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Italian Eatery Toscana Celebrates its 30th Anniversary • The Satanic Doo-Wop of Twin Temple • The history of Historical Roasts ® JUNE 21-27, 2019 / VOL. 41 / NO. 31 / LAWEEKLY.COM Art Ar nd the Way e Dr. Maya Angelou High School Mural Festival highlighted social justice and deep community roots By Jordan Riefe 2 Y Y WEEKL LA | June 21 - 27, 2019 | | June WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM Welcome to the New Normal Experience life in the New Normal today. Present this page at any MedMen store to redeem this special offer. 10% off your purchase CA CA License A10-17-0000068-TEMP For one-time use only, redeemable until 06/30/19. Limit 1 per customer. Cannot be combined with any other offers. 3 LA WEEKLY | June 21 - 27, 2019 | WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM 4 L June 21-27, 2019 // Vol. 41 // No. 31 // laweekly.com Y Y WEEKL LA Contents | June 21 - 27, 2019 | | June WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM 21 GO LA...6 FILM...18 A rooftop Gypsy party to kick off summer, The creators of Historical Roasts recount the unveiling of Dolores Huerta Plaza, a their rise from a local comic store to Netflix. celebration for toys of everyone’s favorite BY NICK WALKER. monster, and more to do and see in L.A. this week. MUSIC...21 Satanic doo-wop duo Twin Temple are FEATURE...11 deadly serious in their subversiveness. BY Dr. Maya Angelou Community High School’s KATHERINE TURMAN. recent dedication of more than two dozen murals strengthen its roots to South Central and help redefine the neighborhood’s reputation to outsiders. BY JORDAN RIEFE. ADVERTISING EAT & DRINK...15 CLASSIFIED...26 Toscana celebrates 30 years by bringing back REAL ESTATE...26 some of the original menu items that got the EDUCATION/EMPLOYMENT...27 celebrity hot spot and local favorite started. BY MICHELE STUEVEN. BULLETIN BOARD...27 CULTURE...17 On The Cover: For nearly 50 years, Plaza de la Raza has Perez Bros — photo by @staticmedium stayed rooted to supporting and uplifting the community. BY SHANA NYS DAMBROT. L.A. WEEKLY (ISSN #0192-1940 & USPS 461-370) is published weekly by LA Weekly LP, 724 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90015. Periodicals postage paid at Los Angeles, CA. LA Weekly is available free of charge in Los Angeles County, limited to one copy per reader. Additional copies of the current issue of LA Weekly may be purchased for $1, payable in advance at the LA Weekly office. Outside Los Angeles County, the single-copy cost of LA Weekly is $1. 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Contents A California Original Since 1996 WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM 21 GO LA...6 FILM...18 A rooftop Gypsy party to kick off summer, The creators of Historical Roasts recount the unveiling of Dolores Huerta Plaza, a their rise from a local comic store to Netflix. celebration for toys of everyone’s favorite BY NICK WALKER. monster, and more to do and see in L.A. this week. MUSIC...21 Satanic doo-wop duo Twin Temple are FEATURE...11 deadly serious in their subversiveness. BY Dr. Maya Angelou Community High School’s KATHERINE TURMAN. recent dedication of more than two dozen murals strengthen its roots to South Central and help redefine the neighborhood’s reputation to outsiders. BY JORDAN RIEFE. ADVERTISING AVAILABLE AT EAT & DRINK...15 CLASSIFIED...26 Toscana celebrates 30 years by bringing back REAL ESTATE...26 some of the original menu items that got the EDUCATION/EMPLOYMENT...27 celebrity hot spot and local favorite started. BY MICHELE STUEVEN. BULLETIN BOARD...27 CULTURE...17 On The Cover: For nearly 50 years, Plaza de la Raza has Perez Bros — photo by @staticmedium stayed rooted to supporting and uplifting the community. BY SHANA NYS DAMBROT. L.A. WEEKLY (ISSN #0192-1940 & USPS 461-370) is published weekly by LA Weekly LP, 724 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90015. www.joshd.com Periodicals postage paid at Los Angeles, CA. LA Weekly is available free of charge in Los Angeles County, limited to one copy per reader. LICENSED CULTIVATOR: Additional copies of the current issue of LA Weekly may be purchased for $1, payable in advance at the LA Weekly office. Outside Los @therealogkushstory BOSIM 1628 MANAGEMENT COMPANY LLC Angeles County, the single-copy cost of LA Weekly is $1. LA Weekly may be distributed only by LA Weekly’s authorized independent contractors or LA Weekly’s authorized distributors. No person may, without prior written permission of LA Weekly, take more than CULTIVATE CARE • ENJOY RESPONSIBLY • 21+ ONLY LICENSE #: PML18-0001689 one copy of each LA Weekly issue. For back-issue information call 310-574-7100. The entire contents of LA Weekly are Copyright 2014 by LA Weekly LP. No portion may be reproduced in whole or in part by any means, including electronic retrieval systems, without the express written permission of the publisher, LA Weekly, 724 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90015. 