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VOL 45, NO 43 Local News & Culture
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How a Nat Geo explorer is bringing sexy back to ocean science . ........................ 12
The Playa del Rey Guardians Society draws a line in the sand on new development . ........................................ 9
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WESTSIDE HAPPENINGS Randy Gardner opens ICE at Santa Monica . ..................................... 29
Bicyclists Want a Bridge over Ballona Creek ......................... 10
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Opinion Venice Should Secede from L.A. Independent cityhood presents solutions for homelessness, gentrification and crime . .. 10 .
The Secret Sixth Man How L.A. Clippers Head Trainer Jasen Powell . works his magic in Playa Vista .............. 14
Local Heroes 2015 Heroes Wanted Nominate a neighbor to help us celebrate Westsiders who make our community a better place . ... 16
The Money Pit LAX officials were spending so fast the paperwork couldn’t keep up . .............. 11
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Homes for the Holidays Westchester and Playa del Rey open their doors for annual Holiday Home Tour ........ 30
Fun, Fright, Festivals 16 ways to celebrate Halloween and Day of the Dead . ........................... 32
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Divided We Stand Sarah Vowell traces today’s political dysfunction back to the American Revolution ............................. 36 On the Cover: Clippers Head Trainer Jasen Powell checks the injured hand of point guard Chris Paul during an Oct. 27 practice at the L.A. Clippers Training Center in Playa Vista. Photo by Ted Soqui. Design by Michael Kraxenberger.
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L e tt e r s Why Let El Niño Go to Waste? Re: “Don’t Flush El Niño Down the Drain,” opinion, Oct. 15 Thank you, William Hicks, for your excellent piece. The ominous rainfall prediction chart included with the story, which NOAA released last month, is superseded by an even more sobering one this month. Only a short time ago a NASA climatologist announced that “there is no longer a possibility that [this El Niño] storm will wimp out. It’s 100% for sure, too big to fail.” That means we are almost certainly looking at one of the wettest rainy seasons ever recorded in Southern California. Are SoCal authorities listening? People should do whatever they can to sensibly capture rainwater on their own properties. But I want to know where the urgency is to collect water on a larger scale. Where are the WPA-like projects to build emergency reservoirs and catchments ASAP? We had years to do it, but now only a couple of months. Is our drought not a major emergen-
cy? This should be a major public works project of the highest priority. Yet I haven’t heard of a single thing being done, even as record rainfall becomes more and more imminent each day. We are surrounded by mountains where rainfall flows through an endless number of crevices and ravines. Why aren’t small dams or other water-capture systems being built? If nothing else, can’t we pump water out of the L.A. River when it floods rather than let it all flow out to sea? With each storm I am frustrated to see billions of gallons of fresh water flowing through our streets and into storm drains, lost forever, while authorities seem asleep on the issue. Where’s the Depressionera will and determination to build the infrastructure to face this challenge? Too big a project to tackle? No money? Consider this: Much of Highway 1, almost all the way up the coast of California, was built in just a few years during the cash-strapped 1930s. Not to mention the gigantic Hoover Dam. Remember how swiftly that Santa Monica Freeway
overpass was completely rebuilt after it fell in the 1994 quake? It was done in a breathtakingly short time — because it had to be. Meanwhile, we need to have a serious discussion about growth. We wouldn’t have to skip showers and let our lawns go brown if we hadn’t invited in millions of new residents in recent decades. Sure, developers want to make money and it’s a free country. But how bad does it have to get for the rest of us before authorities wake up and apply some common sense? Ken Marschall Redondo Beach HAVE YOUR SAY IN THE ARGONAUT: We encourage readers to share thoughts on local issues and reactions to stories in The Argonaut through our Letters to the Editor page. You too can have a voice in the community. Letters should include your name and place of residence (for publication) and a telephone number (not for publication). Send to letters@ argonautnews.com.
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A day late and with no explanation, last Friday the Federal Aviation Agency postponed a decision on the future of the Santa Monica Airport for the FOURTH time. The legal issue is simple – so it’s now clear the FAA is deliberately stalling to block the City of Santa Monica from protecting the security, health, and safety of thousands of residents in Santa Monica and Los Angeles who are endangered every day by current airport operations. Santa Monica Airport was built as a landing strip on City parkland in 1919. Today, though the rooftops of family homes are just 300 feet from the end of the runway, it’s used by multi-million dollar corporate and personal jets. Yet even though the City of Santa Monica owns the airport, the FAA has repeatedly blocked the City from imposing even the simplest and most sensible restrictions on aircraft operations to protect the security, health, and safety of thousands of nearby residents in Santa Monica and Los Angeles. There’s no excuse for the FAA’s continued stalling. We don’t expect them to play fair. We fully expect to have to appeal their decision in court. But they are required by law to issue a ruling. Their continued failure to do so prevents the City from protecting the security, health, and safety of thousands in the flight path of corporate and personal jets taking off immediately over the rooftops of residential neighborhoods. Our message to the FAA is simple: #FAADoYourJob. If you support the efforts of the City and Representatives Ted Lieu and Karen Bass to get a decision, go to www.FAADoYourJob.org and take action. Post on Facebook and Twitter. Join our email campaign! We all have jobs to do. It’s about time the FAA does theirs.
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Building Opposition The Playa del Rey Guardians Society draws a line in the sand to hold back the tide of growth del Rey for 21 years. “And soon we’ll become just like Manhattan Beach.” The Guardians echo Nellor’s argument in their appeal: “If one building, like this building, is allowed to break the rules which have held our close community together, we can without a doubt anticipate the ‘domino effect.’ There will be an onslaught of developers riding on the back of the first project to be allowed to break the rules.” Maria Reyes, vice president of the West Beach Playa del Rey Property Owners Association, cites additional worries. “We are all concerned about the how parking and traffic will impact the community as the population grows. For me, health and safety is the main concern. Think of an emergency evacuation, and there is only one way out— Culver. They are going to have to build roads over the wetlands to support the population Esplanade and Legado expect to grow to,” Reyes said. Starting with Legado and now the Esplanade project, plans to build bigger and taller structures in Playa del Rey have awoken a once-dormant group of deterThe owner of a vacant lot at the corner of Esplanade and Argonaut mined residents who say they aren’t streets wants to build an apartment complex as high as 56 feet — against all development but don’t want to nearly 20 feet taller than any other building on Esplanade see their quiet community turned into a developer’s paradise. toward final approval, the Guardians filed cares only about the bottom line. Homeowners living in The Jungle, just an appeal calling for further environmen“We will look at everything objectively, tal study and objecting to its planned and we’ll try to make things work out for south of the Legado project, recently succeeded in lobbying the county and the height. The department has not yet set a everyone,” Mirtorabi said. date to hear the appeal. The Esplanade project would go up right California Coastal Commission for “The proposed project will be tall next door to Howard Nellor’s condo at the construction of a sand berm to protect against anticipated El Niño storms. enough to block the views of the Santa northeast corner of Argonaut Street and Some of those activists have now joined Monica Mountains from the public view Vista del Mar. Nellor has heard Mirtorabi the Guardians in monitoring proposed spot at the corner of Vista Del Mar and say she wants to be as neighborly as developments that they believe could alter Montreal Street, and tall enough to cast possible, but he remains skeptical that shade on the public [Del Rey] Lagoon minds will meet, given that she’s asking to Playa del Rey, which unlike any other coastal neighborhood in L.A. has rePark, directly across the street, for much build something taller than any other mained largely untouched by commercial of the day,” the Guardians wrote in their building on Esplanade. development for decades. appeal. “All of the houses on Esplanade are “We’d like to keep it that way,” Azam Mirtorabi, who owns the land at 37 feet tall. If they go to 56 feet, all new Esplanade and Argonaut, said she wants to buildings in Playa del Rey will want to go Nellor said. work with community members and does 56 feet tall, and that will start a domino gary@argonautnews.com not want to be the kind of developer who effect,” said Nellor, who has lived in Playa
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Christopher Rothschild Cleveland died from a single gunshot wound to the torso L.A. County Sheriff’s homicide investigators are still searching for clues in this weekend’s fatal shooting of a 27-year-old man in the parking lot of a popular restaurant on Washington Boulevard in Marina del Rey. Deputies found Christopher Rothschild Cleveland dead of a single gunshot wound to the torso outside Islands Fine Burgers and Drinks at around 3:40 a.m. on Sunday, Sheriff’s homicide Det. Peter Hecht said.
Investigators believe that Cleveland has family who live locally and do not believe at this time that Cleveland was the victim of a gang killing. Hecht said bystanders who initially discovered Cleveland’s body tried to revive him with CPR. “There are several witnesses that we’re talking to, some from before [the shooting] and after it happened. It’s still early in the investigation,” Hecht said. Deputies from the Marina del Rey Sheriff’s Station responded to the scene after receiving a 911 call about an assault with a deadly weapon, deputy Crystal Hernandez said. Cleveland’s murder is the first to happen in Marina del Rey since December 2013, when a security guard at the Shores apartments was shot to death during the commission of a burglary. A former security guard who had worked with the victim was convicted of murder this year. Anyone with information about Cleveland’s murder is asked to call the Sherriff’s Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500. — Gary Walker
A Del Rey architect frustrated by the lack of a safe north-south bicycle route between Culver Boulevard and the Playa Vista area is seeking community support to build a narrow pedestrian/ cyclist bridge over Ballona Creek along the path of a former L.A. Pacific Electric Red Car crossing. The bridge near the 90 Freeway would connect the Ballona Creek Bike Path to the McConnell Avenue terminus south of the creek by spanning Ballona and Centinela creeks. Its path would follow — and could possibly re-use — existing concrete supports for the former railroad bridge. Paul Howard of Tagliaferri Howard Architecture has put the bridge con-
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The 27-year-old victim was found early Sunday morning in the parking lot of Islands restaurant
The bridge would cross the creek at McConnell Avenue cept in the running for a $100,000 LA 2050 grant, but the project needs as many online votes as possible to be considered for funding. Online voting ends at noon on Tuesday, Nov. 3. Visit myla2050connect2015.maker.good.is/ to vote. — Joe Piasecki
Del Rey Readies for El Niño The Del Rey Residents Association will discuss the possibility of localized flooding during winter El Niño storms at the group’s general fall meeting on Thursday, Nov. 5, at Westside Neighborhood School. Flood control experts from the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers as well as representatives from Caltrans, the Los Angeles County Watershed Management Division and the Los Angeles Bureau of Street Services have been invited to speak during the meeting
and address residents’ concerns. Past floods have shaped the design of Del Rey’s three waterways — Ballona Creek, Centinela Creek and the Sepulveda Channel. The meeting is set for 7 p.m., and Westside Neighborhood School is located south of Ballona Creek at 5400 Beethoven St. Write to editor@ delreyhome.org for more information about the meeting. — Gary Walker
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Venice Should Secede from Los Angeles
Only the kind of local control that comes with cityhood can tackle homelessness, gentrification and crime By Nick Antonicello Given the spike in crime despite soaring home values, extreme gentrification thanks to the proliferation of short-term rentals and an overall sense that Venice is ignored and forgotten downtown, the argument in favor of cityhood needs to become a serious public policy discussion. I recently submitted to the Venice Neighborhood Council a resolution seeking that a standing committee be appointed to study the benefits of this urban beach enclave becoming a standalone municipality of Los Angeles County. Unlike the failed secession effort launched years ago in the San Fernando Valley, a movement for secession by some 38,000 Venetians would represent only about 1% of the entire population of the city of Los Angeles. By any rational standard, smaller communities are more governmentally effective, accountable and responsive to the needs of residents and citizens alike. Communities such as Santa Monica to the north, Culver City to the east and Manhattan Beach to the south all offer their residents local government that is acces-
sible, accountable, productive and far cheaper to manage on a day-to-day basis. As a community of some three square miles, organic new revenues in the form of a Visitor’s Retail Tax and local control of a Transit Occupancy Tax would provide an economic windfall to Venice’s financial coffers based on the 16 million tourists that come to this international destination every single year. The economic impact would be in the billions when you consider that Santa Monica has less than half that number of visitors (7.3 million) and a population 59% larger (92,000). With home values surging, Venice can take advantage of shared services when it comes to police, fire and public schools. Venice can collaborate with Los Angeles County for police and fire services while either merging with the Santa Monica – Malibu Unified School District or seeking any other educational partner than the woefully bureaucratic LAUSD. In the end, a brand new school district could be developed and tailored to the needs of a school population far smaller and much more educationally manageable. Adminis-
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trative costs would decline and per pupil costs would tumble, meaning more dollars for classroom excellence and instruction. A directly-elected Venice mayor and City Council would expand upon and improve the current neighborhood council system we have today. Venice would, for the first time since 1926, have a government elected by and for Venetians. Venice would be the emphasis each and every day, not the political afterthought we are now. And because Venice is unique in so many ways, renters would find themselves with newfound political clout, as 68.8% of all Venetians are tenants. The issues of homelessness, gentrification, spiraling crime and short-term rentals could finally be properly analyzed to provide solutions necessary to unify this fractured community. No matter where one lies on the issues that face Venice, almost all of us should agree that greater local control would strengthen our community and offer far greater accountability and productivity as it applies to essential services and the human considerations that are required to address the issues of homelessness, gentrification and high crime.
