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Contents
VOL 45, NO 21 Local News & Culture
Airbnb Bites Back
OPINION Letters to the editor .......................... 5
Vacation rental advocates say new regulations in Santa Monica go too far
Editorial: Start Doing
Council Casts Off No-Shows
We need all hands on deck to address homelessness — now . ..................................... 5
A Time for Transparency LAPD should release videotape of the Brendon Glenn shooting ................................ 6
Honor Long Overdue Remembering Mexican-American heroes of World War II ........................................... 11
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Del Rey NC gives elected members get the boot for missing meetings ....................... 12
Feature Water in the Blood Norman Ollestad talks about the search for self in the first installment of Sunday Drive with Joe Donnelly, The Argonaut’s new profile series .............. 14
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Bumper-to-Bumper Graphics Marc Karzen’s career shooting stills for ‘Late . Night with David Letterman’ and ‘Saturday Night Live’ began in Santa Monica . ....... 17
Arts Blues and Buddha Musician and meditation teacher Jake La Botz circles back to L.A. .......................... 18
The End of the WitZend Westside music scene loses an anchor with popular venue’s sudden demise .............. 27
A Bigger, Busier Fisherman’s Village Hotel, aquarium and waterfront promenade may factor into coming overhaul ............ 9 The Keeper of Dogtown Jesse Martinez quietly maintains the Venice Skate Park without pay ............................ 10
Westside Happenings Meet the Merchants of Venice
Imperialism’s Kitchen The French occupation of Vietnam may have created the perfect sandwich ....... 16
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Plan for Fisherman’s Village is crass, misguided See “A Bigger, Busier Fisherman’s Village,” page 9 If the developer’s redesign for Marina del Rey’s Fisherman’s Village goes forward, the public recreational interest in the publiclyowned marina is about to be betrayed again — big time. With its funky and brightly colored Cape Cod cottages, Fisherman’s Village is the most spectacular of the three public spaces in the marina, a list that also includes Mother’s Beach and Burton Chace Park. Fisherman’s Village is a destination that has fallen on hard times, but tourists like it, even members of the Small Craft Harbor Commission keep calling for it to be replaced. It is also a popular public destination on weekends, when locals dance to band music, listen to concerts and stroll along the waterfront with its sea lions flopping on the docks and seabirds congregating in the trees. The commissioners might remember that if you were to propose demolishing something funky in Venice, just a mile or so north, you would be run out of town. What the developers propose is to turn Fisherman’s Village into a site for a sprawling luxury hotel, a strip mall and an ugly car parking lot with slatted sides, chewing up the public space. Just looking at their plan raises the question: Why would anyone want to go there? There is no designated concert area, no integration with the magnificent water panorama of the marina entrance, precious little in the way of recreation for children and nothing for parents. Significant changes have been made to the earlier plan the developers presented in 2013. Then the proposed hotel was a strip building set off discreetly to the side. Now it is a massive structure looming over the whole area. In 2013 the developers repeatedly promised that although they would demolish all the cottages they would keep what they called the ‘iconic lighthouse tower’ in the middle of the area. Now the ‘iconic’ lighthouse tower has disappeared too. When it comes to developers’ demands, iconic doesn’t count for much. Bruce Russell, Marina del Rey Bruce Russell is the author of “Chinatown County: The Sell-Out of Marina del Rey.”
Beware Burning Underpants in Venice As a longtime Venice resident I have seen the boardwalk slide into its current state as if in slow-motion — a long downhill ride from funky fun into frightening chaos. I wish I had one uplifting story to tell you about my interaction with the vagrants here, but I don’t At 7:30 a.m. last Tuesday my friend and I were walking north along Ocean Front Walk at about Park Avenue when a woman who was shouting something I could not understand threw a burning pair of underpants at me. This was both funny and sad. My husband has now told me he really doesn’t want me to walk along the boardwalk without him. I guess he’s right. It’s scary in Venice these days, in large and small ways. Noël Johnston, Venice FROM THE WEB: Re: “Venice vs. the Poor,” feature, May 14 Ferguson, Mo., is vacationing on our beaches. Our police are out of control and waging war on the homeless, aiding and abetting the burgeoning Silicon Beach phenomenon and the rampant gentrification and over-development of West Los Angeles. Art E. Musica Re: “Undercover Sting Targets Kombucha at Venice Spiritual Center,” news, May 14 Your tax dollars hard at work. When did ISIS take over? OurManFlint1 I’m floored by this. Don’t they have anything better to do? Let us have our kombucha in peace. Amber-Rain HAVE YOUR SAY IN THE ARGONAUT: We encourage readers to share thoughts on local issues and reactions to stories in The Argonaut through our Letters to the Editor page. You too can have a voice in the community. Letters should include your name and place of residence (for publication) and a telephone number (not for publication).
Homelessness won’t solve itself Andrew Keegan can’t seem to catch a break. International media have had a field day poking fun at the teen heart-throb actor’s latest role as co-founder of the Rose Avenue spiritual center Full Circle. The situation was no different last week after we broke the story of a May 8 state Alcoholic Beverage Control raid to confiscate kombucha, a low-alcohol fermented tea popular in New Age circles, during a Full Circle-hosted charity fundraiser. We got the kombucha raid scoop in the course of reporting a much bigger story: the fatal police shooting of an unarmed homeless man in Venice. Two days after the raid, Keegan attended a public memorial to Brendon Glenn, who was killed on May 5 in front of a popular bar on Windward Avenue. He spoke about bringing local leaders together to come up with concrete ways that Venice can alleviate its homelessness epidemic and address growing tensions between the very wealthy and the extremely poor. To Keegan’s credit, Full Circle hosted such an event that night. The conflict that set Glenn’s death in motion — a spat between a destitute panhandler and the bouncer for a trendy bar, both men trying to occupy the same space — is an anecdote for the larger socioeconomic dynamic at play. Venice is a community at war with itself. It’s a turf battle fueled by a rapid influx of new money and 40-plus years of the city largely ignoring the refugee camp conditions on Venice Beach. As Venice Community Housing Corp. head Steve Clare told us last week, it isn’t that Venice’s homeless population is changing. It’s that homeowners are becoming far less tolerant of the situation, which isn’t all that surprising now that even a tiny home can sell for upwards of $1 million. Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin, who represents Venice, is now pushing several promising ideas for addressing homelessness here and throughout the city. In a column for last week’s paper, Bonin proposed a coordinated entry system to move homeless people from the streets into housing and services, one that could be linked to a successful L.A. County program that fast-tracks the chronically homeless into supportive housing. Recognizing that mental health issues are often a driver of homelessness, he also supported putting more mental health workers on the beat with cops in Venice to help de-escalate confrontations. We support each of these proposals, but to make them effective the city must create more affordable housing. Los Angeles spends more than $100 million per year — year after year after year — in dealing with the homeless, most of that (about $87 million annually) going into the Band-Aid of police response. Spending all that money to maintain a shameful status quo just doesn’t make sense. Countless studies have concluded that it would be cheaper to house the chronically homeless than repeatedly triage associated public safety and health care responses. It’s time to try a new approach. The city could build a lot of housing for what it spends to address the consequences of homelessness. But even as Mayor Eric Garcetti pushes for the construction of some 100,000 new housing units by 2021, it remains unclear how many will become “affordable housing” units that are actually affordable enough for somebody who’s homeless. Residents of Los Angeles — and Venice in particular — must insist that in exchange for the traffic congestion and other trade-offs that come with increased housing density, we get a significant quality of life benefit in return: an effective response to homelessness that provides real help for the people who need it most.
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A Time for Transparency LAPD should release video of the Brendon Glenn shooting in Venice Photo by Joe Piasecki
By Tony Peyser When “Fruitvale Station” came out in 2013, the film seemed like a bold idea: the dramatic retelling of how an unarmed young black man was killed by subway police. It’s now a story that feels very “been there, done that.” This is not because Hollywood is pumping out similar movies. In the intervening two years, so many similar real life killings have played out in the news: Walter Scott in South Carolina, Anthony Hill in Georgia, Eric Harris in Oklahoma, Tony Robinson in Wisconsin, Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Eric Garner in New York, Michael Brown in Missouri and Freddie Gray in Baltimore. This, of course, is only a partial list of young black men killed — and I believe murdered — during encounters with police. It’s a disturbing national trend that hit home recently with the death of a 29-year-old man killed during a May 5 encounter with police on Windward Avenue in Venice. He was not only unarmed but homeless, and apparently dealing with substance abuse and emotional struggles. Lest this become just another statistic, I
A public memorial to Brendon Glenn on Windward Avenue been dropped, but Palmer is suing. This 36-year-old married father of four sounds like a total gang-banger, doesn’t he? Probably belongs to the West Coast Prius Crips. Palmer got beat up in April in a far-off place some of you may have heard of: Santa Monica. We know about it because a passerby captured video with her cell phone and posted it to Facebook. As a society, decorum is often based on mutually accepted lies,
Other police departments handling similar issues didn’t seem to have this problem. Millions of people saw video of Eric Garner being choked to death and a horribly incapacitated Freddie Gray being dragged to a police van by officers. Even if what Girmala says is totally on the up and up, complete transparency does not seem to be the order of the day. No wonder locals are skeptical and irate. You may have missed another cop drama in the news lately. A
I was a dreadful math student, but I can figure this equation: Distraught Teen + Points Gun At Cops = One Dead Teenager. But that’s not what happened. must point out that he had a name (Brendon Glenn), a nickname (Dizzle) and a dog (Dozer). Oh, and also a three-year-old son. Doesn’t anyone in law enforcement use Mace anymore? It seems like quite an effective and non-lethal way to get even a disturbed individual’s undivided attention. I wonder if police have shied away from pepper spray because so many women are packing it their purses, perhaps making this once prominent law enforcement tool seem, well, kind of girly. But maybe we should hold off on the pepper spray for a minute. Justin Palmer, also a black man, has accused police of using excessive force after he suffered a concussion and was pepper sprayed while … wait for it … recharging his electric car in a public park. All criminal charges (including resisting arrest) have PAGE 6 THE ARGONAUT May 21, 2015
i.e. “The check is in the mail” or “I only had two drinks.” For police departments across the country, the epidemic of police violence against black men means people are no longer buying familiar explanations of questionable shootings — “The perp went for my gun” or I saw him reach for something in his waistband.” I’m sure such claims have been made in honesty over the years, but in these times we’re just not buying them anymore. That takes us back to Glenn. Security video footage of his death at the hands of LAPD officers has not been made public. At a raucous town hall meeting in Venice just two days after the shooting, LAPD Deputy Chief Beatrice Girmala said police would risk tainting the memories of witnesses if the video is released.
dad in Covina was having a massive disagreement with his daughter and called for help from local police. Two officers went into the adolescent’s bedroom and, during a brief encounter with police, the girl suddenly pulled a handgun from her waistband and pointed it at the officers. I was a dreadful math student, but I can figure this equation: Distraught Teen + Points Gun At Cops = One Dead Teenager. But that’s not what happened. The officers pulled out their weapons and ordered the girl to drop hers. She did as she was told and is now receiving psychiatric counseling. The restraint shown by these quick-thinking policemen — relatively new to their jobs, mind you — is admirable and gives me hope for the future of law enforcement in such dark times.
