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County plans big makeover for Oxford Basin Overhaul of Marina del Rey marsh would include a public loop trail, nature viewing area and restoration of native plants

Gary John and one of his works

From hard times to big-time

Venice street artist Gary John was nearly homeless and about to quit painting when a chance meeting changed his life

By Michael Aushenker About six months ago, Gary John was just another struggling artist on Venice Boardwalk, frequently homeless and his career going nowhere after a decade of

selling paintings on the beach. About to turn 50, he was all but ready to abandon his dreams.

Then John did something he hardly ever did: deviate from his painting schedule to attend an art walk after a listing in the

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By Gary Walker A utilitarian coastal flood control basin in Marina del Rey is slated for an $11-million facelift that would give it the look and feel of a public park.

Landscaping work at Oxford Retention Basin — bounded by Washington Boulevard, Oxford Avenue and Admiralty Way — would begin this summer if the project gets a green light on Tuesday from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

Upgrades planned for the basin include a 2/3-mile circular bicycle and walking path around the salt marsh lagoon, nature observation areas, wildlife-friendly lighting and low decorative fencing in place of its current uninviting chain-link barrier.

The Los Angeles County Dept. of Public Works would also strip the area of invasive plant species and replace them with native coastal scrub.

The landscaping and beautification proposal comes as part of a county (Continued on page 8)

Donors rally for murder victim’s family Officials offer $50,000 reward for information leading to arrest in Venice stabbing death

By Joe Piasecki More than 200 people gathered Monday to raise money for the family of a restaurant worker who was stabbed to death on Nov. 18 near the corner of Pacific Avenue and Washington Boulevard.

Guillermo Carmona-Perez, 24, of Venice is

survived by a 13-month-old son, also named Guillermo, said mother Miriam Guirguis.

Carmona-Perez was a line cook at Mercedes Grille, just a few hundred feet from where he was killed. Los Angeles Police Department homicide detectives say he was attacked shortly after leaving his shift and are searching for witnesses.

Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin on Friday announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to the capture and conviction of Carmona-Perez’s killer.

(Continued on page 11) Councilman Mike Bonin and Miriam Guirguis at Friday’s press conference

Heroes Wanted There are hundreds of unsung heroes among us doing valuable work that makes our area a great place to live.

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Letters Eligible voters need to vote Dec 3

Re: “Westside state Assembly race heats up,� news, Nov. 14.

The Argonaut’s article is a very detailed, fact-filled one.

Perhaps because it was written as a news article rather than as an editorial it had to lack some of the “flavor� concerning this upcoming race.

This year the prospective voters in my geographical area have been expected to vote too many times. It seems that with each election the turnout, in person or by absentee ballot, has been less than the last one. For the upcoming state Assembly election on Dec. 3, if voter

turnout is 10% (as some predict it will be), a candidate can win the election if fewer than 6% of the eligible voters actually vote.

That is truly disturbing.

This time the same voters recently asked to participate in an uncontested “election� are having a candidate almost crammed down our throats! We are being deluged with mailers.

Apparently, none of the powers that be want to make L.A. County Supervisor Mark RidleyThomas mad at them. Even the Democratic Party is acting as if there is only one candidate.

In my opinion, that’s a bit cowardly!

I already cast my absentee ballot for Christopher Armenta, VOL 43, NO 48

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who has real and earned credentials to show for his candidacy. Unfortunately, unless something is done to awaken prospective voters to the importance of this election, a young man with absolutely zero earned credentials is going to become this district’s next Assemblyman.

(For the record, I’ve never, to my knowledge, met candidate Armenta, nor am I associated with his campaign.)

Forgive my strong opinions but, to me, this upcoming election seems very similar to the strongarm type of “elections� held in some so-called Third World countries of which we in the U.S. are always highly critical.

Betty Rome Culver City

She's voting for Armenta

As a resident of Culver City for over 45 years I have seen almost everything happen within this city. One truly outstanding event was the election of my husband, Richard Alexander, to the City Council in 1974 against seemingly all odds. It was somewhat like David and

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Goliath, and 40 years later I am witnessing the same type of event — with what I hope will be the same outcome.

Christopher Armenta is running his campaign for the 54th Assembly seat against those same types of odds, as he runs against a candidate who: has sought support from special interests groups, has a great deal of name recognition, has the organization of a well tooled political machine, has about 25 times the money to spend and has never served in an elective office position.

Former Mayor Armenta: has been elected to public office and has a proven track record of representing the people; as an experienced State Auditor, knows where and how to get needed funding; is committed to ensuring quality health care for all demographics in the district; understands traffic congestion and safety issues and will work to ease them; has stood up to the county in respect to its weak regulations of the Baldwin Hills Oil Field; will work tirelessly for a ban on fracking until it is proven safe; and is committed

to strengthening CEQA (the California Environmental Quality Act).

During the time Alex was a four-term Culver City Council member, our family quickly learned how elected leaders can manipulate dates and meetings to orchestrate events causing low voter turnout to skew the vote. Whoever decided on the Dec.3 date for this special election was certainly not trying to enhance the democratic process.

Ann D. Alexander Culver City

Spare a turkey this Thanksgiving

President Obama will get a break from "Obamacare" when he pardons the Thanksgiving turkey. Each of us can also set aside our cares by pardoning a turkey and choosing a nonviolent Thanksgiving observance-- one that gives thanks for our good fortune, health and happiness with a life-affirming, cruelty-free feast of vegetables, fruits and grains.

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Wanda Coleman, 1946-2013 Friends remember the honorary Los Angeles poet laureate and Beyond Baroque woman of letters, who died Friday

By Michael Aushenker Wanda Coleman, who turned her experiences of racial prejudice into defiant, fierce and personal poetry that gained her widespread recognition as one of Los Angeles’ strongest literary voices, died Friday after battling a long illness. She was 67.

In her work, Coleman drew from all facets of the human experience — love, heartbreak, salvation — but found her sharpest voice in pushing back against social barriers and limitations due to race and gender discrimination.

Across four decades she authored more than 20 books of poetry, fiction and essays.

Her 1998 poetry collection “Bathwater Wine” won the Lenore Marshall National Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets and catapulted her to national attention.

Friends remember Coleman, a frequent participant in the Venice arts scene, as uncompromising, unflinching in the face of conflict and fiercely loyal, while at the same time having a soft spot for other artists.

“Wanda was always very generous and very supportive,” said Suzanne Thompson, a co-founder of the Venice Arts Council.

Thompson first met Coleman in the early 1990s at Robert Frost Auditorium in Culver City, where the two were involved in a fundraiser for El Rescate, a nonprofit that provides legal and social services for Central American refugees. She recalled Coleman’s reading that day as a transformative experience.

Coleman “was very quiet and contemplative, but when she got on stage she had the most powerful performance I’ve ever experienced in my life.

Her words became alive. You were so there with her,” said Thompson. “I fell in love with poetry after that. She got me hooked on readings and poetry.”

Thompson also worked with Coleman on a restoration of Ocean Front Walk that featured a series of public art components.

Since renamed the Venice Beach Poets Monument, it includes public displays of poetry. A passage by Coleman remains on the side of the Brooks Avenue public restroom on Venice

Wanda Coleman performs a reading at Beyond Baroque

Coleman accepts a commendation from former City Councilman Bill Rosendahl

Beach.

Coleman also maintained a decades-long association with Venice-based Beyond Baroque, where she frequently read her work, lectured and taught.

When Coleman was onstage, “People paid attention to what she had to say,” said close friend and fellow poet Laurel Ann Bogen, who is planning a memorial for January. “If you ever saw her read, you never forgot it.”

“Wanda was close to all of our hearts,” said Sherman Pearl, vice president of Beyond Baroque.

“She had the most articulate voice of Los Angeles that I know of. Last year, she was given our annual award for achievement in poetry.”

Born in Watts and married with children by age 20, Coleman attended classes at Los Angeles Valley College and Cal State Los Angeles but eventually dropped out of school. She divorced in 1969 — later marrying poet Austin Straus — and worked odd jobs before landing a fleeting gig writing for NBC’s “Days of Our Lives.” Her work on the soap opera won her a Daytime Emmy in 1976.

Eschewing TV scripts to focus on family, Coleman eventually came to the more intimate medium of poetry and attended the Watts Writers Workshop, led by “What Makes Sammy Run?” novelist and “On The Waterfront” screenwriter Budd Schulberg, as well as workshopping verse at Studio Watts and, later, Beyond Baroque.

Coleman’s first poetry collection was published in 1977

Wanda.”

The last time Cervenka and Thompson saw Coleman was in May 2012 at the now-defunct 585Boardriders sports shop, where activists were organizing to remove graffiti from the Venice Beach Poets Monument project.

Thompson, a Beyond Baroque board member, intends to continue that mission in Coleman’s memory.

Poet Suzanne Lummis, who met Coleman in the 1980s, said there was much more to Coleman than the rage in her poetry that others have relied on to define her.

“One memory keeps returning to me, and it’s not about her electrifying performances on the stage, or her great, joyous, rocking laughter that swelled the walls when she was in the audience,” said Lummis.

“Both of us had regularly attended a literary salon at the little house of the beloved elder poet of the Los Angeles literary world, William Pillin, a refugee whose family had fled the Russian pogroms,” Lummis said. “The news of his death grieved me deeply, but when I called Wanda, I could not have anticipated her response: She exploded into tears, naked wails of sorrow, open-hearted sobbing.

To this day, I stand in awe of that emotion, and the depth of her attachment to a frail old Polish Jew and fellow poet. And that, I’d like people to know, is the flip side of Wanda’s rage that we hear so much about: love.”

Coleman is survived by Strauss, children Tunisia Ordoñez and Ian

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by Black Sparrow Press, which also released books by Charles Bukowski and Los Angeles literature godfather John Fante.

As a journalist, Coleman stoked controversy. She clashed with Angela Davis while covering a Black Panther fundraiser in the 1970s and in 2002 penned a scathing review of Maya Angelou’s memoir “A Song Flung Up to Heaven.”

In 1985, Coleman and Exene Cervenka of the seminal L.A. punk group X collaborated on a spoken word album, “Twin Sisters,” that was recorded at McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica.

Cervenka said she had met Coleman at “a very golden time” for Beyond Baroque (from the mid-1970s to early ‘80s) and rattled off a lengthy roster of peers emerging from this “postbeatnik and post-hippie” scene.

But it was Coleman who made the greatest impression on Cervenka, she said.

“Wanda she stood out always every time she read. She was often imitated. Her cadence became the way everybody tried to read,” Cervenka said. “We just liked each other. We started doing readings together.”

Coleman had a no-nonsense approach to life that Cervenka recalled coming out during a plane trip to Amsterdam, where the two were headed to perform in a poetry festival.

