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L e t t e r s Correction: Last week’s Food & Drink column about Bistro 31 neglected to mention that the restaurant is now closed through April 11 to accommodate spring break. Seniors Need Vacation Rental Income Re: “There Goes the Neighborhood,” Opinion, March 3 I agree that apartment owners taking properties off the market to convert them into short-term rentals causes a lack of muchneeded rentals for longtime and possibly new residents of our beach communities. However, there are also many beach community residents who only rent out their homes to vacationers when they themselves are on vacation and not using their home. This does not take any property off the rental market. Also, these property owners communicate with the people who will be renting their home

and they are careful to not rent to people who will disturb the neighborhood. Often these homeowners are seniors who are on fixed incomes, and the extra income is most helpful. It would also seem to me that the business owners in the area would much prefer to have more vacationing families in the area. These vacationing families spend much more at local business establishments than the actual residents, especially seniors, tend to spend. Let’s realize that not all local residents who want to do short-term rentals are apartment house owners! Arlene Rosenblatt Santa Monica No Country for Wetland Birds Re: “Do Trees Save Lives?” Letters, Jan. 7 Someone in a recent letter to the editor said she thought the once five, now two beautiful coral trees at the end of Via Marina might have caused people to drive more slowly, thus saving lives there. What I know is that trees save the lives of some of our increasingly rare wetland birds in the area.

Unfortunately, a large tree was cut down near one of the Marina City Club towers overlooking the Oxford Basin a few years ago. Roosting in their nests in that tree were many great White Herons, also known as Great Egrets. I first became concerned about these magnificent birds when suddenly the Oxford Basin became dotted with mice poison boxes every several yards. Another tree, more recently, was chopped down at the north side of the renovated Breakwater Apartments at the end of Fiji Way, not far from the Coast Guard Station. This lovely and apparently healthy tree which may have slightly obstructed a clear view of the Main Channel from one of the Breakwater apartments contained the huge nests of the Great Blue Heron. Why county agencies allow developers to cut down trees to meet their minimalist concepts is a mystery to me. On another unrelated public agency-caused problem, Palawan Way recently had bright red and orange paint applied to the curb across from

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Diversify or Die John Lennon Songwriting Contest winner has to do it all . ..................................... 35

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Keith Emerson, 1944 – 2016 Emerson, Lake & Palmer keyboardist had continued to push boundaries in Santa Monica By Joe Piasecki and Gary Walker Mashing elements of classical music and jazz into symphonic rock made Keith Emerson a star. Such adulation had long become distant after public tastes shifted away from the progressive rock genre he helped create in the 1970s through the band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, but recently the classical music world was beginning to reassess his legacy as a keyboardist and composer. On Friday, Emerson’s life ended in his Santa Monica condominium with what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to Santa Monica police and the L.A. County Coroner’s Office. He was 71. At the height of his stardom, Emerson dazzled fans with dizzying live performances on a bank of keyboards anchored by a 550-pound Moog synthesizer that had enough exposed wiring to resemble an early vacuum tube computer. But in recent years, Emerson struggled with a neurological condition that

expect from him, he was usually in good spirits. He and I talked about working together in 2016,” Palmer wrote Monday in an email to The Argonaut. Jeffrey Biegel, a classical pianist and composer who collaborated with Emerson and reintroduced his work to classical music audiences, was also surprised by Emerson’s death. Biegel began performing Emerson’s “Piano Concerto No. 1 (from the ELP album “Works”) in 2008, pairing it with Keith Emerson, visionary composer Chopin and Gershwin. What followed was restricted the use of his right hand and also a friendship that led Biegel to organize symphony concerts featuring Emerson’s grappled with depression, according to statements by girlfriend Mari Kawaguchi. music and sometimes even Emerson Emerson’s death took ELP percussionist performing or conducting. “He was an icon, one of the founders of Carl Palmer by surprise. progressive music. I wanted to reinvigo“I had been in contact with Keith on rate his name in the concert hall — give it fairly regular basis via email and phone. renewed purpose there,” Biegel said. “I We would usually discuss what we were doing musically, and sometimes Emerson never saw him as the phrase he didn’t want to be called: rock star. It was as a Lake & Palmer business. Got on very close friend and a colleague; we respected well, and while I knew he was very each other for our genres, and our genres concerned about his hand and the ability to play at the standard people had come to met with his piano concerto.”

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By Gary Walker Supporters of a Venice-based LAUSD program that teaches elementary-age students in both English and Mandarin Chinese have taken to the streets in protest, claiming the school district is standing in the way of its own initiative’s success. At the start of the school year last fall, former LAUSD Supt. Ramon Cortines slashed the number of seats available for kids entering the Mandarin immersion program at Broadway Elementary School from 96 to 48. Calling themselves Parents for Progressive Education, many parents whose children attend the Mandarin immersion program — which draws students not just from the neighborhood but from throughout the school district — are now pushing hard for those cuts to be reversed. The parent group held a large sidewalk demonstration outside Broadway Elementary on March 4 and came out in force again on March 8 during a meeting of the LAUSD Board of Education. The parents say restricting new kindergarten enrollment threatens the program’s sustainability and its ability to attract new families. Going into the March 8 meeting, 41 of the 48 kindergarten slots available this fall had already been claimed by siblings of current Mandarin immersion students, who receive enrollment preference if they meet English or Mandarin proficiency standards. LAUSD officials say there just isn’t enough space at Broadway Elementary, which is also home to a smaller Spanish language immersion program and two classrooms of traditionalcurriculum students. Parents for Progressive Education President Jennifer Pullen, a Century City financial analyst whose daughter is a first-grader in the Mandarin immersion program, isn’t buying it.

Jennifer Pullen, at left holding the microphone, leads a rally in front of Broadway Elementary School on March 4 “When you look at the amount of space [at Broadway], there’s enough room for all of the programs through 2017,” said Pullen. “When you look at the amount of funding that LAUSD has, we don’t believe that it’s a financial issue.” LAUSD officials say the district is committed to seeing the Mandarin immersion program flourish, but finding space for it has been problematic as the popularity of the program has surged over the last several years. Broadway Elementary has fewer than 30 classrooms but added four bungalows last year to accommodate increasing enrollment in the Mandarin immersion program. The bungalows were meant to be a temporary solution pending construction of new Mandarin immersion facilities at Mark Twain Middle School, but Cortines scrapped that $30-million

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Bus Routes Cut an Economic Divide Riders who depend on the Big Blue Bus lose service while those who gain access say they don’t want it By Gary Walker Changes to public bus routes often draw complaints but rarely cause widespread community outcry. Unless, of course, that community is Venice. On March 9, a panel of Santa Monica transportation officials got an earful from Venice residents who are angry about the elimination of two bus routes in Oakwood and the addition of a route that travels along narrow Ocean Avenue. The complaints are as disparate as the two neighborhoods impacted. In historically working-class Oakwood, the loss of service is making life harder for people who depend on the bus. Meanwhile, more affluent residents in and around the Venice Canals are concerned about safety and traffic congestion. Nearly 200 people attended the community meeting at Westminster Avenue Elementary School organized by Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin and the Venice Neighborhood Council, with many in attendance asking out loud why Big Blue Bus “invaded” the largely residential area around Ocean. With the opening of east-west Expo Line light rail service in Santa Monica less than two months away, officials are trying to connect as many bus lines to the train as possible and reach potential Expo riders in Marina del Rey, Big Blue Bus Director Edward King told the crowd. On Feb. 21, Big Blue Bus Route No. 1 discontinued stops along Main Street, Windward Avenue, Venice Boulevard and Walgrove Avenue in favor of service to the marina. Other routes impacting Oakwood were discontinued or reconfigured. Audience members expressed outrage after Big Blue Bus Transit Planning Administrator Tim McCormick said that during a three-year route study

his team conducted an online survey about potential new routes — namely because no one in attendance had heard about the survey. McCormick said Big Blue Bus had reached out to community groups and the Venice Neighborhood Council, but council Vice President Marc Saltzberg said he hadn’t heard about it. Members of the South Venice Neighbors Group made a video presentation of what they described as near misses

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Lincoln and Rose [Avenue], then down Lincoln and back to California, I could get home and only have to walk two and a half blocks to my house,” Harrington said. Asked whether the loss of bus routes in Oakwood is a matter of economic injustice, longtime community leader Naomi Nightingale said “yes, but the true injustice was not holding a public hearing about the changes — period.” Carolyn Ríos, who has lived in Venice for 40 years, noted that students who take the bus to Venice High School or Mark Twain Middle School are now being forced to go out of their way. “Now we have no way to get our students to school,” Rios said. “How do we remain a community that’s vital and has a civic heart when we’ve been gentrified and kids are going more and more to private school?” What happens now isn’t clear, but Bonin asked King and McCormick to consider readjusting bus routes and stay in touch with his office. gary@argonautnews.com

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Airport Battle is Back in Court Santa Monica and the FAA encounter some turbulence at the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals By Will Theisen In the latest chapter of the complex legal battle for control of Santa Monica Airport, attorneys for both the city of Santa Monica and the Federal Aviation Administration appeared Friday before a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena. Discussion touched on the highly technical, the hypothetical and, at times, the inscrutable. Santa Monica is appealing a 2014 district court dismissal of its lawsuit claiming that terms of 1948 and 1984 operating agreements with the federal government allow the city to take control of airport land. The city owns the land the airport is on, but the feds control airport operations. Appeals Court Judges Harry Pregerson, Richard Paez and Jacqueline Nguyen heard several minutes of oral argument, most of which pertained to those agreements, before asking questions of the attorneys. With many of those complex arguments already laid out in the original written motions, Paez posed hypothetical questions in an attempt to get at underlying issues of the dispute. “What would happen if city officials decided, ‘We’re just not going to use this as an airport anymore?” Paez asked

L e t t e r s the Mariners Bay complex. Only three weeks later, the paint is chipping in large and small pieces. I fear those will eventually drain into the harbor near sea life and Mother’s Beach, which has enough pollution already from the copper-based paint on the bottoms of the hundreds of boats docked nearby. Marina del Rey is a very special area due to marine and wetlands wildlife habitats, and it should be treated as such. Kathy Craig Marina del Rey

FROM THE WEB Re: “Parenting 2.0,” Interview, Feb. 25 I raised two children before social media became a thing. There’s a decade age-gap between them and my youngest. My youngest was begging me to be able to sign up for Facebook since age 12. I waited until the recommended age 13. I’ve seen the difference that social media

Deanne Maynard, an attorney with Morrison & Foerster LLP who is representing Santa Monica. Maynard responded by saying that the city has not stated an intent to close the airport.

