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VOL 48, NO 48 Local News & Culture

COVER STORY

FIRST-PERSON A social worker delivers Thanksgiving meals — and comfort — in Santa Monica . .......... 8

NEWS Teen boy accused of Westchester Double-Murder, Arson ....................... 8

Clean Water from Thin Air Winner of the $1.5-million Water Abundance XPRIZE Competition, Venice-based Skysource hopes to democratize global access to drinking water .......... 12

MOVIE & A MEAL Pair a sun-drenched high tea at The Georgian with the dark, sexy costume drama “The Favourite” ............................ 14

More Victims Come Forward Sex abuse accuser’s lawyer says Santa Monica should suspend its Police Activities League .......................... 10

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ARTS & EVENTS Tree lightings, skate nights, happy hours and other holiday activities abound ........ 28

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Council, the Del Rey Residents Association, the local Sierra Club chapter, Los Angeles Audubon Society, Ballona Creek Renaissance, Playa del Rey Guardians, Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance Trees Committee, Angelenos4Trees, Coalition to Preserve L.A., and nearly 2,000 signers of an online petition being sent to Mayor Eric Garcetti. At City Hall, there’s growing support to preserve open spaces, develop and grow the urban tree canopy, maintain natural habitat, and guarantee that unique ecosystems like the Villa Marina Tule Wetlands will survive. Every supporter on the above list opposes the destruction of this land. Los Angeles Audubon Society Conservation Chair Travis Longcore stated that the paving and development of this site would be a permanent and avoidable loss of nature in the city. The Del Rey Neighborhood Council, after rescinding its 2016 position in support of Marina del Rey Toyota’s development plan and considering the body of evidence, passed a motion on July 25 opposing the project due

to the effects on the Del Rey community as a whole, believing the Tule Wetlands should be preserved as an open space. Opponents believe the project would defy legal precedent and violate CEQA, coastal area protections, city zoning law. The California Coastal Commission has previously declared this parcel has a dual-permit jurisdiction wetland site. The West LA Area Planning Commission appeal hearing is set for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, at the Henry Medina Building, 11214 W. Exposition Blvd., West L.A. As the facts become known, as the story of the Toyota project unfolds, it’s time for people who live in Marina del Rey and Del Rey to become aware of what’s happening in their backyard. Please support the Villa Napoli HOA and Ballona Institute appeal. To sign our petition, visit villamarinawetlands.com. Richard Harmel Marina del Rey

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By Danny Karel “At a point, I decided to stop fighting it,” says Jazmin Johnson, a case manager with the St. Joseph Center. “I realized that social work is what I needed to do.” It’s the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, and Johnson is behind the wheel of a blue Dodge Caravan loaded with holiday groceries for her Westside clients. Each meal includes one large frozen turkey and a medley of pie crusts, stuffing mix, dried mashed potatoes, gravy in a can, mac-andcheese, sweet corn and sliced peaches. This is Johnson’s second year delivering turkeys, but the program has been a tradition of the Venice-based housing and vocational services nonprofit for more than a decade.

The joint FBI-LAPD Fugitive Task Force has arrested two teenage boys in connection with the murder of two sisters found shot to death on Nov. 17 inside a burning Westchester apartment. One of the boys is 17 and has been charged with two counts of murder and one count of arson, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. His arraignment has been set for Jan. 30. Police suspect the other boy of being an accessory to the crime, but at press time criminal charges had not been filed against the second boy and neither suspect had been publicly identified. The victims are identified as 16-year-old Sierra Brown and 27-year-old Uniek Souvinette on a fundraising webpage to benefit their children, listed as 7 years, 6 years and 10 months old. Firefighters found the sisters’ bodies while responding to a fire in their upstairs unit of The Madrid Apartments at 8655 Belford Ave., near Manchester Avenue. The task force arrested both suspects separately on Wednesday, Nov. 21, said Lt. John Radke of the LAPD West Bureau Homicide Unit. Forensic evidence and video surveillance footage helped police identify the suspects, he said. Police also found a stolen Nissan Altima that had belonged to