Managing the challenges of a community of 38,000 is far less complex than running a city of more than three million. Likewise, directly electing a local governing body is far more productive and accountable than getting to elect a single council member in a sprawling district that represents hundreds of thousands of residents. Getting to invest 100% of our financial resources back into our community rather than having them spread throughout this dysfunctional and fundamentally flawed city called Los Angeles is smarter, better and the right thing to do for this incredibly unique, passionate and diverse citizenry. I urge residents of Venice to weigh in on the serious topic of cityhood and potential secession from Los Angeles by sharing your comments with the Venice Neighborhood Council at Secretary@ VeniceNC.org. Nick Antonicello is a gadfly, government watchdog and member of the Venice Neighborhood Council’s Outreach Committee. He’s lived in Venice for 22 years.
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The Money Pit LAX officials were spending so fast the paperwork couldn’t keep up Photo by Ted Soqui
By Tony Peyser Having now read the official 86-page audit by Los Angeles City Controller Ron Galperin as to how the remodeling of LAX’s Tom Bradley International Terminal went $415 million over its initial $621 million budget, I’m astonished that the final tab was only $1.3 billion. Using all the contacts I’ve made over years as a journalist, I called in a few favors and was able to covertly get my hands on a copy of this elusive document. (Full disclosure: I didn’t have to call anybody and it isn’t confidential — it’s online at controller.lacity.org for anyone who cares to look.) The audit isn’t easy reading, but it is informative. However, I wouldn’t glance at it while driving a car or operating heavy machinery. This report is frequently so sleep-inducing that it could give Ambien a run for its money. The bottom line is everything comes down to two words: change order. This common business term refers to the arrangement between a client and builder that the conditions of a project may change down the road and affect the completion date as well as, of course, the cost. Putting up large-scale public projects is not my area of expertise but I imagine that few builders have ever told a client, “Jeez, it turns out our estimate was way high and this building is going to cost you a whole lot less than we’d agreed upon.” Yeah, five will get you ten that change orders are going to mean the client coughing up more bucks 99% of the time. Call it a builder’s version of a mulligan and put it in a folder marked STUFF HAPPENS. Change orders are a common part of the back-and-forth between project owners, contractors, engineers and architects. When the work is on something like a major city airport terminal, budgets can go sky-high — not for a lack of rules regarding change orders, but because there’s so much wriggle room as to how these rules are followed. The audit confirms, as I wrote on Oct. 8, that the Bradley Terminal from the get-go
An A380 cuts the ribbon during the September 2013 grand opening ceremony for the Villaraigosa Concourse at LAX’s Tom Bradley International Terminal
This made it easy for contractors to receive money for change orders but hard to figure out precisely what that money was for. If that isn’t a perfect recipe for financial waste, I don’t know what is. was always on an accelerated completion schedule. This costly emphasis on speed was accompanied by a pervasive carelessness in execution. According to one helpful chart describing the activities of Los Angeles World Airports (the agency that oversees LAX), there were so many change order forms that it was excessive and confusing. The audit also faults an insufficient focus on change order negotiations as well as a failure to consult with independent experts to estimate costs. Even more troubling was the overall lack of attention to keeping change order
records. This made it easy for contractors to receive money for change orders but hard to figure out precisely what that money was for. If that isn’t a perfect recipe for financial waste, I don’t know what is. Don’t worry about the folks at LAWA, though. They came out all right. Gina Marie Lindsay, executive director of LAWA from 2007 until retiring in June of this year, was in 2010 the highest-paid city department head in Los Angeles, earning $355,000 that year — $20,000 more than LAPD Chief Charlie Beck.
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I called Lindsay’s old number at LAX and the helpful gal who answered said she’d pass along my phone number and email to Gina. I sure hope so, because I’d like to ask whether Lindsay knew standard procedures for change orders weren’t being followed and when she realized this project was costing a fortune. If Lindsay elects not to comment — and who could blame her? — then I hope current executive director Deborah Ale Flint, who just took over this year, will weigh in that LAWA is going to be more careful as LAX modernizations continue over the next few years. Near the end of the city controller’s report is a section whose title is quite a mouthful: Performance Audit of the City’s Construction Change Order Management Practices. In it, I found one thing fairly astonishing about the 2012 demolition of the Low Bay Hangar that had been operated by American Airlines. (Weirdly enough, there is fast-motion footage of the demo on YouTube. Thanks, Internet.) The term Change Order Type in the audit indicates various reasons why additional funds are being requested, i.e. Unforeseen Conditions, Errors & Omissions, Change in Scope, Regulatory Requirement, Owner Betterment, Field Condition and Document Corrections. Perhaps LAWA accountants have a Magic 8-Ball that spits out these terms. The Change Order Type box for the Low Bay Hangar reads “unknown.” The only other box checked off is Value Of Change Order Sampled. That says $123,655. I’m thinking this means that LAWA paid out a six-figure amount for no known specific reason. To be fair, I’m not entirely sure. So, I emailed a guy listed in the audit: Farid Saffar, director of auditing for the Office of the City Controller. If he ever gets back to me, I’ll let you know what he says. Until then, enjoy the new terminal. It didn’t come cheap.
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Adventure on the High Seas National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Enric Sala is bringing sexy back to ocean science so that we’ll start paying attention Photo by Zafer Kizilkaya
If Indiana Jones had a real-life marine ecologist counterpart, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Enric Sala would fill the bill. The Spanish academic turned explorer of remote ocean ecosystems shares some of his adventures this week at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica, kicking off a local series of National Geographic Live sessions with world-class scientists, filmmakers and photographers. Described by his contemporaries in a recent Washington Post profile as “the Antonio Banderas of the marine world” and a “matador” of the water, Sala brings excitement and a little sexy back to the typically staid world of ocean science. He uses that swagger to support a conservation message that isn’t always intuitive. In his TED Talk on pristine ocean environments, Sala turns the traditional food pyramid of marine ecosystems upside down, arguing that an abundance of predators — not prey — is a sign of ecological health in sensitive areas. He likens the ecosystem to two gears in a clock: predators being the large gear, with reproductive cycles turning slowly, and herbivores being the small, fast-moving wheel that cycles through at a much faster rate. Maintaining higher predator populations, he says, allows key ocean ecosystems to bounce back from disasters more quickly. Sala also argues that preservation is good for business. Preserving 20% of the world’s oceans in their natural state would create a kind of “savings account” for the world’s fisheries, he says, with the protection of crucial environments creating a spillover effect benefitting waters outside the preserves. “What we have now — or a world without reserves — is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we never make any deposit,” Salas explains. “And if we think about the increase of biomass inside the reserves, this is like compound interest. … If you fish less, you’re actually catching more.”
Sala photographed this close encounter with a shark in the remote Pacific warm and acidic that we’re going to be in for a really rough ride.
Enric Sala left academia to explore remote ocean ecosystems and join efforts to save them warm in the Pacific and many organisms, like the corals, die. They die of heat shock, basically. If El Niño was the only disturbance, the marine environment could recover because it has recovered over time in between El Niños. But now on top of El Niño we have these other problems. The ocean is getting more acidic, and this is not seasonal. We have
so exciting. We’re sending probes to Pluto at the edge of the solar system, and we are exploring deeper parts of the ocean and things about our genes that we would have never dreamed about 20 years ago. Science is so exciting; it is exploration and discovery. What we need is for people to fall in love with science and be excited about it.
“This is where many scientists get it wrong. Information alone is necessary, but it is not sufficient.” — Enric Sala
You have also called for reducing fishing industry subsidies to instead support ecotourism. A shark is worth more alive than dead. If you kill a shark and sell it to the Asian middlemen for shark fin soup, you get $200. That same shark is bringing in between $1 million and $2 million over its lifetime to places like Costa Rica and Palau because of the volume of tourism, all the people who go over there to pay to see that shark. A dead fish you can sell once. A fish in the water you can sell every day to hundreds of people. We don’t protect Yosemite so that people can hunt wolves and bears that spill over the boundaries of the park. We protect it because we appreciate its beauty and its intrinsic value. There are places in the ocean that have the same value, that we should protect just because they are magnificent and have a right to exist. How do you balance research, documentation and advocacy? Everything is important. We need the research to make rational arguments for protection. But then we also need the storytelling to make an emotional connection with those places. You can have all the science in the world, but if you don’t succeed in making the decision-makers connect emotionally with these places, you’re getting nowhere. This is where many scientists get it wrong. Information alone is necessary, but it is not sufficient. We need to make these places sexy.
