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L e t t e r s What It’s Really Like Being Homeless Re: “Encouraged and Optimistic,” Letters, April 21 I was so disappointed when I read Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Commissioner Pearson’s letter. How out of touch the non-homeless are. We don’t need to have a campaigning politician getting a round of applause for some faraway plan that may or may not come to pass. We need restrooms and showers, food and shelter. And a place to charge our only link to society: our cell phones. A food truck to distribute paper-bag lunches would be a great start. News Flash: The system is broken. Last week I went to OPCC (formerly Ocean Park Community Center) up near Cloverfield Boulevard. I spoke with five people who were just sitting around, but I was told to come back later because they couldn’t find the clipboard. I paid a precious 50-cent parking meter fee for that. I wasn’t allowed to park in their lot because that was only for their shiny nice cars. Your tax dollars and donations at work.

I am a college grad with some grad school. I am a clean-living person. No drink/smoke/drugs. But try losing your only child and see if you don’t have a breakdown. You think you can handle it, but... I went to get disability six times. They only give me $400 per month. No food stamps. We are your sisters and brothers, and yes we are in your backyard. Having the police harass people who have a little tent for protection from the elements is inhuman. Elizabeth Finnegan West Los Angeles Discover Delicious Del Rey Re: “Westside Dining Guide 2016,” April 21 The Argonaut has its offices in Del Rey, and yet the Westside Dining Guide had no section for Del Rey. There were display ads from a few of the restaurants in Marina Marketplace and along Centinela Avenue, but no acknowledgement that all of the restaurants between Washington and Jefferson boulevards, from Lincoln Boulevard to the Culver City border, are all in Del Rey. We have many excellent eateries,

and a list is posted on our website, delreyhome.org. We hope Del Rey’s restaurants will be highlighted in a future edition of the Westside Dining Guide. Elizabeth A. Pollock President, Del Rey Residents Association

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VOL 46, NO 19

NEWS

Local News & Culture

VENICE STORIES

Get Ready for Gridlock Marina traffic is about to get brutal ............ 9

And Then There Were 126 Neighborhood council hopefuls, that is .... 10

A Life and Death Struggle

Where Cars are Stars

Jason Hill’s incendiary one-page history of piers in Venice ................................... 16

Greased Lightning, Herbie and the Ghostbusters Car head to Culver City . ............. 37

Cover Story Drummer’s Concerto Stewart Copeland

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Requiem for the Fish Venice says goodbye to a safe haven for gay culture . .................................... 6

ARTS & Events

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Wrong Plan for the Homeless More restroom and storage access will only make things worse .......................... 14

Depressed Cake Shop pops up in Santa Monica . .................................. 38

BIZ BUZZ Gold Standard for Green Sustainable Business Council honors Moby, Patagonia . ....................... 41

THIS WEEK Architectural Marvel

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WESTSIDE HAPPENINGS

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A Requiem for the Fish Regulars say goodbye to a safe haven for gay culture that survived the AIDS backlash of the ‘80s but is doomed by rising property values Photo by Stephanie Case

By Stephanie Case It’s 6 p.m. Saturday, and a funeral procession swarms the sidewalk of Abbot Kinney Boulevard. It’s led by a woman in black with a velvet cape, a gigantic hat spilling with feathers and fish earrings. Two black tears are painted on her cheek. Behind her walks a throng of men. Mardi Gras beads and rainbow leis hang from their necks, and some hold signs that read, “Save the Fish!” Next up: half a dozen pallbearers wearing black veils, carrying a six-foot inflatable Corona bottle in lieu of a casket. Two by two, they march past their home of 37 years: the Roosterfish, Venice’s last gay bar. Even as the Westside gentrified, forcing other LGBT-friendly spots to close up shop, the Fish held strong as the last bastion of gay nightlife west of the 405. That was, until their rent tripled this year. After almost four decades, the Roosterfish will close later this month, leaving its dedicated patrons adrift. “It’s not just a bar,” says David de Russy, a regular who’s built half a lifetime

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“It’s not just a bar. It’s our family of choice.” — David de Russy

worth of friendships here. “It’s our family of choice.” *** The family took shape in 1979. “We didn’t start out on Abbot Kinney,

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Mariners Bay Fire Victim Dies in Hospital A man in his mid-50s who was in critical condition after last month’s fire at the Mariners Bay Apartments and Anchorage died on May 2, a fire investigator said. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Arson

Explosives Unit is investigating the cause of the April 16 fire that consumed two secondstory units, including the victim’s, and spread to the third floor of the building on Palawan Way. “Right now there is nothing

that raises any suspicion about how the fire started. We are still investigating it, and we’re waiting for the coroner’s report to determine the [victim’s] cause of death,” said Sgt. John Hanson of the Arson and Explosive’s Unit.

Panay Way Shooting is Now a Murder A 45-year-old man shot in the chest near Panay Way and Via Marina on April 10 has died from his wounds, and Sheriff’s Department homicide investigators are still trying to locate any possible witnesses. Officials are withholding the identity of the shooting victim pending notification of next of kin, said county

coroner’s office spokesman Ed Winter. Investigators are asking anyone with information about the shooting to call (323) 890-5500 or (800) 222-TIPS. The Panay Way shooting is now the third murder to happen in Marina del Rey since Oct. 25, when a 27-yearold man was shot to death at

around 4 a.m. in the parking lot of Island’s Restaurant on Washington Boulevard. On Jan. 6, a 17-yearold girl visiting from Houston was shot to death outside Jerry’s Famous Deli in the Marina Marketplace parking lot near Glencoe Avenue and Mindanao Way.

Marina Traffic is about to Get Brutal Gridlock is on its way to Marina del Rey, with lane closures for infrastructure repairs beginning this month along Via Marina and expected to continue into 2018. In a matter of weeks, northbound Via Marina traffic will be re-routed to a single lane between Marquesas Way and Panay Way from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for up to four days per week over the next 11 months, accord-

ing to the Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors. That closure is expected to wrap up just in time for more closures to accommodate the Venice Dual Force Main sewer replacement project. Slated to begin near Marquesas Way in the spring of 2017, the sewer project will reduce both northbound and southbound traffic along Via Marina to one lane in each

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direction, with a center lane reserved for turning and emergency vehicles. That traffic pattern is expected to remain in effect around the clock for 10 months or longer. Los Angeles city officials are in charge of the sewer replacement project. Los Angeles County officials, who govern Marina del Rey, fought in court to keep the sewer line from running under Via Marina.

Lifeguards Rescue 12 People at Sea A distress call from a high-performance speedboat’s marine radio may have saved the lives of 12 people on board. At about 5 p.m. Sunday, county lifeguards and firefighters rescued six men and six women from the water nearly two miles off the coast of Marina del Rey, Lifeguard Capt. Kenichi Haskett said. Their vessel was leaking and had rapidly taken on

water but was not yet sinking, said Haskett. While some of the passengers experienced mild hypothermia, there were no serious injuries. “We plugged the leak, dewatered the boat and then towed it to the Sheriff’s dock,” he said. The rescue got considerable media attention, however, because one of those involved posted video of the experience to

social media. She described the rear of the boat filling with water and the front of the boat pitching upward, preventing passengers from staying aboard. Haskett urges boaters to always wear a life preserver and keep a two-way marine radio on board. “It could make all the difference in a quick response that saves a life,” he said.

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Backyard Politics, Big Contests More than 120 candidates — most of them newcomers — add drama to neighborhood council elections By Gary Walker Of the 96 neighborhood councils in Los Angeles, Venice is typically among those fielding the greatest number of candidates for biennial elections. But this year they’ve outdone themselves. There are 69 candidates currently running for 21 Venice Neighborhood Council seats up for grabs on June 5. The mix of 14 current council members and 55 newcomers — including activists, architects, a tech entrepreneur, a marketing strategist, a personal trainer and a registered nurse — could dramatically reshape the board and suggests growing interest in hyperlocal politics. Candidate interest went “way beyond my expectations,” said Michael Lynn, the neighborhood council elections manager for Del Rey and Venice. “We did a very thorough outreach for candidates and we’re very happy with it. It seems like residents of Venice are more passionate than a lot of areas of Los Angeles.” By comparison, there are 57 candidates running for a combined total of 43 available seats in the June elections for the Del Rey, Westchester-Playa and Mar Vista neighborhood councils. Those who win seats keep them for a two-year term. Though their powers are largely advisory, neighborhood councils are often the first realm of public engagement on matters of local concern and can influence how city officials approach local issues. As was the case in 2014, each of the councils has its own parochial considerations that could impact voter interest, but experts say outreach is as important to voter turnout in local elections as location is to real estate transactions. “Outreach is a program that you do that the community cares about. They have to believe that the neighborhood council is looking out for their interests,” said Tony Wilkinson, a former independent elections administrator for the West Los Angeles Region. “You need to work on it year-round to keep people engaged.”

Fresh Faces for Del Rey Exponentially smaller and much quieter than Venice, Del Rey has less election drama — just three of the 15 available seats are contested, and two seats failed to attract any candidates (likely resulting in appointments) — but 75% of candidates would be newcomers to the board if elected. PAGE 10 THE ARGONAUT May 5, 2016

of Playa Vista, and the neighborhood council is seeking approval for preferential parking protections. Development projects in nearby Culver City and the redevelopment of the Mesmer Triangle (near Jefferson and the 405) are also hot topics.

Mild Interest in Mar Vista At a March 30 meeting of its outreach committee, the Mar Vista Community Council acknowledged its unimpressive turnout for the 2014 election: just 215 voters, compared to more than 1,500 that year in neighboring Venice. The committee debated how to improve its “poor outreach and engagement to renters, even though we are 60% renters and can identify longtime and active community members who are renters,” the meeting agenda stated. One way is to get people to run for office: “The more candidates that you have,” said Lynn, “the more people you have doing outreach for the elections.” And that could impact turnout this year. There are 20 people, only seven of them board incumbents, running for 12 available seats. Four contests are two-way races, another is a four-way race, and there are eight hopefuls for six at-large seats.

Westchester-Playa Heats Up A Venice Neighborhood Council voter outreach poster features local activist DeDe Audet as Uncle Sam

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Del Rey Neighborhood Council President Jonathon Neumann and Vice President Marlene Savage are not running for reelection, which leaves only four incumbents up for reelection, and only one of them with more than two years of experience.

