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Food & Drink Outside Looking Inward Teens spend a night outdoors to cultivate empathy for the homeless ................... 10
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Marina del Rey Shooting Victim Survives Bullet to the Chest Investigators are still searching for clues to determine who shot a 45-year-old man on Sunday in Marina del Rey. Deputies from the Marina del Rey Sheriff’s Station responded to the 14000 block of Panay Way at around 12:15 p.m. after getting a report of gunfire in the area. The victim, who suffered a gunshot
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Williams noted that shootings are rare in the marina. But they do happen. At just before 4 a.m. on Oct. 25, a 27-year-old man was shot dead in the parking lot of Islands Restaurant on Washington Boulevard. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Marina del Rey Sheriff’s Station at (310) 482-6000.
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Rey Sheriff’s Station said. That stretch of the beach was submerged by the incoming tide. Deputies have not been able to locate any witnesses and are working with Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control investigators. “This little dog endured the terror and agony of being staked to the sand and drowning in the rising ocean waters,” PETA Senior Director Colleen O’Brien said. “PETA urges anyone with information about this crime to come forward immediately, before
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Hyundai Genesis and a Dodge Charger when he was struck by the Ford, California Highway Patrol Officer Patrick Stafford said. “The driver of the Ford Expedition unsafely accelerated his vehicle backwards to the rear of the Hyundai and collided with the pedestrian, the boat trailer, the Dodge and the Hyundai,” Stafford said.
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By Stephanie Case On the night of her 17th birthday, Nike Oladipupo slept on concrete. Stuck outdoors with a wool cap and puffer coat to keep her warm, she cocooned herself inside two sleeping bags. She wasn’t alone. Sprawled around her, 129 other teenagers were wrapped in blankets atop the pavement and under a bed of stars. The gathering was the Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Monica’s inaugural “sleep-out” — an overnight simulation of homelessness, one of the city’s deepest-rooted problems. There are more than 700 homeless adults or children in Santa Monica who sleep out on the street, in vehicles or in shelters on any given night, according to the city’s annual homeless count. It’s a small but significant slice of the estimated 42,000 homeless throughout Los Angeles County. These facts weighed heavily on 15-yearold club member Mylan Ross. To her they aren’t abstract numbers, but familiar faces: the teens wandering the Third Street Promenade or curled up by a Big Blue Bus stop, and even a few of her classmates at Santa Monica High School who have no permanent home to go to when the afternoon bell rings. “There are a lot of people my age and younger sleeping outside every night,” Mylan said. One night outdoors, she thought, could help her peers see their neighborhood through a new lens. No Boys & Girls Club in Southern California had ever held such a sleep-out before, and Ross wanted hers to be the first. In September, she pitched the idea to other teen organizers at the club, including Nike Oladipupo. Everyone — even the eventual birthday girl — got on board, meeting with local aid groups, delving into research on the causes of homelessness and asking kids to donate clothes and toiletries. On Jan. 22, the teens lined up outside the club’s doors with bags of gloves, socks, mouthwash and travel-sized bottles of shampoo, all to be assembled into care packages and handed to others in need. Katrina La Madrid, one of the teen organizers, looked on and gave instruction as a gaggle of middle schoolers stuffed Ziploc bags with toothbrushes and scented soaps. For Katrina, the four months of planning and research for the big night opened her eyes to homelessness more so than ever before. “I always thought that if the homeless really wanted to [find housing], they could help themselves,” La Madrid said.
Dozens of teens rise at dawn after spending the night without shelter outside the Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Monica “But that’s not always the case.” This is especially true for teens. Some are forced from foster homes; some are disowned by their family. Some watch their parents lose their jobs, get deported or battle mental illness. Others flee abuse and end up on Venice Beach,
school playground, then surprised her mom with the profits. Still, they fell short of affording a new place to live. For six years, the family of five zigzagged between temporary homes: a Salvation Army shelter in Westwood, a
A resourceful third grader, Sheyenne made DIY folders out of neon paper and Scotch tape, sold them to kids on her elementary school playground, then surprised her mom with the profits. Still, they fell short of affording a new place to live. wondering what to do next. No one story is the same.
*** Sheyenne Seals, a club member at the sleep-out, was nine when her mother and three siblings were kicked out of their Hawthorne apartment. Money had already been tight. A resourceful third grader, Sheyenne made DIY folders out of neon paper and Scotch tape, sold them to kids on her elementary
church in Pasadena and couches belonging to family friends or distant relatives. Only once, they missed the last bus of the night by mere minutes and took refuge in the staircase of a Santa Monica parking lot until morning. Sheyenne “hated it,” she remembered, but never once felt afraid with her mom by her side. “She was the one that kept us at peace,” she said. “It felt like she was a shelter to us.”
More than five years after Sheyenne surprised her mom with her crafty folder business, her mom pulled off a surprise of her own: a two-story apartment in Ladera Heights, all to themselves. On move-in day, the four kids giddily scoured their new surroundings, racing to claim bedrooms, bathrooms and the coveted first shower. “I was like, ‘I could get used to this,’” she laughed. “My mom said, ‘Don’t get used to it — we’re going to get a house.’”
*** In 2014, the Los Angeles Unified School District reported that more than 13,600 of its students were, like Sheyenne, experiencing at least some form of homelessness. “Many young people are actually in school and employed but are still homeless, because they can’t find housing [in the area] that’s affordable,” says Alison Hurst, the founder of Safe Space for Youth (SPY), a young adult services center in Venice. “A lot of them work in fast-food restaurants, earning minimum wage, then come to us for food and health needs … while living in a transitional shelter.” Since Hurst opened the center in 2010, she’s seen thousands of adrift teens
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*** Past midnight, the sleep-out was quiet. But Deron Gopie, one of the club’s teen leaders, laid amongst the sleepers, restless and shivering. “The cold weather got to me,” he admitted. That, plus the added pressure of organizing a sunset-to-sunrise event at 18 years old. “It’s a pretty difficult experience to be a teenager, let alone [a homeless teenager],” he said. “We’re all already dealing with a whole lot of stuff already” — new responsibilities, surging emotions, homework. On the girls’ side of the concrete yard, Sheyenne Seals perched her economics homework between a juice box and her backpack. Making the text out using a dim overhead light, she grabbed a pencil and got started. In her Santa Monica High School economics class, Sheyenne said, discus-
sion had recently turned to basic human essentials: What objects matter? “People were like, ‘You need a phone!’” she recalled, amused — then set the record straight: “You don’t need a phone. You don’t need a lot of things. You just need things to keep you clean, and you need people to talk to, so that you don’t get down,” she said. Back in middle school, Sheyenne kept her living situation under wraps, afraid that her classmates would be judgmental. But looking back, she admits, one small gesture from a friend would’ve made her feel understood. “[I wish they’d have] asked me if I’m OK, you know? Because sometimes I wasn’t OK. Sometimes I was irritated because I had to wear the same pants again,” she said, cracking a grin.
