I should add one other note to my report on last night's Lewis Black concert. As I said, it was at the Disney Concert Hall, which is across the boulevard from the Music Center here in downtown Ell Lay. The last few years, I've refrained from attending anything at the Music Center for reasons you'd understand if you ever experienced the traffic and parking problems I endured my last few outings there. Something had to be really, really special to get me to subject myself to that again.
But getting to and from the Disney Concert Hall was rather easy. A number of downtown restaurants are now serviced by shuttle buses that will truck you to and from the Disney Concert Hall, the Music Center and other nearby venues like the Staples Center. You park for the restaurant, leave your auto there and take the shuttle. My friends and I dined at the Daily Grill and valet parking there is five bucks with a validation from the restaurant. Even adding in what I tipped the valet and the shuttle driver, that's not a bad price to pay these days to park for dinner and a show. And it was fairly simple to get to the show and back again. Just something to keep in mind if you are, as I was, reticent to brave some of those parking structures.