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VOL 46, NO 44 Local News & Culture

Vote from the Bottom Up

NEWS Payday Moans Businesses grapple with minimum wage requirements ................................. 9

Councilman weighs in on L.A.’s Measure M and Prop HHH . ..................... 13

Advice Goddess Dumping a Billionaire

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Ballot Box Rebellion Armen Melkonians asks Santa Monica voters to put the brakes on new development . ........................... 14

THIS WEEK Tom Hayden, 1939 – 2016 Activist and lawmaker remembered for his fierce dedication to social justice ..... 10

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OPINION Election Endorsements Santa Monica should reject Measure LV ......... 13

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L e tt e r s Bashing Mass Transit is Bad for Kids Re: “They Beat the Bus,” News, Oct. 20 While I understand the frustrations of residents impacted by changes to Santa Monica Big Blue Bus routes, the photo of adults looking on as children gleefully swing at a Big Blue Bus piñata is insulting and mean. I am a regular rider of buses and trains including the Big Blue Bus, which is a very well-run and considerate agency. They have a vast network of buses throughout not only Santa Monica but the entire Westside, with expanded service connecting riders to the newly opened Expo Line light rail stations. I ride transit because I am very concerned about the environment, including air pollution and global warming, which have very adverse effects on us all — particularly children, like the ones in the photo. When adults indoctrinate children that buses, and therefore mass transit, is bad — that it is to be feared, or worse, attacked — this idea can transfer to those riding buses and transit. The actions in the photo are teaching

fear and, with the attacks on a bus, hatred. Global warming is real and happening now. The easiest and quickest way to combat it is to reduce our output of carbon gases, which for Southern Californians means driving less. Electric cars aren’t presently the solution: they make up less than 5% of the vehicles on the road and contribute to gridlock conditions that make the other 95% of vehicles pollute the most. The actions depicted in the photo do harm to the movement to reduce carbon gasses and stop global warming. Instead of encouraging children to attack the bus, why can’t the adults make an effort to change their lifestyles and incorporate mass transit into their daily lives? Matthew Hetz, Westchester Keep the Endorsements Coming Re: “The Argonaut’s Election Endorsements: State Assembly, County & L.A. City,” Oct. 20 I am a Playa del Rey resident living near the lagoon. Please make an endorsement in the Water Replenishment District’s Division 2 race. I would like to

know how The Argonaut evaluates the candidates. Pamela Burga, Playa del Rey Local Drought Policy is on the Ballot, Too Re: “The Argonaut’s Election Endorsements: State Assembly, County & L.A. City,” Oct. 20 I am writing to request that The Argonaut cover and make recommendations for all ballot measures and candidates on local ballots. Down-ballot measures and candidates often get the short shrift when it comes to covering measures and candidates. For example, the last vote at the end of the ballot in the Water Replenishment District. This is an important race that can help restore public confidence after the indictment and subsequent exoneration of the incumbent. Few folks know that the office for the Water Replenishment District is on the ballot. Your paper can help to remind everyone of the importance of this race as we enter our sixth year of drought. William R. Roberts, Westchester

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Some businesses struggle to adapt, but others — including Starbucks — could see long-term benefits By Beige Luciano-Adams Less than a year after Santa Monica approved an ordinance bringing minimum wage increases in line with the city and county of Los Angeles — incrementally, to $15 by the year 2020 — the issue continues to inflame the perennial tussle between workers’ rights and employers’ bottom line. The Santa Monica City Council voted in January to raise the minimum wage by 50 cents to $10.50, a change that took effect in July. The statewide minimum wage is set to reach $15 by 2022 for large businesses, and by 2023 for smaller operations. At “Surviving the Reality of the California Economy: A Wakeup Call,” a panel discussion hosted by the Westside Council of Chambers of Commerce on Sept. 13, local business owners joined lawyers, economists and politicians to parse the impact on employers. Panelists warned that fast-paced regulatory changes are leaving employers vulnerable to litigation and bureaucratic entanglement — and little room to adapt. Automation, workforce reduction and

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Starbucks, said the move toward higher minimum wages across the country has forced the coffee giant to examine its business model and look for efficiencies elsewhere — a privileged vantage point, she acknowledged, afforded the company by its scale. The question now, Rogers said, is “how do we take this new wage climate and make it work to our advantage? How do you engage your employees at a higher level because of these wage increases,

and then how do you leverage that to grow your business?” Like Brandt, Rogers noted price increases can only go so far: “That tipping point is very real — there is only so much we can charge for a Frappuccino.” Others pointed to a macroeconomic view, contending that higher prices will ultimately undermine the spirit of the law. “In the end, this is simply going to make California a little bit more expensive. From my perspective that’s survivable — it’s already an expensive place,” said Christopher Thornberg of Beacon Economics, a Westchester-based research and consulting firm that specializes in economic analysis for business clients. “Ultimately the biggest problem I see ... is we are giving fewer and fewer opportunities to low-skilled people to get the experience and training and further themselves in life, because we’ve limited the kind of entry-level jobs that are available to them through this minimum wage,” Thornberg said. State Sen. Joel Anderson (R-San Diego) called the raise “artificial.” (Continued on page 11)

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Man of the People As both an activist and elected official, Tom Hayden remained a fierce advocate for social justice By Gary Walker and Joe Piasecki

Tom Hayden, a leading voice of America’s civil rights and anti-war movements who went from standing trial with the Chicago Seven to representing Westside neighborhoods in the California Legislature for 18 years, died Sunday in Santa Monica. He was 76. Hayden cofounded Students for a Democratic Society while editing the University of Michigan’s campus newspaper, organized Freedom Rides in the segregated South and was the primary author of the Port Huron Statement, a landmark 1962 manifesto in support of participatory democracy and civil disobedience. He became a national figure following the televised violence between police and protesters outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention. In 1969, President Richard Nixon’s Justice Department indicted Hayden — one of J. Edgar Hoover’s primary targets and the subject of 22,000 pages of FBI surveillance — and other convention protest organizers on charges of conspiracy and crossing state lines to incite a riot. The Chicago Seven’s convictions on the latter charge were later reversed on appeal. “Tom Hayden was a passionate and progressive champion of peace and social justice. A man of integrity, courage and steel nerves, Tom always spoke truth to power,” said the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was called to testify at the Chicago Seven trial, in a statement emailed to The Argonaut. “He had a vision of making America different and better than the America in which he was born. Tom, who deeply identified with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., believed in a non-racist society and was committed to the African-American freedom struggle.” Hayden married actress Jane Fonda in 1973. Following polarizing stints of public activism against the Vietnam War, the couple moved into a modest home in Santa Monica and began to influence local causes. The Hayden-led, Fonda-funded Campaign for Economic Democracy helped pass a local rent control ordinance in 1979 that reshaped Santa Monica’s political and economic landscape. Judy Abdo, a rent control activist who went on to serve as mayor of Santa Monica, recalled attending intimate political gatherings at the couple’s home on Wadsworth Avenue in Ocean Park. Hayden “had the ability to mentor people to become leaders,” Abdo said. “That was one of his best gifts. He was an issue organizer. While he wasn’t the out-front person, he was a key part of the strategy of how to win that election.”

Tom Hayden was a national progressive icon for five decades who also created lasting change in Santa Monica and Venice Fonda and Hayden divorced in 1990, and he married actress Barbara Williams in 1993. After an unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign in 1976, Hayden won election to the California Assembly in 1982. He

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“He was always the one with a conscience — that fierce Irish rebel heart.” — L.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl

remained in Sacramento as a member of the Assembly and later the state Senate until 2000, but lost a longshot campaign for governor in 1994 and a 1997 bid to unseat L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan. Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, who represented Santa Monica in the Assembly while Hayden was in the Senate and eventually took over his Senate seat, said Hayden lent her political guidance. “He was always the one with a conscience — that fierce Irish rebel heart — and he could always articulate the absolute right thing to do. I think his greatest legacy was how he was able to articulate the importance of social justice and how it makes people’s lives better,” Kuehl said. In 2006, Hayden spoke to The Argonaut about walking the line between activist

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the mainstream Machiavellians that write the history for them,” he said at the time. Hayden often clashed with both Republicans and Democrats in Sacramento, but made progress on environmental causes. In 1986 he backed Proposition 65, which required businesses to post public warnings about the presence of cancer-causing chemicals. He staunchly supported preserving the Ballona Wetlands and was instrumental in passing a 2000 parks bond that eventually funded the state’s purchase of the 600-acre ecological reserve, the Ballona Institute’s Marcia Hanscom said. “Tom Hayden was a giant who never stopped pushing for peace and justice and inspired a generation of change agents to bring new voices and overlooked perspectives to the decision-making process,” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric

Garcetti, who first met Hayden while teaching at Occidental College. “His work took him abroad to conflict zones and brought him home to the streets of Los Angeles — where he sought to save lives by helping negotiate a gang truce in Venice, and joined me in the fight to protect workers from exploitation with the city’s landmark anti-sweatshop ordinance,” Garcetti said. Stan Mohammed, co-founder of the gang intervention organization the Helper Foundation, said he invited Hayden to join the organization’s board of directors when it was called Venice 2000. “He was a very passionate man about social justice and helping the population that we serve. He also served on an ad hoc committee to develop a definition for gang intervention services,” Mohammed said. Hayden worked in collaboration with then L.A. City Councilman Tony Cardenas to create a model for gang intervention policies that became the basis for federal legislation by former Rep. Diane Watson (D- Los Angeles). As prolific an author as he was an activist, Hayden wrote more than 20 nonfiction books and published countless articles on topics ranging from history of gang violence in Los Angeles to memoirs about the peace and civil rights movements. Despite suffering a debilitating stroke last year, Hayden continued to wield an outsized political influence — prompting both applause and outcry among the left with an April essay for The Nation titled “I Used to Support Bernie, but Then I Changed My Mind.” Ralph Fertig, a pioneer of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and ‘60s who recently retired from the USC School of Social Work and the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission, said Hayden was on the cutting edge of democratic initiatives for nearly six decades. “Through his organizing Students for a Democratic Society, co-authorship of the Port Huron Statement, and countless contributions to literature of the left, his courage of confrontation, and his popular and electoral campaigns for local and state offices, Hayden framed strategies in the anti-war and civil rights movements. His example will deeply and long inspire future generations,” Fertig said. Despite leaning far to the left, Hayden earned the respect of both his allies and opponents in Sacramento, Kuehl said. “On the day that he was termed out of the legislature, nearly every senator stood to compliment him on his work as an advocate for his constituents. It took almost six hours,” she said. “His voice is going to last in our conscience for a long time.”

ArgonautNews.com The Other Side of a Higher Minimum Wage “That minimum-wage employee that we’re trying to lift, that we’re trying to help purchase a home ... they just saw the price of everything go up, out-of-reach,” he said. “The lower class never got out of the lower class. We’re not really lifting people.” Mark Edwards, a member of the West Hollywood Chamber, disagreed. “I think it’s false to say ‘artificial,’ said Edwards. “We create economics. The conversation we’re not having is, ‘What kind of society do we really want? And how do we make that happen?’” Speaking with The Argonaut after the event, Santa Monica City Manager Rick Cole pointed to history as the best response to detractors of the march toward living wages. “Since the industrial era, employers have always claimed that progressive legislation would doom them. And yet history shows that employers have done best when consumers do well, and that times of our greatest prosperity are times when that prosperity is shared,” Cole said. “There have always been business voices that said weekends, the 40-hour work week, minimum wage, workers comp, socialized medicine will be end of world — and so far the sun rose this morning, and I predict it will rise tomorrow,” he said.