While boarding the plane, “as I was sitting down, we saw a man bending over [dealing with his luggage],” Cervenka said. “I heard a voice go, ‘Get your fat white ass out of my face!’ It was

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Why I’m not shopping on Thanksgiving Day Buying from big box stores takes the holiday away from retail workers and contradicts basic American values

By Odysseus Bostick Few things are more uniquely American than Thanksgiving. The holiday is an integral part of our national mythology and a representation of our most precious ideals. In many ways, it is the story of the American Dream — that we can exist harmoniously in a land of diversity, that hard work provides us with abundance, and that we are profoundly grateful for that excess.

So as we watch big-box retailers open their doors on Thanksgiving Day, I find myself patently offended.

Thanksgiving is the one holiday that every man, woman and child can celebrate regardless of faith or politics. Historically, it is a day when we put down our work and celebrate our fortune of being born in a land of so much bounty. It is a day that returns us to our agricultural roots and asks everyone to bask in the humility of gratitude. I think that’s a good thing.

President Lincoln went so far as to pause

the Civil War to break bread and express gratitude. Do we really want to toss aside the sanctity of Thanksgiving by engaging in commerce without the least bit of discussion?

If you are capable of shopping on Thanksgiving, I believe you have a moral obligation to consider your actions carefully: Going shopping on this important holiday forces the employees of big box retailers to lose their Thanksgiving.

That’s precisely the most un-American part of shopping on Thanksgiving Day — that it is yet another shift away from economic equality and towards the creation of an underclass who must now forgo the most basic American tradition of sitting down with family and friends to celebrate American abundance Because these poorly paid employees cannot fight their employers’ decision to open on Thanksgiving Day without risk of losing their jobs, I pose this question:

Does saving a few bucks matter more than children being without their mothers or fathers on Thanksgiving because mom or dad had to work to satisfy somebody’s shopping bug?

We need Thanksgiving to remind us of our ideals because we live in a time when we have to face the harsh discrepancies between our country’s founding principles and our oftentimes failed execution of them. It is sometimes hard to look optimistically at those ideals when you account for the profound degradation of upward mobility, the growing inequality of wealth, and the disappearing middle class.

From the decimation of Native Americans to slavery to gender rights to Japanese internment camps to an imperfect justice system — this list goes on — we have had an imperfect history of equality.

But should we stop trying?

The underlying principles of graciousness, equality and determination that drove those beleaguered pilgrims to

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travel across the ocean and, at least for one day, make peace and break bread with the native inhabitants they encountered still ring true. The hope that our system is capable of doing better is the reason we celebrate Thanksgiving.

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From farmers market to food pantry Local volunteers are collecting fresh produce to feed the hungry through Food Forward’s farmers market recovery program

By Sarah A. Spitz At Thanksgiving we focus our gratitude on the bounty of food overflowing our tables. In California we’re blessed with a wide selection of local farm-grown produce, and many of us have backyard gardens and fruit trees that offer fruits and vegetables year-round.

But the sad statistic across the country, according to an August 2012 white paper by the Natural Resources Defense Council, is that up to 40% of food goes to waste for various reasons while hunger persists.

Food Forward is a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization helping to change that equation. In less than five years, Food Forward has mobilized an army of some 6,000 volunteers to harvest more than 1.7 million pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables through backyard, public- and private-space “picks,” with all that food donated to social services agencies that feed the hungry.

With its new farmers market recovery program, Food Forward is collecting an additional 3,500 pounds of farm-fresh produce on average each week.

The program launched in August 2012 at the Wednesday farmers market in Santa Monica and grew to include seven local area farmers markets, including Santa Monica, Mar Vista and Culver City.

The farmers market in Mar Vista has been participating since March.

Diana Rogers, manager of the Mar Vista market, told me that vendors welcomed having a program that delivers donations to vetted food distribution agencies. Now some of what’s collected goes to children at Grand View Elementary School.

“We’re delighted to get fresh fruit to kids just a block away from the market,” Rogers told me. “I’ve been waiting the 18 years of my market managing career to have such a well-organized and comprehensive organization work in tandem with the market, the farmers and the community beyond.”

I first heard of Food Forward very early in its existence and wanted to help further its essential goals of preventing food waste and sharing our bounty with the most vulnerable among us. Having helped harvest mandarin oranges at a recent private estate pick, I’m proud to say that I am now a volunteer member of Food Forward’s advisory board, aiding its small but highly effective staff to ramp up operations in a sustainable way.

Corporate picks help build teamwork while serving the community, and even though backyard harvests and the farmers market recovery program seem like such obvious ideas, it takes organizational skill and logistical management to make these

ideas an ongoing reality.

But Food Forward’s farmers market recovery program needs more volunteers to bring fresh vegetables to people in need.

You can help spread the bounty by giving up a few hours of your time at a local farmers market.

Mary Baldwin, manager of Food Forward’s market recovery program, explained that a lot of work went into starting the project and keeping it going.

“We needed to put together the infrastructure, reach out to the receiving agencies, find the volunteers and get acquainted with the farmers,” Baldwin said. Now, “at the end of the market, we distribute Food Forward boxes so farmers don’t have to use their own [containers]. If they have extra unsold produce, they’ll fill our box with anything they have to give, and we take care of picking up, weighing, distributing and providing tax receipts for their donations.”

The system works well for vendors, said Alex Weiser of Weiser Family Farms.

“They make it easy to be generous; it’s so efficient,’ Weiser said. “I like that we’re helping people right here in our community. We always have food left at the end of the day. Instead of composting it, this great service lets us give it to a good cause. Everybody wins.”

St. Joseph Center in Venice had always wanted to connect with local markets to enhance its food pantry, but the organization lacked the relationships and logistical capacity to sustain such a program, according to Executive Director Va Lecia Adams.

“Produce items are the healthiest and most requested items in our food pantry,” Adams wrote in an email. “Food Forward’s ability to network with the farmers and market managers, along with their commitment to packaging the donations for easy pick up, made [receiving the produce] possible,” she wrote.

Adams estimates that a weekly visit to the St. Joseph Center pantry gives struggling residents food that would cost about $40 at a supermarket.

“With our clients’ median household incomes at around $1,500 per month, it’s kind of like getting a 10% raise,” she wrote, “leaving money for other essentials like rent and utilities.”

According to Baldwin, it’s the upbeat volunteers and the warm relationships they’ve established with the farmers that make the program such a success.

“We try to keep it light at the market, but food rescue is a serious mission,” Baldwin said.

Food Forward volunteer Debra Rivie and a vendor work together at the Mar Vista Farmers Market

“ We always have food left at the end of the day.

Instead of composting it, this great service lets us give it to a good cause. Everybody wins.”

—Alex Weiser

Volunteers are “food security advocates who believe access to good food is a basic human right,” she said.

The numbers tell the story: 245 collections over 14 months at seven markets resulted in 185,567 pounds of produce donated by 157 farmers to 20 agencies, benefiting about 110,000 people by helping to provide 240,000 meals — all from the work of about 50 dedicated volunteers.

Now imagine what 100, 200 or even 300 could do.

Volunteers will be picking lemons on Saturday in Culver City. On Sunday we return to the Mar Vista and Santa Monica farmers markets. Come join us.

To find out how to become a Food Forward volunteer, call (818) 530-4125 or visit foodforward.org.

Sarah A. Spitz, a member of Food Forward’s advisory board, retired in 2011 from her longtime role as publicist for KCRW 89.9 FM in Santa Monica.

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County plans big makeover for Oxford Basin (Continued from cover)

Images courtesy of Los Angeles County Dept. of Public Works

strategy to convert functional floodcontrol structures into recreation-friendly areas that the public can enjoy, Public Works Dept. spokesman Bob Spencer said.

“Typically, flood control facilities have been off limits to the public. But many of them wind through communities and residential neighborhoods throughout the county, so for several years now it’s been normal for us to look at opening them for community use,” Spencer said.

Hannah Koo, the county engineer managing the project, says the transformation of Oxford Basin would have important functional advantages as well — namely enhancing flood protection and reducing runoff pollution by rechanneling the flow of water in and out of the basin.

As part of that effort, Koo said she expects workers to dredge some 6,700 cubic yards of sediment from the 7.3-acre parcel.

A combination of state and county funding will pay for the project’s $6.7 million construction tab and $4 million in design and other soft costs, Spencer said.

The more recreational aspects of Oxford Basin’s restoration took shape over a fouryear public hearing process.

“It has transformed from an infrastructure project into a passive [recreational] attraction,” said Carol Baker, a spokeswoman with the Los Angeles County Dept. of Beaches and Harbors.

But not everyone is pleased.

Douglas Fay, a Venice resident and son of well-known local marine biochemist Dr. Rimmon Fay, says changing Oxford Basin may damage its value as a wildlife habitat.

Fay has challenged the county environmental approval process and says its current study of the project is insufficient. He thinks a full environmental impact report — a much more detailed, costly and time-consuming analysis — should be done in order to insure wildlife is projected.

Oxford Basin “is/was a dedicated bird conservation area that has been destroyed by the people responsible to protect it.

The county wants to manage this property as a flood [pollution] control basin in perpetuity. They want to do the same to the Ballona Wetlands by opening the wetlands to the flood control channel, also calling it a restoration,” he wrote in an email.

An environmental study that will determine the scope of a state-sponsored restoration of the nearby Ballona Wetlands is due out in spring.

Oxford Basin was historically connected to the Ballona Wetlands but used for agriculture in the early 20th Century and then integrated into the area’s flood control system in the late 1950s, according to county documents. The basin receives storm runoff from the Venice area and releases it into the Marina.

A county diagram of plans for Oxford Retention Basin in Marina del Rey

A photograph of the basin from Washington Boulevard and a rendering of what that space would look like after the overhaul

In 2010, a biologist hired by the county found various fish species in the water and reported that herons and egrets have used the basin as a breeding ground despite its non-native vegetation. The report suggested that replacing invasive species with native plants would encourage other native bird species, including migrant songbirds and the threatened California least tern.

Officials admit that birds and other animals could be displaced during the anticipated 10 months of construction at Oxford Basin but are optimistic their plan is best for the long run.

“There is no doubt that some wildlife

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might be impacted, but when the project is finished we fully expect the wildlife to return,” Spencer said.

Spencer defended the county approvals process and said workers would halt the project if unexpected environmental issues arise.

Koo said a biologist would be onsite during construction to make certain that the habitat is disturbed as little as possible.

Challis McPherson, who lives just 500 feet from the basin, said its recasting as a recreational area is “a grand idea … but I’ll believe it when I see it.”

Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe, who represents Marina del Rey,

said he supports moving the project forward quickly.

“Oxford Basin is a great opportunity for the county to take an infrastructure project and expand its use to recreation purposes. We plan to not only improve the area’s primary function, flood protection, but also create a destination for residents and visitors to enjoy,” Knabe said.

“This is an area that has needed to be cleaned up, and I’m pleased that we will be making it a more attractive and useful space for people and habitat alike,” he added. § gary@argonautnews.com

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Boys and Girls Club of Venice stages early holiday feast community service at the center more than 20 years ago after slapping a police officer.

“We decided to make Thanksgiving a part of the people’s lives at the center when Zsa Zsa was helping out and saw that they couldn’t afford to do a Thanksgiving dinner,” von Anhalt said in a statement released by the center. “She bought 24 turkeys that year. …

This year we’re delivering 200.”

