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VOL 44, NO 18 Local News & Culture

OPINION

Letters to the editor.......................................................................5

NEWS

Car crashes through Baja Fresh...................................................8 LMU forum grapples with the NSA...............................................8 MdR awakens from Admiralty Way traffic nightmare.....................9

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Driver slams into MdR Baja Fresh

Tour early Venice with Charlie Chaplin

FEATURE

The future of digital moviemaking in L.A. remains uncertain after the bankruptcy of a leading Westside special effects house................10

THIS WEEK

The Venice of 100 years ago stars in silent movie night.............13 ARTBLOCK gives new access to creative spaces......................13 Westside Happenings.................................................................16 Fundraiser lifts A Window Between Worlds................................20 The Westside’s ultimate yard sale weekend...............................30

FOOD&DRINK

Sunny Spot is a hidden island fantasy........................................17

REAL ESTATE

Find your dream home................................................................21

BIZBUZZ

Openings, closings and other local business news....................30

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Jobs, apartments and more........................................................32 ON THE COVER: “Life After Pi” directors Christina Lee Storm and Scott Lebrecht. DESIGN BY ERNESTO ESQUIVEL.

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Let’s curb smoking at Venice Beach

An open letter to L.A. City Councilman Mike Bonin: It has been well over a year since I requested that you take action to protect your constituents from the ill effects of illegal smoking on the Venice boardwalk. The state has defined secondhand tobacco smoke as an “airborne toxic substance” and it is illegal to smoke on and west of the boardwalk, yet you have done absolutely nothing to protect your constituents from this well-established health hazard.

I recently walked round-trip from Navy Street to Windward Avenue and was hit in the face with tobacco smoke 32 times. I saw a dozen others smoking but avoided their effluent by holding my breath or changing course to remain upwind of them. Most of the smokers were vendors, many were vagrants, and some were visitors who don’t know it is illegal because there are no signs so stating. There are now graphic signs on the boardwalk’s cement advising “No Bicycles,” but nothing to advise “No Smoking.”

I saw no police presence during my few hours on the

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boardwalk yesterday, and I saw no enforcement of the law prohibiting smoking. The fact that “No Bicycles” signs were painted on the cement proves that “No Smoking” signs could also have been painted there.

By this email I hope to accomplish two goals: 1) Significantly curtail smoking on and west of the boardwalk; and 2) Make it known that you are a “no action” representative who will stand by while your constituents suffer the injury of illegal smoking.

I don’t expect anything more from you than your usual “we’re looking into it,” and I am writing only to let you know that I am dissatisfied with your representation and that I intend to pursue this matter politically through proper channels.

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Seeking clarity on an unclear law

It has come to my attention during neighborhood council meetings that our meetings have become more formal and, as a result, more restrictive. I also occasionally hear or read what I perceive to be inaccurate statements about the Brown Act. When it comes to matters of law, we need to be able to distinguish what is right and proper from what is illegal.

A real problem emerges when a majority of City Council members conspired with each other to loot their city. Those members are now facing sentencing for, as former L.A. County District Attorney Steve Cooley called it, “corruption on steroids.”

I am writing to The Argonaut about this because I have a copy of a letter dated Aug. 27, 2012, in which the writer makes this statement in regard to a query sent by a neighborhood council board member: “…You asked if a board member may send correspondence to a majority of members of a committee even if that board member is not on the committee. The answer is no because this is a prohibited serial communication.”

According to my Internet search, the term "serial communication" is used in the communication industry to refer to the process of sending data, one bit at a time, sequentially, over a communication channel or computer bus. How that can become prohibited when most of us daily use email and other digital devices confuses me.

Examination of the law, however, reveals that the

Brown Act, in CA Govt.

Code §54592.2(b)(1) names a majority of members who may not use a series of communications. Furthermore, in §54952.2(c)(1), the Brown Act specifically excludes contacts made by one member of a legislative body as long as the communication does not refer to another member.

So what I see in the letter I quote is a restriction that is not clear. “Serial communication” and “a series of communications” do not mean the same thing to all readers.

A board member, in particular, does not relinquish the right to communicate to avoid possibility of “serial communication.”

No harm is done when “a” or “one” member communicates.

The Brown Act harm arises when a majority of a legislative body decides to conceal meetings, as in the city of Bell where all five city council members concealed their decisions from the public.

But depriving a lawfully elected official of the right or duty to inform other officials is not just sloppy writing, it is not just.

As a matter of fact, I certainly would be greatly disappointed to know that an elected official was withholding information vital to the community.

At a time in Los Angeles when many neighborhood councils are holding elections, it is important for those who have the duty to inform us to understand their duty to make the law clear and unambiguous.

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In Natural Awakenings Magazine, self-help guru and lecturer Marianne Williamson claimed that we have the power to redeem our world. As a Democrat-turned-Independent, she is running for Congress. Not content with changing the world one soul at a time, she believes that she can heal Congress’ soul with a big hug of liberalprogressive bipartisanship.

Her latest mailer, however, highlights endorsements from leading Democrats: former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, retired Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison, and former “Desperate Housewife” Eva Longoria.

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That’s real progress. Kucinich is now a Fox News contributor who suggested that Obama should be impeached, should he use military force in Syria without congressional approval. Kucinich is more limited government than progressive, to say the least. Congressman Ellison claimed that Obamacare-related job losses are a good thing because “Americans work too much anyway.� Most Americans are not working at all or losing hours because of Obamacare. How is that progress? As for actress Eva Longoria: is Williamson’s campaign remotely serious?

In the same mailer, Williamson attacks “expanding corporate influence� in politics. Doesn’t corporate influence expose more people to her books and lectures, too? She then compares her independent status to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described socialist.

If anyone wants to call socialism progress, consider the bankrupted nations of Europe, fraught with tax fraud, government unionism and welfare-state profligacy.

Williamson also wants to “disrupt the political system� and “renew our dedication to democracy.� The Constitution instituted a republic, frustrating popular democracy as well as special-interest elitism. The Tea Party movement is disrupting business as usual in Washington.

To redeem Washington, D.C., Williamson should have run as a conservative.

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Put that moocher Bundy out of business

It’s perversely ironic for rancher Cliven Bundy to excoriate poor people for collecting government subsidies while ripping off the federal government for $1 million in grazing fees. But even if he were to pay up, Bundy and his fellow ranchers would still be living on government welfare.

Livestock grazing is subsidized by federal agencies on 270 million acres of public land in 11 western states to the tune of nearly $300 million annually.

Monthly grazing fees per cow and calf on private rangeland average $11.90, but corresponding fees on federal lands are set at a paltry $1.35.

Even so, grazing subsidies are dwarfed by other government subsidies and the medical, environmental and other external costs imposed on society by animal agriculture. These extra costs have been estimated at $414 billion annually, or $3,600 per household.

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LMU forum grapples with the NSA

Panel led by congresswoman explores tug-of-war between privacy and security Photo by Veronica Puleo

The ACLU’s Gabe Rottman and author Julia Angwin speak during the forum at LMU

By Gary Walker Rep. Maxine Waters (DLos Angeles) and a panel of constitutional law experts engaged in spirited debate with students last Thursday during a Loyola Marymount University forum weighing the need for domestic electronic surveillance against citizens’ rights to privacy.

The panel, moderated by

Waters, represented a diversity of viewpoints on the ethics and effectiveness of National Security Administration spying at home and abroad.

Julia Angwin, a reporter for the news website ProPublica who led a team reporting on NSA wiretapping for The Wall Street Journal, said government surveillance has become an

important, and so is having the kind of public accountability and transparency that we all want in every other part of our government,” Eastman said.

“You cannot run a war and have it be played out simultaneously across the pages of our nation’s newspapers. So somewhere we’re going to have to reconcile these two significant competing interests — our national security and the interests in the government not having too much information on us,” Eastman said.

During the audience Q-and-A portion of the forum, LAX Coastal Chamber of Commerce spokeswoman Rachel Horning asked a succinct question: “Edward Snowden: whistle blower or traitor?”