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By Gary Walker A five-story hotel, a 30-foot waterfront promenade, a children’s playground and an environmental education center in place of the familiar decorative lighthouse are among the new attractions proposed for a ground-up remake of Fisherman’s Village. Gold Coast Village LLC, the leaseholders in control of the 1.2-acre recreational and retail center on Fiji Way, unveiled conceptual renderings of its proposed remodel during a meeting of the Small Craft Harbors Commission on May 13. The overhaul would accommodate an assortment of high-end retail stores and restaurants, a food court with a rooftop beer garden and attached parking garage, plus expanded bicycle and boating access. “The conceptual plan, although in the early stages, will place an emphasis on sustainable practices and hopes to reposition Fisherman’s Village into a world-class destination that represents the best of Marina del Rey,” said Alan Pullman, senior principal of Studio One Eleven, the project’s architectural firm. “We are committed to developing a plan which meets the needs of the Marina del Rey community, focused on an inclusive visitorcentric experience.” Fisherman’s Village currently has about 500 parking spaces. The remodel calls for 1,166 public parking stalls and 381 spaces dedicated for the hotel. Located on the east end of the parcel, the hotel would offer 161 rooms, a restaurant and a community room that local organizations could use free of charge. The height of the food court and parking garage on the parcel’s west side would be staggered between 33 and 44 feet. The park-like waterfront promenade would stretch along the middle of the parcel between the water and a three-story structure with roughly 31,000 square feet of restaurant or retail space and the 5,400-square-foot environmental education center. Boat docks and slips for large and small craft continue to line the waterfront. “Waterfront activities are a key component of this project,” Pullman said. FantaSea Yachts owner Daniel Ginsberg said the proposed remodel was “very impressive” but remained adamant that
The leaseholder for Fisherman’s Village has unveiled renderings for a proposed ground-up remodel. The foreground of the above image, looking west, shows a retail center and pedestrian promenade. The image below shows a food court and parking structure as it would look from Fiji Way. Fisherman’s Village retain its charter docks and corresponding parking. Others mourned the loss of its quaint original structures, including the lighthouse. “I’d hate to see it go,” said Marina del Rey resident Gene Pomerantz, who spoke fondly of attending weekend outdoor concerts at Fisherman’s Village. “It’s an iconic place.” “Fisherman’s Village is probably the only thing left that was part of the original Marina del Rey,” said P.J. Garcia, owner of the Indy Plush sustainable clothing and toy store in Fisherman’s Village. Last year Garcia circulated a petition against remodeling Fisherman’s Village that garnered 500 signatures.
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Others, including Los Angeles County officials, argue Fisherman’s Village is underutilized and outdated. “We hear a lot of ‘When are they going to do something with Fisherman’s Village?’ So I absolutely believe that if this project moves forward it will actually generate more tourism and economic activity in Marina del Rey,” said Janet Zaldua, executive director of the Marina del Rey Convention and Visitors Bureau. Michael Pashaie, one of the owners of Gold Coast Village LLC, said he appreciated nostalgia for keeping elements of the original Fisherman’s Village intact. “I had my bachelor party there and bought my wife her first gift
there before we bought the property. But unfortunately, as far as some of the building being replaced, they are kind of dilapidated and many of these structures are not safe. They were built during a time when there weren’t many seismic codes so we need to replace them,” he said. Pashaie said he’d consider putting the lighthouse back on the table but cautioned that building a non-functioning lighthouse caries regulatory complications. Garcia questioned the fates of Fisherman’s Village merchants, broaching the topic publicly for perhaps the first time. Commission member Vanessa Delgado asked Pashaie during the meeting if anything could be
done to help existing tenants survive the construction phase (estimated at more than two years) and find a home in the renovated Fisherman’s Village. “When the project is finished, we’d welcome [existing merchants] back, and we’re going to give them a lower rent than market rate to try and get them reestablished again. It will be on a case-by-case basis,” Pashaie said after the meeting. Adrienne Spellman, who opened the natural skin care Jaden Moon at Fisherman’s Village last year, welcomed Delgado’s suggestion. “To expect us to pay the same rent as some of the large stores is unreasonable,” Spellman said. gary@argonautnews.com
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The Keeper of Dogtown
Jesse Martinez has selflessly maintained the Venice Skate Park for years, but now he could use a hand — and a paycheck Photo by Mia Duncans
Jesse Martinez has been cleaning and maintaining the Venice Skate Park without compensation, and now friends say he needs help replacing his stolen truck in order to continue the work.
“This is our neighborhood. … If you tag it, I guarantee you that by eight in the morning it will be gone.” — Jesse Martinez
“I’m not associated with them.” He credits skateboarding for some of the distance from relatives that kept him on better path. Martinez’ start as a pro-skater, when he was in his late teens, illustrates the magic of the early years of Venice Beach’s iconic skate and surf scene. “It was just by chance. I was just skateboarding to get around town and have fun. One day I saw Jay Adams. He looks at me and says, ‘Hey you, I’ve seen you around. You want to go skating?’ I was so stoked,” Martinez said. “The next day he said, ‘I want to put you on the Santa Monica Airlines [team]. … That completely changed my
direction of life.” Adams, one of the original Z-Boys who helped bring skateboarding to national prominence, died last year. On Saturday, a competition and showcase will be held at the Venice Skate Park in his honor. Fowler said the skate park could also use more financial support from local businesses. “This culture that was created here, this is a historical place. This is where Jay Adams, this is where Dennis ‘Polar Bear’ Agnew, this is where all of them started,” Fowler said. “We’re all profiting from the tourism and everything that this place is.”
Martinez said he doesn’t want to fight with the city or run events, but he’d like to stop having to scramble for money for the park. “Just let me clean. I don’t want to do anything else,” Martinez said, picking up a broom as he talked. “I do it so Dogtown lives on. I want to see pros produced out of here so when I’m dead and gone some kid is here 50 years from now going, ‘I’m a Dogtown boy and I live in Venice.’” Visit gofundme.com/VeniceSkatepark to learn more about the campaign to fun Martinez’s efforts at the skate park.
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park’s upkeep. Charles Singer, a superintendent of operations for the L.A. City Department of Recreation and Parks, confirmed that, until recently, the city has not provided funding or labor for cleaning or maintenance at the Venice Skate Park. Instead, it handed that responsibility to a former incarnation of the Venice Skate Alliance, through what’s known as a “right of entry” agreement. Such partnerships with community organizations help maintain many of the city’s recreation and park facilities, including other skate parks, Singer said. That deal with the city was left in limbo during renegotiations about six months ago, which took place in the wake of changes in leadership and reorganization within the Venice skaters group. In the meantime, the city reached out to Martinez and said they wanted to hire him for the skate park job he’d been doing for free for nearly six years. “We’d like to see him paid for his work,” Singer said. “That was our intent.” Martinez filled out an application about four months ago, but he has not yet been hired. The city “left him hanging,” said Fowler. Los Angeles has saved at least $10,000 a month by having Martinez and other Venice Skate Alliance volunteers take care of the park maintenance, he said. “I’d like to see him get a full time job and get more than $15 an hour,” Fowler said. “Nobody is going to clean this park like him and his people. Jesse is the steward of the park.” The stumbling block, said Singer, is a criminal background check hold on Martinez’s application. Singer said he was notified about the hold around three weeks ago, but he does not know the reason for it. Another local skater who applied for a Recreation and Park position at about the same time as Martinez did not get the same scrutiny from the state agency, Singer said. Asked about the hold, Martinez said he does not have a criminal background but isn’t surprised that officials are taking an extended look. “My family, some of them were big- time gang members; some of them are in prison, and have been shot callers. I’ve had to deal with that all of my life,” Martinez said.
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By Bonnie Eslinger Early Sunday morning at Venice Beach, hours before the vendors, tourists, fitness buffs and street performers begin to crowd the eclectic and frenetic boardwalk, there is quiet. Then the sound of a leaf blower. It’s wielded by pro skateboarder Jesse Martinez, who arrived in the predawn hours, as he does daily, to clean the city’s skate park. He does it for free, with supplies that have been donated or funded through the nonprofit Venice Skatepark Foundation / Venice Skate Alliance, started by local skaters who pushed the city to build the $2.4 million facility, which opened in 2009. About a half-dozen other volunteers help Martinez, 50, but he’s the man on a mission to maintain this piece of Dogtown history. All around the park there is graffiti at Venice Beach: on the sidewalks, walls, the public art sculpture, even the palm trees. But there’s not a single tag on the 16,000-square-foot park, despite being hit nightly by vandals who can’t resist its smooth pale gray cement surface. It’s done mostly by out-of-town taggers, Martinez said. Locals know their efforts to self-immortalize at the skate park will be futile. “When the park first opened, somebody tagged the park, and I went over to him and said ‘What are you doing man?’ He said, ‘You’re never gonna keep that thing clean, even if I don’t do it,’” Martinez said. “That sort of pushed me on. It’s always been that in Venice, that pride. This is our neighborhood. I’ll show you. If you tag it, I guarantee you that by eight in the morning it will be gone.” The undertaking has taken its toll on Martinez, who struggles financially and has sacrificed time for his career and family to maintain the park. A few weeks ago, Martinez’s situation worsened when the beatup truck he used to clean and maintain the park was stolen. Although recovered by the police, the truck was unsalvageable, said Martinez’s friend and fellow Venice skateboarder David Fowler. That’s when Fowler, a local realtor, launched an online Go Fund Me campaign to raise money in support of Martinez’s work and draw attention to the ongoing struggle to pay for the
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and reprimanded for bucking the chain of command. To silence him, Navarrete was ordered to the hospital. His command was passed to two staff sergeants, one of whom also argued against the mission. “It was still dark when the soldiers reached the river,” Grattan-Dominguez wrote in “The Dark Side of the Dream.” “As they’re coming across and the dawn starts to break and the fog lifts from the river, the small armada of rafts became visible. For several seconds, the Germans didn’t shoot. The Germans realized the mission had suicide written all over it and some actually yelled for the [Americans] to ‘Give up! Give up!’ Of E Company’s original 156 soldiers, only 23 came back, and 12 later died [from wounds]. “Lt. Navarrete was lying in his battalion hospital cot when he learned of the casualties. Hearing the news, he got up, slipped out of the hospital and went looking for the superior officer [who insisted on the order], intending to add him to the battle’s casualty list.” For his own safety, the superior officer was immediately transferred and Navarrete, who’d been wounded seven times during battles, was promoted and sent home. He was awarded two (Continued on page 43)
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By Kelly Hayes-Raitt Bill Lansford fought in World War II. He fought in Korea. And then the late Playa del Rey resident fought in L.A. County to build a memorial to MexicanAmerican soldiers who were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. “Of the nearly 4,000 Medals of Honor awarded since the Civil War, 40 have been given to Latino-Americans, making them the largest single ethnic group, in proportion to the number who served, to earn our nation’s highest award for bravery,” Lansford, the son of a Mexican mother, wrote on his website. One soldier who was denied this honor, however, was Maj. Gabriel Navarrete. He stood up to his commanding officer over what was “without a doubt, the most criticized of moves made by the United States Army in the European Theater in WWII,” wrote historian Raul Morin in “Among the Valiant: MexicanAmericans in WWII and Korea.” Navarrete commanded E Company of the Texas 36th Division, America’s first all Mexican-American infantry unit. By orders, all Spanish-speaking soldiers and those of Mexican descent in the division were transferred to E Company. Because the company was comprised primarily of seasoned soldiers and not new draftees, it quickly became one of the most highly decorated fighting units in American history. The soldiers in E Company had a unique camaraderie. They had grown up around El Paso together, served in the Texas National Guard together and trained together. “We came from the same barrios and attended the same school,” Navarrete was quoted by Morin. “Even our parents had long been friends and neighbors. We all suffered the Depression together.” E Company fought valiantly during the storming of the beachhead at Salerno, Italy, and during the hard-fought battle to capture Naples. Navarrete became the stuff of legend when he shot a pistol out of the hand of a defiant German prisoner who refused to surrender to him. Outside Naples, the Italian terrain grew steeper as the Allies inched toward Rome, fighting the whole way. “The enemy had
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Vacation rental advocates say new regulations in Santa Monica go too far “This proposal fails to provide clear, fair rules for home sharing. We will continue to highlight the importance of fair rules with leaders in Santa Monica and throughout Southern California,” Airbnb spokeswoman Alison Schumer said. Sherri Akers, co-chair of the Mar Vista Community Council’s Aging in Place Committee, worries that Los Angeles may follow suit and adopt similar regulations that she fears could prevent seniors from supplementing their income. “The ability to rent out rooms in our home — or the entire home when we are traveling — is a win-win for everyone. For those struggling to make ends meet, it provides an additional source of income. For many seniors, Vacation rental supporters rally outside Santa Monica renting a room in their home also City Hall on May 12 provides safety and even some hotel tax, and online vacation who are living here full-time,” caregiving,” Akers said. rentals must report transactions to Santa Monica City CouncilwomIn Los Angeles, there are around the city. an Sue Himmelrich said. 4,500 short-term rental operators, On the other side of the arguShe adds that most short-term according to a report issued by ment, Santa Monica officials say rental situations were already Los Angeles City Administrator the conversion of long-term technically illegal in Santa Miguel Santana earlier this residential housing into vacation Monica. month. properties reduces the city’s avail- “In the past we just weren’t The Los Angeles City Council is able housing stock and drives up doing a very good job of enforce- currently considering new rents for permanent residents, ment,” Himmelrich said. regulations for short-term rentals, pitting locals’ paychecks against Airbnb representatives characwhich are currently illegal in tourist dollars. terize Santa Monica’s restrictions residential neighborhoods — “We’ve always been ardent on short-term rentals as unfair though, as was the case for so protectors of our rental stock in — especially to renters who, like long in Santa Monica, the rules Santa Monica. Our apartment Fenmore, depend on the addition- went largely unenforced. rental units should be for people al income to stay in their homes. Residents of Venice, where Photo by Robert Craig
By Gary Walker Desiree Fenmore has lived in Santa Monica for 19 years. Once saddled with what she called “mountains of debt,” Fenmore was able to obtain a degree of financial stability by renting her apartment to tourists through online short-term rental broker Airbnb. Now that the Santa Monica City Council has voted to crack down on the practice of shortterm rentals, she is unsure how long she can continue to afford her $1,500 monthly rent — and that’s considered a bargain in Santa Monica. “In this day and age, it’s really hard to have only one job and make ends meet. Airbnb helped me get out of over $20,000 of debt in a year and three months. This vote is going to dramatically change my life and I might have to leave my apartment,” said Fenmore, who works a performer. Fenmore was among nearly 200 Airbnb supporters who gathered in front of Santa Monica City Hall on May 12 to protest the city’s new short-term rentals ordinance, which as of June 15 effectively outlaws temporary vacation rentals for less than one month unless the permanent occupant is not also present. Those who rent space legally will be required to get a business license and pay the city’s 14%
Airbnb lists as many as 1,000 properties or more in peak season, have been at the forefront of pushing city officials for clearer and more restrictive guidelines. Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin has proposed an ordinance that would prohibit high concentrations of vacation rentals in specific residential areas and collect city hotel tax proceeds from short-term rental operators. In January the Venice Neighborhood Council called on Mayor Eric Garcetti and L.A. City Council members to craft an interim ordinance that would provide “basic regulations and controls and collections of all short-term rental related taxes and fees” as well as an oversight body to penalize those who repeatedly flout current or future regulations. Hotel operators in Santa Monica and Los Angeles support collection of hotel tax revenue from short-term rental operators. Fenmore said civic leaders should accept short-term rentals as part of a new economic landscape. “The paradigm needs to be changed on subletting. It should be allowed to be for three days or a week,” she said. “It’s really a state of mind.” gary@argonautnews.com
Del Rey Council Casts Off No-Shows Elected members get the boot for missing meetings By Gary Walker For the first time in recent memory, a Westside neighborhood council has voted to remove elected board members for failing to attend public meetings. On May 14, Del Rey Neighborhood Council members voted 9-0 to remove council Secretary Tanya Franklin and Area H Director MeiWah Wong for repeated absences, a violation of council attendance requirements. Neither attended the meeting. “We do try to stress to the community and all candidates that, while we are volunteers, effort and time needs to be committed to make Del Rey a vibrant place,” Del Rey Neighborhood Council President
Jonathon Neumann said. “We do also ask that our board take their role seriously and think of their ability to put time into the community. Most do; some
Linda Lucks, past president of the Venice Neighborhood Council, said that at one point during her tenure she began circulating an attendance log
“The board has to demand accountability, even though we’re all volunteers. You’re not serving the community or the board when you don’t show up.” — Linda Lucks unfortunately overcommit.” The problem of poor attendance by some neighborhood council members has not been unique to Del Rey.
