NOHO READY TO PUT SHOW ON ITS ROAD : WEEKEND ARTS FESTIVAL WILL FILL 3-BLOCK STRETCH OF LANKERSHIM.Byline: Mary Beth Alexander Daily News Staff Writer To prepare for this weekend's NoHo Theatre and Arts Festival An arts festival or art fair is a festival that focuses on the visual arts, but which may also focus on other arts. Arts festivals in the visual arts are exhibitions. , cafe owner Starr Irvine stocked up on turkey meatloaf and espresso beans. She expects the festival, which transforms Lankershim Boulevard into an open-air arts revival, will bring a flood of customers to her Eagles Coffee Pub and Newsstand. She welcomes the deluge Deluge (dĕl`y  j), in the Bible, the overwhelming flood that covered the earth and destroyed every living thing except the family of Noah and the creatures in his ark. .
``We get swamped,'' Irvine said. ``It's terrific for us.'' The fourth annual festival will run Saturday and Sunday. Organizers expect to attract as many as 8,000 people to a three-block stretch of Lankershim, between Magnolia Magnolia, city, United States Magnolia (măgnō`lyə), city (1990 pop. 11,151), seat of Columbia co., SW Ark.; inc. 1855. Its oil industry has been important since 1938. Boulevard and Weddington Street. Aimed at promoting the NoHo Arts District
The Arts District , the event will feature live theater, musical and dance performances, a food court and arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. booths. ``It's a very positive thing. It's a very joyful thing,'' said Debra Sakacs, executive director of the Universal City-North Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. ``The festival advertises that . . . this (area) will become a pedestrian-friendly place, where people can go to dinner and go to the theater.'' On Thursday, the celebration got an early start when a double-decker bus A double-decker bus is a bus that has two levels. While double-decker long-distance coaches are in widespread use around the world, double-decker city buses are less common. that will shuttle patrons between theaters during the festival cruised the streets of North Hollywood and Hollywood. About 25 members of the festival's ``royal court'' and organizers piled into the bright red British-style coach for a 1-1/2-hour ride in a roving advertisement for the event. ``It was a great ride,'' said John Nelsestuen, spokesman for the festival. ``A lot of people were honking and waving. This was another chance for us to make a splash before the big weekend.'' Lankershim Boulevard between Magnolia and Weddington will be blocked off beginning about 4 a.m. Saturday and will remain closed throughout the festival, which will run 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and noon to 8 p.m. Sunday. At a time when Lankershim Boulevard has been plagued by troubles, including possible ground sinkage sink·age n. 1. The process, amount, or degree of sinking. 2. A sunken area; a depression. and loss of business related to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's subway tunneling, business owners said the festival is a welcome diversion. ``I think the arts festival is the sort of thing that can bring the community together at a time when its sort of physically being torn apart,'' said Mitch Levine, executive director of the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Directors Project. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO A Chamber of Commerce bus ride promoted the arts fest ival Thursday morning. Hans Gutknecht/Daily News |
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