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When a Times reporter mentioned that his mom was coming out to visit L.A. for the holidays, and that she was curious to sample the wares at his Inglewood weed store SWED, Snoop’s eyes lit up.

When the show premiered at an experimental art space in Atwater Village, Times Classical Music Critic Mark Swed wrote: “LeBaron’s opera is the first project of an industrious, and potentially groundbreaking, new enterprise called The Industry that was founded by Yuval Sharon, a young director with his fingers in many of L.A.’s different and distinctive art pies.”

Times classical music critic Mark Swed recently wrote about the 10-week-long festival, which “dramatically changed our city not only culturally but physically, economically and, maybe more important of all, psychologically.”

The ambitious artistic programming — and the large crowds drawn to events — made Los Angeles think of itself more as a place of culture, Swed said.

Bejarano cited recent articles by Times critic Mark Swed and New Yorker critic Alex Ross that indicted boards for some newsworthy artistic fallouts.