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L e t t e r s Vaccines make for Healthier Communities Re: “Gov. Brown Signs Mandatory Vaccinations Law,” news, July 2 As a community advocate and physician, I want to thank our legislators for their commitment to public health. Special thanks go to our own state Sen. Ben Allen, who helped lead the charge to pass this important piece of legislation. While some of the debate has been far-reaching, this bill has

really opened up a conversation to educate people about the importance and effectiveness of vaccinations. Not only are they scientifically proven to be safe and useful, they’ve helped reduce the number of preventable outbreaks that have previously killed thousands of people. Now that SB 277 is law, I know our communities will be healthier and our schools will be safer. Dr. Sion Roy Santa Monica

FROM THE WEB: To vaccinate or not is not the issue. The issue is preserving parental rights. I vaccinated my kids on an extremely spread-out schedule to minimize possible dangerous side effects associated with vaccinations. SB 277 will no longer allow a parent to spread out the vaccinations. If you don’t follow the schedule, you can’t go to school. Ben Allen did not listen to his constituents. Really, what was

he thinking? Just look at the area he represents. Cathey Painter So glad this passed. We spent the last year worried that an unvaccinated child would pass the measles or another disease to my grandchild, who was not old enough to be vaccinated. Her parents ended up having a nanny for a lot longer than they planned in order to keep her out of day care, where children may or may not be from a home that doesn’t vaccinate. If you feel so strongly

about not vaccinating your children, then you should home-school them as well for the public good. L. Scott 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 Letters should include your name and place of residence (for publication) and a telephone number (not for publication). Send to letters@ argonautnews.com.

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Contents

VOL 45, NO 28

Opinion

Local News & Culture

Sunday Drive

WESTSIDE HAPPENINGS Photo by Hank Cherry

Feeling Alive with the Grateful Dead A Venice activist revisits the band for their last California concert ............................. 6

News

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Arts The New Face of Funk

Digital Disparity Jesse Jackson stops by Google’s headquarters in Venice to call for greater diversity in tech ............................ 9

Dam-Funk opens for Morris Day and The Time to kick off the Twilight Concert Series at Santa Monica Pier ..................... 30

Into the Wild Joe Donnelly visits with Ballona Wetlands chronicler Judith Lewis Mernit. .............. 14

‘Perpetual Expectancy’ Library Girl literary series gathers local artists to celebrate Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin ........................................ 31

This Week ‘More than just a Hotel’ Dan Abrams’ Abbott Kinney Hotel proposal gets a redesign and a new name . ....... 11

Best of the Westside Ballot Info

Surviving ‘The Change’ Author and radio personality Sandra Tsing Loh takes on menopause — and laughs about it . .............................. 17

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Feeling Alive with the Grateful Dead A Venice activist who battled the 1960s heroin epidemic finds peace, love and Rock Medicine still going strong at the Dead’s last California concert Photo by Thomas Pleasure

By Thomas Pleasure Nearly 35 years ago I took a road trip up north from Venice to attend my first Grateful Dead concert. I was never a Dead Head, but the experience made me a believer. When the Dead added June 27 and 28 dates at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara to their goodbye “Fare Thee Well Tour” — the band’s final concert on Sunday in Chicago capping off an incomparable 50-year musical and cultural legacy — I was ready to boogie. What a long, strange trip it had been that compelled me to first see the Dead and then revisit Dead Head nation for the band’s final California performance. If it weren’t for the vicious heroin epidemic in Venice in the late 1960s, I might never have been exposed to the band. As a ‘60s activist, I had been hired to evaluate the UCLA/Venice Heroin Treatment Project for the National Institute of Mental Health. At the time, heroin use had reached close to epidemic proportions and there were few treatment guidelines or standards. The only options were group therapy, heroin replacement drugs or, as I later learned, God. Large numbers of Vietnam vets were com-

Everywhere inside Levi’s Stadium was a celebration ing home hooked. As part of my job I headed to the Bay Area for an emergency health conference on fighting heroin addiction. It was there that I met HaightAshbury Free Clinic (HAFC) co-founder Dr. George “Skip” Gay, a determined, long-haired health care activist dedicated to bringing medicine to people in need regardless of their ability to pay. Skip was

a true frontline warrior to make health care a human right, not a privilege. Skip and fellow HAFC co-founder Dr. David Smith wrote the book “It’s So Good Don’t Even Try It Once: Heroin in Perspective” in 1972. Despite the book’s dire warning, it did little to slow demand for the drug. In 1973 Skip started Rock Medicine, a group of medical volunteers who provided emergency assistance at Grateful Dead concerts as an outreach function of the HAFC. With a handshake agreement, he and concert promoter Bill Graham began to deliver “non-punitive, non-judgmental healing — free, at point of care,” as Skip would say. Each year thereafter, Skip asked me to join in Rock Medicine’s work at the Grateful Dead’s annual holiday concert. As a single parent who religiously delivered his progeny every Christmas to their Northern California mother, I finally decided to join Skip’s team and work The Grateful Dead’s 1980 Holiday Classic at the Oakland Auditorium — five shows in six days: Dec. 26, 27, 28, 30 and 31. It was that week that made me a believer in not only Skip, but also the Grateful Dead. It was an all-consuming marathon

musical experience filled with long improvisational guitar jams, insanely complicated drum solos, a swirling psychedelic light show and non-stop dancing among the crowd. Those memories still alive, I put Santa Clara in my sites to pay homage to the Dead’s 50 years of playing the marching music for the peace & love brigade. I didn’t listen to any music as I drove up the 5 Freeway. The San Joaquin Valley was pregnant with dark rain clouds until finally the sun broke through and the Santa Clara sky emerged a magnificent powder blue. Curious about whether Rock Medicine had survived Skip’s death in 2002, the first thing I did at Levi’s Stadium was track down a woman wearing a medical badge. She took me behind Section 124 into an office packed with medical personnel dressed in blue tie-dyed tees, where she introduced me to Penny Miller, RN. When I asked Penny what had become of Rock Medicine, she laughed. “Skip was my husband. I could not let Skip’s good work be lost,” she said. “That Rock Medicine provides on-the-spot (Continued on page 32)

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bad records and challenged them to respond to their real records. They have great images, but there’s a gap between their images and their records,” he continued. YouTube Global Head of Content Malik Ducard, who also attended the forum, said that minority underrepresentation underscores how tech companies must work to break down their current homogeneity in the workplace. He thinks the concentration of high-tech companies in Playa Vista (including his own) could pave the way for more minority hiring all around. (Continued on page 10)

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By Gary Walker Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson was at Google’s headquarters in Venice last week to call for greater diversity in the Westside’s booming digital technology sector. The Rev. Jackson and his Rainbow PUSH Coalition (a merger of the Rainbow Coalition and People United to Serve Humanity) teamed up with Google to hold the PUSH Tech 2020 Los Angeles Forum, an event designed both to pressure tech firms to increase workforce diversity and to prepare blacks and Latinos for tech jobs. Jackson launched a campaign against racial inequity in the tech sector after addressing Google’s annual shareholder meeting last year. In an interview prior to the June 29 event, he used industry vernacular to point out that while many minority groups tend to be heavy users of social media, blacks and Latinos are sharply underrepresented in computer science and engineering jobs. “In almost all of these companies we are ‘over-indexing’ as consumers and participants and ‘under-indexing’ in the boardroom as well as in employment, as executives and in investment startups,” Jackson said. “We have every right to be a part of these companies. As the public sector closes down on us, we have to look more in the private sector, and we have the mental and financial capacity to do so. There’s no reason to lock us out.”

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“The low numbers show that there is an opportunity to do a lot better in the marketplace. We’re planning on doing more to create opportunities in Los Angeles, and we admire that the work that Rainbow PUSH has been doing to help us,” Ducard said. The PUSH Tech 2020 event also included panel discussions on how minorities can become digital tech entrepreneurs. “Multicultural consumers, including African-Americans, are avid users of social media and technology, and we need to turn our usage into creating the next great video game, the next Facebook or Google,” said Sheila Marmon, CEO of the Culver City-based advertising agency Mirror Digital. “People hire people they know, so it’s important for us to facilitate and create bridges between ourselves and these large technology companies.” Jackson said there is a wellspring of talent at traditionally black colleges such as Howard and Southern universities, but accused high-tech hiring managers of failing to seek them out.

In addition to remarks by Jackson, the PUSH Tech 2020 event featured a panel discussion that included (from left) Black Tree TV executive producer Jamaal Finkley, Impact Media & Entertainment Coalition executive director Kelly Redmond, Mirror Digital CEO Sheila Marmon and tech strategist Navarrow Wright “There are so many qualified African-Americans and Latinos. The narrative is that they can’t find us, but we can be found. They can’t find black engineers? They’ve not been recruiting, training or maintaining them, and we’re changing that,” he said.

Google has committed $150 million to a four-part inclusionary hiring strategy that includes outreach to historically black colleges and developing coding initiatives with high schools in diverse neighborhoods, Google spokeswoman Roya Soleimani said.

“That money is divided into two big categories: the funds we’re using to support external partners in the communities, and the funds we’re using to make Google more diverse and inclusive. We know that money alone won’t make us more diverse — these dollars support

a broader and holistic long-term strategy,” Soleimani said. Otis College of Art and Design in Westchester invites companies to its annual spring Intern Recruitment Day, said Donna Lee Oda, the college’s director of the center of creative professions. “We’re very well placed here, being so close to Playa Vista,” Oda said. LAUSD has two initiatives that are designed to help students learn coding — the backbone of computer programming and gateway to the high-tech workforce — and one of them is at Beethoven Elementary School in Mar Vista. Marmon said the Beethoven program is a good place for children of all ethnic backgrounds to learn skills that could open a wide variety of employment opportunities. “I think in 10 or 15 years we’re going to look back and say ‘How did we not know how to code?’ Coding is the way that you create in this technology -driven space, and not being able to code is like not being able to write,” Marmon said.

