on Native American reservations, and the current immigration debate.

The Broad is also hosting a series of programming events tied around the exhibition. Each Thursday, the museum will host an evening of poetry readings and performance art inspired by the themes found in I Will Greet the Sun Again.

Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again runs through Feb. 16 at The Broad, 221 S. Grand Ave., (213) 232-6350 or thebroad.org. nslayton@timespublications.com.

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Grand Avenue’s Arts Festival Returns for a Fifth Year

Back for its fifth year this Saturday, Grand Ave Arts: All Access opens up every arts venue along Grand Avenue with free admission and special programming.

Saturday’s Events Turns Six City Blocks Into a Free Celebration with Activities and Lessons

By Nicholas Slayton his Saturday, the collection of museums, schools and performance halls that dot Bunker Hill’s Grand Avenue corridor are bringing back their collaborative street festival Grand Ave Arts: All Access.

The organizations involved — including the Colburn School, The Broad Museum, Center Theatre Group, the L.A. Opera and REDCAT, among others — operate year-round but many are ticketed spaces.

For this festival, now in its fifth year, admission to every location is free and open to the public, with sidewalk activations, a special food court and activities and screenings set up specifically for the event. Grand Ave Arts: All Access runs 11 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 2. The event drew approximately 10,000 people last year, and organizers expect similar turnout this Saturday.

The one-day festival has done an admirable job bringing people from Downtown and Greater Los Angeles together in celebration of the arts, according to Rachel Moore, president and CEO of the Music Center. She said that each year draws in more people, with organizers responding with more activities for the growing crowd.

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“To be part of an unprecedented collaboration between prominent arts organizations in the county is pretty exciting,” Moore said.

“It’s nice to be able to show the diversity of our museums and performing arts organizations in a six-block area. It’s transformed itself and how we see Grand Avenue as a vital cultural corridor.”

Grand Park, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Master Chorale are also participating in the event.

Starting from the north end of Grand Avenue at Temple Street, the festival includes Grand Park’s 35-altar Dia de Los Muertos exhibition, which is on view through Sunday.

Across the street at the Music Center, there will be Dia de los Muertos-themed arts classes in the recently redeveloped plaza. The space will also be hosting a number of performances and workshops, from the L.A. Phil, the L.A. Master Chorale and Center Theatre Group. The L.A. Opera will be offering backstage tours of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Representatives from different institutions said there’s no set path for visitors to take. People can start at the northern end of Grand Avenue or at Fifth Street, or zigzag through the different spaces. Many of the ac-

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tivities and installations will be either repeated for multiple tours and classes, or set up all day for people to experience.

The later is the case at MOCA. The museum will be offering free admission, plus a screening of eight short films presented by Dance Camera West, according to Eva Seta, the museum’s director of communications who is coordinating its festival events. There will also be a workshop inspired by one of the museum’s most recent exhibits With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1985, a look at the works of 50 artists who participated in the pattern and decoration art movement of the 1970s and 1980s.

There will be a large panel that people can add their own designs to and the workshop will be open from 12-4 p.m.

“What we ask visitors to do with this communal art work is to respond to the exhibition,” Seta said.

The biggest addition to the festival this year, Moore said, is a food court area set up

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To the south, at Cal Plaza, Spaceland is hosting a beer garden for adults.

The Central Library at 630 W. Fifth St. is the southernmost part of the festival. There will be a series of classes where families and kids can create sugar skulls for Dia de Los Muertos, as well as docent-led tours of the Art Deco building, according to Leah Price, who is handling the Library’s involvement. At each edition of the festival the crowds have grown and so Price recommended that guests arrive early to avoid waits.

Moore said that the five years of the event have helped show Los Angeles how connected and dense Bunker Hill’s main artery is.

Grand Avenue Arts: All Access runs 11 a.m.4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 2, along Grand Avenue between Temple and Fifth streets. Or grandavearts.org. nslayton@timespublications.com.

EVENTS

TUESDAY, OCT. 29 Atlas Obscura Trivia Event Last Bookstore, 453 S. Spring St., (213) 488-0599 or lastbookstorela.org.

7 p.m.: To celebrate the release of the second edition of its book, the travel and oddities website Atlas Obscura is testing Angelenos’ knowledge.

THURSDAY, OCT. 31 Halloween Festival For Kids Grand Hope Park, 919 S. Grand Ave. or downtownla.com.

5 p.m.: The 12th annual all-ages event features crafts, arts and trick or treating for kids.

FRIDAY, NOV. 1 The Adventures of Prince Achmed Union Station, 800 N. Alameda St. or unionstationla.com.