President Jimmy Carter appointed Pregerson, 92, to the court in 1979. The Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange at the 110 and 105 freeways is named for him. A Marine Corps veteran who was wounded at the battle of Okinawa, Pregerson has

Discussion touched on the highly technical, the hypothetical and, at times, the inscrutable. “What the city really wants is to be able to decide for itself what is best for the city of Santa Monica,” she said. Paez later posed a similar question to Alisa Klein, the attorney representing the federal government. Klein also did not provide a definitive answer, but said one option would be for the feds to file for an injunction. This raised a few eyebrows from the members of the bench. Maynard said the city believes the feds do not have the right to take airport land away from the city if local officials got control of the airport and shut it down. The hearing’s livelier moments were the questions and comments from Pregerson, the 9th Circuit’s longest-serving judge.

gained notoriety over the years for several rulings that were later overturned. In 2007 Pregerson held that the Interstate Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution forbade the government from interfering with state medical marijuana laws (overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court), in 2003 he ordered the recall of Gov. Gray Davis to be postponed (overruled by the rest of the 9th Circuit), and in 1992 he stayed the execution of Robert Alton Harris only to be overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court two hours later. During the hearing on Santa Monica Airport, Pregerson frequently interrupted the attorneys with questions that drew stifled laughter from the audience. He also drew a few groans when Klein,

who is short in stature, approached the stand. “You’re flying low to the ground,” Pregerson said — a comment the Princeton and Harvard alumna ignored. At one point, he asked Maynard to slow down her speech. “I didn’t grow up in this age,” he said while holding up his hands and moving his thumbs to mimic the use of a touchscreen device. Throughout Maynard’s argument, Pregerson repeatedly asked questions that suggested he didn’t understand the operational state of the airport. “I thought that land was all clear, is there still a runway there?” Pregerson asked Maynard. After a brief pause, Maynard replied, “There’s still an airport there, sir.” Pregerson then asked if there was an aerial shot of the area, as if seeking proof that it’s more than just a patch of dirt. Later, following a short rebuttal, Maynard made one last comment, directed at Pregerson, to assure him that the airport exists: “SMO is a general aviation airport with over 80,000 takeoffs and landings a year.” With a wrinkled expression, Pregerson replied: “Oh, I know that. My son flies in and out of there all the time.”

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and “fake” friends can bring about in a child’s life. Kids will go underground to keep their parents from seeing their stuff. I never wanted to be on all the platforms my youngest is on —who has time to hover? There are no easy answers, and I’m sorry to tell you that there is much to fear when it comes to social media. Kids see that they’re left out of parties/ overnights, and they feel lonelier than they would have years ago. We had minimal rules about social media — not at the dinner table, not after bedtime on school nights — and we still found serious issues. Kids need to have 200 to 300 Facebook friends or they’re considered “losers.” This means all those “fake” friends are judging your every word, plus you’re seeing what they’re doing without you. Sorry, but my experiences as the mom of three adult kids confirms a lot to be concerned about. All kids are different, but human nature is what it is and

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hearing a voice on the phone is different than a text. Social media has replaced human interaction, and I find that sad for the generation who feels disconnected. Did you know anxiety levels in teens are the highest they’ve ever been? There are many reasons, and a major one is putting machines into the majority of our interactions. And the judgments and arguments that erupt among family and friends that wouldn’t happen if it weren’t for Facebook. I’m in the “fear” camp, but I hope Yalda T. Uhls’ book is read by the right people. Melanie Holmes Melanie, I’m afraid I’m with you 100%. Parents are fearing the wrong aspects of technology. Boys, especially, are suffering. I talk to many parents whose boys are doing poorly in school. They have lost motivation to succeed or socialize outside of their screens. Nothing matches the easy high, the quick and shallow

joy of a computer game or social technology. Kids don’t know how to strive or work for pleasure. It is already at their fingertips. Parents are just now beginning to realize that fascination with technology is not a symptom of disengaged boys, rather it is one of the major causes of disengagement. Not all boys, not all teens, but the amount is scary. I think many parents are already savvy in technology, but they are fighting a force greater than just lack of keeping up. I think we will look back at this as the time we went off the rails because of technology. Technology is changing lives in an insidious way. Dramatic, sorry, but yes. Hopefully I’m wrong. Parents, do be afraid. Ann Re: “There Goes the Neighborhood,” Opinion, March 3 Right on! But people are so afraid of their landlords they won’t make a peep. There are

some protections already in place that people don’t utilize, like calling the city to inspect things that the landlord won’t fix. The city can order them to do so. No, it won’t get you the granite counters or gleaming hardwood floors, but it will get your heat back on (something I personally went through). Hold their grimy moneygrubbing feet to the fire! And report those illegal rentals! Maybe, just maybe, the city will begin to uphold the laws that prohibit these, it would be nice if they stopped them and confronted landlords with fines and back taxes. Karen OMG! Rent control didn’t save the world. What a surprise. Matthew Barnes HAVE YOUR SAY IN THE ARGONAUT: Send to letters@argonautnews.com.

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Talk to your Kids about Selfies Hundreds of L.A. children and teens are playing into the hands of predators by sharing nude photos online Photo by Ted Soqui

By Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell This week, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Human Trafficking Bureau held a news conference and provided a comprehensive update on the horrific nature and sheer number of human trafficking cases that involve children and young teens taking nude photos of themselves and sending them over the Internet. What may have started as a copycat of an online trend is now manifesting itself as a nexus between our teens and the predators who seek to exploit them for profit. Last year the Human Trafficking Bureau and its co-located partners in the Los Angeles Regional Task Force on Human Trafficking investigated 519 cases that involved nude photos of girls and boys as young as eight years old. These photos are forever circulating in cyberspace. Of these cases, one in four photos involved young teenage girls and boys who had taken nude selfies — perhaps as an “act of love” for a boyfriend or girlfriend, an act of teenage rebellion, a cry for attention, or because they were duped by someone posing as a friend or teenage acquaintance. All too often, these images end up on the Internet or in the hands of child predators, some of whom actually make contact with these children with specific intent of luring them into a relationship, extorting them for additional photos and videos, or in some cases, even money. These cases slice across all socio-economic and racial lines. Year-to-date 2016, in a period of just two and a half months, Human Trafficking Bureau detectives have investigated 81 cases involving nude and compromising photographs or videos of our young children and teens on the Internet.

Sheriff Jim McDonnell has issued a direct warning to parents about social media The quantity of these images number in the thousands. Online forums and websites that market themselves as platforms where these images ‘disappear’ are very misleading. Let me be clear:

images of a young girl or boy. Afterward, our young victims often fall into deep depression and have suicidal feelings which stay with them for a lifetime. Our youth need public figures and

These images never disappear. They are forever present on the Internet, viewed and traded like baseball cards by child molesters, predators and extortionists. these images never disappear. They are forever present on the Internet, viewed and traded like baseball cards by child molesters, predators and extortionists, many of whom re-post these nude images on file sharing sites, exponentially exposing these inappropriate and illegal

parents to work together and provide information to our families about the high-risk consequences of inappropriate photo sharing. We need and want to partner with high-profile individuals whose form of self-expression is not blatantly a form of commerce, but a

demonstration of the importance of setting goals and teaching our children — especially our girls — that they have more to offer than just their bodies. Parents should also understand the legal jeopardy for teens sending nude photos over the Internet or cellular devices. Directing someone to make, send or possess these photos is both a federal and state crime. Every day our Human Trafficking Bureau sees the tragic realization for parents who learn of their child mimicking what they see in the media or buying into the myth that their online accounts are truly private, truly secure, and that they can control the access of the increasingly sophisticated criminal enterprises who hunt for their next victims on the very platforms parents may believe are just for fun. I encourage parents to learn more about the consequences of sexting and sharing nude photographs as well as the threat that online predators pose to our children by contacting the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (missingkids.org), the Los Angeles Regional Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, or the LASD Human Trafficking Bureau’s Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement (SAFE) team at (323) 526-5156. The SAFE team can also assist victims and families and provide valuable direction in mitigating some of the issues that may arise if their child has already engaged in this conduct. Let us do this for our children, and rest assured that the detectives with our Human Trafficking Bureau will pursue, to the fullest extent of the law, predators engaged in online sexual exploitation of our children. Sheriff McDonnell originally posted this piece to Facebook as an open letter to parents.