“If we assume that the programs [that Snowden leaked] lost effectiveness, than he is a traitor,” Eastman responded.

Angwin countered that there is no evidence that any of the programs that Snowden disclosed had been rendered less effective.

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legislation to limit the NSA’s ability to collect electronic data on American citizens, asked panelists whether information unrelated to national security that is obtained through government wiretapping might nonetheless be used against the surveillance target.

American Civil Liberties Union attorney and legislative policy advisor Gabe Rottman responded that the use of information obtained unintentionally was a complicated issue.

“When you have these types of programs, the inadvertent misuse of this kind of information is almost as dangerous as the adverted, malicious use of information,” Rottman said. “It could be exploited and used for political gain, and that’s why we understand that the twin evils that we need to be concerned about are secrecy and discretion.

That’s why we need transparency and oversight by neutral arbiters to ensure that our investigative tools are being employed ª effectively.” gary@argonautnews.com

and information about the driver and the cause of the crash was not available.

Officers with the Los Angeles Police Dept.’s West Traffic Bureau also responded, but “since no one was transported [to the hospital], no report was taken,” traffic investigator Lee

Willmon said.

LAPD officers only file collision reports when an incident involves an injury, city property is damaged, or a driver flees the scene or appears to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

“We were very lucky, because

there was glass everywhere,” said Winter, 44. “My friend didn’t even move, but it did scare me.”

The restaurant closed after the crash but reopened on Monday, an employee said. ª — Gary Walker

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unfocused pursuit that unjustly entangles Americans who are not suspected of criminal activity.

“To me, as a citizen, that feels less fair than targeted surveillance directed at a known bad guy,” said Angwin, who recently published the book “Dragnet Nation.” “I think we need more information to evaluate these dragnets … but I do feel that dragnets inherently feel unfair. Indiscriminate surveillance — ubiquitous surveillance of me when I’m not a suspect — would not have happened previous to this technological era.”

John Eastman, founding director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, countered that the threat of terrorists operating in the shadows requires such vigilance.

“We are in a war and we don’t have divisions of troops or ships and planes that we can point to.

The most significant front in this war is the information front.

And if that’s true, then collecting that information is critically

The car that crashed into the Baja Fresh in Marina Marketplace on Saturday sent shards of glass flying into the restaurant, a witness said

Car slams into Marina del Rey Baja Fresh A handful of diners taking a late lunch on Saturday at the Baja Fresh in Marina Marketplace were startled but not hurt when a late model Mercedes slammed into the building, sending shards of glass into the restaurant.

“I thought it was a gunshot.

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As luck would have it, there were no customers eating near the front window when the car crashed through it, she said.

Los Angeles County Fire Dept. paramedics treated the driver on scene but did not transport the driver to a hospital, department spokesman Brian Humphrey said.

No other injuries were reported,

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Tony Palermo (center, holding a large bottle of champagne) gathered members of the Marina del Rey business community in front of his restaurant on Monday to toast the end of Admiralty Way construction

Admiralty Way roadwork comes to an end Local businesses impacted by traffic gridlock celebrate with a champagne toast on Marina del Rey’s main thoroughfare

By Joe Piasecki and Gary Walker Marina del Rey’s long traffic nightmare appears to be over.

To celebrate the completion of a county roadway improvement project that snarled traffic on Admiralty Way for seven months, Marina del Rey business leaders gathered in the center of the harbor’s main traffic artery on Monday for a brief champagne toast.

“We want to send a message to the community that you can come down here and it doesn’t take a half-hour to get from one end of the street to the other anymore,” said Tony P’s Dockside Grill owner Tony Palermo, who organized the gathering in front of his restaurant.

Palermo was joined by staff from other Admiralty Way businesses such as Café Del Rey, The Warehouse restaurant, Jamaica Bay Inn, the Hilton Garden Inn and the Ritz-Carlton

Marina del Rey as well as members of the LAX Coastal Chamber of Commerce, the Marina del Rey Convention & Visitors Bureau, L.A. County Dept. of Beaches and Harbors spokeswoman Carol Baker, firefighters with L.A. County Fire Station No. 110 (next door to Tony P’s) and Marina del Rey Sheriff’s Station Capt. Reggie Gautt.

“From an emergency-response standpoint, we’re really glad to have the roadways clear and free,” Gautt said.

“The improvements were much needed, but we’re happy to have everything back to business as usual,” LAX Coastal Chamber of Commerce President Christina Davis said. “We’re absolutely thrilled the roadwork is finally done and that everybody can move freely through Marina del Rey and support all these local businesses with ease.”

Closures and construction along all 1.8 miles of Admiralty Way from Fiji Way to Via Marina

began last year after the L.A. County Board of Supervisors approved a series of harbor infrastructure upgrades in late 2012.

Improvements along Admiralty Way included median reconfiguration and landscape replacement work, street light relocation, turn pocket modifications and new traffic signals, signage and pavement.

The project also created two left turn lanes from southbound on Admiralty onto Mindanao Way. The project began with the removal of ficus trees that were planted in Marina del Rey more than 40 years ago and developed wide root systems that lifted and cracked pavement along Admiralty Way. The L.A. County Dept. of Public Works has already begun planting varieties of native trees in roadway medians to replace the ficus. A total of 82 trees will be planted to replace 55 that were removed last year, Public Works spokesman Bob Spencer said.

“It’s significant that the ficus trees were ripping up the curbs and the sidewalks. They were obviously a safety hazard for pedestrians and people who were cycling,” Baker said. “I know that the [new] trees are small, but they’re going to grow and thrive and they’ll be much better in the long run.”

Cheryl Burnett, spokeswoman for Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe, said officials are planning further changes to Marina del Rey’s public trees.

“In the interest of having planning and coordination, we’re looking at having a palate of trees for the whole marina to replace the ficus trees,” Burnett said. “We want visitors and neighbors to expect it.”

Future Public Works plans for the marina include a waterline replacement project along Via Marina and Fiji Way that is slated to begin later this year.

Officials say upgrades are needed to meet residential water service

and fire-protection demands.

“We will continue to do our high-level of outreach with the Marina Lessees Assn., the Marina Convention & Visitors Bureau, the Design Control Board and Marina del Rey residents on what projects are going on and how they are coming along,” said Spencer.

Palermo said some inconveniences to residents and businesses might have been avoided during the Admiralty Way project had tree removals and street repairs been accomplished in block-byblock phases instead of one long project.

“People would call me and say, ‘I love you man, but I don’t have half an hour to get there and half an hour to get back.’ We were down about 12%. It was a long 200 days,” Palermo said. “In the future we would like the business community to be involved before construction. But like they say, it’s over. We’re here, come see us ª again.”

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Feature Video still from “Life After Pi”

A darker side of movie magic Christina Lee Storm and Scott Leberecht question the future of digital moviemaking in L.A. with a film chronicling the bankruptcy of a Westside special effects house on the eve of Oscar glory

By Michael Aushenker The success of the $600-million global blockbuster “Life of Pi” hinged on dazzling visual effects epitomized by Richard Parker, the nearly 100% computeranimated but hyper realistic Bengal tiger stranded in a rowboat in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

But on Feb. 11, 2013 — two weeks before winning an Academy Award for that work — the venerable special effects house Rhythm & Hues filed for bankruptcy and abruptly terminated 256 employees.

The crash and burn of an industry leader that had once employed 700 people in a threebuilding campus near Playa Vista rippled through the visual effects community, which expressed anger and frustration with demonstrations on social media and outside the Oscar ceremony.

“Life of Pi,” which had gone on hiatus mid-production, was accused of contributing to R&H’s bankruptcy.

Ang Lee, who had publicly censured the visual effects industry for being too expensive, didn’t mention R&H while accepting the award for best director for “Life of Pi.” Adding insult to injury, when R&H Visual Effects Supervisor Bill

Westenhofer tried to bring up the industry’s troubles in his Oscar acceptance speech, the orchestra drowned him out with John Williams’ ominous “Jaws” theme.

