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papermoonloveslucy · 3 years ago

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LUCILLE BALL: NUMBER 1, BUT STILL TRYING HARDER

July 29, 1974

Editor's note: following is the final part in a series of eight profiles on America's self-made women.

By PHYLLIS BATTELLE

“Success - whaddya you mean by that?” rasps Lucille Ball in that rowdy voice which strikes adoration into the hearts of Lucy lovers.

“If your concept of success is happiness in what you’re doing, in being a mother, in being a wife, then I’m a success. I’m also damned lucky that I have my health and guts life takes guts and that my work paid off.

“But if you’re talking of the kind of success that’s about dollars and cents, forget it. The real wealth is not out here in Hollywood. Its all highly taxable, honey, and who cares? Money has never been important to me. I hate looking at bills. I hate math. I’m a typical Leo: money-blind. What I’m saying is that not one of us out here has more than $25,000 to buy a stamp with!

“Pennies, Pickles Or Something"

So much for Lucy’s petty cash. Aside from stamp funds, she has assets: a million-dollar home in Beverly Hills, another in Palm Springs and an apartment near Aspen, Colo.; investments resulting from the sale of her Desilu Studios to Gulf & Western for $17 million in stock, her own Lucille Ball Productions Company: earnings from 23 years of “Lucy” series (now running in 77 countries); a percentage of “Mame”, the new super-movie musical; not to mention the proceeds from diligent work dating back to 1913, when she was two years old in Jamestown, N.Y., and spoke little pieces at the grocery store for pennies or pickles or something.

At 62, Lucille Ball Arnaz Morton is No. 1 - but still trying harder. (1) Husband Gary Morton says proudly, “Her work is an obsession and a labor of love, and as long as the public likes her shell never retire.”

Lucy recently did terminate her “Here’s Lucy” series, at least temporarily, but will hold her "business family” (about 500 staff and cast members) together while she produces TV specials. Now, she leers at her orange-haired image in a dressing room minor and says, “I’ve loved to work, always. I discovered very early that the way to please people was to make them laugh at me. So I appeared at church, school, Girl Scouts, anything and anywhere. Made the tickets, sold them, starred in my own shows. That seems backward now. That’s gone out. The business has been hanging itself, and the kids with it, by making stars and superstars out of strange, young people who don’t know their craft."

Drums And Records

An example, Lucy says, could be found in her own son, Desi Arnaz, Jr. "When he was nine, he was very good on drums. Used to beat them while the records played as background. He got a group together with a couple of kids at school Dino Martin and Billy Hinsche and they called themselves Dino, Desi and Billy. Then Sinatra heard them, and they made a record and had a hit.

"A magazine took off on them, and they went on tour. Poor waifs - thank God, they didn’t have any more hits. But it left its mark, this being made a star when you don’t know anything at all, and after two years it was damn hard for Desi and the other kids to get back to doing their homework."

That sort of "big payoff for mediocrity" was not what happened in Lucy's own youth. Her family in Jamestown was "lower than middle-class, hard working, had a truck garden and was never hungry."

Most Influential Man

Lucy's father, a mining engineer, died when she was four. (2) Her stepfather was the most influential man in her early life. To encourage young Lucy’s "flair," he took her to see Julius Tannen, a monologist. (3) “When I saw Tannen sitting on a empty stage in a dark theater, making people cry and then laugh - oh, it was magic, pure magic," she recalls.

At 16, she went to New York, where her stepfather entered her in drama school. "I found out how shy, awkward and unable to cope I was. The teachers put me down, said I had no talent whatever.” Lucy's blue eyes flash. “New York frightened me. Still does. You have to take me out of the hotel on a leash to get me on the streets of New York today. Being tall, lithe and well-sculptured, Lucy took up modeling. But then, almost tragically, she contracted pneumonia with complications and was bedridden for eight months. It took three years of convalescence before she regained complete control of her legs. At 21, through an agent, she was hired to become a Sam Goldwyn showgirl in Hollywood for an Eddie Cantor film, “Roman Scandals”.

Would Take Any Part

“Out here in California, I knew as much as the rest of the girls in movies, which was nothing,” she says. “The difference was I would take any part. I never sought to be a star. I didn't mind being typed. I wanted to be typed. One of the greatest thrills of my life was hearing a director say he wanted a Lucille Ball-type for a picture.

Of course, later it was different, she growls, "when they said they wanted a young Lucille Ball-type.

In 10 years as willing “Queen of the B movies," Miss Ball was out of work only two days.

In 1939 she met a young Cuban bandleader named Desi Arnaz, and they married in 1940. From the beginning, their marriage was a difficult venture: Desi toured the United States with his group, while she stayed in Hollywood making movies. Then Desi served in the army, while Lucy starred not in films but a popular radio series, “My Favorite Husband”. They split. They tried again.

Finally, in 1951, in a desperate move to keep their marriage alive. Lucy sold CBS on what, at the time, seemed an unlikely television series: "I Love Lucy.”

It was the beginning of greater professional success, but not the end of domestic upheaval. Their first child, Lucie, was born when her mother was 40; Desi was born when Lucy was 43. But the much-adored children were not to save the marriage, and in 1960 - tearfully, knowing her diligent efforts had failed - Lucille divorced Desi, citing his outbursts of temperament, instability and violence. Desi did not contest the action.

In parting, they split a $20-million television empire. They are better friends today - at arms length, with new matrimonial ties - than they were during the 19 years of marriage.

Today, Lucy’s sense of well-being with one-time comedian Gary Morton (who is executive vice president of her production company), is obvious and delightful.

"It s really a super life, grins Gary, living with a thoroughbred." Says Lucy, I guess its very possible to live without a good man. Possible, but no fun. To bake a cake is no fun without a man. It’s no fun to make a garden without a man to watch it grow."

Lucy also is, and always has been, a proud and over-protective mother. Is that bad? I don’t think so."

A Share Of Problems

But despite Lucy’s mother-hen" closeness to Lucie, now 22, and young Desi. 20, the Arnaz offspring have strayed into their share of problems. Desi and actress Patty Duke had a much-publicized affair when he was 16 (and Patty was 28); later he became engaged to Liza Minnelli, but that broke up last summer. Lucie was married in 1971 to actor Philip Vandervort, but the couple quickly split.

Lucy is convinced her daughter, who is featured on “Here’s Lucy," will be a star. “Lucie," her mom says, “has all the material of stardom - ability, inclination, vitality, intelligence, beauty, good sense and good taste.

“Wholesome Movies Alive"

In fact, one reason that Lucille Ball finally agreed after three years of rejecting the role to star in the movie “Mame” is that Gary convinced me it could keep wholesome movies alive for talented people like my daughter.

"This industry," Lucy shudders, “has turned into a sex-and-violence factory. The whole thing’s ugly, with thousands of ugly people ripping-off their clothes and ripping-off the public. If that’s what makes good box office, and if box office is what they mean by success, then success is out of kilter!”

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FOOTNOTES FROM THE FUTURE

(1) The advertising slogan “We Try Harder” was developed in 1962 for Hertz Rent-A-Car company, who was perpetually number two in popularity to Hertz Rent-A-Car. Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett satirized the campaign on “The Carol Burnett Show” on October 2, 1967.

(2) Henry Ball, Lucille’s father, was actually a telephone lineman, not a mining engineer. One story had Hunt as the executive of a mining company in Montana. his death certificate listed him as a ‘laborer’.

(3) Julius Tannen (1880-1965) was a monologist in vaudeville. He was known to stage audiences for his witty improvisations and creative word games. He had a successful career as a character actor in films, appearing in over 50 films in his 25-year film career. He is probably best known to film audiences from the musical Singin' in the Rain, in which he appears as the man demonstrating a talking picture early in the film.

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alberttrilogyinc · 4 years ago

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I had my first text interview recently and it's finally available to read!! Check it out...

Q1. Hello Sir, can you please introduce yourself? Readers would love to know more about you. Well, hi there. I’m Dino Jones and ‘Born From A Wish’ is my debut novel. It was a dream of mine to write a novel and I accomplished that dream! Follow your dreams, readers. At times I didn’t think I could do it but now look at me.

Q2. What were the key challenges you faced while writing ‘Born From A Wish’ book?I’d say the biggest challenge was motivating myself to write sometimes. I didn’t know if anyone would enjoy what I’d written. Other challenges I suppose I had were at the very beginning of the novel with deciding how things would begin. What’s interesting is the prologue I wrote came much later in the writing process. It came towards the end, actually!

Q3. What books or authors have most influenced your own writing? I have been influenced by a fair number of people. All of them aren’t authors. I was influenced heavily by music and various other mediums throughout my writing process. The music of Droid Bishop, a synthwave artist, influenced me a great deal. I was also influenced quite heavily by the Genesis album ‘Duke’. If you want to know more of my influences in depth I’ve created an entire series devoted to that featured upon my Instagram!

Q4. What’s your favourite spot to visit in your own country? And what makes it so special to you? There’s this walking track not far from my home that I quite like to visit. I tend to walk around the track four or five times, losing myself in my thoughts. That’s where I go to think about various upcoming scenes in my writing. It’s a pretty tranquil place on the edge of the woods so it offers a great place to think.

