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Dear Neighbors and Marina Community, As a family business, we have always placed our highest priority on our customers and employees. The end of the month marks our 20th year operating FantaSea Yacht Club, our ballroom and banquet facility on Admiralty Way, and our 36th year in the yacht charter business in Marina del Rey. We had the option of paying a considerable increase in rent for this building, or choosing a different, and we think, a more desirable alternative. At the end of August, we will be leaving 4215 Admiralty Way and focusing our business exclusively on our fleet of three luxury yachts: Dandeana, RegentSea and FantaSea One. All three yachts will continue to call Marina del Rey their home port. We feel sure that this will enable us to provide the very best service and value for our guests, and an increasingly rewarding work environment for our employees. We plan on continuing to be the very best yacht charter company in Southern California.

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NEWS

Local News & Culture

COVER STORY

WESTSIDE HAPPENINGS

Living the Dream Immigrant journeys come full circle as longtime locals become citizens . .................. 14

THIS WEEK

Venice BID Heads to a Vote Where supporters see problem-solving, detractors fear a power grab .................. 10

Small Gas Leak, Big Headache A Westchester neighborhood waits almost six months for action ................... 12

INTERVIEW

A Barrier Becomes an Opening “The Wall that Gives” fosters community dialogue in Venice .............................. 17

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The State of Hate

A Jamaican Gem in Westchester

Undercover hate group infiltrator now spends most of his time online ................ 13

Head to Derrick’s for hearty stew and refreshing greens ............................ 19

THE ADVICE GODDESS Dress up for a Man? If you look like you’ve just crawled out of a sewer, maybe you should ....................... 37

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‘Be Courageous and Brave’ Head of the U.N. speaks to refugee families living in L.A. . ............................. 8

Surfboards, Bicycles and Dogs on Electric Avenue . ............................... 34

Exile on Vernon Avenue Tenants get the boot from historic art space in Venice ............................ 38 On The Cover: Playa del Rey Veronica Elizondo Yzaguirre takes the oath to become a United States citizen during a ceremony at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Photo by Ted Soqui. Design

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L e tt e r s Won’t Somebody Challenge the LADWP? Re: “The DWP is Out of Control,” Opinion, Aug. 11 Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti promised us real reform and cost control when he was elected in 2013, yet he and the City Council have done nothing about the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

As detailed in Mr. Rappleye’s opinion article, the LADWP provides zero accountability to the customers it serves.

The theft of city funds in the two trusts should have resulted in a criminal investigation by the city attorney’s office, but again nothing happened. Where is City Attorney Mike Feuer on this matter? Instead, the City Attorney’s office wastes resources on lawsuits which deny access to medical marijuana and meaningless zoning challenges.

The LADWP is asking for some of the highest rates in California, and businesses will continue to leave under the proposed increases. But there is no doubt the L.A. City Council will buckle and approve the new rates.

All of this occurs while the LADWP needlessly burns coal 24 hours a day. There is no real movement to stop burning coal and transition to clean energy by our ‘environmental’ mayor.

Photo ops don’t clean up the environment.

We need real reform of the LADWP, but the current political apparatchik appears not to have the backbone.

George Gantz Venice Affordable Housing Leaves Local Homeless Behind Re: “An Investment in Our Community,” Letters, July 28 As a resident of the Glencoe and Beach avenues neighborhood, I welcome the Gateway Apartments and its occupants.

Finally, our community has begun to address the problems of the less fortunate.

But were the most vulnerable included in this first step?

I have concerns regarding the selection process for tenants.

During the three years I have lived here I’ve seen the same homeless citizens residing on our streets. The ex-Marine dependent on donations he

receives at the corner of Maxella Avenue and Lincoln Boulevard.

The young guy who calls a doorway at a commercial building on Glencoe his home.

The most heartbreaking sight of all is the elderly gentleman who struggles to walk foraging through the trash outside the grocery store.

Nothing on our streets has changed. The same faces, the same cars and the same RVs still call Glencoe Avenue home.

Were these longtime residents, our neighbors, given the opportunity to apply for residency at Gateway?

As mother would say, “Charity begins at home.”

Cheryl McCarthy Walder Marina del Rey Luxury Homeless Housing isn’t Helping Re: “Say No to the Homeless Tax,” Opinion, July 21 The recent column by Mark Ryavec was perceptive and intelligent. I want to vote for the homeless tax, but government cannot be trusted.

Government is much to blame for the housing shortage, and a

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Ban Ki-moon and his wife greet a child refugee resettled in Los Angeles

By Gary Walker During a rare trip to West Los Angeles last week, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told the story of a 6-year-old boy from Southeast Asia whose family fled their homeland during the Korean War. “The United Nations recognized that there were millions of displaced persons during and after the war that were fleeing their countries. They provided everything for resettlement,” Ki-moon told refugee families from Syria, Iran, El Salvador, Bosnia and Iraq during an Annenberg Foundation-sponsored event in Century City.

“They provided food, clothing, shelter. Everything.”

That refugee boy was Kimoon, who in telling the story of his own humble beginnings sought to inspire resilience among refugee families resettled in Los Angeles — their children in particular.

“Life can be difficult sometimes, but be courageous and

brave. Please do not lose hope,” he said.

The Aug. 10 gathering at the Annenberg Space for Photography, co-organized by the United Nations Association, was a back to school event that included gifts of bright blue backpacks for refugee students.

The museum’s current exhibit, titled “Refugee,” documents current refugee crises around the globe and remains on display through Sunday, Aug. 21.

Some 65 million people around the world are currently displaced refugees.

“That’s the largest number since the end of World War II. The situation has been elevated to a global issue,” said Kimoon, who is convening a summit on the crisis next month with President Barack Obama.

The refugee crisis isn’t just a global issue. If California were a country, it would be the world’s fourth largest in terms of accommodating refugees, he said.

International Rescue Committee Executive Director Martin Zogg said recent anti-immigrant and anti-refugee rhetoric has impacted the work of rescue and resettlement organizations, but not so much in California.

“It has been more difficult in some parts of the country.

Fortunately, Southern California is the most welcoming place for refugees — possibly in the entire world. And that’s demonstrated by how well our communities embrace refugees and how well refugees have thrived in Southern California,” Zogg said.

“Many have established businesses, almost all are working, and their children are in school.”

Juliet Ansumana and her daughter, who arrived from Sierra Leone in 2008, are among those success stories.

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16-year-old daughter it was losing contact with her friends back home.

“It was hard to socialize at first.

I was bullied by people a lot,” Margarette Aoyoh said. “But now I’m getting through it and I’m making friends.”

As a journalist in her native land, Ansumana frequently reported on torture and violence against women — topics that angered Sierra Leone government officials.

“They really didn’t like that,” she said.

Safety fears after clashes with the government prompted her to flee with her daughter.

Rep. Ted Lieu (D- Torrance), whose parents brought him to the U.S. when he was 6 years old, can identify with newcomers to the United States.

“Living in a place that’s different from where you were born has special resonance with me. My parents had a choice [to stay in their native land], but refugees — because of war, natural disasters or famine — do

not. They need to leave their homeland, and nations that have the capacity to take them in should,” Lieu said. “This is what humanity is all about, and it’s also consistent with America’s principles. We were founded as a nation by people fleeing persecution.”

One of six immigrants serving in Congress, Lieu said he is troubled by calls from across the aisle to ban refugees from coming to America.

“I thought it was enormously discriminatory and profoundly stupid, and I pushed back on it and we were able to successfully defeat it,” Lieu said.

Despite political rhetoric about refugees having easy access to the U.S., Zogg said the reality is quite the opposite.

“They go through an exacting, laborious process that can often last more than two years. They are mostly women, children, girls and families,” he said.

While on active duty with the U.S. Air Force in 1996, Lieu was involved in the evacuation

of more than 2,000 Kurdish fighters who had helped U.S. forces battle Saddam Hussein during the first Gulf War. They were airlifted out of northern Iraq and taken to Guam, with some eventually resettled in the U.S. While visiting Iraqi Kurdistan a few years ago, Lieu was approached by a young government staffer.

“He said, ‘I was a child on one of those planes that landed in Guam. You saved my life and my family’s lives,’” Lieu recalled. “He resettled in the United States, went to college and returned to his country. It was an amazing story.”

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Venice BID Goes to a Vote on Tuesday Supporters see an opportunity for cooperative problem-solving, but others fear a power grab

By Gary Walker One of the few things Venice residents engaged in local politics can agree on is a belief that L.A. City Hall fails to provide this international tourist destination with its fair share of spending for basic public services.

From this ethos springs an attempt by commercial property owners to pool their resources for additional cleaning, maintenance and public safety efforts in common areas that impact their business and the community at large.

By forming a business improvement district, or BID, non-residential property owners along the Venice Boardwalk as well as Main Street, the west end of Venice Boulevard and Windward Circle would agree to self-asses fees for mutually agreed upon programs and activities beyond what city government already provides.

Only light industrial, commercial and city-owned properties would be included in the Venice Business Improvement District, which goes up for a vote among prospective members at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23, at L.A. City Hall.

“In my 30-plus years of activism in Venice, I’ve never seen a groundswell greater than the support for the BID. This is the best chance we’ve had to work on cleanliness and safety issues, collectively.

We will be able to address problems with comprehensive solutions rather than relocate them,” said Jack Hoffmann, who owns the Venice Properties real estate brokerage on Ocean Front Walk.

If approved, more than 70% of the Venice Business Improvement District budget would be earmarked for safety patrols and maintenance, according to BID documents. Other planned services include cleaning of alleys, sidewalks and curbs, trash removal, tourist assistance, a marketing campaign and local ambassadors who would interact with the public.

Property owner assessments would be based on the frontage length, structure size and lot area of the properties within the BID boundaries, a consultant working with BID supporters said.

The BID would commence on Jan. 1, 2017, with an annual budget of nearly $1.9 million raised through assessments.

Voting materials sent to property owners disclosed individual assessments. City Hall would contribute nearly $427,000 for publicly owned parcels in the BID area, including Westminster Avenue Elementary School and the adjacent public park.

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The proposed Venice Business Improvement District would include commercial and public properties along the Venice Boardwalk, Windward Circle, Main Street and Venice Boulevard from the beach to Abbot Kinney Boulevard impacted can vote for or against the bid, but anyone can speak for the record during Tuesday’s public hearing.