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Independent. Powerful. Fem

ity festival Grrrls on Film — a free commun d women of celebrating the cinema, music an — stages a L.A.’s punk and Riot Grrrl scenes nt University DIY takeover of Loyola Marymou reenings, this weekend with a series of sc discussions and performances.

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Penelope Spheeris and

Anna Fox A Mother and Daughter Return to Punk

The documentary film “The Decline of Western rbelly of Civilization” is a raucous tour through the unde lope Pene aker filmm L.A.’s 1970s punk scene, but for . home was Spheeris the rock underground her “I was raised in total chaos,” says Spheeris of of string a and er upbringing by an alcoholic moth a week stepfathers. “My family — twice, three times y was finall I When … somebody was always bloody. at right was I like felt introduced to the punk scene I ” time. the home, where it was bloody all “The But after a riotous 1980 theatrical release of LAPD of reds hund — Decline of Western Civilization” of d crow the quell policemen arrived on scene to Hollywood thousands at the film’s midnight premiere on eris Sphe for des deca Boulevard — it took over three e she scen punk the ng to feel comfortable enough shari ary, ment docu The . knew so well with the world again was which gained cult status for being hard to find, box set e delux a in DVD released with Parts II and III on just last year. I felt “I never put these movies out, because for me, ldn’t shou I is ethic rock like a sellout. My hardcore punk eris. be selling this shit,” explains Sphe

Organized by LMU professors Evelyn McDonnell and Sharon Mooney, the seeds of Grrrls on Film were planted with a soul-baring confession that sparked their friendship. McDonnell, an assistant professor of journalism and new media, had invited Mooney, a clinical assistant professor with LMU’s School of Film and Television, to help instruct her students in video editing for a class project. As a thank you, McDonnell gave Mooney, a new mom, a copy of her book “Mamarama: A Memoir of Sex, Kids and Rock ’n’ Roll.” “And then she sent me an email back,” McDonnell recalls. It read, “‘I pretty much only like bands with … screaming women in them.’” Realizing they had way more in common than teaching at the same university — namely a passion for strong, female-driven punk bands — McDonnell and Mooney began collaborating to introduce a new generation to the music, films and feminist icons of alternative culture that inspired them as young women. “Seeing women like Patti Smith or Joan Jett or Debbie Harry was very liberating because they

her It was her daughter, Anna Fox, who convinced y. trilog to restore and re-lease the “Decline” “My daughterly influence won out on that one,” it.” says Fox. “I just knew people wanted to see a after rday Fox and Spheeris, who speak Satu ,” vault “the into screening of the film, headed deep ves, archi her s a storage facility where Spheeris keep to dig up material for the DVD’s bonus features. gh Then Fox had to find video equipment old enou to tapes to play back and transfer the antiquated Sorum digital. Former Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt r playe tape) even contributed his DAT (digital audio to the cause. Fox. “I said, ‘I’ll give it back to you soon,’” recalls a gonn s Who’ it. “And he says, ‘Keep it. I don’t need ever use that thing again?’” eris Technology changes, as does music, but Sphe . still feels that punk is misunderstood le “I wish somebody would write a manual so peop are we here , could understand it,” she says. “I mean with 35 years later and they just think that somebody don’t it but r, rocke a safety pin in their nose is a punk work that way. It’s much deeper than that.”

were rejecting all those beauty standards and pressures to fit in that are so oppressive when you’re a teenage girl,” says McDonnell, whose “Queens of Noise” is the definitive text on the 1970s all-female rock band The Runaways. Mooney found similar solace in music, finding escape in a cassette tape with X’s album “Los Angeles” on one side and songs by X-ray Spex on the other. “Beginning my sophomore year of my super awkward phase, it was just me and cassette tapes,” she says. Through music, McDonnell and Mooney discovered both the essence of punk — alternative, barrier-breaking, do-it-yourself — and its 1990s successor, Riot Grrrl —political, feminist and fierce. For Grrrls on Film, McDonnell and Mooney have assembled seminal women from both movements for a program of film screenings, talks and musical performances. From finding your voice to fitting in, each woman has a story to tell about her life, her times and the cultural movement she helped define.

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FRIDAY PANEL: Girl Power: Behind the Lens, 5 to 6:30 p.m. A discussion with filmmakers Angela Boatwright, Karyn Kusama and Leena Pendharkar, author Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn and LMU associate film professor Vanessa Newell SCREENINGS: “The Runaways” and “Dirty Girls,” 8 p.m. A Q&A with directors Michael Lucid and Floria Sigismondi to follow SATURDAY SCREENINGS: “Born in Flames” and “Golden Chain,” noon Q&A with directors Lizzie Borden, Adebukola Bodrunrin and Ezra Clayton Daniels to follow SCREENINGS: “The Decline of Western Civilization” and “I Don’t Know,” 2:30 p.m. Q&A with director Penelope Spheeris and Anna Fox to follow SCREENINGS: “In Search of Margo-go,” “Daybreak,” and “Quinn,” 5 p.m. Performances by various artists and a Q&A with directors Jill Reiter and Lucretia Tye Jasmine follows PANEL: LAy of the LAnd: We Will Bury You, 8:30 p.m. A discussion with Alice Bag, Phranc, activist Nicole Panter, writer Raquel Gutiérrez and LMU professor Rubén Martínez SUNDAY SCREENINGS: “Lost Grrrls: Riot Grrrl in Los Angeles” and “Grrrl Love and Revolution: Riot Grrrl NYC,” noon Q&A with directors Vega Darling and Abby Moser to follow CONCERT: Grrrls on Stage, 2 to 5 p.m. Allison Wolfe emcees a lineup featuring Kim and the Created, Colleen Green, Peach Kelli Pop, DJs Cass and McAllister, DJ Mukta Mohan and DJ Taylor Rowley, plus spoken word by Kari Krome, Alicia Partnoy, and Sarah Maclay

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ws ing one of her first punk sho L.A. — remembers how see ms Ger s life-changing. The at the Orpheum Theatre wa ugh they barely knew how tho n played with abandon eve Zeroes were all of Mexican to play their instruments. The Weirdos were as strange as descent, just like her, and The their name implied. a alls Bag, who will speak on “They were just insane,” rec e on Saturday. panel about L.A. punk cultur or fits that were hand-painted out se “They had created the re sto iftthr ht d with these brig spray-painted and assemble ors lead singer had different col the accessories. I remember irdwe this pants, and he had of tape wrapped around his s the guy in the Three Stooge like looking haircut that looked l.” whose hair is cut with a bow ” says Bag, that inspired her all, it of It was “the weirdness s, of her very own band, The Bag to become the frontwoman pe elo Pen in ed k group immortaliz a legendary first-wave pun stern Civilization.” We of Spheeris’ “The Decline permission to move forward “[The show] kind of gave us we might have thought just leap over any boundaries — — Bag . ing eak -br rier bar her first moments on For Alice Bag, weirdness is d,” says Bag, who describes ste exi t Eas m fro kid led tac pec then Alicia Armendariz, a bes

: Alice Bagsic Mu Liberated by ss and Weirdne

s as liberating. “I felt like I wa stage as her punk alter ego , me r , like something took ove almost a women possessed me that came pouring out of and I had all these feelings t ,” she says of her band’s firs that needed to be expressed y e in Hollywood, where the performance at The Masqu s before dissolving in 1980. played frequently in the ‘70 k scene taught Bag to Being a pioneer in L.A.’s pun ries didn’t exist. always behave as if bounda no limits,” she says. “Punk told me that there are a mother of three, These days Bag, married and n creative ventures. ow frequently breaks out on her ubl f-p ished a diary about She’s written a memoir, sel utionary Nicaragua, run a her experiences in post-revol up to release her first solo successful blog and is gearing album next year. own challenges, Bag While each project brings its new adventures. doesn’t see obstacles, only ating visual art or maybe “Whether it’s singing or cre you decide to do your hair, the clothes you wear, or how sion is, the more you push whatever your form of expres are going to celebrate it.” boundaries, the more people

singer and Riot Grrrl movement cofounder Allison Wolfe’s lyrics and zines now show up on the syllabi of classes — including Evelyn McDonnell’s LMU seminar on Riot Grrrl. “It’s kind of weird,” says Wolfe, who will emcee a line-up of music and spoken word at the Grrrls on Film festival Sunday. “Sometimes you’re just like, ‘This is just what I was doing when I was in my early 20s. … So it is a little bit weird to have it studied, ‘cause you’re like, ‘It’s not like I thought about it as much as you’re thinking about it.’ But at the same time it does feel good to feel validated.” When Wolfe started the fanzine “Girl Germs” with friend Molly Neuman while in college and then the three-piece punk group Bratmobile in 1991, she had little idea that her group would go into punk rock history as a pioneering force in the Riot Grrrl movement. Rather Bratmobile was the vehicle for Wolfe, Neuman and guitarist Erin Smith to spread Riot Grrrl’s revolutionary ideas about punk rock and feminism through a do-it-yourself music style that would combat punk rock’s male-dominated Few people ever expect the stuff they write in college mentality and resonate with young girls like themselves. to become the subject of college courses, but punk “The point of Riot Grrrl was really to … assert the cross-

Allison Wolfe

From Defining Riot Grrrl to Defining Herself

Phranc

‘The Personal is Political’