*** As dawn broke, kids gathered in the center of the paved yard, sharing stories around a glowing fire pit. Most were groggy, but others felt empowered. “There are a lot of homeless youth that I could connect to,” said club member Colbie Witherspoon, 17. “After this, I want to be in somebody’s corner.” For more information about the Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Monica, call (310) 361-8500 or visit smbgc.org.
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When her legs were amputated, Victor turned to something she knew, filmmaking, and found through the focus of a video camera that she was able to regain some control over her life. “I had a dream that I would make a documentary about my recovery, and that really became my motivation,” Victor said. “Gosh, if I can live the story of making a bad situation good. Well, that’s who I am and that’s what I’m going to do with this. So I started filming early on.” The project helped motivate Victor to conquer the odds and maintain her independence, and for the next two decades she held onto that vision through reconstructive surgeries, rehabilitation and learning to walk on prosthetic legs. Also captured on film, her love story: Victor met her future husband, Marcel Kuonen, when she started taking adaptive ski lessons with him in 1999. Head coach of the Park City Disabled Ski Team at the time, Kuonen became her personal champion, setting Victor’s sights on the Winter Olympics and helping her achieve that dream. Now, the record of her saga was gone. The thieves left only one length of footage behind, one that both added to Victor’s feelings of violation while offering some hope of catching the burglars and recovering what was stolen: Home surveillance video. The Dec. 9 footage, more than two hours of it, shows four African-American men walking around the perimeter of her home, entering through a back door and turning her home inside out in their search for valuables. The experience of knowing that strangers rifled through and took possession of her most personal belongings has left Victor, a motivational speaker known for her inspiring and positive attitude, with feelings of anger. “You don’t have the right to clean out somebody’s home and steal their cars, [especially] when you know that they’re disabled.” Victor said. “It’s tampering with the independence that I have fought so hard to get.”
Recognize these men? Stephani Victor hopes home surveillance video will help identify the men who ransacked her home But Victor’s channeling that outrage into a larger mission, encouraging others to be proactive in combatting crime in their communities by participating in neighborhood watch programs and
“I have dreams, nightmares … because I paid for this emotionally too. I didn’t do that after losing my legs, I did that after being robbed.” — Stephani Victor
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By Bliss Bowen Who among us hasn’t heard nursery rhymes and jokes about “the big bad wolf” from the time our eyes first flew open in wonder? Little Red Riding Hood and those three little pigs conditioned us to distrust strangers with pointy ears and sharp teeth that howl at the moon. The wolf is an icon of wildness — fierce, majestic, mysterious, predatory. Similar to his onetime friend: the human. Emmy-winning filmmaker Jim Dutcher and his naturalist wife Jamie lived with a pack of untamed wolves for six years on 25 acres in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains, an astonishing experience they chronicled in three documentaries and a remarkably insightful book, 2013’s “The Hidden Life of Wolves.” The Dutchers head to Santa Monica next week to speak about their adventures in the context of mounting threats against wolves in the American wild — namely state-sanctioned efforts to eliminate wolves that until recently were protected by the Endangered Species Act. The event is produced by National Geographic, which last year published the Duchters’ PAGE 14 THE ARGONAUT March 24, 2016
children’s book, “A Friend for Lakota: The Incredible True Story of a Wolf Who Braved Bullying.” The couple’s initial meeting in an airport had sparked a seven-year correspondence that persuaded Jamie to leave the East Coast and join Jim at Wolf Camp in Idaho, where he proposed. They had much to celebrate in 1996 when pups were born to the Sawtooth pack’s alpha wolves — the first wolf pups born in those mountains in more than five decades. They hoped to dispel dangerous myths about the reclusive carnivores by documenting the pack’s habits, songs and social behavior. At the time, it seemed the future was finally brightening for North American wolves. In 1995, when wild wolf habitat was essentially confined to Alaska and Minnesota, gray wolf packs were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park and Idaho after years of painstaking negotiations; it had been seven decades since wolves roamed Yellowstone. By 2014, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, approximately 5,500 gray wolves existed in the contiguous United States. While some environmental-
Wahots, the wolf seen nuzzling with Jamie Dutcher on the cover of this issue, was one of the 14 wolf pups that the Dutchers bottle fed
ists dispute that tally and its meaning, it’s encouraging, not least because wolves have quantifiably benefitted the overall health of local ecosystems. Now, again, wolves and ecosystem balance are threatened. In 2011, Congress removed the gray wolf from the federal Endangered Species List — the first time an animal was de-listed for political rather than strictly scientific reasons. Wolf management was handed over to states. Populations have been subsequently targeted for drastic reduction in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming — all livestockheavy states — and management debates are raging from Wisconsin to Washington. As the Dutchers remind, “ranchers help keep the West wild,” and private and public programs have compensated them for livestock deaths caused by wolves. Those losses hurt individual ranchers, but Fish and Wildlife Service reports show that losses of cattle and sheep to birthing complications, disease and weather overwhelm those caused by wolf predation. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Montana was home to over 2.5 million cattle and almost 250,000
sheep in 2010. The year before, per Montana’s annual wolf report, it lost 97 cows and 202 sheep to wolves — so 145 wolves were killed, out of a state population of 524. It’s a brutal tit-for-tat fixated on one corner of the big ecosystem picture. Many hunters view wolves as competition; population numbers of the elk and deer that are wolves’ preferred meal exploded when wolves were absent or scarce. That hunters’ license fees support budgets for some governmental departments charged with wolf oversight is a conflicted topic for another story. Here in California, where gray wolves were granted endangered species protection in 2014, a Fish and Wildlife official sighted OR-7 in 2011, the first wild gray wolf inside state borders in close to 100 years; he’d crossed over from Oregon. Last August, another discovery was made in Siskiyou County: the Shasta pack, five pups and two adults, one believed to be OR-7. Now calls are being made to return the critically endangered Mexican wolf to Southern California’s Mojave Desert, where the last wild wolf was trapped in 1922.
ArgonautNews.com care of him — they wouldn’t leave him behind to starve. JIM: We had an omega wolf killed by a mountain lion. The omega instigates play, gets other wolves to chase it. But with the loss of this wolf, the pack stopped playing for about six weeks. They used to play every day.