During its heyday in the late 1990s, R&H had ruled alongside Industrial Light and Magic and Digital Domain Media Group as one of the visual effects industry’s “Big Three.” At a time when more movies than ever rely on complicated visual effects, how could R&H have been so unceremoniously dethroned?

In short, Hollywood’s visual effects houses have succumbed to two long-brewing undercurrents.

One is “the fixed bid,” in which the visual effects house, instead of the studio, winds up incurring costs on additional work and payroll expenditures caused by unexpected studio delays in production and significant overhauls to scripts midstream.

“We can weather one project being delayed, but so many projects were delayed so close to one another. You can shuffle, but if everything is delayed, you’re in trouble,” R&H founder Keith Goldfarb said.

The other issue involves lucrative subsidies that Photo courtesy of Scott Leberecht

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Rhythm & Hues visual effects artists layered digital muscle, skin and fur to create the lifelike tiger in “Life of Pi”

encourage studios to outsource visual effects work to other states or countries.

State Sen. Ted Lieu, who represents Westside communities, helped a film and television production tax credit bill make its way into law despite state budget troubles during the recession.

As chair of the California Legislature’s Joint Committee on the Arts, Lieu is working to increase tax credits by $100 million “because clearly it has not been enough to stop runaway production,” he said.

But Dan Lay, a veteran special effects supervisor who formed the trade group Association of Digital Artists, Professionals and Technicians (ADAPT), doesn’t believe tax credits are the answer. The subsidies race is a fool’s game of one-upmanship, he said, in which “even if California offers more, sooner or later someone will offer even more. There’s no long-term solution and there’s no end for this.”

Moreover, said Lay, “Why does this film industry want taxpayers to bail them out even though the studios are doing fine?”

“We think the whole paradigm is broken, but what can we do about it?” Goldfarb said. “We’re not fond of being the poster child.”

‘Life After Pi’ On Feb. 25 of this year, a 30-minute documentary on the rise and fall of Rhythm &

“All these people out of visual effects school with the promise of jobs, there’s not enough work and you’re going to be a migrant worker. Don’t plan on buying a house.”

— Scott Squires, veteran visual effects supervisor

Hues was uploaded to YouTube.

Produced by former R&H manager of digital production Christina Lee Storm and directed by longtime and current R&H art director Scott Leberecht, “Life After Pi” provides an easy-todigest overview of the collision of fixed bids and subsidies that led to R&H’s bankruptcy.

The film juxtaposes emotional interviews with company founders, including Goldfarb, against footage of employees before and after the layoffs.

“You get the wind taken out from under you,” Lee Storm said.

“You’re hoping you’re doing really great, solid work. [But that success] didn’t attract more work [to R&H]. It’s really sad.”

According to industry trade

publications, R&H filed for Chapter 11 with $27.5 million in assets and $33.8 million in liabilities. In the run up to the end, Legendary Pictures, 20th Century Fox Studios and Universal Studios loaned R&H about $20 million to keep payroll going long enough for the effects house to wrap production on films in progress.

Soon after the bankruptcy, Santa Monica-based 34x118 Holdings — a subsidiary of Prana, a computer-animation and visual-effects company based in Los Angeles — beat out rivals Prime Focus and the Chinese company Brave Vision to purchase R&H. Current spokespeople for Rhythm & Hues, which

ArgonautNews.com Instead of leaving R&H and taking the vacation payout, Capizzi accepted what he called “a sideways promotion.”

Shortly after losing his job, Capizzi lead a class action lawsuit on behalf of laid-off employees.

In September, “We came up with a settlement of $3,000 to $4,000 [per employee],” Capizzi said, with some employees, depending on their seniority, getting more. Checks were cut in January.

Despite the lawsuit, Capizzi emphasizes his high regard for namesake founder John Hughes.

Capizzi said Hughes managed to set aside millions in reserve to guarantee staff payroll despite the loss of huge annual research and development tax credits in 2009.

“John Hughes protected that so everyone would get something,” said Capizzi, who received an additional $11,725 through that set-aside. “To his credit, I’m still living off that.”

‘So it doesn’t happen again’ Caprizzi’s admiration for Hughes and the days of Rhythm & Hues past is also common throughout the interviews in “Life After Pi.” Founded in 1987 by Hughes, Goldfarb and four others, R&H quickly ascended as a leading progenitor of visual effects for movies, television and commercials, animating everything from the talking pig in “Babe” to those ubiquitous Coca-Cola polar bear spots.

The company relocated in 1995 from a small building in Hollywood to much bigger, Playa Vista-adjacent digs on Jandy Place (just south of Jefferson Boulevard), where it remained for 15 years.

“The building in Playa Vista had a central corridor along with

Illustration by Jesse Toves

reportedly employs 300 people at offices in India, Vancouver and El Segundo, declined to have company leadership speak on the record for this story.

By the time R&H was taken over, even its top competitors were in dire shape. Digital Domain co-founder James Cameron had left the company years before it was acquired by a Chinese company in late 2012, and financial troubles at George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic were curtailed when Disney bought out Lucasfilm for $4 billion. Digital Domain is now headquartered in Vancouver and ILM in London.

Computer graphics supervisor Tom Capizzi, 55, was among the 256 laid off at Rhythm & Hues.

Today, he remains unemployed.

As early as 2012 —while R&H worked to establish an effects house for “Life of Pi” in Taiwan — Capizzi could see dark clouds swirling on the horizon, only this time it wasn’t a studio assignment on his computer monitor.

A former lead digital artist at Rhythm & Hues, Capizzi had worked with the company since 1996 on many high-profile jobs: “X-Men 2,” “Daredevil,” “Stuart Little,” “Hunger Games.”

But when R&H started missing payroll, “I noticed something was dramatically wrong,” he said.

Capizzi contemplated jumping to Disney, where an exciting offer awaited to oversee “WreckIt Ralph.”

Thanks to R&H’s “extremely generous vacation plan,” the visual effects veteran had racked up plenty of unused paid vacation.

“I could have taken a whole year off,” he said. But as a divorced dad with children to support, “I was just working through one show onto another.”

Faceless studio heads are deaf and blind to how fixed bids and production delays are killing visual effects houses in this cartoon by Jesse Toves featured in “Life After Pi”

a big stairwell so you’d run into people there,” fostering better communication on projects, Goldfarb said.

R&H was such an informal and personable company, Goldfarb said it was only after being pressed by a reporter that he learned his actual title — vice president in charge of software.

“They really fostered an environment to celebrate the artist,” Lee Storm said of her higher-ups, who rewarded employees with catered lunches and company barbecues.

In 2010, R&H moved to a facility in El Segundo that foreshadowed a change in company culture, Goldfarb said.

“What bothered me was the building itself — six floors with a small footprint. Employees are very reticent to move from one floor to another,” Goldfarb said.

“The perks went away because we were bigger. You don’t Video still from “Life After Pi”

A Rhythm & Hues company photo from happier days

have any room to have lunch together.”

Lee Storm, who joined the company in 2008, held on a bit longer than Capizzi but soon resigned and moved on.

Goldfarb survived the February 2013 layoffs, but two months later his contract was not renewed. Hughes was also let go from the company he founded.

“The documentary does a pretty good job,” Goldfarb said. “It’s very hard to express in words what it was like walking through the hallway, people alone in their office where they once had coworkers. Morale had sunk.”

What Goldfarb will miss most, he said, is “the people, of course.”

The makers of “Life After Pi” say their documentary “was never intended to reflect badly on the new owners or the new operators of the company. The intent was, let’s freeze this moment so we don’t forget it.

So it doesn’t happen again,” Leberecht said.

Many R&H workers who lost their jobs to the bankruptcy have vilified “Life of Pi” director Lee for his apparent apathy toward the industry’s plight, but Goldfarb said it is unfair to single out Lee. “It could have been any project.

When [Lee] spoke it was absolutely the norm to think of visual effects as post-production and to think of post-production as not part of production.”

Former R&H staffers have listed several films with production delays that set the company back, including “The Seventh Son,” the “Percy Jackson” sequel and “Marmaduke.”

Playing with a stacked deck What happened to R&H essentially happened to California’s entire visual effects industry.

