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VOL 48, NO 30 Local News & Culture
Introducing our inaugural celebration of local personalities …
Westsiders 2018 T
he hardest part of choosing 18 interesting people to convey the vitality, diversity and creative energy flourishing right now in our community was narrowing the roster of qualified candidates down to only 18 people. But this isn’t meant to be an exhaustive survey; it’s an exercise in inspiration. This is about celebrating us and the remarkable things we accomplish in the most exciting part of the most dynamic region in the world.
Westsiders build companies that solve problems. We tell stories that captivate the world. We set trends. We shatter stereotypes. We overcome adversity. We care about other people. We have fun. We shrug off the aspersions of cynics and self-righteous doubters. Not all of us are young, tech-savvy and upwardly mobile. Not all of us are happy about changes in our neighborhoods precipitated by an influx of newcomers and wealth. Some of us can hardly afford to pay the rent. And we hear you. We cover your stories. We publish your letters. We do our best to ask questions that matter to you. No one is saying this is utopia — or that you have to ride a Bird scooter, do yoga and drink $5 cups of cold brew to belong. Just don’t let anyone convince you that we’re moving backwards, that things are only getting worse. Nothing could be further from the truth. Westchester philanthropist Karen Dial, Marina del Rey tech visionary Arabian Prince and Venice skateboarder Kanya Sesser are building community, thinking big and making waves
Explore these pages to see the faces and learn the stories of Westsiders who strengthen our community just by being themselves. Be inspired. Then go out and be you.
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L e t t e r s A Pressing Need for Rent Control Re: “Rent Control is Long Overdue in Marina del Rey,” Letters, July 12 I appreciated William R. Hicks’ letter supporting the proposal of L.A. County Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Hilda Solis to place a 3% rent increase cap in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles
County. I am a 72-year-old recently retired professional who moved to the area three years ago to be near my children and grandchildren. I am already paying three-fifths of my income for a one-bedroom with a loft in an older complex. This works for now with a stretch. I understand that the mandate for building the marina was to provide
a public resource for all the people of California. Meanwhile it seems we are inundated with building more hotels and enormous amounts of high-end rental housing, while decreasing the number of boat slips to increase the size of the boats each slip can accommodate. Concerned residents are also constantly struggling against the
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stand with Kuehl, Solis and many others in support of measures to maintain the marina as a public resource for the genuine good of the public. Mary E. Hobgood Marina del Rey We Want to Hear from You! So do your neighbors. Send your opinions on local issues to letters@argonautnews.com.
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Angry Birds and Loutish Limes
Re: “Don’t Cage the Birds,” Editorial, June 21 I shimmy, shake, and feign and hop to avoid being steamrolled by yet another roving Bird or Lime scooter here on Westside sidewalks. But do I bristle at these careless cube-gleamers or join in the chorus of naysayers that spout uninterrupted vitriol at these renegade riders as they slowly diminish into the horizon of a slowly setting Venetian sun? No. And that’s because I welcome these flocks of anger-inducing Birds and loutish Limes with open (albeit bruised) arms. I’m super old. This is evident by my use of old-timey antiquated words like “knickers” and “Scott Baio.” I’ve seen the tides of change lift and recede the fortunes of the Westside. And I’ve heard these same objections and agitations before. Time and time again. What I hear about these electric scooters I also heard about cell phones, bicycles and umbrellas. People are crotchety and resistant to emerging technolo-
gies. And I expect Darwinism will strangle these loopy luddites and they’ll go the way of the dodo too. Sure, I have a pretty bad concussion and there’s some kind of likely important bodily liquid trickling from my ears from the kerrang of a collision with a scooter brah this morning. But I obstinately still stand (wobbly) for the ideals that have always made this country so great: Innovation, adaptability, and hope for tomorrow. I’m having a bit of trouble maintaining verticality at the moment, so I’m just going to lie down here on the curb and take a spontaneous nap now. Feel free to just sidestep around me. Pretend I’m just one of the many dormant scooters strewn all over our fair streets. Please refer to my medical alert bracelet and kindly don’t allow me to swallow my tongue. I’ll need it for singing the praises of Venice and the surrounding area.
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egin Singh’s 9-to-5 has her watching rollercoasters careen over the Pacific before the sun cracks the marine layer, playing with cotton candy, and curating cool art and music events from an office above a merry-go-around. It may not sound like work, but embracing fun and fantasy makes Singh ideal for her role as executive director of the Santa Monica Pier Corp. Formerly director of inspiration at augmented reality startup DAQRI, the 31-year-old events producer is tasked with reimagining the popular Twilight Concert Series for a relaunch in the fall. Six months into the job, Singh is already making her mark. In June she brought in cool kids of music curation Brownies & Lemonade to deejay sets at the annual
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Pier360 Ocean Sports and Beach Festival. Earlier this week she launched SeaSaw, an immersive performance art series in collaboration with Think Tank Gallery. “The experience I would like to give people is, ‘I went to the pier, I saw this thing, I can’t explain it. You should go,’” Singh said earlier this summer. “I wanted a space where artists who have a hard time explaining what they do — the ‘hyphen-artists’ — to come and showcase something in this cool environment.” Back in college and shortly thereafter, she and her friends threw some bashes you may have heard of, such as the No Budget Film Festival, Art | Party | Playground, and the indie music festival alternative Broke LA (aka “Brokechella”). “My boyfriend, who’s now my husband,
took the Coachella poster and put ‘broke’ on it,” she said. “We used to be just a bunch of dumb kids … just listening to music and being like, ‘I like this.’ But now those dumb kids have grown into becoming curators at major spaces or festivals.” Just like Singh. Her time at DAQRI, where she led a team of 30-plus creatives and engineers to develop augmented reality products and experiences such as Crayola’s award-winning Easy Animation Studio toolkit, taught her “to move fast and break things,” as they say in tech, but now she’s appreciating the long view her new role allows. “I think a lot about the Olympics,” she says. “What are the micro-steps that we can take, so that in nine years when the Olympics are here, we’re going to be
ready and we’re going to be the best that we possibly can be?” Singh hopes she can take a page from both the fast-paced startup world and her Indian-Iranian immigrant parents who developed business ideas with entrepreneurial abandon to reinvent the pier as a place where exciting ideas can take off, and where all who visit feel welcome. “We want anyone who’s coming to the pier, whether they’re a local or they’re a tourist, to feel what it’s like to be Californian,” she says. “Just the general vibe, you leave it feeling like, ‘Oh, that’s what it’s like to live here’ … and you want to take a piece of that home and maybe make where you’re at feel a little more free and fun and accepting.”
