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Interview
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New Park Takes Root Westchester couple is turning empty space into a gathering place for families ............ 8
Bonin Calls ‘BS’ on FAA
Discover the unexpected flavors of Somali cooking .............................................. 20
Westside Happenings
Feature Photo by Jim McHugh
Councilman says feds aren’t telling the truth about LAX noise pollution ................ 9
East Africa’s Kitchen
Inglewood Mayor James Butts on what a new NFL stadium means for his city and the region .......................... 14
Marina Murder Suspect Caught Police say alleged gunman shot teen during a robbery attempt . .............................. 10
Music: Vintage Americana at McCabe’s ....................................... 30 Theater: Nine Plays on Stage Now
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Film: Hitchcock on the Big Screen
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Community: A Voice for Foster Kids
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Tech: Explore 20 Million Gigabytes
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L e tt e r s Affordable Housing Should Be Affordable Over the years I have bid on, bought and built on so-called “surplus” properties from the county and city. It is not too late for local governments to dedicate some of this property for the creation of affordable or homeless housing. Governments could even trade for or purchase private properties that make for appropriate low-cost housing sites. Low-cost housing for lowincome and homeless residents can and should be built much less expensively than as happens now. Let’s restrain bureaucracy and high-priced designs. Let’s not repeat the Taj Mahal project recently done on skid row. All urban and suburban neighborhoods should have some buildings that offer basic housing units. For a single person, 300 to 350 square feet. For a couple, 400 to 500 square feet. Add 100 square feet for a household with one child, and 60 square feet for each additional child. I would personally invest in such projects — especially SROs (single-room occupancy buildings).
The idea is that we not ghettoize any particular area but instead spread basic, low-cost housing all around the region, increasing the economic diversity of our neighborhoods. Peter Griswold Marina del Rey The Great Cost of Marina Improvements Re: “Tiny Wetlands Turn into Battleground,” News, Nov. 25, and “Refugee Fatigue,” Opinion, Jan. 6 I admire the long list of humanitarian situations that the current L.A. County Board of Supervisors will attempt to improve. However, at a recent meeting I attended the board showed no interest in environmental problems and the effect of climate change in Los Angeles. The board voted to approve construction of a 288-room hotel on a wetland area at water’s edge adjacent to the Ballona Creek, having already approved three extremely large apartment complexes within two blocks of this new hotel. Five hotels already exist in Marina del Rey. I hope the California Coastal Commission will not approve
construction on a wetland, with all of the hazardous waste, pollution from construction, excessive water use and traffic this hotel would engender. Yes, we need to pay for social improvements — but not at excessive cost to the environment. This area was developed for the recreational benefit of L.A. County residents. Residents pay high property taxes, and rents in the marina are also high. The county can be assured of lengthy commercial leases. Another hotel is just bad public policy! Lynne Shapiro Marina del Rey
FROM THE WEB Re: “Marina del Razed,” Opinion, Dec. 31 William Hicks’ opinion piece on “killing” trees is one of the most bizarre essays I’ve ever read. Whatever he’s smoking, I’d like to try (under medical supervision, of course)! His criticism of county management would turn 180 degrees if a diseased tree limb snapped and crushed a passing kid on a bicycle. Enough said. David W. Kay
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A New Park Takes Root in Westchester North Kentwood couple teams up with the YMCA to turn empty space into a gathering place for families
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By Bonnie Eslinger The dirt and gravel corner of a parking lot off Sepulveda Boulevard may not have looked like much to most passersby, but for Eli and Brent Wagner it offered the possibility of becoming a play area for their daughter and a gathering place for neighborhood families. The thirtysomething couple, married in 2012, bought their home in North Kenwood just a few years ago and welcomed their first child, a daughter, into the world in April. “So we’re walking around the neighborhood and we realize that there are no parks in the immediate area that we’ll be able to take her to,” Eli Wagner said. “That’s when we began looking for a place in our neighborhood where we could put up a small play structure that the community could benefit from, including us.” Westchester has a large city park with play areas, picnic tables and a gymnasium off West Manchester Avenue and Lincoln Boulevard, but the Wagners wanted something closer to home — something similar to the smaller-scale neighborhood parks they’d seen in Playa Vista and El Segundo. When the couple found the 3,300-squarefoot space facing West 80th Place behind the Westchester Family YMCA, they got their hopes up. The Wagners contacted John Loussararian, the Westchester Y’s executive director, about the possibility of turning the space into a pocket park and he didn’t let them down. Creating a neighborhood space was in keeping with the YMCA’s mission of encouraging family and community. A local Boy Scout, David Lewins, had already began making improvements to the corner patch of land as part of his Eagle Scout project. He leveled off the area and added gravel, with native plant landscaping the next part of the plan, Loussararian said. “The core of what David and the Wagners are striving to create is a space that brings people together to strengthen already established relationships and to establish new friendships. Furthermore, we know that when families engage in activities together, they experience deepened emotional ties, increasing resiliency and trust of others,” Loussararian wrote in an email. “We believe this project accomplishes this in an unstructured way that welcomes the community to enjoy.” Although such details as how to secure the park, make it disability accessible and protect the YMCA from liability still need to be worked out, the YMCA has given the Wagners the green light to start fundraising for a commercial-grade play structure and other possible improvements. Eli Wagner said she’d be happy with a slide and a couple of swings, but the YMCA is also exploring options to see if something bigger can be built. Neighbors
Eli and Brent Wagner are raising funds to turn unused space outside the Westchester Family YMCA into a family-friendly park for their daughter, Maya, and other neighborhood kids to enjoy won’t have to be members of the YMCA to use the park, she stressed. Loussararian has contacted a national organization that helps communities fund and build playgrounds, but securing nonprofit support could take time. So, for
a pasta sauce tasting and competition with beer, wine and pizza that’s modeled after an event Eli Wagner experienced while attending law school in the Bay Area. Restaurant chefs vying for top honors will provide the pasta toppings
“The core of what David and the Wagners are striving to create is a space that brings people together.” — John Loussararian, Westchester Family YMCA
now, the modest park plan is moving forward independently, he said. The effort got a big boost with an initial $5,000 donation from The Promenade at Howard Hughes. The Wagners have also organized a fundraiser called “Sauce Angeles 2016,”
and attendees will be the judges, voting on the various characteristics of the sauces. Tickets are $125, and to date $10,000 in event pre-sales has already been raised, said Brent Wagner, who works in real estate finance.
There’s still enough event space and unclaimed tickets to raise another $5,000, he said. And while $30,000 is the “aspirational goal,” for the park, if the sauce-off sells out that would be enough to get a “bare bones minimum” project built, he said. It was less than six months ago when the whole idea took root, said the couple of their first community-organizing project. “This is a unique thing for us,” Eli Wagner said, the playful sound of her daughter Maya’s voice heard in the background during a telephone interview. “It really came out of a very organic need.” The Sauce Angeles 2016 fundraiser starts at 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30, at the YMCA Annex at 8020 Alverstone Ave., Westchester. To make a donation and attend the fundraiser, visit sauceoff.com.
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By Gary Walker Citing “sudden and dramatic changes” in the frequency and footprint of airport flyover noise related to LAX, Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin is accusing federal aviation officials of being dishonest about flight patterns and calling on members of Congress for help. “Since late summer, I have heard from hundreds of constituents complaining about frequent, consistent noise from aircraft; these complaints come from neighborhoods that have never mentioned this issue previously,” Bonin wrote in a Jan. 11 letter to local Reps. Ted Lieu and Karen Bass. Bonin writes that the communities newly impacted by frequent and consistent airplane noise, beyond the typical hotspots of Westchester and Playa del Rey, Mar Vista (where Bonin lives) as well as Culver City and even Pacific Palisades.
