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LETTERS ‘Century City by the Sea’ See “Speaking for the Trees,” page 13 I just witnessed the most absurd waste of taxpayer dollars I’ve ever seen, and I’m not talking about the boneheaded decision to butcher perfectly healthy fullgrown trees at Oxford Basin. I am talking about the law enforcement response to control people protesting the destruction of those trees on Admiralty Way. The number of Sheriff’s deputies needed to control the so-called “unruly” crowd was ludicrous. There were 20 Sheriff’s deputies and CHP officers to control maybe a half-dozen protestors, picket signs in hand, exercising their First Amendment right to peacefully protest the destruction of the beautiful trees. That is a ratio of three officers to every protestor, the kind of police power you might see at a violent protest in some decaying rust belt city, not here in the marina. The deputies parked their cars on the street, blocking the right lane of traffic, forcing drivers into the other lane for a quarter mile. The backup stretched from the Marina City Club all the way to the library. What would have
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I refuse to be a victim left on the trash heap of progress sacrificed for the “greater good.” We need to take back the marina from the out-of-touch officials who claim to represent us. Maybe it’s time we secede from both the city and the county and create a new city. West Hollywood and Malibu did it, why not the marina? Protesting these decisions is important, but protesting after the decisions are made is just too late. But it is not too late to stop the next project. We need to stop it now and demand justice for the marina. Otherwise we might as well change the name to Century City by the Sea. Larry Laurent Marina del Rey
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By L.A. City Councilman Mike Bonin On Jan.10, Mayor Eric Garcetti and I walked door-to-door in Mar Vista promoting our Jan. 25 neighborhood open house about how to transform Venice Boulevard into one of LA’s “Great Streets.” One of the most frequent questions we heard was “What are your plans?” I’ll let you in on a secret: We don’t have any, and that’s the point. To figure out how to make Venice Boulevard a truly Great Street, we need — as I like to say — to “put neighborhoods first.” That means the vision needs to come from you — not from bureaucrats, not from consultants, not even from elected officials. What makes the Mar Vista stretch of Venice Boulevard special to you? What do you want to see more of? What would you like to see happen on or with the street? We want to know. A Great Street is generally one that anchors a neighborhood, gives it life and a sense of identity, and serves as a common gathering place. It is a place where people can meet and spend time with friends and family and experience the character of their neighborhood. In the past several years, Venice Boulevard has started its transformation into Mar Vista’s downtown “place to be.” The area is home to an emerging and increasingly vibrant business district that features many mom-and-pop shops. It has the feel of a small town’s Main Street, with locally owned markets, restaurants, barbershops, dry cleaners, a post office and a library. It has an eclectic mix of the vintage (an old book store, an antiques shop, a record store, a thrift store and a costume shop) and the modern (hip coffee shops, art studios, tattoo shops, furniture stores, bike stores and even a dog bakery). It has wide, pedestrian-friendly sidewalks, nearby residential neighborhoods and a genuine town square area with a popular farmers market every Sunday. This is a perfect place for Mayor Garcetti’s signature Great Streets initiative, and it was my top recommendation
L.A. City Councilman Mike Bonin, left, walks Venice Boulevard with Mayor Eric Garcetti to promote the Great Streets initiative when the mayor asked where I thought Council District 11’s first Great Street should be. As we walked door-to-door last weekend, people were bubbling with suggestions: more neighborhood-serving mom-and-pop restaurants, shade trees, crosswalk upgrades, mid-block crossings, fresh paving, new signage, sidewalk dining tables, pocket parks, public art, bike corrals and bike lanes, decorative markers and street lamps, trash and recycling and composting bins, a wider and more actively used median, more landscaping, drought-tolerant vegetation, sustainable design features,
and elements that identify and brand Mar Vista. These are all great ideas, but we want to hear even more, and that’s where you come in. As Mayor Garcetti told The Argonaut in September, Great Streets is about “smart choices, dynamic strategic points on a street that will have a larger effect on the overall neighborhood and its vibrancy. Small things make a big difference that collectively inspires a full-scale makeover — inspiration for people to have a sense of place and want to spend time there.” I agree with him, but this isn’t about what we think. It is about what you
This isn’t about what we think. It is about what you want for your neighborhood. What are your ideas? What is your dream for your downtown?
What are your ideas? What is your dream for your downtown? We need to hear from you, and a great way to voice your opinion is to attend the upcoming Great Streets Open House anytime from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 25, at Venice Boulevard and Grand View — right across the street from the Mar Vista Farmers Market. There is no set program for the open house, and you can show up any time you’d like. The format will be interactive. City officials will be there to listen, not to talk. Please help spread the word. Tell your neighbors. Ask your friends at church, the next sports league game or PTA meeting what they think and pass along this invitation to the open house. Bring your kids, too. We want to know what everyone — including kids of all ages — thinks makes a safe, fun street. If you can’t attend on Sunday, that’s okay — there are a number of other ways you can tell us what you think. You can fill out an online survey at 11thdistrict.com/great_streets_survey to share your ideas, you can stop by the Mar Vista Community Council tent at the Farmers Market any Sunday, you can contact the new Mar Vista Chamber of Commerce (marvistachamber.com), or you can email my office at len.nguyen@ lacity.org (include the subject “GREAT STREETS” in your email) to share your ideas. We will also be having more public workshops, which you will be notified about in The Argonaut once they are scheduled. When Mayor Garcetti took office, he said he wanted Los Angeles to “get back to basics,” and I have repeatedly said that my top priority is “putting neighborhoods first.” The mayor’s Great Streets initiative is the bridge between these two foundational priorities. We are asking for your help to build upon that foundation and make the heart of downtown Mar Vista a truly Great Street.
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that the Talking Stick will once again be revived, perhaps in yet another location. Lisa Ezell A ‘Great’ obstacle? RE: “Mayor pounds the pavement in Mar Vista,” news page 13 This Great Streets thing is a pittance. Caltrans runs Venice Boulevard. No modifications can be done for the boulevard without going through the state.
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‘Venice needs more cops’ Councilman asks LAPD chief for special boardwalk police detail to combat ‘a growing criminal element and rising climate of fear’ Photos courtesy of Mike Bonin’s office
Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck tour the Venice Beach boardwalk area on Oct. 29, several months after Bonin first asked Beck to deploy more police officers in Venice By Gary Walker Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin is calling on LAPD Chief Charlie Beck to deploy more police officers in Venice to combat what he describes as “an escalating and unacceptable crime problem” generated largely by “aggressive” and services-resistant transients who gather at the boardwalk. “In recent months there has been a rash of crimes and increasingly brazen home invasions. Residents and business owners report that loud, aggressive and often threatening people are regularly sitting near residential entryways, shouting beneath people’s windows, urinating and defecating in people’s carports. Residents of and visitors to Venice Beach, beach-adjacent walk streets, the neighborhoods near Third Avenue and in the area west of the intersection of Venice Way and Venice Boulevard routinely report being threatened and intimidated,” Bonin wrote in a Jan. 9 letter to Beck. The letter follows a request before the Los Angeles Police Commission “warning of a growing criminal element and rising climate of fear” and a prior letter to Beck last year, Bonin wrote. Beck’s office did not return calls and LAPD headquarters staff did not respond to requests for Venice-specific crime statistics by press time, instead sending citywide totals.
In an interview this week, Bonin said he is specifically requesting a special police detail for the Venice boardwalk. He said a special police unit assigned to Hollywood and private security hired by merchants of the Hollywood Business Improvement District helped quell similar problems in that community. Community activist Naomi Nightingale, an informal liaison between the African-American community in Venice’s Oakwood neighborhood and the LAPD’s Pacific Division, is concerned that a special police detail could lead to unintended consequences. Nightingale began working with police after the August 2012 officer-involved beating of Ronald Weekley Jr., a 20-yearold African-American student stopped for allegedly skateboarding in traffic and who police said resisted arrest. Cell phone camera footage of the incident appeared to show three officers on top of Weekley while one officer struck him numerous times, but a federal court jury ruled against Weekley in a civil lawsuit last year. The officers who arrested Weekley were part of the LAPD’s Violent Crime Task Force, which had been assigned to the Venice boardwalk area.
