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VOL 45, NO 22 Local News & Culture

across the counter

Drugs at Play in Boardwalk Trial

OPINION Mothers for Fair Child Support Women usually get the kids, but not the money to raise them ............................. 6

Letters to the Editor .......................

9

News Spillwatch 2015 Santa Monica Bay may not be immune to oil in Santa Barbara waters . ............ 10

Prosecutors argue man accused of 2013 Venice rampage had been ripped off in a meth deal ............................... 14

Feature 90066 Art Weekend

Del Rey and Mar Vista artists unveil an eclectic variety of new works........ 22

The Story of Inkwell Beach

had a black beach that was both insult and symbol of community pride. ...... 16

‘Into the Smoke & Maze’ The Battlefield return to TRiP to preview tunes from their forthcoming album....... 30

Westside Happenings

This Week he doesn’t understand why police beat him up ..................................... 12

Arts

Marina sailing therapy nonprofit needs a place to park its antique sailboat . ...... 15

In the days of Jim Crow, Santa Monica

A Highly Charged Arrest Man trying to plug in his hybrid says

Sorrento Italian Market import specialist Steve Lanzarotto knows his noodles...... 21

Rough Waters for Vets Program

Green Power Independence Santa Monica joins the push for public control of renewable energy ............... 11

The Art of Pasta

Brides for Good pub crawl in Venice; Kahanamoku Klassic in Marina del Rey...... 28

’Bone-A-Fide Legends Fishbone’s Angelo Moore and John Norwood Fisher take the stage at Venice Spring Fling. ......................... 19

ON THE COVER: Santa Monica and other cities want to take charge of supplying green energy for residents.

Photo illustration by Michael Kraxenberger, using a photograph

by Jorge M. Vargas Jr. and a painting by Charlotte Vanhaecke.

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Living Large in Limbo

Mothers for Fair Child Support In custody battles, women usually get the kids — but not the money to raise them

By Kelly Hayes-Raitt David Pisarra is a Santa Monica lawyer who specializes in the worst type of legal practice — family law, where mean divorces and children played as pawns dominate his days. He’s an expert in men’s legal rights and argues — correctly, I believe — that not all women make the best parents.

Although judges are not supposed to have a biological bias when awarding custody, an estimated 83% still award children to their mothers.

Cultural biases of stay-at-home moms and full-time working dads are hard to shake.

It’s not necessarily that judges are biased, argues Pisarra — it’s society. A whopping 91% of custody cases are decided between the parents; the courts just approve these decisions.

Only 4% of custody cases go to trial, and of those only 1.5% is decided by a judge.

“Courts don’t want to decide custody. They do everything they can to force the participants to get to an agreement on their own,” Pisarra says. “So much of the family dynamics were already determined years ago.

Courts default to the status quo.

That usually means husbandearner / wife-stay-at-home or part-time-earner. Courts rubber stamp that unless there’s something that’s changed in mom’s dynamic.”

This wasn’t always the case.

Historically, women had no legal standing to fight for custody of their children and men used that dominance to hold women “in their place.” But custody is just part of the issue. Determining and collecting fair child support is more problematic.

Kelly Hayes-Raitt with her mother and brother in 1966 Women may get the kids — and all the responsibility that goes along with that — but they don’t necessarily get the cash to raise them.

Nobody fights over custody there — it has no monetary value.”

My father was a deadbeat dad.

After he and my mom divorced when I was five, he rarely paid

My father was a deadbeat dad.

After he and my mom divorced when I was five, he rarely paid the $30 per week child support for my younger brother and me.

“Money is what fuels the fight in child custody cases,” says Pisarra.

“If you look at Denmark, there’s a max child support of $180 a month in child custody cases.

the $30 per week child support for my younger brother and me.

Forced onto food stamps, Mom did her best to hold it together financially. Her day’s wages

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Security Act, an interesting holdover from England’s Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 that allowed parishes to recoup public money spent on children whose fathers had financially abandoned them. Particularly vexing was when divorced dads moved across state lines.

“It was impossible to collect [child support] between states,” my mom, Carole Hayes, said recently. “We had nothing. We needed more enforcement. The significant thing [Mothers for Fair Child Support accomplished] was the reciprocity between states. No longer could men cross state lines and be immune from their responsibilities.”

Before long, Mom and the other women were answering hundreds of letters from women all over the U.S. and Canada.

Other Mothers for Fair Child Support groups formed and more states’ laws were changed.

In 1975, Congress passed a significant law to enforce child support collection, particularly between states.

Forty years later, I ask Pisarra, the family law attorney, “What could improve this situation?”

Without hesitation, he answers: “Greater earning capacity for women. If women had [equal] earning capacity, there would be greater equality in parenting.”

Learn more about Pisarra at MensFamilyLaw.com.

Kelly Hayes-Raitt, a Santa Monica resident, blogs at LivingLargeInLimbo.com.

She can be reached at Kelly ArgonautColumn@aol.com.

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barely covered the cost of the day-long babysitter.

Mom went through cycles of trying to get Dad to contribute to his children’s upbringing by hiring lawyers and hauling him into court.

Mom would dress up, traipse the 40 miles to Buffalo, pay for parking and watch her ex-husband led out of court in handcuffs — not realizing that Dad and the judge were drinking buddies, and that by happy hour the two men would be toasting each other at their favorite watering hole, according to my Dad’s sister.

In 1971, Mom responded to a letter-to-the-editor in the Dunkirk (NY) Evening Observer by a woman fed up with trying to force her ex-husband to feed their kids. The woman invited any other moms from our small community with the same predicament to a meeting at her home.

A dozen or so women showed up, and from that kitchen table Mothers For Fair Child Support was born. Mom was elected the first chairperson.

The all-volunteer group raised money by throwing bake sales.

The owner of the local supermarket allowed us to put up folding tables in the baked goods section of his grocery store; I made funky “flower power” signs advertising the prices.

Mom sent me around the store with a petition on a clipboard: Who could resist an 11-year-old with a pitch to “sign here to get deadbeat dads to pay child support”?

Although rarely enforced, federal child support laws had existed in the U.S. since 1950 as amendments to the Social

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The Marina is Dead; Long Live the Marina “A Bigger, Busier Fisherman’s Village,” news, May 21 How disgusting. How very, very disgusting.

The air, wind and water are being murdered — just as all that flies (birds, butterflies) and all

sea life (sea lions, fish) and all of the boating (sail, motor) that comprise a marina are murdered or left to die. Just as Fisherman’s Village has been treated over the years; unattended and left to die.

Let’s not forget the murder of trees (past, present and planned) that are necessary for anything that breathes to continue doing so.

I’m not sure what Michael Pashaie, “one of the owners of Gold Coast Village LLC,” means when he is quoted as saying, “… before we bought the property.”

Bought the property? I thought all property in Marina del Rey is leased from Los Angeles County by developer-lessees who then then sublease to tenants, both commercial and residential.

Actually, I believe that the land on which Marina del Rey sits is owned by We the People, the citizens and taxpayers of Los Angeles County.

Just as the air, wind and water is being murdered, of course, Since humans need air and water, We the People probably won’t even survive the continued construction phases — this has been going on for quite some time, in case you haven’t noticed! I am already gasping, coughing and gagging from the heavy equipment fumes and all that accompanies that equipment in the process of “improving” Marina del Rey. I use my beautiful Marina del Rey for my “walks for emotional and physical health,” and am now in the process of being murdered along with the air, wind, water, birds, butterflies, sea life, trees, etc.

Marina del Rey is dead. The city lives on, out to and over the water.

How disgusting. How very, very disgusting.

Roslyn E. Walker Marina del Rey The High Cost of Growth Re: “New Apartments Slated for Downtown Westchester,” news, April 30 In all the articles I see about Playa Vista and about this planned 136-unit in Westchester, I don’t see anyone talking about the impacts they’re going to have on our already depleted water reservoirs.

Mayor Eric Garcetti wants to add 100,000 new housing units to Los Angeles in the middle of the worst drought California has seen in decades, if not centuries.

How can city government justify the additional strain on our fire departments, police, hospitals and utilities?

L.A.’s infrastructure — water lines, power grids and public

transportation — is old and outdated. Continue to add thousands of people to an already strained network, just for the tax revenue no doubt, and water conservation will become water rationing.

Dorothy Rayburn Culver City Times Worth Remembering Re: “Marina del Rey’s Golden Anniversary,” special issue, April 9 Please accept my sincere congratulations on the publication of a truly perspicacious edition of The Argonaut. I proffer a heartfelt appreciation to your staff on the production of an outstanding historical literary voyage in Marina del Rey. I submit this rambling missive so that other may happily recall additional moments experienced in and around Marina del Rey. The clubs: Tiffany’s, Jockey Club, Flanagan’s, Dragon Fly Lounge, Admiral’s Dinghy, Big Daddy’s, Pop Corn.