To win approval, the BID must receive support from a majority of property

“If it’s something that works, I’m willing to chip in, even if it cost me a little more.

But I’m still open to having my mind changed,” Benderson said.

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“The BID represents the most comprehensive opportunity we’ve ever had to focus our collective resources on our local problems.”

— BID supporter Jack Hoffmann

“One of my main concerns is this concentrates money and power in the hands of wealthy property owners who will have private security.”

— Venice Community Housing Corp. Executive Director Becky Dennison owners as calculated by total assessments — in other words, owners of a large commercial office building would be paying more and thus have more say in the formation of the BID than owners of a tiny lot.

Robert Benderson, who owns CMI Films on Hampton Drive near Rose Avenue, said he’s still considering how he will vote but likes some of the potential benefits the BID can offer.

Spa on Pacific Avenue, hasn’t heard a lot about the BID, but like Benderson she thinks some of the services — especially alley cleanups — could help businesses near the beach.

“I don’t think that it would be such a bad situation, especially in terms of it making improvements,” West said.

While other communities have embraced bids despite varying degrees of resistance, BID opposition in Venice has

become intertwined with ongoing socioeconomic debates that are never far from the surface of any issue: gentrification, income inequality and the perception that BIDS are created to displace and disenfranchise homeless people and others who do not own property.

Becky Dennison, executive director of the affordable housing nonprofit Venice Community Housing Corp., is wary that the BID proposal will continue what she and others see as a widening of the gap between the haves and have-nots in Venice.

“One of my main concerns is this concentrates money and power in the hands of wealthy property owners who will have private security. And the process for creating the BID was not transparent. Our organization has a property within the [proposed] boundaries and we weren’t notified about it,” Dennison said.

Dennison is asking for the vote to be postponed until “we can have a more transparent process,” she said, adding that she’s spoken to many business owners who hadn’t heard of the proposal because they lease property instead of own it.

Sylvia Aroth, formerly a member of the Venice Neighborhood Council, is worried that a private security patrol might eventually become more aggressive with the homeless population on the boardwalk than the LAPD officers who currently patrol Ocean Front Walk.

“I’m really concerned about beach access, how the culture and character of Venice could change and how security might treat our unhoused,” she said. “It’s another thinly veiled attempt at cleaning up, gentrifying and privatizing our boardwalk.”

Downtown Los Angeles BID security forces have been sued in the past by community groups alleging mistreatment of street vendors and the homeless.

Like Aroth, Dennison is concerned about a concentrated effort to displace the homeless.

“From what I’ve heard, this is about the boardwalk and keeping the unhoused population away from it,” she said.

Hoffmann said there is a familiarity and camaraderie among many who favor starting a BID, and the Venice Business Improvement District would be a natural extension of that.

“Many of those involved have worked side by side with each other for decades on community issues. The BID represents the most comprehensive opportunity we’ve ever had to focus our collective resources on our local problems,” he said. gary@argonautnews.com

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deferred permit plan could help. The city could take back an equity interest in the property for certain qualified projects, then collect fees plus interest when a certificate of occupancy is ready.

Single room occupancy (SRO) units are the most cost-efficient way to go. Restrain bureaucracy and high-priced designs.

Build with simplified systems to control costs. Both urban and suburban neighborhoods should include some buildings that offer basic housing units for no- or low-income citizens, with much smaller square footages than current projects.

The idea is not to ghettoize any particular area but to spread lower-cost housing all around. This will increase economic diversity and spread lower-income workers to more areas.

The Gateway Apartments in Del Rey produced 20 units at a cost of $10 million.

The Star Apartments on Skid Row produced 102 units (and a rooftop running track) for $40 million. The cost per unit is a genuine scandal. Working people will resent and resist such expensive construction that ultimately benefits so few while so many are in need.

Peter Griswold Marina del Rey Where’s the Wildlife at Oxford Basin?

Re: “A New Beginning for Oxford Basin,” News, July 14 Let’s not forget: Counter to the desires of local nature lovers, during the 2014 rainy season L.A. County chain-sawed 650 mature trees at Oxford Basin Lagoon. The destruction included several flowering eucalyptus trees being used by Monarch butterflies as a wintering home and a landmark eucalyptus tree used by osprey, a fishing hawk, as a high perch.

Despite public protest to protect the Monarch wintering site and the high natural perch of the osprey, and despite formal requests made by Fish & Wildlife officials and California Coastal Commission members to leave the trees being used by osprey and monarchs, the county flexed its muscle and destroyed those trees.

On Thursday, July 7, L.A. County Supervisor Don Knabe celebrated a denuded Oxford Basin as many of us stood by observing the absence of birds, butterflies and other wildlife. Some of us saw one lonely heron.

Many people chatted about the sanitized park. Unfortunately, green algae covered what looked like 40% of the water, and later a white, cloudy substance discharged into the Basin.

The public has a right to know if these renovated biological systems are working as promised. Millions of dollars of Proposition 84 bonds were set aside to improve water quality, expand wildlife habitat and prepare for major storm events at Oxford Basin and other places.

Susan Goodman Santa Monica

No Federal Funds for Ballona Bulldozers Re: “More Money for Beaches and Wetlands,” News, June 16 Your article incorrectly implies that funding from Rep. Ted Lieu’s National Park Service study bill might be used for The Bay Foundation’s planned fake restoration project for the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve.

The intent of bringing the National Park Service onto the scene is to bring a higher level of natural resource protection and nature interpretation, historical site designation, interpretation and support, and enhanced public access to natural areas from the Ballona Wetlands to the Baldwin Hills.

After a thorough review of the grading and excavation plans that The Bay Foundation, California Department of Fish & Wildlife and California Coastal Conservancy have submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for permitting, it has become clear to us that protection of wildlife is not in the minds of those pushing this bulldoze Ballona plan.

Thus, linking the funding of that plan to Rep. Ted Lieu’s National Park Service study bill is not something we support, nor do we believe is appropriate.

Additionally, the article incorrectly stated that the ecological reserve is 360-acres, when it is approximately 600 acres. Each of those acres was won through hardfought efforts, sweat and tears of many hundreds of community members.

Marcia Hanscom Executive Director, Ballona Institute Chair, Sierra Club Ballona Wetlands Restoration Committee Speak Out Against the Ballona Do-Nothings Re: “Don’t Rip Up Ballona,” Letters, Aug. 10 The reactionary responses to my letter from the Ballona Do-Nothings were predictable. Swindlers always shoot at the messenger when the facts of the message are indisputable and don’t support their false narrative.

These facts are indisputable: • In the 1950s and ‘60s, Marina del Rey construction buried 200 acres of tidal wetland saltmarsh beneath 2 million cubic yards of fill dirt over an area stretching from the 90 Freeway to Fisherman’s Village.

• These 200 acres are today mostly covered with non-native weedy plant species.

• Since 2004, scores of experienced scientists and engineers have collected and analyzed data and planned a comprehensive tidal restoration of Ballona, and an overwhelming consensus agrees that any restoration plan should maximize the biological and habitat values of the land.

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Small Gas Leak Becomes Big Headache A Westchester woman was forced to wait nearly half a year for the gas company to take action

By Gary Walker The rotten egg scent of leaking natural gas was not one of the aromas of spring and summer that Heather Dallas had anticipated this year.

Emanating from a faulty natural gas main in front of her home on a quiet, tree-lined street in Westchester, Dallas said the smell slowly transformed from a nuisance the first time she became aware of it in February into an all-consuming worry that also attracted the attention of her neighbors.

Five months and 18 service calls later, her frustration mounting daily, Dallas was at last able to convince the Southern California Gas Company, the nation’s largest natural gas distribution utility, to come out in June and conduct a series of tests on the gas main in front of her home.

“They told me it was a low-level gas leak and that my husband and I were not in any danger,” she said.

And then nothing happened.

Dallas contacted The Argonaut about the situation on June 24, and about a week later gas company officials notified her that her block of 80th Place would be getting a brand new natural gas main.

“It’s amazing. It’s great news,” she said at the time. But also: “It shouldn’t take calling a newspaper to get them to respond to a gas leak. We understand that the gas company is servicing a large number of customers, and we understand that they say it is a low-level leak and it may not be their highest priority. However, not being told the source of the leak and what exactly is going to be done and the lack of communication is what has created the most anxiety about this situation. At some point it just becomes insulting.”

And then another obstacle appeared.

Installing a new gas main would require a permit from the city’s Public Works

The 6600 block of West 80th Place has been smelling gas for months

October’s massive natural gas leak at a Southern California Gas Company facility in Porter Ranch — the largest natural gas leak in U.S. history — was top of mind.

“Public safety must always be a priority, and this leak needs to be fixed immediately. I am asking SoCal Gas and Public Works to expedite the repairs. Especially after the Aliso Canyon debacle, we cannot take for granted the safety or health of neighbors, and I will not tolerate excuses for not addressing this situation urgently,” Bonin said. “SoCal Gas told neighbors that the leak would be repaired ‘as an emergency,’ and that is exactly what should happen.”

SoCal Gas spokesman Sergio Jimenez said he realizes that customers can become frustrated if they feel that no one is paying attention to them.

“Safety is our No. 1 priority, and every call we receive about a suspected natural gas leak is investigated thoroughly,” he said. “Crews returning to the scene of

“It shouldn’t take calling a newspaper to get them to respond to a gas leak. …

The lack of communication is what has created the most anxiety about this situation.

At some point it just becomes insulting.”

— Westchester resident Heather Dallas

“The leak is non-hazardous, does not pose a risk to public safety and repairs are scheduled.”

— SoCal Gas Company spokesman Sergio Jimenez Department, and that’s a process that could take several weeks.

The Argonaut told Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin about the situation, and Bonin responded immediately that he’d push for the city to fast-track the permit.

earlier reports of a natural gas odor discovered a minor non-hazardous leak on a main under the street. The leak is non-hazardous, does not pose a risk to public safety and repairs are scheduled.”

Environmental factors such as wind can sometimes make very small leaks

“virtually undetectable,” Jimenez said.

But the leak had gone beyond being a personal crisis for Dallas. It became a full-on neighborhood concern.

