In A Hip Downtown Los Angeles Bar, Karaoke Meets Panhandling - NYTimes.com

When Hipsters And Skid Row Collide

The weekly karaoke contest at Bar 107 epitomizes the evolution of downtown Los Angeles from slum to hip urban enclave. There is the self-conscious kitsch (a stag head wearing a football helmet mounted on the cluttered walls, along with the Elvis portrait), the skinny jeans, the men with mustaches, the '80s tunes from Journey and Depeche Mode.

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