Navigating 30 Years on the Masthead Mile, As Shown in This Rendering
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BEVERLYPRESS.COM INSIDE • Kobe mural on La Brea pg. 3 Sunny, with • Special guest highs in the columnists 60s pgs. 4, 6, 10 Volume 30 No. 6 Serving the Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Hancock Park and Wilshire Communities February 6, 2020 $50 million gift boosts ‘It’s called the Walk of Fame for a reason’ n Plan for revitalized LACMA’s transformation Walk of Fame focuses n Construction could begin by end of February on pedestrians BY EDWIN FOLVEN David Geffen Galleries, a new BY CAMERON KISZLA building that will span Wilshire The Los Angeles County Boulevard, connects with the A proposal from Los Angeles Museum of Art has announced a street’s southern side at Spaulding City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell, $50 million gift from the W.M. Avenue. The goal is to reach the 13th District, could lead to major Keck Foundation that coupled with $650-million mark by the end of changes for one of the city’s most other donations, places the museum February. When the money is well-known landmarks. on track to reach its $650 million raised, LACMA plans to get under- On Jan. 30, O’Farrell released a goal for its “Building LACMA” way with major construction. Four concept master plan for campaign. of the museum’s longstanding main Hollywood Boulevard and the rendering courtesy of the Council District 13 office More than $640 million has been Hollywood Walk of Fame, which City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell’s plan to redesign Hollywood raised thus far. The museum’s See New page 35 sees an estimated 10 million visi- Boulevard and the Walk of Fame would remove two traffic lanes in tors each year. O’Farrell said exchange for an expanded sidewalk. though the Walk of Fame and Hollywood Boulevard are well- Boulevard,” O’Farrell said. can more fully experience a newly known across the world, tourists, Part of his HEART of repaired Walk of Fame or enjoy a as well as residents and those who Hollywood initiative – HEART meal or coffee at a sidewalk café. work or own businesses in the stands for history, economy, arts It also plans to plant more shade area, could be experiencing a and architecture, renewal and tra- trees for a more pleasant environ- “much, much better” Hollywood. dition – O’Farrell’s plan seeks to ment and to install signage to alert “I have a pretty strong feeling highlight those qualities. The plan visitors to points of historical that we haven’t reached near our envisions wider sidewalks with full potential on Hollywood more space for pedestrians so they See Plan page 35 rendering courtesy of Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partner/The Boundary The new building at LACMA will span Wilshire Boulevard on the Miracle Navigating 30 years on the masthead Mile, as shown in this rendering. n It’s been an everyday adventure and a journey BH council candidates we’d take again debate issues in forum BY KAREN VILLALPANDO Elijah P. Lovejoy was an aboli- n All five ballot appear on the ballot – challengers tionist and newspaper publisher in Rabbi Sidney “Simcha” Green, the 1830s in Alton, Ill., my home- candidates and member of the city’s Technology town. A statue is erected there in write-in challenger Committee Robin Rowe and his honor. My first newspaper job discuss issues Planning Commissioner Lori was at the Alton Telegraph, just a Greene Gordon, and incumbents few blocks from the Lovejoy BY CAMERON KISZLA Lili Bosse and Dr. Julian Gold – Monument where I was a recep- were present for a candidate tionist and answered a rotary dial On Feb. 3, the candidates for forum hosted by the Municipal phone. I took classified ads, and Beverly Hills City Council faced League of Beverly Hills. later became the assistant to the off in the room over which they Attorney Aimee Zeltzer, who marketing director. In college, I soon hope to preside. qualified as a write-in candidate worked at the Columbia In the Council Chambers at Missourian while I earned my City Hall, all five candidates to See Municipal page 34 bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. The Missouri School of Journalism publishes the Missourian, a daily newspaper cir- photo from the Park Labrea News archives culated throughout the city. I edit- News that the Park Labrea News has new owners made the headlines ed news stories and sold advertis- on Jan. 11, 1990. Thirty years later, the publishers reflect on their jour- ing, and it was through the J- ney of a lifetime. School that I landed my first post- college job at the Los Angeles