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VOL 44, NO 28 Local News & Culture

Cast Your BEST of the Westside Vote p. 9 OPINION Letters to the editor........................................................................... 4

FEATURE Commuting by bike has never been more popular, but advocates say more must be done to keep riders safe on the streets...............6

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NEWS Biberman’s Venice mural on the move............................................. 10 LAX runway work to cost $200 million............................................. 10 Woman rows the coast to save birds............................................... 11

THIS WEEK Dressed-down Shakespeare catches fire ....................................... 12 Fetta leads MdR Summer Symphony.............................................. 13 Westside Happenings...................................................................... 16 Train with the Hulk ......................................................................... 17 Finding cultural spaces between words . ....................................... 30 Cinema at the Edge finds a center .................................................31

FOOD&DRINK Dreams of boats and pork in the marina......................................... 15

CLASSIFIED/CROSSWORD Jobs, apartments and more.............................................................32 ON THE COVER: Santa Monica’s Kevin O’Shea bikes down Main Street. Photo by Jorge M Vargas Jr. Design by Ernesto Esquivel.

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Shouldn’t homeowners have rights, too?

Now, I know complaining about homeless people living in RVs and Re: “Home is where your car is,” vans in front of and around my house is not PC, but how is it PC cover story, June 26 for me to pay taxes when I don’t I have been a Venice resident for even feel safe in my own house?

45 years, literally since the day I was born. Because of this I feel that Seriously, I have lived right here I have the expertise to weigh in on for 45 years, and I think that I and other residents of Venice at least the homeless RV parking issue. deserve to feel safe and enjoy the I pay an exorbitant amount of homes that we pay taxes on. Is that property taxes, and what do I get so wrong? for it? I get to pick up trash on Sheila Bouffard my front lawn every morning. I Venice also get to smell urine constantly all over my front yard. I am kept Copper proposal’s logic is awake at night with parties, tools lacking banging as people work on their Re: “Battle brewing over harbor cars, yelling and screaming when cleanup mandate,” news, July 3 I ask them to please be quiet, and I lived in Marina del Rey for having to carry my groceries four to eight blocks because I can’t park several years in the early to mid1970s and have lived there again anywhere near my house. I am afraid to walk out my front door at for the past couple of years. I had an office in the marina for the times!

majority of my career and have been active there since 1970. I continue to kayak and to row in the marina.

From personal experience, I can tell you that there are more animal species, in greater numbers, than ever before. When I was first in the marina it was a virtual desert. There might have been an occasional pelican or a few gulls. I assume there were fish in the harbor, but I never saw them.

I rowed twice this week. On both days I saw dolphins in the channel, feeding. This has become an increasingly common experience.

I don't know how much they consume in a day, but they are big animals and would not be feeding in the marina in the absence of fish. A couple of years ago, a juvenile gray whale camped out at the mouth of the marina for about

a month. It needed a lot more food than even dolphins.

I have seen the numbers and types of birds increase. Instead of the occasional pelican or gull, they are present in the hundreds. Snowy egrets and blue herons also line the jetties in the morning, fishing for their breakfast. We even see the occasional pelagic bird, cormorant or osprey.

Whatever the intention of the copper mitigation regulations, I do not see how they can improve the numbers or diversity of wildlife in the marina. With all the concern these days about invasive species, I do not see how eliminating an effective biocide can do anything other than give an advantage to those aggressive creatures that will be carried into the marina. I do not see how dredging the marina could do anything other than to turn it

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back into a desert.

Another question arises. What is to be done with the dredged sand? How does moving the problem from the marina to somewhere else help?

I am an attorney, and although I live in the marina, I never received any official notice of the proposed regulations — or even that the local board's decision would be considered by the state board. Instead, I have heard about the proposal through various community outreach programs.

Notice and the opportunity to be heard are fundamental to our system of government. I know it’s messy to have to listen to public input, but we believe that the collective wisdom of our citizens is superior to the beliefs of a few insular regulators who mainly talk with each other. The only way to

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get to the truth is to air everything.

I have read that the proposed amendment intends to designate boaters and slip owners as potentially responsible parties, exposing them to virtually unlimited liability. Facing such liability, only the wealthiest can afford to risk a confrontation with regulators. Frankly, this ex parte designation sounds like an ex post facto law, which is prohibited by our constitution.

I have read about a proposal to charge boaters “user fees” of more than $1,000 per year. With 6,000 boats in the Marina, that equals $6 million. What will be done with that money?

The proposal requires boaters to strip their boats. The proposal seems to require the County of Los Angeles to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to dredge the marina. What is left for the Water Quality Control Board to do?

Our constitution places the power of the purse in the legislature. It does not allow unelected regulatory bodies to fund their own budget through dubious fines and user fees.

This is a bad proposal on several levels. Factually, it cannot improve the marina, and is more likely to destroy its existing bio-environment than

to improve it. Constitutionally, it violates due process by failing to give sufficient notice. It also violates the separation of powers by taking from the legislature the decision to fund this activity or to end it. Please reject the proposed amendment.

Richard F. Hamlin Marina del Rey

Bike path upgrades far past due The banning of Segways along the pedestrian path at Ocean Front Walk will increase traffic on the

bike path immediately.

Knowing that, what is the city doing to

address the structural deficiencies of that vital beach access route?

Once again, the city fails to understand the problems at Venice Beach and implements piecemeal solutions that will create further congestion along a bike path already in dire disrepair.

Now riddled with sand accumulation, cracked surfacing and striping that is decades old, the bike path needs a face lift, but when will Los Angeles even acknowledge a problem exists?

The grassy knolls that separate the bike path from Ocean Front Walk continue to deteriorate at a rapid pace with no capital improvement

solution being entertained by either the city or county government.

The proverbial finger-pointing as to who is responsible is tiring and frustrating for bike riders, knowing the addition of Segways and the mixing of pedaled and motorized transportation on the bike path — to say nothing of skateboarders.

The continued accumulation of sand on the northbound bike path continues to go unaddressed, and the county’s efforts to sweep the sand is a Band-Aid approach to a far larger solution that means complete remediation of these knolls over a phased-in capital improvement project. Both the

city and county need to work hand-in-hand to solve this brewing dilemma.

Los Angeles city government is detached from the real problems of Venice Beach because no one is in charge. This bureaucratic, hybrid approach to managing this international destination does not work and never will!

Where is the specific plan to improve Venice Beach?

Those in charge don’t seem to get it. That’s bad news for locals, tourists and residents of the region who just want a place to bike in safety.

Nick Antonicello Venice

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Power to the Pedal

Commuting by bicycle is becoming mainstream, but are the roadways ready?

By Rebecca Kuzins

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t wasn’t long ago that bicycles were a neglected fifth wheel of the Los Angeles transportation system, basically ignored as a commuting option as automobiles retained road dominance. But the traffic congestion that permanently plagues the Westside and other areas has fueled increasing bicycle ridership and prompted city and county officials to begin viewing bikes as a viable alternative to driving.

A Westside Mobility Plan currently being developed by the city of Los Angeles includes provisions to install new bikeways and upgrade existing ones throughout Venice, Mar Vista, Playa del Rey and Westchester. County redevelopment plans for Marina del Rey aim to make bicycling safer and more convenient, and leading bike-friendly city Santa Monica is implementing a five-year Bike Action Plan that envisions an interconnected

network of bicyclist-serving facilities.

Nationally, the number of people who bike to work has jumped from 488,000 to 786,000 over the past decade, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released in May. A local biking census conducted last year by the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition counted 18,000 riders at 120 intersections during a six-hour period and concluded that the number of riders in the city of Los Angeles increased

7.5% from 2011 to 2013. The Venice area boasted the greatest ridership of the count.

Though times may be better than ever for area bicyclists, the spike in ridership is also generating concerns. Biking advocates are pleased to see more bike lanes, but they maintain that many of these lanes are only lines painted on the street, enabling bikers to share space with vehicles but not necessarily providing safe routes.

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and paths are often disconnected — the bike lane on Washington Place, for example, disappears between Lincoln Boulevard and Centinela Avenue — making for challenging commutes.

There are also serious safety concerns about sharing the road with motorists.

“The No. 1 thing is confusion between biker and driver,” said Kevin O’Shea, a 27-year-old digital marketing specialist who commutes by bike from Santa Monica to Marina del Rey. “I don’t go down Lincoln Boulevard at all. I don’t know anybody who does. Too many distracted drivers.”

