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Last week’s cover story, “Power to the Pedal: Commuting by bicycle is becoming mainstream, but are the roadways ready?” received several comments online.

On The Argonaut website, Steve Wilson writes: “You mentioned many correct things bike riders should do but never stated that they must follow all laws that autos must follow — no sidewalk riding, going in the same direction as traffic, stopping for stop signs and red lights, and NO CUTTING

THROUGH CARS AS IF THEY WERE ON A MOTORCYCLE! The latter, for motorcyclists, has created more deaths than any other state in this country.”

On the social media and storysharing website reddit, user “Winkers” writes: “If the bike lanes didn’t seemingly randomly disappear on major boulevards as soon as I bike inland a couple of miles, then I’d bike more. … I wish they’d designate a few side streets actually as ‘bike boulevards’ with the share-alane or sizable dedicated bike lanes like Pearl Avenue in Santa Monica. I think it’s crazy to see

casual cyclists sharing the road at certain places on Wilshire, Santa Monica, Bundy, Sepulveda and Olympic.”

CarneAsadaFries : “It’s definitely a chicken-and-egg problem. A lot of people don’t want to ride because bike lanes feel dangerous, exactly as you described. Thus, the demand is seemingly not there and cycling lanes get the lowest of priority.”

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Which way, Santa Monica?

The debate over possible closure of the city’s airport heats up with lawsuits and competing ballot measures

By Gary Walker and Joe Piasecki

runway as several hundred feet) have skyrocketed over the past decade, increasing 15-fold from 287 in 2004 to 4,492 last year.

Jet traffic, a lightning rod for concern, increased from 12,414 take-offs and landings in 2012 to 14,284 in 2013, but that’s still well below a peak of 18,575 in 2007.

Makrides, a city employee, traces the spike in noise complaints to a 2010 Federal Aviation Administration study that temporarily changed flight paths from the airport directly above thousands more homes.

That study alone — conducted over the objections of city officials — generated about 43,000 complaints, he said.

“People who had never complained before filed complaints during that test. It made a lot more people aware of the airport,” he said. “The annoyance factor for the human ear is not rated on a decibel level. It doesn’t matter how loud; annoyance is what triggers a complaint. Prior to the test, some people might have heard airplanes but it didn’t annoy them; now it does.”

The FAA-mandated test was just one of many battles in an ongoing airport tug-ofwar between city and federal officials. Even today, it appears the catalyst for debate isn’t

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so much a change in what’s happening at SMO as it is the escalation of an epic battle between Santa Monica City Council members and federal aviation officials for control over the airport.

The crux of the current argument boils down to interpretation of the small print on a decades-old contract between the city, which owns the airport land, and the FAA which makes the rules for air traffic operations at all airports.

Council members say the city’s obligation to keep the airport open expires a year from now, and voted 6-0 in March to pursue reducing the length of SMO’s runway and restricting airport traffic at that time.

The FAA says a 1948 agreement that transferred airport land to the city forces local officials to keep the airport in operation and that the city became obliged to keep that status quo through 2023 when it accepted federal airport maintenance grants in the 1990s.

The city lost a 2007 battle in federal court to restrict jet traffic at the airport after the FAA prevented the city from shortening the runway in order to install safety buffer zones.

In February, a judge tossed a city lawsuit filed last year that challenged the 1948 agreement

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irst came the lawsuits. Now, the ballot measures.

A years-long battle over whether to close Santa Monica Airport over noise, pollution and safety concerns is suddenly heating up, despite a precipitous decline in airport traffic over the past 14 years.

In 2000, more than 172,000 flights either took off from or landed at SMO, according to air traffic counts released by the airport. By 2006, that number had dropped to about 137,000.

By 2012 it was down to 102,000.

And for the first time in recent history, total SMO air traffic has slipped below the 100,000 mark, with only 95,152 departing or arriving in 2013 — a 45% decrease in 14 years.

The decline mirrors similar declines in propeller plane usage at other small airports, including those in Van Nuys, Camarillo and Torrance. The driving factor: “It’s expensive to fly,” said Santa Monica Airport Manager Stelios Makrides.

As airport traffic has declined, violations of the city’s 95-decibel flyover noise limit have also dropped substantially, from 527 in 2000 to 134 in 2013. But official airport noise complaints lodged with the city by residents (some living as close to the

Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart prepares for a flight from Clover Field, now Santa Monica Airport, in 1936

in order to wrest control away from the feds.

redevelopment is approved by a majority of voters. The group needs 9,100 valid signatures for its “Voters Decide Charter Ballot Measure Battle Amendment” to qualify for the Conflict over what to do with ballot. It has submitted 15,700 the airport if the city does ever pending review by the Los take control has taken a sharp Angeles County Registrar. political turn this summer.

Santa Monicans for Open and Santa Monicans for Open and Honest Development Decisions Honest Development Decisions, spokesman John Jerabek, a 16a political action committee year Santa Monica resident said with ties to the aviation industry, the city council’s push toward last month submitted signatures airport closure and history of to qualify a November city failed lawsuits justify putting the ballot measure that would keep voters directly in charge. airport land at a “low-density “The City Council has political aviation use” in perpetuity unless and economic interests, and their

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While some city leaders have expressed concern that voters may respond favorably to the allure of referendum control over any future development on airport land, others say the city measure offers a choice without challenging city power over the airport’s present use.

Councilman Bob Holbrook said during the meeting that he expects support for the pending city ballot measure by the city’s two most influential political groups — Santa Monicans for Renters Rights and the Santa Monica Democratic Club — will carry the day.

“I’ve been around Santa Monica politics a long time.

It’s really simple. Trust me, it will pass simply with those endorsements,” he said.

Councilwoman Gleam Davis said during the meeting that including wording akin to having no new development at the airport without a public vote on a city-formed redevelopment plan would make the ballot initiative more palatable to voters.

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decisions regarding the airport have been very poor,” Jerabek said.

City Council members have responded by seeking to place their own competing referendum on the November ballot.

On July 8, the council voted to pursue a ballot measure that would hold off future development decisions impacting airport land until a city-led land use plan is adopted. Some council members have also proposed giving voters the right to veto that city plan. The council is expected to vote on the exact wording of its measure on Tuesday.

“The actual direct effect of the [Santa Monicans for Open and Honest Development Decisions] measure would be to immediately deprive the council of its authority to manage the airport or close it so as to mitigate adverse impacts, and to prevent the council from exercising its authority when it becomes legally possible to effectuate a closure,” Santa Monica City Attorney Marsha

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“To me, that’s one way [to] meet some of the concerns people expressed here tonight about having something that they can say that there will be no intensification of uses without the vote of the people,” Davis said. “I think that’s an easy pitch.”

State Sen. Ted Lieu (DTorrance) who has convened hearings airport-related pollution, is also backing the city’s approach.

“The aviation measure is simply an attempt to maintain the status quo, and to me that is unacceptable,” said Lieu, the Democratic nominee to replace Rep. Henry Waxman in Congress. “I support having the voters having a say in how the land at the airport is developed, should the agreement with the FAA expire next year.”

Lieu’s opponent, prosecutor Elan Carr, did not return calls.

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In an attempt to quash the city’s March lawsuit seeking to cut back 2,000 feet of runway space — essentially hampering the ability of many jets to utilize the airport — aviation interests filed a federal complaint on July 2 that triggers an administrative hearing before the FAA to determine the suit’s legitimacy.

The complaint was filed by the national Aircraft Owners and Pilots Assn., a handful of aviation-related businesses and several aircraft owners, including actor Harrison Ford, who keeps private planes at the airport.

“Santa Monica Airport is a vital and historic component in the California and national aviation systems and must remain open,” association President Mark Baker said. “The airport generates $275 million in local

revenue and supports 1,500 jobs [according to a 2011 analysis by city consultants], and we know that the vast majority of Santa Monica residents regard it as an asset to their city. The political games played by the city have gone on too long, and we’re hopeful that this filing will be one more successful effort in preventing the city from closing the airport in favor of redevelopment.”

Proponents for restricting airport use also have a lawsuit going—this one challenging the validity of the pro-aviation ballot measure.