Volunteers serve meals at the Boys and Girls Club of Venice’s Thanksgiving Feast

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overflow room in the community center, she said.

The menu included turkey, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, stuffing, cranberry sauce, green beans, corn, salad, pie, cake and cookies.

“A lot of our parents work but they sometimes aren’t capable of providing a nice meal at Thanksgiving. We want to make it easy on our families and at the same time also give thanks,” said Marketing and Development Director Danielle Chi. The club is hosting a Christmas dinner and toy giveaway on Dec. 23.

Coeur d’Alene Elementary School in Venice celebrated a grant in support of the school last week as part of “Educator for a Day” activities that brought community members into local public schools as guest teachers.

Walden University, an online college, awarded Coeur d’Alene a $5,000 grant that will buy the LAUSD school an interactive digital SMART board, Principal Andrew Jenkins said. Jenkins said he hopes to one day have

Photo by Gary Walker

he Boys and Girls Club of Venice served more than 500 people an early holiday meal on Nov. 21 during its annual Thanksgiving Feast — a record attendance in the event’s 45-year history, organizers said.

The club serves about 4,000 children per year through programs that include afterschool tutoring and homework help, job training and preparedness workshops, college admission counseling and youth sports, including a sailing club at Mother’s Beach.

Most children involved with club activities come from lowincome families.

The event was made possible by the work of some 90 volunteers and donors, the largest of them Bank of American, which gave $3,500, said Courtney Byrd, the club’s development director.

Diners participated in an outdoor “turkey trot” run and walk and heard music performed by club members as they ate in the facility’s gym and an

Artist’s visit revs student creativity

a SMART board in every classroom, but for starters this one will go in the school’s library.

As part of its celebration on Thursday, Coeur d’Alene invited Micah Linton, a game designer and award-winning children’s author, into the classroom.

Linton, whose daughter attends the school, showed students a video of his latest book, “Derby and Darcy,” which depicts characters using creativity to make something useful from discarded items. He also showed students various sketches he had drawn before asking them to illustrate what they could do to find new uses for various household items.

“Children are the best sources of imagination and creativity.

It’s adults who can learn a lot from the children,” Linton said.

The author asked a group of first graders if they knew what recycling was, and the students displayed a deep understanding not only of recycling but the consequences of allowing

Gabor gifts turkeys in Venice

Zsa Zsa Gabor and husband Prince Frederic von Anhalt donated 200 turkeys on Monday to the Vera Davis McClendon Youth and Family Center in Venice, according to the nonprofit social services hub.

The 96-year-old actress and socialite had performed

Micah Linton shows first-graders at Coeur D’Alene Avenue Elementary School sketches during his turn as “Educator for a Day”

pollution to enter the ocean. One boy said his father wanted to throw away a cardboard box but he retrieved it and later made a toy out of it.

In Linton’s story, his main characters employ the same kind of ingenuity. Derby and Darcy use what they have salvaged to go on adventures in airplanes and space ships.

“When you give a child an idea, that feedback that comes back to you is truthful and from the heart,” he said.

Loyola High lauds alumnus

Loyola High School awarded alumnus Paul Freese — vice president of the pro bono law firm Public Counsel, which works on behalf of low-income families and foster children — one of its highest honors this month for his record of service to others.

Freese, who graduated from the Jesuit high school in Mar Vista in 1973 and still lives in that community, was one of five people feted with the school’s Cahalan Award on Nov. 16.

The award is named for former school President Patrick J. Cahalan, S.J., who is now chancellor of Loyola Marymount University.

“My classmate Paul could have gone on to a very lucrative law career and instead chose to defend those who could not and cannot defend themselves,” said Fr. Gregory Goethals, S.J., the current president of Loyola High School. “He truly embodies what it means to be an Ignatian man for others.”

Venice council gives cell phone antennas a cold reception

Officials say location atop apartments at 101 Dudley Ave. would violate code

By Gary Walker Plans to install cell phone antennas on top of an apartment building near Venice Beach are getting a cold reception from neighbors, prompting opposition by the Venice Neighborhood Council.

An Orange County cell tower installation firm has proposed placing antennas concealed by a chimney-like box on top of a three-story complex at 101 Dudley Ave, a 99-year-old former hotel at the corner of Pacific Avenue.

The addition would increase the height of the building, already too tall under current zoning rules, by about nine feet.

Citing those height limits, concern about noise during installation and maintenance and lack of parking for maintenance vehicles, members of the council voted 14-0 on Nov. 19 to recommend against city approval.

Maryann Harwood, a representative of Reliant Land Services Inc., said client AT&T needs a tower in the area to resolve gaps in cell phone coverage.

In its application for a city permit, the company wrote that the antenna would provide enhanced coverage in the Venice area needed to accommodate community growth and supplement surrounding sites

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that become overloaded due to increasing demand.

“AT&T radio frequency engineers are constantly monitoring telecommunication sites to identify sites experiencing heavy demand in wireless traffic load causing some degradation in optimum service in the surrounding location. RF engineers identified the need for this site to provide coverage along Pacific Avenue/Neilson Way between Ashland Avenue and Sunset Avenue including the surrounding residential/business area in Venice,” reads a related application document.

“The criteria to provide optimum

coverage to meet demands in service are very specific to the location and height requirements of the antennas. This is the only building in this search ring that meets, not only the radio frequency, but the site requirements as well,” the document continues.

There are 210 cellular towers for various companies located within a four mile radius of 101 Dudley, according to antennasearch.com.

A city staff report to the Venice Neighborhood Council Land Use and Planning Committee acknowledges that the company makes “a valid point that

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Monday’s fundraiser at Mercedes Grille collected about $7,500 from a silent auction and some $800 in bar proceeds to help Guirguis and little Guillermo through this troubled time, manager Mark Niklas said.

Guirguis said she was overwhelmed by the show of compassion in the wake of tragedy.

“It’s wonderful, all the people making this possible,” Guirguis said. “I was not expecting all of this. I want to say thank you, in my child’s name and in my name.”

A fund-raiser on Saturday at nearby Baja Cantina, where Guillermo-Perez had worked a second job, also raised hundreds of dollars for the family, manager Marcel Doumerc said.

Items donated to the silent auction at Mercedes Grille included more than $1,000 in gift certificates from local businesses, sports memorabilia and travel certificates.

Niklas choked up during the event, which included a moment

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The outpouring of love and support in the community is unbelievable. I don’t have words for it,” Niklas said. “It’s amazing the amount of people who never ate here or even met Guillermo but came just to help out.”

Carmona-Perez “was just a really nice, hardworking guy,” said Marina del Rey Realtor Marcy Soufrine, a regular diner at Mercedes Grille who attended the fund-raiser.

One of the more personal gifts to the family came from 16-yearold Venice resident Jared Prokap, who gave Guirguis his favorite children’s book — the late David Saltzman’s “The Jester Has Lost His Jingle,” intended by its dying author to help children cope with hard times — to read to her son.

Prokap’s father had read the book to him countless times, making it something of a family heirloom.

“I told her this was a very important book for me, something I’ve lived my life

by,” he said. “I thought her son needed it more than me.”

Speaking with Bonin at a press conference last week, Guirguis pleaded for justice.

“I don’t know why this happened. I hope they find the killer,” she said.

“Guillermo’s murder is a disturbing and horrific crime and a tragedy for his family, friends and the entire Venice community,” said Bonin. “Our neighborhoods will be safer once the person or people responsible for this crime are off the streets, and this reward will hopefully help the LAPD as we seek justice for Guillermo.”

Steve Royall, a boat captain with Vessel Assist, said Monday’s turnout illustrated the power of community bonds.

“It shows everybody that in a community that’s supposed to be hard, there’s still a lot of love,” he said.

Joe@argonautnews.com Staff writer Gary Walker contributed to this story.

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Venice council gives cell phone antennas a cold reception...

“I generally believe that cell towers should be located on non-residential properties … [and] “I agreed with the concerns of residents regarding a lack of parking for maintenance of the tower and services to support it,” Kaufman said.

Last year the Venice Neighborhood Council approved a motion that called for a moratorium on new installations of cell phone equipment.

According to a staff report, the motion “included wording that referenced that any new installations should be colocation towers and be decorated as works of art. Additionally, the motion addressed abnormal [high] usage periods for such equipment and suggested cell providers consider utilizing mobile equipment as a means of backfilling these peak periods of usage.”

Pressed to find more sites to expand their service networks, telecommunications companies have been increasingly looking to place cellular transmission equipment in residential areas — often to the dismay of neighbors.

In 2010, Westchester couple Jeffrey and Candace Yip locked horns with T-Mobile over a proposal to locate a 43-foot cell phone tower near their property.

“It would be very unsightly in our neighborhood,” Candace Yip said.

They enlisted the help of Rep. Maxine Waters (D- Westchester), who later received a letter from the company stating it had dropped the proposal due to neighborhood opposition. § Gary@argonautnews.com.

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But the report concludes that opposition is the better route due to zoning regulations and “strong community opposition of adding this commercial use in this residential neighborhood.”

Residents have collected more than 100 signatures in opposition to the antennas.

“We feel that it is wrong to expose private homes and apartment to radiation just because it may is cheaper or more convenient for AT&T,” said Joanne Faust, who has lived across the street from the 101 Dudley for 46 years.

Rules set down by the Federal Communications Commission prevent local government agencies from considering radiation fears — which the agency dismisses as unfounded —when considering a cell phone tower or antenna application.

But the more pressing issue in this case appeared to be whether commercial equipment was appropriate for residential neighborhoods.

“I felt the design of the tower was not right for Venice,” said Jake Kaufman, chair of the council’s land use and planning committee.

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The long ‘Farewell’ Debra Ehrhardt’s hit one-woman play about her journey from Jamaica to America continues its five-year run at Santa Monica Playhouse

By Michael Aushenker Debra Ehrhardt remembers a painful period in her professional life when the struggling actress lived in New York decades ago and her Jamaican accent was closing doors.

Heeding some ultimately bad career advice, she had taken lessons to scrub out her Kingston cadence, but that made little difference at auditions.

“The casting director would say, ‘Now try it with your American accent.’ That was the American accent!” Ehrhardt recalled, now with a hearty laugh.

Cut to 2013, and Ehrhardt has for five years been performing a successful one-woman show in which she can not only be herself but play herself, too.

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and performed by Ehrhardt and presented by the Jamaica Cultural Alliance Los Angeles, returns to the Santa Monica Playhouse on Saturday and Sunday.

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by Joel Zwick, creator of the phenomenally successful film “My Big, Fat Greek Wedding.”

In “Jamaica Farewell,” Ehrhardt, today in her 50s, recounts a time when she was an 18-year-old secretary in Kingston and a chance meeting with a CIA agent over a bowl of oxtail soup led to a precarious departure from her native country during a time of great political unrest. Her exodus from Jamaica included her agreeing to smuggle $1 million cash to Miami under the

Debra Ehrhardt performs “Jamaica Farewell” at Santa Monica Playhouse

nose of said CIA agent.

