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Community News Port of Los Angeles Makes Waves with Overhaul Plans
Moving Day for the L.A. Rams
The Harbor Commission has approved the first phase of construction on the $150 million San Pedro Public Market development, the long-awaited overhaul
Having played their last game at the Coliseum, the team’s home for the past four years, the Rams organization is looking ahead to their new digs at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. “SoFi Stadium will be a destination that will welcome Rams fans from around the world and is more than 85% complete, with the roof panel and seat installations underway,” Rams COO Kevin Demoff said in a statement. “The Oculus, a first-of-its-kind 70,000 square foot double-sided display board with 4K video, is being assembled within the stadium. Our culinary experience, which will be uniquely Los Angeles and feature food made to order in front of your eyes, is being finalized. “Additionally, we continue to focus on making this the best fan experience in the world with the latest technology, amazing partnerships, operational ease and our
of the Ports O’ Call Village. It will include 100,000 square feet for restaurants, 40,000 square feet for retail businesses and 30,000 square feet for offices. With the groundbreaking expected in the spring, this first phase could be finished as soon as the fall of 2021. Additionally, work has begun on the L.A. Waterfront town square and promenade, which will link the San Pedro downtown harbor with the San Pedro Public Market. The four-acre town square will include areas for the public, as well as new landscaping and signage. Once completed, the 42-acre San Pedro Public Market will feature shops, entertainment, restaurants and a 30-foot-wide waterfront promenade. It is a joint venture between TheRatkovich Company and Jerico Development. The port, the busiest in the country, has so far invested more than $700 million in developing the waterfront.
diehard fans.” The arena will house both the Rams and Chargers.The move to SoFi is one of many changes Rams’ fans are anticipating this year. The team is also expected to get designed uniforms, helmets, fresh colors and a revamped logo.
Community News Garbage in But No Garbage Out L.A. Sanitation’s general manager Enrique Zaldivar has announced the city’s entire fleet will be moving to 100 percent zero-emissions trucks by 2035. This makes L.A. the first major city in the U.S. to commit to such a goal. The bureau is estimated to have more than 750 vehicles. At a panel event hosted by the Los Angeles County Electric Truck and Bus Coalition, Zaldivar added that truck procurement will be entirely electric within two years. Coalition members, including the Sierra Club, called on the city last summer to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The news comes as Los Angeles ramps up efforts to cut air pollution and reduce its carbon footprint. Mayor Eric Garcetti has called for a Green New Deal for Los
and run through December 2021, officials are now considering tightening rules to address safety and pricing concerns. As well, they are recommending the number of companies able to participate be reduced to three. Preference would be given to companies that meet certain standards. Those conditions could include ensuring the device has systems to cut down on sidewalk riding. Whatever regulations are decided on, and regardless of which companies get the go-ahead, the number of devices on the streets is expected to remain the same.
Culver City is Shrinking
Angeles that charts a course for the city to be carbonneutral by 2050.
Santa Monica Stays Mobile The city launched the Shared Mobility Pilot Program in September 2018, allowing Lyft, Bird, Lime and Uber-owned Jump to operate the devices. With a second pilot program expected to launch in July
Or at least their apartments are. With the local tech sector expected to drive demand for housing, the city council has decided to allow the construction of apartments as small as 350 square feet. Before this, no apartment could be smaller than 500 square feet in Culver City. But that was before Apple and Amazon came to town. The idea is to spur on the development of so-called micro-units, which tend to be about 30 percent cheaper than the norm. Culver City isn’t requiring the units have private open spaces – no balconies or patios – but there will have to be at least 100 square feet of communal open space.
Restaurant
Spotlight
Pasjoli
Onda
American Beauty
2732 Main Street, Santa Monica
700 Wilshire Boulevard Santa Monica
425 Rose Avenue, Venice
Pressed for success. How else to describe this chic French restaurant’s most talked-about dish: a whole bird, crushed at your table in a 19th century heavy metal press? But Pasjoli is also much more than a single menu item, even if it is $165 for two and available by pre-order only. An upscale departure from the Santa Monica norm, Pasjoli offers an atmosphere at least as refined as the food. As for the cuisine, it is predictably flawless.
This restaurant describes itself as being “in conversation between two sister-cities, Los Angeles and Mexico City, focusing primarily on seafood of the Pacific using ingredients from Mexico and the farmers markets in Los Angeles.” This marriage of culture and cuisine has already produced some favorites, including the turkey quesadilla, satsuma sweet potato and name-says-it-all Fish Hiding in Kelp.
This Venice steakhouse embraces the bygone era of filet mignons, New York strips and dry-aged porterhouses. American Beauty’s wooden booths, dark lighting, a horseshoe-shaped bar and the mood is complete. (Anytime you want to remind yourself what the actual year is, seek out the seafood - from the colossal prawns to the hamachi collar).
SIGHTS & SOUNDS in LOS ANGELES
Night Gallery 2276 East 16th Street Los Angeles, CA 90021
The Homer Project 4529 Homer St. Los Angeles, CA 90031
Art + Practice Exhibition Space 3401 W. 43rd Pl. Los Angeles, CA 90008
CURRENT EXHIBITION:
CURRENT EXHIBITION:
CURRENT EXHIBITION:
Josh Callaghan’s Social Block Now– June 1, 2020
Justin Lowman: Windows-Phase Three of Four Now – June 1, 2020
Collective Constellation: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection Now – August 1, 2020
Josh Callaghan’s Social Block, which inaugurates Night Gallery’s new outdoor exhibition space, takes its inspiration from that most common of building materials: the cinder block. At approximately 2.3 times a normal scale, Social Block forms a new relationship to the human body, “existing at the juncture of sculpture, furniture and architecture.” The installation is a tableau, an associative landscape onto which the viewer is invited to project the long arc of human history and its cycles of construction.
“Phase Three of Four” is activated by the stillness and movement of the sun. In other words, what time of day it is when you arrive at the viewing will determine how you experience it. For that reason, The Homer Project recommends you either plan to view the work for an extended period of time or see it multiple times, each at a different point during the day. The work aims to engage with perceptions of both materiality and time itself.
Art + Practice and the Hammer Museum present this selection of work by women of color from the personal collection of Art + Practice co-founder, Eileen Harris Norton. Harris Norton has been supporting Los Angeles-based artists for more than 30 years. Collective Constellation puts the spotlight on these trailblazers and their impact on the world of contemporary art. The works range from painting and printmaking to sculpture and video to photography and installation. They also include such artists as
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