The Sunset Park Anti-Pollution Group, an advocacy organization formed by Santa Monica residents of that airport-adjacent neighborhood, filed a complaint in May that the measure backed

by Santa Monicans for Open and Honest Development Decisions attempts to confuse voters.

The suit argues that the measure puts the cart before the horse by raising the specter of intensified development on airport land in order to take away the city’s power to regulate its existing use as an airport.

Empowering citizen control over development “is a nice political statement that they make, but that’s not what [their ballot measure] does,” said attorney Jonathan Stein, who represents the Sunset Park AntiPollution Group.

Stein said that the dueling November ballot measures, if they go forward, amount to a “local versus national organization fight, and fight between people living in the past and people living in the future.”

Jerabek said it’s only right that the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Assn. would step up to protect the livelihoods of pilots, flight school teachers and other aviation-related workers.

“If the City Council were considering a vote on closing

down all exit ramps on the 10 freeway, no one would be surprised if the Auto Club of Southern California got involved,” he said.

Exploring the What Ifs

If Santa Monica Airport was to close, it wouldn’t be the first airport relegated to the history books.

In 1995, Denver’s Stapleton International Airport was decommissioned and replaced

by Denver International airport.

Crissy Field in San Francisco closed in 1974 and became part of Golden Gate Park. Meigs Field Airport closed in 2003 and has since become a park and concert venue.

One popular redevelopment proposal for airport land is to turn it into a large urban park.

Frank Gruber, spokesman for the local advocacy group Airport2Park, is already backing the city-proposed ballot measure.

“The issues surrounding the airport are very complicated, and we feel that it’s not appropriate to put them [directly] before the voters,” Gruber said.

Jerabek countered that taking council members out of the picture and handing the power to voters is more democratic.

“It’s actually a very reasonable thing to do. [The city’s proposed ballot measure] takes the decision of whether the airport should close or not out of the voters’ hands,” he said. “The council has demonstrated over and over again that they are only concerned about closing down the airport without realizing who it may or may not benefit.”

The one thing both men agree on: the decision is a crucial one.

“I think that you can arguably say that [even] 50 years from now, if we are able to build a park there, it will be have been because of the decisions that we make today,” Gruber said.

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By Gary Walker The restoration of the Ballona Wetlands may be mired in seemingly endless delays, but nature is not waiting to begin writing its own comeback stories.

The El Segundo Blue Butterfly, a federally designated endangered species, has re-established itself in a small area of the wetlands about a half-mile from a fenced-in preserve in Playa del Rey owned

by Los Angeles International Airport.

Sightings of more than 100 of the butterflies have given naturalists and biologists hope that, with the proper habitat conditions, other species may return to the 600-acre wetland, which is slated for a full-fledge restoration by the state Dept. of Fish and Wildlife and the California Coastal Conservancy.

The rare butterflies’ population in the wetlands has steadily increased over the past three years, said nature biologist Irena Mendez. Earlier this summer, naturalists counted 117 of the thumbnail-sized insects where years ago there were none.

“Last year, we did an official count at the height of the flight season and we counted 61 [last] July,” she said. “Between now and the end of this year’s flight season, we are expecting more butterflies.”

The return of the El Segundo Blues coincides with targeted plantings of their sole food source — coastal buckwheat —

and environmental conditions in the wetlands that have created optimal breeding conditions, Mendez said.

For the past several years, the nonprofit Friends of the Ballona Wetlands has been restoring sand dune ecosystems by removing non-native plants in wetland areas west of Culver Boulevard in Playa del Rey. The efforts have involved an intensive removal of invasive ice plant in order to allow the native coastal buckwheat to grow, said Friends of the Ballona Wetlands Executive Director Lisa Fimiani.

The larger story of the El Segundo Blue Butterfly has been an optimistic one for several years, but has recently encountered a major backslide, making the species’ return to the wetlands all the more important for its survival.

A 2012 count by entomologist Richard Arnold noted a population increase from about 120,000 in 2010 to roughly 126,000 in the LAX-maintained preserve.

Last year’s LAX survey, however, showed a dramatic decline — an estimated 45,000 butterflies.

“We believe the recent drought has caused the substantial decline in the estimated numbers of the El Segundo Blue population,” Los Angeles World Airports spokesman Marshall Lowe said.

That problem, naturally, can be traced back to the buckwheat.

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During her volunteer butterfly surveys in the wetlands, Mendez found El Segundo Blues present a week earlier than expected, also due to climate.

“The rain in March and the warm weather were sufficient for these buckwheat to bloom early,” she said, explaining that the butterflies’ flight season usually doesn’t start until July.

During a recent trip to the wetlands, several of the fragile, typically blue- and orange-tinged butterflies were seen fluttering between buckwheat plants, some of them mating.

There are only four locations in the world where the El Segundo Blue butterfly exists: Palos Verdes, a coastal area along the border of Torrance and Redondo Beach, the LAX preserve and now the Ballona Wetlands.

Mendez, citing a 1991 study conducted by ecologist Rudolph Mattoni, who worked to establish the LAX preserve, said the El Segundo Blue is not a highly migratory butterfly. Therefore, the belief is that the wetlands butterflies moved west from the LAX preserve.

“Since there were no butterflies here four years ago, they would have to have come from the LAX dunes,” Mendez said.

Fortuitous winds may have also played a role in getting the El Segundo Blues to come north.

Mattoni’s report had envisioned the wetlands in Playa del Rey as a potential repopulation area, but

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A male and female El Segundo Blue Butterfly mingle on a buckwheat plant in the Ballona Wetlands

A female El Segundo Blue deposits her eggs in the flowers of a buckwheat plant

found that the butterflies seldom travel more than 650 feet in search of food sources.

Naturalist Tracy Drake, who photographed an El Segundo Blue in the wetlands on June 30, has been involved in guiding the butterfly survey efforts in the wetlands and is ecstatic about the new numbers.

“It shows that restoration really works,” said Drake, the manager of the Madrona Marsh Preserve Center in Torrance.

The El Segundo Blue is not the only species that has made a comeback in the wetlands.

A male and female California gnatcatcher, a bird that had been listed as a threatened species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for 20 years, were seen last year in the wetlands and have since had babies.

The Orcutt’s Yellow Pincushion made its colorful return in 2009 to the Ballona Peninsula, where scientists say it had not been seen in over a century. The dune flower is listed as a “1.B.1” by the California Native Plant Society, which means the flower is rare, threatened or endangered. Several were also later found in 2011 near the area of the wetlands in which the El Segundo Blue appears to now be flourishing.

The Least Bell’s Vireo, a native bird considered an endangered species, returned to the area in 2010, building nests in the freshwater marsh at Playa Vista and in the Ballona Wetlands west

of Lincoln Boulevard.

“We can definitely say that the restoration work in the western dunes has brought back the El Segundo Blue Butterfly. They need a very specific plant, dune buckwheat, to survive, and the Friends of Ballona Wetlands have actively planted that species to give the endangered butterfly additional habitat,” said Karina Johnston, a restoration biologist and watershed programs manager for the nonprofit Bay Foundation.

“The Least Bell's Vireo has used the restored riparian corridor, so planting natives there and restoring the corridor likely had some positive effects on the vireo.”

The female El Segundo Blue lays between 80 to 100 eggs within a single flower, said Mendez. After the eggs hatch, the caterpillars feed on the flowers’ pollen and begin metamorphosis.

As larvae, they burrow underneath the buckwheat to emerge from underneath the plant in spring and transform again into butterflies.

Mendez hopes the butterflies’ growing numbers will inspire wider support for restoration efforts.

“I think the potential for education and the realization that the coexistence of an endangered species with humans in an urban environment is happening here is a very important story to tell,” she said. ª gary@argonautnews.com

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Frank Masters, as seen on his porch in 2014 and in his backyard in 1954

Venice man turns 107 Frank Masters, who bought his home near the canals for $7,900 during the post-war real estate boom of 1946, recalls a time before traffic jams and a beach boardwalk made of wood

By Remy Merritt In 1907, Theodore Roosevelt was president, Henry Ford’s Model T was still an idea on paper and America was at war not with terrorism but tuberculosis.