“There are fewer hot button issues in Del Rey, so when things are quiet people tend to stay on the sidelines,” said Lynn. Areas of Del Rey south of Ballona Creek are, however, grappling with sudden parking scarcity due to the growth

The Neighborhood Council of Westchester-Playa (including both Playa del Rey and Playa Vista) had a dismal turnout of just 214 voters in 2012, but voter turnout picked up in 2014 after a concentrated outreach effort. After seeking advice from longtime Venice Neighborhood Council parliamentarian Ivan Spiegel, WestchesterPlaya Vice President Mark Redick held candidate forums and circulated flyers to draw community attention to the polls.

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Voter turnout for the 2014 election increased more than fivefold to 1,135, trailing Venice’s voter turnout that year by only about 400 voters. “When you’re recruiting candidates, you recruit candidates who want to be there. And these candidates bring their own voters. When you have different candidates campaigning, it’s almost like multi-level marketing,” Redick said. Like in Venice, the rapid proliferation of short-term vacation rentals has become a hot issue in lower Playa del Rey and could draw voters to the polls this year in large numbers. Two neighborhood groups have already organized around the issue, one of them generally supportive of shortterm rentals and the other calling for tighter restrictions.

be and should look like, and it’s much more intense than it was in the past,” Newhouse said. Venice has become the Westside’s ground zero for battles about housing density and affordability, including the push to tax and regulate short-term vacation rentals. Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin’s recent proposals for addressing rampant homelessness — including allowing homeless people to store belongings at the Westminster Senior Center — are also stirring local debate. Desire to have a greater say in the amount and type of city services that Venice receives is fueling discussion of whether Venice should try to secede from Los Angeles altogether, a topic that recently came up in a Venice Neighborhood Council committee meeting.

“When you’re recruiting candidates, you recruit candidates who want to be there. And these candidates bring their own voters. When you have different candidates campaigning, it’s almost like multi-level marketing.” Mark Redick, Westchester-Playa

Most prior Westchester-Playa elections have seen few contested races, but this year there are 21 candidates vying for 16 available seats. There are three two-way races — one of them specifically representing lower Playa del Rey, where the short-term rental issue looms large — and a four-way race for Community Interest Director.

Record Turnout in Venice? If contested races draw higher voter turnouts, Venice can expect another banner year. Only one seat is uncontested, and an at-large contest for 13 community officer seats involves a crush of 46 hopefuls. And with council incumbents accounting for only 20% of candidates, there’s likely to be a lot of turnover this year. Venice Neighborhood Council President Mike Newhouse, who is not seeking reelection, said he isn’t surprised by the large number of competitive races. “In many ways Venice is at a crossroads. There are very strong and divergent opinions on what Venice will

Venice community activist Nick Antonicello, a critic of city government who is pushing for discussion of Venice cityhood, hopes where candidates stand on the matter will become something of an election issue. “For the most part these elections are popularity contests driven by candidates who are able to turn out their friends, family and neighbors more than anything else,” Antonicello said. But “I do believe it will be a serious discussion for the first time when the new board is seated.” With Venice already a hotbed for local politics and departures of longtime neighborhood council members opening doors for newcomers, Lynn believes the stage may be set for one of the busiest elections since the creation of neighborhood councils 15 years ago — maybe even a record turnout in Venice. “I think there’s a very good chance that could happen. There’s a lot of excitement around the election in Venice,” he said. “All things being equal, I think that this will be a record year in terms of the number of stakeholders who vote.”

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come over, look up at the ceiling and say, ‘You’ve gotta paint that over,’” Muffy, the funeral leader with the fish earrings, says. They’d comply — then, once the coast was clear, paste new magazine cutouts right back up. “The ceiling’s got to be this thick,” she laughs, gesturing a good six inches with her fingers. “It’s probably dropped half a foot over the decades from the painting and re-papering.” *** Muffy first came to the Roosterfish decades ago, when she was “dating a guy who wanted show [her] how liberal he was.” (“He wasn’t,” she adds with a smirk.) From her first step through the door, she felt more in sync with the patrons than her date. “I walked in and I thought, ‘I have found my home.’ It was this wonderful, embracing welcome.” Guy Smith felt the same. After moving from Northern California in 1990, he leafed through “Bob Damron’s” — an LGBT travel guide — and saw a listing for the Fish. “I’ve been coming ever since,” says Smith. “Most of my friends in L.A., I’ve met here.” Kent MacConnell lived around the corner from the Roosterfish, but it took him longer to find it. After coming out and getting divorced, he made a beeline for the West Hollywood club scene but felt out of place. “I didn’t like the attitude,” he says. His friends call it the “S&M” crowd, a.k.a. “stand and model” — men who go to be seen rather than to let loose. The Roosterfish was different. “Here, we could be ourselves, and we didn’t have to worry about what people thought,” MacConnell says. Friends could joke over cocktails on New Year’s Day, rollerblade through the bar, or belt “The Sound of Music” numbers on the patio, wearing beach towels as improvised nuns’ habits. “Everything was spur-of-the-moment,”

“Between ’85 and ’95, I lost 60 friends,” Larrabee says. “There was nobody left.” The Roosterfish held remembrances — often four or five a week — for friends who’d passed. “We didn’t do funerals; we did celebrations of life,” says Muffy. “Because otherwise, we would just cry.” Each was a bit like the funeral march: sparkling with happiness in spite of loss. As the Roosterfish patrons march down Abbot Kinney in sequined masks, twirling ribbons and fringed umbrellas, onlookers can’t help but smile. The only tears are the two painted on Muffy’s cheek. ***

Roosterfish as it looked circa 1980, when being openly gay in Los Angeles meant confronting violence and bigotry MacConnell says, smiling. “You can’t choreograph things like this.” *** The bar was also a safe haven in a storm of bigotry.

terribly razzed or attacked,” says Muffy. “Here, they could wear wife beaters playing pool,” and no one thought twice. “Nobody wanted to listen to us [about AIDS],” says David Larrabee, another

“Here, we could be ourselves, and we didn’t have to worry about what people thought.” — Kent MacConnell

“For a long time, [the world] was very harsh,” says Randall Ott, who started frequenting the Fish in the ‘90s. “Just coming to a place like this, you could lose a job. You could get beat up.” During the AIDS epidemic, it got harsher. Some young men had Kaposi sarcoma — a nasty manifestation of AIDS, where dark tumors spread across the skin. “They couldn’t take their shirts off at the beach, because they would get

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does not return. Iceplant is a cancer on the Ballona Wetlands, the patient. Solarization is the most effective means to remove iceplant, and is also the safest in terms of preventing worker injury. Even if some small creatures such as the Pacific Chorus Frog do become trapped under a solarization canopy and are killed, they are the good tissue that is being sacrificed to eradicate the cancer harming the patient. It’s a choice, and we all feel different about it. Most of us feel sad about it. We should feel worse if a worker were injured while manually removing acres of iceplant, particularly if the iceplant later returns due to incomplete eradication, like cancers sometimes do. This is another benefit of solarization. Second, the Pacific Chorus Frog is not included on either the Special Animals or the Endangered and Threatened Animals lists, which incorporate multiple state and federal agency designations. The species is not at risk, at Ballona or anywhere else. That might not make us feel less sad, but it is relevant. Finally, there is a thriving population of Pacific Chorus Frogs in the riparian corridor of Playa Vista, adjacent to the off-leash dog park on Bluff Creek Drive. The population spills into the residential area, where frog calls can be heard any evening emanating from the landscape plants. During the day, egrets are observed browsing the corridor and preying on these frogs. Since the article’s author has long claimed this area was once Ballona freshwater wetland, this Playa Vista frog population must constitute a fourth Ballona population not mentioned in her article. This is good news, and makes me happy. David W. Kay, Playa Vista

FROM THE WEB Re: “A BID for Better Care of Venice,” News, April 28 Don’t be conned by the reasoning of the business owners who want a BID in Venice. The only reason they want it is so they can hire a private security firm to make the lives of homeless people in Venice miserable in ways that the LAPD can’t. When I lived in Hollywood there was a BID patrol there. It was comprised entirely of former L.A. County Sheriff’s deputies who could care less about anybody’s constitutional rights due to the fact that they were a private security company and not a government entity. Richard Woolsworth I agree with Richard Woolworth. The homeless are being unfairly targeted by LAPD and a BID is like them getting all gestapo on the homeless. LAPD also has

been harassing Latino and Black residents in the Oakwood area of Venice. It’s getting to the point where Venice will become a private resort for rich people. I am sure the next step after this in the near future will be to install more cameras in BID areas. Councilman Mike Bonin just implemented cameras all over the boardwalk and in the parking lots. These are high-tech cameras that capture video very clearly. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone started a tourism petition to boycott Venice from your travels. I know people are keeping their mouth shut about this: Garcetti, Bonin and the City Council are taking this city in a really bad direction. People, let’s step up and get these corrupt officials out of office. Gabriel Martinez

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Homeless Strategy Misses the Mark Plans for 24/7 beach restrooms, storage at Westminster Senior Center and housing near the Venice Canals will only make things worse By Mark Ryavec The author is president of the nonprofit Venice Stakeholders Association. Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin’s recent proposals to address the homeless crisis in Venice remind me of a story. A guy comes out of a bar one evening and sees a young woman down on her hands and knees, looking for something in the street. He asks what the problem is and she says that she’s lost her car keys. So he gets down with her and starts looking, too. After searching for several minutes and finding nothing he asks, “Are you sure you lost your keys here?” to which she replies, “No, but the light is better over here.” Bonin is similarly moving ahead, without public hearings, with three proposals which have been in the public light for a long time, though they have not received resident support. And for good reason; these projects will not soon get any homeless folks off our streets and in some instances will just make the situation worse. The first recycled idea is to open up the many restrooms along the Venice Beach Recreation Area for 24 hours every day. This would require amendments to both the city’s midnight to 5 a.m. beach curfew and the 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. park closure rule. The Venice Stakeholders Association believes this is just another instance of enablement that will make it easier for transients to live along the boardwalk and walk streets while getting none of them into housing. It runs counter to “best practices,” as evidenced by Santa Monica’s closure at night of its beach and park restrooms. Reflecting his growing tendency to foist his agenda on residents without any neighborhood hearings and due process, Bonin has already introduced a motion to City Council to make this change, ignoring residents’ previous opposition to weakening the curfew and opening up the restrooms at night. Several years ago when the Coastal Commission threatened to take the city to court over the curfew (which has been in place since 1989), LAPD Pacific Division Cmdr. Brian Johnson asked residents to support the curfew and residents flooded the council office demanding that the curfew be retained. The second old idea is to create even more storage for homeless people’s possessions, in this instance at the Westminster Senior Center on Pacific Avenue. Bonin claims storage space is needed to entice homeless individuals to leave the street and enter shelters because PAGE 14 THE ARGONAUT May 5, 2016

More street outreach is needed to help the homeless get off the beach and into housing they can be assured that their stuff is safe. However, neither Chrysalis, which operates the extensive storage facility downtown, nor the volunteers operating the smaller existing storage facility on Venice Beach have produced evidence that the ability to store their stuff has facilitated any transients moving into shelters or permanent housing.