“The problem with these outside details and task forces that are assigned to specific locations often find themselves going into residential neighborhoods. They come in on the weekends and are disconnected from what happens during the week. The Ronald Weekley incident is not that far behind us that Mr. Bonin should have forgotten about it,” Nightingale said. “Our officers know the boardwalk. Our officers know the community. What do we need a
— which is suing to force the city and county to evict what it describes as a “permanent homeless encampment” on Venice Beach — says that violence stemming from the boardwalk has gotten out of hand and is getting worse. In a recent series of email dispatches, Ryavec details several home-invasion burglaries occurring in Venice this year, including a widely publicized September break-in by a 29-yearold homeless man that sent a woman fleeing to her rooftop as she was pursued by him. “The councilman’s demand for more police is better late than never,” Ryavec said, but, “one has to wonder how a huge city park that is a tourist destination with over 16 million — Councilman Mike Bonin visitors a year does special task force or a special not have adequate, permanent detail for the Venice boardwalk?” police staffing.” Councilman Bill Rosendahl’s Many of the homeless are also chief of staff during the Weekley being victimized, Bonin writes. controversy, Bonin said he “The perpetrators are largely understands his request may rile transients from out of town who some constituents. eschew the opportunity to sleep “Venice has a very polarized at the winter shelter and who are political dialogue on a number of service resistant. This has also things, and homelessness is one caused a frightening dynamic for of them. But I have to do everyhomeless people in genuine need thing that I can to get my neigh… [who] report being threatened, borhood all of the law enforceintimidated and physically ment that it needs,” he said. harassed by this aggressive Mark Ryavec, president of the transient population. The Venice Stakeholders Association situation is out of control and
“Let me be clear — I am not asking the LAPD to criminalize homeless … but we cannot ignore or downplay criminal activity simply because the perpetrators are transients.”
getting worse,” reads Bonin’s letter to Beck. Ryavec is skeptical that a special police detail alone can change the unwieldy nature of Venice Beach without enforcement of city parks rules that prevent overnight camping there. “Even additional officers will be for naught if City Attorney [Mike] Feuer does not unshackle the LAPD and let them remove all camping equipment — mattresses, tents, backpacks, sleeping bags and tarps — from the park,” Ryavec said. Court decisions in April 2006 and June 2013 have prevented Los Angeles police from arresting people solely for sleeping on public streets and, in most cases, from confiscating homeless people’s belongings. “Let me be clear — I am not asking the LAPD to criminalize homeless,” Bonin’s letter reads. “But we cannot ignore or downplay criminal activity simply because the perpetrators are transients, blending in with the genuinely needy homeless population.” David Ewing, a Venice resident who has been active in local homelessness issues, said the debate over police enforcement stems from the city’s failure to commit other resources. “I have not seen an initiative from our council office or any council office to comprehensively address homelessness,” he said. gary@argonautnews.com
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Substance in the land of style Culver City-based architect Zoltan E. Pali on the ups and downs of building in L.A., mixing work with married life and making peace with the wrecking ball entering competitions, spending a tremendous amount of hours doing that. Then I got gutsy enough to open my own firm. Do you see your work as an extension of mid-century modern? We start with those basic tenets that come out of the modernist school that started in Germany in the 1920s [and flourished in California]. I worked for Gerald Lomax, a protégé of Craig Elwood. Those are sort of our initial inspirations. Beyond that, we’ve kept our eyes on what the Europeans are doing and what the Americans are doing as well. I came of age in architecture when postmodern was at its height. Architect Zoltan E. Pali with wife and creative partner, Judit Fekete By Michael Aushenker By his own admission, Zoltan E. Pali is the less-civilized partner of Studio Pali Fekete Architects. Pali and his wife, Judit Fekete, founded the firm in their Westside garage in 1988 before moving into a building on Glencoe Avenue in Marina del Rey and then to Washington Boulevard in Culver City. On Sunday, a conversation with Pali kicks off the first of three sessions in the Culver City Cultural Affairs Foundation’s “architectureTALKS” series, with proceeds benefitting the enhancement of the Veterans Memorial Building Auditorium in Culver City. Pali attended Taft High School in Woodland Hills and graduated from UCLA before moving to West Los Angeles and then Santa Monica. Decades ago, he was an architectural contributor to the Santa Monica Museum of Flying. In the years that followed, Studio Pali Fekete’s myriad projects have included work on the recently opened Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills and on the late Gibson Amphitheatre, the Pantages Theatre restoration in Holly-
wood and the Greek Theatre expansion in Los Feliz, the Getty Conservation Institute in Malibu and Sinai Akiba Academy in Westwood. Pali even returned to his alma mater to design UCLA’s C.E.N.S. technology labs, completed last year. On the residential side, those funky, boxy, Mondrian-type analog Culver City buildings — specifically 9900 Culver Blvd. and the MODAA Lofts — are his firm’s designs, as are a unique string of Modernist/
next to Dorsey High School and Houghton Park in Long Beach. — Michael Aushenker
Were there any great architects who influenced you as a youth? My dad is a mechanical engineer. He noticed that I could draw and taught me [at a very young age] to draw on a technical level. He brought home architects; they were his clients. So I kind of grew up loving that aspect of it. I became very early in my career what you would call a production architect. I was really adept at doing that thing. I didn’t go to architecture school. I got into UCLA Engineering and I almost failed out of it because I hated it [laughs]. I kept on — Zoltan E. Pali taking art classes. I transferred to the Bauhaus-echoing residences in school of arts at UCLA and got Malibu, Pacific Palisades and my bachelor’s degree in design, Bel-Air. Pali hopes to tackle but I worked through school as more projects outside Southern a draftsman. California, but in the meantime his credits include the SJU So you’re essentially selfMuseum of Art and Design in taught? San Jose and the Grand Egyptian Yes, very much self-taught. As Museum in Cairo. a result, I started working on my Currently, his firm is working own. I worked for a couple of on a couple of bridges over the good people [and learned from L.A. River, a bridge in Long them]. I started reading about Beach between the Performing Neutra and Elwood and all the Arts and Convention centers, the people who became our heroes. Rancho Cienega sports complex One of the things I was doing is
“If you think of San Francisco, you have a strong image of what the city looks like. Or New York, Boston, Chicago, Paris. With L.A. you don’t have that. There’s no context, if you will, but that in itself is a context.”
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Many couples separate their personal and work lives. How do you and Judit work together? We met and decided to start working together — in the apartment, in the garage, and on from there. She’s an artist and an architect by training from Hungary. She’s very civilized and can put up with me [laughs]. We have a very similar design sense, of course. We share a hard work ethic; we have the same ethical values. We argue a lot. You can call it “spirited discussion” or argument. Everything is fought for. Working with institutions can involve many cooks in the same kitchen. Was there a challenging collaboration that yielded satisfying results? I can be sort of pessimistic and say I haven’t had that yet happen the way I wanted it to [laughs]. The Annenberg in Beverly Hills is a perfect example. The compromises that had to be made would not necessarily be noticed by a person who came through the facility, but they’re there. But in the end, if you can step back and look at what it brought to that community, it’s a successful project. Being an architect is sort of an unsatisfying profession. You’re not left happy with what you’ve done. Even if you’ve [executed your vision], you still wouldn’t be happy. What local areas do you find architecturally compelling? I have a love and indifference relationship with L.A. [laughs]. I
can enjoy myself anywhere I am in this town, but it’s not visually that great. What about individual homes designed by Wright, Schindler, Soriano, Neutra, Lautner … ? The names are countless, of course. The interesting thing is that when you think of the larger-size buildings on the Westside, what is there? There’s nothing. There was the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, but what’s happening with that now? It’s unfortunate, but we in the city have not put ourselves on the map. What do you think of carefully planned communities such as Irvine and, closer to home, Playa Vista? It seems people love it, but it ironically lacks character. It really hasn’t developed organically. A great city develops organically. Southern California is known for an anything goes freedom of expression. Is there a downside to the crazy-quilt architectural landscape? At first, I loved it. I’ve always seen it as an eternal optimism because of this freedom, if you will, but it continues speaking with a scattered nature. If you think of San Francisco, you have a strong image of what the city looks like. Or New York, Boston, Chicago, Paris. With L.A. you don’t have that. There’s no context, if you will, but that in itself is a context. It allows Frank Gehry [and other innovative architects] to do what they do. Given L.A.’s ephemeral nature, does it depress you that some of your work may one day be razed? I believe that it should go. Really? Why? Everything’s temporary. If a building I’ve done doesn’t make sense anymore, it should go. I’m not going to step in front of the bulldozer and stop them. Take it away. On the plus side, all of the mistakes will be gone, too. A conversation with Zoltan E. Pali of Studio Pali Fekete Architects, moderated by architecture writer Thomas Aujero Small, takes place from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at 8609 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City. Tickets: $40 (includes post-talk wine reception catered by Akasha).
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Speaking for the Trees Activists and public officials are at loggerheads over the cutting of 650 trees in Oxford Basin Lagoon Photos by Jonathan Coffin
Eriyah Flynn tried to make a stand for one of the two tall eucalyptus trees that remained at Oxford Basin Lagoon shortly before they were cut down on Jan. 15 By Joe Piasecki Where Los Angeles County officials see progress toward restoring native flora and fauna to Marina del Rey’s Oxford Basin Lagoon, a small but vocal group of environmental activists sees only destruction: a wasteland punctuated by dead stumps. In the span of a month, county workers cut down nearly all the trees — about 650 of them — in the 10-acre open space area and flood control retention basin between Washington Boulevard and Admiralty Way. The plan is, after dredging some 10,000 cubic yards of polluted sediment clogging up the flood control works, to repopulate the area next year with 745 native trees and 45,000 native or drought-tolerant plants. With the addition of a perimeter walking path and wildlife observation areas, the $12-million project is designed to be a win-win-win for water management, recreational visitors and coastal wildlife alike. “We want an amenity for the community and the environment,” Los Angeles County Department of Public Works Deputy Director Gary Hildebrand said. “All of the biologists from the different agencies involved reviewed this and concurred with the concept of removing the existing vegetation and replacing it with native vegetation.”
But critics of the project say wildlife has nowhere to go in the interim and it will take many years to replace the height and canopy coverage of the trees that have been cut down. Some of the 31 eucalyptus trees within Oxford Basin Lagoon
An osprey eats a fish on the branch of a eucalyptus that was felled last week.