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‘More than just a Hotel’ Dan Abrams’ Abbot Kinney Hotel proposal gets a redesign and a new name Image by Wynkoop Properties courtesy of Dan Abrams

By Gary Walker The Abbot Kinney Hotel proposal is back — this time with a different name and design changes intended to help it blend more evenly with the trendy streetscape around it. Film producer Dan Abrams still hopes to build a three-story, 84-room boutique hotel interwoven among existing buildings on a block-long stretch of Abbot Kinney Boulevard that’s bounded by Westminster Avenue, Electric Avenue and Broadway. But now Abrams plans to break new construction down into several detached buildings instead of a single structure, creating several pedestrian walkways throughout the project. Abrams has also rechristened his proposal as the Venice Place Project to better elaborate its intended mix of hospitality, creative office space, retail and restaurant components among amenities such as a rooftop garden and a bicyclesharing center. The project is centered around a 4,000-square-foot communal “Outdoor Living Room” shared by the hotel’s lobby, a new restaurant/bar, an office suite and the existing Primitivo restaurant. “In reality, it’s more than just a hotel,” Abrams said. “Certainly the most significant [component] of the development that is coming to Abbot Kinney is the hotel, but from a lot of what we’d heard, we felt that a lot of people thought that the entire project was a hotel. But it was always intended to be a mixed-use project.” Abrams worked with prominent Venice architect David Hertz and Culver Citybased contextual builders REthink Development to design five detached buildings on nine lots and connect them through a series of walkways, a move Abrams described as the most significant alteration to the prior design. “We felt like this helped address some people’s concerns about the massing of the project. By separating buildings, we found that it actually fits in better with the neighborhood and sort of echoes some of the walk-street experiences that you have around Venice,” said Abrams, a Venice resident who has maintained an office above Primitivo for more than a decade. Through building separations and greater sidewalk set-backs, the project has lost about 3,420 square feet of mass, said REthink principal architect Greg Reitz. “What we have now is a collection of multiple buildings that have an identity on the street. You’re going to have a different feeling when you pass one side of the project than when you pass another. They’re separate and distinct,” Reitz said. In the new design, the buildings are set back further from the street in order to create a wider sidewalk in some areas. Reitz said set-backs along Electric Avenue will increase two additional feet in order to plant trees along a new sidewalk area.

An architect’s rendering of the 4,000-square-foot “Outdoor Living Room” at the center of the Venice Place Project Abrams called the central courtyard the heart of the project. “It’s meant to be a great place to hang out,” he said. Abrams recently hosted an open house to show his new designs to a small group of invited community members. Ira Koslow, a longtime Venice resident who serves on the Venice Neighborhood Council, attended the gathering and said he found the new design interesting. “I actually like the new iteration and the amenities that he’s planning for the hotel. The previous [design plan] just looked

Abbot Kinney Merchants Association cochairman Don Novack — a co-owner of Hal’s Bar and Grill, which operated on Abbot Kinney for 30 years before announcing its pending relocation to Playa Vista — agreed that traffic on Electric could be problematic but cited several mitigating factors. “When people come to a hotel, they take taxis. They don’t drive. And for those who drive, they have [access to] an underground parking garage,” Novack said. Novack also believes that a new hotel in Venice would attract tourists who would

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like a mass structure on Abbot Kinney, and now as you’d walk down Abbot Kinney each [building] is different,” Koslow said. Nevertheless, Koslow remains opposed to the project because he thinks it will bring more traffic congestion to nearby streets. “The big problem is going to be that they are completely going to destroy traffic [flow] on Electric Avenue. He’s either going to have to [petition] to make it a one way street or remove the parking that’s there now,” said Koslow, who lives nearby on Park Avenue.

otherwise book rooms in Santa Monica or Marina del Rey. A survey released in spring by the Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board stated that Venice has only about 466 hotel rooms and that hotel visitor spending per day in Venice is about half of what it is in many other parts of the city. “Adding another hotel to Venice would serve to further stimulate local business and keep tourist dollars in our community,” Venice Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Donna Lasman said. Venice resident Judith Goldman, an

ardent opponent of the area’s booming short-term vacation rental industry, disagrees. Goldman doesn’t think the hotel will do much to dissuade vacation rentals either, saying vacation rentals undercut hotel prices to pull tourists away from commercial zones and into residential areas. “That’s why thousands and thousands of them have proliferated in Venice, Santa Monica and other coastal areas where many hotels exist. The hotel will not alleviate short-term rental problems in residential neighborhoods and will potentially have negative impacts on the adjacent residential neighbors,” Goldman said. Lasman said the chamber believes a new hotel will stimulate the local economy but doesn’t think a boutique hotel will have much of an impact on the short-term rental market. “These businesses are already overbooked for the summer months,” Lasman said. “I don’t see Venice as anywhere close to reaching a saturation point.” The latest design for the Venice Place Project was submitted to city planners in April and awaits a hearing before a zoning administrator, Reitz said. Abrams said he realizes that not everyone will be happy with the new design and that traffic-related issues may still present a challenge. But he’s also optimistic that the project’s new configuration will be well-received. “We have done our best to answer as many of those concerns that we can and figure out ways to improve the project, and we feel like we’ve done that with this last round of changes,” Abrams said. gary@argonautnews.com JuLy 9, 2015 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 11

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Talent Manager New Santa Monica chief executive Rick Cole says organizational culture is the key to success He’s been mayor of Pasadena, the top city executive of Ventura and Azusa, and, most recently, L.A.’s deputy mayor for budget and innovation, where he oversaw a municipal operating budget of $8.6 billion. This month, Rick Cole took on a new role as city manager of Santa Monica, replacing Rod Gould, who retired last winter after about five years on the job. A self-described “Zen Catholic,” Cole is often described in public administration circles as a big ideas guy — a city hall guru who seeks out new ways of solving long-term problems. In Pasadena, he broke a years-long deadlock between pro- and anti-growth contingents to reach consensus on a new city general plan that focused on pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use public spaces — a document that set the tone for the rebirth of Old Pasadena as a destination retail district. He later crafted Azusa’s first general plan before bringing his New Urbanist philosophy to Ventura City Hall. But Cole, 61, is emphatic that his sights are set firmly on the execution of ideas. “The thing I work hard on is trying to bring them to life,” he said. “That’s a hard, messy, challenging effort that requires teamwork, community dialogue and admitting when you’re wrong and putting it right. I like to be ahead of the curve and achieve a result that other people can point to and say ‘They made it work.’” Cole will earn an annual salary of $329,000 as Santa Monica’s city manager and expects to move to Santa Monica from Rick Cole says he will spend his first month at Santa Monica City Hall working out his goals for the next several years Los Angeles after his twin daughters graduate from high school next year. — Joe Piasecki listening to and leading the people of an getting acquainted with both the organizaorganization. tion and the community, and then I want You’re known as a big ideas guy, but to sit down with the City Council and talk how do you approach city management Is there anything you want to hit the with them about what our strategic ground running on? on a daily basis? priorities ought to be. There are always I’ve actually made a conscious choice As you learn, you evolve. The goal is going to be controversial issues and always to be better. But I think the essence not to hit the ground running for two management challenges day-to-day, but I that characterizes me as distinct from most reasons. First, [Assistant City Manager] am going to have only one chance to take Elaine Polachek has the confidence of the a deep breath and think about what the city management leaders is that I focus City Council and my confidence to most of my attention on people. I believe three- to five-year priorities for the city that talented people are the most valuable resource in an organization, and motivating them and inspiring them to do their best work is the most important managerial role for the chief executive officer. Money is important and organizational structure is important, but I think that organizational culture is ultimately the key. Look at two federal agencies that were — Rick Cole born in the same year — the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Post Office. Both were once the best in the world; one clearly no continue to keep the administrative manager ought to be, and I want to do that longer is. One kept up with the times and functions moving forward. And second, I in consultation with the City Council. one did not. Both draw their talent not don’t want to take anything for granted in from America’s best schools but from a Santa Monica. I think I need to spend the You’re coming into a political climate cross section of working people. Nobody first month thoroughly understanding the where a large number of residents are joins the Marine Corps because of the landscape. While Santa Monica may be a allergic to growth at the same time that pension plan. But the Marine Corps small city, it is a complicated city full of tech is booming. invests in the raw material to make passionate people, real world challenges In this economic recovery the whole Marines, and I think that the most impor- and extraordinary opportunities. region is grappling with these issues, but tant part of my day is the time I spend I’m going to spend the first month nowhere is it more front-and-center than

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in Santa Monica. I think one of the reasons why the City Council selected me is I actually relish robust public debate as long as it’s conducted civilly and constructively. I think that a healthy democracy is going to have vigorous debate in order to shake out the best answers to both our challenges and opportunities. The council has set a direction both through the LUCE [Land Use and Circulation Element] and the zoning code update, and the issues will continue to be front and center. I want to work hard to find common ground that understands the value of economic prosperity but recognizes that it is rooted in community liveability. Do you regret that you didn’t get a hand in shaping the LUCE and the zoning code? I think the table is set now to implement the vision, and as the great architect Walter Gropius observed, “God is in the details.” It’s one thing to articulate a broad vision; it’s another thing to successfully bring it about. One of the things I think will be key to success is how we treat the public realm. So much focus is on the shape and size of private development, and that’s appropriate — but not if it neglects the shape and size and most of all the quality of the public realm, because that’s really what we share and experience together. Santa Monica was a pioneer with Third Street Promenade at revitalizing the urban public realm in Southern California, but I think we have a long way to go in ensuring every street in Santa Monica doesn’t look like Third Street but has the same qualities of being an attractive place that people cherish. What are your thoughts on the Civic? I think it’s an extraordinary asset, but of course we haven’t figured out how to replace the funding for its seismic upgrade. I think that calls for some very creative thinking. Sometimes money solves problems, but more often creative and entrepreneurial thinking solves problems. We’re going to have to rely on the latter. How do you approach a city manager role differently than being deputy mayor? For me the most important difference is that it’s literally impossible to have a meaningful relationship with 44,000 employees, and I think I manage best when there’s a personal dimension. It’s one thing to work on a budget of $8.6 billion. There’s no question it’s important, consequential, but it is much more abstract because I don’t have the opportunity to connect with front-line police officers, librarians and recreation workers. In Santa Monica I’ll have that opportunity, and I’m committed to a management approach that is directly connected to the front lines, because that’s what matters most to our citizens.