It was also the year Venice resident Frank Masters, who turns 107 on Tuesday, was born.

Frank grew up in Detroit and was working as an aircraft maintenance troubleshooter in 1945 when, compelled by friendship and the promise of a new life in the sun, he made the decision to come west.

Al Dennis, Frank’s best friend from Detroit, had made the crosscountry journey a year earlier.

Al’s wife was sick, and he had followed a doctor’s orders to find a more hospitable climate: Try California.

Despite being more than 2,200 miles apart, the two friends stayed in touch, Frank receiving a relentless stream of letters from Al that always said, “Come to California, I’ve got a job for you.”

Eventually, Frank gave in. The story plays out in the mind’s eye like a scene from a movie. One mid-September evening, as Frank recalled last week, “I asked my wife, ‘How would you like to go to California?’ She said, ‘That’s my heart’s desire.’ So I said, ‘Okay, I’ll tell you what we do.

Get ready. Tomorrow morning, we leave for California.’” With two young daughters in tow, one celebrating her second birthday on the road, the Masters family spent a leisurely 11 days driving from the Motor City to Santa Monica, or, as Frank described it,

“the end of the road.”

The family initially stayed with Al as Frank searched for a home, which proved a significant challenge as GIs returning from World War II created a real estate bubble in the Los Angeles area.

“There wasn’t a house to rent for miles,” Frank recalled.

A few months later in early 1946, through the real estate agent father of one of his daughter’s new friends, Frank put money down on a 900 squarefoot Craftsman on 28th Avenue in Venice, about two blocks from the Venice canals. The purchase price was $7,900, about the same as $96,000 in 2014 currency.

The two-bedroom, one bath home with a tiny front porch and small backyard hasn’t changed much since Frank bought it.

During the interview, he sat in a beige leather chair next to his bed near the front door.

For the first few decades that Frank and his family called the area home, the Venice shoreline was more of a locals’ beach than an international destination.

“The boardwalk had real boards, all two-by-four planks,” Frank said. He also recalled a theater on the sand and stores and restaurants along the boardwalk that faced either the street or the ocean.

“The houses on the canals were worth nothing, originally.

They were all little shacks,” said Frank’s daughter Louise DuBois, who attended St. Monica Catholic High School while her sister attended Venice High.

The gentrification of Venice through an influx of new money

— and not just recently, but over generations — is a tender spot for Frank.

“When we moved here, you were lucky to see four cars a day.

Now there are hundreds. That gripes me,” he said.

And that job Al had promised?

He made good on it.

Al owned Central Refrigeration, a major appliance repair shop originally located on Main Street in Santa Monica’s Ocean Park neighborhood that later moved to Lincoln Boulevard in Venice before Al’s son took over the shop and subdivided the property after Al died in 1991. Al had wanted to employ Frank for his skills in tinkering with large machines, and Frank ended up working at Central Refrigeration until he retired.

Today, Frank spends a lot of time sitting on the front porch and chatting with neighbors, and Louise keeps an eye on him. She’d bought her father a First Alert necklace, but he kept “accidentally” pushing the button and chatting with EMTs who came to check on him; he doesn’t have it anymore.

Father and daughter go out for dinner occasionally. Louise said Frank likes to look around and see how Venice has changed. For the 107-year-old, however, “all the old landmarks are gone,” she said.

Frank, however, remains in high spirits.

His advice for surpassing a century of birthdays: “Keep breathing.” ª Editor Joe Piasecki contributed to this story.

By Gary Walker The boat docks at Burton Chace Park in Marina del Rey will be getting a $15-million facelift that includes the widening of slips to accommodate larger boats.

Work at Anchorage 47, the county-owned boat parking area that surrounds the — Fred Weinhart, park, will result in 11 Santa Monica Windjammers newly reconfigured Yacht Club docks featuring foot boats, 82 slips for 26- to 253 boat slips with 30-foot boats and 60 slips for upgraded water, power and boats more than 30 feet in sewer infrastructure. The length, Baker said. county will also take over Other planned upgrades nearby Parcel 44, a privately include replacement of the operated docking area, and pedestrian walkway at the fold its 100 slips into the Burton Chace Park anchorage. Burton Chace docks with new concrete pavers, new The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors gave the fencing and security lighting project the green light on July and upgrades to the public restroom building.

8. Construction is slated to Santa Monica Windjammers begin in November and wrap Yacht Club Commodore Fred up as early as May 2016.

Los Angeles County Beaches Weinhart said the county had been slated to begin the same and Harbors spokeswoman type of infrastructure repairs Carol Baker said the boat five years ago and postponing slips and docks have been in disrepair for some time and the those upgrades has taken a toll on the club’s membership. project is part of a continuing “One of the biggest obstacles plan to give Marina del Rey to attracting new members are a much needed infrastructure amenities, and because of the upgrade.

“The idea is to have modern- condition of the docks we’ve lost a lot of members who day amenities that boaters have gone to other clubs that desire in Marina del Rey. We’re seeing other anchorages have better amenities,” he said.

Drew Curran, whose father that can accommodate high owned Cruising Yachts occupancy [vessel] rates and Unlimited/Sailboats Unlimited we want to be competitive in Marina del Rey, said with them,” Baker said. demand for larger slips has But making slips wider also means that existing space will been a trend at harbors up and down the coast. accommodate fewer of them “Marinas that are rebuilding — Anchorage 47 will lose a their docks don’t have a lot of total of 77 slips — prompting slips for small boats anymore,” critics to accuse the county he said. of catering to more affluent Weinhart said his club seafarers while gentrifying had pushed for a balanced small boat owners out of approach.

Marina del Rey. “The original plan called Officials counter that the majority of the vacant slips in for even more reductions, but Marina del Rey anchorages are we were able to convince the county not to have as many,” for boats smaller than 35 feet while demand for slips that can he said. However, “We’re seeing members who want to accommodate larger, longer join our club asking for the vessels is increasing. larger and wider boat slips.” ª The new Anchorage 47 will gary@argonautnews.com feature 98 slips for 20- to 25-

“We’re seeing members who want to join our club asking for the larger and wider boat slips.”

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Rod’s Day raises funds and spirits Playa del Rey gathering celebrates a life cut short by cancer while working for a cure

Rod Fasone, left, and the scene at a Rod’s Day celebration at Mo’s a few years ago

By Gary Walker An avid scuba diver who was captain of his high school swim team, Rod Fasone was the picture of health. Also a promising student, he graduated from Indiana University to work in the office of Sen. Dick Lugar and spent his summers with his father in Playa del Rey, living out an active beach lifestyle.

In 1992, when Fasone was just

21 years old, his life was cut short by a virulent case of colon cancer.

In the 22 years since, Playa del Rey has gathered in July for “Rod’s Day” to celebrate Fasone’s life and raise funds for cancer research in his honor.

On Saturday, that tradition continues at Mo’s Place with an afternoon of food, drinks, raffles and a charity auction.

“We set out to do something that Rod would have wanted,” said Rod’s father, Dennis Fasone. “It’s very bittersweet, but it’s become a very fun event.”

Proceeds from the event, which runs from 3:45 p.m. to 10:45 p.m., go to support the work of Dr. Anton Bilchik’s nonprofit California Oncology Research Institute. Bilchik is also chief of medicine at the John Wayne

Cancer Institute at Saint John’s Hospital in Santa Monica.

“It’s a good thing for the community,” said Mo’s Place owner Mo Krant. Rod’s Day is about giving back and doing something that makes you feel good. There are a lot of people who in some way have been touched by cancer, and it’s something that we all need to pay attention to.”

Fasone, who now lives in Las Vegas, said he still stays in touch with many of his son’s friends, who in the early years of Rod’s Day would attend the fundraiser in droves.

“Now many of them are married and can’t always attend like they used to, but it’s always great to hear from them or see them on Rod’s Day. It’s really become a testament to his life,” Fasone said.

Fasone said his heart is warmed by the continuing generosity of Playa del Rey businesses that have hosted or otherwise supported the event for the past two decades.