But bikers also have a responsibility to keep the roads safe, adds Ron Durgin, general manager of the Santa Monica Bike Center. The city-leased facility at Second and Main streets is a hub for riders that provides bike parking, lockers and bathroom facilities for its 300-strong bicycle-commuting membership, bike repair services, a commuter bike loan program and rentals for visitors at the rate of 30,000 to 35,000 per year.

Durgin, who founded the nonprofit Sustainable Streets, also offers safe riding classes that teach bicyclists to better blend in with the flow of traffic and break bad habits such as creeping to the front of the line at intersections.

“Motorists don’t have the right to use their car to push bikes off the road — it’s not my problem if they choose to bring 7,500 pounds of extra stuff with them,” said Durgin, 50, who hasn’t owned a car in 18 years.

But, “I see a lot of [bicyclists] making riskier decisions out

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A Santa Monica Bike Center member retrieves his bike from a 350-space secured indoor bicycle parking lot available for commuters

“We feel like we have to scatter like cockroaches when cars are on the road.”

— Cynthia Rose, director of Santa Monica Spoke

there than they need to, making unpredictable moves.”

Torrance, also make the Westside more inviting for female riders.

While the coalition’s count found Beach towns are bike that women make up fewer than one in five L.A. bicyclists, it also towns There are two main reasons found the highest proportion of why the Westside has “has the female riders on bike paths — highest ridership of any part “mostly because women tend to of the city of Los Angeles,” be more cautious about riding according to L.A. County in riskier conditions on the Bicycle Coalition Planning and streets,” said Bruins. “As biking Policy Director Eric Bruins. has grown in popularity on the “First and foremost, the Westside, more and more women Westside has the best bike are feeling comfortable taking to infrastructure, particularly along the streets on two wheels.” the coast. Up until recently, That checks out with Cynthia other parts of the city didn’t have Rose, director of the bike many bike lanes, and we’re only advocacy group Santa Monica now seeing tremendous growth Spoke, who added that Santa in bicycling closer to [central] Monica’s bike paths and more Los Angeles,” says Bruins. extensive and clearly identified “Second, the Westside is a pretty network of bike lanes make for a terrible place to drive and people more equal number of male and are looking for alternatives. female bikers in that city.

When biking somewhere takes “Beach cities tend to have more about the same amount of time women on bikes,” she said. as driving and there are enough Expanding the network bike lanes and paths to provide Head inland, however, and a reasonably comfortable route, other Westside neighborhoods people will choose to bike.” have fewer bicyclists primarily Miles of bike paths protected because there are fewer bike from traffic, in particular the lanes. Bruins said the bikeseaside Marvin Braude Beach friendly nature of Venice, Marina Path from Pacific Palisades to

del Rey and Santa Monica creates opportunity to connect to adjacent neighborhoods like Mar Vista and Westchester.

“The one proven strategy to increase biking in a community is building more bicycle facilities,” he said.

That’s a cornerstone of the city’s Westside Mobility Plan, which plans to expand bike lanes and paths along McLaughlin Avenue from National Boulevard south to Washington Boulevard in Mar Vista; along Beethoven Street from Palms Boulevard in Mar Vista south to Jefferson Boulevard in Del Rey; along Culver Boulevard from McConnell Avenue to Pershing Drive in Playa del Rey; along Walgrove Avenue between Rose Avenue and Washington Place in Mar Vista; and along Pacific Avenue between Venice Boulevard and Washington Place.

In addition, bike lanes along Venice Boulevard would be upgraded with separations from motor traffic; bike lanes along Washington Boulevard between Admiralty Way and Pacific Avenue would also become a separated track; and new bike lanes would be installed along portions of Manchester Avenue, Pershing Drive, and La Tijera Boulevard in Westchester and along Jefferson Boulevard in Playa del Rey. The plan also seeks to alleviate traffic congestion along Lincoln Boulevard by connecting that major thoroughfare to two adjacent bike paths. The plan proposes to replace the Lincoln Boulevard Ballona Creek Bridge with a wider bridge, which will enable bike lanes to be installed along the street and allow bikers

ZipRecruiter software engineer Chris Greer signs up for a bike center membership offered for free by his employer

to connect with the Braude bikeway and the Ballona Creek bike path.

These proposals, however, are a long way from realization, pending various hearings and studies through spring of 2015, when the matter will reach the City Council for approval.

Los Angeles officials are also considering how the city could restructure its system for assessing transportation impact fees, which are levied on new developments, and make use of other funding sources to finance the plan.

In county-run Marina del Rey, a 20-year development plan being considered for the harbor pending approval by the Board of Supervisors seeks to fill in gaps in the existing bikeway system and to provide pavement striping and signage to improve visibility and safety at several intersections.

Supervising county regional planner Gina Natoli said the two most problematic sections are the portion of Admiralty Way near the Lloyd Taber Marina del Rey Library and the portion of Fiji Way where the Braude bike path cuts across just before Admiralty.

The development plan also proposes facilities for people to rent bikes and for bicyclists to store their bikes and transfer to another mode of transportation, she said.

to encourage ridership, including the centerpiece Santa Monica Bike Center.

The center, which opened in late 2011, currently offers 350 secure bike-parking spaces, a Bike@Work program enabling people who work in the city to borrow bicycles on weekdays to go shopping, run other errands and other activities, bike valet service for public events and a “Confident City Cycling” class to teach bicycling handling, road skills and rules of the road.

Its commuter bike loaner program serves 40 to 50 people at a time, with about three in four users eventually purchasing their own bike. Several local companies have also begun paying for Bike Center memberships for employees who commute to work.

“You hear people say they tried biking to work and hated it, then you find out they were riding a single-speed beach cruiser for eight miles,” Durgin said. “We’re not here to preach to the choir, we’re here to help them sing better.”

Similar to L.A.’s Westside mobility plan, Santa Monica’s five-year Bike Action Plan addresses one of the problems frequently cited by bicyclists: the need to fill in gaps that exist in some bike routes.

“Previously, cities had disconnected bike lanes. They put in bike lanes either where The Santa Monica model they thought they were good No place on the Westside is or … they didn’t go anywhere more receptive to bicycling than or they didn’t go where people Santa Monica. wanted to go,” Rose said. But Before the City Council adopted now, she added, Santa Monica the Santa Monica Bike Action Spoke is working with the city Plan in November 2011, the of Santa Monica to develop bike city had already installed 37 paths that “can actually connect miles of bike routes and created to West L.A. and Los Angeles as numerous facilities and programs you exit the city.”

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(Continued from previous page) To maximize intercity connectivity, the plan emphasizes the creation of bike lanes that would connect to the Expo Bike Path, a bikeway running parallel to the Expo light rail line, scheduled to begin operating in 2016.

Santa Monica plans to install or improve additional bike paths near the line so passengers departing the train can easily transfer onto their bicycles for the rest of their trip. In addition to an east-west bike path connector paralleling the Expo line from 17th Street to Centinela Avenue, the city will also construct the Colorado Esplanade, which will increase space for bicyclists along Colorado Avenue from the

train’s Fourth Street terminus to Ocean Avenue.

Although there are already bike lanes on Ocean Avenue, Ocean, “is a comparatively high-volume, high-speed road that can be discouraging to many cyclists,” the plan states. As a safer and more inviting alternative, bright green bike lanes will be installed along Second and Main streets to create a connected bikeway from Montana Avenue to the south city limit. The intersection of Colorado, Second and Main, near the Santa Monica Bike Center, will be reconfigured to provide easier access to these lanes.

The bright green bike lanes that already extend south from the bike center into Venice are a major safety asset, said O’Shea, who frequents them during his commutes.

“Having those bike lanes with color to distinguish them makes

all the difference. It alerts cars that there are bikes around and adds a kind of protection zone,” he said.

Building the better, safer bike path

As O’Shea suggests, there are several types of bike lanes and some are safer than others.

Many lanes are sharrows — lanes shared by both motorists and bicyclists that are marked with a logo of a bicycle and four lines on top of it.

“What a sharrow does is mark the road so that it reminds motorists that they might see bicyclists there and they [bicyclists] have a right to be there,” explained Rose.

However, shared lanes pose problems for both bicyclists and motorists. Although bicyclists have the same rights as motorists to use these lanes, many

motorists feel uncomfortable when they are driving behind a relatively slow-moving bike.

“It’s curious how a driver will sit behind a slow car and not complain,” said Rose, “but if they get behind somebody on a bike, they’ll honk or try to push by them. … We feel like we have to scatter like cockroaches when cars are on the road because many drivers drive as if it’s their sole right to utilize that space.”

Many motorists, she adds, lack an understanding “about what the rules of the road are and about how they should share it [the road].”