“It was the perfect storm of underbidding subsidies, the fixed bid and outsourcing,” said Scott Squires, a 20-year ILM visual effects supervisor whose experience runs the gamut from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” to “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.”

With so many movies dependent on effects today, Squires sees the studio-effects house relationship as “directly inverse — basically every movie coming out has visual effects, even independent movies,” he said.

Compounding the demand for effects-driven films has been the rapid rise of the foreign box office, a once-afterthought market that now routinely overshadows domestic revenue.

Every visual effects job starts with the fixed bid — the visual effects house’s initial budget estimate. “[The studios] take that number and shop it around to try to get even lower and lower,” Capizzi said. “Their attitude is, ‘If you don’t do it, we’ll take it elsewhere.’”

When projects stall, initial budgets fall apart. “‘Life of Pi’ was delayed. It goes on hiatus for four months, then we pick it up again,” Lee Storm recalled. “Continuity, quality is interrupted. There is a specific group of people who can do, for example, water. They got placed on other films.”

Making matters even more difficult, studios often greenlight (Continued on next page)

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After a year off, Goldfarb is starting Santa Monica-based Blackthorn Media, a content and visual effects company (Continued from previous page) involving several ex-R&H people. films before scripts are finalized. When “What we hope [‘Life After Pi’] does is test screenings reveal story problems, create more dialogue and discussion on visual work stops for months before the state of things,” Leberecht said. resuming, Leberecht said.

Leberecht and Lee Storm intend to keep Now there is less time to do more work; that conversation going by incorporating significant extra work, which studios do their film as one chapter in a larger not remunerate. documentary about globalization’s impact Overages do not always stem from on Hollywood’s future and “how we’re stalled projects or overhauls. Sometimes paying for it,” Lee Storm said. it’s as subtle as “replacing a sky,” ADAPT founder Lay, who worked for Leberecht said.

Digital Domain until last fall, bills himself Before computerized digital effects, as one of the boots on the ground fighting back when Squires ran his optical house to combat his industry’s dysfunction.

Dreamquest in the late 1980s, work “was Author of industry blog vfxsoldier, which on a rate card. Every specialist was so he ran anonymously until outing himself much per hour. If they wanted three more last November, Lay led a demonstration weeks, it will cost you more,” he said. of 600 people outside the March 2 Studios thus scheduled their release Academy Awards. based on the time needed to create the Lay and ADAPT are challenging effects. subsidies in the U.S. Court of Today, it’s the other way around.

International Trade, with the goal of “They could double the amount of work levying mandatory duties at producers and your deadline still doesn’t change,” taking subsidies. He’s been heartened by Squires said. recent developments.

By the mid-1990s, tax subsidies began Last month, the Motion Picture Assoc. of rolling in as Canada started offering big America submitted documents to the court money, as did the United Kingdom — that, while trying to strengthen anti-piracy including for the first Harry Potter film in laws, deemed electronically transmitted 2001, which snagged the U.K. seven more digital products no different than imported Potter films. tangible goods. Lay argues on his blog As technology improved and got that should the Tariff Act apply it would cheaper, with less overhead and capital include anti-subsidy provisions imposing investment required, more players entered duties on imported effects work, thus the game. Competition grew — both discouraging studio outsourcing. among effects houses vying for work and “It bolstered our case incredibly,” Lay among states and countries offering ever- said. increasing subsidies.

Also boosting ADAPT’s cause is With the rise of expensive “sure bets” an increase in skepticism about film such as Marvel movies, “Lord of the production subsidies.

Rings”-level fantasy franchises and While negotiating an extension of young adult book adaptations led by North Carolina’s subsidy program, “Twilight” reaping in billions, the summer state legislators conducted a study that blockbuster season became all year long. calculated economic benefits below Thus, studios are lured by subsidies MPAA figures, and similar scrutiny outside California to offset monumental occurred in Oklahoma. budgets.

“Never have I seen the media more “If Vancouver trims back its subsidies interested questioning these programs,” and they’ve got 3,000 effects workers Lay said. there, now they’re losing the work and Lieu, meanwhile, is looking to keep 3,000 workers are unemployed,” Squires the film industry at work locally, citing said. “That’s what we call a race to the a recent report commissioned by Otis bottom.”

College of Art and Design that found Hollywood has suffered a brain drain as creative industry jobs and spending were visual effects talent leaves California to force multipliers in generating local chase work elsewhere. economic activity.

“All these people out of visual effects “We’re branded for our movie and TV school with the promise of jobs, there’s industry, and it’s something we need to not enough work and you’re going to be keep here in the Golden State,” said Lieu. a migrant worker. Don’t plan on buying a “Ultimately, what the [Otis] study shows house,” said Squires. is that for every dollar you spend, you get much more getting back.”

Brighter days ahead?

Rhythm and Hues continues to work on For now, it appears Hollywood’s visual major studio films but has also expanded effects industry is not unlike the digital its focus to theme entertainment and Richard Parker, adrift in an eternal sea of intellectual property creation, recently uncertainty. winning a technical achievement award “A lot of people are out of work … for proprietary technology. running out of money, and it’s very bad,” Goldfarb and Capizzi declined to said Goldfarb. speculate on R&H’s future.

Conversely, Goldfarb believes many of “I don’t know much about the company,” these unemployed talents now “have an said co-founder Goldfarb. “The Rhythm opportunity for movement when things & Hues I knew is no longer.” ª are shaken up.” michael@argonautnews.com

•This Week•

A night at the silent movies

Organist Christoph Bull accompanies classic shorts by Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd with his mighty 1921 Wurlitzer

Charlie Chaplin debuts his Tramp persona in 1914’s “Kid Auto Races at Venice”

By Michael Aushenker Get a glimpse of what Venice looked like 100 years ago at Saturday’s Charlie Chaplin Centennial in Santa Monica, where a program of silent film shorts includes “Kid Auto Races at Venice,” the Chaplin short that introduced his Little Tramp persona.

Other classics on the evening’s bill include Chaplin in “The Immigrant” (1917), Harold Lloyd in “Never Weaken” (1921), a restored and hand-colorized version of George Melies’ 1902 fantasy film “A Trip to the Moon” and the 1922 Buster Keaton short “Cops” — each accompanied by acclaimed organist Christoph Bull on his 1921 Wurlitzer theater pipe organ.

Growing up in Mannheim, Germany, Bull started playing piano at age 5, organ by age 8, and classical pipe organs at church by age 12. He trained with a piano teacher who taught

him to improvise as well as play repertoire — skills that come in handy manning the Wurlitzer during silent-movie screenings.

It was during an event at UCLA’s Royce Hall that Bull first accompanied silent movies with the organ, making his scoring debut with Keaton’s “The General.”

Before a public screening, Bull absorbs a movie at least five times.

“When I first watch it, I don’t do it with playing,” said the Elysian Valley resident. “I get familiar with the movie then write down ideas.”

The final performance is “usually a mixture of implementing preconceived themes and reacting in the moment. There’s some planning so I don’t have to go on completely naked,” Bull said.

No two organists usually accompany a movie the same way.

“To a certain extent, it’s interpreting and paraphrasing the movie,” Bull said. “Honestly, I’m going to express my version of the movie. Others may do something funny while I may play something sad.”

Ultimately, he said, “The whole trick is that it must enhance the movie, but it should not distract.”

With so many comedies on the bill, Bull’s soundtrack is sure to be competing with lots of laughs.ª The Charlie Chaplin Centennial, which also promises screenings of silent cartoons and appearances by surprise special guests, benefits the Santa Monica High School band program. Screenings start at 7 p.m. Saturday at Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School, 601 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. Tickets are $10 or $5 for students and seniors. Call (310) 395-3204, ext.

71586, or visit samohiband.org. michael@argonautnews.com

Art from a different angle Sunday’s ARTBLOCK tour brings viewers into the places where 64 Venice artists do their thing people,” said ARTBLOCK coorganizer and muralist Francisco Letelier.