“Playa del Rey is a close-knit community. The merchants and all of the people who come out to celebrate Rod’s life have made [living without Rod] easier over the years,” said Fasone, who is attending the event. ª Mo’s is at 203 Culver Blvd. in Playa del Rey. Call (310) 8226422.

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Max Neutra brings his bunnies and a menagerie of animals harboring subliminal messages to C.A.V.E. Gallery

By Michael Aushenker Max Neutra had an epiphany one day while waiting for his cappuccino at Toast.

Gazing around the West Hollywood brunch spot, Neutra “saw all these young people and wondered, ‘Don’t they have jobs?’ ‘What are they contributing to the universe?’”

When he turned that question back on himself, Neutra — for ten years an inhouse audio-video technician at Warner Music Group — realized he was meant to be an artist.

A decade later, Neutra, whose third C.A.V.E. Gallery show “Only Natural” just opened, finds himself living solely from his art.

“I pinched myself. It’s a miracle I’ve been able to do this for four years.”

Showing alongside “Homecoming,” an exhibit by New York-based artist Shai Dahan, “Only Natural” is alive with the sights and sounds of animals. Yes, sounds, as it wasn’t hard for this former technician to lend his depictions of cicadas an authentic aural component.

“It’s not just about seeing the work but hearing it,” Neutra said.

For one of his 35 acrylic images, the artist originally conjured up a horse with eight nostrils. However, “once I started drawing it, I realized it was a better idea in my head,” he said, so the horse with a fantastic nose evolved into the multipronged unicorn in “Reverse Osmosis.”

The splashes and drips on Neutra’s canvases harkens back to heroes Ralph Steadman and Pink Floyd artist Gerald Scarfe. Neutra also singles out counterculture cartoonist Robert Crumb and employs color highlights to jazz up monochromatic paintings of old typewriters and film cameras the way Wayne Thiebaud uses otherwise tacky hues to breathe life into inanimate objects.

Beyond C.A.V.E. Gallery, Neutra is no stranger to Venice. When he was born, his parents lived in an apartment across from Sidewalk Café.

At age 7, Neutra’s father relocated the family to an unfinished “three-room shack” in the New Mexico desert.

"I bathed in a round metal tub with (Continued on page 32) Photo by Karen Vandenberghe

California dreamin’ comes true Launched during a gig in Santa Monica two years ago, alt-rockers Cayucas celebrate success with a massive homecoming concert on the pier

By Michael Aushenker OK Go, Yuna, The Zombies, Lee “Scratch” Perry — Santa Monica Pier’s free summer Twilight Concert Series offers a who’s who of various music genres, but alt-rockers Cayucas, performing July 24, are the only hometown heroes headlining a night on the bill.

Led by singer-songwriter and guitarist Zach Yudin, Cayucas has forged an airy, poppy sound with upbeat-sounding songs such as “High School Lover,” the lead single from their debut album “Bigfoot.” Emerging as the band’s quintessential song, it layers haunting Brian Wilson-esque choruses over instrumentation that echoes deceptively sunny Cake tunes “You’re Never There” and “Short

Skirt/Long Jacket.”

Yet Cake was not an influence on Yudin, who is a big Beach Boys fan but also grew up listening to Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg in high school and Radiohead in college. While teaching in Japan, Yudin deepened his appreciation for electronic music, including genre kings Daft Punk, and his current listening includes Frank Ocean and Venezuelan surf folk.

Yudin, who today lives just off Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice, debuted the band during a 2012 show at the Basement Tavern (below The Victorian) in downtown Santa Monica while living a short walk from Lincoln Boulevard and Broadway.

“We had five songs down and we played all five of them,” he

recalled of that first gig. “After we’re done, they ask us, ‘Can we play the same five songs again?’”

Cayucas — including Yudin’s bassist twin brother Ben Yudin, who wrote two songs for “Bigfoot,” and touring drummer Casey Wojtalewicz — also played The Central, a now-defunct Santa Monica club, before tours across North America and Europe boosted their profile.

“We’ve been on a nonstop tour for the past year. It’s been fun but it’s been a lot of work,” Yudin said.

Nostalgia is an important part of Zach Yudin’s compositions, with themes that are mostly “nostalgic ideas from growing up in the suburbs of Northern California” — Davis, to be exact; equal (Continued on page 26)

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The avocado hit the spot too, the crust crisp around creamy and fresh-but-firm fruit, with two dipping sauces provided in case we wanted to adulterate nature.

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These thoughts were on my mind after a morning's brunch at 3 Square Café, a quirky little operation on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice. The place is owned by famed chef Hans Rockenwagner, who presumably could have his choice of spaces.

The one he picked is a bright, modern environment, but it is strangely partitioned; to get from the kitchen to tables only 15 feet away, servers have to go out a doorway, make a u-turn on a patio, then come back in another door, all while bearing plates of food. They get a great deal of exercise to go a very short distance. Other servers are going outside the restaurant and halfway around the building to serve the sidewalk tables, a situation that was almost comically inefficient.

Somehow the staff does make it work, aided by the fact that they have a devoted customer base that keeps coming back for what they call “German California cuisine.” The combination of Northern European and contemporary ideas works, and the fact that they serve breads and pastries from the neighboring Rockenwagner bakery helps. Those arrived automatically at the start of our meal — wonderful pretzel bread and blueberry mini-muffins, a tantalizing promise of delights to come.

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blowout sale and hotdog cookout at Sherman Gallery, 4039 Lincoln Blvd., Marina del Rey. (310) 3051001; shermangallery.net Susie Cakes Celebrates New Seaside Location, 1 to 4 p.m. A cupcake happy hour and two-for-one slices of cake! Continues all week at 4714 Lincoln Blvd., Marina del Rey. (310) 453-2253; susiecakes.com

Shogo Kubo Memorial Paddle Out, noon. Celebrate the life of Zephyr skateboard team member Shogo Kubo, featured in the documentary “Dogtown and Z Boys,” with a paddle out from Venice Pier. (323) 860-7949

Ross Altman, 2 p.m. Singersongwriter Altman uses his 6- and 12-string guitars, 5-string banjo and harmonica to carry on the folk traditions of Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly and Pete Seeger in a free concert at the north courtyard of the Santa Monica Public Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica.

Seating limited; first come, first served. (310) 458-8600; smpl.org

Sherman Gallery Art Sale + BBQ, noon to 4 p.m. Annual framed art

Blue Breeze, 2 p.m. Catch funk, soul and Motown sounds in the

outdoor plaza at Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 301-9900 Art Show and Benefit for Restoration of the 1929 Venice Police Station, 5 p.m. Cocktail reception for Lost Horizons, an exhibit of the work of Edward Biberman, famous for his mural on the Venice post office. $25. Funds go to the restoration of SPARC’s historic building. SPARC, 685 Venice Blvd., Venice. (310) 8229560; sparcinla.org Gregg Allman with Sturgill Simpson, 5 p.m. Southern rock superstar Allman of the Allman Brothers Band and electric bluegrass jammer Simpson perform a free outdoor concert at Annenberg Space for Photography, 2000 Avenue of the Stars, Century City. events.kcrw.com Summer 14 Hair Show, 6:30 p.m.

Event showcases the talents of Santa Monica Beauty School students. At Santa Monica College, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 4344000; smc.edu Yuna, 7 p.m. Malaysian singer stays local after her Thursday Twilight Concert Series gig to perform another free outdoor concert at Burton Chace Park, 13650 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey. Free parking.

(310) 305-9595; chacepark.com DJs and Waves, 8 p.m. Dance under the stars and enjoy special summer dinner and cocktail menus at Whiskey Red’s, 13813 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 823-4522; shanghairedsrestaurant.com

Sunday, July 20 Ultimate Louisiana Party III, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Soul, reggae, funk

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Learn more at a one-day introduction to Pacifica’s degree progams on Saturday, July 26, and attend a special Salon on Yoga and Personal Mythology.