Some bike riders, however, are equally ill-informed of basic road rules. Some riders fail to stop at red lights or stop signs, or do not cooperate with motorists who try to safely pass them by.

Santa Monica Bike Center classes teach riders not to ride

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too close to the curb, which Durgin said opens up enough lane space to tempt motorists into zooming past without first shifting lanes.

Riders who creep to the front of the line when traffic is stopped at signalized intersections also create dangers for themselves, he said.

“There might be two or three cars ahead of them but they filter to the front, and then when the light turns green they have put all this pressure behind themselves for no reason,” Durgin said.

Better than sharrows are bike lanes designed solely for bicyclists — those painted green lanes to the right side of the road that O’Shea was talking about. Motorists are not allowed to use these lanes, but they can cross the dotted lines near street corners to turn right, or can cross the lanes to enter an alley.

While these lanes are safer than sharrows, bike advocates maintain that protected bikeways — those that physically separate bikers from drivers by erecting poles, curbs and other barriers — are the safest routes.

In its 2013 bicycle count, the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition recommended that Los Angeles officials build a network of protected bikeways in commercial areas because it is “the most effective way to create safe and comfortable bike access to business districts.”

“The L.A. area is really far behind other regions in the country that have been building higher-quality bikeways that are safer and more comfortable for people of all ages and abilities,” said Bruins. “It’s no secret that people don’t like riding next to high-speed traffic without some kind of barrier protecting them from the cars. That’s why on the Westside the most popular places to ride are bike paths along the beach and Ballona Creek, which easily see five to ten times the ridership of nearby streets.”

Bicycle safety education is also key.

The coalition recommends “age-appropriate opportunities for bicycle safety education” to promote a “culture of safe riding habits,” some of which Los Angeles and Santa Monica are already implementing in their public school districts.

Rose points to the Netherlands, where she says as much as 30% of commuters rely on bicycles but — due to expansive bicycle infrastructure and education — crashes involving bicycles and other vehicles are rare.

“Add more infrastructure and you will encourage more people to cycle, and the more people that cycle, the safer it is. Drivers become more aware because they see [bikers] more often,” she said. ª

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A mural on the move

Biberman’s ‘Story of Venice’ has left the former Venice post office but is expected to return The Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), a Venice-based nonprofit arts center that produces and preserves public art, is hosting a separate local exhibit highlighting the importance of Biberman’s work and of murals in general as a public art form. A blown-up image of Biberman’s original sketch for “Abbot Kinney and the Story of Venice” is projected on the wall, flanked by many of Biberman’s unrealized mural sketches, some lesser-known works and comments attributed to Biberman that contextualize his artwork.

As the postal service continues to sell off its historic post offices and create private leases for the buildings’ artworks to mitigate its deepening financial troubles, the fate of hundreds of historic WPA-era murals around the nation are uncertain, said muralist Judith Baca, who founded SPARC. “It is very ironic to privatize these publically contracted works paid for with public monies, painted for the public interest in public space,” Baca said.

Biberman won the Venice Post Office commission in 1941 through the U.S. Treasury Department Section of Fine Arts, a New Deal program that sponsored construction of more than 1,100 post offices and their interior artwork. Biberman drew inspiration from the early 20th century Mexican muralism movement, which emphasized the importance of public art for

LACMA photo by Anthony Peres

By Claire Kaufman For the first time in six decades, Edward Biberman’s iconic mural “Abbot Kinney and the Story of Venice” is missing from its place on the wall of the former Venice post office at Windward Circle.

Not to worry, though — it’s on loan to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and is expected to return next year.

In 2011, Hollywood producer Joel Silver bought the 1939 building from the U.S. Postal Service and is currently converting it into a film production studio. Silver also holds a 50-year lease on the USPS-owned mural and, according to a spokesperson, plans to reinstall it at the now private former post office building when renovations are complete in late 2015.

There are loose plans to make the mural available for public viewing, educational programs and maybe even art and architecture lectures.

In the meantime, Biberman’s 16-by-6.5-foot oil on canvas mural, mounted on aluminum, pops out dramatically from a white wall at LACMA. It anchors “Edward Biberman, Abbot Kinney and the Story of Venice,” an exhibit rich in historic photographs (including the one Biberman supposedly used to paint Kinney) and documents about Venice such as historic brochures and Kinney’s original architectural blueprints for the layout of his resort town.

Edward Biberman’s iconic Venice mural is now at LACMA, but only through November

the common man.

“He wanted to dramatize the honky-tonk town that was full of life,” said Suzanne W. Zada, who manages the art collection of Biberman’s estate.

The painting itself centers on Abbot Kinney, the “Doge [Italian for “Duke”] of Venice” who developed the community at the turn of the century. Behind him, idyllic canals, gondolas and seaside cottages represent Kinney’s architectural desire to create a replica of Venice, Italy.

While Abbot Kinney is immersed in his dream of a West Coast cultural Mecca, the reality of Venice, as Biberman captures on either side of the mural, is less than ideal. To the left of Kinney, Biberman depicts the crowded, circus-like amusement center of Venice in the 1940s (not a far cry from today); to the right, an oilfield scene offers a critique

of the spoiling of wetlands that occurred during the rise of oil interests in the 1920s following Venice’s annexation by Los Angeles.

Following last year’s city mural ordinance that lifted an 11-year ban on new murals, emerging artists will finally be able to use Biberman’s work as a guide for new works of public art, said Baca.

“We have an opportunity to give young people inspiration and insight into street art and the idea of public art,” said Baca.

While some Venetians have been critical of Silver’s purchase of the historic building and taking the mural out of regular public view, that anger is misplaced, said former Venice Neighborhood Council President Linda Lucks. An art and architecture preservationist who has restored two Frank

Lloyd Wright houses, Silver was probably “the best alternative on the table,” she said.

Silver, according to his spokesperson, has invested about $100,000 in the leased Biberman mural’s restoration and put renowned art conservator Nathan Zakheim in charge.

“I think it is wonderful that he has saved the mural and restored it,” said George Drury Smith, founder of the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, who participated in a recent discussion of the mural at LACMA. “That building would have passed onto someone with a lot less respect for history than he has.” ª SPARC’s “Lost Horizons: Mural Dreams of Edward Biberman” continues through July 31 at 685 Venice Blvd.; LACMA’s exhibit continues through Nov. 16.

Runway safety upgrades to cost LAX $200 million Spending doesn’t change controversial runway relocation plan

By Gary Walker Meeting Federal Aviation Administration requirements to increase the space between and at the ends of its runways will cost LAX about $200 million, but the sticker shock won’t impede the airport’s controversial push to move a northern runway closer to Playa del Rey and Westchester homes.

The airport will upgrade graded separations between three of its runways and extend a buffer zone at the end of a southern runway, with work set to begin in stages over the next two years.

An unrelated plan announced four years ago to separate two northern runways by moving one of them, known as 24R, 260 feet closer to residential areas continues to wend its way through environmental studies and approvals.

“These efforts have no impact on our plans [for the northern runways]. However, there is no date scheduled for relocation of 24R at this time,” said LAX spokeswoman Amanda Parsons.

The northern runway relocation has been the center of a dispute between airport officials and

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residents, with supporters billing it as modernization work and detractors calling the project an expansion. In April 2013, the Los Angeles City Council voted 10-3 in favor of the runway relocation.

Mayor Eric Garcetti, then the council president, was one of the three no votes, along with then-Councilman Bill Rosendahl.

Garcetti’s vote earned the support of many voters close to the airport.

The Alliance for A Regional Solution to Airport Congestion, a Westchester organization opposed to the runway move, has filed a lawsuit to halt the relocation

despite the council vote.

“That is insufficient to cause us to give up the lawsuit,” president Denny Schneider said. “We are pressing forward.”

The safety upgrades for existing runways are designed to bring the runway into compliance with federal rules implemented 22 years ago. The work announced last week comes ahead of a 2015 compliance deadline, even though some of the work won’t start until the following year.

LAX representatives have been working with the FAA on the planning and environmental

review processes for the runway safety projects, FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said.

“Multiple FAA divisions, including air traffic, airports and flight standards, are involved in the process,” Gregor said.

The scope of the runway safety work includes grading improvements, storm drain construction, installation of new pavement and redirection of service routes as well as relocating landing instruments, airfield lighting and certain perimeter fencing, Parsons said. ª gary@argonautnews.com

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Mary Rose docks at Burton Chace Park on the way to San Diego

Boater sets course to make a difference Without sail or motor, Mary Rose is rowing the So Cal coast in support of endangered birds

By Joe Piasecki An accountant whose exotic pets inspired her to help save endangered bird species has embarked on a remarkable journey to bring attention to the cause: rowing the coast of Southern California.