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Jewish Lesbian Phranc, often described as an “All-American she discovered until Folksinger,” never really felt like she fit in Women’s the at punk rock. After finishing an art program ‘70s in the g durin Building, a hotbed of feminist art activity to ing seek cisco downtown L.A., Phranc went to San Fran ity. mun connect with the city’s legendary gay com d of lesbians, “I thought I was going to find a whole new worl ll participate who’ nc, and instead I found punk rock,” says Phra on Saturday’s L.A. punk culture panel. for me,” Phranc “It was a great time and a life-changing time group. Not peer a told writer Denise Sullivan. “I felt like I had age-wise. also but ic, only did I identify as far as politics and mus women, and an lesbi I had been with people because they were . So for older lot a all and we had a lot in common, but they were !” rock punk In once, I fit in. Where could a freak fit in? and didn’t So when the Mar Vista native returned to L.A. out to punk went know a soul in the city’s punk scene, she shows anyway. tie, and I would “I’d get up and put on my little suit and my I’d see these and go and I would stand up against the wall

section between academic feminism and punk rock. And so basically we felt like our punk rock worlds were too sexist and not feminist enough ... but we also felt like our academic worlds were not ... punk enough. They didn’t speak to our daily lives or use the kind of the everyday normal street language that we used,” says Wolfe, whose angst-ridden songs about boy-girl playground hijinks, high school hierarchies and cootie phobia confront sexism and violence against women. Even though Wolfe’s words have been immortalized in music, videos and countless articles, it’s taken years for Wolfe to take her own Riot Grrrl philosophy that “everyone has a story, everyone has a voice and everyone has the capacity to be creative” to heart. “The years of people interviewing me, it made me realize that I had something to say ... that maybe I could tell my own story and produce my own stories,” says Wolfe, now a graduate journalism student at USC. At the moment she’s doing just that — writing a personal memoir about her life and working on an oral history of the Riot Grrrl movement. amazing bands,” says Phranc. her It wasn’t long before the she was noticed for ous sartorial style and recruited into the band Nerv olic Gender. Phranc went on to play guitar with Cath Discipline, featured in “The Decline of Western Civilization,” and later Castration Squad. in the By 1979, Phranc was a recognizable figure to take punk scene, but by the early 1980s she had . a stand when punks started wearing swastikas wrote a I “I’m Jewish and it really made me angry. So d it playe I song called, ‘Take off Your Swastika’ … and could y ybod acoustically and I played it solo so that ever nc. Phra says ds,” hear the worl pursuits, The folk song was a departure from her punk her rmed but it launched Phranc’s solo career and reaffi place in punk society. take “The personal is political,” says Phranc. “You I when your politics with you wherever you go … so g tryin ’t got to punk rock it was kind of natural. I wasn to be anybody that I wasn’t.”

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Scratching a Sonic Seven-Year Itch Venice “noir pop” quartet Leftover Cuties strive to freshen their sound while staying faithful to fans By Bliss Bowen Creating music is a journey. If you’ve been doing it long enough to have a loyal following, how to keep those fans happy and interested in your artistic travels becomes a consequential question. It’s one with which the Leftover Cuties have been wrestling for the past year. Based in Venice, the jazzy “noir pop” quartet’s biggest claim to fame is “Game Called Life,” which became the theme song for the 2010-2013 Showtime series “The Big C.” That introduced them to legions of new listeners around the globe (especially Brazil, home of their second largest fan base), and inspired many grateful letters and emails from fans living with cancer. Frontwoman Shirli McAllen was touched by their communications though somewhat perplexed, as her original intent for the song had nothing to do with cancer. But not long after, when she was recuperating from brain surgeries and

playing ukulele as physical therapy, she came to understand why they’d found hope in the sweetly sophisticated “Game Called Life” and other Cuties music. Playing all the Cuties songs in order,

plate which direction to take with their next album. Last summer, McAllen, bassist Austin Nicholsen, drummer Stuart Johnson and accordionist/pianist/trumpeter Mike

“I went through brain surgeries and all this stuff, but it’s been too long. But I also don’t want to release something for the sake of putting something out; I want it to be amazing.” — Leftover Cuties frontwoman Shirli McAllen from their 2009 album “Game Called Life” through 2013’s “The Spark & the Fire,” helped her feel like she still had control over her hands, and reminded her how healing music can be. Now she is extra mindful of that relationship with fans as she and her bandmates contem-

Bolger finally resumed touring, blending material from 2013’s winning “The Spark & the Fire” and older albums with newer songs created in the wake of McAllen’s surgeries. She’s keenly aware of how long fans have waited for new music. Since last year she has been pondering a question

confronting many independent artists: whether to release new tracks as they’re recorded, or wait until a completed album is ready so they can be heard in sequence. “I think we’re going to release the first song hopefully by the end of the month, if I can find the right person that’s available to mix the songs,” McAllen says. “The goal is to release before the first of the month, and hopefully each month or hopefully even sooner than that we’ll start releasing song by song. “I know our fans aren’t sitting home all day wondering, ‘Why haven’t Leftover Cuties released anything?’ But I am feeling pressure that it’s been two-and-ahalf years of not releasing anything. I went through brain surgeries and all this stuff, but it’s been too long. But I also don’t want to release something for the sake of putting something out; I want it to be amazing. I’ve always been an (Continued on page 18)

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Brunch is served daily and the menu is relentlessly eclectic — even in Venice it’s unusual to be offered crab Louie, cauliflower pistou soup and a niçoise salad at 8 a.m. You can also get a standard American breakfast, which we did, but it was interesting to savor the possibilities. After considerable vacillation and some negotiation (“I’ll order what you want a taste of if you’ll order what I want a taste of”), we decided on pork hash, a bass sandwich, an omelet topped by a soft shell crab and the aforementioned American brekkie. First, of course were the drinks: an espresso milkshake, hot chai and a regular filter coffee. All were well executed, the espresso milkshake made with frozen milk rather than ice cream and silky smooth. While my coffee cooled I inspected the goods for sale, marveling at the pastel colors of the natural chicken and duck eggs in the refrigerator case, but skedaddled back to our table when breakfast arrived because eating them was more interesting than looking at them. The first bite of my omelet was a reminder that eggs really do have flavor; it was so rich that I asked our server what kind of cheese had been folded into it. I was surprised when he said

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Offered at $2,799,000 peter and ty bergman, bergman beach properties 310-821-2900

“This Mediterranean south-facing three-bed, five-bath home on Channel Pointe Mall is steps from the main channel and beach,” say agents Peter and Ty Bergman. “On the first floor is the living room, dining room, kitchen with a central island that opens to the family room, and guest bathroom. On the second floor is the master suite with a fireplace and balcony. The huge top floor suite boasts a private deck. This home boasts high ceilings, two-zone air-conditioning, a three-car garage and a security system.”

“This appealing corner unit boasts three bedrooms and two baths,” say agents Bob Waldron and Jessica Heredia. “This remodeled condo exudes a warm ambiance throughout. The upgrades include marble counters in both baths, hardwood flooring in kitchen, dining room and two of the bedrooms, and new carpets in living room and master bedroom. Enjoy resort style living in this popular complex whose amenities include park-like grounds, a pool, fitness center, clubhouse and sauna.”

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“This renovated two-bed, two-bath home boasts cityscape and mountain views, and a floor plan ideal for entertaining,” says agent Charles Lederman. “Open to the great room is a modern kitchen with custom cabinetry. The large patio directly overlooks the Oxford Basin. The master bedroom featurs an en-suite bathroom with a modern walk-in shower. Freshly painted, along with new carpet in the bedrooms, this home is ready for immediate move-in.”

“Unit A boasts a freshly remodeled three-bed, two-bath floor plan, while Unit B is configured as a two-bed, twobath home,” says agent Stephanie Younger. “The master bedroom of Unit A includes his-and-hers walk-in closets. Unit B also features a generous open concept kitchen and comfortable living room. Unit C doubles as a guest cottage with spacious living room, full bath, and separate bedroom. Experience the remarkable potential this property offers.”

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“This delightful three-bed, two-bath view home is for lease,” say agents Kevin and Kaz Gallaher. “The living room boasts a fireplace and the bright kitchen offers a separate laundry area, as well as a separate dining area. The master bedroom suite features a huge walk-in closet. A centrally located bathroom with double sinks and two more bedrooms complete the floor plan. The private back yard includes a hot tub and a drought-tolerant irrigation system. This home also includes a detached double car garage.”

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2/2 Sprawling/renovated unit w/2 master suites 1/1 Bright unit w/spacious living room 2/1.5 Remodeled 2 story unit w/vaulted ceilings 4/2 Remodeled home in Carlson Park 4/2 Nice home with guest house

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Compiled by Michael Reyes

Thursday, March 17

St. Patrick’s Day with Silver Seminar Series, 1 to 2:30 p.m. The Silver Seminar Series celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with a free event that includes activities, entertainment, light refreshments and “Luck of the Irish.” Wear green. Westchester Senior Citizens Center, 8740 Lincoln Blvd., Westchester. Third Annual St. Patio Party, 5 p.m. to midnight. Indulge in Irish Whiskey infusions, live music from Yikes and DJ Quasar, and Irish-themed food and drink specials to help raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Man and Woman of the Year Campaign. Whiskey Red’s, 13813 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. $10 to $15. stpatioparty2016.eventbrite.com

John Mandel in free book discussions and events throughout the city. Get started at the Pico Branch Library, 2201 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 458-8600; smpl.org “An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania,” 7 to 8:30 p.m. The New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni counters the narrative that a student’s future is determined by the college he or she attends in this talk for students and parents. A signing of his book “Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania” comes afterward. The Willows Community School, 8509 Higuera St., Culver City. Free, but RSVP at thewillows.org.