What’s it like to explore a pristine ocean environment? You go to one of these coral reefs in the middle of the Pacific, places that have seldom been explored by people, and you jump in the water and you’re immediately surrounded by 10, 12 sharks. And then the Why leave academia to become big red snappers come to check you out, — Christina Campodonico an explorer? and they dig your fins and your camera I was tired of writing the obituary of What are the biggest threats gear and your ponytail. And you go to the ocean life. I was describing how ocean to ocean ecosystems right now? bottom and you have this gorgeous lush life was dying with more and more No. 1 is overfishing. The world’s taking precision, so I felt like a doctor telling his coral reef, full of life. It’s like getting in a Enric Sala discusses “Pristine Seas: fish out of the ocean faster than they time machine and going back 1,000 years. patient how she’s going to die with Exploring Underwater Edens” at 7:30 p.m. could ever reproduce, and 90% of the excruciating detail and not offering a cure. Thursday (Oct. 29) and Friday (Oct. 30), large fish — tuna, grouper, cod — we What are the key strategies for making As you can imagine, that was very kicking off the Nat Geo Live series at The have killed them in the last 100 years oceans pristine again? frustrating, so I decided to work on the Broad Stage, 1310 11th St., Santa Monica. alone. No. 2 is pollution. Every year, eight We want to use the ocean, right? So, by cure and forget about the diagnosis. Tickets are $50 to $70. Call (310) million tons of plastic enter the ocean, definition, all of the ocean cannot be 434-3200 or visit thebroadstage.com. which is killing hundreds of thousands of pristine. But to have an ocean that is Considering the way colleagues seabirds, sea turtles and marine mamhealthier and productive … we need to talk about you, is there a benefit to The Broad is also hosting free matinee mals. No. 3: climate change, which is change the way we fish. We need to at making ocean science sexy? talks for students at 10 a.m. on both days. making the ocean warmer and more least cut in half the number of boats that When I was in academia I didn’t realize To register, contact Klarissa Leuterio at acidic, which affects organisms across the how bad scientists are at communicating, are there. And we need to protect at least (310) 434-3560 or atleuterio_klarissa@ food chain. 20% of the ocean in these marine at speaking in plain English. When I smc.edu. parks. … Also we need to shift to clean left the ivory tower I had to learn to Is El Niño cause for concern? energies, or the oceans are going to get so communicate. And, you know, science is christina@argonautnews.com Absolutely, because the water gets too fishing that happens every day. We have pollution that happens every day, and it’s growing. You have all these threats, one on top of the other, that only make the effects of El Niño worse.
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Secret Sixth Man How L.A. Clippers Head Trainer Jasen Powell works his magic in Playa Vista Story by Gary Walker Photos by Ted Soqui It’s the day before their first game of the 2015-16 NBA season, and the Los Angeles Clippers Training Center in Playa Vista is a flurry of activity. TV news cameras roll as superstar point guard Chris Paul, shooting guard J. J. Redick and reserve point guard Austin Rivers run passing and shooting drills on the practice court. Off to the side, Clippers Head Trainer Jasen Powell is taping up Jamal Crawford’s right arm so that Crawford, recovering from a tricep contusion after being hit with an elbow, can join the action. A few moments later, it’s Paul’s turn. Powell massages each bandaged finger on Paul’s right hand and scrutinizes his slightly injured thumb. “How does that feel?” the trainer asks. Paul nods in affirmation that he’s good to go. “Over the course of a season, it’s all about staying healthy,” Paul says during a break in the action. “Everything [Powell] does is pretty much preventive.” Powell, whom Clippers players and staff have nicknamed “JP,” is about to start his 17th season with the team. While he may not be a familiar face to fans, those on the court and behind the scenes say JP’s work is vital to the Clippers’ success this season. “In some ways, he’s the star [of the team]. Health is going to be one of the major factors in winning the Western Conference,” says Clippers head coach Doc
Rivers. “You have to have a good trainer, and he’s definitely that.”
Trust, Communication, Balance
Powell says keeping his Clippers in top physical condition begins with building a solid rapport among players, himself and his support staff — a nutritionist, chiropractor, tissue therapist, full-time assistant and two interns. “My three principles are trust, communication and balance,” Powell, 43, says during an interview before the Clippers Oct. 21 public practice at USC’s Galen Center. “A lot of it involves knowing what routines they like and dislike, getting to know them better, studying what dysfunctions and patterns that they have. You have to have a plethora of approaches.” That also extends to the offseason. Powell, a former Western Conference representative of the National Basketball Athletic Trainers Association, stays in touch with his guys practically yearround. He checks in to see when and where they are traveling, to find out whether they want to work out at home or at the training center, and to see if they’re following various conditioning routines. During the season practices typically begin around 11 a.m., but Powell and his staff usually arrive about two hours early. “Even if they’re not injured, players come in and out of the training room just to get tuned up. You can’t put oil in a gas Jasen Powell applies kinesio tape to Clippers guard Jamal Crawford’s tank, so we have to make sure that they elbow before last Tuesday’s team practice at the Los Angeles Clippers have the right fuel so that they can Training Center in Playa Vista
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Powell stretches Clippers forward Josh Smith during last Wednesday’s open scrimmage at USC’s Galen Center Clippers forward Blake Griffin drives past Smith toward the basket (left), and Griffin practices his left-handed hook shot Powell uses a mix of new technologies and homeopathic remedies to keep his players healthy
perform their best,” Powell explains. Working with big-ticket athletes who might want to play even when they’re injured is not as difficult as some might think, according to Powell, who played college basketball at Cal Poly Pomona. “In my experience, a player will let you know if he can’t play. I try to get them to look at the pros and cons of playing with an injury. You lay down all of the parameters for them and then collectively, as a medical staff and as a player, make the decision,” he says. Part of Powell’s training strategy includes alternative medicine and holistic therapies, an approach that Powell had long wanted to employ. He’s sought advice from naturopathic doctors about such practices and credits the team’s nutritionist, Meg Mangano, with keeping the players on healthy diets to maximize performance and longevity. Another part of the balance that Powell talks about is players’ time on and off the court. He credits Rivers with understanding the importance of giving players time to recuperate during the grueling 82-game regular season. “Doc and his staff have done a wonderful job allowing me to establish my ‘infrastructure,’ so to speak,” Powell says.
ing a fully equipped weight room and their own water treadmill. “The fact that we have our own home is huge. It’s really helped our guys be focused and dialed in when they need treatment,” Powell says. Sports medicine has evolved quite a lot since the Clippers moved from San Diego to Los Angeles in 1984 — especially when it comes to how technology is used to train and treat injured players, said Dr. Bert Mandelbaum of the Santa Monica Ortho-
Mandelbaum says trainers usually focus on three components: Prevention, treatment of illness and injury, and optimizing performance. “Prevention often allows you to do the other two, and it’s a collective effort between the player and the trainer,” he says. Each year all Clippers players go through what Powell calls a movement screen test, which allows his staff to look at the areas that the players need to strengthen.
“Fans don’t always see what goes on behind the scenes in order for us to able to go out there and perform the way that we want to. … JP exercises every possible option to keep us healthy and get us back on the court.”
One new technological advance that Powell favors is a therapy device called the Shock Wave, which delivers shock impulse waves to muscle tissue. “We’ve been able to use this for chronic injuries and acute injuries. It helps relieve a lot of muscle pain,” he says. Powell has also invented Pure Powder, a non-medical herbal salve that’s made from five or six natural plant ingredients. “We use different types of treatment to help players recover — cold therapy, tissue therapy, massage and chirotherapy [a method of treatment that diagnoses problems associated with the joints, nerves, tendons and ligaments],” he says.
Patience and Optimism
Before becoming the Clippers’ head trainer, Powell worked as the San Francisco 49ers’ assistant athletic trainer for four years — an experience he said pre— Clippers point guard Chris Paul pared him for some of the more challenging injuries he’s addressed in the NBA. “Football really honed my skills and paedic and Sports Medicine Group. “We monitor how they move so that we ability to be a professional athletic trainer “Now you have technology that can can see what we need to do for each in basketball. In football you see a lot of measure how a player has recovered from player. We also work with our strength an injury, state-of-the-art heart monitors, coach to make sure that we synchronize a contact injuries, acute injuries every Sunday. In basketball you see a lot of recovery parameters and motion analysis work regiment where they do manual overuse and wear-and-tear injuries,” he that teams use,” says Mandelbaum, former- therapy, joint mobility, range of motion explains. “You’re talking about 82 games a ly chief medical officer for Women’s World exercises and hip and ankle mobility,” year, and sometimes the playoffs. Some Cup Soccer and physician for the U.S. Powell explains. “Then they go into the players have what I call a timeline of Game-Changing Technology Men’s National team. weight room and do their functional injury patterns that date back to the time Relocating from The Spectrum to the strength tests.” “There are also strength coaches, nutricustomized Playa Vista training facility in tionists, physical therapists and psycholoThis testing happens during the preseason, when they were in high school, in AAU 2008 has also helped Powell and the gists in addition to the head trainer. We’ve at midseason and again if the team enters [American Amateur Union] or in college. Clippers create an optimal environment for moved to what I call ‘athlete-centric’ the playoffs, which the Clippers have (Continued on page 16) preventive and rehabilitative care, includ- medicine,” he says. accomplished each of the last four seasons. October 29, 2015 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 15
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I’ve ever seen, the first being one that I saw in football,” Powell says, referring to a gruesome compound leg fracture of a 49ers lineman. “We did our part as athletic trainers and medical staff to prepare [Livingston] to get ready mentally to endure the long road that he had to travel to get back to where he is today.”