The third reshod proposal is construction of homeless housing over the parking lot on the Venice Boulevard median between Pacific and Dell avenues. A similar proposal for the Electric Avenue parking lots behind Abbot Kinney Boulevard during a former councilwoman’s tenure was roundly rejected by residents. We have three objections to the current

The path should be to a bed tonight or a welcoming family member out of state — not a restroom, not a storage space and not a beach-adjacent apartment that only exists today in some architect’s imagination. Further, the need for storage is only acute during the three months that the city’s winter shelters are operating. It makes little sense to turn over the Westminster Senior Center for that short-term use when many Venice residents would prefer that the building become a combination Venice Historical Museum and a tourist information center for the 10 million people who visit Venice Beach every year. Nearby residents fear that drawing several hundred transients to the center will bring back camping on the adjacent park grounds, and the crime and late night noise that the LAPD only recently brought under control. While our organization questions the efficacy of storage facilities, any of the warehouses along nearby Del Rey Avenue, which are not near residences, could be leased by the city for this use, saving the Westminster building for the museum and visitor serving uses.

proposal. Right now many residents living near the beach are held hostage on warm weekends and throughout the summer because if they move their cars from street spaces they will not find parking when they return. This parking scarcity results from this area of Venice being constructed before the widespread ownership of automobiles, and thus with little onsite parking. To address this, the Venice median lot is long overdue for conversion to a three-story automated facility to meet the demand for more parking for both residents and those 10 million annual visitors. The second objection is that 90 units of homeless housing on the site will come with its own parking demand. While the homeless will in most instances arrive without cars, many will not remain carless. As their lives improve, they will acquire cars and that will either rob parking from other residents or reduce visitor parking capacity.

The Los Angeles Housing Department reported to the Venice Neighborhood Council Ad-Hoc Committee on Homelessness in 2009 that Venice already had twice as many affordable housing units per capita as other parts of our council district. One can see these large multifamily buildings throughout Oakwood; most are flagged with the name Breezes del Mar. Instead of robbing Venice of the chance to build much needed beach-adjacent parking on the Venice Boulevard site, the city should look at the many underutilized city parking lots in Westchester, West Los Angeles and Mar Vista that experience far less demand and where building homeless housing over parking would not compete with the parking needs of a world-renowned tourist destination. Finally, as we have seen with other permanent supportive facilities, many of the tenants arrive in the grip of addiction or mental illness and continue their noxious and, on occasion, violent behavior. The residents living next to this site are already regularly accosted by homeless campers with these problems; just last year a well-known actor and his pregnant wife were the victims of a mentally ill female camper who scaled their six foot wall in the middle of the night and illegally entered their home. Concentrating 90 chronically homeless individuals in this one location is a recipe for disaster for this neighborhood. We ask the councilman to instead focus his efforts on more immediate efforts to get campers off the street and beach, instead of making it easier for them to live and store their possessions there while we await projects that won’t come to fruition for another four or five years. He should fund more case workers for Venice who will enroll more street campers into the Coordinated Entry System, and then get them into leased apartment buildings and houses wherever they can be found. In this vein we applaud his award of $50,000 to the LAPD Homeless Task Force, which has a track record of getting beach campers into rehab or housing or returning them to safe family members out of state. However, he has not responded to our call to fund the Teen Project Venice PAD, which has proven successful at getting 16to-24 year olds off the street and into housing and back into school. The path should be to a bed tonight or a welcoming family member out of state — not a restroom, not a storage space and not a beach-adjacent apartment that only exists today in some architect’s imagination.

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A Western Snowy Plover, protected by the Endangered Species Act, darts along the shore on Dockweiler Beach homeless like many of our veterans. Care for sick birds, care for mentally ill homeless. We erect safeguards for birds to protect them from predators and development. California has 33 species and subspecies of birds listed as either threatened or endangered by California or the federal government. The homeless also need safeguards like support services to keep them safe, out of jails and to assist with recovery. According to the Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority’s 2015 homeless count, we have 44,359 homeless individuals in the county. Although Los Angeles is obsessed with beautiful stars, for birds it’s not just the pretty ones that matter. I discovered that last year, at the inaugural Bird LA Day. My husband and I spent the afternoon at Malibu State Park with the Audubon Society and about 100 other Angelenos. “I didn’t realize we were looking for all birds, not just unusual or special ones,” he said afterwards. I laughed, but thought how true. Who are we to value one bird over the other? Who are

we to judge a homeless person over others? Many of us set up bird feeders in our yards for the pleasure and enjoyment of seeing birds up close. Many with good intentions feed the homeless, working directly with them up close. But we’re fortunate to have research now to steer our policies toward making real progress in solving homelessness, particularly for the chronically homeless with mental illness. We now know it’s about first and foremost providing housing with supportive services so recovery has a chance to follow. My husband knows the facts. He says data shows that society saves a lot by providing homes first. A homeless person living on the street can cost taxpayers between $25,000 and $125,000 per year, but in housing the cost is only $8,000 to $23,000. I hope everyone gets the chance to celebrate Bird LA Day. The birds won’t disappoint. And thanks to the birds I’m reminded that the homeless desperately need our attention. In the case of the homeless, no binoculars are needed. See page 36 for more on Bird LA Day.

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By Julia Lee The author is a Venice resident who leads writing workshops with homeless youth. Her husband is Tod Lipka, CEO of the Santa Monica nonprofit mental health organization Step Up On Second. Saturday’s 2nd annual Bird LA Day is fast approaching. Forget about movie stars for a day; the real stars are the birds. With our diverse ecosystems of mountains, wetlands, deserts and shoreline we are home to 264 bird species — more than any other place in the United States. We’re “America’s Birdiest County,” according to the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. But Bird LA Day got me thinking about more than birds. It got me thinking about our homeless neighbors. “It’s odd. Birds are everywhere but we don’t really see them,” said my husband, who works for a mental health organization serving homeless individuals. And why is that? “We don’t know what kind they are, we don’t know their songs, and they move so fast, often they are hard to see.” The more we discussed birds, the more I was struck by the parallels to homelessness. As with birds, at times I confess I don’t see homeless people even though I hold writing workshops for homeless youth in Hollywood. The class said to me recently they wanted to write about things they see on the streets every day, like trees, since that’s where they spend most of their time. We had done some writing on sidewalks, and that generated intense and creative writing. I envision equally strong writing about trees, homes to birds all around us and a metaphor for homes needed by homeless youth. It’s clear that both birders and homelessness advocates are working on the same important things in L.A. County. Annual counts for birds, annual counts for homeless. Homes (habitats) for birds, homes for homeless — particularly the chronically

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“I’m not doing Mahler. I’m doing everything that I learned in the stadiums and the low-dive rock clubs and on the streets of Brazzaville and Beirut. I’m bringing it all to the party. There’s no reason on Earth why 60 guys cannot rock the house.” — Stewart Copeland In fact, the entire space is wired up so that with the push of a button Copeland can record any of the music made within and videotape it. He often invites his musical “brothers” over for jam sessions, edits the footage and puts the mini-concerts on his YouTube channel.

music and staring at the scores and agonizing over chord progressions and instrumentation and putting the Italian on the page, I swivel around my chair 180 degrees and there is my row of big band amplifiers and my monstrous drums,” says Copeland with glee.

And then of course, there’s the massive Persian rugs decorating the floor with their sinuous flourishes and rusty red hues. An inheritance from Copeland’s mother, they shape his earliest memories of growing up the Middle East, in locales such as Cairo and Beirut, where his dad was a CIA agent and his mom dug up ancient artifacts as an archeologist. “I look at it and realize from the age of zero crawling around face-first on these rugs, those patterns that are both geometric and formal, and yet wild and ungainly at the same time, that is a visual representation of exactly what my music does — a combination of chaos and organization,” says Copeland of a recent musical epiphany. “That is my music.” For Copeland, contradictions don’t clash. They coexist, usually in separate parts of his split musical personality. “You know the composer guy — suave, sophisticated. The drummer guy — Neanderthal, knuckles dragging on the ground,” says Copeland. “I’m sure they overlap, but they’re different parts of the brain.”

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Stewart Copeland can play, record and compose new music inside his Sacred Grove — a musical man cave filled with instruments, books and hightech equipment But sometimes they intermingle. Humorously calling himself “the bastard child of Hendrix and Stravinsky,” in his music a trap set can rumble with the timpani, a saw can sing along with strings and a rock star can jam with classical musicians. These are just a few of the musical tones that will intersect when Stewart Copeland plays the West Coast premiere of his percussion concerto “Tyrant’s Crush” with the New West Symphony in Santa Monica’s Barnum Hall next Thursday, May 12. Marcelo Lehninger, music director of the New West Symphony, welcomes the crossover that Copeland brings to the concert group’s upcoming program “The Symphony Rocks,” which pairs Copeland with the music of Strauss. “[Copeland] is exploring all the textures and colors in the orchestra,” says Lehninger, who will conduct. “From the drum set, to timpani, to marimba, to vibraphone, as well as some interesting instruments, like the saw or the siren, you have things that you don’t usually see in a symphony orchestra.”