“Wealthy, educated people were leaving,” Ehrardt said of a time when the country’s the then-prime minister had aligned himself with Cuba and began enforcing all manner of restrictions.

“No one could take $50 out of the country or you’d be thrown in jail,” she explained, making the million dollars she stashed all the more harrowing. “I narrowly escaped rape and death. But I made it!”

Ehrhardt can look back at all of her obstacles with humor now, but there was a time when things weren’t so funny. She came from a lower-income home where her father was an abusive alcoholic, and in a society where a social class system encouraged people to be content with their lot and not try to transcend their income bracket.

As a very young girl, she began acting out anecdotes as a means of escape.

“I started telling stories when I was 4 years old in a mango tree in Jamaica,” she said—adding that the performances proved so popular with local kids that she started charging five cents a head.

After her tumultuous teenage journey from Kingston to Miami, she attended school in Detroit and New York to become a nurse while pursuing acting on the side. She headed to Los Angeles in the 1990s.

A 2007 New York City Fringe festival award-winner, Ehrhardt

has written three long-running autobiographical one-woman plays in the past decade and a half. Her debut show, “Mango Mango,” captured Ehrhardt’s experience “as a child looking out at the world thinking it was this way but it really was not that way.” “Invisible Chairs,” the story of her alcoholic father, was staged by David Strasberg, son of Lee Strasberg, at the elder Strasberg’s famed Strasberg Institute of Theater and Film in West Hollywood. And Ehrhardt has performed “Jamaica Farewell” all over the country as well as in Bermuda, Costa Rica, Mexico and Jamaica.

After this weekend’s string of performances, the show will go on a brief hiatus, reopening Feb. 8 at Santa Monica Playhouse to continue its indefinite run.

In Santa Monica, Ehrhardt has been receiving positive feedback from people of all ethnicities who relate to the universal aspects of the immigrant’s journey.

Three years ago, two audience members had more than kudos to give.

Actors Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson liked “Jamaica Farewell” so much that they optioned the film rights, which led to Zwick directing her one-woman show.

Wilson’s Greek heritage had led to the Hanks’ production company, Playtone, to distribute the independently produced “My Big, Fat Greek Wedding,” the largest-grossing comedy of all time.

Ehrhardt is currently “keeping her fingers crossed” as she writes her screenplay for a film adaption she hopes Playtone will bring to the multiplexes.

Dorothy McCleod, executive director of the nonprofit Jamaica Cultural Alliance, said JamaicanAmericans are among Ehrardt’s biggest supporters.

“There are many myths, misrepresentations and negative stereotyping [of Jamaicans].

Debra, in her one-woman presentations, has displayed that graciousness and gentility, creativity, brilliance and wit that is very much a part of who Jamaicans are and strive to be.

She exemplifies that lemons-intolemonade trait which is instilled in us from birth,” McCleod said.

Ehrardt said she finds it hard to relate to complaints about hardships in the U.S. “The opportunities here and the open-mindedness of the people,” she said. “If you work hard, you can get anything you want. You just have to be willing to risk everything and work hard for it.”

Ehrardt still marvels over her amazing journey and how far she has come from that little girl sitting in the mango tree.

“I love telling stories and doing what I’m doing,” she said.

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After a look around, John was about to go home when he heard a man say “Hi, artist!”

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John’s reaction, he said, was to go into the gallery next door, where “I sat down and cried like a baby.”

When John returned to meet Lurie with his work, Lurie “went crazy over them,” John said. “He said, ‘Come back the next day and we’ll sign a contract.’”

Since that encounter, “Things are flying off the shelf,” said John, which Lurie confirmed: four out of five of John’s pieces sold before the opening of one recent group show.

“We hadn’t even taken off the cardboard,” Lurie said.

Suddenly, John has a lot going on.

Throughout the first week of December, his art will be featured in two satellite art fairs in Miami Art Week. He will have work at the L.A. Art Fair at the L.A. Convention Center in January. He will participate in the Palm Springs Art Fair through February.

In addition to Bruce Lurie Gallery, John is now also aligned with Wallspace L.A., a gallery on La Brea Avenue near Melrose.

He recently sold work at The Hamptons Art Show in New York and at an art auction at the Skirball Cultural Center.

And now he even has a website: streetartgaryjohn.com.

“My head is just spinning from all of this,” said John, who still has trouble believing that it’s his art hanging in a gallery. “I was standing in awe, staring at my paintings on the wall.”

It’s a far cry from the artist’s life a year ago, when John was borderline homeless, eking out a living by selling paintings along the Venice Beach boardwalk and sometimes using newspaper as a canvass.

“I didn’t believe in it anymore, even though friends would tell me keep going,” said John.

Through Lurie, TV producer Lee Kernis (“Mind of Mencia”) bought three John paintings and while former “Today” show host Bryant Gumbel bought a painting that features vintage characters from “Rocky and Bullwinkle.”

In addition to gritty street art in an almost graffiti style, John also takes inspiration from classic cartoon and comic book characters.

“He knows every single cartoon character inside out” and has a deep knowledge of Marvel comics, Lurie said.

Indeed, John has somehow managed to hold onto his childhood comic book collection, when he devoured Silver Age Marvel and DC Comics. He grew up a big fan of Marvel’s Jack Kirby and MAD magazine’s Mort Drucker and Al Jaffe, but his hands-down favorite was the surreal artist Steve Ditko, cocreator, with writer Stan Lee, of

Artist Gary John and a taxidermied friend he sometimes carries around

A painting by street artist Gary John

two of Marvel’s most innovative books, “The Amazing SpiderMan” and “Dr. Strange.”

“I still have ‘Amazing Fantasy’ #15,” John said of his beat-up but cherished copy of SpiderMan’s first appearance from 1962. Vintage comics also hang on the wall of his new Culver City apartment: “The Doom Patrol,” “Dick Tracy,” “The Monkees” and “Captain America and Iron Man.” Lurie said he was attracted to the whimsical side of John’s art.

Valda Lake, owner of Wallspace L.A., was drawn to its “very strong, very bold, very graphic” qualities, she said.

“He creates a different genre of art that I didn’t have at Wallspace,” said Lake, who represents some 60 fine artists.

Also, “he’s just a good soul.”

On the fine arts side, John’s heroes include Pablo Picasso, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. He claims to have seen the film “Basquiat” 30 times.

“Those are my gods. I love

street art,” John said.

But life as a boardwalk vendor was not easy. For the first four years, John set up along Windward Avenue, where he often ran into conflicts from others trying to challenge him for his spot. For the past six years, John has stationed himself

by Rose Avenue, finding more solidarity among vendors, he said.

Originally from an alcoholic household in a Seattle suburb, John came to Venice a decade ago “in search of getting to the next level with my art.” Despite or because of his family’s troubles with alcohol, John said he never drinks or uses drugs.

But two weeks into his L.A. stay, John fell into what he called “a bout with homelessness” and sometimes lived in and out of motels.

“It’s been a crazy journey,” he said.

Lurie could not describe exactly why he decided to roll the dice on John.

“I had this feeling there was something gritty about him,” recalled Lurie. “He looks like he’s been through hard times, but his energy was really good. You talk to him and he’s extremely articulate and very charismatic and extremely humble.”

The gallery owner also appreciated that John “didn’t come out and say, ‘Can I show you my work?’” he said.

Despite his newfound success, John continues to get up every morning and occupy a table at the boardwalk.

“I was a street artist,” he said, “and I will always be a street artist.”

But instead of others encouraging John to stick with his art, he’s now the one offering encouragement.

“I tell them, ‘Listen, I made it! Your artwork is good. If you keep at it like I did, you’ll make it.’”§ Michael@argonautnews.com

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By Michael Aushenker The underground bars of the Roaring ‘20s come back to life on Dec. 5 — 80 years to the day since the repeal of Prohibition — with the revival of the era’s music and libation habits at a venue that once housed an actual speakeasy.

The Repeal Day Celebration at the basement-level Del Monte Speakeasy features the ragtime music of Brad Kay and his Regressive Jazz Quartet, tastings of period drinks and a talk by noted cocktail historian Richard Foss, The Argonaut’s restaurant critic.

The current owners of The Townhouse are only the third family to care-take this historic establishment since it opened in 1915. In 1921, The Townhouse became a grocery store with a speakeasy downstairs.

Whether the market part operated in earnest or was only a front is hard to say, but “I don’t think the cared if they did or didn’t [sell groceries],” said Brandon Ristaino, beverage director at The Townhouse and Del Monte Speakeasy as well as the director of operations for the ownership group Temple Bar Concepts.

Aside from a few cosmetic changes that have since been reversed to restore the lowerlevel’s original ambiance, the Del Monte Speakeasy “hasn’t changed,” Ristaino said. “The bones of the bar are still intact. It changed a bit and we brought it back in.”

Ristaino said the last six or seven years preceding the Prohibition became “the tail end of the golden age of the cocktail” in America. When alcohol became illegal and everything went subterranean, it not only disrupted the flow of alcohol but stemmed the creative flow of the art of cocktail-making.

But during the Prohibition, some amazing cocktails were being created overseas in places such as Cuba, London, Paris, Singapore and Japan.

Foss, the California curator for the Museum of the American Cocktail and on the board of the Culinary Historians of Southern California, will deliver a talk titled “How Prohibition Changed America.”

His first book, “Rum: A Global History,” was published by Reaktion Books in 2012, and his next, “Food in Flight From the Zeppelin Era to the Space

Station,” will be released in next year by AltaMira Publishing.

“The Del Monte will be the perfect place for this lecture,” said Foss. “It is the second-oldest remaining bar in Los Angeles (after Cole’s in downtown L.A.) and the downstairs room where this lecture will be given was a speakeasy in the 1920s, complete with tunnels under the street to a nearby hotel to facilitate illegal liquor shipments.”

Also, “I particularly like lecturing about cocktails while people drink them,” he said.

For the $25 admission price, attendees will get to try the very cocktails Foss will be historically dissecting, including pisco punch, Irish whiskey punch and at least one gin drink.

“I’m going to have a hard time working,” said Ristaino, the evening’s mixologist. “I want to sit down and listen to Richard and enjoy the music. It’s going to be a blast.”

The Townhouse Repeal Day Celebration takes place Dec. 5 at Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. Cost is $25, including cocktails.

Call (310) 392-4040 or visit townhousevenice.com.§ Michael@argonautnews.com

Tango for typhoon relief Monthly Playa del Rey dance event will send proceeds to storm victims in the Philippines

By Michael Aushenker Dance instructor Ilona Glinarsky has been bringing a monthly tango showcase to Playa del Rey since May. The Dec. 1 return of the event will not be business as usual, but a special fundraiser for the typhoon victims in Philippines, she said.

Glinarsky’s FUNdraiser for Typhoon Yolanda Aid will put the “fun” in “fundraiser,” she said, with tango lessons that raise money for victims of the recent typhoon that left more than 5,000 dead and entire communities homeless. The event will also include a silent auction and holiday bazaar with local vendors selling jewelry, shoes, bags and dancewear, plus a full bar and Cuban tapas.