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In football you had six days to get them ready to play again, but in basketball there are fewer [recovery] days. The mental portion of rehabilitation can be grueling, and trainers play an important role in making recovery time as easy as possible for the injured player. “It’s the psychological and analytical aspect of the game that fans and family don’t see. You really have to help them understand what to expect during rehab and to be optimistic about their return,” Powell says. “Sometimes they can get down on themselves, and sometimes there’s a lot of pressure on them to get back to the level that they were before. So it’s about minimizing the pressure as much as possible.” Powell refers to a devastating injury that former Clippers guard Shawn Livingston suffered in 2007 when he dislocated his kneecap and tore the anterior cruciate, posterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments in his knee. The late Dr. Tony Daly, the Clippers doctor at the time, was quoted as saying, “I’ve never seen an injury like this in basketball.” Several basketball commentators called it the worst sports injury they had ever seen, and a few predicted that Livingston would never play again. But last year Livingston was part of the Golden State Warriors team that won the NBA championship. Michael Tillery, a certified athletic trainer
A Clutch Performance
Powell checks in with players during a break in the action at the Galen Center
“In some ways, he’s the star [of the team]. Health is going to be one of the major factors in winning the Western Conference.” — Clippers head coach Doc Rivers who writes for a variety of online sports blogs, credits Powell with potentially saving Livingston’s leg. “If Jasen Powell didn’t pop Livingston’s knee back in place after he suffered the injury on the floor, there was a chance his
leg would have been amputated, because blood circulation would have been affected with his knee and leg basically going in different directions,” Tillery wrote in the sports blog Shadow League. “It’s probably the second worst injury
Paul, no stranger to the media spotlight, says that while much of Powell’s work goes unnoticed by the public, the players appreciate it. “Fans don’t always see what goes on behind the scenes in order for us to able to go out there and perform the way that we want to. Our bodies have to be in great condition. JP exercises every possible option to keep us healthy and get us back on the court,” Paul says. Powell treated Paul in May after Paul suffered a hamstring injury early in the Clippers’ dramatic Game 7 first round Western Conference series against the then-defending NBA champion San Antonio Spurs. Paul’s fast return was a key factor in the Clippers advancing in the playoffs — with one second left on the clock, Paul scored the go-ahead basket on a pull-up jump shot to win the series. “JP and our chiropractor worked their magic on me,” Paul says. “That’s what he does.” gary@argonautnews.com
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The Girl Who Got Away Courtney Love plays a shooting star out of devotion’s reach in Todd Almond’s ‘Kansas City Choir Boy’ By Christina Campodonico Boy meets girl. They fall in love. Girl disappears to New York City, never to be seen or heard from again. Boy is left heartbroken by the loss. The plot of “Kansas City Choir Boy,” starring rock icon Courtney Love as the one who got away, may seem like a typical story of love and loss. But if the
The musical structure has the feel of a mixtape or a private iTunes playlist created jointly by boyfriend and girlfriend. Only they know the rhyme and reason of the order, but the ode to young love is the prevailing theme. Almond calls the show a “theatricalized concept album.” “One thing that I enjoyed about ‘Kansas City Choir Boy’ and writing it is that the
The musical structure has the feel of a mixtape or a private iTunes playlist created jointly by boyfriend and girlfriend. Almond calls the show a “theatricalized concept album.” opera’s composer, lyricist and titular Midwesterner Todd Almond has his way, you may walk away with more questions than answers about the nature of love. “I don’t like to give away magic,” responds Almond to a question about an ambiguous lyric. “Sometimes revealing the magic trick makes it mundane.” It’s hard to step out of “Kansas City Choir Boy,” now playing at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, without feeling a little bit of wonderment — was what I saw someone’s mournful memory or some kind of dream? Yet too much explanation might detract from the magic of this one-hour opera, which charts the lightning-fast and carefree romance of two Missouri teens through a blend of DIY electronic music and acoustic love ballads. The work — which premiered in January at Prototype, an annual New York festival for small-scale opera and experimental musical theater works — is not your straightforward opera or musical, but a compilation of songs that loosely narrate the couple’s love story.
Todd Almond and Courtney Love are torn apart by desire in “Kansas City Choir Boy”
career and the character she inspired. “[Athena] was somebody who, when you look at her, you just know that she has a construction was more of an emotional big destiny in one way or another. And so logic than a chronological logic,” said the requirement beyond being a great Almond, who initially composed the song singer and actress, which Courtney is, is cycle on his Mac’s GarageBand app while that the character has like a shimmery staying in a Kansas City hotel room quality … You just look at her and go, after a bad break up. right, ‘You do not belong in Kansas City. Yet personal heartache wasn’t the only You belong in the big city in the bright thing on his mind. Around the same time, lights one way or another, and not in a Almond saw the image of a missing local superficial way, but like you are just fuller girl aired on the nightly news. It brought of life than we mortals.’” to mind the mysterious disappearance and Love, with her battle-worn voice, sad 2004 murder of Sarah Fox, a young eyes and a tattoo on her right arm that cries Juilliard actress who played the god“Let it Bleed,” embodies both the defiant dess Athena in a musical version of “The strength of a goddess, yet also the vulnerOdyssey” that Almond had then just com- ability of a teenage girl, wrestling with posed. He didn’t know Fox very well, but emotions that may be too wild for a young the news was still a shock. Her killer heart to handle. It’s Love’s effusive power remains unknown. that Almond finds most invigorating about “I suddenly identified with Sarah and I working with the star. wondered, was Sarah like me — a kid “You know certain actors just really give from somewhere who wanted to move to you a lot, and she’s one of them. So it the city but didn’t really know what never feels like your turn, my turn, your they’re going after?” says Almond of the turn, my turn. It just feels like we’re solemn memory and story’s original muse. constantly shaking hands and handing each For him, Love’s electric vivacity not other energy,” Almond says. only fit the role of the big-dreaming That surge of emotion not only propels Athena but paid tribute to Fox’s promising the play, but also stems from a few other
seeds of inspiration. Almond recalls the excitement of seeing a couple making out through a train window around the time of writing “Kansas City Choir Boy.” “I didn’t know who they were. I didn’t know what their names were. I didn’t know if they were married or having an affair. I just thought it was a cool image … so [‘Kansas City Choir Boy’] became about this passionate relationship between a man and a woman,” he said. Ardor shows itself in various ways throughout the operetta. From lights that pulse like a fluttering heart high on desire to a slow-fingered and seductive wave goodbye, love is an emotion shown rather than told. Yet its meaning is ultimately left for the viewer to decipher. “As a writer of theater, I feel like part of my job is to present questions,” saysAlmond. As for the mysteries of love, he is not about to give away too many answers. “Kansas City Choir Boy” continues through Nov. 8 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, 9820 Washington Blvd., Culver City. Tickets are $30 to $55. Call (213) 628-2772 or visit centertheatregroup.com. christina@argonautnews.com
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“ E n t e r i n t o t h e l i v i n g r o o m , w i t h i t s g r e a t n a t u r a l l i g h t , h a r d w o o d floors and elegant crown moldings,” say agents Kevin and Kaz G a l l a h e r . “ T h e k i t c h e n f e a t u r e s q u a r t z c o u n t e r s , s t a i n l e s s s t e e l a p p l i a n c e s , a n d a b r e a k f a s t b a r t h a t o v e r l o o k s t h e d i n i n g r o o m , which leads directly to the backyard. The first floor also includes an executive home office and mini bedroom suite. The second floor of the home contains the master bedroom, featuring an en s u i t e b a t h , a r o o m y n u r s e r y , a f u l l l a u n d r y r o o m , t h r e e a d d i t i o n a l m i n i b e d r o o m s u i t e s , a n d s p a c e f o r a d e l u x e h o m e t h e a t e r o r f a m i l y g a m i n g r o o m . ”
“ T h i s i s a f a n t a s t i c o p p o r t u n i t y t o l i v e i n a W e s t c h e s t e r d u p l e x , ” s a y a g e n t s B o b W a l d r o n a n d J e s s i c a H e r e d i a . “ T h i s s p a c i o u s d u p l e x i s l o c a t e d i n a p r i m e r e n t a l a r e a o n a c u l - d e - s a c s t r e e t , a n d f e a t u r e s t w o b e d r o o m s a n d o n e b a t h r o o m i n e a c h u n i t . T h e d u p l e x i s o n a l a r g e l o t t h a t i n c l u d e s a f r o n t a n d r e a r y a r d , a s w e l l a s a d e t a c h e d g a r a g e . D o n ’ t m i s s t h i s e x c e l l e n t i n v e s t m e n t o p p o r t u n i t y . ” Offered at $825,000 Bob Waldron, Coldwell Banker 310-337-9225 Jessica Heredia, 310-913-8112
Offered at $1,699,000 Kevin and Kaz Gallaher, RE/MAX Execs 310-410-9777
STUNNING WESTCHESTER HOME
MASTERFULLY RENOVATED
Offered at 1,599,000 Stephanie Younger, Teles Properties 424-203-1828
Offered at $1,989,000 Jesse Weinberg, Keller Williams Realty 800-804-9132
“In this contemporary take on a mid-century design, floor-to c e i l i n g w i n d o w s e r a s e t h e b o u n d a r i e s b e t w e e n i n d o o r - a n d o u t d o o r - l i v i n g , ” s a y s a g e n t S t e p h a n i e Y o u n g e r . “ T h e k i t c h e n b o a s t s q u a r t z c o u n t e r s a n d s t a i n l e s s s t e e l E l e c t r o l u x I C O N a p p l i a n c e s . T h e v a u l t e d w o o d b e a m c e i l i n g o f t h e g r e a t r o o m m a k e s i t i d e a l f o r e n t e r t a i n i n g . O u t s i d e , e n j o y t h e f u l l o u t d o o r kitchen, fireplace, and salt-water pool, featuring a built-in hot t u b , a n d c u s t o m w a t e r f e a t u r e s . S o l a r p a n e l s , c u s t o m a u t o m a t e d w i n d o w c o v e r i n g s , s k y l i g h t s , a n d s t a t e - o f - t h e - a r t C o n t r o l 4 h o m e a u t o m a t i o n m a k e t h i s h o m e a s m a r t b u y . ”
“ T h i s t h r e e b e d r o o m , t h r e e b a t h r o o m , s i n g l e - f a m i l y h o m e i s i n t h e h e a r t o f P l a y a V i s t a , ” s a y s a g e n t J e s s e W e i n b e r g . “ T h e s t u n n i n g k i t c h e n b o a s t s a m a r b l e i s l a n d , c u s t o m c a b i n e t r y , a n d h i g h - e n d a p p l i a n c e s . R e t r e a t t o y o u r b a c k y a r d , w i t h i t s maintenance-free artificial grass for al fresco dining. This home o f f e r s a d i s t r i b u t e d a u d i o s y s t e m , a l a u n d r y r o o m , a t e r r a c e c o n n e c t e d t o t h e f a m i l y r o o m , a s w e l l a s a m a s t e r b a l c o n y a n d rear patio, all with new Ipe decking. The floor plan is completed b y d i r e c t a c c e s s t o t h e t w o - c a r g a r a g e . R e n o v a t i o n s i n c l u d e L E D lighting, white oak floors, and new master vanities.”
AN ARCHITECTURAL GEM
MARINA PENTHOUSE
Offered at $1,399,000 Williamson and Pagan, RE/MAX Estate Properties 310-678-6650
Offered at $1,459,000 Charles Lederman, Charles Lederman and Associates 310-821-8980
“This newly built home will impress with its open floor plan, attention to detail, and indoor-outdoor flow,” says agent Nicole P a g a n . “ T h e a i r y d i n i n g r o o m o p e n s d i r e c t l y t o t h e l i v i n g r o o m . E n j o y t w o s t y l i s h b a t h r o o m s , a n d t h r e e b e d r o o m s , i n c l u d i n g t h e m a s t e r b e d r o o m , w i t h i t s v a u l t e d c e i l i n g s a n d C a r r e r a t i l e . T h e great room is the heart of this home, and boasts a fireplace, with a c u s t o m m a n t l e , a n d F r e n c h d o o r s t h a t o p e n t o a l u s h y a r d . T h e e a t - i n k i t c h e n f e a t u r e s a l a r g e i s l a n d , b r e a k f a s t n o o k , s t a i n l e s s s t e e l a p p l i a n c e s , a n d C a r r e r a c o u n t e r s . T h i s e x c l u s i v e h o m e r e p r e s e n t s Silicon Beach at its finest.”