“It becomes embarrassing when your neighbors stroll by with their baby and ask you if you’re doing anything about the leak in front of our house,” Dallas said.

And with the specter of Porter Ranch barely in the rear view mirror, a gas leak of any sort has other homeowners worried.

“Walking by, I smell it often in the morning. And with a one-year-old daughter, it’s concerning,” said Dallas’ neighbor Danny Bresnick. “When [So Cal Gas] tells you there’s nothing wrong, you have to believe them, in a sense, but I don’t think [a gas main] should leak this much. No one should have a gas leak in front of their home.

“There could be a time after they’ve told us that it was fine and then something happens. I’ve lived all over the county and no one who smells gas thinks it’s a normal thing,” Bresnick said.

Dallas’ home is less than a block away from Orville Wright Middle School and directly in front of Westchester United Methodist Church, where Nir Eitan teaches music at a school that rents space from the church. He smelled gas from the leak for months and was concerned enough to call the gas company.

“I called twice and they told me that it had been resolved. After I continued to smell it, I gave up,” Eitan said.

“There’s no such thing as a leak that’s not dangerous.”

Dallas is looking forward to the day when the smell of gas will be a distant memory.

“I’m glad that I spoke up and that now something positive might happen for the whole block,” she said. gary@argonautnews.com

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By Joe Piasecki Rick Eaton isn’t a racist, but he’s made a career of hanging out with white supremacists.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s senior researcher has spent three decades tracking and infiltrating hate groups locally and around the world, once helping bring former Nazi officers to justice while working undercover in Germany and South America.

Now Eaton — who came to the job with a background in book publishing, not criminal justice — spends most of his time online, because that’s where the hate groups are.

He also works with Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies to shut down hate speech, but First Amendment issues complicate the work and the sheer volume of posts is daunting.

On Wednesday, Eaton joins novelist Harriet Pike at the Santa Monica Public Library for a conversation about her novel “Enemy in the Garden” and its central theme of anti-Semitism lurking beneath the surface of American society.

Why does anti-Semitism persist in America?

There are still some people, who for religious or other reasons, think of Jews as Christ-killers. In other cases, it’s just that people don’t know anything about Jews.

Some are particularly devious about it — they’ve heard these longtime conspiracy theories that Jews have plans to control the world, and rather shallow people like to glam onto that.

The good news is it’s not on a really large scale — not institutionalized like it was 100 years ago, when Henry Ford was distributing The International Jew along with new cars.

How are white supremacist groups trending?

They are very much reduced. There isn’t a lot of leadership out there right now.

What about the White Student Union showing up at UCLA and other college campuses?

Some of this is just a product of the Internet. There has always been someone trying to start a white student union on campus. These are mostly Internet-based, and they’re going to pick up a handful of followers who respond to the message that whites are being put down in favor of minorities.

What responsibility do social media companies have to shut down hate speech without becoming censors of free speech?

It’s a very fine line. A lot of my job is dealing with social media and social media companies. We travel regularly to Facebook, to Twitter, to Google and others to deal with this issue. They are very quick to deal with anything related to terrorism; on the subject of hate it’s a different matter.

The truth is that social media companies don’t want this material. Let’s take Facebook and Holocaust denial, a subject which riles a lot of people up. I can tell you that Facebook absolutely hates that this material is there, but because it’s considered historical discussion they leave it on despite the complaints.

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Twitter is actually the weapon of choice for both terrorists and extremist groups, and on the extremist front not much is being done about that, nor is it being done much on Google/ YouTube either.

What about terrorism?

There were almost no terrorists operating online at the time of 9/11, mainly because they did not have Internet access.

Now it’s become a free-for-all. That’s why Facebook, for example, reviews material in as many as 38 languages now.

Twitter made a major attempt earlier this year to remove a lot of ISIS accounts — 125,000, they said — but the problem is the majority of those users came back immediately. This summer they’re supposed to be introducing some kind of program that will help deter the recidivism of terrorist profiles on Twitter, but we haven’t heard how that’s going to work or if it’s in place yet.

Before the Internet, you used to physically infiltrate hate groups.

What was that like?

It’s not all that difficult, as long as you know how to talk the talk and walk the walk. You don’t overdo it. I wouldn’t go in and act like I’m one of them. This goes for anyone who has an agenda: Whether it’s white supremacy or somebody who’s pro-life or pro-choice, usually when you say ‘Tell me more, I didn’t know that,” people love to talk. When they think they have a potential believer it’s kind of easy to keep people talking. They like you and they don’t even realize it’s because you’re giving them an opportunity to spout.

Was it all business or did they serve tea and cookies?

The Nazis are usually in some seedy meeting room someplace, and they

typically don’t serve anything. But at the Islamic group meetings I went to, there could be 1,500 people. A group called Islamic Committee for Palestine would take over a hotel at McCormick Place in Chicago for the week between Christmas and New Year’s because there was almost nobody else there. And they’d take over the kitchens so they’d be halal.

Are there any hate groups in West Los Angeles?

I can’t think of anybody actively operating in West L.A. right now. We’ve had flyers distributed in the area, but not by people who were from the neighborhood. West L.A. and similar places are more often used just to stir things up and get attention.

A lot of Trump detractors point to white supremacist support for his campaign. What’s your read on the situation?

Other than David Duke, who was one of their own, white supremacists have never openly supported a candidate like they are now. You will see dozens, probably hundreds, of Twitter profiles and Facebook pages that have a picture of Trump on it or a hashtag relating to the Trump campaign. One particular website calls him ‘The Glorious Leader.’

Because of his stance on immigration and so forth, [the Trump campaign] has really brought out the white supremacists, which is kind of weird considering that Trump touts the fact that his son-in-law is Jewish. It’s an interesting situation, one like we’ve never seen.

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Noelle Noe and Veronica Elizondo Yzaguirre are sworn in as U.S. citizens

Living the Dream Immigrant journeys come full circle as longtime locals become new Americans Story Stephanie Case Photos by Ted Soqui On a late July morning, two weeks after Independence Day, the Los Angeles Convention Center is decked in red, white and blue.

Vendors sell patriotic trinkets and T-shirts emblazoned with the words “Proud to be American.” A life-size cut-out of President Barack Obama stands tall, arms crossed and smiling, as throngs of people rush by. Some wave flags, others carry celebratory bouquets of roses. But a few thousand of them clutch an even more prized possession: their new United States citizenship certificates.

These are L.A.’s newest batch of Americans. By the end of the day, more than 8,000 immigrants from 180 countries — El Salvador, Iran, South Korea and India, among many — had taken their naturalization oath, officially linking themselves to their adopted homeland.

“It’s a powerful sentiment,” says Veronica Elizondo Yzaguirre, a Playa del Rey resident who finally traded in her green card after more than a decade in California. “You look around, and everyone here is achieving the same dream.”

It’s a dream that took Noelle Noe, a Ukrainian turned Westchester local, decades to reach.

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from Tetyana Kucheruk, was born in Kiev at the height of the Soviet Era. As a child, she’d eavesdrop on her parents’ hushed anti-Communist conversations in the kitchen.

“When they realized I was there and that I was listening in, they’d get really

Los Angeles, her young daughter and then-husband in tow.

“It was like a movie,” Noe gushes. She stepped out of her plane at LAX, eyes wide, as busy travelers bustled past her.

“Maybe in a past life I was American,” Noe muses. “This is exactly what I

“These elections are obviously very relevant to me. … Now, I can speak my voice.”

— Veronica Elizondo Yzaguirre scared and say, ‘Please don’t tell this to anybody,’” Noe recalls. “I remember this time very well, when we couldn’t even speak with freedom. You can’t be who you want to be. You have limits and lines you can’t cross.”

At age 7, Noe asked her mother to tell her about the United States, a place she’d only seen in a film. Her mother described a “free country, built by people from all walks of life” across religious and political spectrums.

“That’s the exact picture I had — and still have — in my mind,” she says.

In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine became independent, but it took a dozen more years until Noe got the chance to cross the Atlantic. She still remembers the exact night she landed in

feel — like I came back home from a long trip.” *** The same year as Noe’s arrival, Yzaguirre was about to make a similar big move about 1,500 miles south of LAX. She was a 30-year-old graphic designer working in Monterrey, Mexico, an industrial city circled by mountains.

Eager for a challenge, she applied to Miami Ad School, got a three-year student visa, and found herself studying advertising in Florida.

As a kid, her family would take quick trips to the U.S. — a summer vacation in Corpus Christi, a shopping spree just across the border —always returning

home soon after. As an international student, Yzaguirre figured her experience at school would be similar.

“My plan at that time was to come here, stay three years, then go back to Mexico,” she says. “But you can’t plan. Life always surprises you.”

Her first surprise was an offer: a one-year internship with Conill Advertising, an El Segundo firm focusing on the Hispanic market. A year later, the firm offered her a full-time job, and she found herself entrenched in the California creative scene.

One night at an industry party she met Claudio Martinez-Valle, an ad man with Mexico City roots. They fell in love, married and built a life together in the South Bay. “Mexico’s my home country. It’s where my family lives. It’s my blood.

The culture, the stories — I love it.

It’s something I can’t put into words,” Yzaguirre says. “But now, I have two homes.”

The cross-border balancing act isn’t hard for Yzaguirre. Monterrey and Mexico City are each a quick four-hour flight away, and Los Angeles isn’t a cultural far cry from her homeland either.

“Here in California, there’s a lot of Mexican culture,” Yzaguirre says. “We haven’t had a chance to miss it yet.”

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• Only comprehensive tidal restoration will accomplish those goals of maximizing biological and habitat values.

• The Coastal Act requires projects to be “feasible,” which means “capable of being accomplished in a successful manner within a reasonable period of time.”

• The Do-Nothings’ so-called “gentler” approach, a cartoon-like plan to use community volunteers with shovels and wheelbarrows to execute a minimally invasive restoration, would take 140 years to complete even by the most conservative estimates and is therefore infeasible, according to the Coastal Act. • Mechanized excavation and grading are the only feasible means to remove the 2 million cubic yards of fill dirt dumped on the 200 acres south of Fiji Way in order to restore tidal saltmarsh there and restore biological and habitat values.

• Mechanized excavation and grading necessarily requires bulldozers, scrapers, backhoes, excavators and many dump trucks, but enables the work to proceed rapidly and safely.

