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Last night's crowded (and reportedly under-catered) LA.com party was not the final event to be held in the once-grand, but long-abandoned Perino's after all. Collage Dance Theatre, the troupe that performed at the Ambassador Hotel, in the L.A. River and other locales around town, is putting on "A Hunger Artist" inside the old Wilshire Boulevard dining room designed by Paul Williams before it is demolished for apartments. Shows are April 2-4 and the website advises "Please wear pink."
* And: Cecilia Rasmussen's "Then and Now" column in Sunday's L.A. Times is about the restaurant and its founder, Alexander Perino. It includes the surprise tidbit that the interior was gutted in a 1954 fire and redesigned with the pink (some call it peach) motif that most fans remember.