Among 64 participating artists on the tour are Bill Attaway, Ara Bevacqua, Alberto Bevacqua, Alisabeth Brown, Gregory Weir-Quiton, Juri Koll and Kate Wolfgang Savage on Sunset Avenue; Bee Colman and Sandy Bleifer on Sunset Court; Diana Hobson, Michele Castagnetti, Jon Grauman and Kwaku Alston on Abbot Kinney Boulevard; Trace Palmer, Victoria Livingstone, Stephanie Visser on Vernon Avenue; and Natasa Stearns Prosenc, Rohitash Rao, Amy Kaps and Marianne Magne on Electric Avenue.

Sunday’s event represents ARTBLOCK’s third occurrence in one year. Rounding its first anniversary, ARTBLOCK celebrates with new elements this time around: more participating artists and a portable bus gallery parked near Sunset and 4th (Continued on page 32)

Photo by Helen K. Garber

By Michael Aushenker At most fine art happenings, the viewer does not get to see an artist’s creations until it’s left his or her studio and hit the gallery wall. On Sunday, ARTBLOCK flips the script — or the canvas, as the case may be — to bring art lovers and collectors alike into the creator’s space.

ARTBLOCK aims for a different idea than that of the venerable Venice Art Crawl but shares the Art Crawl’s spirit of boosting the talent in our midst.

The artist-run, open-studio event is free to attend and includes free bus and pedicab service to bring art lovers to art creators at their Venice studios.

Attendees pick up a map at 4th and Sunset Avenues, where many studios are centered, and look for flags marking participating venues. Most of these creative spaces are rarely open to the public.

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Venice’s Sunny Spot greets visitors with a view of a block wall. There’s a sign too, and a banner announcing brunch service, but there’s no hint Inside or out, Sunny Spot is aptly named of whether the experience is rustic, formal or something in and bits of nutty quinoa, and cut in small pieces, so there was between. The wall does serve makes it a fine, refreshing starter. no way to get any that wasn’t two purposes — it blocks the The plantain chips served with completely coated. We ate every street noise that would otherwise the ceviche wouldn’t be my first bit, however, because almost invade the establishment, and choice — corn chips would have anything covered with that sauce it makes it so that visitors are been a better flavor match — but would be delicious, though greeted with a surprise as they on the whole it was successful. it would have been a better enter the patio. That oasis of There’s rum in more than the presentation and experience with lemon trees, hanging vines and sauces here, with an exceptional the meat whole or the sauce on deco-colored outdoor furniture sipping rum list and some very the side. The lamb was served changes only slightly as you inventive cocktails. A mix of with saffron rice, black beans move indoors to a bright space Dominical rum, lime, honey, and coleslaw for a well-balanced reminiscent of a Caribbean beach absinthe and champagne was plate. bar. Inside or out, Sunny Spot is delightful, and an old fashioned We finished with a marvelous well named. that used both bourbon and rum dessert — made-to-order ciabatta The menu here is vaguely went down easy. They have non- bread pudding with pears, raisins Jamaican, but the island is an rum based cocktails too, and and coconut. This takes about inspiration rather than a template, whatever your tipple there will be 15 minutes to make, so order it and in some cases the names on something to pique your interest. when your main course arrives the menu are misleading. A case The entrée menu offers more if you are in a hurry to dine, in point is the “What a Jerk” Jamaican- and Cuban-inspired but if you have ever liked bread chicken wings. In Jamaica, jerk dishes, and we mulled over pudding in your life, order it. The chicken is slow-roasted after some alluring seafood items crisp pudding is baked in a small being coated with an allspicebefore taking our server’s advice skillet and has a crème brûléeand pepper-laced rub, then and ordering oxtail pasta and type caramelized topping with sauced with a vinegar-based Jamaican roasted lamb. The pasta fruit and spice notes. It’s as fine a concoction that ups the heat was quite a departure from the way to finish a meal as anything further. Here chicken is breaded other things we had tried, the offered on the Westside. with a flour mix that contains tender meat tossed with shell We spent $56 on food before tax hints of allspice and herbs, pasta and mustard greens in a and tip, and almost that amount southern-fried and placed on a delicately spiced lemon, parsley on cocktails — we had ordered bed of that jerk sauce. It might and garlic sauce. It was a dish some of the more expensive be a disappointment to someone that any Italian restaurant might drinks, and it would be easy to expecting traditional jerk proudly claim, down to the hint spend less. We left the restaurant chicken, but it’s done so well that of red pepper that Sicilian chefs all smiles and ready for a return you can’t help but like it. use to add zest to a mild dish. visit. We want to bring friends to The Caribbean connection The lamb also had its virtues, the walled garden on Washington is even further removed in starting with a richly spicy sauce to enjoy the surprises in store the salmon ceviche — and reminiscent of a Mexican mole here. ª yes, ceviche is popular on the or Trinidad-style curry. The Sunny Spot is open from 11:30 Caribbean coast of Mexico, but only problem was that the sauce a.m. to 11 p.m. Mondays through salmon do not swim in that sea. overwhelmed the lamb flavor to Fridays and 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. on The rum-laced crème fraiche the point that we couldn’t tell that weekends. Full bar; corkage $15. marinade has mild green onion it was lamb — the meat had been Valet parking.

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National Day of Prayer, 8 a.m.

Themed “One Voice, United in Prayer,” join in the annual Santa Monica observance of the National Day of Prayer to pray for armed forces, families and more at the amphitheater at Tongva Park, west of City Hall between Main St. and Ocean Ave., 1615 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica. Coffee available. (310) 365-8219

Figure Drawing, 7 to 9 p.m. Bring paper, pencils, water colors and imagination to create art at REAL Creative Space, 6207 W. 87th St., Westchester. Every Thursday; 1st/3rd Thursday from 7-9 p.m.; 2nd/4th Thursday 3-5 p.m. $20.

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Laughter Yoga,7 to 8 p.m. Come to a different kind of yoga with laughing, stretching, clapping, breathing and relaxing at the Santa Monica Public Library, 601 Santa

Kurt: A Durlesser, Poeina Suddarth and Sauceda, 8 p.m.

Listen to a variety of live music including ethereal pop at Good Hurt, 12249 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista.

(310) 390-1076; goodhurt.com

Sundown Standup, 8 p.m.

Ginsberg, Morrison and NOW Comedy perform comedy on stage at the Venice Bistro, 323 Ocean Front Walk, Venice Beach. No cover.

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REALCreativeSpace.com John Mullane, Theresa Young and James Bond, 7 p.m. Listen to live music at Witzend, 1717 Lincoln Blvd., Venice. $10. (310) 305-4792; witzendlive.com

Friday, May 2 May the 2nd be with You Stop-Motion Animation Video Creation, 6 to 8 p.m. Participate in a Stop-Motion Animation VideoMaking Session and create a “May the 4th be with you” Star Wars Lego video. Also meet Stop-Motion Animation teacher Vera McNeel and Comic Book 101 Teacher Dana Moreshead at REAL Creative Space,

Mason’s Noise Parlour, 8 p.m.

Comedian and performance artist Milo Borsuk, singer-songwriter Vanessa Achoy and more are featured at the fourth installment of Noise Parlour at Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice. (310) 822-3006; beyondbaroque.org Salsa Dancing, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Take a group lesson and

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enjoy a night of salsa dancing at The Warehouse Restaurant, 4499 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. $8. 18+. (310) 823-5451; warehousemarinadelrey.com, warehousesalsa.com Brahms Third Racket, California Windfall and Ocean Empire, 9:15 p.m. to midnight Live rock music at Rusty’s Surf Ranch, 256 Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica. $7.

(310) 393-7437; rustyssurfranch.com Janna’s Birthday, 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. at Brennan’s Pub, 4089 Lincoln Blvd., Marina del Rey. No cover. 21+. (310) 821-6622; brennanspub-la.com Rockmo Entertainment Presents.