Mary Rose, 44, said she was an overweight couch potato with no boating experience — living in the middle of land-locked Arizona, no less — when in February 2012 the story of a woman who rowed the Atlantic to raise awareness about plastic pollution inspired her to do something similar for birds.

On Monday, after more than two years of training, Rose reached the halfway point in that journey when she docked for the day at a guest slip at Burton Chace Park in Marina del Rey. Rose’s sliding-seat ocean rowboat, which looks something like an open-air space capsule, attracted plenty of attention in the harbor. The 19.5-foot, 1,600-pound craft is equipped with a water desalination system, GPS, communications equipment, solar panels and 90 days worth of dehydrated food but, most noticeably, has no sail or motor.

Rose left Santa Barbara on June 26 and rowed 15 hours straight to arrive at Ventura Harbor. After a second stop in the Channel Islands, she embarked on a threeday journey to Marina del Rey (her speed varying between 1 and 2.5 knots), sheltering at night inside the boat’s watertight sixfoot sleeping cabin.

She left the marina on Tuesday, headed for King Harbor in Redondo Beach.

Last month Rose was forced to scrub her initial ambition to row 2,400 miles from Monterey Bay to Hawaii in the Great Pacific Race after it was cancelled due to dangerous storms that prompted several Coast Guard rescues.

Rose had to shelter in the cabin for long stretches as the selfrighting boat rolled 360-degree turns on heavy seas.

“It was like being in a washing machine,” she said. “You could hear the wave coming. It would slam into the boat, the boat would go on its side, stabilize — and then you hear the next wave coming.”

Rose had chosen 87 as her Great Pacific Race number because that was also the number of known bright blue Spix’s macaws remaining on the planet—that is until Presley, the last Spix macaw born in the wild and said to have inspired the animated film “Rio,” died last month. Now it represents the hope that another will be born.

Rose’s reasons for setting a new course are the 15 projects to save endangered birds that she is asking donors to fund through her website, maryrows.com.

“I wasn’t prepared to give up on it: 22% of the world’s bird species are at risk of extinction, and I want to do something to get that in front of the public,” she said. ª joe@argonautnews.com

Westchester Lutheran Church and School’s winning float

Westchester celebrates America

Loyola Boulevard was awash in red, white and blue last Friday for the 14th annual Westchester Fourth of July Parade, where thousands lined the streets to cheer on more than 50 volunteer-crafted entries by community groups.

Winning the award for best overall float was Westchester Lutheran Church and School’s depiction of a young aspiring aviator playing with a toy Space X shuttle. Emerson Avenue Community Garden’s depiction of a suburban home complete with white picket fence was named best in relation to the “My American” theme, and Otis College of Art and Design’s assembly of costumed marchers was chairman’s choice.

The event was sponsored by the LAX Coastal Area Chamber of Commerce.

— Joe Piasecki

Police nab pot clinic robbery suspect

The suspect who allegedly escaped a foiled June 25 daytime robbery of the Nature’s Cure Inc. medical marijuana dispensary in Westchester after a second suspect was shot to death by a security guard is now in police custody.

LAPD West Bureau homicide detectives arrested Jermal Atkins, 31, on June 26. He is charged with second-degree attempted robbery, Det. Scott Masterson said.

Atkins pleaded not guilty during a June 30 appearance at the LAX Courthouse and remains in custody on $1 million bond.

— Gary Walker

YouthBuild welcomes Homeboy founder

the original executive director and executive vice president of the Marina Lessees Assoc., has Homeboy Industries founder died. He was 86.

Fr. Gregory Boyle served as Leslie, a leader of the keynote speaker for the 2013association for 25 years, 14 graduating class of Venice died on May 15 from health YouthBuild on June 27. complications after he was The YouthBuild program injured in a fall, said Uta is an education and training Leslie, his wife of 31 years. program that helps at-risk A celebration of Leslie’s young adults attain life and life was held on June 21 at job skills, including diplomas, the California Yacht Club, through classroom instruction, where Uta Leslie served as construction training and commodore last year. community service projects.

“Bob joined the Marina Boyle, a Jesuit priest, started Lessees Assoc. when we were the Homeboy jobs program just getting started and his input in 1992 to help youth break was invaluable to making the free of gang life and grew it marina what it is today. His into the country’s largest gang counsel was terrific. He loved intervention and rehabilitation the marina and devoted much program. of his life to seeing that it was “YouthBuild is not the place a success,” said Jerry Epstein, you come to, it’s the place you one of the original leaseholders go from,” Boyle told the 26 in the marina.

YouthBuild graduates. “You’ve Epstein, 90, built the Del Rey committed not just to building Shores apartments in the early houses, you’ve committed to 1960s and replaced them with building communities.”

— Gary Walker the modern resort-style the Shores complex in 2013.

Before arriving in Marina del Rey, Leslie served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II and the Korean War, his wife said. Leslie was a sail and power boat enthusiast and racer who served as president of the National Boating Federation and commodore of both the Pacific and Southern California yacht associations.

“He was an honest, straightforward and very wellrespected guy. Everybody used to say that if you wanted to Bob Leslie know what’s going on in the marina, call Bob Leslie,” his wife said.

Leslie is also survived by four Bob Leslie, a yacht broker who children, five grandchildren and helped lay the foundation for two great-grandchildren. present-day Marina del Rey as — Joe Piasecki

Marina pioneer Bob Leslie, 1927 – 2014

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Shakespeare dressed down

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•This Week• Venice’s Pacific Resident Theatre has a hit on its hands with a minimalist take on “Henry V”

By Michael Aushenker

“Most Shakespeare is done like it’s medicine.”

— Alex Fernandez The royal couple: Joe McGovern and Carole Weyers

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uillermo Cienfuegos’ minimalist, unconventional staging of Shakespeare’s “Henry V” at Venice’s Pacific Resident Theatre has become a runaway hit in L.A.’s theater circle since its Feb. 22 opening, earning rave reviews and playing to packed houses that have extended the play’s initial twomonth run through July 20.

“For 27 years, [Pacific Resident Theatre] has been one of the most celebrated companies in town, but nobody around here can remember a show that’s taken off like this one,” he said. “The word of mouth has been extraordinary.”

Just as this production may not ostensibly resemble a typical staging of Shakespeare, its director/co-writer is also not whom he appears to be: Guillermo Cienfuegos is a pseudonym for Alex Fernandez, a working actor with substantial TV credits, including his current role as Pablo Diaz on “Devious Maids.”

As English Lit majors may recall, “Henry V” chronicles the journey of a ne’er-dowell upstart king who inspires a nation by leading a band of ragtag misfits to battle an invincible army five times its size — a kind of “300” in reverse, based on true events of the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years War. This production stars Joe McGovern, also the play’s co-writer, as the titular king alongside a group of seasoned community theater actors.

“We are a bunch of rag-tag people” just like the army in the play, Fernandez said.

Naturally, Fernandez and McGovern did not have a Michael Bay-sized budget to depict vast battlefields and thousandsstrong armies. They didn’t even have a dozen actors. So much of the action is implied.

Hence the king wears a Slayer T-shirt.

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“The actors are all dressed the way they’re dressed in their life. There’s only one prop, which is the crown,” Fernandez said. “It was [McGovern’s] idea to do the show. He did an initial cutting of the play.

A lot of people love Shakespeare, but most Shakespeare is done like it’s medicine.”

McGovern and Fernandez took the liberties of paring down what they came to call “Shakespeare’s action movie” into three acts: the run-up to war, the night before battle and the battle itself.

McGovern’s drive for minimalism also has interesting roots. A math teacher by day, he has spent the past two years living in a VW bus in Venice — not by necessity, but by choice.

Living in a van was sort of a test of his psyche. “How would I react to the feeling of non-stability?” McGovern had asked himself, rhetorically. The answer: “Oh, my God! It was terrifying! But that’s what I wanted. I wanted to experience how it’s like to not have those creature comforts around me.”

It’s also the reason the speed metal fan wears a Slayer shirt on stage, as van life severely limited his wardrobe.

McGovern, who’s now living indoors in Culver City and currently editing a documentary about his experiment called “The VW Experience,” has been involved in Pacific Resident Theatre productions since 2011. Impressed with Kenneth Branagh’s 1989 feature film version of “Henry V,” he got the idea to pursue this play while taking Venice Beach walks in the morning mist with his terrier mix Charlie (the play’s poster dog).

