Wow! More Stuff Coming To NoHo!

The latest massive development to hit the NoHo Arts District was announced Thursday. In addition to a couple thousand apartments, a cool HOWS Market and a coming Laemmle movie theater (and even more apartments under construction), the MTA announced plans to begin negotiations with developer Lowe Enterprises for a 15.6 acre mixed use site near the North Hollywood Red Line and Orange Line stations. The 1.7 million square foot space will contain "a mix of uses including office, retail and residential with substantial community and public spaces."

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" ART UNITES " in NoHo

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• NoHo Gallery L.A. September Opening

This month NoHo celebrates ART UNITES
sponsored by the ART DIRECTORS GUILD.



















Gallery curator DanCoronado DeBevoise and
Guild Director Denis Olsen put this exhibit of
various artists here in Southern California.






Jazz guitarist Tim Moran provided background
music acompanying Scottie Austin vocals.

Cinema Celebration in NoHo

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.NoHo Art Shows

new
review



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VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL
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I have some info on the
VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL
which was in September ...

It's the seventh year of the film showings

the Valley Film Festival opens it's 2007 season.

Films from producers throughout the '818' as they say

bring their accomplishments to the 1929 El Portal Theater

in North Hollywood, Ca. The eighties teen classic

"Fast Times at Ridgemont High" opens the event

with this comedy that brought to age many of the

current film makers of today's genre.



WEDNESDAY Sept 12 at El Portal with

FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH 1982
















Thursday Sept 13 cocktails at 5 then

Dramatic Shorts and features at 7:30

Friday Sept 14 comedy shorts and features after 7:30

Saturday Matinee Sept 15 11am

family shorts and features until 7pm

horror fest and features

Sunday Sept 16 Noon +

feature programs

girl short films 2:30

4pm NEVER SAY MACBETH
(I'm reviewed this, see previous post)

Closing "MADE IN 818" shorts.


The VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL
starts Wednesday September 12, 2007

at the El Portal Theater in NoHo.
Info- http://www.valleyfilmfest.com

Shakespeare in North Hollywood

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Would William Say 'NoHo'
by Louis Elovitz















NEVER SAY MACBETH

Consequences unfold when a man comes to see his actress

girlfriend and has contact with cast members of the said,

I mean 'never said', play by The Bard.

Freak-out occurs when the word is used and all the age

old superstitions come out that thespians have held

for hundreds of years. The film manifests itself with great

cinematographic skills and superior lighting, showing all

the ghosts and the fears that these young people endure

in order to serve their art and exhibit their production.

This is all done in parodistic style. After a quick 101 about

Never Saying that name, the man, a teacher, is drafted

into the play and finds himself at odds with this acting stuff

and the triangle between himself, his girlfriend, and another

actor. From street clothes to the dressing rooms, rehearsals,

to the play itself, with all the Shakespearean overtures to

the Ghosts in the Theater, this film contains all the authenticity

and embraces the essence of the original play itself.

Set to show on the final day of the Valley Film Festival

on Sunday September 16 at 4 p.m.



The VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL
starts Wednesday September 12, 2007

at the El Portal Theater in NoHo.
Info- http://www.valleyfilmfest.com

NEVER SAY MACBETH
Tammy Caplan Producer neversaymacbeth.com


Louis Elovitz
DownTown NoHo Times
downtownnoho.blogspot.com
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9. 11. 01: We Will Never Forget

NoHo Trolley?

Zach Behrens at LAist is suggesting a trolley to run throughout NoHo. His routing would have the trolley creating sort of an hourglass shaped route that would run from Chandler to Moorpark along Lankershim and Vineland.

The idea - based on a similar proposal for Long Beach - is to create a circulator system that would connect the Metro Red and Metro Orange Line termini to various points in NoHo.

A better routing would be to run from the Metro Red Line at Universal City and run down the middle of Lankershim to the old Lankershim Train Station next to the Orange Line station. Stations could be placed about every 1/4 mile which would work to feed subway users to the various points in NoHo and Universal City including theatres, restaurants, shops, etc.

I can hear the chorus of voices as to why this is not a practical idea. But many cities including San Francisco (where even some of the old Pacific Electric rail cars from LA still operate) and even San Pedro here in Los Angeles have found success with creating local transit systems with historic type trolleys.

How about we think differently for a change?

COOL OFF NOHO !

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.NoHo Art Shows

new review coming this week...





ANTARCTIC
WEATHER
IN NOHO
58 (fifty-eight)
YEARS AGO !

By Louis Elovitz
Digital Journalist

North Hollywood and all of L.A. fell under
a freak Winter storm in February of 1949.

COMPARE PICS 1949 versus 2006 in Noho.
My Dad once gave Dr. Fishbeck of Ch 7 News
weather copies of pics which were aired,
I think it was the 1970's. (Henry Elovitz)

.............. 1949 ............. .............. 2006 .............



















First the front
of the House
then the back
and that is the same
backyard FENCE.




This house I grew up in,
though I was only 9mths
old when this happened.
That's Vic Tanny in 2006




It WAS
FEBRUARY 1949,
just wanted
you all to
coooool off a little.
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