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OMS Shoes founder and Chief Shoe Giver Blake Mycoskie doesn’t remember his first pair of shoes, but he does remember the first pairs he gave away. Not long after starting his buy-one-give-one shoe company out of his Venice apartment, Mycoskie was off to Argentina with the first batch of giveaways made possible by his commerce-meets-philanthropy concept. “It was a very amazing experience to see so many kids have so much joy for something so simple, and to see how grateful their families were — their parents especially,” says Mycoskie, now a father of two. Twelve years later, TOMS is a household name with a Playa Vista-adjacent headquarters and a flagship store on Abbot Kinney Boulevard. And they’re still giving away shoes — 86 million pairs to date — as well as prescription eyeglasses, obstetric supplies and access to clean drinking water. Kindness has bred kindness, as well as countless copycat one-for-one business models, and most recently a collaboration with Disney celebrating female animators and a line of slip-on shoes inspired by Venice itself. And though Mycoskie sold half the company to Bain Capital in 2014, its philanthropic ethos still powers do-good initiatives across the globe and attracts a loyal following. “No matter how big a business we’ve become, we’ve really tried to run it and be like a family and have our customers feel more like supporters,” he says. “Without their purchases, we can’t do anything good in the world. … It’s totally powered by their purchases.” With the cool $200 million Mycoskie made from the Bain transaction, he’s started the TOMS Social Entrepreneurship Fund, which has invested in socially-conscious companies like Roy Choi’s healthy fast food concept Loco’l in Watts, the make-your-own-petition website Change.org and the help-the-homelessby-selling-their-art platform ArtLifting.com. Mycoskie didn’t set out to build a philanthropic shoe empire from Venice — he just wanted to live near the beach after competing on “The Amazing Race.” But after landing here in 2001, he found a community still “kind of rough around the edges” and ready to embrace a “radical idea to give and to make our business about more than just profits.” When TOMS outgrew Mycoskie’s apartment, he started living on a boat in Marina del Rey to save on rent and grow his business. About seven years ago he moved the company to the commercial pocket of Del Rey between Jefferson Boulevard and Ballona Creek, a relatively anonymous light industrial area before the buildout of Playa Vista and the rise of Silicon Beach. “There was no one there except Chiat\Day and Frank Gehry,” says Mycoskie. But he doesn’t mind being a trendsetter or seeing other companies imitate the social benefit business model that TOMS proved viable. “I don’t measure TOMS’ impact just in what we’ve done,” says Mycoskie, “but really in how we empower and inspire others to do good in the world and show that this is a sustainable way to do business.” — Christina Campodonico
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he original Spago on the Sunset Strip turned Wolfgang Puck into a celebrity chef. The restaurant’s 1997 reboot in Beverly Hills made a star of Marina del Rey-based architect Stephen Francis Jones. After trying his hand at high-rises and shopping centers, Jones discovered a passion for restaurant design while creating the Santa Monica Airportadjacent nightspot Typhoon about 28 years ago. “Typhoon was one of the early restaurants that had polished concrete floors and exposed steel and big glass. We had such an awesome view of the runway, the way it was just perched up there, and we wanted to take advantage of that. It was an unusual experience for a restaurant — more about sense of place and how the
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design of a space could relate to that, as opposed to something like a Pacific Rim theme [to match the menu],” recalls Jones, who later converted Typhoon’s upstairs observation deck into sushi restaurant The Hump. He launched SF Jones Architects after Puck’s then-wife and partner Barbara Lazaroff pulled him away from designing fast-casual concepts to reboot Spago with an ambience to match its food. The color scheme and broken tile were Lazaroff’s ideas, while Jones focused on blurring the lines of indoor and al fresco dining by wrapping the building around garden seating. Spago was a launching pad for other projects, among them Anisette Brasserie (now The Misfit) in downtown Santa Monica, MB Post and Simmzy’s in
Manhattan Beach, Greenleaf Venice on Abbot Kinney Boulevard, the private dining area for Chinois on Main, and Lucky Strike at Hollywood & Highland. Del Frisco’s Grille tapped Jones to make their Santa Monica location feel like it belonged in Southern California. “We made it so the doors open out to an incredible view of the Santa Monica Pier sign, and we did a little island bar so you can sit right up against the glass,” says Jones. “We tried to make the light fixtures look like stars, resemble the lights from the beach.” Seeing independent restaurants increasingly priced out of destination areas like Third Street Promenade, Jones is now conceptualizing how clusters of tiny restaurants might co-exist around shared seating. His latest project repurposed
shipping containers into a beer garden at the Los Angeles Football Club’s new Banc of California Stadium. No matter the project, “I always say it starts with lifestyle, and if you live the lifestyle it’s much easier to design that lifestyle,” he says. “My office is in Marina del Rey because I row every morning out of the UCLA Aquatic Center. My day starts on the water at six. It’s a Zen-like feeling to be out there, to hear the rhythm of the oars. That’s when I think out my day. … My commute is on Vista Del Mar, which is the nicest view to have a commute along, and occasionally I’ll ride my bike into work. It makes life just very complete in terms of how you experience the world.” — Joe Piasecki
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ou may know Laura Avery’s voice from her weekly farmers market reports for KCRW’s “Good Food,” and you’ve probably walked right by her if you shop at the Wednesday Santa Monica market on Arizona Avenue between 4th and Ocean. But very few of us who visit any of the four farmers’ markets she oversees in Santa Monica know what she looks like, even though this September she’ll have been the city’s famers market supervisor for 36 years. Sitting across from Avery at Curious Palate on the dining deck of Santa Monica Place, it’s easy to see why she’s kept at it so long. “I love getting to hang out with farmers and hear what they have to say,” says Avery. “Find out how their week went, what they are growing. I like being a part of what they do. Like I can ask, ‘When are Santa Rosa plums coming?’ if I want to make jam. I’m not a big cook, but having all those ingredients around inspires me to experiment with something new, like making jam or sauerkraut.” Not only is Avery the farmers’ and consumers’ biggest advocate, she’s also a walking encyclopedia of farmers market knowledge. She knows how certified famers markets came into existence, and what organizations initially opposed them. She can tell you how many farmers showed up on the very first day of business in Santa Monica — July 15, 1981 — and why the Main Street market is the only one of the four that allows retail shops to set up stalls. She knows why there’s an 80% cherry crop drop this year, and which farmers are being affected. About 900,000 shoppers visit the four combined markets each year. Supervising all of them is a huge job for one woman. But this wasn’t always the case. Avery started her job in September 1982, working 10 to 12 hours a week: six at the Wednesday market and between four and six hours calling farmers during the week to ask if they were coming back the next one. The very first market in 1981 had 23 farmers, and by the end of the year, that number grew to 45. Ten years after the first Wednesday market, a second market opened on Saturday, then the Virginia Avenue Park market in 1992, and finally the Main Street Market in 1995. The markets have continued to grow and are now home to 140 seasonal or year-round farmers and 25 prepared food vendors. From adventurous home cooks to star chefs building seasonal menus through special relationships with farmers, the markets have become an essential community gathering place around a shared belief in fresh, nutritious food. This past year about 1,000 Santa Monica public schools students took market tours to meet a farmer, learn about produce and bring home something good to eat. “I think of myself as being in the right place at the right time,” Avery says. “I grew with my job organically.” — Jessica Koslow
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kite and paddleboard surfer who frequents local beaches, pain medicine and management specialist Dr. Akash Bajaj knows the fun and sense of freedom that comes with playing outdoors — and understands the frustration of physical ailments getting in the way. The Westside is chockfull of orthopedic and sports medicine specialists that are among the best in the world, but Bajaj is pioneering a unique approach to treating chronic back and leg pain as medical director of Remedy Pain Solutions in Marina del Rey. Through a small incision in the back, Bajaj implants a small disc (about the size of a quarter) that eliminates pain by decompressing nerves in the spinal column. The outpatient surgery is usually finished in under an hour, and in less than a year Bajaj has already treated a few dozen patients this way. “The results have been dramatic so far. For many patients, it’s life-changing,” he says. “I’m a surfer, so I can relate to the Westside mentality, and that motivates me to get these patients up and running as quickly as possible. It’s been incredibly inspiring to be able to deliver this type of procedure, because often these patients are at the end of their roads.” Bajaj’s patients range from pro athletes and celebrities to weekend warriors and other active people recovering from injuries, and his recommended treatments vary from person to person. The implants are typically for those who have significant, persistent pain but are not good candidates for spinal surgery — like those with spinal stenosis and, in some cases, sciatica, he says. A summa cum laude graduate of UC San Diego, Bajaj earned his M.D. and a master’s in public health from New York Medical College, and served his residency in anesthesiology at UCLA Medical Center. Recently he’s earned media and industry attention for advancing stem cell regeneration therapy as a way to treat damaged tissue, extracting platelet-rich plasma from a patient’s own blood and injecting it into trouble-spots in order to speed the healing process along. While Bajaj will also prescribe traditional anti-inflammation medication, he won’t give his patients opioids or narcotics that can result in long-term dependency. “As a physician, my goal is to restore function as quickly as possible and eliminate the need for ongoing treatments,” he says. “This [implant] procedure is groundbreaking. It’s changing the landscape of pain management.” And about that Westside mentality: “It’s a unique combination of being in a coastal area and all of the amenities that come with it, like the weather and being in touch with Mother Nature. It makes people more friendly and affable,” Bajaj says. “What I like especially is the walkability of the Westside, and I think that helps keep things real and natural.” — Gary Walker