A county worker cuts away at the last remaining Oxford Basin Lagoon tree along Admiralty Way
the battle to save the Ballona area in 1959 and was designated the lagoon late last year. Wetlands, rattles off a number of a bird sanctuary by county A Nov. 19 biological field species spotted during that day supervisors in 1963. But survey found no active nests or during several earlier demonaccording to public works within 500 feet of the lagoon, strations: egrets, an osprey, a documents, the lagoon’s already renovation project manager red-tailed hawk, a Cooper’s limited biodiversity and habitat James Kearns told Coastal hawk and numerous Monarch Commission members on Jan. 9. value degraded as it became a butterflies. Los Angeles County Supervisor dumping ground for unwanted “This was a bird sanctupets in the 1970s and 1980s and Don Knabe, who represents ary. These are legacy trees. Marina del Rey, also isn’t buying the health of the trees declined It’s pure vindictiveness at further over the past 25 years. into complaints. this point,” McPherson Hildebrand acknowledged that “It’s disappointing that, at the said. some birds may have been using 11th hour, a small group of Gradually removing the people is being misleading about the area, “but it wasn’t the best existing trees was deemed a project that will actually habitat” for them to thrive, he unfeasible due to dredging increase the number of trees and said. work and infrastructure upgrades provide new opportunities for A 2010 county entomology to better filter storm water, report did not find sustainable recreation in the area,” Knabe increase dissolved food sources for Monarch oxygen and improve butterflies in the lagoon, tidal exchange with but the renovation will Marina del Rey include more than 200 harbor, according to caterpillar-feeding county documents. milkweed plants, Public works according to county officials also say documents. they scheduled the Hildebrand and Lee tree removal — anpoint to recent county nounced in 2013 and flood control projects that approved by the have been celebrated for — L.A. County Supervisor Don Knabe California Coastal embracing environmental Commission and stewardship alongside other agencies last year — to technical refurbishment: the wrote in a statement to The avoid the January through Dominguez Gap Wetlands Argonaut. “Oxford Basin is a September bird-nesting season restoration in Long Beach, the project that has been in the and that a more gradual removal works and extensively reviewed refurbishment of Tujunga Wash process would have had a greater for over five years. … We have Greenway in Valley Glen, and impact on wildlife. the Los Angeles Riverwalk designed a space that will Kathy Knight, conservation project in Studio City. improve water quality but also chair of the Sierra Club’s Airport add walking trails and create “There’s a similar approach Marina Group, sees evidence of to Oxford Basin,” Hildebrand new habitat for native species. “ immediate harm in photographs said. “There’ll be greater benefits A marshland converted into a of an osprey perched on a to wildlife with the native farm and then a dump in the now-gone tree and a cluster of vegetation.” early 1900s, Oxford Basin butterflies clinging to a branch in Lagoon became a flood control joe@argonautnews.com
“What’s going on here is a travesty. It’s an environmental crime.” — activist Eriyah Flynn
stood upwards of 80 feet. The largest of the incoming native trees —including 18 coast live oak, 11 cottonwood, plus laurel and sycamore — will be about 12 feet tall at planting but grow as high as 80 feet, said public works spokesman Kerjon Lee. On Jan. 15 about a dozen protesters gathered on the sidewalk along Admiralty Way in a last-ditch effort to save what were the last two large eucalyptus trees, the group standing underneath the trees to prevent workers from cutting at branches. Sheriff’s deputies eventually cleared the area and the trees came down just before sunset. “What’s going on here is a travesty. It’s an environmental crime,” said activist Eriyah Flynn. “They’ve totally denuded the entire area, so there’s nothing for these birds for many months.” Patricia McPherson, president of the nonprofit Grassroots Coalition that emerged during
“It’s disappointing that, at the 11th hour, a small group of people is being misleading about a project that will actually increase the number of trees.”
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‘Behind Every Mailbox’ The reporter who broke America’s original domestic spying scandal and activists who raided an FBI office to obtain the proof teach ‘Lessons in Courage and Resistance’ at Loyola Marymount University The specter of J. Edgar Hoover loomed large behind Betty Medsger when she received a mysterious package in the Washington Post newsroom By Kevin Uhrich What would you do if the government’s darkest secrets showed up in your mailbox? Shortly after arriving for work at the Washington Post on March 23, 1971, religion reporter Betty Medsger found among the usual press releases a package with an intriguing return address: “Liberty Publications, Media, PA.” Not yet two years into the job after leaving the now-defunct Philadelphia Evening Bulletin in late 1969, Medsger opened the envelope to find an enigmatic cover letter and similarly duplicated official-looking documents. She knew immediately that this was anything but everyday mail. “Enclosed you will find copies of certain files from the Media, Pennsylvania, office of the FBI, which were removed by our commission for public scrutiny,” stated the letter sent by a group calling itself the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI. “We are making these copies available to you and to several other persons in public life because we feel you have shown concern and courage as regards issues which are, in part, documented in the enclosed materials. “About a week after you receive this material, our commission will publicly
announce this mailing together with the names of those to whom we have sent it,” the letter concluded. “We will, of course, make perfectly clear in our announcement that our actions were entirely our own decision and responsibility. Your degree of public association or disassociation with our commission is entirely a matter of your own choice.”
members of Congress, and two other journalists: investigative reporter Jack Nelson of the Los Angeles Times and columnist Tom Wicker of The New York Times. By way of a blurb in the Post three weeks prior, Medsger was vaguely aware that a small, two-man FBI office in Media, a town 12 miles west of Philadelphia, had been burglarized on March 8. That night Bad News was the first of three fights between As the letter suggested, Medsger Muhammad Ali, then just emerging from weighed her options. boxing exile for refusing to serve in She didn’t know who sent the material Vietnam, and heavyweight champ and documenting the existence of the FBI’s working-class favorite Joe Frazier. secret COINTELPRO activities— which, Updates of the bout, which wasn’t it was later learned, attempted to discredit broadcast in the U.S. on TV or radio, were civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther provided by the major networks, preoccuKing Jr. and Malcolm X; infiltrated and pying guards at the county courthouse disrupted such organizations as the near the four-story building where the FBI Southern Christian Leadership Conferoffice was located and providing a perfect ence, the NAACP and Students for a distraction for the break-in, the burglars Democratic Society; and spied on groups would say years later. that opposed the war in Vietnam and “[I] had not thought much about the supported equal rights. burglary when I read the very short wire Nor did Medsger know who else might service story the Post ran shortly after the have received it. She later found out that break-in,” Medsger writes in her book an identical package had been sent to U.S. “The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota, Hoover’s Secret FBI,” published in the Democratic candidate for president the January 2014. following year, U.S. Rep. Parren Mitchell That was until she began reading the of Maryland, one of the few black contents of the package she had received.
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“If authentic,” Medsger writes, the documents “provided evidence that the FBI went far beyond creating a chilling effect. The FBI, as a stated policy, wanted to freeze dissent.”
Hoover’s America
Medsger tried to decide what to do with the mysterious package, much of its contents scribbled on and signed by Hoover himself. Should she turn it over to the FBI? Medsger didn’t know it at the time, but the two lawmakers and the two other news organizations had done just that. (In fairness, Nelson said he never saw the package, and neither did editors at the LA Times’ Washington bureau.) As Medsger notes, these were “untested waters” for news organizations. “It was the first time a journalist had been given secret government documents by sources outside of government who had stolen the documents,” she writes, also noting in her book that the source was anonymous, a privilege that reporters should only grant sparingly. Before doing anything, she read the contents of the envelope, in total describing some of the terror tactics employed by FBI agents in conducting secret surveillance on black citizens (particularly black
F E a t u r e students), instilling paranoia among people who counted themselves among the political left and attended colleges in the Philadelphia area, and entrapping students, teachers, clergy and average citizens who did little more than oppose the war in Vietnam and support equal rights and civil rights. As an agent remarked in one of the purloined FBI documents — or “serials,” as they were called by those with the agency — questioning more people on college campuses “will enhance the paranoia endemic in these circles and will further serve to get the point across there is an FBI agent behind every mailbox.” And if you were black, Medsger said, paranoia was well warranted, because in Hoover’s eyes you were dangerous. “That came across and that was shocking. But it had no bearing on the mission of the FBI,” Medsger said. Apparently, neither did the rest of the “secret” FBI’s activities. “The information was not used to stop crime,” Medsger said. “The operation was designed to harass, distort and destroy. It was really a matter of going after people and ideas they didn’t like.”
Climate of Fear
At that moment in history, no one — not journalists or members of Congress, including McGovern — dared to question Hoover or his vaunted G-men. Simply put, they were all scared to death of the man, as well they should have been. The rabid anti-communist cut his law enforcement teeth engineering the Palmer Raids of late 1919 and early 1920. Named for then-Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, the Palmer Raids completely ignored due process with the arrest of thousands — and deportation of hundreds — of Italian and Russian immigrants labeled anarchists and Bolsheviks, respectively. Even the presidents Hoover served under after becoming Bureau of Investigation director in 1924, then Federal Bureau of Investigation director in 1935, feared him. Medsger told her editor about the documents, and Ken Clawson, a Post reporter who covered the FBI and was friendly with its much-feared director, confirmed their authenticity. Executive Editor Ben Bradlee and Assistant Managing Editor for National News Ben Bagdikian argued that the files did not present a national security threat. Publisher Katherine Graham ran the story over the strenuous objections of President Nixon’s then-Attorney General John Mitchell, an eventual Watergate convict who, it was learned later, had not even read the documents before declaring them a threat to national security. “After a painstaking review of the documents and the Attorney General’s request, and with the advice of counsel, the editors at the Post decided to print those portions of the document that: 1. clearly did not damage the national interest, and 2. did not unfairly damage individuals mentioned in the documents,” Bradlee wrote in a prepared statement. The headline of the next day’s front-page story co-written by Medsger and Claw-
son: “Stolen Documents Describe FBI Surveillance Activities.” The report would lead to further exposure of COINTELPRO, which Hoover officially ended in April 1971 but some historians believe actually continued under a different name. In December 1973, NBC TV reporter Carl Stern, who doggedly pursued the release of more files on this FBI corruption, revealed a fuller extent of the sinister program started by Hoover in 1956. Such reports sparked the 1975 hearings by the Church Commission, headed by former Democratic U.S. Sen. Frank Church of Idaho, which revamped the FBI as well as the CIA.