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Adoption-focused event, featuring specialty vendors with the latest trends in couture pup fashion, pet food and services on the plaza at Westfield Century City, 10250 Santa Monica Blvd., Century City. doggiestreetfestival.org DSB, 5 p.m. Journey tribute band performs “Don’t Stop Believin’” and more at Playa Vista Concert Park, 13020 Pacific Promenade, Playa Vista. playavista.com Sunday Jazz Suppers, 7 p.m.

Local jazz bands create a lounge atmosphere on the patio of Whiskey Red’s, 13813 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 823-4522; shanghairedsrestaurant.com The Toledo Show, 8 p.m. A cabaret show held on Sunday nights at Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $10. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com Live Blues and Soul, 10:30 p.m. The Brig now features “Live Blues and Soul” nights every Wednesday, with Jeff Young (July 20), and Toshi Yanagi (July 27) rounding out the series’ first month. No cover. The Brig, 1515 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice. (310) 399-7537; thebrig.com

Monday, July 21 Optimist Club Meeting, 9:30 a.m.

Meets Mondays at the Coffee Bean, 13020 Pacific Promenade, Playa Vista. (310) 215-1892 Balance and Mobility Program, noon to 1:30 p.m. For people who feel unsteady on their feet and have concerns about falling, this program helps improve confidence, posture and reduce risk of falling. $15 per class; also meets Thursdays. Holy Nativity Parish, 6700 W. 83rd St., Westchester. (310) 670-4777; spiritedbalance.com Learn to Knit, 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Knitting classes every Monday at Santa Monica Public Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica.

Bring supplies. (310) 458-8600; smpl.org Music and Me Class, 5:30 p.m.

Music classes for children half a year to four years old in both Russian and English, teaching guitar, drums, voice, violin and more. Kids will have fun singing and dancing to music, learning rhymes, counting and colors. $18 per class. Music Teacher LA, 1400 Palawan Way, Marina del Rey. (424) 488-3361; musicteacherLA.com Stand Up Mondays, 8 to 10 p.m.

Live comedy shows happen every Monday at Danny’s Venice, 23 Windward Ave., Venice. No cover.

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Tuesday, July 22 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) 393-6149; healthebay.org “Blue Mind” book discussion, 7 p.m. Author Wallace J. Nichols writes that being near water translates to better personal health and inspires a deeper connection with nature. Discsussion at Santa Monica Public Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 458-8600; smpl.org Life Drawing Tuesdays, 7 to 9:30 p.m. YWCA offers uninstructed life drawing classes with diverse models each Tuesday. $14 per week or buy four sessions at discount. YWCA Santa Monica/Westside, 2019 14th St., Santa Monica. (310) 452-3881; smywca.org

The Other Side of the Room Acoustic Tuesdays, 9:30 p.m. Live acoustic music accompanied by $1 tacos and $4 Coronas every Tuesday at Brennan’s Pub, 4089 Lincoln Blvd., Marina del Rey. No cover.

21+. (310) 821-6622; brennanspubla.com Wednesday, July 23 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. 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. Whiskey Red’s, 13813 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 8234522; shanghairedsrestaurant.com

Thursday, July 24 William Hagen, 7 p.m. Studying music since age 4, this violinist prodigy spent years learning at the feet of greats such as Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho and performs a free concert at Burton Chace Park, 13650 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 305-9595; chacepark.com

Galleries Alec Egan: Luminous Opera, through Saturday. Egan received the Highest Academic Excellence of any candidate in the MFA program at Otis College of Art and Design; show is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday to Saturday at Western Project, 2762 S. La Cienega Blvd., Westchester. (310) 838-0609 2014 Student Culminating Exhibition, through July 25.

Youths exploring art through photography, film, comics, animation and visual and digital art show their year-long projects at Venice Arts, A Center for Media & Learning, 1702 Lincoln Blvd., Venice. (310) 3920846; venicearts.org “The Second Course,” through July 26. Blue 7 Gallery follows up its “Food For Thought” food-themed

art show. Blue 7 Gallery, 3129 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 449-1444; blue7gallery.com “Lost Horizons: Mural Dreams of Edward Biberman,” through July 31. Exhibit in partnership with LACMA looking back at Venice history at SPARC (the old Venice police station), 685 Venice Blvd., Venice. SPARCinLA.org “Didier Massard: Territories,” through Aug 23. Massard’s recent work, “Territories,” places images of animals in mysterious landscapes.

Open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays at Kopeikin

“Country: Portraits of an American Sound,” through Sept. 28. More than 100 photos of some of the biggest country music stars, portraits snapped by notable Warriors of Flames, through Sept. Nashville photographers, minidocumentary films, memorabilia, 27. Photography exhibit chronicling musical instruments and other items, the evolution of the Santa Monica Fire Dept. highlighting the equipment as well as a jukebox loaded with “hillbilly ear-pleasers,” in an exhibit used, the firefighters and chiefs, and open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesdays the major fires of Santa Monica.

Open Tuesdays through Saturdays at through Sundays at Annenberg Space Santa Monica History Museum, 1350 for Photography, 2000 Ave. of the Stars, Century City. (213) 403-3000; 7th St., Santa Monica. (310) 395annenbergspaceforphotography.org 2290; santamonicahistory.org Gallery, 2766 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles. Parking available behind the building. (310) 5590800; kopeikingallery.com

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Pier pleasure: Painter Carole Garland trains her eye on Santa Monica’s iconic destination If you said Carole Garland was spinning her wheels with her latest exhibit, she’d take it as a compliment.

The Santa Monica artist opens her latest show alongside cohorts Elyse Wyman and Suki Kuss at TAG Gallery on Saturday.

A Windy City native who has worked in publishing, Garland has enjoyed a long-running love affair with painting dating back to her Art Institute of Chicago days.

She’s long been an L.A.-centric painter. After a brief hiatus from art, Garland returned to oils in 2003 and began investigating her urban environment with “Postcards from the L.A. River”; “LAyers,” depicting overviews of our City of Angels; and scenes of the city’s cultural diversity in “Edgelands.”

For this show, Garland has buckled to pier pressure — Santa Monica Pier, that is. Indelible images such as her oil “Pacific Wheel” capture the changing atmosphere from day to night.

With Independence Day, Bastille Day and summer’s zenith intersecting this month, there’s no better time to gaze at Garland’s nocturnal view of the pier’s red-, white- and bluespoked Ferris wheel; as delicious and refreshing to the eye as the Good Humor truck’s Bomb Pop is to the tongue on a muggy July night.

The exhibit opens with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday and continues through Aug. 9 at TAG Gallery, Bergamot Station D3, 2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica. Garland gives an artist talk at 3 p.m. Aug. 2. Call (310) 829-9556 or visit taggallery.net.

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NRT has recognized Alice Plato’s outstanding performance, ranking her in the top 1,000 Sales Associates for the first quarter of 2014, a distinction which places her in the top 3% of all sales associates nationwide. Bruce Zifp, President and CEO of NRT says, “Looking back, the first quarter will be largely remembered for the extreme winter that affected most of our country and our industry in particular.” He goes on to say, “Your ability to adapt and serve your clients’ real estate needs, whatever the business climate, makes you the type of leader worthy of our recognition. On behalf of the entire NRT family, please accept our thanks and admiration.” Information, Alice Plato, Coldwell Banker Venice, (310) 704-4188.

“This gorgeous Spanish-style, two bedroom, one bath home features hardwood floors and coved ceilings in the living room,” says agent Phyllis Sam. “French doors open to a comfortable wood deck and rear yard. The home has delightful details such as vintage fixtures, classic chandeliers. There is a permitted unit, with its own loft, over the garage, and the property is nicely landscaped and gated, with a security alarm. All close to shops, restaurants and the marina.”

The property is offered at $887,500. Information, Phyllis Sam, Keller Williams/ LA, (310) 259-7281.

“This idyllic California bungalow has a separate detached studio with a ¾ bath,” says agent Jesse Weinberg. “The sunny living/dining area has hardwood floors, and opens to the remodeled kitchen with modern fixtures, stainless appliances and a large center island. The updated master bath has a large sky light and an over-sized shower. The private backyard has a spectacular lattice-roofed deck. Minutes from the park, elementary school, restaurants and shopping and more.” The property is offered at $825,000. Information, Jesse Weinberg, Keller Williams Marina/LA Realty, (800) 804-9132.

