Downtown Fashion Walk at Art Walk Thursday Feb. 10th, 2011

PE LOFTS Fashion, Art, Jewelry & More!

The starting point for this month’s Historic
Downtown Fashion Walk at the Downtown
Art Walk is at 600 S. Main at 6th St.

We will be featuring the perfect Valentine’s Day gifts -
Affordable Jewelry, Fashion, Art and Accessories from
6 PM - 10 or 11 PM Thursday February 10th, 2011.

Among the designers showing will be Morph Jewelry,
Nikki Michelle Jewelry, Suite 11,  Tina Summers Fashion,
Tasha Monique Carter and several vintage vendors.

Also featured will be unique bikes from the Downtown LA Bike Store.

Other Stores and Events that are Open until at least 9 and up to 10 or 11 include:

1-Man’s Trash Shoes
http://www.1mtclothing.com/
614 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90014
New Showcase for Shoes across
Street from Original Store

Gather
http://gatherla.com/
http://www.facebook.com/GatherLA
630 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Fashion, furniture, design, jewelry

Arty
634 S. Main Street
Los Angeles CA 90014
Fine art gallery
martinMARTIN
http://www.martinMARTIN.net
713 S. Los Angeles St.
Los Angeles, CA 90014
(closes early tonight)

Consignment
http://www.consignmentla.com
On Main Street at 111 W. 7th
Los Angeles CA 90014
Men’s and Women’s Vintage
Fine Collectibles

1-Man's Trash
http://www.1mtclothing.com/
111 W. 7th St. #106 (store on Main)
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Vintage inspired custom clothes
+ hard to find vintage

Fremont
www.Fremontapparelco.com
111 W. 7th St. # R1
Los Angeles CA, 90014
Four designer sample sale! Fremont,
B:Scott, Chambers and Minor Variety.
40% - 70% Off!

600 S. Spring Boutique
http://www.sixhundredla.com/
600 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Great upcoming LA Designers

Stanton James
150 W.6th Street at Spring Street

Crack Gallery
http://www.crackgallery.com/
204 W. 6th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Clothing Art Accessories

Bliss
http://www.iheartbliss.com/
204 ½ 6th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Upcoming Designers

Lexander Gallery
http://www.lexander.com
215 W. 6th St. Unit 113
LA CA 90013
Fine Art Gallery

Dialect
http://www.downtowndialect.com/
215 W. 6th #113
Los Angeles, CA 90013

ZLB
http://ww.examiner.com/affordable-fashion-in-los-angeles/denim-never-dies
215 W. 6the St. #108
Los Angeles, CA 90013
KAPSOUL
http://www.yelp.com/biz/kapsoul-los-angeles
548 S. Spring St. (store on 6th) #110
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Flea
http://www.thefleastore.com
548 Spring #112 (store on 6th St.)
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Apliiq
www.apliiq.com
548 S. Spring St. #114 (store fronts 6th St.)
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Customized Fashion

Pussy & Pooch
www.pussyandpooch.com
564 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013

SUB(URBAN)
http://www.suburban-la.com/
101 W. 5th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Designer furniture and accessories

Bolt Barbers
http://boltbarbers.com/
460 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013

CB1 Art Gallery
Spring Arts Tower
207 W. 5th Street at Spring
Los Angeles CA 90013

Elmer Ave.
www.Elmerave.Com
120 W. 4th St.
Los Angeles CA 90013

Skingraft
http://www.skingraftdesigns.com
125 W. 4th St. #102
Los Angeles CA 90013
Special in-house sale Up To 70% Off
New under $100 rack!
Just arrived Spring 2011 Collection

Blends
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Blends-Los-Angeles/231553478571#!/pages/Blends-Los-Angeles/231553478571?v=info
125 W. 5th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Nike Extravaganza!

Stelladottir
www.stelladottir.com
430 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
LA Weekly & Downtown News Clothing
Store of the Year winner!

Local Tourist
http://localtourist.biz/
450 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Latest Local Tourist Designs
and many other designers

Great Sales on Thursday Feb. 10th Art And Fashion Walk

Apparel News Announces CONCEPT Fashion Week's New York and Los Angeles Fashion Week Shows

Concept Announces Change of Venue, N.Y. Edition

February 04, 2011

Concept Los Angeles Fashion Week has announced a change in venue for its upcoming March 11–13 run. Held for the past two seasons at the Spring Arts Tower in downtown Los Angeles’ Fashion District, the three-day event will now be held at the ACE Gallery in the city’s Mid-Wilshire area. Co-founded by Mike Vensel and Brady Westwater, the fashion week has showcased the work of designers such as MartinMartin, MB999, Elmer Ave and Jen Awad.