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Judith Lewis Mernit revels in the astonishing existence of the Ballona Wetlands in Playa del Rey Story by Joe Donnelly Photos by Hank Cherry In the southwestern corner of the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve, adjacent to Playa del Rey’s Titmouse Park, there is an almost perfectly oval, sandy interruption to the Darwinian scrum of salt grass, ice plant, marsh and slough surrounding it. From the window seat of a jet pulling out of nearby LAX, this manicured patch probably looks like a crop circle in a wilderness. Down here, though, it’s merely the riding ring once used by a teenaged Elizabeth Taylor to train for “National Velvet,” a 1944 talkie about a girl and her bad-boy horse. I’m standing in this ring and looking east in an attempt to see through the eyes of Judith Lewis Mernit. The view is stunning: the Los Angeles basin from Baldy to Bel Air unfolds in all its enigmatic glory. On the perimeter, the Santa Monica, Verdugo and San Gabriel mountains lineup according to both proximity and height. “Just the fact that this exists is so astonishing,” says Lewis Mernit. She’s talking about the state-owned and protected land upon which we’ve mildly trespassed to access this vista. She could, however, be speaking about any number of astonishments that she has chronicled during her tenure as Los Angeles’ best PAGE 14 THE ARGONAUT JuLy 9, 2015

environmental journalist. Things like the rich network of streams and creeks flowing under our cemented city; the aquifers being replenished by progressive planning in unlikely places such as Sun Valley; the mountain lion that lives in Griffith Park. “To have 600 acres — on the coast! — that haven’t been built on. Oh, my god,

species, tearing up levees and culverts, setting parts of the stream free to meander. This plan has its fans. Others are concerned about the damage such a heavy lift would do to the species that have evolved along with the habitat over the 100-plus years since the wetlands was in anything approximating its natural state. How, they wonder, do we decide

It’s fairly safe to say the environment is the principal narrative of our time: How we manage the challenges that come with climate change, post-industrial economic development and over-stressed resources underlies almost any other discussion we’re having. what do you do with that?” That question has been the subject of intense debate among the many parties interested in the future of the wetlands. By the end of the year, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Coastal Conservancy are expected to release a long-delayed environmental impact report on plans to return the reserve to something like it’s natural state. Doing so would require pretty major surgery — removing “invasive” flora and replanting native

what is natural, or best, which are not necessarily the same thing, and by what measures? With characteristically graceful prose, Lewis Mernit navigates these questions and introduces us to the people working obsessively to shape the future of the reserve in a recent story for High Country News, “The Los Angeles Wetlands Wars.” The piece is essential reading for anyone interested in how the dramas of conservation play out not only here but in increas-

ingly urbanized environments everywhere. “One of the things I wanted to do with this Ballona Wetlands story was to show how everybody who’s talking about this really cares about what happens here,” says Lewis Mernit. “It’s life or death. The reason the battles erupt is because it means so much to have this in Los Angeles.” It’s fairly safe to say the environment is the principal narrative of our time: How we manage the challenges that come with climate change, post-industrial economic development and over-stressed resources underlies almost any other discussion we’re having. But being an environmental journalist in Los Angeles is still kind of anomalous. Here, we tend to think of the environment as something that exists somewhere outside of the city — maybe up in those mountains, or out past those breakers. When you stand in a place like the Ballona Wetlands, though, and breathe in the salt marsh and the rare tease of a June downpour and catch glimpses of the many birds, big-winged and small, you begin to grasp the primal geography of this basin and you start to see the city as a more primal place. Kind of like how Lewis Mernit sees it. “I’m really into urban restoration

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This sandy patch of ground near Titmouse Park was once the riding ring Elizabeth Taylor used to train for 1944’s “National Velvet” because I see how disconnected people in cities are from nature. …I think this is changing a lot,” she says, and her stories for High Country News, Sierra, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Weekly, Mother Jones and more have done as much as anything to integrate me with the city. “We’re so disconnected, but at the same time we have so many resources to get connected.” As we talk, the Hollywood sign is discernible in the distance on its perch atop Mt. Lee, a gateway to one of those resources — Griffith Park. “Griffith Park is a miracle,” says Lewis Mernit. Sure is, and one wonders how many of the hopefuls banging out scripts in the Franklin Avenue coffee shops below the Hollywood sign are aware that mountain lion P22 has claimed the hills about them as his home. Lewis Mernit was among the first to write about the significance of P22’s incursion. “That an apex predator can persist in an urban wildland that way, it kind of gives us hope in a time when we have no hope,” she says. “People disconnect because… The climate is changing and I can’t do anything about it! But here, there’s this puma living in Griffith Park and it means we can bring things back.” Currently in Los Angeles there are ambitious (and expensive) plans in the works to restore sections of the Los Angeles River into something that, while not quite wild, would enable us to experience the city for what it really is: a vast, ancient watershed. The Rim of the Valley project proposes to link the Santa Monica Mountains with the Santa Susannas, Verdugos and, ultimately, to Griffith Park and the Los Angeles River, eventually turning the entire corridor into an extension of the federally protected Santa Monica National Recreation Area. P22 traversed a good bit of these urban wilds to get to his current home. Could it be, I wonder, that after so many decades of trying to keep the environment as far away as possible, Los Angeles is on the verge of rethinking its relationship to nature?

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ENJOY HEALTHY TEETH & GUMS FOR LIFE! Mernit and the author share a laugh on Culver Boulevard before exploring the edge of the wetlands “Oh, god, yes. I really think so. I think it’s amazing and precedent-setting that the Army Corps of Engineers has a billion dollars now to take out 11 miles of concrete from the L.A. River,” says Lewis Mernit. “We don’t tell environmental and conservation success stories enough.” I’ve known Lewis Mernit for many years and have long appreciated her easy laugh and fearless curiosity. She’s been an actor, aerialist, open-water kayaker, blues singer, competitive dog trainer and, once while researching a story, an exotic dancer. If it wasn’t the environment, it would be something else, but I’m glad the biggest story is the one that’s got her attention. “I think when you’re a journalist, you’re always looking at bad news, bad news, bad news, because that’s what everybody’s projecting,” says Lewis Mernit. “What’s turned me on about environmental journalism is people like [conservationist] Jessica Hall, who I did that “Lost Streams of Los Angeles” story about, who have picked this corner of something that’s so important to them and they’ve devoted themselves to it so passionately and wholeheartedly.”

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Where are you currently on the menopause roller coaster? I’m through it. I’m 53. It was most traumatic at the second half of my 40s. As soon as I hit 50, everything started calming down. You kind of hit that smooth cruising altitude. It’s really quite fantastic. What is going on in your body while you’re going through those changes? What’s interesting is that in menopause, a woman’s hormone levels return to what they were when she was a preteen girl. So

“I was noticing the health advice to menopausal women: Do yoga, drink eight glasses of water, take walks, eat kale. They’re always talking us down, when sometimes what you need is a big disruption. Maybe not like having an extramarital affair — but maybe.” — Sandra Tsing Loh you’re given your old hormonal package back. Menopausal women have a little more free testosterone — woohoo! That also provokes this big idea that menopause was thought to be ‘The Change’: You’re a lovely, useful person, and then you were changed into a monster, and now you’re a dried-out husk and you’re no longer useful and we can all throw you away! In 1900 the average lifespan of a U.S. citizen was 48 years. Now, women live into their 80s, 90s and beyond. Since we’re only fertile that middle third of our lives, we’re not in the egg-making business. That doesn’t define us. How do you want your show to change the conversation about menopause? It’s a good time to change that conversation now, just because the statistics are so huge. One in two American women is menopausal or beyond. Over 50% of American females are 45 or older. When you get a bunch of women in the room, you admit how hard it can be just to get through the day. Women do that really well as a tribe. They can bond, they can lift each other up, and it’s a really fantastic experience. I always thought that I a little bit missed the fun and fire of women’s liberation or feminism. But in doing this particular show, I started to feel some of that spirit.

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High School and Caltech, said she had intended for the word to be censored and that her sound engineer had simply forgotten to do so. Loh was later picked up by crosstown public radio rival KPCC, where she continues to produce her programs. An experienced performance artist, author of numerous books and a mom, Loh is also a contributing editor for The Atlantic. In a 2009 Atlantic article she confessed to having an affair and wrote about deciding to end her 20-year marriage. In 2011 she wrote for the magazine about her journey through menopause. Loh’s new stage show “The B**** is Back: An All-Too Intimate Evening” (that’s the title; we didn’t censor it), opening tonight in Santa Monica, builds on her Atlantic article of the same name and her related 2014 memoir “Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones,” one of The New York Times’ Top 100 Notable Books last year. Loh performs her show at The Edye, the intimate 43’-by-43’ blackbox theater within The Broad Stage complex, which she’s had outfitted with cabaret-style tables and adult beverages. She spoke with The Argonaut about her show, rejecting kale and Eckhart Tolle, rediscovering the spirit of feminism and weathering the “heroic journey” of menopause. — Jenny Lower