Wolf pups Lakota and Kamots play in the wilds of Idaho, where hunters kill as much as 40% of the wolf population each year Environmental groups such as Defenders of Wildlife are working with the state to educate ranchers about nonlethal wolf management techniques such as air horns, guard dogs, telemetry, turbo-fladry and the removal of tempting carcasses from rangeland. So far, there seems to be more interest in coexistence than extermination. But in Western states like Idaho, where the Dutchers oversee their nonprofit organization Living With Wolves, tolerance itself is endangered.
domesticate the wolf into the dog. … Humans and wolves actually lived side by side for a long time. It was a symbiotic relationship until we became more pastoral and started raising cattle and sheep, and suddenly they became the enemy. JIM: They’re so bonded to each other. If you kill a wolf or threaten pups, the pack will rally around and come to the rescue. Whereas coyotes split up. But wolves are easy to kill because they’re so social. JAMIE: A Fish & Game biologist in How will your multimedia presentation Alaska took us to this lab where a skull at The Broad differ from your docuof this wolf showed that the wolf had mentaries and book? suffered a severely broken jaw, yet the JAMIE: It’s delving deeper into the social jaw healed and the wolf lived. The only lives of wolves and our personal story. way that wolf could have survived was JIM: The hierarchy, the language of for other members of the pack to take wolves, how wolves improve the ecosystem. There have been many improvements in Yellowstone that have been recorded by various scientific studies. Having wolves back benefits trout, aspen, birds of prey, antelope — numerous animals. For one thing, wolves have changed the elk’s [habits]. They became lethargic without wolves there, [which affected] rivers and streams because they had no animal that preyed upon them and ate all the vegetation; having wolves back has brought back the trees and willows, and that cools the water, so it’s much better for trout.
You wrote that the omega wolf Lakota sounded like he was “singing the blues.” Are wolf songs a form of self-expression? JAMIE: They’ll howl to see who’s out there, to call in the rest of the pack; they’ll howl after they’ve eaten a really good meal and they’re all full. They’ll howl in celebration or longing. Within the howls, wolves have a huge repertoire of sounds, whines, whimpers, barks, growls. … They’re discovering that wolves have accents, depending on what region they grew up in. [Laughs.] It’s very expressive. Sort of like whales; whales have a huge repertoire of sounds and clicks and inflections. You observed the Sawtooth Pack as “social partners” rather than as scientists; how do those approaches differ? JAMIE: A lot of research is done on wolves with radio telemetry from a great distance. It’s important to know that we were living with the wolves on their terms; we could never go up to them. When wolves came up to us it was because they chose to; we never tried to dominate the wolves. That changes their behavior. We never submitted, we never dominated them, so they never did that to us either. We were pretty much just there. You could never put a collar on them or call them by name; they didn’t know what their names were. Last August the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service determined that the gray wolf has
rebounded from the brink of extinction to “exceed population targets by as much as 300%” and claimed that “wolf numbers continue to be robust, stable and selfsustaining.” Many environmentalists disagree, but Western states are increasing wolf kills. JIM: In Idaho we kill 40% to 60% of the wolves every year. That’s Fish and Game’s plan, to eliminate them. They just went into the remote Lolo National Forest with helicopters, locating 20 wolves with radio telemetry, and shot them all. We kill about 400 or so just with recreational hunting in this state. That kind of hunting of wolves is really disrupting the social behavior of these animals. They can’t pass on information, they can’t grow. You have a pack of 10 or 11, and [they] go in and start killing them, and then you have small packs of twos or threes, all traumatized, and they go after what’s easy to eat. So hunting wolves makes it easy for ranchers. JAMIE: Wolf numbers can regulate themselves. This huge amount of recreational hunting, also the government killing of wolves, really distorts the family structure. And wolves really can’t sustain that. These wolves in Lolo weren’t killed for any reason other than keeping elk numbers artificially high. … Wolves function as a pack, a family. The more you destroy the fabric of the family, the more damage. You hoped to overcome people’s fear by showing them “subtle acts of compassion and care” by wolves. JAMIE: We’ve been able to help bring wolves to the forefront and make people more aware. I think there’s a huge upswell [in interest] from kids, which is important; they’re going to be our decision makers. What’s going on now, (Continued on page 35)
Mountain lions and bears don’t trigger the hysteria that wolves do. Why? JIM: Over the past 100 years, there have been possibly two cases where a wolf killed a human being in North America. But over the past 12 years, bears have killed 35. JAMIE: Cougars are relatively solitary; bears are relatively solitary. With wolves, it’s a pack, people think of a gang. But it’s not a gang; it’s a family — parents, siblings, uncles. Wolves are terribly afraid of us, but at the same time they’re curious. Jim and Jamie Dutcher camped with a pack of wolves for six years, an experience they chronicled in three documentaries It’s that curiosity that allowed us to March 24, 2016 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 15
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Overall, the instrument generates an ethereal hum that hovers over the musicians’ rock-driven ballads that draw upon bass, sax, electric guitar, drums, violin, piano and synth for texture and volume. The dancers get in on the musical action by banging the strings atop an exposed At the Miles, long silvery wires as thin as piano soundboard, breathing hard into microphones, serving as backup singers fishing line extend across the room from the percussionists, and wearing harness base of the stage to the ceiling, immersing the and harps, which are long strings that extend from their backs and use body weight and audience beneath an expansive fin harp. movement to ignite sound. Rock ’n’ roll, contemporary dance and harps don’t ordinarily combine forces, but movement that is constantly seeking out from the photography book “The Archisomehow String Theory continues to find new ways to integrate dance with the tect’s Brother” by Robert and Shana company’s signature harp instrumentation, ParkeHarrison, and the music was written harmony between the disciplinary lines. “We keep wanting to explore ways to designed by her husband and String by Luke and members of the company. Theory co-founder Luke Rothschild. At the Miles, long silvery wires as thin as integrate dance,” says Holly. “I think we’re always trying to push it into how “I think sometimes when we describe it, fishing line extend across the room from we’re synthesizing these elements.” it sounds like it might be a little pretenthe base of the stage to the ceiling, tious. But it isn’t. It’s actually very immersing the audience beneath an String Theory’s “Remembering Water” accessible to a general audience,” says expansive fin harp, which Luke designed Holly, who says String Theory’s audience to be able to fold up into two suitcases for continues at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday (March 25 and 26) and 7 p.m. Sunday ranges in age from 8 to 88. transport on airplanes. The instrument (March 27) at the Miles Memorial Play“Holly’s always been striving to kind of makes a high-pitched whine, reminiscent house, 1130 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. break down the specific delineations of a Scottish bag pipe at times, an Indian Tickets are $17 to $23 and available at between music and dance,” adds Luke. Sitar at others. Sometimes strains of stringtheoryproductions.bpt.me. “Remembering Water” can best be dulcimer come to mind. March 24, 2016 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 17
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And you cook the whole meal using charcoal, including the vegetables? Vegetarians can come to this restaurant and have the time of their life because we do unique things with smoking and wood-roasting vegetables. I brought friends who are vegetarians here and they ate better than I did.