Yet as much as Copeland loves incorporating and accumulating individual musical instruments into his life and work, he takes a more holistic approach to the orchestra, seeing it as a singular symphonic entity with which he can experiment. “It’s a really incredible, powerful,

concert-going experience of quietly listening to whatever the orchestra plays and the orchestra reverentially playing it. “I’m not doing Mahler. I’m doing everything that I learned in the stadiums and the low-dive rock clubs and on the

“[Copeland] is exploring all the textures and colors in the orchestra.” — Marcelo Lehninger multi-textured instrument, the orchestra,” says Copeland, who beyond his illustrious drumming career with The Police has scored films for the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, composed operas based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe and even written music for ballets. “But I’m not here to continue a line from Mendelssohn into the future.” With “Tyrant’s Crush,” a musical program that loosely chronicles the rise and fall of a fictional dictator, Copeland wants to shake up the conventional

streets of Brazzaville and Beirut. I’m bringing it all to the party,” says Copeland. “There’s no reason on Earth why 60 guys cannot rock the house.” When Copeland says a line like that, it’s not hard to believe his wish will come true. When it comes to music, Copeland’s enthusiasm is infectious. In his studio, he doesn’t just show off his various musical instruments, from a tiny trumpet to an antique lute, he immediately starts to play them — run-

ning his fingers briskly over a saxophone’s keys, deftly tapping on an Arabic drum and banging a timpani with such exuberance that its voluminous roar seems to fill the entire room with vibrations, from floor to ceiling. When I mention that I used to play the flute, he pulls one out from his arsenal of wonky woodwinds and hands it to me to play on the spot. Somehow, I squeeze a few solid notes out of it. Yet for Copeland, there’s music in everything, from the zany instruments he collects to the cadence of an urban center. “When you see a city pulsating like a beating heart, people rushing in and rushing out and rushing in and rushing out, you realize that there are rhythms that we’re hardly even aware of, but which pervade all of existence,” he muses when discussing his film work. But it took Copeland a while to find his own beat within rock music. As a child, Copeland was engrossed by the classical music of Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky, but it was the drums that got his blood pumping. Playing his first show as a prepubescent kid drummer, Copeland remembers seeing an entranced girl in the audience. She took his breath away. “Oh, the look in her face! That is why 60 years later, I’m a musician, unto this day,” says Copeland with fervor. “Those drums empowered me in a way that nothing else could. I was a late bloomer and while my friends, they’re voices were dropping and they’re growing facial hair and becoming men, I was still not. Still had a squeaky little voice. And then I discovered the drums and suddenly my squeaky voice became a manly roar.” Over the years, Copeland’s musical tastes have reengaged with their classical roots, mainly Stravinsky —“Stravinsky is for your mind and for deeper, broader matters of culture. But youth music, teen music is about procreation. It’s about romance … It’s not about that for me anymore, so maybe that’s why I’ve gone back to Stravinsky,” ponders Copeland — but a fire still lights his passion for making music. “I like to think that every work is a departure,” he says. And for “Tyrant’s Crush” Copeland expects even more fireworks to be set off: “I want it to be exciting and beautiful. We want to go places where no one has gone before. We want it to have a little bite. We want a little challenge in there. But really I want to burn down the building.” Stewart Copeland and New West Symphony perform “The Symphony Rocks” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 12, in Barnum Hall at Santa Monica High School, 600 Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica. Tickets are $29 to $82. Call (866) 776-8400 or visit newwestsymphony.org. christina@argonautnews.com May 5, 2016 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 19

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The Horizon House on Ocean Front Walk is late architect Stephen Shortridge’s masterpiece

The Horizon House and Beyond Saturday’s Venice Garden & Home Tour celebrates the legacy of late architect Stephen Shortridge By Stephanie Case Give Steven Shortridge less than 800 square feet, and he could give you a modernist paradise. Take, for example, the architect’s former Venice bungalow: a tiny structure tucked under the shade of palm trees. Rays of light peeked between the palms and through the home’s windows. A mixture of different woods gave the interior palpable warmth, cooled only slightly by bits of steel. The dining room was a tangerine dream: acidic pops of orange brightened window frames, chairs, even the petals of a floral centerpiece. “[His home] was like a laboratory for him,” says Andrew Benson, who worked under his wing as a project manager at Shortridge Architects for half a decade. Like a scientist, Shortridge had a zest for experimentation. In restoring his cottage, he played with angles and disjointed planes, doused rooms with natural light, filled every nook and cranny with hidden storage, and designed with vivid color. Shortridge brought that passion to others’

homes, too, building many sleek, airy houses in Venice and Marina del Rey. The Horizon House, his three-story Ocean Front Walk masterpiece overlooking the sea, was one of his last before his untimely death at 52. This month marks two years since Shortridge’s passing, and the 22nd Venice Garden & Home Tour is honoring his work. They’re hosting a one-night-only tour this Saturday through some of his most vibrant Westside homes. On the list is the Horizon House, plus two other Shortridge spots. One — with a white, geometric exterior on Rialto Avenue — was originally designed for “House of Cards” producer John Melfi. “It’s the cleverest construction I’ve seen,” Kelly Layne, the tour’s organizer, gushes of that home, which makes magnificent use of a relatively meager lot. Both it and the Horizon House started small: with pencil and paper. “Steven would sketch furiously,” Benson remembers. “A lot of times, when a new project came around, he would

disappear for a couple days.” A frenzy of ideas would spring forth from that solitude, and he’d reemerge “with piles and piles of sketches.” Those sketches were the start of a meticulous design and construction process that could take as long as four years. “His attention to detail was insane,” marvels Benson. “Every cabinet was treated as a sculpture or a work of art.” When building custom storage, Shortridge made painstaking use of every last square inch. His commitment to maximizing space led to unique aesthetic ends — interesting edges, stunning shapes — sometimes veering far from his original sketches. “The kind of stuff that he designed didn’t require any precedent,” Benson says. “He would come up with something and just figure out how to make it work.” But when Shortridge died unexpectedly in May 2014, it was his staff that was left to improvise.

“The whole event of Steven passing, it was traumatic,” Benson says. “Unexpected. Difficult.” Without the team’s anchor, Shortridge Architects were left to complete one of their most daunting designs to date: the Horizon House. Through the loss, Benson helped finish the project, trying to infuse the space with Shortridge’s spirit. Their result is nothing short of dazzling. Yards from the water and situated in the sand, the Horizon House evokes the grandeur of a ship jutting toward the open sea. Its main staircase sweeps you up to an infinity edge pool, stretching the length of the home. Through glass doors is a sun-soaked open floor plan. When it comes to insane detail, the house is full of them: secret storage, a hidden door. In the basement, a smartly placed window gives you a peek into the pool’s depths. (Continued on page 39)

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13455 Maxella Ave., Marina del Rey (310) 827-3670 burgerlounge.com It looks a lot like we have passed the crest of the wave when it comes to the throweverything-on-top-of-a-burger fad. Some of the combinations that were momentary sensations were brilliant, some gruesome, and most were merely overly complex. Somewhere down there was a burger, but its flavor was obscured by the layers of stuff on top. Instead, more places are now offering simpler combinations — even retro items that are like the classic burgers of the 1950s drive-ins. Before you scoff, remember that in the era before giant chains and prefabricated food, the buns just contained flour, water and yeast, and most ingredients were fresh and local. Makes those Neolithic burgers sound pretty good, doesn’t it?

You can get both old-school and contemporary styles at the aptly named Burger Lounge, a rapidly growing Southern California chain that recently opened a location on Maxella Avenue in Marina del Rey. The interior has stylish Mid-Century Modern touches, and the menu offers burgers made with beef, lamb, turkey, codfish and organic quinoa with vegetables. The sign over the door has the words “grass fed,” which I assume applied only to the beef and lamb, since turkeys and codfish aren’t big on eating grass. On my first visit my wife and I decided to try one traditional beef burger and one lamb, with sides of mixed fries and onion rings and a romaine and kale Caesar salad. The salad was topped with shredded fried sweet potatoes instead of croutons, a nifty idea that worked surprisingly well. The flavor was a bit sweeter than croutons would have been, but it balanced the slightly bitter kale very well. The fries were decent with the house-made catsup though not really crisp, but the onion rings were remarkable.

The batter was lightly seasoned, the onion strings tender, and while they came with a good ranch dressing I was happy to crunch away at them unadorned. As for the burgers, I had ordered the “Lounge Burger” rather than their “Classic” variety because no amount of nostalgia will make me give up good aged white cheddar in favor of American cheese. It’s not really cheese, though it can be mistaken for it by someone who has never had the good stuff. The only other difference between the lounge burger and the classic is that the classic has Thousand Island dressing, which I also like in moderation. It isn’t always applied moderately, but there was just enough to add a bit of tanginess to the sandwich. As for the meat patty itself, it was pan-broiled rather than cooked on a char broiler so it didn’t have any smokiness, but it did have the slightly more robust flavor of grass-fed beef. Some people do prefer less flavorful grain-fed meat because … I don’t know, maybe they don’t like the flavor of meat … (Continued on page 24)

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Mid-Century Modern touches add style to the menu’s substance natural flavors were left to shine, the amount of sauce moderate but a small container of it was provided in case I wanted more of the tart, lightly pickled flavor. If the fish hadn’t tasted that good I would have, but it worked fine as it came from the kitchen. Had I been a truly devoted experimenter I would have ordered a different salad, but I wanted more of those onion rings.

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april ‘15

april ‘16

hOMes sOlD average priCe

23 $2,030,500

18 $2,251,200

WestChester

april ‘15

april ‘16

hOMes sOlD average priCe

35 $925,800

26 $961,600

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240

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HAWTHORNE $380,000 11918 S Van Ness Ave | 3BR 2BA David Munoz (424) 702-3014

MAR VISTA $1,195,000 4339 Grand View Blvd | 4BR 4BA Sam Araghi & Rudi Behdad (310) 415-1118

MARINA DEL REY $895,000 Open Sat 2-5. Beautiful upgraded twnhm. Sue Miller (310) 821-5090

PLAYA DEL REY $9,995,000 Spectacular oceanfront Italian Villa. Alice Plato (310) 704-4188

PLAYA DEL REY $3,195,000 Spectacular ocean vw home on North Bluff Alice Plato (310) 704-4188

PLAYA VISTA $1,499,000 13045 Paciﬁc Promenade #322 | 2BR 2BA Sam Araghi & Rudi Behdad (310) 415-1118

PLAYA VISTA $881,000 5935 Playa Vista Drive #112 | 2BR 1.5BA Winnie Licht & Julie Walker (310) 745-7468

TOPANGA $4,650,000 Ocean View 5bd/6ba Vineyard Estate! Mitch Hagerman (310) 963-4358

VENICE $3,798,000 Modern living in Vibrant Venice Beach! Karsten Demers (310) 403-0306

VENICE $1,450,000 Chic townhome blocks from Abbot Kinney. Jeffrey Fritz & Laura Buffone (310) 754-8148

WESTCHESTER $1,685,000 6923 Arizona Ave | 3BR 3BA Laura & Jack Davis (310) 490-0274

WESTCHESTER $949,000 8322 Georgetown Ave | 3BR 2BA Bob Waldron & Jessica Heredia (310) 780-0864

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The ArgonAuT REAl EstAtE Q&A I Have Multiple Offers On My House…Now What? Congratulations!!

