Fox Theatre

The curtain is scheduled to rise again at Fullerton's historic Fox Theatre. After a million-dollar renovation, the 1925-vintage theater will reopen as a three-screen cinema showing classics and foreign films, as well as first-run movies, the new operator told the City Council. The Fox, on Harbor Boulevard near Chapman Avenue, closed two years ago in a state of disrepair. The council has urged owner Edward Lewis to renovate the theater, considered one of Fullerton's landmarks.

A list of upcoming shows across the Southland, with on-sale dates in parentheses. Staples Center: The Black Eyed Peas, March 29 (Sat.) Hollywood Bowl: The Eagles, April 16, 17 and 20 (Mon.) Walt Disney Concert Hall: Air, March 28; Keith Jarrett, March 15 (Sat.) The Orpheum: Norah Jones, April 23 (Sun.) The Wiltern: Opeth, April 9 (now); Nick Jonas & the Administration, Dec. 12; Editors, Feb. 11; STS9, Feb. 12; Rob Bell, Feb. 18 (Sat.

The City Council voted Tuesday to give the owner of the Fox Fullerton Theatre a 95-day extension to file his financial plans for the renovation of the vintage theater. Edward G. Lewis, a Hollywood attorney who owns the Fox on Harbor Boulevard, filed for the extension primarily because of financial difficulties with his partner, Landmark Theatre Corp., which is going through financial restructuring. Mayor A.B.

More than three years after Fullerton residents raised $3.5 million to save the historic Fox Theatre from the wrecking ball, the 82-year-old structure remains in peril. Despite the efforts of preservationists, the dilapidated one-time vaudeville theater and movie house stands in contrast to the urban hipness that has swept downtown Fullerton, now brimming with upscale restaurants, jazz clubs and a lively street scene.

A judge's ruling Thursday removed the remaining obstacles to the San Diego Symphony's conversion of the Fox Theatre into an orchestra hall. The ruling by Superior Court Judge Mack Lovett against the Nederlander Organization and for the symphony paved the way for the symphony's inaugural concert and gala celebration at the Symphony Hall, scheduled for Nov. 2.

Plans to renovate and reopen the city's historic downtown Fox Theatre have been put on hold because of continuing effects of the recession, according to the theater's owner. Ed Lewis announced that he would relinquish his option to revive the 67-year-old theater, which expires today, because he cannot find financing. "The lending economy is scared and with the riots it's gotten worse," Lewis said. "Commercial real estate in Southern California is not a high priority for bankers today."

Plans for a $149-million complex including office and hotel towers that will flank the renovated Fox Theatre downtown were unveiled Tuesday by developers and city officials who hailed the project as architecturally imaginative--a dramatic addition to the city's skyline that will preserve the historic theater as a permanent home for the San Diego Symphony.

Buoyed by a last-minute $300,000 loan offer, Fox Theatre preservationists on Wednesday vowed a "do or die" campaign to save the 1920s landmark -- despite losing a critical vote by the Fullerton City Council the previous day. The Fullerton Historic Theatre Foundation, which wants to buy the downtown theater and save it from demolition, sought a $1.8-million loan from the city after its 10-month fundraising campaign came up short. The council, which had already pledged $1.

In dramatic fashion befitting the white-knuckle conclusion of a suspense movie, an unidentified businessman donated $1 million on Wednesday to save Fullerton's historic Fox Theatre as it was about to roll its final credits. The gift from the Orange County benefactor came as preservationists were facing an extended Friday deadline to save the structure from the wrecking ball. "We were hoping for an angel, someone who would come in at the last minute with a checkbook and say, 'Here.

Now that they've saved Fullerton's old Fox Theatre by raising $3.5 million in a down-to-the-wire fundraising campaign, preservationists face a far tougher challenge, say experts in protecting historic buildings. Organizers of the effort must find an estimated $9.3 million more to renovate the 79-year-old movie palace -- without the dramatic threat of bulldozers leveling the building to help motivate donors.

The historic Fox Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, empty for about three decades, has been purchased by the operator of the Crobar nightclub chain for more than $1 million. Crobar, based in Chicago, plans to spend $5 million restoring and improving the building erected in 1917 before opening in October, said real estate broker Ruby Simpson of Sperry Van Ness. She represented Crobar and the sellers, a family that had owned the property since the 1920s. Roger Vincent

Months after a campaign that raised $3.5 million and saved the historic Fox Theatre in Fullerton from the wrecking ball, preservationists have hired an executive director who worked on a $25-million theater renovation for the American Film Institute. David Cole, whose resume includes screenplays and real estate management, was hired in February to help raise more than $10 million and guide the Fullerton Historic Theatre Foundation through renovation.

Thieves broke into the historic Fox Theater this month and stole chandeliers and tiles valued at $251,000, according to city officials. Officials believe the thieves entered through a pried-open side door on an alley off Market Street between March 9 and Monday and stole three Spanish-style chandeliers from the main auditorium, 300 handmade 1920s-era Spanish tiles from a stairway and 85 additional tiles from the basement.

A man plowed his SUV into a parked vehicle Monday, killing a woman walking to her car, authorities said. George William Carter II, 34, was arrested after he allegedly pinned Elizabeth Leon Noverola, 37, against another SUV in his apartment building's parking structure, officials said. Minutes earlier, Orange County sheriff's deputies had been called to Carter's apartment, where he lives with his girlfriend, on a disturbing the peace complaint.

In their heyday before World War II, the Fox movie theaters stood as neon-lighted beacons over hundreds of cities big and small. It was the era of the silver screen, before television, and movie theaters were a center of city life: places for Friday dates, Saturday matinees for the kids, a chance to escape everyday life into a western or a screwball comedy. And the movie was only part of the experience. The Fox chain was known for the striking architecture of its theaters.

Now that they've saved Fullerton's old Fox Theatre by raising $3.5 million in a down-to-the-wire fundraising campaign, preservationists face a far tougher challenge, say experts in protecting historic buildings. Organizers of the effort must find an estimated $9.3 million more to renovate the 79-year-old movie palace -- without the dramatic threat of bulldozers leveling the building to help motivate donors.

Despite dozens of impassioned pleas, the Fullerton City Council on Tuesday denied a request for a $1.8-million loan to help preservationists save the historic Fox Theatre. Voting 4 to 1, the council -- acting as the city's redevelopment agency -- rejected giving the loan to the Fullerton Historic Theatre Foundation, which wants to buy the 1920s-era landmark. The theater is slated for sale to a developer, who plans to raze it for apartments. The Fox's owner is asking $3.

More than three years after Fullerton residents raised $3.5 million to save the historic Fox Theatre from the wrecking ball, the 82-year-old structure remains in peril. Despite the efforts of preservationists, the dilapidated one-time vaudeville theater and movie house stands in contrast to the urban hipness that has swept downtown Fullerton, now brimming with upscale restaurants, jazz clubs and a lively street scene.

In dramatic fashion befitting the white-knuckle conclusion of a suspense movie, an unidentified businessman donated $1 million on Wednesday to save Fullerton's historic Fox Theatre as it was about to roll its final credits. The gift from the Orange County benefactor came as preservationists were facing an extended Friday deadline to save the structure from the wrecking ball. "We were hoping for an angel, someone who would come in at the last minute with a checkbook and say, 'Here.