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Late last year, Bonin wrote the FAA to inquire whether flight patterns had changed, and FAA regional administrator Glen Martin answered that the airplane arrival pattern for LAX had remained the same for years. “The only change we were able to identify is in the number of [aircraft] operations at LAX, which have increased almost 17% between 2009 and 2014,” wrote Martin, who also acknowledged an increased in missed runway approaches between July and September of last year due to runway construction projects. Bonin isn’t buying it. “To put it bluntly, the FAA’s answer is pure BS. There is no way they are being honest with me or with the people that I represent. As you know, I live in Mar Vista and I can assure you that the increase in flights and noise was not gradual; it happened suddenly and is quite pronounced,” he wrote. “Either the FAA is not telling us something or thousands of people are suffering from mass delusion. Given my experience with the FAA over the past two decades, I am confident that it is the former.” Residents of the Westchester and Playa del Rey bluffs complained last summer about increased noise levels when the airport had closed runways for maintenance. LAX officials said at the time that there had been a surge in flyovers during construction but described the increase as temporary.
international destinations. FAA officials met with representatives of Lieu, Bass and Bonin on Jan. 12 and presented data that altitudes of arriving and departing flights have remained nearly the identical since 2013. The next day, a handful of community activists met with FAA and LAX representatives for a roundtable discussion at the airport. Denny Schneider, head of the grassroots Alliance for a Regional Solution to Airport Congestion (which has done battle with LAX for years), said he was to hear the same old lines again. “[The FAA] has no explanation for the noise levels. They claim that nothing has changed. But the problem is that each ‘review’ of data doesn’t seem to identify a problem to be solved. They keep telling us that all is the same over the past couple years, when we know something is different,” Schneider said. Playa del Rey bluffs resident Kathryn Cheatham, who has previously complained to LAX about airport noise and is concerned about its long-term impact on property values, said she’s happy that Bonin is putting pressure on the FAA. “I appreciate that someone is taking a stand,” Cheatham said. “We don’t have air conditioning, and on hot days we have to keep our windows open with all of this [noise and air] pollution.” gary@argonautnews.com
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Kristine Carman was murdered on Jan. 6 The joint LAPD-FBI Fugitive Task Force has arrested a suspected gunman in the Jan. 6 murder of a 17-year-old girl in the parking lot of the Marina Marketplace shopping center. Cameron Frazier, 21, was arrested at 9:30 a.m. Monday outside his home in Vista, a city in northwestern San Diego County, and booked at LAPD West Bureau headquarters on Monday night, according to a police department bulletin. Frazier is being held without bail at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown Los Angeles and was set to be arraigned on Wednesday at the Airport Courthouse in Westchester. According to the LAPD bulletin, Frazier allegedly shot murder victim Kristine Carman in the head during a failed robbery outside Jerry’s Famous Deli, near Mindanao Way and the Marina (90) Freeway.
First responders found Carman’s body in the back seat of an SUV parked a short distance away between the Marina del Rey Post Office and Panda Express. Carman lived in Texas and had been in town visiting her older sister Lacey Carman, who posted to social media the next morning that she had been in the vehicle during the shooting. The LAPD arrest bulletin does not confirm or deny TV news reports that a man in the vehicle with Lacey and Kristine Carman had been attempting to sell a large quantity of marijuana to an unfamiliar buyer when the shooting occurred. LAPD investigators did not return call for comment. The day after the shooting, Lacey Carman created a GoFundMe page to crowdsource donations for a “life gem” to memorialize Kristine. The page has since been modified, apparently by Kristine’s mother, to say the money would go toward funeral costs. According to the page, a memorial service for Kristine happened Monday, the same day Frazier was arrested. FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said LAPD homicide detectives joined agents from the FBI’s San Diego office to arrest Frazier. “We’ve worked with [LAPD] for many years on the task force. They average between 100 and 200 arrests a year,” Eimiller said. Police are asking anyone with information about the shooting to contact LAPD West Bureau Homicide investigators at (213) 382-9470. — Gary Walker
Volunteers Needed for Annual Homeless Count The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority is seeking volunteers to assist with its annual census of the homeless population in Los Angeles and a new initiative focused on outreach to homeless youth. The agency needs help canvassing Westchester, Playa del Rey, Venice and Del Rey on the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 27. Participation is already high enough in Mar Vista and Marina del Rey that no more volunteers are needed, and Santa Monica officials conduct a separate count in that city.
The Westside portion of LAHSA’s inaugural Greater Los Angeles Youth Count — a special effort to survey and provide social services outreach for homeless youth — happens from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 26, and focuses on coastal neighborhoods including Venice and Santa Monica. Register to volunteer for the homeless count or youth count at theycountwillyou.com, or write youthcount@lahsa.org to reach organizers of the youth count.
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— Gary Walker
B r i e f Street Art Tribute to Abbot Kinney Vanishes “Mr. Abbot Kinney Reflected,” an anamorphic portrait of Venice’s founder painted on the sidewalk at the corner of San Juan and Electric avenues, disappeared over the weekend — most likely erased with a power scrubber, said creator Robin Murez. “I am horrified, saddened, outraged and shocked that this piece of artwork was destroyed. We don’t know if it was done by the city or if some vigilante took it upon him or herself to destroy the artwork,” Murez said. Jeff Weiss, who owns the home on the street corner where the piece had been located, discovered on Saturday that Murez’s work had disappeared. “I was just walking to the house and noticed that it was gone. It was always so welcoming,” Weiss said. Murez created the multimedia sidewalk portrait in 2013 as a gift to Weiss but did not secure a permit for it, she said.
The artwork’s location on the sidewalk puts it in a “gray area” legally, said Lizy Dastin, a street art scholar and the founder of Art and Seeking street art tours. Artwork on a wall, such as a mural, is considered private property, said Dastin, but an artwork on a sidewalk is typically considered to be in public space. Regardless, the work’s demise is a blow to Venice’s artistic landscape, she said. “Bottom line is that a treasure was taken away from Venice,” said Dastin. “Whether it was legal or not, it’s a treasure lost.” The city’s Department of Cultural Affairs could not be reached for comment. Murez has put a sign above the former site of “Mr. Abbot Kinney Reflected” asking for anyone with information about its removal to contact her. She can be reached at info@venicepublicart.org. — Christina Campodonico
“Abbot Kinney Reflected” vanished over the weekend
LAPD Launches Community Center in Del Rey More than 150 people gathered on Saturday for the grand opening of the new LAPD Pacific Division Community Center on the grounds of the police station at Culver Boulevard and Centinela Avenue in Del Rey. Offering space for community meetings, a small children’s library and new LAPD offices with workstations for 50 police officers, the community center was created from eight former construction trailers donated by Playa Vista master developers Brookfield Residential. Los Angeles Police Commissioner Steve Soboroff — formerly head of Playa Capital LLC, which sold Playa Vista land to Brookfield — got the ball rolling on the project. Soboroff said that while touring the Pacific Division as a newly minted
commissioner, he noticed an old Pacific Division trailer was hardly being used because it was in disrepair and proceeded to ask Brookfield officials whether they could donate some surplus construction trailers. “LAPD is the backbone of our community. We hope that you ladies and gentlemen in blue will be comfortable in this facility and that you enjoy it for many, many years to come,” Brookfield Chief Operating Officer Adrian Foley said. Staff of L.A. City Councilman Mike Bonin’s office helped facilitate the project. The community benefit project “is a reminder of what vision, partnership and collaboration can do,” said LAPD Capt. Nicole Alberca, commander of the Pacific Division. — Gary Walker
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La Vida SoCal
Remember the Pan-Pacific? Let’s make sure the Santa Monica Civic doesn’t meet a similar fate
By Tony Peyser I thought a bomb had gone off. I opened the door to my Fairfax District duplex and saw a huge plume of smoke several blocks south of me. Panicked people on the street headed that way, and sirens moved in that same direction. I soon discovered this wasn’t a bomb or a plane crash, it was a fire. On that day in May of 1989, the whole neighborhood came out, first just to see what had happened but then to say goodbye: the Pan-Pacific Auditorium was burning to the ground. Even in large cities like Los Angeles, there aren’t many oldschool public venues so beloved. Built in 1935 by the architecture firm Wurdeman and Becket, the Pan-Pacific Auditorium was the place where Dwight Eisenhower spoke shortly before being elected president in 1952 and where Elvis performed in 1957 shortly before inducted into the Army. Pan Pacific Park now occupies that location, and all that remains as a reminder of the legendary auditorium is a smaller version of one of its iconic Streamline Moderne towers. The only place in our neck of the woods with a history comparable to the Pan-Pacific is the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. The Civic has 3,000 seats (about half of the Pan-Pacific) and debuted a few decades later (1958), but it too was designed by celebrated architect Welton Becket of the aforementioned Wurdeman and Becket. (For architects keeping score, some of Becket’s other quintessential L.A. projects include the Capitol Records building, the Cinerama Dome, Pauley Pavilion and The Beverly Hilton.) The Santa Monica Civic is especially famous to baby boomers for hosting 1964’s
The T.A.M.I Show, one of the greatest concerts (and documentaries) in rock history. Performers at this dazzling event included The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Supremes, James Brown and The Rolling Stones. The Civic was home to the Oscars from 1961 to 1967, and over the decades the venue hosted David Bowie’s concertturned-album “Santa Monica ’72,” as well as gigs by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, The Clash, The Eagles, Ella Fitzgerald and even an early concert by Weird Al Yankovic. The Civic has been closed since 2013, but now’s as good a time as any to think about ways to revive it. In The Argonaut’s pages recently, Santa Monica City Manager Rick Cole explained that bringing the auditorium up to code and ready to host a variety of public events could wind up costing around $50 million. Yeah, yeah, we all know, finding public funding is hard to come by these days and tends to move at … an … incredibly … slow ... pace. But couldn’t some kind of crowdfunding option be put on the table? The Kickstarter campaigns for a “Veronica Mars” movie and new episodes of “Mystery Science Theater 3000” each raised around $5.7 million. Considering the storied history of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, it seems fairly reasonable that some real money could be raised in this kind of collective effort. Another way to go can be summed up in two words: Silicon Beach. There are hundreds of tech startups on the Westside, along with several established tech industry players entrenched in the area — Snapchat, Hulu
and a modest little mom-and-pop called Google, for starters. If, as Cole noted, some philanthropic person or entity (I’m looking at you, David Geffen) wants to plunk down a cool $50 million, that would be a tremendous investment to preserve an eminently worthy local icon. As for go-go Google boys Larry Page and Sergey Brin, a recent letter to the editor in this newspaper already offered a new name for the venue — the Googolplex, a mathematical term with an interesting history of its own and one that reflects the near endless potential for what could happen there. Without a willing billionaire, another viable option could be spreading the cost around and getting five, 10 or even 50 Westside movers and shakers to do the heavy financial lifting together. The Pan-Pacific Auditorium had been in awful shape for a number of years at the time of its demise. I can imagine people approached back then about reviving the Pan-Pacific could’ve looked at it and concluded it didn’t appear worth resurrecting. The Santa Monica Civic, while shuttered, still looks pretty good for its age. With so much of its surroundings doing so well, it’s time to give this venerable local institution the facelift she so obviously deserves. John Betjeman was the bestselling British poet of the 20th century and equally famous as an ardent preservationist. Whenever someone praised him for this work, he was more than likely to sigh and talk about the classic old buildings he didn’t save. I hope the Santa Monica Civic will long be part of the consciousness of the Westside and, unlike the Pan-Pacific, won’t ever be discussed only in the past tense.