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identifying those who had missed several meetings. “That got them to pay attention. The board has to demand accountability, even though
we’re all volunteers. You’re not serving the community or the board when you don’t show up,” said Lucks, also a former member of the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners, an oversight body for the city’s 95 neighborhood councils. The Del Rey council, which already had a vacancy for its Area B director, will be considering appointments next month for Franklin’s and Wong’s seats, Neumann said. With the two removals and the early departure of another member, the 15-member council had just enough members to reach a quorum last Thursday. “The good news is that, as our role in the community has grown and we have been able to
accomplish goals of the board, interest in joining the board has also increased. We already have several candidates for these positions and will be forming review groups to nominate replacement board members, hopefully at the June meeting,” Neumann said. “I try to manage the burden put on others so that they do not drift from the council,” he said. “But ultimately it is up to the board member to stay committed and participate with the rest of the board. When they don’t, as in the case of the two recent removals, we have to move on.” gary@argonautnews.com
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This is the fi first rst installment of “Sunday Drive with Joe Donnelly,” a series of experiential profi profiles les of Westside locals that will appear occasionally in The Argonaut. A short documentary accompanies “Sunday Drive” stories at argonautnews.com.
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‘Crazy for the Storm’ author Norman Ollestad spent a lifetime crafting his own identity, but he’s still his daredevil surfer father’s son
Story by Joe Donnelly Images by Hank Cherry On a recent postcard-worthy Sunday afternoon, an unusually vigorous early spring swell is lighting up surf breaks from El Segundo to Point Dume. Usually on a day like this Norman Ollestad would be up and at them in the surf around the Venice breakwater. “I try to get out there early and clear the mind for a day of writing,” says Ollestad, who lives just a few blocks away in a tree- and shrub-sheltered bungalow with an all-wood writing shack out back. Today, though, Ollestad got waylaid tending to a wife with an urgent-care case of food poisoning. By midday, with the situation stabilized, Venice is blown out. On any other day, that might mean it’s time for a walk around the canals, where Ollestad says he solves many of his writing problems and still fi finds nds new things to look at even after 12 years in the ‘hood. Then, perhaps, he’d join a friend at Zinque for an afternoon beer. The waves, though, are too good to pass up. So we repair to Topanga, where the shape is holding despite a light onshore wind, low tide and head-high sets. When we get there, Ollestad, who has an athletic bearing, bright eyes and PAGE 14 THE ARGONAUT MAY May 21, 2015
graying beard, is chomping at the bit to paddle out. There’s something refreshing about the fact that his second major book, “Gravity,” dropped just a couple of days ago (it’s already topping Amazon’s charts for memoir), and Ollestad would just as soon get wet than talk about it. I can’t blame him. It’s good out there,
Many of those came wrapped in the singular package of Ollestad’s father (also named Norman Ollestad), a lawyer who joined the FBI after reading J. Edgar Hoover’s “Masters of Deceit” but quickly grew quickly disillusioned with Hoover’s little shop of horrors. He left abruptly to pen “Inside the FBI,” a whistle-blowing
Ollestad’s remarkable survival against reminiscence of his formative years on Topanga Beach strapped to the back of a larger-than-life father. As we walk along Topanga Creek toward the beach where his boyhood house once stood a sandal toss from wet sand, Ollestad, 47, recounts a childhood that was a sun-soaked, acid-washed California dream: Back then the Topanga sand “I didn’t have to be crazier than him. welcomed hippies, biker gangs and libertines in equal measure. I didn’t have to be more charming or He points to where a VW bug that had charismatic than him. I could do what taken a very wrong turn off the Pacifi Pacificc Coast Highway remained stuck in the I wanted to do and that was all right.” sludge near the creek’s mouth. — Norman Ollestad on coming to terms with his daredevil father “When the tide was high and in the winter when there was a lot of water, we’d and Ollestad knows this wave well. He account of his experiences, before beating swim out and stand on it,” says Ollestad. “There was a path that ran along the edge grew up on it — literally. a retreat to the hippie refuge of Lower of the creek that I always remember being An iconic picture of infant Ollestad Topanga. overgrown with licorice. I loved it. I loved strapped to the back of his father, who is The senior Norman Ollestad was a the taste and the smell ... and I had my riding a much smaller wave than the ones charming hard-charger who relentlessly licorice and my golden retriever and we we’re seeing today, was taken right out pushed his son to test his physical limits. here more than 40 years ago. The shot He died in 1979 when a plane he chartered did whatever kids do. We built forts and graces the cover of Ollestad’s breakto ferry his son to a Big Bear skiing event hung out.” A public bathroom now claims the spot through 2009 book “Crazy for the Storm, crashed into a storm-shrouded peak in the A Memoir of Survival” and the photo is San Gabriel Mountains. His girlfriend and on the sand once occupied by the house where Ollestad lived with his mother. His kind of talismanic for Ollestad, emblematic the pilot also perished. Eleven-year-old of some of the greatest gifts and biggest Norman was the only survivor. “Crazy for parents divorced when Ollestad was just 3 years old, and his father lived in a house losses in his life. the Storm” juxtaposes the crash and
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LEFT: Norman
Ollestad, at home on the beach in Lower Topanga Above: Ollestad heads out to catch a wave Below: Ollestad’s father would take him surfing every morning at dawn — even before he was old enough to stand on a board behind where the Reel Inn now stands. Dad kept his surfboards at the beach, and the first thing Ollestad would hear every morning was his father’s footsteps padding along the wood planks that served as a walkway from canyon to beach. As a child, Ollestad didn’t always want to surf at dawn. He says he’d lie in bed making up excuses — too tired, too sick. His dad would have none of it. “He’d say, ‘Oh, the ocean’s good for that.’ No matter what it was, the ocean was good for it,” Ollestad says with a laugh. Indeed, Ollestad was offered little or no respite from a father’s agenda that included competitive skiing, 5 a.m. hockey practices, surfing and outdoor adventuring from the time the boy could walk. While “Crazy for the Storm” is both confrontation with and homage to the boyhood bestowed upon him, Ollestad’s new book, “Gravity,” details how, as a young man, the author escaped the long shadow cast by his father. The story takes place in the Austrian Alps resort of St. Anton, a place Ollestad’s father used to take him to prematurely confront expert, off-piste trails. Ollestad ventured back as a 20 year old to exhume and embrace some of the spirits that had been haunting him, while burying
others for good. In that sense, “Gravity” is a classic coming-of-age tale — by testing himself against the ghost of his father, Ollestad found himself. “Part of this journey was putting myself, again, in sort of perilous situations, all in the pursuit of ecstasy and beauty and seeing how I reacted and measuring myself: Oh, this is how I thought I’d be. This is how my dad was … but this is really who I am,” says Ollestad. “Gravity” will appeal to adrenaline junkies and romantics alike, and I don’t think I’ll be giving too much away to reveal that what Ollestad discovers during those lonely and dangerous days in St. Anton is that, despite sharing some of his dad’s daredevil genes, what he really is, is a writer. “I didn’t have to be crazier than him. I didn’t have to be more charming or charismatic than him,” says Ollestad. “I could do what I wanted to do and that was all right. I still knew what I was made of.” Here in Lower Topanga, a big set rolls in and the possibilities of getting tubed are too much for Ollestad, who paddles out at last. He may be a writer, but he’s still his father’s son.