A sad Friday evening sharing stories with a fellow Notre Dame alumnus and then to hear later that he challenged (unsuccessfully) a large tree on Glencoe Avenue with his Mercedes-Benz.

That was Stacey Toran, a defensive back for the Los Angeles Raiders.

The private parties: John De R’s penthouse condo at MCC; Rick K’s bashes in Playa del Rey, clubhouse parties at Mariners Village and the Cliff House apartments; monthly “meet and greet” parties (ladies drank free) at Meadows Apartments (Culver City) … and Sunday afternoon pool parties with free ice cream sundaes at the Meadows with Reggie Theus (NBA) Roger Mosely (“Magnum P.I.”) attending.

Yes, Marina del Rey was a destination during the glorious 1970s and ‘80s for the young, aspiring and partying. So many memories — and a few broken hearts and missed opportunities — but generally the time of our lives.

David R. Frederick Marina del Rey 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).

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I live in Mar Vista, and in my apartment are three young, stir-crazy cats. I set up a bird feeder in the yard so they can “bird-watch” for their entertainment. The feeder visitors have mostly been sparrows and, as the drought has deepened, occasionally finches. Doves eat at the base of the feeder pole.

A new bird came in January.

He is a dapper gent in black tie and tails, but he didn’t go to the seed feeder. At the library I found a book that identified him as a black phoebe — a riparian bird. He is a flycatcher who feeds on insects that breed in and fly above the water. I supposed he came from Ballona Creek because of the drought. Then I read in The Argonaut about the ravaging of Oxford Lagoon.

A few days later there arose a great noise from the sparrows and finches, emanating from two dense shrubs adjacent to the cinder block wall that divides this yard from the next. Perched atop the wall was a Cooper’s hawk — not a regular denizen of Mar Vista. It flew off when I came to the door. I saw it several times in the next few days, sitting on a telephone pole or in a nearby Redwood. Then one day, as I went to check the mail, the hawk flew down like a lightning bolt upon one of the doves. The hawk paused, securing its grip while the dove struggled in its talons. Feathers flew and the hawk flew off with its dinner.

Early this year there were seven or eight doves. Now there are two or three. A resident of the Oxford Lagoon has found a place to feed, but where will it nest to rear young?

I assume the imminent end of L.A. County Supervisor Don Knabe’s final term has created the “urgency” for redevelopment that we have seen. With Janice Hahn running to take over his seat, I wonder what her priorities are.

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Spillwatch 2015 Santa Monica Bay may not be immune to oil in Santa Barbara waters

By Gary Walker State wildlife officials and local environmental groups are unsure whether the recent Santa Barbara oil spill will directly impact the Santa Monica Bay but worry about potential long-term consequences for migratory marine birds and mammals.

State environmental officials estimate that much as 21,000 gallons of crude oil has poured into the ocean since the May 19 pipeline rupture spilled more than 100,000 gallons along the coastline.

Elizabeth Crosson, executive director for the Santa Monicabased nonprofit Los Angeles Water Keeper, said the organization is monitoring the oil spill and hasn’t seen any impact to Santa Monica Bay water currents or marine life at present.

“But there are lots of migratory species — pelicans, sea lions — that can be affected long-term because the spill was so close to the coast. We know that from other spills like the [2010] Deepwater Horizon spill. We’re

after the spill.

The report acknowledges that dolphin mortality rates were also high in the weeks before the spill and attributed high mortality to “combined oil exposure, an unusually cold winter during “When you have a spill like this one 2011, and fresh water infusions.”

Michael Jasny, who heads the and like the Exxon Valdez, you can Natural Resources Defense expect a parade of harmful effects. Council‘s Marine Mammal Projects, said the same It’s not about the moment, it’s about Protection species of dolphins can be found what happens over the long haul off the coastline of Venice and Santa Monica. after the cleanup crews leave.”

“There is a small population of — Michael Jasny, Natural Resources Defense Council bottlenose dolphins that have a range of several hundred miles and sea mammals in Santa numbers of animals and huge and they are terrible about Barbara that migrate south could spills with just a few animals.” avoiding sheens from spilled oil. later show signs of illness if According to a report released These 300 to 400 dolphins often they’ve come in contact with oil. last week by the National Marine migrate to Santa Monica Bay,” “They could develop lesions on Mammal Foundation, bottlenose Jasny said. their skin that could lead to dolphins throughout the Gulf Jasny also cited long-lasting secondary infections,” Ford said. Coast are still suffering unusually consequences for marine life in Others cautioned against high mortality rates linked to the the wake of the 1989 Exxon assuming an oil spill will sicken Deepwater Horizon spill off the Valdez oil spill in Alaska. The marine life on a wide scale.

Louisiana Coast in 2010. ReNational Oceanic and Atmo“Just because there’s a lot of oil searchers monitoring dolphins in spheric Administration reported in the environment doesn’t mean the region began tracking cases of in 2007 that some 21,000 gallons we will have huge numbers of adrenal and lung disease shortly of crude oil remained in the Port

still seeing the destructive effects on marine life from that one,” said Crosson.

Tom Ford, executive director of the Bay Foundation, said birds

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William Sound ecosystem and that some orca whale pods and certain species of salmon, herring, seals and ducks still hadn’t recovered.

“When you have a spill like this one and like the Exxon Valdez, you can expect a parade of harmful effects. It’s not about the moment, it’s about what happens over the long haul after the cleanup crews leave. It’s hard to understand what’s going to be happening beneath the waves,” he said.

State officials say they will be monitoring wildlife near the Los Angeles coasts throughout the coming weeks.

“Given the trajectory of the oil spill, our experts think that the impact to Los Angeles and the Santa Monica Bay will be minimal,” said Mary Fricke, a spokeswoman with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Oiled Wildlife Care Network. “But we’re keeping an eye on the wildlife in the [Los Angeles] area.” gary@argonautnews.com

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Green Power Independence Santa Monica joins the push for public control of renewable energy Photo by Jorge M. Vargas Jr.

By Bonnie Eslinger Residents of Santa Monica and other Los Angeles County cities may soon be able to bypass private power suppliers and plug into a publicly managed renewable energy network.

Under a public power program currently being explored by local officials, cities would contract with wind, solar, geothermal, hydropower and other green energy producers to provide electricity directly to local homes and businesses.

Called Community Choice Aggregation (CCA), it’s a framework that would largely replace electricity generated by private utilities with renewable energy delivered over the same transmission lines — and possibly at lower prices.

“Typically, it’s an opt-out system. Everybody would be in unless you say, ‘I want to stay with Southern California Edison,’” said Dean Kubani, who heads up the city of Santa Monica’s Office of Sustainability and the Environment.

A state law enabling Community Choice Aggregation was adopted by California lawmakers in 2002, and in the years since a movement toward public power has picked up steam. The Northern California counties of Marin and Sonoma and the city of Lancaster already have programs up and running, and several other counties — including Alameda, Santa Clara and San Mateo — have announced plans to pursue Community Choice Aggregation.

Locally, Santa Monica has aligned itself with a group of South Bay residents and community leaders that began organizing last year around the idea of creating a regional public green power partnership.

Santa Monica Mayor Kevin McKeown said if city staff returns with information confirming that a public power program would be financially feasible and help the city reach its carbon emission reduction goals, he sees nothing preventing his council colleagues from joining him in backing Community Choice Aggregation.

“I suspect it’s going to be unanimous,” McKeown said.

“We’ve always been united in matters of sustainability.”

To date, the city councils of Santa Monica, Torrance, Beverly Hills, Carson, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach,

Dean Kubani, head of Santa Monica’s Office of Sustainability and the Environment, stands among solar panels on a city parking garage roof. The city is exploring a bid to take control of electricity contracts in order to incorporate more renewable energy.

Palos Verdes Estates and Redondo Beach have adopted resolutions in support of doing a feasibility study on Community Choice Aggregation — although none were asked to commit funding at this initial stage.

That’s where the Los Angeles County might step in. In March, the county Board of Supervisors

counties that have implemented CCA is encouraging, and I’m excited to see how the program can benefit L.A. County,” Kuehl, said.

Howard Choy, the general manager for the Los Angeles County Office of Sustainability, said the cities that passed resolutions in favor of the Community Choice

“This is not a no-risk scenario.

You’re an organization that will be in the renewable wholesale power business. But risk can be managed.”