Q5. Is there lots to do before you drive in and start writing a book? I tend to create an outline in my mind of what I want to do first. Once I’ve done that I usually just sit down and start typing and the words come to me. Sometimes it surprises me how things just flow. Of course another thing you must do is decide what the overall message of your story will be. What kind of lessons will your character learn and how will they grow, etc.

Q6. How long did it take you to write ‘Born From A Wish’ book? It took me about ten months. I wrote it between early January – late October 2019. I did have some breaks scattered about in that time where I didn’t write and I also wrote during my free time from my job. It’s physically/emotionally draining for me to write so I tended to only write about once or twice a week.

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Q8. Tell us about the process of coming up with the book cover and the title ‘Born From A Wish’? I collaborated on the cover with a very talented local artist named Jalen Morris, (@osoamazingart). He was a co-worker of mine and I would see him on his breaks creating these awesome pieces of art. I got with him about the possibility of him creating the cover for my novel. I basically described to him what I wanted for the cover but allowed him artistic freedom to add elements he felt would add to it. The main elements I wanted were the three palms along with Albert & Elly on the beach at sunset. He came up with the rest and didn’t disappoint. I’m planning to work with him again on the next one. As for the title, I got it from a sub-scenario within the game Silent Hill 2. I loved the title and I felt it fit rather well with what occurs within the novel.

Q9. When writing a book how do you keep things fresh, for both your readers and also yourself? I keep things fresh I suppose by taking characters to places they hadn’t been before or expanding upon characters back stories. I also want to write in a way that the reader wouldn’t be able to guess how things would play out. That’s precisely what I’m doing now with my next novel. The next story will delve into a supporting character featured within ‘Born From A Wish’. It will be about their struggles and take the reader places they’d never see coming. I can guarantee that.

Q10. Are there any secrets from the book (that aren’t in the blurb), you can share with your readers? Secrets? I suppose the biggest secret of ‘Born From A Wish’ is whether or not Elly truly exists or not. The answer to that question is…I can’t reveal that! Haha! You’ll have to read the novel and find out yourself. I promise you’re in for a wild ride though!!https://infoespresso.data.blog/.../interview-with-author.../

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badyaa · 4 years ago

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danbensen · 5 years ago

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…or how tracking my life told me I was abusing coffee and social media

So there I was, my nails digging into my palms, my right molars pressed into each other. The air hissed in through my nose as my vision narrowed to a point. It was like hurtling down a roller-coaster. It was was terrifying, and I had no idea why it was happening.

I’d be doing nothing especially ominous – sitting down on the couch, carrying my younger daughter, thinking about bread – and suddenly I’d be gripped by this intense sensation of danger. BREAD! The image of a whole-grain loaf gained the mass of a church bell. DOOM! It rang. Toll the yeasty knell, oh brazen fate, for all men shall one day die. Die, oh, mortal flesh. Die and meet thy baker. (whoo! I am so sorry about that pun. Deep breaths now…)

Tiny drops of steam Ebb and flow before the light With each of my breaths.

It was ridiculous, but of course knowing that it was ridiculous didn’t help. I was like a cat, freaking out for no reason. Or was there no reason? Aren’t I supposed to listen to my body, now that I’m meditating and whatnot? But what exactly was my body supposed to be telling me? Avoid carbs? Run from the couch? Something about my daughter…? Yeah, If I searched hard enough for a reason to be terrified, I’d surely find one. Now there’s a reason for fear.

So I meditated more. I stopped using social media. I took my daughters to the park and watched the sky as it changed from brass to rose and the street lights blinked on. I talked to Pavlina. And I realized that over the course of the past month, I’d gone from drinking two cups of coffee a day to four.

The trees turn black and The sky, indescribable. Look up and it’s changed.

Scheduling is hard. My older daughter’s in first grade now, and school starts at 8:10 in the Center. The younger one’s in kindergarten, which starts at 8:30 in Levski G. At some point, it would be nice if Pavlina and I could go to work, which is back in the Center. If we want to have breakfast and drink our coffee in peace, we need to wake up at 6:15. Three hours later, I’m finally in the office and I’m tired. That scares me because I associate being tired with being sick. Fatigue=death.

I’m supposed to listen to my body, but my body is a stupid animal. It’s not going to say, “you’re drinking too much coffee.” It says “coffee reminds me of being happy!” and “not being productive scares me!” It says “I’m tired! I must have cancer again!” It’s up to me to keep track of what I’m doing, cut out the distractions, and give myself enough mental room to notice the patterns.

Right. So that’s why I’m not doing social media any more. Because part of the reason I was too distracted to notice I was drinking too much coffee was the last newsletter I wrote. I posted it on facebook, which made me want to check facebook for likes and comments. And once I was on facebook, why not see what other people are posting? Oh. Oh. That’s what they’re posting. Oh no.

I debated writing this explanation. Why not just stop using social media? Why talk about it on social media? But my litmus test for whether I should write something is “will this help people?” Maybe this is helpful: social media is distracting and depressing. It fills my head with noise. Maybe you have the same problem and this is the solution.

The sky at seven The color of hope that hurts And the crying swifts

I’ll continue to post my work on my website (including these newsletters) and mirror or link to those posts on Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook. Readers are welcome to like and comment, but I’ll only read those comments once a week (Friday seems like a good day). Comments on my website, PMs, and emails to me will get my attention earlier. I won’t read any content that isn’t sent personally to me or that I didn’t sign up for. Hopefully that means I’ll still get news from people I care about, but not about tragedies that I have no power to solve. That way, I can continue to function from hour to hour.

What do you think? Is this going to work? Can I stay connected without sacrificing my mental health? Let me know in the comments. Or even better, email me.

In other news, I had some good writing stuff happen this month. Interchange has hit its 2/3 mark and, more importantly, its rhythm. I’ve managed to block off a fairly reliable 90-minute chunk of time in the mornings, which I use to meditate and then “speedwrite,” which means writing without thinking about what I’m doing. I generally end up with a single element of a scene, such as the conversation the characters are having, how they feel, what’s going on in the environment, or what actions the characters are taking.

Then I usually have some time after lunch (and my second and final coffee), and I can layer those scene-pieces onto each other and smooth the edges. If I have more time, I do research, which usually involves shooting messages to generous experts. In this way, the inestimable and inspiring Thomas Duffy helped me tie a ribbon around the center of my book, in which a biologist’s subconscious belief that she owns the environment she’s studying leads her to destroy it. As the forest crumbles around her, she blames herself…then makes exactly the wrong decision about what to do next. Yeah! Fiction! Thomas, I’m going to send you roses or cacti or something.

Another new tradition I’ve instituted is spending my Friday mornings not working on Interchange. It’s a little release of pressure, a chance to play and remind myself that writing isn’t just another chore I have to do. The first week, it was a short story. That one turned out so well, I’m going to try to publish it. It’s called “The Sales Event” and it’s about smart phones and general relativity. Do you want to beta-reader it?

I got another couple of “no”s from publishers about The Sultan’s Enchanter, but one of them was that very gratifying “no” that comes at the head of a long list of things I could do to fix the story. Making those fixes will be educational, even if that particular publisher still passes. Wealthgiver is rather like The Sultan’s Enchanter, after all, and the lessons I learn from one will be important for the other. The world needs more books about amoral Balkan people!

Yeah, I’m still working on Wealthgiver’s neo-Thracian language. I even posted a little of it on Tumblr. But don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten my little goats!

Kapt kapēnon ainē kesa / byźai darsai ypo dēsâ. Ēbron, aiźi, byźâs kâ / skalmon, bleptē, bystâs kâ, As tae yper iatśikan / kapâ pe ta ve abbrinkan.

There were at one time / brave goats under heaven. A kid, a nanny, and a billy goat / clever, loyal, and tough, Who would dance up / a hill for to make themselves fat.

Dâ ispilsen opē rinkon strymē / parân ân, śân târâ dymâ. Iśē iserpa źēryntē / źymlē mērē urdēnē. Byźulâs ada pyrân źilmân / dâ bolvarâs pia rhobton saimân.

But a quick-flowing river blocked / the path with an evil guard. There coiled a beast / a great water-dragon. A goat will eat green grains / but a serpent will slurp blood

Peskēnon ērga ēbron do. / Pliskon ērga śân negō. Źymlē zē semân iglytsa. / “Kis ēs tu?” Neston iglâtsa. “Semâs manon ēm ēźo.” / “San ar ēsti? Abadam so!”

First comes the kid. / It splashes with its hooves. The dragon heard this. / “Who are you?” she roared. “This only am I.” / “Is it so? I will eat you up!”

Things are heating up! I’m still not entirely comfortable with the articles and deitics, but I do like that last line. And the orthography is shaping up nicely. I love googly things over letters.

Another potential conlanging project for that other hundred years I plan to live: Western Hellenism. What if the Greeks had conquered Iberia?