Strategies

After putting your house on the market and seeing two or more offers come in, which can be an exhilarating feeling, you need to take a step back and break down each offer and see what the end result would be for each individual offer.

When faced with multiple offers that are competing to purchase your property, there are various negotiating strategies that you can consider.

We are seeing a lot of multiple offer situations in today’s market where inventories are low, especially by the beach communities and on the westside in general. It’s the good ol’ supply and demand principle, where more buyers are competing for fewer properties. You as the seller can hopefully capitalize from this situation, as you obviously want top dollar for your hard earned investment.

essence and each offer should be addressed in a timely manner as it is received.

the auction mentality and they often have buyer’s remorse once the seller signs their offer.

Always make sure that everything is done in writing. Sometimes in an offer situation, the agents agree on the terms verbally until they can physically meet to sign the documents. However, this is only a trust condition between the agents and is not legally binding and can be precarious. It is always best to use one of the digital document signing services, scan and email it, or even fax it.

Additionally, if the buyer needs a loan and the property doesn’t appraise for the purchase price, which has been driven up due to the multiple offer situation, the deal falls through, unless the buyer comes in with the difference.

A few examples; you can simply accept the best offer; you can communicate to all potential buyers of the multiple offers situation and ask them to submit their best offer; you can counter one offer and reject the other ones; or you can counter one offer and put the other offers on the backburner while awaiting a response to your counter offer.

Fallout!

There are pros and cons to each of these approaches. While you may feel that you are in total control because of the overwhelming interest in your property, time is still of the

As a general rule of thumb, about 10 percent of all normal transactions fail to close. Surprisingly, the fallout rate on multiple offers can be as high as 50 percent. Buyers get caught up in

Finally, your listing agent may consider bringing in the broker manager to look at all the offers, to assess the situation, and guide the process in the right direction. This week’s quesTion is answered by

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“Enjoy lovely views of the cityscape, mountains and treetops from this charming three bedroom, two bath, Marina City Club home,” says agent Charles Lederman. “The entry way leads to an open and nicely renovated kitchen that offers custom cabinets and recessed lighting. Adjacent to the kitchen is a bright great room that leads to a spacious patio that overlooks the Oxford Basin. Enjoy an additional patio that is conveniently located off one of the bedrooms. Features include new carpeting and ample storage.”

“Exquisite style abounds in this one-of-a-kind Kentwood home,” say agents Kevin and Kaz Gallaher. “The stunning kitchen features a casual breakfast bar. The family room is highlighted by large glass doors that open to the backyard. The second story includes a stunning master suite with a spa-like bath with a soaking tub and separate shower. Three additional bedrooms, two more baths and a laundry room complete the ﬂoor plan, representing the pinnacle of California living that should not be missed!”

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Offered at $1,489,000 Stephanie Younger, Teles Properties 424-203-1828

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“This superior remodel offers a clever design and a perfect backdrop for entertaining,” says agent Stephanie Younger. “Prepare meals in the generously sized kitchen then take advantage of the adjacent laundry room. Three bedrooms and one bath set along the living area create a comfortable ﬂow towards the master suite addition. Relax and refresh in the spacious master bedroom. Enjoy the expansive, private backyard. This home also features a detached garage that has been converted to studio space.”

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“If location is everything, then Harbor Crossing has it all,” says agent Denise Fast. “These exclusive homes are lined by stately palm and eucalyptus trees. Here, one can enjoy the California vacation lifestyle all year long. This neighborhood is an unprecedented achievement of prosperity and world-class living. Architecturally, Harbor Crossing emphasizes a dramatic ﬂair, mixed with an old-world reﬁnement and timeless quality. Be a part of this modern-day urban paradise.”

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“This four-bed, four-bath home has 2,943 square feet of living space,” says agent Bill Ruane. “Enjoy sunsets from the privacy of your outdoor spa or from your oversized deck. The updated kitchen features KitchenAide stainless appliances and under-counter lighting. Two professionally built shops make up the rest of the property. The ﬁrst ﬂoor shop has 200 designated electrical AMPs coming from the 400 AMP panel. It also boasts plenty of storage space and a half-bath. The garden area is completed by a lovely pond.”

“Enjoy the fabulous views offered by this single-bedroom home,” says agent Eileen McCarthy. “This home is in the Center Tower of the Marina City Club. Enjoy all of the Marina City Club’s many amenities, including six tennis courts, swimming pools, a cafe, a massage parlor, a convenience store, a car wash, a gym and ﬁtness center that offers numerous classes, a full restaurant, and 24-hour security.” Offered at $539,900 Eileen McCarthy, Marina Ocean Properties 310-822-8910

Offered at $1,650,000 Bill Ruane, RE/MAX Beach Cities 310-877-2374

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2016082993 The following person is doing business as: Pass Properties 8055 W. Manchester Ave. #715 Playa del Rey, CA. 90293. Registered owners: Herman Pass 8055 W. Manchester Ave. #715 Playa del Rey, CA. 90293. 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: Herman Pass. Title: Self. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on: April 6, 2016. Argonaut published: April 14, 21, 28 and May 5, 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. 2016086034 The following person is doing business as: CLIMB 12811 Matteson Avenue Suite 8 Los Angeles, CA. 90066. Registered owners: California Life is Mountain And Beaches LLC 12811 Matteson Avenue Suite 8 Los Angeles, CA. 90066. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2016086307 The following person is doing business as: Grout Work LA 3972 Minerva Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90066. Registered Owners: Julio Andres Pereira Osorio 3972 Minerva Ave. Los ¡ngeles, 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: Julio Andres Pereira Osorio. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on: April 8, 2016. Argonaut published: April 28, May 5, 12, and 19, 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. 2016087020 The following person is doing business as: HKM Publisher Services 12725 Milton St. Los Angeles, CA. 90066. Registered owners: Henry Kornman 12725 Milton St. 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 thou-

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2016100799 The following person is doing business as: By The Sea-Light, Space, Design 4 Yawl Street Marina del Rey, CA. 90292. Registered owners: Carol Doumani 4 Yawl Street Marina del Rey, CA. 90292. 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: Carol Doumani. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on: April 25, 2016. Argonaut published: April 28, May 5, 12, and 19, 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. 2016101312 The following person is doing business as: Westdale Cake And Donut Shop 2918 Sawtelle Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. 90064. Registered owners: Ralph Primo 2701 Butler Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90064 and Celia Primo 2701 Butler Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90064. This business is conducted by a Married Couple. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Ralph Primo. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on: April 25, 2016. Argonaut published: May 5, 12, 19, 26, 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). Summons Case Number 072964 NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: James C. Duff. Petitioner’s name is: Brigitte R. Duff You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a RESPONSE (form FL-130) at court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phone call, or court appearance will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online SelfHelp Center (www.courts.ca.gov/ selfhelp), at the California Legal Services website (www.lawhelpca. org), or by contacting your local county bar association. NOTICE ñ RESTRAINING ORDERS ARE ON PAGE 2: These restraining orders are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. They are

enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them. FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party. The name and address of the court are (el nombre y direccion de la corte son): Civil and Family Law Court House 3055 Cleveland Avenue Snata Rosa, CA. 95403. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: (El nombre, direccion y numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante si no tiene abogado, son): Brigitte R. Duff 8371 Windmill Farms Drive Cotati, CA. 94931, 707-291-0591 STANDARD FAMILY LAW RESTRAINING ORDERS Starting immediately, you and your spouse or domestic partner are restrained from: 1. Removing the minor children of the parties from the state or applying for a new or replacement passport for those minor children without prior written consent of the other party or an order of the court; 2. Cashing, borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance or other coverage, including life, health, automobile, and disability, held for the benefit of the parties and their minor children; 3. transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether community, quasi-community, or separate, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life; and 4. Creating a nonprobate transfer or modifying a nonprobate transfer in a manner that affects the disposition of property subject to transfer, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court. Before revocation of a nonprobate transfer can take effect or a right of survivorship to property can be eliminated, notice of the change must be filed and served on the other party. You must notify each other of any proposed extraordinary expenditures at least five business days prior to incurring these extraordinary expenditures and account to the court for all extraordinary expenditures made after these restraining orders are effective. However, you may use community property, quasi-community property, or your own separate property to pay an attorney to help you or to pay court costs. NOTICEACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HEALTH INSURANCE: do you or someone in your household need affordable health insurance? If so, you should apply for Covered California. Covered California can help reduce the cost you pay towards high quality affordable health care. For more information, visit www.coveredca.com or call Covered California at 1-800-3001506. WARNING ñ IMPORTANT INFORMATION California law provides that, for purposes of division or property upon dissolution of a marriage or domestic partnership or upon legal separation, property acquired by the parties during marriage or domestic partnership in joint form is presumed to be community property. If either party to this action should die before the jointly held community property is divided, the language in the deed that characterizes how title is held (i.e. joint tenancy, tenants in common, or community property) will be controlling, and not the community property presumption. You should consult your attorney if you want the community property presumption to be written into the recorded title to the property. Published: The Argonaut 04/14/16, 04/21/16, 04/28/16, 05/05/16

