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L e t t e r s Nervous about the New Neighbors See “Has Mar Vista Become the Rehab Capital of Los Angeles?” news, page 9 It would appear that the sleepy bedroom community of Mar Vista, with its high density of single-family homes, has been targeted be sober living / drug-and-alcohol rehabilitation homes over the past several years. Most recently, one group home operator admitted at a community meeting of Mar Vista residents that they do not use any
form of professional screening to evaluate and verify whether their guests have a history of convictions for criminal misconduct, sexual assault or addiction to drugs or alcohol. This group is in the process of developing a multi-bedroom facility with an independent rear house that may accommodate between four to six additional beds. It appears the group has no license and doesn’t need one. Liquor stores, sex apparel shops and cocktail lounges all require licensing and approval from the neighborhood. Community care
facilities should be required to obtain a conditional use permit. Michael Millman Mar Vista The Kardashians aren’t the Problem Re: “L.A. County Orders Probe of Kardashian Fireworks Show,” news, Sept. 2 Aw, c’mon, give the Kardashians a break. How could they know their fireworks would affect anyone? As far as they know, they’re the only ones on this planet and it is all theirs to do with as they wish.
I blame it all on Don Knabe, Marina del Rey’s county supervisor, and his four other cohorts, who do know there are other people on this planet but do not know the difference between a marina and a city. The growth and development they have approved and are continuing to approve for the marina only belongs in a city. And their actions will bring more noise, contamination, congestion and inconvenience that negatively affects the mental and physical health of the residents of Marina del Rey beyond eight minutes of
fireworks. And we know how negatively affected we were by those eight minutes. Noise, congestion and contamination of all kinds 24 hours a day, every day of the year — now that is something we all should get up in arms and do something about. Now. Roslyn E. Walker Marina del Rey Who’s Paying Attention? Re: “Chick-Fil-A finds a beef in Westchester,” news, Aug. 27 It was interesting to read that
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Contents
VOL 45, NO 36
News
Local News & Culture
Arts
Feature
Remembering ‘Shakespeare’
Where Creativity Is the Star
Venice boardwalk shooting victim was a poet-musician who abhorred violence..... 8
Juri Koll’s Venice Institute of Contemporary Art hosts the Fine Arts Film Festival ........ 30
Rehab Central Angry homeowners say sober living houses are taking over Mar Vista . ........................ 9
Playa del Rey is making noise about increased LAX flyovers . ..... 10 City surveillance cameras headed to Westchester Park . ....... 10 ‘Science on Display’ Tech and design
Channeling Chandler A salute to noir detective lit coincides with the Venice Art Crawl . ...................... 32
Rolling with the Waves Paraplegic surfer Jesse Billauer got back on his board to help others get into the water and on with their lives . .... 14
Glitterati for Good Photographer uses celebrity portraits to make the world a better place ............ 33
This Week
WESTSIDE HAPPENINGS
‘The Most Powerful Medicine’
merge theory and practice at LMU’s new life sciences building ......... 11
Recovered from chemical poisoning, eclectic violinist Lili Haydn celebrates by headlining Saturday’s free Venice Beach Music Fest .................................. 17
Opinion In Rush to Safety, Lives Delayed A Santa Monica volunteer finds hope and frustration on the front lines of the Syrian refugee crisis ...................... 12
Discover Mar Vista’s re Discover Center
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Gallery is gentrified out, but not down
Food & Drink Dining with the Don A skeptical food critic falls in love with Taco Tuesdays at Don Chuy’s ......................... 19
ON THE COVER: The Life Rolls On Foundation’s Jesse Billauer gets barreled in the South Pacific. Photo courtesy of Jesse Billauer. Design by Michael Kraxenberger.
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happens in Westchester. If there is arson or breaking of the stained glass windows, it will be on them. Marsha Henline Westchester Three Cheers for ‘Pagliacci’ Re: “Clowns and Cuckolds,” arts, Aug. 6 Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch? Those of us who had the good fortune to experience the staging of the opera “Pagliacci” at Burton Chace Park on Aug. 11 had a banquet — a feast of music. The joy of
seeing and hearing in a beautiful setting, sailboats gliding by gently and quietly. Even the dogs and children were in the mood. It was a near perfect evening. Corrine Sutila Westchester
FROM THE WEB: Re: “Giving Crime a Fight,” cover story, Aug. 20 Our community is being diminished by the overdevelopment that is going on throughout Venice. When I say community,
I mean people knowing their neighbors and watching out for one another on a daily basis. When this happens in the neighborhood you know who and what is going on at all times. With so many new and changing faces each and every day, it’s not easy to keep up with who’s who. It is extremely hard to watch out for your neighbors when you do not know them. There is no human connection, and with all the high fences blocking the street view it makes it difficult to watch the property or cars.
You may think this is privacy but it possibly could be a thieves’ paradise. Blame can be spread all over the community with the revolving door of people that are coming in and out of Venice on a daily basis. To blame the homeless is an easy out. Get to know one another (even the homeless) and make friends with your neighbors. Smile and say hello when you’re walking down the street, and most of all love Venice. Laddie Williams
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Remembering ‘Shakespeare’ Venice boardwalk shooting victim JascentJamal Lee Warren was a poet-musician who “grew up knowing what it is to give, to love and to care” By Gary Walker Herbert Warren wistfully surveyed the crowd of about 70 that had gathered on Ocean Front Walk near the Cadillac Hotel. A familiar blend of R&B and rap played in the background, competing with a nearby boardwalk guitarist and drummer for the soundtrack to a somber event. The songs he recognized were recorded by his son, a 26-year-old homeless man who was shot dead in the early morning hours of Aug. 30 some 100 feet from that very spot on the boardwalk. The Sept. 2 memorial for Jascent-Jamal Lee Warren follows the arrest of Cadillac Hotel owner Sris Sinnathamby, who pleaded not guilty to a murder charge last week in L.A. Superior Court and has since posted $1-millon bond. Witnesses have told police that the younger Warren was attempting to mediate a dispute between Sinnathamby, 54, and a group of homeless people when Sinnathamby ordered an unidentified and still at-large gunman to open fire. Jascent-Jamal Lee Warren was known on the boardwalk as “Shakespeare.” “Jascent gave himself that name in middle school because he liked poetry. He liked writing songs and raps. I used to go into his bedroom sometimes and listen to him. He sounded pretty good to me,” his father recalled with a smile. The elder Warren, who had just recently arrived in Venice from Chicago, said he was still confused about the events that led to his son’s death. “The people that I’ve talked to are still asking themselves why. What was done that was so egregious that he would have to be shot to death? I’m wrestling with that same question, too,” Warren said. “I’m from Chicago, and it’s like something that we see from a South Side gangbanger. They kill for no particular reason, and that’s basically what this sounds like to me.” Family, friends and sympathetic locals assembled around a memorial adorned with votive candles, flowers and photos of Shakespeare. Gail Rodgers, who lives a few blocks away, led the group in singing the hymn “Amazing Grace” and Warren
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music today and I think I know him a little better now. It’s just a shame to see a young, healthy young man with so much potential [killed],” Ben-Noah said.