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Under the dark imperialist cloud of France’s occupation of Southeast Asia arose a silverlined sandwich: the bánh mì. Within the crusty confines of a deliciously simple French baguette, other French staples like butter and pâté became wedded with much livelier ingredients such as cilantro, cucumber, jalapeño, pickled carrots and daikon to create a harmonious marriage of flavors: a meld of rich, savory, vibrant and spicy. More than half a century later, it’s a tradition that’s alive and well at the corner of Lincoln Boulevard and Rose Avenue. A busy corner for half the day and a proverbial parking lot the rest of the time, this busy traffic corridor is as good a place as any to open up a sandwich shop. Enter Bánh Mì, which is very hard to miss in one-mile-perhour traffic. Bánh Mì, as you may have guessed, serves bánh mì. The name is certainly on the nose, which is just as well for a sandwich that is underappreciated in the cultural mainstream and underrepresented here on the Westside. There isn’t much in the realm of Vietnamese eating in this part of L.A., which makes Bánh Mì a welcome addition to
the neighborhood. Bánh Mì keeps the menu simple, yet there is enough variety to represent everyone’s’ favorite animals to eat. The Oink Mì offers caramelized pork belly, reduced shallots and a pâté spread.
sandwiches yield a nice balance of meats to veggies, but the bigger flavored proteins — the short rib and pork belly, especially — really pair well with the aromatic and pickled vegetables. There are many variations of the bánh mì, and just as many
The sandwiches are a departure from what some would consider a traditional bánh mì, but in a way that raises the bar. The Moo Mì combines braised short rib with mortar-pounded chili paste, lime, lemongrass, ginger and a chili-mayo sauce. There are two takes on chicken. One is braised in kaffir lime leaves, lemongrass, ginger, chili and chili-mayo. The other boasts chicken simmered in curry and coconut milk and served with carrots, sweet and gold potatoes, lemon grass and lime. Two veggie varieties pair tofu with either roasted chilies or curry-simmered vegetables. There’s also a fish sandwich of lingcod braised with turmeric and dill, yogurt, spring onion, bean sprouts and lemon juice, and a breakfast Bánh Mì with fried eggs called the Wake Mì. Every sandwich is topped with a bouquet of pickled daikon, carrots, cucumber, fresh cilantro, jalapeño and a country pâté spread or chili mayo. While the pâté is very subtle, sandwiches with the chili mayo indeed have discernible kick. All of the
interpretations of what makes an ideal one. The sandwiches here are a departure from what some would consider a traditional bánh mì, but in a way that raises the bar. Chả Lụa, often the featured ingredient in other bánh mì, is a pork loaf typically made of mystery meat. There is, however, great affection for the meaty loaf — perhaps the same way Hawaiians honor Spam — and that’s why $3 has become the price point for most bánh mì, similar to the $1 street taco. Bánh Mì’s bánh mìs range from $8 to $13 — far more than $3, but a trade-off for quality in a community that’s willing to spend that kind of cash for a lesser sandwich elsewhere. Indeed, the bánh mì bar has been raised, but one thing that remains constant is the expectation for copious amounts of heat. Vietnamese cuisine tends to be (Continued on page 42)
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Marc Karzen and “Late Night” colleagues holed up for the weekend at the Berkshire Place Hotel to create this iconic Letterman bumper, one of several on display in Santa Monica
Bumper-to-Bumper Graphics Marc Karzen’s career shooting stills for ‘Late Night with David Letterman’ and ‘Saturday Night Live’ began in Santa Monica By Michael Aushenker Last night the lights went out on David Letterman’s 33-year reign as late-night talk show royalty, a mantle he inherited with Johnny Carson’s blessing and maintained across two networks. There will be no more Top Ten lists, no more Stupid Pet Tricks, no more dispatching willing pawns such as Calvert “Larry ‘Bud’ Melman” DeForest or Rupert Jee onto the streets of Manhattan. Truth be told, however, Letterman’s more innovative and influential glory days as a purveyor of irony and sarcasm were behind him. It was during his run at NBC from 1982 to 1993 that Letterman blossomed — smart-assing his way through interviews with self-serious celebrities, dropping watermelons from rooftops and trampolining onto walls in a Velcro suit. This was also when Marc Karzen occupied a unique position on the “Late Night” crew as official still photographer, accidental logo designer and creator of the show’s iconic “bumpers” — those wacky, single-frame visual segues in and out of commercials that transposed the Letterman likeness and logo onto New York still lifes.
had become America’s national watercooler conversation. It was on the “SNL” set that Karzen befriended NBC Art Director Bob Pook. One day, Pook told the Karzen, “If you could be at the corner of 49th and 30 Rock, I’ve got a job for you,” Karzen recalled. A midnight image of the words “Saturday Night Live” scrawled into wet cement “There was an experimental sensibility — landed him inside NBC’s art department working alongside Pook and creative the feeling of creative freedom. That was director Edd Hall (a part-time voiceover a culture that Letterman nurtured.” actor; later the first announcer on Jay — visual artist Marc Karzen Leno’s “Tonight Show”). From 1980 to 1982, Karzen created creations: as Karzen tells it, he owes his incidental photos for “SNL”: establishing same circles as Helmut Newton, Guy career to attending Santa Monica College. Bourdin and Richard Avedon. This was shots for sketches, product shots for fake Karzen’s family moved from his native from 1977 to 1980, when Roman Polanski commercials, the Weekend Update Kentucky to a low-rent, address-in-name- was “hiding out in the discos off the segment’s skyline backdrop — whatever only part of Beverly Hills when he was they needed. Champs-Elysee,” Karzen said. just a teenager, allowing the former In those years Karzen was privy to a After three years, however, Karzen country boy to rub elbows with Porschegolden era of “SNL” writers and talent began feeling stuffed from his moveable and Ferraris-driving teens at Beverly Hills feast: “I felt like a foreigner. I started — John Belushi, Bill Murray, Eddie High School. But it was at SMC that Murphy, Billy Crystal, Al Franken and the rediscovering my American roots,” he instructor Don Battle infused Karzen with said. late Michael O’Donoghue, among others. the passion and technical proficiency to He simultaneously freelanced for Rolling Karzen retreated to Manhattan’s Upper become a professional photographer. East Side, where his roommate, a “Satur- Stone magazine taking advantage of his “He forced us to learn the basics: day Night Live” production assistant, composition, lighting, printing, [to] (Continued on page 18) began getting him into tapings of what An assortment of Karzen’s original bumper photographs are on display through Sunday at the Robert Berman Gallery in Bergamot Station Arts Center before going up for auction in Santa Monica on May 31. Santa Monica is an unlikely but apropos venue for the exhibit and sale of Karzen’s
process using the Zone System, which Ansel Adams developed [by way of 4x5 drop cameras],” Karzen said. After a year in school, Karzen left for Paris, where his portfolio quickly landed him fashion work as a street photographer for magazines Depeche Mode, Marie Claire and Marie France, circulating in the
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Blues and Buddha Musician, actor and meditation teacher Jake La Botz circles back to L.A. Homesick James is well steeped in Hank Williams and the teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche — and all those influences are discernable in his songs. La Botz finds unexpected linkages between blues and meditative traditions he shares as a senior teacher with the Dharma Ocean Buddhist community. “I belong to a Buddhist lineage [whose] roots are in people who were practicing that were house holders,” he explains. “A lot of times we think of monks, but these people had regular lives; they were grinding sesame seeds or they were pimps. They found that by doing their practice at home and working in all the situations in their life there was possibility for great transformation. That’s what I find too. On the outside I’m actor guy, musician guy, I go around and do these jobs. But my practice makes me really curious about what’s going on with all of this, with me in Jake La Botz returns to his L.A. roots this week, starting with a gig at Liquid Kitty my own mind and other people and how Brothers at his family’s church, Mt. Zion things actually come to life. … The we can explore things more deeply. I think Missionary Baptist Church in South L.A. character was loosely based on me, and art in general, regardless of ‘spirituality,’ is Chris really related to me and the kind of then it entered this whole other world of exploration of human experience. music that I play, and coming to this Hicky’s life.” “What’s interesting about the blues is that church and hearing that music I think Music was also central to La Botz’s sly, it’s so expressive of the pain in our lives, reminded him of home in the Arkansas critically acclaimed star turn in Stephen and also the joy,” he says. “There’s even Delta.” King and John Mellencamp’s gothic joy inside of the pain or melancholy, which La Botz recalls a table reading at Silver musical “Ghost Brothers of Darkland is interesting; they’re kind of inseparable in Lake’s Café Tropical in 2004 (“in the back- County,” which may eventually be revived an odd way. That expression can be a room where they used to always have on London’s West End. Right now he’s vehicle for creativity or life, rather than 12-step meetings”), but not until last year booking dates for his next Tattoo Across something that just shuts us down.” did shooting of the Kickstarter-funded America tour — a hand-tooled club circuit “Grace” finally commence. Beyond any of tattoo shops, listening rooms and bars. La Botz performs at 9 p.m. Thursday, personal connection, La Botz was drawn to What makes that particularly intriguing is May 21, at the Liquid Kitty, 11780 W. Pico its “not cookie-cutter characters” and that, for all that he can grind and groove Blvd., West L.A. Call (310) 473-3707 or storyline. Last week, it screened at the like Howlin’ Wolf on a midnight bender, visit jakelabotz.com. He also appears Little Rock Film Festival. La Botz’s lyrics have a more existential Friday at the Standing Room (1320 “In L.A. people are always trying to get cast than standard blues. Hermosa Ave., Hermosa Beach) and things off the ground,” he observes. The earthy protégé of the late David Saturday at the Piano Bar (6429 Selma “People send you scripts. It’s so rare that “Honeyboy” Edwards and Chicago’s Ave., Hollywood). Photo by Zosia Krusberg
By Bliss Bowen For years Jake La Botz was a regular fixture at the Liquid Kitty, rumbling in the corner with his signature blend of hardcore blues, obscure gospel and garage rock. Then in 2010 he left Los Angeles in his rearview mirror, venturing upon travels that took him to New York, where he’s currently ensconced with particle physicist wife Zosia Krusberg in the Hudson River valley. This week he’s back in L.A. for a handful of shows, including one tonight at the Liquid Kitty with longtime compadre Jimbo Goodall manning sticks and drums. La Botz, who moonlights as an actor and meditation teacher when not plugging in his guitar, originally planned to shoot a film here this month, but that production was postponed. The finished film you will likely hear him mention this weekend is “The Grace of Jake,” a character-driven piece starring Jordin Sparks, Michael Beck and La Botz, who performs his songs “Used to Be” and “The Hotel” alongside some gospel tunes in his role as an ex-con and wandering musician. Set in writer/ director Chris Hicky’s native Arkansas, the film was discernibly influenced by La Botz, who first befriended a “very idealistic and excited” Hicky around 2002 while playing a weekly gig with Goodall at Sloan’s bar in West Hollywood. “Chris had just moved to town,” La Botz recalls with a chuckle. “He came up to me one night after we met and said, ‘Dude, I’ve got plans. I’m gonna go places. I’m gonna take you with me.’ I thought, ‘What a nice guy, he’s new in L.A. Good luck, buddy.’ [Laughs] But I genuinely liked the guy. He was really earthy, really intelligent, very creative. “At that time I was playing guitar with Willie Chambers from the Chambers
Bumper-to-Bumper Graphics insider access for photos of Bob Dylan, Liberace and other musicians appearing on the show. A few months before the Feb. 1, 1982, debut of “Late Night with David Letterman,” Pook approached Karzen about devising bumpers for the new program. “Almost everything was shot at night,” Karzen said, noting that Pook wanted to maintain an after-hours aesthetic with this bumper imagery. Karzen would set up basic composition and lighting with a Polaroid, then re-shoot with his trusty 35-millimeter Nikon F (which he still uses). Letterman logos and other lettering details were affixed cut-and-paste style atop the prints in post-production. Launching with multiple images of Letterman’s mug plastered across a wall of advertisements for concerts by Miles Davis at the Beacon Theatre and Gang of Four and Bad Brains at Roseland, Karzen set the tone for what would become an ongoing series of thematic PAGE 18 THE ARGONAUT May 21, 2015
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bumpers. For one image, Karzen thought about photographing a varsity baseball jacket; then he came up with the idea of using a Letterman logo in the style of a baseball team’s. He forwarded the concept to Pook, who had his designers draw it. Once transferred onto a letter jacket, the image captured the interest of the boss. “Dave, who approved every one of the bumpers, said to make Christmas presents for the staff,” Karzen recalled. After the “Late Night” crew (who would often play softball) were gifted a batch of the jackets, Karzen’s concept soon found its way onto shirts, sweaters and caps via NBC’s merchandising department. For another assignment, Karzen and his colleagues holed up for the weekend at the Berkshire Place hotel, milking the location for a slew of images. One of Karzen’s more memorable bumpers from that shoot had bath-robed graphic artist Bill Shortridge standing on his hotel bed, spray-painting “Late Night with David Lett …” across a hotel room wall. “We ran up the room service tab. We got
into a bit of trouble for that,” Karzen recalled. Karzen’s images typically incorporated the Letterman logo or drawn faces of Letterman and sidekick Paul Schaffer. The Shortridge shot was the rare shot that featured a person. (For another bumper, DeForest dressed up as Santa Claus). The collection at Bergamot includes one item not directly connected to Karzen’s shoots: a Rubik’s Cube submitted by a viewer that was rubber-stamped with tiny drawings of Letterman’s face on the squares. Karzen attempted to incorporate the ‘80s novelty into a still life, but Letterman rejected it. “Dave just hated Rubik’s Cubes!” he said. In the pre-digital age, Karzen and only a handful of other photographers laid down such creative pathways through uncharted terrain. “There was an experimental sensibility — the feeling of creative freedom. That was a culture that Letterman nurtured,” he said.