Medsger, who currently lives in New York with her husband, a retired California appellate court judge, formerly served as a board member with the Center for Investigative Reporting. She is also a former chair of the journalism program at San Francisco State University, where she founded the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism in 1990. The purpose of Medsger’s tour is, in part, to sell books. But much more than that, she hopes her story will open the
‘A great, great shock’
It wasn’t until 1989 — 18 years after receiving the stolen documents — that Medsger learned she had known two members of the burglary team while working in Philadelphia from 1967 to 1969. By that time Medsger was teaching college in California. She was traveling from a journalism workshop in Missouri to a program evaluation at the University of Massachusetts when she decided to stop in Philadelphia to visit some of the people she had met while working there. John Raines, a professor of religious studies at Temple University, and his wife Bonnie Raines, a child care specialist, were the first people she called. “So I had dinner at their home — and it changed my life,” Medsger said of the couple’s bombshell revelation that they took part in the burglary. “I never would have guessed. … I had no idea, and so it was a great, great shock.” After that, “I could hardly think of anything else,” she said. In the years that followed, Medsger learned the names of the six other burglars and interviewed all of them. Two spoke with her but declined to be identified. Late last year she discovered the identity of the eighth burglar, who she said has been living essentially underground since the time of the break-in. John and Bonnie Raines will join Medsger for the Lessons in Courage and Resistance Tour, which includes appearances at All Saints Church in Pasadena on Saturday, Loyola Marymount University in Westchester on Monday, Caltech on Tuesday, Glendale Community College on Wednesday and Occidental College on Thursday. In addition to discussions led by Medsger and the Raineses, the events include screenings of award-winning filmmaker Johanna Hamilton’s “1971,” a documentary inspired by Medsger’s“The Burglary.” The Raineses were both staunch antisegregation activists. John Raines joined in civil rights protests in the South in the early ’60s, including the historic Alabama march from Selma to Montgomery. Now 81, he is a prolific author and ordained Methodist minister who taught religion at Temple for nearly 50 years. He and Bonnie, 73, have three children, all of whom were younger than 10 at the time of the burglary.
Betty Medsger is taking her story on tour to local colleges eyes of young people who live in an America where their government can employ technology to scrutinize every aspect of their lives — a practice more pervasive, more invasive and, some say, more invidious than Hoover could have ever dreamed of implementing. “The Media FBI office robbery revealed in cold, hard terms the indisputable fact that one of our intelligence agencies, the
Public Enemy No. 1
Hoover, as Medsger writes, was reportedly apoplectic upon learning of the burglary. That’s because he knew the stolen serials contained evidence of the “secret” FBI that he had been running for several years — one that didn’t go after crooks or organized crime figures, but instead targeted “subversives” and “communists”; ruthlessly squashed political dissent through rumor, innuendo, intimidation and violence; launched salacious smear campaigns against King, once writing him an anonymous letter encouraging him to commit suicide over alleged marital infidelities; concocted stories to destroy entertainers and others; bought off, subsidized or blackmailed informers into providing agents with information that was often wrong or exaggerated; and employed other dirty tricks to achieve what were really political goals. In a frantic effort to find the burglars, Hoover employed more than 200 agents to scour Philadelphia and surrounding communities, resulting in more than 400 files being opened on possible suspects. But in the end, the burglars were never caught. The FBI’s Media burglary file was closed in 1976 after the five-year statute of limitations on the crime had run out. “I think what was shocking was not only what was happening but that it had no connection to law enforcement, and it would have no connection to intelligence gathering because the information was not used to stop crimes,” Medsger said of COINTELPRO. At the time of his death from heart disease in May 1972 at age 77, Hoover faced for the first time in his 48 years in office sharp criticisms from Congress and a once “friendly” press corps for employing tactics that would later be likened to the former East Germany’s oppressive Stasi secret police and the Soviet Union’s KGB. In her riveting retelling of the burglary, as experienced by most of the people who pulled it off, Medsger recounts the troubled and sometimes dangerous times in which the theft occurs and also illustrates the lasting effects that this methodically planned act of civil disobedience had on reining in the country’s oppressive domestic spying and sabotage program. “The culture in government, journalism and society was that intelligence agencies had a free pass — that intelligence agencies were untouchable and could do whatever they wanted. One of the many impacts the burglary had was it changed that,” Medsger said. “As soon as those first files were revealed, calls came for an investigation. The calls came from Congress and then from major editorial pages, including some who had never written anything but words of praise about Hoover and the FBI. It really cracked a wall, an enormous wall that Hoover had created through his vast internal public
“The operation was designed to harass, distort and destroy. It was really a matter of going after people and ideas they didn’t like.” — Betty Medsger
FBI, was flagrantly breaking the law by spying on law-abiding citizens. Furthermore, the FBI was inciting radical acts of domestic terror, such as bombing and assassination,” said Robert Nelson, a retired Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist and American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California board member who coordinated the tour with his wife, Marguerite “Peggy” Renner, chair of the History Department at GCC. “It is important for all to know the extremes that citizens are sometimes forced to go to protect the rights and freedom we enjoy in a democratic society,” said Renner. “We owe these citizens a great debt for protecting our privacy.”
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relations arm that had never been broken through until that time, and from then on there was a different atmosphere. I’m not saying it was perfect, but it was very, very different.”
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In 2012, Robert Nelson (no relation to the LA Times’ Jack Nelson) ended a 34-year career at JPL after a civil rights lawsuit that he and others filed against NASA was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. The suit had alleged that new federal background checks for JPL employees, which explored medical and sexual histories as well as political activism, were an invasion of privacy. Nelson sees many similarities between the Media burglary and the case of Edward Snowden, the infamous former National Security Agency contractor who revealed to reporter Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian and “Citizenfour” documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras that the National Security Agency was not only monitoring phone calls but also mining and storing vast amounts of personal data on average citizens. Exposure of the FBI’s secret domestic spying in 1971, Nelson said, “resulted in temporary reforms in intelligence operations. Sadly, these reforms were shortlived. Last year, Edward Snowden had to do it all over again. Our elected officials
failed us. They were not simply asleep at the switch; they were part and parcel of the entire disgraceful operation.” In her book, Medsger names three burglars besides the Raineses: William Davidon, a nationally known figure in the anti-war movement and a physics professor at Haverford College in Philadelphia; Robert Williamson, a former college student who worked with the poor; and Keith Forsythe, also a former student, a cab driver and an avowed peace activist who was supposed to pick the lock of the Media FBI office following weeks of practice. When that didn’t work, Forsythe used a crowbar to get in. “I also knew Davidon,” Medsger said of her two years with the Bulletin, “but not very much.” The group vowed then to never talk about the burglary with anyone, not even among themselves, and they all stuck to that pledge — until the Raineses spoke with Medsger in 1989. After that meeting, Medsger filed federal Freedom of Information Acts requests that resulted in the release of more than 34,000 pages of information about the Media burglary, information that now buttresses much of her disturbing story about Hoover’s secret police. In addition to “The Burglary,” Medsger has also written 1983’s “Framed: The New Right Attack on Chief Justice Rose Bird and the Courts,” an investigation of attacks on the California Supreme Court
from inside and outside the court in the late 1970s. Medsger said there are a number of similarities between the Media burglars and Snowden. One is that “at two crucial times in history, the only way Americans learned that their intelligence agencies were out of control was when devoted citizens were willing to risk their freedom to get that information to the public,” she said. Another is how public officials lied about the two programs until they were exposed in the press. And like the FBI of old, which busted not one major crime under COINTELPRO, a terrorist attack was never stopped by NSA data collection. The differences are equally striking. For instance, the burglars didn’t know what they would find, although they had suspicions of what was in the FBI files, while Snowden was well aware of what the NSA was doing. But the main difference is the tenor of the times in which the two events occurred. “The Snowden files revealed so much that is very, very important, but the atmosphere is so different from what the Media burglars lived in,” Medsger said. With COINTELPRO exposed in 1971 and Watergate developing into a national scandal in the early 1970s, “the audience for [the burglars] was ready to believe them and to do something about it.” Today, “I don’t know if there is an audience that is enthusiastic and ready to act,” she said.
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J. Edgar Hoover in 1961 Although Medsger believes a board much like the Church Commission should investigate the FBI, the CIA and the NSA, “It’s very hard now to think reform is going to take place,” she said. “I absolutely think there is no stomach — no heart, I should say — for that.” The Lessons in Courage and Resistance Tour includes a public forum hosted by LMU President David Burcham from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at Ahmanson Auditorium, University Hall, 1 Loyola Marymount Drive, Westchester. Call (310) 338-2700 or visit lmu.edu. Kevin Uhrich is editor of the Pasadena Weekly.