“When a disaster of this magnitude strikes, the ripples go out and spread all over the world,” Glinarsky said. “As much as we like to pretend that we are not affected because we

live across the world, the truth is that if our friends and neighbors are affected, it impacts all of us.”

The native of Kiev, Ukraine, got the idea to turn her next instructional gathering into a benefit by one of her peers from the Philippines.

“Recently, I was really inspired by one of our well-known and well-respected tangueros, presently stationed in Jamindan, Capiz, named Tony Rathburn,” she said. “He single-handedly organized a rescue effort and is providing more than 700 meals per week on $500,” she said.

Jamindan is located almost halfway between Manila and Tacloban. Although Glinarsky is thousands of miles away, she felt compelled to act. Dance has always been a mode of communication and intimacy for Glinarsky, so she decided to use her happening to make the world just a bit smaller.

“I really hope we all can take a moment and reflect on just

how fortunate we are, just to be able to get together and dance as if nothing bad is happening elsewhere,” she said. “If that sense of gratitude doesn’t make us want to help others, I don’t know what will. So, I decided to use my tango event, which draws 150 people plus each month, as an opportunity to make a difference that goes beyond the dance floor. Who knows, it just might be us one day, earthquakes and all...”

FUNdraiser for Typhoon Yolanda Aid takes place from 7 p.m. Sunday to 12:30 a.m.

Monday at Milonga LAX Holiday, in the Elks Lodge at 8025 W. Manchester Ave., Playa Del Rey. No partner needed; music by DJ Jerry Perez and tango champions Humberto Decima and Naomi Hotta.

Admission is $12. Call (310) 621-0622 or visit Livingtango. com/milonga-lax. § Michael@argonautnews.com

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Waking up a sleepy neighborhood

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12740 Culver Blvd., Del Rey (310) 822-7788 delreykitchen.com Some stretches of Culver Boulevard are culinary destinations, but with few exceptions the action is at either end of that long street. In the middle there are good but modest Mexican places, burger joints and local hangouts but, until recently, nothing that was a draw for people outside the neighborhood.

That has changed with the opening of Del Rey Kitchen in a strip mall whose previous claim to fame was a long-running café best known for omelets and sandwiches.

Owners Michael Yee and Satoru Yokomori met at the eclectic and much-loved Sawtelle Kitchen and have taken the JapaneseItalian fusion style to their new restaurant. They don’t have their wine license yet and the restaurant is a work in progress, but based on two visits there is already a lot to like here.

On our first visit we noticed a sign as we entered announcing three-course meals for $19.95 and wondered how many choices would be offered. We were surprised to find that the deal applies to most of the menu — your choice of most starters, a house salad and any main course were included. My wife and I decided to start with Peruvianstyle marinated tuna called tiradito and a Japanese spicy vegetable combination called Monk’s Delight, with an order of potatoes gratin just because we both find the dish irresistible.

We figured that the modest price probably augured small portions. It didn’t. We ended up taking most of the potatoes home even though they were buttery and delicious. The tiradito was excellent — a garlicky, citrusy style of ceviche using little or no red pepper so that the flavor of the fish stands out. The lightly seared tuna was delicious by itself and even better this way, the light, fresh seasoning teasing the palate. The Monk’s Delight, braised Japanese mountain vegetables with a gelatinous Japanese root called Devil’s Tongue, was even more interesting. The name Devil’s Tongue is from the appearance of the plant rather than its spiciness

Monk’s delight, potatoes gratin and tiradito at Del Rey Kitchen

— it’s mildly salty and not very interesting by itself, but it takes on the flavor of whatever it’s cooked in. Here the flavor was a spicy soy sauce with a little sesame, creating a very satisfying warm Asian salad.

After the side salad (good, but unexceptional), our main courses arrived: pasta with spicy caviar, and pan-seared rock cod in ginger-shoyu sauce. The cod was conventional but expertly done, flaky fish in a delicate sauce with a subtle tang of fresh ginger. I preferred the spaghetti topped with cod and smelt roe and shredded seaweed in a seasoned butter sauce. Like the Monk’s Delight this was marked as spicy, but wasn’t by California standards — there was a tickle of peppery flavor, perhaps a dash of ginger, but nothing to make anybody’s forehead sweat.

We finished with a fine crème caramel flan and left very happy, having spent under $30 per person for an excellent meal. It was so good that I came back the next week with a friend who delights in Japanese cuisine.

We ordered the wafu Steak as a starter along with a daily special of braised green beans and a mixed mushroom salad. The wafu steak — rare beef in ponzu sauce with scallion, daikon and a dusting of Japanese shichimi spice powder — had a delightful flavor but was sliced too thick.

Very rare beef has to be sliced thin to avoid chewiness, and this wasn’t. We mentioned the problem to the owner and he brought Western-style carpaccio as a replacement. The flavor was less novel, but the sesame aioli and watercress brought it into harmony with the other dishes.

The salad also helped restore my faith in the restaurant—the three types of mushroom sautéed in citrus soy butter and laid over greens a model of Eastern and Western fusion. I’d have preferred a bit less dressing, and will probably order it on the side on future visits, but the ideas were sound. I’d keep those green beans on the menu too, since they are simple but delicious.

We selected pastas for our main course — manila clams and oyster mushrooms with garlic for one, the “Naporitan” tomato and vegetable for the other. The clam and oyster was unusual due to the sake butter sauce, and it was subtle and successful, while the Naporitan was uncharacteristically bold.

The house-made tomato sauce with bacon was sweet and slightly smoky, a fine medium for the zucchini, onion, bell pepper and mushrooms. Any Italian restaurant would be happy to serve this, because it was true to both Japanese and Sicilian ideas about freshness and flavor.

We didn’t have dessert on this visit only because we had another engagement, but we’ll be back for more. The owners promise an expanded menu and wine tastings after they get their license, which should amp up the energy level even more. This little strip mall is on the culinary map now, and Del Rey Kitchen looks to be poised for greatness. § Del Rey Kitchen is open from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. The menu (see it at delreykicthen.com) is vegetarian/vegan-friendly. No alcohol or corkage. Parking in lot, wheelchair access OK.

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Community Calendar

Saturday, Nov. 30

Free Social Media Booth: The Marina Del Rey Home Depot hosts a free social media photo booth event this weekend.

Customers can have their holiday photo taken today and Sunday and instantly share it with friends. The photo booth, located near where the live Christmas trees will be on sale, is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 12975 W. Jefferson Blvd., Playa Vista.

(310) 822-3330 Man and ‘Machine’: “Machine Muse: Eight Artists” continues at Lois Lambert Gallery, Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Ave., Ste. E3, Santa Monica. (310) 8296990; loislambertgallery.com

Sunday, Dec. 1 Laughs for a cause: Venice Underground Comedy is holding a Typhoon Haiyan/ Yolanda benefit at The Townhouse. All ticket proceeds go towards the American Red Cross. “Living in our beach community, the images of total destruction hit home,” said show producer Bronston Jones. “The Townhouse was immediately behind the idea, and we’ve booked some amazing comedians who want to help.” Expect to see comedians Greg Fitzsimmons, Lachlan Pattererson, Eddie Ifft, Ian Edwards, Jodi Miller and Dean Delray, whose collective credits include appearing on “Late Night with David Letterman,” “The Tonight Show with Jay

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Central programs…but don’t hold that against them! Venice Underground holds its regular free shows weekly on Wednesdays at the Townhouse, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. townhousevenice.com Shop for the Troops: The Fashion Chicks and other local vendors team up to host a Jamming at the Pub, Bub!: O’Brien’s holiday boutique fundraiser for Operation house band Paul Chesne Band performs USA Care Package from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. from 10 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at O’Brien’s Pub, at LAX Coastal Chamber of Commerce, 2941 Main St., Santa Monica. No cover; 21 9100 S. Sepulveda, Ste. 210, Westchester. & over. Paulchesne.com (310) 567-8651

Monday, Dec. 2 Monday Night Live: Stand-Up Mondays, a live comedy and happy hour, starts every Monday at 8 p.m. at Danny’s Venice, 23 Windward Ave., Venice. (310) 566-5610. dannysvenice.com

Tuesday, Dec. 3 ‘Third’ Time’s the Charm!: The exhibition “Tapping the Third Realm” continues through Dec. 8 at The Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design and the Laband Art Gallery at Loyola Marymount University. Otis.edu/ benmaltzgallery

Parker at 9 p.m., and headliner Katisse plays his set at 10 p.m. Witzendlive.com

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Friday, Dec. 6

For the birds: Put on your best funeral attire from 7 to 9 p.m. in honor of dying seabirds and support the Surfrider Foundation’s Rise Above Plastics program by joining Integrated Learning at OTIS College of Art and Design in a crafts party from 7 to 9 p.m. at Mittel’s Art Supplies, 2499 Lincoln Blvd., Venice.

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Unwind For a Good Cause: Creative Chakra Spa Holiday Party & Open House fundraiser will benefit Life Rolls On, a foundation for spinal cord injury research.

Chair massage, mini-facials, free adult beverages and refreshments, free samples supplied from local restaurants, pictures with Sexy Santa, local artists and vendors with jewelry, candles, clothing and other goods for holiday shopping. Come enjoy the open house at the spa and look for the holiday carolers on Pacific and Catamaran.

Free admission. Creative Chakra, 3401 Pacific Ave., Marina del Rey. (310) 8239378; creativechakra.com

From a ‘View’ to a ‘Spin’: - The show bill features Spin Cycle, Aisle of View and Lonesome Locomotive, starting at 8 p.m. at TRiP, 2101 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. tripsantamonica.com

Inbal In Da House: New York-based Inbal, who over the weekend played TRiP in Santa Monica, continues her tour of the Westside in support of her latest release, What’s Your Story?: Westchester Life 2012’s “Baby blue” EP Witzend, 1717 Story Writing Group meets from 10:30 a.m. Lincoln Blvd., Venice. All ages show. to 12:30 p.m. on Wednesdays at the YMCA $10. Doors open at 7 p.m. Marissa Lauren Annex, 8020 Alverstone Ave., Westchester. opens, followed by Inbal at 8 p.m., Jordan

Wednesday, Dec. 4

Insect Invasion: The Insect Surfers take over Record Surplus, one of the largest independent record stores on the West Coast, with an 8 p.m. in-store performance of their signature guitarfueled, psychedelic- and punk-spiked surf music that will scare the socks off of any arachnids in the house. The group, formed in 1979, is supporting their latest album, “Infra Green.” Record Surplus, 12436 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica. Show is free. (310) 979-4577; recordsurplus.com

Restaurants EL ABAJENO Latin American, Mexican cuisine served is described fondly by satisfied customers who have eaten here for 25 years as a “mom and pop home cooking in the neighborhood restaurant,” and having “the best chilaquiles and menudo around.” El Abajeno serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, specialties, beer, burritos, carnitas, super tostadas, guacamole and chips, chilaquiles, seafood, open 7 days, opens at 8 a.m., take-out, catering, 4515 Inglewood Blvd. (at Culver Blvd.), Culver City, (310) 390-0755

EL RINCON CRIOLLO “The Creole Corner,” presents authentic and always fresh, Cuban cuisine, known for roast chicken dishes and the leanest, firmest lechon

(pork) dishes, served with rice, black beans, plantains, and lots of wonderfully seasoned onions. Eleven seafood dishes, Generous portions at good prices in a warm, friendly atmosphere. The walls are covered with paintings imported from Cuba, and many are for sale. Cuban and Spanish catering, take-out, 4361 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City, 9310) 3914478, www.bestcubanfood.com.