Venice Art Crawl, 6 p.m. In honor of St. Patrick’s Day and Mother Earth, the theme of 2016’s first Venice Art Crawl is “green” with recycled art by local artists, a cat art show and adoption, Venice lifestyle photography and various gallery exhibitions and music performances throughout Venice. Info booths are located at Danny’s Venice (23 Windward Ave.) and AUST (1219 Abbot Kinney Blvd.). veniceartcrawl.com

Music & the Mind Concert and Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Westside Connections, the L.A. Chamber Orchestra’s music series with a twist, blends a talk by UCSF Chief of Otology/Neurotology Dr. Charles Limb about his findings on hearing loss with performances of Smetana’s tone poem “From My Life” and two works by Beethoven. Ann and Jerry Moss Theater, New Roads School, 3131 Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica. $65. (213) 622-7001; laco.org

Santa Monica READS, 7 p.m. The community reading program invites Santa Monica residents to read and discuss “Station Eleven” by Emily St.

St. Patrick’s Day Special Happy Hour, 9 p.m. Pet The Fox and Erica Fairchild welcome live bands and DJ’s for a St. Patrick’s Day celebra-

Bergamot Station Throws a Block Party Galleries team up for art, food and fun at the inaugural Spring Fling Spring is in the air, and so is creativity at Bergamot Station Arts Center’s inaugural Spring Fling. On Saturday, more than 30 galleries are opening their doors for a free afternoon of art, food and music — with some origami, tango and yoga thrown in, too. Sit for a portrait at the bG gallery, see custom fashions made from recycled Kimonos at Lora Schlesinger Gallery, try your hand at the art of folding paper with Hiromi Paper Inc.’s Origami 101, and learn to tango with instructor Ilona Glinarsky at Bergamot Café, with the Venice Symphony Orchestra providing a live soundtrack. Other highlights include the opening receptions for artist Randall Stoltzfus’ solo show “Penumbra” at Laura Korman Gallery and for an exhibit of 20th century masters, such as Chagall and Picasso, at Andrew Weiss Gallery. Then get your Zen on with a free Vinyasa yoga session at the Schomburg Gallery and top off your day with some snacks

A painting by Randal Stoltzfus from gourmet food trucks Apollo Espresso, Shave Ice truck and Border Grill. “Because of the success of [our Holiday Open House], I thought why not do a big event each season,” says event coordinator Diana McNeill. “So this is our inaugural Spring Fling event. We’re so excited and expect thousands of people to come throughout the day.” — Michael Reyes and Christina Campodonico “Spring Fling” happens from noon to 4 p.m. at Bergamot Station Arts Center, 2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica. Free. (310) 664-0640; bergamotstation.com

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tion with rock, indie, ‘80s and house music. Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com The Proof, 9 p.m. This funk-influenced L.A. band takes groove music to unconventional places with soulful vocals and touch of the blues. Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $10 plus a two-drink minimum. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com

Friday, March 18

Mar Vista Senior Club, 9:30 a.m. to noon. The club meets each Friday for speakers, bingo, live entertainment, parties, trips and tours for people 50 and up. Mar Vista Recreation Center, 11430 Woodbine St., Mar Vista. (310) 351-9876 “The Night Sky Show” / “Special Observing Event: a gibbous Moon and Jupiter,” 7 p.m. An evening at the planetarium begins at 7 p.m. with “The Night Sky Show,” offering recent news in astronomy and a family-friendly tour of the constellations. At 8 p.m. peak through telescopes for a look at an 11-day-old gibbous Moon and Jupiter, with good lighting on big lunar craters and all four of Jupiter’s Galilean moons. John Drescher Planetarium at Santa Monica College, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 434-4767; smc.edu/planetarium String Theory’s “Remembering Water,” 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 7 p.m. Sundays through March 27. A multimedia performance of visceral dance and original music features harness harps, which use dancers’ body weight to ignite sound. The Miles Playhouse, 1130 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. $17 to $23. Free parking at 808 Wilshire Blvd. stringtheoryproductions.com An Acoustic Evening, 8 p.m. Carla Olson, John York and friends Scott Kempner (The Del-Lords), Rob Waller (I See Hawks In L.A.) and Lael Neale at McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica. $16. (310) 828-4497; mccabes.com Hedgehog Swing and Deejays Doomz and Jedi, 8 p.m. Hedgehog Swing performs live gypsy jazz from 8 to 10 p.m., followed by DJ Doomz at 10 p.m. spinning classic and contemporary soul, funk, blues, rock, hip-hop and electro. DJ Jedi takes over the Townhouse bar at 10 p.m. Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. No cover. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com “Safety Last,” 8:15 p.m. Friday, and 2:30 and 8:15 p.m. Saturday. With live accompaniment of the Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ, watch the classic silent film that gave the world the image of Harold Lloyd hanging from a skyscraper clock. Old Town Music Hall, 140 Richmond St., El Segundo. $8 to $10 cash or check. (310) 322-2592; oldtownmusichall.org New Orleans Brass Funk, 9 p.m. Alligator Beach plays live at Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $10 plus

Catch a screening of Harold Lloyd’s 1923 daredevil comedy “Safety Last.” SEE FRIDAY. two-drink minimum. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com Skeeters Pool Party Band, 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Skeeters plays rock and surf music at this St. Patrick’s Day afterparty. Drummers of any age or ability are invited to line up and play “Wipeout” and other songs on communal drums (bring sticks). Guitarists are also welcome to jam on “Rocky Mountain Way” (bring your own guitar). Brennan’s Pub, 4089 Lincoln Blvd., Marina del Rey. No Cover; 21+. (310) 821-6622; brennanspub-la.com.

Saturday, March 19

March Hoopfit Workout, 10 to 11 a.m. A high-intensity workout for all levels with certified trainer and wellness coach Julia Snyder. Bring a yoga mat, towel and refillable water bottle. Barefoot or tennis shoes. Camera Obscura Art Lab, 1450 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica. $5. facebook. com/1450Ocean Learn to Meditate, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Develop a personal meditation practice that brings a sense of balance, peace and clarity to your life. Prajnaparamita Kadampa, Buddhist Center, 2809 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 452-8100; meditateinwestla.org Annual Yacht Maintenance & Do-It-Yourself Day, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. A day full of seminars, live demos, food, raffles, various exhibitors and an in-water showcase of brokerage boats. Windward Yacht Center, 13645 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. Free. (310) 823-4581; annualyachtmaintenance.com WPV Information Session, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Join Westside Pacific Villages to learn about their services for older adults, including volunteer opportunities. Windward School, Room 800, 11350 Palms Blvd., West L.A. Parking available off Sawtelle Boulevard. thewpv.org Wet Leather Molding, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Learn wet molding and decoration techniques as you make a leather bracelet to take home. Camera

Obscura Art Lab, 1450 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica. $5. facebook. com/1450Ocean Santa Monica Youth Orchestra Concert, noon. The “traveling symphony” drops by the library for a concert celebrating the arts. Pico Branch Library, 2201 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 458-8600; smpl.org Bergamot Station Arts Center Spring Fling, noon to 4 p.m. Kick off spring with more than 30 open galleries, origami demonstrations by Hiromi Paper, floral designs by Lilla Bello, Argentine Tango instruction, live music from Venice Symphony Orchestra and gourmet food trucks. Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Ave., D-4, Santa Monica. Free. (310) 246-9333; andrewweiss.com; bergamotstation.com Les Storrs Sailing Regatta, 1 p.m. The regatta features a series of races off Marina del Rey harbor in this open invitational to all keel and centerboard boats. Entry fees governed by length of boat, ranging from $25 to $45. Entrants must be a member of a yacht club or sailing association. (310) 920-4375; sccyc.org Music by the Sea, 1 to 4 p.m. A scenic harbor view is the backdrop for a free outdoor reggae concert by Izmskzm. Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. visitmarinadelrey.com “Twilight in the Altered World: Shakespeare on Station Eleven,” 2 p.m. Members of Colonials: An American Shakespeare Company discuss the unseen Shakespeare connections in “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel, followed with a performance of a few Shakespearean scenes. Santa Monica Main Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 458-8600; smpl.org 3rd Annual Poker Tournament and Game Night, 6 to 11 p.m. A professionally run Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament complete with prizes, a Blackjack casino lounge, food (Continued on page 33)