Firefighters attack the Belford Avenue fire in this bystander footage broadcast by KCAL 9 one of the victims in the 1300 block of West 35th Place, a few blocks west of the USC campus. “While we still don’t know the actual motive for the homicides, we believe that this is a domestic violence-related case and we believe the killer was the boyfriend of the younger victim,” Radke said last Friday. The criminal investigation remains active, with police asking anyone with information to contact homicide detectives at (213) 382-9470 or (877) 5273247, or leave an anonymous tip at (800) 222-TIPS or crimestoppers.org

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A social worker delivers Thanksgiving meals — and comfort — to the formerly homeless in Santa Monica Her face darkens. On a tight schedule, she gathers herself and takes an elevator with Ensign up to the next apartment. Inside is Marie Stone, a plainspoken and irrepressible woman in her 70s. She greets Johnson warmly and introduces her niece, Barbara, who had taken a bus from New Mexico to stay with her. Both slender and with heads of white hair, they look like twins born two decades apart. “We grew up on farms,” says Marie. “We’re used to roughing it.” On the shelves are photos of a younger Marie — gorgeous, with long black hair and a playful smirk. “I used to be in the rodeo,” she says, breathing with the help of an oxygen tank. “I was a barrel racer.” She shows us photographs of herself

“When you first approach potential clients on the street, they tell you to go away. But when you don’t give in, they see that.” — Jazmin Johnson, St. Joseph Center In the back seat is Karalee Ensign, St. Joseph Center’s new events and communications manager. She left a perk-heavy job in music management to pursue a career in social work. In her mid-20s, a decade Johnson’s junior, Ensign was looking for firsthand experience with clients in the field. Asked why she left an enviable job, her response reflects a sentiment common among St. Joseph’s employees: “Once you get started,” she says, “it’s really hard to stop.” Most of Johnson’s clients belong to the center’s Santa Monica CHP (Chronically Homeless Population) program. To qualify, a person must have lived on the streets for upwards of one year. “But most were out there for way longer,” she says. “Some more than 10.” With the help of local police and St. Joseph’s street teams, the center is able to identify candidates for the program. They locate permanent housing, provide rehabilitation services and coach essential life skills. Case workers like Johnson check in periodically, pacify skeptical landlords and act as a stabilizing presence in their clients’ lives. On the way to her second delivery in the Pico neighborhood, Johnson receives a call. Her ringtone — a warm and relaxing jazz melody — suits her. “Oh my God!” she says, leaning forward into the steering wheel. “I was just with him last week! Let me call him.” One of her clients has reportedly died. She calls, but no one answers.

riding a muscular white horse. “Marie’s been with us for a long time,” Johnson explains on the way to the next delivery, near Third Street Promenade. “She was on the street for almost 10 years. She volunteered at the Santa Monica Farmers Market for the last 15 before her health caught up with her.” The next client wasn’t home, but over the phone she refers to Johnson as “sweetie” and tells Johnson she loves her. “We’re their family,” explains Johnson, smiling. Another client, gruff and impatient, also caves to Johnson’s geniality. “You build a rapport,” she says. “They have to trust you with their IDs, their housing. They’ve just been let down so many times.” A jazz melody again fills the air. Johnson answers, and it turns out the client she thought had passed is still alive. “Thank God,” she says. “I’ve already lost three this year.” The job can be emotionally taxing, but Johnson insists that “it’s not even work” — more vocation than career. When the final Westside delivery is made, Johnson returns the van to the center’s parking lot. There is one turkey left, destined for a client in Los Angeles proper. She’ll deliver it on the way home. “When you first approach potential clients on the street,” she says, letting Ensign hop out, “they tell you to go away. But when you don’t give in, they see that. Eventually, they give in and accept our services.”