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legal advertising Summons Case Number: FAMSS1600192 NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: Kimberly Daniece McDonald. Petitioner’s name is: Igara Uche Nmecha. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a RESPONSE (form FL-120) at court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phone call, or court appearance will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courts. ca.gov/selfhelp), at the California Legal Services website (www.lawhelpca.org), or by contacting your local county bar association. NOTICE ñ RESTRAINING ORDERS ARE ON PAGE 2: These restraining orders are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. They are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them. FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party. The name and address of the court are (el nombre y direccion de la corte son): San Bernardino County Superior Court 351 North Arrowhead Avenue San Bernardino, CA. 924150210. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: (El nombre, direccion y numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante si no tiene abogado, son): Igara Uche Nmecha P.O. Box 881002 Los Angeles, CA. 90009, 310-902-2615. Date Jan. 08, 2016 Clerk, by Pauline Rodriguez, Deputy. STANDARD FAMILY LAW RESTRAINING ORDERS Starting immediately, you and your spouse or domestic partner are restrained from: 1. Removing the minor children of the parties from the state or applying for a new or replacement passport for those minor children without prior written consent of the other party or an order of the court; 2. Cashing, borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance or other coverage, including life, health, automobile, and disability, held for the benefit of the parties and their minor children; 3. transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether community, quasicommunity, or separate, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life; and 4. Creating a nonprobate transfer or modifying a nonprobate transfer in a manner that affects the disposition of property subject to transfer, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court. Before revocation of

a nonprobate transfer can take effect or a right of survivorship to property can be eliminated, notice of the change must be filed and served on the other party. You must notify each other of any proposed extraordinary expenditures at least five business days prior to incurring these extraordinary expenditures and account to the court for all extraordinary expenditures made after these restraining orders are effective. However, you may use community property, quasi-community property, or your own separate property to pay an attorney to help you or to pay court costs. NOTICE-ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HEALTH INSURANCE: do you or someone in your household need affordable health insurance? If so, you should apply for Covered California. Covered California can help reduce the cost you pay towards high quality affordable health care. For more information, visit www.coveredca.com or call Covered California at 1-800-300-1506. WARNING – IMPORTANT INFORMATION California law provides that, for purposes of division or property upon dissolution of a marriage or domestic partnership or upon legal separation, property acquired by the parties during marriage or domestic partnership in joint form is presumed to be community property. If either party to this action should die before the jointly held community property is divided, the language in the deed that characterizes how title is held (i.e. joint tenancy, tenants in common, or community property) will be controlling, and not the community property presumption. You should consult your attorney if you want the community property presumption to be written into the recorded title to the property. Published: The Argonaut 04/28/16, 05/05/16, 05/12/16 and 05/19/16

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. 2016091273 The following person is doing business as: The Mayes Firm 14561 Greenleaf St. Sherman Oaks, CA. 91403. Registered owners: Jeffrey Mayes 14561 Greenleaf St. Sherman Oaks, CA. 91403. 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: Jeffrey Mayes. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on: April 14, 2016. Argonaut published: May 5, 12, 19 and 26, 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).

Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on: March 30, 2016. Argonaut published: April 14, 21, 28, 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. 2016096604 The following person is doing business as: Bayat Properties 3752 1/2 Motor Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90034. Registered owners: Monica Bayat 3752 1/2 Motor Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90034 and Hossein David Bayat 3752 1/2 Motor Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90034. This business is conducted by a Married Couple. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Monica Bayat. Title: Wife. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on: April 20, 2016. Argonaut published: May 5, 12, 19 and 26, 2016. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2016106387 The following person is doing business as: JBM International 4139 Via Marina PH06 Marina del Rey, CA. 90292. Registered owners: Jennifer Howell 4139 Via Marina PH06 Marina del Rey, CA. 90292. 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: Jennifer Howell. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on: May 2, 2016. Argonaut published: May 5, 12, 19 and 26, 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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2016077458 The following person is doing business as: HP Stationers 1223 Wilshire Blvd. #871 Santa Monica, Ca. 90403-5400. Registered owners: Andras Petrovics 427 Montana Ave. #10 Santa Monica, CA. 90403. 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: Andras Petrovics. Title:

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Thursday, May 5 Beach Eats, 5 to 9 p.m. Thursdays. The weekly festival of food trucks with a scenic harbor backdrop returns to Mother’s Beach, Lot 10, 4101 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. This week: TNB BBQ (Korean fusion), Baby’s Badass Burgers, Rolln Lobster, Dogtown Dogs, Cancho’s Tacos and Recess Truck (dessert). (310) 305-9545; marinadelrey.lacounty.gov; lotmom.com/beacheats HARK 10th Anniversary, 5 to 10 p.m. The arts nonprofit serving youth with serious illnesses at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles celebrates its anniversary at Upper West Restaurant with Mexican food and Cinco de Mayo-inspired activities, raffles and art by the organization’s youth. Proceeds benefit HARK. 3321 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. upperwest. com; healingartsreachingkids.org Little Miss Nasty, 9:30 p.m. Rock and roll burlesque lights up Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $15 to $20. (310) 395-1676; santamonica. harvelles.com

The Aero, 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica. $7 to $11. americancinemathequecalendar.com Depressed Cake Shop Pop-Up, 7 to 10 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. The community of bakers sells grey cakes to increase awareness about mental health issues and raise funding for the St. Joseph Center in Venice. Streetcraft LA, 2912 Main St., Santa Monica. depressedcakeshop.com Urban Grass, 7 to 10 p.m. Live urban style bluegrass, funky rock and reggae at play Hinano Café, 5 W. Washington Blvd., Venice. (310) 822-3902; urbangrassband.com; hinanocafevenice.com Premiere of “Love Thy Nature,” 7:20 p.m. The award-winning film narrated by Liam Neeson starts its L.A. run today as part of a screenings and discussions tour that covers 55 cities. “Love Thy Nature” takes viewers through a journey about how many of us have lost touch with nature and how a renewed connection is key to solving current climate crises. Laemmle Monica Film Center, 1332 2nd St., Santa Monica. laemmle.com. Crystal Bowersox, 8 p.m. The 2010 American Idol runner up melds blues, country, folk and rock with her soulful voice and inspiring lyrics. McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. $25. (310) 828-4497; mccabes.com Jason Boyd Band, 8 p.m. A rock ’n’ roll set by Jason Boyd, followed by DJ Vinyl spinning rock, funk and blues at 10 p.m. DJ Doomz takes over the upstairs bar at 10 p.m. Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. No cover. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com

The Depressed Cake Shop pops up in Santa Monica to raise funds for the St. Joseph Center. SEE FRIDAY.

Friday, May 6 Culver City Senior Center Spring Boutique, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Pick up handcrafted gifts for Mother’s Day, including jewelry, ceramics, art, hand-knits and more. 4095 Overland Ave. at Culver Blvd., Culver City. (310) 502-0096; jackiwlax@aol.com. Del Rey Farmers Market Concert, 4 to 6 p.m. Del Rey Community Jazz Band jams at the Del Rey Farmers Market in a free outdoor show at the playground, led by Capt. Dan Meyer and special guests. Glen Alla Park, 4601 Alla Road, Marina del Rey. delreync.org/FarmersMarket “Chimes at Midnight” / “F for Fake,” 7 p.m. An evening of Orson Welles films and a book signing with film historian F.X. Feeney, author of “Orson Welles: Power, Heart and Soul.” The Shakespearean adaptation “Chimes at Midnight” sees Welles as Falstaff, loyal companion to Prince Hal, while in “F for Fake” Welles explores the nature of fraud and fakery.

“Broken Blossoms,” 8:15 p.m. Friday and 2:30 and 8:15 p.m. Saturday. “First Lady of American Cinema” Lillian Gish is homeless and befriends a Chinese immigrant in this silent film about racial intolerance. Old Town Music Hall, 140 Richmond St., El Segundo. $8 to $10 cash or check. (310) 322-2592; oldtownmusichall.org Desperate Measures, 9 p.m. Live music weekly at the Prince O’ Whales, 335 Culver Blvd., Playa del Rey. (310) 823-9826; princeowhales.com Jairus Mozee with special guests, 9 p.m. The singer-songwriter, producer and jazz guitarist who has worked alongside Prince, Janet Jackson and Kendrick Lamar plays Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $10 plus two-drink minimum. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com

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Wildlife Rehab (9 a.m. to noon). Meet at Alkawater/Gordon’s Market in the 300 block of Culver Blvd. in Playa del Rey for the 9 a.m. walk. Meet at the southwest corner of Jefferson and Lincoln boulevards for the 9:30 a.m. walk. ballonafriends.org; losangelesaudubon.org; birdla.org Sullivan Canyon Walking Tour, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Part of the Venice Design Series fundraiser series for Venice Community Housing Corp., this tour visits mid-20th-century homes designed by architects Peter Choate and Cliff May. $500. venicedesignseries.com Culver City Car Show, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. More than 400 classic cars and hot rods line up along Culver Boulevard for the 13th annual Culver City Car Show on Culver and Washington boulevards between Duquesne & Ince. (310) 499-4840; culvercitycarshow.com Marina del Rey Fun Paddle Races, 9:30 a.m. Free show-and-go flatwater paddle races of three miles, one mile and 500 meters for paddlers of all types, including kayaks, canoes and paddleboards. Meet on the water at least 10 minutes beforehand south of the main channel entrance to Basin D (leads to Mother’s Beach). facebook. com/groups/mdrpaddlers; tinyurl.com/ mdrpaddlers Drawing What You See with Frank Valdez, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Camera Obscura resident artist Frank Valdez

Bird LA Day features exotic wildlife and walking tours of the Ballona Wetlands. SEE SATURDAY. teaches drawing techniques through a variety of exercises, such as copying line drawings and drawing still life in pencil. Newsprint, easels and pencils provided. Beginner to intermediate. Camera Obscura Art Lab, 1450 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica. $5. smgov.net/ camera Long Pose Life Drawing with Frank Valdez, 2 to 5 p.m. Designed for intermediate to advanced artists, the class features a clothed model in one long pose, with participants having the unique opportunity to paint or draw the living form. Bring your own materials. Camera Obscura Art Lab, 1450 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica. $12. smgov.net/camera “Art in the Afternoon,” noon to 4 p.m. A Window Between Worlds

Bird LA Day Takes Flight in Ballona What’s the first thing you think about when you think about L.A.? If it isn’t biodiversity, this event could be an eye-opener. On Saturday, May 7, the National Audubon Society’s Bird LA Day offers Angelenos a new way to look at the city. More than 50 bird- and nature-themed events happening across L.A. County, from the rooftop of the Ace Hotel in downtown to the city’s last remaining wetlands in Playa del Rey, celebrate nature’s celebrities. “Birds are the ambassadors of biodiversity, and therefore well suited to tell the story,” Friends of Ballona Wetlands Executive Director Lisa Fimiani says. Family-friendly activities on the Westside include birding in the Santa Monica Mountains, seabird explorations at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium, and a bird photography workshop and bird soundscape yoga at The G2 Gallery on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice.