And finally, PROTECTOR! This is the comic project I’ve been working on for literally six years. Words by me and Simon Roy, inks by Atryom Trakhanov, colors by Jason Wordie, and lettering by Hassan Otsmane-Elhadu. What a crazy, fun, glorious process this collaboration was!

Protector is a post-apocalyptic scifi story about a slave who stumbles across “a demon of the Profligate Age,” a military cyborg who’s been in hibernation for the past thousand years. The post-human robots who are terraforming the Earth are not amused, and send in some sweaty future-vikings to put a stop to these shenanigans.

There will be five issues, and issue one comes out in January. If you’re interested, please order a copy, or better yet, tell your local comic or book store to order lots of copies! Give us some numbers that will convince Image to ask for a sequel

And finally, some books and stuff

Daring Greatly by Brené Brown – this book wasn’t as transformative for me as it could have been because I’ve read Brown before and I already agree with her. Shame is bad. Vulnerability is the cure. Bam. What I like about Brown is that she collects good data, lets it prove her wrong, and suggests how the lessons from the data can be usefully applied. It’s not just science, it’s engineering.

Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold – I think this was the third read. What happens when GM humans become obsolete? What happens when an engineer has a spiritual epiphany? It wasn’t quite as much fun as some of Bujold’s other science fiction, but it has a lot of heart.

Spooky Action at a Distance by George Musser – an excellent physics book, examining the concept of space, which lies at the center of the contradictions of relativity and quantum physics. If space didn’t exist, the universe would be chaos, but a lot of experiments only make sense if space _doesn’t_ exist. Great stuff, and it inspired that short story I’m so proud of.

Death by Water by Kerry Greenwood – a refreshing splash of chilly New Zealand sea spray. Phryne pursues a jewel thief and has a little bit of sex, but a lot of good food, drink, and dancing. There’s also a hakka.

Wicked Prey by John Sandford – it was actually a little boring. The police’s side of the story didn’t hold up as well as the criminals’. But this is a relatively early book in the series, which means Sandford is improving.

The Upright Go Pro – it’s a little device that you glue to your upper back so it will buzz at you when you slouch. Immediately after I put it on, I realized I have little tiny tyrannosaurus arms that don’t reach any table or counter-top. It ran out of batteries one day and man did my back hurt that night. So I guess it’s working.

Gravity by Against the Current and Brighter by Patent Pending – Good Interchange music.

Be Kind to Yourself by Andrew Peterson – It makes me feel better.

Song of Durin by Clamavi De Profundis – I haven’t gotten goosebumps from a song in a long time. It’s about dwarves.

The Twits by Roald Dahl – I read it to my older daughter and boy howdy did Roald Dahl know how to write for children. Everything seems utterly ridiculous but it all somehow satisfies. Like eating dirt cake.

Steven Universe – My younger daughter found me rewatching it on my phone and made me cast it on the big TV. Now it’s all “I wanna watch Steeben dabout a Giant Woman. I’m Pearl.” No, younger daughter, you are not Pearl. Pearl is my older daughter. My younger daughter is Amethyst. Nobody is more Amethyst than my younger daughter. (I’m Peridot)

#mystuff #newsletter #simon roy #thomas duffy #Artyom Trakhanov #writing #mental health #science fiction #thracian

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architectnews · 3 years ago

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Sotheby’s Beverly Hills Gallery

October 2, 2021

Location: 350 N Camden Drive, Beverly Hills, Southern California, USA

Sotheby’s Beverly Hills exhibition space

Sotheby’s Announces West Coast Expansion With New Beverly Hills Flagship Gallery Space

Public Opening 14 October with Highlights from The Macklowe Collection

New Street-Level Space Will Host Exhibitions of Celebrated Modern and Contemporary Artists, Designers, And Luxury Icons, in Addition to Fostering Links with Community Organizations

New York & Los Angeles, September 30 2021 – Building on Sotheby’s longtime presence in Los Angeles over the last four decades, Sotheby’s is pleased to announce the opening of the company’s first public exhibition space on the West Coast with a new, expanded footprint in the heart of Beverly Hills.

Opening to the public on 14 October and located at 350 N Camden Drive, the flagship street-level gallery space will be inaugurated with an exhibition of select works from the Macklowe Collection running until 17 October, spotlighting nine of the most significant works from an unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary art making its worldwide tour before a dedicated auction on 15 November in New York. Following the inaugural exhibition, Sotheby’s Los Angeles will host rotating presentations of luxury, design, jewelry & watches, and fine art, including bespoke exhibition programming specialized to the Beverly Hills location, providing Sotheby’s with new opportunities to reach a broader audience and showcase the best in fine art and luxury.

Mari-Claudia Jiménez, Sotheby’s Chairman, Managing Director and Worldwide Head of Business Development, Global Fine Art, said: “The West Coast has been an important market for Sotheby’s for decades, and reinforcing our footprint in Los Angeles is a critical element for continued success and growth in the region. As demonstrated with the immensely successful Palm Beach and East Hampton locations we opened in the U.S. last year, we’re committed to bolstering our presence in key markets and developing new ways to engage with clients directly in these regions.”

Located in the heart of Beverly Hills, the 1941 building housing the new space was designed by influential Southern Californian architects Douglas Hannold and George Vernon Russell, and is a rare example of pre-war modern architecture in the city. Within the 4,300 square foot building are flexible gallery spaces with 22’ ceilings, private viewing salons, and dedicated offices for Sotheby’s specialists and staff. Hosting regular public hours throughout the week, the new space facilitates a model where discovery of fine art and luxury objects is both convenient and centrally located. Items and artworks will be available for immediate purchase directly in the L.A. space via either Sotheby’s online Buy Now platform, or through private sale. Additionally, the expanded space allows Sotheby’s Los Angeles to invite local organizations and community partners to collaborate on arts education and non-profit programming, in addition to special events.

Peter Kloman, Head of Sotheby’s Los Angeles, stated: “An established destination for lovers of art, luxury, and culture in Southern California, Sotheby’s Los Angeles has long been a strategic center for the company. Years ago, our first space in the city was located in Beverly Hills, so the move to our new location is a long-awaited homecoming for us, and we are thrilled to be returning to such a vibrant and culturally rich community. We are looking forward to inviting collectors from Los Angeles, the West Coast, and all over the world to our new home.”

Highlights from the 65 works coming to auction this November from the Macklowe Collection that will be on view at Sotheby’s Los Angeles include landmark works by Franz Kline, Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and Robert Rauschenberg, among others. The Macklowe Collection is one of the most important collections, of any kind, ever to come to the market. Each work from the collection is a consummate masterpiece in its own right; together they constitute an unrivalled ensemble that charts the highpoints of Western artistic achievement of the last 80 years. Acquired over the course of half a century, the collection is the fruit of decades of searching, honing, and refining, driven by immense patience and an innate understanding of quality. Separate press release available for more information on the Macklowe Collection.

Further programming details about Sotheby’s Los Angeles will be released in due course.

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* Estimates do not include buyer’s premium or overhead premium. Prices achieved include the hammer price plus buyer’s premium and overhead premium and are net of any fees paid to the purchaser where the purchaser provided an irrevocable bid.

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New Delhi: Real estate developer Emaar Properties has filed a complaint with the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) against MGF, its Chairman Shravan Gupta, among others, over an alleged fraud.

Emaar Properties alleged fraud by Gupta and his associates while he was the MD and CEO of their erstwhile joint venture, Emaar MGF Land.

In its petition, it has sought security in the form of bank guarantees of Rs 2,400 crore to cover losses in the joint venture in India.

According to Emaar, around Rs 2,400 crore, or over one quarter of its FDI, was siphoned off by Gupta and his family for their personal benefit.

The UAE-based developer, which entered India in 2005, invested about Rs 8,500 crore in the Indian real estate market through Emaar MGF.

Besides, Emaar said it had commissioned a private investigation into the matter by the Globe Detective Agency to probe connections between MGF and shell entities.

As per Emaar, the investigation revealed that Emaar MGF, under the leadership of Gupta, had given unusual discount of over Rs 540 crore for the sale of over 1,800 units spread across five projects - Apartments at Palm Springs, Capital Towers, Colonnade, Commerce Park and Digital Greens.

The probe allegedly also revealed that the company had given several land parcels which were purchased from third parties at prices higher than the market value.

Citing several instances of alleged fraud and illegal acts through joint development agreements, transfer of land parcels to MGF shell entities without approval from Emaar or transfer of inferior land parcels from MGF entities to Emaar's subsidiaries, Emaar has sought a restraint order on Gupta and associates from any transaction on their movable or immovable funds and assets.

Emaar issued a legal notice on October 29, 2019 to Gupta, his wife and MGF about the fraudulent conduct of MGF on breach of their fiduciary responsibility, after it received the investigation report earlier in the year.

Gupta was the Managing Director and CEO of the joint venture Emaar MGF Land until 2016.

The petition said that the joint venture company suffered constant losses and faced multiple legal disputes due to MGF's dominant position and breach of contractual and fiduciary duty and the true reasons for the losses and legal disputes were only discovered by Emaar recently.

