L.A. Fashion District Shopping Tour

Monday-Saturday with advance reservation, 10:30 a.m. Three hours of walking and shopping with a guide in the nation’s largest fashion district. $36 per person.

Call (213) 683-9715 or urbanshoppingadventures.com.

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Big Ideas

L.A. Phil Mixes It Up With Famous Finns,

New Works and a Glimpse of the Future

by Julie Riggott

Bigger is better when it comes to the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

“One of the things that I’ve noticed about working with Esa-Pekka [Salonen] is that ideas can’t be big enough,” said Chad Smith, who as vice president of artistic planning interprets and implements the music director’s vision for the Phil.

The new season brings a variety of programming. After the gala opening night with celebrity soprano Renée Fleming on Thursday, Oct. 4, the Phil has three festivals featuring orchestral works complemented by new music, symposia and other events: Sibelius Unbound, the International Youth Orchestra Festival and Concrete Frequency.

“We have to scale our projects bigger. Our audiences expect it, the city expects it, our orchestra expects it, and, indeed, Esa-Pekka expects it,” Smith said.

The season kicks off this Thursday with a program of French and Italian music by Ravel, Berlioz

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Going for Another Grand Slam

Annual Street Festival Features Food, Performances and Free Tours

by Anna Scott

Be warned: This Sunday, you might see Martians on Grand Avenue.

That’s not a reason to run for the hills. The Martians, along with singers, dancers, food purveyors and more, are part of the fourth annual Grand Avenue Festival.

From 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Sept. 30, Grand Avenue between Temple and Fifth streets will offer performances, workshops, tours, art, food and the Martians, or, rather, a display about the surface of Mars, which will be inside the Natural History Museum’s simulated research lab. The festival is expected to draw at least 25,000 people.

“If it’s a good day,” said Leticia Rhi Buckley, director of marketing and communications for the Los Angeles Music Center, one of the festival’s main sponsors, “it may even be more.”

Launched in 2004, the Grand Avenue Festival grew out of the Creation Festival, a smaller event held the year before to celebrate …

Whip ‘Um Good

REDCAT Season-Opener Jumps Into the Worlds of Performance and Amnesia

by Daria Benedict

The phrase “avant garde” gets applied fairly frequently in the 21st century, if not always accurately, as the tag is sometimes affixed to anything just slightly out of the mainstream. A production opening this week at the REDCAT theater, however, lives up to the name.

On Wednesday, Sept. 26, New York-based Cynthia Hopkins kicks off the 2007-2008 REDCAT season with Must Don’t Whip ‘Um. The Los Angeles premiere of the multimedia narrative spectacle will play a run of five shows through Sept. 30. It is a sequel/prequel to Accidental Nostalgia, the first in a trilogy exploring the pros and cons of amnesia. Hopkins is quick to point out that you do not have to know anything about the first installment to see or understand part two.

Must Don’t Whip ‘Um combines music, video, dance, set design, lighting and theater to tell two parallel and intermingling narratives about

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Downtown à la Mode, a Really Venti Latte and Beard Papa’s Cream Puffs

Envision a 40-foot runway, model-like servers and a “French diner” serving fois gras and duck confit. Oh yeah, and did we mention it’ll be open 24 hours?

The people who brought you the stylish Royale restaurant on the western edge of Downtown Los Angeles are underway on another venture. The aptly named Mode will open in three weeks at 916 S. Olive St., a sort of crossroads for the bustling Fashion District, the resident-rich South Park and the merchants in the Jewelry District.

“We are translating what we think a French bistro and diner is,” restaurateur Tony Jones told Restaurant Buzz. “I think there is some risk to being open 24 hours, but I go out enough to know that there is a market for it. It’s centrally located to common spots like Seven Grand and the Golden Gopher. The Downtown person is a very independent person that would wake up at 3 a.m. and come in to eat.”

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Arts District/Little Tokyo Farmers Market

Weller Court, 123 S. Onizuka St., (323) 660-8660 or ladad.com.
Tuesdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.: Farm fresh produce, flowers, olives, oils, hummus, dips, honeys and crafts. Music 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

Financial District Farmers Market

Fifth Street, between Flower Street and Grand Avenue.
Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m.: Produce, flowers, coffee, baked goods and soap, to mention a few.

Chinatown Farmers Market

727 N. Hill St., between Alpine and Ord streets, (213) 680-0243 or chinatownla.com.
Thursdays, 2-6 p.m.: Wares from certified growers, plus a variety of Asian produce.

Echo Park

Parking Lot No.

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Howser Finds New York in Downtown

KCET Series Continues With the ‘Film Shoots’ Episode

by Jon Regardie

In the first few months of his “Downtown” series, KCET television host Huell Hoswer has discovered community treasures including the Eastern Columbia Building, the Los Angeles State Historic Park and the Downtown Art Walk. In an episode that airs this week, however, he encounters something that many in Downtown probably would not expect: New York City.

For the episode titled “Film Shoots,” Howser drops by the set of the TV show “CSI: NY,” much of which is actually shot in Downtown Los Angeles, not the Big Apple. It’s the latest in a long, long line of productions that have masked Downtown as New York, or many other cities (Baltimore, Washington, D.C., etc.), for that matter.

In the episode, Howser chats with some of the show’s actors, and explores one of Downtown’s most common sights – the film crews and their loads of trucks and production workers.

“Film Shoots” airs

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Little Radio’s Big Problem

Royalty Rules Could Force a Change for Downtown Internet Pioneer

by Evan George

When Dave Conway founded Little Radio, a Downtown-based Internet radio station, he was sending out clandestine playlists to friends using illegal rooftop antennas.

Three years later, Little Radio is a multimedia company that deals in brand marketing, event planning, rock shows and even the sale of environmentally friendly electric cars. Its five employees work in two large rehabbed warehouses in the Industrial District.

But at heart – and by name – Little Radio remains centered around the web streaming of music that Conway calls the company’s “life blood and our heart and soul.” The free 24-hour radio station informs all of the other business endeavors, he said.

Not if the recording industry has anything to say about it.

In a ruling earlier this month, the Copyright Royalty Board, which manages fees that radio stations pay to the recording industry, upheld a decision to

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