• Mechanized excavation and grading was the preferred and successful means by which the Bolsa Chica, Carpentaria, Batiquitos, San Dieguito and Malibu wetlands were restored — to name just a few of the hundreds of coastal wetland restoration projects completed statewide by these methods.

• Many of the small mammals and reptiles residing in the Ballona fill dirt area could be trapped and relocated prior to construction, albeit at considerable expense, but the Do-Nothings have never advocated such mitigation because it undermines their narrative.

The Ballona Do-Nothings naturally recoil at accusations that their tactics are the same as rightwing science-deniers like Imhoffe, Palin and Trump, because that truth exposes their hypocrisy.

They besmirch the good reputations of many accomplished scientists and engineers, as well as our Democratic Party leaders who strive for progress based on facts and make correct decisions for society even when expensive or emotionally difficult.

They ironically use dog whistle terms like “bulldozer” and “industrialized” to instill fear in the uninformed public and to leverage their influence with policymakers, just like the rightwing reactionaries they revile.

As Edmund Burke famously said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” I am proud to stand up and shout against the plastic toy arrows of the Ballona Do-Nothings. Who shall stand with me?

David Kay, Playa Vista

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*** For Noe, pieces of Ukrainian culture were harder to find in Los Angeles.

Outside of the rare flight home, Kiev largely exists through memories.

One of those memories happened when she was 11. Her aunt took her to her first church — “a special place,” she remembers — but the outing was shrouded in secrecy.

“We had to hide our faith,” she says.

“Nobody could see us, because praying to God was a crime in the Soviet Union.”

Thousands of miles and decades later, Noe found a similar church on Melrose Avenue. Inside she heard the sounds of people speaking her native Ukrainian.

“I started to cry,” Noe recalls. “This is what I miss. This is something inside me, deep, deep in my heart.”

With a new tie to her past, Noe is now free to look forward. She relishes every opportunity to speak her mind.

“Here, it doesn’t matter if you’re someone from the government, or you’re a movie star, or you’re a home support worker: you have a voice.” *** Last year, the Los Angeles District of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration

Noelle Noe felt drawn to America while growing up in the Soviet Union Services swore in 86,000 new American citizens — about 12% of 729,995 new citizens nationwide.

Mexico was the most common nation of origin at the July ceremony in Los

Angeles, followed by the Philippines, El Salvador, Guatemala, Iran, China, South Korea, Armenia, India and Vietnam.

For Yzaguirre and Noe, the final step to becoming an American was overcoming a very American hurdle: testing and paperwork.

Yzaguirre worked with a lawyer to submit her documents and studied for an English reading and writing exam. Her husband helped her memorize 100 American history questions —“Who was president during World War I?”; “Why does the flag have 13 stripes?” — that could pop up during her interview and make or break her chances.

The fateful test took place in a government building downtown, where dozens of other hopeful citizens waited.

“I was nervous,” Yzaguirre says. “The one person interviewing you has the say: Either you pass, or you don’t. You’re ready, or you’re not.”

In 2013, Noe was told she wasn’t ready.

“I felt like my dream ran away from me,” she remembers.

But this year, she and Yzaguirre both passed the test.

At their naturalization ceremony, the two women stood side by side at the front of the crowd as “The Star-Spangled Banner” rung through the hall.

When they exited the L.A. Convention Center, it was with certificates in hand.

They’d been Angelenos for years; now,

it was on paper.

“It’s an accomplishment,” Yzaguirre says. “It’s a responsibility. This country embraced me, so now I have to be a good citizen.”

Their new designation comes with some new civic opportunities — for one, to vote in the upcoming presidential election.

“These elections are obviously very relevant to me. Everybody knows that one of the candidates, Donald Trump, is just a little bit vocal against Mexicans and women,” Yzaguirre says, with a wry laugh.

“I am a Mexican, and I am a woman.

Now, I can speak my voice,” she says.

“Before, I couldn’t do that. So I’m very happy that, especially in this election, I can vote.”

Noe plans on voting, too — but she’s set her sights on one aspect of citizenship that’s a little less glamourous.

“Before my [citizenship] interview, I got a letter,” she says, happy to see two words most people dread: jury duty. “I gave the answer that I could not do it; I didn’t have American citizenship,” she says, laughing with a tinge of regret at her missed opportunity.

“I feel very grateful. I really want to do something good for our country, our nation — even something simple and little.”

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For the past eight months, Venice artist Filomena Cruz has been leaving art tiles, including those pictured below, at “The Wall That Gives”

A Barrier Becomes an Opening Filomena Cruz fosters community dialogue through art with ‘The Wall That Gives’

By Christina Campodonico One morning in 2013, artist Filomena Cruz awoke to a horrific sight on the wall outside her Venice home. A beautiful mural there had been graffitied over with Nazi symbols.

“It was covered in swastikas,” recounts Cruz. “It was awful. ... We had to paint over it.”

Cruz never found out who desecrated the wall, but she didn’t allow this random act of vandalism to keep her from turning the site into a positive space for community art-making.

“Walls are such a hostile time-space unit,” says Cruz. “[I thought:] Why don’t I do something that is the opposite?”

So every day for the past eight months, Cruz has taken a collaged art tile of her own making and placed it in a small square niche at the center of the wall along Pacific Avenue between Breeze Avenue and Brooks Court.

And every day that tile disappears, usually replaced by some token from an anonymous passerby.

branch over a crack in the facade.

Some might see these discards as no more than pieces of trash, these doodles

“People who are trained to look at trash differently will eventually be trained to look at people differently. If you slow down and pay attention, something happens with your brain and your heart.”

— Filomena Cruz She calls the art installation “The Wall That Gives,” or “El Muro que Da” in Spanish.

Since starting her project, Cruz has seen fruit, cash, coins, candy bars and even a cigarette box stuffed with leaves left behind. Someone even drew a clown next to the niche once, another time a tree

as one step above graffiti, but Cruz sees them as a kind of correspondence for “The Wall That Gives.”

“It has generated some kind of mute or visual dialogue with other artists or people who just add their own flair to the wall,” says Cruz. “So it really has gone well beyond graffiti. ... It makes

you feel that there’s a certain degree of solidarity, of community and of people giving freely.”

Cruz also sees this activation of the wall as a healing process for the previously vandalized site.

“I think because graffiti is often read and done as an act of defiance, and since this wall is a friendly wall that gives, it sort of neutralizes that instinct to use it as a war zone,” says Cruz.

The wall has also inspired Cruz’s individual artistic practice. For every item or drawing left at the “The Wall That Gives,” Cruz replies in her own artistic way, creating a tile that responds to each gift.

“I integrate whatever I find on the wall into my art, so I’m recycling materials all the time,” says Cruz. “I call it endless recycling because I take a picture of something, I cut it, I draw a collage, then

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I scan it, I print it and then I use that collage to do yet another collage.”

“The Wall That Gives” is not simply a creative experiment for Cruz, but also an integral part of her work in UCLA’s Department of Spanish & Portuguese, where she’s better known as Professor Maite Zubiaurre.

At UCLA she teaches an honors course examining the cultural meaning and environmental impact of trash — themes that the “The Wall That Gives” aims to explore in everyday, urban life through the real items that are left behind.

“It’s a combination of a research project and my pedagogical practice,” says Cruz, who hopes that through her course and her artwork she can teach and “ignite compassion” in others, compelling them to see trash and the people associated with it in a new light.

“When you see a piece of trash, you’re indifferent,” says Cruz. “You get this sense of revulsion. ‘Uhh. Ugly. Why is trash here? Yuck.’ Which is the same reaction the homeless elicit — a sense of indifference and revulsion. ‘Why is this homeless [person] here?’ The same discourse is interchangeable for trash and for the homeless.”

Yet she feels that art can turn this association around.

A clown drawn by a passerby creates a visual dialogue with “The Wall That Gives.”

“Art is powerful means of expression,” she says. “It really forces you to look at these things from a very different perspective. It opens up sides to a reality you would not see. ... People who are trained to look at trash differently will eventually be trained to look at people differently. If you slow down and pay attention, something happens with your brain and your heart. ...You are igniting the poetic imagination.”

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My friends are used to me pleading for them to pull to the side of the road because I’ve noticed a grand opening sign, and they’ve become resigned to the idea that I have to see the menu before going any further.

Even so, sometimes I’m excited to discover a new restaurant only to find that it has been there for years.

That happened recently at the corner of La Tijera Boulevard and Centinela Avenue. I was walking to the parking lot at Pann’s and happened to be at an angle where I could see the sign for Derrick’s Jamaican Cuisine & Catering across the street. I have an excuse for not noticing

the place before, as it’s hidden behind a Burger King on an intersection with odd geometry — if you’re rubbernecking business signs here, you’re likely to rear-end another car.

My first impression was surprise. The big interior is beautifully and colorfully decorated with fake trees and

the main course is a good idea.

We tried the beef and chicken stuffed Jamaican patties from the small appetizer section.

(The name is misleading — they’re actually wide, flat turnovers or hand pies.) The version stuffed with curried chicken was a bit more interesting than the mildly spiced

The surprise was the “healing greens,” which were prepared in a way that removed all but a hint of the bitterness from the greens and left bright, fresh flavors. greenery, original and reproduction art, and figurines of African animals. Zebras and giraffes have never roamed the forested hills of Jamaica, but the critters add a touch of whimsy.

For the most part the menu covers Jamaican classics, with some lunch specials featuring smaller portions and a dinner menu that is available all the time. The service here is friendly but Caribbean-slow, so a little nibble to hold you until

minced beef, and if you have a party of four you should get two and split them so everybody gets a taste.

For our mains we ordered three classic items — jerk chicken, brown stew chicken, and ackee with saltfish — plus a signature item, the turkey dog.

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turkey dog shows that he picks up ideas; it’s a Texas hot link with a little Caribbean twist. It didn’t have the greasiness of a Texas link, which can be good or bad depending on whether you prefer the fatty richness of the original. The sausage was served in a bun topped with very lightly sautéed onions and peppers, and though the bun was unexpectedly chewy, this was a nice light meal.