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eventy-five years ago developer Frank H. Ayres took businesswoman Ella Drollinger out for a drive to explore a budding neighborhood around Mines Field, a dirt landing strip surrounded by bean fields that Ayres told her would someday become one of the world’s largest airports. “He was spot on, but how he knew that I have no idea,” says Karen Dial, whose grandmother Ella funded construction of the first commercial building in Westchester — an independent grocer called Jim Dandy — and whose father, Howard B. Drollinger, went on to build and manage much of the neighborhood’s central business district. Some of Dial’s fondest childhood memories in the late 1950s and early ’60s include walking across the street from her parents’ home at 77th and Arizona to
spend time with dad at the family’s Niagara Car Wash, grab a bite together at a burger joint on Sepulveda called Pepe’s, or drive around the neighborhood to inspect buildings for sale or under construction. At Orville Wright Junior High she started going steady with classmate Ken Dial, who would take her out for beer-boiled hot dogs at Lum’s, 25-cent movies, candy bars at Sav-On and dreamy afternoons staring up at the bellies of planes from the unfenced grassy knolls along the LAX runway. As president of both Drollinger Properties and the Drollinger Family Charitable Foundation, Dial is on a mission to shepherd Westchester into a dynamic future — “we need to nurture more of a college-town vibe,” she says — while nourishing organizations that cement neighborhood bonds and preserve
Westchester’s small-town feel. The foundation, for example, helps bankroll Westside Pacific Villages’ volunteer network in support of independent senior living, youth and family programing at the Westchester Family YMCA, and the Airport Marina Counseling Service’s low-cost mental health clinic and counseling programs in local schools. Dial, a dedicated yoga enthusiast, is also on a spree of sponsoring murals and other public art. The company, meanwhile, is willing to forego quick profits to nurture opportunities for local independent retailers — even if that means holding spaces for a year or two, or Dial conceiving and executing her own business plans. Next year she plans to open an independent bookstore, café and multipurpose community event space next to Ayara Thai Cuisine in the Westchester
Triangle, a building where she hung out as a kid when it was Karl’s Toy Store. There may be a lot more traffic these days, but in many ways Westchester is still like the town Dial grew up in and isn’t all that different from her other home in Missoula, where her husband is a professor of biology at the University of Montana. “Westchester still has a community feel where a lot of people know each other from social circles that intertwine, like some of the people at the YMCA go to the same church or synagogue and like to meet at The Coffee Co. for breakfast on Saturdays,” she says. “When people want to know what a community looks like, they could to look us. We can be that model.” — Joe Piasecki July 26, 2018 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 19
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s a boy growing up in Kansas City, Marcus Gladney was obsessed with two things: the movie “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (the good one, with Gene Wilder), and carnivals. Boyhood fascinations giving way to adulthood, it was love that would finally bring him west. In 2014 he left Missouri with his girlfriend, but six months later found himself beached in Venice without the girl, a plan, or much else. Nothing was going his way, except an unusual bicycle that caught his eye one evening on the bike path; it had strings of LED lights entwined in its wheels, creating a dazzling trip of color and motion when the bike whizzed past. Amazed, he chased it like a lunatic, yelling for the guy to stop. The rider told PAGE 20 THE ARGONAUT July 26, 2018
him that a guy named Sebastian had installed the lights. Gladney found Sebastian, and asked him for help creating his own illuminated bicycle. “Have you ever put twelve strings of lights on a wheel?” Marcus asked. “Twelve sets of lights! Why? And where would all the batteries go?” Sebastian answered him, in something akin to the outraged tone of Dr. Emmet Brown’s “One-point-twenty-one gigawatts!” from “Back to the Future.” But just like Doc, Sebastian found a way to do it, and the blend of hundreds of red and yellow lights spun a dazzling impression of fire when Marcus rode the new creation down the Venice bike path. Not longer after that, as L.A. stories often go, two producers approached them and
asked if they would consider being part of the opening sequence for a new TV show, “The Late Late Show with James Corden.” A week later they shot the sequence with Corden riding Marcus’ bike in Windward Plaza that appears in the show open. In the way that a single idea can change the course of a life, Marcus and Sebastian became boardwalk evangelists for illuminated bicycles. They festooned their own bikes and themselves with increasingly more elaborate arrays, and recruited many followers with their infectious enthusiasm. They received no income from the enterprise, and had no sponsors or deep pockets. It was all about the joy of it. They started riding every Sunday at sundown, and always from Windward
Plaza, and started calling themselves VELP, the Venice Electric Light Parade. Lately, VELP rides often draw more than a hundred riders, led by Marcus as a pied piper in his glowing purple sombrero, but it took a lot of uphill pedaling. “Early on, there were some very lonely rides,” Marcus admits. “Just two of us.” But they stuck to it because they loved it, and they loved the faces of spectators dazzled by the moving light show. And this would be the moment to refer back to Gladney’s childhood loves: carnivals and Willy Wonka, and to note how much of those two ideas are in VELP, and to celebrate keeping the kid inside us alive and well. — Martin L. Jacobs
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Knowledge in Service
he year the Olympics came to Los Angeles, Fernando Guerra was at UCLA researching a dissertation on ethnicity and politics in Los Angeles when a friend told him Loyola Marymount University needed someone who could teach Chicano studies with a local angle and some political science classes. He’d never taught before — hadn’t even finished his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan — but his dad encouraged him to apply. “I’ve had one job my entire life — one job interview. That was 34 years ago,” says Guerra, who as a tenured professor and founding director of LMU’s Center for the Study of Los Angeles has become a leading academic researcher and frequent media analyst of L.A. life and politics. The center traces its inception to 1992, when the Los Angeles Riots left students feeling like their classes hadn’t fully prepared them to live in a city literally going up in flames during finals. Five years later, Guerra led the center’s first major undertaking: a citywide survey of Angelenos’ hopes, fears, quality of life concerns, awareness of race relations, attitudes toward the police, perceptions of the city and feelings about each other. “What’s important about public opinion is that opinions lead to behavior, and behavior leads to certain opinions,” says Guerra, and that’s information that civic leaders can use to craft more responsive public policy. “We’re driven by research with practical applications. The role of the center is to do research that creates action that will lead to justice … and not only do students become agents of change, but nonprofits and even government can further their agency of change.” The center repeats this faculty-directed, student-executed survey every five years, including last year’s 25th anniversary of the riots. Other projects have included a study of attitudes toward Silicon Beach, an opinion poll about the 2028 Olympics, and neighborhood-specific polls (residents of Playa Vista, for example, are happier than most about where they live). A native of northeast Los Angeles, Guerra has also led a multi-year countywide survey of 60 mayors, 57 city managers and 52 school district superintendents about their perspectives on local leadership — a common thread emerging that leaders “are increasingly optimistic and believe in their power to do good and capacity to do great things,” he says. Guerra is inspired by limitless possibilities for topics of research, but what keeps him energized about doing the same job year after year is teaching — even if that means 30 straight semesters of Intro to Chicano Studies. “Every year you get a whole new crop of interesting, eager students who want to interact with me, so the excitement never ends. Nothing could be more invigorating than that,” he says. “Teaching, research and service.” — Joe Piasecki
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f you’ve been to the Venice Skate Park lately, chances are you’ve seen Kanya Sesser grinding by on her board in cutoffs, wavy jet black hair whipping against her tanned back. She is striking, not only for the ornate tattoos on her shoulders and forearms, but also because she skateboards — and surfs and skis — without legs, a condition with which she was born. She moves around mostly without the use of a wheelchair, instead using her hands or skateboard as transportation. Born in Thailand, Sesser was abandoned at a Buddhist temple as an infant and left in the care of monks. She was adopted at age 5 by an American couple and grew up in Oregon, where she excelled in adaptive sports, winning national titles in track. In 2014 she came close to qualifying for the Winter Paralympic Games in mono-skiing. But when her story went viral in 2015, she became more known for her sex appeal than for her athleticism. “Aspiring model born without legs makes $1,000 a day,” headlines blared, touching on her occasional work as a lingerie model — misleading headlines, she says. “I had said I make up to around that much. Back in 2015, I didn’t really understand or know how this business worked,” says Sesser, 25, of her sudden celebrity status. It became something of a doubleedged sword for Sesser: She nabbed guest spots on network TV shows like “Code Black” and “Hawaii Five-0,” and performed with the now-shuttered Venice Beach Freakshow. But as social media often depicts life through a filter, what many didn’t know about were her subsequent personal struggles: the friend she had been living with in Los Angeles passed away suddenly, leaving Sesser without a stable home for months. She slept in vans and, sometimes, on the beach not far from the skate park, and showered at her gym; it was too awkward, she says, to reach out to her parents for help. “I had nowhere to go, and I didn’t want to leave Venice Beach. It was a real eyeopener,” says Sesser. These days Sesser has her own apartment and works consistently as a stunt performer, actor, model and, now, motivational speaker, returning to her native Thailand last October for an engagement. She also hasn’t given up her dreams of making it to the Paralympic Games one day and trains with Oregon Adaptive Sports. Sesser says she is heartened by strangers who have been inspired by her story and her motto: “No legs, no limits.” But one thing they should never feel for her is sorry. “[Some people] want to feel saddened by your disability. They’ll come up to me and say, “Can I pray for you?” I’d rather not have you pray for me,” she says. “Sometimes, I want to punch those people because it’s kind of rude. I’m just Kanya. I’m just living my life.”