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The architecture firm Wurdeman and Becket built both the Pan-Pacific Auditorium (right), destroyed by fire in 1989, and the Santa Monica Civic, which there’s still a chance to save
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Marina View
Interested People are Interesting The late Sandra Starr, creator of The Silver Strand News, was also a big deal in the art world By William Hicks My late mother in law had a saying: “Interested people are interesting.” Silver Strand community activist Sandra Leonard Starr was interested in people and the world around her, and that made her a tremendously interesting person to know. It was with deep sadness that my wife and I said our goodbyes to Sandy, as friends called her, during her at-home memorial service on Dec. 13. Sandra’s warm and witty husband of 45 years, filmmaker Harrison Starr, was a gracious host who allowed guests to share a few words about Sandy, who had died unexpectedly at age 76. One said you didn’t dare speak ill of Sandy’s friends because she’d put you in your place. Another said “Sandy knew everything.” Six years ago, Sandy founded the online community newsletter The Silver Strand News (mdrsilverstrandnews. wordpress.com) to help other people stay interested in and informed about local affairs. For this effort she attended community meetings, posted government documents and chronicled neighborhood gatherings. What made Sandra good at this, said Harrison, is that “First of all she was a scholar, an art historian … who came from a long line of journalists.” Sandy was born on April 12, 1939, in Washington D.C. Her father was a journalist and her maternal grandfather was an English newspaper owner. Harrison said Sandy had a rough early childhood after her parents separated, but her father’s second wife — an agent with the Office of Strategic Services, a precursor to the CIA — created a stable home life that led Sandy to attend Sarah Lawrence College and later earn a master’s degree in art history from Harvard University. After Harvard she became director of the high-profile Feigen Gallery on New York City’s Madison Avenue, a post that afforded her the opportunity to write a book about the artist Max Ernst. After Harrison’s work took the couple to Los Angeles, Sandy took charge of the James Corcoran Gallery in Santa Monica — the catalyst for that city’s 1980s art gallery boom — and wrote the book “Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art.” Writing was important to Sandy. The last time that I spoke with her was at a local neighborhood block party about a month before we heard the news of her passing. She locked her eyes intently with mine and said, “Keep up the writing. … It’s important.” Those words echoed loudly in my mind. They echo even louder now that she’s gone.
A retired art gallery manager and lifelong author, Sandy Starr gave back to her adopted community by publishing The Silver Strand News
Sandy and husband Harrison Starr were married for 45 years
It’s easy to underestimate the power of reading and writing. According to a 2013 study by the National Institute of Literacy, as many as 32 million American adults — almost
represent our district lives all the way in Cerritos. By contrast, the city of Los Angeles is broken up into 15 geographic council districts. Smaller cities such as Santa
University, helped me connect the dots: “As a right, the press is a public service in order to promote an informed electorate. It is considered the 4th branch of government by political scientists.
Several people commented during Sandy’s memorial that there is a vacuum now that she’s gone, including the community’s loss of her activist presence and newsletter. We can honor Sandy’s legacy by recognizing the value of reading and writing as a public service. 15% of the population — read at a level below basic competency. How can they participate in society? After living in Marina del Rey for the past nine years, I really have to wonder. Allow me to get political for a moment. In the 1800s, people came to California looking for gold. Now the land itself is as good as gold, and Marina del Rey has become a goldmine — hence all the traffic and overdevelopment. Marina del Rey is an unincorporated area managed by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors — five people running the show for 10 million residents spread out over 4,752 square miles. The board conducts its meetings in downtown Los Angeles, and the supervisor elected to
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Monica and El Segundo have their own city councils made up of people who have to live and conduct business in the immediate vicinity of the neighborhoods they manage. I don’t think downtown can manage Marina del Rey any better than Sacramento can manage L.A. or Washington D.C. can manage California. Great Britain tried to manage the 13 colonies, and we all know how that turned out! There always seems to be political strife in areas where leadership doesn’t have to live with the messes they create. People like Sandra Starr helped fill the space between our civil servants and us. My brother Dan, who earned a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia
Without it, people are not able to make fair and reasonable decisions politically,” he said. Several people commented during Sandy’s memorial that there is a vacuum now that she’s gone, including the community’s loss of her activist presence and newsletter. We can honor Sandy’s legacy by recognizing the value of reading and writing as public service. Write to William Hicks at williamhicks. columnist@gmail.com. Managing Editor Joe Piasecki contributed additional biographical research to this column.
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Int e r v i e w
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Inglewood Mayor James Butts, second from left, joined Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke (center) last Friday at The Forum for team executives’ first public appearance in Inglewood
First and Goal
Inglewood Mayor James Butts on what a new NFL stadium means for his city and the region By Gary Walker When James Butts became mayor of Inglewood in 2010, the former Santa Monica police chief took over a city in search of cultural and economic momentum as it teetered on the edge of bankruptcy. Now Butts is focused on keeping up with billions of dollars in new investment. Last week’s announcement that professional football would return to the Los Angeles area with a privately funded $1.8-billion stadium to be built at the former Hollywood Park race track is the latest and greatest chapter so far in the story of Inglewood’s renaissance. Standard & Poor’s has already boosted the city’s credit rating. Momentum picked up two years ago with the reopening of The Forum (formerly home to L.A. Lakers teams that gave Inglewood its “City of Champions” moniker) as the city’s premier large-concert venue after $100 million in renovations. The success promises to continue with plans for a retail, entertainment, hotel and residential complex adjacent to the
80,000-seat stadium after the stadium opens in 2019. Elected to a second term as mayor with 84% voter support in 2014, Butts is no Johnny-come-lately to Inglewood. Butts, 62, became an Inglewood police officer in 1972 — a time when AfricanAmericans were just starting to move into the-then largely white city that would become primarily black in the 1980s and that by 2010 had become primarily Latino and black. He later served as Santa Monica’s chief of police from 1991 to 2006 and an LAX police executive from 2006 to 2010. “I’ve been here for the alpha, when I came back it was the omega, and now we’re a phoenix rising from the ashes,” Butts said. The rise of Inglewood — its new stadium in particular — is also expected to have a positive impact on its neighbors to the west, further shifting economic momentum toward this side of the city. “This will have a completely positive impact for Inglewood and communities west of Inglewood as well. People will travel to the stadium from all directions
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and will stop in Westchester, Marina del Rey and Playa Vista, and that will help the economic infrastructure of those communities,” said Loyola Marymount University political science professor Fernando Guerra, an expert in urban politics and local governance. During his conversation with The Argonaut, Butts took issue with a question about the possible impacts of gentrification on Inglewood, saying improvements in desirability would improve quality of life and increase opportunity for a city largely supportive of economic renewal efforts. Guerra sees similar benefits. “There will be no [negative] gentrification because no residents will be moved out due to the stadium, and the city will get new revenue from the stadium and the development projects near the stadium. This will improve the entire Manchester Avenue Corridor as well as Westchester,” Guerra said. “Politically, it’s a win for both Mayor Butts and Mayor [Eric] Garcetti because now they can say that they were able to bring football back to Los Angeles when other mayors couldn’t.”