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Multi-faceted muralist Kid Acne returns to C.A.V.E. Gallery in Venice with his latest works By Michael Aushenker As devastating as this month’s attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was for creatives worldwide, imagine being an artist right in the heart of Europe. “It’s a real tragedy and very sad to think that so many people have lost their lives over such a thing. Regardless of the content, drawing comics should never be punishable by execution,” said U.K.-based muralist Kid Acne. Kid Acne returns to C.A.V.E. Gallery on Abbot Kinney Boulevard with new works, including the playful painting “Stabby Woman.” The purposely primitively delineated damsel — in domino mask and matching black gloves, fishnets and bird-feather cape — is plastered against a wallpaper of comic book pages that makes this shadowy, Tolkien-ish, sword-wielding figure resemble a refugee from a manga digest … or perhaps a Dungeon Master’s Guide. Somewhat ironically, Acne titled his C.A.V.E. show “Destined for Greatness.”
“The title of the show is intended as a tongue-in-cheek comment on the mindset of most artists, myself included,” Acne said. “As delusional as it might be, we all think we’re special and destined for greatness.” Content-wise, Acne attempts to represent each aspect of his
included such landmarks as the Watts Towers, the Bradbury Building, the La Brea Tar Pits, the Capitol Records building and numerous Googie-style diners. “I’ve illustrated around 30 exteriors into a giant hand-pulled screen print, which I made myself over the winter holidays,” he said of his vector graphic-like cityscape. With murals such as the jocular “Birth of Hip Hop” (recasting Jesus’ nativity scene as a B-Boy narrative) in his home base of Sheffield, England, Acne continues to derive pleasure from graffiti art. “I enjoy painting in the street very much,” he said. “The scale, spontaneity and immediacy is what got me interested in the first place and it’s the same feeling 20 years on. I do paint commissions from time to time, but I prefer not to be compromised with my work, so most walls I paint are generally spontaneous and self-financed.” Whether he’s busting out a mural or creating art for a gallery show, Acne does not differenti-
“As delusional as it might be, we all think we’re special and destined for greatness.” — Kid Acne
studio practice, “incorporating the more narrative, characterbased work with typographic slogans and architectural line drawings.” What he considers his show’s signature piece, an L.A cityscape, was largely inspired by Ice Cube’s YouTube video in which the former gangsta rapper visits the Ray and Charles Eames house in Pacific Palisades, Acne explained. When Acne was in town for his last C.A.V.E. solo show in 2012, friends took Acne on a sightseeing tour around Los Angeles that
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Right, from top: Kid Acne’s “Stabby Woman” series, hand-embellished 3’-by-3’ canvases, remain on display through Feb. 2 as part of the artist’s third exhibition in Venice Below: With a limited edition of only 10 44”-by-30” screen prints, Kid Acne’s “Los Angeles Cityscape” is the centerpiece of his “Destined for Greatness” show
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By Michael Aushenker gone. Fifteen years ago he With “Rainbow: Rug,” Ninio has Artist Moshe Ninio relies on traveled to Vermont to seek out transformed a basic Palestinian technology in his photographic John Perry, one of only a few rug into something in which “a work. It’s just not very recent artisans left who could imbue his way of life has become alien to technology. creation with Ninio’s desired itself because of technology.” “I’ll never do something beyond holographic effect. The rainbow, in fact, represents human size. I’m not into specSanta Monica Museum of Art an extinct type of holography. tacular work,” Ninio said last Executive Director Elsa Long“It’s an unpleasant rainbow,” he week at the Bergamot Stationhauser saw an earlier incarnation said. “It’s a perverse technology. based Santa Monica Museum of of Ninio’s work while visiting It’s an unpleasant return.” Art. Jerusalem. The downside to being an Israeli It’s there that Ninio’s singular “In 1996 it was installed in a artist is that one can’t just create 71”-by-22” art installation dark, rough space on the lower art without viewers reading “Rainbow: Rug” stares back at level of Teddy Football Stadium, politics into it. Ninio acknowlviewers — and quite literally which was under construction in edged the unfair burden on Israeli winks at them — from a artists when they present space on the floor. It is a work in the U.S. and in With “Rainbow: Rug,” hologram, after all, and Europe, where Middle East Ninio has transformed relations tend to overshadwhat you see depends on the angle you view it. a basic Palestinian rug ow the artistic conversation. “Rainbow: Rug” is also “It’s not always the case, into something in which but you are expected to give a wink-wink commentary on today’s digitally “a way of life has become your position on the oversaturated world, as he said. And if an alien to itself because conflict,” Ninio purposely indulges Israeli does not opine on the in visual technology that political situation, the artist’s of technology.” is more akin to a Viewwork may be dismissed as Master reel than anything Steve Jerusalem,” Longhauser recalled. “formalist or escapist.” Jobs begot. “Being in Israel for the first time The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, “The carpet becomes a ghost of was a poignant revelation; getting he says, is too often a person’s itself on a floor. You have to to know Moshe Ninio has been only frame of reference when it locate things in a picture looking similarly poignant.” comes to Israel, a culturally rich down on the floor. It’s against all Based in Tel Aviv and of Turkish and scientifically advanced the conventions of holography,” and Greek Sephardic descent, country. Ninio said. Ninio teaches at the prestigious “They don’t have a file on Israeli Just prior to the installation of Bezalel Academy of Art and culture or art because it’s what “Rainbow: Rug,” the visiting Design, the same Jerusalem they see through the media. That’s Israeli artist discussed how many school where acclaimed “Exit the data they have. They try to fit artists from his country create in Wounds” graphic novelist Rutu it into a framework,” he said. digital media because “it’s easier Modan teaches illustration. As a result, “You cannot be part to export the work and more “Success outside of Israel and of a trend. You cannot define a accessible.” contributing to Israel’s art scene, time. You have to do works that Even before the advent of digital it’s not the same thing,” said cannot be connected to a particuarts, “I’ve always been lensNinio, quick to distinguish lar period,” he said. based,” he continued. “I’m between Israeli artists established See Moshe Ninio’s “Rainbow: following technology but in a internationally and the fine arts Rug” through April 18 at the melancholic manner.” community inside Israel. Accord- Santa Monica Museum of Art, And in obsolescence. Ninio said ing to Ninio, Israel’s native scene Bergamot Station G1, 2525 that “Rainbow: Rug” could not boils down to its largest metropo- Michigan Ave., Santa Monica. be created today — this work lis, Tel Aviv, with Dvir and Call (310) 586-6488 or visit dates back to 2000 — because Zomer its two leading galleries smmoa.org. that holographic technology is (Dvir represents Ninio). michael@argonautnews.com
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In the working class family in which I grew up, steaks were only eaten on special occasions. For significant birthdays even we children would don jackets and ties and go to a dark, cavernous building with black leather booths and a bar from which my parents would order drinks. The kids would get something fizzy with a cherry in it, and we would feel grown up and sophisticated. We feasted with grand ceremony on grilled meats that were better than we could make on the home barbecue, and went home feeling like we had lived the good life. I therefore felt nostalgia upon entering the George Petrelli Steakhouse in Culver City, which we probably visited back when I was too young to see over the bar, much less order anything from it. The steakhouse has been in business since 1931,
and though it has moved at least once since then, there’s still a classic vibe here. It’s brighter than the clubby places I remember, but the black booths and wood paneling evoke a similar mood. There was even a family near us with well-dressed and well-behaved small children, and I was amused to think of them later having memories like mine. Our party was greeted at the door by a manager who seems to know the history of the neigh-
well not have been there. The soups that came out afterward didn’t raise our expectations much; the French onion had only a dab of gruyere on top of the crouton, rather than the full cap of toasted cheese that should top the bowl. It also wasn’t very oniony for an onion soup — there was a hearty beef stock, but I had only a few shreds of vegetable in mine. The beef vegetable was somewhat better, with plenty of vegetation balancing the broth and what tasted like lentils or beans to add body. Things got better with the salads that followed, a good-sized plate of vegetation with a choice of dressing. I tried the Caesar, which could have used a bit more anchovy spiciness but had plenty of Parmesan and a delicate garlic tang. For the main course I ordered the cowboy steak, a bone-in ribeye, while the others at my table selected filet mignon, fried chicken and a plate of housemade garlic, spinach and cheese ravioli. The ravioli were surprisingly good, lighter on the garlic than I expected from the name but topped with a hearty marinara and dusting of Parmesan.
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REAL ESTATE Q&A When would be a good time to buy a house? There are a number of good reasons to buy a house right now. More jobs are available: The Labor Department announced that the jobless rate is now below six percent. Consider how far the job market has come since January 2010, when unemployment was 9.7 percent. Houses hedge against inflation: The Consumer Price for All Urban Consumers is up 1.7 percent from August 2013 to August 2014, excluding volatile food and gas prices. The food index has risen 2.7 percent over the span, while the energy index has increased 0.4 percent. This is the first month since 2010 that the index hasn’t risen. Why is that good for homeowners? Even in a tepid inflationary environment, when prices rise, a major asset such as a home, purchased at a fixed cost, becomes more valuable. Typically, in an inflationary environment, housing prices rise. Housing price gains are slowing: The median existing-home price in August was $219,800, which is 4.8 percent higher than home prices in August 2013. This marks the 30th consecutive month of year-over-year price gains. In 2013, home prices rose in the double digits. Mortgage interest rates are still low: According to Freddie Mac’s archives, the lowest that mortgage interest rates have been since 1971 was in November and December 2012, at 3.35 percent, with 0.7 points for a benchmark 30-year, fixed-rate loan, and that was before the housing recovery began in earnest. The most recent Freddie Mac survey found national averages at 4/16 percent, with .05 percent points in September 2014.
