Downtown rockin'

If you don't have tickets to the Lakers game or the premiere of the Michael Jackson movie "This is It," you might want to steer clear of the Staples/Nokia complex. Expect traffic to start building by around 3. All told, you're looking at 25,000 people jammed into a pretty tight area - and most all of them coming from someplace else. It's hard to deny the area's growing popularity - not so much as a place to hang out (L.A. Live is an amazingly uninviting complex), but as a destination for big events. (LAT)