Are these vegetable dishes based on some traditional method? I haven’t found any tradition of roasting a cabbage that way, but cultures in Latin America cook other vegetables on the coals. The cowboys used to do the same thing … the first thing their chuck wagon cooks did when they made camp was get a fire going and bury a bean pot in it. When I was in the Boy Scouts we used to do what’s called a hobo pack — you wrap your meat, potato and vegetables all together and put it in the coals. People think it would burn the food, but when done right it doesn’t — it slowly bakes it.
Can you give us some examples? We roast a whole cabbage in the coals. It takes about an hour and when done it looks like a charred black ball, but inside it’s all green and moist. We quarter it and season it with butter, salt, olive oil and chives, with sumac yogurt on the side. We grill cauliflower on the Josper, and roast carrots in the coals and serve them with ricotta, black pepper and honey. We roast kohlrabi and serve it with our raw fish dish which is also kissed with coals — we take red hot coals and touch the surface of the fish to give it a
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Spiritual Movements By Christina Campodonico The works of choreographer Ronald K. Brown are known for evoking spiritual elements, but when asked if he identifies with any particular religion Brown prefers not to put a label on his spirituality. If he has any faith at all, it is in dance. Raised in 1960s/’70s Brooklyn by a devout Christian family, Brown takes a more theistic approach to dance-making these days. “When people get bogged down in this kind of didactic way of labeling people I kind of — I don’t protest — but I think it’s less important than us saying that there is The Most High, and people from different places call him different things,” says Brown, whose work is also inspired by African dance stylings. “I think that’s why in dance I try to look at what are the different spiritual dances from around the world that talk about putting God first and having him come through your body to make connection with people who are in the audience. For me, it’s a kind of heart-to-heart or soul-to-soul conversation through the body.” To critics, Brown, whose New Yorkbased dance company Ronald K. Brown/ Evidence performs at the Broad Stage for a two-night run this weekend, always seems to have a divine touch. “Brown takes his audiences to church,” writes the Boston Globe. “A sense of grounded spirituality and abiding humanism…runs through his dances like a deep vein.” “Always the daze of pleasure as the movement washes over you like a wave thick with sand,” says the Financial Times. “As for the theme, ever the spiritual path.” True to the nature of his art, the choreographer is often guided by some sort of spirit when creating his works. At the time of creating 2002’s “Come Ye,” which the company will perform this weekend, Brown was conflicted about the country’s military involvement in Afghanistan after seeing young men in uniform playing Game Boys at the airport while waiting for their marching orders. The emotional dissonance resolved itself when Brown heard Nina Simone’s “Come Ye” come on in his apartment. “I went, ‘Ahh! That’s how I feel,’” says Brown. “In the song she says [that for] everyone who is dedicated to fighting for your life, it’s time for us to learn how to pray. … It was kind of a call for prayer warriors. It just made me think of all the people throughout history who talked about creative protest. What happened to all those lessons, right? Gandhi, Dr. King, PAGE 28 THE ARGONAUT March 24, 2016
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Choreographer Ronald K. Brown creates “soul-to-soul conversation through the body”
Clarice Young dances in Ronald K. Brown’s “Grace” Nina Simone, Bob Marley, Fela Kuti. What happened to all of those messages that people gave us for how to live as a peaceful citizen?” Inspiration for 2014’s “The Subtle One,” also on the program, arrived when Brown discovered that the phrase is a sobriquet for Allah and then uncovered a plaque that a passed away friend had given him with the lines of an Alan Harris poem inscribed upon it: “so subtle are the wings of angels/ That you may not realize/ They’ve come and gone, except/ That innerly remains a glowing/ Which seems just as/ good as knowing.” The closely aligned coincidence ignited an insight for Brown, who thought, “Were the subtle ones angels walking on earth? Are they ancestors walking around?” “Grace,” shaped by Duke Ellington’s jazzy hymnal “Come Sunday,” also takes on spiritual subjects. But Brown thinks of “Grace,” which was commissioned by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre in 1999, as more of a “thank you” to the company’s late founder, the legendary African-American dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey, who first inspired Brown to consider a career in modern dance. Brown remembers his world changing after seeing the Ailey company perform “Revelations,” Ailey’s seminal modern
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dance work on the grief, joy and hope of the African-American spirit, in second grade. “It was amazing and I went home and I made a dance,” recalls Brown. “And I thought, ‘Oh you can make a dance about church and God and people.’ It just kind of blew my mind.” And inspired him to envision himself as a modern dancer and choreographer. Up until that point he had thought he would become a ballet dancer, like the AfricanAmerican dance pioneer Arthur Mitchell, who broke racial barriers by becoming a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and later founded the Dance Theatre of Harlem. There was just one slight problem on Brown’s journey to dance greatness. “As a little boy I loved to dance, but I was kind of afraid, intimidated to take dance classes,” says Brown. “There were too many girls.” Brown eventually outgrew his boyhood aversion to girl cooties, but there was another crisis of faith, so to speak. If he was unwilling to dance with girls, could he then dance in God’s house? Again more conflict: He could dance in his grandparents’ church in North Carolina, but not on the Sabbath in New York. “The pastor down there said, ‘When you come to the door we expect you to dance.’ But in Brooklyn, the family
church, we weren’t allowed to dance at all,’ says Brown. Then another hang up at age 12. His very pregnant mother was about to take Brown to audition for the Dance Theatre of Harlem when nature took its course. “We got to the door of our apartment and she went into labor,” recalls Brown. “So that’s when I was like, ‘Okay forget it.’” He had to take on the responsibility of being a big brother after all. But Brown couldn’t quite forget about the art form that had captivated him so much as a child. The summer before entering college on a journalism scholarship, he changed course, deciding to finally explore his long-held fascination with dance. “I said, ‘Ah, Mom, can I give up this scholarship and figure this dance thing out?’ And she said, ‘I told you so. Get a job and learn how to dance,” remembers Brown. Brown took classes at Mary Anthony Dance Studio in Manhattan, but frustrated by what he saw as post-modern dance’s disinterest in “real people” during the ‘80s, he started Evidence. He was 19. The company just celebrated its 30th anniversary last year, but there is still more good work to be done, says Brown. “I have colleagues who say, ‘I’m done. I (Continued on page 31)
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Scenes from last year’s Easter party in the park It’s egg and bunny season, and the Santa Monica Jaycees know how to throw an “eggscellent” party. The non-profit leadership group for young professionals hosts the 24th annual Peter Rabbit Day from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 26, at Santa Monica’s Douglas Park. Children can enjoy egg hunts (organized by age), egg dyeing, sack races, face painting and balloon animals. The Westside Family
Health Center will host games on healthy eating, and the Easter Bunny will also make a special appearance. Families are encouraged to come early, as activities are on a firstcome-first- served basis. — Christina Campodonico Douglas Park is at 2439 Wilshire Blvd. in Santa Monica. The event is free. Visit smjaycee.org for more information.