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From Starbucks’ vantage point, Rogers reported positive returns already evident in other areas where wage increases have been implemented — including Seattle, where the minimum wage is already at $15 per hour.

are a decrease in lawsuits. The increase in minimum wage and benefits does, on a large scale at least, help improve performance. That in turn helps improve morale, and also helps improve retention,” Douglas said.

“History shows that employers have done best when consumers do well.” — Santa Monica City Manager Rick Cole “We are seeing turnover go down. We are seeing some positive impacts,” she said. Also atop the agenda were concerns over an increasingly antagonistic regulatory environment. Kelly Douglas, an attorney with the Westchester-based law office Pettit Kohn Ingrassia & Lutz, acknowledged a trend in “wage trolls” and increased vulnerability for employers who don’t have a comprehensive grasp of the complex regulatory environment. But she also reported positive trends. “Overall, with my clients I’ve seen an interesting effect: some of these changes

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for families. Discussions on the city’s Downtown Community Plan, the future of mobility, and more environmental topics will be held throughout the day. Those participating in the “Pecha Kucha Slam” — 20 slides presented for 20 seconds each — will have the opportunity to show off their design work. The summit concludes with a networking social hour from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. This event is co-produced by Climate Action Santa Monica and SustainableWorks with support from DNV-GL and Global Green. “I feel like we’re on a sustainability train, of sorts, which left the station a couple years ago and is now really picking up speed,” says Climate Action Santa Monica cofounder Katharine King. “We are hoping for community engagement and ownership as we set goals and make policies that will affect all of us for years to come.” The summit happens from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at St. Monica Catholic Church, 701 California Ave., Santa Monica. Free. To register and reserve childcare, visit smgov.net/ climate. — Regan Kibbee

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Santa Monica Ballot Measures Measure GSH City leaders are asking for a half-cent increase of Santa Monica’s retail transaction tax — similar to a sales tax, but collected from a retailer’s gross receipts — in order to replace revenue that disappeared when the state dissolved local redevelopment agencies during the recession. The tax hike would start in April 2017 and is expected to raise about $16 million per year. How will the money be spent? That’s entirely up to the Santa Monica City Council, but backers have promised that proceeds will exclusively benefit city affordable housing programs as well as math, science and arts education in local public schools. State, county and city ballot measures are asking for a lot of money this year — perhaps too much all at once. But GSH’s cause is worthy, and each two-year election cycle gives voters the opportunity to hold the council accountable for its spending. Vote Yes on GSH.

Measure GS This is an advisory measure asking voters to emphasize that Measure GSH proceeds should only be used for education and affordable housing. Even if you oppose

GSH, this is about communicating spending priorities. Vote Yes on GS.

Measure LV

Requiring a citywide popular vote to approve any new construction in Santa Monica that exceeds a height of 32 feet is not just absurd, it’s a threat to the very fabric of the city. We believe the intentions of Measure LV author Armen Melkonians are good: He and his residocracy.org supporters want to preserve Santa Monica as a liveable seaside town by curtailing new high- and mid-rise construction. But the bar is just too low at 32 feet. That’s not slow growth, it’s no growth. A no-growth situation would increase housing scarcity, decrease housing affordability, and unleash culturally stifling gentrification on an unprecedented scale. What Santa Monica needs is smart growth — strategically placed high-density housing that takes the pressure off single-family neighborhoods. City leaders already plan to concentrate future development near public transit hubs and in the downtown area, paving the way for the elimination of all downtown vehicle traffic in the foreseeable future. Now that’s a liveable city!

Measure LV would unravel such careful planning in favor of ballot box roulette. Vote No on LV.

Measure SM Sixteen years ago, Santa Monica voters overwhelmingly passed the Oaks Initiative, which made it illegal for city officials to accept campaign money or other favors from developers, lobbyists and others who have benefitted from their decisions in office. Measure SM would clarify and strengthen the law by making it illegal to grant such kickbacks to public officials, by increasing public disclosure requirements, and by finally implementing protocols for the city to enforce the law. Vote Yes on SM.

Measure V Santa Monica College is asking voters to approve up to $345 million in general obligation bonds, paid for by taxing property owners about $25 per $100,000 of a property’s value per year for the next several decades. That’s a lot of money, and skeptics want to know how SMC would spend it. Measure V answers the question with a lengthy list of projects, including

some that would attract millions in matching state funds to maximize the bond’s impact. These projects include building a new math and science extension, upgrading a pair of ancient classroom buildings, replacing run-down temporary classrooms rushed into service after the Northridge Earthquake, and expanding the Performing Arts Center. Spending would also expand Memorial Park to accommodate new public sports fields. The measure expressly prohibits spending bond proceeds on administrative or faculty salaries. Every voter should think long and hard about borrowing so much money all at once. The thought of it still makes us uneasy, but we believe the project list is one that would benefit Santa Monica for generations to come — a necessary investment in a world-class community college that deserves our support. Vote Yes on V.

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Measure M and Prop HHH are once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to address traffic and homelessness By L.A. City Councilman Mike Bonin Bonin represents Council District 11, which includes Westchester, Playa del Rey, Playa Vista, Del Rey, Mar Vista and Venice. If you want to make significant, positive and lasting change in the Nov. 8 election, think “bottoms up.” Near the bottom of a very long ballot are two crucial questions that give you the power to make huge progress in ending homelessness and easing traffic. By voting yes on Measure M and Proposition HHH, you can help solve crises that threaten Los Angeles and its neighborhoods. Measure M, the Los Angeles County Traffic Improvement Plan, will get Los Angeles moving again. Measure M will finally give us the type of world-class, interconnected transportation system that other cities use to reduce traffic and create jobs. It will allow us to: construct a system that reduces our commute times by 15%;

create 465,300 new jobs; and share with every city in the county millions of dollars a year for traffic improvements and crucial infrastructure repairs, such as street resurfacing and seismic retrofitting of our bridges. Measure M also allows us to offer discounted fares for students, the elderly and people with disabilities. Here on the Westside, Measure M would allow us to: complete the Metro rail connection to LAX from the Crenshaw Line and the Green Line; build transit from LAX north to Van Nuys; extend the Wilshire subway further west to the Veterans Administration campus; create Bus Rapid Transit on Lincoln Boulevard from Santa Monica to LAX; and extend the Crenshaw Line north to West Hollywood and Hollywood. It also includes funding for expanded local buses and neighborhood shuttles, and for bicycle and pedestrian amenities to make it safer to walk or bike to transit. Again on the Westside, Measure M would build on the tremendous success

of the Metro Expo Line, which is already exceeding expectations and taking cars off the road. A staggering 70% of riders on the line are first-time riders, and half of the new riders say they used to drive alone in a car. Proposition HHH is the most important and significant effort to end homelessness we have ever made. It would allow the city of Los Angeles to issue $1.2 billion in bonds over the next decade to build 10,000 units of housing for people who are homeless or on the brink of homelessness. Homelessness in Los Angeles is an unprecedented crisis, and the city and county have developed comprehensive, multi-faceted plans to address it. There are strategies to prevent people from becoming homeless, and strategies to help move people off the streets and into homes. None of those strategies work unless we have more housing. In recent years, Los Angeles has become a city of encampments and

shanties, with tens of thousands of people living on our sidewalks or in their cars. We can’t solve homelessness with wishful thinking, with magic, or by calling LAPD. We can solve it by providing housing — and HHH allows us to invest in a solution with a 90% success rate. If we do not approve HHH, the number of encampments in our neighborhoods will grow, and people will suffer and die on our streets. Measure M and Proposition HHH are our best opportunities to make significant progress on reducing both traffic and homelessness. We have the power to make change happen. Both Measure M and Proposition HHH require approval of two-thirds of the voters who cast ballots. And both questions are far down on a lengthy ballot — so please start your ballot from the bottom up, vote yes on HHH, vote yes on M, and use your power to solve our toughest problems and improve our neighborhoods and our quality of life. October 27, 2016 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 13

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Ballot Box Rebellion

Armen Melkonians asks Santa Monica voters to put the brakes on new development

By Gary Walker Whoever said you can’t fight city hall hadn’t met residocracy.org founder Armen Melkonians. Through his staunchly anti-development online civic engagement platform, Melkonians — a relative newcomer to Santa Monica — pulled off an unprecedented political upset in 2014: killing the Hines Project. At 765,000 square feet, the planned mixed-use development near Bergamot Station had been narrowly vetted by city council members after years of debate. In just a few months, Melkonians and his Residocracy allies collected more than 13,000 signatures to qualify a ballot referendum against the project, and council members quickly rescinded their approval to avoid what one described as “bloodletting” at the ballot box. Melkonians is back at it with Measure LV, an initiative on the Nov. 8 ballot that would require a majority of Santa Monica voters to approve nearly all multi-family residential or commercial development projects that would exceed a height of 32 feet. “Measure LV draws a line in the sand. It asks who’s on the side of the residents and who’s on the side of the special interests,” Melkonians said. “I see this as a movement of residents rebelling against the establishment and an attempt to get them to listen to the people.” Others see Measure LV as an extreme and reckless plan that would stifle economic growth and cement housing scarcity for years to come. “I disagree with the idea of ballot box planning — especially in Santa Monica, given the tough choices that people on all sides have had to make regarding development and slow growth for the last 20 years,” said Frank Gruber, a former city

housing and planning commissioner who’s lived in Santa Monica for 33 years. Measure LV would exempt projects that are 100% affordable housing or 100% senior housing, but critics counter that gutting opportunities for market-rate housing would eliminate the feasibility of most affordable housing, and that LV fails to ensure that senior housing would be affordable. Two local political action committees — the Santa Monica Forward Issues Committee and HOME (Housing Opportunity for a Modern Economy) Santa Monica — had already spent nearly $1 million to oppose Measure LV as of Oct. 18. By comparison, Measure LV proponents had raised less than $60,000 for the cause, forcing a scrappy campaign of DIY phone-banking and public tabling. The hands-on approach has led to some angry confrontations between Measure LV backers and opponents, including an Oct. 8 clash wbetween supporters and a council incumbent at Clover Park. Residocracy’s hardline outsider approach has prompted comparisons to the establishment-bashing supporters of the Tea Party and Republican Donald Trump, which Melkonians resents. “That’s been their tactic during the campaign,” he said. “The furthest that you can get from Donald Trump is Santa Monica. They’re just trying to vilify the movement,” he said.