“The people that I’ve talked to are still asking themselves why. … I’m wrestling with that same question, too.” — Herbert Warren on the murder of his son after graduating from Ranch Bernardo High School in San Diego with designs on getting into the music industry, his father said. Warren said he had not seen his son for two years but they often spoke on the telephone. Jarrod Ben-Noah, a local who attended the memorial, said he’s considered sleeping in front of the Cadillac Hotel to protest Warren’s death. “I didn’t know Shakespeare very well, but I met him once or twice briefly. I listened to some of his
Warren said Jascent-Jamal was always a peacemaker who eschewed violence and that his son’s religious beliefs were part of a legacy handed down by the younger Warren’s grandmother, who died from cancer several years ago. Warren said he took Jascent-Jamal and his other two sons to see their grandmother before she died and asked her if she had any final words of wisdom that he could pass onto his children. (Continued on page 36)
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Has Mar Vista Become the Rehab Capital of Los Angeles? Angry homeowners say their neighborhood is being overrun by sober living homes By Gary Walker Worried about a perceived overabundance of sober living homes and other residential care facilities in their community, Mar Vista residents are voicing strenuous objection to the construction of a group home for patients of a treatment center for anxiety, depression and other psychological afflictions. More than 100 people, some sitting on the floor or standing against the walls, packed into a classroom at Wildwood School on Aug. 18 to say in no uncertain terms that the incoming fivebedroom home on the 11900 block of Victoria Avenue (near Inglewood Boulevard) would not receive a warm welcome to the neighborhood. A contingent of Mar Vista homeowners led by Mar Vista Community Council Land Use and Planning Committee co-chair Steve Wallace has become increasingly vocal about concerns that a proliferation of recoveryoriented living facilities could devalue single-family homes and exacerbate traffic and parking woes. The majority of speakers at the LUPC-hosted meeting directed ire toward city planning officials and operators of the PCH (Psychological Care & Healing) Treatment Center on Venice Boulevard, about a block away from the Victoria Avenue group home currently under construction. PCH Treatment Center cofounder Dr. Terry Krekorian spoke at length to repeatedly make clear that the Victoria Avenue residence and an existing backhouse would not function as a sober living home and would not house parolees or patients recovering from drug or alcohol addiction. An email circulated prior to the meeting had erroneously asserted that PCH would operate a 32-bed addiction rehabilitation facility. “There have been a lot of misconceptions about the Victoria home. I know that there are a lot of other drug and alcohol centers in the neighborhood, but I want to be clear that we are not that,” Krekorian said. PCH Treatment Center works with people recovering from psychological or emotional trauma, depression, bipolar
disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and severe anxiety. The home under construction on Victoria would house no more than 12 people at any given time, he said. “All of the treatment is done at the clinic. We’re not doing any treatment in the house, so technically we’re just a community arrangement in a house,” Krekorian said. The meeting was confrontational from the outset and remained so, however. Things
she supports outpatient care in neighborhoods —“It’s important that they be in a residential neighborhood; I applaud that and I think it’s necessary,” she said — but is concerned about the impacts of having so many within such a small footprint. “What I do have is an objection to the density,” Rosen said. “What’s to stop every house on my street from turning into some kind of care facility? That’s what really bothers me. The whole community can be denuded of
“What’s to stop every house on my street from turning into some kind of care facility? … The whole community can be denuded of families if this continues.” — Marilyn Rosen, homeowner got so heated that LUPC co-chair Mitchell Rishe had to call for order to keep people from shouting Krekorian down. When Krekorian complained that someone had intentionally flattened the tires of an employee working at a Grand View Boulevard home operated by the treatment center, a woman in the crowd shouted “Then take the hint and go!” It isn’t clear how many group homes, sober living or otherwise, operate in Mar Vista or how many people are living in them at any given time. But there are quite a few, and many of them appear focused on substance abuse recovery — including at least two on Victoria Avenue. A four-bedroom sober living house for women opened up a few doors down in July, and a sober living house for men operates about three blocks down. Four sober living homes share a common courtyard less than a mile to the south, which is also nearby a separate drug treatment center. At least four more sober living houses — some as small as just six residents, others larger — operate in Mar Vista, as does a therapeutic community for female military veterans dealing with trauma-related issues that sometimes involve substance abuse. Marilyn Rosen, a social worker and Mar Vista homeowner, said
families if this continues.” Mar Vista Billie Norris said her neighborhood is being overwhelmed by community care facilities. “Obviously it’s a problem, ok? Not just in Mar Vista and Venice. Is the government going to let this keep happening? Are we all going to have neighbors like this for the rest of our lives? We fought hard to grow up and do well in a neighborhood,” she said. Tom Rothman, a senior city planner, said Los Angeles has no limits on how many people can occupy a single-family home because the city has a very broad definition of what makes a family. Tricia Keane, L.A. City Councilman Mike Bonin’s land use and planning director, said there are laws regarding living arrangements that are outside the city’s control but influence its zoning and enforcement policies. Cities must take into account federal fair housing laws, the Americans with Disabilities Act and federal court decisions that have struck down local attempts to regulate the number of people living together in a home. “For any community care facility that is licensed by the state you have a variety of regulations that apply, and in many situations those uses are allowed whether or not the city has regulations that might prohibit them,” Keane said.
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N e w s Westchester Boys are Babe Ruth Champs
The Westchester squad came back from a late 2-0 deficit to claim the crown A Westchester boys baseball team has brought home the Babe Ruth World Series championship trophy for the second time in three years. The squad of 13 to 15 year olds rallied for come-from-behind, extra-inning wins in both the semifinals and championship game to win their division title last month in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. In the semifinals, Westchester rallied from a 4-2 deficit to pull out a 5-4 victory in the ninth inning. With Westchester down 2-0 in the bottom of the seventh during the championship game, outfielder Michael Gonzales doubled outfielder Nate Llorenz home and the next
batter, third baseman Joe Fortin, knocked in Gonzalez with a two-out single. Shortstop Adrian Morales drove in the winning run in the bottom of the eighth. “In our program, these probably have to rank near the top of our greatest victories,” said Westchester Babe Ruth President Chris Lynch. And that’s saying something: Westchester teams have reached Babe Ruth World Series championship games five times in eight years, and in 2013 the 14-and-under squad rode a 10-game winning streak to a World Series championship. — Gary Walker
A Block Party 30 Years in the Making It may have taken a while, but Del Rey is back to the business of block parties again. On Saturday, Aug. 15, residents of Greene Avenue between Beethoven Street and McConnell Avenue held the first block party in Del Rey in more than 30 years, complete with a fire truck, taco truck, face painter, basketball hoop and potluck. Jonathan Grossman, who has lived on Greene for nine years, said he got the idea after inviting neighbors to a Halloween party and that the neighborhood took the ball and ran with it.
All it takes to close a street for a block party, he learned, is for at least half of the affected residents to sign off on the idea and for the organizer to come up with $500 — a fee that, in this case, the Del Rey Neighborhood Council waived in order to break Del Rey’s block party dry spell. “Talk to any family here and they will say that this brought the community together, that this should be an annual thing,” Grossman said. Added neighbor Kevin Rudy: “I’ve lived here for 18 years and I’m meeting people I never knew.” — Elliot Stiller
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fixtures and additional cameras are expected to go up by mid-October. Scott Carni, president of the local Park Advisory Board, said the group has been pushing for security cameras for the past several years as attendance numbers have skyrocketed for events at the park and the adjacent Westchester Recreation Center, both near the intersection of Lincoln Boulevard and Manchester Avenue. “They’re not going in to make the park safe — they’re going in to keep the park safe,” Carni said of the cameras. “It’s a good community relations opportunity to let the public know that we’re committed to people enjoying their time in Westchester Park.” — Gary Walker
Playa del Rey is Making Noise about an Increase in LAX Flyovers An uptick in the number of LAXbound flights passing directly over their homes has Playa del Rey residents — usually out of the airport’s flightpath — and L.A. City Councilman Mike Bonin crying foul. LAX received 34 noise complaints about overhead planes in July and August from Playa del Rey or Westchester homeowners — up from just 17 the first half of the year, according to LAX Environmental Manager Scott Tatro. Tatro said upgrades to LAX’s northernmost runway are causing increased ground traffic and forcing some approaching planes to double back and fly over Playa del Rey until it’s safe to land. “When an aircraft on arrival has to abort the arrival for any of a number of reasons, including a previous aircraft that may not yet have cleared the runway, the pilot will perform a missed approach or a
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By Gary Walker With the start of classes on Aug. 31, Loyola Marymount University students got their first look at the Westchester school’s brand-new 100,000-square-foot Life Sciences Building — the centerpiece of LMU’s decadeslong campus master plan. Designed to emphasize collaboration, transparency and open space, the $110-million glasswalled building boasts 35 teaching and research laboratories that encourage interaction between scientific disciplines and both lecture and lab work to occur simultaneously. Tina Choe, dean of LMU’s Frank Seaver College of Science and Engineering, said the university’s goal was to put “science on display.” LEED Gold-certified by the U.S. Green Building Council, the three-story structure features a sloping “green rooftop” that doubles as a “living laboratory” for research on drought-tolerant
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and 373 underground parking spaces. University leaders say the state-of-the-art facility will help LMU retain and attract leading faculty and encourage highachieving students to enroll at LMU to attain science degrees. With an LMU-supported science-and-technology curriculum at Playa Vista Elementary School, middle-school coding and robotics programs flourishing at The Incubator School nearby, and the 2010 conversion of Westchester High School to the Westchester Enriched Science Magnets campus, LMU is laying the groundwork for local students to transition to the campus. “We’re already doing a lot of outreach at these schools, but with our new life sciences building we’re going to be doing a much more coordinated effort to reach out to these students,” Choe said. gary@argonautnews.com
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In the Rush to Safety, Lives Delayed A Santa Monica volunteer finds shared hopes and frustrations on the front lines of the Syrian refugee crisis By Kelly Hayes-Raitt Ahmed and I met last week at a refugee intake area in Berlin. He traveled more than 2,000 precarious kilometers by boat, train and foot from Syria. I flew EasyJet from Santa Monica via London. But we shared the need to feel productive — I, the volunteer, to help assuage a growing humanitarian crisis; he, the refugee, to return to a productive life. “I’m here every day, seven in the morning to seven at night. They feed me, but I’m not here for the food,” he says. “I’m here to contribute to society.” Ahmed is a 36-year-old pharmacist from a small village outside Aleppo who decided he’d had enough violence. He and nine friends joined 30 others to travel from Syria through Turkey to Greece to Macedonia to Serbia to Hungary to Austria and finally to Germany, where they hope to build new lives. Ahmed brought with him only what he could carry, and he dumped half of that in the Aegean Sea to keep afloat the ramshackle boat that carried them from Turkey to Greece. “Forty people in a boat seven meters long and two meters wide. You’ve seen the photos — children and women and our bags… “It is not easy to leave Syria. It takes two to three days to bus from my little village to Aleppo because of the fighting,” he continues. “[After the boat], we walked every day for five hours.” I glance at his flimsy sandals and worn shorts. Last month, Chancellor Angela Merkel quadrupled the number of asylum seekers that Germany will accept this year to a total of 800,000. About 45,000 of them will arrive in Berlin. This influx of refugees into the German capital would, in terms of L.A.’s Westside, be the proportional equivalent of doubling the population of Playa Vista. Refugees gather outside Berlin’s Office of Health and Social Welfare and wait for their number to appear on an LED board, which signals their opportunity to register as an asylum seeker. Several hundred people, including young children and elderly women, mill about or lounge on a grassy area that is surrounded by red brick government offices. The square would feel like a college campus if it weren’t for the weary looks on people’s faces. Berlin’s government workers are overwhelmed, registering 150 people each day while the crowd outside their office swells. Refugees complain bitterly about waiting for weeks for their number to post. “There’s confusion with the system. Confusion with the staff. Confusion everywhere,” says Ahmed, echoing others’ frustrations. “I’ve been here 10 days. At first, we were sleeping on the street. Now, we are sleeping in a camp. It costs six euros to take the bus from the camp to this building every day!”