$23. Free parking at 808 Wilshire Blvd. stringtheoryproductions.com Brett Harris & Eleni Mandell, 8 p.m. North Carolina singer-songwriter Brett Harris plays a show with California singer-songwriter Eleni Mandell at McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica. $16. (310) 828-4497; mccabes.com Jamael Dean Quartet, 8 p.m. Live jazz in the Del Monte at 8 p.m., followed by DJ Shiva spinning contemporary and classic blues, funk and soul. DJ Jedi takes over the Townhouse upstairs bar at 10 p.m. Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. No cover. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,” 8:15 p.m. Friday, 2:30 and 8:15 p.m. Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday. See Shirley Temple and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson dance on a flight of stairs in this classic 1938 film. Old Town Music Hall, 140 Richmond St., El Segundo. $8 to $10 cash or check. (310) 322-2592; oldtownmusichall.org Reverend Tall Tree, 9 p.m. Highenergy and harmonica-driven blues in the tradition of Little Walter, Howlin’ Wolf and others. Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $10 plus two-drink minimum. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com
Saturday, March 26 “Peter Rabbit Day,” 9 a.m. to noon. The Santa Monica Junior Chamber Jaycees host the 24th annual Peter Rabbit Day, a community event with egg hunts, egg dyeing, sack races, face painting, balloon animals, a healthy eating game with Westside Family Health Center and appearances by local law enforcement and the Easter Bunny. Douglas Park, 2439 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica. Free. smjaycee.org Habitat Restoration Volunteer Day 9:30 a.m. to noon. Join the Friends of La Ballona Wetlands in restoring the last coastal wetland habitat in L.A. County. Attendees get hands-on experience and learn about wetland ecology. Gloves and tools provided. Adults must accompany children under 15. Meet at the parking lot behind Alkali Water (Gordon’s Market) at 303 Culver Blvd., Playa del Rey. (310) 306-5994; ballonafriends.org Free Dockwalker Workshops, 10 a.m. The Bay Foundation, California State Parks Division of Boating and Waterways, and California Coastal Commission’s Boating Clean and Green Program train new volunteers to become dockwalkers who educate boaters about environmentally-sound boating practices. The workshops are in partnership with the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary and the US Power Squadron at the Del Rey Yacht Club, 13900 Palawan Way, Marina del Rey. Free. RSVP required. (213) 620-2271; vgambale@santamonicabay.org
Singer-songwriter Eleni Mandell draws from classic country at McCabe’s Guitar Shop. SEE FRIDAY. “Wake up with the Waves,” 10:30 a.m. to noon through April 30. The children’s concert series returns for its 10th year, with live music and interactive activities for children ages 1 to 8 each Saturday morning until May. This week Lucky Diaz & the Family Jam Band, winners of the 2013 Latin Grammy for Best Children’s Album, bring a dance party to the Santa Monica Pier. (310) 458-8901; wakeupwiththewaves.com Natural Egg Dyeing and Eating, 1 to 3:30 p.m. Learn how to dye and decorate eggs with natural ingredients. Participants will also learn to make (and sample) a recipe for an open-faced egg salad sandwich with crème fraiche and spring herbs. Bring an apron and empty egg carton. Camera Obscura Art Lab, 1450 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica. $25 plus $5 cash instructor fee. facebook.com/ 1450Ocean Music by the Sea, 1 to 4 p.m. A scenic harbor view is the backdrop for a free outdoor R&B concert by Blue Breeze. Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. visitmarinadelrey.com Doug MacLeod & Lawrence Lebo , 8 p.m. A master of original acoustic blues, Doug MacLeod shares the stage with Lawrence Lebo, whose interpretation of blues, roots and jazz defy any kind of categorization. McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica. $20. (310) 828-4497; mccabes.com Brad Kay’s Regressive Jazz Quartet, 8 p.m. Brad Kay’s Regressive Jazz Quartet plays early jazz and ragtime at 8 p.m., followed by DJ Jedi at 10 p.m. spinning soul, funk and hip-hop. DJ Shiva takes over the Townhouse bar at 10 p.m. Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. No cover. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com Brian Simon, 10 p.m. Live music at the Prince O’ Whales, 335 Culver Blvd., Playa del Rey. (310) 823-9826; princeowhales.com Mission IMPROVable, 10 p.m. Each Saturday brings an unpredictable
evening of high-energy improv comedy with audience interaction at M.i. Westside Comedy Theater, 1323 3rd St. Promenade, Santa Monica. 21 and over; $12. (310) 451-0850; westsidecomedy.com
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“Float & Flow,” 9, 10 and 11 a.m. Enjoy a stand-up paddleboarding and vinyasa flow session, followed by yin yoga on the sand. Sign up through the MINDBODY mobile app and email sarah@yogaqua.com to request your preferred time slot. yogaqua.com Mar Vista Farmers Market, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Meet your neighbors, pick up some local eats and see what’s going on with local businesses at the Mar Vista Chamber’s exhibitor booth. 3826 Grand View Blvd., Mar Vista. marvistachamber.com Music by the Sea, 1 to 4 p.m. A scenic harbor view is the backdrop for a free outdoor jazz and funk concert by 2Azz1. Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. visitmarinadelrey.com “Who’s Driving Doug,” 6 p.m. This month’s Santa Monica International Film Festival SpotLight Film is indie movie “Who’s Driving Doug.” Directed by Michael Carnick and starring RJ Mitte (“Breaking Bad”) and YouTube sensation Ray William Johnson, the film follows a sheltered college student (Doug) and his underachieving driver Scott as they go on a spontaneous road trip with Scott’s college crush that tests their friendship. Arclight Santa Monica, 395 Santa Monica Place, Santa Monica. Free, but RSVP at (424)2291318; smff.org Westside Experitorium No. 3, 7 p.m. Singer-songwriters lead an evening of musical exploration starring Lil’ Dawnee Frinta, with additional music by Keith Taylor, Malik N Deering, Jeffrey Randall Snyder and Steve Abagon. The Cinema Bar, 3967 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City. No cover. (310) 390-1328; thecinemabar.com (Continued on page 30)
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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
Sarah Marshank book talk and signing, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sarah shares from her memoir “Being Selfish” and speaks about her journey from sex worker to celibate monk to spiritual teacher. Q&A and book signing to follow the talk. Mystic Journey Bookstore, 1624 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice. (310) 399-7070; mysticjourneybookstore.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; artspace-la.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