HACIENDA PLAYA DEL REY Great traditional Mexican food and margaritas, this restaurant joins the original restaurant, established in Westchester in 1973, and owned by the Hernandez family. The popular menu includes their famous homemade tortillas, tacos, combo dishes, seafood, nachos, guacamole. The full bar with ample seating. On Sundays at 9 p.m., a live Mariachi

band performs at the Lincoln Blvd. location only, 8415 Pershing Drive, Playa del Rey, (310) 751-6135, and 8347 Lincoln Blvd., Westchester, (310) 670-8588

HAL’S BAR AND GRILL Eclectic bar and grill is a renowned Venice locale, home to specialty cocktails, an extensive wine list, a relaxed, friendly atmosphere, and a diverse clientele. Distinctive American cuisine for lunch and dinner. Half-price for featured wines on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Live jazz every Sunday night from 8 to 11 p.m., Monday night from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m., no cover charge. Hal’s upstairs hideaway is perfect for private parties/events,1349 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice, (310) 396-3105, www.

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HINANO’S CAFE A permanent fixture at Venice Beach, Hinano’s is a beer and wine bar legendary for its cool and unpretentious atmosphere, terrific burgers and ice-cold beer. Sawdust on the floor gives it that folksy flavor, and the popcorn machine and jukebox are favorites among locals and visitors alike. Three pool tables are continuously busy, and strangers get to know each other over a friendly game, 15 Washington Blvd., Venice, (310) 822-3902, www.facebook.com/hinanocafevenice

HUMBLE POTATO The “Original Hambaga” combines American comfort with a Japanese kick. A neighborhood eatery, the menu includes burgers, hot dogs, sandwiches, salads, fries, sweet

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From Del Rey with ‘Love'

Singer Lisa Donna serenades the season with a classy Christmas album

By Michael Aushenker From somewhere between the corporate compounds of Coral Tree and the nondescript storefronts along Centinela, a voice rings out clear as a bell from a brunette belle with dark, soulful eyes.

The eight tracks on “Someone in Love,” Del Rey singer Lisa Donna’s newly released album of popular contemporary jazz, are mostly originals, with a couple of covers (standards “Like Someone in Love,” “It Never Entered My Mind”) interspersed. As the CD’s title implies, Donna’s musical obsession is primarily the universal topic of romance.

“It shares the love stories of my life,” Donna said of her debut album.

A de facto Yuletide record, “Someone in Love” might accompany a crackling fireplace and Vince Guaraldi’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” as the backdrop for that warm and fuzzy holiday party.

Tunes set in Europe feel less European than they do American, even a tinge country. Donna’s “My One and Only Christmas” continues the love theme, while her winking composition “Sexy Sundae” somehow keeps it clean as it gets down and dirty. On the frisky track, Donna coos, as a saxophone blows, lyrics such as “Lickin’ my lips, swaying those hips, so make me, make me a sexy sundae…Eat it all/cherries on top. Eat it all/ like it a lot…” yet somehow retains the album’s projection of innocence. “Praise Be Love!” recasts romance as gospel-flavored inspirational, and the countrified opener “Riding on the Wave” celebrates the singer’s joy of life with her husband. “Paris in Love,” its author said, draws from her real-life “whirlwind romance in Europe of my college years, weaving in and out traffic on the back of a BMW sports motorbike, on the Champs Elysee, with the Eifel Tower looming serene.” “Beautiful Sky” was written “up on a hill, looking at the Ponte Vecchio over the Tiber River in Rome,” she said.

Of a Eurasian ethnicity that includes Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese, Donna has been around the musical block but only this month released her very first album. Donna has performed at such Westside venues as Venice’s Witzend and Santa Monica’s The Broad Stage and the Santa Monica Windjammers Yacht Club in Marina del Rey. Donna also sang at the Del Rey Community Do at Glen Alla Park honoring her friend, former City Councilman Bill Rosenthal, as well as at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, the Landis Hotel Taipei in Taiwan, and the re-opening of the Joy Theater in New Orleans. Most symbolically,

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she followed the footsteps of her idol, Ella Fitzgerald, and sang at the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem.

In addition to Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Stevie Wonder, Jacques Brel and her mentor, Sheila Jordan, are also among her influences. (Donna credits Jordan for introducing her to her album’s title track.)

But Donna said her fondest memory as a performer came at just six years old, onstage with her mom performing at an officer’s wives fundraising concert in Sarawak, Borneo. As a teenager growing up in Malaysia, she began writing on her Yamaha organ. Her song “Aku Mau Bersama Mu” got her a record deal at age 17. While living in Malaysia, she began singing professionally around Kuala Lumpur venues, won the KDU Freshie Queen Talent Competition (singing Whitney Houston’s “The Greatest Love of All”) and appeared on the Kuala Lumpur Bintang Harapan Nescafe (Malaysia’s version of “Star Search”). She left Asia to attend college on the East Coast before studying vocal performance at Los Angeles Music Academy.

A certified yoga instructor who gave birth to a baby boy just five months ago, “Someone in Love” may be her second-favorite creation this year, but singing remains her first love.

Hear excerpts from “Someone in Love” at lisadonna.com/music.§ Michael@argonautnews.com

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Earned a best of 9th in Chicago on the 1996 WPVA Tour. Ranked in the top 32 of the 1996 WPVA Tour. Most Valuable Player of the 1994 and 1998 USA Volleyball Open Coed Nationals. Veronica heads Beach Cities’ Palos Verdes Volleyball Program.”

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“This spectacular two-story penthouse, with 180 degree ocean, city mountain views, has three bedroom suites, each with its own bath and two with spa tubs and separate showers.” says agent Wayne Pridgen. “The living room has a marble wood-burning fireplace, large balcony, 20-foot floor to ceiling windows and an architectural circular stairway. The gourmet kitchen has a service entrance, custom cabinetry and a breakfast bar, while the formal dining room has recessed cove lighting. The Marina City Club offers a five-star resort lifestyle, with fully staffed fitness center, tennis courts, pools, spa, yoga, Pilates, aerobics studio and restaurants, and next to the Ritz Carlton Hotel at the beach.

The property is offered at $895,000.

Information, Wayne Pridgen, Hilton & Hyland Real Estate, (310) 301-6523.

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“This rare ground level condo has no hallways, and looks and feels like a townhome,” says agent Kim Williamson. “The unit features laminate hardwood floors, a remodeled bathroom with custom tiles and a spacious bedroom with ample closet space. Enjoy a cheerful kitchen with breakfast bar, a separate dining area with bright windows, stackable washer/dryer, tandem parking spaces and a private balcony with pool and garden views. Walk to the beach, restaurants and shops.” The property is offered at $325,000. Information, Kim Williamson and Nicole Pagan, RE/MAX Estate Properties, (310) 678-6650.

“This unique architectural home with a pool is located in the prestigious Silver Strand,” says agent Jessica Miller. “A custom skylight and three-story entry welcome you into this bright and spacious four-level home. A dual staircase leads you up to the main level, where canal views are enjoyed from the dining room and living room which features a wet bar, three-sided fireplace and large sliding doors to a wrap-around patio. The kitchen has a center island, walk-in pantry, breakfast area, and balcony. Relax in the large master suite with a fireplace, private balcony and open sitting area.” The property is offered at $2,349,000. Information, Jessica Miller, Coldwell Banker Venice, (310) 560-3281.

“This four-plex on an A+ prime block is just steps to the beach and Main Street,” says agent Janet Jung.

“This could be a builder’s paradise, with a possibility for future condominiums or a single family with ocean views. The property has been well maintained by a long-term owner, and has new copper plumbing, upgraded electrical, and newer steps to the second floors. This is a rare opportunity to buy on this block.” The property is offered at $2,899,000.

Information, Janet Jung, Abbot Kinney Real Estate, (310) 720-4165.

“This newly remodeled two bedroom, two bath condo is located on the highest floor with sweeping views,” says agent Charles Lederman. “The kitchen boasts granite counters, stainless appliances and a large island for entertaining. Other features include electric fireplace, hardwood floors and high-quality finishes.

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Here’s a look at some of the gadgets and tech powering today’s wired home, inside and out.

The Wired Yard: Home irrigation systems controlled remotely via mobile apps can check the weather and/or soil moisture levels, automatically adjusting watering as needed. And minisystems will water and feed your potted plants, indoors and out.

Automatic lawnmowers roam over your yard, cutting a preset amount of grass. It knows to stay in bounds via a set of wires placed around the edge of the yard. And even though you still have to climb up the ladder to set it up, an automatic gutter cleaner will do the nastier parts of cleaning the gutters, scooping out the muck in 30 feet in five minutes.

Even the humble garage door has become smarter, with apps that open and shut the door, send alerts if the door has been left open and, for forgetful types, can be set to close after a predetermined amount of time.

The High-Tech Entrance: Smart locks have features to let guests in remotely, message you when someone opens the door, and let you give digital access to other people, customizing how

long they’ll have access. Bluetooth-enabled devices recognize a digital key, and unlock the door as you walk up without you needing to fumble to get the phone out.

Video doorbells take a picture of who is at the door and let you chat with them. Some models also record pictures of visitors who stopped by while you were away.

And smart alarm systems run the gamut from simple app-controlled motion-sensing devices to whole house security with remote locking and unlocking features, alerts for sudden changes in air quality and temperature, and real time video surveillance.

The Intelligent Kitchen: Smart refrigerators do more than just sit there keeping things cool.

New models offer touch screens and WiFi hookups to access cooking shows, weather, and apps that let you listen to Pandora or check your Twitter feed. Some versions are accessible through smart phone and TV, and will scan your groceries, offer recipe suggestions using what you have on-hand, and notify you when expiration dates are near.

Smart ranges can be controlled remotely via

Sunset Views

“Enjoy the best ocean and Marina views, plus fabulous sunsets from this high-floor unit,” says agent Eileen McCarthy. “This one bedroom condo in the West Tower South has been highly upgraded with Berber carpet, new stainless appliances, a remodeled master bath, and all new fixtures throughout. Marina City Club amenities include fitness center, pools, tennis and racquetball courts, restaurants, beauty salon, 24-hour security, and proximity to the beach.” The property is offered for lease at $2,900 per month. Information, Eileen McCarthy, Marina Ocean Properties, (310) 822-8910.