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A Win for Homeless Kids New apartments planned for Rose Avenue would be the first in Venice to serve young people leaving the foster care system By Gary Walker Maybe it was something to do with the Thanksgiving spirit. Bucking a trend of intense verbal clashes over plans for housing the homeless in Venice, plans to build a 35-unit apartment complex on Rose Avenue for transition-age foster youth and the chronically homeless received very little pushback during a Nov. 20 neighborhood council meeting. Nonprofit affordable housing builder the Venice Community Housing Corp. wants to replace its current two-story offices at 720 Rose Ave., across the street from the Whole Foods parking lot, with a fourstory complex that would include office space. The council voted 9-4 to support the project and send it to the city Planning Commission for consideration in January. Both VCHC Executive Director Becky Dennison and Alison Hurst, executive director of the Venice-based homeless advocacy nonprofit Safe Place for Youth, said former foster youth might be the fastest-growing demographic of Venice’s homeless population. “This is going to help [reduce] the number of young people who are dying on our streets,” Hurst said. “It sets a precedent for Venice to build more housing, especially for young people who are working in our community but who

An architectural rendering depicts the 35-unit complex planned for 720 Rose Ave. don’t have a place to live.” Supporters of the Rose Avenue project came to the meeting holding red roses and wearing black T-shirts displaying the phrase “I support housing for unhoused people in the neighborhood.” “There’s a very loud contingent of voices that unfortunately have been very negative about what we’re trying to do. That’s why people wanted us to get the T-shirts — to show that there are people in the community who support these types of worthy projects,” Dennison said.

The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty estimates that 5,000 unaccompanied youth with connections to the foster system die each year from assault, illness or suicide. Locally, despite the resources that local nonprofits bring to the table, “there is absolutely no supportive housing for them in Venice,” Dennison said. In terms of opposition, it was the building itself — not its purpose — that was cause for discussion. “Employees from La Cabaña, Whole

Foods and MedMen already park on my street, so I’m not able to park on my own street anymore. I’m all for affordable housing, but not at the expense of everyone else in the community,” said Rachel Plasencia, who lives about a block away from the project. The biggest sticking point was granting an exception to the Venice Specific Plan in order to allow a building height of 45 feet instead of 35. Opponents say recommending a 45-foot project to city planners will open the door for larger buildings in the area, while supporters argue that the neighborhood council has granted plenty of exceptions before. “Those who opposed this project talked about mass, scale, character and precedent, but as I’ve said in response, that train left the station a long time ago,” said neighborhood council member Cindy Chambers, who supported the project. “I found it disingenuous to oppose a project based on those criteria when we confront this issue all the time. To me, it was more about who were being housed rather than the structure itself.” If the project continues to win approvals, Dennison estimates construction can begin as early as summer. gary@argonautnews.com

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Accuser’s attorney says Santa Monica should suspend its Police Activities League By Gary Walker The attorney for a man who says he was sexually abused as a child by a Santa Monica Police Activities League volunteer wants the city-run youth program put on hiatus as additional victims come forward. Brian Claypool, who represents Rogelio Monroy in a lawsuit against Santa Monica for alleged sexual abuse by former city employee and ex-PAL volunteer Eric Uller more than 20 years ago, said two additional victims of Uller have recently contacted him. Meanwhile, Detective Sgt. Marvin Jaramilla of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Special Victims Unit tells The Argonaut that since Uller’s Oct. 18 arrest, six additional victims have come forward to law enforcement, bringing the total number of accusers to 10. “That’s proof that there is a systemic, longstanding problem at the PAL program — a fundamental lack of control — and that’s why I think that the program should be temporarily suspended. They’re putting complete strangers unsupervised

At least 10 people say they were sexually abused as children by former PAL volunteer Eric Uller, found dead in his apartment on Nov. 15

in front of at-risk kids. That’s a recipe for child molestation,” Claypool said. “In my opinion this has been a playground for predators. These kids are easy prey, and it’s frightening to me that this program is still going on without the city taking a pause.”