Today, Karzen has re-channeled his creative energies as a social media strategist for film and TV. “Photography, like the music industry, is flooded,” he said. “It’s just not a challenge anymore. You had to be part scientist back then.” With Letterman’s late-night legacy drawing to a close, Karzen said he will miss his former employer’s nightly on-air presence. “Carson was like Mom and Dad’s show. Dave was our show,” he said. “This [exhibit] is a celebration of Dave’s 33 years.” “The Letterman Bumpers, the Art of Late Night” continues through Saturday at the Robert Berman Gallery in Bergamot Station Arts Center, 2525 Michigan Ave., B7, Santa Monica. Karzen’s original prints go on sale through Berman’s Santa Monica Auctions (Bergamot A5) on May 31. Call (310) 315-1937 or visit smauctions.com michael@argonautnews.com
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Rotary Club of Westchester’s 60th Annual Book Sale from May 22 through May 30th. The event will be held in the parking lot of the Westchester Village Ralphs at Howard Drollinger Way and Sepulveda Boulevard in the Westchester Business District. The books are generously donated each year by businesses and residents in Westchester and the surrounding communities. The club is continuing to seek book donations throughout the sale. Books can be donated by dropping off at the book sale. The club asks that the books be in boxes or bags. If you have a significant number of books to donate, the club will make arrangements to have them picked up at your home. Among the thousands of almost new books are dozens of categories as well as audio and video tapes. Books have been presorted and placed in selected areas to ease the search in locating specific kinds of books.
Proceeds from the event provide support for a number of programs in the Westchester community, including the Annual Teacher Grant Program, which provides funds to local teachers so that they can conduct further their education and learn new classroom skills to enrich classroom activities for their students. The Rotary Club of Westchester also provides financial assistance to the Scouts, the YMCA and other youth organizations, as well as scholarship programs at our local schools and many other community, senior citizen and youth activities. The Rotary Club of Westchester also works with other Rotary Clubs internationally to provide clean water, support to orphanages and health and education programs to needy people. The Club also supports the International Rotary polio eradication program, which hopes to eliminate polio from the earth; and the Polio Corrective Surgeries Program, which sends doctors and other volunteers to third world countries to perform much-needed surgery on victims of the disease and clean water program â—† in Thailand.
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I have the privilege to serve as the 2015-2016 Rotary Club of Westchester President. Along with our board of directors, I am looking forward to a new year which begins on July 1st and promises to carry on a tradition of giving and service within our community and internationally. In this brief message, I hope to convey the depth of commitment to service and peace through service that I experience every day in our club, in our district and around the world.
What is Rotary?
You have seen the rotary wheel. It is posted at hotels and restaurants, little league fields, community buildings, on billboards and street signs, in programs at charity events and advertising for fundraising, but what does it mean? It is a sign that there are people coming together in an organization to serve the community, locally and at large. When you see the Rotary wheel, you know there are people dedicated to the principles of Rotary, and our motto, Service Above Self. You know there are people deeply committed to service and peace through service in our community, in our district and around the world. You may have seen or heard someone say, the Four Way Test. It is a guiding ethical code all
Rotarians strive to live by in the things we think, say and do…Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build goodwill and friendships? Will it be beneficial to all? It is also a place where people come together to establish friendships and alliances to further good and peace in our community and in the world. The Rotary Club of Westchester was founded in 1950 to provide an organization where community leaders and those interested in community service could come together on a weekly basis to better our community and the lives of those around the world. Rotary International has likely touched your lives, or the lives of someone you care about in some small or large way.
What does Rotary Do?
give within their own communities. We support the Westchester YMCA Youth and Government Program for those teens interested in the political system and one more way to foster leadership skills. We have several scholarship programs for graduating high school students, a dance, music and art contest for eighth grade students and a separate contest for high school students. We have a read-to-me program at the elementary school level and math tutoring to help young students struggling with math facts. Westchester Rotary began a partnership with Vision to Learn and Rotary to provide screening and eye glasses to students at local elementary schools in need. We give financial and hands-on support to help feed homeless youth through a drop in center in Venice. We have a Back to School shopping program for elementary children in need of clothing. Within the community at large we provide support to a battered women’s crisis center, food for the homeless at the LAX Pantry, and participate in the Jet to Jetty to raise money for the Marina Counseling Center. We partner with Westchester Playa Village to provide seniors with the resources and support they need to stay in their homes as they age. We acknowledge, give support to and applaud the good in our Community through programs such as
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We come together to give and support our local communities through programs and giving to those in need and to recognize those already doing good in our community. Westchester Rotary has established avenues of service for youth, vocational, community and international. Our Youth programs include two Interact clubs at the high school level, and Rotaract club at the college level at LMU. Through these clubs we provide leadership training and mentoring and a resource for young people to
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the Courageous Citizen Awards with the District Attorney’s office, to honor citizens for their bravery and action. We have a Gun’s and Hoses program to honor our police and fire fighters and this year held a joint program with the Inglewood Rotary Club and the Inglewood Chamber of Commerce. We recognize a Westchester Citizen of the Year and hold an event to raise money and honor that person. We come together to strengthen international relationships to further our goals of peace in the world. We believe that the way to sustainable peace is through these alliances. We support ambassadorial scholars to
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ROTARY CLUB OF WESTCHESTER study internationally, we host and sent out high school exchange students that live with families and attend local schools. We give orphanages in Mexico and Africa, combine efforts and funds with other Rotary Clubs to provide water wells in areas that do not have potable water. We support polio eradication and polio corrective surgery.
How does Rotary work?
We are financially self supportive. As members, we pay for our club and support our district and international organizations through quarterly dues. We raise money through two annual fundraisers, the used book sale and a fundraiser dinner that honors our Citizen of the Year. All money raised through our fundraisers provides support to our giving programs.
Who are Rotarians?
We run businesses and raise families, we live next door or have our office down the hall, we care about our youth, our seniors, our community and international peace and are willing to get involved to make a better world. We are you…come ◆ join us. — Mary Tabata, President 2015-2016
Westchester Village Helps Seniors Remain in Comforts of Home In 2009, the Rotary Club of Westchester agreed to be a fiscal sponsor for a new venture initially called the Westchester Village Network. Inspired by a new aging in place initiative known as the “village concept,” the goal was to create a non-profit organization that would help seniors in the community remain in the comforts of their homes for as long as physically and financially possible. This was the seedling that has now become Westchester Playa Village (WPV), and the ties between WPV and the Rotary Club of Westchester have continued to develop. Two years ago, Rotarian Cozette Vegari saw the importance of strengthening the Club’s relationship with WPV, and in this same special issue, the Rotary Club of Westchester shared its intention to support WPV’s “Neighbors Helping Neighbors” movement. True to its word, the Club has demonstrated its support in many valuable ways, helping WPV to grow and flourish. Spearheaded by Heather Martillo, the Rotary Club of Westchester helped spread the word about WPV and the valuable services it provides to seniors and their families. The club has helped promote WPV programs, connect WPV with others in the community, and enlisted volunteers, including high school students in need of community service hours. Several Rotarians, including Martillo and her family, have volunteered
by driving WPV members to and from local doctor, hair, and other appointments, as well as assisting members with grocery shopping and other projects around the house. One Rotarian, Fred Wild, is a member himself. The Club has also provided financial support, pro bono services, and made other donations to WPV. During outgoing Club President Edgar Saenz’ term, WPV was awarded a $1,000.00 grant. Rotarians Mason Shayan, Lloyd Hild and their spouses, Geoff Maleman, as well as other Club members have given generously of their resources and skills to support WPV members in need and the WPV operation. Rotarians Bob Smith and Ed Rodriguez sit on WPV’s Board. Westchester and its surrounding communities has a growing aging population. This demographic is increasing exponentially - over 10,000 people per day will turn age 65 over the next 15 years across the county. In addition to more people entering this age bracket, those already in it are living longer, healthier lives. While this is a good thing, preparing for this “silver tsunami” is crucial. In the year ahead, the Rotary Club of Westchester will join forces with WPV to explore ways to better serve the seniors and their families in the community. To that end, Rotary and WPV will work with other important community partners/organizations, and discussions
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with the Westchester Senior Citizens Center and affiliated Club, Councilman’s Office, and the Neighborhood Council of Westchester/Playa are already underway. Said Martillo, “During my term, the Rotary Club of Westchester paved the way to do more to support our seniors population. Our Club values the important work WPV is doing to fill a much needed gap in the community. We are proud to be one of WPVs partners in establishing this kind of support for our seniors.” “WPV is thrilled to be working with Rotary on such an important project,” said Carol Kitabayashi, WPV’s Executive Director. “Now is the time to come together to help seniors in our community — it takes a village — and we are grateful for our continued partnership with the Rotary Club of Westchester. We hope our work will be an example for other Rotary Clubs and villages across the nation.” ◆ For more information, call (310) 6957030 or visit www.thewpv.org.
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Rotary’s Makeover of Westchester Senior Center
Rotarian Warren Bobrow presents Rotary T-shirt to City of Los Angeles Councilmember Mike Bonin at Westchester Senior Center grand reopening ceremony
Since 2006, the Rotary Club of Westchester has undertaken a Home Makeover project approximately every two years to benefit a deserving family in our community, but this year, the Club tackled it’s most ambitious effort ever, working with the City of Los Angeles to revitalize the Westchester Senior Center. While the Club previously focused on a single family facing challenges and sought to improve their lives by making over their home, this year, Rotarians worked to improve the lives of hundreds of seniors who call the Westchester Senior Center “home.” Because the City of Los Angeles has long neglected the Senior Center, choosing to defer maintenance and spend its money on facilities that are
Westchester Neighborhood Council and many others, the Club mobilized scores of volunteers to completely remodel the center’s kitchen facilities, clean, paint, landscape, add new furniture and much, much more. The makeover projects are really about community building. They are a great opportunity from people all over Westchester to come together for a common cause. The official grand re-opening of the newly revitalized Westchester Senior Center took place on May 18. Councilman Mike Bonin, Rotary President Heather Martillo, Westchester senior citizens and representatives from the project’s major funders were also on hand ◆ to celebrate.