Our Savior Lutheran Church has a reputation for putting on Westchester’s biggest community Easter egg hunt. Show up at 1 p.m. Saturday for arts, crafts and refreshments. The community egg hunt begins promptly at 2 p.m. Kids won’t want to miss it. Our Savior Lutheran Church is at 6705 W. 77th St. in Westchester. Call (310) 670-7272 for more information. Memorial Branch Library, 501 S. Venice Blvd., Venice. (310) 439-9445; lapl.org/branches/venice LaughTears Salon, 6 to 9 p.m. Gerry Fialka hosts a discussion on philosophy, politics and the arts at the 212 Pier Coffeehouse, 212 Pier Ave., Santa Monica. Free. (310) 314-5275 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
Comics on the Spot, 7 p.m. This weekly stand-up comedy event begins with an open mic before the pros take the stage at 7:45 p.m. The Warehouse, 4499 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. No cover. (310) 823-5451; mdrwarehouse.com SCAQ Swim Workouts, 7:30 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, 5:30 and 6:30 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, and 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Southern California Aquatics welcomes swimmers of all abilities for one-hour themed sessions. First-time attendees are eligible for a free week and a videotaped swim evaluation. Santa Monica Swim Center, Santa Monica College, 2225 16th St., Santa Monica. Learn more at (310) 390-SWIM or swim.net. Philosopher’s Stone Poets, 9 p.m. The local non-profit hosts an evening of
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Pop with a Heart Brett Harris draws inspiration from The Beatles, Otis Redding and Nick Lowe to make music that can cut as it comforts By Bliss Bowen The Beatles insistently spring to mind while listening to Brett Harris’ second album, the just-released “Up in the Air.” Textured with soulful organ swells and country-sounding guitars, his cleanly constructed, often buoyant melodies repeatedly evoke 1960s-’70s pop. “I’ve always written to the sound that I have in my head and that I’m trying to capture,” he says over the phone from Austin, shortly after playing his first showcase at last week’s SXSW festival. “I grew up listening to classic pop records and that’s stuff I really cling to.” Those classic recordings have unmistakably shaped Harris’ music — as has his Southern identity. A 10-year resident with his wife of Durham, North Carolina, he grew up in a house full of old Beatles records in “a really small-town bedroom community” outside of Richmond, Virginia. His “first real foray” with music was in church. “Any person that works in a creative field is gonna be dealing with the input in one way or another, and that’s gonna find its way into the end product,” he muses. “Being from the South, I think there is a perspective that I have that people from other parts of the world might not have. I’m a big fan of Flannery O’Connor, and she has amazing essays on the subject that I cherish, about how there’s an obligation or responsibility as a Southern writer to deal with [certain] perceptions or internal conflicts.” (Sharp-eared listeners might catch his “really opaque reference” to Hazel Motes from O’Connor’s 1952 novel “Wise Blood” in the last verse of “Lies”: “I have miles left to go before I get to where I’m going/ But that grass keeps getting greener and I hear that rooster crowing.”) “There’s certainly an obligation to be honest and to be authentic in what you do,” he says while discussing the role of songwriters in contemporary society. “Maybe I’m one of those folks that still thinks that a great rock ‘n’ roll song can save the world, but I think that we all have an obligation to chase that — call
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Singer-songwriter Brett Harris pairs buoyant pop melodies with songs that have emotional impact and deeper meaning it inspiration, call it divine motivation — that thing that made you want to make art in the first place.” Harris garnered appreciative reviews for his first album, 2010’s “Man of Few Words,” and earned wider notice while
lyrics describing a hollow heart as “the unintended consequence of bitter pills I’ve had to swallow” (“Lies”) and referencing the end of life (the gospelinflected “High Times”). “Some of my favorite songs are ones
Cradled in cooing harmonies, Saturday night guitar, Sunday morning piano and Memphis horns, the song floats like balm through the speakers. playing guitar on the dB’s 2012 reunion tour and the Big Star “Third” tribute concert tour. With “Up in the Air,” he says, he’s gotten closer to finding his own voice as a solo artist. Musically, it strikes a light-in-the-dark balance that’s as aurally appealing as it is difficult to finesse, pairing bright melodies with
that are pretty heavy or pretty down, but if you take them on just the way they sound you would never know that,” Harris says. “Maybe it’s the Southern Baptist thing where I grew up, having to put a smile on your face and calling everybody ‘brother’ and acting like nothing was wrong. I love the ability of
a pop song to just cut you open in a major key. [Laughs] It doesn’t have to rely on the trick of ‘Oh, this is in a minor key so you should be sad.’” He offers up as examples the Beatles’ “She’s Leaving Home,” George Jones’ “A Good Year for the Roses,” Otis Redding’s “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” and “almost anything from the latter era of Nick Lowe’s career.” Despite studying that classic trope, Harris says he doesn’t consciously strive to create songs that will make audiences feel uplifted because “that would be manipulative.” “I never try to make people feel any way in particular when I’m writing a song. I don’t necessarily consider an audience when I’m writing a song; I’m trying to communicate a sense of place or emotion.” “High Times” floats a hopeful message — it’s arguably the album’s loveliest track — yet it was born of frustration: “That song is about an experience I had after traveling to New York to play a show with Big Star Third and being stuck up there for Superstorm Sandy,” Harris explains. “My flight was canceled and I was stranded in town for five days.” “Look out the window Watch as the storm rolls in And you swear you’ve been here once before But you can’t remember when The rain on the rooftop Sounds like a symphony And you find yourself surrounded by A familiar memory…” Cradled in cooing harmonies, Saturday night guitar, Sunday morning piano and Memphis horns, the song floats like balm through the speakers — accomplishing precisely the thing Harris lauds as pop’s best achievement. “It’s just this little three-minute orchestra that takes you to another world and transports you,” he says. “Pop speaks to me more than any other genre.” Brett Harris opens for Eleni Mandell at McCabe’s (3101 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica) at 8 p.m. Friday, March 25. $16. Call (310) 828-4497 or visit brettharrismusic.com.