LONG ODDS

Melkonians and his supporters face a goliath coalition of elected officials, community activists, environmental organizations, developers and real estate investors working to defeat Measure LV. The city’s public safety unions, the Santa Monica Police Officers Association and the Santa Monica Firefighters Local 1109,

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Armen Melkonians defends Measure LV’s radical restrictions on development during a recent election debate in Santa Monica are also actively opposing Measure LV. “Measure LV is too extreme for the city and sets arbitrarily low height limits citywide, which would result in the need for elections for even sorely needed,

other criminal behavior,” the statement reads. Melkonians says he’s tracked visits to residocracy.org from as far away as Texas and China.

“This has hit new levels of contention, and I think it is reflective of the national [political] debate. It’s very poisonous, this all-or-nothing kind of politics.” — Measure LV opponent Jason Islas

reasonable developments,” the unions said in a joint statement. Between 1,300 and 1,700 properties have residential uses that Measure LV would not exempt from voter approval, according to the unions, which also site public safety concerns in the event of a major earthquake. “Delaying reconstruction of buildings after any large-scale disaster not only negatively affects the residents who live in the buildings but hinders public safety for all of Santa Monica, as uninhabited structures are magnets for squatters and

“It tells me that the financial interests here and overseas are interested. And it tells me that we’re on to something,” he said. “I feel very confident that Measure LV will pass, even though we have over a $1 million being spent against us.” In addition to writing and backing Measure LV, Melkonians is also one of 10 candidates running for four Santa Monica City Council seats up for grabs on Nov. 8. He describes the measure and his council candidacy as inexorably linked, which could either work for or against him.

ArgonautNews.com “I think it’s impossible to separate the two. Some of Measure LV’s opponents think there is some kind of conflict, but I disagree,” Melkonians said. However, “My biggest success would be the passage of Measure LV. A secondary success would be if I were elected to the City Council.” Melkonians traces his rise from political observer to organizer back to some of Santa Monica’s most controversial land-use votes in recent memory.

BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT

Melkonians said he did not consider himself a “political” person when he moved from West Los Angeles to Santa Monica in 2010, but after attending a few city council meetings, he began to feel that city leaders’ rhetoric on development did not square with their collective actions.

“We took a look at the incredible impact on fairly unrestrained development In Santa Monica. It’s unfortunate that it had to go all the way to the ballot,” Neighborhood Integrity Act campaign director Jill Stewart said. “It seems like the developers are still prevailing in many areas.” Santa Monica resident Thomas Epley has witnessed the changes in traffic and congestion over the last 15 years, and like many others he’s grown weary of it. “There are times that it takes almost an hour just to go down Ocean Avenue during afternoon rush hour,” he said. Epley is supporting Measure LV because city officials “have refused to consider engineering methods that can help mitigate traffic. And the city council has continued to promote development that is incompatible with our city,” he said. “There’s only one way to stop it and that’s [Measure LV].”

“Measure LV draws a line in the sand. It asks who’s on the side of the residents and who’s on the side of the special interests.” — Measure LV author Armen Melkonians

“They didn’t seem genuine. Their discussions didn’t match their votes. They would say one thing and then vote another way,” Melkonians said during a lunchtime interview last week at Fast Taco restaurant on Ocean Park Boulevard. Then he started reading environmental impact reports and development agreements, and he did not like what he saw. The last straws for Melkonians were the council’s approval of the Hines Project — “just too big and dense,” he said — and decision to relocate residents of the Village Trailer Park on Colorado Avenue for construction of high-end housing. “Village Trailer Park was a big turning point. The only thing that I regret was that we didn’t have the concept of Residocracy yet so we could have stopped that project,” Melkonians said. “That democratic bug in me began to get angrier and angrier, wanting them to do the right thing. Policy of the council should reflect the will of the residents, not the special interests,” he said. “So that’s when I created Residocracy.” Soon after, he said, “I sensed there were people who saw things the way I did, and that was encouraging.”

THE CASE FOR LV

Measure LV’s highest-profile supporter is AIDS Healthcare Foundation President Michael Weinstein. Weinstein is funding the Neighborhood Integrity Act, a Los Angeles city initiative on the March 2017 ballot that would place a two-year moratorium on major developments and revamp city planning policies to favor lower-density development and slow growth.

Sunset Park resident Zina Josephs said the time has come to put the brakes on runaway development. “When Measure LV passes, after large development projects go through the regular approval process, they will also require voter approval. Similar measures adopted in other cities have slowed down the development feeding frenzy. That’s what we want: to preserve the character of our beautiful beach city,” Josephs said. The slow-growth Santa Monica Coalition for a Liveable City recently endorsed Melkonians and Measure LV. The coalition “predicted this out-ofcontrol development would happen. And what we’re seeing now is sort of like an ‘Arab Spring.’ Now we’re actually seeing it happen,” Melkonians said.

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Measure LV is too extreme and full of unintended consequences, said Santa Monica City Councilman Kevin McKeown — himself a longtime slow-growth advocate. McKeown takes issue with a project height limit of just 32 feet triggering a vote — especially downtown, where city leaders have planned for a denser but automobile-free landscape in coming years — and also warns that developers would be able to exploit loose language in Measure LV. “Ironically, one loophole would have let the Hines project that helped start this mess go forward by right, without a vote of residents,” McKeown said. HOME (Housing Opportunity for a Modern Economy) Santa Monica spokesman Jason Islas argues that the (Continued on page 36)

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Medical Marijuana is Working: No on 64 Re: “The Argonaut’s Election Endorsements: Federal Offices and State Propositions,” Oct. 13 California has a great medical cannabis law under the Compassionate Use Act, approved by voters with 1996’s Prop 215. Now with Prop 64 we have big corporations coming in trying to sell a new law to voters — one that is misleading and designed

around maximizing pot profits, as well as jailing the competition. A patient with a valid doctor’s recommendation has more rights than what would be offered under the false “legalization” of Prop 64, which would limit everyone to a single ounce, enable a corporate GMO takeover of the market, and criminalize 18- to 20-year-old adult consumers. While public consumption is currently allowed, under Prop 64 seriously-ill patients could be ticketed for consuming cannabis

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enade for its fourth year of brain-eating antics. Check-in starts at 6 p.m. so you can rage like the undead. Keep the drinking in moderation though, partying like a zombie Friday, Oct. 28 all night can keep you stuck in zombiePumpkin-Patch Poolooza mode all week. HOT TICKETS: at The Plunge *** Starting and wristband pick-up location is Pumpkins are making a splash at The Thursday, Oct. 27 Monday, Oct. 31 Plunge in El Segundo, where you can dive Rusty’s Surf Ranch, 256 Santa Monica Fangs out for Meals on Wheels Electric Ghoul-Aid Acid Test IV into the spirit of the season with a beachy Pier, Santa Monica. $12 in advance, $15 Venice’s own Insects vs. Robots return to Monster Bash spin on a Halloween classic. From 7 to 10 at the door. (323) 330-9559; search Santa Ghouls will be out in full force for Meals p.m., decorate your jack-o-lanterns Monica Zombie Crawl at eventbrite.com the Townhouse to celebrate Halloween on Wheels’ annual West Coast fundraiser, poolside and watch a movie before with boundless psychedelic grooves, live featuring devilishly delicious eats, compli- swimming inside a floating pumpkin Angel City Brewery Casts a Spell art and a captivating costume contest. mentary cocktails, silent auctions and This sinfully good party hosted by Angel Blending accessible melodies with hints patch in the pool. casino games with jackpot prizes to City Brewery benefits Young at Heart of folk, jazz, punk and tripped-out Urho Saari Swim Stadium (The Plunge), match. Starting at 7 p.m., this spooktacuSenior Services & Walk4Alzheimers. weirdness, the band has just released a 219 W. Mariposa Ave., El Segundo. $5 to lar soiree proves you don’t have to sell Float on by Larry’s in Venice at 9 p.m. for new full-length album with a title fitting $7. (310) 524-2738; elsegundo.org your soul to have a good time. $5 pints, choice bites and a killer costume the spirit of the holiday: “THEYLLKILLoews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, contest that could bank you gift certifiLYAA.” Dance with the Wok-Ing Dead 1700 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica. $100 cates from hot-spots like The Lobster and The Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, Join the largest Halloween party on the charitable donation. (310) 394 5133; M Street Kitchen. Look at it this way: the 52 Windward Ave., Venice. $10 cover. Westside and start your weekend with a mealsonwheelswest.org more you drink, the more cash will go to (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com scream. From 8 p.m. on, the scary big, charity. It feels so good to be bad. 21+ “Wok-ing Dead” celebration takes Larry’s, 24 Windward Ave., Venice. Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 28-30 ‘Mad About Boo’ Science Party over Asian-fusion spot Wokcano for two From 4 to 5 p.m., kids ages 8 to 11 Harvest Days & Haunted Nights stories of dancing, drinking and diabolical No cover. (310) 488-6604; search can celebrate Halloween by exploring Halloween Party Benefitting Walk4Alz for Young and Old delight. Marina del Rey’s brand new Harvest Days the science behind electricity, fireworks, Wokcano, 1415 5th St., Santa Monica. $20 at eventbrite.com & Haunted Nights festival takes all of the and dry ice special effects. Find out why advance; $25 at the door. (310) 458-3080; it’s a bad idea for witches and goblins to things people love about Halloween and wokcanohalloweensm2016.eventbrite.com Can You Beat the King of Costumes? Hometown Haunt Mo’s Place in Playa del bundles it into one. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. go swimming in a lightning storm, witness a flurry of spooky indoor fireRey is hosting a costume contest for those Saturday and Sunday, younglings can Saturday, Oct. 29 works, make a special witch’s soda of of you with nerves of steel (or an appetite enjoy carnival games, train rides, and the A Bar Crawl to Die For dry ice, and create your very own batch for $3 beers and well drinks). The “most deck of a pirate ship. But when the sun The Santa Monica Zombie Crawl leads a outrageous” costume will earn a crisp goes down, grown-up screams begin with of take-home slime. hoard of partying cannibals from Santa (Continued on page 18) Culver City Julian Dixon Library, 4975 haunted ships, deejay dance parties and Monica Pier to the Third Street PromOctober 27, 2016 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 17

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Benjamin, a bottle of champagne and dinner for two. Be warned, Mo himself is the reigning costume champion and if you want to win, you’ve gotta go big or go home. Mo’s Place, 203 Culver Blvd, Playa del Rey. No cover. (310) 822-6422; mosplacepdr.com A Glamorous Twist on the Haunted Hotel Viceroy Santa Monica turns into a noir nightmare this Saturday for their Halloween haunting. Starting at 8 p.m., hundreds of spirited partiers will dance the night away in the ballroom and enjoy palm readings from a bona fide psychic. Do you dare join the fun? Viceroy Santa Monica, 1819 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica. $20 to $80. (310) 260-7500; Search Haunted Hotel at eventbrite.com. A Frightfully ‘Fintastic’ Fishy Fest The creatures at Heal the Bay’s Santa Monica Pier Aquarium invite you to their deep-sea haunts for a day of spooky stories, face-painting and a costume parade from 12:30 to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Who knows what frights await you at the bottom of the sea? Santa Monica Pier Aquarium, 1600