The jerk chicken was not as fiery as I’ve had elsewhere, but the tender, juicy meat did have a pleasant kick of allspice, ginger, garlic and red pepper. The lunch portion included a leg and thigh plus two sides and was an ample meal, though messy due to the liberal coating of sauce. Keep those napkins ready, because you’ll use them.

Jamaican food has a welldeserved reputation for spiciness, but brown stew is one of the exceptions. There’s some warmth in the tomato, soy and garlic based stew with onions and bell pepper, but it’s not hot. It’s rich and complex with hints of sweetness, thyme and

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The ackee and salted codfish may also be a learning experience, since the combination of salty and fruity flavors with fish is more what you’d expect from Southeast Asia than the Caribbean. Salted codfish was staple food for sailors, and the Jamaicans added ackee, a fruit native to West Africa but imported to the New World in the 1700s.

Ackee tastes something like a mild lychee — not particularly impressive by itself, but when mixed with the salted fish it’s delightful. It’s also toxic when eaten unripe or improperly cooked, so this is one dish I will not be replicating at home.

I now know where to go when I want it.

Each dinner comes with two sides and festival bread, a kind of fried sweet cornbread. I’m not a fan of festival bread but found the sides to be excellent (a vegetarian could have a fine meal by getting a few).

The garlic fried potatoes and rice and beans were standard items well made, as was the sautéed shredded cabbage with

carrots and broccoli. The surprise was the “healing greens,” which were prepared in a way that removed all but a hint of the bitterness from the greens and left bright, fresh flavors. I’m a fan of greens in most forms, and these were the best I’ve had in recent memory.

Beer and wine are served, as are a sweet punch, fresh sorrel iced tea and ginger-pineapple drink.

The sorrel is made with hibiscus flower and is the same as the Mexican drink known as Jamaica, and it’s a great companion to the spiciness of Jamaican food. I tried the pineapple-ginger too and was surprised because this is often made with a heavy ginger kick, but there was a good balance of spiciness and tart citrus.

Lunch or dinner at Derrick’s is very reasonable, with several midday options below $10 and most full dinners below $20. It’s a great deal for good food served in very pleasant surroundings.

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The ArgonAuT reAl estAte Q&A

what are some of the things to consider when a developer wants to buy your home?

A very important question to ask yourself when presented with the possibility of selling your home to a developer is simply whether, for the right price, you’d want to, or not. You may want to consider various aspects of your financial preparedness along with having a plan of where to go afterward, obviously.

Perhaps you’re considering downgrading, upgrading or traveling, for any number of reasons – empty nest, less mobility, proximity to work / family, relationship / life changes, etc. – that have you open to the possibility.

Whatever the reason, be sure to do your due diligence.

There are many factors to consider and balance out when approaching the prospect of selling to developers, and the scope and dimension of your own interests largely influence how significant some or all of these factors are to you. For example, you may take a lot of pride in the

architecture and or history of your home and neighborhood, which would lead you to be uneasy about the idea of selling the home, effectively sentencing it to be torn down (teardown) by a developer wanting to build modern multi-leveled duplexes / homes. Maybe you want to protect it, and would be willing to arrange your life to remain with the home, or keep it in the family. Alternatively, you can always just put it on the open market and see where you’re at price wise there.

If you’re open to selling, it’s best to not sell directly to the developer builder, and to hire your own agent or broker.

Developers and builders, when dealing directly, will generally base their low ball offers on a “fair market value” determined by appraisers that they hire. Often times these offers don’t take into account recent appreciation in land value that local

modern new developments in the area are creating. Hiring your own agent or broker to represent your best interests is of vital importance to consider. Additionally, take into account that they might have some professional affiliation or association with the developers. If you’d like to, you might even consider this as a written condition in the contract. You’ll also want to consider finding a veteran agent who has experience with land valuation and who understands the implications of parcel size, location and zoning regulations. Ultimately, you’ll want to learn what other neighborhood homes have been sold to developers for (Comparable Sales), and what type of development is planned for your tract.

Thus, you’ll have a good starting point for establishing a price.

Ultimately, this all comes down to how much the developer needs your home;

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whether it’s part of a larger project; whether or not time is a factor in how much the they stand to gain. For you, if an offer from a developer falls short of what you are targeting, it is best to not counter, but merely state you are not interested in selling at this time. Let them come to you with more offers, and see what you can learn from your qualified agent (and their resources), other builders in the area willing to speak with you, other redeveloped homes in your neighborhood, and the plethora of resources online for consideration.

This week’s quesTion is answered by

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This business is conducted by an individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I

declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Jeffrey Scott Rifkin. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on July 19, 2016 Argonaut published: July 28, Aug 4, 11, 18, 2016. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

FICTITIOUs BUsINEss NAME sTATEMENT File No. 2016 184694 The following person is doing business as: Harbor Town Productions 2) Storehouse 10 817 Superba Ave. Venice, CA. 90291 Registered owners: VENBEV LLC 817 Superba Ave. Venice, CA. 92091 This business is conducted by a limited liability company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: Wayne Von der Mehden CEO Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on July 22, 2016 Argonaut published: July 28, Aug 4, 11, 18, 2016. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

FICTITIOUs BUsINEss NAME sTATEMENT File No. 2016 185284 The following person is doing business as Arts and Homes 4449 Palos Verdes Drive North Rolling Hills, CA 90274 . Registered owners: Anna Hackathorn Inc. 4449 Palos Verdes Drive North Rolling Hills, CA. 90274 This business is conducted by a corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)).

Registrant Signature/Name: Anna Hackathorn . Owner This statement was filed with the County

Clerk of Los Angeles on July 25, 2016 Argonaut published: July 28, Aug 4, 11, 18, 2016. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

FICTITIOUs BUsINEss NAME sTATEMENT File No. 2016 186594 The following person is doing business as: Lemonade Candles 10736 Jefferson Blvd #1015. Culver City, CA. 90230 Registered owners:Teresa LaFrontiere 5950 Canterbury Dr. Culver City, CA. 90230. This business is conducted by an individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: TERESA LAFRONTIERE . Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on July 26, 2016 Argonaut published: Aug 4, 11, 18, 25, 2016. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

FICTITIOUs BUsINEss NAME sTATEMENT File No. 2016 188125 The following person is doing business as: Tele’s Barber Shop 2210 Pico Blvd Santa Monica, CA. 90405 Registered owners: Telesfor Trujillo 4339 Campbell Dr L.A. CA. 90066 This business is conducted by an individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)).

Registrant Signature/Name: TELES TRUJILLO Title: Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on July 26, 2016 Argonaut published: Aug 4, 11, 18, 25, 2016. NOTICEIn accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other

than a change in the residence address of a registered owner.

A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

FICTITIOUs BUsINEss NAME sTATEMENT File No. 2016 196812 The following on is doing business as: Cuddly for you 5100 Via Dolce #211 Marina del Rey, CA. 90292 Registered owners: Diane Merendino 5100 Via Dolce #211 Marina del Rey, CA. 92092 This business is conducted by an individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: Diane Merendino Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Aug. 8, 2016 Argonaut published: August 11, 18, 25, Sept 1, 2016. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

FICTITIOUs BUsINEss NAME sTATEMENT File No. 2016 201519 The following person is doing business as: Travelers Trailer Park & Motor Inn 13801 Vermont Ave. Gardena, CA. 90247 Registered owners: 13801 Vermont Avenue LLC 229 4th Ave. Venice, CA. 90291 This business is conducted by a limited liability partnership.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 6-14 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)).

Registrant Signature/Name: David Zlotolow Manager. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 12, 2016 Argonaut published: Aug 18, 25, Sept 1, 8, 2016 2016. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code

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legal aDvertising FICtItIOus BusINEss NaME statEMENt File No. 2016 204406 the following person is doing business as: LG studio 4342 alla road Los angeles, Ca. 90066 registered owners: G2 studioworks 4342 alla rd.

Los angeles, Ca. 90066. this business is conducted by an individual. the registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (a registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to section 17913 of the Business and professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). registrant signature/ Name:G2 studioWorks this statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los angeles on aug 16, 2016 argonaut published: august 18, 25, sept. 1, 8, 2016 NOtICe-In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a Fictitious Name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a New Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration. the filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 et seq., Business and professions Code FICtItIOus BusINEss NaME statEMENt File No. 2016 154352 the following person is doing business as: paul Hurty Consulting 6526 Wynkoop street Los angeles, Ca. 90045 paul anders Hurty 6526 Wynkoop street Los angeles, Ca. 90045 registered owner paul anders Hurty . this business is conducted by an individual. the registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (a registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to section 17913 of the Business and professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). registrant signature/Name: paul anders Hurty Owner. this statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los angeles on 06/2016 argonaut published: July 7, 14, 21, 28 2016. NOtICe-In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a Fictitious Name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a New Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration. the filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 et seq., Business and professions Code.

FICtItIOus BusINEss NaME statEMENt File No. 2016 167484 the following person is doing business as: FraNZDeMOraes prODUCtIONs 4572 Via Marina #308 Marina del rey Ca. 90292 registered owners: Jean twila Franz 4572 Via Marina #308 Marina del rey Ca . 90292. this business is conducted by an individual. the registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (a registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to section 17913 of the Business and professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). registrant signature/ Name: Jean twila Franz title: Owner. this statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los angeles on July 5, 2016 argonaut published: July 28, aug 4, 11, 18, 2016. NOtICe-In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a Fictitious Name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a New Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration. the filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 et seq., Business and professions Code).

FICtItIOus BusINEss NaME statEMENt File No. 2016 145225 the following person is doing business as: stay In Home Healthcare 200 New High Court unit a redondo Beach Ca. 90277 registered owners: Victoria M. Gutierrez 200 New High Court redondo Beach, Ca. 90277. this business is conducted by an individual. the registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 5-12-2016. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (a registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to section 17913 of the Business and professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). registrant signature/Name Victoria M. Gutierrez Owner. this statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los angeles on:June 9, 2016. argonaut published:June 14, 21, 28, aug 4, 2016.

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).