Westside real estate broker Monica Trepany, head of Playa Realty, said Inglewood is positioned for a new era of prosperity that could influence Westside property values as well. “The stadium will be an additional asset that will bring in more revenue and more tourism. Housing prices will likely go up [in Inglewood], and there will be a stronger demand for housing. And that could have an impact on housing in Westchester, but how we don’t know yet,” Trepany said. “But it is definitely going to make a very favorable impact in Inglewood and surrounding communities.” Venice real estate broker Tami Pardee, founder of Pardee Properties, said the new stadium could generate even more interest in Westchester, Playa Vista and Marina del Rey — even after a 22% increase in property values last year — and bring long-overlooked Inglewood into the fold of the Westside success story. “People like to live near the home team if they can. It’s a connection that they enjoy, and because we haven’t had a
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progress. We had a council that was cohesive enough to say, ‘We’ll do what [the people] want, and we’ll adopt this initiative and we’ll take whatever criticism comes.’ And then there’s the competence of your planning and code people who put together a plan where we engaged consultants so the city wouldn’t become a bottleneck. What does it say about a populace that would band together and so strongly support an initiative that the council is able to adopt that initiative, and therefore is able to bypass potentially three years of delay of CEQA [California Environmental Quality Act] that would have taken us out of this race altogether? It says we had everyone working together from the conception of the idea to the execution of the plan. How will your city’s long-term redevelopment plans near The Forum and Hollywood Park affect nearby Westchester? The reality is that Playa Vista and Westchester are extremely attractive areas if you look at their property prices and they’ve hit their zenith. What you’re going to see [in Inglewood] is an equalization of desirability. You’re going to see property values rise here. They’ve already risen 50% over the last two years alone, and with the advent of this stadium they’re going to rise even more. So now there will be more of a parity, and that’s good for everyone because people will be able to migrate between the different communities [in a way] that you’ve never seen before. You’re going to see more balance demographically.
How will the city ensure than economic benefits — and not just pressures associated with gentrification — reach Inglewood’s existing residents? No one ever talks about gentrification when a community becomes primarily The $1.8-billion privately financed stadium is slated to open in 2019 at the former Hollywood Park black and brown. But if you have any horseracing track migration of whites to an area, then it’s gentrification. That makes no sense to me. All you have are people coming to a professional football team for so long project with the type of complexity and and we’re going to be the rising tide that desirable place to live. And just like it was we’ve been missing that connection,” diversity that we had. That being said, lifts all boats. wrong when the whites tried to keep out Pardee said. we also knew that this was only part of blacks and tried to gentrify Inglewood in the process because it’s a political What are the local hiring targets for THE ARGONAUT: What finally sold process and you have to take into stadium development, and how will you the 1960s, it’s wrong to care if whites want to buy houses that they can afford in the NFL on Inglewood? And what sold account alliances, feelings about owners be able to follow through? Inglewood. Inglewood on the NFL? amongst one another, and no one could Our goal is a 30% local hire. You can’t What you’re talking about is economic MAYOR BUTTS: We knew that this predict that. But we were confident that discriminate on who gets jobs based on desirability. To say that Inglewood will was a project that would be extremely if it came down to what would be best geography, but what you can do is become economically desirable so that attractive to league ownership because it economically for the owners in the targeted outreach and make training had more economic upside to it than the league … that would be us. available to locals. We were able to follow people of all races would want to come and live here — that’s a plus. Something others. I also knew that of all of the through with it on The Forum. Madison is a negative when people flee an area projects that were proposed, we were the What impacts do you expect the new Square Garden put up $1 million for because it’s undesirable to live. You never only project that was financed, entitled stadium to have on Inglewood and the locals and job training for people who see the term gentrification used when that and the land was graded. Most football Westside region as a whole? didn’t have the requisite skills for conhappens. When people that are more sociostadiums stand by themselves someInglewood is now going to have an struction jobs ahead of time, and we’ve economically upwardly mobile come to where — they’re used 10 times a year ancillary impact on the region because exceeded those goals with the Madison and then they’re shuttered 355 days. you’re going to have more cars than Square Garden Forum renovation project. an area and you see a change, that’s where you hear the term gentrification. It’s never We’ve been contemplating a sports people. I learned this in Santa Monica: used universally, and it’s unfair. complex that could have other NFL when you have more cars than people, You’ve been in Inglewood long enough We were an embryo compared to uses as well, like [offices for] the people spend money. They’ll spend to see multiple demographic shifts and where we will go if we manage this NFL Networks. money along the way at other places experience the city’s former political, We were the only project that proceedwhere they haven’t been. And they’re social and economic distress. What does properly. We really have a successed beyond pretty pictures and rendergoing to go back there, recreate and the stadium deal say about how far the management problem now — how we are going to manage prosperity and not ings. There was no comparison between spend money. So we’re going to be a city has come and where it’s headed? fritter it away. a standalone stadium project and a regional magnet, a regional attraction We had a community that wants to january 21, 2016 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 15
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Edward Goldman (center) has curated an exhibition of artist portraits by photographer Jim McHugh (far left) at the El Segundo Museum of Art, founded by Brian and Eva Sweeney (behind Goldman) with curator Bernhard Zunkeler (far right)
Art, Unexpected
KCRW’s Edward Goldman teams up with ESMoA, the new museum putting El Segundo on the art world map By Christina Campodonico When Brian and Eva Sweeney started intensively collecting art about six years ago, they weren’t thinking their part-time passion would evolve into a serious art museum near the edge of the Chevron oil refinery in El Segundo. Since opening in 2013, the nonprofit El Segundo Museum of Art (ESMoA) has sent ripples through the L.A. art scene and beyond. In 2014, Artnet named ESMoA one of the top ten private museums in the U.S., and Artinfo’s William Poundstone placed it among his top ten as well. Locally, KCRW “Art Talk” host Edward Goldman has thrown his clout behind the museum, too. He’s even stepped in to curate ESMoA’s current offering. Called “TOUCH,” the voluminous exhibit is an ambitious pairing of works by acclaimed Los Angeles artists with portraits of those artists by veteran magazine photographer Jim McHugh. While The Broad Museum’s recent entrance into L.A.’s contemporary art scene was greeted with fanfare when it opened its doors in downtown Los
Angeles, ESMoA’s more off-the-radar debut has left it a hidden gem waiting to be discovered mere minutes away from Playa del Rey and Westchester. “It wasn’t planned in advance, more by chance,” says Brian Sweeney, a real
don’t have any art at all in our city. We’d love to have citizens exposed,’” Sweeney recalls of his meeting with the mayor. From there, a quest for storage space morphed into founding a public-focused museum — what the Sweeneys prefer to
“It’s always very non-linear, nonacademic — a very adventurous presentation of art.” — Edward Goldman on ESMoA
estate developer and investor from Manhattan Beach. Sweeney, 54, and his wife Eva, an architect, were looking for storage space in El Segundo to house their growing art collection, which he says ranges from “works made in 2500 B.C. to made yesterday.” But during the process, former El Segundo Mayor Eric Busch planted an intriguing idea in their heads: “He said, ‘Could you open it up to the public? We
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call an “art laboratory” — featuring rotating exhibits (called “experiences”) of their collection and other artworks on temporary loan. ESMoA quickly expanded from there to offer free educational programming for local schools, in-house artist residencies and collaborations with other institutions such as the Getty Research Institute. To build ESMoA from the ground up on what was once an alleyway between a post office and a taco shop, Eva Sweeney
tapped her architectural training to create a building with sustainable design principles and then brought her brother Bernhard Zunkeler to serve as ESMoA’s curator “The most exciting thing about this place is that it’s a laboratory. There’s nothing right or wrong,” Zunkeler told DIGS magazine. That spirit of experimentation influences the layout of ESMoA and how visitors encounter the artwork it displays. There are no explanatory labels on the walls, only numbers assigned to each work, which visitors can look up in ESMoA’s “Virtual Gallery” online via smartphone (the space has free Wi-Fi) or an iPad at the front of the gallery. On the website, users are invited to respond to a question prompted by the artwork or leave a comment. Education, as well as experimentation, drive ESMoA’s mission. On weekdays, ESMoA hosts field trips and educational art classes for students from El Segundo schools and others in Hawthorne, Inglewood and Compton. All