Ocean Front Walk, Santa Monica. Free. (310) 393-6149; healthebay.org Fall Family Festival and Haunted House From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Open Charter Magnet School hosts its fall festival with a haunted house, fairyland, bounce house, art, games and food. Open Charter Magnet School, 5540 W. 77th St., Westchester. (310) 568-0735; opencharter.org Día De Los Muertos at Edison From 1 to 5 p.m., Edison’s Fall Festival celebrates the Day of the Dead in a multicultural, family-friendly festival with live music, dance, carnival rides, games, prizes, arts and crafts, face painting, inflatables and food. Edison Language Academy, 2402 Virginia Ave., Santa Monica. Free. (310) 828-0335; edison.smmusd.org Sunday, Oct. 30 Dia De Los Muertos at Woodlawn Cemetery Santa Monica celebrates Dia De Los Muertos at Woodlawn Cemetery with a day of culture and remembrance from noon to 4 p.m. This rich day of heritage begins with a ceremonial blessing by an Aztec dance group, continues with performances and storytelling in honor of

the dead, photo booths and calavera face-paintings — all topped off with big servings of fresh tamales, churros and cold aquas frescas for purchase. Woodlawn Cemetery, 1847 14th St., Santa Monica. Free admission. (310) 458-8688; smgov.net. Halloween Haunted Village Street Fair Get into the spirit of Halloween with this family-friendly celebration from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. that includes a costume parade, kids’ open mic karaoke, scary voice contest, joke telling, piñatas, runner maze, inflatable structures, rock climbing, obstacle course, arts and crafts, face painting, and a mad scientist booth. Hub on Venice Community Center, 11827 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista. (310) 915-5200; thehubonvenice.com Uncle Chuck’s Annual Dog-O-Ween From 4 p.m. to sunset, the Venice Beach bike path goes to the dogs for the Venice’s annual Dog-O-Ween Costume Contest, featuring organic dog treats, acoustic tunes by Meet Me at the Pub’s Jeremy Parker, costume contest prizes and red carpet photos of the cutest little monsters on four legs. Bike path at 23rd Avenue, Venice. Free (volunteers needed). facebook.com/ VenicePups

ONGOING Fall Fun at Shawn’s Pumpkin Patch in Culver City Shawn’s Pumpkin Patch (open from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily through Oct. 31) packs a powerful punch of Halloween fun with a whole host of autumn activities. While you grab the perfect pumpkin for carving, the patch offers a straw maze, giant slides, arcade games and a petting zoo to enchant the kid in all of us. Shawn’s Pumpkin Patch, 3443 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City. Activity tickets are $3 each. (310) 313-1050; shawnspumpkinpatch.com Brighter Nights at the Marina Towers Something is adding a new spark to the Marina del Rey skyline. New LED lights on the Marina Towers off the 90 freeway now come alive nightly to lend an otherworldly glow to the city’s tallest buildings. Keep watch for festive colors and holiday patterns upon these new landmarks. Marina Towers, 4640 and 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. visitmarinadelrey.com Nicole Elizabeth Payne contributed to this story.

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only) associated with the potential to contribute to inundation from tsunami and sea level rise. The NOA/DEIR is available online at http://eng.lacity.org/techdocs/emg/ venice_aux_pumping_plant.htm and at the following public libraries: Venice-Abbot Kinney Memorial Library, 501 South Venice Blvd, Venice, CA 90291; Lloyd Taber-Marina del Rey Library, 4533 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292; and Playa Vista Branch Library, 6400 Playa Vista Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90094. The comment period begins October 27, 2016 and comments are due no later than Thursday, December 15, 2016. Comments

may be submitted by email to jan.green. rebstock@lacity.org. Please remember to send your comments in letter format as an attachment to the email, include a mailing address in the comment letter, and include “VAPP Draft EIR Comments” in the subject line. Comments may also be submitted by mail to: Dr. Jan Green Rebstock, City of Los Angeles, Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering, Environmental Management Group, 1149 S. Broadway, 6th Floor, Mail Stop 939, Los Angeles, CA 90015. Public Meeting: A public meeting to receive comments on the Draft EIR will be held on Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. at the Venice Foursquare Church, 1400 Riviera Avenue, Venice, CA 90291.

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4/3 Gorgeous Culver City home

$1,495,000

Todd Miller

KW Santa Monica

310-560-2999

Sun 2-5

3224 McManus

3/2 Culver City Arts District home w/ guest house

$1,049,000

Todd Miller

KW Santa Monica

310-560-2999

Sun 1-4

625 Center St.

5/4 Spectacular remodeled family home

$1,999,000

Dan Christian

RE/MAX Estate Properties

310-251-6918

Sun 2-4

605 Shelton St.

4/3 Private patio with deck, lot over 7,000 sq. ft.

$1,470,000

Bill Ruane

RE/MAX Beach Cities

310-877-2374

Sat 2-4

414 W. Walnut

4/4 Five car garage plus workshop

$1,499,000

Bill Ruane

RE/MAX Beach Cities

310-877-2374

2911 W. 77th St.

3/1.5 Lovingly preserved Spanish style home

Stephanie Younger

Compass

310-499-2020

6154 W. 76th St.

4/3 Sellers say sell now! Bright beautiful remodel

$1,089,000

Lisa Potier

TREC

310-780-2850

3/2 Newly renovated w/ deck and patio

$1,749,000

Bill Ruane

RE/MAX Beach Cities

310-877-2374

$845,000

Jeff Curtis

Bulldog Realtors

310-494-6651

$1,200,000

Sue Miller

Coldwell Banker Marina

310-821-5090

$979,000

Winston Cenac

Bulldog Realtors

310-963-9300

$1,599,000

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2616 Pine Ave.

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4115 Glencoe Ave. #310

2/2 West facing, plus den in the heart of Marina Arts District

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4150 Via Dolce #335

3/3 Sunny 2-story 2000+ sq. ft. Marina Strand penthouse

4127 Sunnyside Ave.

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7505 Earldom Ave.

5/3.5 Charming home in Silicon Beach, 2,932 sq. ft.

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8515 Falmouth Ave. #423

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6505 Esplanade #2

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Bill Ruane

RE/MAX Beach Cities

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$1,349,000

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$2,695,000

James Allan

Coldwell Banker

310-704-0007

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2/2.5 Townhouse style condo w/ unobstructed Concert Park views

$979,000

Jesse Weinberg

Jesse Weinberg & Associates

800-804-9132

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5700 Seawalk Dr. #6

3/3 Highly desirable townhouse w/ bonus room

$1,399,000

Jesse Weinberg

Jesse Weinberg & Associates

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521 Vernon Ave.

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$3,380,000

Janin Paine

KW Santa Monica

310-560-5088

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2421 Louella Ave.

4/4 Gorgeous modern farmhouse

$2,195,000

Todd Miller

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$1,649,000

Jesse Weinberg

Jesse Weinberg & Associates

800-804-9132

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Coldwell Banker

310-780-0864

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7803 Naylor Ave.

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$1,429,000

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Coldwell Banker

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8133 Belford Ave.

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Teles Properties

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$999,750

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$875,000

Brian Christie

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310-910-0120

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5835 W. 74th St.

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$995,000

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Compass

310-499-2020

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$1,225,000

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$2,195,000

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$1,799,000

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Compass

310-499-2020

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8001 Chase Ave.

4/3 One-of-a-kind home close to the beach

$1,349,000

Stephanie Younger

Compass

310-499-2020

Sun 2-5

6509 Hedding St.

3/3 Gorgeous Kentwood bluffs view home

$1,295,000

Stephanie Younger

Compass

310-499-2020

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8408 Regis Way

3/2 Gorgeous California home

$929,000

Stephanie Younger

Compass

310-499-2020

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6309 W. 78th Pl.

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$1,225,000

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$849,000

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Compass

310-499-2020

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The ArgonAuT PRess Releases excePtional Kentwood home

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“This captivating custom home, offering four bedrooms and three baths, is located on a desirable corner lot,” say agents Bob Waldron and Jessica Heredia. “With stylish finishes, this exquisite and impressive home shows like a model! The airy living room exudes a warm, inviting atmosphere. The kitchen opens to the family room, which opens in turn to the rear yard. The rear yard includes a deck and patio. The abundant upgrades throughout this exclusive home offer Silicon Beach living at its finest.”

“Experience the aura of Cape Cod in a perfectly Californian residence,” says agent Stephanie Younger. “The openconcept kitchen boasts stainless appliances and Carrara marble counters. Entertain in the adjacent dining room or dine al fresco on the backyard deck that offers a built-in spa. Upstairs, the master suite is a sumptuous sanctuary boasting a spa-like master bath. Savor every sunset from the second floor terrace or retire inside to the fully customized media and entertainment room.”

Offered at $1,725,000 Bob Waldron and Jessica Heredia, Coldwell Banker 310-337-9225 310-913-8112

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“This highly upgraded one-bedroom, one-bathroom home offers fantastic panoramic views of the city and surrounding mountains,” says agent Eileen McCarthy. “Enjoy the new carpeting. The kitchen and bathroom boast granite counters, recessed lighting, and tiled entryways. Moreover, you have immediate access to all the amenities of the Marina City Club, including pools, six tennis courts, a fitness center, a full restaurant and bar, 24-hour gated security, and much more.”

“This pristine townhouse has the perfect layout with three generous sized bedrooms all on the upper floor, and a bonus room off the two-car garage that has been transformed into a home office,” says agent Jesse Weinberg. “This highly desirable Tapestry 1 Plan B offers solid walnut wood flooring, granite countertops and high end appliances in the kitchen, along with a thoughtfully designed media center and extra high ceilings. It really is all the details that make this home a must-see.”

Offered at $599,000 Eileen McCarthy, Marina Ocean Properties, 310-822-8910

Offered at $1,399,000 Jesse Weinberg, Jesse Weinberg and Associates 800-804-9132

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marina city club Penthouse

“Nestled in the middle of the block, this three-bed, twobath home is a true delight,” say agents Kevvin and Kaz Gallaher. “The tastefully updated kitchen features custom tiled flooring. A magnificent family room has large sliding glass doors that open to the lush yard and the open patio. The master bedroom boasts an en-suite and views of the backyard. Inviting curb appeal, warm colors, plentiful storage space, and a detached two-car garage are other notable features that make this home one not to miss.”

“Revel in panoramic city, mountain and palm tree vistas that encompass the Wilshire Corridor, the Getty, and the Malibu coastline from this three-bed, two-bath home,” says agent Charles Lederman. “The spacious great room leads to a large patio overlooking the newly renovated Oxford Basin. Adjacent is a luxurious open kitchen. Both bathrooms have been updated with wood vanities and bronze fixtures. Additional features include recessed lighting, wood floors and floor-to-ceiling windows.”