Live music at Good Hurt, 12249 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista. (310) 3901076; goodhurt.com

Saturday, May 3 21st annual Venice Garden & Home Tour, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tour 30 homes representing the creativity and diversity of Venice residential architecture during this annual event benefitting the Neighborhood Youth Association. The tour focuses on pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods east of Abbot Kinney Boulevard and near the boardwalk. Start the tour at the Neighborhood Youth Association, 1016 Pleasant View Ave., Venice. Tickets are $60 to $70. For more info, see last week’s feature at argonautnews.com. (310) 821-1857; venicegardentour.org Compulsive Eaters Anonymous, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m. Join this worldwide fellowship of men and women recovering from compulsive eating, bulimia and anorexia to share experiences, strengths and hopes at the First Presbyterian Church, 1220 2nd St., Santa Monica. Free. Every Saturday. (310) 305-8882.

Biannual Playa Vista Yard Sale, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Residents of Playa Vista sell many items at Concert Park, Playa Vista.

5th Annual Show and Sale, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. See collections of bromeliads, listen to lectures and view demonstrations to learn about these exotic plants and even buy a plant at Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium, 4117 Overland Ave. at Culver Blvd., Culver City. Also Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

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Meditation Workshop, 11 a.m.

Doug Frankel discusses benefits of meditation and techniques to reduce stress and enhance productivity and concentration at the Lloyd Taber Marina del Rey Library, 4533 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. Free. (310) 821-3415.

2014 Secular Ceremonies, 2 p.m. Witness Bar/Bat Mitzvah ceremonies where students present coming-of-age observances at The Sholem Community of Los Angeles, Culver City. Also 5/10, 5/24, and 6/21. (818) 760-6625.

Monica Modern Home Tours, 3 p.m.

Visit homes designed in the Modern style of architecture on a self-guided tour of residences in Venice and Santa Monica. $25$30. Modernhometours.com/event/venice Allied Artists Spring Invitational Exhibit Opening Reception, 6 to 9 p.m. See original landscape and seaside paintings at Blue Seven Gallery/ Artistic Frames, 3129 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (310) 497-7048; alliedartists.com, blue7gallery.com Heather Catalena, Hollywood and Mars, Xian and the Infidels and Ithaca, 7 p.m.

Enjoy rock, acoustic, indie and more at Witzend, 1717 Lincoln Blvd., Venice. $10.

(310) 305-4792; witzendlive.com Poetry in Motion, 8 p.m. Listen to local literary, theater and film artists at Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice. $8-$25.

(310) 822-3006; beyondbaroque.org Second Annual “Dancing for NED,” 8 p.m.

Watch performances by “So You Think You Can Dance” contestants and professional dancers at this event that raises money for the Cedars-Sinai Women’s Cancer Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute. Event at Unici Casa, 9461 Jefferson Blvd., Culver City. Ticket prices begin at $250. Registration $20-$40. (323) 866-7772; giving.cedars-sinai.edu/dancing-for-ned

Rusty’s Surf Ranch, 256 Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica. No cover. (310) 393-7437; rustyssurfranch.com The Team, The Slaggs and Dinosaur Tooth, 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Live rock n roll music and more at Brennan’s Pub, 4089 Lincoln Blvd., Marina del Rey. No cover. 21+. (310) 821-6622; brennanspub-la.com Cinco de Mayo Doubles Tournament.

Compete in tennis matches at 1800 Ocean Front Walk, Venice. (310) 399-2775, (213) 473-7070

Sunday, May 4 The Wind in the Willows, 11 a.m. The Los Angeles Children’s Theater presents this production about friendship, adventure, morality, and camaraderie at The Little Theater, 12420 Santa Monica Blvd., West Los Angeles. $10. Saturdays and Sundays through June 1.

(310) 622-4482; theblackboxtheater.org Greyhound Show and Tell, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Meet and learn about some greyhounds who used to race in competitions at Petco, 8801 S Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles. Free. First Sunday of each month. (310) 645-8143.

Jeff Dale and Johnny Stachela Band, 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Enjoy live blues music and more at Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $10.

21+. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com

Akbar-Hermosa Beach 1st Sunday Wine and Appetizer Experience, 1 to 4 p.m.

Akbar and Gourmet Wine Getaways host a wine and appetizer night that teaches you the art of pairing wine and food and offers great wine for special prices at Akbar-Hermosa Beach, 1101 Aviation Blvd. at Prospect Ave., Hermosa Beach. $35-$40. Discounts available.

Reservations required. (310) 937-3800.

Bulldawg Blues Band, 9:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Listen to live blues and rock music at

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Westside Happenings with a book signing by author and self-empowerment expert Howard Falco at Mystic Journey Bookstore, 1624 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice. (310) 399-7077; mysticjourneybookstore.com

Jack Daniel’s Comedy Classic, 9 p.m. Enjoy great comedy and specials on Jack Daniel’s drinks every Monday at Brennan’s Pub, 4089 Lincoln Blvd., Marina del Rey. No cover. 21+. (310) 821-6622; brennanspub-la.com

Family Fun Concert, 4 p.m. The West Los Angeles Children’s Choir performs entertaining and inspiring music in preparation for their summer trip to Washington, D.C., at Mount Olive Lutheran Church, 1343 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica. $10 suggested donation to fund the choir’s trip to Washington, D.C. (310) 528-9024, The Toledo Show, 8 p.m. “Soul singer, jazz man, poet, dancer, choreographer” leads a cabaret show on Sunday nights at Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $10.

21+. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com

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Monday, May 5 First Annual 5K Webster Wild Run, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. This wild-animal-themed run in the neighborhood includes a T-shirt, a variety of live wild animals, raffles, vendors, food trucks and more at Daniel Webster Middle School, 11330 Graham Pl., Los Angeles. $5-$10.

Registration starts at 7:30. (310) 235-4600.

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Learn to Knit, 5 to 6:30 p.m. Knitting class every Monday at the Santa Monica Public Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica. Bring supplies. (310) 4588600; smpl.org Poncho Sanchez, 8 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. This Grammy Award-winning jazz musician plays jazz, soul, and Latin music at Typhoon, 3221 Donald Douglas Loop S, Santa Monica. $20 cover. (310) 390-6565; typhoon.biz Stand Up Mondays, 8 to 10 p.m. Like2Laugh and Danny’s Venice present a live comedy show every Monday at Danny’s Venice, 23 Windward Ave., Venice.

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Write Away, noon to 2:30 p.m. Inspiration, support, guidance and direction for writers offered at the Santa Monica Public Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 458-8600; smpl.org FallProof Balance and Mobility Program, 12:30 to 2 p.m. If you’re concerned about falling, come to this assessment day to learn about FallProof, a fall prevention program that promotes healthy aging and improving quality of life, at Playa Physical Therapy, 13163 Fountain Park Drive, Suite A, Playa Vista.

Next session begins on May 9. (310) 823-8911; spiritedbalance.com Wine Tasting Dinner, 7 p.m. Enjoy a nice evening of wine from the Labyrinth Winery and a tasty dinner at Nook, 11628 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles.

Reservations required. (310) 207-5160; nookbistro.com 20 Minute Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Several musicians like The Sposato Brothers, Madlyn, The Buffalo Tom Project and CT Soul Star participate in 20-minute sets to show their musical talent at Witzend, 1717 Lincoln Blvd., Venice. $10. (310) 305-4792; witzendlive.com Mariachi Aguilas de Mexico at Typhoon, 8 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Listen to Latin music at 3221 Donald Douglas Loop S, Santa Monica. $10 cover. (310) 390-6565; typhoon.biz Tuesday Jazz, 9 p.m. The Julian Coryell Trio performs at TRiP, 2101 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 3969010; tripsantamonica.com

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“Service Your Soul,” 9:30 p.m. Join Hunter and the Dirty Jacks with their energetic mix of soul, rock n roll and blues every Tuesday at Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $5 or 2 cans of food. 21+. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com “The Other Side of the Room” Acoustic Tuesdays, 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Enjoy live acoustic music accompanied by $1 tacos and $4 Coronas every Tuesday at Brennan’s Pub, 4089 Lincoln Blvd., Marina del Rey. No cover.

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Wednesday, May 7 Playa Vista Night Market, 4 to 8 p.m. Enjoy delicious food, restock your kitchen, enjoy live music, dancing and more at the Playa Vista Night Market, 6400 S Seabluff Dr., Los Angeles. Every Wednesday over the summer.