“ T h i s t w o - s t o r y M a r i n a C i t y C l u b p e n t h o u s e , f e a t u r i n g t h r e e b e d r o o m s a n d t h r e e b a t h s , o f f e r s t r a n s f o r m a t i v e v i e w s , ” s a y s a g e n t C h a r l e s L e d e r m a n . “ T h e k i t c h e n f e a t u r e s a S u b Z e r o refrigerator and freezer, Bosch appliances and a fireclay sink. T h e d i n i n g a n d l i v i n g r o o m s l e a d t o a p a t i o o v e r l o o k i n g t h e c i t y s c a p e . A d j a c e n t t o t h i s i s t h e g u e s t r o o m , w i t h a b u i l t - i n d e s k , M u r p h y b e d a n d e n - s u i t e b a t h . U p s t a i r s , t h e m a s t e r s u i t e c o n t a i n s a w a l k - i n c l o s e t a n d a t w o - p h a s e m a s t e r b a t h . A n a d d i t i o n a l u p s t a i r s b e d r o o m h a s a p a t i o a n d a n a d j o i n i n g b a t h r o o m . W h i t e oak floors complete this home.”
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3/2 Stylish mid-century modern home 2/2 Sunny upper floor unit overlooking lush courtyard 3/2.5 Villas on Madison in DTWN Culver 3/3 Completely renovated gorgeous 2,130 sqft home 3/3 Gorgeous TH in Downtown Culver City 3/2 Craftsman home in Carlson Park +guest home 3/1 Mid-Century home in Culver City 3/2 Mid-Century home is Carlson Park 3/1.5 Beautiful home next to Helms Bakery 3/4 Quiet street, perfect Playa Vista alt. No HOA 1/1 Lovely top floor unit w/tree top views
$694,000 $455,000 $1,599,000 $1,350,000 $1,095,000 $1,599,000 $799,000 $1,499,000 $799, 000 $839,000 $349,500
Waldron/Heredia Brian Christie Todd Miller Todd Miller Todd Miller Todd Miller Todd Miller Todd Miller Todd Miller Veronica Jones Jeannie Rubinoff
Coldwell Banker TREC Keller Williams Keller Williams Keller Williams Keller Williams Keller Williams Keller Williams Keller Williams Keller Williams TREC
310-337-9225 310-910-0120 310-560-2999 310-560-2999 310-560-2999 310-560-2999 310-560-2999 310-560-2999 310-560-2999 310-399-1591 310-846-0025
3/3.5 Corner lot, upgraded, blocks to ES High School 4/3 Entertainers home, city & mountain views
$1,169,000 $1,899,000
Bill Ruane Bill Ruane
RE/MAX RE/MAX
310-877-2374 310-877-2374
4/5 Gorgeous 14ft ceilings home in Kenter Canyon
$3,250,000
Mary Cronin
Coldwell Banker
310-633-4257
3/4.5 Spectacular canal front, w/loft & bonus room 2/2 Fabulous condo, 1,929 sqft. 2/2.5 Beautiful and updated garden townhouse
$2,995,000 $899,000 $793,000
Peter & Ty Bergman Mary Cronin Pam Miller
BergmanBeachProperties Coldwell Banker RE/MAX
310-821-2900 310-633-4257 310-650-1111
5/3 Investment grade luxury, adjacent to Playa Vista
$1,469,000
Stephanie Younger
Teles Properties
424-203-1828
$799,000
Stephanie Younger
Teles Properties
424-203-1828
3/2.5 Gorgeous traditional w/city views 3/3 Newly renovated town home w/private garage 3/2 Condo w/large patio, side by side parking
$1,989,000 $925,000
Weinberg/Lesny Jesse Weinberg
Jesse Weinberg & Associates Jesse Weinberg & Associates
310-995-6779 310-995-6779
2/2.5 Premier front facing third floor unit with views
$2,675,000
Dan & Charlee Nelson
Berkshire Hathaway
310-365-0195
2/1 Cozy, sunny, quiet, beach nearby 3/2 Plus loft studio over garage
$1,149,000 $2,295,000
Veronica Jones Linda Light
Keller Williams Coldwell Banker
310-399-1591 310-963-7010
2/1 Pristine home w/classic style 3/2.5 Fantastic new home, great quality & style 1/1 Two units, perfect investment opportunity 2/2.5 Three level end unit TH w/private garage 3/3 modern magnificence in Kentwood 5/4 Modern remodeled home in North Kentwood 3/2 Fabulous quality & style in Westchester 3/2 California classic in Kentwood 3/2.5 Entertainers remodeled N. Kentwood home
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The ArgonAuT REAl EstAtE Q&A
Do Halloween Dangers Lurk At Your Entryway? Everyone loves a good scare on Halloween Clear your walk, steps, and stoop of any obstructions that could trip youngsters -- as long as it’s just a trick. focused more on tricks and treats than To help you avoid any real-life scares -watching where they’re going. That means such as falls, fires, and traffic accidents moving potted mums and jack o’lanterns -- around your property this All Hallows out of the way, and hammering down any Eve, play it safe while you’re setting up nail heads protruding out of your steps. your Halloween lights and decorations. Here are seven simple precautions recommended by John Pettibone, curator of Hammond Castle, a Gloucester, Mass., mansion that draws thousands to its renowned 20-room haunted house every Halloween season. 1. Light the Scene Providing plenty of illumination ensures that your visitors can see where they’re walking, helping to avoid missteps and falls. Pettibone suggests using the highest wattage bulbs your outdoor lighting fixtures can safely take (check the label on the socket), and adding landscape lights every few feet along your front walk.
If you have a concrete stoop, which can get slippery when wet, apply friction tape ($16 for a 60-foot roll of 1-inchwide tape) to ensure stable footing, says Pettibone. He also stocks up on chemical ice melt ($20 for a 50-lb. bag) just in case of an early freeze. 3. Tighten the Railings If your porch railings are wobbly or broken, family members and friends may know not to lean too heavily on them, but Halloween visitors won’t. So hire a contractor or handyman to fix the problem. It’ll make your home safer for guests all year round. Because more strangers come to your front door this night than the rest of the year combined, now is the time to take care of it.
“We use the solar-powered kind because there’s no wiring needed,” he says. “Just push them into the ground, let them soak up the sun during the day, and they’ll light 4. Eliminate Fire Hazards up the walk after dark.” Don’t put real candles into your carved 2. Secure the Footing pumpkins or paper lanterns. “That’s a
fire waiting to happen,” says Pettibone. Instead, pick up a bulk pack of LED-bulb faux candles, which emit a yellowish, flickering, battery-powered light that looks amazingly similar to the real thing -- without the danger.
1,000-ft. roll of 3-inch-wide caution tape is about $8.
5. Secure your Property
7. Enhance Street Safety
To prevent burglaries and Halloween pranks -- especially on mischief night the previous evening -- make sure to keep all windows and doors (other than your main door) locked shut.
Four times as many child pedestrians get killed on Halloween night than a normal night. So limit the danger as much as you can by clearing parked cars off the curb to allow better visibility and placing a reflective “watch for children sign” at the edge of the road. For for high-traffic roads in Halloween-intensive neighborhoods, consider posting an adult in the street with a hand-held traffic control light to help maintain safety.
You might have an electrician add motionsensor lights around your property, so anyone who walks down your driveway or around into the backyard will be discouraged from intruding any farther. 6. Set the Scene In addition to spooky items like cotton cobwebs and half-buried skeletons, consider a few safety-related scenesetters. Pettibone suggests propping open the screen or storm door so it doesn’t get in the way when there’s a big group of kids congregated on your stoop. “We use yellow caution tape to tie open the door,” he says. “You can order it online and it works well with the Halloween theme.” A
You’ll also want a working doorbell, so if yours is broken, either hire an electrician or handyman to fix it -- or install a wireless doorbell in its place.
This week’s quesTion is answered by Brian Christie, Agents in Action! team, The Real Estate Consultants, (310) 910-0120.
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A TALK BY DICK LARSON
Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015 - 3 p.m. Santa Monica Main Library Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium 601 Santa Monica Boulevard Santa Monica, CA 90401 FREE ADMISSION Dick Larson is an educator, counselor and long-time teacher and student of the Ageless Wisdom teachings. 310-444-2978 * www.share-international.us/west Sponsored by Share International Southern California This program is not sponsored by the Santa Monica Public Library.
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Thursday, Oct. 29 Pre-School Reading Program, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Kids learn to love reading each Thursday at the Mar Vista Branch Library, 12006 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista. (310) 390-3454 6th Annual Pink Ribbon Lecture, 2 to 4 p.m. This free educational forum on women’s health features talks by Providence Saint John’s Health Center clinicians and includes a workshop on practical exercises and other stressreduction techniques as well as patient testimonials. Discussion topics include the environment and breast cancer, menopause and hormones, breast imaging and screening, and breast reconstruction surgery. Santa Monica Public Library Auditorium, 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica. RSVP required: (310) 829-8453 Halftime Happy Hour with DJ Flye, 4 to 8 p.m. Music and drink specials every Thursday at Melody Bar & Grill, 9132 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Westchester. (310) 670-1994; barmelodylax.com The Big Bluegrass Bash, 7:30 p.m. Fred Sokolow kicks off a celebration of bluegrass, Americana and roots music with a variety of stringed instruments to demonstrate the many styles of American traditional music. Burning Heart Bluegrass and Sugar in the Gourd follow with music that ranges from simple folk melodies to foot
stomping fiddle tunes, from Appalachian murder ballads to hard-driving bluegrass. Vineyard Christian Fellowship Westside, 3838 S. Centinela Ave., Mar Vista. $20 cash at the door or $15 online. (310) 773-6753; burningheartbluegrass.com Electric Comedy, 8:30 p.m. Each Thursday, an intimate night of stand-up comedy that may include a few of L.A.’s well-known comics. $25. Free pizza. The Little Theatre, 12420 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica. electriccomedy.com
Friday, Oct. 30 Mar Vista Seniors Club, 9:30 a.m. to noon. The club meets each Friday and activities include trips and tours, speakers, bingo, live entertainment, parties and holiday celebrations for seniors 50+. Mar Vista Recreation Center, 11430 Woodbine St., Mar Vista. For more information, call Byron Stalcup at (310) 351-9876. Marina del Rey Historic Harbor Tours, 1, 2:30 and 4 p.m. Fridays and 11:30 a.m., 1, 2:30 and 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Nov. 29. In honor of Marina del Rey’s 50th anniversary year, the L.A. County Dept. of Beaches and Harbors and Marina del Rey Historical Society are sponsoring 45-minute informative tours for just $1. Board at Hornblower Cruises and Events, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. visitmarinadelrey.com
Del Rey Farmers Market, 2 to 7 p.m. Food and produce vendors gather weekly, with free musical performances on the first Friday of each month. Glen Alla Park, 4601 Alla Road, Del Rey. delreync.org Hornblower Dinner Cruise, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Enjoy a four-course dinner with dancing and a harbor view. Board at 7:30 p.m. at Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. $86.95 plus fees. hornblower.com Mariachi and Folkloric Dancing, 7:30, 9:30 and 10:45 p.m. Dinner with traditional Mexican entertainment at Casa Sanchez, 4500 S. Centinela Ave., Del Rey. (310) 397-4444; casa-sanchez.com Tom Freund & DJ Shiva, 8 p.m. American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tom Freund is on at 8 p.m. with DJ Shiva spinning soul, funk, hip-hop and disco at 10 p.m. No cover. In Del Monte Speakeasy under the Townhouse Venice, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com Blind Lemon Peel Blues All-Stars, 8 p.m. A night of blues with proceeds benefiting the AIDS/LifeCycle, a 545-mile, 7-day bicycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles. $15 plus two-drink minimum. Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com “Phantom of the Opera,” 8:15 p.m. Friday and 2:30 and 8:15 p.m.