Syrian refugee Ahmed, a pharmacist, stands in a Berlin government courtyard waiting for his asylum registration number to come up r i gh t : A Syrian mother and child camp among those who must spend days, even weeks, waiting to be documented LEFT:
Amidst all this chaos are dozens of volunteers who sort mounds of donated clothing and toys, distribute bottles of water from shopping carts and offer a smile to the exasperated refugees. Wanting not just to write but to help — contribute and be productive myself — I join the volunteers. I feel connected to these Syrians. I know their homeland: I spent an extraordinary summer living in Damascus helping Iraqi refugees. That was in 2009, the year before violence
boxes. They utter a carefully rehearsed “dankeschön,” then break into a surprised smile when I respond “afwan” — “you’re welcome” in their native Arabic. I fill my arms with six, seven, eight bottles of water and plow into the crowd. The refugees are kind, if not quite as eager as I am. They’ve been through this. Many hold up water bottles they’ve already received. Others act as if they wish to make me feel better, I think, by accepting my offering.
This influx of refugees into the German capital would, in terms of L.A.’s Westside, be the proportional equivalent of doubling the population of Playa Vista. engulfed Syria, killing 210,000 people and forcing millions more to flee. I meet Berendt and his volunteer team. Berendt is a 50-something freelance computer guy who speaks English and directs me to sign in, sanitize my hands and don rubber gloves at the volunteer rendezvous station. We head into the refugee crowd with a grocery cart overflowing with water bottles, juice boxes and fruit cups. I’m eager. Children reach for juice
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Sheepishly, I realize how pathetic this small gesture is. They appreciate it, but what they really need, as Ahmed noted, is a chance to be productive. After handing in my rubber gloves, I mill through the crowd and reconnect with Ahmed, whose number still has not appeared on the LED board even though numbers for people who arrived after him have posted. “Maybe it’s because you’re not a family?” I offer.
“I’m a family, and we’ve been waiting for days!” interrupts a nearby man. I glance at him, but feel too overwhelmed to interview anyone else. I resume my chitchat with Ahmed and mention I’d been to Iraq just before and after the U.S.-led invasion. “I’m from Iraq!” the nearby man interrupts again, and I can’t ignore him any longer. He unfurls his story: He’s a doctor. Some men stormed his hospital and pointed an AK-47 at his head. Later, he found what he called a “death paper” on his home’s front door. He explains that doctors are often targeted for kidnapping in hopes of high ransoms. He fled Baghdad with his wife and four-year-old daughter. “We have much to offer,” he says in perfect English. “I’m a surgeon and my wife is a gynecologist and I speak some German.” I lower my head. I’m here to contribute, too, but in the end all I share is helplessness. To help Syrian refugees in Berlin, visit losyria.org/en/csos/relief. Kelly Hayes-Raitt, a Santa Monica resident, is writing a book about refugees and her experiences in Iraq and Syria. She blogs at LivingLargeInLimbo.com and can be reached at KellyArgonaut Column@aol.com.
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Paraplegic surfer Jesse Billauer got back on his board to help others get into the water and on with their lives By Joe Piasecki Confined to a wheelchair after a sudden neck injury at 17, Jesse Billauer is free again on the water. “Just the joy, the speed of the wave, the water on your face — it’s a feeling you can only have in the ocean, on a surfboard,” he says. “You feel free and independent. When you lose your independence you lose a lot of your identity. To get a little independence back builds confidence, self-worth.” It’s not a feeling he’s kept to himself. Billauer, 36, is the founder and director of the Life Rolls On Foundation, a volunteer-driven nonprofit that helps people with physical disabilities — paralysis, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, amputations — do what was once thought impossible: surf. Run out of Billauer’s Westchester home and an office on Washington Boulevard in Marina del Rey, the Life Rolls On Foundation hosts annual surf outings for the disabled in Santa Monica, Huntington Beach and La Jolla as well as a wheelchair skateboarding event at the Venice Skate Park and a few surf outings in other states. Free to whoever signs up, each gathering draws upwards of 100 participants and
400 volunteers. If a Sept. 20 beachside fundraiser with rockers Young the Giant at the Jonathan Club in Santa Monica is successful, Billauer hopes to expand the foundation’s event calendar. To make Life Rolls On happen, Billauer
el around the world, surf. I had sponsors. I surfed every morning before school. That day was no different,” he says. “Normally, I didn’t let my friends know I’d be surfing, but for some reason I told them to meet me up at Zuma. I was the
My body just went limp and numb, tingly. I was floating there, face in the water, unable to move. A wave turned me over and I called for help. More waves tumbled me around. One of my friends was paddling out and saw me. I’m lucky he did.” — Life Rolls On founder Jesse Billauer had to learn to surf twice: first as a kid growing up in Pacific Palisades with dreams of turning pro; then as a kid who, on the verge of attaining that dream, was told he’d never walk again. ***** On March 25, 1996, Billauer broke his neck after tumbling off a wave in shallow waters off Zuma Beach. “I was on the verge of being a professional surfer. That was my dream — trav-
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body just went limp and numb, tingly. I was floating there, face in the water, unable to move. A wave turned me over and I called for help. More waves tumbled me around. One of my friends was paddling out and saw me. I’m lucky he did. … I knew something was really wrong, but being 17 I thought everything healed. “I woke up with tubes coming out of my through and my arms. It took a couple days before the doctor told me I broke the sixth vertebra in my neck and that I might never walk again. At that point I asked everybody leave the room. I had to think about what it meant to be a C6 quadriplegic. “I was sad and questioning why, but I never was really down-and-out. I had a lot of love and support from my family and friends. … I would do anything to not have surfed that day, for sure. But I can’t go back, so I figure why not enjoy my life as much as possible instead of complaining about it.”
first one to get in the water. It was 6:30 a.m., something like that. Gorgeous day. Sun was rising. Waves were pumping. Glassy. Nobody around. “I remember I took off on a wave like any other wave. I pulled inside of this barrel, and when I came out the wave hit ***** me on the back. I thought it was a little Almost three years later, in late 1998, deeper than it was, that I could just fall and kind of dolphin back under the wave. Billauer returned to the ocean with a 10-foot surfboard shaped by celebrated I didn’t put my hands up and I ended up hitting my head on a shallow sand bar. My board maker Al Merrick and modified by
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Paralyzed at 17, Jesse Billauer says surfing helped him recover his independence and identity professional surfer Rob Machado. They figured that Billauer could ride waves prone if he could prop his head up with his hands by wedging his elbows into tow-in foot straps screwed into the edges of the board. It was a gamble; nobody’d ever really tried such a thing. But the plan worked — so well, in fact, that the foundation still uses similar board modifications (straps, handles, rails) to take adaptive athletes into the waves. At Life Rolls On surfing events, people power is also key. Depending on an adaptive surfer’s level of ability, Life Rolls On volunteers will tow them into waves and even lay behind them on the board. Dmari Von Lintel, a custom furniture designer in Westchester, who rarely misses a chance to volunteer, says the thrill of helping an adaptive athlete catch a wave is a feeling like no other. “Just the pure elation. You don’t get that in regular life. I’ve never experienced a program where you can be that hands on,” he says. “You’ve got a kid with spina bifida laughing and having so much fun in the water. His parents hug you and cry and say they haven’t seen him have so much fun.” ***** Hunter Pochop, 10, is one such kid. Five years ago, Hunter went surfing for the first time at a Life Rolls On event.
Now he comes back every year, says his mom, Jacqueline Pochop. That first time, Hunter was scared. Mom was scared. Cory Staley, the volunteer who took him out in the water and rode behind him on the board, was scared. Due to complications from spina bifida, Hunter
Disabled surfer Hunter Pochop, 10, has formed a special bond with Life Rolls On volunteer Cory Staley “Hunter’s the same age as one of my sons, so to seem him grow from that first time being super scared to this year, when I pitched him into a wave and he rode it back all by himself — they got it on video and I didn’t realize how much I was screaming out of pure joy,” said Staley, 43.
“With Hunter and me, it’s a forever friendship. … That’s what Life Rolls On is really all about: communication and freedom.”
events when he was eight years old. That first time, “the wave had to be only two feet tall but it felt like I was surfing jaws. It was the most thrilling time of my life. I was doing something I thought I couldn’t do,” Ivison recalls. In two weeks, Ivison heads to La Jolla to represent Team USA in the International Surfing Association’s Adaptive Surfing Championship. Ivison says learning to surf — and, through Billauer’s example, to persevere despite obstacles — gave him the confidence to get into USC’s film program and chase his dream of making movies like the one about Billauer that so inspired him. “Meeting Jesse and seeing that a person in wheelchair can do this crazy, deathdefying sport was a huge motivator,” he says. “I have to give credit to Life Rolls On for everything I do.”
***** In 2003, Patrick Ivison watched “Step into Liquid,” a documentary about Billauer’s friendship with Machado and return to surfing after paralysis. It changed his life forever, he says. Ivison, now a film production major at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, was struck by a car when he was just 14 months old and has been in a wheelchair ever since. He started going to Life Rolls On surfing
***** The Life Rolls On Foundation’s “Night on the Water” fundraiser — hosted by action sports personality Sal Masekela and including an acoustic performance by Young the Giant — begins at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 20 at the Jonathan Beach Club, 850 Palisades Ave, Santa Monica. Tickets are $250; sponsorships still available. Visit liferollson.org to learn more. joe@argonautnews.com
“Meeting Jesse and seeing that a person in a wheelchair can do this crazy, death-defying sport was a huge motivator. I have to give credit to Life Rolls On for everything I do.” — Patrick Ivison, adaptive surfer and film student had a tracheotomy apparatus in his neck. If he fell off into the water, he could quickly drown. “As a mother, I was a nervous wreck,” Pochop said. “But they carried him out on the surfboard like he was a king. Cory had his hand on him the whole time, and there were two lines of volunteers in the water just in case something happened. … “To rely 100% on the volunteers — the trust that’s gained, the friendships made — we feel like they’re our family now.” Surfing comes naturally to Staley: His dad surfs, his kids surf … even his grandpa surfed. But never like this. Never like Hunter.