— Howard Choy, Los Angeles County Office of Sustainability passed a motion to explore the potential benefits of Community Choice Aggregation for cities within the county and asked staff to identify up to $150,000 in funding for conducting a feasibility study.

Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, who co-authored the motion with Supervisor Don Knabe, called Community Choice Aggregation a “win-win for rate payers and for our environment.”

“The monthly cost savings and increased use of renewable energy we’re seeing from other

Aggregation “obviously got the board’s attention.”

“This could be a really good program,” he said.

But the Board of Supervisors has not officially greenlighted the study, Choy emphasized.

Staff was asked to come back in June with more information on the idea, including a look at other jurisdictions’ experiences in implementing CCA programs and the impact on consumers’ electricity costs.

Nonetheless, growing interest in the potential benefits of

renewable energy is propelling Community Choice Aggregation forward.

Last week, local government representatives from across the state met in Los Angeles at the Biltmore Hotel for a CCA forum.

The gathering of 200-plus people aimed to provide “the necessary political, energy market, regulatory and technical information,” to consider Community Choice Aggregation and connect local participants with officials from Marin’s and Sonoma’s new power agencies, consultants, wholesale power providers and energy economists.

The event was organized by the state’s Local Government Sustainable Energy Coalition, of which Choy is board chair, and LEAN Energy US, a nonprofit created to support the expansion of CCAs. LEAN Energy US was founded by Shawn Marshall, a former Mill Valley mayor who served on the task force that helped bring about Marin County’s renewable energy program.

Among attendees at the May 18 event was Joe Galliani, the founder of the South Bay group that’s lobbying for a regional public power agency.

Throughout the forum, speakers “repeated the same mantra:

‘There’s never been a better time to start a CCA then right now,’” Galliani said.

The successes in Marin and Sonoma counties, combined with current low costs for renewable energy that can be locked in with wholesale contracts, makes the timing right, said Galliani, a former marketing specialist turned full-time environmental activist.

“Prices are at the sweet spot right now,” Galliani said. “There isn’t a road block here other than having people get up to speed on what a CCA is.”

At this stage, not even Southern California Edison is standing in the way.

California’s law and accompanying regulations from the state’s Public Utilities Commission prevents private utilities from working against any move by municipalities to create a public power program — restrictions created, in part, in response to aggressive lobbying efforts by Pacific Gas & Electric against Community Choice Aggregation in the past.

State law also requires private utilities to deliver the CCA electricity through their transmission and distribution system.

In response to an inquiry about the possible formation of a CCA in Los Angeles County, a Southern California Edison spokesman forwarded a twosentence company statement: “California law permits cities, counties, or a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) whose governing boards have elected to act as CCAs to purchase and sell electricity on behalf of utility customers within their jurisdictional area(s). SCE’s position is NEUTRAL on CCA programs.”

A municipality or regional coalition in Los Angeles County could have a renewable energy agency ready to provide power to its residents by 2017, proponents say.

“Two years sounds reasonable,” Choy said. “It could be faster.”

There are some potential challenges ahead, he acknowledges, including building the “political will” needed among elected officials and the public to make Community Choice Aggregation happen.

“This is not a no-risk scenario,” Choy said. “You’re an organization that will be in the renewable (Continued on page 14)

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A highly charged arrest Santa Monica man trying to plug in his hybrid at Virginia Avenue Park says he doesn’t understand why police beat him up Photo by Inae Bloom

By Bonnie Eslinger Life changed for Justin Palmer one night last month as he tried to charge his electric vehicle in a Santa Monica city park.

The married father of four young daughters says he had finished his shift as a pharmacy technician — he was still wearing his medical scrubs — when he pulled his black Nissan Leaf into the lot at Virginia Avenue Park around 9:30 p.m. on April 21. All five charging stations were occupied, but the Santa Monica resident decided to wait, hoping for a short boost to get his car around the next day.

Around 10:45 p.m. — 15 minutes before the park was scheduled to close — a charger became available and Palmer moved to plug in his car.

Then a police officer approached Palmer, with another officer standing a few feet away.

“He told me I needed to leave right away because the park was closed. It was about 15 minutes before 11 so I was like, ‘Why? The park’s not closed yet.”

The officer asked for Palmer’s identification, which he’d left in his vehicle. The officer’s aggressive tone made him hesitant to move, said Palmer, who is black.

“I said, ‘Why? I didn’t do anything. I’m just trying to plug in my car. There’s still people in the park. There’s people walking around all over the place; why are you questioning me?’” Palmer said.

Palmer said the officer told him that if he didn’t produce identification he would be taken into custody.

“I refused and he started to handcuff me. He grabbed my other arm and handcuffed my other

Justin Palmer and his Nissan Leaf

“I’m kind of crying and saying, ‘Why are you doing this, why are you beating me up?’ He told me to stop crying and then at that moment he pepper-sprayed me in the face.” — Justin Palmer arm. He swept my legs and threw me to the ground. I landed on my head and blacked out,” said Palmer, 5’11” and about 160 pounds. “I woke up to the other cop standing in front of me.

“I’m kind of crying and saying, ‘Why are you doing this, why are you beating me up?’ He told

me to stop crying and then at that moment he pepper-sprayed me in the face. The other cop is adjusting himself to make sure his knee is on my neck and on my back, and at that point I felt my legs being twisted. I couldn’t really breathe, and my face and my eyes were burning.

Park did not clearly indicate that the parking lot is included in the park closure ordinance, and a question concerning when Mr. Palmer arrived in the parking lot and when officers made their initial contact with him.”

Palmer, a graduate of New York University, has not worked since his arrest five weeks ago.

He said he’s suffered a concussion, bulging discs in his neck, and pain in his shoulder, hand and leg.

Palmer has hired a lawyer, Justin Sanders, who on May 8 filed a claim against the city of Santa Monica, the legal precursor to filing a lawsuit.

The couple who witnessed the incident have publicly criticized the police use of force, and officials with the Santa MonicaVenice NAACP have accused the police of racial profiling. But race is not mentioned in Sander’s filing, and Palmer hesitates to make that claim.

“I don’t know if it’s because I’m black,” Palmer said. “The first [officer] was very aggressive and it seemed like he picked me to do something to, and I don’t think anything I did after that made it any better.”

Sanders said he plans to file a federal civil rights complaint, charging that the police violated his client’s right to due process.

“If you’ve been charged with something or you committed a crime, a person has a right to have a jury decide whether you’re guilty or innocent and a judge decides what your punishment will be,” Sanders said. “Excessive force is essentially allowing a police officer to be judge, jury and executioner.”

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“That’s when I heard more police officers coming and more cars coming. After everyone came, that’s when they got off of me and sat me up,” Palmer said.

Before he was put into a police vehicle, Palmer caught sight of a couple who stopped their walk in the park to take cell phone video of the incident. He called out to them to contact his wife.

Palmer was taken to jail and released in the morning, he said.

Later that day, Santa Monica City Attorney Marsha Jones Moutrie sent Palmer a letter stating that her office had reviewed the police report and determined that “no charges will be filed,” giving no further explanation.

Nonetheless, the Santa Monica Police Department released a statement on April 22, asserting that the 11 p.m. closing hour had been reached and Palmer ignored repeated police requests to leave the park. He was arrested for refusing to provide his identification, thus “delaying and obstructing” the officer who tried to issue him a citation for violating the park closure law, the police statement said.

“During the arrest, the subject actively resisted. Officers deployed pepper spray and physically restrained him,” the police department stated.

On May 4, the Santa Monica City Attorney’s Office released a statement clarifying that “the factors which precluded the filing of criminal chargers were Mr. Palmer’s belief that being present in the parking lot did not constitute a park closure violation, signage at the entrance to the parking lot of Virginia Avenue

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Drugs at play in Venice boardwalk rampage trial Prosecutors argue man accused of running down pedestrians had been ripped off while trying to buy meth

By Gary Walker For one of the final witnesses against the man accused of mowing down people with his car on the Venice boardwalk in August 2013, county prosecutors called a local homeless man to testify that a drug deal may have played a role in triggering the violence.

L.A. County Deputy District Attorney Victor Avilla has argued in court that Nathan Campbell, who has pleaded not guilty to killing an Italian tourist and 17 counts of assault with a deadly weapon, was angry about being ripped off while trying to buy methamphetamine on the beach and intentionally targeted pedestrians in a fit of rage behind the wheel.

Jesse White, who often sleeps near the boardwalk, testified on May 19 that a short time before chaos erupted on the boardwalk he had been approached by two Caucasian men looking for drugs.

