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Sep 09, 2014 Spot Check: Downtown L.A.’s Piñata District

by Martin Wong

Visitors often complain about how Los Angeles is sprawled out and there's no transportation system that takes everyone everywhere easily. They're right. But I love that I still discover neighborhoods and areas that are new to me decades after moving up from behind the Orange Curtain. That happened this weekend when my wife and I...

Editorial

May 13, 2014 Save Music in Chinatown 3: Chuck Dukowski Sextet, California, Bitter Party, The Bear and Little Nun

by Martin Wong

On Sunday, my wife and I will be putting on our third Save Music in Chinatown benefit. You'd think we'd be experts at this by now. Or that we had some experience with concerts before attempting to raise money for music education at our daughter's elementary school. Sadly, neither is true. But we don't pretend...