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this moment on the freeway, where my mood really plunged and I had to pull off to the side of the road. Every time I tell The good thing about pausing and this, we’re laughing through the whole stepping back is you can ask, “Are we thing, which is not accurate to what it was. women crazy, or is the world around us kind of crazy?” Many women report at 50 But then when you pull apart what you were really upset about — “My United air going, “There’s a whole bunch of crap I don’t need to do anymore. I’m not going to miles might expire!” — sometimes we can get really upset over things that are trivial. be the PTA mom; I’m not going to make If I’d had some perspective that would those cupcakes.” There’s sometimes the notion that if the mother doesn’t cook from have helped, but I didn’t then. scratch a family dinner that everyone sits What was the worst advice you received down to eat at the same time, you’re during menopause? contributing to the breakup of the family There are many classes of bad advice. or Type 2 diabetes. Some days it’s just like, “Mom’s going to bed, you can all find There are some people who just do the St. food. There’s Kettle Chips. You’ll be fine.” John’s wort and the black cohosh tea. That just did not work. I think, unfortunately, What was the most surprising symptom men give pretty bad advice. They mean their very best, but they have no idea what you went through in menopause? it is to live inside our bodies. “Here’s an The most surprising thing was these out-of-whack moods that felt like nothing Eckhart Tolle CD. It’s because you have a I’d ever felt before. I felt like I was either monkey brain. You should sit down in a quiet room for an hour or two and medihaving a nervous breakdown or turning tate.” I already have a suffocating feeling into another human being. I would take a just thinking about that. yellow legal pad and do hash marks — 8 Famously, menopause doctors will all say, o’clock, 9 o’clock, like a number line — and I’d shade in the hours as they went “To even out your symptoms just cut out alcohol, sugar and caffeine.” That’s all that just to chart my progress through the gets some of us through the day. Now, I horror of the day. Not everybody goes through that. I did, and it could have been will put my head in the oven at cocktail hour. addressed much earlier with a low-level I was reading all these menopause books, antidepressant. and I was noticing the health advice to menopausal women: Do yoga, drink eight Did you have a sense of humor or glasses of water, take walks, eat kale. self-awareness about it at the time? They’re always talking us down, when Not until later. I’ve talked before about

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sometimes what you need is a big disruption. Maybe not like having an extramarital affair — but maybe. Maybe some really kinky, disgusting sex is what will eliminate your lower back pain. Do you see that as condescending, like women’s health concerns are not taken seriously? I think it is patronizing, because women are these creatures that experience a huge bandwidth of stuff. We have these big, epic lives of what we feel. What you go through with menopause and the changes, it’s like a vampire tale or a pirate tale. There’s big stuff that goes on. It’s like a heroic journey, and [the advice is] all just “eat some kale and put on a lavender mask and try to be very, very quiet.” I don’t know why that is. Maybe they’re afraid of when women act out, what they’re going to do. We kind of depend on women to stay in their place so everyone else’s lives can function. Oh yeah. When women start hurling the leg of lamb out the plate glass window, they’re finally coming into their own — and recognizing and coming back to themselves when they were younger, before this estrogen cloud came down and they started serving all these people. And it’s true that sometimes we take it on because we have the inclination to help out or multitask, or we do things better than other people. But women have a lot on their plates now. People can pitch in, or

lower their standards. Like laundry. Why do we fold socks? Really? There’s a lot of stuff we can skip. The show is billed for mature audiences, and some people may know your name from the kerfuffle with KCRW. Does that give you freedom to be a little more candid? The irony is that when I said that word, it was meant to be bleeped out. I was not trying to make a point about anything. But in a way, it’s fun to return to that sort of idea for this show, because when you’re 50 or older, you care less and less. The title originally came from the Atlantic Monthly piece. It was something they came up with, and it literally means, yeah — that Mother Teresa came to visit for 30 years, and now I’m bitchy and self-centered like everyone else on the planet, and I want my meals brought to me. Everyone’s natural inclination is to kind of do your own thing and not really tend to or nurture all these other people. That’s where you start, and that’s where you return, and it’s fine. “The B**** is Back: An All-Too Intimate Evening” opens at 8 p.m. Thursday and continues Thursdays through Sundays through Aug. 2 in The Edye at The Broad Stage, 1310 11th St., Santa Monica. Tickets are $30 to $65. Call (310) 4343200 or visit thebroadstage.com. Read more of the interview at argonautnews.com.

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Visitors can taste-test a variety of fermented beverages and foods during the festival, modeled after a similar event to the north (pictured) By Shanee Edwards L.A.’s Westside gets its fair share of unique events, and come Sunday we can add a celebration of fermented foods to that list. The inaugural Los Angeles Fermentation Festival, a combination farmers market and educational self-guided tour of the surprisingly diverse world of fermented foods, arrives in Venice as a spinoff of similar festivals in the Santa Barbara area. It’s an idea whose time has come to the right place, says co-founder Katie Hershfelt, who’s organized fermentation festivals to the north for the past four years. “Los Angeles, particularly Venice Beach and Santa Monica, is a hotbed of fermentation,” she says. “There are so many local businesses that are focusing on fermentation. A lot of our exhibitors, sponsors and speakers come from that area, so it made sense to pick Venice.” Local exhibitors include Whole Foods Venice, regenerative agriculture and community garden activists Kiss the Ground (co-founded by a co-owner of Café Gratitude), and Gjelina owner Fran Camaj’s bakeryrestaurant spinoff Gjusta. Gjusta beverage director Scotty Evans, in fact, will be giving a

talk about how the two restaurants grow shrubs to use as raw or cooked ingredients for seasonal cocktails. Fermented foods may be trending, but the history of fermentation runs deep. “Fermented foods are something our ancestors made for thousands of years. It’s not a

medicinal wild sauerkraut, in-season root vegetables, homemade ginger ale, kefir carrot cake, artisan fermented sausage, raw fermented coconut cream and probiotic hibiscus power shots. “With the rise of the industrial revolution, people started canning things and processing

“It’s essential that people understand the traditions we’ve lost touch with — organic farming, fermenting, putting our health first and realizing how our environment really affects that.”

— Fermentation Festival LA co-founder Katie Hershfelt new fad diet or hot trend; this is a traditional food. Every culture on the planet has its own traditionally fermented food,” says Hershfelt, citing kimchi in Korea, cured meats and cheeses in Europe, lassi and chutney in India and even fermented whale blubber in Alaska. The menu for Sunday’s festival includes sprouted almond pâté wild-yeast sourdough bread, raw chocolate, kombucha, cultured condiments, probiotic mousse,

food, but back in the day they used fermentation to keep that food preserved because they didn’t have refrigerators. They would do this process and store food for seasons to come,” Hershfelt says. While technology has eliminated our need for fermentation, Hershfelt believes people are only now starting to realize the benefits of fermentation we’ve lost.

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But don’t expect any docile sheep or cute puppies. Instead, children will get the chance to touch a SCOBY — a bacterial culture used for starting many fermented foods and beverages. If you saw a SCOBY and no one told you it was what it was, you’d think it was bad. But this slimy thing is actually a group of good bacteria getting together, and you can use that to make beneficial fermented drinks,” says event spokesman Wil Fernandez. “A lot of kids come into that area thinking they’re coming into a traditional petting zoo, but actually they’re touching all these little bacteria. It’s an interesting, eye-opening experience.” Well, at least you won’t have to worry about little fingers getting bitten.

Fermented foods help digestion and are said to boost the immune system from each vendor. Some of the sips include feral beer, traditional mead, cherry Cyser and farm to bar cocktails featuring kombucha, krout and kimchi mixers. Kids get in for free and may want to check out the festival’s “petting zoo.”

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This timeless and enduring home features tailored landscaping, upscale amenities and high quality workmanship. The custom kitchen, which opens to the family room, contains numerous special details including quartz counters and custom cabinets. Additional upgrades consist of hardwood floors, tankless water heater, recessed lights. Master with ensuite bathroom, 2 closets & sliding glass doors to backyard. There is a private enclosed yard, long driveway and 2-car garage. Close to LAX, Otis, Loyola, and Playa Vista. Square footage is approximately 1,480. Lot size is approx. 5259.

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“Entertaining is easy in this warm and welcoming home,” says agent Stephanie Younger. “Soaring vaulted ceilings and Brazilian Koa hardwood ﬂoors frame the great room and formal dining area. Playing host feels seamless in the open and updated kitchen with stainless steel appliances and expansive kitchen island with a cook top stove. Enjoy the California lifestyle, dining al fresco on the inviting covered patio with a relaxing hot tub.” Offered at $849,000

“This is an awesome Silver Strand home in a superb location steps from the beach and Ballona Lagoon,” say agents Peter and Ty Bergman. “There are three stories with a roof deck. Features include soaring ceilings in the living room with a fireplace and a raised dining room that flows into a good-sized kitchen. It also has a convenient ground floor family room and patio doors off the living room that lead to a south-facing patio that has a fire pit.” Offered at $7,900 per month. INFORMATION Peter & Ty Bergman, Bergman Beach Properties (310) 821-2900

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“Debra Berman and Pat Kandel pictured here with several of this year's recipients for the Ruth Wells Scholarship Fund,” says Jeremy Billauer. “The scholarship was established three years ago in memory of Pat's mother. The fund has raised more than $30,000 and has helped 24 kids from the Venice Boys and Girls Club with their college expenses. When asked about the whole experience, Pat and Deb say ‘it truly is a wonderful feeling when we get to see these children pursue their dreams of a college education.” INFORMATION Berman Kandel, RE/MAX Estate Properties (310) 424-5512

“This three bedroom and two bath condo is light and bright, and beautifully renovated with custom bamboo wood floors,” says agent Charles Lederman. "Owners will enjoy an open kitchen with custom cabinetry, Caesarstone counters, a wine cooler and stainless steel appliances. The large living space is perfect for entertaining with floor to ceiling windows. With magnificent tree top, city, mountain and city light views that can be enjoyed from the patio, this inviting and lovely home is turn key and exudes warmth.” Offered at $629,000 INFORMATION Charles Lederman, Marina City Reality, (310) 821-8980

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“This house is recently updated with no detail left untouched and the owner lovingly created a timeless and enduring atmosphere,” says agent Nanci Edwards. “Featuring a living room with ﬁreplace, a custom kitchen that opens to family room. Also includes under cabinet lighting, quartz counters and more. Master bedroom features an en-suite bathroom and the hall bath is complete with a soaking tub and shower, wainscoting, Carrara marble countertop and a whimsical chandelier.” Offered at $1,295,000 INFORMATION Nanci Edwards, The Real Estate Consultants (310) 645-7785