‘No Legs, No Limits’ Kanya Sesser
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Jake Hofheimer
or the fourth summer in a row, 19-year-old Jake Hofheimer is trading his native Los Angeles for Camp Aranu’tiq, a safe haven for transgender and gender-nonconforming kids tucked in the woods of New Hampshire. “The main reason this camp is really important to me is that it showed me that there are other people like me,” says the former camper, who now gives back as a volunteer counselor and lifeguard. Hofheimer was assigned female at birth, but he never felt at home under that label, refusing to wear girls’ school uniforms and adopting the name “Jake” during make-believe games with his brother. “I didn’t have the language or vocabulary to really explain what I was feeling. I didn’t think there was anyone like me, so I just kept my mouth shut,” Hofheimer recalls. As a teen, he did find the language: transgender. After coming out to his parents and transferring out of his all-girls middle school, Hofheimer found refuge at New Roads School, a progressive Santa Monica prep school founded on principles of diversity and independent thinking. Within days he came out to his teachers and classmates, a decision that felt “liberating.” In his junior year, Hofheimer became the school’s first transgender baseball player — a move that caught the attention of the Los Angeles Times and ESPN The Magazine and gave him national visibility. He saw this moment in the spotlight as an opportunity to spread awareness. “I wouldn’t say that me coming out and being a trans baseball player made any sort of difference in terms of realities [for trans youth],” he says. “But I do think it’s helped to reassure other trans folks that being trans doesn’t have to restrict you from doing what you love.” Now a Women & Gender Studies major at the University of Colorado Boulder, Hofheimer has set aside his baseball glove for a new passion: advocacy work. He volunteers with the Jewish LGBTQ organization JQ International, and in March he became the first trans person — and the first teen — to win their Trailblazer Award. Hofheimer admits he “felt kind of weird” about receiving the honor at such a young age, especially with so much he wants to accomplish still on the horizon. But he’s already chipping away at his advocacy goals in small ways — like mentoring young campers at Camp Aranu’tiq, the same place that welcomed him in his adolescence, helping him blossom into the person he is today. “It’s a place where I wasn’t ‘that trans kid’ anymore. I was just a kid,” Hofheimer says. “And that feeling — the best way to describe it is freeing.” — Stephanie Case
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hortly after the 2016 presidential election, a new political voice emerged in Venice. They activated hundreds to gather outside Google headquarters last year to stop an alt-right rally in the wake of Charlottesville. They held sign making parties and canvassed local neighborhoods to drum up participation in Women’s March L.A. They hosted “Flip the House” phone-banking meet-ups during the primaries. And for more than 2,500 Instagram followers, Venice Resistance has become a fixture of daily existential dives into the depths of the Internet. The woman behind this new grassroots global citizenship push is Venice resident Maria Casey, whose day job is running the independent business consulting and digital marketing agency MCA Partners. “I have a five-year-old daughter and I was terrified of her having to grow up in a world that was, in my opinion, going completely backwards,” says Casey. “So I wanted to make sure that we were able to do something to create a safe community. I figured that with all the resources we have in Venice, there’s no reason why we can’t build up Venice to be a model community for Los Angeles, for Southern California — to show that here is a melting pot of so many different types of people and classes, and everyone’s together in peace and in harmony. That’s really where it all came from.” Born in Ecuador and raised in the Midwest by “international activist parents,” Casey says that an organizing streak runs in her blood. “My dad was so involved in international business that at dinner we were always talking about world issues, foreign policy, all kinds of stuff like that. I ended up joining the Peace Corps after college and lived in Bangladesh,” she says. After that, Casey worked in startups for 15 years, bringing her business savvy and marketing know-how to companies such as Fox Broadcasting and the Disney-backed storytelling platform Playbuzz. She is also an advisor for VINA (“Tinder for girlfriends”). But 2016 reactivated her interest not only in national politics (she canvassed for Obama in Ohio in 2008), but also issues closer to home, such as homelessness. “There were so many local micro-issues specific to Venice that didn’t relate to any of these other neighborhoods,” says Casey. “So that’s where we decided to keep it [going].” The group currently has about 1,500 core members, with whom Casey communicates via Instagram, a private Facebook group and an email newsletter. Considering the infiltration of fake news and misinformation into all our feeds, the irony that Venice Resistance activates itself through social media isn’t lost on Casey. But she remains hopeful about digital media’s power to ignite civic engagement. “People follow us because I think it’s unique and they trust the messages that we’re giving. They know that there are people behind it. … And I think that’s really the trick — being authentic in your message and your voice,” she says. “The goal is to make it easy for people to take action.” — Christina Campodonico
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Mr. Hospitality W hat must have been a million meals and three million beers ago — before Mo’s Place became the unofficial civic center of Playa del Rey, before Mo dressed in outrageous costumes to hand out ridiculous prizes during Monday Night Football parties — Mo Krant was down on his luck, betrayed by friends and business partners, and so one night he just started driving. He ended up on Culver Boulevard two blocks from the beach, at a strip mall Chinese restaurant called the Sand Pan, which was kind of a dump, but it had potential. “I came in, sat at the bar, and I just had a really good feeling. I don’t know what it was, just a gut feeling that something
felt right about this place,” Krant recalls 25 years later, in between greeting weeknight regulars he knows by name. And he’s quite the affectionate greeter. “I’ll hug you. I’ll kiss you. … I don’t care. I’m European,” he says, though you’d probably never guess that Krant’s parents immigrated from Holland when he was three, that he ran a toy, perfume and jewelry business in Amsterdam from age 17 to 32, or that in his early 20s he was a black belt kickboxer (Mo promised twice that he wasn’t pulling my leg with that one). At 67 — “I know I don’t look it. I have a great doctor,” he reflexively quips — Krant is eating healthy, not drinking much, at the gym for at least an hour a day
and generally feeling pretty darn good about where he is and where he’s been. Not that success was easy. Krant is quick to acknowledge he had help — most of all from Steve Matilla and his late father Luke, the real estate brokers and property managers who gave Krant a chance even though taking over the business stretched him beyond his financial limitations. And perhaps that has something to do with the abiding belief in treating people right that guides Krant both personally and professionally. “There’s nothing better in life than to feel good about helping people or making sure people have a great time, making sure that every person who comes in here feels good about themselves. It’s about
loving everybody around you, and also respecting people. If you don’t give respect, you don’t get respect. I try to make sure everyone feels at home. This is my living room. I’m here every night,” he says. “When a friend of mine comes in here and he’s maybe had a little too much to drink, I’ll say ‘I’m not kicking you out; I’m kicking you out tonight. Tomorrow is another day.’ … You’ve got to watch out for people. That’s not a pat on my back; that’s the way you do business. Playa del Rey is a very special community. A very close-knit community. It’s very un-L.A. You’ve got to be a good neighbor.”
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ar Vista entrepreneur Nanxi Liu has worked her way up from a village in rural China with no indoor plumbing and spotty electricity to the boardrooms of two successful startups and a spot on Forbes’ annual 30 Under 30 list in enterprise tech. She produced the Emmy-winning web series “The Bay,” co-wrote a song with a Grammy-winning musician Pascal Guyon, and at 28 years old she’s only getting started. Liu (who pronounces her name “Nancy”) was raised by extended family members in China from age two to five, until her international student parents brought her to Colorado. She describes her teen years in Boulder as “rebellious” — mostly because she began taking classes at the University of Colorado while in high school and would hang out with the friends she made there. PAGE 28 THE ARGONAUT July 26, 2018
“My parents wouldn’t let me go to parties with college students, so I had to sneak out. They’d be waiting for me after I got home at 2 or 3 a.m.,” she recalls with a laugh. Liu, who also plays violin and cello, won a national piano scholarship to put herself through UC Berkeley, where she felt the magnetic pull of Silicon Valley’s startup culture. “You’re not an entrepreneur until you’ve started a failed dating app,” she jokes, though serious about the lessons such early experiences taught her. “I learned how to think strategically and where the milestones need to be. And I also learned to never take any relationship for granted.” While on vacation back in Colorado, Liu met biochemist Balaji Sridhar in a dive bar and they went on to found
Nanoly Bioscience. The company invented a polymer that functions as a chemical shield allowing temperaturesensitive molecules to survive without refrigeration, making it possible to transport lifesaving vaccines and medical test kits anywhere in the world. Co-founding Nanoly won Liu a Microsoft- and Nokia-sponsored Young Innovator Award in 2014. Liu’s second startup (whose initial backers included a high school friend) is Enplug, a software company that transforms static digital signs in stadiums and other public places into app-controlled interactive displays. The company picked up $2.5 million in seed funding four years ago, and its client list now includes hospitality groups, universities, car dealerships, breweries and other tech companies.
Now Liu is branching out to community affairs. She’s on the board of the National Foster Youth Institute with her local congresswoman, Rep. Karen Bass, and in May she was appointed to the Mar Vista Community Council. “Part of what makes the Westside great is people really love that work-life balance, and so do I. … People’s connection to the outdoors grounds everyone a little,” she says. “I try to be reflective, because I think that’s where a lot of growing happens. It reminds me how much help I had as a female entrepreneur and one of the few women CEOs in tech. I look at it now as my responsibility to help others be successful.” — Gary Walker
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omewhere not far from his Marina del Rey condo or Playa del Rey alma mater St. Bernard High School, Arabian Prince wants to create a space where kids from neighborhoods like Compton — where he grew up and became part of the foundational rap group N.W.A. — can learn to code, find a mentor, and interact with the latest technological innovations. Think of it as a co-working space, R&D lab, startup accelerator and tech education center all in one. Arabian calls it “Open Labs,” and he’s hoping to find this initiative of his Inov8 Next product innovation incubator a home by 2019 because, well, the tech world needs a place like this. Too often, he says, tech companies push products to market that aren’t really designed with the consumer in mind. They’re built by and for tech insiders, like the guys you meet at conventions. But what if you reversed the equation? What if companies built technologies inspired and engineered by the diverse consumer base that uses their products? What if ordinary people could walk off the street and into a hotbed of technological innovation? You might have a tech world that looks radically different from the one we have now — one that’s cutting-edge because it’s diverse and accessible. That’s the tech industry Arabian wants to build, drawing on the untapped potential of people who grew up in places like he did. Arabian attributes much of his success in the music world to interacting with media and technology at a young age. He recalls learning to program a synthesizer his cousin had brought home after a stint in the military. “It was just a bunch of wires plugging into holes with a keyboard. You would get no sound out of this thing unless you knew how to plug the wires into the LFOs and the VCAs. So I’m a little kid playing with this stuff going, ‘Dude, this is dope,’” says Arabian. “Fast-forward to when I made my first record, I got my first royalty check and I’m like, ‘Oh, I have a little money now.’ First thing I ran out and did was buy a computer.” From there, he taught himself how to code and make animations. He applied electronic music tricks he had picked up from making girl group J.J. Fad’s hit song “Supersonic” (which really involved engineering back then, he says) to his collaboration with Dr. Dre (who’d been involved with the electro-pop rap group World Class Wreckin’ Cru) on N.W.A.’s famed first album “Straight Outta Compton.” “It literally uses the same sounds that we used on ‘Supersonic’ and on The Wreckin’ Cru stuff, because that’s what we knew, and we just made it more hardcore and hip-hop,” he says. After Arabian walked from the group (a pure “business decision,” he says), he got into working on video games for places like Saban Entertainment and Fox Interactive, which taught him how to build technology from the ground up. That’s the kind of experience he wants to pass on and pay forward with Open Labs. “Yeah, I made records. I made music. I got a chance, I got a shot. Yeah, I made some money. But what really sparked me and put me over was technology. I want to kind of just open that door for people,” he says. “That’s what I want to give to this new generation of kids growing up.”