White, who is serving time in jail for assaulting a police officer, said the older of the two men asked him where they could buy some “tweak.” White told the court he referred them to an

African-American youth who agreed to buy the drugs after taking money offered by the older man.

After more than 30 minutes, the older man left to try to find the youth who had taken off with his money. The younger of the two men who had approached White became agitated and said he was going to get his car, White testified.

“You point them out to me and I’ll hit them with my [expletive] car,” White recalled the younger man telling him before leaving the boardwalk.

White said it was 15 minutes later that the car began driving south along the boardwalk, striking pedestrians along the way.

White was unable to positively identify Campbell as the man who drove the car — and in this case as one of the men looking for drugs.

Westchester attorney James Cooper III, who is defending Campbell, pointed out under cross examination that White had in previous statements failed to identify Campbell in a six-person photo lineup.

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For now, the county’s South Bay and Westside CCA proponents are continuing their efforts to get other cities to sign on to the idea — or at least agree to participate in a feasibility study. They’re pinning their hopes for funding the analysis on the Board of Supervisors vote in June. There’s also grant money that could be chased and the possibility of paying for a study upfront and then wrapping the reimbursement costs into future utility rates.

“Right now we’re looking to the county,” Kubani said.

If the analysis shows a favorable outcome and elected officials with participating cities vote to start a CCA, follow-up steps would include forming a joint powers authority, hiring staff, issuing requests for proposals and negotiating contracts for energy services.

Avila asked White about his prior run-ins with law enforcement, including a conviction for felony possession of concentrated cannabis and the more recent conviction for assault on a police officer. White also acknowledged during testimony that he has been diagnosed with a type of schizophrenia.

“Did you make any of this up about the younger white male or was that one of the voices that you hear?” Avila asked.

“No sir,” White responded.

“Out of all the people that are on Venice Beach, why did they come to you?” Cooper asked White. “You know where all the drug-sellers hang out, right?”

“I don’t know why,” White responded.

Prior to resting the prosecution’s case on May 22, Avila showed the jury autopsy photographs of the woman who was killed, and a former coroner’s office investigator testified that those injuries were “consistent to being struck by a car and thrown from it.”

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In the end it would be worth it, Kubani said. The Marin and Sonoma county agencies are offering rates that are cheaper than PG&E. Those prices are based on formulas that include a mix of traditional energy sources and renewable energy sources, according to rates posted on the websites for both agencies.

Marin Clean Energy states that a typical household using PG&E’s current 22% renewable energy plan will pay an average monthly rate of $82.42, but under Marin’s 50% renewable energy plan, that monthly cost drops to $80.98.

Similarly, Sonoma Clean Power states that the monthly residential charge for PG&E’s 28% renewable plan averages about $107.57, but Sonoma’s 33% renewable energy plan costs about $100.52 per month.

But for both Marin and

Sonoma counties, the rates for 100% renewable energy would come at a higher cost for residents each month, about $85.61 and $118.02, respectively.

Kubani believes Santa Monica’s residents would be willing to pay extra for energy that came at a lower cost to the planet.

“I think there are lots of people here in Santa Monica that are very environmentally aware and support sustainability,” Kubani said. “I’d certainly pay extra to get 100% green power.”

On Saturday, May 31, Climate Action Santa Monica is hosting a community forum on Community Choice Aggregation from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill St., Santa Monica.

The free event will include presentations from South Bay Clean Power founder Joe Galliani and Lean Energy US founder Shawn Marshall.

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Sailing Therapy Program for Veterans Encounters Rough Waters Marina del Rey’s the Challenges Foundation suspends operations as organizers look for a new place to dock Photo by Pat Reynolds

By Pat Reynolds It is a powerful thing to be out on the open water with men who have returned from war broken by its horrors.

Marina del Rey’s nonprofit Challenges Foundation provides alternative post-traumatic stress disorder therapy in the form of a 1924 wooden sailboat called Emerald. Like the vets themselves, the Emerald is a work in progress — a strong, hard-traveled fighter imbued with both beautiful and tragic experiences.

The Emerald was once left for dead at the bottom of King Harbor in Redondo Beach and has been inches away from abandonment and destruction more than a few times in its 91 years, but it sails on. That makes the Emerald perfect for its current mission. The non-profit, all-volunteer Challenges Foundation has carried crews of wounded, blind and formerly homeless military veterans invited through the West L.A. and Long Beach V.A. hospitals.

Recently I was invited aboard the stoic 55-foot yawl to take part in a day sail organized for a group of vets from the West L.A. V.A.’s transitional housing program. I arrived at the docks outside the Santa Monica Windjammers Yacht Club and soon met the nine former soldiers. They were mostly a quiet bunch, maybe even detached in this setting. One older man with a thick beard insisted he not be photographed or touched, while some of the others jumped on the tasks at hand — relishing the personal effort and teamwork that sailing an old boat involves.

As we sailed into the Santa Monica Bay in a pleasant 12-knot breeze, I sat on the coach-roof and had a conversation with Blade, an ex-Marine in his 30s.

As a combat medic, he witnessed the uncensored realities of war.

Blade told me it was programs like this one and Saddles for Soldiers (therapy involving horses) that’s helped him with his PTSD more than anything else.

Blade isn’t alone — there’s a long line of combat vets who praise the program, crediting it with helping them acclimate back into society and assisting them in the long road to normalcy. One participant who did not wish to be named said after a trip: “This is the first opportunity that I’ve had

The Emerald takes a crew of military veterans on a voyage into Santa Monica Bay. The Challenges Foundation is unable to resume its therapy efforts until they can find a new place to dock the vintage sailboat. since I’ve gotten out of the service that I’ve actually enjoyed being out and being around other people.”

The Challenges Foundation, however, is facing a life-anddeath struggle of its own.

Though there is no shortage of people to serve — nearly 400 people from a variety of organizations sailed the Emerald last year — the foundation is having trouble affording a slip for the boat and paying the costs associated with a charity. The Emerald previously occupied a rent-free L.A. County-owned slip in Marina del Rey but was evicted, its founders say. Now the Emerald is homeless.

David Scheinfarb, a local L.A. County Sheriff’s Dept. deputy and himself a military veteran, runs the Challenges Foundation with the unwavering support of

his wife Inge. The couple says they have given a substantial amount of their time and money to the project — an effort they believe is helping people — but jeopardy looms large for the nonprofit as the summer boating season arrives.

“We’re bouncing around trying to figure out what we’re going to do and how we’re going to make this program work,” David Scheinfarb said.

About two weeks ago, David Scheinfarb was forced to anchor the historic vessel alongside some derelict boats past the Marina del Rey break wall, in the open ocean. All of the programs are suspended while they figure out how to keep the foundation from sinking — literally and figuratively. In a recent big sea, the Emerald broke free from her anchor and had to be

rescued 10 feet from the surf line. Her anchor and rode were jettisoned during the rescue and now the boat is worse off than before, as an anchor is something of a nautical limb.

“If we had a dock-space, the need for money wouldn’t be so great,” said Inge, who crunches the numbers for the organization.

“Ideally what would be good is if Beaches and Harbors allowed us to come back to [one of their] docks on a temporary basis.

Then we could work on finding a permanent dock space.”

The Scheinfarbs hope county officials can reserve a small place for the Challenges Foundation in their plans for redevelopment of Marina del Rey harbor.

“For the long range we’d love to see the county allocate a dedicated dock for nonprofits,” Inge Scheinfarb said. “Have

some type of check-in service where there are requirements, so it’s not used as a storage area.”

The trip I took with the veterans was a moving experience. To be with men who have come out broken on the other side of violent combat and watch as others try and help, is a powerful thing to see. Sailing is a particularly effective vehicle for this brand of therapy. It allows those who need peace to sit and be calm but it also is perfect for those who need to stay busy, focus on a job and connect with others.

“We take out everyone for free,” Inge Scheinfarb said.

“Nobody running the organization is getting anything out of this except a sense of satisfaction that we’re doing the right thing.”

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The Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection contains several historic images of people enjoying the Inkwell / Bay Street beach in the 1920s, ‘30s and ‘40s. (Images above and right courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library.)

Remembering Santa Monica’s Black Beach When surf and sand was practically segregated, the Inkwell was both a slur and a badge of pride for African Americans

By Alison Rose Jefferson During the 1900s-60s Jim Crow Era of racial restrictions, the Pacific shoreline directly south of Pico Boulevard in today’s Ocean Park neighborhood of Santa Monica was a place where African Americans could enjoy sun, sand and surf without facing the racially motivated harassment endemic to other Southland beaches.