Pent-up demand is ready to release: Household formation has been muted since the Great Recession, preventing as many as 2.5 million people from forming households who otherwise would have. U.S. housing starts should average 1.4 to 1.5 million over the coming decade. Considering that the largest generation ever – 81 million Echo Boomers – are well into renting and home-buying age, the numbers should be closer to the 2.3 percent annual growth of the 70s, when 78 million Baby Boomers reached adulthood. Buy VS rent ratios favor homeownership: Trulia, a real estate marketplace and research group, announced that rents rose 6.5 percent nationally year-overyear in September 2014. Apartment rents were up 6.9 percent, while singlefamily home rents gained 5.2 percent. At the same time, housing prices have leveled off. The takeaway: A housing market never remains even. There are always surges and dips. Buyers could wait for better market conditions, but the present alignment of low mortgage interest rates, slowing home prices, rising rents and pent-up demand add up to great reasons to buy a home right now. This week’s question was answered by Bob and Cheryl Herrera, Professional Real Estate Services, (310) 306-5427. www.bob-cheryl.com.
OPEN TUESDAY — January 20th / 1125th to 2PM/ 1 to 4 PM Open Sunday — January 529 Rialto 529 Rialto AvenueAvenue – Venice — Venice Located on one of the most sought after streets in Venice and walking distance to Abbot Kinney, a very spacious, three story modern design. This newly updated home features 4 BR, 4BA plus powder room, double height living space, elegant proportions and sophisticated detailing throughout.
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Loyola Village Home
Kentwood Home
“This Craftsman-style home boasts casual elegance alongside modern and energy-efficient amenities,” says agent Stephanie Younger. “The bright living room, with its wood-burning fireplace and hardwood floors, flows to the gourmet kitchen with quartz counters and professional-grade appliances. The master bedroom has exposed-beam vaulted ceilings, a reading nook and glass doors that lead to a private, landscaped yard. There are two additional bedrooms and baths, and a detached two-car garage with an extra room, ideal for a studio or home office.” The property is offered at $899,000. Information, Stephanie Younger, Teles Properties, (424) 203-1838.
“The entrance to this recently renovated home welcomes you into the formal living room, with crown moldings, wide plank wood floors and a fireplace,” say agents Kim Williamson and Nicole Pagan. “The kitchen’s butcher block center island, stainless range, custom cabinetry, and wine bar make it ideal for entertainment. The floor plan flows gracefully, and includes a step-down den and a separate remodeled bathroom. There are two spacious bedrooms and a remodeled hallway bathroom. The master suite has ample closet space and French doors opening to a manicured yard and lighted patio.” The property is offered at $1,149,000. Information, Kim Williamson and Nicole Pagan, RE/MAX Estate Properties, (310) 678-6650.
Marina del Rey Duplex
Westdale Trousdale Home
“This canal property on an end lot has water views,” says agent Bill Ruane. “Each unit has two bedrooms, three baths and a roof deck, and there is room for an office. With over 4,000 square feet of living space in very large rooms, and a 5,000 square foot lot, this property is designed for condo conversion. There are also seven parking spaces.” The property is offered at $2,890,000. Information, Bill Ruane, RE/MAX Beach Cities, (310) 877-2374.
Westport Heights Home
“This newly renovated 3 bedroom, 2 bath unit has marina, “This warm and inviting home sits on a large lot in the middle of the block,” says agent Jeanne Rubinoff. “The living room has a wood-burning fireplace, and opens to a spacious family room with high-beam ceilings and sliding doors to a private backyard. The large master suite has French doors to the patio and yard, and the master bath has a steam shower and Jacuzzi tub. There are two additional bedrooms and another bath. The updated kitchen has granite countertops and a greenhouse window, with an adjacent office with a large picture window.” The property is offered at $1,475,000. Information, Jeanne Rubinoff, The Real Estate Consultants, (310) 846-0025.
Penthouse with Gorgeous Views
“This spacious home is on a tree-lined street,” says agent Bob Waldron. “The family room has a vaulted beam ceiling and a sliding door to a rear wood deck and a covered brick patio. The kitchen also has a vaulted ceiling, along with Formica counters and wood cabinets. Three bedrooms and 1.75 baths complete the downstairs floor plan, with another bedroom and ¾ bath upstairs, along with two other rooms, currently being used as a library and a study. The garage has pull-down stairs to an attic. This home has great potential for remodeling.” The property is offered at $819,000. Information, Bob Waldron, Coldwell Banker, Westchester/Playa Vista, (310) 337-9225.
“This two bedroom, 2.5 bath penthouse has spectacular ocean, mountain, and sunset views,” says agent Charles Lederman. “The living area features a wet bar, perfect for entertaining. The kitchen has ample storage and a separate chef's entrance. The second floor includes a loft area and a laundry room. The master bedroom has ocean and city views, while the second bedroom has a Marina view. Enjoy Marina City Club's amenities: gym, classes, pools, courts, restaurant and bar, café, 24 hour gated and guarded security. Walk to the beach and many restaurants.” The property is offered at $995,000. Information, Charles Lederman, Marina City Realty, (310) 821-8980.
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El Segundo Sun 2-4
754 Hillcrest
4/3 Beautiful family home, nice kitchen upgrades
$1,499,000
Bill Ruane
RE/MAX Beach Cities
310-877-2374
Inglewood Sa/Sun 1-4
565 Hyde Park Pl.
3/2 Duplex, new kitchen & flooring, vacant lot 6,000sf
$517,000
Richard Alvarez
Alvarez Brothers R.E.
310-387-9223
Manhattan Beach Sa/Su 12-5
4009 Ocean Dr. (The Strand)
6/4 Triplex on the famous MB strand, ocean views
$6,950,000
Joe Franklin
Keller Williams Comm.
310-200-8018
Marina del Rey Sat 2-4 Sun 1-4 Sun 1-4
3501-3503 Esplanade 4723 La Villa Marina #H 120 Outrigger Mall
2/3 Huge corner lot w/rooftop decks, blocks to beach 3/2.5 Newly renovated contemporary TH. Upgraded! 5/6 Ultimate luxury on Silver Strand w/ocean views
$2,890,000 $799,000 $3,299,000
Bill Ruane Bob & Cheryl Herrera Peter & Ty Bergman
RE/MAX Beach Cities PRES BergmanBeachProperties
310-877-2374 310-578-0332 310-821-2900
Mar Vista Sun 1-4 Sun 1-4
3213 Coolidge Ave. 4838 McConnell Ave.
3/2 Warm & inviting Westdale Trouspale home 3/2.5 Townhouse, remodeled, fireplace & patio
$1,475,000 $695,000
Jeanne Rubinoff Terry Ballentine
TREC RE/MAX Estate Properties
310-846-0025 310-351-9743
Playa del Rey Sun 12-5 Sun 1-4 Sat 2-4
7859 W. 79th St. 7611 Rindge Lane 8148 Redlands St. #205
5/4.5 Brand new luxury home w/ocean views 5/5 Extensively remodeled w/ocean views & 3car gar. 1/1 Close to shops, Beach, LMU, 2car SBS parking
$2,495,000 $2,599,000 $379,900
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Macias Realty Group Jesse Weinberg & Associates RE/MAX Beach Cities
310-341-4664 310-995-6779 310-877-2374
Rancho Palos Verdes Sun 2-4
30162 Via Rivera
5/3 Beautiful landscaping, formal living & dining rm
$1,539,000
Bill Ruane
RE/MAX Beach Cities
310-877-2374
Torrance Sun 2-4
2102 W. 223rd St.
3/3 Sprawling ranch style home w/pool
$749,900
Bill Ruane
RE/MAX Beach Cities
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Venice Sun 1-4 Sun 1-4
529 Rialto 505 28th Ave.
4/4 3-story modern, best street, walk to Abbot Kinney 3/2 Master retreat, large front yard, expanded kit.
$3,850,000 $1,895,000
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Nelson Shelton RE/MAX Estate Properties
310-663-4100 310-424-5512
Westchester Sun 1-4 Sun 1-4 Sun 1-4 Sun 1-4 Sun 1-4 Sat 2-4 Sun 1-4
8038 Loyola Ave. 7430 W. 87th Pl. 7520 McConnell Ave. 7300 Dunfield Ave. 6531 W. 84th St. 7101 LaTijera #I-102 7443 W. 81st St.