Glide through the Holidays Randy Gardner opens ICE at Santa Monica
Saturday. Old Town Music Haunt presents the original 1925 silent version of “Phantom of the Opera,” accompanied by the Mighty Wurlitzer Theater Pipe Organ. $8 to $10, cash only. 140 Richmond St., El Segundo. (310) 322-2592; oltownmusichall.com Jon Burton, 9 p.m. Live music at The Prince O’ Whales, 335 Culver Blvd., Playa del Rey. No cover. (310) 823-9826; princeowhales.com
Saturday, Oct. 31 Marina del Rey Farmers Market, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Find locally grown produce, prepared food, desserts and arts and crafts at the corner of Via Marina and Panay Way (parking lot 11) each Saturday. (310) 305-9545; facebook.com/MDR FarmersMarket Silicon Beach Philharmonic & Chorale Rehearsals, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The orchestra and chorale is auditioning experienced musicians and singers for their upcoming concerts and hosting weekly music healing recitals and opera dinners. Children’s orchestra auditions and music instruction for all ages is from 9 to 10:20 a.m., and adult orchestra and singer auditions are from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Marina Del Rey Hospital, 4650 Lincoln Blvd., Marina del Rey. Free parking with validation. All
rehearsals are open to the public. (310) 999-3626; meetup.com/SBPhil/ Max Diamond Yoga, 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. (Also 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Wednesdays, and 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.) Yoga can increase strength, flexibility, balance and endurance while promoting spinal safety and reducing stress. All levels welcome to this weekly, donation-based yoga class at Mount Olive Lutheran Church, 1343 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 922-8879; mtolivelutheranchurch.org Music by the Sea, 1 to 4 p.m. The free waterside concerts at Fisherman’s Village continue with Jimbo Ross and The Bodacious Blues Band. Free two-hour parking with validation. Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 301-9900 Activist Support Circle, 7 p.m. The monthly support group for progressive activists returns with columnist, USC professor and “Left, Right and Center” co-host Rober Scheer as guest speaker. Light refreshments will be served at 6:30. Friends Meeting Hall, 1440 Harvard St., Santa Monica. Free. (310) 399-1000; activistsuportcircle.org “Climax,” 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. In this play, a Malibu restaurant owner entangles himself in an affair after his wife’s fertility treatments are unsuccessful, leading to hurt and danger. $29.50. Santa Monica (Continued on page 30)
Westchester Recreation Center | City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks
HALLOWEEN “KIDS ZONE” Friday, October 30th 3PM - 6PM Saturday, October 31, 2PM - 5PM
• Trick or Treat Village • Costume Contest • Arts and Crafts • Story Time • Face Painting • Games • All for FREE • Check with office for details
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Caption Your East Coast friends may not believe it, but in Santa Monica it is possible to ice skate in short sleeves. The ever-popular ICE at Santa Monica returns on Sunday, Nov. 1, and stays open through Jan. 18. But those who wish to start the season in style can wait for the official grand opening ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 5. That’s when former World Figure Skating Champion Randy Gardner will break the ice with a special performance, followed by a free skate session with falling faux snow and special music mixed for the occasion. Skaters can enjoy free bites by Holy Cow BBQ, P.F. Chang’s, See’s Candy, PlanetSmoothie and Yogurtland before decorating cookies or piling into an interactive photo-booth with friends. Those looking to hone their inner
WESTCHESTER PARK 29th ANNUAL PARK OF PAIN
Michelle Kwan can sign up for group or solo classes with Randy Gardner’s School of Skating ($30 to $60) throughout the winter season. — Christina Campodonico The grand opening celebration happens from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, at 1324 5th St., Santa Monica. Call (310) 260-1199 or visit iceatsantamonica.com. ICE at Santa Monica is also open from 2 to 10 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 2 p.m. to midnight on Fridays, 10 a.m. to midnight on Saturdays and from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sundays from Nov. 1 to Jan. 18. $15 includes skate rentals and unlimited skating for the day.
Saturday, October 24 Friday, October 30 • Saturday, October 31 7 PM - 11 PM
$2 per person Recommended for ages 9 years and up
LACROSSE DAY 2015
Saturday, November 7, 2015 • 9:30AM –11:30AM
Try lacrosse for FREE at Westchester Recreation Center
Clinics, games, demonstrations, and prizes! Boys K-8th Grade • Girls K-5th Grade Welcome
Westchester Recreation Center (310) 670-7473 7000 W. Manchester Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90045 (at Lincoln Blvd.)
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‘Tis the Season for Touring Five Westchester and Playa del Rey households open their doors for the 33rd annual Holiday Home Tour By Shanee Edwards It’s that time of year again — the season of shopping, decorations and, at least in Westchester and Playa del Rey, locals opening their doors to neighbors in support of a good cause. On Sunday, two carefully decorated homes in Westchester and three in Playa del Rey are sights to be seen in the 33rd annual Holiday Home Tour, a Westchester Mental Health Guild fundraiser for the Airport Marina Counseling Service that’s become a treasured local tradition. So, go ahead — indulge your inner looky-loo and meet your neighbors in the process. This year, each of the five charming homes open for the self-guided tour represents a different architectural style and different take on holiday spirit. Setting the mood for Halloween is homeowner Lory Sarlo’s modern take on an Italian villa in Playa del Rey. Her three-story home has been nicknamed “45 steps to heaven” because of the rooftop design that boasts a fully stocked kitchen, 60-inch grill, full bar, fire pit and seating for 20. “In the summer, we eat dinner out there five nights out of the week,” she says. “I’ve learned to grill almost anything imaginable.” Sarlo says that decorating her house for Halloween is important because “it signifies the beginning of the holiday season. Coming from the Pacific Northwest, I miss the change of seasons, but putting out the 300
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The five stops on this year’s Holiday Home Tour include a three-story Italian villa, a renovated 1940s bungalow, a Westchester ranch house, an antique-centric Apline and a home on the bluffs with marina views pumpkins I’ve collected helps.” For homeowner and interior designer Jenika Kurtz Cuadra, celebrating Christmas at her Westchester home is all about indulging in color. She bought her 990-square-foot 1940s
To celebrate Christmas, Kurtz Cuadra focuses less on the traditional elements like pinecones and holly and more on crafting an eclectic look. “My Christmas tree is white with some fun red and pink
decorated to ring in the New Year. A reception after the tour at the YMCA Annex features a one-day holiday pop-up boutique hosted by the Guilded Cage, the Westchester gift shop that also supports Airport Marina Counseling Service.
tassels,” plus pomegranates and flowers to make her environment warm and inviting, she says. Living in sunny Los Angeles doesn’t put a damper on her Christmas spirit. “It’s kind of funny to people who don’t live here that we do
Christmas lights and a Christmas tree,” she says, “because we don’t really have snow and it’s not really cold. But I like that in L.A., we don’t mind. We continue on anyway.” After attending last year’s Holiday Home Tour, Kurtz Cuadra is excited to open her doors to tour-goers. “If I can help the community by letting people come into my house, it’s the least I can do,” she says. The other stops on the tour include a three-level, Alpinestyle Playa del Rey home decorated with antiques for an old-fashioned Christmas, a remodeled Westchester ranch house that sets the table for Thanksgiving, and a four-story home in the Playa del Rey with stunning marina views that’s
and Grandview boulevards. marvistafarmersmarket.org
S. Centinela Ave., Del Rey. (310) 397-4444; casa-sanchez.com
Playa del Rey. (310) 823-9826; princeowhales.com
Bean, 13020 Pacific Promenade, Playa Vista. (310) 215-1892
Music by the Sea, 1 to 4 p.m. The free waterside concerts at Fisherman’s Village continue with R&B from Michael Haggins & Friends. Free two-hour parking with validation. Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 301-9900
Adolfo Guzman-Lopez & George Kalmar, 8 p.m. Journalist, poet and Taco Shop Poets founder Adolfo Guzman-Lopez joins poet George Kalmar for an evening of unique performance at Beyond Baroque, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice. $6 to $10. (310) 822-3006; beyondbaroque.org
The Toledo Show, 9:30 p.m. A cabaret show held on Sunday nights at Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $10 plus a two-drink minimum. (310) 395-1676; santamonica.harvelles.com
The Mar Vista Laughter Club, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Each Monday an adults-only, donation-based laughter yoga class led by Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Kim Selbert. Use movement, breathing and laughter exercises to decrease your stress, uplift your mood and to build community. St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, 11555 National Blvd., West L.A. For more information, contact Kim at (310) 849-4642. laughtergroove.com
“I miss the change of seasons, but putting out the 300 pumpkins I’ve collected helps.” — Lory Sarlo, Holiday Home Tour participant
bungalow several years ago, knowing it needed a lot of work but happy to oblige. She tore out and replaced all the dated amenities to give the house contemporary functionality, but used color to bring out its early 20th-century charm.
The 33rd annual Holiday Home Tour happens from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1. Kids 12 and under get in free if accompanied by an adult. Buy presale tickets for $30 at The Guilded Cage, 8917-B S. Sepulveda Blvd., Westchester, or online at wmhgtour2015. eventbrite.com. Buy same-day tickets for $35 at the YMCA Annex, 8020 Alverstone Ave., Westchester.