He compares “Henry V”’s motleycrew army to “The Bad News Bears.”

Velcro’d to his TV screen watching last week’s U.S.-Belgium World Cup match, McGovern explained that while the Branagh version has been called an anti-

war screed and the Laurence Olivier film appears pro-war, “I don’t take a pro-war or anti-war position. It’s an underdog story.”

When Pacific Resident Theatre initially gave McGovern a three-week run and $1,000 to stage “Henry V,” he called on Fernandez to helm the production.

“The directing aspect was the thing that was most important to me. He’s a real actor’s director, interested in giving performances that they shine in,” McGovern said.

Once aboard, Fernandez contributed to McGovern’s script, incorporating references to King Henry V from some of Shakespeare’s other history plays, including “Henry IV” and “Richard III.” Fernandez also added Falstaff, a key figure from “Henry IV,” a character McGovern described as “almost a second father to Henry [V].”

As an actor, Fernandez has had roles on “Mistresses,” “Modern Family,” “Desperate Housewives,” “NCIS” and “Criminal Minds” and had a small part on Bay’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.” But Shakespeare — and theater in general — is this American Conservatory Theater graduate’s first love.

“It’s been an open secret in the theater I direct under this name [Cienfuegos],” said Fernandez, inspired to assume a pseudonym by Theodore Tagger, a wellknown Vienna critic who wrote plays as “Ferdinand Bruckner,” because “he knew that if he directed under his name, they would pull out the long knives for him.”

Fernandez has helmed five previous Pacific Resident Theatre premieres, including the Ovation Award-nominated “Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Rd.,” and has also directed for Chalk Repertory Theatre, Blank Theatre Company, and nom de guerre, a collective he co-founded.

The pseudonym worked, so he kept

rolling with it.

“Guillermo got better reviews than I ever got. It seemed a shame to end his promising career,” Fernandez said.

“It sounds silly, but I kind of like the separation. I just want the plays I do to be judged by their own merits.”

Fernandez has, however, applied tricks learned from his TV and movie work to the stage, including for “Henry V.” “I’ve experimented with cinema editing, like close ups, cross-dissolve wipes,” he said. “This [play] has been the most fully realized example of this, with stagings as if the camera is going around ‘Matrix’style.”

Though a downtown L.A. resident, Fernandez said he is a Venetian at heart.

“I think there is a vibe in Venice that is more open to people dedicating themselves to an art, even if that art is not going to bring them fame or fortune.

They do things because they know it’s beautiful,” he said.

Venice has clearly embraced “Henry V,” which has sold out the 34-seat Pacific Resident Theater for 18 weeks straight.

“People have really responded to it,” Fernandez said. “It kind of gets down to the purity of theater — just using ª imagination to tell a story.”

See “Henry V” at 8 p.m. Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays at Pacific Resident Theatre, 703 Venice Blvd., Venice. $25. Call (310) 822-8392 or visit pacificresidenttheatre.com. michael@argonautnews.com

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Thursdays go ‘symphonic’ Frank Fetta and his Marina del Rey Summer Symphony return for a 15th season of free concerts at Burton Chace Park

By Michael Aushenker

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rias ring out tonight from the band shell at Burton Chace Park as Marina del Rey Summer Symphony Musical Director Frank Fetta launches the group’s 15th season with “Opera at the Shore.”

The annual engagement featuring singers who came to Fetta’s attention during the Loren L. Zachary Competition is, however, only the beginning of a series of free contemporary classical music concerts Fetta has planned for the marina in the weeks ahead.

Dubbed “Symphonic Thursdays,” this year’s lineup also includes performances highlighting young, contemporary stars of classical music and a night dedicated to movie soundtrack music. But don’t bring up Broadway Star Bernadette Peters’ Aug. 24 engagement — she’s bringing her own 10-piece orchestra, which for Fetta and his 75 musicians means one less chance to perform at a cherished venue.

“I like the casualness of it,” Fetta said of his annual outdoor concerts in Marina del Rey. “And more than any place I play anywhere, families come.”

For tonight’s “Opera at the Shore,” Tijuana tenor Cesar Sanchez belts out “Grenada,” Kiri Deonarine performs “Glitter and Be Gay” from Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide,” and soprano Marina Harris sings several arias including the famed “Un bel di vedremo” from “Madame Butterfly.” Zeffin Quin Hollis, who won the Zachary Society competition a decade ago, performs “Si puo?,” the prologue of “I Pagliacci” by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, and “Ò vin dissipe la tristesse” (the drinking song) from Act

strive to make classical music relevant to II, Scene 1 of “Hamlet” by Ambroise a wider range of contemporary audiences.

Thomas.

Reznik has packed Carnegie Hall and With several singers performing a shared the stage with the L.A. Phil, total of 18 pieces of music as opposed but she’s also performed with Carrie to the typical four or five, “Opera at the Shore” “requires a lot more rehearsal and Underwood during the American Country Music Awards and was a featured musical maneuvering, and every singer does it a guest on “The Late, Late Show with Craig different way,” Fetta said.

Ferguson.”

Still, Fetta aims to keep the music “She’s a powerful pianist and person accessible: “I want people to know that but she’s gorgeous,” Fetta said of Reznik, opera is also sung in English,” he said. with whom he will explore the movie “This concert is sure to be a treat for music theme. opera fans old and new,” said Harris, The program pays homage to Hollywood a former Westsider making a return with pieces such as Gershwin’s appearance. She also sings Rusalka’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” as featured in the “Song to the Moon,” from a Czech opening of Woody Allen’s “Manhattan,” opera by Dvorak based on “The Little the sequel to “Fantasia,” and most Mermaid,” which she called “sublime recently, in the Leonardo DiCapriomusic, rich and gorgeous; one of the starring “The Great Gatsby.” pieces that made me want to become a “The orchestra part for that is fantastic,” singer.”

Fetta said.

Hollis, who also duets with Deonarine Returning to DiCaprio, music from on “Las Traviata,” looks forward to James Cameron’s “Titanic” will surface reuniting with Maestro Fetta. on the bill, as well as “The Wizard of “We have done “La Bohème” and “La Oz” standard “Over the Rainbow” and “a Traviata” at the Redlands Bowl Opera and many concerts and recitals together,” chunk of ‘Star Wars,’” Fetta said.

Less obvious choices include the Richard the baritone said.

Addinsell-composed “Warsaw Concerto” On July 24, Fetta welcomes William from the British movie “Dangerous Hagen, a 22-year-old violin virtuoso Squadron.” with whom he collaborated on the “The producers asked Rachmaninoff if Mendelssohn violin concerto at the they could use his ‘Full Moon and Empty Redlands Bowl. Hagen will perform the Tchaikovsky violin concerto at Marina del Arms’ [featured in Billy Wilder’s “The Seven Year Itch” and Clint Eastwood’s Rey. “His playing is spot-on. It’s exciting and “The Hereafter”] but he demanded too much money,” Fetta said. it’s elegant,” Fetta said.

With Sergio Leone’s “A Fistful of On Aug.7, he welcomes pianist Yana Dollars” celebrating its 50th anniversary Reznik, a versatile musician whose innovative and captivating performances this year, this summer could have been

the opportunity to interpret Ennio Morricone’s classic Spaghetti Western compositions, but obtaining permissions for that music is also difficult, he said.

While one might think getting the rights to play John Williams’ “Star Wars” score would also be tricky, Fetta said getting clearances to perform Williams’ themes such as “Superman,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” and “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” is actually a lot easier than going through the estates of Gershwin or Bernard Herrmann or navigating European publishers for the Morricone material.

Through a friendship with movie composer Craig Safan, the symphony will also perform Safan’s overture from the 1985 action/adventure film “Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins.”

When Fetta is not leading the Summer Symphony, he conducts myriad orchestras and engagements, including the Redlands Bowl (since 1985), San Bernardino Symphony at California Theatre, Culver City Symphony and, closer to his Eagle Rock home, Pasadena Symphony.

But with Marina del Rey’s free summer waterbus service, there’s something special about the experience at Chace Park, he said.

“The ambiance of having a boat bring you to the concert —there’s no place else in town that does that.” ª “Symphonic Thursdays” concerts begin at 7 p.m. at Burton Chace Park, 13650 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey. Call (310) 305-9595 or visit chacepark.com. michael@argonautnews.com July 10, 2014 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 13

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oats are often in my daydreams, seldom in my days; I enjoy every chance I can get to go out on the waves but have few friends with the same interest, and none who own watercraft. I am left to gaze at sailboats longingly, imagining afternoons under canvas and the rocking of the swells. I enjoy seeing them even at the dock with sails furled, and imagine them waiting impatiently for a captain and crew.