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in need of even more help, the center was in need of a lot of help. The kitchen was dilapidated, out-of-date and even dangerous. The interior and exterior of the building were tired and well worn. Still, every day, seniors from our community rely on the Senior Center for lunch, games, classes, and perhaps most importantly, fellowship. From April 27 to May 3, Westchester Rotary led a community volunteer effort to breathe new life into this critical facility that forms the center of life for many of Westchester and Playa del Rey’s senior citizens. Using donations from the Drollinger Family Charitable Foundation, the William H. Hannon Foundation, the Rotaract student and project volunteer Westchester Woman’s Club, the Christopher Hernandez Reyes
Three young project helpers, (left to right) Karolina Pytlicek, Phoebe Folette, and Justine Semien
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Front row left to right: Tori Hettinger, Lek Pollard, Kim Williamson, Ted Grose, Carla Grose, Nora MacLellan, Cindy Williams, Christopher Hernandez Reyes; Middle row left: Phoebe Follette, Declan Follette, Karolina Pytlicck, Justine Semien, club president Heather Martillo, Lisa Marguiles, John Ramey; Last row left to right: Cheryl Wong, Mike Alexandros, Gwen Vuchsas, Tony Ciancimino, Don Follette, Donna Lee Oda, unidentified volunteer, John Martillo, Warren Bobrow, John Williamson, Richard Moon, Garrett Smith, Richard Lopatto, Judy Delavigne, Richard Moon Sr., and Cozette Vergari. PAGE 22 THE 21, 2015 PAGE THE ARGONAUT ARGONAUT May Special Advertising Section MAY 21, 2015
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Dinner and holding a T.B. clinic at the high school for local teachers, aides and school volunteers. They’ve also worked on the Home Makeover Project, Jet to Jetty run for the Airport Marina Counseling Service, Westchester Senior Citizens Holiday party, Women’s Crisis Center holiday parties, Rotary Rose Parade float decoration and the Rotary used book sale. The Westchester Interact Club advances worthwhile causes close to home and across the seas, including the Mary Magdalene Project, which
helps prostitutes get off the streets; Project Angel, which collects baby blankets for County USC hospital; a mobile dental clinic in Latin America; and the LAX Food Pantry. They have also purchased shelter boxes that ease the suffering of international refugees. The club has also collected food and gifts for the poor in developing countries and aided relief efforts. Club members also volunteer at local fire stations, city marathons and beach clean-ups. The Westchester Rotary Club also pays for several Interactors
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Vision to Learn There is always a tremendous focus on education in our community, but now, thanks to the partnership between Rotary and Vision to Learn, education has come into focus for thousands of students who previously suffered through blurry views of whiteboards and struggled to read and progress as a result. Since 2013, the Rotary Clubs of Westchester, Redondo Beach and Playa Venice Sunrise, came together to raise to provide vision screenings and eyeglasses to students at six elementary Title 1 elementary schools in the LAX area. In November, 2013, Austin Beutner, founder of Vision to Learn, was joined by Councilman Mike Bonin, representatives from United Airlines, the Rotary Clubs of Westchester, Redondo Beach, Playa Venice Sunrise, the LMU Rotaract Club, the Drollinger Family Charitable Foundation, the Carol and James Collins Foundation, the Playa Vista/Brookfield Residential Company, and the Beach Cities Health District to celebrate the community project. The local community came together at Loyola Village Elementary School in Westchester to celebrate their combined efforts in bringing free vision care to children in six LAX area schools – Loyola Village Elementary School and Westport Heights Elementary School in Westchester, Broadway and Westminster Elementary Schools in Venice, Playa del Rey Elementary School in Del Rey and Washington Elementary School in Redondo Beach. “This is an engaged community that understands it takes a combined effort to make an impact” said councilman Bonin. “This community, coming together, raising funds and sponsoring Vision To Learn, gave over 300 children the chance to succeed by providing them with prescription eye glasses.” Austin Beutner, Vision To Learn Founder and Chairman added, “We appreciate the work of the Rotary Clubs to bring the community together to support the work of Vision To Learn. Providing kids with glasses helps them succeed in school and in life.” Vision To Learn is a not-for-profit organization that provides free eye exams and free glasses to elementary school students in low-income communities throughout California. Vision To Learn was created by the Beutner Family Foundation to help kids do better in school and provide a foundation for a better life. The program has helped tens of thousands of kids since it began operations in March 2012. Approximately 15% of the children in California public schools need glasses, which equates to 250,000 low-income elementary school kids in California and 100,000 in LA County. Vision To Learn solves this problem
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The End of the WitZend Westside live music scene loses an anchor with popular venue’s sudden demise Photo by Michael Aushenker
By Michael Aushenker With Malibu pop-rock duo The Blue Dolphins topping a bill that included Santa Monica-based groove band Vinyl Part, L.A. singer-songwriter Drew Brandmeier and local pop-folk act Only On Tuesdays, May 16 could have been any Saturday night at the WitZend in Venice. Instead it was the Lincoln Boulevard venue’s last, shutting a door that was opened to local musicians in 2012. With the preceding closures of The Talking Stick in Venice and The Good Hurt in Mar Vista late last year, the RG club in renovation ad infinitum and Hal’s Bar and Grill on Abbot Kinney Boulevard out of commission for the time being, venues dedicated primarily to hosting original live music have become an endangered species west of the 405 between LAX and Santa Monica. Operators of the venue and its landlord could not be reached, but according to several WitZend staffers on duty for its final last call, the WitZend closed with
The Blue Dolphins’ Saturday-night set was the final act for the WitZend only 10 days’ notice to employees. It’s not clear what the historic brick building, which hosted live music in the 1960s as the 4-H Club, will become. WitZend did not appear to lack patrons, however. At around 10 p.m. Saturday, upward of 100 people gathered inside to hear Vinyl Party’s hybrid of rap, ska and New Orleans funk. “I don’t think it’s really hit us yet that it’s gone,” said Vinyl Party vocalist J. Whiting. “We
left it all out on the stage and hoped that we were able to give WitZend a fraction of what it was able to give us — and that’s a life’s worth of incredible memories and a safe haven for established and fledgling artists alike to do their thing. Whiting estimates that Vinyl Party played the WitZend nearly 20 times. The WitZend was also one of the few Westside venues to welcome hip-hop artists to the
stage. Wilfredo Williams, a Venice rapper who goes by the name Crown, performed there more than a dozen times since last summer, including Friday. “The energy that night was probably the best ever,” he said. “It was kind of sad to see them go, but we pretty much blew the roof off.” Danielle Carter, who worked the WitZend’s door for the past year, described the mood at the club as difficult throughout the week. “I was just really sad. We’re all dealing with it in a different way,” Carter, whose band Illegal Download Collection took the stage in April 2014, said as an overflow crowd spilled out onto Lincoln Boulevard near the end of the evening. Matt Lucey of The Battlefield, which performed at WitZend in January 2014, said the venue initially ran into trouble following original owner Jeb Milne’s death in September 2013. Milne, who was 39 according to the venue’s website, had originally moved an animation company into the
building in 2006 before returning it to a live music venue. “I think they were just struggling to manage and operate the place after the original owner had passed away suddenly,” Lucey said. Santa Monica singer-songwriter Rebecca Pidgeon, who had a gig scheduled for June 17, remembers the venue fondly. “It had a very devoted clientele and was a much loved little joint. Jeb kept it busy and humming,” she said. Lucey praised the venue for its unique live video recording setup and creating an environment in which artists could easily connect with audiences. “The only other place in L.A. that has that same atmosphere of respect and intimate connection to what’s happening on the stage is Hotel Café [in Hollywood],” Lucey said. “It’s like you were having an intimate conversation with the fans,” Crown said. michael@argonautnews.com
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Beach Eats, 5 to 9 p.m. Mother’s Beach becomes a waterfront gourmet food truck outpost each Thursday throughout summer. 4101 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. visitmarinadelrey.com Wine Tasting, 7 p.m. Join Gourmet Wine Getaways’ international wine expert Peter Kerr for a tasting dinner featuring the wines of Paul Hobbs and Crossbarn Wineries and food pairings by Akbar restaurant owner and chef Avinash Kapoor. AkbarMarina del Rey, 3115 W. Washington Blvd., Marina del Rey. $95 per person, includes tax and tip. (310) 574-0666; akbarcuisineofindia.com Karaoke with Sara, 9 p.m. Participatory live entertainment at The Prince O’ Whales, 335 Culver Blvd., Playa del Rey; (310) 823-9826; princeowhales.com Smokeshow, 9 p.m. Burlesque show at Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. Cover: $20, plus a two-drink minimum. (310) 3951676; harvelles.com
Friday, May 22
Food Truck Friday Night, 6 p.m. Visitation School hosts its first food truck gathering of 2015, this time with a “Totally ‘80s Reunion” theme led by deejay Teddy Johnson, who will spin some Me Decade favorites. O’Malley’s Pub serves beer, wine and Magic Margaritas. Free activities for children include soccer, hoop dancing and a play area. Visitation School, 8740 S. Emerson Ave., Westchester. (310) 994-9904; visitationschool.org The Jazz Combo and Sax Ensemble, 7 p.m. Culver City High School’s Academy of Visual and Performing Arts Music Showcase presents the Jazz Combo and Sax Ensemble under Dr. David Brennan. Robert Frost Auditorium, 4401 Elenda St., Culver City. Free. avpa. org “Rebel Without a Cause” / “The Ugly American,” 7:30 p.m. This tribute to screenwriter Stewart Stern,
who passed away this year at the age of 92, includes a 60th anniversary screening of the James Dean classic and the 1963 Marlon Brando political drama. Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica. $14. (310) 260-1528; aerotheatre.com Friday Night Jazz, 8 p.m. DJ Alfred Hawkins and the Barry Zweig Trio perform at The Townhouse and Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com “The Gold Rush,” 8:15 p.m. (Also at 2:30 and 8:15 p.m. Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday) A screening of Charlie Chaplin’s classic comedy at Old Town Music Hall, 140 Richmond St., El Segundo. $10. (310) 322-2592; oldtownmusichall.org
Santa Monica Symphony, 7:30 p.m. Mahler, Mozart and John Philip Souza comprise this Memorial Day Weekend event at Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School, 600 Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica. Free; open seating. (310) 395-6330; smsymphony.org
Vida featuring DJ Creepy, 9:30 to 11:45 p.m. Ambient and dance vibes light up the evening’s soundscape at Melody Bar & Grill, 9132 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Westchester. (310) 670-1994; barmelodylax.com
Rich Shelton, 9 p.m. Live music at Prince O’ Whales, 335 Culver Blvd., Playa del Rey; (310) 823-9826; princeowhales.com
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Breakfast at Toastmasters Club, 9 to 11 a.m. On the first and third Saturdays of each month, a chance to improve your essential communication and leadership skills. Jerry’s Deli, 13181 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey. Guests pay only for their breakfast order. (310) 658-3158; breakfastattm.toastmastersclubs.org/ WEycle Free Weekly Waltz Classes and Networking, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sponsored by Classical Music and Dance Toastmasters and Silicon Beach Toastmasters, this new Saturday group is looking for charter members for weekly explorations of classical music and dance. Potluck brunch. Marina Del Rey Hospital, 4650 Lincoln Blvd., Marina del Rey. Free parking with validation. (310) 999-3626; siliconbeachphilharmonic.org
“Harry Potter” Parts 5 through 8, noon. Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica. $14. (310) 260-1528; aerotheatre.com 2Azz1, 2 p.m. Free outdoor Latin music concert at Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 301-9900; visitmarinadelrey.com Karaoke Lisa, 9 p.m. Participatory live entertainment at The Prince O’ Whales, 335 Culver Blvd., Playa del Rey; (310) 823-9826; princeowhales.com
Higher Ground, 2 p.m. Free outdoor R&B music concert at Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 301-9900; visitmarinadelrey.com
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Hot Jazz Saturdays, 8 p.m. Brad Kay’s Regressive Jazz Quartet plays early jazz and ragtime. Plus: DJ Jedi bombs the soul and hip-hop at 10 p.m. The Townhouse and Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com
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Tuesday, May 26 Swim Sessions, various times. Southern California Aquatics leads morning workouts at 5:30 and 6:30 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and evening workouts at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, at Santa Monica Swim Center, 2225 16th St., Santa Monica. $69 to $109 per month. (310) 458-8700; swim.net FallProof Balance and Mobility Program, noon to 1:30 p.m. (Also Thursdays.) Classes for those at risk of falling or who have fallen start every eight weeks at 8027 Westlawn Ave., Westchester. (310) 670-3777; spiritedbalance.com
Ocean Park Classic Car Night, 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. The California Heritage Museum gathers food trucks and classic cars each Tuesday night outside the museum, 2612 Main St., Santa Monica. (310)3928537; californiaheritagemuseum.org “The 11th Hour,” 7:30 p.m. Actress Kim Basinger and director Anders Morgenthaler appear in person to discuss this upcoming German/ Danish production in which Basinger plays Maria, a successful business executive who has been trying to have a child for many years. When she is informed that her biological clock has run out, she takes increasingly desperate measures to get the baby she wants. Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica. $14. (310) 260-1528; aerotheatre.com Deep Fried Funk Society, 9:30 p.m. Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. Cover is $5, plus a two-drink minimum. (310) 3951676; harvelles.com
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Eileen McCarthy 310-497-9365
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THE�STEPHANIE�YOUNGER�GROUP STEPHANIE YOUNGER 424.203.1828 | stephanieyounger.com
OPEN�SUNDAY ���PM 5822 Abernathy Drive | Westchester | $1,169,000 3bd 2ba | Gorgeous Remodel, Spacious Master Suite
BY�APPOINTMENT 8117 Regis Way | Westchester | Call for Details 4bd 2ba | Delightful, Bright Remodeled Residence
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6382 W. 77th Street | Westchester | $1,249,000 3bd 2ba | Beautifully Maintained on Over-Sized Lot
8815 Airlane Avenue | Westchester | $689,000 2bd 1ba | Inviting Updated Exquisite Home
OPEN�SUNDAY ���PM 7919 Kenyon Avenue | Westchester | $1,049,000 3bd 3ba | Inviting Curb Appeal in Prime Kentwood
OPEN�SUNDAY ���PM 13080 Pacific Promenade #112 | Playa Vista | $569,000 1bd 1ba | Stylish Coastal Mediterranean Sanctuary
OPEN�SUNDAY ���PM 8117 Handley Avenue | Westchester | $879,000 4bd 3ba | Charming Westchester Oasis
OPEN�SUNDAY ���PM 7826 Dunbarton Avenue | Westchester | $1,749,000 4bd 3.5ba | Formal Design Meets Casual Elegance
To make a difference in our community, we will Give Together by donating a portion
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of our net proceeds from every home sale to the local charity of our client’s choice. Call me today for more information or to find out what your home is worth!