3/2 Lovely traditional near the heart of LMU 3/2 Luxurious beach home w/pool &panoramic views 5/5.5 State of the art remodel in North Kentwood 3/2 Sophisticated remodel in Kentwood 3/2 Crème de la crème Kentwood Craftsman 2/2 Washer dryer hookup, w/o rm, spa & 2cr garage 5/5 Reduced, new modern home
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Westside Happenings Thursday, Jan. 22
craze with “Bwana Devil.” Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica. $14. (310) 260-1528; aerotheatre.com
Rabbi Dr. Abraham Skorka, 7 p.m. A visit by the touring Rabbi Skorka, currently rector of the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano Marshall T. Meyer, which trains Masorti/ conservative rabbis, cantors and educators in the Latin American Jewish community. Last May, Skorka accompanied the Pope as part of the papal entourage to the Middle East. Loyola Marymount University, Burns Recreation Center Back Court, 1 LMU Drive, Westchester. lltm@lmu.edu
The Touch Band, 10 to 11:45 p.m. Classic rock at Melody Bar & Grill, 9132 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Westchester. (310) 670-1994; barmelodylax.com
Rene Russo and Dan Gilroy, 7:30 p.m. Vidiots Foundation and NPR’s “Bullseye” with Jesse Thorn present a discussion with “Nightcrawler” writer/director Dan Gilroy and actress Rene Russo. Proceeds benefit the Vidiots Foundation, working to preserve and protect more than 50,000 films, including rare, classic and independent titles. The Microsoft Lounge, 901 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice. Admission: $20, or $15 students/seniors. (310) 392-8508; vidiotsfoundation.org “The Bubble,” 7:30 p.m. Also titled “The Fantastic Invasion of Planet Earth,” this 1966 3D sci-fi tingler in widescreen “Space-Vision” was written and directed by Arch Oboler, who kicked off the original 3D movie
Friday, Jan. 23 “Take Me Higher” Service, 7 p.m. A new weekly Sabbath service overseen by Rabbi Lori Shapiro and Open Temple, featuring the Beit T’Shuvah Band. Electric Lodge, 1416 Electric Ave., Venice. RSVP to opentemplevenice@gmail.com; opentemple.com “Disney’s Peter Pan,” 7 p.m. (Also 7 p.m. Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through Feb. 1) El Segundo Youth Drama bring the classic tale of the boy who doesn’t want to grow up to life. Clubhouse Building, 300 E. Pine Ave., El Segundo. Tickets: $8 pre-sale; $10 at the door. (310) 524-2362 “Beauty and the Beast,” 7:30 p.m. The Santa Monica Playhouse’s 20th anniversary re-telling of the classic fable happens each Friday through Feb. 27. $15 to $19.50. Santa Monica Playhouse, 1211 4th St.,
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Santa Monica. (310) 394-9779; santamonicaplayhouse.com “The Memory of Water,” 8 p.m. (Also 8 p.m. Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays through Feb. 14.) Dark comedy features story uniting three turbulent sisters at their mother’s funeral. Promenade Playhouse, 1404 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica. $20. (310) 960-7785; plays411.com/ memoryofwater
Centerfold 80s, 9 p.m. Eighties tunes performed live at Brennan’s Pub, 4089 Lincoln Blvd., Marina del Rey. No cover. 21+. (310) 821-6622; brennanspub-la.com. Kat & the Blues Hounds, 9:15 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Kathy Leonardo’s blues band —featuring keyboard player Bob Crickmore, saxophonist Lucky Wright, bass player John Weimken and drummer Rich Bryan —performs classic genre numbers. This week’s special guest: trumpet player Bruce Friedman. Sonny McLean’s Irish Bar, 2615 Wilshire Blvd.,
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Zoé Bruneau in Godard’s “Goodbye to Language 3D”
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Hard rock line-up, 8:30 p.m. Pinecone Fletcher opens for Magnuson, Surgeon Marta, and the Regal Peaches. TRiP, 2101 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. No cover. (310) 396-9010; tripsantamonica. com
‘Goodbye to Language 3D’
American Cinematheque enters its second decade at home in the Aero Theatre with screenings of French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard’s lauded 2014 film “Goodbye to Language 3D.” Writer Howard Rodman and actress Heloise Godet appear in person for the Aero’s 7:30 p.m. Friday screening, but the historic venue will continue to show Godard’s Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize-winning on a daily basis through the end of the month.
Scratching the creative itch
Aero Theatre 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica Tickets: $13, or $11 for students/seniors (310) 260-1528; aerotheatre.com
Kid Acne continues to paint street murals in his home base of Sheffield, England ate, seeing all of it as “ultimately contributing to the same ongoing body of work.” Acne has also been making fanzines since the early 1990s. After a lengthy hiatus, he recently returned to them. “With everything being so digital these days, I felt it was nice to document my work in a tangible format again and not only at 72dpi for social media,” he said. The industrious Acne also has “Zebra Face,” a series of animation shorts based on a comic book he created years ago, running on BBC Channel 4. “I provide the voice of the main character and we asked [Pulp frontman] Jarvis Cocker to be the narrator, taking on the role of the omnipotent Sun,” Acne said. “It felt like an appropriate role for such a Sheffield celebrity.” U.K. rappers Roots Manuva and Chester P. voice other characters. Five episodes have already aired, and Acne promises a longer-form “Zebra Face” cartoon soon. And there’s more to Acne than just the visual arts. A long-running rap producer, he and buddies Benjamin and Sebastian Laws of New
Kingdom are readying a slew of 2015 releases under the name Mongrels. The world is apparently Acne’s oyster … that is, if Stabby Woman doesn’t poach it first! “Destined for Greatness” runs through Feb. 2 at C.A.V.E. Gallery, 1108 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice. Call (310) 450-6960 or visit cavegallery.net. michael@argonautnews.com
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The beat merchant of Venice Crown rules a domain in need of hip-hop leadership
Rapper Crown relocated from Brooklyn to freshen up a stale Westside hip-hop scene
By Michael Aushenker As Westside L.A.’s music scene continues to struggle, Venice (or the entire west side, for that matter) is not exactly known for its hip hop. Outside of Evidence from Dilated Peoples, there’s been a paucity of rap riches from this hood. Adding to this dearth, Dr. Geek, who for 25 years entertained countless tourists adlibbing rhymes on the boardwalks, passed away on Nov. 29. Out of this void emerges Crown, a Brooklyn transplant returning to the WitZend next Thursday to rock its bells. “Big man on campus, born to be a leader/Hail from the county of Kings, nice to meetcha” the rapper declares on “All Hail Now” over an unsampled brass section and a chorus interpolating presidential fanfare “Hail to the Chief.” Crown spits autobiographical verse over live instrumentation from his group M.O.B. (a.k.a. “Message of the Blues”). Since he arrived in Venice, New
Amsterdam Vodka has incorporated three Crown tracks into its national branding campaign. Born Wilfredo Williams, Crown grew up in Brooklyn’s BedfordStuyvesant section but also attended school in Watertown, New York. In Venice he finds a balance of the urban atmosphere that exposed him to Eric B. and Rakim, Slick Rick, Big Daddy Kane, Nas and Jay-Z and the Ace of Bass and Hootie and the Blowfish he was digging while in upstate New York. “It’s kind of my balance. In Brooklyn everything’s happening at once, and then Venice, it’s the complete opposite. The material I write, you can tell it’s from the street but the content isn’t that dark,” said Crown, who for a year has enjoyed a monthly residency at WitZend and who also plays Hal’s Bar and Grill on Abbot Kinney Boulevard and Harvelle’s in Santa Monica. Now living in Carson, the former New Yorker loves Venice, even recording his
upcoming album, “All Rise,” (due in March) at Bleeker Street Studios. He’s played the Key Club and House of Blues, but regarding the artificiality of the Hollywood scene he says don’t believe the hype. “The west side of town is a little more open and accepting to new stuff. As opposed to Hollywood, which pretty much goes to what’s trendy,” he said. Preceded by another L.A. rapper, Habit, Crown’s engagement promises to leave not a dry garment in the house after attendees dance up a sweat. “In our style of music, we have a blend of genres in one,” Crown said. “You can just call us ‘music.’ When you bring so many cultures and races and age groups to the mix, I kind of bridge that gap.” Crown performs at 9 p.m. on Jan. 29 at WitZend, 1717 Lincoln Blvd., Venice. $10. Call (310) 305-4792 or visit crownandthemob.com. michael@argonautnews.com
East meets West in Venice Beijing-based photographer Chen Man discusses her work at L.A. Louver By Michael Aushenker “Let’s have a picture together. Selfish!” What photographer Chen Man meant to say was “selfie” as she turned her back on the audience to capture herself with the crowd using her smartphone. The start of Beijing-based Chen’s Jan. 6 lecture at L.A. Louver, where her exhibit “East/ West” runs through Jan. 31, was not your traditional kick-off to an artist’s talk. Then again, as the content of her art underscores, Chen’s photography rebels against the traditional. Born in Mongolia in 1985 and raised in Beijing, Chen grew up in the single-child generation engendered by Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. After attending the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, her fashion photography landed her images in style magazines Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle and Vision Magazine as well as in ad campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana, Coach, Adidas, Nike, Guess and other brands. Much of her commercial proficiency and
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polish embellishes her Photoshop-enhanced, fine arts photography, which has been exhibited worldwide but makes its first Los Angeles appearance at Venice’s L.A. Louver. After an introduction by gallery founding director Peter Goulds, Chen (both through a translator and her own limited English) discussed some of the motives driving her work to a packed
“We discovered that the material world cannot solve all [dissatisfaction],” she said, making reference also to her parents’ and grandparents’ generations. “They entrusted their dreams in us. We love to drive your cars, we love to drink your coffee, we love to carry your bags. We’re eager to create something as shiny as diamonds.” In the end, though, it’s Chen’s
upstairs room as well as a video-fed overflow crowd downstairs. “All reality are phantoms, all phantoms are real,” she said, explaining her photos’ juxtapositions between China’s youth and the stern conservative forces of previous generations; a collision of Old World culture and New World-inspired rampant materialism.
powerful photography, often depicting beautiful young Asian women clad in contemporary red skirts against muted ancient China backdrops, that speaks for itself. “East/West,” continues through Jan. 31. L.A. Louver, 45 N. Venice Blvd., Venice. Call (310) 822-4955 or visit lalouver.com.