This doesn’t mean that I’m always a fan of waterfront restaurants, since some rely on location and tourist trade and get away with food and service that is distinctly substandard. I always arrive at dockside places with a mixture of hope and wariness, and I am always happy when the experience is positive.

I have passed Tony P’s Dockside Grill many times and always meant to drop in. The place is co-owned by Marina del Rey impresario Tony Palermo, who headed a Hard Rock Café kitchen, and former five-star executive chef Dan Ringwood — so certainly the culinary skills were there somewhere. When we dropped by one sweltering afternoon, the first impression didn’t tell me much except that it’s a big place with an extensive beer list. There’s selection of Belgian ales and other delights that would do credit to a gastropub. This isn’t a gastropub menu, though — instead of self-consciously modern items, the list is heavy on classics like pastas, pizzas, seafood and steaks.

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gallo. The cocktail was good save that the avocado was cut too large — each bite was all avocado or none, which is fine if you want to alternate, but we would have preferred the flavors blended. The quesadilla was more noteworthy, with lots of smoky, sweet pork along with a smattering of onion and cheese. And not the typical overabundance of the latter; standard quesadillas are mostly cheese with protein for flavoring, but this was the opposite. This was a juicy, knife-and-fork starter, not finger food.

We paired the quesadilla with summer day libations of Ace pear cider and Great White Belgian-style wheat beer. The cider was a pleasant sweet-tart drink, the beer scented with citrus and coriander, and both were great for beating the heat.

When we ordered I opted for a small Caesar salad, both because it sounded refreshing and because Caesars tell me a lot about a kitchen. This one had a very good robust dressing with generous amounts of parmesan but was a bit heavy on the croutons — good, homemade croutons, but still a touch too many.

For main courses my wife chose an ahi tuna sandwich and fries while I picked the Spicy Louisiana Seafood Creole, which was surprisingly true to its name. Creole flavors are less assertive than Cajun, and this had a good mix of mussels, clams, shrimp and fish accented

by warm flavors of bell and red pepper. It wasn’t really hot, even cumulatively, but savory and bright. I liked that it was served over mixed pilaf rather than white rice, which added a dimension of texture. The portion was ample, and I took half home to enjoy for an eyeopening breakfast the next day.

My wife’s sandwich was simple but very well executed — a big chunk of fish seared just past rare on a brioche bun, with mixed lettuces, tomato and roasted onion. The skinny fries arrived hot and crisp, and the coleslaw on the side was lightly dressed and tangy rather than being drenched in mayonnaise.

Desserts were offered, and under most circumstances we would have jumped at the idea, since Ringwood made his mark as a pastry chef. Alas, we were too full, but we'll save room on a future trip. The food here is good, and prices not unreasonable; our bountiful lunch for two with appetizers and drinks ran $30 per person.

As a bonus, any time I come back I can rely on a nice view of boats to fuel my dreams of seamanship. ª Tony P’s is open from 11:30 a.m. to 9:45 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 11:30 a.m. to 10:45 p.m. Fridays, 9 a.m. to midnight on Saturdays and 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Sundays.

Full bar; corkage $12. Some vegetarian items. Ample lot parking; wheelchair access good. Menu online.

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This Saturday’s class, “Start with Determination,” pairs Lou with Yogaworks Yoga’s Mike Dunlavy. Next weekend’s “Habits for Longevity” features Carla, an author, with Equinox instructors, and on July 25 Shannon (CEO of FerrignoFIT) teams with Nike master trainer Joselynne Boschen for a session titled “Stop Self-Sabotage.”

Leading classes on the pier is something of a full-circle moment for Lou, who in 1976 spent a perilous week living under the iconic structure before launching his world champion bodybuilder career, which quickly evolved into TV stardom.

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Abbott Kinney Boulevard’s venerable martini lounge and pool hall kicks off its “Live Blues and Soul” nights every Wednesday.

With Jeff Young (July 20), and Toshi Yanagi (July 27) rounding out the series’ first month. Free admission. The Brig, 1515 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice. (310) 3997537; thebrig.com

Monday, July 14 The Creative Kidz Dance and Musical Theatre Camp, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Offered for the weeks of July 7, 14, and 21 and designed for ages five through 12, it will introduce students to the basic principles of performing. Each day will comprise of a warmup, dance, theater technique and vocabulary, and more.

Programs vary from half-day theater camp to full weeks of ballet and contemporary dance training. The morning session is from 9 a.m. to noon and the afternoon session from 1 to 4 p.m. Interested performers can sign up for the morning session, afternoon session, or both.

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Indie and art rock under the stars: Cults, James Supercave kick off Twilight Concert Series Indie rock duo Cults and artrock quintet James Supercave perform tonight to launch the free Twilight Concert Series on Santa Monica Pier.

San Diego natives Brian Oblivion and Madeline Follin, both 24, recast themselves as New Yorkers to build a sturdy following as Cults, recording two albums in the last four years.

According to Cults, television has been a huge influence — both sonically and thematically — on their latest album, “Static.” Oblivion reportedly owns five TV sets and borrowed his stage moniker from a David Cronenberg character in “Videodrome” who appears only as a face on a television screen and book-ends the

every Monday at Danny’s Venice, 23 Windward Ave., Venice. No cover. (310) 5665610; dannysvenice.com

Tuesday, July 15 Tidewater Goby Exhibit, 2 p.m. The tidewater goby, an endangered species featured in only one other aquarium in the nation, takes center stage in a special exhibit alongside 100 other species of local marine life at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium. The aquarium is open from 2 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends. $5; kids 12 and under free. (310) 3936149; healthebay.org

Life Drawing Tuesdays, 7 to 9:30 p.m. YWCA offers uninstructed life drawing classes with diverse models each Learn to Knit, 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday. $14 per week or buy Knitting classes every Monday four sessions at discount. YWCA at Santa Monica Public Library, Santa Monica/Westside, 2019 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa 14th St., Santa Monica. (310) Monica. Bring supplies. (310) 452-3881; smywca.org 458-8600; smpl.org

The Other Side of the Room Stand Up Mondays, 8 to 10 p.m. Live comedy shows happen Acoustic Tuesdays, 9:30

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“There’s a feeling our generation has. The feeling there’s always something better around the corner, that everyone is born to be a star. The feeling that life is waiting for you, and yet it’s not happening. All of that is static,” Oblivion said in a statement about “Static.”

Expect to hear Follin’s otherworldly voice float atop “Static” cuts as well as Cults’ cinematic 2010 debut single, “Go Outside.”

Opening for Cults, and thus technically kicking off the entire concert series, is James Supercave, touring after a March residency at The Echo in their native Echo Park.

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Wednesday, July 16 Speakers By the Sea Toastmasters Club, 11 a.m. to noon. Improve your skills for public speaking. 12000 Vista del Mar, Conf. Room 230A, Playa del Rey. (310) 559 2834 Sunset Live, 7 p.m. This waterfront music series features emerging singer/songwriters and bands under the stars, with extended happy hour until the sun goes down. For bookings, contact jason@hlpresents.com.

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A home on Tivoli Avenue (left and right) and a backyard garden on Stewart Avenue (center) uses stone paving to accent native plant displays

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By Claire Kaufman What previously was a cramped yard with nothing but a nondescript, eroding path and grass that needed constant watering is now a water-tolerant paradise.

A flat stone walkway weaves through the garden, interspersed with decomposed granite and lined with colorful bursts of salvia and lavender. Logs crackle in the outdoor fire pit as water shimmers down a six-foot wall. Adjacent to the swaying Japanese and weeping maple trees, a wraparound staircase leads up to majestic French doors through which the whole garden can be viewed from indoors.

This garden on Stewart Avenue in Mar Vista is just one example of the growing movement toward eco-friendly landscape design. Socially and environmentally aware Westside homeowners are taking control of their carbon footprint — and ballooning water bills — as they move away from glistening bright-green lawns and toward succulent-filled havens with edgy water-saving technologies and edible gardens.

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Levine, who oversaw the Stewart Avenue garden’s transition.

Experimentation is key in creating playful and funky drought tolerant gardens, Levine says. The real fun comes after tearing out the lawn, when creative possibilities for refilling the space seem to be endless.

Any and all organic materials are fair game, including plants, rocks, boulders, decomposed granite, pottery and succulents. In fact, Levine explains that she often constructs fountains for her clients out of pottery and salt stone. In her own backyard, Levine has a “pond-less waterfall,” which recirculates and filters water to prevent waste.