Under the joint venture agreement, the foreign partners acted as financial investors and infused funds based on representations of MGF and Gupta, who under the arrangement was responsible for management and operations including the day-to-day operations, as per Emaar.

Gupta finally resigned as the Managing Director of the joint venture company in 2016 and the demerger of MGF was approved in July 2018.

The petition said, though representing that the demerger would assist in improving business efficiency, MGF only wanted to escape its liability for gross illegality and causing irreparable damage to the business and reputation of Emaar MGF.

Emaar claim MGF and Gupta used shell companies to siphon funds from Emaar MGF or its subsidiaries.

The modus operandi for siphoning off funds included joint development agreements (JDA) with MGF group shell companies - owned by employees or relatives of the Gupta family -- without disclosing their true relationship with MGF or its promoter families, and under these agreements, deriving revenue or benefits from Emaar MGF despite having paper or no obligations.

Rakshit Jain, Rajeev Gupta, Rahul Upadhyay, Vijay Kumar Sharma, Naveen Goswami, Arun Mitter, Praveen Kumar Sawarni, Siddharth Gupta and Parul Gupta are some of the persons named in the petition.

The petition said that the transactions revealed after the internal investigation were intentionally suppressed by MGF to mislead and defraud Emaar MGF and Emaar Properties.

These transactions include siphoning of Rs 143 crore out of the Imperial Garden Project to an entity called Saum, which is an entity owned by Gupta and his family, and Rs 37.34 crore out the Palm Hills project to an entity called Nanny, owned by Gupta and his family.

Noting various provisions, the petition sought repayment from MGF due to the extent of losses emanating from fraudulent and illegal acts and sought from the NCLT a direction for in-depth investigation into all dubious transaction including with subsidiaries and associates, as Emaar did not have authority to investigate various entities related, connected or associated with Gupta.

While seeking the bank guarantee from respondent group cover losses for a minimum amount of Rs 2,400 crore for securing the financial losses as part of interim prayer, the petitioner sought direction from the Tribunal to the MGF, Gupta and associates for compensation of the losses along with interest of 18 per cent from the date of respective loss to be determined by the bench of the NCLT.

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June 20 & 21 Indianapolis, Indiana Talbot Street Art Fair Deadline: February 1 Learn more: https://www.talbotstreet.org/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=7830

June 20 & 21 South Bend, Indiana Leeper Park Art Fair Deadline: March 1 Learn more: http://leeperparkartfair.org/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=8128

June 20 & 21 Minneapolis, Minnesota Stone Arch Bridge Festival Deadline: April 20 Learn more: http://www.stonearchbridgefestival.com/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=8136

June 26 - 28 Des Moines, Iowa Des Moines Arts Festival Deadline: January 6 Learn more: www.desmoinesartsfestival.org Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=7884

June 26 - 28 Quincy, Illinois Q-Fest Deadline: February 2 Learn more: https://www.theqfest.com/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=7932

June 26 - 28 Orchard Lake, Michigan Art, Wine, + BBQ Deadline: March 20 Learn more: http://www.artandbbq.com/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=7993

June 27 & 28 Kane, Pennsylvania Art in the Wilds Deadline: March 1 Learn more & apply: http://artinthewilds.org

June 27 & 28 Grand Haven, Michigan Grand Haven Art Festival Deadline: February 15 Learn more: grandhavenchamber.org/play/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=7942/

June 27 & 28 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Manayunk Arts Festival Deadline: March 1 Learn more: http://manayunk.com/events/manayunk-arts-festival.html Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=7812

June 28 Carlsbad, California Carlsbad Art in the Village Deadline: February 10 Learn more: https://www.carlsbad-village.com/events/art-in-the-village Apply: https://www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=7929

July 2 - 3 Breckenridge, Colorado 37th Annual Breckenridge July Art Festival Learn more: www.mountainartfestivals.com Apply: www.zapplication.org/participating-events.php

July 3 & 4 Muskegon, Michigan Lakeshore Art Festival Deadline: February 4 Learn more: https://lakeshoreartfestival.org/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=7992

July 3 - 5 Denver, Colorado Cherry Creek Arts Festival Deadline: December 1 Learn more: https://cherrycreekartsfestival.org Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=7900

July 4 & 5 Ludington, Michigan West Shore Art Fair Deadline: February 28 Learn more: www.ludingtonartscenter.org/wsaf3.html Apply: www.zapplication.org/

July 9 - 12 State College, Pennsylvania 54th Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Deadline: January 17 Learn more and apply: https://arts-festival.com/

July 11 Fenton, Michigan Fenton ArtWalk 2020 Deadline: July 2 Learn more and apply: http://www.slpr.net/

July 11 & 12 Rochester, New York Corn Hill Arts Festival Deadline: March 20 Learn more and apply: https://cornhillartsfestival.com/

July 16 - 19 Ann Arbor, Michigan 53rd Annual Ann Arbor State Street Art Fair Deadline: February 22 Learn more: www.statestreetdistrict.org/fair Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=7937

July 16 - 19 Ann Arbor, Michigan Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair Deadline: February 3 Learn more: https://www.theguild.org/ Apply: https://www.zapplication.org/

July 17 - 19 Guilford, Connecticut Guilford Craft Expo Deadline: January 23 Learn more: http://guilfordartcenter.org/expo/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=7860

July 18 & 19 Sheboygan, Michigan Midsummer Festival of the Arts Deadline: February 29 Learn more: www.jmkac.org/explore-discover Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=8027

July 23 - 25 Chincoteague Island, Virginia Chincoteague Island Blueberry Festival Deadline: July 15 Learn more and apply: http://www.ChincoteagueBlueberryFestival.com

July 24 & 25 Bay Harbor, Michigan Bay Harbor Arts Festival Deadline: April 30 Learn more: https://www.bayharbor.com/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=8429

July 25 & 26 Geneva, Illinois Geneva Arts Festival Deadline: February 1 Learn more: http://emevents.com/geneva-arts-fair/ Apply: https://www.zapplication.org/

July 25 & 26 Minneapolis, Minnesota Loring Park Art Festival Deadline: March 15 Learn more: www.loringparkartfestival.com/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=8019

July 25 & 26 Shelby Township, Michigan Stony Creek Metropark Art Fair Deadline: April 6 Learn more: www.integrityshows.com/our-events Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=7905

July 31 - August 2 San Francisco, California 45th Annual American Craft Show Deadline: August 15 Learn more and apply: https://craftcouncil.org/

July 31 - August 2 Crested Butte, Colorado Crested Butte Arts Festival Deadline: March 1 Learn more and apply: www.crestedbutteartsfestival.com/

July 31 - August 2 Park City, Utah Kimball Arts Festival Deadline: March 1 Learn more: https://parkcitykimballartsfestival.org/ Apply: https://www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=7930

August 1 & 2 Detroit, Michigan Belle Isle Art Fair Deadline: April 10 Learn more: www.belleisleartfair.com/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=7906

August 1 & 2 Chesterton, Indiana Chesterton Art Fair Deadline: May 15 Learn more and apply: www.chestertonart.com/art-fair/

August 1 & 2 Toledo, Ohio Wild about Art Deadline: April 6 Learn more: http://toledozoo.org/wildaboutart Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=8271

August 1 & 2 Woodland Park, Colorado Mountain Arts Festival Deadline: May 1 Learn more and apply: http://www.themountainartists.org/

August 6 - 8 19th Breckenridge Main Street Art Festival Breckenridge, Colorado Learn more: www.mountainartfestivals.com/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/participating-events.php

August 7 - 9 Sunriver, Oregon Sunriver Art Fair Deadline: March 9 Learn more: http://www.sunriverartfair.com/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=7985

August 8 & 9 Lake Geneva, Wisconsin Art in the Park Deadline: March 31 Learn more and apply: www.genevalakeartsfoundation.org/art-in-the-park

August 8 & 9 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Morning Glory Art Fair Deadline: March 9 Learn more: https://morninggloryartfair.com/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=8191

August 9 Kettering, Ohio Art on the Commons Deadline: March 31 Learn more: www.playkettering.org/event/32nd-annual-art-commons/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=7967

August 15 & 16 Perrysburg, Ohio Levis Commons Fine Art Fair Deadline: February 24 Learn more: https://www.theguild.org/ Apply: https://www.zapplication.org/

August 22 & 23 Duluth, Minnesota Art in Bayfront Park Deadline: May 11 Learn more: http://www.artinbayfrontpark.com/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=8137

August 29 & 30 Highland Park, Illinois Port Clinton Art Festival Deadline: January 20 Learn more & apply: amdurproductions.com/port-clinton

September 4 - 7 Royal Oak, Michigan Arts, Beats & Eats Deadline: March 31 Learn more: http://artsbeatseats.com/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=8102

September 5 Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin 45th Annual Cow Chip Arts and Crafts Fair Deadline: May 1 Learn more and apply: www.riverartsinc.org/cow-chip/

September 5 - 7 Lancaster, Pennsylvania Long's Park Art Festival Deadline: March 1 Learn more: http://www.longspark.org Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=8109