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Kitchen counter tops enabled with wireless technology can recharge electronic devices, run kitchen appliances wirelessly and will notify you when a pot’s about to boil over.

Even trash cans have become smarter – sort of – with sensors that will open the lid with a wave of a hand.

The Bathroom Goes Hi-Tech: The flashiest new toilets are not only water-efficient, but also feature heated seats, motion-activated lids and will disinfect themselves. Some models even

Bob Waldron, a leading local realtor in the Coldwell Banker Westchester/Playa Vista office, is having another successful year of real estate sales. Bob is ranked in the top 100 agents in the Southern California region as he continues his impressive sales record in 2013.

Bob’s areas of expertise are Westchester, Playa del Rey, Playa Vista and the neighboring communities. Information, Bob Waldron, Coldwell Banker, (310) 337-9225, www.bobwaldron.com.

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And next generation scales weigh you, calculate your BMI and ratio of lean to fat, then message you with the results, keeping track of your results (or lack thereof). Hands-free faucets complete the House of the Future feel.

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The extraordinary ordinary

Bruce Dern plays Woody Grant, a man on a mission in Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska”

Veteran character actor Bruce Dern, 77, hopes his role in “Nebraska” marks a return to “making movies about people”

By Carl Kozlowski Like far too many men in their 70s, Woody Grant spends most of his time remembering the past. But when he receives a mailer informing him that he may have already won a million dollars from a sweepstakes scam, Woody suddenly starts thinking about the future, determined to collect the bounty by traveling from his home in Montana to a prize center headquarters in Nebraska.

That madly determined journey forms the basis of “Nebraska,” the latest character-driven film about idiosyncratic Americans from director Alexander Payne. Building on a growing legacy of average people with unusual ambitions (“The Descendants,” “Sideways,” “About Schmidt,” “Election”), this black-andwhite film presents a vision of small-town America and its colorful denizens that is par for the course in Payne’s series of sterling productions: funny and sad, haunting and hilarious, and guaranteed to be nominated for Oscars.

For actor Bruce Dern, Woody represents the best role that the veteran character actor has seen in decades — a part that earned him the top acting prize at this year’s prestigious Cannes Film Festival as well as a good shot at an Academy Award.

“I’ve never played a movie starring role, and Woody is not a movie starring role, though he is certainly the lead character,”

said Dern — who, at 77, bounced excitedly in his seat during an interview at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.

“Woody actually is just another character in a long line of character roles, but he’s the most full-bodied and is the linchpin of the movie. That’s kind of new to me,” Dern said.

Dern was born in Chicago and possesses an impressive family lineage. While his father was a utility chief and attorney, Dern’s grandfather was a former Utah governor and U.S. Secretary of War. A great-uncle was famed poet Archibald MacLeish, and his godparents were two-time presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Dern quickly broke into a thriving acting career on numerous TV shows before earning his big movie break in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1964 thriller “Marnie.” It was through these early film and TV roles that Dern was able to learn from numerous veteran character actors, among them Charles Bickford, who taught him to always focus on his work rather than concern himself with stardom.

That attitude has paid off with a career in which Dern has never stopped working, racking up more than 145 film and TV credits. While he didn’t become a fullfledge movie icon, he nonetheless scored

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an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor for the 1978 film “Coming Home.”

Dern also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame alongside his daughter, actress Laura Dern, and his first wife and Laura’s mother, actress Diane Ladd.

In fact, they are the only father-motherchild combination of performers ever to be honored together on the entertainment landmark.

Although Laura Dern and Diane Ladd have worked together several times on film, Bruce Dern notes that he and his daughter have never played opposite each other. That was rectified in a unique way on “Nebraska.”

“I’ll tell you something that no one knows,” Dern said, laughing. “As I’m driving down the street in the truck near the end, there’s a blond girl walking on the other side of the street in that shot.

Alexander came to me and said, ‘I’m going to put Laura in the shot. It’s not going to detract from the movie, but now you can never say you and Laura didn’t have a movie together.”

Dern notes that a sense of family permeates “Nebraska” and the rest of Payne’s body of work. When his character, Woody, refuses to give up his stubborn ambition to claim the milliondollar prize, his son David (portrayed by former “Saturday Night Live” actor Will Forte) decides to take a long weekend

and drive his dad to Lincoln, Nebraska’s capital city.

Most of the movie’s misadventures take place in Hawthorne, Neb., however, as Woody convinces David to detour into his childhood hometown and visit old friends and family members. But comical trouble really comes to a boil when Woody runs into his old nemesis, played by hardboiled veteran actor Stacy Keach, and his wife and other son, who all follow Grant and his son to Hawthorne as well.

“One of the things that’s wonderful about a movie like ‘Nebraska’ is that it really shows families in the Midwest, that part of the country where they are more family units, where they pull for each other, and even if they don’t like what you’re doing, if you go down they have your back,” said Dern, who moved to Pasadena from Malibu a decade ago.

Likewise, “Everybody in this movie gets a false sense of entitlement and thinks they should get a piece of the pie. They’re saying to Woody, ‘We were there for you, now be there for us,’” he said.

Another major aspect of the movie lies in its depiction of how dismissively people treat the elderly, especially those suffering from some form of dementia.

One of the more memorable parts of the movie lies in its homestretch, when his son David decides to give his father a dramatic chance to reclaim his dignity through a series of simple yet beautiful actions.

“Because someone can’t get through a conversation with you, we’re too quick to lose respect for that disability. You give respect to the vet who’s missing a limb, but you don’t give respect to the grandfather in your house who isn’t thinking as quickly as he should,” Dern said. “In terms of nobility in movies, I’ve not been in one where someone did something nobler than what Woody’s son does here.”

With all the attention he’s currently receiving for the role, Dern is hoping that “Nebraska” will help spark a return to the character-driven movies of the 1970s.

That era of films, including “The Last Picture Show,” “Five Easy Pieces” and “The King of Marvin Gardens,” offered strong slice-of-life stories that spoke to viewers’ hearts and minds much more than the special-effects-driven fare that has dominated the marketplace in the past two decades, he contends.

“I hope it’ll help, and the reason why is this: The new people who run studios are much more family-oriented men and women than before. Because of that, they’re struck by films like this, and they’re willing to let there be an atmosphere where a Woody can evolve,” Dern said.

“I think it’s now the beginning of an era that had to eventually happen, to go back to making movies about people,” he continued. “Movies about people like Woody are getting the attention now.” §

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Hans (Santino Fontana) and Anna (Kristen Bell) in a scene from “Frozen”

Not well thawed out establishing the sisters during childhood with sidekick snowman Olaf (Josh Gad) — a clumsy comic relief character who sort of functions as the film’s R2D2, coming in handy when things fall apart.

Aside from a major twist that most won’t see coming, there’s nothing in this animated feature we haven’t seen before: chipper, singing town folk; a chase through the snow-banked forest; and “good guys” gone bad. However, there’s also nothing all that clever about the twist, which is too convenient.

On the visual end, the animation team traveled from the Ice Hotel in Quebec to the fjords of Norway to get ideas on how to light and design the film’s arctic environs, but the images are still undermined by a layer of CG-itis.

If “Frozen” will connect with any quadrant, it will be the young girls it panders to with themes of ever-lasting romance and selfempowerment. From a marketing standpoint, “Frozen” might be a brilliant move if audiences actually warm up to it because not one but two new Disney princesses are embedded in this movie (hello, merchandise!).

Despite the satirical, subversive pedigree of Robert and Kristen Anderson-Lopez (“The Book of Mormon,” “Avenue Q”), the songbook is not self-conscious or humorous enough. In other words, any hint of self-recognition or self-parody has been Disneyfied — rendered sanitized and inoffensive enough so that parents won’t have to explain anything questionable to their tots.

In a screening in Hollywood last week, “Frozen” co-directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck (Disney’s “Tarzan”) revealed how Disney had bumped up the production schedule for “Frozen” by a year while Lee was simultaneously working on 2012’s “Wreck It Ralph.” Perhaps, in the future, cooler heads at the studio should prevail. In its rush to get “Frozen” to the screen, Disney has, instead of cooking up a classic, delivered something that feels half-baked.

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By Michael Aushenker The latest in a tradition that began in 1938 with the groundbreaking long-form color cartoon “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,” Disney’s 53rd animated feature film, “Frozen,” returns to the stuff that the classic Walt Disney films were made of: beautiful princesses in distress, an evil curse, sorcerer queens, young handsome princes coming to the rescue.

Albeit a serviceable film with likely appeal for young children and Disneyholics, “Frozen” attempts to contemporize the formula but wallows in hoary Disney studio clichés and falls short of being classic or memorable.

The film focuses on the bond between a pair of sisters, queen-in-waiting Elsa (Idina Menzel) and Anna (Kristen Bell), and how that bond is tested as they enter adulthood thanks to a mysterious attribute with which Elsa is cursed.

Because of Elsa’s lack of control over her ability to unleash ice, a wedge (literally and metaphorically) forms, beginning in childhood, between the sisters as their parents coerce Elsa to conceal strange powers similar to the ones that got Bobby “Iceman” Drake admitted into The X-Men’s School for Gifted Youngsters.

Cut to adulthood, and Elsa is crowned queen while Anna becomes a princess. At Elsa’s coronation, Anna falls for Hans (Santino Fontana) and they instantly become engaged shortly before Elsa’s dormant powers are accidentally revealed to the public. After a selfexiled Elsa, who has unintentionally cast an eternal winter over their kingdom, disappears into the mountains, Hans (in a contrived plot point) must remain at home as Anna enlists a strapping young stranger — mountain man Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) — to accompany her on a search for Elsa. The rest of the movie focuses on Anna’s race against time to find Elsa to break not only the winter spell on her village but another hex that threatens her life.