The move was sparked by a need for more space. “Having access to 15,000 square feet [of] space at the ACE Gallery will give designers the opportunity to create custom runway shows in pristine museum-sized galleries; develop collaborations with major contemporary visual, video or musical artists; or design a strikingly simple elegant installation—all at affordable fees due to ACE’s generosity,” Westwater said in a statement.

In addition to hosting Concept Los Angeles Fashion Week, the ACE Gallery will open a permanent project space dedicated to innovations in contemporary fashion design with a Wilshire Boulevard storefront space dedicated to showcasing emerging and established local and international designers, the statement said. The storefront is expected to be the site of ongoing exhibitions and collaborations between contemporary artists and fashion designers in its attached gallery space, creating a unique fusion of art and design.

Beyond expanding their West Coast reach, Vensel and Westwater are taking their show on the road with a one-day event in New York on Feb. 14. The event, Concept New York Fashion Week at the Audi Forum, includes runway shows from MartinMartin; Vensel’s eponymous line, Mike Vensel; andThe Muscovites, a label out of Russia.

(Click on the above link for the rest of the story)

CONCEPT Fashion Week Goes Bi-Coastal! Audi Forum on Park Avenue in New York - and ACE Gallery Los Angeles on Wilshire in LA!

CONCEPT makes New York Fashion Week debut February 14th, 2011 at the Audi Forum presented by TONI&GUY and announces third season of Los Angeles Fashion Week to be hosted with ACE Gallery Los Angeles, March 11th-13th, 2011.

CONCEPT makes New York Fashion Week debut February 14th, 2011 at the Audi Forum presented by TONI&GUY and announces third season of Los Angeles Fashion Week to be hosted with ACE Gallery Los Angeles, March 11th-13th, 2011.

For its third season, CONCEPT Fashion Week will showcase more than 30 designers over five days at two new venues provided by two new sponsors. The Fall/Winter 2011 – 2012 runway shows and designer installations will be hosted firstly at the prestigious Audi Forum on Park Avenue in Manhattan, followed by the Los Angeles presentation at the internationally renowned ACE Gallery.

“Our decision to expand to New York comes at a time when Los Angeles designers are looking to reach new markets and want to showcase their collections to larger audiences. With the generous support of Audi and TONI&GUY we have taken a formula that we have developed here in Los Angeles and can now apply it in New York for the world to see.” -Mike Vensel (CONCEPT founder)

CONCEPT Los Angeles also continues its Los Angeles expansion and proudly announces its new sponsor – ACE Gallery – an institution in the contemporary art world for 50 years that has shown legendary artists from Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg to emerging contemporary artists, as well as exhibitions by fashion icons Comme des Garçons and Issey Miyake, and has also hosted major couture fashion shows at Ace Gallery New York during New York fashion week. Ace Gallery’s mid-Wilshire location will host international designers alongside local southern California innovators converting the galleries into fashion runways day into evening.

“Having access to 15,000 square feet space at the ACE Gallery will give designers the opportunity to create custom runway shows in pristine museum-sized galleries, develop collaborations with major contemporary visual, video or musical artists or design a strikingly simple elegant installation – all at affordable fees due to ACE’s generosity.”-Brady Westwater (CONCEPT founder)

This comes at a time when Los Angeles is going through a revolution in the art world with artists designing clothes and designers making art and Museum of Contemporary Art director Jeffrey Deitch announcing an exhibition of Rodarte’s “State of Matter” at MOCA’s Pacific Design Center while the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Michael Govan and Costume Council are dramatically expanding LACMA’s fashion collection.

In addition to hosting CONCEPT LA Fashion Week, Ace Gallery will open a permanent project space dedicated to innovations in contemporary fashion design with a Wilshire Boulevard storefront space dedicated to showcasing emerging and established local and international designers. The storefront will also host ongoing exhibitions and collaborations between contemporary artists and fashion designers in its attached gallery space creating a unique fusion of art and design.

For more information please visit:

http://www.conceptfw.com
http://www.toniandguy.com
http://www.audiusa.com
http://www.acegallery.net

TONI&GUY Presents CONCEPT New York Fashion Week at the Audi Forum
February 14th
Audi Forum New York City
250 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017
http://www.conceptfw.com

CONCEPT Los Angeles Fashion Week at ACE Gallery
March 11th – 13th
Ace Gallery Los Angeles
5514 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036
http://www.conceptfw.com

Art Walk and Fashion Walk Thursday January 13th, 2011 6 PM - 10 PM

FASHION WALK/ART WALK THURSDAY

January 13, 2011 6 pm - 10 pm

This Thursday’s January 13^th ART WALK with have an increased FASHION WALK presence and it will also be the final time the large space 600 S. Main at 6^th Street in the Pacific Electric Building will be used.  By next month pre-development will have started for the next new exciting addition to Historic Downtown.