September 6 & 7 Lake Forest, Illinois 66th Annual Art Fair on the Square Deadline: February 28 Learn more: deerpathartleague.org/art-fair-on-the-square/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=7975

September 12 & 13 Mundelein, Illinois 10th Annual Mundelein Arts Festival Deadline: June 15 Learn more: https://www.mundelein.org/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=8334

September 12 & 13 Stamford, Connecticut Arts & Crafts on Bedford Deadline: June 28 Learn more and apply: http://bit.ly/3aHwdWz

September 18 - 20 Ferndale, Michigan Funky Ferndale Art Fair Deadline: May 17 Learn more: www.funkyferndaleartfair.com/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=7953

September 19 & 20 Park Forest, Illinois 65th Annual Park Forest Art Fair Deadline: May 8 Learn more and apply: http://www.tallgrassarts.org/

September 25 - 27 Kearneysville, West Virginia 45th Annual Mountain Heritage Arts & Crafts Festival Deadline: March 13 Learn more: http://www.mhacfestival.org/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=8211

September 26 & 27 Birmingham, Michigan Common Ground's Birmingham Street Art Fair Deadline: February 3 Learn more: https://www.theguild.org/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=8369

September 26 & 27 Peoria, Illinois Peoria Art Guild Fine Art Fair Deadline: May 10 Learn more: http://peoriaartguild.org/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=8359

October 2, 3, & 4 Louisville, Kentucky St. James Court Art Show - 6 Sections Deadlines: varied - April 1-June 1 Learn more and apply: https://stjamescourtartshow.com/

October 9 - 11 Timonium, Maryland Fall Sugarloaf Crafts Festival Deadline: October 5 Learn more: http://www.SugarloafCrafts.com Apply: https://sugarloafcrafts.com/apply/apply-here

October 16 - 18 Chantilly, Virginia Fall Sugarloaf Crafts Festival Deadline: October 12 Learn more: http://www.SugarloafCrafts.com Apply: https://sugarloafcrafts.com/apply/apply-here

November 6 - 8 Oaks, Pennsylvania Fall Sugarloaf Crafts Festival Deadline: November 2 Learn more: http://www.SugarloafCrafts.com Apply: https://sugarloafcrafts.com/apply/apply-here

November 7 & 8 Toledo, Ohio Toledo Fine Art Fair Deadline: August 1 Learn more: https://www.toledo.com/events/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=7907

November 13 - 15 Edison, New Jersey Holiday Sugarloaf Crafts Festival Deadline: November 9 Learn more: http://www.SugarloafCrafts.com Apply: https://sugarloafcrafts.com/apply/apply-here

November 20 - 22 Gaithersburg, Maryland Holiday Sugarloaf Crafts Festival Deadline: November 16, 2020 Learn more: http://www.SugarloafCrafts.com Apply: https://sugarloafcrafts.com/apply/apply-here

November 21 & 22 Royal Oak, Michigan Royal Oak Market: Art Fair Edition Deadline: February 24 Learn more: https://www.theguild.org/ Apply: https://www.zapplication.org/

December 3 - 6 Chicago, Illinois One of a Kind Deadline: May 5 Learn more: https://oneofakindshowchicago.com/ Apply: www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=8325

December 4 - 6 Chantilly, Virginia Holiday Sugarloaf Crafts Festival Deadline: November 30, 2020 Learn more: http://www.SugarloafCrafts.com Apply: https://sugarloafcrafts.com/apply/apply-here Join our email list for more ARTIST NEWS First Name Email address: Please tell your art fair and artist friends about us! The constantly-changing art fair business means that we cannot be held responsible for inaccurate listing information or typos. Please contact the promoters of each event to confirm details before making your plans. (c) - All Rights Reserved. Read the full article

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foryourart · 7 years ago

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Lina Bo Bardi, Bardi House (Casa de vidro), São Paulo, Brazil, 1949-1952, view from the northeast, photograph by Nelson Kon, 2002, Courtesy Nelson Kon. Image courtesy of Palm Springs Art Museum.

Thursday, October 19

LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS IN THE MARCIANO COLLECTION, Marciano Art Foundation (Mid-Wilshire), 11am–5pm.

CULTURE FIX: HEATHER SHIREY ON THE BAIANA AND AFRO-BRAZILIAN IDENTITY, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 12–1pm.

Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Dorit Cypis, CalArts (Valencia), 12pm.

Psychedelic Cello by Justin Lepard, CalArts (Valencia), 12–1pm.

Chicana Photographers L.A., WEINGART GALLERY (Westchester), 5–8pm.

Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi: Environments for Life, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 5pm.

Architects for Animals® Giving Shelter, HermanMiller Showroom (Culver City), 5:30–9:30pm. $50–500.

Artist and scholar walkthroughs: Micol Hebron, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 6pm.

THE CUT | EL CORTE: A Fitness Class & Papel Picado Workshop, Craft and Folk Art Museum (Miracle Mile), 6–8pm. $20.

Alan Gutierrez: INTRO, Artist Curated Projects (Echo Park), 6–8pm.

San Pedro House History Workshop, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 6pm.

Climate Change and the Shaping of Asia, Getty Center (Brentwood), 7pm.

Bayard & Me Documentary Screening followed by a shorts program and Q&A, Vista Theater (Los Feliz), 7pm.

Adriana Varejao: Transbarrocco, Lloyd Wright Sowden House (Los Feliz), 7–9pm. Through October 21. RSVP here.

Dis Miss: Performing Gender, USC (Downtown), 7pm.

Film Night: Seven Cities of Gold, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 7pm.

Rodrigo Valenzuela Lecture, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.

Film: Free Screening | 11/8/16, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7:30pm.

Film Night: Seven Cities of Gold, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 7:30pm.

Oscar David Alvarez, PØST (Downtown), 8pm.

Modernism week fall preview weekend, various locations (Palm Springs), various times. Through October 22.

Friday, October 20

Symposium – Art from Guatemala 1960 - Present, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 10am. $15.

International Orchid Show & Sale, The Huntington (San Marino), 10am–5pm. Through October 22.

School of Music Visiting Artist Series: Pascale Criton with Silvia Tarozzi and Deborah Walker, CalArts (Valencia), 10am–12pm.

STORY TIME AT THE FOWLER, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 11:30am–12:30pm.

Charles Phoenix: Addicted to Americana Live Comedy Slide Show Performance, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 3–5pm. $40.

Christopher Michlig and Jan Tumlir in Conversation, 1301PE (Miracle Mile), 5pm.

Inès Longevial: Sous Le Soleil, HVW8 Gallery (Fairfax), 6–9pm.

Stepping into the Radiant Future, LAST Projects (Lincoln Heights), 7–11pm.

Feathers of Fire: A Persian Epic, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (Beverly Hills), 7:30pm. $45–125. Through October 29.

Latin Rhythms: Cha Cha Cha Dance Class, Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), 7–9pm.

Mark Edward Rhodes & Jeanete Clough, Beyond Baroque (Venice), 8pm.

Book Launch: PLAYING MONSTER :: SEICHE by Diana Arterian, Human Resources (Chinatown), 8pm.

Princess Diana in Auschwitz, CalArts (Valencia), 8pm. Through October 24.

WHAP! Lecture Series: 'in/ibid./form', West Hollywood Public Library (West Hollywood), 7:30pm.

PST: LA/LA Santa Barbara Weekend, various locations (Santa Barbara), various times. Through October 22.

Saturday, October 21

UCLA ART HISTORY GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 9am–5pm.

12th annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar, USC (Downtown), 9am–5pm.

An Ephemeral History of High Desert Test Sites: 2002-2015, High Desert Test Sites (Joshua Tree), 9am. Continues October 22.

Family Festival, Getty Center (Brentwood), 10am–6pm.

The Beverly Hills Art Show, Beverly Gardens Park (Beverly Hills), 10am–5pm. Also October 22.

Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking, The Huntington (San Marino), 10am–5pm.

Modern Masters from Latin America: The Pérez Simón Collection, The San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego), 10am–5pm.

A Generative Workshop: Gathering Imagery from the Internal Well with Holaday Mason, Beyond Baroque (Venice), 11am–3pm.

Fall Yoga Series, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 10:30am–11:30am. $12–15.

Fall 2017 Brewery Artwalk, the Brewery (Downtown), 11am–6pm. Continues October 22.

Print making with recycled materials, Side Street Projects (Pasadena), 11am–1pm.

Strike a Pose: Improv Comedy in the Portrait Gallery, The Huntington (San Marino), 12:30, 1:30, and 2:30pm.

Festival For All Skid Row Artists, Gladys Park (Downtown), 1–5pm. Continues October 22.

The 3rd Space: Political Action Workshop, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 1–4pm. $5–10.

EXHIBITION TALK & TOUR: Eva J. Friedberg, Daria Halprin & Edward Cella, Edward Cella Art+Architecture (Culver City), 1:30pm.

ARTIST TALK: KAJAHL: Unearthed Entities, Richard Heller Gallery (Santa Monica), 3–5pm.