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Artist Mike Kelley in Jim McHugh’s 1983 portrait “Banana Man”
McHugh’s 1984 portrait of David Hockney
Rachel Lachowicz’s “Particle Dispersion: Orange Vega” encases eye shadow in a Plexiglass holder shaped like the particles it contains
McHugh’s portrait of Santa Monica painter Don Bachardy at work in his studio
An illustration by Raymond Pettibon
programming is free, and ESMoA offers transportation for schoolchildren visiting from farther away on class fieldtrips. ESMoA also hosts free lectures, live events and other educational programming for adults and teens throughout the year. Admission to ESMoA is also free. Open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays as well as by appointments Mondays through Thursdays, the museum’s curatorial calendar excites KCRW’s Goldman. “It’s always very non-linear, non-academic — a very adventurous presentation of art,” says Goldman. The art critic and radio host was inspired to curate “TOUCH” after visiting McHugh’s house and seeing dozens of photographs of famed and emerging L.A. artists on the walls. Goldman wanted to talk about the experience on “Art Talk,” but since the photographs were in a private home he couldn’t. Not giving up on the subject, Goldman talked with the Sweeneys, who had been part of his seminar on art collecting at Otis College of Art and Design, and McHugh about putting together a show at ESMoA. Goldman wanted to complement McHugh’s portraits with artwork by the artists he photographed, so they worked to secure loans of key artworks directly from artists, galleries and collectors. In curating “TOUCH,” Goldman also
took an unconventional approach. In ESMoA’s long rectangular gallery space with uncommonly high walls, he hung the artist’s portraits on one side and their corresponding artworks on the other, stacking the works up so high on the walls that the works stretch from floor to ceiling. Goldman says he wanted to recapture the experience he had entering McHugh’s house — the feeling of going inside an artist’s studio and witnessing the creative process from an intimate behind-the-scenes perspective. Or, in his words: “… As if you have the privilege not only to be in a wonderful restaurant, but allowing you to go to the kitchen, where everything is bubbling and boiling and steaming. I wanted people to have this glimpse, taste, smell of the inventive and one-of-a-kind atmosphere of Los Angeles.” Having worked as a photographer for People Magazine, Architectural Digest and other high-profile magazines, McHugh has spent his 30-year career documenting Los Angeles’s art scene through his camera lens. From emerging talents to big names, he’s photographed artists whose creativity put L.A. art on the map. Some of his subjects include Ed Moses, James Turrell, Billy Al Bengston and Eric Orr of the Westside-based light, space and pop art experimenting Cool School. There’s also David Hockney, whose McHugh portrait in this exhibit
dressed in yellow from head to toe and a sepia-toned headshot of a bright-eyed Robert Irwin. There’s also another portrait of Hockney, this time at work painting a portrait of McHugh and his daughter. In Goldman’s hands at ESMoA, the painting itself (titled “The Photographer and his Daughter” and soon headed to London for a Hockney retrospective at the Tate) hangs on the opposite wall instead of next to the photograph. Goldman says ESMoA is a welcome addition not only to the Westside’s art scene, but also to L.A.’s art scene at large. “Not many small or medium-sized cities could say that they have a museum — and a good museum. ESMoA would be welcome in any city because it’s not just a private museum saying, ‘Look at us, look at our private collection.’ They have such a challenging and smart educational program,” he says. “It’s only 10, 15 minutes driving from Otis College or from Marina del Rey or from Santa Monica,” says Goldman. “I bring all my guests to see this museum — to surprise people.”
also dons the cover of Hockney’s critically acclaimed autobiography, “That’s the Way I See It.” In McHugh’s image, Hockney — wearing a red pinstripe shirt, a tie and his trademark owl-eyed glasses — stands next to a self-portrait and nonchalantly holds a cigarette. Against the mostly white backdrop, he looks a little sheepish yet also exposed, like a “Where’s Waldo?” character extradited from his habit of overcrowded cities, beaches and carnivals and caught without his distractive camouflage. Like many of the portraits on view in “TOUCH,” that picture has a story. McHugh recalls calling up Hockney one day about arranging a time to take his photograph. The artist proposed that McHugh come up that same day for a photoshoot. McHugh, a young photographer at the time, at first declined. He wasn’t ready to photograph the famed artist, came up with some excuses and hung up the phone. “And then I thought, ‘Are you crazy?!’ So I called him back and I raced up to his house and got it all together,” McHugh recalls. The photo he took ended up being one of the most recognized pictures of Hockney and one of McHugh’s most famous photographs. Other iconic and eye-catching McHugh photographs in “TOUCH” include a portrait of a sailor-suit-clad Mike Kelly
“TOUCH” is on view from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays (and on weekdays by appointment) through Jan. 31 at the El Segundo Museum of Art, 208 Main St., El Segundo. Call (424) 277-1020 or visit esmoa.org. christina@argonautnews.com
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“Situated on a gentle knoll, this newly updated three-bedroom, two-bathroom home shines with modern finishes in the traditional design,” say agents Bob Waldron and Jessica Heredia. “The living room, brightly lit by two picture windows, opens directly to the dining room. The upgraded kitchen boasts granite counters, stainless steel appliances and a breakfast bar. All three of the bedrooms feature hardwood floors, and both baths have been remodeled with quality fixtures and accessories. The inviting park-like backyard and patio provide a wonderful area for outdoor enjoyment.”
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“This unique home offers the best in farm-to-table living,” says agent Stephanie Younger. “The property boasts almost 20 Cabernet and Tempranillo producing vines. Host backyard tastings of your wines on your impeccably designed patio, or rejuvenate in the Jacuzzi spa. Inside this smartly renovated home, the first floor offers a formal living room and a chef’s kitchen that boasts dual ovens. Off the kitchen, a hallway leads past custom wine storage to a guest bedroom and a hallway bath. Upstairs the master bedroom with mountain views, two more bedrooms, and a full additional bath complete this home.”
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Thursday, Jan. 21 Mar Vista Chamber Coffee Time, 9 to 10 a.m. Join the Mar Vista Chamber of Commerce and local entrepreneurs to discuss local business topics each third Thursday of the month. Coffee Connection, 3838 S. Centinela Ave., Mar Vista. $5 to $10. marvistachamber.com Stand Up for Beyond Baroque Hootenany, 7 p.m. Help Beyond Baroque raise the roof (or at least keep it from leaking this El Niño) and laugh while you do. Comedians Eddie Brill, Dylan Brody, Kelly Carlin, Talia Harari, Tamar Kattan, Cathy Ladmand, Rick Overton, Rick Shapiro, Erick Schwartz, Suzanne Whang and David Zasloff perform at Hotel Erwin, 1697 Pacific Ave., Venice. $50 to $150. (310) 822-3006; beyondbaroque.org Rock ’n’ Comedy Cabaret at TRiP, 8:30 p.m. A variety show hosted by
discoveries that reveal hundreds of potential planetary systems. $5 or $6 for one show; $9 or $11 for the pair. John Drescher Planetarium at Santa Monica College, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 434-4767; smc. edu/planetarium Culver City High School Jazz Cabaret, 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 1 p.m. Sunday. The Culver City High School AVPA Music program presents “Jazz Cabaret: Two Acts, Two Spaces, One Jazzy Night.” The first half of the program happens in the Robert Frost Auditorium with featured vocalists and a full Jazz ensemble performing big band hits like “Moondance,” “The Lady is a Tramp” and “Come Fly with Me.” The event then moves to the Sony Pictures Theatre, where vocalists are backed by the Jazz Combo in a selection of standards including “My Funny Valentine,” “Come Rain or Come Shine” and “The Girl from Ipanema.” Both venues are at Culver City High School, 4401 Elenda St., Culver City. Act one is free; Act two is
Barry Zweig Trio and DJ Shiva, 8 p.m. Classic Jazz repertoire featuring electric guitar, bass and drums with the Barry Zweig Trio at 8 p.m., followed at 10 p.m. with DJ Shiva spinning soul, funk, hip-hop, disco, house, indie and EDM. Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. No cover. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com Arthur Adams, 9 p.m. With a soulful blend of silky rhythm, blues vocals and blazing guitar, Arthur Adams takes over Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $10 plus two-drink minimum. (310) 395-1676; santamonica. harvelles.com Live Music at TRiP, 9:30 p.m. Hostile Witness plays at 9:30 p.m., Mr. Vampire at 11:30 p.m. TRiP Santa Monica, 2101 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. $5. (310) 396-9010; tripsantamonica.com
Saturday, Jan. 23 Habitat Restoration Volunteer Day, 9:30 a.m. to noon. Help the Friends of Ballona Wetlands restore coastal wetland habitat. Volunteers get hands-on restoration experience and learn about wetland ecology. Gloves and tools provided. An adult must accompany children under 15. Meet at the parking lot behind Alkali Water / Gordon’s Market at 303 Culver Blvd., Playa del Rey. (310) 306-5994; ballonafriends.org
Jim Kweskin Jug Band founder Jim Kweskin and new musical collaborator Meredith Axelrod (pictured) team up with Southern roots fiddler Suzy Thompson to bring the Vintage Americana Songcatchers tour to McCabe’s. SEE FRIDAY. Walton Jordan with performances by A.J. Froman, Ryan Talmo, Ghetto Heat, Adam Yenser, Gregory Douglas, Erica Rhodes and CeyJay Jumao. TRiP Santa Monica, 2101 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. $5. (310) 396-9010; tripsantamonica.com The Very Bad Things / Downtown Attraction, 9 p.m. “Sex, blood, and rock ‘n’ roll” by The Very Bad Things, followed by the L.A. rock group Downtown Attraction. Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $10 plus a two-drink minimum. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com