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can’t do it. I don’t want to do it. The struggle is too much. The challenges are too great.’ So I’m grateful I get to travel with the company, still share the work,” he says. You could say that he feels like a chosen one. Brown recalls meeting Ailey, his original inspiration, at a rehearsal once
when he was 21 years old. “Mr. Ailey came and sat next to me. And he said, ‘You one of mine?’ I said, ‘Oh, Mr. Ailey, I didn’t go through the school, but yes, I’m one of yours,’” recounts Brown. “It was a really beautiful thing. I was grateful that he sat next to me in the first place … someone
who was afraid to take dance classes.” Yet for Ronald K. Brown there’s still time to spread the gospel of dance. “When people leave and they feel like they have been touched and that anything is possible, I think that is the purpose of the work for me,” says Brown. “I feel like the world needs it.”
Ronald K. Brown/Evidence A Dance Company performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday (March 25 and 26) at The Broad Stage, 1310 11th Street, Santa Monica. Tickets are $40 to $85. Call (310) 434-3200 or visit thebroadstage.com. March 24, 2016 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 31
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Santa Monica. This week’s lineup includes Belly BombZ, Chancho’s Tacos, hungry belly, The Grilled Cheese Truck and Middle Feast. (310) 392-8537; californiaheritagemuseum.org Edan Lepucki in conversation with Charles Yu, 7 p.m. Local talent Edan Lepucki discusses her post-apocalyptic novel “California” with Santa Monica-based author Charles Yu at the Santa Monica Public Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 458-8600; smpl.org
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Playa Venice Sunrise Rotary, 7:15 a.m. Wednesdays. Make connections in your community each Wednesday at Whiskey Red’s, 13813 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. Call Brady Connell at (323) 459-1932 for breakfast reservations; or for more information
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call John Marcato at (310) 740-6469 or Michael Warren at (310) 343-5721. Westchester Life Story Writing Group, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Memoir-writing workshop meets Wednesdays at the YMCA Annex, 8020 Alverstone Ave., Westchester. $10 donation per semester. (310) 397-3967 Toastmasters Speakers by the Sea, 11 a.m. to noon. Learn to overcome your public presentation nerves at this weekly meeting. Pregerson Technical Facility, Room 230A, 12000 Vista Del Mar, Playa del Rey. (424) 625-3131 Family Screening: “WALL-E,” 2 p.m. As part of the Santa Monica Reads series, the Main Library hosts a screening of the Disney hit about a waste-collecting robot who falls in love and must work to save the future of mankind. Santa Monica Public Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 458-8600; smpl.org
Playa Vista Chess Club, 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. Students of all abilities in grades 1 to 6 learn strategies from chess expert Ben Eubanks each Wednesday. Playa Vista Branch Library, 6400 Playa Vista Drive, Playa Vista. (310) 437-6680; lapl.org/branches/ playa-vista Unkle Monkey, 6 to 9 p.m. Acoustic soft rock and island music each Wednesday at The Warehouse, 4499 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 823-5451; mdrwarehouse.com NAMI Family-to-Family Program, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays through May 25. Sponsored by National Alliance on Mental Illness, this 12-week course is for adult family members and caregivers to learn important strategies and information about caring for loved ones who live with mental illnesses. Visitation School, 8740 S. Emerson Ave., Westchester. Free. (310) 892-8046; pstans5@aol.com
“Meditation: Overcoming Anger & Transforming Adversity,” 7:15 to 8:45 p.m. This drop-in Buddhist meditation class explores creative methods to overcome daily annoyances and difficulties. No experience necessary. Prajnaparamita Kadampa Buddhist Center, 2809 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 452-8100; meditateinwestla.org
Thursday, March 31
California Yacht Club Luncheon, noon. The CYC welcomes Lt. James Matthew Hurtt of the U.S. Coast Guard to share his experience commanding the Marina del Rey home-ported USGC Halibut, a Marine Protector class patrol boat. LTJG Hurtt will also speak on what boaters can do to safely enjoy their vessels, improve marine environments and avoid disasters while dockside and afloat. The USCG Halibut will be available for on-board visitation at the CYC Guest Dock. Happy hour begins
at noon, the luncheon at 12:20 p.m. and the presentation at 12:40 p.m. California Yacht Club, 4469 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. $20. RSVP to reservations@ calyachtclub.net. (310) 823-4567 Santa Monica READS, 4 p.m. The community reading program invites Santa Monica residents to read and discuss “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel in free book discussions and events throughout the city. Get started at the Ken Edwards Center, 1527 4th St., Santa Monica. (310) 458-8600; smpl.org
Galleries & Museums “Ayotzinapa: A Roar of Silence,” ends Sunday. An international touring mixed-media exhibition amplifying the story of the 43 Mexican students forcefully disappeared after Mexican state police handed them over to a drug cartel. SPARC’s Durón Gallery,
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
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 multidestination musical tour. Continues 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 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. Closing soon. Last shows are at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday (March 24 to 26) at The Actors’ Gang, 9070 Venice Blvd., Culver City. $30 to $34.99. (310) 838-4264; theactorsgang.com Literary Love Story: “I Take Your Hand in Mine” @ Pacific Resident Theatre Guillermo Cienfuegos directs a play charting the love story of playwright Anton Chekhov and his leading lady Olga Knipper through their intimate correspondence over six years and great distances. Run extended. Four additional performances at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday (March 24 to 25) and 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday (March 27). Pacific Resident Theatre, 703 Venice Blvd., Venice. $15 suggested donation. (310) 822-8392; pacificresidenttheatre.com 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
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The Toe-Tapper: “All Shook Up” @ Morgan-Wixson Theatre It’s 1955 and a guitarplaying roustabout rides into a little town, shaking things up with a hip-swiveling, lip-curling, blue-suede-shoes-groovin’ musical fantasy of Elvis classics such as “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Jailhouse Rock” and “Don’t Be Cruel.” Now playing at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through April 2 at Morgan-Wixson Theatre, 2627 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica. $23 to $28. (310) 828-7519; morgan-wixson.org