Alison Blickle: Supermoon, Five Car Garage (Santa Monica), 3–5pm. RSVP to [email protected].

The 2017 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, REDCAT (Downtown), 3, 5, and 8pm.

Jeffrey Schultz & F. Douglas Brown, Beyond Baroque Foundation (Venice), 4pm.

Jaime Guerrero & Bradley Hankey Artist Talks, Skidmore Contemporary Art (Santa Monica), 4pm.

Film: Mapa Teatro’s Project 24, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 4pm.

Los Angeles Filmforum presents Three screenings with Argentinian filmmaker Claudio Caldini, USC (Downtown), 4pm.

When Ice Burns: New works by Diane Best, Porch Gallery (Ojai), 5–7pm; artist talk, 4pm.

Astrid Preston: Upside Down World and Rose-Lynn Fisher: The Topography of Tears, Craig Krull Gallery (Santa Monica), 5–7pm.

VICTOR ESTRADA (IN CONJUNCTION WITH PACIFIC STANDARD TIME), MARTEL SPACE: RICHARD HAWKINS, MARTEL WINDOW PROJECT: MALISA HUMPHREY, Richard Telles Fine Art (Fairfax), 5–8pm.

ARCHAEOLOGY REINVENTED, R.B. Stevenson Gallery (La Jolla), 5–8pm.

The Xenomorph's Egg, Patrick Painter Gallery (Santa Monica), 6–8pm.

The Unconfirmed Makeshift Museum, Klowden Mann (Culver City), 6–8pm.

Personal Vacation and 3 Solo Shows, Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825 (West Hollywood), 6–9pm.

FRAY: Art and Textile Politics, Craft and Folk Art Museum (Miracle Mile), 6–8pm. $20.

Mike Kelley: Kandors, Hauser & Wirth (Downtown), 6–9pm.

Homeward Bound, Nicodim Gallery (Downtown), 6–8pm.

Kelly McLane: PECKERWOODS and Augusta Wood: PARTING AND RETURNING, DENK Gallery (Downtown), 6–8pm.

In Order of Appearance and Luke Butler: MMXVII, Charlie James Gallery (Chinatown), 6–9pm.

Jennifer Precious Finch (L7) & KRK Dominguez, Red Pipe Gallery (Chinatown), 6–10pm.

Open Studios, Keystone Art Space (Lincoln Heights), 6–10pm.

The Very Best of OMA Artist Alliance 2017, L Street Fine Art (San Diego), 6–8pm.

Dany Naierman: PORT CAPA, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 6pm.

Arco Iris, Giant Robot Store + GR2 Gallery (Sawtelle), 6:30–10pm.

South of the Border, The Loft at Liz’s (Mid-City), 7–10pm.

Killer Bees at MAR-A-LAGO, Tieken Gallery LA (Chinatown), 7–10pm.

Art Moura, The Good Luck Gallery (Chinatown), 7–10pm.

Rafael Cardenas - From The Holocene, Exhale Unlimited (Chinatown), 7–10pm.

Story Tellers: a DIA de los MUERTOS, Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), 7–11pm.

Yare: One More Dance by Cristobal Valecillos, Timothy Yarger Fine Art (Downtown), 7:30–10pm.

Laurel Atwell and Jessica Cook: Debris, Pieter (Lincoln Heights), 8–10pm. $15.

Sunday, October 22

Adrián Villar Rojas: The Theater of Disappearance, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (Downtown), 11am–5pm.

Healthy Urban Living Team Building, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 11am–1pm.

Origin Stories Workshop with Nicole Rademacher & Jerri Allyn, Self-Help Graphics & Art (Downtown), 12–3pm.

2017 A.G.Geiger Art Book Fair, 502 Chung King Plaza (Chinatown), 1–7pm.

Community Celebration, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 1–4pm.

Talk: Conversation & Book Signing: Michael Govan and Walter Isaacson on Leonardo da Vinci, Lacma (Miracle Mile), 2pm.

Nature Deficit Disorder Workshop, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 2–6pm. $60–75.

BORDERS and NEIGHBORS screening and panel discussion, Los Angeles Central Library (Downtown), 2pm.

Lecture: Jens Hoffman, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 2:30–4pm.

PUBLIC WALKING TOURS: Lawrence Halprin: Reconnecting the Heart of Los Angeles, various locations, 2:30pm. Also November 5 and 19 and December 17.

Constellations and Connections: A Panel Discussion on Axis Mundo, West Hollywood Council Chambers (West Hollywood), 3pm.

Neighborhood Walk and Draw, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 4–5:30pm.

Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda, Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook (Culver City), 4pm.

For Us By Us, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 6:30–10:30pm. $5 donation.

GALLERY TALK | Peter Frank with Robert Standish, KM Fine Arts (West Hollywood), 5–7pm.

FALL IN LOVE WITH FREY, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 6–9pm. $125–175.

Claudio Caldini, Echo Park Film Center (Echo Park), 7:30pm. $5.

Monday, October 23

Yare: One More Dance by Cristobal Valecillos, Timothy Yarger Fine Art (Beverly Hills), 10am–6pm.

Kellie Jones, Art + Practice (Leimert Park), 7pm.

Fantasmas Cromáticos: 8mm Visions of Claudio Caldini, REDCAT (Downtown), 8:30pm. $6–12.

Tuesday, October 24

The Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, 101/EXHIBIT (West Hollywood), 10am–6pm.

Movement and Landscape: Celebrating the Halprin Legacy, Central Library (Downtown), 12pm.

PUBLIC DANCE PERFORMANCE: Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre, Central Library (Downtown), 12pm.

Film: The Invisible Man, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 1pm.

The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles, The Artform Studio (Highland Park), 6:30–9pm.

FLAVORS OF MEXICO, Skirball Cultural Center (Brentwood), 7:30–9pm. Also November 14 and December 12.

No Mas Bebes, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.

El Automóvil Gris, Skirball Cultural Center (Brentwood), 8pm.

Sounding Limits: The Music of Pascale Criton, REDCAT (Downtown), 8:30pm. $12–20.

Wednesday, October 25

FOWLER OUT LOUD: SAMANTHA BLAKE GOODMAN, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 6–7pm.

LAND's 2017 Gala, Carondelet House (MacArthur Park), 6–11pm.

Screening and Conversation with Filmmakers Ben Caldwell, Barbara McCullough, and Curator Erin Christovale, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 7–9pm.

We Wanted a Revolution, Black Radical Women 1965–85 curatorial walkthrough, Lezley Saar: Salon des Refusés, California African American Museum (Downtown), 7–9pm.

Making Athens Great (Again?): Modern Lessons from the Age of Pericles, Getty Villa (Pacific Palisades), 7:30pm.

Kellie Jones: South of Pico, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.

Soundbath With Chakra Crystal Singing Bowls Series, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 7:30–8:30pm. $16–20.

Performance: Live/Work, Honor Fraser Gallery (Culver City).

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California Fool’s Gold — Exploring Wilshire Vista

INTRODUCTION

I finally visited and explored Wilshire Vista. I say “finally” because, at the time of writing, it’s the most voted-for neighborhood ever and has been for a little while now (to vote for other Los Angeles neighborhoods to be the subject of an edition of California Fool’s Gold episode click here). OK, it’s only received nineteen votes — but even with about 800 total votes cast, there are so many Southern California communities that nineteen for a single one is the current record. I have no way of knowing why people cast the votes for the communities which they do — but each computer/IP address is only allowed to register one vote so I’m led to believe that either nineteen people have rallied for the neighborhood — or alternately that Russian bots have somehow managed to infiltrate Surveymonkey. Whatever the case may be, here follows my exploration of Wilshire Vista.

Pendersleigh & Sons Cartography’s map of Wilshire Vista

The first people to arrive in what’s now Wilshire Vista were almost certainly the Paleoamerican ancestors of the Chumash, who arrived from the north at least 13,000 years ago. The Chumash were alone in Southern California for thousands of years, until Uto-Aztecan language-speaking people began to arrive from the east, including the Tongva, about 3,500 years ago. By then, Chumash villages were limited to the coastal areas along the mainland’s Pacific coast and the Channel Islands, offshore.

Spanish explorers arrived in 1542 and claimed the region for their empire but their conquest didn’t begin, in earnest, until 1769, when the first of 21 missions was established. In 1810, Mexico declared independence from Spain, and in 1823, Governor Luis Antonio Argüello granted Francisco Ávila the 17.96 km2 Rancho Las Cienegas, through which flowed the Los Angeles River until 1825, when it drastically altered course, moving its mouth from the Santa Monica Bay to the San Pedro Bay.

In 1848, as a result of the Mexican-American War, the United States took conquered much of Mexico, including all of California. California was made the 31st state in 1850. A claim for Rancho Las Cienegas was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1853. In 1870, what’s now Wilshire Vista was purchased by French rancher and former sailor, Joseph Masselin, who’d come to California during the Gold Rush and, having failed to find any precious metal, bought 120 acres (48.5 hectares) of land and turned his attention to dairy cows and beans. In 1921, John A. Vaughan and Walter G. McCarty bought some land west of Los Angeles from Masselin’s heirs and named it “Wilshire Vista,” a reference to a boulevard donated to the city by Henry Gaylord Wilshire in 1895.