In stark contrast to the uni-color spiny cactus gardens of the past, landscapers are using succulents of multiple hues and tones. Levine even chooses to use florae from the Mediterranean belt, which “come in a great, colorful variety and don’t require a lot of water,” she says.

Other than the vibrant lavenders and effervescent roses, Levine tries to seek out exotic “showstopper” plants, such as spider lilies and black lilies. Her favorite plant is Dracunculus Vulgaris (also known as the dragon arum or voodoo lily), a genus from the Mediterranean that blooms once per year, revealing a long, fleshy

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Edible gardens are becoming characteristic of the new trend in landscape design. Due in large part to the local and organic food movement, Westsiders are more conscious of the “food miles” their produce travels to their tables. Instead of a simple “carrotand-turnip” planter box, Levine suggests taking vegetables and intermixing them with flowers “to create a funky, bursting color palate that makes the garden more interesting.”

The options for water-saving technologies don’t stop at drip irrigation —new, innovative sprinklers such as MP Rotators and bubbler nozzles are an increasingly popular choice for their efficiency and higher aesthetic appeal. Techniques to curtail runoff and unnecessary spray range from staggering sprinkler timers to allow the water time to soak in to grouping plants in distinct zones according to water needs.

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“With expansive ocean views and just minutes from Silicon Beach, this Hamptons-style beach house defines Playa del Rey coastal living,” says agent Stephanie Younger. “The feeling of gracious yet relaxed elegance begins at the friendly Dutch door, which opens to a grand foyer leading to the great room with dramatic coffered ceilings, a stunning stone fireplace, ebony-colored wood floors, and views from every window. The astounding chef’s kitchen with custom cabinetry and Viking appliances has an expansive marble topped island, anchoring the kitchen as this home’s gathering place. A wall of French doors provides an outdoor escape to the pool, spa and 180 degrees of ocean view. A sweeping staircase leads to the guest suite with generous outdoor patio and views toward Catalina, and then to the luxurious master retreat with soaring ceilings, cozy fireplace, and two ocean view balconies. The master bath has divine countertops, stunning glass shower and a jetted tub for pure relaxation.

Featuring two additional beds and baths, an office with wall to wall custom cabinetry, exquisite details and views from every room, this spectacular home offers the finest of coastal California living.” www.261redlandsstreet.com

The property is offered at $2,399,000.

Information, Stephanie Younger, Teles Properties, (424) 203-1828.

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Irene Suico Soriano writes poetry in search of community

By Michael Aushenker Los Angeles is nothing if not multicultural.

There are at least 224 identified languages spoken throughout L.A. County, according to UCLA languages professor Vyacheslav Ivanov (via Los Angeles Almanac). The City of Angels is home to the second-largest Korean population outside of Seoul and, at nearly 700,000, Los Angeles has the world’s fifthlargest Jewish population.

African-American, Mexican-American, Asian-American, Native-American — so many here have a hyphenated descriptor that to ignore this city’s demographic mix is to deny our city’s strengths and the inevitable ethnic overlap in art and culture.

One person paying attention to these dashes as cultural connectors: Aaron Paley, organizer of “Along the Hyphen,” a three-tier poetry event kicking off Sunday at Beyond Baroque.

A collaboration between Jewish-American musician Joseph DeRusha and various poets, the program sets to music the verse of AfricanAmerican wordsmith Kamau Daáood, East Los Angeles-based performance artist Marisela Norte and Filipina-American Irene Suico Soriano, with Korean-American Doc Whisper emceeing the event.

The universal themes of these works, illuminated through rich culture-specific detail, range from social justice to relationships.

“I was looking to combine spoken word artists of different generations, communities and styles,” Paley said. “On top of that, I wanted to weave in a musical voice that was expressively Jewish, so that the Jewish voice in this particular collaboration comes through the music.”

“Along the Hyphen” is part of a larger citywide series of cross-cultural collaborations sponsored by the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles. The program continues on Aug. 17 at Breed Street Shul — a synagogue representing the remnants of Boyle Heights’ original Jewish population

that has been overhauled into a state-of-theart destination for the neighborhood’s current Latino community — and culminates on Sept.

14 with a festival at the historic Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Koreatown.

Soriano, 45, hails from East Hollywood, near one of Southern California’s thriving Filipino districts.

“A lot of my work reflects the community I come from,” she said, commenting, for example, on relationships between the rich and their caretakers, with the nursing industry a major gateway globally for immigrants from the Philippines.

It was while attending Loyola Marymount University in Westchester that Soriano discovered her artistic direction. The creative writing major credits her professor, Gail Ronsky, for encouraging her poetry.

“She took me seriously. She was always very supportive. I kind of blossomed,” Soriano said.

“After college, I wanted to find community,” she said of a personal and cultural writing quest that intensified following her father’s 2001 death.

Soriano got involved in “Hyphen” thanks to her longtime mentor figure Norte, with whom she has never shared a stage before.

And there’s another full-circle moment coming Sunday: returning to Beyond Baroque, “the first public venue I went to [after college]. So it’s a very nice coming back,” she said.

Soriano, whose work appears in such poetry collections as “Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry,” describes herself as a poet who is “more on the page, to be read — I don’t really have experience setting it to music.”

Comfortable in her own skin, Soriano, who drops the term “person of color” often in conversation, does not bristle from the risk of being pigeonholed.

“It’s a choice. I’m proud to be a woman of color,” she said.

What she finds mortifying is “performing” her poetry, including works such as “Frederick,” a portrait in text of a lonely San Fernando Valley soul drowning in alcohol and memories of the Philippines of his youth.

Proud of her writings, Soriano believes the unprecedented collaborative performance component of her appearance is a gamble worth exploring.

“When people hear me read, they say I’m a really good storyteller,” Soriano said, adding point blank, “ultimately, if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work.”

As for any autobiographical aspects to her art, yes and no: “It’s really about everything I know and the stories told to me. Nothing is pure,” she said.

Paley identifies another challenge for Soriano and her fellow “Hyphen” poets: defying expectations that come with stereotypes.

With an African-American poet, for example, “there’s a certain idea of what they should say and what they represent. What I’m hoping to do is challenge people’s assumptions of ª stereotypes and each other.”

“Along the Hyphen” runs from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd, Venice. Free. Call (310) 822-3006 or visit beyondbaroque.org. michael@argonautnews.com

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“Cinema at the Edge is such an important film festival because it specifically focuses on new and emerging filmmakers,” said Natalie Metzger, producer of the film “Out of Her Element,” which A scene from Clare Fog’s “Improvising,” a feature-length comedy chronicles a circle of old screening during Cinema at the Edge friends whose chance reunion “Transformers” sequel over smaller, more unlocks their inner demons. personal fare, the festival’s modestly budgeted The film was directed by Santa Monica resident Diane Lansing who studied movies have their makers thinking about their acting with Larry Moss on the Third own self-purpose.

Street Promenade and attended a two-year "I've always been told to write what I want screenwriters’ boot camp at Bergamot Station. to see," Lansing said. "The more intimate, Teferi Seifu, also a Santa Monica resident, character-driven stories are what resonate with offers “No Actors Allowed,” in which two me, yet I like to think there is room for all of lovers’ relationship derails while they star in a production of Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull.” us."

“I feel that Hollywood needs to tone down For “A Star for a Rose,” shot partly in Santa the remakes and sequels. They are so afraid of Monica and for a total $10,000, Daniel Yost losing money they will turn down a great new landed actual stars: “Fame” actress and choreographer Debbie Allen and “The Deer drama, family, or tent pole script to ensure a Hunter” star John Savage. In Yost’s film, Allen profit,” said filmmaker Alexander G. Seyum, plays a woman living in a cardboard box while whose “Shadow in the Wind” screens during Savage portrays a wheelchair-bound Gulf War Cinema at the Edge. veteran.

But Seyum isn’t exactly mourning the loss of Coinciding with the festival (hosted by indie filmmaking, which he described as “in a Tanya Memme of A&E’s “Sell This House”) new era” in which digital technology has made is “Under One Sky,” the first artistic still filmmaking more accessible. photography exhibition by motion picture Based on festivals that he’s attended, “Lost photographer Michael Desmond.