Offered at $999,750 Kevin and Kaz Gallaher, RE/MAX Execs 310-410-9777

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The ArgonAuT REAl EstAtE Q&A

Investing: Stocks or Real Estate? Stock prices increased substantially in Q2 2016 — surpassing the unprecedented mid-2015 peak. Prices remain unsustainably high and this bubble is likely to burst in the coming months. As global markets experience turmoil in 2016, the United States stock market has seen more hesitation from investors, but not an all-out nosedive like in China. However, increased uncertainty abroad may lead to investors seeing the U.S. as the safest bet available. Home prices also remain high as of Q2 2016. They are expected to trend downward 9-12 months after the home sales volume peak of Fall 2015 in conjunction with rising mortgage rates. Thus, pricing will likely trend downward in the second half of 2017. Expect prices to peak in Fall 2016. Real estate is a solid investment, but only for long-term purposes, due to the high cost of acquisition and upkeep. Forecasters are in agreement on what is going to happen to the stock market and real estate in the next couple of years, as both are currently supported by unsustainable momentum and a “fear of missing out” on ever more profits. Stock market investors need to consider moving their wealth into the real estate market before the stock market bursts, likely on the eventual withdrawal from

U.S. dollar-denominated investments as the global recession ends and investment opportunities arise elsewhere in the world.

Stocks: the volatile choice The indices “California home prices” and “stock prices” (S&P 500) track price movement (not actual prices). The stock price index in Q2 2016 reflects a gain of about 1.7% over a year earlier, while California home prices have increased 5.2% in the same time period. Home prices rise and fall in a generally smooth fashion, as seen in the chart above. Stock prices, on the other hand, display more volatile movements. That’s because stock transactions occur more rapidly than home sales due to liquidity differences. It takes a minimum of several days (usually several weeks) to close a home sale, while stocks can be traded – both bought and sold (and the reverse) – in an instant. Thus, stocks have a tendency to move on momentum (gained or lost) much more quickly than home prices. They too frequently are bought on rumor, sold on facts. Today, stock prices are at an unprecedented high – and expected to fall. Like home prices, stocks cannot rise indefinitely. When they do fall, expect the drop to be dramatic, reflecting the magnitude of years of build-up.

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Overinflated stock prices exist today due to a world-wide dearth of alternative investment opportunities, and massive sums of cheap, short-term money with no place to go but a savings account. There they sit, and gradually waste away with no earnings. Terrifying if you are very rich.

Stock prices: a history of speculation and downfall From 1950 until the 1980s (a period of rising interest rates) stock prices mostly bumped along at a gradual upward clip. Stocks picked up steam in the 1980s, then, the mid-1990s saw stocks begin to rise more quickly as interest rates declined toward zero. The upward price slope became a steep incline, culminating in the dot-com bubble, which peaked in March 2000 as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates to send the country into a routine business recession. Stock bubbles occur when speculators essentially overvalue a stock, displaying a lack of concern for investment fundamentals. A long-term investor purchases stock they perceive is currently undervalued, in the anticipation it will grow to reach its full value in the future. However, speculators only purchase stocks when their prices are swinging upward, further inflating the already overvalued stock by this momentum buying. In the case of the dot-com bubble,

speculators bought up any and all stock having to do with the internet. This activity vastly inflated dot-com stocks, evidenced by the fact that many internet companies had large customer bases, but typically operated at a loss as they burned through capital reserves (i.e. Amazon at the time).The dot-com bubble burst in 2000, made worse by the nation’s response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. About half of the dot-com companies did not survive the burst. The next stock bubble occurred in the mid-2000s, called the commodities bubble (or sometimes the commodities super cycle). This bubble imploded in 2008 when the financial crisis hit. However, the stock market recovered in 2009 with the advent of zero-cost money, and is still up, though slightly unstable, as of March 2016 for the same reason. The current commodities bubble isn’t due entirely to speculation. It started off as a reaction to a world-wide increase in the prices of commodities like oil, food and metals, largely due to the rise in voracious emerging markets. In recent years, speculators from all around the world have poured into the stock market, inflating it to unsustainable heights.

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istered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code. FIcTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2016 239238 The following person is doing business as 1) Sun Transporation Service 4922 W. 139th St Hawthorne CA 90250 Andre Jacobson 4922 W. 139th Street Hawthorne CA. 90250. Flavia Araujo 4922 W. 139th St. Hawthorne CA. 90250 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: Andre Jacobson Owner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Sept. 7, 2016 Argonaut published: Oct. 6, 13,

20, 27, 2016. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code. FIcTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2016 239248 The following person is doing business as: Gardena Premier Banquet 1828 W. Rosecrans Ave. Gardena CA. 90249 Registered owner(s)Nelson Mediavilla 19929 Hawthorne Blvd. Torrance, CA. 90503 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: Nelson Mediavilla Owner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Sept. 28, 2016 Argonaut published: Oct. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2016. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code. FIcTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2016 240629 The following person is doing business as 1) Two Hills Media 13900 Panay Way #SR101 Marina Del Rey, CA. 90202 Susan Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Leary

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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 John Jeffrey Howarth Owner Sept. 30th 2016 Argonaut published: Oct. 27, Nov. 3, 10, 17, 2016. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code. FIcTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2016 241737 The following persons is (are) doing business as 1)The Mattern Law Firm APC 2) Law Offices of Lisa H. Mattern 6601 Center Drive West suite 500 Los Angeles, CA. 90045 Registered Owners: Lisa H. Mattern 6601 Center Drive West suite 500 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 05-2016 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Owner Sept 30, 2016 Argonaut published: Oct. 27, Nov. 3, 10, 17, 2016. NOTICE-In

accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code. FIcTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2016 245720 The following persons is (are) doing business as: CAMC INC 8168 Manitoba St #2 Playa Del Rey, CA. 90293. Registered owners: Eldon H. Christensen 8168 Manitoba St #2 Playa del Rey, CA. 90293 . This business is conducted by a corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 12/1997. 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 Christensen Associates Management Consulting Oct. 6, 2016 Argonaut published: Oct. 13, 20, 27, Nov. 3, 2016, NOTICEIn accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other

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West Coast Swing, 6:30 p.m. Move your body and free your mind. Come out to celebrate swing with a class or open dance. Intermediate swing dance classes start at 6:30 p.m., beginner and intermediate/advanced classes at 7:30 p.m., followed by open dancing with deejays at 8:30 p.m. $15 includes the class; $10 just to dance. Westchester Elks Lodge, 8025 W. Manchester Ave., Playa del Rey. (310) 606-5606; philandmindiadance.com Toastmasters Speechcraft Workshop – El Segundo, 7 to 8:30 p.m. In this workshop to develop better presentation skills, experienced Toastmasters present the fundamentals of public speaking in the relaxed atmosphere of a Toastmasters meeting. $25. St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, 361 Richmond St., El Segundo. (310) 621-8006; catherinetoastmaster@ gmail.com A Songwriter’s Night, 7 to 10 p.m. A night of music featuring Raye Zaragoza, Matt Marlinksi, Christopher Watson and Madison Malone. Unurban Coffee House, 3301 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. No cover. (310) 315-0056; unurban.com Meals on Wheels West Monster Bash, 7:30 to 11 p.m. Support the delivery of meals to the hungry and homebound at this annual fundraising

live music, kept secret until showtime, at a secret location in Santa Monica. Get instructions at sofarsounds.com Buyepongo Presents!, 9 p.m. Live music, deejays and high-energy dancing in The Del Monte, and DJ Vinyl Don spins in the Townhouse Bar at 10 p.m. Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. $8 (free before 10 p.m.) (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com

Friday, Oct. 28 Medicare 101 Workshop, 10:30 a.m. Samuel Schwartz answers questions and provides information about Medicare. Mar Vista Branch Library, 12006 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista. Free. (310) 390-3454; lapl.org Mat Pilates, 11:30 a.m. Work out your core muscles and stretch away stress. Venice Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch Library, 501 S. Venice Blvd., Venice. (310) 821-1769; lapl.org Quilts from the Heart, 1 p.m. Sew for those in need of a quilt to cuddle with at special times. Beginners and pros are welcome. All materials provided. Mar Vista Branch Library, 12006 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista. Free. (310) 390-3454; lapl.org Harvest Days & Haunted Nights, Friday, Saturday, Sundays, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. During the day enjoy a family-friendly harvest celebration with carnival games, food vendors, costume contests, a pumpkin patch, face painting and train ride. At night the zombie pirates emerge with haunted pirate ship tours, a hay maze and a master pumpkin carver. All ages welcome, but Haunted Nights recommended for those 13 and older. Burton Chace Park, 13650 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey. Free. (310) 305-9545; marinadelrey.lacounty.gov Friday Night Trivia, 7 p.m. Test your knowledge while having a brew and win prizes. TRiP, 2101 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 396-9010; tripsantamonica.com

Retired U.S. Navy Capt. Rich Abele speaks at Cal Yacht Club about his tour of the Russian space program and witnessing the launch of cosmonauts aboard the Soyuz space vehicle. SEE THURSDAY, OCT. 27. of Westchester, with historic photos a raffle and cake. Loyola Marymount University, Roski Dining Hall, 1 LMU Drive, Westchester. (310) 645-5151; laxcoastal.com California Yacht Club Dinner, 6:15 p.m. Earlier this year, former aerospace executive and retired U.S. Navy Capt. Rich Abele toured Russia’s space program sites and witnessed the launch of the cosmonauts aboard the Soyuz space vehicle to the International Space Station. Abele shares his experiences and photos at this open to the public presentation following a buffet at 7 p.m. Reservations required. California Yacht Club, 4469 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. $26. (310) 823-4567; reservations@calyachtclub.net

event with complimentary adult beverages, small plates and desserts, door prizes, casino games, a silent auction, Frank and Wighead cabaret and a Halloween costume contest. Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, 1700 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica. $100. (310) 394-5133; mealsonwheelswest.org Salsa Night at Wokcano, 8 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Dance teachers Nicole Gil and Charlie Antillon lead a beginner lesson at 8 p.m., an intermediate class at 9 p.m. and social dancing from 10 p.m. until close every Thursday at Wokcano, 1413 5th St., Santa Monica. $8. facebook.com/DanceSalsaLA Sofar Sounds: Santa Monica, 8:15 to 10:30 p.m. A carefully curated set of

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Paco and Yolando Arroyo bring Flamenco to the Electric Lodge. SEE SATURDAY, OCT. 29. at 10 p.m. Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com Sofar Sounds: Culver City, 8:15 to 10:30 p.m. A carefully curated set of live music, kept secret until showtime, at a secret location in Culver City. Get instructions at sofarsounds.com

Saturday, Oct. 29 Fall Family Festival, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Open Charter Magnet School hosts its fall festival with a haunted house, fairyland, bounce house, art, games and food. Open Charter Magnet School, 5540 W. 77th St., Westchester. (310) 568-0735; opencharter.org Community Climate Action Summit, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. This daylong event features engaging dialogue, dynamic crowd-sourced talks, and a networking social hour

SongWriter Soiree, 7 to 11:30 p.m. (Sign up at 6:30 p.m.) Show up and prove your talent, then stay to support your fellow singers and musicians during the open mic each Friday at Unurban Coffee House, 3301 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. unurban.com

Edison’s Fall Festival – Día De Los Muertos, 1 to 5 p.m. Celebrate the Day of the Dead in a multicultural, family-friendly festival with live music, dance, carnival rides, games, prizes, arts and crafts, face painting, inflatables and food. Edison Language Academy, 2402 Virginia Ave., Santa Monica. Free. (310) 828-0335; edison. smmusd.org Music by the Sea, 2 to 5 p.m. A scenic harbor view is the backdrop for a reggae concert by Upstream. Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 301-9900; visitmarinadelrey.com Open Mic, 2 p.m. Hang out with musicians, jam on stage and enjoy a cold one. Open to all. First come, first play. TRiP, 2101 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 396-9010; tripsantamonica.com España Flamenco Show, 7:30 p.m. In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, special guest artists from Barcelona, guitarist Paco Arroyo and flamenco dancer/singer Yolanda Arroyo present this musical show with a cast of international dancers. Tapas served from 6 to 7 p.m. Electric Lodge, 1416 Electric Ave., Venice. $30 to $35. (310) 306-1854; electriclodge.org

Front Porch Cinema, 7:30 p.m. Free film screenings under the stars on Friday nights at Santa Monica Pier. This week’s movie is “Tight Loose,” a documentary about extreme skiing celebrating 21 years of massive air and shredding the gnar on some of the most spectacular mountains on earth. A cinema lounge with filmthemed cocktails and small bites opens at 6 p.m. on the pier. frontporchcinema.com The Afronauts, 8 p.m. Live jazz followed by DJ Shiva spinning soul, funk, hip-hop, disco, house, indie and electronic at 10 p.m. in The Del Monte, plus DJ Jedi in Townhouse bar

— all focused on creating a carbonneutral Santa Monica. St. Monica Catholic Community, 725 California Ave., Santa Monica. Free. smgov.net/ climate

Sofar Sounds: Venice, 7:45 to 10 p.m. A carefully curated set of live music, kept secret until showtime, at a secret location in Venice. Get instructions at sofarsounds.com

Catch a free screening of the extreme skiing documentary “Tight Loose” on Santa Monica Pier. SEE FRIDAY, OCT. 28.