“This rare two-story penthouse is a sunny stroll to the beach, restaurants, boats, shops, and the marina,” says agent Albert Shumate. “The large sunlit living room has high ceilings, a fireplace and a balcony. This quiet unit faces south with pool views and only one common wall.

There is a master suite and a second bedroom on the first level, and a second floor guest suite with a fireplace and outdoor deck. The unit has two parking spaces, new double-paned windows, and is conveniently located near the elevator.” The property is offered at $839,000. Information, Albert Shumate, Keller Williams Realty Pacific Playa, (323) 533-4509.

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“This dramatic home rises three stories,” says agent Jane St. John.

“The downstairs living space incorporates living room, dining area, kitchen, and powder room, with giant sliding doors and glass walls that reveal a deck and beautiful gardens. The middle level has a bedroom, a loft bedroom, and a bath. The third floor houses the master suite, with sliding doors to a terrace. There is an original, smaller structure which has been converted to a legal one bedroom, one bath rental upstairs, and an office downstairs with private entrance. The property is offered at $2,325,000. Information, Jane St John, RE/MAX Estate Properties, 310-577-5300, x303.

“This home has beautifully refinished pecan hardwood floors,” says agent Bob Waldron. “The inviting living room features a fireplace, and the formal dining room has crown moldings. The remodeled kitchen boasts tiled counters and floor, newer stainless appliances and a pantry. Two of the three bedrooms have French doors opening out to the covered brick patio and lush, colorfully landscaped backyard, and the newly remodeled bath has marble tile in the shower and around the bathtub.” The property is offered at $779,000. Information, Bob Waldron, Coldwell Banker Westchester/Playa, (310) 337-9225.

“This four-story home has a rooftop glass-bottom saline pool and Roman spa,” say agents Peter and Ty Bergman. “There are unobstructed views from every level, a decadent wine room, a complete custom home theater and a gym, this home is state-of-the-art. The kitchen has zebrawood cabinetry and a huge center island. The current owner has recently purchased an adjacent lot for a private garden. With six bedrooms and nine bathrooms, this is a must-see for the discriminating buyer. There is also a five-car garage plus parking for two more vehicles.” The property is offered at $5,900,000. Information, Peter and Ty Bergman, Bergman Beach Properties, (310) 821-2900.

“This one-of-a-kind, three bedroom, 2.5 bathroom home, just blocks to beaches and shops, has a sunlit great room with soaring ceilings, skylight and glossy wood floors,” says agent Kim Williamson. “The eat-in kitchen has a large center island, granite countertops, and a breakfast nook, and there is a den with French doors that lead to the beautifully landscaped back yard. The luxurious master suite features a stone fireplace, spa tub, and a marble shower with power jets. The two additional bedrooms share a full bath, and there is a powder room and a spacious loft.” The property is offered at $1,029,000. Information, Williamson & Pagan, RE/MAX Estate Properties, (310) 722-4200.

“This sunny and spacious home welcomes you into an airy living room with rich hardwood floors, a fireplace and a wall of glass windows and doors overlooking a tranquil backyard,” says agent Stephanie Younger.

“Enjoy dining al fresco on the expansive deck, or indoors in the formal dining area that leads to a roomy kitchen. A family room or large bedroom features his and her closets and a lovely remodeled bath. Two other bedrooms and a stylish bath with a claw-foot tub and separate shower complete this fantastic home.” The property is offered at $689,000. Information, Stephanie Younger, Teles Properties, (424) 203-1828.

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“Lyrically, this first album is pretty direct,” he said of “Bigfoot.” “I like to tell the story of something that happened and turn it to a song instead of writing about the prom, the party after the prom, you know?”

The semi-confessional songs of the first two Weezer albums roughly illustrate the type of lyrics Yudin writes.

“I love that first album. It’s one of my all-time favorites. I feel like [Weezer front man] Rivers [Cuomo] is in the same boat.

He tells stories that are off of center,” Yudin said.

Having recorded 2013’s “Bigfoot” in Cottage Grove, Oregon (30 minutes outside Eugene), with their Secretly Canadian label’s Richard Swift producing, Yudin found the experience of forging California music in the Pacific Northwest odd.

“All I remember is that it was cold, it was rainy. I’d be cold, I’d be wet, singing sunny Southern California songs,” he said.

Despite the Oregon rain, there’s nothing downbeat about “Bigfoot,” as tracks such as “A Summer Thing” and “Cayucos” attest.

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“Bigfoot” in its entirety next Thursday as well as a surprise cover song. The band will also preview cuts from a pending sophomore album that Cayucas is preparing to record in Seattle.

The new material is “a little bit darker, but I wouldn’t call it a dark album, it’ll have more storytelling and be more complex,” Yudin said.

“I feel like this’ll be a good opportunity for local people to finally see Cayucas,” Yudin said of the pier show, before offering a simple explanation behind his group’s moniker.

“The original band name was Oregon Bike Trails,” he said, which explains the illustrated bicycling characters on the “Bigfoot” album cover.

But then he wrote the song “Cayucos” about the sleepy, seaside enclave near San Luis Obispo’s California Polytechnic University, which he attended.

“We decided to change the band to Cayucas. It’s a typo but that’s how I like it spelled.”

Yudin does not mind people confusing his band with the California town.

“It’s always good for a new band to have some sort of identity,” he said. “We’ve sort of been dubbed a California band, and I like that.” ª Cayucas performs at 7 p.m.

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“Romeo and Juliet” at City Shakespeare Company Shakespeare is in the air this summer. First, Venice-based Pacific Resident Theatre’s casually costumed “Henry V” became this season’s theater talk of the town. Now, City Shakespeare Company presents the ultimate tragic romance, with its titular love birds caught in a rip tide between warring families Capulets and Montagues.

A masquerade ball set piece launches City Shakespeare’s 90-minute production, replete with fights choreographed by David Hartstone, who also plays Romeo to Megan Ruble’s Juliet.

“We’re bringing the heat this summer with a raw, physical, passion-filled production of the most famous love story ever told,” said director Brook Bishop, also the company’s co-founding artistic director.

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“Turning Thirty” at Santa Monica Playhouse And now, for something completely contemporary!

“Turning Thirty” reunites Santa Monica Playhouse Artistic Director Chris DeCarlo with playwright Lisa Phillips Visca for a romantic comedy laden with dating dilemmas and family friction, walking the line between trust and trust funds. DeCarlo directs a dependable and sizeable troop of past Playhouse players including Max Bunzel and Mike DiGirolamo.

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“Princess and Pirates Sing-a-long Concert” at Kirk Douglas Theatre Snow White sings Katy Perry’s “Fireworks.”

Aladdin croons One Direction’s “That’s What Makes You Beautiful.” The Sheriff of Nottingham belts out a version of Lady Gaga’s “Applause.”

Worlds collide in this kid-friendly Lythgoe Family Productions stage show featuring actors with such credits as “Glee,” “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” and Broadway’s “Les Miserables.”

For Kris Lythgoe — who remembers seeing shows as a kid directed by mother Bonnie and written by father Nigel Lythgoe (a producer of “American Idol” and creator of “So You Think You Can Dance” as well as a judge) — children’s theater has been the family business for 30 years. “Princess and Pirates” is directed “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Miles and choreographed by Emmy-nominated Memorial Playhouse “Dance” choreographer Spencer Liff.

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Sowing the seeds of fun For plant lovers, Westchester Begonia Show and Sale is about building community — and the chance to flaunt some rare flora

By Allie Teaze They have names like Dragon Wings, Pink Minx, Airy Fairy, Flamingo Queen, Nightmare, Glacier Bay, Midnight Magic, Northern Lights, Wild Pony, Fragrant Beauty, White Ice and Chocolate Soldier. But these aren’t the kind of plants that you smoke.

The begonia plant family is an expansive one, with more than 1,000 naturally occurring and human-bred species originating in warmer climates throughout the world, from South America to Africa to East Asia and, of course, Southern California.