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The End of the Beginning For Micah Nelson and Insects vs Robots, it’s Venice that makes the band By Ian Joulain The evening is taking shape, and upstairs in The Townhouse all the barstools are occupied. At the edge of the bar, I can faintly hear the bluesy sounds of Runson Willis coming from the Del Monte Speakeasy below. It’s March 1 —a Tuesday. Venice locals Insects vs Robots, a Del Monte mainstay, are set to go on at 11 p.m. and most of the band is still down the street at their creative sanctuary. The psychedelic, acid, avant-garde outfit lures audiences in with accessible melodies and familiar sounds then proceed to push the sonic conventions of taste and genre. They drift off. Hints of folk, jazz, a few seconds of punk and then extended moments of spacy, tripped out weirdness. Tonight the five-piece celebrate the release of their “Stupid Dreams” EP and kick off a tour of the same name that will take them to Austin for South by Southwest gigs on March 19 and 20. IVR’s Micah Nelson, who contributes charango, guitar, vocals, percussion, piano and drums, is outside. Tallish, wearing a beanie and chill, he suggests we go meet the others at what’s been the band’s home away from home lately. Plus, he has a burrito from Tacos Por Favor waiting for him there. During the short walk, Nelson touches on the historical aspects of the venue he and his mates are performing at tonight and has a sense of pride while pointing out other fixtures in the area that have clearly ingrained themselves into him. “There are so many people making life here so dope ... everybody [in Venice] is just unapologetically doing their thing,” says Nelson, whose brother Lukas Nelson fronts the Promise of the Real and whose father, Willie Nelson, needs no introduction. “Sometimes it can get really intense and gnarly, but it’s the people that make life fantastic.” Upon arrival we are met by a big black gate and are buzzed in. Waiting for us at the front door is the group’s unofficial sixth member, producer and mentor — Harlan Steinberger. We’re at Hen House Studios and it’s a palace. Early ‘60s Bob Marley is playing on vinyl as members of the band and others are milling about the dining room and kitchen. The place has a very homey feeling despite the high ceilings and seemingly custom-made everything. As Nelson sits down to lay waste to his burrito, Steinberger giddily takes me for a tour of the studio. It’s been up and running for just under a year after relocating from a smaller space where it had been since 2001. The new spot was designed by Vincent Amaury van Hauff, founder of Waterland Design, who has

Insects vs Robots (Nelson is second from the left) draw musical chemistry from their camaraderie built over 300 studios worldwide for everyone from pop hitmaker Max Martin to the venerable Rick Rubin. Even the bathroom has a spot to plug in. “This tile bathroom is an echo chamber, and it’s all wired into the patch bay,” Steinberger says.

collaborated on last year. A direct descendant of the Red Headed Stranger, Nelson has had music in the periphery his entire life. What he has now with his band and the people who comprise it though is what really puts things in perspective for the 25 year-old multi-talent.

“We don’t think we’ll be running out of inspiration. We can’t keep up with our ideas.” — Micah Nelson

You never know when you’re going to need some reverb mid-tinkle, but music is art and to roll our collective eyes at the thought of such a gratuitous recording spot shouldn’t be knocked; it could end up being where your next favorite song is recorded. Hen House Studio is for hire, but it is priced out of market range. If you know Steinberger though or are a friend, he’s the type that if he has time he’ll make something work. He tells me HBO rented the place once, but outside of that usage has been minimal. Back in the living area, IVR bassist/ groove provider Jeff Smith describes Steinberger’s place with a smile and an exhale: “Dreamland.” Hard to disagree with him. “We’re one of the first bands to record here,” Smith says, but that’s not to say the recording of the new EP and a yet-to-be released full album was done in one concurrent run. Nelson and his brother Lukas went out on the road with Neil Young in support of his album “The Monsanto Years,” which the brothers also

When asked how long he’s spent at Steinberger’s Hen House the last six months, Nelson’s deadpan response: “Six months.” He laughs, but he’s likely serious. It’s outlets like these that allow Nelson to search for the next feeling or moment where “it” happens. “It energizes us to have that collective muse in each other,” Nelson says. The “Stupid Dreams” EP features the single “Infection,” with guitarist Milo Gonzalez’s trickling guitar and ambient sounds leading the way. The other three tracks, “Star Gnoir,” “Stupid Dream” and “Beyond Measurement” are B-sides. Groovy when they want to be and other times inaccessible, it’s the byproduct of moving toward the edges of what they bring out in one another. With the music they create it’s as if they are pushing against some invisible force, never letting the listener get a grasp of what’s going to happen before moving in another far-off direction. There was an extended hiatus five years ago where IVR needed to regroup, refuel and pursue other creative endeavors.

Nelson reflects on this time and realized, as did everybody else, that the collective spirit, chemistry and camaraderie of their group — not only as musicians, but as friends and people — is something many never find let alone walk away from. In one another lies the unseen glue that holds their musical fort together so that they can continue trying to find the end of the beginning. “We don’t think we’ll be running out of inspiration. We can’t keep up with our ideas.” Nelson says. The most important thing is that no one is a detriment to themselves or to the group as a whole. “I think we’re all pretty good about getting out of our own way,” he says. They view Venice as their lab, and between the characters that lie 10 feet in any given direction IVR are positioned to be as prolific as they want to be. Nelson and company are summoned as it’s getting close to showtime. Heading out the door, the Russian born Nikita Sorokin (violin, guitar, banjo and vocals) leads us out to the street. “It’s hard to talk about music,” he says. “It’s like dancing about architecture. It [can be] so abstract and ephemeral.” Sorokin’s not wrong, and it’s as if he is describing what he and his tribe set off to create and the sounds they cultivate. Before long the group is downstairs. As drummer Tony Pelusa is setting up, a big white canvas is being raised to the left of the stage. Venice street artist Jules Muck will be doing some painting during IVR’s set, and she’s brought a model to pose topless as she paints. I ask Sorokin if this sort of thing is normal occurrence at an IVR show. He pauses, then grins. “For sure.” March 17, 2016 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 33

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courtesy of Tastemade, craft beer from Golden Road, wine and Kombuchadog tea, a dessert buffet, live entertainment and celebrity guests. All proceeds go directly to support k9 connection programs for teens in continuation high schools who train shelter dogs for adoption. Furlined Studios, 1660 Stanford St., Santa Monica. $50 to $675 plus fees. k9connection.org; allin4k9.eventbrite.com Willy Porter, 8 p.m. The Milwaukee rock musician plays McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Blvd, Santa

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“Introduction to Yacht Racing,” 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The program begins with an orientation on the basics of sailboats and the local racing scene, followed with hands-on small group workshops, hotdog lunch, and races around the marina. All

experience levels are welcome; 18+. Marina del Rey. $20. Register at sbyrc.org/intro-to-sailboat-racing. Matinee Kids’ Show, 11 a.m. Jazzy Ash brings New Orleans-style gypsy jazz, zydeco and swing to get kids moving and to teach them about American folk music heritage. McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica. $10, kids under 2 free. (310) 828-4497; mccabes.com Music by the Sea, 1 to 4 p.m. A scenic harbor view is the backdrop for a free outdoor R&B concert by Floyd & the Flyboys at Fisherman’s Village,

13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. visitmarinadelrey.com Peter Erskine’s “Dr.UM” CD Release Concert, 3 p.m. The event kicks off with a pre-show talk with Tom Schnabel, produce and host of KCRW’s Rhythm Planet. Historical Jaco Pastorius film clips to follow the talk. At 4 p.m. Peter Erskine, along with keyboardist John Beasley and electric bassist Benjamin J. Shepherd plus special guest Bob Sheppard on tenor sax, take jazz into the 21st century in a special performance of music from Erskine’s latest album “Dr. Um.” Moss Theater, 3131 Olympic

Blvd., Santa Monica. $12.50 to $40. brownpapertickets.com/ event/2489104 “When It Rains,” 7 p.m. The monthly SHINE storytelling series features inspiring true stories about finding hope when everything goes wrong, hosted by Alan Aymie and performances by Frances Livings. Promenade Playhouse, 1404 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica. $8 to $10. (310) 452-2321; storeyproductions.com Denny Laine & Broken Sky, 8 p.m. Denny Laine plays “Band On The Run,” plus special guest Broken Sky featuring Debbi Peterson of The Bangles and John Wicks of The Records. McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica. $26.50. (310) 828-4497; mccabes.com Karaoke Lisa, 9 p.m. Sing your heart out every Sunday at the Prince O’ Whales, 335 Culver Blvd., Playa del Rey. (310) 823-9826; princeowhales.com The Toledo Show, 9:30 p.m. This long-running cabaret show continues to shake up Sunday nights at Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $10 plus a two-drink minimum. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com Vida featuring DJ Creepy and friends, 9:30 to 11:45 p.m. Ambient and dance music light up the evening’s soundscape at Melody Bar & Grill, 9132 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Westchester. (310) 670-1994; melodylax.com

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Coffee and Create, 10 to 11:30 a.m. Start your morning with creative art exercises at ArtSpace, 419 Main St., El Segundo. $25 includes art supplies and coffee. (424) 277-1460; artspacela.com Seated Breath Meditation with Naam Yoga, 10:15 a.m. Mondays. The focus of the class is on breath, mudras (hand seals) and simple seated-movement to develop balance and rhythm. Venice-Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch Library, 501 S. Venice Blvd., Venice. (310) 439-9445; lapl.org/branches/venice Mar Vista Laughter Club, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Each Monday night laugh away your stress, boost your immune system and make new friends in a laugher yoga session led by Kim Selbert. St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, 11555 National Blvd., West L.A. (310) 849-4642 Free Zumba Class, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Mondays and 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays. A combo of fun and fitness led by Cammie Richardson at the Dockweiler Youth Center, 12505 Vista Del Mar, Playa del Rey. (310) 726-4128; beaches. lacounty.gov Comics on the Spot, 7 p.m. This weekly stand-up comedy event begins (Continued on page 37)

