Cannot wait!!!
What To Expect: The LA Times Festival Of Books 2012
Only one event can bring Oscar-award winning actress, Julie Andrews, L.A. riots figure Rodney King, and reality TV sensation, Bethenny Frankel, together, while attracting the likes of over 150,000 people. The literary feat to end all—the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books returns to USC next Saturday for a weekend celebration of bibliophilia unlike any other.
Among the esteemed guests taking the stage will be a slew of celebrated writers including T.C. Boyle, John Green and Judy Blume, who will be on hand to partake in simulating panel discussions, book signings, and general conversations about their latest literary musings.
The celebrity-turned-author is a unique breed that sees no shortage at the Festival of Books and this year will be no different. L.A.’s deep-rooted ties with the entertainment industry will be well represented, once again, with the likes of veteran actor John Cusack, retired pro-basketball player Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Golden Girls’ Betty White, among many others, to promote their newest endeavors.
Considering the formidable lineup of authors, speakers, and events are scheduled to take place at the Festival of Books next week, L.A. is bound to be the literary Mecca of the world—if only for one weekend.
The Los Angeles Theatre (at 615 S. Broadway), built in 1931 in the French baroque style of Louis XIV, it was a virtual Hollywood cathedral. Famous for its huge crystal fountain in the lobby, the Los Angeles Theatre was considered one of the four or five finest movie palaces in the world. Not an inch of the interior was left undecorated, from the elegant stage curtains and ornate balcony, to the intricately-carved ceiling of its lobby. It is spectacular. When the Los Angeles Theatre was about to go under during the Depression, Charlie Chaplin paid an exorbitant amount of money to keep the posh 1,967-seat theater afloat, so that he could have the grand premiere of his masterpiece “City Lights” there. The Los Angeles Theatre recently closed and is currently sitting idle, except for occasional film shoots.
Please re-open.
This, everything about this, makes me so happy.
If only it was sooner to come, but let’s hope for someday.
Hell yes. Really excited about this one, I’ll be able to see its ongoings every day from my balcony.
The ABC application is up on the corner of 6th and Main Street downtown for that new restaurant and market tentatively titled 600 Main Market. As it turns out this venue has been named Fuse and is backed by financier Alex Moradi. Kelly Architects will handle the 6,000 square foot corner space buildout which will become a marketplace, deli, bar, and restaurant. The restaurant will have a French-Asian-style menu designed by Patrice Rozat. In the same space, the marketplace will evoke Bottega Louie and Joan’s on Third. If all goes well, expect a grand opening this November.
you tell em, aswelivewesing! That IS what policy and planning should be all about.
Supporters of the South Central Farm weren’t able to keep the land in 2006 but saw the plan to put in a park nearby as a silver lining. Now, Los Angeles Councilwoman Jan Perry seeks a change to the deal in exchange for more development.
Photo credit: Los Angeles Times
This is what the policy and planning fields are all about —at least the kind I’m interested in (the push and pull between environmental and socioeconomic grassroots efforts and governmental red tape…solutions anyone?)
It’s happening, it’s finally happening!
Miss ya Downtown L.A., and glad to see that the Grand Ave Redevelopment Project is finally underway…
It’s so great to see downtown just get better and better.
Great photos featured in an LA Times collection titled “Lighter than air: A view of downtown L.A. from the Goodyear blimp”
Click the photo to see the rest.
- this list includes lots of, but is not limited to, Downtown Los Angeles (click here for more DTLA), 30 Rock, food, cheese, New York City and Paris, great music and post-ironic artifacts.
enjoy the "online museum" i co-curate, Artifacts of Modernity, at ArtofMod.com
enjoy my musical musings at last.fm