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THE ARGONAUT OPEN HOUSES OPEN ADDRESS CULVER CITY Sun 2-5 11131 Greenlawn Ave. Sun 2-5 6050 Canterbury Dr. E119 Sun 2-5 6050 Canterbury Dr. #E-213 EL SEGUNDO Sun 2-4 317 E. Mariposa Ave. Sun 2-4 754 Hillcrest Sun 2-4 1515 Maple Ave. Sat 2-4 315 Center St. LOS ANGELES Sun 2-5 1748 Stoner #4 Sun 2-5 11938 Courtleigh Dr. Sun 1:30-4:30 5000 S. Centinela #239 MARINA DEL REY Sun 2-5 13082 Mindanao #38 PLAYA DEL REY Sun 2-5 208 Sunridge Sun 2-5 217 Montreal St. Sa/Su 1-3 8505 Gulana Ave. #4116 SANTA MONICA Sun 2-5 130 Marguerita Ave. #1 VENICE Sun 2-5 220 Carroll Canal WESTCHESTER Sun 2-5 8815 Airlane Sun 2-5 7521 W. 91st St. Sun 2-5 8425 Ramsgate Ave. Sun 2-5 5364 Westlawn Ave. Sun 2-5 8324 Belford Ave. Sun 2-5 7428 W. 89th St. Sun 2-5 7805 Denrock Ave. Sat 1:30-4 5858 Abernathy Dr. Sun 2-5 6116 W. 85th Pl. Sun 2-4 6666 W. 87th St.

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Open House Directory listings are published inside The Argonaut’s At Home section and on The Argonaut’s Web site each Thursday. The $10 fee may be paid by personal check, cash, or Visa/Mastercard at the time of submission. Sorry, no phone calls! Open House directory forms may be faxed, mailed or dropped off. To be published, Open House directory form must becompletely and correctly filled out and received no later than 12 Noon Tuesday for Thursday publication. Changes or corrections must also be received by 12 Noon Tuesday. Regretfully, due to the volume of Open House Directory forms received each week. The Argonaut cannot publish or respond to Open House directory forms incorrectly or incompletely filled out. The Argonaut reserves the right to reject, edit, and/or cancel any advertisng at any time. Only publication of an Open aHouse Directory listing consitutes final acceptance of an advertiser’s order.

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The ArgonAuT REAl EstAtE Q&A

How Does One Assess the Real Cost of a Fixer-Upper? When you buy a fixer-upper house, you can save a ton of money, or get yourself in a financial fix. Trying to decide whether to buy a fixer-upper house? Follow these seven steps, and you’ll know how much you can afford, how much to offer, and whether a fixer-upper house is right for you. Decide what you can do yourself. TV remodeling shows make home improvement work look like a snap. In the real world, attempting a difficult remodeling job that you don’t know how to do will take longer than you think and can lead to less-than-professional results that won’t increase the value of your fixer-upper house. Do you really have the skills to do it? Some tasks, like stripping wallpaper and painting, are relatively easy. Others, like electrical work, can be dangerous when done by amateurs. Do you really have the time and desire to do it? Can you take time off work to renovate your fixer-upper house? If not, will you be stressed out by living in a work zone for months while you complete projects on the weekends? Price the cost of repairs and remodeling before you make an offer. Get your contractor into the house to do a walkthrough, so he can give you a written cost estimate on the tasks he’s going to do. If you’re doing the work yourself, price the supplies. Either way, tack on 10% to 20% to cover unforeseen problems that often arise with a fixer-upper house. Check permit costs. Ask local officials if the work you’re going to do requires a permit and how much that permit costs. Doing work without a permit may save money, but it’ll cause problems when you resell your home. Decide if you want to get the permits yourself or have the contractor arrange for them. Getting permits can be time-consuming and frustrating. Inspectors may force you to do additional work, or change the way you want to do a project, before they give you the permit. Factor the time and aggravation of permits into your plans. Double-check pricing on structural work. If your fixer-upper home needs major structural work, hire a structural engineer for $500 to $700 to inspect the home before you put in an offer so you can be confident you’ve uncovered and conservatively budgeted for the full extent of the problems. Get written estimates for repairs before you commit to buying a home with structural issues. Don’t purchase a home that needs major structural work unless you’re getting it at a steep discount, you’re sure you’ve uncovered the extent of the problem, you know the problem can be fixed, and you have a binding written estimate for the repairs Check the cost of financing. Be sure you have enough money for a down payment, closing costs, and repairs without draining your savings. If you’re planning to fund the repairs with a home equity or home improvement loan, get yourself pre-approved for both loans before you make an offer. Make the deal contingent on getting both the purchase money loan and the renovation money loan, so you’re not forced to close the sale when you have no loan to fix the house. Consider the Federal Housing Administration’s Section 203(k) program, which is designed to help home owners who are purchasing or refinancing a home that needs rehabilitation. The program wraps the purchase/refinance and rehabilitation

costs into a single mortgage. To qualify for the loan, the total value of the property must fall within the FHA mortgage limit for your area, as with other FHA loans. A streamlined 203(k) program provides an additional amount for rehabilitation, up to $35,000, on top of an existing mortgage. It’s a simpler process than obtaining the standard 203(k). Calculate your fair purchase offer. Take the fair market value of the property (what it would be worth if it were in good condition and remodeled to current tastes) and subtract the upgrade and repair costs. For example: Your target fixer-upper house has a 1960s kitchen, metallic wallpaper, shag carpet, and high levels of radon in the basement. Your comparison house, in the same subdivision, sold last month for $200,000. That house had a newer kitchen, no wallpaper, was recently recarpeted, and has a radon mitigation system in its basement. The cost to remodel the kitchen, remove the wallpaper, carpet the house, and put in a radon mitigation system is $40,000. Your bid for the house should be $160,000. Ask your real estate agent if it’s a good idea to share your cost estimates with the sellers, to prove your offer is fair. Include inspection contingencies in your offer. Don’t rely on your friends or your contractor to eyeball your fixer-upper house. Hire pros to do common inspections like home inspection. This is key in a fixer-upper assessment. The home inspector will uncover hidden issues in need of replacement or repair. You may know you want to replace those 1970s kitchen cabinets, but the home inspector has a meter that will detect the water leak behind them. Hire people to check for radon, mold, lead-based paint, pests, and to check the sewer and the well. Most home inspection contingencies let you go back to the sellers and ask them to do the repairs, or give you cash at closing to pay for the repairs. The seller can also opt to simply back out of the deal, as can you, if the inspection turns up something you don’t want to deal with. If that happens, this isn’t the right fixer-upper house for you. Go back to the top of this list and start again. This week’s quesTion is answered by

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Thursday, July 9 Burton Chace Park Walking Club, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Free weekly walks around Marina del Rey harbor. Burton Chace Park, 13650 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 305-9595 Marina del Rey WaterBus, 11 a.m. to midnight. (Thursdays through Sundays through Sept. 1.) Hop on for a water’s-eye view of the marina with shopping and dining opportunities at eight of the WaterBus’s stops. $1 each way, cash only. marinawaterbus.com Rentals at UCLA Marina Aquatic Center, 2 to 6 p.m. (Also 2 to 6 p.m. Fridays) Each Thursday and Friday during summer the MAC rents sailing, rowing, kayaking, windsurfing and stand-up paddling equipment. Prices are free to $630. 14001 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 823-0048; marinaaquaticcenter.org Beach Eats Food Truck Event, 5 to 9 p.m. Mother’s Beach hosts a variety of gourmet food trucks each Thursday through Oct. 1 in a dog-friendly setting. Mother’s Beach, 4101 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 305-9545; beaches.lacounty.gov

PaintNite at El Torito, 7 p.m. Enjoy drinks and food while artist Hannah Smith guides you through a painting step-by-step. No experience needed. $45, with smock, canvas, paint and brushes provided. Food/ drinks not included. First come, first served. El Torito, 3360 Ocean Park, Santa Monica. paintnite.com Calè and Conganas, 7 to 9 p.m. Free outdoor concert, with Calè mixing Latin and flamenco rhythms with rock guitar and Conganas shuffling salsa, cumbia and Latin jazz. Courtyard at Culver City Hall, 9770 Culver Blvd. culvercity.org Morris Day and the Time with Dam-Funk, 7 to 10 p.m. It’s opening night for KCRW’s Twilight Concert Series of free outdoor music at the Santa Monica Pier. tcs. santamonicapier.org “The Fisher King” / “The World According to Garp,” 7:30 p.m. The American Cinematheque pays tribute to the late actor Robin Williams with a double feature of two of his most acclaimed films: the former a 1991 offbeat comedy by Monty Python alum Terry Gilliam and co-starring Jeff Bridges and Mercedes Ruehl; the latter George Roy Hill’s 1982 dramedy co-starring Glenn Close and John Lithgow. Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica. $11 to

$13. (310) 260-1528; aerotheatre.com “The Triplets of Belleville,” 7:30 p.m. Belgian filmmaker Sylvain Chromet’s debut, an animated feature from 2003, centers on the quest of elderly Madame Souza to rescue her Tour de France cyclist grandson Champion, who has been kidnapped by thugs to the city of Belleville. Laemmle Royal, 11523 Santa Monica Blvd., West L.A. $14. eatseehear.com “The Homecoming,” 8 p.m. (Also at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through July.) This staging of the Harold Pinter play explores an uncomfortable gathering in England of a Brit, his American wife and his male relatives. $25 to $34. Pacific Resident Theatre, 703 Venice Blvd., Venice. (310) 822-8392; pacificresidenttheatre.com Vidiots’ Stand-Up Comedy Competition, 8 p.m. Mike Player hosts Vidiots’ monthly Comedy Smash, but this time it’s bigger: the first-ever Vidiots standup comedy competition. $10 suggested donation. All proceeds support the Vidiots Foundation. To perform a five-minute set, email comedysmash@yahoo.com. Vidiots, 302 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 392-8508; vidiotsfoundation.org

