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Council for several years, with USA RE OL APPROES PLAS TO LD Water Polo’s move and the proposed Aquatics Center bringing plans to fruition. ATHLET FALTES AD ORE AT THE REAT “We are so excited that we are, after many years, bringing water polo to PAR the Great Park,” said Irvine Mayor Christina Shea. Located in the western sector of Great Park, the Aquatics Center will be a state-of-the-art water polo complex, CITY AND FIVEPOINT HOLDINGS PARTNERSHIP IS DELIVERING ON PROMISE TO featuring three pools for both public BUILD GREAT PAR. and private use. As home to the USA team, the facility will be used for Olympic training, with more than two-thirds of USA Water Polo activities BY: TARA FINLEY being open to the public. The pools are being scouted as a potential host site PHOTOS COURTESY OF: FIVEPOINT HOLDINGS for the 2028 Olympics as well. Not just to the benefit of Olympians, the Aquatics Center has much to oˆer pwards of $250 million will Water Polo and its men’s and women’s ing on the longstanding partnership fields and baseball stadium. the community, including water safety be spent by home-builder Olympic teams leading up to the 2024 between the city and the home-build- USA Water Polo, the governing body programs, recreational water polo FivePoint Holdings on ameni- Summer Games in Paris. er to build the Great Park. The new of the sport and its American mem- leagues and city-organized swim- ties for Irvine’s Great Park In a public meeting on Tuesday, commitments from FivePoint are on bers, relocated to Irvine earlier this ming activities. Uincluding a much anticipated Aquat- October 22, the Irvine City Council ap- top of the already built soccer stadium, year. According to city staˆ, water “Champions will be made here,” said ics Center that will be home to USA proved the plan with FivePoint, build- soccer fields, softball fields, baseball polo has been on the mind of the City USA Water Polo CEO Christopher IRVINEWEEKLY﹒COM| OCTOBER 30, 2019 | 5 A multi-level park- multi-level A For the community, bringing USA meansGreatPark the to Polo Water sportand theconnectiongreater to a possibilitiesathletes. more young for “We will host many tournaments and neigh- our clinics to openwillthat be becomeIrvine’s home to hope bors.We training Olympians our Having team. real a communitybewithinshould the athletes,” younger inspirationthe to Ramsey. said Field the water, the of athletesout For the from adapted is conceptHouse mas-GreatParkoriginal approved spacea will provide and plan ter volleyballindoor assports such for basketball. and structuretheing inwill builtalsobe quadrant. “Tuesday was more than just a saidsomething,” approve hearing to of chairmanCEOEmileHaddad,and of moment a trulywas “It FivePoint. celebration.” Haddad iselated to be a part of this spent has he how project,reflectingon build-dedicatedyearspast 20to the - -MAOR SHEA -MAOR “WE ARE INA “WE ARE INA THIS PARK GETTING BUIT” “Over time, Irvinetime,will becomeknown“Over polo greatwater world’s the of one as Ramseypredicts.hope- centers,” am “I leadershipwillcivicbe futurethat ful the and Shea Mayor as enlightened as find we IrvinethatCouncil,andCity visionpartnerstheprivate with more which FivePoint, andEmile Haddad of somethingtrulyhistoric done has here.” What does having a home in Irvine’s Polo? Water USA for mean GreatPark “It means we will be part of a commu cheer events, willourthatattend nity teams,and women’s and men’s our for familiesappreciationtheiran teach Olympic thesport in toughest the for willalso“Itbuild Games,” Ramsey. said excitement for the L.A. Games in 2028.” -

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ing a public-private partnership that Additionally, the public saw plans and completion of the Great Park’s city’s partnership with FivePoint to would help Irvine flourish. for FivePoint X, a complement to the sports-focused western sector stands develop the 688 acres of land will aid Lauding the City Council for its ability sports complex that will include hotels, between 18 to 24 months after construc- in getting even more projects o– the to put politics aside and serve its con- extended-stay hospitality, unique food tion breaks ground in 2021. The city ground according to Mayor Shea. The stituency by embracing partnership, and beverage vendors, and a movie hopes to finalize all the details of the mayor anticipates that developing the Haddad said that what the public saw theater. This will allow for a greater project in early 2020, with its com- entire western quadrant will pave the at the October 22 meeting was “much synergy between the community and