“You can’t go to Home Depot to find some of the plants at our show,” said Martin Delgado, chairman of the Westchester Begonia Society’s 55th annual Begonia Show and Sale, happening Saturday at Covenant Presbyterian Church.

Delgado expects the event to feature at least 100 varieties of plants— most of them begonias, of course.

Some begonias have flowers, but the plants are known mostly for their eye-catching asymmetrical leaves. During the show, some Begonia Society members will work as judges, evaluating plants based on leaf shape and other aesthetic qualities to award ribbons and trophies.

For many begonia enthusiasts, the annual show and sale is part social gathering, part evangelistic mission.

“We want to encourage people to grow begonias. It has to be fun. Speaking for myself, it’s the excitement of being in the show and the camaraderie,” Delgado said. “I can’t think of anything more pleasant than meeting new people and seeing new plants.”

Each year, organizers of the begonia show choose a special honoree. This year’s honoree is Katsu Nakagawa, a longtime Westchester Begonia Society member and former president for whom the “Lady Katsu” cane-type begonia variety, cultivated by member Brad Thompson, was named.

“It’s painstaking to put beautiful flowers in the show because it takes months of caring for them,” said Nakagawa, an active cultivator.

Begonias grow under shade or dappled sunlight. They do not grow naturally in the U.S., and so it requires extra care to grow these tropical plants here.

There are about 50 members in the Westchester branch of the American Begonia Society, with 16 other branches in California and 21 more in other states.

But Saturday’s show isn’t only about begonias, with ferns and other shade-loving plants also for sale or on display.

The Gesneriad Society, based in Culver City and founded along the lines of the Begonia Society, will bring a table display of rare gesneriads, which originate from the same areas as begonias but are from a separate plant family. The Gesneriad Society has nearly 2,000 members worldwide, mainly in the U.S., with 45 branches nationwide.

“It is an opportunity for someone who has the curiosity to be amazed. Just about everything that will be at the gesneriad table is rare to the general public. That is the magic of the show,” said Gesneriad Society organizer Emmit Willis.

Willis discovered the plants by a chance discovery of the Westchester Begonia Show and Sale at what was then the Fox Hills mall.

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“My first visions in art were three-dimensional, which helped me understand the way to enter the flat canvas,” Trachtenberg said. “I also love photography and sometimes work from my own photos.”

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Blasting off with ‘Bless Off’ Skate metal group The Shrine brings it home to the Townhouse Venice on July 17 onto a chugging Shrine instrumental.

More metallic than punk with echoes of guitar-heavy groups Motörhead and So a funny thing happened in South Metallica, The Shrine’s sound is “a America. weird unholy mix,” said Landau, of his A few weeks ago, Westside musician affinity for L.A. hardcore punk (including Rahne Pistor, formerly an arts and Venice’s Suicidal Tendencies), Murphy’s entertainment editor for The Argonaut, sweet tooth for speed metal and British was visiting Argentina when he spotted a metal, and Murray’s love of ‘80s Sunset pair of his Venice homeys, Josh Landau and Courtland Murphy, in a most unusual Strip icons Mötley Crüe and Guns ‘N Roses. Throw in a shared love of Black way.

Sabbath and jazz genius John Coltrane, “I’m in a cab and I see Josh and Court’s and The Shrine rocks an unlikely face on a billboard for Converse in mélange.

Buenos Aires. Pretty surreal actually!”

“I first saw Josh come onto the scene Pistor said. when he was about 19 or 20, churning A similar thing might have happened out riffage that was just epic,” said Pistor, had Pistor been in Australia or Europe, singer-guitarist of The Sixth Chamber. because singer-guitarist Landau and “His guitar playing was remarkable, bassist Murphy, former Santa Monica unpretentious and had an energy that High School classmates, comprise twothirds of the rising local band The Shrine, so clearly stood out among other local rockers, and I made sure to tell him so at a hardcore hybrid gaining major traction the time.” abroad and now tackling the States, Despite the SaMoHi connection, Landau including a July 17 homecoming show at and Murphy were initially cool to each the Townhouse. other until the day they bonded over a The band’s star has been rising steadily ‘70s U.K. band at a party. since its formation in late 2012. The “We talked about Thin Lizzie for like Shrine, which also includes drummer Jeff three hours. Nobody f-in’ listens to Thin Murray, has received much praise online Lizzie,” Landau said, laughing. for its new album “Bless Off,” as well The Dogtown skateboarding culture has as for the band’s 2011 debut “Primitive always been ground zero for Landau and Blast.”

Released in March, The Shrine’s second company, who first performed at a friend’s house party on 4th and Rose avenues in album landed at No. 42 on SPIN’s “50 Best Albums of the Year (So Far)” list. To 2009.

“I’ve been into skateboarding and punk top everything, “Bless Off” track “The and rock ‘n’ roll since I was like 14. So Duke” is simultaneously an homage to, collaboration with, and endorsement from much of my influences are from this neighborhood,” Landau said. one of Landau’s rock gods — former That includes Dukowski, whom Landau Black Flag bassist (and Venice resident) Chuck Dukowski, who grafted his original met and jammed with five years ago after the Chuck Dukowski Sextet played at lyrics for his old band’s “I Love You”

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water heated on the propane stove. We used kerosene lanterns for light. We had to brave the snow and ice to reach the outhouse,” said Neutra, who soon after lived in Madrid (pronounced MAD-rid), “a crazy little coal mining town” in New Mexico, and then Santa Fe. With the support of wife Laura, his high school sweetheart and fellow Warner Music Group employee, Neutra pursued his art, abandoning not only his day job but also his work as a musician.

The Van Nuys resident did manage to release an album of electronic music, “Automation Addiction,” in 2010.

Through connections at Warner, he illustrated the members of Jack White’s band Dead Weather for an album.

Early on in his art, Neutra painted live at punk rock shows and “my work was filled with bulging eyeballs and lots of aggression,” he said.

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Now older and not so full of angst, Neutra and his ideas have become more sophisticated. “Sheep’s Clothing” features a Great White profile covered in advertising posters. “[Advertising is] part of the natural environment, but really it’s affecting us and can even be harmful to our health, our spiritual health,” he said of his shark metaphor.

Ditto the panda in “While Supplies Last” and the cigarette-smoking raccoon in “Old Friends, New Vices.”

Then there are those ubiquitous cartoon bunnies, which started while live painting at the King King in Hollywood. Neutra remembers looking out into the audience at 2 a.m., when “everyone’s drunk, dancing, going nuts,” he said. “I started to think about human beings. We’re so interesting. We’re gonna party right off the cliff into oblivion. We can’t help it; we’re reproducing.”

From that improvised piece came a multitude of rabbits.

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“He still attacks his music, and you won’t see someone put their entire being into it as Chuck does. It’s this ultimate inspiring injection of life,” said Landau, who sees 60-year-old Dukowski as a musical role model.

The men of The Shrine are spoken for.

Murray is married, the bass player met a girl while in Australia and Landau is dating Olivia Jaffe, who travels with them as the group’s photographer.

Touring has treated the band well, and in August The Shrine returns to Europe before heading to play Japan for the first time.

Playing Moscow and St. Petersburg, “the kids are so nuts. This is literally all they had to live for,” Landau said. Ditto Greece, Spain and Australia. “The farther we travel, the crazier they go.”

Conversely, the London, New York and L.A. crowds were more reserved, he said.

The Shrine are currently shooting their first “Bless Off” video for the song “Worship” around Landau’s native Mar Vista, where he still lives in his family home. The band uses his garage as their

jam spot. “‘Worship’ is like ‘Tooty Fruity,’ a pure love for rock ‘n’ roll music in a sexual way. Jerry Lee Lewis playing piano with his feet. A sonic orgasm,” Landau said.

“A lot of our songs are about freedom and personal power, perseverance.”

The ambitious group sells a variety of merchandise on its website.

“We run it like a skateboard company,” said Landau — which makes sense, considering Thrasher magazine has “used a ton of our songs in their skateboarding videos.”