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Diversify or Die ‘We’re expected to write anything,’ says video game composer and John Lennon songwriting contest winner Joe Sanders By Bliss Bowen In October, the John Lennon Songwriting Contest announced its 2015 Session I winners in 12 categories — one of whom was 24-year-old Santa Monica native Joe Sanders, who earned grand prize honors in the World category. The international, corporate-sponsored contest was launched by Yoko Ono in 1997 to honor her late husband by offering up-and-coming artists an opportunity to be heard by industry professionals. Sanders says entering the contest was “kind of an impulse,” one that supports a broader career strategy he’s been formulating since graduating from Cal State Long Beach last year with a degree in music composition. “I thought that might be nice to have, not only for my resume but also my own confidence as an artist,” he explains. “In terms of an end result, I primarily write music for film and games; that’s my thing I’m pursuing and trying to break into. My hope is to take this to be licensed by somebody or be my portfolio piece for a while.” “This” is “Kundiman,” Sanders’ cinematically orchestrated setting of a poem by 19th-century Filipino novelist and activist José Rizal, whose public calls for equal treatment of Filipino citizens and equal representation in Spanish parliament led to his 1896 execution at age 35. In traditional Filipino poetry, a kundiman is a romantic poem or song form; in Rizal’s poem, written in Tagalog, the love in question is expressed not for a lover but his country: “We shall pour out our blood in a great flood/ to liberate the parent sod;/ but till that day arrives for which we weep,/ love shall be mute, desire shall sleep.” Sung by CSULB classmate Kathleen Van Ruiten, “Kundiman” was created for use in the video game “Last Arrow.” Positive feedback from the game’s developers persuaded Sanders to submit the piece to the John Lennon contest. “It knocked me on my butt, it was so beautiful,” Sanders says of Rizal’s poem. “It literally says the name of ‘the Tagalog race’ shall resonate throughout the world, and the plot of that went along directly

Santa Monica native Joe Sanders tapped traditional Filipino poetry to create his winning entry with the super somber end of this game.” The amiable freelancer warms to the creative challenges of composing for games; he’s currently working on a score for an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) in development. Lyrics are not his forte — “I went to school for music, not lyric writing,” he admits with a laugh — though he is working on some pop material that he may eventually release on an album, if he can hone it to the point where he thinks

One Step Forward, Two Classrooms Back A large number of Latino parents whose children attended traditional LAUSD classes at Broadway Elementary held a series of protests after their children were relocated to Westminster Avenue Elementary School in 2014. These demonstrations accused a small group of Mandarin immersion program

it’s good enough. He also teaches kids on the side and sings in choral groups. It’s all part of a multipronged approach to what he sincerely hopes will be a successful career creating music for various mediums. The brick wall that once segregated “proper” composers of film, TV and Broadway scores from singer-songwriters has been replaced by a thinning curtain, as more and more shows license music by independent artists. “We’re expected to write anything,”

Sanders observes. “It’s the world we live in. People don’t specialize anymore; they specialize in groups of things. Most composers I know also write songs, and some of them are quite good at it. One friend of mine writes songs for a bunch of video games; he got into the iOS game market right when that came out. He supports his family on that still, and he writes amazing music.” Sanders says he’s grateful for any industry doors that his contest win may help him open as a solo artist. But what he relishes most is teamwork, whether it’s musically illustrating a director’s vision on the stage or screen or singing in choirs. “Writing music for games or film or TV — that’s a team spirit,” he says. “It’s not, ‘Here’s my symphony, hereyago.’ [Laughs.] I love that feeling when you’re working with a film director and you connect with them and you wow them with your music. It’s still their vision. … When you’re trying to write something for the screen, it’s like a giant jigsaw puzzle. Everyone’s got their own solutions. John Williams is going to score something different from Thomas Newman or whoever. Whatever your way of approaching it is, there’s usually a solution for anything.” Still living close to the CSULB campus “in a house with a bunch of music guys,” Sanders is mulling over next steps. Priority goals include relocating to L.A. from Long Beach. “As soon as I do that,” he says, “everything I want to happen will happen twice as fast. “I really want to score more games, of course, because I think that’s an amazing art form. I would love to get into the TV game, but that’s way harder to break into than films. But the big priority is to keep growing as artist and not get stagnant. I always want to be challenged and step outside my comfort zone. Because then you’ll write better and write what you feel instead of what you’ve done.” To learn more about Sanders, visit joesandersmusic.com. Hear “Kundiman” at soundcloud.com/ jpsanders91/kundiman.

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parents of working to force neighborhood students out of Broadway Elementary so that the Mandarin immersion students — a majority of them residing outside of the local attendance boundary — could take over the campus. Mandarin immersion parents who had vocally supported the relocation argued

that enrollment of neighborhood students, many of them second- or third-generation Broadway Elementary students from Venice’s heavily minority Oakwood neighborhood, had been waning significantly. Pullen hopes future dialogue will be less divisive.

“I’m a forever optimist. I want to focus on finding solutions,” she said. “All we’re really asking is for the district to be willing to sit down and help us make this program more sustainable.” gary@argonautnews.com March 17, 2016 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 35

On Stage – The week in local theater c o m p i l e d b y C h r i s t i n a ca m p o d o n i c o Photo by Craig Schwartz

Dinora Z. Walcott, Lisa Banes and Nora Kirkpatrick in “Women Laughing Alone With Salad,” now playing in Culver City The Internet Meme: “Women Laughing Alone with Salad” @ Kirk Douglas Theatre Based on the viral Internet meme of smiling women eating salad solo, Sheila Callaghan’s madcap new play about a man named Guy and three women in his life whose obsession with salad may border on the unhealthy make its west coast premiere. Now playing at 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, and 1:30 and 6:30 p.m. Sundays through April 3 at Kirk Douglas Theatre, 9820 Washington Blvd., Culver City. $25 to $55. (213) 972-4444; centertheatregroup.org A Room with a View: Jacob Jonas Company @ Los Angeles Ballet Center The Santa Monica-based contemporary dance company presents three works, including two world premieres, in an in intimate studio setting. “In A Room on Broad St.,” which made its debut at Santa Monica’s Highways Performance Space in 2014, analyzes society’s competitive nature. The debut of “Primary” explores escapism and togetherness, and the premiere of “Obstacles” looks through the lens of 23-yearold cystic fibrosis patient Mallory Smith to discover how challenges are overcome through movement. This weekend only: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday (March 18 and 19) at Side Door Theatre, Los Angeles Ballet Center, 1175 Exposition Blvd., West L.A. $25 jacobjonas.com

Spain in LA: “Forever Flamenco” @ Odyssey Theatre This month’s “Forever Flamenco” returns to West L.A. and presents Antonio Triana & Company and singer Jesus Montoya for a sizzling night of fiery flamenco song and dance. One performance only: 8 p.m. Sunday (March 20) at Odyssey Theatre, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., West L.A. $40 to $55. (323) 663-1525; fountaintheatre.com

The Quixotic Dreamer: “The Man of La Mancha” @ The Westchester Playhouse Based on Miguel de Cervantes’ 17th-century masterpiece “Don Quixote,” this 1966 Tony Award-winning play within a play retells the tale of the man who chooses to become a knight as a multi-destination musical tour. Opens Friday, March 11, and plays at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through April 16 at The Westchester Playhouse, 8301 Hindry Ave., Westchester. $25. (310) 645-5165; kentwoodplayers.org Chekhov Double Feature: “Three Sisters” & “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” @ LMU Loyola Marymount University presents alternating performances of “Three Sisters” and “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” as part of Chekhov Fest. Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” charts the tragicomic trials and tribulations of three siblings as they struggle to transition from czarist Russia into a the new so-

cialist era; Christopher Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” pokes fun at the hardships, miseries and relationship troubles of Chekhov’s characters. “Three Sisters” continues at 8 p.m. Thursday and Saturday (March 17 and 19) in LMU’s Strub Theatre. “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” continues at 2 and 8 p.m. on Saturday (March 19) and at 8 p.m. Sunday (March 20) in the Foley Building. $10 to $15. (310) 338-5466 Stories of Redemption: “The Exonerated” @ The Actor’s Gang Through a series of intersecting monologues of personal strength, “The Exonerated” tells the real-life stories of six former death row inmates who eventually won their freedom. Now playing at 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays through March 26 at The Actors’ Gang, 9070 Venice Blvd., Culver City. $30 to $34.99. (310) 838-4264; theactorsgang.com

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The Odd Couple: “Jack & Jill” @ Santa Monica Playhouse Jack and Jill must decide to love or not to love in this play by Jane Martin about the ups and downs of one oddly perfect couple. Now playing at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays through March 27 at The Santa Monica Playhouse, 1211 4th St., Santa Monica. $20 to $25. (323) 960-1055; plays411.net

R e vie w: “The Blessing of a Broken Heart” @ The Braid Performance and Art Space

Music and Physics: String Theory @ The Miles Playhouse The hybrid performance ensemble String Theory presents “Remembering Water,” a multimedia performance of dance and original music in which dancers use harness harps to ignite sound when the their body weight interacts with the instrument. Now Playing at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 7 p.m. Sundays through March 27 at The Miles Playhouse, 1130 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. $17 to $23. stringtheoryproductions.com Pretty in Pink: “Pinkalicious” @ Morgan-Wixson Theatre Based on the popular book by Victoria and Elizabeth Kann, this play version tells the story of a young girl who can’t stop eating pink cupcakes, despite her parents’ warnings. But when the rosy hue goes too far, only she can figure out a way out of her predicament. Now playing at 11 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays through April 3 at Morgan-Wixson Theatre, 2627 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. $10 to $12 (310) 8287519; morgan-wixson.org