This a milestone for Downtown since the Pacific Electric Lofts space  has shown over 20 designers or store owners who have since opened their own stores, or moved their offices, studios and/or production to Downtown or have opened full time showrooms Downtown or have shown at Downtown’s CONCEPT Fashion Week.  

Among those showing tonight – and selling at wholesale prices - will be several vintage clothing dealers, a number of jewelry dealers, and upcoming designers Tascha Monique Carter, Tina Summers, Jiping Chen,  and artist/designer Marco Rached.

And only half-a-block away – in the other special event of the night - the 600 boutique at 600 S. Spring will feature a special show by local brand – The Bohemian Society.

From 7-10pm designer Victor Wilde and his crew will be shooting models live on the street
while the DJ insights the crowd to dance in frenzy reminiscent of a New York City block party.

FINALLY – below there will be - by tonight - a complete list of the over 20 fashion stores that will also be open this Thursday January 13, 2011.

Two Fashion Sales at Spring Arts Tower Today - Saturday December 11th, 2010

One sale is for vintage dresses and consignment designer clothing and the second sale has 50% off designer jewelry.  First - the clothes, shoes, handbags and sunglasses:

Bleu Vintage and April Joy are having our huge grand opening sale for our new downtown LA showroom Saturday December 11th from 10- 4 pm.

We have a large selections of vintage women's clothes and jewelry. All women's vintage dresses are $15 each or two for $25. There is also a great selection of vintage shoes, handbags, sunglasses, and accessories.

 Did we mention we also have designer consignment?

Currently on consignment are items by Gucci, Marc Jacobs, YSL, and Tory Burch. Many more items available and you will be sure to find the perfect Christmas gift.

Spring Arts Tower   453 S Spring St. #533   Los Angeles, Ca 90013    323-384-6323

Next - the 50% off jewelry sale:

ZOE CHICCO & SMITH  will have a 50% off sale today only - Saturday December 11th from 11 AM - 4 PM for all their remaining stock of fine jewelry from 11 - 4 in Suite 366 of the Spring Arts Tower 453 S. Spring #366 Los Angeles  CA  90013.

Did you know your cat's tongue is faster than a speeding bullet when it's lapping water?

Well, maybe not quite  faster than a speeding bullet - but still pretty damn fast.  A cat's tongue can complete four full laps of milk or water - every second.  That comes to - roughly one meter or three feet per second. That's a lot faster than the human eye can see, much less what the human tongue can do.

The New York Times website explains how four scientists from MIT,  Virgina Tech and Princeton had to combine disciplines to discover just how a cat does it, why a cat has to do it (unlike humans, they can't fully close their mouths to create the vacuum needed to produce suction), what the always essential to liquid mechanics Froude number has to do with it, how African safari YouTube videos helped validate their hypothesis (and elegant mathematical formula) that correlates a cat's lapping speed with the size of the species of the cat and  - most critically of all - why cats are more elegant than dogs when lapping up water.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/science/12cats.html?scp=1&sq=cat%20lap&st=cse

UPDATE - Los Angeles Times also has same story, courtesy of Nature Magazine:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-cat-drinking-20101113,0,1073899.story

City Hall's Assault On Citizen's Wallets Goes On 24 Hours A Day

Since the start of this year, it has gotten harder and harder to do business in the City of Los Angeles what with all the new fees, fines and taxes that make everything not just more expensive but  also increasingly harder and harder  to get anything done.  Still, after a particularly tough few weeks and thinking I had seen every possible way the City could extract money from it's citizens, I spotted a new low last night at 10 PM.

Walking down an empty street, I saw a city employee ticketing a car parked in a commercial loading zone.  Surprised, I asked the officer wasn't it legal for a car to park in in a commercial loading zone at night?  The officer replied, yes.  I think then asked if that was the case - then why was this car being ticketed?  There was now no answer.  I asked a second time, with no answer, and then a third time, but there was still no answer.

The officer then got into city car and drove away.  Another person shortly walked up and we speculated on why the car was ticketed.  The only possible answer we could come up with was that while the front tire was almost touching the curb, the rear tire was further way from the curb.  The car behind this vehicle had parked - legally - at the very end of its space and that had made it hard for this car to pull into its space.