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Author of “Gardening for Geeks” and founder of gardennerd.com Christy Wilhelmi teaches how to grow a garden using less space, water and labor at the Santa Monica Public Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 458-8600; smpl.org Alejandro, Ms. Michal and Filthy, 8 p.m.

Live bluegrass and punk music at Good Hurt, 12249 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista. (310) 3901076; goodhurt.com House of Vibe All Stars, 8 p.m. Enjoy this mix of rock, jazz, hip hop and R&B every Wednesday at Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $7. 21+. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com

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TRiP Tease Burlesque, 9 p.m. Live music followed by TRiP’s weekly burlesque show at TRiP, 2101 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica.

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“This dazzling three-story custom, waterfront home was designed by acclaimed architect Stephen Ehrlich and is located on the coveted southwest corner of Grand and Howland canals, “ says agent Susan Stark. “With its sleek and glassy style, this home features three bedrooms, two and one-half baths, plus a loft/office/den. The home is designed for both indoor and outdoor living with walls of sliding doors opening to the garden, fire pit and canals. The living room features soaring ceilings and a dramatic, wood-burning fireplace. The ‘cooks’ kitchen contains a sophisticated center island and an open dining area with patio access. The sensational master suite with fireplace and water views occupies the entire third level with a spacious bath, walk-in closet, and two viewing decks. The second level consists of two guest rooms, a full bath and utility area, as well as a sunny loft with built-ins, which doubles as an office, den or family room. The home’s quality ‘low-allergy’ construction combines natural stone and hardwood flooring with a vivid and rich palette of colors and surfaces throughout.

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Ocean breezes and natural light compliment this exceptional property.”

The property is offered at $3,895,000. Information, www.grandcanalvenice.com Susan Stark, Gibson International, (310) 345-7450.

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Exceptional Home in Heart of Kentwood

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Enjoy sweeping views from the wrap around balcony of this corner unit in the full service Azzurra "This distinctive home features quality upgrades building,” says agent Jesse Weinberg. “Features both inside and out," says agent Bob Waldron. include glass walls, an open floor plan, hardwood "The entryway opens to an inviting living room floors, stainless appliances, granite counter tops, a with limestone fireplace and built-in bookshelves. huge walk-in closet, and two-car parking. Enjoy Includes dining room with crown molding and luxury high rise living with superlative amenities hardwood floor; newly remodeled kitchen with and services: 24-hour guest valet parking, 24-hour granite cabinets, stainless steel appliances and security, concierge, rooftop sky-lounge, two spas built-in breakfast nook. Three bedrooms, includ(one on the roof), sparkling heated pool, business ing a rear master bedroom suite with newer hardwood floor, walk-in closet and French door to rear center, media lounge, fine art collection, fitness center with Yoga/Pilates training, and more.” The yard, and two baths remodeled with quality fixtures and accessories. Relax and enjoy the Zen-like property is offered at $1,549,000. Information, Jesse Weinberg, Keller Williams Marina/LA Retranquility of the rear yard, with its private stone patio." This property is offered for $885,000. alty, (800) 804-9132.

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“This Westport Heights two-bedroom, one-bath diamond in the rough is a great value and truly unique opportunity for a buyer or investor to renovate or put their personal interior design touches,” says agent Tanya Crawford. "With roughly 1,507 square feet of living space, the home features a formal living room with fireplace, eat-in kitchen, dining room and family room. There is a 2-car garage with an attached bonus room, as well as a spacious backyard." The property is offered at $629,000. Information, Tanya Crawford, Keller Williams Pacific Playa, (310) 413-2492.

Silver Strand Home

"Sensational rooftop ocean views are available from this four-story custom home," says agents Peter and Ty Bergman. "Located on one of Silver Strand's most coveted streets, this home boasts exquisite landscaping. South-facing French doors open to balconies on every level. Large dining room, step-up dining room, family room off gourmet kitchen with center island. Master bedroom with eight-foot French doors and balcony. Large master bath features dual sinks, steam shower and walkin closet." This property is offered for $3,199,000. Information, Peter and Ty Bergman, Bergman Beach Properties, (310) 821-2900.

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5/3 Terrific floor plan + guest studio 3/1 Best buy, great opportunity to own 3/2 Spacious floor plan, open kitchen 4/4 Casual elegance, move-in condition 2/2 N Kentwood, 6379 lot, recent updates 3/2 Spectacular Kentwood home w/open floor plan 3/1.75 Reduced! Great floorplan, beautiful bckyd 2/2 Lovely home, huge master, den w/French dr 3/2 Custom, col-de-sac, pool, home in Kentwood 3/1 Extensively updated home, on extra large lot 3/2 Architectural detail, lrg master,h/w, f/p, fdr 3/2 Fabulous 2014 contemporary remodel 3/2 Remod LR w/fplc, DR, FR, MBR ste+yd 3/1.5 Updated home on wide lot, patio

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The Playa Vista Community Yard Sale features dozens of vendors at Concert Park

By Michael Aushenker If there ever was a weekend made for yard-sale bargain hunting, this is it.

Back-to-back community yard sales in Playa Vista and Venice, along with the opening of Playa Vista’s recurring summer-long night market, are a platform for neighborhood bonding that combines free entertainment with hot deals on cool stuff.

Thanks to the organizing efforts of Jennifer Kingshott, Playa Vista residents come together on the first Saturday in May and November each year for a community yard sale. This Saturday marks the fourth year the Playa Vista Community Yard Sale takes place at Concert Park and coincides with the nearby Playa Vista Farmers Market.

“It’s like Mayberry,” Kingshott said of her idyllic neighborhood. “It’s a close-knit community. Everyone kind of knows each other.”

On Sunday, more than 50 Venice homes will participate in the second annual Venice Neighborhood Yard Sale, organized by local real estate agent Laurie Woolner.

Participating homes are located in the area east of Lincoln Boulevard, west of Walgrove Avenue, north of Zanja Street and south of Rose Avenue. Directional signs will be posted throughout the neighborhood, but the easiest option is to pick up a vendor map at 2136 Walnut Ave. Woolner said she hopes the event will bring neighbors closer together.

“I do it as part of my community to give back,” she said.

Woolner will stage a similar event in Mar Vista on May 18.

The Venice and Playa Vista events offer all the usual items you’d expect to find at a yard sale — clothes, furniture, tools, collectibles, toys, appliances and even electronics.

Kingshott stresses that her community bazaar also offers some amazing “new ‘used’ stuff.”

Returning to the Playa Vista sale this year is the popular Hello Kitty guy.

“He works for Sanrio so he has all new Hello Kitty stuff,” Kingshott said. “Last year, he took in two grand. He cleaned up.”

A resident of Playa Vista since the masterplanned community’s 2003 launch, Kingshott approached the homeowners association four years ago to start the yard sale, and the first

event attracted 55 vendors in 2010.

This year, with the help of fellow Playa Vista resident Patti Londre, Kingshott presents her biggest event yet. Kingshott already had 57 vendor booths filled earlier this week, and most participants tend to sign up last-minute, she said.

Further sweetening the deal: Goodwill of Southern California donates $50 to Playa Vista Elementary School for each bin it fills with donations at the Playa Vista Community Yard Sale. Last year’s spring event yielded 36 bins, or $1,800.

There’s also live music and a balloon-maker and face-painter to entertain the kids, and Kingshott said the concurrent farmers market adds to the fun.

“The farmers market has come leaps and bounds [since its early days],” she said. “Now you have a nice variety of food and crafts, homemade soaps, candles, clothing and jewelry.”

But don’t let all that shopping tire you out, because the Playa Vista Night Market returns for its second summer season on Wednesday, in the same location as the Saturday farmers market.

In addition to fresh produce, the night market offers an array of live musical entertainment, a Dancercise class led by Olympian Althea Moses and a variety of ready-to-eat food, including pizzas from Urban Oven, barbecue by Marvin and Matt’s Bake-Shack, the homemade flavors of Big Cup Soup, pastries, coffee and more. ª The Playa Vista Community Yard Sale happens from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Concert Park, south of Jefferson Boulevard on Concert Park Drive. For information or to reserve a space, call (310) 245-2822 or email outdoorgirl9@ ca.rr.com.