“stop tHief!” (8/11/16)

pubLic notices ORDER tO sHOW CausE FOR CHaNgE OF NaME Case No Es020741 suPERIOR COuRt OF CaLIFORNIa, COuNtY OF LOs aNgELEs. petition of Lupita elizabeth ramos, for Change of Name. tO aLL INteresteD persONs: 1.) petitioner: Lupita elizabeth ramos to Guadalupe elizabeth ramos filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Lupita elizabeth ramos to Guadalupe elizabeth 2.) tHe COUrt OrDers that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOtICe OF HearING: Date: July 26, 2016 time: 8:30 aM. Dept. the address of the court is 300 east Olive Burbank, Ca. 91502 .2016 a copy of this Order to show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: the argonaut. Original filed:July 26, 2016 Judge of the superior Court. pUBLIsH: the argonaut august 4, 11, 18, 25, ORDER tO sHOW CausE FOR CHaNgE OF NaME CasE NuMBER ss026381 suPERIOR COuRt OF CaLIFORNIa, COuNtY OF LOs aNgELEs. tO aLL INteresteD persONs: petitioner (name) ernestina r Hashem 1.) ernestina r Hashem to Brisa Dooley filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) tHe COUrt OrDers that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOtICe OF HearING: Date:10-7-16. time: 8:30pM. Dept.: K. the address of the court is 1725 Main street santa Monica, Ca. 90401. a copy of this Order to show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: the argonaut. Original filed: august 4 , 2016 Gerald rosenberg, Judge of the superior Court. pUBLIsH: the argonaut aug 18, 25, sept 1, 8, 2016 ORDER tO sHOW CausE EVERaRDO PaNtaLEON CasE # sWD 1502980 It Is OrDereD that the service of of said sUMMONs, citation Or hearing upon said defendant, respondent or citee by publication thereof in tHe arGONaUt NeWs paper a newspaper of general circulation published at Los angeles, California, hereby is the newspaper most likely to give notice to said defendant, and that said publication be made at least once a week for four consecutive wee It Is FUrtHer OrDer that a copy of said sUMMONs, citation, and of said complaint, petition, or notice of hearing in this action be forthwith deposited in the United states post Office, post-paid, directed to said defendant, respondent,or citee if his address is ascertained before expiration of the time prescribed for the publication of the summons, citation, or notice of hearing and a declaration of this mailing or of the fact that the address was not ascertained be filed at the expiration of the time prescribed for the publication. argonaut august 18, 25, sept 1, 8, 2016

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Compiled by Michael Reyes Thursday, Aug. 18 Morning Ocean Swims, 6 a.m.

Thursdays. Olympic Gold Medalist Dave Walters, the SCAQ Swim Club and CalTri lead free morning ocean swims throughout the summer at Santa Monica Beach Lifeguard Tower 26. RSVP to SCAQ@swim.net

Mind over Movies, 6:30 p.m.

Weekly film screenings followed by a discussion and Q&A. This week: Darren Aaronofsky’s mind-bending, metaphysical drama “The Fountain.”

The Christian Institute, 1308 Second St., Santa Monica. Free. facebook. com/MindOverMoviesLA Photo by Chris Strong

Strategies for Healthier Living, 1 to 3:30 p.m. Each Thursday through Sept. 1, Wise & Healthy Aging teaches strategies for living a healthier life, making new friends and gaining social support for ongoing conditions such as arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, lung disease and cancer. Venice-Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch Library, 501 S. Venice Blvd., Venice. Free. (310) 821-1769; lapl.org/branches/venice

Center, 12505 Vista del Mar, Playa del Rey. $7 suggested donation. (310) 726-4128; beaches.lacounty.gov

Line Dancing Workshops, 5:30 to 8 p.m. Dance your way to fitness each Thursday at the Dockweiler Youth

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Mavis Staples, The Suffers, 7 p.m.

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and soul/gospel legend Mavis Staples headlines a double bill with up-andcoming “Gulf Coast Soul” band The Suffers as part of the Twilight Concert Series at Santa Monica Pier. Free. tcs. santamonicapier.org

Friday, Aug. 19 Mar Vista Senior Club, 9:30 a.m. to noon. The club meets each Friday for speakers, bingo, live entertainment, parties, trips and tours for people 50-plus. Mar Vista Recreation Center, 11430 Woodbine St., Mar Vista. (310) 351-9876

Beach Eats, 5 to 9 p.m. Thursdays.

The weekly festival of food trucks with a scenic harbor backdrop returns to Mother’s Beach, Lot 10, 4101 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 305-9545; lotmom.com/beacheats El Segundo Art Walk, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Meet up with friends for a night of art and music throughout El Segundo. The El Segundo Museum of Art will be open late. ESMoA, 208 Main St., El Segundo. (424) 2771020; esmoa.org

Madame Butterfly, 7 p.m. Puccini’s three-act opera about a Japanese love story turned tragic comes to life in a fully-staged production with the Marina del Rey Symphony as musical accompaniment. Burton Chace Park, 13650 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 305-9545; beaches. lacounty.gov

Soul/gospel legend Mavis Staples headlines a free outdoor concert with upand-coming “Gulf Coast Soul” band The Suffers. SEE THURSDAY, AUG. 18.

Rotary Club of Santa Monica, noon.

The Rotary Club of Santa Monica meets each Friday at Riviera Country club, 1250 Capri Drive, Pacific Palisades. (310) 917-3313 Jimmy Brewster, 6:30 p.m. to close.

Get the full American steakhouse and classic cocktail bar experience featuring the music of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tom Jones and The

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Brian Whelan at Cinema Bar L.A. guitar slinger turns up the volume on ‘Americana’ As a creatively determined kindergartener, Brian Whelan built himself a guitar — out of cardboard.

Only fools doubted his path in life. As a real-deal six-string slinger he’s earned a badass rep in a city renowned for badass players, where discerning musicians and fans snap to attention when he takes the stage.

Having honed his chops with acts like the Broken West and Mike Stinson, he’s equal parts growling attitude and fretted finesse, a tone fiend with keen sensitivity to vocal melodies.

So it’s ironic that his first bigtime gig, a four-year stint in Dwight Yoakam’s band, had him playing pedal steel and keyboards.

Suffice it to say that dues were paid. In full.

Now Whelan produces songwriting peers like Rod Melancon, and he recently opened in concert for his onetime boss to celebrate his second solo album, “Sug-

Brian Whelan arland,” a meaty platter of rock, country and power pop whose hooks and hummable melodies would likely have pleased heroes Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly.

The album opens with crunching electric guitar chords and pounding drums for “Americana,” with Whelan soon snarling out frustration

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with fashion-fixated posers: “You can still beat it out on the pots and pans/ But your cowboy boots don’t make you a better band/ Beat your head up against the wall/ But American music is gonna outlive us all.”

Even the banjos and fiddles sound indignant. Or maybe they’re savoring more irony: Come September, Whelan’s headlining his first official showcase at the Americana Music Association’s annual Nashville convention.

Expect him to show folks how it’s done this Thursday, when he shares the bill with San Gabriel Valley country hero Rick Shea at the Cinema Bar. The room will be rocked.

— Bliss Bowen Brian Whelan and Rick Shea play at 9 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 18, at the Cinema Bar, 3967 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City. No cover. Call (310) 390-1328 or visit brianwhelanmusic.com.

Beatles each Friday night at Dear John’s, 11208 Culver Blvd., Culver City. (310) 397-0276; dearjohns.net Beach Movie Nights: “Finding Nemo,” 8 p.m. A clownfish sets out on a quest to find his missing son in Pixar’s 2003 family film. Bring a blanket and watch the ultimate sea adventure right by the waves at Dockweiler Youth Center, 12505 Vista del Mar, Playa del Rey. Free. (310) 726-4128; beaches.lacounty.gov Doug Mug Swanson, 8 p.m. to midnight. Bassist and Venice Beach native Doug Mug Swanson, who appears as Monty Handsome on ABC’s “Nashville,” assembles an A-list roster of players to join him and his band the Thugs for a special night of music at The Cinema Bar, 3967 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City. No cover. thecinemabar.com Hedgehog Swing, 8 p.m. Live gypsy jazz until 10 p.m., followed up

by DJ Doomz spinning classic and contemporary soul, funk, blues, rock and hip-hop in The Del Monte and DJ Jedi in Townhouse bar. No cover.

Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com

Saturday, Aug. 20

Cinemark Community Day, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Enjoy family-friendly movies for free and discounted concession offerings. Check your local theater’s show times and selections at cinemark.com.

Catty Wagon Adoption Event, 11 a.m. Discover your new best friend at this “food truck inspired” mobile pet adoption truck working to help Los Angeles become a no-kill city. It will be parked at the weekly Artists & Fleas Designer Marketplace at Westminster Avenue Elementary School, 1010 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice. adoptandshop.org Pet Adoption and Summer Surf/ Bike Swap Bazaar, noon to 2 p.m.

Trade, sell or donate old surfboards and bikes as Coldwell Banker teams up with adopt-a-pet.com to find permanent homes for thousands of adoptable dogs. Venice Coldwell Banker parking lot, 1611 Electric Ave., Venice. (424) 280-7400

A surfboard and bicycle swap bazaar is also a meet and greet with dogs up for adoption.

SEE SATURDAY, AUG. 20.

Harbor Tours & Sea Lion Adventures, noon to 12:45 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Sept. 5. This narrated tour of Marina del Rey harbor offers historical insights and a special focus on sea lions and other creatures that live in the harbor.

Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. $6 to $12; kids 3 and under free. hornblower.com Hollywood’s Golden Age, 1 p.m.

Author Manny Pacheco highlights character actors and films of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Marina del Rey Lloyd Tabor Library, 4533 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. Free.

(310) 821-3415; colapublib.org Music by the Sea, 2 to 5 p.m. A scenic harbor view is the backdrop for a free reggae concert by Upstream. Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. visitmarinadelrey.com Hushfest: Subsuelo + Late Night Laggers + L.A.M.P., 7 p.m. to midnight. Three deejays collide for one epic silent disco atop the Santa Monica Pier after sunset. $10 to $45. hushconcerts.com Maureen Cotter Comedy Show, 7 p.m. Take a walk on the wildly funny side with Venice’s own Maureen Cotter, who tells comic true-life stories about everything from prison life to mishaps on Abbot Kinney Boulevard. Show starts at 8 p.m. following a cocktail party.

Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice. $15. (310) 822-3006; beyondbaroque.org Marina Movie Nights: “My Fair Lady,” 8 p.m. Audrey Hepburn stars as Eliza Doolittle, who hopes to hide her Cockney accent with the help of phonetics professor Henry Higgins in this 1964 classic. Burton Chace Park, 13650 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey. Free. (310) 322-6951; beaches. lacounty.gov Stan Ridgeway, 8 p.m. Original Wall of Voodoo vocalist Stan Ridgeway brings his darkly humorous and cinematic musical tales to McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Blvd., Santa

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Sunday, Aug. 21 Music by the Sea, 2 to 5 p.m. A scenic harbor view is the backdrop for a free R&B concert by Shades.

Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. visitmarinadelrey.com Dog-Friendly “Yappy Hour” fundraiser, 3 to 8 p.m. The monthly Dog Day Afternoon” fundraiser for No Kill LA (NKLA, an initiative of Best Friends Animal Society) welcomes dogs and their owners to hang out together at new craft cocktail house The Lincoln, 2536 Lincoln Blvd, Venice. Enjoy featured cocktails and plenty of dog toys and treats.

(310) 822-1715; thelincolnvenice.com Don Heffington, 8 p.m. L.A. percussionist Don Heffington steps out from behind the drum kit for his first solo album, “Glorlyland.”

McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. $15. (310) 828-4497; mccabes.com

Karaoke Lisa, 9 p.m. Sing your heart out every Sunday at the Prince O’Whales, 335 Culver Blvd., Playa del Rey. (310) 823-9826; princeowhales.com

Los Angeles City Hall, Room 340, 200 N. Spring St., Downtown L.A. (213) 978-1099 Gateway to Go Food Trucks, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. A rotating lineup of some of the city’s best food trucks gathers each Tuesday at Crowne Plaza LAX, 5985 W. Century Blvd., Westchester. gatewaytola.org

ROAM with Live Bands and Live Painting, 9 p.m. DJs Mr. Numberonederful & Bu$R1D3R spin house, world, soul, dance and expression music in The Del Monte. $5. Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. (310) 392-4040 The Toledo Show, 9:30 p.m.

This long-running cabaret show continues to shake up Sunday nights at Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $10 plus a two-drink minimum. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com Vida featuring DJ Creepy and friends, 9:30 to 11:45 p.m.

Sundays. Ambient and dance music light up the Sunday evening soundscape at Melody Bar & Grill, 9132 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Westchester. (310) 670-1994; melodylax.com

Monday, Aug. 22 Free Family Beach Days, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. A family-friendly day at the beach with arts and crafts, sports, games and more hosted by the Dockweiler Youth Center, 12505 Vista del Mar, Playa del Rey. Free. (310) 726-4131; beaches. lacounty.gov

Gourmet Food Truck Night, 4:30 to 9:30 p.m. Each Tuesday night, a diverse array of tent vendors and gourmet food trucks takes over the California Heritage Museum, 2612 Main St., Santa Monica.

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Venice’s own Doug Mug Swanson, aka Monty Handsome on ABC’s “Nashville,” leads a raucous night of tunes. SEE FRIDAY, AUG. 19.

Magic Monday, 7:30 p.m. A new lineup of award-winning magic acts by magicians from the Magic Castle happens each Monday at Santa Monica Playhouse, 1211 4th St., Santa Monica. All ages. $25. (310) 450-2849; magicmondayla.com Karaoke at Melody Bar & Grill, 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Six-dollar mai tai cocktails loosen up vocal chords and inhibitions on Monday nights at Melody Bar & Grill, 9132 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Westchester. (310) 670-1994; melodylax.com Mahalo Mondays, 8 p.m. Alton Clemente, Dorian Bey, DJ Vinyl Don

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Tuesday, Aug. 23 Venice BID Vote, 10 a.m. A public hearing and vote among commercial property owners on the fate of the Venice Community Improvement District, in which members would pool funding for efforts to improve cleanliness and safety in public areas.

Marina del Rey Design Control Board Special Night Meeting, 6:30 p.m. Full meeting agenda and materials will be available after 10 p.m. on Aug. 18 at beaches. lacounty.gov. Burton Chace Park Community Room, 13650 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 305-9503; beaches.lacounty.gov

Wednesday, Aug. 24 Playa Venice Sunrise Rotary, 7:15 a.m. Wednesdays. Make connections in your community each Wednesday at Whiskey Red’s, 13813 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. Call Brady Connell at (323) 459-1932 for breakfast reservations; or for (Continued on page 36)

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Westchester Life Story Writing Group, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Memoir-writing workshop meets Wednesdays at the YMCA Annex, 8020 Alverstone Ave., Westchester. $10 donation per semester. (310) 397-3967

The Top 10 Legal Things Every Filmmaker Needs to Know, 7 to 8 p.m. Presented by Larry Zerner, this workshop provides an overview of legal topics in the film industry such as copyright infringement, contracts and rights agreements, title protection, libel law, reality shows and collaboration agreements. $5 to $20 online; $30 at the door. Colorado Community Room, 2500 Broadway Ave., Santa Monica. showclix.com

Toastmasters Speakers by the Sea, 11 a.m. to noon. Learn to overcome your public presentation nerves at this weekly meeting. Pregerson Technical Facility, Room 230A, 12000 Vista Del Mar, Playa del Rey. (424) 625-3131 Knitting for Beginners, 3:30 p.m.

Knit chicks, teenage yarn harlots and knit-nerds can perfect their craft and stitch together some new friendships on Aug. 24, Sept. 7 and Sept. 21 at the Playa Vista Branch Library, 6400 Playa Vista Drive, Playa Vista. Free.

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Venice Underground Comedy and Bootleg Bombshells Burlesque Show, 9 and 11:30 p.m. Start the night with some of L.A.’s best comics and finish with a Burlesque show with special guest Madeline Sinclaire.

No cover. The Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Winward Ave., Venice. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com

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Audrey Hepburn stars as Eliza Doolittle in “My Fair Lady,” screening outdoors in Marina del Rey. SEE SATURDAY, AUG. 20.

Sept. 7. Sunset sailing races finish at the California Yacht Club, 4469 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. calyachtclub.com

Outdoor Music at The Point, 6 to 8 p.m. Each Wednesday through August, live music greets diners and shoppers at The Point, 850 S.

Rusty’s Rhythm Club, 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. and 10 to 11 p.m. Each Wednesday a swing band leads a dance party hosted by noted swing dancer Rusty Frank at the Westchester Elks Lodge, 8025 W. Manchester Ave., Playa del Rey. $15. $10 after 10 p.m. (310) 606-5606

Thursday, Aug. 25 Serving Up Comedy with Mark Valley, 7 p.m. Actor, comedian and veteran Mark Valley (“Boston Legal,” “CSI,” “The Millionaires”) headlines a special lineup for Serving Up Comedy to benefit service dog and disabled veterans charity 4PAWS4PATRIOTS. Main show starts at 7 p.m., followed by an open mic at 8:30 p.m. at The Warehouse, 4499 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. No cover. (310) 823-5451; servingupcomedy.com “Made in Venice,” 7:30 p.m. This feature-length documentary by Jonathan Penson tells the inside story (Continued on page 42)

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by Dana Resnick.

One performance only: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, at The Electric Lodge, 1416 Electric Ave., Venice. Free.

(310) 821-1414; RSVP to info@ opentemple.org Dreaming without Borders: “A Mexican Trilogy: An American Story” @ Santa Monica Public Library The cast of Evelina Fernandez’s award-winning trilogy

of plays about the MexicanAmerican experience of the Morales family reads excerpts from the series and participates in a Q&A and reception at the Santa Monica Public Library.

One performance only: 6 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, at the Santa Monica Public Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica. Free. (310) 458-8600; smpl.org Becoming a Woman: “The Heidi Chronicles” @ The Broad Stage Santa Monica Rep reads from Pulitzer Prize winner Wendy Wasserstein’s “The Heidi Chronicles,” a coming of age story examining the journey of one woman from her politically active student days in the ‘60s to her successful career as an art historian in the ‘80s and her complicated romance with a newspaper editor in between.

One performance only: 2 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 21, in The Edye at The Broad Stage, 1310 11th St., Santa Monica. $25. (310) 4343200; thebroadstage.com Drama on Speed: “L.A. Cafe Plays” @ Ruskin Group Theater Five writers, five directors and 10 actors have 10½ hours to take five short shows from conception to completion. It’s been called the “fastest theater in town.”

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Mean Girls: “Drama Queens from Hell” @ Odyssey Theatre When a low-budget remake of the classic Billy Wilder film “Sunset Boulevard” is announced, a washed up TV actress, a former Blaxploitation movie bit player and a pre-op transgender woman compete for the role of Norma Desmond in this comic romp, skewering Hollywood, ageism and political correctness.

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The Morales family faces life at the intersection of the U.S. and Mexico in “A Mexican Trilogy” at Ruskin Group Theater, 3000 Airport Ave., Santa Monica. $10 to $15. (310) 397-3244; ruskingrouptheatre.org Across the Universe: “My Girlfriend is an Alien” @ Pacific Resident Theatre Finding “the one” can take you on a search far and wide, but when green slime and tentacles get involved love can get downright sticky. This new play by the creators of the Fried Meat Trilogy and directed by Guillermo Cienfuegos (PRT’s “Henry V”) may give a whole new meaning to the phrase “star-crossed lovers.”

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Sundays through Oct. 2 at Pacific Resident Theatre, 707 Venice Blvd., Venice. $20. (310) 822-8392; pacificresidenttheatre.com Shakespeare Meets Pikachu: “Shakespeare in the Park” @ Media Park The Actors’ Gang presents family-friendly adaptations of Shakespeare’s classics, including a “Pokémon GO!” revival of “Romeo and Juliet,” adjacent to Culver City’s historic Ivy Substation.

Closing soon. Last shows are at 11 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 27 and 28, at Media Park,

9070 Venice Blvd., Culver City. Free. (310) 838-4264; theactorsgang.com Mob Mentality: “Twelfth Night” @ Santa Monica College One-time Royal Shakespeare Company member Kenneth Sabberton directs a Los Angeles Shakespeare Company version of “Twelfth Night” that’s set in 1942 L.A., after a World War II air raid strikes the city and triggers invasion hysteria.

