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Frank Gehry-designed performing arts center at the Colburn School is under construction

One of architect Frank Gehry’s long-standing wishes is finally coming to life: a new concert venue in downtown Los Angeles that will complement his famous Walt Disney Concert Hall. The long-planned Colburn School addition will be the third Gehry-designed building on Bunker Hill, which already has Disney Concert Hall and the Grand LA, a $1-billion apartment, hotel and retail complex …

Commentary: Frank Gehry's new Colburn design could transform L.A.

In 2016, Colburn — the community music school, conservatory, academy and dance school — bought a cheerless outdoor parking lot on the corner of 2nd and Olive streets downtown for $33 million. It was on a steep, pedestrian unfriendly hill that led to the Colburn’s Grand Avenue campus, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Broad. …

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — For Tom Sanders, it’s the void left by the death of a cousin and the man’s wife, killed when a tornado mowed through a placid Alabama valley. “I don’t know if it’s a day to remember, but it’s a day you can’t forget,” said Colburn, the mayor of tiny Hackleburg, where 18 died in an EF-5 twister …

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Ronald Colburn, the former national deputy chief of the U.S. Border Patrol and current president of The Border Patrol Foundation, appeared on "Fox & Friends" on Monday to defend the use of tear gas against migrants who fled across the border in an attempt to enter the United States. "Well certainly, this particular group, the caravan, which has been well …