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Les Dolls Cabaret, 10 p.m. Burlesque show at Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $10 to $35. (310) 395-1676; santamonica. harvelles.com

Rachel Hernandez. No registration required. Pico Branch Library, 2201 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 458-8684; smpl.org Sunset Swim, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Adults 18+ come out to the heated pool for music, games and S’mores. This month’s theme is Summer Camp. $10. Annenberg Community Beach House, 415 Pacific Coast Hwy., Santa Monica. (310) 4584904; annenbergbeachhouse.com

Friday, July 10 Marina del Rey Historic Harbor Tours, 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. (Also 10 a.m., 11.a.m, noon and 1 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Sept. 2.) In honor of Marina de Rey’s 50th anniversary, the L.A. County Dept. of Beaches and Harbors is providing 45-minute informative tours for just $1. Board at Hornblower Cruises and Events, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. visitmarinadelrey.com

“20 Questions,” 7 p.m. Quizmaster John Rosenthal emcees the trivial pursuit game every Friday night at TRiP, 2102 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. No cover. (310) 396-9010; tripsantamonica.com Hornblower Dinner Cruises, 7:30 to 10 p.m. Enjoy a four-course dinner with dancing and a harbor view. Board at 7 p.m. at Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. hornblower.com

Del Rey Farmers Market, noon to 7 p.m. Food and produce vendors gather weekly, with free musical performances on the first Friday of each month. Glen Alla Park, 4601 Alla Road, Del Rey. delreync.org

Mariachi and Folkloric Dancing, 7:30, 9:30 and 10:45 p.m. Dinner with traditional Mexican entertainment at Casa Sanchez, 4500 S. Centinela Ave., Del Rey. (310) 397-4444; casa-sanchez.com

“Quilts From The Heart,” 1 p.m. Beginners and pros are invited to a quilt-sewing session at the Mar Vista Branch Library, 12006 Venice Blvd. Mar Vista. (310) 390-3454; lapl.org

“Dirty Dancing,” 8 to 10 p.m. Gourmet food trucks and a free

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The New Face of Funk On a quest to change attitudes about the genre, Dam-Funk opens for Morris Day and The Time to kick off the Twilight Concert Series at Santa Monica Pier Photo by Matthew Scott

By Billy Singleton Somewhere along the line, funk became a punchline. That’s how prolific modern funk artist Dam-Funk sees it, and he’s on a mission to change the face of the genre and negative or dismissive attitudes surrounding it. “I just want it to be respected and not looked at as some Jheri curl or Rick James joke,” he said. “What I came to do, humbly speaking, is to change the image of funk.” Tonight may offer one of his biggest opportunities to date. Dam-Funk opens for legendary pop-funk artists Morris Day and The Time to kick off this year’s Twilight Concert Series at Santa Monica Pier. If last year’s free pier concerts are any indication, thousands will attend. After years in the musical trenches, it’s also another sign that Dam-Funk’s message is being heard. He recently collaborated with rapper Snoop Dogg as the sole producer of “7 Days of Funk,” a genre-defying record that combines Dam-Funk’s instrumental synth-funk with Snoop’s laid-back flow. Born Damon Riddick in Culver City, Dam-Funk grew up in Pasadena in the 1970s and ‘80s — a time and place where funk was in the air. “Everybody in my neighborhood was very into The Time. It was a great time.” he said, listing Prince, Leon Sylvers and Slave as early influences as well (former Slave frontman Steve Arrington appears on “7 Days of Funk”). Riddick played drums in high school before switching to keyboards and recording his music on a Radioshack cassette deck. He took up an apprenticeship under Leon Sylvers III, leader of the Sylvers and the producer behind hits by performers such as Gladys Knight, Shalamar and the Whispers. Emerging from those experiences as the

Culver City native Dam-Funk has recorded with Snoop Dogg, Bootsy Collins and Ariel Pink artist Dam-Funk, he initially struggled to find commercial success with his silkysmooth, drum-machine-laden sound. But Dam-Funk’s luck changed in 2008 upon signing with prominent L.A. hip-hop label Stones Throw Records. That same year, Riddick founded the bi-weekly Funkmosphere parties in Culver City and Silver Lake, which featured a rotating cast of deejays spinning rare ‘80s

electro-funk and brought these forgotten sounds to the forefront of L.A.’s underground musical consciousness. Dam-Funk began to tour with his new trio, Master Blazter, which came to an abrupt end with the death of drummer J-1. After the 2009 release of the criticallyacclaimed Toeachizown, Dam-Funk began to collaborate with established artists such as Bootsy Collins, Ariel Pink, Patrice

Rushen and Snoop Dogg. Dam-Funk said his forthcoming album, “Invite the Light,” departs from his previous, instrumental-based output by prominently featuring his vocal work. “I want to alert people that they can be a little more expressive. Other genres are so affiliated with being like the quiet boy behind the screen on stage,” he said. “You can open up a little bit more. That’s what I’m trying to inspire.” Vocals and an independence from computers are important elements of the kind of evolution that Dam-Funk foresees: a new emphasis on personality and performance. “I think it’ll evolve on a songwriting level,” he said. “If you want to last, I suggest you start incorporating lyrics.” When speaking with Dam-Funk, it’s hard to ignore the clarity of this kind of long-term, overarching thinking. His point of view deals primarily with the big picture — he seems constantly aware that his output is both the continuation of his funky forbearers (The Time included) and an influence for the artists of the future. “I’ve evolved to a level where I’m confident enough to release music that’s not affected by anything that’s going on musically around me,” he said. “I’m only influenced by what came before me and what I’m envisioning in the future. I’m evolving because I’m able to stick with that particular mindset.” Dam-Funk clearly loves funk for the freedom that it allows. And that freedom from contemporary influence, it seems, is what allows his music to be influential. Dam-Funk performs at 7 p.m. tonight (July 9) at the Santa Monica Pier, opening for Morris Day and The Time. The show is free and all-ages. Visit santamonicapier. org for more information, including a list of future Thursday-night concerts.

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screening of the 1987 movie musical that catapulted Patrick Swayze to Hollywood superstardom. Central Park Bandshell, 12045 E. Waterfront Drive, Playa Vista. playavista.com Jim Doyle, 9 p.m. Live music at The Prince O’ Whales, 335 Culver Blvd., Playa del Rey. No cover. (310) 823-9826; princeowhales.com Reverend Tall Tree, 9 p.m. Enjoy Blues and American roots music in the tradition of Little Walter, Bo Diddley and Howlin’ Wolf. Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $10 plus two-drink minimum. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com All-Male “Cinderella,” 9:30 p.m. (also Saturdays through July 25.) A comedic musical twist on a classic tale at the Santa Monica Playhouse, 1211 4th St., Santa Monica. $19.50. (310) 394-9779; santamonicaplayhouse.com

Saturday, July 11 OULA Fitness Club, 8:30 a.m. Dance to high-energy music in a non-judgmental environment each Saturday in July at the Los Angeles Art Collective, 8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Ste. 105, Westchester. $10 per session; first session free. (310) 641-2575; oulalosangeles.com Marina del Rey Farmers Market, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Find locally grown produce, prepared food, desserts and arts and crafts at the corner of Via Marina and Panay Way (parking lot 11) each Saturday. (310) 305-9545; facebook.com/MDRFarmersMarket “Woodies in the Park,” 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Automobile Driving Museum brings you back to the ‘60s with this picnic and wooden-bodied station wagon car extravaganza. Space limited to 80 vehicles. $20 pre-registration or $25 day of, space permitting. Automobile Driving Museum, 610 Lairport St., El Segundo. (310) 909-0950; theadm.org Meditation Workshop, 11 a.m. to noon. Doug Frankel leads a workshop and discussion on using meditation to reduce stress, improve concentration and enhance mental equilibrium. Montana Branch Library, 1704 Montana Ave., Santa Monica. (310) 458-8682; smpl.org “Dorothy’s Adventures in Oz,” 2 p.m. Saturdays (also 12:30 p.m. Sundays through Sept. 27.) Bring the family to this musical comedy where a now grown-up Dorothy attempts a return to Oz and encounters new foes and helps new friends. $15, or $12.50 for kids under 12. Santa Monica Playhouse, 1211 4th St., Santa Monica. $19.50. (310) 394-9779; santamonicaplayhouse.com

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del Rey; (310) 823-9826; princeowhales.com

Vidiots’ “Movie Buff Trivia Night,” 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Bring up to four people for your team and compete for the grand prize of unlimited free movie rentals for a month (two at a time). $10 entry. Proceeds benefit Vidiots Foundation. 302 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 392-8508; vidiotsfoundation.org

Vida featuring DJ Creepy, 9:30 to 11:45 p.m. Ambient and dance vibes light up the evening’s soundscape at Melody Bar & Grill, 9132 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Westchester. (310) 670-1994; barmelodylax.com

The Lit Show, 8 p.m. Suzy Williams hosts this 10th annual celebration of life and literature with L.A.’s Diva Deluxe and Brad Kay. Beyond Baroque, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice. $15. laughtears.com

