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L.A. business improvement districts' value questioned
When the bike patrols suddenly ended in downtown Los Angeles' arts district last month, junk began to pile up against the curb on Seaton Street. Over on Mateo Street, a trail of aqua-blue chips from shattered car windows glittered along the gutter....
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Crime, Law and Justice, Robert J. Lopez, Arts and Culture, Business Enterprises
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'Much Ado About Nothing': A DIY film project at Joss Whedon's home
When architect Kai Cole began designing her Mediterranean-style Santa Monica home, she weighed all the usual concerns — space, light, flow — along with one quite specific to her family's needs: where to hold the Shakespeare readings. Cole...
Tags: Frost Nixon (movie), Nathan Fillion, Alexis Denisof, Film Festivals, Apple iPhone
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L.A. artists, architects' effect on each other at MAK Center exhibit
"Everything Loose Will Land" has landed. And its timing could hardly be better. The exhibition at the MAK Center in West Hollywood, curated by UCLA architectural historian and critic Sylvia Lavin, is a wry study of the ways Los Angeles artists and...
Tags: Standards, Arts and Culture, Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Venturi, MAK Center
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A Venice remodel and addition rooted in a beloved tree
Some homeowners might consider a 20-foot Ficus nitida rooted in the middle of a 5,400-square-foot lot to be a liability, especially when planning a major remodel. But architect Carlos Zubieta isn't one of those people. The two-story glass addition...
Tags: Climbing, Arts and Culture, Architecture
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LACMA draws up ambitious plans for a $650-million new look
At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, an acclaimed Swiss architect is hoping to pull off what an acclaimed Dutch one could not. Next month LACMA will publicly unveil a $650-million plan by Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor for a dramatic new museum...
Tags: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Renzo Piano, Entertainment Events, Standards
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Southern California architecture: the missing early years from PSTP
Two years ago, when the Getty Trust helped organize and fund more than five dozen exhibits on 20th century art in Los Angeles, a massive enterprise it labeled "Pacific Standard Time," it wasn't difficult to guess which era the museum would focus on. It...
Tags: Museum of Modern Art, Standards, Arts and Culture, Frank Lloyd Wright, Arts
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With modern architecture spotlighted, PST series looks beyond landmarks
There's sure to be much to pore over in "Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990," the ambitious anchor show of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time series on modern architecture in and around Los Angeles. But it's on the periphery of this giant...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Museum of Modern Art, Frank Lloyd Wright, Arts and Culture, Christian Orthodoxy
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Mount Washington home's small space welcomes big ideas
It's unlikely that residents of Mount Washington ever envisioned a metal-clad trapezoid sitting on this bend of Cazador Street, but the design — dubbed the Big and Small House by its architect, Simon Storey — is full of surprises. The home...
Tags: Rentals, Arts and Culture, Architecture
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Start the Presses: Recovering from a wrenching experience
I walk around my neighborhood with a long-handled socket wrench now. The metal has a comforting heaviness. I live in the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles, and two guys dressed like gangbangers robbed and beat me just past midnight a week ago...
Tags: Theft, Apple iPhone
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Pacific Standard Time's architecture focus moves forward
Last time around the focus was Southern California's art history; now homegrown architecture is getting its time in the sun. Getty Trust leaders are announcing Monday the final roster of exhibition and event partners in its Pacific Standard Time spinoff,...
Tags: Frank Gehry, Peter Zumthor, Quincy Jones, Science and Technology, Capitol Records
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Southern California Close-Ups: Downtown Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFirst published on Jan. 30, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. The tourists think big. Arriving in Southern California, they expect to conquer Disneyland and Hollywood, perhaps on the same day, in between the surfing and snowboarding. Then they...Tags: Los Angeles Lakers, Sushi and Sashimi, Esther Williams, Flight (movie), Johnny Weissmuller
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