The Anglo community denigrated the site by calling it the “Inkwell,” a reference to the skin color of beachgoers. But the very people whom that slur was intended to malign adopted it as a badge of pride.

While physical traces of the Inkwell are largely gone (the city installed a monument in 2008), its role as a social destination for the Westside’s early AfricanAmerican community is a story of shared history and identity that’s often overlooked.

“It was a summer weekend gathering place. You would see everyone … all your friends there,” said octogenarian Ivan J. Houston, a third-generation Angeleno whose father encountered race-based opposition while trying to build a black beach resort in the 1920s.

African Americans who came to California to escape the segregated South challenged racial and class structures by confronting the emergent politics of PAGE 16 THE ARGONAUT May 28, 2015

leisure and recreation access that was at the core of the state’s formative mid-20th century identity.

“The development of attractive and accessible black beaches and resorts free from white harassment [was] a major political issue in the long civil rights

African-American community with an institutional space as old as Phillips Chapel, built in 1908 and made a city of Santa Monica landmark in 2005.

The late Navallette Tabor Bailey (1914– 2010) spoke during a 2009 interview about fun times on the beach between Pico

African Americans access to various places of leisure constituted an informal policy that was at times strictly, and other times inconsistently, enforced by many white citizens and policymakers.

Under the headline “Settlement of Negroes is Opposed: Santa Monica and Ocean Park Blocks Plan for Colony of Colored Folk,” the Los Angeles Times reported in 1922 that homeowners and Under the headline “Settlement of Negroes businessmen had formed the Santa is Opposed: Santa Monica and Ocean Park Monica Bay Protective League (supported by public officials) with the intent to Blocks Plan for Colony of Colored Folk,” the purge African Americans from the city’s Los Angeles Times reported in 1922 that shoreline. homeowners and businessmen had formed the The immediate goal was to block a black Santa Monica Bay Protective League (supported investment group led by Norman O. Houston (Ivan Houston’s father) and by public officials) with the intent to purge attorney Charles S. Darden from developAfrican Americans from the city’s shoreline. ing a self-described “first-class resort with beach access” at the base of Pico, where Shutters on the Beach is located today.

After black investors were forced to movement,” writes historian Andrew Boulevard and Bicknell Street while abandon the plan, the property reverted to Kahrl. growing up a short distance south in white ownership. Soon extravagant and Many new black migrants to Santa Venice.

Monica settled in the environs of the Civic In Bailey’s circle, however, it was always exclusive clubs with fenced in beaches began going up in the area, including the Center, with the Phillips Chapel Christian referred to as “the Bay Street beach” — lavish Casa del Mar Club in 1924.

Methodist Episcopal Church (the city’s never “the Inkwell.”

Meanwhile, local African-American first African-American church) as its As early as the 1890s, California had leaders reflected the ambivalence of the spiritual and institutional center just up enacted laws to protect beach access for general black population on the continued the hill at around Fourth and Bay streets. all residents, but sometimes those laws Santa Monica is the only seaside commu- were ignored. Along many stretches of the existence of the Inkwell. They wanted to end efforts to inhibit their freedom to use nity in the region featuring a historical California coastline, refusal to allow

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Artist Richard Wyatt was commissioned by the Black Surfing Association’s Rick Blocker to paint this portrait of Nick Gabaldón, a composite drawn from the few known photographs of Gabaldón.

(Image courtesy of Wyatt and Blocker.) any and all public beaches, but the Inkwell was a secure point of access to the Pacific.

Next door to their gathering place, African Americans availed themselves to opportunities the white beach club presented. They enjoyed the music played by bands floating in the air from the facility, and utilized its floodlight system for nighttime socializing at the beach.

African-American visitors refused to be pushed away from the oceanfront space they enjoyed for many years, before the incursion of their new, rich, white neighbors.

In 1927 the L.A. branch of the NAACP organized their first civil disobedience effort and a legal challenge to these discriminatory practices in a case against the city of Manhattan Beach. Their actions resulted in the California Courts upholding the laxly enforced laws put in place from 1893 to 1923 that allowed African Americans the rights to use any beach in the state. With African Americans more confident in asserting their legal rights, racial restrictions at public beaches began to fade away.

Today’s Ocean Park beach front includes Crescent Bay Park, the “California Wash” art installation and the city plaque recognizing the historical significance of the Inkwell / Bay Street beach site and the city’s early African-American community

— including one of the earliest documented surfers of African- and Mexican-American descent, Nick Gabaldón (1927-1951).

One of a handful of graduates in Santa Monica High School’s Class of 1945, Gabaldón served in the Navy in 1945 and 1946 before returning home to attend Santa Monica College and work as a U.S. Postal Service Letter Carrier.

Gabaldón began surfing as a teen at Inkwell / Bay Street beach, teaching himself to do so on a 13-foot rescue board that belonged to a white lifeguard.

Gabaldón’s story ended tragically with a fatal surfing accident at the Malibu Pier when he was just 24, but during his short life he earned respect from fellow surfing pioneers that transcended the racial prejudice of the times.

On Saturday, Santa Monica celebrates Nick Gabaldón Day at the beach in Ocean Park near Bay Street. Sponsored by the Black Surfers Collective and other groups, the day includes free surf lessons and a paddle-out in honor of Gabaldón.

Nick Gabaldón Day happens from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday on the beach near Bay Street. For more information or to sign up for surf lessons, visit blacksurferscollective.org.

Alison Rose Jefferson is completing a doctorate in history at UC Santa Barbara.

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’Bone-a-Fide Legends Fishbone’s Angelo Moore and John Norwood Fisher do their own thing at Venice Spring Fling

By Michael Aushenker On a crisp upstate New York evening in November 1988, a boisterous group of us Cornellians, eligible to vote for the first time, walked en masse to Robert Purcell Union on North Campus to choose our next president. To the eventual dismay of many of us, Papa Bush ultimately won that election. But on that specific night, we were amped to leave the voting booth and head down to an intimate, dive-y joint on the Ithaca Commons called The Haunt to see a band from my home town.

That Los Angeles band was Fishbone.

The way this genre-mashing group performed the muscular soul and metaland-brass-shellacked punk-funk from their contemporaneous album “Truth and Soul” left us sweaty, out of breath and in awe of how simultaneously tight and loose they were as they set the place on fire, with vocalist Angelo Moore casually flipping a

360 in place, hanging off the ceiling’s wooden rafters and stage-diving into the pit. I haven’t seen a better live performance since, and that’s not hyperbole.

Moore, a legend of L.A.’s 1980s alternative music scene, headlines Saturday’s 5th annual Venice Spring Fling music festival under the moniker Dr. Madd Vibe. Also on the bill: Fishbone founding member and bassist John Norwood Fisher, leading his long-running side project Trulio Disgracias (which in the 1980s routinely included members of punk-funk buds the Red Hot Chili Peppers).

It isn’t the first time either has performed at one of organizer Milton Rosenberg’s biannual beachside concerts.

“There’s nothing better than a beach party,” Fisher says. “We can perform, we can face the water. When I can look beyond the palm trees and see the break, and I look beyond that and see where the

sky meets the ocean … it’s living the dream, man.”

Rosenberg — “he’s Venice-style, man,” Fisher continues. “He’s authentically Westside. The thing is that he keeps coming back with it, and he has an organic growth. It’s not like he’s going to Snapchat and bringing [corporate sponsorship]. It’s Venice; the whole world knows Venice.”

Joining Moore and Fisher on the Spring Fling bill: the unrelated Barry “The Fish” Melton of Woodstock psychedelic rockers Country Joe and the Fish; reggae/hip hoppers Krooked Treez; Venice-based dance troupe Ya Harissa Bellydance Theatre; jazz act the Azar Lawrence Quartet; oddball reggae shakers Jah Faith and the L.A. River Swim Team; East L.A.’s Casa de Calacas; and Venice hometown heroes Meet Me at the Pub, who mash up ska, reggae and rock. The

pop-up festival also features dancers, artists and children’s activities.

Moore and Fisher have just returned from a nine-date East Coast Fishbone tour that covered New Jersey, upstate New York and the Hamptons.

Fishbone has toured South America and Australia, played across Europe countless times and even has their own hostess/ translator in Japan.

“I like Japan. I like France,” Moore says.

“It’s just a little more eclectic. America is great and everything, but it’s kind of linear.”

The prolific Moore has been nurturing his Dr. Madd Vibe alter ego across four albums since 2000 and also leads side groups Brand New Step and Missin Links.

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“Alternative wasn’t even a term,” Fisher says of when Fishbone took off. “We missed out to putting a name to it. We let the journalists call it. I called [Jane’s Addiction leader] Perry [Farrell] and [Chili Peppers bassist] Flea and said, ‘Dude, we didn’t name it.’”