But the tire didn't seem to be at all  far enough from the curb to warrant a ticket, though the angle of the car did somewhat exaggerate the distance - and a couple other cars on the same block were also parked with a tire the same distance from the curb but none of them received tickets. This car was also parked well within the white marks on the street side of the parking space and so this now ticketed car was in no way a hazard to passing traffic.

That left only one option for us to consider.  That every night a certain number of tickets have to be written and a certain amount of money has to be raised and the officers who patrol each night have no choice but to select those whose turn it is to pay that night.

Why is Law and Order: Los Angeles So Bad It's Unwatchable?

As a fan of all the New York based Law and Order series - and I have seen every episode of every series multiple times - I can not understand why the LA based series is  badly written, indifferently directed and horrendously miscast.

The first episode was so weak, I couldn't even stay interested long enough to follow the story and second episode was so badly written, once the last wildly improbable words were spoken - I deleted the series from my Hulu queue.

Ed Rosenthal Found Alive! Plus Update!

(Updating the below story, the LA TImes reports that Ed was conscious and talking with the rescue team when he was found this morning.)

It's a miracle.  After a week alone in the dessert Ed Rosenthal was just found alive and airlifted to a hospital.
Here is the opening of the story at blogdowntown and the rest of the story is at the above link:

Downtown's Poet-Broker has been found alive nearly a week after he failed to return from a day-hike in Joshua Tree National Park.

Ed Rosenthal was airlifted to a local hospital and is reported to be in critical condition.

Friend Jack Skelley posted the news on Rosenthal's Facebook page late this morning.

Ed has been found! He is alive! In critical condition. We just heard from his wife Nicole. They are taking him to hospital. Please keep praying....more info later...

The Desert Sun is also reporting Rosenthal's rescue, saying that he was located in the East Wide Canyon area. The paper quotes a park spokesman as saying that Rosenthal was conscious and talking with rescuers, but has "some injuries and some exposure issues."

(more at above link)

Still No Word On Search For Ed Rosenthal

There is a full search for missing Downtown real estate agent, community builder and poet Ed Rosenthal l going on today in Johusa Tree National Park and while many articles have been written about all his has down for Downtown. no one has yet mentioned - much less printed - the poem he wrote to help Tom Gilmore get an extension on his purchase of  the bulk of the Old Bank District which started the Downtown revival.  I can't find my copy of the whole poem, but I did find this excerpt:

I'm sorry to say/That Gilmore can't pay/For the extension requested today/
But if you take my advice/You'll stay by his side/As he shifts to Downtown overdrive

And here is the first part of the Downtown News story linked to above and the rest of the story is at the Downtown News website:

Search Effort for Downtown ‘Poet-Broker’ Triples

Ed Rosenthal has been missing in Joshua Tree since Friday. Photo by Gary Leonard.

Ed Rosenthal Missing in Joshua Tree Since Friday

by, Katie Schaufelberger

Published: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:22 PM PDT

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Park rangers and rescue teams today vastly increased their search in Joshua Tree National Park for veteran Downtown real estate agent Ed Rosenthal. The 64-year-old known to many as the “poet-broker” has been missing since Friday, when he went hiking near Black Rock Campground.

Rosenthal told other campers he planned to go out for a day hike on his own. When he didn’t return, they reported him missing. Park staff were informed on Sunday and launched a search that day.

Joe Zarki, a spokesman for the park, said the search effort tripled in size today, with 55 people, most from the San Bernardino County Search and Rescue team, now combing the wilderness south of the campground. A helicopter is also canvassing the park.

(reminder of story at above link)

Downtown Poet-Broker Ed Rosenthal Reported Missing

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — Poet-broker Ed Rosenthal, a figure in the Downtown arts and real estate communities, is missing after failing to return from a weekend hike in Joshua Tree National Park.

According to a report that first appeared in the Los Angeles Business Journal, Rosenthal was reported missing Sunday evening after his car was found at the park's Black Rock campground. The L.A. Times reports that Rosenthal was last seen Friday. Rosenthal has brokered a number of large deals Downtown, but is best known for his poetry about the neighborhood.

If it wasn't for Ed Rosentahl and his poetry, Tom Gilmore wouldn't have gotten an extension to close the first properties in the Old Bank District and Downtown would be a very different place today. Much of what Downtown has become is a result of Ed's hard work and we all owe him a deep debt of gratitude.  My prayers and thoughts are with him, his family and his many friends.