Although the name suggests a view of the boulevard sometimes referred to as Los Angles’s “main street” or “spine,” it’s pretty much impossible to see Wilshire from any corner of the neighborhood today — although since its construction from 1968-1971, the Gin Wong-designed 39-story 5900 Wilshire has loomed like a beacon of that boulevard in the background. Looking south, one can make out the Baldwin Hills, and if I’d been consulted on the naming of the neighborhood I might’ve suggested “Baldwin Hills Vista.”

Gin Wong’s 5900 Wilshire Boulevard, looming as always, in the background

Wilshire Vista was annexed by the city of Los Angeles in February 1922 as part of the La Brea Annexation. In late October of that year, lots of Vaughan and McCarty’s tract went on sale. Most of the development’s selling points, as touted in initial advertisements, hinged not on neighborhood amenities, of which there were relatively few — but rather to its proximity to other places. It was variously promoted as being “20 minutes from Broadway” and “an eight minute walk to Los Angeles High School. Mention was made of its sewer network and concrete sidewalks. The promoters also mentioned its proximity to the Page Military Academy and “convenience to the city and beaches via the boulevards.” Mention was invariably made of “the promising of a car line,” which (since there was already a Pacific Electric (PE) line in existence) must’ve been a reference to Los Angeles Railway’s (LARy), streetcar network.

Although they’re more often romanticized today, PE’s trains were never as popular as LARy’s streetcars with the Angelenos who actually rode them. PE’s interurban red cars were somewhat more akin to commuter rail, connecting as they did far-flung towns and toonervilles (suburbs) using private right-of-ways, such as San Vicente Boulevard, which form’s Wilshire Vista’s northern border. LARY’s yellow streetcars, on the other hand, operated along streets within Los Angeles, charged lower fares, and enjoyed a much higher ridership.

As someone who walks a lot, I always keep an eye on the sidewalk for love initials, classic rock logos, contractor stamps, &c. I spied a few stamps from E. Riveroll & Company, which was sufficient to lead me down a bit of a rabbit hole. E. Riveroll was Elfego Riveroll, the son of Manuel Riveroll — a friend of Maximilian I of Mexico during the Second Mexican Empire. His stamps can be seen from Beverly Hills to Manhattan Beach and his family home still stands in the charming Alvarado Terrace section of Pico-Union. In 1905, Elfego was still a citizen of Mexico living in the US, and he patented a new iron smelting process. In 1910, he married Georgia Rachel Youngblood. In 1924, his company built the Grand Olympic Auditorium. He died in 1956 and was interred at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory.

Pastel homes

Spanish Colonial and Tudor revival homes, with drought tolerant, and thirsty lawns (respectively)

A typical, shady street (palms are thankfully rare in the neighborhood)

Today Wilshire Vista remains overwhelmingly residential. There are no bars, karaoke boxes, billiard halls, post offices, bowling alleys, libraries, nightclubs, art galleries, or performance venues in the neighborhood. Most of the neighborhood consists of detached homes and low-rise apartments situated on quiet residential streets. Most of the homes were designed in either the Spanish Colonial or Tudor revival styles and were built from the mid-1920s through the mid-1930s by either the by either the Commercial Construction Company or the John A. Evans Corporation. Pico Boulevard, which forms the southern border, hosts nearly all of the neighborhood’s businesses, most of them housed in commercial buildings constructed in the 1940s or “mall era” shopping centers.

A commercial building on Pico

Pico Spaulding Shopping Center, 1987

San Vicente Gardens, 1958

Most of the neighborhood’s modest apartments were built in the 1950s, although it’s usually safe to assume that Norman Revival apartments, or those painted chalky pink, were built in the preceding decade.

Norman Revival apartment buildings

The neighborhood’s other borders are formed by Hauser Boulevard to the east, which hosts no businesses (although when I passed through, there was a fruit vendor on Packard Street offering his produce to the motorists crawling along the surprisingly traffic-choked route. Fairfax Boulevard forms the western border of the neighborhood but since the early 1990s, the overwhelmingly Ethiopian and Eritrean-operated businesses there have effectively seceded and thus, as Little Ethiopia, achieved a sort of de facto neighborhood independence.

Pendersleigh & Sons Cartography‘s map of Midtown Los Angeles

Wilshire Vista’s other neighbors include Carthay Square, Faircrest Heights, the Miracle Mile District, Picfair Village, Pico Park, and the similarly (but somewhat confusingly) named Wilshire Vista Highlands. References to the multi-neighborhood region of Midtown date back at least to 1935 — and yet more than once I’ve heard Angelenos (invariably ones who don’t live there) claim that no one refers to the region thus. Since the early 1970s, “Mid-City” began to overtake Midtown in regional usage, even if it’s not exactly synonymous (no one, for example, refers to Koreatown — undeniably located in Midtown — as being part of Mid-City). There are indications in business names (e.g. Hollywood Cigar and Miracle Mile Medical Center) as well as gang placas claiming “WS” that no one is in absolute agreement about the neighborhood’s geography and the only signs I saw proclaiming Wilshire Vista” were identical in design and include the cryptic tagline “a community of respect since 1921.”

A “community of respect since 1921” …as long as you’re not a truck weighing over 6,000 pounds.

What it was not, since 1921, was a neighborhood of racial diversity. Before World War II, the area — with the exception of servants — was exclusively white, thanks to the racially restrictive housing covenants which determined where Angelenos could live, based on their ethnicity. It was home, however, to a substantial foreign-born population of immigrants from Austria, Canada, England, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Russia. The most common languages spoken were English, German, Russian, and Yiddish. Most native-born residents were transplants from the Midwest and East, rather than from California natives.

Wilshire Vista is now a rather diverse neighborhood. According to the website, City-Data — which I rightly or wrongly assume rightly acquires its data from a recent census — Wilshire Vista is home to 3,233 residents, .3% of whom were Native American, .9% identified as “other race,” 3% were mixed race, 6% were Asian-Pacific Islander, 13.9% were Latino, 35.3% were non-Latino white, and 40.1% were black.

The “car line” originally promised to the Wilshire Vista’s first, potential homebuyers never did arrive. I don’t know whether or not Vaughan and McCarty made the promise in good faith; unscrupulous developers certainly weren’t above placing “sold” signs on un-sold houses and promising public transit in order to spur purchases. Whatever the case, LARy’s Pico and First Street Line (and later P Line) never extended west of Rimpau Boulevard, where it terminated two kilometers east of the neighborhood’s easternmost edge. It was a popular line, however, and was sometimes blamed for siphoning transit users from PE’s Santa Monica via Sawtelle Line, which ceased operation in 1951. Today bus transit is provided in Wilshire Vista by Metro’s 30, 330, 28, Rapid 728, and Rapid 780 lines; and Big Blue Bus’s 7 and R7 lines.

A long alley behind San Vicente Boulevard

Another alley, this time behind Pico

Oddly-placed stairs in an alley

55 years later there are still no trains serving the neighborhood. Nor is there — the car-free explorer can’t help but notice — even a single section of bicycle lane on any of the neighborhood’s fifteen streets or lengthy, unnamed alleys. Nowhere is this car-centricity on more annoying display than on San Vicente Boulevard, a road created for a train and, at 38 meters wide, big enough to accommodate not only protected bicycle lanes but light rail lines, dedicated bus lanes, and fairly wide bioswales, all while retaining the landscaped median. Were it not for the cars, the road itself could be quite appealing, it’s wide median landscaped with a variety of trees and plants just begging for the sort of walking/jogging path it would accommodate if this were a street in Mexico City.

A fleeting moment of relative calm on San Vicente Boulevard

A vacant property on Pico

The ruins of an abandoned Walgreen’s

Pico, on the other hand, is the neighborhood’s only street that could be described as vibrant, even though many of the storefronts are currently vacant — including a fairly large, former Walgreen’s, built in 2008, but vacant since last year. I didn’t see a lot of people walking — but then, most of the businesses are the sort that attract motorists on a specific mission, not rambling pedestrians. There are places selling upholstery, drapery, insurance, flooring, lighting fixtures, and offering printing, or computer repair. About a dozen of the street’s shops could broadly be described as providing maintenance, with about half offering car repair and the other half offering haircuts, styling, and massage.

La Pico Plaza, 1966

Tires used to advertise tires…

…and tires used to grow geraniums

Most of the auto shops, I must point out, are not the sort of charming Streamline Moderne ones that some Angelenos value more than housing, rather they’re almost all the sort of cinderblock constructed Smog Check Revival style buildings that some Angelenos value more than housing. Although Pico is not as wide as San Vicente, it does accommodate a median, and has room for dedicated bicycle lanes, if only there was the political will necessary to overcome inertia (the neighborhood, part of the Los Angeles’s 10th Council District, is currently represented by Los Angeles City Council president, Herb J. Wesson Jr.). There are also two neighborhood bicycle shops — Mike’s Bike Shop and SoundCycles.