Stephanie Younger: BRE #01365696 ©2015 Teles Properties, Inc. Teles Properties is a registered trademark. Teles Properties, Inc. does not guarantee accuracy of square footage, lot size, room count, building permit status or any other information concerning the condition or features of the property provided by the seller or obtained from public records or other sources. Buyer is advised to independently verify accuracy of the information.
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Your Mar Vista / Del Rey Area Specialist
www.madelaineK.com 11921 Pacific Ave, Mar Vista
4816 Patrae St, Los Angeles
1215 N. Olive Dr. #302, West Hollywood
4 bed, 3.5 baths, 2,186 sq ft, lot 5,642 sq.ft.
2 bed, 1.75 baths, 1,114 sq ft
5 bed, 4.5 baths, 4,321 sq ft, lot 7,000 sq.ft.
OFFERED AT $1,395,000
IN ESCROW! LP: $629,000
SOLD FOR: $2,376,000
3745 Boise Ave, Mar Vista
4121 Tivoli Ave, Marina Adj.
You won’t know the difference between Realtors If you don’t interview ME. Let me tell you about my custom, interactive marketing strategies, that have helped my clients’ homes stand out from the competition, sell quickly and for top dollar.
2 bed, 3baths, 1,652 sq ft, lot 5,001 sq.ft.
5 bed, 4.5 baths, 3,601 sq ft, lot 5,749 sq.ft.
12 OFFERS. LP: $1,069,000 SOLD FOR: $1,275,000
3 OFFERS. LP: $1,995,000 SOLD FOR: $2,130,000
www.madelaineK.com
YOUR PERSONAL REALTOR MADELAINE KOLISNYK 310.869.1712 A DIVISION OF POWER BROKERS INTERNATIONAL CaBRE 01520327 CaBRE 01377862
madelainekproperties@gmail.com
Broker does not guarantee the accuracy of square footage, lot size or other information concerning the condition or features of property provided by seller or obtained from public records or other sources, and the buyer is advised to independently verify the accuracy of that information through personal inspection and with appropriate professionals.
Selling the American Dream…
ow scr E In 321 West Queen St. #12 | Inglewood $285,000 | 3bd, 2.5ba
Van Ness Ave | Torrance $459,000 | 4bd, 2.5ba
sed Lea 2953 Firwood Court | Newbury Park $3,200/month | 4bd, 2ba
Helping People Move Ahead
7826 Agnew Ave | Westchester $868,000 | 3bd, 1.5ba
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1225 Marine St. | Santa Monica $1,299,000 | 3bd, 1ba
LD SO 7901 Cowan Ave | Westchester $1,199,000 | 3bd, 2ba
3030 Merrill Dr. #44 | Torrance $375,000 | 2bd, 2ba
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Call today for a Free Market Evaluation! kevinandkaz@gmail.com RE/MAX Execs CAL BRE 00916311 Gallaher 01212762
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www.kevinandkaz.com BROKER ASSOCIATES
THE ARGONAUT PRESS RELEASES CITY AND MOUNTAIN VIEWS
HOHNEN IS TOP TEN AGENT
“This two bedroom, two bath condo has gorgeous views,” says agent Eileen McCarthy. “Enjoy Marina City Club’s great amenities: pools, courts, gym, full restaurant and bar, café, convenience store and 24-hour guard gated security. Walk to great restaurants, the marina and the beach.”
"Juliette Hohnen is a resident of Venice, and if you want to deal with one agent throughout the sales process, this is who you should call," says manager Billy Jack Carter "As one of the top brokers in Los Angeles and a top ten agent at Hilton and Hyland, the number one boutique agency, her polished sales skills, tough negotiating style, attention to detail and innovative marketing ideas have managed to combine her extensive relationships within the entertainment and broker community with consistently closed deals."
Offered at $509,900 INFORMATION: Eileen McCarthy, Marina Ocean Properties, (310) 822-8910
INFORMATION: Juliette Hohnen, Hilton and Hyland, (323) 422-7147
OSAGE AREA HOME
KEVIN & KAZ GALLAHER
“Situated on an expansive lot, this Westchester home has a large chevron brick walkway and a deep, oversized front porch,” says agent Stephanie Younger. “The open great room has hardwood flooring and views of the large back yard. The gourmet kitchen has sleek granite counters and a breakfast bar and opens to a formal dining area. The master suite has large glass doors leading to the private back yard. There is a second master suite, perfect for in-laws or a home office. Two additional bedrooms and an upgraded bathroom complete the floor plan.”
“Spouses Selling Houses, “ were recently congratulated by Gary Stager, broker- owner of RE/MAX Execs, for consistently maintaining a top producing status as a Husband and Wife Broker Associate Team. For over 25 years, Kevin & Kaz have been helping people move ahead with selling and purchasing real estate on the Westside of Los Angeles to the Conejo Valley and the South Bay. Their extensive expertise and knowledge in real estate has helped clients make their dreams of home ownership an extremely rewarding experience.
Offered at $879,000
INFORMATION: Kevin & Kaz Gallaher, RE/MAX Execs Broker Associates, (310) 410-9777
INFORMATION: Stephanie Younger, Teles Properties, (424) 203-1828
MARINA DEL REY CONDO
MARINA AND HARBOR VIEWS
“This light-filled corner penthouse unit is in the Gallery Lofts,” says agent Pam Ross. “The beautiful kitchen has an island and upscale stainless appliances, and there is a huge patio for entertaining. A short walk brings you to great restaurants and stores, and all the Marina has to offer.”
“Enjoy the view from each room in this renovated one bedroom home with ample light and white oak hardwood floors,” says agent Charles Lederman. “The open kitchen has high-end appliances, a glass tile backsplash and quartz countertops. Features include a bonus room with a day bed and desk, floor-to-ceiling windows, a modern bathroom and a large patio overlooking the Marina. Fully furnished. Walk to beach, the Marina and many fine restaurants.”
Offered at $859,000 INFORMATION: Pam Ross, Coldwell Banker, (310) 616-6979
Offered at $467,500 INFORMATION: Charles Lederman, Marina City Realty, (310) 821-8980
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Deadline: TUESDAY NOON. Call (310) 822-1629 for Open House forms. YOUR LISTING WILL ALSO APPEAR AT ARGONAUTNEWS.COM
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5493 Blanco Way 4153 Keystone Ave. 3325 Bagley Ave. #205 5938 Wrightcrest Dr.
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LOS ANGELES Sun 1:30-4 2328 Holt Ave.
5/4 Spacious showcase home, over 3,700sf +amen.
$1,195,000
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MARINA DEL REY Sun 2-5 4115 Glencoe Ave. #208
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310-948-8411
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4/3.5 Two story home on quiet cul-de-sac, nice area
$1,395,000
Madelaine Kolisnyk
Power Brokers International
310-869-1712
4/2.5 Large N. Kentwood home, remodeled master 4/5 beautiful custom built Mediterranean home 4/3 Charming Westchester oasis 3/3 inviting curb appeal in prime Kentwood 3/2 Gorgeous remodel w/spacious, elegant master 3/2 Meticulously maintained home, 11,000sqft lot 2/1 Updated and move-in ready
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4816 Patrae St.
WESTCHESTER Sun 2-5 7812 Kentwood Ave. Sa/Su 1:30-4 8031 Bleriot Ave. Sun 2-5 8117 Handley Sun 2-5 7919 Kenyon Ave. Sun 2-5 5822 Abernathy Sun 2-5 6382 W. 77th St. Sun 2-5 8815 Airlane
$975,000
Open House Directory listings are published inside The Argonaut’s At Home section and on The Argonaut’s Web site each Thursday. The $10 fee may be paid by personal check, cash, or Visa/Mastercard at the time of submission. Sorry, no phone calls! Open House directory forms may be faxed, mailed or dropped off. To be published, Open House directory form must becompletely and correctly filled out and received no later than 12 Noon Tuesday for Thursday publication. Changes or corrections must also be received by 12 Noon Tuesday. Regretfully, due to the volume of Open House Directory forms received each week. The Argonaut cannot publish or respond to Open House directory forms incorrectly or incompletely filled out. The Argonaut reserves the right to reject, edit, and/or cancel any advertisng at any time. Only publication of an Open aHouse Directory listing consitutes final acceptance of an advertiser’s order.
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310.200.2298
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Williamson 8373 WESTLAWN | WESTCHESTER
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Represented Buyer - Sold at: $870,000
www.8306Gonzaga.com - Sold at: $1,149,000
8338 GONZAGA AVENUE | WESTCHESTER
7924 COWAN AVENUE | WESTCHESTER
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For a Free Market Evaluation, Please Contact Us Today! Proud Members Of: 310-722-4200 310-678-6650 www.WilliamsonandPagan.com
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The ArgonAuT REAl EstAtE Q&A
What are the Pitfalls of Being a New Homeowner? If you’re new to homeownership, you’ll want to avoid these easy to prevent mistakes that could cost you big-time. Not knowing where the main water shutoff valve is. Water from a burst or broken plumbing pipe can spew dozens of gallons into your home’s interior in a matter of minutes, soaking everything in sight, including drywall, flooring and valuables. In fact, water damage is one of the most common of all household insurance claims. Quick-twitch reaction is needed to stave off major damage. Before disaster hits, find your water shutoff valve, which will be located where a water main enters your house. Make sure everyone knows where it’s location and how to close the valve. A little penetrating oil on the valve stem makes sure it’ll work when you need it to. Not calling 811 before digging a hole. Ah, spring! You’re so ready to dig into your new yard and plant bushes and build that fence. But don’t – not until you’ve dialed 811, the national dig-safely hotline. The hotline will contact all your local utility companies who will then come to your property – often within a day – to mark the location of underground pipes, cables and wires. This free service keeps you safe and helps avoid costly repairs. In many states, calling 811 is the law, so you’ll also avoid fines. Not checking the slope of foundation soil. The ground
around your foundations should slope away from your house at least six inches over ten feet. Why? To make sure that water from rain and melting snow doesn’t soak the soil around your foundation walls, building up pressure that can cause leaks and crack your foundation, leading to mega-expensive repairs. This kind of water damage doesn’t happen overnight – it’s cumulative – so the sooner you get after it, the better (and smarter) you’ll be. While you’re at it, make sure downspouts extend at least five feet away from your house. Not knowing the depth of attic insulation. This goes hand-in-hand with not knowing where your attic access is, so let’s start there. Find the ceiling hatch, typically a square area framed with molding, in a hallway or closet ceiling. Push the hatch cover straight up. Get a ladder and check the depth of the insulation. If you can see the tops of joists, you definitely don’t have enough. The recommended insulation for most attics is about 10-14 inches deep, depending on the type of insulation you choose. By the way, is your hatch insulated too? Use four-inch thick foam board glued to the top. Carelessly drilling into walls. Hanging shelves, closet systems and artwork means drilling into your walls – but do you know what’s back there? Hidden inside your walls are plumbing pipes, ductwork, wires and cables. You can check for some stuff with a stud sensor – a $25 battery-operated tool
that detects changes in density to sniff out studs, cables and ducts. But stud sensors aren’t foolproof. Protect yourself by drilling a maximum of 1¼” deep – enough to clear drywall and plaster, but not deep enough to reach most wires and pipes. Household wiring runs horizontally from outlet to outlet, about eight inches to two feet from the floor, so that’s a no-drill zone. Stay clear of vertical locations above and below wall switches – wiring runs long studs to reach switches. Cutting down a tree. The risk isn’t worth it. Even small trees can fall awkwardly, damaging your house, property or your neighbor’s property. In some locales, you have to obtain a permit first. Cutting down a tree is an art that’s best left to a professional tree service. Plus, trees help preserve property values and provide shade that cuts energy bills. So think twice before going all Paul Bunyan. This week’s quesTioN was aNswered by
brian Christie
Agents in Action! team, The Real Estate Consultants (319) 910-0120
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EXPERIENCE COUNTS OVER 25 YEARS OF SUCCESS
Voted Best Real Estate Agent on the Westside 2 years in a row 2014, 2013 - the Argonaut
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Nestled in the North Kentwood area of Westchester, sits a wonderful 4 bed, 2.5 bath home with a newly remodeled Master Suite leading out to an expansive backyard with a Zen-like patio. Relax and unwind as you enter the foyer into a free flowing living room, elegant fireplace, spacious dining room, large bedrooms, copper plumbing and updated electrical. Home is 1,908 sq. ft. on a large 7,425 sq. ft. lot.