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Lili Haydn, who’s played with Sting and Robert Plant, recorded her latest album in a burst of inspiration over just two days
‘The Most Powerful Medicine’ Recovered from chemical poisoning, eclectic violinist Lili Haydn celebrates by headlining Saturday’s free Venice Beach Music Fest By Bliss Bowen Artist and activist Lili Haydn spent a significant chunk of time discussing her health last year, while promoting her album “LiliLand” and explaining tracks like “How I Got My Brains Back” and “This is a Moment of Grace.” The eclectic, handsomely produced album represented a personal triumph after five years of disorienting struggle with the toxic effects of chemical poisoning so severe it drove her from her home and disrupted her ability to process thoughts and create lyrics. Now, however, the petite “rock ‘n’ roll violinist” emphatically wants it known that she is celebrating her full recovery, as well as a new collaborative album with pianist William Goldstein. “It was a multilayered event,” Haydn says of the poisoning that triggered
profound change in her life. “The upshot of it, if we were to distill it into one little thing, is it was pesticide poisoning. It’s a pesticide that’s in 30 to 60 million homes in America … Chlordane. It was outlawed in 1988. I was able to fix my house, but in
ing the gospel of music in schools and sustaining our mental acuity as we grow older. Music is the most powerful medicine on the planet.” Well-spoken and politically astute, Haydn is a forthright conversationalist
“Getting rid of everything proved to be liberating, and I found myself in a new way.” — Lily Haydn the process I had to get rid of everything I owned and evacuate. I got sick and sustained brain damage. I had a miraculous recovery because of music, which I detail in my TED talk. … “Because of music, which is the most powerful neurotherapy that exists, I had complete recovery, and I’m now preach-
who speaks in detail about the cultural as well as medical value of music, buttressing her statements with statistical evaluations of the benefits of music-related neurotherapy. Her own experiences she thoughtfully places in broader context. “Everybody has some kind of trial in their life,” she muses. “The point is how
we recover our tools and points of inspiration and points of connection, and how we inspire each other and help each other, and how we forge bonds that create community and a sense of richness and meaning in life. Science has shown us that those points of connection are responsible in large part for longevity.” Before going public with her experience, Haydn’s press was dominated by recitations of the elite stars who’ve benefitted from her passionate violin playing, including George Clinton, Herbie Hancock, the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Cyndi Lauper, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, the LA Philharmonic and Sting. Now, Haydn wants her narrative to be understood as one of liberation and catharsis. (Continued on page 18)
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“Getting rid of everything proved to be liberating,” she says, “and I found myself in a new way. It was emancipating.” Haydn says the last few years made her stronger, more compassionate and more present: “It gave me a better sense of appreciation for other people’s experiences. And in terms of my own performing, it’s always had a sort of social justice and spiritual imperative to it, but it became even more palpable and rich as I emerged from my own catastrophe. I was able to connect with people more emotionally and more essentially.” That extends to the classically oriented music she created with pianist William Goldstein for their graceful, recently released instrumental album “Evocations.” “I’m going to [paraphrase] Oliver Wendell Holmes: ‘For the simplicity that precedes complexity I wouldn’t give a nickel. For the simplicity that comes after, I would give my life.’ I was trained from day one to improvise and respond musically. That’s the way I feel most articulate, honestly. Yet all the years on the road, and all the years playing with the masters that I’ve had the honor of playing with, and the film composing, and the catastrophes and the life experience and the maturity that comes with just being a musician for as long as I’ve been playing — I stripped all that complexity away for this recording with this master pianist. This was a
Haydn said the spiritual imperative of her music “became even more palpable and rich as I emerged from my own catastrophe” completely spontaneous, completely improvised record. It was recorded in two days. I needed to just give voice to that spontaneous part of me that finally, after all these years of training, was able to be expressed with the eloquence that we were lucky enough to capture.” For her headlining 5:30 p.m. set at the Venice Beach Music Fest this Saturday, Haydn’s recruited a steeply credentialed band of players comfortable with improvisation and groove, including guitarist
Steve Postell, Maetar bassist Itar Disraeili and drummer Jimmy Paxson. She says she’ll “let the ocean inform the music.” “It’s not completely improvised,” she says with a laugh. “I have song structures, and I have some programming and production, and I’m navigating it. We’re doing a full-length set where we really get to jam and groove and play emotional and intense music. It’s a rare opportunity for me to stretch out and have fun in a way that I don’t always get to do.”
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obvious — it was taco Tuesday, after all, so why not order some tacos? The good thing about a plate of Mexican street tacos is that they give you a chance to sample a variety of meats accented only with a bit of onion and cilantro and a drizzle of sauce. Oh, and the tortilla — the kitchen makes them fresh here, and the corn flavor makes them more than just a wrapper. The carnitas had a concentrated porky flavor and a bit of crispness; Mexican cuisine is often considered to be centered on sauces, but this is an example of subtly accented natural flavors. (Continued on page 20)
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Early afternoon is a calm before the storm of the Taco Tuesday rush the patio so pleasant that we were in no hurry. It wasn’t actually that long until the plates came out, and, as is typical of Mexican meals, the portions were huge. The pork ribs were a bit less tender than expected, but the flavor of the roasted guajillo chili sauce made them worthwhile; there was an interesting blend of fruitiness and heat from the toasted and dried chilies. The ribs were offered with either the volcanic molcajete sauce or the guajillo, and guajillo is the right choice if you want to actually enjoy the flavor of the meat. The zucchini quesadilla was an
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THE ARGONAUT PRESS RELEASES WESTCHESTER DUPLEX
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F a n t a s t i c , u p g r a d e d d u p l e x o n a q u i e t s t r e e t . R e a r u n i t i s a l a r g e t w o b e d r o o m , t w o b a t h p l u s b o n u s r o o m . B e a u t i f u l G a r d e n , d e c k a n d s p a . 2 - c a r g a r a g e p l u s a d d i t i o n a l p a r k i n g . F r o n t u n i t i s o n e bedroom, onee bath. Both units have hardwood floors, stainless a p p l i a n c e s , s e p a r a t e l a u n d r y a n d s e p a r a t e g a s m e t e r s . N e w e r r o o f . T e n a n t s a r e m o n t h - t o - m o n t h . G r e a t f o r a n o w n e r / u s e r . C l o s e t o m a n y s h o p s a n d r e s t a u r a n t s .
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C l o s e t o t r e n d y s h o p p i n g c e n t e r s , b e a c h e s , h i k i n g t r a i l s , t h i s t h r e e - s t o r y t o w n h o u s e i s m o v e - i n r e a d y . O p e n - c o n c e p t c h e f ' s k i t c h e n , b o a s t i n g g r a n i t e c o u n t e r s , c u s t o m c a b i n e t r y , s t a i n l e s s a p p l i a n c e s , a n d s l e e k b r e a k f a s t b a r . A d j a c e n t t o t h e k i t c h e n i s a c o z y d i n i n g a r e a a n d g e n e r o u s l y s i z e d l i v i n g r o o m w i t h s u n n y v i e w s a n d l a r g e b a l c o n y . T h e m a s t e r f e a t u r e s s e p a r a t e h i s a n d h e r c l o s e t s a s w e l l a s a l a r g e m i r r o r e d h a l l c l o s e t . T h e m a s t e r e n s u i t e i s a p p o i n t e d w i t h l u x u r y t i l i n g , g r a n i t e c o u n t e r s , a n d d u a l v a n i t i e s . T w o a d d i t i o n a l b e d r o o m s , o n e w i t h a n e n s u i t e a n d t h e other a detached bath, complete the floor plan.
N e w l y r e m o d e l e d w i t h o c e a n b r e e z e s a n d w a l l s o f g l a s s . O p e n living space and kitchen area, French Oak hardwood flooring t h r o u g h o u t . M o d e r n a l l - w h i t e k i t c h e n w i t h s t o n e c o u n t e r , i s l a n d a n d s t a i n l e s s a p p l i a n c e s . M a s t e r b a t h r o o m f e a t u r e s A f r i c a n m a h o g a n y d o u b l e v a n i t y a n d r a i n s h o w e r w i t h f r a m e l e s s g l a s s . N e w d r o u g h t r e s i s t a n t l a n d s c a p i n g s u r r o u n d s b o t h f r o n t a n d r e a r outdoor spaces.. Huge rear deck with built in seating and fire pit. N e w p l u m b i n g a n d e l e c t r i c a l , n e w e r r o o f p l u s i n s u l a t e d g a r a g e . Offered at $1,579,000 Janet Jung, REMAX Estate Properties 310-720-4165
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Spacious living room suite with hardwood floors and crown m o l d i n g s . T h e k i t c h e n f e a t u r e s q u a r t z c o u n t e r s , s t a i n l e s s s t e e l a p p l i a n c e s , & a b r e a k f a s t b a r o v e r l o o k i n g a g e n e r o u s f a m i l y r o o m with large glass doors out to a verdant backyard. The first floor of t h e a l m o s t 3 , 7 8 6 s f o f l i v i n g s p a c e a l s o i n c l u d e s a n e x e c u t i v e h o m e office suite, powder room and mini bedroom suite. The second s t o r y o f t h e h o m e i s h i g h l i g h t e d b y t r e e t o p v i e w s f r o m t h e p r i v a t e m a s t e r r e t r e a t w i t h e n s u i t e b a t h , a r o o m y n u r s e r y / n a n n y ' s s u i t e , f u l l l a u n d r y r o o m a n d g r e a t r o o m .