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hen entrepreneurs and investors discuss Playa Vista, they usually talk about tech or real estate. But locals know it’s really the moms who run the show. Playa Vista mom Gabrielle D’Addario, a self-described “disruptor,” is an idea machine. Leave her in a room for five minutes and she’ll have created five new and exciting events you’ll be desperate to add to your calendar. But staying active in Silicon Beach isn’t about career-building, she says — it’s a calling. “I’m using my social media presence to make a positive change in the community,” D’Addorio says while we chat in Bluff Creek Fields Park, where two monarch butterflies literally circle the heads of her two enchanted toddlers. Positive change comes in many forms, whether that means creating an all-inclusive parents group, filming a web series offering practical parenting tips, or working the city to install a four-way stop sign at a corner frequented by children. But D’Addario’s role as a community networker and social media influencer came about largely by happenstance. D’Addario was 28, living in Playa del Rey and pursuing a promising career as a television host when her life came to a halt after a frightening medical diagnosis while pregnant with her second child. Not only did she have ulcerative colitis, but also C-Diff, a very serious bacterial infection. “The doctor told me my next phone call is to a specialist in infectious disease,” she recalls as tears well in her eyes. “I spent time in quarantine. It was so scary.” Fortunately her son was born healthy, but the illness left her body totally depleted. “I couldn’t even pick up Gracie [her daughter]. I couldn’t even put her in the car,” she says. “And then I had Charlie. I couldn’t leave my house. That time period was a black cloud.” That’s when D’Addario and her husband, real estate broker Kris Zacuto, decided to move to Playa Vista, where restaurants and parks and lots of other young families are all within walking distance. As she recovered, D’Addario spent less time in front of the camera and more time on her computer harnessing the power of social media. After forming the Silicon Beach Parents Group, D’Addario began organizing fun and inclusive community events. They’re often informative — as a certified car seat technician, she promotes safety for kids in cars — and they’re always free, because her TV background makes her a natural at finding sponsors. Two years later, her numerous picnics, play days, fun runs, fashion shows and even a cryptocurrency social mixer have all contributed to a stronger, more connected community. And D’Addario is just getting started. “I have a voice that I use,” she says. “That’s my passion.” — Shanee Edwards
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An Animated Life T he end of July marks the conclusion of San Diego Comic-Con, one of the largest festivals of pop culture in the country. For a guy like Jeff “Swampy” Marsh, it’s both an exciting and unusual time. “It’s the one place in the world where you feel like you’re famous, if you’re an animator,” he says. “Ever since ‘Phineas and Ferb’ hit.” “Phineas and Ferb” is Swampy’s claim to fame: 200-plus episodes of zany cartoon fun that ruled the Disney Channel from 2007 to 2015. Swampy co-created the series with fellow “The Simpsons” and “Rocko’s Modern Life” alum Dan Povenmire; it chronicles the adventures of the eponymous stepbrothers, their sister and their pet cum secret agent Perry the Platypus. Gargantuan titles like “Phineas and
Ferb” practically mandate trips to San Diego, but this year Swampy won’t be in attendance. Instead, he’ll be at Surfer Jack Productions, his Venice-based studio, which is busy with projects ranging from the joyful (a 13-episode adaptation of New York Times-bestselling picture book “Pete the Cat”) to the arcane (“Goblins Animated,” based on a webcomic about the lives of monsters in “Dungeons and Dragons”). “Pete the Cat” features the vocal talents of Elvis Costello, Dave Matthews and KT Tunstall, and “Goblins Animated” taps legendary voice actors Phil Lamarr and Billy West. Like their choice of projects, Surfer Jack Productions is anything but typical. The big animation studios are predominantly based in the San Fernando Valley, but Surfer Jack is staying put near the
intersection of Abbot Kinney and Venice Boulevard. Swampy surfs before the workday, and his office (aka Surfer Jack’s meeting room) is a shiny vintage Airstream trailer out near the front. The building itself is “teeny,” but that offers collaborative advantages. “Our head writers are literally 10 feet away from our directors and storyboard artists,” Swampy says, “so the artists or the directors are able to literally call out to the writers and ask them to change the line. It’s a little bizarre for how most studios work.” Most studios also don’t throw a monthly party with drinks, guests from the community and artistic pursuits like pouring molten metal, but Surfer Jack is a product of Swampy, and Swampy is a product of the Westside. Born in Santa Monica, he bought a fixer-upper in the
Venice area in 1987. “In the process of fixing the house up, I fell in love with Venice and just thought, ‘I don’t need to leave,’” Swampy says, “and that also came at the time when I was going through a career change, from being a computer marketing executive … to getting a job on ‘The Simpsons.’” While changes to Venice have not made Swampy and Surfer Jack’s tenure a cakewalk, Swampy remains optimistic. “I’m working hard, financially … to preserve this place and this environment,” he says. “Things will change and the pendulum will swing back and forth, but I haven’t seen anything, over all of these years, to let me know that Venice won’t be an interesting, whacky, fun place to be. I don’t see that changing.” — Andy Vasoyan July 26, 2018 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 31
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onny de la Peña could be accused, perhaps fairly, of bringing the vegetables to virtual reality. Having worked for decades to develop the possibilities of VR and AR (augmented reality) — having in fact been dubbed the “godmother of VR” — de la Peña has used the technology to tell difficult and painful stories: about imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay, or systemic hunger, or the quiet moments of war. Why not jump on the immersivesex wagon, or create another arena-fighting game? Why the serious stuff? Why the vegetables? Blame journalism. Before she was the godmother of VR, the Venice-born de la Peña was a reporter for Newsweek. Then she made her first media shift — into documentary, working with HBO and CourtTV. Give her career the thousand-yard stare and what you see is someone pushing up against the limits of the medium, trying to exceed the capacities. Failing that, she’ll just build something else. “When you do journalism, the whole point is to bring people closer to a scene that they can’t otherwise participate in,” she says. When she first walked through a virtual space at a lab at the University of Barcelona, she understood something that made her previous work … insufficient. “At that moment I realized I can’t put my audience out there. They have to be in the story, with me.” As the founder of Emblematic Group, a Santa Monicabased VR studio that produces immersive experiences for the likes of The New York Times and Wall Street Journal, de la Peña intends to make VR and AR an experiential go-to, rather than a novelty. Emblematic’s projects are ambitious, designed to obliterate the luxury of distance afforded by the magazine story, the podcast, or the documentary. Stand in a living room as two women try to keep a man from shooting their sister; endure solitary confinement; walk through the night George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin; watch Greenland melt. In a nod to the commercial possibilities of VR, Emblematic turned New York’s Cartier store into a time machine: buses may replace horses, but diamonds are forever! “We’ve been able to continue to be leaders in the field of the non-gaming ways that content can be made,” she says. “That’s been a super interesting field to be able to show people the possibilities.” Not to say she hasn’t gotten pushback. There were times when she wondered if she’d even have a career, when industry disinterest meant she was without a job. But maybe she’s only ever been in this space. As a young Hispanic woman learning to code at Harvard in the ’90s in roomfuls of white men, she always kind of recognized that she was swimming against one current or another. Her own notable leap forward in the VR space happened in 2007. Working with digital media artist Peggy Weil and some donated e-land in the game “Second Life,” de la Peña adapted a documentary she’d made on Guantanamo Bay into a VR experience. It simulated torture. De la Peña wanted the opposite of what VR seemed to promise: not escape from reality, but a deeper relationship with it. As a research fellow at USC, she followed up “Gone Gitmo” with a piece called “Hunger in Los Angeles.” None other than Palmer Luckey designed the goggles for that one, less than a year before he created Oculus Rift. These projects evolved into Emblematic Group. And now that VR seems to be sticking, de la Peña wants to kick past the hurdle of the technology itself: the clunky headsets that, let’s face it, no one’s going to adopt en masse. As Emblematic works on ever-bigger projects, it’s also working on apps to let people not only navigate VR on the web, but design in VR, too. De la Peña wants to christen many godchildren of virtual reality. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s not everything I want it to be unless everyone is participating and taking advantage of the power of the medium,” she says. And, yes, that means sometimes eating your vegetables. — Brandon Reynolds
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Go for the Gold Pils & Love gives the humble pilsner a longoverdue moment in the craft beer spotlight By Brian Marks Look around a craft brewery or upscale bar and you’re bound to notice patrons struggling to drink their way through the current beer trends. There’ll be someone grimacing through a painfully bitter India Pale Ale (IPA), or reflexively puckering their cheeks from the tart bite of a lambic or wild ale. Of course there are plenty of great IPAs and sours, and an abundance of drinkers who swear by them. But their explosion in popularity has sidelined equally notable versions of other classic beer varieties, perhaps no more so than the pilsner. This too often overlooked crisp and golden-hued lager gets its own occasion for appreciation, however, when Firestone Walker Brewing Co. hosts the Pils & Love festival on Saturday at its Washington Boulevard R&D brewpub The Propagator. The pilsner’s declining fortunes among craft beer fans aren’t completely the result of strong competition. The ubiquity of its watered-down descendants, including Budweiser and Miller Lite, marked pilsners as unrefined and tasteless among craft drinkers. At Pils & Love, more than 40 breweries from around the world present their best example of a pilsner — a corrective to those better-known pilsner-adjacent beers. Pils & Love is an outgrowth of Pils Pride, an Italian beer event created in 2008 by Agostino Arioli of Birrificio Italiano. The inaugural Pils & Love event debuted last year at the Oxbow Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, and the West Coast version marks the beginning of an alternating, bicoastal event. Firestone Walker Brewmaster Matt Brynildson is the creator of the California brewery’s own take on pilsner, the crisp and refreshing Pivo (Czech, for “beer,” a nod to the variety’s Bohemian origins). Brewing wasn’t always where Brynildson saw himself ending up — he originally planned to get into medical research after college, but instead found himself doing research and development on hops, an essential component of most beers that gives a bitter and sometimes fruity taste. “I just started getting really fascinated by
hops,” says Brynildson. “That led me to the brewing process and home brewing, and I went back to brewing school.” Brynildson ascended to the role of head brewer at Goose Island in Chicago before moving to California and beginning at Firestone Walker about 18 years ago. During his tenure the brewery has expanded into a diverse portfolio of beers, including new experiments coming out of The Propagator. But getting beer drinkers to come back to the pilsner has been a difficult process. “When I first got into the business, American beer was somewhat the laughing stock of the world, at least in the brewing circles,” recalls Brynildson. “It was these light, somewhat watery lite beers that American beer was known for. When craft beer came onto the scene, unlike in other parts of the world, craft-brewed lager beers really didn’t resonate with beer drinkers because lager — or pilsner even — just meant Miller, Bud, Coors …” Firestone Walker is focusing Pils & Love on curation and removing distractions. There won’t be food pairings to interfere (although food is available). The overwhelming list of beers that festivals usually sport has also been trimmed. “Usually you go to a beer fest and it’s all about showing off,” says Brynildson. “You go there with your big guns, all the special beers you don’t normally have for sale. Whereas at this Pils & Love festival, each brewery just brings one beer: their pilsner beer. It’s the purest, most focused festival of beers that I’ve been to before.” That means craft aficionados will have to give a fair shot to a style of beer many have reflexively shunned. “We’ve found that craft beer drinkers go through an evolution,” says Brynildson. “If you really love beer and focus on the world of beer, you end up coming back to lagers at some point.” Pils & Love happens from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday (July 28) at The Propagator, 3205 Washington Blvd., Marina del Rey. Tickets are $60 at firestonebeer.com.