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Playhouse, 1211 4th St., Santa Monica. (310) 394-9779; santamonicaplayhouse.com Little Miss Nasty, 9 p.m. Rock ‘n’ Roll burlesque meets Halloween at Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $13 plus two-drink minimum. (310) 395-1676; santamonica. harvelles.com
Sunday, Nov. 1 Mar Vista Farmers Market, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Score delicious prepared foods to eat under the big deejay tent and browse dozens of stands featuring fresh produce and other goods. Venice
First Sunday Open Reading, 5 p.m. Beyond Baroque’s monthly open mic returns with guest Edgar Montgomery. Signups begin at 4:45 p.m. Free. 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice. (310) 822-3006; beyondbaroque.org Mariachi and Folkloric Dancing, 5, 7 and 8:45 p.m. Dinner comes with a side of traditional Mexican entertainment at Casa Sanchez, 4500
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Electric Comedy, 8 p.m. Each Sunday, an intimate night of stand-up comedy that may include a few of L.A.’s well-known comics. $25. Free pizza. The Electric Lodge, Electric Ave., Venice. electriccomedy.com Karaoke Lisa, 9 p.m. Sing your heart out every Sunday at the Prince O’ Whales, 335 Culver Blvd.,
Vida featuring DJ Creepy, 9:30 to 11:45 p.m. Ambient and dance vibes light up the evening’s soundscape at Melody Bar & Grill, 9132 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Westchester. (310) 670-1994; barmelodylax.com
Monday, Nov. 2 Optimist Club Meeting, 9:30 a.m. Club meets on Mondays at the Coffee
Comics on the Spot, 7 p.m. Weekly stand-up comedy event begins with an open mic before the pros take the stage at 7:45 p.m. The Warehouse, 4499 (Continued on page 33)
On Stage – A ro und up of this 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 Smoke and Mirrors photos by Lisa Bevis
Actors take on academia in “The Harlequino: On to Freedom”
Albie Selznick (left and in the cage) tells a deeply personal story through magic in “Smoke and Mirrors”
The Magic Trick: “Smoke and Mirrors” @ Odyssey Theatre Odyssey Theatre has a few tricks up its sleeve this Halloween with “Smoke and Mirrors.” Magic Castle lifetime member and Mum’s co-founder Albie Selznick weaves a semiautobiographical tale about a boy’s coming-of-age after the death of his father with sleight-of-hand and mystical illusions. Special performances at 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, at Odyssey Theatre, 2055
written, the nature of humor and what it means to be free. Closes this weekend after 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday productions at the historic Ivy Substation, 9070 Venice Blvd., Culver City. $30 to $35. theactorsgang.com
S. Sepulveda Blvd., West L.A. $34. (310) 450-2849; smokeandmirrorsmagic.com Artist’s Lecture: “The Harlequino: On to Freedom” @ The Actors’ Gang Directed and written by Tim Robbins, “Harlequino” is a workshop production about a band of rogue actors who hijack Dr. Phinnea Preamble’s slideshow lecture on Commedia dell’Arte, an improvisational Italian theatrical form. Their struggle for the Commedia questions the purpose of art, how history is
Law and Order: “The Dock Brief” @ Pacific Resident Theatre Comedy and tragedy tango in this two-man show about an innocuous little man accused of murdering his wife and the bumbling barrister assigned to
defend him. While the lawyer prepares for grandstand greatness in court, neither one is quite ready for the verdict ahead. Now playing at 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and at 3 p.m. Sundays through Dec. 13. Pacific Resident Theatre, 705½ Venice Blvd. Venice. $25 to $34. (310) 822-8392; pacificresidenttheatre.org Ladies Night: “Not that Jewish” @ The Braid What does it mean to have a “Jewish heart”? That’s what
Emmy-award winning writer and comedian Monica Piper wants to know in her onewoman show about being a single mom in Hollywood and writing for the hit TV shows “Roseanne” and “Rugrats.” Gather your girlfriends for this show that promises hysterical laughs and poignant moments. Closes this weekend after 8 p.m. Thursday and Saturday stagings at The Braid, 2912 Colorado Ave., Santa Monica. $35. (310) 315-1400; jewishwomenstheatre.org
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Glen Alla Park, 4601 Alla Road, Del Rey
Santa Monica Downtown Farmers Market 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
6400 S. Seabluff Drive, Playa Vista
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Playa Vista Farmers Market 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Venice Farmers Market 7 to 11 a.m. 500 Venice Blvd. (at Venice Way), Venice
Santa Monica Downtown Farmers Market 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Arizona Avenue, between 2nd and 4th streets, Santa Monica
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Westchester Farmers Market 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Marina del Rey Farmers Market 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Santa Monica Pico Farmers Market 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Santa Monica Main Street Farmers Market 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Westchester Recreation Center, 7000 W. Manchester Ave., Westchester
County Lot #11, Panay Way at Via Marina, Marina del Rey
Virginia Avenue Park, 2200 Virginia Ave., Santa Monica
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“A healthy outside starts from the inside.” — Robert Urich
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Fun,FrightandFestivals 16 ways to celebrate Halloween and Day of the Dead Compiled by Michael Reyes
Thursday, Oct. 29 El Día de los Muertos Student Art Exhibition See retablos, altars and individual paintings and sculptures created by students attending Santa Monica High School, John Adams Middle School, Grant Elementary School and the Pico Youth and Family Center. The party is from 6 to 8 p.m. at Samohi’s Roberts Art Gallery, 601 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. Free. (310) 395-3204 x71441; samohi.smmusd. org/roberts/ Mr. Bones Pumpkin Patch Bring the kids and explore the petting zoo, Jumpin’ Pumpkin moon bounce, pony rides, face painting, Mr. Bone’s Super Slide, a straw maze and, of course, the pumpkins. $1 per activity ticket. Open 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday at 10100 Jefferson Blvd., Culver City. (310) 276-9827; mrbonespumpkinpatch.com
Friday, Oct. 30 Festival de Manualidades The Santa Monica Library’s Pico Branch hosts a family-friendly afternoon of making Day of the Dead crafts. From 3:30 to 5 p.m., see how to make skull masks, stickers and paper ornaments. Free. 2201 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 458-8684; smpl.org “Escape Reality: Halloween Edition” Dare to enter Magicopolis for a mystifying and entertaining evening of all-ages magic acts and sketch comedy, including levitation, mind-reading, optical illusion and one Houdini-inspired escape: The Table of Terror. Tickets are $34. 1418 Fourth St., Santa Monica. (310) 451-2241; magicopolis.com ZWeekend at the Venice Whaler Three days of zombie fun at the Whaler. Friday is ‘80s surfin’ zombies night, so wear your most neon get-up with a zombie twist. Saturday is rock star zombies, featuring a haunted house, costume contest
prizes, photo booth and fortuneteller. Sunday wraps up with Día de los Zombies brunch and drinks. No cover. 10 Washington Blvd., Marina del Rey. (310) 821-8737; venicewhaler.com
Saturday, Oct. 31 Halloween Tailgate at SMC A family-friendly Halloween-themed community tailgate starts at 10:30 a.m. ahead of the 1 p.m. kickoff for Santa Monica College’s homecoming game. Activities include a deejay dance party, carnival games, balloon artists, face painting and free glitter or henna tattoos. Kids are encouraged to wear costumes and go trick-or-treating at booths hosted by various student clubs. Free entry. 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 434-4100; alumni.smc.edu “Absolutely Halloween” At the Santa Monica Playhouse, a colorful set of characters take a young girl named Candy on an adventure through All Hallows’ Eve and pick one special audience member to join in and help save Halloween for one more year. Performances are at 2 p.m. Saturday and 12:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $12.50 to $15. 1211 4th St., Santa Monica. (310) 394-9779 x2; santamonicaplayhouse.com 3rd Annual Zombie Crawl Starting at 6:30 p.m., pick up a wristband at Rusty’s Surf Ranch on the Santa Monica Pier and enter the spooky, zombie scene of Main Street. If you’re lucky, you’ll make it through the eight participating bars and restaurants and enjoy the finish line at Wokcano for a “WOK-ing Dead” after party. 21+; $12 to $15. Wristband gives you access to food and drink specials, complimentary zombie makeup, and the zombie after party. (310) 393-7437; rustyssurfranch.com
party with spooky-themed vegan cuisine from Frankenstand, sweet treats from Cup My Cakez, an open bar, music, costume contest prizes, and more from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. 21+; $45 ticket includes all you can eat and drink. 610 Main St., Venice. (310) 448-2650; veganscene.com Flashback Halloween Bash The Craftsman Bar and Kitchen hosts an evening of ‘80s and rock music, drink specials and screenings of scary movies from 10 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Come dressed as your favorite ‘80s rocker or movie icon and enter a costume contest. No cover. 119 Broadway, Santa Monica. (310) 573-8426; thecraftsmanbar.com
Sunday, Nov. 1 Día de los Angelitos From 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Virginia Avenue Park hosts a traditional ceremony for Día de los Angelitos (Day of the Little Angels), which honors children who have passed away. Free. 2200 Virginia Ave., Santa Monica. (310) 458-8688; smgov.net/ vapark Day of the Dead Celebration From 1 to 4 p.m. at Woodlawn Cemetery, the city of Santa Monica hosts its fourth annual celebration of traditional Mexican and Latin American ceremonies of life and death. The event includes an opening procession and ceremonial blessing with music and dance by Ketzaliztli, crafts workshops, food, a performance by Conjunto Jardín, and a documentary screening of how families in Mexico prepare for this celebration. 1847 14th St., Santa Monica. Free. (310) 452-8688; smgov.net/dia
UCLA-SPARC’s Día de los Muertos SPARC hosts its annual Day of the Dead ceremony from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., this year including a ritual Calling of the Spirits led by UCLA instructor and SPARC artist-in-Residence Martha Ramirez-Oropeza and students with UCLA’s César E. Chávez Chicana/o Studies Department. The event includes music by Jacqueline Fuentes and a participatory community altar for you to honor loved ones with photos and mementos. 685 Venice Blvd., Venice. (310) 822-9560 x15; sparcinla.org
Monday, Nov. 2 Day of the Dead Dioramas Make a diorama with your little ones (ages 5+) to remember a loved one during this crafts session from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Santa Monica Public Library’s Montana Branch. Free. 1704 Montana Ave., Santa Monica. (310) 458-8682; smpl.org “The Book of Life” The Santa Monica Library’s Pico Branch hosts a 5 p.m. screening of this musical adventure and animated film set in Mexico during Day of the Dead. When young bullfighter Manolo is torn between family expectations and following his heart, he jumps into an adventure that takes him through various fantastical worlds where he confronts his fears. Free. Pico Branch Library, 2201 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 458-8684; smpl.org “La Festividad de los Muertos” At the Santa Monica Library’s Pico Branch, the city of Santa Monica and the Mexican Consulate present a 7 p.m. screening of a bilingual film that explores the preparations for Day of the Dead, including altars and the ritual of communion with the deceased. Free. 2201 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 458-8684; smpl. org
Screamin’ Halloween Party Wear a costume to celebrate Vegan Scene’s first Halloween costume
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Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. No cover. (310) 823-5451; mdrwarehouse.com
Tuesday, Nov. 3 Santa Monica Animal Shelter Adoptions, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Through Nov. 7, the Santa Monica Animal Shelter reduces adoption fees for cats and kittens, with each adoption coming with a $250 voucher good for initial veterinary exams and medications from any VCA Animal Hospital location. 1640 9th St., Santa Monica. (310) 458-8595; petharbor.com Burton Chace Park Walking Club, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Join others in a light walk while enjoying the beautiful view of the Marina del Rey harbor. Burton Chace Park, 13640 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey. Free, but RSVP by calling (310) 305-9595; beaches. lacounty.gov Gateway To Go!, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Each Tuesday, a rotating line-up of gourmet food trucks gather at Crowne Plaza LAX, 5985 W. Century Blvd. gatewaytola.org Oktoberfest Beer Dinner, 6:30 p.m. A four-course evening to remember includes pork belly, filet with caramelized onions, apple crumb tart and other dishes carefully paired with German and craft beers. Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse Marina del Rey, 13455 Maxella Ave., Marina del Rey. $65 plus tax and gratuity. Call to RSVP. (310) 821-4593; ruthschris.com Karaoke with Kiki, 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Sing your heart out at the Prince O’ Whales, 335 Culver Blvd., Playa del Rey. (310) 823-9826; princeowhales.com