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The way you see it, your friend found that mythical leprechaun with the pot of private jets and beachfront property — and she was all, “Too short! Too green! NEXT!” Okay, you concede, she was a little miserable, but hey — happiness can’t buy money! And no, money isn’t unimportant. It’s especially vital when you don’t have enough to get lunch from the grocery store instead of from the dumpster. But even money is subject to what economists call “diminishing marginal utility.” This is a term for how the benefit (“utility”) we get from each “unit” of a thing we’re consuming, such as a good or service, decreases for us once we’ve

filled our basic need for it. Norman Li, an evolutionary psychologist who started out in economics, explains this pretty simply: “Enough oxygen to breathe is a lot better than no oxygen, but extra (‘marginal’) oxygen is not much better than enough.” Thus, oxygen has diminishing marginal utility. Li, helpfully, took an economist’s look at mating preferences, meaning he didn’t just ask the open-ended question, “So … what would you like in a mate?” — which leads people to shoot for the moon (“Oh … ringer for Hugh Jackman, funnier than Chris Rock, annual earnings matching the GDP of France ...”) Here in the real world, most of us have to settle — at least somewhat. So Li tested which attributes people would consider necessities (versus luxuries) in a longterm relationship by giving subjects either a tight budget or a generous one to “spend” on various qualities they’d want in a partner. When women (the childbearers and carers of the species) had limited mateshopping dollars, they allocated most of them to having a Mr. Provider — a

man with status and resources — saying “Oh well!” to hunkaliciousness and other qualities. Men on a tight budget disproportionately allocated their mating dollars toward hotitude — not surprising, because beautiful features are like a flashing “Fertile Myrtle!” sign. However, even on a constrained budget, women and men each saw kindness as a must-have — ranking it a close second to their top priority. Getting back to your friend, who’s dumping what you see as a perfectly serviceable billionaire, consider that his pickiness and humorlessness may play out as unkindness. Apparently for her, having, oh, 100 bedrooms on four continents to cry herself to sleep in doesn’t make up for that. And consider the view from diminishing marginal utility: “Okay, a billionaire is nice, but maybe I could make do with a funny, easygoing millionaire.” To stop being mad, focus on what you have to be grateful for instead of what she’s, uh, squandered — a lifetime of 26-hour arguments about how she failed to use the micrometer calipers to return the loofah to its rightful position.

Plenty of Fishing I’ve been with my girlfriend for over a year, and I love her and think she’s beautiful. However, she is very insecure about her looks, and she asks me all the time whether I think she looks pretty. It’s getting tiring constantly reassuring her. Is there some tool I could be using to help her feel more secure? — Stumped I’m sure it’s exhausting doing the daily “Hi, gorgeous!” skywriting and cleaning up after the rented elephant that pulls the “You’re beautiful,

baby!” billboard. Only — oh, wait … you’re actually just tired from verbally “reassuring her,” which, admittedly, probably takes at least several words and a whole 10 seconds.” Yes, it is important for you to reassure her. But, in doing that, motivation counts. Social psychologist Shelly Gable finds that relationships tend to be happier when those in them are guided by “approach” rather than “avoidance” goals. In normal-person terms, this means striving for positive outcomes rather than trying to

avoid negative ones. In this case, an avoidance goal would be telling your girlfriend she’s beautiful in order to keep her from nagging you, but taking the “approach” approach would be doing it because you want her to feel good. And here’s a secret: Break out the compliments before she asks and you might keep her from starting to worry that she needs “extra-coverage” makeup — the kind that involves scaffolding, three workmen, and $200 worth of drywall.

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A female friend just broke up with her billionaire boyfriend. She told me she wasn’t happy. The guy is super-picky about whether you put things back in exactly the right spot and doesn’t have the greatest sense of humor. Still, I think she’s making the biggest mistake of her life. Doesn’t she know how hard it is to find a decent and wealthy man? I’m a happily married woman, so why does this make me so mad? — Irate

Alkon’s latest book is “Good Manners for Nice People who Sometimes Say F*ck.” She blogs at advicegoddess.com and podcasts at blogtalkradio.com. October 27, 2016 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 35

On Stage – The week in local theater c o m p i l e d b y C h r i s t i n a ca m p o d o n i c o

Double Trouble: “Two Henrys” @ Pacific Resident Theatre In this National Playwright’s Conference finalist set between the end of the AIDS crisis and the dawn of marriage equality, a fortysomething gay man goes to his deceased partner’s father’s funeral, forcing him to confront the conservative family that could have been his. Opens at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, with a talk back after the 8 p.m. show on Oct. 28 and no show on Oct. 30. Then it continues at 8 p.m. Thurs-

Now playing at 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and at 3 p.m. Sundays through Dec. 18 at the Odyssey Theatre, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., West L.A. $20 to $30. sylviatheplayinla.com

Puppy Love: “Sylvia” @ Odyssey Theatre When a middle-aged emptynester falls in love with a beautiful lab/poodle stray in Central Park, his wife Kate starts to get jealous. But could the pup bring husband and wife closer together?

Chekhov Family Reunion: “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” @ Edgemar Center of the Arts In this Tony-winning comedy riffing on Chekhovian themes, the quiet life of two middle-aged siblings named Vanya and Sonia is disrupted when their famous movie star sister Masha visits their rural Pennsylvania farmhouse with her twentysomething boy toy Spike in tow. Opens at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, and continues at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 5 p.m. Sundays through Dec. 11 at the Edgemar Center for the Arts (Theater A), 2437 Main St., Santa Monica. $35. (310) 392-0815; edgemarcenter.org

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days and Fridays, 3 and 8 p.m. Saturdays and 7 p.m. Sundays through Nov. 13 at Pacific Resident Theatre, 707 Venice Blvd., Venice. $15 suggested donation. (310) 822-8392; pacificresidenttheatre.com

The Pico Playhouse explores crisis capitalism in “Other People’s Money”

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American Justice: “The Exonerated” @ The Actors’ Gang Based on interviews, letters,

transcripts, case files and the public record, this play weaves together the real-life stories of six wrongfully convicted survivors of death row and their fights for freedom. Now playing at 8 p.m. Thursdays and Saturdays, 9 p.m. Fridays and 2 p.m. Sundays through Nov. 5 at The Actors’ Gang, 9070 Venice Blvd., Culver City. (310) 838-4264; theactorsgang.com American Greed: “Other People’s Money” @ The Pico Playhouse When a professional business liquidator attempts to take over a small factory in an old New England town, loyalties, tradition and friendships are tested over whether corporate raiders are realists or creatures of capitalism. Now playing at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 3 p.m. Sundays through Nov. 20 at Pico Playhouse, 10508 W. Pico Blvd., Rancho Park. $27 to $32. (818) 765-8732; interactla.com Locked Up: “Life without Parole” @ Edgemar Center for the Arts Based on 42 interviews with

incarcerated women serving long-term sentences for killing their abusive partners, this play tells the story of Helen Broker as she faces the parole board for the first time and journeys through the dark underworld of domestic abuse. Now playing at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through Nov. 5 at the Edgemar Center for the Arts, 2437 Main St., Santa Monica. $35. (310) 3920815; edgemarcenter.org Philosopher’s Headstone: “Underneath” @ Odyssey Theater Internationally renowned Irish monologist Pat Kinevane plays a lonely woman philosophizing about her hardscrabble life in Ireland, the meaning of beauty and the mark of ugliness from beyond the grave. Closing soon. Final shows are at 8 p.m. Thursday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday (Oct. 27, 29 and 30) at the Odyssey Theater, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., West L.A. $10 to $25. (310) 477-2055; odysseytheatre.com

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ballot measure is just too risky. “It trumps the city’s ‘right to rebuild’ clause. It’s a completely absurd risk. Why run the risk of voters not approving these kinds of projects? … I think it’s irresponsible to subject the city’s public safety to these kinds of risks,” Islas said. Both he and McKeown point to the city’s approval of a new fire station that will be at least 40 feet tall. “If Measure LV passes, it could require waiting up to two years for an election [to approve] the critically needed new fire station downtown, just because it’s over 32 feet,” McKeown said. Melkonians countered that the fire station is already approved, and thus would be grandfathered in if Measure LV passes. Islas takes issue with Measure LV supporters’ contention that it will improve traffic rather than simply lock in the status quo. “It’s disingenuous and dishonest to claim that stopping development would make a dent in the traffic situation. It claims to do things that it really doesn’t,” he said. McKeown said there are smarter alternatives to Measure LV that won’t throw decades of planning and public engagement out the window. “Putting development agreements to a popular vote, in contrast, would restrain overdevelopment while honoring the

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Melkonians dismisses his critics as being part of the city’s political class, noting how much money is being spent to defeat his measure. “Look at where the money is coming from and from whom,” he said. Gruber counters that spending by real estate interests is simply logical selfpreservation, and that spending shouldn’t cast a shadow over the motivations of city leaders opposed to Measure LV for other reasons. “LV would put these [development] companies out of business,” Gruber said. “And we saw with the airport measure Armen Melkonians says passing that spending money on elections in Measure LV would force developers Santa Monica does not always buy you a to “buy other city councils” win,” Gruber added, referring to a losing

“Ironically, one loophole would have let the Hines project that helped start this mess go forward by right, without a vote of residents.” — Santa Monica City Councilman Kevin McKeown

decade-plus of community participation in shaping our zoning code — allowing reasonable housing, and avoiding obstacles to post-disaster reconstruction,” he said.