pletion in time for the USA Water Polo way for the completion of the veterans bigger than an agreement and is much Great Park amenities. team to begin training for the 2024 cemetery, botanical gardens and the bigger than a facility. What we saw Not to be overshadowed by some Paris Olympics. development of the cultural terrace. is a celebration of the public-private of the larger statements made at the Met with a standing ovation, the “We are finally getting this park built,” partnership which we embarked upon meeting, FivePoint also pledged to decision to move forward with the said Mayor Shea. about six years ago.” keep the iconic Great Park balloon For Haddad, that moment was an running, making it once again free for emotional one, as he described two riders. New developments are on the sets of heroes, veterans and Olympi- way for this feature as well, as Haddad ans, giving politicians unprecedented shared in an exclusive interview with applause for reaching beyond politics Irvine Weekly that his team is current- and acting in the public interest. ly working on adding a virtual-reality “It was a moment in time to say, that element to the ride, allowing guests at the end of the day, it’s about your to view the city through the lens of an constituency,” said Haddad. immersive Oculus-type experience. The approved Great Park sport facili- “We have thoughts for the balloon ties are not the only things in the works. to make it even more usable, with an A Lifetime Wellness Center is also element that will excite people about planned, with an estimated 125,000 what’s happening and what’s to square feet dedicated to fitness, health come,” shared Haddad. and nutrition. The current timeline for construction IRVINEWEEKLY﹒COM| OCTOBER 30, 2019 | 7

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IRVINEWEEKLY﹒COM Klein all hail from Irvine, as do a mul- engineering. Then I went and interned were ahead of it, and it really worked titude of athletes, entertainers, writers and started a studio up there.” out for us.” and politicians. The latest rising stars, The decision to begin writing and While YouTube does provide a means Bryce Savage and Cameron Wales, releasing music on a weekly basis for content providers to make money, comprise the pop, electronic, hip-hop came after college. “After I graduated Savage and Wales used it mainly as and alternative duo Ne†ex. Ne†ex is college, Cam and I basically moved a marketing tool through which they currently in the midst of its first Europe- into an apartment together [in Costa were able to capitalize o† of numerous an tour, and released its first EP, Q203 on Mesa], and we realized you can make music streaming platforms. “We just October 16. 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That’s what basically tour, which they launched on Septem- Wayne, Savage and Wales formulated started paying us, and we almost ber 12 at The Troubadour in L.A., Irvine their plan. “We kind of sat down and immediately saw revenue once our Weekly had a chance to speak with we were like, ‘Yo, what’s something YouTube started growing.” Savage and Wales about their journey that we could do that is consistent, that The next chapter of Ne†ex’s journey as musicians and producers. we can keep ourselves accountable has been very fast and has occurred “After the punk rock band, we kind of for?’ and all that good stu†.” Savage very recently. After their manager got together and started actually pro- said, “And we figured out that with our reached out to the A&R [artists and ducing music on computers [using] Ga- nine-to-fives, we could get a track a repertoire] department of 12 Tone Music rageband, Mixcraft, Reason ... all sorts week out basically. 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TRFETA AT AT TRFETA ARTS COURTESY ARTS ENTERTAINMENT by participants over several months, recording, representing one murdered ceased artist, who was known for con- the Museum of Modern Art. concluding on February 8, 2020. After victim, and comprises police reports, ceptual work in many di—erent media, UCI’s smaller Room Gallery features that date, the display will move across court transcripts, witness testimonials and for the fact that “Lutz Bacher” was an exhibition of 30 films to be screened the country to other universities, mu- and audios of bystanders. A second a pseudonym, are in sync with her over five days each week. Titled, seums, storefronts, community centers room displays 22 large metal boxes mysterious personality. “Beirut Lab: 1975(2020),” the films are and churches. containing legal documents, one for The core of the show is the artwork ti- by artists living and working in Beirut, Participants were advised that the each murder. Visitors are welcome to tled “Moskva” that the artist completed and these works were chosen and exhibition addresses the relationship open the boxes and read the docu- shortly before her death in May 2019. It curated by Juli Carson and Yassmeen between culture and law, while ex- ments. consists of nearly 100 unframed prints, Tukan. Carson, a UCI art professor, amining the cultural conditions under “American Monument” — which also all blow-ups from the pages of Russian taught at the American University of