Friday, Jan. 22 “The Night Sky Show” / “Starbirth in Orion’s Sword,” 7 p.m. An evening at the planetarium begins at 7 p.m. with “The Night Sky Show,” offering recent news in astronomy and space exploration and a family-friendly tour of the constellations. At 8 p.m. explore the Great Orion Nebula with images from ground and space telescopes and learn of recent
“The First Christian Writing,” 10 to 11 a.m. Early Christian literature expert and author Robert E. Aldridge speaks on “The First Christian Writing,” the earliest accounts of Jesus written by Apostle Matthew and its connection to the New Testament. The Church on Pearl, 1520 Pearl St., Santa Monica. Free. sgc.radio@yahoo.com; thefirstgospel.com
Arthur Adams, who played on Bonnie Raitt’s Grammywinning “Nick of Time” album, blazes through a night of blues and soul at Harvelle’s. SEE FRIDAY 826LA Writing Tutor Orientation, noon to 2 p.m. 826LA in Mar Vista provides free creative writing classroom support to LAUSD teachers and their students. Learn how to get involved in the upcoming project “Watts Uprising at Locke,” in which students from Locke High School will respond to the 1992 Watts Uprising with spoken word poetry, graffiti art, graphic novels and more about events that happened in their community a decade before they were born. Mar Vista Time Travel Mart, 12515 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista. (310) 915-0200; iwanttohelp@826la.org “Wellbeing: A Journey into Aging Workshop,” 1 to 4 p.m. The City of Santa Monica Commission for the Senior Community, Older Adult Task Force (OATF) and Santa Monica Public Library present a free three-part workshop series. This week older adults will learn how to establish relationships both on and offline. Santa Monica Public Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica. Free. (800) 516-5323
“Silverado,” 7:30 p.m. In this 1985 Western, Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner and Danny Glover are cowboys who free Silverado from a ruthless sheriff played by Brian Dennehy. Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica. $9 to $11. (310) 260-1528; americancinematheque.com
Marina del Rey Dinner Cruise, 7 to 10 p.m. This cruise is packed with a four-course dinner, private tables, a boarding glass of champagne, complimentary beverages, deejay entertainment and scenic harbor views. Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. $53.97 to $89.95. (800) 668-4322; hornblower.com
SHINE Storytellers’ “Wake-Up Call,” 8 p.m. Part of Santa Monica’s 8th annual Fireside at the Miles series, writer and producer Andrea Schell hosts this monthly performance with award-winning storytellers and writers sharing true stories of eye-opening personal awakenings. Live music provided by L.A.-based singer-songwriter Josephine Johnson. Miles Memorial Playhouse, 1130 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. $5 to $10. (310) 458-8634; milesplayhouse@smgov. net; storeyproductions.com
Vintage Americana Songcatchers, 8 p.m. Jim Kweskin Jug Band founder Jim Kweskin, 75, and new musical collaborator Meredith Axelrod, 30, team up with Southern roots fiddler Suzy Thompson to bring the Vintage Americana Songcatchers tour to McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. The concert is a CD release party for the Kweskin and Axelrod collaboration “Come On In,” which was recorded at McCabe’s. $22.50. (310) 828-4497; mccabes.com
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A Taste of ‘TOUCH,’ 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Explore the organic food movement and the L.A. art scene through the 1960s and ‘70s with chef and educator Robin Trento. After a tour of the exhibit “Experience 19: TOUCH,” you’ll prepare a meal inspired by the works and the foods that the participating L.A. artists loved to eat. ESMoA, 208 Main St., El Segundo. $85 goes to instructor and includes food, recipes, and alcohol. (424) 277-1020; artmusela.com/tours; esmoa.org
“Lawrence of Arabia,” 7:30 p.m. Oscar-winning editor Anne V. Coates and film historian Jeremy Arnold, author of “Lawrence of Arabia: The 50th Anniversary,” introduce the epic tale of Arab infighting and British colonialism, the winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica. $7 to $11. (310) 260-1528; americancinematheque.com
$5 to $15. Search eventbrite.com for “Jazz Cabaret.”
Live Band Fridays, 8 p.m. The music lasts all night long on Fridays at Sonny McLean’s, 2615 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 449-1811; sonnymcleans.com
Music by the Sea, 1 to 4 p.m. A scenic harbor view is the backdrop for a free outdoor R&B concert by Friends. Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. visitmarinadelrey.com
Singer-songwriter Josephine Johnson is the musical guest for a night of storytelling in Santa Monica. SEE SATURDAY.
Hot Jazz Saturdays, 8 p.m. Brad Kay’s Regressive Jazz Quartet plays early jazz and ragtime at 8 p.m., followed at 10 p.m. with DJ Jedi’s soul, funk, hip-hop, disco and dance music. Townhouse & Del Monte
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Music, 4316 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City. $20. (310) 398-2583; boulevardmusic.com
Live Music at TRiP, 8 p.m. Dead Rooster plays at 8 p.m., followed by Swing Riots at 9 p.m. and The Miscreants at 11 p.m. TRiP Santa Monica, 2101 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. $5. (310) 396-9010; tripsantamonica.com
‘80s Night with DJ Kurt Crucial, 10 to 11:45 p.m. Melody Bar & Grill, 9132 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Westchester. (310) 670-1994; melodylax.com
Ed Gerhard, 8 p.m. The Grammywinning guitarist plays Boulevard
3rd St. Promenade, Santa Monica. 21 and over; $12. (310) 451-0850; westsidecomedy.com
Sunday, Jan. 24
Mission IMPROVable, 10 p.m. Each Saturday brings an unpredictable evening of high-energy improve comedy with audience interaction at M.i. Westside Comedy Theater, 1323
“Photography with Presence,” 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. A workshop for the novice or professional photographer. Learn to draw from your environments and experiences to take more authentic and better photos.
11850 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 200, Santa Monica. $50. (310) 479-3400; eli@ mindfullivingla.org Coptic Stitch Bookbinding, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Copticstitched books allow the book to be opened flat without weakening the spine or loosening signatures. Learn how to make one. Perfect for gifts. All materials provided. Camera Obscura Art Lab, 1450 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica. $25. (310) 458-8300; smgov.net/arts
Music by the Sea, 1 to 4 p.m. A scenic harbor view is the backdrop for a free outdoor Jazz and Funk concert by 2Azz1. Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. visitmarinadelrey.com “New Year’s Resolution Nutrition & Cooking Class,” 2 to 3:30 p.m. Sundays through Feb. 7. Learn about body mass index and how to use the MyPlate curriculum to get in better shape. Camera Obscura Art Lab, 1450 (Continued on page 32)
On Stage – A ro und up of t h is week in local theater c o m p i l e d b y C h r i s t i n a ca m p o d o n i c o Photo by Enci Box
Emily and Elizabeth Hinkler are real-life twin sisters who navigate the wild life of cabaret in the Odyssey Theatre’s “My Sister”
The Funny Bone Tickler: “Safe at Home: An Evening with Orson Bean” @ Pacific Resident Theatre If you missed it last season, here’s your second chance. The actor, entertainer and longtime Venice canals resident opens up about his life on stage and off in this autobiographical adaptation of his memoir. From breaking into stand up at The Blue Angel in New York to walking on fire
American Dreamer: “A Raisin in the Sun” @ Westchester Playhouse The Kentwood Players stages Lorraine Hansberry’s seminal 1959 play about a black family’s internal and external struggles to achieve their hopes and dreams on Chicago’s south side. Now playing at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 2 and 8 p.m. Sundays through Feb. 13 at the Westchester Playhouse, 8301 Hindry Ave., Westchester. $20. (310) 645-5156; kentwoodplayers.org
Blvd., Culver City. $30 to $70. (213) 6282772; centertheatregroup.org The Mindbender: “1984” @ The Broad Stage Straight from London’s West End, Headlong Theatre Company brings Orwell’s nightmarish vision of a future patrolled by Thought Police, surveilled by telescreens, ruled by a corrupt political party and dominated by Big Brother to life in a radical new adaptation by critically-acclaimed writer-directors Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan. Now playing at 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Feb. 6 at The Broad Stage, 1310 11th St., Santa Monica. $50 to $75. (310) 434-3200; thebroadstage.com
at an all-time career low, Bean shares the ups and downs of living in the spotlight. Expect gaffs, laughs, hard truths and even some magic tricks. Reopens Friday, Jan. 22, and runs at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays through March 13 at Pacific Resident Theatre, 703 Venice Blvd., Venice. $25. (310) 822-8392; pacificresident-theatre.org
One-Man Wonder: “The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey” @ Kirk Douglas Theatre Writer, actor and LGBT activist James Lecesne plays all the parts to tell the story of a fictional 14-year-old boy who dares to be different and goes missing in small New Jersey town. Now playing at 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, at 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sundays, and at 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays through Jan. 31 at Kirk Douglas Theatre, 9820 Washington
Get a Clue: “Private Eyes” @ Morgan-Wixson Theatre Not all is quite what it seems in this comedy of suspicion. Is Matthew’s wife Lisa having an affair with Adrian, a British theater director, or is it all part of the play being rehearsed? Is Matthew simply imagining things to have something to report to his therapist? And who’s Cory, the mysterious woman lurking in the shadows? The audience plays detective in this relationship thriller about love, lust and lies. Now playing at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through Feb. 7 at Morgan-Wixson Theatre, 2627 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica.