Music” screenwriter Dale Griffith Stamos is A Marina del Rey resident of 13 years, Desmond forged a friendship with film unit heartened by the current state of cinema. photographer Richard Foreman (“No Country “The art form is alive and well and much for Old Men,” “Mission Impossible: II”) after of it is being produced independently,” said a friend helped him onto the set of the 2000 Stamos, whose film deals with the effects of John Travolta movie “Lucky Number.” That Alzheimer’s disease and stars Emmy-winning became Desmond’s lucky number, as Foreman actress Barbara Bain (“Mission: Impossible”). helped him forge his own unit photography “Movies used to be both art and commerce. career. Desmond has shot on “Weeds,””House Today, the majority of studio movies are of Lies,” “Masters of Sex, “Grey’s Anatomy” only commerce, products to sell along with and “NCIS: Los Angeles” as well as for processed food, processed drugs [and] an Puppy Chow, Coca-Cola and Carl’s Jr. advertisements. endless parade of not-needed objects,” Yost “It was a dream for me to do what I do and a said. "One studio executive recently told me he very long, challenging process to get there,” won’t watch what his own studio makes and Desmond said. “When you spend 12 or 14 releases. He only wants to see human stories." hours on the set, you better love what you do!”

Perhaps a good start for said executive would The 15 portraits in Desmond’s “Under ª be this weekend’s “Cinema at the Edge.”

One Sky” come from some 10,000 images Festival screenings run Friday through Desmond took while traveling around the Sunday and “Under One Sky” opens from 5 to globe.

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NO. 427630 IN THE PROBATE COURT NO. THREE (3) HARRIS COUNTy, TEXAS IN THE ESTATE OF BERTHA DAVID FOSTER, DECEASED ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR SERVICE By PUBlICATION You are hereby commanded to summon the unknown heirs of BERTHA DAVID FOSTER, DECEASED, all of those whose names and residences and whereabouts are unknown to the plaintiff, THAIS AMARAL TELLAWI, by making publication of this citation once, at least ten days previous to the return day hereof, in some newspaper, published in your county, to appear at the next regular term of the Probate Court No. Three (3) of Haris County, Texas, after service has been perfected, to be holden on the courthouse thereof, in Houston, Texas, the same being Monday, July 21, 2014, then and there to answer a petition filed in said court on APRIL 15, 2014, in probate action now pending in said court in the above numbered and styled estate on the probabte docket of said court, wherein THAIS AMARAL TELLAWI, is plaintiff and the unknown heirs of said BERTHA DAVID FOSTER, DECEASED are the defendants; said petition containing allegations as is shown in the attached copy of said petition.

Herein fail not, but have you before said court, at the time aforesaid, this writ your return thereon, showing how you have executed the same.

Issued and given under my hand of said court, at Houston, Texas, this 7th day of July, 2014 STAN SNART, County Clerk Probate Court No. Three (3) 201 Caroline, Room 800 harris County, Texas.

ATTORNEY: THAIS AMARAL TELLAWI 2519 SOUTH BLVD. 2ND FLOOR HOUSTON, TEXAS 77098 (832) 295-0770 PUBLISHED: The Argonaut 07/10/2014 SUPERIOR COURT OF CAlIFORNIA, COUNTy OF lOS ANGElES, SUMMONS CASE NUMBER SC122167 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: Triumphant Entertainment, a corporation, YOU ARE BEING SUED

BY PLAINTIFF: Maria Mashkova DATED: June 11, 2014 NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper

legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court's lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. The name and address of the court is: Santa Monica Courthouse 1725 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA. 90401 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: Eugene Rome of Rome & Associates, APC 2029 Century Park East, Suite 1040 Los Angeles, CA. 90067 DATE: June 11, 2014 Sherri Carter, Executive Officer/Clerk by Nancy Lee, Deputy PUBLISH: The Argonaut June 19, 26, July 3, and 10, 2014.

SUPERIOR COURT OF CAlIFORNIA, COUNTy OF lOS ANGElES, SUMMONS CASE NUMBER SC122167 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: Triumphant Pictures, a corporation, YOU ARE BEING SUED

BY PLAINTIFF: Maria Mashkova DATED: June 11, 2014 NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court's lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. The name and address of the court is: Santa Monica Courthouse 1725 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA. 90401 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: Eugene Rome of Rome & Associates, APC 2029 Century Park East, Suite 1040 Los Angeles, CA. 90067 DATE: June 11, 2014 Sherri Carter, Executive Officer/Clerk by Nancy Lee, Deputy PUBLISH: The Argonaut June 19, 26, July 3, and July 10, 2014.

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LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

“DOUBLE TALK” By ED SESSA (Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis)

ACROSS 1 Be a slacker 6 Soft-bodied swimmers 12 Kin of raspberries 20 One may be seen with glasses 21 Forgoes 22 Like sloths 23 “Uh-oh, there’s a ball and glass shards under the window”?

25 “No sweat” 26 Prohibited 27 Organ with a drum 28 Small strings on the Big Island 30 Presages 31 Destroys, as illusions 33 Forced with a crowbar 35 68-Down maker 36 __Kosh B’Gosh 37 Rhone feeder 38 “The Great Schnozzola” 41 Taj Mahal setting 45 “Give 20% for great service”?

48 St. leader 49 Dull-edged 51 Trekkie, to some 52 Get into 53 “__ se habla español” 54 Wrigley’s Big Red flavoring 56 Silver lining 59 Pitch 60 RR stop 61 “You shoulda seen the one that got away”?

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opener 69 Jamboree quarters 70 “The children were angels and in bed by eight”?

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4 “__, Therefore I Am”: Dennis Miller book 5 Become fond of 6 Possess 7 Cockatoo quarters 8 ’90s “New Yorker” editor Brown 9 Didn’t shop around, maybe 10 Benchlike seat 11 Distributing 12 Liked, with “for” 13 Greek war god 14 Not decided, in skeds 15 Comic with a satiric news show 16 Colorful ring 17 “Who’s ahead?”?

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LEGAL ADVERTISING SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, SUMMONS CASE NUMBER SC122167 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: Cecil Chambers, an individual, YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: Maria Mashkova DATED: June 11, 2014 NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff.

A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response.

You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case.

The court's lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. The name and address of the court is: Santa Monica Courthouse 1725 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA. 90401 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: Eugene Rome of Rome & Associates, APC 2029 Century Park East, Suite 1040 Los Angeles, CA. 90067 DATE: June 11, 2014 Sherri Carter, Executive Officer/ Clerk by Nancy Lee, Deputy PUBLISH: The Argonaut June 19, 26, July 3, and July 10, 2014.

In The Court Of Common Pleas Of Delaware County, Pennsylvania Civil Division NO.12-1042 Complaint In Divorce Tiabi T. Berhe Vs. Abraham TecleTo: Abraham Tecle; Take NOTICE that Plaintiff, Tiabi T Berhe has filed a Complaint in Divorce endorsed with a Notice to Defend, against you in the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, docketed at 12-1042, wherein Plaintiff seeks a Divorce Decree. NOTICE you have been sued in Court. If you wish to defend against the claims set forth in the following pages, you must take prompt action. You are warned that if you fail to do so, the case may proceed without you and a decree of divorce or annulment may be entered against you by the Court. A judgment may also be entered against you for any other claims or relief requested in these papers by the Plaintiff. You may also lose money or property, or other right important to you, including custody or visitation of your child. When the ground for divorce is indignities or irretrievable breakdown of the marriage, you may request marriage counseling. A list of marriage counselors Is available in the Office of Judicial Support at Delaware County Court of Common Pleas Office of Judicial Support 201 West Front Street Media, PA. 19063.

IF YOU DO NOT FILE A CLAIM FOR ALIMONY, DIVISION OF PROPERTY, LAWYERS'S FEES OR EXPENSES, BEFORE DIVORCE OR ANNULMENT IS GRNTED, YOU MAY LOSE THE RIGHT TO CLAIM ANY OF THEM. YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS PAPER TO YOUR LAWYER AT ONCE. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A LAWYER, GO TO OR TELEPHONE THE OFFICE SET FORTH BELOW. THIS OFFICE CAN PROVIDE YOU WITH INFORMATION ABOUT HIRING A LAWYER. IF YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO HIRE A LAWYER, THIS OFFICE MAY BE ABLE TO PROVIDE YOU WITH INFORMATION ABOUT AGENCIES THAT MAY OFFER LEGAL SERVICE TO ELIGIBLE PERSONS AT A REDUCED FEE OR NO FEE. Lawyer's Reference Service Delaware County Bar Association Front & Lemon Streets Media, PA. 19063. 610-566-6625. Peter George Mylonas, Esquire Attorney for Plaintiff Law Offices of Peter George Mylonas, PC 2725 West Chester Pike, Broomall, PA. 19008. 610-355-1000

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