Beyond some solid studio work, Fishbone’s reputation rests on being one of popular music’s greatest live acts.

Perhaps the most dramatic twist in Fishbone’s storied career came in 2010 with the release of “Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone,” a documentary by Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler.

The movie was shockingly candid and sobering, juxtaposing interviews with No Doubt, Flea,

cally, had more in common with Fishbone. The “Truth and Soul” track “Mighty Long Way” seems thematically reminiscent of the Peppers’ anthem “Me and My Friends” — both of them odes to the power of bro bonding.

“It was all going on around us.

We would just pick up on it,” Fisher says. “We were really bros. We’re still bros. It ain’t the same [since the Peppers’ mammoth success]. But I still get up at Flea.”

Writing “Mighty Long Way,” I had my bandmates in mind, I had the Chili Peppers in mind, and Murphy’s Law,” Fisher says.

“Perry Farrell was a part of that whole scene, Thelonious Monster, the Untouchables. It was a coincidence but comes from the same spirit. We all ran in the same circles.”

“We’d hang out periodically, but when it came to songwriting

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“Alternative wasn’t even a term,” Fisher says of when Fishbone took off.“We missed out to putting a name to it. We let the journalists call it. I called [Jane’s Addiction leader] Perry [Farrell] and [Chili Peppers bassist] Flea and said, ‘Dude, we didn’t name it.’”

we never really shared some of those ideas,” Moore recalls.

“Truth and Soul” ranges musically from raunchy funk, overdrive punk and poignant ballads and thematically from religious introspection to condemnation of racism and oppression.

Moore and Fisher lament that tunes they wrote in 1988 remain so relevant in 2015.

“We would hope that a song like ‘Ghetto Soundwave’ can find some relief from cultural significance,” Fisher says. “At some point, we should be like, ‘Oh, that’s what old people went through.’”

“I put my head in a bubble, in my astronaut bubble, with my words and my instruments and black out the world,” says Moore of his daily survival ritual.

For the moment, the ‘Bone’s spine has their attention focused on Saturday.

“There’s nothing bad about Venice Beach,” says the Valleybased Moore. “I used to go out there and read poetry with my sax and blow my horn. When I feel it, out comes the poetry.”

Fisher, a Santa Monica resident of 23 years, has stronger ties to the area. Those include a history of jam sessions at The Brig, Danny’s Venice, and the nowdefunct Air Condition Lounge in Venice; Harvelle’s and TRiP in Santa Monica; and retired Santa Monica haunts 14 Below and Temple Bar. Fisher is concerned about the recent closures of Hal’s Bar and Grill, the WitZend and the Good Hurt.

“This is what makes Venice Beach Music Fest [and Spring Fling] more crucial than ever — bring live music to the community, but ultimately have local talent take the stage,” Fisher says.

Come November, Moore turns 50. He’s currently nursing a knee injury from cumulative years of acrobatic performing and faces a $1.4-million lawsuit over an alleged stage-diving mishap six years ago.

And yet Moore resonates with an optimism not far removed from that of the super-cool, skinny mohawked dude in shades and a gray suit who, 25 years ago, I spotted walking alone down funky Melrose Avenue, just blowing his sax.

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The rambling-yet-compelling “The Reality of My Surroundings” (1991) — a faltering big-label push to propel Fishbone to the same stratospheric commercial heights achieved by the Chili Peppers’ “Blood Sugar Sex Magic” — nevertheless yielded a succession of candy coated power-pop gems.

Music heads who grew up in L.A. in the 1980s remember how energetic, innovative and influential Fishbone was in paving the way to Billboard’s charts for alternative acts such as Jane’s Addiction, the Chili Peppers and Nirvana. More directly, the ’Bone more than anticipated Vernon Reid’s all-black rock act Living Colour and the huge mid-‘90s pop-ska wave led by No Doubt (Gwen

Ice-T and Perry Farrell singing Fishbone’s praises as alternative music catalysts and groundbreakers with the reality of the band: internal upheaval, a member’s lost years with a religious cult, and single-parent Moore apparently struggling, living at his mother’s house.

“People would start to come up, would say ‘I saw the movie, I didn’t know it was like that for you guys,’” Moore says in a measured delivery. “‘Is everything alright?’ ‘How’s your Mom?’ ‘Have you got a place of your own?’”

Due to internal band friction, Moore learned to play drums and other instruments himself so that he could find an outlet as Dr. Madd Vibe for songs Fishbone had rejected.

“You always want to keep that free-spirited feeling / Don’t let them turn your sky into a ceiling,” he rhymes.

In the 1980s, Fishbone was often aligned and associated with the Chili Peppers. Prior to guitarist Hillel Slovak’s overdose death and the success of “Blood Sugar Sex Magic,” the Peppers were a stylistically different, much wilder band that, musi-

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A century ago, pasta was disdained by middle-class Americans as the food of poor foreigners. But then a movement to explore and elevate Italian cuisine began in the 1960s, followed by exuberant experimentation — noodles with inspiration from the Pacific Rim, raviolis stuffed with nearly anything.

That we now make pasta frequently doesn’t mean we make it well, however, or pair different pastas with the sauces that suit them best.

Steve Lanzarotto, the import specialist at Sorrento Italian Market in Culver City, can help.

Operated by the same family since 1963, the market offers aisle after aisle of dried pasta and a refrigerator case of the fresh stuff.

There’s a bewildering variety here — why buy one pasta instead of another?

It’s not flavor, because they’re almost all made with the same ingredients: semolina flour and water. There is a big difference in the way they’ll cook, and you use certain shapes depending on what you’re serving it with. Angel hair goes with a light tomato sauce, or maybe an oil-based sauce, because the pasta is so fine and cooks so quickly. Thick meat sauces, sauces with wild boar or hare, need a thick, flat noodle.

Oil- and butter-based sauces are different, as are those with fat from pancetta. … We have some noodles here that have a rough surface, which helps hold the more slippery sauces. The sauce becomes one with the pasta, and a lot of the better pastas have a scratchy texture.

That explain pastas of varying thickness, but why all the varieties?

It has something to do with tradition, because Italian food is so regional. Every city — almost every village — has their own sauce, usually with a shape of pasta that goes with it, and of

Steve Lanzarotto is still discovering new favorite pasta varietiesw

What about spinach pastas and others with vegetables in the noodle? And is squid ink pasta just a novelty?

There is a long tradition in Italy of adding vegetables to pasta, though often just for coloring.

The vegetable affects the texture What are common mistakes and flavor slightly, and it when cooking pasta?

Pasta doesn’t stop cooking when generally involves cooking just a bit longer. There’s an Italian dish you take it out of the water, so, especially if you have a very thin that calls for mixed spinach pasta and regular pasta — the name and delicate variety like angel hair, you don’t immediately put a translates to grass and hay, and it’s usually served with peas, hot sauce over it. You cook cream sauce and ham. It’s ultra-thin pastas for as little as delicious! two minutes, and there’s very Squid ink adds a little flavor to little margin for error. You never overcook pasta in Italy — they’ll pasta, and it’s always used for throw it away rather than serve it seafood dishes. It’s great with to someone. They also always salt clam sauce or frutti di mare, generally with a white or the water. If you forget, you’ll oil-based sauce rather than throw that away. It imparts a flavor, keeps it from being bland. tomato. And Italians never, ever put cheese on seafood pasta. If You can tell immediately if it you start to do it in a restaurant, isn’t there. they’ll stop you politely. They When would you use dry pasta say, “Please, no cheese on the seafood.” It’s kinda funny. versus fresh?

Italians always prefer fresh pasta to dried pasta, because it’s lighter And egg pastas?

Egg pastas are lighter and and has more springiness. You can keep it refrigerated for about cook a bit quicker because there’s a week, but you really should buy a little less wheat. They’re ideal for cream sauces, and they have a it on the day you cook it. Each character more like fresh pasta. If day it’s going to get gummier, I’m having a really thick meat and it will be harder to handle. sauce, I like an egg pappardelle.

This is especially true of the thinner pastas, which are supple when freshly made.

(Continued on page 35) course a local wine. Naturally those things go together, and if you have a traditional recipe it’s best to follow it rather than make substitutions, at least the first time you make it.

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It’s a 90066 Art Weekend Del Rey and Mar Vista artists unveil an eclectic variety of new works

By Michael Aushenker Del Rey and Mar Vista may fly under the radar compared to neighboring communities along the shore, but they are no creative slouches.