Wednesday, Nov. 4 Rotary Club of Playa Venice Sunrise, 7:15 a.m. Meets Wednesday mornings at Whiskey Red’s, 13813 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. Contact Peter Smyth at (310) 916-3648. playasunrise.org
Unkle Monkey, 6 to 9 p.m. The local duo plays beachy tunes each Wednesday evening at The Warehouse, 4499 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 823-5451; mdrwarehouse.com The Grand View Market Open Mic Night, 7 p.m. each Wednesday. Performer signups begin at 6:30 p.m. Open mic strictly for musicians happens on Friday nights. Grand View Market, 12210 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista. (310) 390-7800; grandviewmarket.com Michael Koppy, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Each Wednesday enjoy good company, cold beer and live music at The Cinema Bar, 3967 Sepulveda
Blvd., Culver City. No cover. (310) 390-1328; thecinemabar.com Venice Underground Comedy & Red Light Burlesque, 9 p.m. Each Wednesday, L.A. comedy club regulars and big-names perform at 9 p.m. followed by burlesque dancing by the Bootleg Bombshells at 11. No cover. Townhouse, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com
Thursday, Nov. 5
Picturas & DJ Alfred Hawkins, 8 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Classic rock from Picturas starts at 8 p.m., with DJ
Rotary Club of Westchester, 12:10 p.m. Meets Wednesday mornings at the Crowne Plaza LAX Hotel, 5985 W. Century Blvd., Inglewood. (310) 986-9237; rotarywestchester.com Westchester Senior Citizens Club Bingo, 1 to 3 p.m. Make new friends and win prizes each Wednesday at the Westchester Senior Center, 8740 Lincoln Blvd., Westchester. (310) 649-3317 or (310) 649-1173
Masters at Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Ave., E-2, Santa Monica. bergamotstation.com
Galleries & Museums Gustavo Acosta’s “Timeline,” through Saturday, Oct. 24. Latin American Masters at Bergamot Station welcome the recent work of Cuban artist Gustavo Acosta, who paints neo-romantic architecture in the context of the Cuban Revolution with tones and compositions that imply abandonment. Latin American
“People of the Babak,” through Sunday, Oct. 25. See the collaborative and individual works of the local painting duo Mitchelito Orquiola and Chalavie, including a new mural covering the front side of the gallery. Trunk Gallery, 12818 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista. (310) 483-7221; trunkgallery.org “Beginning Inexhaustible Empty” and “Charles Garabedian: Sacrifice for the Fleet,” through Nov. 7. In “Empty,” artist Tom Wudl bases his meticulously detailed drawings, (Continued on page 34)
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Westchester Life Story Writing Group, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Memoir-writing workshop meets Wednesdays at the YMCA Annex, 8020 Alverstone Ave., Westchester. Donation: $10 per semester. (310) 397-3967 Toastmasters “Speakers by the Sea” Club, 11 a.m. to noon. Overcome your public presentation nerves at this weekly meeting. Pregerson Technical Facility, Room 230A, 12000 Vista Del Mar, Playa del Rey. (424) 625-3131
Alfred Hawkins spinning soul, funk, hip-hop, disco and dance at 10 p.m. No cover. Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com
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FIcTITIOUS bUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015251861 The following person is doing business as: Nanaka Design 12626 Greene Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90066. Registered owners: Michelle Brusuelas 12626 Greene Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90066. This business is conducted by an individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: Michelle Brusuelas. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on September 30, 2015. Argonaut published: October 8, 15, 22, and 29, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FIcTITIOUS bUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015252523 The following person is doing business as: Never Event Prevention 816 Camino Real Unit 103 Redondo Beach, CA. 90277. Registered owners Sharon Ruth Elenbaas 816 Camino Real Unit 103 Redondo Beach, CA. 90277 and Mark Elenbaas 816 Camino Real Unit 103 Redondo Beach, CA. 90277. This business is conducted by a
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FIcTITIOUS bUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015252829 The following person is doing business as: FRK Consulting 12100 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 650 Los Angeles, CA. 90025. Registered owners: Frederick R. Kuhns 3249 Butler Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90066. This business is conducted by an individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Frederick R. Kuhns. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on October 1, 2015. Argonaut published: October 8, 15, 22, and 29, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FIcTITIOUS bUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015255454 The following person is doing business as: Medical Sales Associates 115 Ω Hurricane St. Marina del Rey, CA. 90292. Registered owners: Robert P. Debiase 115 Ω Hurricane St. Marina del Rey, CA. 90292. This business is conducted by an individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Robert P. Debiase. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on October 5, 2015. Argonaut published: October 15, 22, 29 and November 5, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing
FIcTITIOUS bUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015258959 The following person is doing business as: Tough Enough Apparel 11946 Arkansas St. Artesia, CA. 90701. Registered owners: Tough Enough, LLC 11946 Arkansas St. Artesia, CA. 90701. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Sal Jauregui. Title: CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on October 8, 2015. Argonaut published: October 22, 29, November 5, and 12, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FIcTITIOUS bUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015261005 The following person is doing business as: McCafferty Construction Company 556 venice Blvd. Venice, CA. 90291. Registered owners: James K. McCafferty 556 Venice Blvd. Venice, CA. 90291. 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: James K. McCefferty. Title: Owner. This
statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on October 13, 2015. Argonaut published: October 22, 29, November 5, and 12, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FIcTITIOUS bUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015261195 The following person is doing business as: Srilo Ventures 409 Washington Blvd. Marina del Rey, CA. 90292. Registered owners: Srilo LLC 1 Oak Meadow Lane Carmel Valley, CA. 93924. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Cy Kirshner. Title: President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on October 13, 2015. Argonaut published: October 15, 22, 29, and November 5, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FIcTITIOUS bUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015261207 The following person is doing business as: The Litvin Group LLC 3435 Ocean Park Blvd. #107-221 Santa Monica, CA. 90405. Registered owners: The Litvin Group LLC 3435 Ocean Park Blvd. #107-221 Santa Monica, CA. 90405. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Richard Litvin. Title: Managing Partner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on October 13, 2015. Argonaut published: October 15, 22, 29, and November 5, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FIcTITIOUS bUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015261367 The following person is doing business as: Promosales International 2240 Sawtelle Boulevard Los
Angeles, CA. 90064 and P.O. Box 691266 Los Angeles, CA. 90069. Registered owners: Jormos & Associates, INC. 15060 Ventura Blvd. STE. 300. This business is conducted by a Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: Vladimir Moshkevich. Title: President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on October 13, 2015. Argonaut published: October 29, November 5, 12, and 19, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FIcTITIOUS bUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015261373 The following person is doing business as: Lawalkandpaint 2015 federal Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90025. Registered owners: Kady Hoffman 2015 Hoffman Federal Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90025. 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: Kady Hoffman. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on October 13, 2015. Argonaut published: October 22, 29, November 5, and 12, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FIcTITIOUS bUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015268074 The following person is doing business as: Acoustic Fabric Interiors 1105 Amoroso Pl Venice, CA. 90291. Registered owners: Alec M. Milstein 1105 Amoroso Pl Venice, CA. 90291. 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: Alec M. Milstein. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on October 20, 2015. Argonaut published: October 22, 29, November 5, and 12, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts
set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FIcTITIOUS bUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015273840 The following person is doing business as: Zoli Media 5400 Playa Vista Dr. #14 Playa Vista, CA. 90094. Registered owners: Stephan Dalyai 5400 Playa Vosta Dr. #14 Playa Vista, CA. 90094. 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: Stephan Dalyai. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on October 27, 2015. Argonaut published: October 29, November 5, 12, and 19, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FIcTITIOUS bUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2015272697 The following person is doing business as: Venice Pier Project Venice Pier, Venice, CA. 90291 and Venice Pier Bait And Tackle 204 Hampton Dr. #13 Venice, CA. 90291. Registered owners: Peter John Ruiz 204 Hampton Dr. Suite 13 Venice, CA, 90291. 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: Peter John Ruiz. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on October 26, 2015. Argonaut published: October 29, November 5, 12, and 19, 2015. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Public Notice NOTIcE OF APPLIcATION FOR POLIcE PERMIT Notice is hereby given that application has been made to the Board of Police Commissioners for a permit to conduct a MASSAGE. NAME OF APPLICANT: Clara Lee. DOING BUSINESS AS: Venice Therapy. LOCATED AT: 1806 S. Lincoln Blvd. Venice, CA. 90291. Any person desiring to protest this Issuance of this permit shall make a written protest before Nov. 19, 2015 to the: LOS ANGELES POLICE COMMISSION 100 West First Street Los Angeles, CA. 90012.
LEGAL ADVERTISING Upon receipt of written protests, protesting persons will be notified of date, time , and place for hearing. BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF ALFREDO WILLIAM WALKER, ESTATE NO. BP167265 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, and contingent creditors of Alfredo William Walker and persons who may be otherwise interested in the will or estate, or both: A petition has been filed by Kenneth Adler in the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, requesting that Kenneth Adler be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of Alfredo William Walker. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. This will avoid the need to obtain court
the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 58 of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery of the notice to you under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are interested in the estate, you may request special notice of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Section 1250 of the California Probate Code. Kenneth Adler, Petitioner 21250 Hawthorne Boulevard, suite 500 Torrance, California 90503
approval for many actions taken in connection with the estate. However, before taking certain actions, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or have consented to the proposed action. The petition will be granted unless good cause is shown why it should not be. The petition is set for hearing in Dept. No. 11. at Central District, Stanley Mosk Courthouse, 111 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, California 90012 on November 6th, 2015 at 8:30 a.m. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to
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