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Uller, 50, had been slated to appear in criminal court on Nov. 15 but was found dead in his Marina del Rey apartment that morning. Police believe he committed suicide. Uller was 50 and had worked in the city’s IT department. Santa Monica City Hall has launched an internal investigation. “We are committed to transparency and accountability. The city attorney’s office has retained outside counsel to conduct a comprehensive investigation of these allegations,” reads a statement by Santa Monica Mayor Ted Winterer. “The city is also conducting a comprehensive review of the procedures in place to protect youth participants of the PAL program.” On the city’s website, spokeswoman Miranda Iglesias clarifies that the city is also retaining Praesidium, an outside consultant, to “review the policies and practices of its current youth programs to ensure that best practices for preventing incidents of abuse are in place throughout city programs.” PAL is a public-private nonprofit operated by the city that provides after

school programming for local youth ages 6 through 17. A board member for Santa Monica’s PAL program declined to comment and referred questions to the city, saying the board does not determine program policies. Claypool, who represented one of the families involved in the LAUSD’s 2014 Miramonte Elementary School sexual abuse scandal, said he’s glad the city is taking action but remains skeptical that the city will hold itself accountable. “Hiring a law firm doesn’t promote transparency. It actually supports this code of secrecy that we see in these institutional sexual abuse cases,” he asserted. As for Monroy, who grew up in the Pico Neighborhood, Claypool said he feels “betrayed” by the PAL program. “His life is unraveling. It’s been a very emotional time for him,” Claypool said. Investigators urge anyone with pertinent information to call the Sheriff’s Special Victims Unit at (877) 710-5373 or write to specialvictims@lasd.org.

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Clean Water from Thin Air Winner of the $1.5-million Water Abundance XPRIZE Competition, Venice-based Skysource hopes to democratize global access to drinking water By Andrew Dubbins There is a vast reservoir of fresh water in the sky, and Venice architect David Hertz is at the helm of what may be the best machine on the planet for collecting it. Hertz leads the Skysource/Skywater Alliance, which last month won the $1.5 million Water Abundance XPRIZE Competition seeking a low-cost machine, powered by renewable energy, that could extract fresh water from airborne humidity. It’s a process called atmospheric water generation, and XPRIZE is eyeing it as a solution to global water shortages, including the seven-year drought plaguing California. Going into the competition, Hertz and wife Laura Doss had mortgaged their home and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund development of the Skywater machine, powered by a novel method of biomass gasification pioneered by All Power Labs in Berkeley. Speaking before the competition, Hertz said he plans to invest all the prize money back into further developing the technology. “We’re led by the legacy that we can help address one of the most significant issues

facing mankind, which is access to fresh water,” he said. *** Headquartered in Culver City, XPRIZE designs global competitions to incentivize technological innovation that will benefit humanity. The nonprofit’s first

if condensed. XPRIZE lead Zenia Tata, who dreamt up this contest, grew up in a five-story apartment in India with a water tank on the rooftop. Once a day, workers would fill the rooftop tank with river or well water. “But what if those tanks sponged up their own water from the sky?” Tata

“I’ve seen it thousands of times and it’s still a miracle.” — David Hertz contest — launching a reusable manned aircraft into space — helped jumpstart the private spaceflight industry. This Water Abundance contest sought to address a global emergency. More than 780 million people in 43 countries are facing water scarcity due to lack of fresh water availability, uneven distribution and access, and contamination issues. Yet there are roughly 37.5 million-billion gallons of water in the atmosphere at any given moment, enough to cover the entire surface of the planet with one inch of rain

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wondered. “Imagine if water could be decentralized and on-demand,” she told The Argonaut. Atmospheric water extraction is not a new concept. Ancient aboriginal civilizations in Peru, for instance, used fog nets to collect drinking water from the clouds rolling off the Pacific, a practice called “fog harvesting” that’s still employed across South America. Today, there’s a small industry devoted to atmospheric water extraction, but it focuses primarily on large industrial

machines or small-scale devices, such as sophisticated osmosis machines for yachts. The energy required to power these machines is immense. That’s why in designing this XPRIZE competition, Tata and her team decided only renewable energy could be used as a power source. Accepting the challenge, submissions poured in from all over the globe. “That was the most exciting part,” Tata remembers. “Seeing these wildly creative ideas.” There was a team from Ghana that proposed using kinetic energy from children running on soccer fields to power their device. A team from Namibia was engineering a material modeled after the skin of a dung beetle to enhance water retention. A Russian team was launching high altitude kites to collect water from clouds. There were teams from Iran, New Zealand, and even chilly Northern Europe, where atmospheric water extraction is trickier than at the moist equator. From an initial pool of 98 teams from 27 countries, five top teams were selected and awarded a $50,000 “milestone prize.” The Skysource/Skywater Alliance was not among them.