6 Allison M. Keating at Blue Roof Studios Y Y WEEKL LA | June 21 - 27, 2019 | | June GO PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST as it passes over all the warmth and enjoyment celebration with poet Nikki Darling (who advo- friendship with Lewitzky that decades later led this party at the top of the world has to offer. cated for the plaza) and musicians The Alice Bag to multiple collaborations, the most famous WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM Héritage Fine Wines, 467 N. Canon Drive, Bev- Band (whose leader penned an homage titled of which was the “Duotard”, a stretchy, bright erly Hills; Fri., June 21, 6 p.m.; $10-20. (310) “Dolores Huerta Street”), Ella, Lysa Flores and red costume inhabited by two dancers for Le- 888-8042, eventbrite.com/e/rooftop-party-gyp- Trap Girl. Dolores Huerta Plaza, 2130 E. First witzky’s Inscape. That duotard as well as that sy-night-tickets-62098306707. —DAVID COTNER St., Boyle Heights; Sat., June 22, 1-4 p.m.; free. iconic swimsuit are part of a current exhibit (323) 526-9332. —FALLING JAMES exploring the Gernreich fashion legacy and in a special performance, Luminario Ballet LA6/21 6/22 performs Lewitzky’s Inscape with Gernreich’s fri sat ART ART sun 6/23 costumes and dancers, coached by John Pen- ART nington, a respected Lewitzky alum. The 3 p.m. Design Block Party Under the Big Blue Roof show is a shortened, family friendly version, L.A. Design Festival is an annual citywide Once a church but you could say still a sacred Abstract Tropical free with museum admission. The longer eve- pageant of creative maker culture, with its HQ space, Blue Roof Studios is an artist studio com- For painter Carolyn Castaño, the idea of weav- ning show is ticketed. Skirball Cultural Center, at ROW DTLA’s streets, suites and storefronts plex with 10 studios abundant and architectur- ing disparate threads together is more than a 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Brentwood; Sun., for four days. There will be exhibitions, talks, ally intriguing public spaces for workshops, visual strategy, it is also a complex and nuanced June 23, 3 & 6 p.m.; $15. skirball.org/calen- workshops and demos, shopping and installation cooking and exhibitions, which from to time historical commentary. By paring down and re- dar/2019-06-23?tid=4. –ANN HASKINS experiences, and off-site tours and events across they put to good use. So it is at this afternoon’s combining elements culled from European and the city. At ROW DTLA itself, highlights include free summer solstice Arts Festival, which some- American hard edge abstraction, indigenous FILM speakers like journalist and walkability advocate how fits several group art shows, a slate of music Latin American textiles, pre- and post-colonial Alissa Walker, KCRW’s DnA producer Avishay sessions and performance art pieces, hands-on cartography, and tropes of the “native” among Everyone’s Favorite Monster Artsy and host Frances Anderton, award-win- ceramics and mural painting, screenings, and border-blurring botanical biomes, Castaño The original 1954 Godzilla is one of the mothers ning architect Elena Manferdini, artist Jackie food into just five hours. Highlights include the achieves a perspective that is ambiguously meta, of horror movies, a tale of a mythical creature Amezquita, artist and architect Peter Zellner, group show about appetites and afflictions, “Let and also quite lovely. Her patterns and images set in post-WWII nuclear Japan. What was and literally dozens of other local design universe Me Eat Cake,” West African drumming, toy the- unfurl and intertwine, overlap and surround one a cult film has now become the longest run- luminaries. Also of note, the curated group show ater from Wild Art Group, outdoor sculpture, another, while her textures vibrate with a vulner- ning franchise in cinema history — 33 mov- of California design all-stars, “INTRO/LA” and video art presented by Los Angeles Nomadic able variegation, fluttering like flags of a parallel ies. Peekaboo Gallery and Gallery Nucleus of course Friday night’s Design Block Party fea- Division, chalk drawing, and modern dance.