DotDotDash: Art Walk, First Names Only Please

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — Even with a Main street makeover, Downtown still holds its secrets. The scoop comes in bits and pieces from those you know on a first name basis. More after the jump…

..— Historic Matt arrived ready to board the Downtown Art Walk DASH to tell bits of landmark building history while the other DASH had Mike the Poet, adding narration for those on board… In front of the empty burger joint 1947project set up shop and passed us the word that an apartment once believed to be the home of the Poet Laureate of Skid Row (Charles Bukowski) is on a city fast track to be demolished. August 17 is the deadline for any preservation evidence. BTW Bukowski’s birthday is August 16, 1920.

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The Nickel wasn’t slow with Pharmaka, BGA, and Red Dot continuing previous shows. At The Alex, Charley O’s is a study in layers of renovations. The disco floor under the turn of the century brickwork is artful in itself ..— The galley next door will be a cafe according to Susie. DDD says dub it “The Alexius” to name it after the man of means who lived poor and kept his name hidden.

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ImaginAsian theater was once the Linda Lea, and inside the walls evidence of it’s previous incarnations as the Arrow and the Aztec were discovered..— The Town Crier caught the new Downtown being taken away in a shopping cart to be recycled. The cart was filled with empty wine bottles from receptions around Gallery Row ..— Later at The Alex Emmeric painted live while burlesque was on stage and in the Main St tradition, fake names were used, and not everything was revealed.