Closest parking lot is $5, conveniently located on the 3rd St. side of the Theater, crossing with Hill Street. For Metro users, take the red line and exit on Pershing Square. http://www.metro.net/around/rail/red-line
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is a contemporary art museum with three locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near Walt Disney Concert Hall. MOCA's original space, initially intended as a "temporary" exhibit space while the main facility was built, is now known as the Geffen Contemporary, in the Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles. The Pacific Design Center facility is in West Hollywood.The museum's exhibits consist primarily of American and European contemporary art created after 1940. Since the museum's inception, MOCA's programming has been defined by its multi-disciplinary approach to contemporary art.FoundingIn a 1979 political fund raising event at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, Councilman Joel Wachs, and local philanthropist Marcia Simon Weisman happened to be seated at the same table. Throughout the evening, Weisman passionately discussed the city's need for a contemporary art museum. In the following weeks, the Mayor's Museum Advisory Committee was organized. The committee, led by William A. Norris, set about creating a museum from scratch, including locating funds, trustees, directors, curators, a gallery, and most importantly an art collection. That same year, Weisman and five other key local collectors signed an agreement whereby they would pledge chunks of their private collections, worth up to $6 million, "to create a museum of standing and repute."
Hello. My name is Pedro Almodovar and I am a Spanish film director, screenwriter, producer and former actor. I became interested in film at the age of eight. In 1967 I moved to Madrid to become a filmmaker. Some of my films are Pepi, Luci, Bom, Dark Habits, Matador, and High Heels. I have worked with actresses and actors from Penelope Cruz, Cecilia Roth, Antonio Banderas and Fabio McNamara just to name a few. In my films viewers will notice a lot of parody and theatricality. Family, religion, authority, gender roles and sexual identities are a major part of my films too. I am now opening up my own studios and I invite anyone interested in acting to join. I hope to see you there. Here are links to articles about me: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/pedro_almodovar/index.html http://www.theguardian.com/film/pedroalmodovar http://bombmagazine.org/article/1758/pedro-almod-var http://variety.com/2015/film/news/pedro-almodovar-sets-silencio-as-next-film-1201391678/ Here are links to some of my leading actresses: http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/penelope-cruz/ http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/61744/Cecilia-Roth http://zagria.blogspot.com/2012/02/antonia-san-juan-1961-actress-director.html#.VPa59Bd0zcs Here are links to my movie reviews: http://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/pedro-almodovar http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/pedro_almodovar/ http://www.avclub.com/review/tie-me-tie-me-down-one-pedro-almodovars-ickiest-mo-208181 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2007/mar/01/the-women-of-pedro-almodovar/
You could describe it as “haunting, mysterious, over the top, rococo, distressed, gothic, renaissance deco, cool, other worldly, kitsch, beguiling….” and you still would not quite capture the essence of downtown LA’s own unique and enigmatic Tower Theatre, situated at 800 South Broadway (at 8th Street) in historic downtown Los Angeles. Once dubbed, “The World’s Most Beautiful Theatre,” the Tower was designed by prodigious 28-year-old architect Simeon “S.” Charles Lee, and built by H.L. Gumbiner on a plot of land measuring only 150 feet long and 50 feet wide. It opened to much fanfare on October 12th, 1927 as the first movie theatre in Los Angeles built specifically for ‘talkies” with the premier of “The Gingham Girl,” featuring George Arthur and Lois Wilson, and was fully equipped with both a mighty Style 216 Wurlitzer 2/10 theatre organ, a musical contraption with ten ranks of pipes in two chambers, and a Vitaphone™ (a name derived from both Latin and Greek, respectively, for 'living' and 'sound') the then state of the art, analog sound on disc system that synced the sound of a spinning phonograph recording with a separate projected moving picture. The Tower was also the first theatre in Los Angeles to have refrigerated air conditioning, and patrons were invited to gleefully look through a window built into the balcony stairs to marvel at the mechanics of its inner workings. In modern times, the Tower has hosted artists such as Glass Candy, Doe Eye, Chromatics, Chvrches, Jessie Ware (upcoming) and events by Filter, The Edwardian Ball, Vox Media, and Live Nation. The Tower Theatre is a designated a Historic-Cultural Landmark, and is included in the National Register of Historic Places. For Tower Theatre event inquiries, please contact: Paul Assimacopoulos Programming/Events Director Broadway Theatre Group: Palace, Los Angeles, Tower Theatres ph: 213-488-2009 email: [email protected] Theatre Manager and Location Filming: Edward Baney office: 213-629-2939 Architectural Highlights: Full specs, seating chart, pricing available upon request. Capacity: 800 Stage: 23’5” from center of front edge to back wall. 18’ wide at back wall, widening to 30’ at front stage edge. 20’ height of concrete ceiling over stage. Power: 300amps/3 phase 200 amps for lights 100 amps for sound Interior Highlights: Edwards Spout’s interior auditorium design evokes the French Renaissance, while the almost religiously gorgeous lobby evokes both a Gothic cathedral and The Paris Opera House, with it’s hung, pearl strewn chandelier and arching stained glass window, which depicts a fleur-de-lis pattern draped with a coil of film strip, with the identical purple stripe found on early sound film stock. A spacious waiting room, which doubled as a ballroom, lay beneath the main floor. Exterior Highlights: Above the Tower’s shop windows on 8th street, on each of the window ledges, sits an Indian head-dress sculpture, and, atop each window, recline two nude figures—a discreetly draped masculine director wielding a camera and speaking into a megaphone; and a scantily clad starlet wearing beads and gazing into a mirror. False, decorative windows and Classical period detailing punctuate the highly decorated exterior sidewalls. To view a more extensive history of the Tower Theatre, please see the excellent web archives by Bill Counter: https://sites.google.com/site/downtownlosangelestheatres/tower also on FB: https://www.facebook.com/losangelestheatres And these other great historical resources: Los Angeles Historical Theatre Foundation http://www.lahtf.org LA Conservancy https://www.laconservancy.org Cinema Treasures http://cinematreasures.org