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ARTS The wandering comic Globe-trotting comic Tom Rhodes arrives in Venice — his favorite place in the world — for another one-night stand
Tom Rhodes says Venice still has the kind of cool that’s been priced out of San Francisco By Tyler Davidson Over his 30 years in comedy, Tom Rhodes has seen more of this planet than most could ever dream of. Between being peppersprayed in Paris and nearly drowning in Thailand, Rhodes gave up on keeping a home base between travels, putting what possessions he had into storage nine years ago. But for all the world he’s seen, Rhodes maintains a love affair with Venice — the one in America. “Venice, I think, is the last refuge of individuality and
weirdos, you know?” he tells The Argonaut just days after spending his 48th birthday in San Francisco, a place that was once his “nirvana,” but no longer. “The San Francisco I fell in love with doesn’t exist anymore. This is an elitist society of computer nerds and people with no style and individuality. What I loved about San Francisco no longer exists here. It can only be found in Venice Beach, in my opinion,” he says.
“Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ changed my life. But, I mean, he’s kind of a sissy compared to everything I’ve done.”
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on Monday he’ll be performing a special one-night engagement for Venice Underground Comedy at Townhouse Venice. “Tom is constantly circling the globe for stand up,” says Bronston Jones, producer and resident host of Venice Underground Comedy. “When I mentioned Venice, he lit up, saying this is one of his favorite towns on the entire planet.” Jones first met Rhodes in London, where the comic’s jet-setting lifestyle began nearly 20 years ago. Fresh off the cancellation of his shortlived NBC sitcom, “Mr. Rhodes,” in 1997, the Washington D.C. native found himself disenfranchised with American showbiz and headed to the United Kingdom for a change of pace. “I got in with London, started playing London really hard a couple months a year, and that led to gigs all over Europe and Australia and Asia and New Zealand,” he says. Rhodes fell in love with a Dutch girl in 1999 and moved to Amsterdam the following year. While that relationship would eventually come to an end, Rhodes’ television career would thrive there: 2002 saw the premiere of “The Kevin Masters Show, starring Tom Rhodes” on the Yorin network, making Rhodes the “David Letterman of Amsterdam” for three seasons. He later became a presenter
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for “Yorin Travel,” which would take him everywhere from Wales to Curacao, cementing his nomadic lifestyle. “Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ changed my life,” Rhodes says of his sense of wanderlust, before turning characteristically wry with a chuckle. “But, I mean, he’s kind of a sissy compared to everything I’ve done.” There’s something to be said for a man who can’t even remember offhand how many countries he’s visited, but he’d rather talk about Venice. Asked which international donations stack up, “Buenos Aires? Spain? Amsterdam?” Rhodes muses before giving up. “You always hear comedians who have done the Townhouse say the same thing: It’s not your typical Los Angeles audience. Really, you’re a million miles removed,” he says before waxing on his hatred for the ubiquity of beards and flannel shirts in today’s comedic landscape. “People seem intelligent. They’re not afflicted by the hipster virus.” Tom Rhodes performs at 8 p.m. Monday at Townhouse Venice, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. Tickets are $15 and available through laughstub. com. Visit facebook.com/ VeniceUground to learn more about Venice Underground Comedy.
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Westside Happenings (Continued from page 30) Santa Monica. No cover. (310) 449-1811; sonny-mcleans.com Bar Room Blitz Band, 10 to 11:45 p.m. Live rock at Melody Bar & Grill, 9132 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Westchester. (310) 670-1994; barmelodylax.com House of Vibe All-Stars, 10:15 p.m. Culver City’s Anthony “Brew” Brewster and his funk collective return to the WitZend, 1717 Lincoln Blvd., Venice. $10. (310) 305-4790; witzendlive.com
Saturday, Jan. 24 Mindfulness Instruction, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Spend the day or drop by for an hour of free instruction in “The Basic Mindfulness System,” an introduction to mindfulness, at Against the Stream Buddhist Society, 1001A Colorado Blvd., Santa Monica. (323) 665-4300; againstthestream.org “Gateway to Romanticism,” 11 a.m. Joe Praml reads the poetry of Robert Burns as part of the annual worldwide celebration of the Romantic movement
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Sunday, Jan. 25 The Nebraska Girl Open Reading, 2 p.m. Hosted by Wyatt Underwood and Melissa Alvarado, signups at 1:45 p.m. In the Mike Kelley Gallery at Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice. Suggested donation: $5. (310) 822-3006; beyondbaroque.com La Poesia Salon, 2 p.m. A salon-style meetup of Spanish language and bilingual poets hosted by Antonieta
Pacific Palisades Democratic Club’s 2015 Annual Meeting, 2 to 4 p.m. The PPDC hosts its annual meeting, open to the public, with speeches by state Sen. Ben Allen, Assemblyman Richard Bloom, L.A. City Councilman Mike Bonin, L.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl and Congressman Ted Lieu. Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club, 901 Haverford Ave., Pacific Palisades. Free; $10 suggested
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Tuesday, Jan. 27 Ocean Park Classic Car Night, 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. The California Heritage Museum gathers food trucks and classic cars each Tuesday night outside the museum, 2612 Main St., Santa Monica. (310) 392-8537; californiaheritagemuseum.org Swim Sessions, various times. Southern California Aquatics leads morning workouts at 5:30 and 6:30 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and evening workouts at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, at Santa Monica Swim Center, 2225 16th St.,
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LEGAL ADVERTISING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014345834 The following person is doing business as: Audrey Atelier 8133 Zitola Terrace Playa del Rey,CA 90293. Registered owners: Yihhan Lai 8133 Zitola Terrace Playa del Rey, CA 90293. This business is conducted by a Corporation. 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: Yihhan Lai. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on December 9, 2014 . Argonaut published: December 1, 8, 15, and 22, 2014. NOTICEIn 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
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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: Francesco Tomaso Esile. Title:Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on December 30, 2014. Argonaut published: January 1, 8, 15, 22, 2015. 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. 2014363415 The following person is doing business as: @C2 171 Pier Ave. Suite 283 Santa Monica, CA. 90405. Registered owners: At C Squared, LLC 171 Pier Ave. Suite 283 Santa Monica, CA. 90405. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Corporation. 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: Chris Conners. Title: President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on December 30, 2015. Argonaut published: January 1, 8, 15, and 22, 2015. 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. 2014363459 The following person is doing business as: Sparkleyard 1756 Washington Way Venice, CA. 90291 and P.O. Box 66791 Los Angeles, CA. 90066. Registered owners: Sparkleyard, LLC 1756 Washington Way Venice, CA. 90291. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. 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: Dawn Hollier. Title: President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on December 30, 2014. Argonaut published: January 1, 8, 15 and 22, 2015. 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. 2014363468 The following person is doing business as: McGarry Street Rentals 984 McGarry Street Los Angeles, CA. 90021. Registered owners: Djuna Bell 545 Westminster Ave. #1 Venice, CA. 90291. This business is conducted by a 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: Djuna Bell. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on December 30, 2014. Argonaut published: January 1, 8, 15, and 22, 2015. 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. 2015006290 The following person is doing business as: Realtime Online Support 1455 4th St. #303 Santa Monica, CA. 90401. Registered owners: James Palumbo 1455 4th St. #303 Santa Monica, CA. 90401. This business is conducted by a 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: James Palumbo. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on January 8, 2015. Argonaut published: January 15, 22, 29, and February 5, 2015. 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. 2015007299 The following person is doing business as: Dravivaboxer. com, Chelseapann.com and Knotathought.com 214 Barbour St. Playa del Rey, CA. 90293. Registered owners: Healthy Notes, INC. 214 Barbour St. Playa del Rey, CA. 90293. This business is conducted by a Corporation. 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: Aviva Boxer Spann. Title: Secretary. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on January 9, 2015. Argonaut published: January 15, 22, 28 and February 5, 2015. 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. 2015010587 The following person is doing business as: Lotus Estate Properties 3121 Washington Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. 90292. Registered owners: Lighthouse Properties Real Estate Services INC. 3121 Washington Blvd. Marina del Rey, CA. This business is conducted by a Corporation. 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: Debbie Sutz. Title: President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on January 13, 2015. Argonaut published: January 22, 29, February 5, and 12, 2015. 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
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PUBLIC NOTICES LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF REGIONAL PLANNING NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing to consider the project described below. You will have an opportunity to testify, or you can submit written comments to the planner below or at the public hearing. If the final decision on this proposal is challenged in court, testimony may be limited to issues raised before or at the public hearing. Hearing Date and Time: Wednesday,
February 25, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. Hearing Location: 320 West Temple St., Hall of Records, Rm. 150, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Project & Permit(s): Project No. R2014-01462(4), Permit No. RCDP201400003 Project Location:Road right-of-way, Marquesas Way/Via Marina within the Playa Del Rey Zoned District CEQA: The City of Los Angeles certified an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) on January 12, 2010. The City of Los Angeles is the “lead agency” and Los Angeles County is a “responsible agency” for this project pursuant to CEQA. The County Regional Planning Commission will consider the environmental effects of the project as shown in the EIR certified by the City of Los Angeles prior to reaching a decision on the project. Project Description: The applicant is proposing to construct a new two-mile long, 54 inch diameter force main sewer, approximately 0.75 miles of which would be within County jurisdiction, pursuant to section(s) 22.56.2280 of the Los Angeles County Code. The alignment of the new sewer would proceed east under the grand canal along Marquesas Way, then south-
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