Case in point: Sunday’s 6th annual Del Rey Art Walk and a Saturday night / Sunday morning group show at Grand View Fine Art Studios in Mar Vista.

The Del Rey Art Walk is quite literally all over the map, the event allowing self-guided visitors to drop in on the home studio environs of 16 different artists working in a variety of styles and mediums.

Two of Del Rey’s featured creators, Gonzalo Algarate and Sonia Sanders, embody two very different artistic journeys.

Born in Uruguay to a family of artists, Algarate moved to the United States in 1984 to apprentice at Robert Graham Studio, where he learned techniques such as metal fabrication, mold making, bronze casting and lost wax. He founded his own studio 13 years later.

Sanders, who is showing a variety of pastel drawings on Sunday, continues to ply the trade of portraiture at 84. From 1966 to 1986, Sanders served as official portrait artist for Universal Studios, creating countless pastel pieces now residing in collections worldwide. Universal routinely assigned Sanders to draw celebrities, visiting dignitaries and heads of state as gifts.

Grand View Fine Arts Studios’ semiannual meet-and-greet, coinciding with the Mar Vista Farmers Market on Sunday following a Saturday night mixer, takes place in one complex where more than two dozen artists rent studio space.

New art by Charlotte Vanhaecke on display this weekend at Grand View Fine Art Studios.

Right: A portrait by Del Rey Art Walk presenter Sonia Sanders, formerly the official portrait artist for Universal Studios.

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This weekend’s event features artists Esther Pearlman, Al Walton, Vibul Wonprasat, Mitchelito Orquiola, Lee Ann Goya, Sara Harris, Ken Marsh, Stephanie Shaw, Joseph Fitzpatrick, Kathleen Kaller and Charlotte Vanhaecke and includes a silent art auction to benefit the conversion of the old Mar Vista Fire Station 62 into a Community Center.

New to Grand View’s fold, Vanhaecke is a young and energetic French native originating from Armentieres, near Lille in France’s north, where she painted since age 8. Ten years ago, Vanhaecke arrived in the U.S., took UCLA Extension classes and quickly built up a career as a graphic artist. Living on the Palms/Mar Vista border

since 2011, Vanhaecke, empowered by the example of Venice roustabout Jules Muck, decided a few years ago to chuck her day job and commit to being an artist full time.

“The last few years, my inspiration was in and out. I was doing a lot of graphic design. I got into painting the last couple of years and began doing it full time instead of doing it as a hobby,” Vanhaecke says.

After following Muck’s story in the pages of The Argonaut, she finally reached out to the muralist last year at an Abbot Kinney group show and has since met with her to glean wisdom.

For months, Vanhaecke had no clue what exactly went on in the Grand View building until one day she caught fellow artist

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Vanhaecke shows an array of portraits this weekend that includes work from her “Underneath” series, recently exhibited at Venice Grind in Mar Vista, for which she painted the breasts of 20 subjects — their undressed torsos, not their faces.

“That was a social message,” Vanhaecke says. “I’m French. In my culture, the breast is not seen as something that’s sexual. [In France, nudity in print and television advertisements is commonplace.] I was really tired of that. I wanted to present women in their most natural [state].”

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“This hip and colorful home has wonderful indoor/outdoor flow, architecture and eclectic style,” say agents Kim Williamson and Nicole Pagan. “Two master suites downstairs, and on the second floor a great room with soaring beam ceilings, sunny windows and a skylight. The open kitchen has a large center island and Sherman Canal views. On the third floor there is a spacious loft, patio and whitewater views, and also a large roof-top deck with built-in seating, all walking distance to the very best that Venice has to offer.”

Offered at $2,200,000 INFORMATION: Williamson and Pagan, RE/MAX Estate Properties, (310) 678-6650

“This two bedroom, 2.5 bath townhome and office in the full service Azzurra is one of only eight,” says agent Jesse Weinberg.

“The unit has floor-to-ceiling windows in every room with nearly nine-foot ceilings, hardwood floors, and open plan living, two balconies and parking for two cars. The kitchen has granite counters, stainless appliances and newer cabinetry. Building services include 24 hour security, concierge, rooftop sky lounge, pool, spas, professional fitness center, a fine art collection, media room and more.”

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“This beautiful tri-level home in Playa Vista has three bedrooms and four baths,” says agent Bob Waldron. “Enjoy all Playa Vista’s amenities – parks, shopping, restaurants, a community center, the recently opened facility called The Resort, all close to the beach, LAX, freeways and the marina.”

“This Marina del Rey unit has been lovingly maintained by the first and only owner,” says agent Susan Williams. “The spacious living room, with its vaulted ceiling, wet bar and fireplace, opens to the dining area, kitchen and a private patio perfect for entertaining. The next level features the master suite and a second bedroom and bath. The attached two-car garage has direct access and laundry hook-ups. The resort style complex offers pools, spas and racquetball.”

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“This home is on one of the largest lots in Westchester, offering space and comfort to live in as well as tremendous development potential,” says agent Stephanie Younger. “The home features a living area with a large picture window, a gracious formal dining room, a roomy remodeled kitchen with a breakfast nook, and a large adjacent laundry room. Two of the bedrooms are generously sized, and there is a den or third bedroom. The main bath has been remodeled with onyx and travertine details. A covered patio overlooks the backyard with fruit trees, a double garage with a workshop, and parking for an RV.” Offered at $1,249,000 INFORMATION: Stephanie Younger, Teles Properties, (424) 203-1828

“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.

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Thursday, May 28

Silicon Beach Symphony Orchestra Grand Opening Concert, 6 to 8 p.m. West L.A.’s newest community orchestra, led by artistic director Olivia Tsui, delivers its debut performance. As part of its mission to reach out to a broader audience and especially young people, the orhestra’s first show features a performance by four talented youngsters, including Thomas Robinson, who plays the younger version of George Clooney’s character in “Tomorrowland.”

YouTube Space Los Angeles, 12422 W. Bluff Creek Drive, Playa Vista.

RSVP required. (310) 999-3626; losangelesvirtuosi.org “The Homecoming,” 8 p.m. (Also 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays through July 26.)

Pacific Resident Theatre brings Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter’s Tony Award-winning play to Los Angeles for the first time in more than a decade. Directed by actor Guillermo Cienfuegos, multi award-winning director of last year’s critically acclaimed “Henry V,” this darkly sexual comedy set in 1960s North London challenges expectations of power and gender and shows how people are seldom what they appear. Pacific Resident Theatre, 703 Venice Blvd., Venice. $25 to $34. (310) 822-8392; pacificresidenttheatre.com Red Bull Sound Select Show Featuring The Shrine, 9 p.m.

CRAP Eyewear welcomes the Venice speed metal/punk-hybrid hometown heroes, freshly returned from an epic tour of Australia. The Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave, Venice. $12 at the door. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com Karaoke with Sarah, 9 p.m.

Participatory live entertainment at The Prince O’ Whales, 335 Culver Blvd., Playa del Rey; (310) 823-9826; princeowhales.com Harlow Gold, 10 p.m. Burlesqueshow at Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St.,

Mother’s Beach, a four-mile novice run between Mother’s Beach & the Venice Pier and, for skilled teams, an 11-mile open- water race from the Marina del Rey break wall to Santa Monica and back. marinaoutrigger.org

Santa Monica. $20, plus a twodrink minimum. (310) 395-1676; harvelles.com

Friday, May 29

Activist Support Circle with Gerry Fialka, 7 p.m. Refreshments served at 6:30 p.m. Artist, writer, activist and ecologist Gerry Fialka appears as special guest speaker at the Jerry Rubin-organized Activist Support Circle’s monthly public gathering at the Friends Meeting Hall, 1440 Harvard St., Santa Monica. Free.

(310) 399-1000; activistsupportcircle.org.

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

“20 Questions,” 7 p.m. Quizmaster John Rosenthal emcees the trivial pursuit game every Friday night at TRiP Santa Monica, 2102 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. No cover.

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Open Call for Auditions, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Join weekly Saturday rehearsals of Silicon Beach Philharmonic and Silicon Beach Chorale under the baton of Maestro Olivia Tsui. See firsthand how instrumentalists and vocalists train as they work toward giving local public concerts. Silicon Beach Philharmonic and Chorale continues to seek local singers and instrumentalists for a new local orchestra preparing for upcoming public concerts. Marina Del Rey Hospital, 4650 Lincoln Blvd., Marina del Rey. Free parking with validation. (310) 999-3626; siliconbeachphilharmonic.org

Friday Night Jazz, 8 p.m. DJ Alfred Hawkins and the Barry Zweig Trio perform at The Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com Vintage Cartoon Festival, 8:15 p.m.