Eagle-eyes are required to read “Sound Cycles” on this signage

Hand-painted signage… soon to be repainted, according to a barber

Entrance to LADWP Distributing Station No. 43

The homes in Wilshire Vista almost all possess undeniable architectural charms but one of the most appealing buildings in the neighborhood is the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s (LADWP) Distributing Station No. 43, which like so many LADWP buildings conveys a sense of being imposing, impregnable, and very mysterious. Although heavy metal doors had a peephole, I assumed that there was no on the other side. The building is engraved “A.D. 1927,” which is the date it was built for the LA Gas and Electric Co. That company and its properties were purchased by the Los Angeles Bureau of Power and Light in 1937, shortly before merging with the Bureau of Water Works and Supply and to create the LADWP. See also “Early Power Distribution Stations,” which includes photos of distributing station interiors that would look right at home in a photographic exhibition on “die Neue Sachlichkeit.”

Pico/Genesee Drilling Island

Even more intriguing than the distribution station is the Pico/Genesee Drilling Island, an oil well encased in what appears, at first glance, the architecture of a mid-rise office building. The Packard Well Site is one of four drilling islands still extracting oil from the Beverly Hills Oil Field so that we can keep the fossil fuel fire burning and drink beverages with plastic straws. The mostly windowless building constructed in 1968, when apparently people thought nothing about living next to a beautiful and terrible petrochemical extraction facility and the public could enter through the front door and watch the machinery at work.

Don’t trespass, smoke, get cancer, or breathe

Today the oil well is operated by Houston-based, Freeport-McMoRan, who no longer allow the public to access the lobby. Warnings to trespassers (and would be smokers) are posted on all sides — as are warnings about the cancer-causing chemicals present at the site.

A welcoming, if apparently purely decorative, footpath and bridge

As with the distribution station, it appeared to be unstaffed. On the eastern side, there was a guard-post which, upon approaching turned out to be vacant. On the western edge, a winding path and footbridge appeared to have seen little if any use. Cocking my ear I could hear nothing but a quiet, industrial hum providing the mellifluous counterpoint to the soft rustle of sweet gum and magnolia leaves.

The locked, barred, and chained entrance to the educational display

In front, a window looked to have been knocked out with a rock but it was through the tinted windows that I could make out something of the interior, lit through the roofless building by the sun above. Although I wouldn’t want to live anywhere near an active oil well, no matter what its aesthetic appeal, the lover of supervillain lairs in me inevitably imagined decorating the place with some Danish furniture purchased from a shop around the corner called West Coast Modern L.A.

West Coast Modern L.A.

Just north of West Coast Modern LA and the Walgreen’s haikyo is the Korean Western Presbyterian Church. In the case of this building, it’s not just the aesthetics of its architecture that drew me to it but the demographic story it told. Hebrew dedications, a stained-glass Magan David, and other symbols revealed, quite clearly, that its life as a Korean church it was a Jewish synagogue.

Research revealed that the synagogue was constructed in 1950 as the Congregation Rodef Sholom-Etz Chayim Synagogue and that it had come into being when the Rodef Sholom Congregation, previously of South Los Angeles’s Westside, merged with the Etz Chayim Congregation, previously of South Los Angles’s Eastside, and both had decided to leave make the exodus to Midtown, a region where racially restrictive housing covenants prohibiting Jews, blacks, and all other non-WASPs from buying homes in most neighborhoods was overturned by the United States Supreme Court in the case of Shelley v. Kraemer.

By 1959, the synagogue was known as Temple Judea but many Jews didn’t permanently settle in Midtown and eventually reached the promised land of the Westside. In 1975, the congregation moved to its home at the B’nai David-Judea Congregation in the Westside neighborhood of Pico-Robertson. Koreans, in many cases compelled to leave their homeland by American-backed dictator Park Chung Hee’s “Heavy-Chemical Industry Drive” where among the next wave of Midtown settlers and in 1982, the old synagogue became a Korean Presbyterian Church.

I was exploring midday on a Tuesday, so it’s likely that most who live in the neighborhood were at work, which probably, combined with its suburban oasis calm, gave me the impression of a very quiet neighborhood, aside from the commercial streets located along its edges. From what I saw, I can’t imagine that there’s much more civic life at night, though. Although located in the middle of a vibrant metropolis, Wilshire Vista does feel like a suburb — and the archetypical suburbanite prefers the private to the public, yards to parks, home theaters to cinemas, and wet bars to dives.

There is a live theater space, though, VS. Theatre Company, which was founded in Wilshire Vista in 2004 and produces, in its space, original works. Although I haven’t yet attended a performance there if you’ve never experienced (and supported) live theater I absolutely encourage you to do so. I’ll keep my eye for upcoming performances.

Plastic bollards and purple curb extensions awaiting planters on Pico

In the past, there have been occasional community events. In 2014, there was the Wilshire Vista Neighborhood Mixer, organized by the Wilshire Vista Neighborhood Association. In 2017, there was the Wilshire Vista Block Party, organized by the P.I.C.O. Neighborhood Council. The best bet, however, seems to be 3rd Thursdays on Pico, which takes place on the third Thursday of the month (naturally), from 15:00-21:00, between Fairfax and Cochran Place. I’ve not been yet but according to the Great Streets website, it features “local businesses as they showcase live music, food, art, and more,” which sounds a bit like a night market and thus totally up my alley.

Speaking of alleys — I actually began my exploration behind by walking down an unnamed alley behind Little Ethiopia. On my left were residential garages and on my right, Ethiopian restaurants and markets, which to my surprise (because Los Angeles alleys are usually sadly underutilized spaces) there were back entrances to most of the Ethiopian businesses. In any neighborhood exploration, I like to eat in that neighborhood and Ethiopian cuisine is one of my absolute favorites. What’s more, I’d skipped breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, and brunch and the aromas of berbere, coffee, and niter kibbeh seemed to be tugging at my stomach like sirens. However, even though Little Ethiopia technically straddles Carthay Square and Wilshire Vista and thus, I could argue, can be regarded as part of Wilshire Vista — it’s really its own entity and so I summoned up all of my strength and decided to eat somewhere in Wilshire Vista proper.

Powerplant Cafe and, if you look closely, that scourge of urban life — a humble Bird scooter

My lunch alarm went off at 14:00 at which time I found myself in front of Powerplant Superfood Cafe, a gluten-free, mostly vegan restaurant. As a vegetarian (albeit a gluten-loving one), this sounded promising and so I popped it. It was very clean and the servers were pleasingly friendly. The food was pretty good, although personally, I wouldn’t have minded if my BBQ “meatloaf” (quinoa) sandwich had been a bit juicier and barbecue-y — maybe that’s just the Missourian in me. As unlikely as salads are to inspire praise, I found mine to be delicious. The iced coffee, too, was tasty and restorative. The coconut-based mocha ice cream was almost impossibly rich. Other restaurants in the neighborhood include CJ’s Cafe, Charlie’s Fish & Chip, Ho Ho Kitchen, My Two Cents, ROUNDK, and Stevie’s Creole Cafe. The only “market” in the neighborhood appears to be Sunshine Liquor and, for your hot sauce needs, there’s the Fuego Hot Sauce Store.

Hand-painted, incandescent, and neon signage at Stevie’s Creole Café

When researching this piece, I looked at Airbnb listings to see how neighborhood residents are now promoting the neighborhood, since the LARy streetcar is never coming, and a journey to the Broadway Theater District (which is, for better or for worse, not what it was in the silent film era) by bus will more likely take 45 minutes and involve a transfer. Most often mentioned in these posts is the ample parking — which seems completely unworthy of mention since no one in their right mind would rent a car when visiting Los Angeles and if one did, you certainly wouldn’t want them staying in your home.

As in 1922, I think it’s Wilshire Wilshire’s proximity to attractions outside the neighborhood that might be more worth mention. The Purple Line Extension is scheduled to open nearby in 2023, a year after the neighborhood turns 100 years old. Metro is also currently considering several routes for extending the Crenshaw line north to the Purple and Red lines. All but one involve routing the train from Crenshaw up San Vicente and from there branching north up La Brea Avenue, Fairfax Avenue, or La Cienega Boulevard to Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood.

But even now, a walk of ten minutes or less can take one to Museum Row (the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Craft and Folk Art Museum, the Petersen Automotive Museum, and the George C. Page Museum), Little Ethiopia, the Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles, the El Rey Theater, the Zimmer Children’s Museum, Tom Bergin’s (assuming someone re-opens it), Ballona Creek, The Mint, and an India Sweets and Spices. The Beverly Center, the Museum of Tolerance, and the Expo Line‘sLa Cienega/Jefferson Station are no further away than a transfer-less, fifteen-minute bus ride. For the Wilshire Vistan still clamoring for a streetcar, in 2013 developer Rick Caruso floated the idea of extending an actual streetcar down Fairfax from his mall, the Grove, to the nearby Wilshire/Fairfax Station.

A cherub — a being created by God to protect the Garden of Eden

As seen in an alley

Sign with photography from Senegalese-Angeleno Djibril Drame