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2014 ballot initiative to keep Santa Monica Airport open that received more than $500,000 in backing. Less than two weeks from Election Day, Melkonians said he doesn’t think

there will be many projects that will need approval by residents if his initiative is successful. “Developers are going to go to another city where they can buy other city councils,” he said with a laugh. Melkonians acknowledged that there have been contentious confrontations between supporters and opponents of Measure LV, but given its potential to reshape city planning he isn’t surprised. Islas said he sees the Measure LV campaign as less of a rebellion against Santa Monica City Hall than a local symptom of the kind of political vitriol breeding nationally. “I see this as a real threat to our city. This has hit new levels of contention, and I think it is reflective of the national [political] debate,” he said. “It’s very poisonous, this all-or-nothing kind of politics. Measure LV people are being harassed, and if we can’t disagree civilly there will be lasting consequences.” Win or lose, Melkonians said the campaign has been worth every long day and night spent in meetings, planning campaign strategy and keeping his supporters engaged. “There’ve been a lot of sleepless nights,” he said. “I’m looking forward to Nov. 9, when I can get a good night’s sleep.” gary@argonautnews.com

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Art and Commerce Mark Grotjahn’s early copies of retail signage raise questions about the function and purpose of art By Matt Stromberg Painter Mark Grotjahn is one of Los Angeles’ most significant contemporary artists, a leading figure in the cultural renaissance that is setting the city on course to become the nation’s art capital for the 21st century. He fully embodies the label “art star” with both critical and commercial success — Artnet named him No. 2 on its 2014 list of the Ten Most Expensive West Coast Artists — as well as his bad-boy bohemian behavior. Grotjahn is best known for his “butterfly” paintings: heavily worked, brightly-colored abstract canvases that feature a series of triangular shapes radiating out from one or two central points. These deceptively simple paintings can be read as compendiums of 20th century abstraction — and then some — referencing expressionism, geometric minimalism, Op Art, Renaissance perspective and the spiritual as depicted by predecessors like Kandinsky. Long before Grotjahn made his name with these elegant yet idiosyncratic abstractions, however, he created a body of work that paired the straightforward utility of commercial sign painting with a conceptual art framework. Almost 20 years after his first exhibition with the gallery, Blum & Poe presents a selection of works from his early “Sign Exchange” project. Writing about an exhibition of these works earlier this year at Karma in New York, art critic Jerry Saltz noted that the show “pictures a young painter coming of age as an artist by not making paintings, per se.” When he entered the MFA program at UC Berkeley in the early ‘90s, Grotjahn was an expressionistic painter in the mold of German Neo-Expressionist Georg Baselitz or graffiti-artist-turned-international-art-star Basquiat. He quickly abandoned both figurative and abstract

Grotjahn’s “Big Sale” traded signs are among those on view at Blum & Poe in Culver City paintings, saying he found them “too coded, too much talking.” Looking for a way to make work that communicated more effectively, Grotjahn was attracted to the hand-painted signs hanging in the windows of the shops around his San Francisco studio — ones advertising things such as hot dogs, beer, milk or detergent. Some were completely done by hand. Others were mass-produced, with a space for store owners to customize them by writing in their own prices or sale items. Sometimes products were represented by simplified, cartoonish drawings; other times, photographic reproductions were used. The one thing they all had in common was the clarity of their message. Grotjahn began to make drawings of the signs, then moved on to copying them whole, painting his own versions. What he did with them next took them beyond a simple update to the commercial infatuation of ‘60s Pop Art into the realm of conceptual undertaking.

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10 p.m. in The Del Monte. DJ Doomz gets things moving in the Townhouse bar at 10 p.m. No cover. Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com

Sunday, Oct. 30 Aqua Aerobics, 8:15 and 9:30 a.m. Sundays. Build strength and endurance during the early shallowwater workout or the later deep-water workout at the Santa Monica Swim Center, 2225 16th St., Santa Monica. $2.75 to $11. (310) 458-8700; santamonicaswimcenter.org/ adult-fitness

“Mark Grotjahn: Sign Exchange 1993-98” is on view through Nov. 5 at Blum & Poe, 2727 S. La Cienega Blvd., Culver City. Call (310) 836-2062 or visit blumandpoe.com for gallery hours and more information.

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Music at the Farmers Market, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Standards perform live at Santa Monica Farmers Market, 2640 Main St., Santa Monica. smgov.net Music by the Sea, 2 to 5 p.m. A scenic harbor view is the backdrop for a R&B funk concert by Floyd & The Flyboys. Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 301-9900; visitmarinadelrey.com Music and Comedy at Unurban, 2 to 8 p.m. performances by Almost Vaudeville (2 to 5 p.m.) and Mews Small and Company (5 to 6 p.m.) precede the “Funny Feminist” Comedy Show from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

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“I knew somehow that the originals were better than mine and I figured that the reason that theirs were better was that they had the audience,” Grotjahn remarks in a statement about the exhibition. “They knew who their audience was and they knew what they wanted to say. Their signs were functioning. I figured in order to get my sign to be as good as their signs I needed to get my sign in their store.” So he did just that. In a series of barely documented performances, Grotjahn brought his copies into stores and asked the oftenperplexed shopkeepers to accept them in exchange for the originals. (He reported a 90% success rate with the trades.) It was these paintings by anonymous artists that he would later exhibit, not his versions, which still hung in the stores. “It’s an interesting note to consider in the context of the artist’s current position among the higher reaches of blue-chip marketability,” wrote D. Creahan for Art Observed, “that a number of his early

works … are now hanging in Chinese restaurants, on backyard fences, or in the windows of convenience stores.” With this clever post-Duchampian act, exhibiting these found (or traded) works as his own, Grotjahn raised a number of questions regarding originality, skill and worth that are still being hotly debated in the art world. What makes a painting “good”? What makes one valuable? Which is “better,” the paintings made by a “fine artist,” or the previously unremarkable paintings that he copied from, now hanging on the gallery wall? And the biggest of them all: What is the function of art? In the ensuing two decades since producing this series, Grotjahn has developed from unknown art student to a wildly successful artist, creating paintings that, on the surface, seem quite removed from his sign exchange project. On the contrary, however, this early work can be viewed as the beginning of a process that would mark Grotjahn’s return to painting. “Grotjahn’s way back to painting,” concluded Saltz, “began in a conceptual discourse on the function of painting itself, how it communicates, where, to whom, and possible processes open to it.” His transformation only deepens the significance of these early works, providing a glimpse at a rarely seen, but important period in this enigmatic artist’s oeuvre.

at Unurban Coffee House, 3301 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 315-0056; unurban.com Sofar Sounds: Santa Monica, 5:15 to 7:30 p.m. A carefully curated set of live music, kept secret until showtime, at a secret location in Santa Monica. Get instructions at sofarsounds.com The Toledo Show, 9:30 p.m. This long-running cabaret show continues to shake up Sunday nights at Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $10 plus a two-drink minimum. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com

Monday, Oct. 31 Seated Breath Meditation: Naam Yoga, 10:15 a.m. This class aims to calm and clear the mind through controlled breathing, mudras (hand-seals) and simple seated movements that promote balance and rhythm in our emotions, thoughts and physical bodies. Venice Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch Library, 501 S. Venice Blvd., Venice. (310) 821-1769; lapl.org Culver City Friends of the Library Knitting Circle, 2:30 to 4 p.m. Learn how to make knitwear, from scarves and caps to cell phone covers. Be part of the latest knitting trends. Culver City Julian Dixon Library, 4975

Overland Ave., Culver City. (310) 559-1676; colapublib.org All-Ages Knitting, 3 to 5 p.m. Gather each Monday to meet new friends and knit. All experience levels welcome. Westchester Loyola Village Branch Library, 7114 W. Manchester Ave., Westchester. (310) 348-1096; lapl.org Halloween Facepaint, 4 to 5 p.m. Get ready for Halloween with wild, beautiful or ghoulish face paint. For kids and teens. Venice Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch Library, 501 S. Venice Blvd., Venice. Free. (310) 821-1769; lapl.org (Continued on page 40)

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Quick on their Feet Bodytraffic brings high-octane synergy to ‘ferocious choreography’ Photo by Joshua Sugiyama

By Christina Campodonico Ask artistic directors Lillian Barbeito or Tina Finkelman Berkett separately about the moment when they felt like their 9-year-old, L.A.-based dance company Bodytraffic finally arrived, and they’ll give you the same answer — their company’s 2012 debut at the Joyce Theater in New York, one of the most respected theaters for dance performance in the country. “We just performed at the Joyce Theatre,” recalls Barbeito. “Tina and I, after the curtain closed, literally embraced and fell to the floor sobbing. … And I just remember holding her and just sort of weeping with joy at that moment.” “The curtain closed and our company left,” recounts Berkett in a separate call. “They ran off stage and Lillian and I just dropped to the ground on the floor of the stage. And we were just sobbing because — it still makes me emotional — we worked so hard to get to that moment.” Call it ESP or sheer coincidence, but Berkett and Barbeito share a kind of mindmeld that could be called uncanny. Fortunately, that ability to read each other’s thoughts comes in handy when the two are developing programming for their critically-acclaimed company’s performances at venues like The Broad Stage, where this weekend Bodytraffic will premiere choreographer Arthur Pita’s new work “Death Defying Dances,” perform William Forsythe protégé Richard Siegal’s “3 Preludes” and preview Anton Lachky’s “Private Games: Chapter One.” Berkett says that aside from her husband and son, Barbeito is the closest person in her life, a partnership that has grown over nine years of making all artistic director decisions together. “Artistically we pretty much always see eye-to-eye,” says Berkett. “I think Tina and I are artistic soulmates,” adds Barbeito. “We are very different, sort of yin and yang, and our two different

Bodytraffic dancer Joseph Kudra stretches his creative muscles perspectives coming together actually do define the Bodytraffic aesthetic, and one is interdependent on the other.” For instance, Berkett handles development and fundraising, while Barbeito oversees the company’s educational arm. Yet both have a taste for high-quality choreography that is not only pleasing to the eye, but also artistically satisfying for their dancers. “Lillian and I have always looked after the company and curated our repertoire from the perspective of dancers,” says Berkett, who danced with Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Hell’s Kitchen Dance as a founding member and also performs with Bodytraffic. Barbeito received a BFA from Juilliard and danced professionally around the world before landing in Los Angeles and hanging up her dance shoes. “We understand what it means to have a dancer’s perspective, to know what it feels like inside the work,” continues Berkett. “When the directors get to actually touch and feel, it brings a dedication to the work and intimacy with the work that is particu-

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Mar Vista Community Council Education Committee, 6: 30 p.m. Join this diverse gathering of community stakeholders dedicated to improving the community’s quality of life by enhancing education, arts and culture opportunities in and around Mar Vista. Mar Vista Branch Library, 12006 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista. Free. (310) 390-3454; lapl.org

Tuesday, Nov. 1 Read with a STAR!, 3 to 5 p.m. Share books with STAR volunteer reader Judy. Kids can discover great stories and learn how to earn a free book to keep. Parents should call to confirm/

“Bodytraffic” performs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday (Oct. 27, 28 and 29) at The Broad Stage, 1310 11th St., Santa Monica. $40 to $80. Call (310) 434-3200 or visit thebroadstage.com