To dive truly into the thick of nature, take a bird walk through the freshwater or saltwater marshlands of the Ballona Wetlands (various tours happen between 9 a.m. and noon) and hang around for a rare opportunity to see rehabilitated owls and raptors up close. “The Ballona Wetlands is a treasure trove of biodiversity,” says Fimiani. “It’s a major stopover for millions of migratory birds and home to many species of flora and fauna found nowhere else in Southern California.” Participants may also expect to see native plants that date back to the indigenous Tongva people as well as endangered species such as the Belding’s Savannah sparrow, California legless lizard and El Segundo Blue butterflies. — Michael Reyes Visit birdla.org for a complete schedule of events.

hosts its annual art festival with actress G. Hannelius and her teen celebrity friends for meet-and-greets and a variety of family fun, including hands-on art workshops, food from In-N-Out Burger, silent auctions, games, musical performances, face painting and more. Venice Skills Center, 611 6th Ave., Venice Beach. $10 to $60. (310) 396-0317; awbw.org Turning Point Pilates, 12:30 to 2 p.m. It’s International Pilates Day, and Turning Point Pilates is offering free classes and giveaways. Turning Point Pilates, 337 Washington Blvd., Venice. Call for the free class scchedule: (310) 217-7630; info@turningpointpilates. com; turningpointpilates.com Mother’s Day Crafting Happy Hour, 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Join Crafts on the Rocks for this Mother’s Daythemed embroidery event. Bring your mom for margaritas or come make her a gift while dipping into some world class guacamole. Supplies and instruction provided. All skill-levels welcome, from needle novices to stitching pros. $40. Register online in advance. Kay N Dave’s Mexican Restaurant, 9341 Culver Blvd, Culver City. (858) 245-8863; craftsontherocks.com Music by the Sea, 2 to 5 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 Eat|See|Hear: “Dirty Dancing,” 5:30 p.m. The 5th anniversary season of the outdoor movie series kicks-off with a screening of the Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze classic “Dirty Dancing.” Doors open at 5:30 p.m., a performance by Summer Twins at 7 p.m., and the screening at 8:30 p.m. in the Santa Monica High School Memorial Greek Amphitheater, 600 Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica. Enter on 4th Street between the DoubleTree Hotel and the track. $6 to $23. eatseehear.com A Moveable Feast on Appleton Way, 6 to 10:30 p.m. Part of the Venice Design Series fundraiser series for Venice Community Housing Corp., this tour of architecturally significant homes on Appleton Way in Venice features live entertainment by Venice’s own Orson Bean as well as food catered by The Rose Café’s Chef Jason

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Monday, May 9 Free Zumba Class, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Mondays and 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays. A combo of fun and fitness led by Cammie Richardson at the Dockweiler Youth Center, 12505 Vista Del Mar, Playa del Rey. (310) 726-4128; beacheslacounty.gov Comics on the Spot, 7 p.m. This weekly standup comedy event begins with an open mic before the pros take the stage at 7:45 p.m. at The Warehouse, 4499 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. No cover. (310) 823-5451; mdrwarehouse.com Culver City Rock and Mineral Club Meeting, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The club’s monthly meeting features Kent Lauer, master of coldworking and glass lapidary, for a discussion of his

5985 W. Century Blvd., Westchester. Park and enter on 98th Street. gatewaytola.org Gourmet Food Truck Night, 4:30 to 9:30 p.m. Each Tuesday night, diverse tent vendors and gourmet food trucks take over the California Heritage Museum, 2612 Main St., Santa Monica. This week’s lineup includes Me So Hungry Truck, Rolln Lobster, Rice balls of fire, Wise Barbecue Truck, Say Fish Taco and The Deli Doctor. (310) 392-8537; californiaheritagemuseum.org Women’s Sailing Association Dinner Meeting, 6:30 to 9 p.m. A meeting of the Women’s Sailing Association of Santa Monica Bay features a social hour and dinner followed by an 8 p.m. talk about Catalina Island sailing by “Cruising Catalina Island” author Bill McNeely. Santa Monica Windjammers

Sunday, May 8 Mother’s Day Jazz Brunch, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Sholem Community hosts a celebratory brunch featuring jazz singer Angie Wells. Enjoy bagels, cream cheese, lox, tomatoes/onions, herring in sour cream, salads and dessert. Westside Neighborhood School, 5401 Beethoven St., Del Rey. $20 to $25. (323) 939-7173; sholem.org/ mothersday Music by the Sea, 2 to 5 p.m. A scenic harbor view is the backdrop for a free outdoor concert by the Susie Hansen Latin Band. Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. visitmarinadelrey.com Soap Box Open Poetry Reading, 2 p.m. The mic is yours. Bare it all. Signups begin at 1:45 p.m., hosted by Jessica Wilson, founder of Los Angeles Poet Society. Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd, Venice. Free. beyondbaroque.org Karaoke Lisa, 9 p.m. Sing your heart out every Sunday at the P rince O’ Whales, 335 Culver Blvd., Playa del Rey. (310) 823-9826; princeowhales.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 each Sunday. 9132 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Westchester. (310) 670-1994; melodylax.com

The Women’s Sailing Association hosts a talk about Catalina Island sailing. SEE TUESDAY. process. Veterans Memorial Auditorium Rotunda Room, 4117 Overland Blvd., Culver City. Free. culvercityrocks.org/meeting.htm Mike Price Jazz Orchestra, 8 to 9:30 p.m. Experience live jazz with a full bar and dinner service at Typhoon Restaurant, 3221 Donald Douglas Loop, Santa Monica. $10. (310) 390-6565; typhoon.biz

Tuesday, May 10 Gateway to Go Food Trucks, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. A rotating lineup of the city’s best food trucks gathers each Tuesday at Crowne Plaza LAX. Today’s lineup includes The Surfer Taco, Wise Barbecue, Hungry Belly and Tender Grill.

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But there’s one feature that can’t be beat. Atop the roof, the home’s southwest corner comes to a point, like the prow of a ship. Peering over edge, you can feel like you’re on top of Venice. “Stephen absolutely loved Venice,” Benson says. “He took special care with the projects he did here.” Even after his death, that care reverberates through his

homes — lingering in every detail, big or small. The Venice Garden & Home Tour begins at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 7, at 1016 Pleasant View Ave., Venice. The tour winds through three homes before capping off at Horizon House with a party featuring live music, a tequila tasting and food from Chef Joe Miller. Tickets are $250 per person, with proceeds benefitting the Neighborhood Youth Association. Visit venicegardentour.org.

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Wednesday, May 11 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 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

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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

Weird Beckett: “Endgame” @ Kirk Douglas Theatre The end is near for Hamm, Clov, Nagg and Nell, a family of dumpster dwellers wrestling with the repetitious and monotonous nature of life in a post-apocalyptic world. Things couldn’t get any more absurd — or existential — in this classic Beckett play. Now playing at 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sundays through May 22 at Kirk Douglas Theatre, 9820 Washington Blvd., Culver City. $25 to $55. (213) 628-2772; center-theatregroup.org

The cast of “In the Chips” is ready to take on Silicon Valley “In the Chips” @ Fanatic Salon The Monarch Theatre Guild presents a brand new musical set in the high-tech world of Silicon Valley. Now playing at 8 p.m. Fridays and 7 p.m. Sundays through May 22 at Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd., Culver City. $10 to $20. (310) 622-2046; fanaticsalon.com “The Turn of the Screw” @ Westwood Boulevard Director Blake Silver presents Jeffrey Hatcher’s chamber play “The Turn of the Screw,” based on Henry James’ short ghost story, in an abandoned storefront on Westwood Boulevard. Closing soon. Last shows are at 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday (May 6 and 7) behind Sirens/Titans Fitness, 2311 Westwood Blvd., West L.A. $15. (323) 782-1849; eventbrite.com Family Feud: “Dinner at Home Between Deaths” @ Odyssey Theatre Fiona knows something is wrong when workaholic husband Sean announces that they’re going on vacation, but it’s not until her sister Kat arrives on the scene that the truth fully emerges in this dark comic thriller examining the American Dream and identity in the face of changing social mores. Closing soon. Last shows are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday (May 6, 7 and 8) at the Odyssey Theatre, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., West L.A. $30. (323) 960-4429; plays411.net

American Tragedy: “A Touch of the Poet” @ Pacific Resident Theatre This rarely produced Eugene O’Neil Play centers on the dispossessed life of Major Cornelius (“Con”) Melody, who puts on lordly airs to relive his glory days while his hardworking wife and daughter struggle to keep their tavern business alive in 19th-century Massachusetts. Closing soon. Last shows are at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday and at 3 p.m. Sunday (May 5, 6 and 8) at Pacific Resident Theatre, 703 Venice Blvd., Venice. $15. (310) 822-8392; pacificresidenttheatre.com Soliloquies by the Sea: “Second Skin” @ Santa Monica Beach Performed in three monologues on Santa Monica beach, Kristin Idaszak’s award-winning play explores the fraught relationship between Quinn and her estranged dying mother, the haunting nature of Irish bedtime stories and how one mistake can ripple through generations. Continues at 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through May 15 at Santa Monica Beach Lot 8, 810 Pacific Coast Hwy., Santa Monica. $10 to $20. thewest.la Lost in Translation: “The Foreigner” @ Morgan-Wixson Theatre Secrets are spilled when “Froggy” LeSeuer, a British demolition expert, brings a pathologically shy young man named Charlie to a fishing lodge in rural Georgia. “Froggy” tells his fellow vacationers that Charlie is a foreigner who speaks no English, but in reality, he’s all-ears.