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By Jessica Koslow When you think of sushi, Thai or Chinese food, dessert is probably not the first image that comes to mind. You might top off your meal with a fortune cookie or some orange slices — maybe some ice cream — but it’s not the dessert you covet when you dine at an Asian restaurant. Not like a slice of tiramisu or a pot of crème brûlée. But more and more these days I prefer the sweets being served at Asian restaurants, including these four Westside standouts worth every bite: Carnival Cake at Sushi Roku Sushi Roku is one of those restaurants where you can’t help but feel like you’re on vacation, gazing out at the ocean and the animated crowd in every direction. The air is pulsing with excitement as you sit on the enclosed patio looking out over Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. The Carnival Cake is the perfect end to your evening — like the finale of a Broadway show. When it arrives at your table, all you see is an inflated mound of cotton candy, which is then lit on fire and burns theatrically to reveal a New York-style cheese-
Sushi Roku’s Carnival Cake is whimsy on a plate cake with strawberries, cookiesand-cream ice cream and a hint of Bacardi 151 rum. According to the restaurant, the inspiration behind the dessert was to combine a few nostalgic desserts from our youth (cotton candy, ice cream and cheesecake) that would please the sweet tooth and also complement meals that are typically focused on saltier, more umami flavors. Banana Fritters a la mode at Hama Sushi For almost 40 years, Hama Sushi has been a happening spot on Windward Circle. The bar is always packed at happy hour, you can be sure they’ll play the Beatles’ “Birthday” song when
it’s your special day, and there’s likely to be a surf movie or sports game projected on the big screen above the bar. The local hang has expanded their tempura options beyond shrimp and vegetables. You can now order tempura cheesecake and ice cream, but in my book the real winner is fresh banana tempura served with vanilla ice cream and topped with chocolate syrup. Every bite includes both warm banana tempura and cold ice cream, drizzled with chocolate. The best part is when the vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup begin to melt together, and you can glide the warm bananas back and forth, soaking up the sauce. Sweet Milky Roti at Celadon Thai Kitchen In the past year, Celadon has changed ownership. You can still expect the same delicious food and good service, but the new owners decided to add one dessert — because they personally love it. Shaped sort of like a crepe, this sweet treat tastes more like a donut: crispy on the outside and doughy inside. Poured all over (Continued on page 36)
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Marina del Rey WaterBus, 11 a.m. to midnight Thursday to Saturday and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday. Enjoy a water’seye view of Marina del Rey with eight boarding stops throughout the marina for opportunities to shop, dine and recreate. Bikes and strollers allowed. No pets. Service extends through Sept. 3. $1 each way. (424) 526-7900; visitmarinadelrey.com/transportation Beach Eats, 4:30 p.m. Thursdays. The weekly festival of food trucks with a scenic harbor backdrop returns to Mother’s Beach with live music by the Unkle Monkey from 6 to 8 p.m. Mother’s Beach, Lot 10, 4101 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. (424) 526-7900; visitmarinadelrey.com/ beacheats Food and Wine Pairing, 6 to 8 p.m. Oil and Vinegar Del Amo hosts this small bites tasting event as a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity. The open house format will feature culinary options from around the world and wine from the Boisset Collection in Napa Valley. Custom Design and Construction, 2001 E. Mariposa Ave., El Segundo. $10 admission. Visitcustomdesign.com Summer Sunset Cocktail Cruise, 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays through Oct. Cruise the harbor alongside summer sailing races and under the evening sky. Boarding begins at 5:30 p.m. Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. $37. (310) 301-9900; hornblower.com
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Venice Neighborhood Council Land Use and Planning Committee, 6:30 p.m. The committee meets on the first and last Thursdays of each month at Oakwood Recreation Center, 787 California Ave., Venice. venicenc.org
Full Moon Dinner Cruise, 8 to 10:30 p.m. Friday and 7:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday. With breathtaking views, deejay entertainment, dancing and a four-course dinner, this two and a half-hour cruise makes for a quick romantic getaway under a full moon. Boarding begins a half hour before launch. Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. $95; reservations required. (310) 301-9900; hornblower.com
Jimmy Brewster with Suzanne Taix, 6:30 to 9 p.m. Singing all the classics from Sinatra to rock-n-roll, Jimmy Brewster and Taix perform each Thursday at Billingsley’s Prime Rib & Steak House, 11326 W. Pico Blvd., West L.A. (310) 477-1426; billingsleysrestaurant.com Hammer Museum Summer Concerts, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. KCRW presents evenings of live music and KCRW deejays under the stars with food trucks and a cash bar. This week KCRW DJ Anthony Valadez opens the evening, followed by DJ and producer Cut Chemist and the afro-cumbia beats of Buyepongo. Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., West L.A. Free. (310) 443-7000; kcrw.com Live Music Thursdays, 9 to 11 p.m. Enjoy live music from Back of the Hand All-Stars. Surfside, 23 Windward Ave., Venice. No cover. (424) 256-7894; surfsidevenice.com
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Modern Society & Psychic Sisters L.A. Launch Party, 6 to 8 p.m. Chime in for the Los Angeles opening of the London-based clairvoyant shop. Swing by for meditations, in-store discounts and crystal infused cocktails. Platform, 8840 Washington Blvd., Culver City. psychicsisters.co.uk West Coast Swing, 6:15 p.m. Move your body and free your mind with a swing class and open dance. The beginner class is at 6:15 p.m., the intermediate at 7 p.m., and the intermediate/advanced at 7:45 p.m., followed by open dancing with deejays at 8:30 p.m. $10 per class; $15 for class and open dance. Westchester Elks Lodge,
Mar Vista Seniors Club, 9:30 to noon. Each Friday the Mar Vista Seniors Club meets for trips, tours, speakers, bingo and live entertainment. Ages 50+. Mar Vista Recreation Center, 11430 Woodbine St., Mar Vista. Byron Stalcup (310) 559-7798 or (310) 351-9876 Beach=Culture: Out of the Blue Story Circle, 2 p.m. Artist Molly Allis opens this story circle for kids and families to share stories, discuss what makes a good story and learn how Molly is making her story sculpture out of kinetic dioramas. Annenberg Community Beach House, 415 Pacific Coast Hwy, Santa Monica. Free. Annenbergbeachhouse.com “Days of Heaven” Screening, 6:30 p.m. Mind Over Movies screens this
Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland star in a quartet of classic films screening at the Old Town Music Hall. SEE FRIDAY, JULY 27. story of love and murder told through the voice of a child and expressive images of nature in 1916 America. A discussion and Q&A follow the film. The Christian Institute, 1308 Second St., Santa Monica. Free. facebook. com/MindOverMoviesLA Friday Night Trivia, 7 p.m. Test your knowledge while having a brew and win prizes. TRiP, 2101 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. No cover; after 9:15 p.m. $10. (310) 396-9010; tripsantamonica.com Toasted Fridays Workshop Open House, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Improve your public speaking skills in a relaxed atmosphere with food and drinks at this weekly open house. Marina City Club Quasar Room, 4333 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. Mark at (562) 508-0260; facebook. com/toastedfridays SongWriter Soiree, 7 to 11:30 p.m. (Sign up at 6:30 p.m.) Show up and prove your talent, then stay to support your fellow singers and musicians during the open mic each Friday at UnUrban Coffee House, 3301 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. $5 to participate. (310) 315-0056; unurban.com Shawn Mullins, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Alternative and country rock musician Shawn Mullins continues his Soul’s Core Revival Tour with special guest singer-songwriter Max Gomez.