T h i s t w o - s t o r y , 3 b e d r o o m a n d 3 b a t h , p e n t h o u s e o f f e r s m a r i n a , c i t y a n d m o u n t a i n v i e w s . T h e k i t c h e n h a s S u b Z e r o r e f r i g e r a t o r and freezer, wine cooler, Bosch appliances, fi reclay sink, electric i n d u c t i o n r a n g e , a n d R e h a u T a m b o u r a p p l i a n c e g a r a g e . A d j a c e n t g u e s t r e t r e a t h a s b u i l t - i n d e s k , m u r p h y b e d a n d e n - s u i t e b a t h r o o m . T h e M a s t e r S u i t e c o n t a i n s a w a l k - i n c l o s e t , t w o p h a s e M a s t e r B a t h a n d p a n o r a m i c v i s t a s . A n a d d i t i o n a l b e d r o o m u p s t a i r s h a s a p a t i o o v e r l o o k i n g t h e M a r i n a H a r b o r w i t h a n a d j o i n i n g b a t h r o o m . Features include travertine and white oak fl oors, surround.
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Where Creativity Is the Star Juri Koll’s Venice Institute of Contemporary Art hosts a film festival exploring how artists think, work and survive By Kristin Marguerite Doidge When conservationist-turned-developer Abbot Kinney first embarked on his Venice of America project, he wanted to create an arts-and-culture destination for visitors from all corners of the world. Instead, the public demanded something else: a spectacle. Venice artist Juri Koll hopes to satisfy both desires on Saturday with the Fine Arts Film Festival, screening 21 films that each tell a unique story about how art is birthed and sustained through a fragile ecosystem of creators, dealers and collectors. It’s an especially relevant topic these days in Venice, where artists have been so successful at infusing creativity into the neighborhood’s DNA that rapidly rising real estate costs are forcing many of them out and threatening to make the area an untenable place to live and work for all but the most commercially successful creatives. “Artists are crucial to what Venice is, and Venice artists are crucial to what Los Angeles is. The economic value of Venice as a tourist destination is sustained by artists,” says Koll. “Our whole city is built on creative people. Everything we touch has been touched by an artist in some way.” A painter and filmmaker, Koll is the founder and director of the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art (ViCA), a grassroots organization dedicated to keeping artists in Venice by helping them show and sell their work. He sees the Fine Arts Film Festival as an opportunity to reinvigorate discussion around the future of the arts in Venice as some of its longtime artists depart — notably the recent evictions of painter/ ceramicist William Attaway and sculptor/ photographer Alberto Bevacqua from the 300 block of Sunset Avenue to make way for commercial office space. Following a sold-out screening of his own L.A.-shot documentary “Lisa Adams: As It Appears to Be” at the Crest Theater in Westwood last summer, Koll began planning a ViCA-produced film festival about the art world. Shortly thereafter, he met curator and consultant Lynn Holley through fellow ViCA colleague Peter Frank, the curator and critic behind the inaugural Fine Arts Film Festival in Santa Barbara in 2010. Organizers chose to screen 21 films out of more than 100 submitted from around the globe, including a feature shot in Los Angeles. Director Liz Hinlein’s “Other People’s Children,” starring Chad Michael Murray (“One Tree Hill”) and Diane Marshall-Green (“90210”), was shot in downtown galleries, studios, streets and alleyways of downtown and makes its L.A. premiere during the Fine Arts Film Festival. Organizers chose six prizewinners: Best
A scene from “Other People’s Children,” shot locally and making its L.A. debut at the Fine Arts Film Festival
“Blue Notes” follows a dying man through a hallway of his memories about life and music Narrative Feature, “Vanitas” (Belgium); Best Documentary Feature, “Curious Worlds: The Art and Imagination of David Beck” (North Carolina); Best Short, “Sonia’s Story” (Italy); Best Documentary Short, “Big Head” (Chile); Best Director,
The festival’s international flavor demonstrates that Venice is an international magnet for the arts — but to sustain that culture will require buy-in, support and investment from Venice’s new wave of tech and real estate interests, says Sandy
“The artists in Venice are somewhat endangered at this point. Every day we lose artists left and right.” — Venice ARTBLOCK organizer Sandy Bleifer
Logan Stone for “Blue Notes” (Chicago); and Best Student Film, “The Emotional Dimensions of the James River”( Virginia). An Audience Award winner is to be announced during a red carpet gathering at the conclusion of the festival. “Every single one of these films is a labor of love,” Koll says. “We were just overwhelmed by the extent of the creative output in what’s normally considered a commercial medium.”
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Bleifer, founder of the Venice ARBLOCK collective. “I feel very strongly that these film festivals and these exhibits are very important for the community of Venice — especially this film festival which highlights the artists and how they struggle to work in various conditions, which underscores the value of the arts,” Bleifer says. “The artists in Venice are somewhat endangered at this point. Every day we lose artists left and right.”
Attaway says Koll’s mission is essential to what Attaway believes the “true heart of what Venice is”: a spectacle. Documenting the past, present and possible futures of this community — and its dreams — has his full support. “It’s exciting someone’s grabbing the lead, taking the bull by the horns,” Attaway says. “I commend Juri for doing that.” Koll recently learned that the mayor’s office will present a certificate of recognition to ViCA and the Fine Arts Film Festival for representing L.A.’s unique diversity. But this isn’t about winning awards. “People do these things because they care,” Koll says. “It’s infectious.” The Fine Arts Film Festival runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice. The red carpet gala follows at 7 p.m. All-day screening passes are $25; single screening passes are $15. For a schedule of screenings and to buy tickets, visit thefineartsfilmfestival.com.
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the Santa Monica Pier ends with Tune-Yards, the product of New Happy Hour Jam with David Boyles, England’s Merrill Garbus. Drum loops 5 to 8 p.m. Drink to three hours of live layered with ukulele, electric bass and vocals are this group’s specialty. Free. music each Thursday in September at Melody Bar & Grill, 9132 S. Sepulveda (310) 458-8901; tcs.santamonicapier. org Blvd., Westchester. (310) 670-1994; barmelodylax.com “Likely Story: Monthly Live-Storytelling” at Vidiots, 7:30 p.m. Come as Beach Eats Food Truck Event, 5 to a storyteller or to watch the show at this 9 p.m. Mother’s Beach hosts a variety of gourmet food trucks in a dog-friend- month’s Too Soon-themed show. All true stories, except one. Will you know ly setting each Thursday through Oct. which one is the lie? $5; free for 1. at Mother’s Beach, 4101 Admiralty members. Vidiots, 302 Pico Blvd., Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 305-9545; Santa Monica. (310) 392-8508; beaches.lacounty.gov vidiotsfoundation.org La Cucina Italiana Cooking Class, “The Homecoming,” 8 p.m. (Also at 6 to 9 p.m. Patricia K. Rose of Fresh 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday through Food in a Flash leads a hands-on Sept. 20). This staging of the Harold cooking class in which students will Pinter play explores an uncomfortable make bruschetta with grilled tomato and cucumber salsa; green bean, potato, gathering in England of a Brit, his American wife and his male relatives. tomato and pesto salad; classic $25 to $34. Pacific Resident Theatre, Bolognese sauce; lasagna Verdi alla 703 Venice Blvd., Venice. (310) Bolognese al Forno; and crisp Tuscan 822-8392; pacificresidenttheatre.com almond cookies with vin Santo. Westchester United Methodist 9021Love Presents After the Twilight, Church, 8065 Emerson Ave., 9 p.m. Soul, funk, electronic and house Westchester. $55. RSVP at patricia@ featuring Henry Pope, Loboman and freshfoodinaflash.com. guests. DJ Vinyl Don spins at 10 p.m. The Townhouse & Del Monte Country Nights Cruise, 7 to 9 p.m. Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. Hornblower and Go Country 105 FM $5 cover. (310) 392-4040; townhousevteam up for a Marina del Rey harbor cruise featuring on-air personalities and enice.com finalists from the station’s Country Showdown. Featured artist: Honey County. Boards at 6:30 p.m. at Friday, Sept. 11 Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. $35 plus taxes/ fees. Marina del Rey Historic Harbor hornblower.com Tours, 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. (Also 10 a.m., 11.a.m, noon and 1 p.m. Tune-Yards (with Avid Dancer), 7 to Saturdays and Sundays through 10 p.m. The Twilight Concert Series at October.) In honor of Marina del Rey’s
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50th anniversary year, the L.A. County Dept. of Beaches and Harbors and Marina del Rey Historical Society are sponsoring 45-minute informative tours for just $1. Board at Hornblower Cruises and Events, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. visitmarinadelrey.com California Society of CPAs Discussions, noon. Attorney Sanford Millar and CPA Ani Galyan lead this week’s discussion and lunch. Learn about the new tax return deadlines from HR 3236 and get an overview of tax return statutes of limitations and document retention rules. $30 to $45. The Olympic Collection, 11301 Olympic Blvd., West L.A. (310) 821-3513; efhcpa.com
$11. Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica. (310) 260-1528; aerotheatre.com Hornblower Dinner Cruise, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Enjoy a four-course dinner with dancing and a harbor view. Board at 7:30 p.m. at Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. $86.95 plus fees. hornblower.com