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13700 Marina Pointe Dr. #1231 Marina del Rey 2Bed/2.5Bath $1,049,000
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13700 Marina Pointe Dr. #1208 Marina del Rey 2Bed/2.5Bath $925,000
JUST LISTED
3111 Via Dolce #602 Marina del Rey 2Bed/2.5Bath $6,500/Month
13700 Marina Pointe Dr. #828 Marina del Rey 1Bed/1.5Bath $765,000
JUST LISTED
13700 Marina Pointe Dr. #1917 Marina del Rey 2Bed/2.5Bath $1,049,000
Would like to Welcome... Our newest manager, Colin Jacobs, to the Abbot Kinney—Venice Office and the RE/MAX family!
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I Bed/1 Bath City & Mountain Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $392,000
MARINA CITY CLUB Eileen McCarthy
ONE BEDROOM
FOR SALE
I Bed/1 Bath City & Mountain Views . . . . . . . . .NEW . . . . . LISTING . . . . . . . . . . . . $479,900 I Bed/1 Bath City & Mountain Views . . . . . . . . . . IN . . . ESCROW . . . . . . . . . . . . . $392,000 I Bed/1 Bath City & Mountain Views . . . . . . . . . . IN . . . ESCROW . . . . . . . . . . . . . $350,000
TWO BEDROOM
2 Bed/2 Bath 2 Bed/2 Bath 2 Bed/2 Bath 2 Bed/2 Bath
City & Mountain Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marina & Ocean Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunset, City & Mountain Views. . . . . .SOLD ........... Marina & Ocean Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
THREE BEDROOM
$479,900 $544,900 $590,000 $849,900
3 Bed/2 Bath Marina Views, Highly Upgraded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $869,000 3 Bed/2 Bath City & Mountain Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $619,000
ONE BEDROOM
FOR LEASE
1 Bed/1 Bath Ocean & Sunset Views, Highest Floor . . . . . . . . . $3,390/MO 1 Bed/1 Bath City & Mountain Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,900/MO
TWO BEDROOM
2 Bed/2 Bath City & Mountain Views, Furnished, Upgraded . $4,300/MO 2 Bed/2 Bath Ocean & Marina Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,000/MO 2 Bed/2 Bath City & Mountain Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,995/MO
Eileen McCarthy
MARINA OCEAN PROPERTIES 4333 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey 310.822.8910 emcarthy@hotmail.com • www.MarinaOceanProperties.com
A Free Shredding and Donation Event Hosted By The Fineman Suarez Team... At Our Newest Listing! The Salvation Army will be on hand with donation receipts for any items you would like to donate to help those in need!
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333 Waterview St., Playa del Rey Join Us At Our Open House and Community Shredding & Donation Event Saturday, May 30th from 2pm to 5pm Light refreshments will be served while you view our lovely new listing!
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legal advertising FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAmE STATEmENT File No. 2015092440 The following person is doing business as: Poo Prints West and Poo Prints Water 5038 Parkway Calabasas #401 Calabasas, CA. 91302. Registered owners: TCB Environment, Inc. 5038 Parkway Calabasas #401 Calabasas, CA. 91302. This business is conducted by a Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Kevin Sharpton. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 7, 2015. Argonaut published: May 7, 14, 21 and 28, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAmE STATEmENT File No. 2015094676 The following person is doing business as: Citations Dismissed and Citationsdismissed 3435 Wilshire blvd. Suite 2000 Los Angeles, CA. 90010. Registered owners: Richard Michael Chaskin 3435 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 2000 Los Angeles, CA. 90010, 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: Richard Michael Chaskin. Title: CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 8, 2015. Argonaut published: May 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAmE STATEmENT File No. 2015098142 The following person is doing business as: Light Insoles 4416 Tepoca RD. Woodland Hills, CA. 91364. Registered owners: Light Composites LLC 8501 Monitor Dr. NE Albuquerque, NM 87109. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Chris Jacobsen. Title: Member/CFO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 13, 2015. Argonaut published: April 30, May 7, 14, and 21, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAmE STATEmENT File No. 2015100672 The following person is doing business as: Sweet Mystic Creations 12726 Mitchell Ave. #104 Los Angeles, CA. 90066. Registered owners: Negar Shariatmadari 12726 Mitchell Ave. #104 Los Angeles, CA. 90066. This business is conducted by an individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Negar Shariatmadari. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 15, 2015. Argonaut published: April 30, May 7, 14, and 21, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAmE STATEmENT File No. 2015106243 The following person is doing business as: Beach Now 715 Ocean front Walk #5 venice, CA. 90291. Registered owners: Alexandria Yalj 715 Ocean Front Walk #5 Venice, CA. 90291. This business is conducted by an individua. 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: Alexandria Yalj. Title: CEO/Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 21, 2015. Argonaut published: April 30, May 7, 14, and 21, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAmE STATEmENT File No. 2015105470 The following person is doing business as: Ellman Creative 11693 San Vicente Blvd. #377 Los Angeles, CA. 90049. Registered owners: Francine G. Ellman 809 S. Gretna Greenway #105 Los Angeles, CA. 90049. 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: Francine G. Ellman. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 20, 2015. Argonaut published: May 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAmE STATEmENT File No. 2015105760 The following person is doing business as: Veneto West 2001 Lincoln Blvd. Santa Monica, CA. 90292 and Ronan Chris Murphy 4712 Admiralty Way #536 Marina del Rey, CA. 90292. Registered owners: Christopher A. Murphy 4712 Admiralty Way #536 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: Christopher A. Murphy. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 20, 2015. Argonaut published: May 14, 21, 28, and June 4, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAmE STATEmENT File No. 201510839 The following person is doing business as: MAG Autosport LLC 5535 Westlawn Ave. 355 Los Angeles, CA. 90066. Registered owners: MAG Autosport LLC 5535 Westlawn Ave. 355 Los Angeles, CA. 90066. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Adam Perlman. Title: CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 24, 2015. Argonaut published: April 30, May 7, 14, and 21, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAmE STATEmENT File No. 2015110824 The following person is doing business as: Wiggett Financial Group 3685 Motor Ave. #100 Los Angeles, CA. 90034. Registered owners: Howard J. Wiggett 3025 Thatcher Ave. 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: Howard J. Wiggett. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 24, 2015. Argonaut published: April 30, May 7, 14, and 21, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAmE STATEmENT File No. 2015111998 The following person is doing business as: Le Petit Paris 75 3101 Sawtelle Blvd. Suite 103 Los Angeles, CA. 90066. Registered owners: Yon Idiart 3101 Sawtelle Blvd. Suite 103 Los Angeles, CA. 90066 and Georgi Petrov Mitkov 3101 Sawtelle Blvd. Suite 103 Los Angeles, CA. 90066. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. 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: Yon Idiart. Title: Partner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 27, 2015. Argonaut published: April 30, May 7, 14, & 21, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAmE STATEmENT File No. 2015116699 The following person is doing business as: Salt Rags Property Management 3956 Walgrove Ave. los Angeles, CA. 90066. Registered owners: Salt Rags LC 3956 Walgrove Ave. 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 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: Heidi Lemmon. Title: CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 30, 2015. Argonaut published: May 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAmE STATEmENT File No. 2015112863 The following person is doing business as: Wildly Spirited 920 Venice Blvd. #224 Venice, CA. 90291. Registered owners: Stephanie Drew Aswani 920 Venice Blvd. unit 224 Venice, CA. 90291. 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: Stephanie Drew Aswani. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 27, 2015. Argonaut published: May 14, 21, 28 and June 4, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAmE STATEmENT File No. 2015117377 The following person is doing business as: Mint Sunshine 8395 Dunbarton Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90045. Registered owners: Kristen Faye 8395 Dunbarton Ave. Los Angeels, CA. 90045. 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: Kristen Faye 8395 Dunbarton Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90045. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on May 1, 2015. Argonaut published: May 14, 21, 28 and June 4, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAmE STATEmENT File No. 2015113401 The following person is doing business as: The Garage Co. 6519 W. 80th Place Westchester, CA. 90045. Registered owners: Michael Paz 6514 W. 80th Place Westchester, CA. 90045. 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: Michael Paz. Title: Owner/ Creative Director. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 29, 2015. Argonaut published: may 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAmE STATEmENT File No. 2015121277 The following person is doing business as: Coverall Construction 8132 Firestone Blvd. #902 Downey, CA. 90241. Registered owners: Robert Alex Ramdeen 8132 Firestone Blvd. #902. 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: Robert Alex Ramdeen. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on May 6, 2015. Argonaut published: May 14, 21, 28, and June 4, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAmE STATEmENT File No. 2015118992 The following person is doing business as: CRG Property Management 6601 Center Drive West, Suite 500 Los Angeles, CA. 90045. Registered owners: Cynergy Realty Group, LLC 6601 Center Drive West, Suite 500 Los Angeles, CA. 90045. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Carla Bell. Title: President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on May 4, 2015. Argonaut published: May 21, 28, June 4, and 11, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAmE STATEmENT File No. 2015125594 The following person is doing business as: Vaughan Mediation Services 12656 Dewey St. Los Angeles, CA. 90066. Registered owners: Barry C. Vaughan 12656 Dewey 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 thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: Barry C. Vaughan. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on May 11, 2015. Argonaut published: May 21, 28, June 4, and 11, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Public Notices ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAmE Case No. SS028273 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTy OF LOS ANGELES. Petition of Chloe Kim, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Chloe Kim filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Asia Kay Lee to Asia Kay Chey 2.) THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/10/2015. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: K Room: A-203. The address of the court is 1725 Main Street Santa Monica, CA. 90401. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The Argonaut. Original filed: May 13, 2015. Gerald Rosenberg, Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: The Argonaut 05/21/2015, 05/28/2015, 06/04/2015, and 06/11/2015.
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NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION (Minor Name Change) Minn. Stat. §259.10 STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF RAMSEY FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Court File No: 62-CV-15-2552 Case Type: Name Change In the Matter of the Application of: Lynn Ariyadej On Behalf of: Isra Adan Fugfugosh, Sammira Adan Fugfugosh, and Kulmiye Adan Fugfugosh For a Change of Name to: Isra Raina Ariyadej, Sammira Lara Ariyadej, and Kulmiye Ian Ariyadej TO: Adan
Fugfugosh 39191 Argonaut Way Apt. 217 Fremont, CA. 94538 An Application for Name Change has been filed by Lynn Ariyadej for a change of name for the minor child(ren) Isra Adan Fugfugosh to Isra Raina Ariyadej; Sammira Adan Fugfogosh to Sammira Lara Ariyadej; and Kulmiye Adan Fugfugosh to Kulmiye Ian Ariyadej. A hearing on this Application will be held at 15 W. Kellogg Blvd. St. Paul, MN. 55102 in Room 600 on June 17, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. You may
obtain a copy of the Application for Name Change from 15 W. Kellogg Blvd. St. Paul, MN. 55102. If you do not appear at the scheduled hearing, the Petitioners Application for a Name Change for the minor child(ren) may be granted. Dated: April 30, 2015 Linda Graskey, Court Administrator/Deputy The Argonaut: 05/21/2015, 05/28/2015, 06/04/2015, 06/11/2015
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Silicon Beach Symphony Orchestra Grand Opening Concert, 6 to 8 p.m. West L.A.’s newest community orchestra gives its debut performance at You Tube Space Los Angeles. 12422 W. Bluff Creek, Playa Vista. (310) 999-3626; losangelesvirtuosi.org
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