Closing soon. Last shows are at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18 to 21, at Santa Monica College, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. $20 to $70. (213) 481-2273; shakespearecenter.org American Dreamin’: “A Raisin in the Sun” @ Ruskin Group Theatre Tony Award nominee Starletta DuPois stars in this seminal 1959 play by Lorraine Hansberry about a black family’s internal and external struggles to achieve their hopes and dreams on Chicago’s south side. Tony nominee Lita Gaithers Owens directs.

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“What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit,” wrote John Updike.

But what happens when the space that has come to define your art is no longer yours?

That’s a question more than a dozen Venice artists have had to grapple with after being forced to vacate their longtime creative studios at 361 Vernon Ave., a former industrial building with corrugated steel siding that lies right in the bullseye of the area’s real estate boom.

In recent years, 361 Vernon (once known as The Distillery) had become a central gathering space for the grassroots Venice ARTBLOCK open studios tour. But it’s history as an affordable home for Venice artists dates back to at least the early 1990s.

After receiving notice to vacate the 1957 building, leaseholders and subletters scrambled for weeks to remove years of accumulated art and supplies by a July 15 move-out deadline. Several said they were told the property would be undergoing renovations to bring it up to code. Property owners Sunset Studios LLC declined to comment, and Los Angeles Planning Department officials were unable to locate any construction permit documents on file as of late July.

The space will continue to house art studios after renovations are complete, but some who left in July won’t return. Several said they were given the option to renew their leases at rates below market value but higher than before — in some cases almost double the monthly rent.

Some, like MB Boissonnault, fought to stay. Others, like Jim Budman, have already signed up to return in November. Others just walked away.

Venice photographer Debbie Zeitman was not a tenant of 361 Vernon Ave., but their exit and the ongoing displacement of artists from Venice due largely to rising real estate values has inspired her to document artists in their studios before many of them inevitably disappear.

She’s titled her project “Before They Go.” Cropped versions of some of her photos appear with this piece, and many more are included with artist profiles on her Instagram account: @beforetheygo.

Zeitman started taking pictures at 361 Vernon less than two weeks before tenants started moving out.

“Time was of the essence,” says Zeitman. “I just quickly said, ‘I’d like to photograph all of you in your spaces before you have to leave — if nothing else just to preserve a little slice of the memory here.’”

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MB Boissonnault “The building will die tomorrow when everybody’s gone,” artist MB Boissonnault says as she removes the last objects from her studio at 361 Vernon. It’s Saturday, July 16 — one day past the official deadline for tenants to move out of the building, but she’s held out to the bitter end.

“I’ve watched too many people walking around here like post-apocalyptic,” she says. “Their studios are empty. They’re bringing their last boxes out. They’re getting in their car, leaving. They come back here, even though they have no studio. They’re hanging out. Their stuff is still in the hallway. It’s really bizarre.

And they’re just like deer in the headlights. It’s tragic. It’s really tragic.”

Whether placed there by accident or design, a copy of “The Raft of Medusa”— a 19th-century French painting depicting survivors of a shipwreck vainly flagging down a rescue boat — leans against a painting of a roiling sea. No matter how hard the sailors fight they cannot overcome the force of elements greater than themselves.

“It’s been like rats jumping off a sinking ship,” says Boissonnault of the weeks since lease termination notices went out in May. But she didn’t go down without a fight.

Boissonnault organized a postcard campaign that led to a meeting with a

field deputy for L.A. City Councilman Mike Bonin, and she raised funds for the cause by selling T-shirts emblazoned with the words “Gjentrified” and “Gjenocide” — the Gj spelling a reference to Gjelina and Gjusta, the two restaurants most frequently associated with New Venice.

Boissonnault says she cannot afford to return to 361 Vernon at nearly double the previous rent.

“The new rent here was to be $4k plus utilities plus deposit,” she says. “It’s completely untenable.”

Instead, she’s found space at a new design house on the border of Santa Monica and Venice.

“I’ll be fine,” she says. “Is Venice going to be okay?”

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Roland Coate Jr. As movers carry out canvases from his studio, 86-year-old Roland Coate Jr. reflects on his life’s work.

There was his bathing beauty period, when he painted whimsical nudes of women cavorting around the Venice Boardwalk. There is his architectural period, when he painted houses, both real and imagined, against blue seas and red mountains. Recently it’s been abstract paintings — bold zig-zags of color that waffle across canvases like rings on a geological map.

Each represents a chapter in Coate’s life as a Venice artist, a path he embarked upon when he decided to wind down his architectural practice in the early 1970s and rent a 2,400-square-foot studio off Lincoln Boulevard for $300 a month.

“I just decided that I was more interested in painting and I wanted to evolve through a painting experience. I stopped doing architecture. I turned down a couple of jobs and got this big space and started painting,” says Coate, who found his creative passion after years of working in the profession set out for him by his father, famed Southern California architect Roland Coate Sr. When Coate moved to 361 Vernon in 1993, the monthly rent was $900. He transformed the spot into not only a personalized workspace for making and storing his paintings, but also his home,

outfitting it with custom shelving for his canvasses, a kitchen on the ground floor and a sleeping loft upstairs.

Coate lived in the studio until 2012, after a series of falls forced him into medical rehab to recuperate. He now lives in an assisted living facility in Santa Monica, where he’ll paint from now on because he can’t afford to come back to 361 Vernon. If he returned, his rent would rise from $2,550 per month to $4,990 per month.

“You couldn’t ask for a more perfect example of artists getting pushed out by gentrification,” Coate says.

Jim Budman I f Don Draper had a storage unit, it might have looked like Jim Budman’s studio at 361 Vernon.

The space was jam-packed with Mad Men-style pieces — a suave white conical fireplace, a flamboyant orange armchair, a sexy red television set, psychedelic door beads, and tons and tons of paintings and photographs that Budman has created or collected from artists over the years.

Budman moved into 361 Vernon in 1994 after working out of his apartment for 10 years. The new space allowed him to host other artists over the years — Takashi Murakami (“the Andy Warhol of Japan”), Neo-Pop cartoonist Nara, realist painter Kenny Harris, and ceramicists Brad Miller and Mollie Favour, to name a few.

“It’s always been a nice mix of creative energy within the space,” says Budman, who fosters the salon-style ambience with his eclectic aesthetic — a blend of odd finds and elegant statement pieces that he first honed as a design consultant.

One of his most eye-catching installations is a bank of doll heads in cubbyholes along the entrance to the studio.

“I went to a thrift store years ago and there was a box of doll heads. Each one had kind of a different expression. As soon as I put each doll head in one of those compartments, all of a sudden it became a piece,” says Budman. “They’ve been there at least 12 years. It’s one of

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If not quite the finality of a move-out date.

Budman has already signed a lease to return to 361 Vernon following renovations, and he’s looking forward to a fresh start.

“The silver lining is that after 22 years I’m able to go through stuff and really re-work it and reorganize it,” he says.

Budman’s favorite piece from his collection — a circular neon sign that hangs above the entrance to his studio — encapsulates that sentiment. It says, “Open.”

“I always try to keep that kind of philosophy — to be open,” he says. “I’m going to do everything I can to bring great creative energy into the new space.”

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Kate Wolfgang Savage For Kate Wolfgang Savage, her studio has been her sanctuary.

Perched above a set of steep stairs, it’s a uniquely Venice oasis where Old World elegance meets New Age vibes. A rusty red Persian rug covers the floor, and furry sheepskins sit draped over a small table or chair. Potted succulents surround a meditating Buddha — a Zen garden on a shelf. A crate turned on its side is ornamented with tiny golden figurines, star-shaped stones, a melted candle and a bone-white peacock feather, serving as a makeshift altar to an assortment of spiritual practices, from yogic to pagan.

Savage jokes that she’s a “yogi first, an artist second,” but here the artistic and the divine seem to commingle. Turkey wings hanging on the wall look like a pair of cherub wings; nude self-portraits, some rimmed with golden halos, have an angelic glow. Savage herself has an ethereal aspect. Dressed in a white cotton shift with a crystal amulet hanging around her neck, her palms often turn upward toward the sky, like hands in meditation.

“This is a space where I come to be myself,” says Savage. “It feeds my soul.”

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doned her successful ecommerce company, given up her well-appointed home, thrown a ring off her finger, taken up study with painter Nelson Shanks and had just spent the last six-months living out of her van, traveling cross-country to find herself.

At 361 Vernon she found an answer.

“Art’s a deep journey. You have to really, really be yourself,” says Savage.

“This room, it is the way it is because it’s my frequency. It’s not a curated space.

It’s me.”

Since move-out day, Savage has found another, albeit smaller Venice studio.

“It is a very humble space,” she says, “but I will make magic in it anyway.”

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Bisco Smith Before moving into 361 Vernon three years ago, painter Bisco Smith was following several creative pursuits, including deejaying and designing album covers. But being here helped him focus on becoming a fine artist.

“This building changed my life,” says Smith, sitting in his sparse second-floor studio, reminiscing about hosting his wedding reception here. The small space is a battleground between chaos and control. Black and white — and maybe flecks of gray — are the only colors in Smith’s limited palette.

“I’m a fan of contrast,” he says.

These stark shades run wild, covering the walls and floors with spray paint streaks and splashes that look as if they’ve willfully dashed over the edge of Smith’s canvases with reckless abandon.

The stray marks look downright unwieldy against the artist’s meticulously placed grid of brushes and gloves, but there is method to the madness.

“The dirtier I get, the freer I become,” Smith says of blending the freedom of splatter painting with the tight, calligraphic style of street art graffiti.

Smith started doing graffiti on the streets of New York at age 12, a Connecticut kid drawn to the city’s urban art and music.

“Hip-hop led through the train lines my way,” Smith recalls of his initial inspiration to create raps and mix beats.

But when Smith got to Venice, the tunes in his head started changing. He began putting his songs on canvas, freestyling with paint just as he did with language and rhythm. He also discovered a cross-generational sense of bonding among artists like nowhere else.

“The community in Venice, there’s something about it,” he muses. “It has a lot of history. It’s definitely influenced my way of being.”

Smith’s not sure whether he’ll come back to the studio after it is renovated or venture elsewhere, but he’ll ride it out while his work shows through August at C.A.V.E. Gallery on Abbot Kinney Boulevard.

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