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Ladies Night: “Not that Jewish” @ The Braid What does it mean to have a “Jewish heart”? That’s what Emmy-award winning writer and comedian Monica Piper wants to know in her one-woman show about being a single mom in Hollywood and writing for the hit TV shows “Roseanne” and “Rugrats.” Gather your girlfriends for this show that Photo by Ron Sossi
Sister Act: “My Sister” @ Odyssey Theatre A hit at last year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival, “My Sister” comes to the Odyssey Theatre in an expanded production. Identical twin sisters Elizabeth and Emily Hinkler play two adventurous siblings as they travel from the countryside to pre-Nazi Berlin and enter the wild life of cabaret. Now playing at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through March 13 at the Odyssey Theatre, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., West L.A. $15 to $34. (310) 477-2055, ext. 2; odysseytheatre.com
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promises hysterical laughs and poignant moments. Run extended. Plays at 8 p.m. Thursdays and Saturdays and at 2 p.m. Sundays through Jan. 31 at The Braid, 2912 Colorado Ave., Santa Monica. $35. (310) 315-1400; jewishwomenstheatre.org The Legal Case: “The Dock Brief” @ Pacific Resident Theatre Comedy and tragedy tango in this two-man show about an innocuous man accused of murdering his wife and the bumbling barrister assigned to defend him. While the lawyer prepares for grandstand greatness in court, neither one is quite ready for the verdict ahead. Final performances are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday (Jan. 22, 23 and 24) at Pacific Resident Theatre, 705½ Venice Blvd., Venice. $25 to $30. (310) 822-8392; pacificresidenttheatre.org The Connoisseur: “Awake and Sing!” @ Odyssey Theatre Clifford Odets aficionados may revel in this blast from the past. His play about the hopes and struggles of a lower-middleclass, multi-generation Jewish family living in the Bronx during the Great Depression still resonates 80 years after its 1935 premiere. Director Elina de Santos and lead actress Marilyn Fox return with a 20th anniversary revival of the smash Odyssey Theatre production that ran for nine months in 1994-95. Run extended. Now playing at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through Jan. 31 at the Odyssey Theatre, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., West L.A. $15 to $34. (310) 477-2055, ext. 2; odysseytheatre.com
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Happ e n i ng s The Toledo Show, 9:30 p.m. A cabaret show shakes up Sunday nights at Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $10 plus a twodrink minimum. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com
detective suffering from acrophobia (Jimmy Stewart) investigates the strange activities of a friend’s wife (Kim Novack) and becomes dangerously obsessed with her. Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica. $9 to $11. (310) 260-1528; americancinematheque.com
Vida featuring DJ Creepy and friends, 9:30 to 11:45 p.m. Ambient and dance music light up the evening’s soundscape at Melody Bar & Grill, 9132 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Westchester. (310) 670-1994; melodylax.com
Karaoke Lisa, 9 p.m. Sing your heart out every Sunday at the Prince O’ Whales, 335 Culver Blvd., Playa del Rey. (310) 823-9826; princeowhales.com
13th Annual Venice Film Fest, 7 p.m. A celebration of Venice, the legendary Venice West Gallery (birthplace of the Beats) also known as Sponto Gallery and the history of films made in Venice. Rare clips come from English architectural critic Reyner Banham, historian Jeffrey Stanton, Crumby/ Nucci Band and Joe Nucci, followed at 8:30 p.m. with the feature film “The Man Who Would Be Fred.” Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice. Free. (310) 306-7330; laughtears.com “Vertigo,” 7:30 p.m. In this classic Hitchcock thriller, a San Francisco
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Live Music at TRiP, 8 p.m. Tiffany Christopher at 8 p.m., followed by Lorin Walker Madsen at 9 p.m. and Cory Hudock at 10 p.m. TRiP Santa Monica, 2101 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 396-9010; tripsantamonica.com
Storytelling and Reading for Kids, 11 a.m. to noon and 3:30 to 5 p.m. The library’s readers make storytelling and reading enjoyable for kids in one-on-one and small group settings. Kids earn a free book after three visits. The class also happens at 3:30 p.m. Tuesdays, 11 a.m. Wednesdays, and 4 p.m. Thursdays. Venice–Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch Library, 501 S. Venice Blvd. (310) 439-9445; lapl.org/ branches/venice Free Zumba Class, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Mondays and 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays. A combo of fun and fitness led by Cammie Richardson at the Dockweiler Youth Center, 12505 Vista Del Mar, Playa del Rey. (310) 726-4128; beaches. lacounty.gov
US Chess Federation tournament player Ben Eubanks teaches the game to kids in Playa Vista. SEE WEDNESDAY
Comics on the Spot, 7 p.m. This weekly stand-up comedy event begins with an open mic before the pros take the stage at 7:45 p.m. The Warehouse,
Tropical Nasty/ Foxtrax, 9 p.m. The psychedelic, reggae and rock group Tropical Nasty is on at 9 p.m., followed at 10 p.m. by the indie rock trio Foxtrax. Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $5 plus a two-drink minimum. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com Philosopher’s Stone Poetry Reading & Book Launch, 9 p.m. Select participants read from PSPoets first creative writing review. Gravlax, 12400 W. Washington Blvd., Mar Vista. No cover. pspoets.weebly.com; pspoets@ gmail.com
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Playa Venice Sunrise Rotary, 7:15 a.m. Wednesdays. Make some connections in your community each Wednesday at Whiskey Reds, 13813 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. Call Brady Connell at (323) 459-1932 for breakfast reservations; or for more information call John Marcato at (310) 740-6469 or Michael Warren at (310) 343-5721.