Sunday, July 12 Mar Vista Farmers Market, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Shop, eat and mingle with you neighbors every Sunday at the intersection of Venice and Grandview boulevards. marvistafarmersmarket.org Soap Box Open Reading, 2 p.m. (Sign-ups begin at 1:45 p.m.) Jessica Wilson hosts this open mic afternoon, giving each reader five minutes. $5 suggested donation. Beyond Baroque, 681 N. Venice Blvd. (310) 822-3006; beyondbaroque.org Angel City Smooth, 5 to 6:30 p.m. This jazz/funk/pop group plays a free outdoor show at Concert Park, 13020 Pacific Promenade, Playa Vista. playavista.com Mariachi and Folkloric Dancing, 5, 7 and 8:45 p.m. Dinner comes with a side of traditional Mexican entertainment at Casa Sanchez, 4500 S. Centinela Ave., Del Rey. (310) 397-4444; casa-sanchez.com SHINE Storytellers’ “Out of Control,” 7 p.m. This month’s speakers share moments when they were out of control and what they learned from the experience. Hosted by the founder of Creative Rites founder Terrie Silverman, with live music by Lil’ Dawnee Frinta. The Promenade Playhouse, 1404 Third St. Promenade, Santa Monica. $10. (310) 452-2321; storeyproductions.org “Dead Poets Society” / “Good Will Hunting,” 7:30 p.m. Join Actor Norman Lloyd and Screenwriter Tom Schulman for a double feature in honor of the late Robin Williams. $11. Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica. (310) 2601528; aerotheatre.com Karaoke Lisa, 9 p.m. Sing your heart out every Sunday at the Prince O’ Whales, 335 Culver Blvd., Playa

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

Monday, July 13 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 Strum with Instruments, 3 p.m. Kids learn to make instruments out of everyday household items in a session that concludes with a musical story performance. Mar Vista Branch Library, 12006 Venice Blvd. Mar Vista. (310) 390-3454; lapl.org

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. The Warehouse, 4499 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. No cover. (310) 823-5451; mdrwarehouse.com Culver City Rock and Mineral Club Meeting, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. At this month’s meeting, Jason Badgley gives a lecture on California Agates, including California’s local geology, volcanic fault lines and the formation of local mountain ranges. Free. Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 4117 Overland Ave., Culver City. (310) 836-4611; culvercityrocks.org 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 Philosophers’ Stone Poets, 9 p.m. A free night of erotic poetry and dance at Gravlax restaurant, 12400 Washington Blvd., Culver City. Contact: pspoets@gmail.com. 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 continues their Mondaynight residency at Harvelle’s,

1432 4th St., Santa Monica. Cover: $5, plus a two-drink minimum. (310) 395-1676; santamonica. harvelles.com

Tuesday, July 14 Culver City Farmers Market, 2 to 7 p.m. Shop and stroll each Tuesday along Main Street between Venice and Culver boulevards. culvercity.org Swim Sessions, various times. Southern California Aquatics leads morning workouts at 5:30 and 6:30 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and evening workouts at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, at Santa Monica Swim Center, 2225 16th St., Santa Monica. $69 to $109 per month. (310) 458-8700; swim.net Ocean Park Classic Car Night, 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. The California Heritage Museum gathers food trucks and classic cars each Tuesday night outside the museum. 2612 Main St., Santa Monica. (310) 392- 8537; californiaheritagemuseum.org OULA Fitness Club, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. High-energy dancing to lively music in a non-judgmental atmosphere happens each Tuesday in July at two locations in Westchester: Loyola Marymount (Continued on page 35)

‘Gentlemen of soul’ Ruben Studdard, Freddie Jackson and Jeffrey Osborne give a free outdoor concert on Saturday in Marina del Rey Let’s face it: Concerts are expensive. It seems like you could buy a car for what it costs to see the Rolling Stones. The admission price for a triple-bill featuring an “American Idol” winner, the silky smooth voice that sang “You Are My Lady” and the lead singer of L.T.D.? If you find yourself in Marina del Rey on Saturday, free. That’s when the Marina del Rey Summer Concert Series’ Pop Saturdays series at Burton Chace Park kicks off with “Gentlemen of Soul” — a special live performance featuring Ruben Studdard, Freddie Jackson and Jeffrey Osborne. Best known as the “American Idol” secondseason winner who battled formidable rival Clay Aiken, Studdard went on to receive a Grammy for his version of “Superstar” and released his fifth studio album last year. Twice nominated for a Grammy, Jackson also sang the memorable hits “Rock Me Tonight,” “Have You Ever Loved Somebody” and “Do Me Again.” In addition to his dozen solo albums, Osborne has created a musical legacy with L.T.D. that includes many treasured love ballads and the immortal classic “(Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again.” — Michael Aushenker and Joe Piasecki

Ruben Studdard Catch “Gentlemen of Soul” from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Burton Chace Park, 13650 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey. Call (310) 3059545 or visit beaches.lacounty.gov for more information.

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‘Perpetual Expectancy’ Library Girl literary series gathers local artists to celebrate Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin Photo by Amelia Mulkey Anderson

By Bliss Bowen “I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.” — Anaïs Nin “I live in perpetual expectancy. You come and the time slips away in a dream. It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence. And then it is too late. … I don’t know what to expect of you, but it is something in the way of a miracle. I am going to demand everything of you — even the impossible, because you encourage it.” — Henry Miller (“A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller 1932-1953”) Few literary relationships have been as provocative as that of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller. The volume and fierce intimacy of the decades-long correspondence between the controversial writers is remarkable — even more so when you consider that their epistolary connection developed out of an illicit romance conducted in France in the 1930s, and subsequently survived their breakup, separate returns to the States and various marriages (including Nin’s bigamous union with ex-actor Rupert Pole while still wed to Hugo Guiler). They shared encouragement, criticism and spirited counsel, and remained friends and loyal creative advocates until Nin’s 1977 death in Los Angeles at age 73. (Miller followed three-and-a-half years later, dying in Pacific Palisades at age 88.) Mutual passion for writing, and the discoveries it yields, transcended personal conflicts. Magnificent self-absorption probably made them hellish companions, but also produced writings now regarded as modern classics. Miller correctly predicted that Nin’s sexually adventurous, self-obsessed diaries would be her enduring legacy; Nin championed Miller’s unconventional style throughout the decades when his explicit novels, including “Tropic of Cancer” and “The Rosy Crucifixion” trilogy, were banned in the United States.

Writer Susan Hayden says founding Library Girl has been a source for personal healing after the death of her husband Their combined works are the subject of a tribute being staged by Library Girl this Sunday. A “mixed-genre literary series,” Library Girl is the astutely curated brainchild of writer Susan Hayden. Last month the Santa Monica Arts Foundation presented Hayden with the Artist in the Community/Bruria Finkel Award for “her significant contributions to the energetic discourse within Santa Monica’s arts community.” Since launching Library Girl in October 2009, Hayden has befriended and hosted myriad actors, essayists, musicians, novelists, page and performance poets, playwrights and songwriters (including this writer) on the second Sunday of each month at the Ruskin Theatre. Performer styles and backgrounds vary, but strength of voice is a constant — that particular distillation of linguistic expression and personal intensity that is the

Feeling Alive with the Grateful Dead medical attention saves public EMT services from responding; that’s a huge public savings. We now do 960 events a year.” Wow! Penny explained that the HAFC had been absorbed into the larger nonprofit HealthRight 360 and that event producers cover the group’s costs for each event. Since 2012, Gordon Oldham has been the group’s guiding light, and Penny told me he even has a bicep tattoo of the original Rock Medicine logo that Skip had drawn. But, she cautioned, “Tie-dye no longer defines us. Today, we’re also at San PAGE 32 THE ARGONAUT JuLy 9, 2015

hallmark of true writers, regardless of medium. Hayden says she relies on “instinct, recommendations and blind faith” when selecting participants. “I don’t hypercurate the show,” she explains. “So I don’t necessarily know what will be read that night. I like to be surprised; that’s part of the fun for me. There’s an energy balance when doing the actual lineup, but choosing artists is instinctive. I know who’s reading, I get a take on their personality, and that’s how I figure it out. I try to mix it up. … I’m always open to a new voice in the community.” The series has been a source of healing for Hayden, who started it after the tragic death of her husband, actor Christopher Allport. “I felt fractured,” she recalls. “I was lost, I was at bay, I didn’t know who I was without him. It took diving back into the literary community to find out. Being

forced to rebuild my life and my son’s life and creating this show led me to my own wholeness.” Past shows have celebrated songwriters like Leonard Cohen, Elliott Smith and Cat Stevens. Most are constructed around a theme — usually a song title or lyric, such as Joni Mitchell’s “Come in From the Cold” — with artists presenting relevant pieces they’ve composed. Hayden says actor Darrell Larson (“a great idea person”) suggested the Miller-Nin tribute, which elicited such enthusiastic response that Hayden’s already promised a second tribute. “I had been posting a lot of mini quotes from Anais on my Facebook page, so we started talking about how great it would be,” she explains. “I’m not a believer in affairs when you’re married, but I started to think about how theirs was a relationship of projection. Aren’t they all? But this really is. The letters have always been fascinating to me. I’m not a huge Henry Miller fan, but I do love Nin; she’s an older adult role model for me, in this stage of my life.” Each month, Hayden funds and promotes the show, then donates the proceeds to the Ruskin. “It’s my way to help them stay alive,” she says. “At this point I’m more focused on community building than creating my own art, my writing. It’s been a real blessing to do it. I feel like I’ve facilitated a sense of belonging for the artists and audience members. It’s a very unpretentious community.” Library Girl presents “Perpetual Expectancy: A Tribute to Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller in Words & Music (Part One)” with writers Rick Bursky, Sea R. Glassman, Julia Ingalls, Donny Jackson, Doug Knott, Nathalie Kramer, Darrell Larson, Shivani Mehta and Andrea R. Vaucher, plus music from Hazel Moon and Mason Summit, at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Ruskin Group Theatre, 3000 Airport Ave., Santa Monica. Tickets are $10 at ruskingrouptheatre.com.

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Francisco’s Gay Pride Parade. We have enlarged our brand. We are way beyond the Grateful Dead days. Bottom line: We provide quality emergency care at the point of need.” The Dead’s musical performance that night was more than I had expected. People danced in every space imaginable. At first I thought some dancers employing exaggerated movements were just being ridiculous, but they stuck to their weird routines the whole night. On and on they danced like dervishes. Several in my Tier 3 area were barefoot, dancing on the cold concrete for almost four hours, just like 1980. It was an ecstatic event. Everyone

around me was laughing or singing. With a synapse-popping lightshow displayed on screens all around the stadium and more than 60,000 Dead Heads singing as one, a woman on my right leaned close and said, as best as I can remember: “This is all so wonderful. I feel so great. The Supreme Court’s approval of marriage for everyone means everyone gets the benefits of love. Obamacare was upheld again, giving more health care to the poor who really need it. The president even sang ‘Amazing Grace.’ I feel so proud of my country. I haven’t felt this way in a very long time.”