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RSVP. Westchester Loyola Village Branch Library, 7114 W. Manchester Ave., Westchester. (310) 348-1096; lapl.org Marshall McLuhan-Finnegans Wake Reading Club, 6 p.m. This open reading club meets the first Tuesday of each month for literary discussions. Lloyd Taber-Marina del Rey Library, 4533 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 306-7330; laughtears.com Mar Vista Community Council Education Committee, 6 p.m. The Mar Vista Community Council discusses education matters within the Mar Vista area. Mar Vista Branch Library, 12006 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista. Free. (310) 390-3454; lapl.org

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lar to our company, and we take a lot of pride in having that closeness to it. So from that perspective, we always commission things that are really well enjoyed and danced from a place of excitement.” “Really the most important thing is that the work challenges the dancers and helps them grow artistically and technically,” says Barbeito. “As we’re considering a choreographer to commission them and to bring their work into our repertoire, it’s not just, ‘Is this going to add a different color or different flavor to the repertoire that’s already there?’ but ‘Is it going to keep our dancers interested and engaged and really inspired to come into the studio every day?’” For The Broad Stage, Berkett and Barbeito have prepared a challenging program that showcases the company’s skillful command of ballet and contemporary dance techniques. Siegal’s “3 Preludes” set to Gershwin’s music of the same name captures “the essence of Bodytraffic, the nuance of our personality … and camaraderie of the

dancers,” says Berkett, while Pita’s “Death Defying Dances” builds itself around the songbook of the “Queen of the Beatniks,” folksinger Judy Henske. But Anton Lachky’s “Private Games: Chapter One,” which will make its full debut at the Joyce Theater next year, is the most intense, she says. “Anton’s work is like the fastest, the most furious, the most ferocious choreography and dancing I think our company has ever seen,” says Berkett. “It’s super speed. It really shows off the prowess of our dancers, their athleticism and their sheer animal abilities.” “It’s physically shocking,” adds Barbeito. “It was definitely one of the most physically traumatic creation processes. It was a month-long and the dancers could barely walk after just a couple of days.” But if Bodytraffic’s track record with this viewer is any indication, the company is poised to be back on its feet and in top form for their Thursday opening at The Broad Stage. Their performance of Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s “Bounce” with the LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in September was buoyant and effervescent, their mastery over Barak Marshall’s complicated hand choreography at a March 2014 USC Visions & Voices event quicksilver, and their 2015 performance of “Restructure” in “Moves After Dark” at the Music Center an engrossing chain of fluid movement. On the surface Bodytraffic’s name may belie such a free flow of kinetic energy or just scream gridlock, but when the lights go down they’re a nimble force — always on the move.

Stan Kenton Live at Redlands Remembered, 7 p.m. Mike Vax and an all-star alumni band play music from the original performance, plus a pre-concert discussion at this pre-festival concert. For the Stan Kenton Milestones Festival, the L.A. Jazz Institute presents concerts, rare films, and other events to honor the influental jazzman. Sheraton Gateway Hotel Los Angeles, 6101 W. Century Blvd., Westchester. $10-$450. (562) 200-5477; lajazzinstitute.org

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Bachata Night at Wokcano, 8 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Dance teachers Nicole Gil and Charlie Antillon lead a beginner lesson at 8 p.m., an intermediate class at 9 and social

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that combine sensuously rendered portraits of women with painted and collaged comic book overlays of superheroes. In “Rendered Problematic,” Sean Mahan’s mixed-media graphite and acrylic washes on wood panel depict serene children with dated appliances, conveying innocence and quietude. Thinkspace Art Gallery, 6009 Washington Blvd., Culver City. (310) 558-3375; thinkspacegallery.com

show each week featuring burlesque dancers, singers, comedians and magicians. TRiP, 2101 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. $5. (310) 396-9010; tripsantamonica.com Velvet Guerilla Cabaret, 9 p.m. Open mic poetry each Wednesday at Unurban Coffee House, 3301 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 315-0056; unurban.com Venice Underground Comedy and Bootleg Bombshells Burlesque Show, 9 and 11:30 p.m. Start the night with some of L.A.’s best comics, and finish it with a burlesque show featuring special guests Missy May & Erin Bridges. No cover. The Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com

Thursday, Nov. 3 Current Events Discussion Group, 1 p.m. What’s new this week? This is an open forum for sharing information and opinions on the key events of the week in the context of today’s

The Marina del Rey Sheriff’s Station hosts a chicken and waffles cookout to raise money for morale-building station activities. SEE WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2. Contact Janet Cormier (310) 621-8006; jdoggan@aol.com Early Childhood Skills Discussion, 7 to 9 p.m. Senior Program Director for Mind in the Making at The Bezos Family Foundation, Erin Ramsey discusses the importance of promoting executive function life skills in early childhood. Westside Neighborhood School, 5401 Beethoven St., Mar Vista. Free. (310) 574-8650; wnsk8.com WestEdge Design Fair, Thursday through Sunday (Nov. 3 to 6). Showcasing the best in California and international design, WestEdge allows attendees to shop from 150 exhibiting brands and products, ranging from furniture and lighting to kitchen and bath lines. Opening Night Party is from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday and features a silent auction of one-of-a-kind Schwinn bicycles, with proceeds going to Los Angeles Ronald McDonald House. The Barker Hangar, 3021 Airport Ave., #203, Santa Monica. (917) 822-0350; westedgedesignfair. com

The Abbot Kinney Memorial Library hosts free facepainting for kids just in time for trick-or-treat. SEE MONDAY, OCT. 31. political, socioeconomic and cultural issues. Mar Vista Branch Library, 12006 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista. Free. (310) 390-3454; lapl.org Computer Coding Discovery for Kids, 4 to 5 p.m. Now is the time to learn coding. Bring your own computer or use the library’s. Playa Vista Branch Library, 6400 Playa Vista Drive, Playa Vista. (310) 437-6680; lapl.org Toastmasters Speechcraft — Culver City, 7 to 8:30 p.m. In this workshop to develop better presentation skills, experienced Toastmasters present the fundamentals of public speaking in the relaxed, enjoyable atmosphere of a Toastmasters meeting. $25. YMCA 4500 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City.

Comic Books and Comedy, 8 to 9:45 p.m. Former “Late Night with David Letterman” comic Andy Hendrickson, Traci Stumpf, Eddie Della Siepe and Brad Silnutzer perform standup comedy at Hi De Ho Comics, 1431 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. $5 suggested donation. (310) 394-2820; hidehocomics.com

Galleries & Museums “SHTF,” opening reception from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30. Tokyo-based, Norwegian-born artist Gardar Eide Einarsson engages with the suburban, domestic setting of the gallery, responding to the historically potent tension in the current global political climate by casting the bungalow space as a doomsday prepper’s home. Through Dec. 3. team (bungalow), 306 Windward Ave., Venice. (310) 339-1945; teamgal.com Historic Photos of Tongva Native Peoples, ongoing. Historic black-andwhite photographs of the Tongva, who were the first peoples in our area, are on display at the Playa Vista Branch Library, 6400 Playa Vista Drive, Playa Vista. (310) 437-6680; lapl.org

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Billy Al, through Saturday, Oct. 29. A selection of Venice artist’s paintings from the 1960s through 2016, primarily focused on Dracula, spiced with a hint of Anthurium and a little John Wayne hindsight. Samuel Freeman, 2639 S. La Cienega Blvd., Culver City. (310) 425-8601; samuelfreeman.com “Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) Exhibition,” through Tuesday, Nov 1. The LAGI competition challenged teams to design large-scale work of public art that could provide clean electricity and/or drinking water. The site challenge at the Santa Monica Pier breakwater offered teams the opportunity to consider wave and tidal energy as well as wind, solar and other renewable sources. Annenberg Community Beach House Gallery, 415 Pacific Coast Hwy, Santa Monica. (310) 458-4904; annenbergbeachhouse.com

“Recent Paintings,” through Nov. 9. Featuring stark pastels and bold primaries balanced around a constellation of bodies, Malcolm T. Liepke’s work adheres to familiar tropes of contemplative women and men while employing a lighter and cooler palette. Arcadia Contemporary, Town Plaza, 9428 Washington Blvd., Culver City. (424) 603-4656; arcadiacontemporary.com “Turn Around,” through Nov. 12. Exploring themes of decay and renewal, Otella Wruck presents photographs containing multi-layered imagery printed on aluminum panes. This new work captures the melancholy of loss balanced by the joy of observing nature’s cycles of rebirth. First Independent Gallery, Bergamot Station G6, 2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica. (310) 829-0345; figgallery.com The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson, through Dec. 3. A showcase of CartierBresson’s prolific photography taken over a lifetime of international travel. Peter Fetterman Gallery, Bergamot Station, A1, 2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica. (310) 453-6463; peterfetterman.com

“Face (Geometry) (Naked) Eyes,” through Dec. 4. Working with a carpet artisan, Polly Apfelbaum designed four large area rugs inspired by a Tree of Life mosaic in Otranto, Italy, New Age spirituality, Czech Fluxus artist Sonia Svecova’s eye collages and Chilean film director Alejanrdo Jodorowsky’s film “Holy Mountain.” Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Arts and Design, 9045 Lincoln Blvd., Westchester. (310) 665-6800; otis.edu “100 Years of National Parks: The West,” through Dec. 24. This is the fourth and final installment of a year-long series celebrating the centennial of the National Park Service. The show highlights the 11 western states of the continental United States representing the vast diversity of geography, climate and beauty of the American west. The G2 Gallery, 1503 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice. (310) 452-2842; theg2gallery.com “Questionable History,” ongoing. Objects from the museum’s collection of Cold War artifacts are presented in a way that highlights what we don’t know, either due to lack of information or contradicting sources. The exhibit raises questions about history and how museums present it. The Wende Museum, 5741 Buckingham Parkway, Ste. E, Culver City. (310) 216-1600; wendemuseum.org Send event information at least 10 days in advance to calendar@ argonautnews.com.

“Rib Mountain,” through Nov. 2. Kyla Hansen’s assemblage sculptures and text-based work reference the anthropomorphized, feminized desert landscape through storytelling. Five Car Garage, location in Santa Monica given after RSVP. (310) 497-6895; info@emmagrayhq.com “one day after another,” through Nov. 5. Antonio Ballester Moreno uses jute and acrylic paint within a palette of primary colors and foundational geometric shapes to evoke the history of tapestry design and African, Islamic and Ottoman influences. Christopher Grimes Gallery, 916 Colorado Ave., Santa Monica. (310) 587-3373; cgrimes.com “Gifted,” through Nov. 5. “Gifted” features a collection of interviews and photographs of influential black men in their most natural environments. This work honors the creative genius and profound contributions these men have made to their communities and society as a whole. Residency Art Gallery, 310 E. Queen St., Inglewood. (424) 261-0101; residencyart.com “The Cages; and the Reading Rooms of their Lives,” and “Rendered Problematic,” through Nov. 5. In “Cages,” artist Sandra Chevrier creates mixed-media works

The WestEdge Design Fair, showcasing new achievements in product design, returns to Barker Hangar. SEE THURSDAY, NOV. 3.

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