8 p.m.: It’s a free screening of the 1926 animated film, with live music.

SATURDAY, NOV. 2 Grand Ave Arts: All Access Grand Avenue between Temple and Sixth streets or grandavearts.org.

11 a.m.-4 p.m.: The fifth year of the free outdoor festival opens up every arts venue along Grand Avenue in Bunker Hill. See story on page 9.

The Rock and Roll Flea Market The Regent, 448 S. Main St. or spacelandpresents.com.

11 a.m.: You know what this means. Buy those second-hand tour shirts to prove you were actually at the legendary concert you never attended.

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Oct. 28: Bloody Beetroots.

Oct. 30: Y La Bamba.

Oct. 31: Celebrate Halloween with the throwback sounds of Club 90s.

Nov. 1: Jasiah and Nascar Aloe play the Goth Prom.

Nov. 2: HAS & The Asylum.

Nov. 3: Suffocation and Belphegor. Intense stuff.

Ace Hotel 929 S. Broadway or acehotelcom/losangeles.

Nov. 1: Natasha Bedingfield brings her uptempo pop to Broadway.

Blue Whale 123 Astronaut E.S. Onizuka St. Suite 301, (213) 620-0908 or bluewhalemusic.com.

Oct. 28: Marlon Martinez & the Marlonius Jazz Orchestra.

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Internationally acclaimed violinist Joshua Bell is coming to the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 30 for an intimate recital performance. Starting at 8 p.m., Bell is scheduled to play four different pieces from composers Franz Schubert, César Franck, Johan Sebastian Bach and Eugène Ysaÿe, with additional pieces to be announced while on stage. Italian pianist Alessio Bax will accompany Bell for the evening. At 111 South Grand Ave. or laphil.com.

The Australian artist Amanda Parer drew thousands to Figat7th in 2016 with her whimsical light sculptures. Three years later, she’s back at it, this time with four new massive illuminated humanoid figures set up around the shopping center. Opening on Wednesday, Oct. 30, and running through Nov. 10, the installation is dubbed Fantastic Planet and borrows its name from the 1973 Czech/French science fiction film of the same title. The film depicts a distant future where humans have devolved into a feral species. Visitors can check out the figures for free as long as they are on display. At 735 S. Figueroa St.

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Try to hold back the tears when four of the funniest faces in comedy bring the “ha-has” to the Microsoft Theater this week. On Friday, Nov. 1, comedy legends Eddie Griffin, George Lopez, D.L. Hughley and Cedric “The Entertainer,” return to Downtown for The Comedy Get Down world tour. The Comedy Get Down began as a mockumentary series on BET starring the previously mentioned quartet of funnymen, alongside the late Charlie Murphy. Now it’s a touring show, stopping at venues across the world, brining a night of guy busting comedic gold. The Downtown show starts at 8 p.m. and doors are at 7 p.m.

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B-Real, Sen Dog and the rest of Cypress Hill is getting a jump on the Halloween festivities with the return of their pulse pounding Cypress Hill Haunted Hill event at The Novo on Wednesday, Oct. 30. Joined by Mariachi El Bronx and Meyhem Lauren, the event shys away from the traditional trappings of a haunted house, instead filling the venue with some of the group’s most popular hits including “Insane in the Brain,” “I Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That,” and “Dr. Greenthumb.” The show begins at 8 p.m. At 777 Chick Hearn Ct. or thenovodtla.com.

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Learn about some of the most extraordinary places around the world during a fun evening of trivia at the Last Bookstore this week. Held on Tuesday, Oct. 29, the event is a collaboration between the bookstore and Atlas Obscura, the popular travel guide filled with worldwide curiosities and facts. Atlas Obscura recently released an updated second edition, with new entries for the world traveler in us all. The even begins at 7 p.m. and a ticket includes a copy of the most recent Atlas Obscura. Author Ella Morton will host. Pro-tip: There will be prizes, so put on your thinking cap. At 453 S. Spring St or lastbookstore.com.

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Oct. 29-30: Amendola vs. Blades, with Jeff Parker, Skerik and Cyro Baptista.

Oct. 31: David Binney.

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

Oct. 28: Rock duo Stilljill has an EP release show.

Oct. 29: India Carney headlines a “Halloween Hootenanny.”

Oct. 30: Sheepdog Briber’s Hallows Eve Eve Bash.

Oct. 31: What do Cold War Kids have to do with Halloween? We have no idea. But they’re performing that night.

Nov. 2: Synth-heavy tracks with Guerilla Toss.

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

Oct. 31: Eric Prydz for Halloween.