To participate in Sunday’s Venice Neighborhood Yard Sale, also happening from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., or the Mar Vista Neighborhood Yard Sale on May 18, contact Woolner at (310) 699-0980; laurie@woolnergroup.com.

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A photograph of a Burning Man participant taken by ARTBLOCK artist Eric Scwabel

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While a few disgruntled artists did rant publicly against the Art Walk, that wasn’t ARTBLOCK’s raison d’etre.

“Really, it’s been a long time coming to have an intergenerational art event created by independent artists,” Letelier said.

Many studios on the route feature several artists. For example, Letelier’s studio also features seven others.

Letelier and partner Mary Fama have collaborated on various projects, including a Dogtown

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Avenue, where attendees can climb aboard for some eye and brain candy.

ARTBLOCK circulates around “an area that is historically a source of art and imagination that fuels the imagination of people. It’s wonderful for artists to harness that myth in a way that’s positive,” Letelier said.

“Since we are on the edges on Los Angeles, many people in the arts don’t have a sense of how an

artist community can fit inside a grander civic [plan].”

Organizers say this confederation of Venice artists has been endorsed by numerous cultural and civic organizations, including the office of City Councilman Mike Bonin, Venice Neighborhood Council, Social and Public Art Resource Center and Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles.

According to Letelier, some have mischaracterized ARTBLOCK as a reaction to several veteran artists being shut out of last May’s Venice Family

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mural at Brooks and 4th Avenue that features loping canines. This weekend’s event highlights a mobile tribute to late poet and Venice fixture Wanda Coleman, whose portrait on Indiana Court and 6th Avenue Letelier and Fama have just finished up with the help of youngsters from Youth Build and Venice Community Housing Corporation.

“People of all ages make the whole constituency stronger,” Letelier said.

Some of the pieces on display are interactive. Accompanying the Coleman piece near

Letelier’s studio are installation boxes: one with Coleman poems and another with blank pages for attendees to write down their own poems.

Coleman, Letelier said, “was a champion of the arts who felt that public space was really important. It was really great how she always turned out for public art.”

Letelier relishes the spirit behind ARTBLOCK. “At every single one of our meetings, we’re really discovering what great fun it is to have a community of peers in which all of us are coming together to plan an event and have only ourselves to answer to,” he said. “How powerful it is to have mutual support from other artists [who usually work in isolation].”

Another ARTBLOCK open studio is planned for October, with smaller events in the coming months. ª ARTBLOCK happens between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday.

Free parking is available at Westminster Elementary School, 1010 Abbot Kinney Blvd., and at SPARC (Social and Public Art Resource Center), 685 Venice Blvd. For more information, visit veniceartblock.com. michael@argonautnews.com

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Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Apr. 21, 2014.

Argonaut published: Apr. 24, May 1, 8, 15, 2014. 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. 2014 100670 The following person is doing business as: D.C. Home Remodeling Inc.9155 Telegraph RD #200 Pico Rivera, CA. 90660. Registered owners: D.C Home Remodeling Inc.9155 Telegraph RD #200 Pico Rivera, CA. 90660. 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: Douglass Carrillo.: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 15, 2014 Argonaut published: May 1, May 8, May 15, May 22, 2014. 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. 2014 108294 The following person is doing business as: Flowers Pronto2355 Westwood Bl #525 Los Angeles CA. 90064. Registered owners: Tina Rochon2355 Westwood Bl #525 Los Angeles Ca. 90064. This business is conducted by a individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: Tina Rochon. Title:Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 22, 2014. Argonaut published: May 1, May 8, May 15, May 22, 2014. 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. 2014 104070 The following person is doing business as: Sixlumens 8172 Manitora St #5 Playa Del Rey Ca 90293.

Registered owners: John Jeffrey Howarth8172 Manitora St #5 Playa Del Rey Ca 90293. This business is conducted by a individual.The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: John Jeffrey Howarth.

Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 17, 2014.

Argonaut published: May 1, May 8, May 15, May 22, 2014. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

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LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

“ADDRESSING THE CROWD” By JOHN LAMPKIN (Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis)

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72 Football Hall of Famer Marchetti 73 Projecting window

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Public notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION WORKSHOPS TO INTRODUCE THE LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT FEDERAL AVIATION REGULATION (FAR) PART 150 NOISE EXPOSURE MAP UPDATE STUDY Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) will be hosting two (2) public information workshops in May 2014 to provide information regarding the Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) Part 150 Noise Exposure Map Update Study for Los Angeles International Airport. The workshops will include guided displays that will present information regarding the FAR Part 150 Noise Exposure Map Update study process, the project schedule, noise metrics, and methods used to quantify aircraft noise exposure. A second round ofpublic information workshops will be conducted early next year to provide information regarding the primary products of the FAR Part 150 Noise Exposure Map Update Study – the 2015 and 2020 Noise Exposure Maps.

Information presented at each workshop listed below will be the same.

Residents need only attend one workshop to learn about the study and offer input. Each workshop will be held in an “open house” format from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.on the dates listed below. No formal presentation will be given in order to provide the public with the maximum opportunity for one-on-one interaction and sharing of information and concerns. You may attend the workshop at any time during the two-hour open house.

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Anyone needing special accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 should contact Larry Rolon, LAWA ADA Coordinator, at (424) 646-5005 at least 72 hours prior to the meeting.Anyone with questions about the project should contact Ms. Kathryn Pantoja at (424)646-6501 Asistencia en español estará disponibleen las reuniones .

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ORDER TO SHOW CaUSE FOR CHaNGE OF NamE Case No. NS028605 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. e petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the naPetition of Maya St. Mark, for Change of Name.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.)

Petitioner: Maya St. Mark filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Maya St. Mark to Maya O’Mahony 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 thme 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: 05/02/14. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: 527 Room: N/A. The address of the court is 275 Magnolia Ave., Long Beach, CA. 90806. 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: March 17, 2014. Ross M. Klein, Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: The Argonaut 03/27/14, 04/03/14, 04/10/14

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Title:Secretary/CFO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 23, 2014. Argonaut published: May 1, May 8, May 15, May 22, 2014..

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. ES017818 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition of CAYCE LORIN LEPA, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Cayce Lorin Lepa filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Cayce Lorin Lepa to Cayce Lorin Kelly 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: 06/06/2014. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: A Room: . The address of the court is 300 East Olive Ave Burbank, CA. 91502. 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 Newspaper. Original filed: April 18, 2014.Mary Thornton, Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: The Argonaut Newspaper 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22, 2014.

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“The Raffle winning affected our family in many ways.” The first thing we did was start college accounts for our two boys, all their cousins, the neighbor kids and my buddy Sergio’s kids (he told me about the raffle). We were also able to financially help family members that were having some rough financial times... remember 2008? We also stepped up our already planned vacation to Belize to a little nicer accommodations (What a great vacation!!!!) And.... of course we paid down some pretty hefty bills that were hanging over us at the time!

Debbie & David Kim of Torrance Our 2006 CaDreamRaffle winner!

“When I first received the news of my winning, I didn't believe it, I thought it was a telemarketer, so I hung up.

Then when the second call came, I remembered my ticket purchase and was so shocked that my knees became weak and I had to sit down! After I came to my senses, I called my husband at his work and told him the news and he hung up on me because he thought I was joking!”

become california’s next millionaire 3 WAYS TO ENTER

r e t enday to

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CALL (310) 541-2479

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MAIL YOUR ENTRY FORM

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Purchase your ticket by phone using a credit card.

With a check* or Credit Card Number to:

PVAC 5504 West Crestridge Road Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275 FAX YOUR ENTRY FORM

Complete the order form** with your Credit Card number and fax to:

(310) 541-0248

* Make checks payable to: PVAC House Raffle **Download entry form at www.CaDreamRaffle.com

www.CaDreamRaffle.com for complete details and information visit our website

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