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Music and Comedy at UnUrban, 1 to 7 p.m. Performances by Almost Vaudeville (1 to 4 p.m.) and Mews Small and Company (4 to 6 p.m.) precede the Screenwriting Tribe workshop Meetup group at UnUrban Coffee House, 3301 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 315-0056; unurban.com Last Sundays, 1 to 7 p.m. Head down to Main Street the last Sunday of the month to enjoy merchant sidewalk sales, giveaways and extended happy hours from restaurants and bars. Main Street, Santa Monica. facebook.com/ mainstreetsm “Hook” Screening, 2 p.m. Dress in your favorite pirate costume for this family favorite about a middle-aged lawyer Peter Banning (Robin Williams) who must return to his Peter Pan origins to rescue his kids from his
PRT’s Sunday Concert Series: Penny Safranek, 7 p.m. This weekly concert series at Pacific Resident Theatre continues with a performance by Penny Safranek as she sings songs she wrote while living on a barge in the Hudson River and reads from her book “The Book of 33 Vines: Life on a Hudson River Barge.” Pacific Resident Theatre, 705 Venice Blvd., Venice. $15. (310) 822-8392; pacificresidenttheatre.com The Venice Electric Light Parade, 7:15 p.m. Mr. Sebastian “The Light Man” strings LED wheel lights on bikes until 7:45 p.m. and then this family-friendly bike ride travels from Venice to Santa Monica and back, covering about eight miles. Meet at Windward Avenue and Ocean Front Walk. facebook.com/VeniceElectricLightParade
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Fulbright Scholar Baron Kelly plays the title role in LMU’s outdoor staging of “Othello” Shakespeare on the Bluff: “Othello” @ LMU and Central Park Bandshell Loyola Marymount University alumni, students and faculty share the stage with professional thespians in this al fresco version of The Bard’s “Othello” taking place on LMU’s campus and in Playa Vista’s Central Park Bandshell. Bring a picnic and some lawn chairs to enjoy these open-air performances. Limited Engagement: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday (July 27 and 28) at LMU’s Lawton Plaza in Westchester, (1 LMU Dr.) and 7 p.m. Sunday (July 29) at Playa Vista’s Central Park Bandshell, (12405 E. Waterfront Dr., Playa Vista.) Free. cfa.lmu.edu.
Austen for Kids: “Pride & Prejudice” @ Carlson Park Culver City Public Theatre presents an al fresco adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel about opposites that repel and then attract, preceded by a free Children’s Popcorn Theatre presentation of “The Hysterical History of the Trojan War.” “Hysterical History” plays at noon and “Pride & Prejudice follows at 1:30 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays through Aug. 5 at Carlson Park, 10400 Braddock Dr., Culver City. Free. ccpt.org Beauty Queen: “Miss America’s Ugly Daughter: Bess Myerson & Me” @ The Edye In this autobiographical show, writer Barra Grant opens up about her complicated relationship with her mother, the first and only Jewish woman to wear the Miss America crown. Now playing at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 3 p.m. Sundays through Aug. 12 in The Edye at The Broad Stage, 1310 11th St., Santa Monica. $55. (800) 838-3006; missamericasuglydaughter.com
Musical Oeuvre: “Side by Side by Sondheim” @ Odyssey Theatre Take a tour through the work of one of Broadway’s greatest living songwriters and composers with this musical revue, featuring songs from “Company,” “Follies,” “A Little Night Music” and more. Now playing at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, and some Wednesdays and Thursdays through Sept. 16 at Odyssey Theatre, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., West L.A. $17 to $37. (310) 477-2055, ext. 2; odysseytheatre.com.
Up for Grabs: “Daddy’s Dyin’ Who’s Got the Will?” @ Westchester Playhouse A splintered family reunites in a small Texas town to await the imminent death of their patriarch. They’ve been shorted on his love their entire lives, but maybe his money will make up for it. Now playing at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through Aug. 18 at Westchester Playhouse, 8301 Hindry Ave., Westchester. $22. (310) 645-5156; kentwoodplayers.org
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Credible Fret I’m a 34-year-old woman in a twoyear relationship with a guy. I’ve never been the jealous type. Yet, I do feel oddly possessive and jealous in this relationship, especially lately. My friends say this a sign I need to “work on” myself. Really? If so, how? What do I need to do? — Worried “Hey, where’s the boyfriend?” your friend asks as she plops down on the couch next to you. You look at your phone: “Well, according to my tracking device, he’s at the end of Main, turning right onto Slauson.” Jealousy gets a bad rap. Sure, it’s sometimes a sign that your self-worth is in the toilet. But it can also be a sign that your boyfriend has been sneaking off to the toilet at work with his boss’s busty assistant. Evolutionary psychologist David Buss notes that sexual jealousy appears to be one of the “mate guarding adaptations” that evolved over human history — a sort of police dog of emotions to protect us from being cheated on. Buss observes that sexual jealousy is activated by “threats to mate retention,” including “the presence of mate poachers” (rivals trying to lure your partner away), “cues to infidelity, or
even subtle signals that suggest that a partner might be dissatisfied with the current relationship.” But there are signals, and then there are meaningful signals. A possibly helpful thing to recognize is that we have overprotective defense systems. “Defense expression is often excessive,” observes psychiatrist and evolutionary psychologist Randolph Nesse. This isn’t an accident or a design flaw. It’s evolution saying, “Hey, hon, let’s be on the safe side here.” Consider the smoke alarm that’s a little oversensitive. This can be annoying when it screams for the hook and ladders whenever the neighbor lights incense next to her tub. But it’s far less annoying than waking up to your toes being crisped by your flaming bedroom rug. Figure out the source of your feelings so you can address it. Is there something amiss in your psychology that leads you to be overly sensitive — to see a threat where it doesn’t really exist — or are you sensing some meaningful danger to your relationship? It’s one thing to follow the person you love with your eyes as he walks off; it’s another thing entirely to do it with a pair of high-powered binoculars and a bug sewn into his laptop bag.
Netflix and Kill My boyfriend and I have a TV ritual: watching our favorite show together every week. Yesterday, I had a dinner meeting, and I asked him to wait to watch it with me, but he didn’t. There’s so much other stuff on TV. Did he really need to watch “our show”? He doesn’t understand what the big deal is and told me to just watch the episode myself and get caught up. Grrr. — Mad
research by social psychologist Sarah Gomillion and her colleagues, it works like sharing a social network of real live friends and family members, fostering a “shared identity.” In fact, their research suggests that sharing a fictional social world “predicts greater relationship quality.” This was especially true among couples who “reported sharing fewer mutual friends with partners.” For those partners, “sharing media more frequently So, your boyfriend’s saying, “My darling was associated with greater interde... my love ... you know your happiness pendence, closeness and confidence means the world to me — just not in the relationship.” enough to masturbate and read a book As for why you feel hurt, your boyfriend for an evening.” basically sent you the message: “I want To be fair, it probably seems like a TV to watch this show now more than I show is just a TV show. What is the big want to watch it with you.” But look to deal if he watches ahead? But it turns how he is in general. Is he loving? Does out that context matters. This is a TV he usually — or at least often — priorishow you watch together — or, as my tize your happiness and well-being? If boyfriend describes it, a “relationship so, you can probably get him to mend show.” That probably sounds romantic, his episode-straying ways, simply by but considering our shows are usually explaining why your collective fictional murder-centric, date night is basically friends are important to your relation“Come over at 7, and we’ll have a nice ship. This is likely to fire up his empathy dinner and watch six innocent people — or, at the very least, his dread of being gutted like hogs.” a brand-new recurring argument: It turns out that the fictional social “How can I ever trust you if you can’t world couples share through their — for a single evening — resist the “relationship shows” can be important seductive nature of the balding, to their partnership. According to annoying Larry David?”