Rusty’s Rhythm Club Swing Dance, 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Rusty’s weekly swing dances feature live music and great DJs. Tonight is Swingin’ Rat Pack Nite, featuring Dean Mora Swingtet and vocalists Adam Tunny, Todd Murray, and the Smitten Kittens. Wear your best ‘60s attire. $15 to $20 cover includes beginner and intermediDel Rey Farmers Market, 2 to 7 p.m. ate swing dance classes before each Food and produce vendors gather dance. Elks Lodge, 8025 W. Manweekly, with free musical performances chester Ave., Playa del Rey. (310) on the first Friday of each month. Glen 606-5606 Alla Park, 4601 Alla Road, Del Rey. Mariachi and Folkloric Dancing, delreync.org 7:30, 9:30 and 10:45 p.m. Dinner with 826LA in Mar Vista Volunteer traditional Mexican entertainment at Orientation, 5 to 7 p.m. During this Casa Sanchez, 4500 S. Centinela Ave., session you’ll learn about 826LA’s Del Rey. (310) 397-4444; casa-sanhistory, mission, affiliated Mar Vista chez.com Time Travel Mart and how you can get The Monday Night Poetry Posse: involved in creative writing and Salon Reading, 8 p.m. A decade in the tutoring programs for local students. RSVP at iwanttohelp@826la.org. (310) works, David St. John’s workshop posse presents its first-ever reading. 915-0200; 826la.org $10. Beyond Baroque, 681 N. Venice “Spellbound” / “Anastasia,” 7:30 p.m. Blvd., Venice. (310) 822-3006; A double feature celebrating Ingrid beyondbaroque.org Bergman. In Alfred Hitchcock’s “Spellbound,” Bergman plays a “When Stars Align,” 8 p.m. (Also at psychiatrist helping an amnesia patient 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 who’s accused of murder. In Anatole p.m. Sundays through Oct. 4.) Written Litvak’s “Anastasia,” Bergman is an by Carole Eglash-Kosoff and John imposter Grand Duchess, a role that Henry Davis, the performance follows brought her an Oscar for Best Actress. a young boy and girl during the start of
the Civil War, as unwavering societal and home traditions are challenged. $25 to $30. Odyssey Theatre, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd. (323) 960-7738; plays411.net Jim Doyle, 9 p.m. Live music at The Prince O’ Whales, 335 Culver Blvd., Playa del Rey. No cover. (310) 823-9826; princeowhales.com
Saturday, Sept. 12 Westchester Mental Health Guild Yard Sale, 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Fundraiser in support of Airport Marina Counseling Service includes new and used clothing, jewelry, books, plants and more. Cookies and water served. 7755 Hosford Ave., Westchester. To donate items, call (310) 645-9698. Santa Monica Paint-Out, 9 a.m. to noon. The Allied Artists of the Santa Monica Mountains and Seashore hosts a live painting demonstration by watercolorist Tim Kitz; painters of all levels and mediums are welcome to come and paint as well. Meet at the north end of Palisades Park, where San Vicente Boulevard ends at Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. (818) 397-1576; alliedartists.com Marina del Rey Farmers Market, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Find locally grown produce, prepared food, desserts and arts and crafts at the corner of Via Marina and Panay Way (parking lot 11) each Saturday. (310) 305-9545; facebook.com/MDRFarmersMarket (Continued on page 32)
DEFINING MOMENTS Seniors share the stories of their lives at Edgemar Center for the Arts
The reDiscover Center — an arts and environmental nonprofit promoting resource conservation, creativity and community engagement — is holding a free activities open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 13, at 12598 W. Washington Blvd. in Mar Vista. The event celebrates the center’s new Tinkering Club, an afterschool program that facilitates hands-on mechanical explorations among kids ages 7 to 12. Call (310) 393-3636 or visit rediscovercenter.org.
Listen to your elders, they say. In this case, it could mean a heartfelt good time. On Saturday, the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica hosts “Defining Moment,” a unique evening of true stories told by local seniors — tales that explore a turning point that determined the course of their lives. “It’s one of those evenings you can only see one time. That’s the power of the theater,” says artistic director Michelle Danner. “All the ups and downs of someone’s life. It’s a heartfelt experience.” An acting coach who has worked with Gerard Butler, Zooey Deschanel, Chris Rock, Penelope Cruz and James Franco, Danner has curated similar events before, but this time around the players will integrate music or dance performances into their tales. Danner says the stories are a natural draw because people in the audience are always incredibly moved by hearing these elders talk about the obstacles in their lives and how they overcame them. There have also been tales of tough choices: “The actress had worked a lot. She was a bombshell and in demand, working with big stars like Barbara Streisand, but she met her husband and fell in love. She had to choose between career and love, and she chose love,” Danner recalls of a prior storyteller. Free to attend, the event culminates in a Q+A and catered reception. — Shanee Edwards
Michelle Danner “Defining Moment” starts at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12, at Edgemar Center for the Arts, 2437 Main St., Santa Monica. To RSVP, call (310) 392-0815.
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Channeling Chandler Public Works Improvisational Theatre salutes noir detective lit as part of the Venice Art Crawl By Bliss Bowen “It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.” — Raymond Chandler, “The Big Sleep” Raymond Chandler seduced millions of us with that evocative, rhythmically crafted opening graph. More than half a century after the Chicago-born novelist’s death in La Jolla in 1959, his 1939 masterpiece “The Big Sleep” remains holy writ — and cynically wise shamus Philip Marlowe a “slumming angel,” in the words of latter-day acolyte Ross MacDonald — in the canon of noir detective fiction. It is one of the works that will be celebrated next Thursday when Public Works Improvisational Theatre salutes the genre, also referred to as “hardboiled,” at Beyond Baroque concurrent with the evening’s Venice Art Crawl. Titled “Farewell, My Lovely” after Chandler’s 1940 classic of the same name, the evening will include dramatic readings of works by Chandler (“The Big Sleep” and 1949’s “The Little Sister”), Dashiell Hammett (1930’s “The Maltese Falcon”) and Woody Allen (“Mr. Big,” from his 1978 collection “Getting Even,” about a femme fatale asking a Marlowe-style detective to find God). In addition to the 10 readers/performers, comic Robin Roberts will appear, poet Laurel Ann Bogen will read from her detective poetry, and guitarist Vinnie Caggiano will set the mood with eclectic instrumentals, presumably riffing in tempo with Chandler’s and Hammett’s jazzy dialogue.
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Chandler’s “The Big Sleep” and Hammett’s “The Maltese Falcon” are among the inspirations for a theatrical literary salon at Beyond Baroque
“It’s a literary salon, so it’s usually dedicated to striking up a conversation about literature,” he elaborates, adding that the evening is part of a series that Public Works Improv presents four times a year at Beyond Baroque. Previous shows celebrated John Steinbeck, James Joyce and Bloomsday; a December gathering will focus on Welsh poet Dylan Thomas’ “Under Milkwood.” “We did monthly shows for 18 years, but we just switched to this format.” In the hands of masters like Chandler and Hammett, noir fiction dresses pithy literary substance with hardboiled style, which partially explains why their all too flawed heroes (Chandler’s Marlowe, Hammett’s Sam Spade) retain iconic stature. Dames in distress and missing treasures are just a con; the real mystery they explore is that of human nature, in tough, vernacular language that — at the time of initial publication — gave voice to changing social mores and an emerging literary generation in Depression- and WWII-era America.
“He’s playing against the prevalent notion that sunny California is this sunny place with sunny people doing sunny things. … I think he’s a great poet of Los Angeles.”
“‘I’m not crazy about yours,’ I said. ‘I didn’t ask to see you. You sent for me. I don’t mind your ritzing me or drinking your lunch out of a Scotch bottle. I don’t mind your showing me your legs. They’re very swell legs and it’s a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don’t waste your time trying to cross-examine me.’” —“The Big Sleep” Chandler, Hammett and contemporaries like “The Postman Always Rings Twice” author James M. Cain also deglamorized California’s paradisiacal reputation while immortalizing its prejudices and temptations; in Chandler’s books, L.A.’s changeable geography is as central a character as Marlowe. “Raymond Chandler wrote in [his essay] ‘The Simple Art of Murder,’ ‘Down these mean streets a man must go who’s not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid,’” Vollmer says. “That’s a kind of conscience that he sends. He’s playing against the prevalent notion that sunny California is this sunny place with sunny people doing sunny things. He digs into the dirt underneath. … I think he’s a great poet of Los Angeles. “My ultimate aim is to encourage people to reread and revisit these books on their own, and also to show that this is something that you can do with your friends. Reading creates community, even though it’s a private activity.”
Public Works Improvisational Theatre salutes noir detective genre with Vinnie Caggiano, Zhenya Kechina, DJ Carlile, — Eric Vollmer on Raymond Chandler Laurel Ann Bogen, Lee Boek, Robin Roberts, Brian Knudson, Anna Broome, Catherine Allison and Jeffrey Van Der Byl at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, at Beyond “I take the detective theme, and I ask “I grinned at her with my head on one Baroque, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice. $10 certain artists to explore it in terms of side. She flushed. Her hot black eyes general admission; $6 seniors and their own artistry in addition to having looked mad. ‘I don’t see what there is to these staged readings,” explains organizer be cagey about,’ she snapped. ‘And I don’t students. Call (310) 822-3006 or visit publicworksimprov.com. Eric Vollmer. like your manners.’