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

Oct. 28: Oliver Riot will work you up.

Oct. 29: Sports Team, plus DMTina and the Bumps.

Oct. 30: Spooky Mansion has a new music show.

Oct. 31: Booty and Goblins is a Halloween hip-hop party.

Nov. 1: Karmic is an indie-pop band, because of course it is.

Nov. 2: Miss June is on the “Bad Luck Party” tour.

Nov. 3: Sam Wilkes and Jacob Mann dual headline this night.

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

Oct. 30: The Halloween edition of Breaking Sound includes Some Virtue, dreamfreak, and HighSchool Jacob.

Oct. 31: Music For the Masses is a night of classic goth-tinged new wave, so be ready to enjoy plenty of Depeche Mode.

Nov. 1: A Ratchet R&B evening.

Nov. 2: This edition of Bootie L.A. is all about 1990s and 2000s mashups.

Staples Center 1111 S. Figueroa St. or staplescenter.com.

Nov. 1: For fans of pop versions of rap-rock and the soundtrack to “Suicide Squad,” here’s Twenty One Pilots.

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

Oct. 30: Cypress Hill’s Haunted Hill. Go sing along to “Dr. Greenthumb.”

Oct. 31: Gramatik.

Nov. 1: TR/ST. The Redwood 316 W. Second St., (213) 680-2600 or theredwoodbar.com.

Oct. 28: Nick Vivid, New Elvis.

Oct. 29: Xtine and the Wreckless Hearts, with Gigantic and The Coolers.

Oct. 30: Witch Ripper, Lost Marauders, Flesh and Machine, Forming the Void.

Oct. 31: Bella Novela with The Mad 3, Saviors, and Martin Bisi.

Nov. 1: The Day of the Dead Bash features Alley Cats, The Brutalists, Star Party, and Darlington Mansion.

Nov. 2: Moist and Meaty, Pat Todd and the Rankoutsiders, Black Widows, The Stingrays.

Nov. 3: Queen of the Static Opera, The Terpenes, Trends.

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

Oct. 28: Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls.

Oct. 29: Jazz and hip-hop blending singer Jordan Rakkei stops by.

Oct. 30: Roots rock and folk with Shovels & Rope.

Oct. 31: Heav3n Goes to Hell.

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Nov. 1: Amigo the Devil wins for band name of the week, if nothing else.

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

Nov. 1: Dr. Cosdem, Street Play, Benoit.

Nov. 2: The Chonks, Daylake, Faetooth, Shower Curtains.

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

Oct. 28: Eyehategod has a punny name, and is playing with Negative Approach, Sheer Terror, Final Conflict, and Accused, all very heavy, hardcore sounding bands with names out of the titles of films from “Mystery Science Theater: 3000.”

Oct. 29: We predict a riot when RaRaRiot plays.

Oct. 30: Singer-songwriter Patrick Grossi performs under the name Active Child, and he clearly is an adult.

Oct. 31: Celebrate Halloween with Oh Sees, Prettiest Eyes, and Dynasty Handbag.

Nov. 1: Black Mountain.

Nov. 2-3: Two nights of Holy Ghost!

THEATER & DANCE

The New One The Ahmanson, 135 N. Grand Ave. or centertheatregroup.org.

Oct. 29-30 and Nov. 1, 8 p.m., Nov. 2, 2 and 8 p.m.: Comedian Mike Birbiglia brings his one-man show to Downtown. In it, Birbiglia talks about becoming a father, and how terrified he was of it. Come for the comedy, stay for the heartwarming realizations.

Aliens, Immigrants and Other Evil Doers Los Angeles Theatre Center, 513 S. Spring St. or thelatc.org.

Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 8 p.m. and Nov. 3, 4 p.m.: José Torres-Tama explores tackles the modern immigration crisis, xenophobia and more in this tragicomedy about extraterrestrials.

The Tragedie of Macbeth Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, 1238 W. First St. or shakespearecenter.org/Macbeth.

Nov. 2, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. and Nov. 3, 3 and 5 p.m.: It’s the last week to catch this spooky show. This immersive, site-specific production of the Bard’s most horror-tinged tragedy returns for a sophomore production. See Macbeth murder his way to power at the goading of three witches.

MORE LISTINGS Hundreds of listings of fun and interesting things to do in Downtown Los Angeles can also be found online at ladowntownnews.com/ calendar: Rock, Pop & Jazz; Bars & Clubs; Farmers Markets; Events; Film; Sports; Art Spaces; Theater, Dance and Opera; Classical Music; Museums; and Tours.

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