The Tragic Windfall: “A Gambler’s Guide to Dying” @ Ruskin Group Theatre A boy’s grandfather wins a fortune on the 1966 World Cup but gambles it all on living to see the year 2000 after he’s diagnosed with cancer. Now playing at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through April 29 at Ruskin Group Theatre, 3000 Airport Ave., Santa Monica. $20 to $25. (310) 397-3244; ruskingrouptheatre.com

Lisa Robbins takes a healing journey in her onewoman show about loss By Suzy Williams Venice local Lisa Robins gives a riveting and emotional performance in this one-woman show about an Ivy League Jewish girl who tries out kibbutz life. She’s blessed with a child and finds motherhood to be a

state of bliss until her 13-yearold son dies while out exploring a cave. Robins acting projects abject sorrow while sitting Shiva (a seven-day mourning process) and is instructive about how to talk to those who grieve: Don’t say “He’s in a better place”; say “I’m

crying with you.” Audiences also learn about how Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath, can be a balm for hurting souls and how death can deepen one’s appreciation of life. Another truly remarkable aspect of the play is that Robins’ character makes no move to take revenge or spread hatred against Pakistani people, even though Pakistani terrorists are responsible for her son’s death. In fact, one of the most charming characters that Robins so brilliantly brings to life is a laborer who spouts pearls of wisdom in an adorable Pakistani accent. Giulio Cesare Perrone deserves special kudos for his very desert-like set design, as does projections supervisor Tom Jones for seamlessly blending pertinent slides into the show. “The Blessing of a Broken Heart” continues at 8 p.m. Thursdays and Saturdays and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sundays through March 20 at The Braid Performance and Art Space, 2912 Colorado Ave., Santa Monica. Tickets are $35. Call (800) 838-3006 or visit jewishwomenstheatre.org.

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My boyfriend is going to a dinner out of town to get an award for a film he made, and he didn’t invite me. When I told him I felt excluded, he said that he was embarrassed because his parents are paying for his flight and he has to stay with a friend. I get it; he does wonderful work, but he’s still struggling financially. Still, if the tables were turned — if I were getting an award — I would at least tell him I wish he could come. — Upset There are a lot of things Martin Scorsese has been known to say, but one of them is not, “I want you by my side at this festival, and I only have to dig through the trash for 8,234 more cans to make that happen.” It isn’t surprising that your boyfriend, as a man, is more sensitive about being a brokeahontas than you would be if the awards

dinner tables were turned. Men and women aren’t just physically different; they evolved to have corresponding psychological differences. A biggie comes out of how there was a far greater potential cost to an ancestral woman from any sex act (pregnancy and a kid to feed) compared with the cost to a man. So female psychology evolved to push women to look for “providers” — men with access to resources and a willingness to share them. That’s why women go for guys who show signs of wealth, like a temperature-controlled nursery for their sports cars. Wealth is a cue to the allimportant ability to bring home the bison. But in ancestral times, we couldn’t hang on to stuff — including food — because we didn’t have refrigerators, let alone houses to keep them in. There was just the meat you could eat before it went bad and your man’s ability to hunt it

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C h e e k M agn e t I’m 25 and my boyfriend is 29. He is super-sweet, is a good person, and treats me really well. However, recently, he told my roommate that she has “nice cheekbones.” I didn’t say anything, but I think this was inappropriate. It’s not like “I like your shirt” or whatever. It’s about another woman’s beauty. Can I tell him I don’t want him complimenting other women in the future? — Hurt

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It says something when a man notices a nice view — like that it’s only a matter of time before he and that pretty orange sunset are sneaking out to his car to have sex.

Okay, it’s possible that “nice cheekbones” is man-speak for “Those are some hypnohooters you got there, honey.” But maybe he was just trying to say something nice. Or maybe he was mesmerized in a bad way — like “Whoa … are those forceps marks?” — and he noticed her noticing and ducked for verbal cover. As for why you find this upsetting, consider that our emotions aren’t just feelings; they tell us what to do. Jealousy, for example, is what evolutionary psychologist David Buss calls a “coping device” for “mate retention” — an alarm system that helps us guard against being cheated on. However, sometimes this

alarm system can be a little oversensitive and in need of recalibration — like the one at my parents’ house that used to go off whenever my uncle cut one in the den. In deciding whether you should say something, context matters. You describe your boyfriend as attentive, “super-sweet” and “a good person.” If he isn’t regularly jawing on about other women’s looks, maybe it’s a little premature to turn your relationship into a repressive regime. Model your free speech policy on that of Iran or North Korea and it’s only a matter of time before you’re in a date-night rut: “So … same old, same old … dinner and a cavity search?”

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A 1984 Ed Kienholz original now showing at L.A. Louver By Christina Campodonico “Kienholz: Televisions,” the new exhibition at L.A. Louver showcasing the late Ed Kienholz and his wife Nancy Reddin Kienholz’s series of televisioninspired assemblage sculptures and tableaux, isn’t anything like you’ve seen on TV. A snarling dog head bursts out of a beige TV screen. Ram horns coil ominously around a rusty metal chair; its skeletal eye sockets glued to an oozing yellow screen. A few figurine hens appropriate the inside of an old television set as their chicken coup. Shirley Temple even makes an appearance, her smiling eyes ensconced and vacuum-packed into what looks to be a discarded plastic orange juice jug. While critically-acclaimed shows on network and cable television have elevated TV to prestige status, these installations and sculptures by Cool School and Ferus Group alumnus Ed Kienholz, who died in 1994, and his collaborator-wife Nancy, who continues to make mixed media work, take the art of television to a whole new level of magnificent strangeness. Kienholz, who rose to prominence in late ‘60s Los Angeles by mining junkyards and flea markets to create provocative and immersive art installa-

tions, had a conflicted relationship to the broadcast medium that flickered day and night at his home and in his studio. “You may have guessed that I have long had a love/hate relationship with American TV,” wrote Kienholz in a letter to Sidney Felsen of the Gemini G.E.L. Gallery in 1984. “I sit dummy style in front of that marvelous communication tool and find my years slipping by and my mind turning to slush from the 95% trash being beamed my way. To try and understand my ongoing stupidity, and perhaps to express some kind of critical objectivity, I find that I keep making TV sets out of anything that vaguely resembles a TV apparatus (oil containers, block of concrete, surplus jerry cans, etc.).” Comprised of such flotsam and jetsam, the exhibition features 13 works made collaboratively by Ed and Nancy Kienholz between the late 1960s and 1994. There’s also a 2006 solo work by Nancy that looks like the remains of a torched TV, seemingly incinerated by the fake fireplace burning in its belly. “Kienholz: Televisions” is on view through April 2 at L.A. Louver, 45 N. Venice Blvd., Venice. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Call (310) 821-7529 or visit lalouver.com. March 17, 2016 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 39

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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. 2016039825 The following person is doing business as: Create Floral Design 12321 Washington place Apt. D Los Angeles, CA. 90066. Registered owners: Stacey Yuccas 12321 Washington Place Apt. D. Los Angeles, CA. 90066. This business is conducted by an individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Stacey Yuccas. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on: February 19, 2016. Argonaut published: February 25, March 3, 10 and 17, 2016. 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 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. 2016040667 The following person is doing business as: CFG Contracting 10401 Venice Blvd. #481 Los Angeles, CA. 90034. Registered owners: Steven Sagan 10401 Venice Blvd. #481 Los Angeles, CA. 90034. This business is conducted by an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: Steven Sagan. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on: February 22, 2016. Argonaut published: March 3, 10, 17 and 24, 2016. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from

the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2016041704 The following person is doing business as: Culver City Jewelers, 10772 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA. 90232, LA County. Registered owners: George Gregory Cueva. 10772 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA. 90232. This business is conducted by an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 01/01/2016. 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: George Gregory Cueva. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on February 22, 2016. Argonaut published: March 10, 17, 24, and 31, 2016. 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 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. 2016045978 The following person is doing business as: Burke Williams Academy of Massage and Burke Williams Academy 1801 S. La Cienega Blvd. Suite 302 Los Angeles, CA. 90035. Registered owners: BW Academy, LLC 8927 Lindblade Street Culver City, CA. 90232. 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: Williams Armour. Title: President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on: February 26, 2016. Argonaut published: March 3, 10, 17 and 24, 2016. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2016046365 The following person is doing business as: The Studio (MDR) 330 Washington Blvd., Ste. C Marina del Rey, CA. CA. 90292. Registered owners: Pilates Pro-Marina del Rey Inc. 330 Washington Blvd. Ste. C Marina del Rey, CA. 90292. 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: Ken Ackerman. Title: Secretary. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on: February 26, 2016. Argonaut published: March 3, 10, 17 & 24, 2016. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2016049341 The following person is doing business as: Real Orbit Star Travelers

1455 4th St. #303 Santa Monica, CA. 90401. Registered owners: James Palumbo 1455 4th St. #303 Danta Monica, CA. 90401. This business is conducted by an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: James Palumbo. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on: March 1, 2016. Argonaut published: March 17, 24, 31 and April 7, 2016. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. YSO28161 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES Petition of Karen Ilene Rose, for Change of Name TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Karen Ilene Rose filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Karen Ilene Rose to Karen Ilene Green-Rose 2.) THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 4-1-16. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: M Room: N/A. The address of the court is 825 Maple Ave. Torrance, CA. 90503. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The Argonaut. Original filed: February 5, 2016. Steven R. Van Sicklen, Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: 02/25/16, 03/03/16, 03/10/2016, 03/17/16

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