DotDotDash: Public Space

Palm trees in East Los Angeles frame the bad moon rising.

DOGS PLEASE: The Downtown Dog Walkers will meet this Wednesday in Pershing Square at 6pm . .––  Dog owners, and accompanying K9 as well I presume, are being encouraged to wear their best Los Angeles Lakers gear. The walk will be quick ‘cause Game 5 tips off at 7:30 . .–– For new lofties, Laker colors are purple and gold, not unlike the Pershing Square color scheme.

NO DOGS PLEASE: The Cultural Heritage Commission passes on Historic-Cultural Monument recommendations to the PLUM committee today on behalf of the Aoyama Tree (135 N Central Ave) . .––The fifty feet rubber tree (Ficus elastica) was planted in 1920 and "appears to be symbolic of the history of the Koyosan Buddhist Temple and of Japanese Americans in Los Angeles." view [DDD] [DT] [PreserveLA] [RAFU] and maybe someday BGFA's Ode To Ficus.
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NO-MO-HO: City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo wants to curb streetwalkers and pimps working a portion of Figueroa in South Los Angeles . .–– The injunction was filed Friday and according to the LAT, is the first effort by the city “to use such a tactic to target illegal sex trade.” . .–– It brings new meaning to Figueroa Proposal."
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MEANWHILE, A FEW BLOCKS AWAY:  LAT blog The Homeroom has Manual Arts High School English Teacher Antero Garcia offer the online assignment that will hone student anthropological skills as they "document signs, graffiti and miscellaneous ideograms.". .–– The goal is to record ways you are confronted by messages as you travel to and from school on a daily basis." It's a hefty assignment and worth following.

ANOTHER STREET SIGHTING: Graf artist Thomas Burn’s street version of Mona Lisa, painted for a soda ad shot two weeks ago at Rose between Traction and E 3rd in the Arts District, received permission by the building owner to complete the mural over the entire wall, according to the producer of the commercial shoot.
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USE A PARK: On May 16, Broadway’s Hoagies & Wings will host some Jazz in the Park next door at Biddy Mason Park (332 S. Broadway) at Noon and  6:30 pm. .––  The community concert with jazz group The Fresh Band is first in a series of events planned by the wing kings . .–– A reminder they deliver to Downtown's dinner crowd,  and the cheeseburger gets a MeekPeek earning a two drool review.

NO TRUTH TO MY RUMOR that the now halted $125 million Medallion development will become the Farkhondehpour Skateboard Park.