Jack Stehlin is Prospero and Mimi Davila is Miranda in “Tempest Redux” Boca turns the famous journey of the magician Prospero and his daughter Miranda into a movement-driven experience that also preserves the Bard’s The Tragic Windfall: verbal gymnastics and linguistic “A Gambler’s Guide to Dying” play. @ Ruskin Group Theatre Continues at 8 p.m. WednesA boy’s grandfather wins a fortune on the 1966 World Cup but days through Saturdays and at gambles it all on living to see the 2 p.m. Sundays through April 23 at Odyssey Theatre, 2055 S. year 2000 after he’s diagnosed Sepulveda Blvd., West L.A. $15 to with cancer. $45. (310) 477-2055 ext. 2; odysNow playing at 8 p.m. Fridays seytheatre.com and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through April 29 at Ruskin Group Theatre, 3000 Airport Ave., The Funny Bone Tickler: “Safe at Home: An Evening Santa Monica. $20 to $25. with Orson Bean” (310) 397-3244; ruskingroup@ Pacific Resident Theatre theatre.com If you missed it last season, here’s your second chance. AcShakespeare Remixed: tor, entertainer and longtime “Tempest Redux” Venice canals resident Orson @ Odyssey Theatre Bean opens up about his life Extended by popular deon stage and off in this automand, this stripped down take on Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” biographical adaptation of his self-published memoir. From directed by John FarmaneshWashington Blvd., Culver City. $25 to $55. (213) 972-4444; centertheatregroup.org
breaking into stand up at The Blue Angel in New York to walking on fire at an all-time career low, Bean shares the ups and downs of living in the spotlight. Continues at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays through April 10 at Pacific Resident Theatre, 703 Venice Blvd., Venice. $25 to $30. (310) 822-8392; pacificresident-theatre.org 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 Moulin Rouge-y: “A Night at the Black Cat Cabaret” @ Edgemar Center for the Arts Set in 1943 Paris, soldiers, smugglers and society’s elite all try to escape the war by dancing and drinking at the Black Cat Cabaret. Now playing at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through April 30 at Edgemar Center for the Arts, 2437 Main St., Santa Monica. $35 to $45. (310) 3927327; edgemar.org
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When the Gooing Gets Tough When my boyfriend and I are on the phone, he won’t sign off with “I love you” if his guy friends are around. Meanwhile, these guys have met me and most are in relationships. So what’s with his cool act? I know he loves me. Why be embarrassed to say it publicly? — Emotionally Honest There are a lot of ways a man can show that he loves you. Does it really have to be “Hold on, guys, while I give my balls to my girlfriend”? Women often think it’s a bad sign if a man won’t go all “wuvvywoo poopielou” in front of his bros. This worry is
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In other words, when you love a man, you show it by not demanding that his phone calls with you end in a social hanging. He’ll feel better, and you’ll ultimately respect him more. Sure, like other women, you may believe you want the ever mushy-ready “sensitive man” — until you start despising him for his compliance and dump him for someone a little more action hero. Those guys are men of few words — words like “I’ll be back” and not “Yes, dear, I’ll be back with a box of superplus extra-absorbency unscented.”
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Friends will remind you that your boyfriend loves you and tell you you’re being silly (read: shallow). Some will offer helpful suggestions, like “It’s all about the lighting!” They aren’t wrong. I suggest avoiding light entirely, like by FaceTiming from a dark closet. Another popular chant: “Wear concealer!” My recommendation: Le Burlap Bag Over Le Head. Right now, countless readers are getting ready to email me to tell me I’m an idiot. Hold your fire! First, male sexuality is highly visual — in a way female sexuality is not. And then there’s what psychologists call “the contrast effect” — how the attractiveness of someone or something changes, depending on the “neighborhood”: how attractive or unattractive the nearby alternatives are. So, you could be an easy 8.5 in Smalltownville but come to Hollywood (aka Mecca for every high school’s golden-blondiest cheerleader) and find yourself struggling to hang on to a 5.8. The contrast effect even holds true for somebody we love. In research by evolutionary psychologists Douglas
Kenrick and Steven Neuberg, when men in relationships were exposed to pictures of very attractive women, they perceived their partner as less attractive — and (eek!) felt less satisfied with and less committed to her. Obviously, looks aren’t all that matter. But sexual attraction naturally wanes over time. Best not to help it along with a “just keep your chins up!” attitude about FaceTiming. This isn’t to say you should leave your boyfriend visually starved. You can keep him well-supplied with images of you that you can control: selfies. These selfies could even be used for a “foreign correspondent” approach to FaceTime — keeping the camera on a still photo of yourself (like when a CNN reporter is on an audio-only connection from a tent outside of Jalalabad). This will allow you to focus on your boyfriend instead of on another man — one with the medical training to make your cavernous nasolabial folds look less like the place they’ll find Jimmy Hoffa, your dad’s coin collection and three hikers who disappeared in 1976.
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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).
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. 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).
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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.
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).
ment 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). NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR POLICE PERMIT Notice is hereby given that application has been made to the Board of Police Commissioners for a permit to conduct a (TYPE OF BUSINESS): Massage Establishment. NAME OF APPLICANT: Grandmaster Michael Milsungbark DOING BUSINESS AS: Ocean Massage LOCATED AT: 11957 West Santa Monica Blvd., #101, Los Angeles, Ca 90025. Any person desiring to protest the Issuance of this permit shall make a written protest before March 24, 2016 to the LOS ANGELES POLICE COMMISSION, 100 West First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Upon receipt of written protests, protesting persons will be notified on date, time, and place for hearing. BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS. Argonaut Published: March 17, 24, 2016.
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 objecFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT tion at least two court days before File No. 2016049341 the matter is scheduled to be heard The following person is doing busi- and must appear at the hearing to ness as: Real Orbit Star Travelers show cause why the petition should 1455 4th St. #303 Santa Monica, not be granted. If no written objecCA. 90401. Registered owntion is timely filed, the court may ers: James Palumbo 1455 4th St. #303 Danta Monica, CA. 90401. grant the petition without a hearThis business is conducted by an ing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: Individual. The registrant com- 4-1-16. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: M menced to transact business under Room: N/A. The address of the court the fictitious business name or is 825 Maple Ave. Torrance, CA. names listed above on n/a. I declare 90503. A copy of this Order to Show that all information in this statement Cause shall be published at least is true and correct. (A registrant once each week for four successive who declares as true any material weeks prior to the date set for hearmatter pursuant to Section 17913 ing on the petition in the following of the Business and Professions newspaper of general circulation, Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor printed in this county: The Argonaut. punishable by a fine not to exceed Original filed: February 5, 2016. one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Steven R. Van Sicklen, Judge of the Registrant Signature/Name: James Superior Court. PUBLISH: 02/25/16, Palumbo.March Title: Owner. state03/03/16, 03/10/2016, PAGE 03/17/1637 24, This 2016 THE ARGONAUT
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