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Community Orchestra Instrumentalists and Singers Auditions, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Silicon Beach Philharmonic & Chorale is auditioning experienced players for its upcoming Mozart and John Philip Souza concert as well and opera dinners. Rehearsals take place at Marina Del Rey Hospital, 4650 Lincoln Blvd., Marina del Rey. Free parking with validation. All rehearsals are open to the public. (310) 999-3626; meetup.com/SBPhil/ Westchester Elks Car Show and Chili Cook-Off, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The local Elks celebrate their 16th annual car show and chili cook-off, featuring pre-1980 cars, a beer garden, burgers and hot dogs, raffles and, of course,
chili tastings. Free to attend; $5 to enter the chili contest and $20 to show your vehicle. Cooking begins at 8 a.m. and chili tastings at noon. Westchester Elks Lodge #2050, 8025 W. Manchester Ave., Playa del Rey. (310) 821-3005; elks.org
Art’s 2nd annual showcase of independent films from around the globe about art, photography and artists of all media. A red carpet awards gala begins at 7 p.m. $15 to $35. Beyond Baroque, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice. (310) 822-3006; thefineartsfilmfestival.com
Making Time for Meditation in Today’s Modern Life, 11 a.m. Doug Frankel hosts a free workshop on the benefits of meditation, including techniques that can help you reduce stress and build both productivity and concentration. Lloyd Taber Marina del Rey Library, 4533 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 821-3415
Second Saturday Craft Lounge, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bring your personal craft project and work on it in the company of other crafts makers. Led by Peggy Dobreer, in this session you’ll have the opportunity to work on a collaborative streamer of flags project. Camera Obscura, 1450 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica. (310) 458-2239; smgov. net
Fine Arts Film Festival, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Venice Institute of Contemporary
“Dorothy’s Adventures in Oz,” 2 p.m. Saturdays (also 12:30 p.m.
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Sundays through Sept. 27.) In this musical comedy, a now grown-up Dorothy attempts a return to Oz and encounters new foes and helps new friends. $15, or $12.50 for kids under 12. Santa Monica Playhouse, 1211 4th St., Santa Monica. (310) 394-9779; santamonicaplayhouse.com Music by the Sea, 2 to 5 p.m. The free waterside concerts at Fisherman’s Village continue with reggae from IZMSKIZM. Free two-hour parking with validation. Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 301-9900 Family Yoga Class, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Peace It On Yoga hosts an evening of yoga fit for the entire family, with kids
ages four to ten welcome in the company of their families. $15 to $17 per person. Santa Monica Yoga, 1640 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica. peaceitonyoga.com “A Defining Moment,” 7:30 p.m. An evening of storytelling from local elders on moments that defined their lives. Q&A and reception to follow. Edgemar Center for the Arts, 2437 Main St., Santa Monica. RSVP at (310) 392-0815 or info@edgemar.com. Tom Paxton, 8 p.m. The folk music artist and 2009 Grammy Awards Lifetime Achievement recipient plays McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. $38.50. (310) 828-4497; mccabes.com
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“I didn’t really know what this was going to look like, but I knew this wasn’t a project I wanted to make money on.” — Ann Johansson 40 of the celebrities featured in her book — not just film stars, but artists and musicians and entrepreneurs as well — to ask for causes to feature. “At the time, I didn’t really know what this was going to
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Johansson was the one who was in for the unexpected when she photographed John Lydon, lead singer of the post-punk band Public Image Ltd and formerly Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. The surprise wasn’t that Lydon was “really smart, nice and entertaining,’ it was that the frontman of one of the most outrageous and outspoken bands in music history was feeling a bit camera shy. They had met up at Mercede’s Grille in Marina del Rey, and that’s where Lydon wanted to stay. Luckily for me there was a mirror right where we were sitting, so I used that for a bunch of the pictures,” Johansson said. But Lydon did eventually open up. “I think I have some photographs of him sticking a napkin up his nose,” she said. Quincy Jones, Robert Downey Jr., Arianna Huffington, Alfred Molina, Neil Gaiman and chef Susan Feniger also appear in the book. Asked if any celebrity truly impressed her, Johansson quickly arrived at Brad Pitt, who jumped in to help shuffle heavy tables and chairs she had to arrange for the shoot. “What surprised me was how nice he was. He really made a point to say hi and make sure he heard my name right,” Johansson said. “He really stood out to me as being genuine and helpful.”
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Guitar Shorty, 9 p.m. Destined to be a rockin’ blues guitarist and vocalist, Shorty played with Ray Charles’s band at the age of 16. Influencing both Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Guy, he still lights up audiences. See him at Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $12 plus two-drink minimum. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com
Sunday, Sept. 13 Mar Vista Farmers Market, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fresh produce and baked foods vendors line the intersection of Venice and Grandview boulevards. marvistafarmersmarket.org
Sholem Community Open House, 10 a.m. Learn about Sholem’s secular Jewish Sunday school, parent toddler group, Bar and Bat Mitzvah program and other offerings for cultural Jews and multi-cultural families. Free. Coffee and bagels served. Meet at Westside Neighborhood School, 5101 Beethoven St., Del Rey. (310) 391-2974; sholem.org.
Susie Hansen Latin Band. Free two-hour parking with validation. Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 301-9900
Soap Box Reading, 2 p.m. A free open mic hosted by Jessica Wilson. Sign-ups begin at 1:45 p.m. Five-minute limit. Beyond Baroque, 681. N. Venice Blvd., Venice. (310) 822-3006; beyondbaroque.org
Awakening the Genius in the African-American Student, 6 to 8:30 p.m. The Committee for Racial Justice presents a free workshop with guest speaker Dr. Tyrone Howard — a UCLA professor, founder of the Black Male Institute and renowned scholar in educational disparities. Potluck supper at 6 p.m. and program at 6:30 p.m.
Music by the Sea, 2 to 5 p.m. The free waterside concerts at Fisherman’s Village continue with music from the
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Virginia Ave. Park, Thelma Terry Building, 2200 Virginia Ave., Santa Monica. 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 The Toledo Show, 9:30 p.m. A cabaret show held on Sunday nights at Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $10, plus a two-drink minimum. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com Vida featuring DJ Creepy, 9:30 to 11:45 p.m. Ambient and dance vibes light up the evening’s soundscape at Melody Bar & Grill, 9132 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Westchester. (310) 670-1994; barmelodylax.com
Monday, Sept. 14 Optimist Club Meeting, 9:30 a.m. Club meets on Mondays at the Coffee Bean, 13020 Pacific Promenade, Playa Vista. (310) 215-1892 Comics on the Spot, 7 p.m. Weekly stand-up comedy event begins with an open mic before the pros take the stage at 7:45 p.m. The Warehouse, 4499 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. No cover. (310) 823-5451; mdrwarehouse.com Culver City Rock & Mineral Club Meeting, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Melinda Alexander joins the monthly meeting to demonstrate stone setting. Learn how to capture a cabochon stone with the
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Wednesdays at the YMCA Annex, 8020 LNGWKND, 9 p.m. Rock, indie, 80s, Alverstone Ave., Westchester. Donation: and house music light up the night $10 per semester. (310) 397-3967 before DJ Vinyl Don spins at 10 p.m. The Townhouse & Del Monte Toastmasters “Speakers by the Sea” Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. Club, 11 a.m. to noon. Overcome your (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com public presentation nerves at this weekly meeting. Pregerson Technical Galleries Facility, Room 230A, 12000 Vista Del Mar, Playa del Rey. (424) 625-3131 & Museums Westchester Rotary Club, 12:10 p.m. Meets Wednesday mornings at the Crowne Plaza, LAX, 5985 W. Century Blvd. (310) 986-9237.
Red Ribbon Squares Dance Party, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. All ages are welcome to this evening of square and line dancing brought to you by Red Ribbons Square Dance Club. Free. Marine Park Auditorium, 1406 Marine St., Santa Monica. (310) 458-2239 Karaoke with Kiki, 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Sing your heart out at the Prince O’ Whales, 335 Culver Blvd., Playa del Rey. (310) 823-9826; princeowhales.com
Wednesday,Sept. 16 Playa Venice Sunrise Rotary Club, 7:15 a.m. Meets Wednesday mornings at Whiskey Red’s, 13813 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. Contact Peter Smyth at (310) 916-3648. Westchester Life Story Writing Group, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Memoir-writing workshop meets
Westchester Senior Citizens Club Bingo, 1 to 3 p.m. Make new friends and win prizes each Wednesday at the Westchester Senior Center, 8740 Lincoln Blvd., Westchester. (310) 649-3317; (310) 649-1173 Unkle Monkey, 6 to 9 p.m. The local duo plays beachy tunes each Wednesday evening at The Warehouse, 4499 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 823-5451; mdrwarehouse.com The Grand View Market Open Mic Night, 7 p.m. each Wednesday. Performer signups begin at 6:30 p.m. Open mic strictly for musicians happens on Friday nights. Grand View Market, 12210 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista. (310) 390-7800; grandviewmarket.com
Thursday, Sept. 17 Venice Art Crawl, 6 p.m. to midnight. The most anticipated quarterly event in the Venice arts community returns with performances and shows at numerous venues throughout the 90291. Schedule TBA online. veniceartcrawl.com
“Full Circle,” opens 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday. P32 Gallery founder/director Howard Spunt and resident artist Chris Justice share abstract paintings in this series that represents the unique paths taken by each participating artist. Show proceeds benefit the Chase Foundation, which offers financial support to child life programs and healing play spaces for children in hospitals. Don’t miss a corresponding community yoga workshop at noon and a BBQ from 3 to 6 p.m., both on Sunday, Sept. 13. P32 Gallery, 3129 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 457-0619; p32gallery.com Claire Chene’s “Continuum,” opens 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday. Chene shares a collection of paintings that collectively show the unconscious continuity of color, subjects and symbols throughout her painting process and trajectory. Through Oct. 10 at FIG Gallery, Bergamot Station G6, 2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica. (310) 829-0345; figgallery.com Send event information at least 10 days in advance to calendar@argonautnews.com.