Expect The Shrine’s next album to drop in 2015.

But it’s playing live that excites them the most, Landau said.

“When you finally play a good show and it’s just chaos and you’re stoked and there’s, like, good energy — that’s why we’re doing all this. That’s the best, when the show is good.” ª The Shrine plays at 9 p.m. Thursday, July 17, at the Townhouse Venice, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. $10. Call (310) 392-4040 or visit townhousevenice.com. michael@argonautnews.com

bought everything,” he recalled. By the next day, she had dropped $2,500, acquiring more of his work plus commissioning two more paintings featuring bunnies.

Said rabbits continue to appear, whether forming a giant skull in “Mutually Assured” or standing atop each other to feed an ice cream cone to another mammal high on Neutra’s usage list: the giraffe.

So at what point do his bunnies cease being a genuine form of artistic expression and become a riff, a cliché, a commodity?

“As long as I paint what I want to paint and I’m genuinely interested in it, that truth and realness will be the common thread that comes through the work,” he said.

Neutra’s rabbits have since appeared in murals on Venice’s Abbot Kinney Boulevard and on Saatchi and Saatchi’s Culver City headquarters.

“What I’m most interested in is how the painting is going to make you feel,”

Neutra said, adding that the experiential consideration might be the only trait in common with his architect greatgrandfather, famed father of Modernism Richard Neutra.

"When I was younger and more naïve and cocky, I thought being related might open some doors," Neutra said. However, Richard Neutra’s name and achievements have had “very little impact” on Max Neutra’s career trajectory. What he got was inspiration: “It’s in my blood. If he can do it, I can do it.”

The two never met: Neutra was born in 1978; his great-grandfather died in 1970.

However, Neutra gleaned from Richard’s writings that they shared a common artistic philosophy: “I don’t make work to sell,” he said. “I make work to create an experience.” ª “Only Natural” runs through Aug. 2 at C.A.V.E. Gallery, 1108 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice. Call (310) 450-6960 or visit cavegallery.net. michael@argonautnews.com

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PET CORNER

Great Pets Looking for a Home

CHESTER & SIMBA are very handsome red tabby kittens (only about a year old) who need to be adopted together. They are blind, but you would never know it since they navigate their world so well and act just like other cats—playful, affectionate, and curious.

JACK FROST & TABBY are only six or seven weeks old.

They were rescued, with about 20 other kittens, from under a house in Pacific Palisades. They love to play, with each other as well as the other kittens, and love people as much as they do their cat friends.

If you are interested in fostering or adopting, please call Voice for the Animals at 310-392-5153 and leave a message for the Adoption Coordinator or email adoption@vftafoundation.org.

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LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

“KIDDIE LIT” By AMY JOHNSON (Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis)

ACROSS 1 Beijing Zoo attraction 6 It’s often seen in sheets 11 Spreadsheet figures 15 Foolhardy 19 TWA competitor 20 Cowboy’s rope 21 Baylor, for one: Abbr.

22 Analogy words 23 Tolstoy tale of child’s play?

26 Robert De __ 27 Giga- x 1,000 28 St. Laurent of fashion 29 Upper-bod muscle 30 Hit song of 1950 32 Get cozy 34 Like Death Valley 35 Stud site 36 Carson tale of wellbehaved classroom clock watchers?

40 Certain school team activity 44 Kick 45 __ double take 46 Botanical coating 47 “Fernando” band 48 Matches at the poker table 50 Hoover and Mossyrock 54 Dickens tale of math woes?

58 Drink that lost the second part of its name in 1961 59 Mended, in a way 60 Israel’s Iron Lady 61 War movie staples 62 Diplomatic rep.

64 Nods, say 65 Evade 67 1921 sci-fi play 68 Biol. or chem.

69 Artichoke servings 71 Earth has one 72 Overdo the buffet, say

74 These, in Juarez 75 Palahniuk tale of a rowdy slumber party society?

80 Half a fish 81 Welles of “War of the Worlds” 82 “Return of the Jedi” dancer 83 Apollo landers, briefly 84 Grannies 86 Samoan capital 87 Gets 89 Orwell tale of Beanie Baby breeding?

95 Oregon coastal city 96 Late notice?

97 Berlin School psychological theory 102 Excitable cell 103 Billionaire bank founder Andy 104 Latin trio member 106 Wind in a pit 107 Parisian’s “to be” 108 Updike tale of an idle cereal mascot?

112 Employee IDs 113 Actor Morales 114 What a white flag may mean 115 Complete 116 __ drive 117 “Father of the American Cartoon” 118 “Symphony in Black” et al.

119 “The Gondoliers” bride DOWN 1 Forgoes the gimme 2 Like Dracula’s visage 3 Tiny republic formerly called Pleasant Island 4 Yankee legend, familiarly 5 Wall St. trader 6 Fish tank flooring

7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 24 25 31 33 34 35 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 47 48 49 51 52 53 55 56 57 58 61 62 63 65 66 67

Old Bologna bread Wiimote inserts Stop: Abbr.

Most mournful One with a second Med sch. subject Poker game tell, maybe Batting figures Mastermind “The Robots of Dawn” author Disco light “Sesame Street” store owner Poet Elinor Cop’s quarry Lab greetings Prime meridian std.

Source of brown fur Carbon compounds Receded Noggins Hardly a doer Code word Timeline chapter Pool on a pedestal “The Aviator” Oscar nominee Skunk River city Highway breaker?

Came down Last Supper attendees PC processing unit “Absolutely, amigo!”

Races with sulkies Tattoo parlor supplies PABA part Texarkana-born ’90s candidate Julia’s “Notting Hill” co-star “If I may butt in ...”

Phoenix suburb “Take it!” response, in a jazz club City on the Rhein Latvia’s most populous

city 70 Rapidly shrinking ecosystem 71 Didn’t __ beat 72 Rice style 73 Jim Morrison’s alma mater 75 The Devil’s label?

76 Tom of “The Dukes of Hazzard” 77 Straight man 78 Base decision maker 79 Undergrad degs.

81 Not a great chance 85 Hendrix hairdo 86 Comment from one rushing in 87 Actress Scacchi 88 Condo divs.

89 Having the most marbles 90 Sub-Saharan menace 91 Reversals 92 “You can’t get out this way” 93 Building beam 94 Shooting marbles 98 Dessert cart goodie 99 Drives the getaway car for 100 Blows, perhaps 101 Aquarium swimmer 103 Predisposition 104 Be up against 105 Mickey and Minnie 109 Pres. Mandela’s land 110 Winter outburst?

111 “Shame on you!”

legal advertising FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014179979 The following person is doing business as: Gray & Associates 14004 Palawan Way PH8 Marina del Rey, CA. 90292.

Registered owners: Glen L. Gray 14004 Palawan Way PH8 Marina del Rey, CA. 90292. This business is conducted by a 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: Glen L. Gray.

Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on July 3, 2014. Argonaut published: July 10, 17, 24, and 31, 2014. 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. 2014179996 The following person is doing business as: Veganlovesearch.org 520 Indiana Ave. Venice, CA. 90291. Registered owners: Rachel Hoyt 520 Indiana Ave. Venice, CA. 90291. This business is conducted by a 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: Rachel Hoyt. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on July 3, 2014. Argonaut published: July 10, 17, 24 and 31, 2014.

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. 2014190973 The following person is doing business as: Real Talent23033 Pacific Coast Highway #102 Malibu, CA. 90265. Registered owners: Allison Miller 23033 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA. 90265. This business is conducted by a 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: Allison Miller. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on July 15, 2014.

Argonaut published: July 17, 24, 31, and August 7, 2014. 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).

ORDER TO SHOW CAuSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. NS029070 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition of Elias Diaz, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Elias Diaz filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Elias Diaz to Elias Bonaducci 2.)

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date:08/27/14. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: 526 Room: N/A. The address of the court275 Magnolia Ave. Long Beach, CA. 90802. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The Argonaut. Original filed: July 7th, 2014.Michael P. Vicencia, Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: The Argonaut, 7/17/2014, 7/24/2014, 7/31/2014, 8/7/2014.

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