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Continues at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through May 22 at Morgan-Wixson Theatre, 2627 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. $20 to $23. (310) 828-7519; morganwixson.org American Shakespeare: “As You Like It” @ Miles Memorial Playhouse The Colonials, a Santa Monicabased company dedicated to producing Shakespeare on the Westside with few frills and an American sensibility, takes on the classic comedy about a cross-dressing noblewoman. Continues at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through May 15 at the Miles Memorial Playhouse, 1130 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. $10 to $20. (310) 804-6745; theatreforsmallspace.com Topsy-Turvy Shakespeare: “Othello/Desdemona” @ City Garage The third installment of City Garage’s three-part series on Shakespeare in the digital age, Charles A. Duncombe’s reinterpretation of “Othello” casts the loyal civic servant of the Venetian state as a man who experiments with self-identifying as white. Desdemona is a spoiled brat who longs for fame, Iago hovers like a “punk-rock bird of prey” and Emilia is a sassy transgender. Continues at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays through May 29. $20 to $25, or pay what you can at the door on Sundays. Bergamot Station Arts Center, Building T1, 2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica. (310) 453-9939; citygarage.org

Super Drama: “The Superhero and His Charming Wife” @ Highways Performance Space A career Superhero’s life turns upside-down when his wife develops the surprising ability to transform into other women. Devoted to security and order, the hero discovers that he is terrified of change. Searching for her own identity, the hero’s wife discovers a dark side to herself. Both must face the unknowns in each other. Continues at 8:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 3:30 p.m. Sundays through May 15 at Highways Performance Space, 1651 18th St., Santa Monica. $30. (310) 3151459; highwaysperformancespace.org A Not-So-Scary Snow White: “Snow White” @ Santa Monica Playhouse Based on the original fairytale, this musical fantasy follows

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The Depressed Cake Shop is opening a popup shop selling grey cupcakes to benefit the St. Joseph Center. The sale is from 7 to 10 p.m. on May 6 and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on May 7 at Streetcraft LA, 2912 Main St., Santa Monica. depressedcakeshop.com Flair Cleaners Santa Monica (720 Montana Ave., Santa Monica) is accepting donations of nonperishable foods for the Westside Food Bank throughout May. The Flair Cares Spring Food Drive includes a matching contribution of up to 1,000 pounds of food. (310) 395-9354; flaircleaners.com

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Chamber Events Tues., May 10: Like an Oscar night for local educators, the LAX Coastal Chamber of Commerce’s annual Teacher Eddy Awards

celebrate outstanding teachers from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel, 5711 W. Century Blvd., Westchester. The party includes dinner and champagne. Tickets are $60. (310) 645-5151; laxcoastal.com Thurs., May 12: The Venice Chamber of Commerce Education Committee celebrates top teachers from 17 local schools during the 6th annual WAVE Awards dinner and ceremony, happening from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Venice, 2232 Lincoln Blvd., Venice. Tickets are $50. (310) 314-9976; vcceducationcommittee.org Thurs., May 19: Local residents can mingle with Mar Vista Chamber of Commerce members from 9 to 10 a.m. at Coffee Connection, 3838 S. Centinela Ave., Mar Vista. marvistachamber.com Wed., May 25: The 5th annual Merchants of Venice business expo happens from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Venice, 2232 Lincoln Blvd., Venice. $5 public admission; vendor spaces available. (310) 822-5425; venicechamber.net

A Gold Standard for Going Green Moby, Patagonia, Dr. Bronner’s and many local businesses receive Sustainable Business Council accolades By Regan Kibbee

the Small Business Award for companies with annual revenue up to $1 million. Finalists in that category included the Santa Monica-based REthink Development, Marina del Rey-based organic wastewater remediation specialists Aqua Bio Environmental Technologies Inc., and Santa Monica-based clothing maker Vital Hemp. L.A. Kitchen, a nonprofit catering company that focuses on reducing food waste while training former foster youth and ex-prisoners for culinary industry jobs, received the Sustainable Business Award (revenue over $1 million). Culver City’s SnackNation, a healthy foods delivery service, Santa Monica’s SHORE Hotel, and Santa Monica snack food producer Barnana were among finalists. Farm-to-kitchen delivery service Out of the Box Collective won the council’s B Corp Award, for which REthink Development and Barnana were also nominees. The People’s Choice Award for Sustainable Restaurant went to Plant Food + Wine, located on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice. Locali on Lincoln Boulevard in Venice and Kye’s on Montana Avenue in Santa Monica were also nominated. “The growing list of finalists each year reflects the increasing number of companies who are concerned with environmental responsibility,” said Sustainable Business Council founder Steve Glenn, who also runs LivingHomes, a design and development company focused on LEED Platinum level prefabricated homes. Arrivals to the festivities were interviewed on the “green carpet” by ECOfashion pioneer Marci Zaroff, who has been working for social and environmental responsibility in the fashion and

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Musician and activist Moby, Patagonia Inc. CEO Rose Marcario and Dr. Bronner’s (represented by CEO David Bronner) received special recognition last month during SolarCity’s 5th annual Sustainable Business Council Industry Achievement Awards. Based in Santa Monica, the nonprofit Sustainable Business Council provides educational support to help businesses improve operations and productivity while reducing their ecological impact. More than 400 people attended the April 19 award ceremony at the Italian Villa style Lexus Santa Monica building on Santa Monica Boulevard. The Industry Achievement Awards spotlight organizations, individuals or projects that have made a significant impact on the sustainability industry. In addition to special honorees Moby, Marcario and Dr. Bronner’s, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti received the Best Public Advocate for Sustainability Award. Sustainable Business Council Executive Director Molly Lavik reported a record number of 70 finalists in six judged award categories. The indoor vertical farming company Local Roots, which develops high-yield growing techniques with drastically lower water requirements, won the Seedling Small Business Award for companies with less than $100,000 annual revenue. Finalists in the category included Santa Monica-based solar company Everblaze Inc. and Native State Foods Inc. Newlight Technologies, which uses commercial carbon capture technology to create plastics from global-warming methane emissions, won

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textile industries for more than 20 years. A small group of women modeled the designer fashions of LA Relaxed, made from recycled organic fabrics produced in California. Moby wore a vintage Black Flag T-shirt. For more information about the Sustainable Business Council, visit sustainablebc.org. Chase Maser also contributed to this story. May 5, 2016 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 41

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research of David B. Agus and the USC Center for Applied Molecular Medicine. Barker Hangar, 3021 Airport Ave., Ste. 203, Santa Monica. $200. bearebel.org.

Thursday, May 12 Dance into Spring, 2 to 4 p.m. The Silver Seminar Series hosts a spring dance with sweet treats, live music by the band Tropic Star and a lively dance floor. Westchester Senior Center, 8740 Lincoln Blvd., Westchester. $5 donation. (310) 695-7031; lisa.deblois@thewpv.org.

The Strands, 8:30 p.m. Local jazz/ pop band The Strands compete in a new artists showcase to determine who will open for the first headliner of the Santa Monica Pier’s Twilight Concert Series. Rusty’s Surf Ranch, 256 Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica. facebook.com/TheStrandsOfficial/

Galleries & Museums 18th Street Arts Champagne Social, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 7. The 18th Street Arts Center hosts a campus-wide afternoon of open studios and tours, exhibitions, live music performances, screenings, discussions, classes, and of course, champagne. 18th Street Arts Center, 1639 18th St., Santa Monica. Free. 18thstreet.org/champagnesocialspring Half-Price Admission at the Santa Monica History Museum, Saturday May 7. In honor of Mother’s Day weekend, all groups with a mother, mother-in-law, stepmother, mother-to-be or grandmother receive half-price admission to the museum: $5 per adult, $2.50 per student. Enjoy six galleries, including the “Shirley Temple: Santa Monica’s Biggest Little Star” exhibit. Santa Monica History Museum, 1350 7th St., Santa Monica. (310) 395-2290; santamonicahistory.org “Preoccupied,” ends Saturday. Seniors from LMU’s Art department show work exploring issues of femininity, family and the body at the Thomas P. Kelly Jr. Art Gallery at LMU, 1 LMU Drive, Westchester. (310) 338-5189 “A Place Like This,” ends Sunday. Timur Si-Qin’s solo exhibition imagines a future materialist-spiritual institution called “New Peace.” A brand as a topological sculpture, capable of being expressed in varying forms and inheriting different meanings over time, the work speaks in the language of products and advertisement. Team (Bungalow), 306 Windward Ave., Venice. teamgal.com “Back to the Beach,” through May 14. Marina del Rey-based architect and artist Dan Janotta shares paintings of the Los Angeles coastline, (Continued on page 44)

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It’s like when you pour orange juice on your cereal instead of milk, which surely only happens because you’ve been having sex dreams about fruit salad. If your near name slips are a sign of anything, it’s probably

that you need a snack and a nap. Your brain is an energy hog, so it likes to cut corners where it can, especially when you’re tired. Basically, like your web browser, it’s big on autofill. In researcher-speak, this means it makes “retrieval errors” — reaching into the right file drawer but just grabbing any old name. Research by psychological anthropologist Alan Page Fiske finds that the biggest predictors for name swapping are the same “mode of relationship” — like here, where both names are from the boyfriend zone — and being “of the same gender.” Boringly reassuring, I hope. There’s also a boringly simple

fix, says memory researcher David Balota: asking and answering the question “What is my current boyfriend’s name?” using “spaced retrieval.” This means setting a timer for, say, 15 seconds and then 45 seconds and then two minutes so you’re recalling the name on demand (as opposed to just reciting it over and over again). You might also try to see these near errors as a sign of the rich tapestry of our bustling modern lives, or some B.S. like that. At least that’s what I tried to tell myself last week when I got off the phone with “Love you!” and heard back, “Um, yes, ma’am. Thank you for choosing AT&T.”

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Gastro-Enterology

Urinary Incontinence Treatment of Loss of Urine Control Vaginal Rejuvenation and Tightening Abnormal Menstrual Bleeding Tubal Ligation

Podiatry Bunion All type of foot surgery

All surgeries are performed by Board Certiﬁed Surgeons of each specialty MEET DR. S. SAUL LAHIJANI Dr. S. Saul Lahijani is the lead Plastic Surgeon at Beverly Hills Institute of Plastic Surgery. He grew up in Southern California. In 1996 he began his medical education at the University of Southern California. In 2002 he graduated from medical school

among the top of his class. Following medical school, Dr. Lahijani began his surgical internship.at St. John’s Hospital. Following his internship, he continued on to Yale University, where he served as Chief Resident from 2003-2004. In 2004 Dr. Saul went on to do another fellowship in Burn and Recon-

structive surgery, at Vanderbilt University, which is considered one of the top cosmetic surgical programs in the country. His passion for cosmetic surgery and reconstructive surgery led him to a third plastic surgery residency at Vanderbilt University.

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Marina Del Rey Hospital

Celebrates National Nurses Week May 6 â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12, 2016

During National Nurses Week, Marina Del Rey Hospital

would like to extend a special thanks to our nurses, as they continue to provide the highest level of quality care to our patients. They deserve special recognition for their efforts in delivering compassionate care while encompassing the principles of ethical practice in their profession.

888.600.5600 â&#x20AC;˘ marinahospital.com With world-class physicians and nurses, we serve the Westside coastal communities with our commitment to patient-centered care, minimal delays, and attentive emergency services.

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