I leaned back against her and asked her age. She said she was three months shy of 30, a musician headed to law school in September. I think it’s safe to say the Dead live on in a new generation. As for me, I played “American Beauty” non-stop all the way back to the beach. Thomas Pleasure, author of “Venice of America: The American Dream Come True,” is currently working on a memoir titled “Autobiography of an Activist: A Serendipitous Journey from Brooklyn to Venice Beach.”

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University’s St. Rob Hall (5:30 p.m.) and the Westchester Family YMCA, 8015 S. Sepulveda Blvd. $10 per session; first one free. (310) 641-2575; oulalosangeles.com

Food Truck Fiesta, 5 to 8 p.m. Every third Thursday of the month plan a picnic with friends and enjoy food on the front lawn of Short Avenue Elementary School, 12814 Maxella Ave., Del Rey. friendsofshortavenue.com

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California Sunset Series Sailing Regatta, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Sept. 9. Hosted by California Yacht Club on the harbor’s main channel, Marina del Rey’s biggest annual sailing event. Watch races f rom Fisherman’s Village (13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey) or Burton Chace Park (13650 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey). calyachtclub.com

Playa Venice Sunrise Rotary Club, 7:15 a.m. Meets Wednesday mornings at Whiskey Red’s, 13813 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. Contact Peter Smyth at (310) 916-3648. Westchester Life Story Writing Group, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Memoir-writing workshop meets Wednesdays at the YMCA Annex, 8020 Alverstone Ave., Westchester. Donation: $10/semester. (310) 397-3967 Toddler/Preschool Storytime, 11 to 11:30 a.m. Join the children’s librarian for an interactive story time that includes songs and games. Mar Vista Branch Library, 12006 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista. (310) 390-3454; lapl.org Toastmasters “Speakers by the Sea” Club, 11 a.m. to noon. Overcome your public presentation nerves at this weekly meeting. Pregerson Technical Facility, Room 230A, 12000 Vista Del Mar, Playa del Rey. (424) 625-3131 Playa Vista Chess Club, 4:15 p.m. Every Wednesday students learn the intricacies of chess from expert Ben Eubanks. Grades 1-6. Players of all levels welcome. Playa Vista Library, 6400 Playa Vista Drive. Free. (310) 437-6680; lapl.org PAGE 34 THE ARGONAUT JuLy 9, 2015

Summer Sunset Cocktail Cruises, 5:45 to 8:15 p.m. (Wednesdays through Sept. 23). Appetizers, champagne, music and seating with front-row views of the sailboat races and sunset. Boards at Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. $35, plus tax, service, and landing fees. Reservations required. (949) 631-2469; hornblower.com Educational Series for Caregivers, 6 to 8 p.m. Start of an eight-week program helping family caregivers care for themselves while caring for others. Westchester Playa Village, 8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Ste. 103, Westchester. (310) 695-7030 Unkle Monkey, 6 to 9 p.m. The local duo plays beachy tunes each Wednesday evening at The Warehouse, 4499 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 823-5451; mdrwarehouse.com “Dutchman,” 7 p.m. (Also July 22 and 29.) First produced off-Broadway in 1964, the

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NOTICE OF FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT The Federal Aviation Administration has announced that a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and Record of Decision (ROD) has been approved based upon results of a Final Environmental Assessment prepared in May 2015 for proposed Runway 6R-24L Runway Safety Area (RSA) Improvements Project at Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. The following projects are addressed by the FONSI/ROD: Runway 6R-24L RSA Improvements: Runway 6R (West End) • Relocate the end of Runway 6R approximately 200 feet to the east and displace the threshold of Runway 6R approximately 550 feet; • The existing Runway 6R displaced landing threshold would be shifted approximately 420 feet to the east, resulting in a 550-foot displaced threshold; • Construct a blast pad 400 feet long and 280 feet wide; • Construct retaining wall and add fill graded to RSA standards; • Shift existing connector Taxiways E16 and E17 to the east; • Construct new and rehabilitate existing runway and taxiway pavement, as needed in the areas of the improvements identified above, and modify airfield signage, lighting, and markings; • Relocate navigation aids, including the glide slope antenna, and Precision Approach Path Indicators (PAPI); and • Remove the western two MALSR stations and shift/ replacement of MALSR light stations to the east coincident with existing light station locations. Runway 24L (East End) • Shift Runway 24L endpoint by constructing approximately 800 feet of new runway pavement to the east. The landing threshold would remain in current location and pavement marked as a displaced threshold; • Shift Taxiway E endpoint approximately 500 feet to the east with 400-foot separation from the Runway; Remove existing Taxiway E7 including the existing loop westbound that joins Taxiway V between Runways 24L and 24R; • Construct new connector Taxiways E7 and E6; • Construct new and rehabilitate existing runway and taxiway pavement, as needed in the areas of the improvements identified above, and modify airfield signage, lighting, and markings; • Relocate the existing ILS Runway 6R Localizer Antenna to the east; • Demolish and relocate existing Secure Area Access Post (SAAP) #3; • Protect in place existing storm sewer and utilities; PAGE PAGE 38 38 THE THEARGONAUT ARGONAUT JUly JuLy 9, 9, 2015 2015

• Relocate Air Operations Area (AOA) fence; • Construct 400-foot long jet blast pad; • Reconstruct the keel section of the eastern 250 feet of Runway 24L and portions of Taxiway V. • Relocate taxicab holding/staging area and associated buildings; • Implement declared distances; and • Extend and realign existing vehicle service road(s) south of Taxiway E, which will require closure of Alverstone Avenue and Davidson Drive as well as adjacent parking lot. Existing pavement within RSA will be removed and graded. The FONSI/ROD indicates that the proposed action is consistent with existing environmental policies and objectives as set forth in the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 in that it will not significantly affect the quality of the human environment. Copies of the FONSI/ROD are available for public inspection at the following locations: Federal Aviation Administration Western-Pacific Region Airports Division, Room 3012 15000 Aviation Boulevard Hawthorne, California 90261 Federal Aviation Administration Airports District Office, Room 3000 15000 Aviation Boulevard Hawthorne, California 90261 Administrative Offices of Los Angeles World Airports Los Angeles International Airport One World Way Los Angeles, California 90045 El Segundo Public Library 111 W. Mariposa Avenue El Segundo, California 90245 Inglewood Library 101 W. Manchester Boulevard Inglewood, California 90301 Los Angeles Public Library Westchester-Loyola Branch 7114 W. Manchester Avenue Los Angeles, California 90045 Playa Vista Branch Library 6400 Playa Vista Drive Los Angeles, California 90094

ers: Alexander H. Rosenberg 405 Culver Blvd. Apt 220 Playa del Rey, CA. 90293. This business is conducted by an individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: Alexander Rosenberg. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Jun 16, 2015. Argonaut published: June 18, 25, July 2, and 9, 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. 2015160590 The following person is doing business as: SSJLAW and SSJ 426 Culver Blvd. Playa del Rey, CA. 90293. Registered owners: Stephen Warren Solomon 97 Wellesley Avenue Los Angeles, CA. 90049, Ralph Barat Saltsman 5 Latimer Road Santa Monica, CA. 90402, Stephen Allen Jamieson 2722 McConnell Drive Los Angeles, CA. 90064, Rodney Bruce Evans 1601 Crest Drive Altadena, CA. 91001, and Ryan Michael Kroll 5024 NE 15th Avenue Portland, OR. 97211. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: Stephen Warren Solomon. Title: Managing Partner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on June 17, 2015. Argonaut published: July 2, 9, 16, and 23, 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. 2015161573 The following person is doing business as: 26 Beach restaurant 3100 Washington Blvd. Venice, CA. 90291. Registered owners: Francis Mori 3100 Washington Blvd. 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: Francis Mori. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on June 18, 2015. Argonaut published: June 25, July 2, 9, and 16, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement gener-

ally 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. 2015163851 The following person is doing business as: Mediterranean Ways 11440 Clarkson Rd. los Angeles, CA. 90064. Registered owners: Ted T. Lekas 11440 Clarkson Rd. Los Angeles, CA. 90064. 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: Ted T. Lekas. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on June 22, 2105. Argonaut published: June 25, July 2, 9, and 16, 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. 2015174897 The following person is doing business as: Raining Jane 7811 Westlawn Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90045 and Ice Cream Social P.O. Box 5111 Santa Monica, CA. 90409. Registered owners: Mona Tavakoli 6209 Outlook Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90042, Chaska Potter 35 Miller Ave. #225 Mill Valley, CA. 94941, Rebecca Gebhardt 7811 Westlawn Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90045, and Mai Bloomfield 29 Navy St. Venice, CA. 90291. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: Rebecca Gebhardt. Title: Partner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on July 2, 2015. Argonaut published: July 9, 16, 23, and 30, 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. 2015174916 The following person is doing business as: Recreational Powerboating Association 5301 Beethoven St. #265 Los Angeles,

legal advertising CA. 90066. Registered owners: American Sailing Association 5301 Beethoven St. #265 Los Angeles, CA. 90066. This business is conducted by a Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Cynthia Shabes. Title: President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on July 2, 2015. Argonaut published: July 9, 16, 23, and 30, 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. 2015174934 The following person is doing business as: Helios & Selene and Helios And Selene 3401 Federal Avenue Los Angeles, CA. 90066. Registered owners: Erin Egan 3401 Federal Avenue 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: Erin Egan. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on July 2, 2015. Argonaut published: July 9, 16, 23, and 30, 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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