Anchored by grandiose power ballads seemingly meant to evoke latter-day Disney classics such as “The Little Mermaid” and “Beauty and the Beast,” there are many places where this 3-D musical tries too hard and suffers from a case of the cutes, especially in

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KindergartenLA, LLC 932 Vernon Ave. Venice, CA. 90291 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 information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) Registrant Signature/Name Kindergarten LLC PRESIDENT/CEO ELKE MILLER It was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Sept. 25 2013. Argonaut published: Oct. 10, 17, 24, 31, 2013 NOTICEIn accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

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Registrant Signature/Name: DAVID ABELAR Executive Director This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Oct. 10, 2013 Argonaut published: Nov 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

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Registrant Signature/Name: Dragon Squared LLC This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Oct. 18 2013 Argonaut published: Nov. 14, 21, 28, Dec. 5, 2013. 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. 2013 222806 The following person is doing business as: 1) Halal & Healthy Burger 13651 Foster Ave. unit 2 Los Angeles, CA. 91706. 1) Reny Sultan 13651 Foster Ave. unit 2 Los Angeles, CA. 91706. 2) Rehana Ismail 333 Motor Ave. apt. 303 Los Angeles, CA. 90034. 3) Nadia Aftab 3231 Cheviot Vista apt. 301 Los Angeles, CA. 90034. 4) Stephen Desalvo 333 Motor Ave. apt 303 Los Angeles, CA. 90034. 5) Peter Lieberman 3231 Cheviot Vista apt 301 Los Angeles, CA. 90034 6) Hasina J. Hai 20509 Chaz Court Santa Clarit, CA. 91350. 7) Farzana Cassim 1550 N. Hobart St apt 303 Los Angeles, CA. 90027 This business is conducted by a general partnership. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

Registrant Signature/Name: RENY SULTAN VP. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Oct. 25, 2013 Argonaut published: Nov. 21, 28, Dec. 5, 12, 2013. 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. 2013 224597 The following person is doing business as: Florence Aliese Development Group 4436 W. 58th Place Los Angeles, CA. 90043. Alisa Orduna 4436 W. 58th Place Los Angeles, CA. 90043 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 information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) Registrant Signature/Name ALISA ORDUNA PRESIDENT This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Nov. 12, 2013 Argonaut published: Nov. 14, 21, 28, Dec. 5,

2013. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

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LEGAL ADVERTISING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013 225564 The following person is doing business as: Modern Playwrights 3734 Grand View Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. 90066-3110. Registered owners Modern Playwrights 3734 Grand View Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. 900663110. 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 information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) Registrant Signature/ Name MODERN PLAYWRIGHTS. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Oct 30, 2013 Argonaut published: Nov. 27, Dec. 5, 12, 19, 2013. NOTICEIn accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing

of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

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).

Clerk of Los Angeles on Nov 5, 2013. Argonaut published: Nov. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013. 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 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS authorize the use in this state of a NAME STATEMENT Fictitious Business Name in violaFile No. 2013 228642 tion of the rights of another under The following person is doing busi- Federal, State, or common law (See ness as: Rare Oasis Books 612 Section 14411 et seq., Business and S. Flower St. #1121 Los Angeles, Professions Code).

CA. 90017 County of Los Angeles.

Registered owner: George Davis 612 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS S. Flower St. #1121 Los Angeles, NAME STATEMENT CA. 90017 This business is conductFile No. 2013 228648 ed by an individual. The registrant The following person is doing busicommenced to transact business ness as: Leather Restoration 3763 under the fictitious business name or Hughes Ave. #2 Los Angeles, CA. names listed above on N/A. I declare 90034 County of Los Angeles. that all information in this statement Registered owner: Christopher T. is true and correct. (A registrant who Hertz 3763 Hughes Ave. #2 Los declares as true information which Angeles, CA. 90034. This business he or she knows to be false is guilty is conducted by an individual. The of a crime.) Registrant Signature/ registrant commenced to transact Name: GEORGE DAVIS Owner This business under the fictitious busistatement was filed with the County ness 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 information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) Registrant Signature/Name: Christopher T. Hertz This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Nov. 5, 2013 Argonaut published: Nov 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013. NOTICEIn accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013 226380 The following person is doing business as:1) Angel Warriors Entertainment 2) Cuicani’s Vibe 3) Cuicani 8409 Alburtis Ave. Whittier, CA. 90606. PO Box 2208 Whittier CA. 90610. County of Los Angeles. Registered owner: Irma Delia Rangel 8409 Alburtis Ave. Whittier, CA. 90606. This business is conducted by an individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 07/02/2008. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) Registrant Signature/Name: IRMA DELIA RANGEL Owner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Oct 31, 2013. Argonaut published: Nov 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013. 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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013 228663 The following person is doing business as: The American Independent Film Company 516 South Saint Andrews Place #501 Los Angeles, CA. 90020 County of Los Angeles.

Registered owner: Martin Myers 516 South Saint Andrews Place #501 Los Angeles, CA. 90020. 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 information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) Registrant Signature/Name: Martin Myers This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Nov. 5, 2013 Argonaut published: Nov. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013. 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. 2013 229016 The following person is doing business as: G and F House Cleaning 3922 Arlington Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90008. Fausto Hernandez 3922 Arlington Ave. Los Angeles, CA.

90008 Registered owner: This business is conducted by an individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 9/1/13. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) Registrant Signature/Name: FAUSTO HERNANDEZ This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Nov. 5, 2013 Argonaut published: Nov. 14, 21, 28, Dec. 5, 2013. 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. 2013 233143 The following person is doing business as: 1) Seesaws and lides 1920 Violet St. Unit 200 Los Angeles, CA. 90021. 2) Mini Scrapes & Little Bits 1920 Violet St. Unit 200 Los Angeles, CA. 90021. Registered owners: Left Production Co., LLC 1920 Violet St. Unit 200 Los Angeles, CA. 90021.

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 information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) Registrant Signature/ Name: Marta Miller. Title: Managing member. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on 11/12/2013. Argonaut published: 11/27, 12/5, 12/12, 12/19, 2013. 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. 2013 233347 The following person is doing business as: American Heatlthcare Capital 4333 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA. 90292 Registered owner: Jack Eskenazi 4333 Admiralty Way 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 information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

Registrant Signature/Name Jack Eskenazi Owner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Nov. 12, 2013 Argonaut published: Nov. 14, 21, 28, Dec. 5, 2013. 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. 2013 233348 The following person is doing business as: First Wave 4022 Beethoven Street Los Angeles, CA. 90066 Cherie J. Riggins 4022 Beethoven Street 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 information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

Registrant Signature/Name CHERIE J. RIGGINS Owner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Nov. 12, 2013 Argonaut published: Nov. 14, 21, 28, Dec. 5, 2013. 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. 2013 233351 The following persons are doing business as 1)The Perfect Piece 1216 Abbot Kinney Blvd.

Venice, CA. 90291 2) The PerfectPieceVintage.com P.O. Box 11493 Marina del Rey, CA. 90295 3) ThePerfectPieceVintage. com 4) Theperfectpiecevintage 5) Perfectpiecevintage Registered owners Ron Rosenthal 927 Indiana Avenue 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 information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Registrant Signature/ Name Ron Rosenthal Owner was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Nov. 12, 2013. Argonaut published: Nov. 14, 21, 28, Dec. 5, 2013 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. 2013 240093 The following person is doing business as: RMA Wealth Advisors 5777 W. Century Blvd. Ste 1580 Los Angeles, CA. 90045. Registered owners: Richard W. Moon 8001 Denrock Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90045. This business is conducted by an individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 7/1/2013.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) Registrant Signature/Name: Richard W. Moon.

Title: Owner.This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on 11/20/2013 Argonaut published: 11/27, 12/5, 12/12, 12/19, 2013. 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. 2013 240100 The following person is doing business as: Excuse My French 449 San Vicente Blvd Apt. A Santa Monica, CA. 90402. Registered owners: Marie-Antoinette, LLC 449 San Vicente Blvd Apt. A Santa Monica, CA. 90402. 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 information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) Registrant Signature/ Name: Marie-Antoinette, LLC. Title: LLC Name/Member. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on 11/20/13. Argonaut published: 11/27, 12/5, 12/12, 12/19, 2013. 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. 2013 240102 The following person is doing business as: Richard The Thread Empire Tape 10405 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA. 90232. Registered owner: Herbert Braha 6204 Vista Del Mar Playa Del Rey, CA. 90293. 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 information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) Registrant Signature/Name: Herbert Braha.

Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on 11/20/13. Argonaut published: 11/27, 12/5, 12/12, 12/19, 2013. 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).

LEGAL ADVERTISING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013 241980 The following person is doing business as: Accurate & Certified Live Scan Services 4859 West Slauson Ave. Ste. 353. Registered owners: 1) Sammy Davis Hancock 417 East Tamarack Ave. Unit 38 Inglewood, CA. 90301. 2) Shyreen Tammy Martin 417 East Tamarack Ave. Unit 38 Inglewood, CA. 90301. This business is conducted by copartners. 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 information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) Registrant Signature/ Name: Sammy Davis Hancock.

Title: Co-Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on 11/22/13 Argonaut published: 11/27, 12/5, 12/12, 12/19, 2013. 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 NOTICES NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE AND OF INTENTION TO TRANSFER LIQUOR LICENSE(S) (Secs. 6101-6107 U.C.C.) Escrow No. 128853 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk sale of assets and a transfer of liquor license(s) is about to be made. The name(s), and mailing address, and zip Code Number of the Seller/transferor(s) are: BENNY TACOS AND ROTISSERIE, LLC, 427 LINCOLN BLVD, VENICE, CA 90291. dba: BENNY’S TACO AND ROTISSERIE The name(s), and mailing address, and zip Code Number of the Buyer/transferee(s) are: MECHE LLC, 521 ROSE AVE, VENICE, CA 90291 That the assets to be transferred are described in general as: INVENTORY OF STOCK IN TRADE, MACHINERY, FURNITURE, FIXTURES AND OTHER EQUIPMENT, LEASEHOLD IMPROVEMENTS, TRANSFERABLE GOVERNMENT LICENSES AND PERMITS, CUSTOMER LISTS, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES, TRADE NAMES AND TRADEMARKS, LOGOS, COPYRIGHTS, AND PATENTS, SIGNS AND ADVERTISING MATERIALS, TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS, WEB SITES, URL NAMES, E-MAIL ADDRESSES, ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE, VENDOR LISTS AND CATALOGS,GOODWILL,AGREEMENTSNOT TO COMPETE, FRANCHISE AGREEMENTS, DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS, EMPLOYEE LISTS AND INFORMATION, COMPUTER AND CUSTOMER SOFTWARE, CUSTOMER DEPOSITS AND 2003 CHEVY ASTRO VAN VIN: 1GCDM19XO3B112396: LICENSE PLATE: 7 A5596 and are located at: 427 LINCOLN BLVD, VENICE, CA 90291 together with the following described alcoholic beverage license(s): Type:ONSALE BEER AND WINE - EATING PLACE, License Number: 41-510828 now issued for the premises located at: SAME That the total consideration for the transfer of said assets and said license(s) is sum of $466,200.00, including inventory estimated at $5,000.00, which consists of the following: DESCRIPTION, AMOUNT: CHECK $24,000.00, DEMAND NOTE $442,200.00 That it has been agreed between the transferee(s) and said transferor(s) that the consideration for the transfer of said assets and of said license(s) is to be paid only after transfer has been approved by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, pursuant to Sec. 24073 et seq.

That the herein described transfers are to be consummated, subject to the above provisions, at: WILSHIRE ESCROW COMPANY, 4270 WILSHIRE BLVD, LOS ANGELES, CA 90010, on or after 10:00 A.M., DECEMBER 18, 2013 All other business names(s) and address(es) used by the transferee(s) within three years last past, so far as known to transferee(s) are: NONE Name and address of escrow holder: WILSHIRE ESCROW COMPANY, 4270 WILSHIRE BLVD, LOS ANGELES, CA 90010 Dated: OCTOBER 22, 2013 BENNY TACOS AND ROTISSERIE, LLC, Seller(s)/Licensee(s) MECHE LLC, Buyer(s)/Applicant(s) LA1361592 ARGONAUT 11/27/13

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