May 1988, at St. Mary’s Church in Publisher, called Park Labrea Daily News. Alton, just around the corner from News. After weighing our options, On my first day at the Daily the Telegraph building. we took a second mortgage on our News, then located in Van Nuys We left the Daily News to pur- house and purchased the bi-week- and owned by the Tribune sue other careers – Michael ly papers with a 3,400 circulation Company, I met Michael worked for movie producers and I from Chuck and Bunny Riley. photo by Cameron Kiszla Villalpando. He started his news- was a marketing director – yet we We officially took over the reins Robin Rowe, Lili Bosse, Rabbi Sidney Green, Lori Greene Gordon, paper career at Meredith longed for our newspaper days. on Jan. 1, 1990. Our first move Dr. Julian Gold and Aimee Zeltzer participated in the Municipal Newspapers in Echo Park. Four We answered an ad for a newspa- League of Beverly Hills forum on Feb. 3. years later we were married in per for sale in Editor and See 30 years page 4 2 February 6, 2020 CALENDAR Park Labrea News/Beverly Press Billie Holiday play to 2:30 p.m. Join museum representa- 8949 Wilshire Blvd. (310)247-3600, tives as the explore the history behind oscars.org. Ebony Repertory Theatre presents the the Jenkins Family and its 1966 production “Lady Day at Emerson’s Volkswagen Type 2 Bus. Known as the Bar & Grill” running from Thursday, Jenkins Bus, the WeHo Winter Feb. 6, through Sunday, March 1, at the vehicle was used Nate Holden Performing Arts Center. by Esau and Janie Sounds Wren T. Brown will direct the drama B. Jenkins to help Enjoy a winter weekend evening filled with music by Lanie Robertson explor- fellow African with music during an installment of the ing the life of the legendary Billie Americans on city of West Hollywood’s Winter Holiday during one of her final perfor- John’s Island, Sounds Free Indoor Concert Series on mances in Philadelphia in March 1959, South Carolina, by Saturday, Feb. 8, at 5 p.m. in the West four months she died at the age of 44. transporting them Hollywood City Council Chambers. Karole Foreman will star in the title to Charleston in search for better educa- The George Sarah Ensemble will per- role. The play includes 14 of Holiday’s tion, jobs and a chance at the American form a re-imaged film score of “The hits including “When A Woman Loves dream. The discussion is free with $16. Passion of Joan of Arc 1928.” Sarah is A Man,” “God Bless the Child,” “What Museum admission. 6060 Wilshire a TV and film composer, multi-instru- a Little Moonlight Can Do,” “Easy Blvd. petersen.org. mentalist and performer. Born in Seoul, Livin’” and “Strange Fruit.” Previews South Korea, he moved to the United will be held on Feb. 6-7 and tickets are States at age 5 and is known for a $25. Regular showtimes are 8 p.m., unique bridging of electronic and clas- Friday and Saturday; 3 p.m., Sunday. American Youth sical music, as well as Americana and Tickets start at $30. 4718 W. Symphony folk music. 625 N. San Vicente Blvd. Washington Blvd. (323)964-9766, Admission is free but RSVP requested ebonyrep.org. American Youth Symphony and LA Phil present “Sounds About Town” on by visiting weho.org/wintersounds. Saturday, Feb. 8, at 2 p.m. at the Walt Senior plays Disney Concert Hall. Audience Jewish Family Service of West Holocaust survivor members can Hollywood is hosting a live perfor- enjoy the venue’s mance of two original one-act plays talk at LAMOTH 6,134-pipe organ written, directed and performed by The Los Angeles Museum of the during Saint- local seniors on Friday, Feb. 7, from Holocaust will host a Holocaust sur- Saëns’ “Organ” 1:30 to 3 p.m. at the Plummer Park photo by Genna Cui vivor talk on Sunday, Feb. 9, from 3 to Symphony, and Senior Center. “On the Way to Shangri- 4 p.m. The event features Suzanne The Broad Stage welcomes Viver Brasil for a performance titled will be taken on a La,” by Morna Martell, is about an Irish Zada, who was born in 1929 in “Celebrating Samba” on Saturday, Feb. 8, at 11 a.m. Embark on a cul- journey through America’s national immigrant reliving her entrance into Subotica, Yugoslavia. As a teenager, tural journey to Salvador, Bahia, with its blend of Afro-Brazilian dance parks in Jennifer Higdon’s “All Things America as a young woman. she was imprisoned in Auschwitz, theater and exuberant physicality, power and passion drawn from Majestic.” Kris Bowers’ violin concerto “Hollywood’s Strangest Toys,” by where she learned about art history “For A Younger Self” will have a world Anibal Aprile, is a funny Hollywood samba, capoeira, dança afro and bloco afro styles. Immediately follow- from a fellow inmate.