IRVINEWEEKLY﹒COM which African-Americans lose their involves the UCI School of Law, the uni- spy novels (which she apparently read Beirut from 2018 to 2019, where she be- lives to police brutality. versity’s Center on Law, Equality and voraciously). These personal pages, came acquainted with these films; she As the first full iteration of this art Race, and its departments of African emblazoning the gallery walls and de- simultaneously raised her awareness and law exhibition, it follows a brief American Studies, Social Ecology, Art scending to the floor, reveal the artist’s of the significance of the Lebanese showing of this work at California History and Art — addresses the rela- dark and elusive nature. One sentence Civil War (1975-1991). State University Long Beach, where it tionship between race, violence and from a page reads: “Instead you are At the press preview, Carson discussed “was paused there by the artist as an power. Lauren Woods, an interdisci- here, and you have me, and we are the implications of state-sanctioned act of protest,” according to publicity plinary artist from Texas who created daring and desperate and dangerous evasive memory in Lebanon, partic- material. the exhibition, and its curator, Kimberli operatives, saving the world and plan- ularly regarding that civil war. She The display begins on the bucolic Meyer of Los Angeles, anticipate that ning the destruction of evil.” also talked about the younger gener- grounds outside the Beall Center, the participatory monument will ulti- Curated by UC Irvine professor of ation of artists in that country who are OCTOBER 30, 2019 | 2019 30, OCTOBER where an installation is imprinted with mately a—ect police brutality laws. art Monica Majoli, the exhibition also attempting to untangle their inherited, | the names of 22 African-Americans “Blue Wave Lutz Bacher,” in the includes two wall-size iPhone videos, “gap in Lebanon’s state sanctioned 14 who have lost their lives to police bru- nearby University Art Gallery and titled “Blue Wave,” of New York City’s national history,” as she said. She then tality since the late 1990s. (Eric Garner Contemporary Art Center Gallery, is East Village rooftops, presumably shot compared the compromised collec- and Trayvon Martin are among the a multi-faceted exhibition involving during the 2018 midterm elections. tive Lebanese memory with political 22 victims.) As the exhibition proceeds, video, photography and prints from Here also are “Rocket,” an enormous conditions and evasions in the United the grounds will also include wind pages of Russian spy novels. With the color photo of a rocket, and a series of States. chimes, representing flowing water title alluding to the 2018 U.S. election’s short videos titled “Modules,” which When asked to further explain this and ground cover featuring red plants. dramatic shift, resulting in partial will be screened continuously in com- perspective, Carson wrote in an email: Within the Beall Center, 22 turntables congressional takeover by Democrats, puter labs in UCI’s art department. Both “‘Beirut Lab’ is at once an illumination on pedestals form the core of the exhi- it is intriguing that politics are barely the artist and the curator have their and a cautionary tale. On the one bition. Each turntable, which viewers referenced in the work. work in major museums collections, hand, the exhibition sheds light on an are invited to use, features an audio This exhibition by the recently de- including the Whitney Museum and intergenerational group of artists who chase the repressed memory of Beirut’s Civil War, a specter that haunts the city’s reconstructed landscape to this day. On the other hand, ‘Beirut Lab’ is a 8 YEARS LATER, DAPPER DAY HAS cautionary tale for Americans, as we look forward towards 2020. For we, too, FLOODED THE WORLD are experiencing the kind of vociferous cultural tribalism — characterized by a paranoid disregard of those we deem THE INDEPENDENT EVENT FOUNDED BY JUSTIN ‘other,’ that drove Lebanon to war with itself in 1975. 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