Taco Tuesdays with the Hot Sauce Committee & DJ Harlow, 5 to 11:45 p.m. Enjoy $2 tacos with an eclectic music soundtrack. Melody Bar & Grill, 9132 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Westchester. (310) 670-1994; melodylax.com Gourmet Food Truck Night, 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Each Tuesday night, diverse tent vendors and gourmet food truck cuisine take over the California Heritage Museum, 2612 Main St., Santa Monica. This week the lineup includes PostcardsCAS, Rice balls of fire, Peaches’ Smokehouse & Southern Kitchen, Kim-Bob Rex, SANOOK SOI 38, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams and Hollywood On Fleek. (310) 392-8537; californiaheritagemuseum.org Live Music at TRiP, 8 p.m. Phunkyard plays at 8 p.m., followed by The Julian Coryell Trio at 9:15 p.m. TRiP Santa Monica, 2101 Lincoln
Westchester Life Story Writing Group, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Memoir-writing workshop meets Wednesdays at the YMCA Annex, 8020 Alverstone Ave., Westchester. $10 donation per semester. (310) 397-3967
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Toastmasters Speakers by the Sea, 11 a.m. to noon. Learn to overcome your public presentation nerves at this weekly meeting. Pregerson Technical Facility, Room 230A, 12000 Vista Del Mar, Playa del Rey. (424) 625-3131 Playa Vista Chess Club, 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. Wednesdays. Students in grades 1 to 6 are welcome to this all-levels club to learn strategies from chess expert Ben Eubanks. Playa Vista Branch Library, 6400 Playa Vista Drive, Playa Vista. (310) 437-6680; lapl.org/branches/ playa-vista
Unkle Monkey, 6 to 9 p.m. The local duo plays Jimmy Buffet-style beach tunes each Wednesday evening at The Warehouse, 4499 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 823-5451; mdrwarehouse.com
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“New Year: New Business” with LA Catalyst, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Partnering with the Apple Store, LA Catalyst offers a series of free events for networking, discussion and learning. At this one you’ll hear from a panel of experts on starting a new venture, followed by a town hall conversation about the pain points of early stages in fast-growth companies. Free. Apple Store, 1415 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica. thelacatalyst.com
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Venice Underground Comedy & the Bootleg Bombshells, 9 p.m. Each Wednesday, L.A. comedy club regulars and big names perform at 9 p.m. followed by burlesque dancing by the Bootleg Bombshells at 11 p.m. Townhouse, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. No cover. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com The Steady Rock & Burlesque, 8:30 p.m. Live music at 8:30 p.m. followed at 10 p.m. by a burlesque show at TRiP Santa Monica, 2101 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. $5. (310) 396-9010; tripsantamonica.com House of Vibe All-Stars, 9:30 p.m. House of Vibe journeys through rock, jazz, hip-hop and R&B each Wednes-
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Galleries & Museums “Small Works Group Show,” ends Saturday. Small paintings, drawings and sculptures by Ann Chamberlin, Juliana Romano and other various artists at Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Bergamot Station B-5, 2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica. (310) 828-1133; loraschlesinger.com “Sleepless” and “Love Me When I’m Gone,” opens from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23. A figurative oil painter who explores the expressive and emotive possibilities of the body, Christine Wu dives into the vulnerability and haunted nature of human consciousness in “Sleepless.” Linnea Strid pairs imagery with water in “Love Me When I’m Gone,” capturing its reflective movement and depth in paintings of subjects who are in varying states of submersion and vulnerability. On view through Feb. 20 at Thinkspace Gallery, 6009 Washington Blvd., Culver City. (310) 558-3375; thinkspacegallery.com “TOUCH,” through Jan. 31. Curated by Edward Goldman, host of KCRW’s “Art Talk,” portraits of artists in their studios by photographer Jim McHugh and a selection of original artworks by the artists. ESMoA, 208 Main St., El Segundo. (424) 277-1020; esmoa.org “Conjoined 666,” through Feb. 6. Classic sculptures, hyperreal life-like models, surreal assemblages, mixed
“Journeys of the Heart,” through Feb. 25. Dual exhibit features Masha Dobrovolska’s oil paintings and watercolors and Rhonna del Rio’s yoga practice-inspired art made from recycled material. Art Space, 419 Main St., El Segundo. (424) 277-1460; artspace-la.com
Brenna Youngblood’s “Chuck Taylor” is one of several found-object collages on display for the “What a Feeling” exhibit at Honor Fraser Gallery media paintings and other conjoined works make up this group exhibition. Copro Gallery, Bergamot Station T-5, 2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica. (310) 829-2156; coprogallery.com “Elham Rokni: Clavileño,” through Feb. 18. “Clavileño” is a new exhibit by Elham Rokni, who uses film, light and literature to probe memory. The Iran-born, Israel-based artist explores reality and fantasy, disappearance and
“What A Feeling” by Brenna Youngblood, through Feb. 27. Incorporating her own photographs and using found objects as collage materials within her paintings, Youngblood acknowledges the canvas as both an object and a space within which images are presented and define meaning. Youngblood’s paintings raise existential questions of mortality, desire, fear and the human body. Honor Fraser Gallery, 2622 S. La Cienega Blvd., Palms. (310) 837-0191; honorfraser.com “Coast to Color,” through March 5. A group exhibit of new works at the Laura Korman Gallery, Bergamot Station D-2, 2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica. (310) 828-1883; laurakormangallery.com. Send event information at least 10 days in advance to calendar@ argonautnews.com.
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Inaugural Celia Center Arts Festival focuses on stories of adoption and foster care Foster youth and adoptees share their personal stories on Saturday during the Celia Center Arts Festival at The Electric Lodge in Venice. The inaugural festival showcases artwork and performances by foster youth, foster care alumni and adoptees about their lives and experiences in the foster care and adoption systems. The festival’s art exhibition “Adopting Resilience, Fostering the Spirit of Creativity: the Voices of the Fostered and Adopted” features works by artists who were adopted and/or in the foster care and expresses their experiences across many artistic mediums. Actress and former foster youth adoptee Cassidy Mack will read from Jamie Lee Curtis’ book “I Feel Silly”
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From Cyberspace to Artspace The 20-petabyte Internet Archive heads to LMU’s Laband Gallery What’s in The Cloud? Why does it matter? Where is it taking us? “From Clay to Cloud,” an interactive exhibit opening Saturday at Loyola Marymount University’s Laband Art Gallery, invites visitors to dive into the vast storerooms of the Internet Archive. A repository of web content, movies, games and about three million books, the Internet Archive contains about more than 20 petabytes of digital information. A petabyte is one million gigabytes. Your Kindle e-reader typically has a two-gig storage capacity. Founded by digital librarian Brewster Kahle (who also created the web analytics company Alexa), the Internet Archive aims to be a 21stcentury Library of Alexandria storing digital artifacts for future generations. But it continues to rely on human archivists to give meaning to its swaths of information. The exhibit includes a collection of ancient clay cuneiforms to dem-
onstrate how humans play a crucial role in documenting, archiving and giving meaning to the information that shapes our lives. Also on display are Nuala Creed’s ceramic sculptures of those who maintain the Internet Archive. Creed and Kahle will be on hand to give talks about the exhibit at 2 p.m. Saturday. Laband Art Gallery workers and volunteers will also be using a state-of-the-art scanner to digitally archive items from the William H. Hannon Library throughout the exhibition’s run.
— Christina Campodonico
“From Clay to Cloud” opens from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, and continues through March 20 at the Laband Art Gallery, 1 LMU Drive, Westchester. Free. Call (310) 338-2880 or visit cfa.lmu.edu/labandgallery/.
Nuala Creed’s “Internet Archives” clay sculpture series celebrates the humans behind The Cloud
Otis Goes Off the Grid Exhibit and performance series confronts and disrupts the power of intersecting lines
Emily Roysdon’s “Sense and Sense”
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From Renaissance masterpieces to contemporary minimalist designs, the grid has been a tool artists use to organize space, time, composition and performance. But what does it mean to perform on parallel, perpendicular and intersecting lines? The Otis College of Art and Design exhibit “Performing the Grid” explores how various artists — conceptual artist Bruce Nauman for one, choreographer Lucinda Childs for another — have used this compositional tool to inform their creative practices. Laban-inspired movement works by Kelly Nipper and film-inspired sculptures by Heather Rowe are also on display along with video, performance documentation, sound, sculpture, painting and installation by the likes of Neil Beloufa, Sol LeWitt, Charles Gaines and Philip Glass. The inaugural exhibit curated by newly minted Otis Director of Galleries and Exhibitions Kate McNamara, “Performing the Grid” also kicks off a series of free campus events focused on the intersection of geometry and performance. On Feb. 7, artist Debra McCall screens her critically acclaimed
1986 film “Bauhaus Dances” about reconstructing Oskar Schlemmer’s 1920s dances at the famed German design institute. On March 8, University of Illinois at Chicago Professor of Art History Hannah Higgins discusses her 2009 publication “The Grid Book,” which examines the history and impact of grids across the world. And on April 10, performance artist MPA lectures on the politics of the body and performance in “Interrupting the Grid.” Perhaps the grid isn’t a square concept after all.
— Christina Campodonico
“Performing the Grid” opens with a free reception from 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 23, and continues through May 15 at Otis College of Art and Design’s Ben Maltz Gallery, 9045 Lincoln Blvd., Westchester. Lectures and screenings will be held at the Otis Forum, Ahmanson Hall. Call (310) 665-6800 or visit otis.edu.
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LEGAL ADVERTISING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2016006114 The following person is doing business as: Resolution Services Associates 14 Westminster Ave. Suite C Venice, CA. 90291. Registered owners: Frank Arthur Lutz III 14 Westminster Ave. #21 Venice, CA. 90291. This business is conducted by an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Frank Arthur Lutz III. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on: January 11, 2016. Argonaut published: January 21, 28, February 4, and 11, 2016. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2016008415 The following person is doing business as: Jewelry By Laurie Ann 6001 Boeing Place Los Angeles, CA. 90045. Registered owners: Laurie A. Sheppard Pannone 6001 Boeing Place Los Angeles, CA. 90045. This business is conducted by an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: Laurie A. Sheppard Pannone. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on: January 13, 2016. Argonaut published: January 21, 28, February 4, and 11, 2016. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2016008402 The following person is doing business as: Banot Press 7342 W. 89th St. Los Angeles, CA. 90045. Registered owners: Margaret Parkhurst 7342 W. 89th St. Los Angeles, CA. 90045 and David Parkhurst 7342 W. 89th St. Los Angeles, CA. 90045. This business is conducted by a Married Couple. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: David Parkhurst. Title: Husband. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on: January 13, 2016. Argonaut published: January 21, 28, February 4, and 11, 2016. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
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