(Also at 2:30 and 8:15 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday.) Animator Jerry Beck hosts an evening of classic black-and-white cartoons, including the Fleischer Bros.’ Betty Boop and Koko the Clown, Disney’s Oswald Rabbit and Otto Messmer’s Felix the Cat. Old Town Music Hall, 140 Richmond St., El Segundo. $10. (310) 322-2592; oldtownmusichall.org

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

Jon Burton, 9 p.m. Live music at Prince O’ Whales, 335 Culver Blvd., Playa del Rey. No cover. (310) 823-9826; princeowhales.com

Saturday, May 30

Brides for Good Pub Crawl, 1 to 5 p.m. Finally, a place to wear the most expensive dress in your closet.

Eden’s Journey hosts its second annual Brides for Good Venice Pub Crawl (bridesmaid dresses also encouraged) with food and drink specials to benefit the neurology division at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. The crawl covers four loca-

Kahanamoku Klassic, 7 a.m. The Kahanamoku Klassic draws more than 25 outrigger canoe cubs from up and down the coast to participate in a series of races. Highlights include a quarter-mile keiki race for teens that takes place in the channel leading to

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Bruce Lurie Gallery, 2736 S. La Cienega Blvd., Culver City. (310) 916-9388; luriegallery.com “Jurassic Park” marathon, 7:30 p.m. In anticipation of this summer’s “Jurassic World,” the American Cinematheque hosts a maratho0n of the killer dinosaur flicks initiated in 1993 by director Steven Spielberg that also launched the current age of computer graphics imaging in cinema. Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica. $14. (310) 260-1528; aerotheatre. com 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 The Del Reys, 9 p.m. Live music at Prince O’ Whales, 335 Culver Blvd., Playa del Rey; (310) 823-9826; princeowhales.com

Sunday, May 31 Brazil Brasil, 2 p.m. Free outdoor Latin and bossa nova music concert at Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 3019900; 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

The Toledo Show, 9:30 p.m. A cabaret show held on Sunday nights at Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $10. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com 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

Monday, June 1 GED classes, various times Mondays through Thursdays.

Free high school completion classes at Emerson Adult Learning Center, 8810 Emerson Ave., Westchester.

(310) 258-2000; veniceservicearea.org Optimist Club Meeting, 9:30 a.m.

Club meets on Mondays at the Coffee Bean, 13020 Pacific Promenade, Playa Vista. (310) 215-1892 Comics on the Spot, 7 p.m. Weekly stand-up comedy event begins with an open mic before the pros take the stage at 7:45 p.m. at The Warehouse, 4499 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. $10. (310) 823-5451; mdrwarehouse.com Swim Sessions, 7:30 p.m. Southern California Aquatics leads evening pool workouts Mondays and Wednesdays at Santa Monica Swim Center, 2225 16th St., Santa Monica. $69 to $109 per month. (310) 458-8700; swim.net.

Jack Daniel’s Comedy Classic, 9 p.m. Comedy showcase each Monday at Brennan’s Pub, 4089 Lincoln Blvd., Marina del Rey, No cover. 21+. (310) 821-6622; brennanspub-la.com Stage 11, 9:30 p.m. The melodic rock act returns for their residency at Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. Cover: $7, plus a two-drink minimum. (310) 3951676; harvelles.com (Continued on page 31)

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‘Into the Smoke & Maze’ The Battlefield return to TRiP on Friday night to preview tunes from their forthcoming album Photo by Juan Monsalvez

By Bliss Bowen When guitarist/banjoist Matt Ducey invited co-worker and occasional bandmate James Addison and country singer Jenny Weaver to play his birthday show at North Hollywood’s Federal Bar, little did he realize he was planting seeds for an Americana band. But when the three chimed together in harmony, they were surprised to realize they shared strong vocal chemistry.

Barely two years after that “jamboree performance,” the trio of actors turned musicians — collectively known as the Battlefield — are preparing for the July 10 release of their debut album, “Tipping Point.”

They’ll preview tunes from it when they return to TRiP Friday.

“Jimmy approached me at that Federal Bar show and I was like, ‘Who is this guy?’” Weaver recalls. “He may have been slightly inebriated. [Laughs] I had a song I’d written in three-part harmony, so we got together for fun, and when we started singing there was barely any talking — it just happened seamlessly. We started booking gigs immediately.”

“I heard Jenny’s voice and I knew that she would be a good buffer between our voices,” Addison says. “I have more of the brass to my voice; Matt’s more of the gravel, the character. Jenny is the butter to our bread.”

Adapting their individual songs to three-part harmonies — including Ducey’s yearning “Into the Smoke & Maze,” a highlight of their shows— they set about composing new songs together.

Which can be tricky with three songwriters in the room. Accept-

to do that, whether it’s writing songs or playing characters. And being onstage is so similar to theater. You have that audience, that immediate energy.”

Plans to “write a really happy song” went south when Ducey started plunking out a banjo riff that evolved into the plangent “Never Grow Old.” As Weaver sang, “Sleep, sleep my angel,” she says, “we suddenly realized we were writing a ghost story. It developed into this story of a Civil War soldier who returned home from battle to find his fiancée has died, and he walks directly in on her funeral, and that’s where the story begins.

Jimmy and I sing in the voices of the dead bride, who ends up luring her lover into killing himself to join her in death.”

concept,” Addison comments.

“Your successes are very tangible.

You have personal relationships with your promoters and venues, with other musicians. It takes a lot more work in acting to get to that level.”

“It’s our own creation and we have control of it, as opposed to the business of trying to be a professional actor,” Ducey observes. “We’ve got so much momentum that we’re able to put into it. It feeds our creative soul a little more in that sense. We’re able to book ourselves into shows, and write our songs. We don’t need someone to give us the job.”

He calls the experience of booking their summer tour a necessary “learning process” as they gradually learn the DIY ropes and find their place in

“We have the desire to tell stories and talk to humanity about what humanity is.”

The Battlefield draw from country, gospel, folk and alternative rock in arranging their three-part harmonies. ing a two-set club gig when they only had one set’s worth of material lent urgency to their mission.

“We went up to Big Sur and we made it happen,” Weaver says.

“That was pretty much our first year as a band: flying by the seat of our pants.”

They cite folk ensemble the Wild Reeds and Run River North as other L.A.-based bands with whom they feel a sense of creative roots-meet-pop kinship.

Backgrounds in musical theatre and acting also helped shape the

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Battlefield’s sturdy melodies and storytelling, while deeper influences came to the fore as the three drank and jammed around a Big Sur campfire: native Texan Weaver’s country idols (“Waylon, Willie, Dolly, Patsy”), Addison’s North Carolina Baptist gospel background and alternative rock leanings, plus Ducey’s Northern California folk tastes.

“We have the desire to tell stories and talk to humanity about what humanity is,” Weaver says. “There are so many ways

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Unkle Monkey, 6 to 9 p.m. The local duo plays beachy tunes at The Warehouse, 4499 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 823-5451; mdrwarehouse.com

“Mind Over Movies,” 6 p.m. Free weekly movie screening followed by a lively roundtable discussion. This week: Harold Ramis’ 1992 timetwisting comedy “Groundhog Day,” starring Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell and Chris Elliott. The Christian Institute, 1308 2nd St., Santa Monica. Free. facebook.com/ MindOverMoviesLA

Westside Wednesdays with House of Vibes All-Stars, 9 p.m.

Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. Cover: $7, plus a two-drink minimum. (310) 395-1676; harvelles.com

Thursday, June 4 “What’s New This Week?,” 1 to 2:30 p.m. Join a lively discussion about this week’s news events. Mar Vista Branch Library, 12006 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista. (310) 390-3454; lapl.org

Two-Minute Hummus Class, “Love, Shirley Temple,” 6 to 8 p.m. 6 p.m. Latest installment of Patricia Opening reception and benefit for the K. Rose’s monthly cooking class Santa Monica History Museum covers the Middle Eastern dip. launches a new exhibit featuring Learn how to create salad dressing artifacts from the personal effects and as well as serve a grilled gingercareer of moppet child star Temple, honey sesame salad, Waldorf salad,

USCG Auxiliary Classes, 7 to 9:30 p.m. GPS Navigating for Mariners, a 10-week course, starts June 4 and runs for two more Thursdays. $45.

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Galleries & Museums “3 From The Street: LA Perspectives,” opens 6 p.m.

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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.

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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. 2015105470 The following person is doing business as: Ellman Creative 11693 San Vicente Blvd. #377 Los Angeles, CA. 90049.

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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).

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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.

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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 con-

legal advertising ducted 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. 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).

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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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

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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