A FAREWELL TO ARTS Micah Grasse won’t get gentrified out of Venice quietly What does a Venice artist do when his studio is about to go under the wrecking ball? Have a show, of course. After 14 years in L.A., multimedia artist Micah Grasse is saying farewell to making art in Venice with a show titled none other than “The Last Show of a Recovering Artist” at the I Prefer Not To Gallery on Sunset Avenue. Grasse’s selfmade gallery and studio space of three years is scheduled to be torn down in November to make way for new construction. Until then, it’s still a place for Grasse to experiment with the light-bending properties of neon and Doost, a specially made reflective glass powder he uses on all his paintings. Opening Saturday, “Last Show” will feature a combination of Grasse’s hand-bent neon sculptures and signs with giant Doost canvasses. Expect glowing palm trees and luminescent legs at to light up Saturday night open houses at the gallery until Oct. 10. — Christina Campodonico “The Last Show of a Recovering Artist” opens from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at the I Prefer Not To Gallery, 607½ Sunset Ave., Venice. The show runs through Oct. 10, with open houses on Saturday nights for the next four weeks. Call (310) 795-2685 or email IPNTgallery@gmail.com to make a viewing appointment.
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legal advertising FICTITIOUs bUsINEss NAmE sTATEmENT File No. 201514279 The following person is doing business as: Curious Lab 7471 McConnell Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90045. Registered owners: Ning Wang 7471 McConnell Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90045. 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: Ning Wang. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 18, 2015. Argonaut published: August 20, 27, September 3, and 10, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUs bUsINEss NAmE sTATEmENT File No. 2015195429 The following person is doing business as: Happy Bites Vending 12101 Pacific Ave. Apt. 12 los Angeles, CA. 90066. Registered owners: Parut Thongeiam 12101 Pacific Ave. Apt. 12 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: Parut Thongeiam. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on July 27, 2015. Argonaut published: August 20, 27, September 3, and 10, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUs bUsINEss NAmE sTATEmENT File No. 2015200813 The following person is doing business as: Duross Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine 2001 S. Barrington RM 118 Los Angeles, CA. 90025 and 3438 S. Centinela Ave. APT. #3 Los Angeles, CA. 90066. Registered owners: Denise Duross 3438 S. Centinela Ave. APT. #3 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: Denise Duross. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 3, 2015. Argonaut published: August 20, 27, September 3, and 10, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement gen-
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titious 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: Conrad Craft. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 12, 2015. Argonaut published: August 27, September 3, 10, and 17, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
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. 2015211336 The following person is doing business as: Matty Chai 513 Rose Avenue Venice, CA. 90291. Registered owners: Elake Nation LLC 513 Rose Avenue Venice, CA. 90291. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability 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: Emily Page Clay. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 13, 2015. Argonaut published: August 20, 27, September 3, and 10, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
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FICTITIOUs bUsINEss NAmE sTATEmENT File No. 2015209725 The following person is doing business as: Insite Grafix 13801 Hawthorne Blvd. Hawthorne, CA. 90250. Registered owners: Conrad Craft 13801 Hawthorne Blvd. Hawthorne, CA. 90250. This business is conducted by an individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fic-
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FICTITIOUs bUsINEss NAmE sTATEmENT File No. 2015209753 The following person is doing business as: Marina Dog Grooming By VenicePets 1800 S. Robertson Blvd. #3 Los Angeles, CA. 90035. Registered owners: Bambooball Inc. 1800 S. Robertson Blvd. #3 Los Angeles, CA. 90035. 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: Mari Kawamoto. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 12, 2015. Argonaut published: Aug. 20, 27, Sep. 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. 2015211048 The following person is doing business as: Parked Guard 3848 Wade St. Los Angeles, CA. 90066. Registered owners: Paul Michael Lopez 3848 Wade St. 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: Paul Michael Lopez. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 13, 2015. Argonaut published: August 20, 27, September 3, and 10, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in
FICTITIOUs bUsINEss NAmE sTATEmENT File No. 2015214693 The following person is doing business as: Modern Living Realty and Modern Living Real Estate 3507 Federal Ave. Mar Vista, CA. 90066. Registered owners: Tracey Anne Lopez 3507 Federal Ave. Mar Vista, 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: Tracy Anne Lopez. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 18, 2015. Argonaut published: August 27, September 3, 10 and 17, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUs bUsINEss NAmE sTATEmENT File No. 2015217066 The following person is doing business as: Lotus Estate Properties 3121 Washington Blvd. Marina del Rey, CA. 90292. Registered owners: Lighthouse Properties Real Estate Service Inc. 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: Debbie Sutz. Title: President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 20, 2015. Argonaut published: August 27, September 3, 10, and 17, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of
Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUs bUsINEss NAmE sTATEmENT File No. 2015219008 The following person is doing business as: Kumoyama 1965 Mandeville Cyn Road Los Angeles, CA. 90049. Registered owners: Kinnami Inc. 8611 acacia Drive Cypress, CA. 90630. 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: John Murakawa. Title: President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 24, 2015. Argonaut published: August 27, September 3, 10, 17, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUs bUsINEss NAmE sTATEmENT File No. 2015219697 The following person is doing business as: Kahnsultants 13700 Marina Pointe Dr. #1816 Marina del Rey, CA. 90292. Registered owners: Jamee Clare Kahn 13700 Marina Pointe Dr. #1816 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: Jamee Clare Kahn. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 24, 2015. Argonaut published: August 27, September 3, 10, and 17, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUs bUsINEss NAmE sTATEmENT File No. 2015223259 The following person is doing business as: Imaginarium Pictures 1530 N. Poinsettia Place, APT 341 los Angeles, CA. 90046. Registered owners: Imaginarium Consulting LLC 1530 N. Poinsettia Place, APT 341. 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: Morgan Compagnon. Title: Manager. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 27, 2015. Argonaut published: September 3, 10, 17 and 24, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUs bUsINEss NAmE sTATEmENT File No. 2015223276 The following person is doing business as: Nicol’s Hair Studio 2617 Lincoln Blvd. Santa Monica, CA. 90405. Registered owners: Imagen Bella INC. 2617 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, CA. 90405. 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: Nicol Lopez. Title: CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 27, 2015. Argonaut published: September 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUs bUsINEss NAmE sTATEmENT File No. 2015223290 The following person is doing business as: Letterpress Unlimited 3107 pico Blvd. Santa Monica, CA. 90405. Registered owners: DSJ Printing INC. 3103 Pico Blvd. Santa Monica, CA. 90405. 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: Jeffrey Vaughan. Title: President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 27, 2015. Argonaut published: September 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common
law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUs bUsINEss NAmE sTATEmENT File No. 2015223259 The following person is doing business as: Imaginarium Pictures 1530 N. Poinsettia Place, APT 341 los Angeles, CA. 90046. Registered owners: Imaginarium Consulting LLC 1530 N. Poinsettia Place, APT 341. 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: Morgan Compagnon. Title: Manager. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 27, 2015. Argonaut published: September 3, 10, 17 and 24, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUs bUsINEss NAmE sTATEmENT File No. 2015223298 The following person is doing business as: Art Streiber Photography, Art Streiber Photos and AS Pictures 2239 Camden Avenue Los Angeles, CA. 90064. Registered owners: Art Streiber Photography, INC. 2239 Camden Avenue Los Angeles, CA. 90064. 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: Art Streiber. Title: President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 27, 2015. Argonaut published: September 3, 10, 17 and 24, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUs bUsINEss NAmE sTATEmENT File No. 2015228370 The following person is doing business as: Check Point Automotive 3906 Grand View Bl. Los Angeles, CA. 90066. Registered owners: Chris Toppenberg 11924 Rochester Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90025 and Steve Beck 1751 Centinela Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90404. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Chris Toppenberg. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on September 2, 2015. Argonaut
legal advertising published: September 10, 17, 24, and October 1, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICtItIOUS bUSINeSS NAme StAtemeNt File No. 2015225305 The following person is doing business as: Erdman Antiques 1218 Abbot Kinney Blvd. Venice, CA. 90291. Registered owners: The Space LLC 1218 Abbot Kinney Blvd. Venice, CA. 90291. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability 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: Daniel Erdman. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 31, 2015. Argonaut published: September 3, 10, 17 and 24, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance
with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICtItIOUS bUSINeSS NAme StAtemeNt File No. 2015217066 The following person is doing business as: Lotus Estate Properties 3121 Washington Blvd. Marina del Rey, CA. 90292. Registered owners: Lighthouse Properties Real Estate Service Inc. 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: Debbie Sutz. Title: President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 20, 2015. Argonaut published: August 27, September 3, 10, and 17, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of
five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
PubliC nOtiCe NOtICe tO CreDItOrS OF Carol Dunn Guydan- Shaw LOS ANGeLeS SUperIOr COUrt OF CALIFOrNIA COUNtY OF LOS ANGeLeS Notice is hereby given to the creditors and contingent creditors of the above-named decedent, that all persons having claims against the decedent are required to file them with the Superior Court, at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012. and mail a copy to Asa Shaw, as trustee of the trust dated July 29, 2015 wherein the decedent was the settlor, at 24833 Railroad Ave., Newhall, CA 91321 within the later of four months after August 27,2015, the date of the first publication of notice to creditors) or, if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, 60 days after the date this notice is mailed or personally delivered to you. A claim form may be obtained from the court clerk. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested
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