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018 155517 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BRIGHT, BRIGHT DESIGN, BRIGHT STRATEGIC DESIGN. 7700 Boeing Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90045. COUNTY: Los Angeles. Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number: 3503190. REGISTERED OWNER(S) PLCB, Inc., 7700 Boeing Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90045.. State of Incorporation or LLC: California. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 02/2013. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Tuire Konitiainen. TITLE: CFO, Corp or LLC Name: PLCB, Inc. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: June 26, 2018. 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). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 7/26/18, 8/2/18, 8/9/18, 8/16/18 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018 162540 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: PROFESSIONAL REAL ESTATE SERVICES, PRES.NOW, INC., BOB AND CHERLY REAL ESTATE, BOB HERRERA AND ASSOCIATES. 4640 Admiralty Way #500 MDR, CA 90292, 13216 Admiral Ave., Unit A MDR, CA 90292. COUNTY: Los Angeles. Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number: 2441012. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Pres.Now, Inc., 13216 Admiral Ave., Unit A MDR, CA 90292, Raul R Herrera, 13216 Admiral Ave., Unit A MDR, CA 90292. State of Incorporation or LLC: California. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 06/2002. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Raul R Herrera. TITLE: CEO, Corp or LLC Name: Press.Now, Inc. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: July 2, 2018. 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). Publish: The Argonaut. Dates: 7/12/18, 7/19/18, 7/26/18, 8/2/18 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018 135962 Type of Filing: Original The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: PATHS & PAGES; 2121 Ocean Avenue Apt. 3 Santa Monica, CA 90405. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Ashley Aaron Aurilio, 2121 Ocean Avenue Apt. 3 Santa Monica, CA 90405. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: 05/2018. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Ashley Aaron Aurilio. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: June 4, 2018. 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). Publish: Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 6/28/18, 7/5/18, 7/12/18, 7/19/18 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018 159105 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 65 PLUS; 11350 Charnock Rd. Mar Vista, CA 90066. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Lowell Safier, 11350 Charnock Rd. Mar Vista, CA 90066. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business
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Name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Lowell Safier. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: June 28, 2018. 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). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 7/26/18, 8/2/18, 8/9/18, 8/16/18 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018 159222 Type of Filing: Original The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KLOSTERMAN SERVICE; 5911 S. Wilton Place Los Angeles, CA 90047. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Kurt D. Klosterman, 5911 S. Wilton Place Los Angeles, CA 90047. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Kurt D. Klosterman. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: June 28, 2018. 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). Publish: Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 7/5/18, 7/12/18, 7/19/18, 7/26/18 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018 160491 Type of Filing: Original The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: WELLBEINGS THERAPY; 2120 Huntington Dr., Ste. A South Pasadena, CA 91030, 1221 S. Almansor St. Alhambra, CA 91801. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Lindsay Anne Rosser, 1221 S. Almansor St. Alhambra, CA 91801. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Lindsay Anne Rosser. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: June 29, 2018. 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). Publish: Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 7/5/18, 7/12/18, 7/19/18, 7/26/18 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018 162380 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: HAPPY IS HANDMADE; 5535 Westlawn Avenue, Apt. 407 Los Angeles, CA 90066. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Sherease A. Raeford, 5535 Westlawn Avenue, Apt. 407 Los Angeles, CA 90066. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: 01/2018. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Sherease A. Raeford. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: July 2, 2018. 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). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 7/26/18, 8/2/18, 8/9/18, 8/16/18 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018 167012 Type of Filing: Original The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TPR ENTERPRISES; 1445 9th St., Apt. 200 Santa Monica, CA 90401. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Todd Tiberi, 1445 9th St., Apt. 200 Santa Monica, CA 90401, Renee Gignac, 257 Whitney Ave. Summerland, CA 93067. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a General Partnership. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: 07/2018. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Todd Tiberi. TITLE: Partner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: July 9, 2018. 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). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 7/19/18, 7/26/18, 8/2/18, 8/9/18 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018 178925 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: QLEEN BEAUTY; 3269 Fay Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90034. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Joann Munoz, 3269 Fay Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90034, Rochelle Mulvihill, 150 Valley St., #4041 Pasadena, CA 91105. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a General Partnership. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Rochelle Mulvihill. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: July 19, 2018. 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). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 7/26/18, 8/2/18, 8/9/18, 8/16/18 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018 178650 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: VIDAPRIMO. 4712 Admiralty Way Ste., 533 C/O Godigital Media Group Marina Del Rey, CA 90292. COUNTY: Los Angeles. Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number: 201035510157. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Media Aggregators, LLC, 4712 Admiralty Way Ste., 533 Marina Del Rey, CA 90292. State of Incorporation or LLC: California. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 05/2018. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Premjit Panicker. TITLE: Member, Corp or LLC Name: Media Aggregators, LLC. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: July 19, 2018. 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). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 7/26/18, 8/2/18, 8/9/18, 8/16/18
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“Exceptional Marina, harbor, and channel views stretch from this renovated three-bed, two-bath, home,” says agent Charles Lederman. “The kitchen boasts stainless steel appliances, custom cabinetry, and granite counters. The living room leads to a spacious tiled patio. Step through translucent glass doors to enter a sumptuous master suite, overlooking the breathtaking vista. The additional rooms create living flexibility. Features include expansive windows, updated bathrooms, and ample storage.” Offered at $989,000 Charles Lederman Charles Lederman & Associates 310-821-8980
“Located on the edge of Culver City, this single-story threebed, one-and-a-half-bath, home sits on a spacious corner lot behind a spectacular towering tree,” says agent Bill Taylor. “Details include hardwood floors, plantation shutters, and the picturesque living room window. The easy floor plan creates an appealing warmth. A well designed rear yard makes for fun entertaining. As an added benefit, this home is within walking distance to a train line and a major Culver City corridor.” Offered at $849,000 Bill Taylor Future Investment Group 323-234-0466
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“Perched above the street with a freshly landscaped lawn and brick walkway, this home offers an elegant floor plan, ideal for entertaining,” says agent Stephanie Younger. “Enjoy lively discussions in the formal living room, meals in the dining room, and dessert around the fireplace and bar. The lavish kitchen offers an elegant center island. With a swimming pool, pergola, and mountain views, the backyard is perfect for enjoying the summer. A spa-like ensuite is offered by the master bed.” Offered at $1,949,000 Stephanie Younger Compass 310-499-2020
“Enjoy picturesque sunsets from this luxurious singlelevel, three-bed, three-bath, penthouse,” say agent Jesse Weinberg. “Chatelaine is the only condo building in Playa Vista with its own swimming pool and day time concierge. This corner unit features a spacious living room, oversized windows, and two large terraces. Highlights include natural light, high ceilings, and upgrades which include plantation shutters and an entertainer’s bar. The en-suite master bedroom offers patio access.” Offered at $1,699,000 Jesse Weinberg KW SIlicon Beach 800-804-9132
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“This Silicon Beach town home in Villa Marina exudes warmth,” say agents Bob and Cheryl Herrera. “This highly coveted, updated plan offers hardwood floors, recessed lighting, and a custom fireplace. The huge, updated kitchen adjoins the family room. Three bedrooms are upstairs, and the master bedroom offers expansive views. Other perks include the huge garage and storage area. Perfectly located, this town home is walking distance to two major shopping centers, Waterside and the Marina Marketplace.” Offered at $1,050,000 Bob & Cheryl Herrera Professional Real Estate Service 310-985-5427
“With three beds and two baths, this home is waiting for you,” says agent Eileen McCarthy. “A spacious living room with floor-to-ceiling windows leads to a large patio. Entertaining is enhanced by Marina Views, and made easy by the open kitchen. The bathrooms have been upgraded and the home is lit by recessed lighting. The Marina City Club offers luxurious and convenient amenities, including a daytime café, room service, a car wash, and 24-hour security.” Offered at $849,000 Eileen McCarthy R.E. Inc 310-822-8910
The ArgonAuT REAl EstAtE Q&A
Lack of affordable rental housing is becoming an emergency in California California lacks sufficient housing to shelter its rental population, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition. In fact, the Golden State is one of the worst states in the U.S. when it comes to affordable rental housing for its low-income residents, only behind Nevada and Florida.
• 64% of low-income households; and
Financial experts recommend limiting housing costs to 31% of a household’s monthly income. But due to a lack of available housing, this is simply impossible for many households.
• 48% of very low-income households;
• 39% of moderate-income households. Worse, the percentage of renters spending more than 50% of their monthly income on rent in California is: • 77% of extremely low-income households;
• 18% of low-income households; and • 5% of moderate-income households.
In California, the share of renters spending more than 30% of their monthly income on rent as of 2016 is:
For extremely and very low-income households, these figures translate to over 1.5 million affordable units that are missing from the rental inventory.
• 90% of extremely low-income households;
High renter burden = fewer homebuyers
• 85% of very low-income households;
Real estate agents and brokers — this isn’t just a problem for renters. When
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low- and moderate-income renters are unable to find affordable housing, they spend a larger portion of their paycheck on shelter, leaving very little leftover for saving up for down payments, necessary if they are to become homebuyers. The problem also extends to low- and mid-tier homes for sale. There aren’t enough low- and mid-tier homes in the inventory to meet homebuyer demand. Six of the nation’s top ten least affordable homebuying markets are in California, according to Zillow. In order for California’s housing market to meet the needs of all its residents, more housing will need to be added to the for-sale inventory and the rental inventory. This process is already underway, as several new housing laws aimed at more
construction of low- and mid-tier housing passed at the end of 2017. Look to the end of 2018 and into 2019 for the effects of the new legislation to result in more residential construction, which will add to the inventory and work to cool down rents and home prices. When prices fall back in line with buyer and renter incomes, California will see more qualified homebuyers, and higher sales volume.
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