ArgonautNews.com “We thought they were promising, but another team edged them out,” said Tata. ***

the Water Catchers. “Everything I’ve proposed with XPRIZE has been systems-thinking,” says Hertz. “It’s not just atmospheric water generation. It’s energy, water, food, jobs. … It’s a positive feedback loop.” *** On the morning Hertz spoke with The Argonaut, with about two weeks remaining in the competition, he learned two teams had been eliminated — including his former teammate’s. Skysource’s final competitor at the time, also U.S.-based, relies on wind energy to power its atmospheric water machine. That gives the WeDew a competitive edge, Hertz

believes, because the machine isn’t dependent on climate or geography — only organic material, which can be “wood chips, walnut shells, seeds, palm leaves or coconut husks,” Hertz explained. In the final testing, under the scrutiny of XPRIZE judges, WeDew was required to harvest a minimum of 2,000 liters of drinkable water from the sky over a 24-hour period using 100% renewable energy at a cost of just two cents per liter. Hertz went in expecting the WeDew to generate double that amount of water, at half the cost. “We’re bringing this thing home for Venice,” he said. Images courtesy of Skysource

Hertz, founder of S.E.A. Studio of Environmental Architecture on Market Street, is a pioneer of “restorative architecture,” designing buildings that give back more than they take from the environment. His former Venice residence (aka David Duchovny’s bachelor pad in “Californication”), before he sold it to focus on a Malibu estate built from the upcycled wing of a 747, featured solarpower electricity and water heaters, passive ventilation system, thermostatically controlled skylights and windows, heat-mirror glazing, abundant natural lighting, recycled building materials, and a concrete substance called Syndecrete that captures heat during the day and releases it at night. In 2015, at the height of California’s drought, Hertz began investigating atmospheric water generation for his buildings. He’d long been fascinated by the mysterious properties of water. As a kid, he suffered severe skin rashes, known as eczema, and took up surfing because the saltwater provided relief. Intrigued by the idea of pulling water from the air, Hertz sought out Richard Groden, a general contractor in Florida who’d invented a machine called the Skywater, which condenses and filters atmospheric moisture to produce fresh drinking water. Hertz recalled the first time he saw the Skywater in action, a pool of water collecting in its tank after only 10 minutes. “I’ve seen it thousands of times and it’s still a miracle,” he says. Groden installed a Skywater in Hertz’s office on Market Street to demonstrate its effectiveness for potential clients. Word spread about the machine, and Hertz began receiving orders from people whose wells were drying up across the state, from Malibu to Montecito to Hollister Ranch. Other customers wanted to dodge water fines, or avoid public shaming for their water usage. One of the first to buy a Skywater was Snapchat’s billionaire founder Evan Spiegel, who purchased the machine for his then- fiancé (now wife) Miranda Kerr as a guilt-free way to fill the pool and water the garden. As for his own Skywater, Hertz quickly realized the machine was extracting more water than his firm needed, so he began donating the excess to local homeless residents, who use it daily to fill up gallon jugs and water bottles. He also supplies Community Healing Gardens, an Oakwood-based nonprofit that hires kids who’ve aged out of foster care programs. The kids — Hertz calls them “Water Catchers” — fill up from Hertz’s Skywater machine twice a week to water the nonprofits urban garden planter boxes in public places throughout Venice. “It’s really about the democratization of water, rather than the commodification,” reflects Hertz. “Venice is a social experi-

ment about how we can decentralize water.” When Hertz read about the Water Abundance X-Prize in 2016, he was already a couple years into experimenting with atmospheric water generation and felt well qualified to compete. He partnered with Groden and All Power Labs to form the Skysource/Skywater Alliance and entered the contest. Confident in their submission, Hertz was surprised to be eliminated after the first round. He also felt betrayed by a team-member who’d left Skysource to join a competitor’s team on the eve of the second round. “There were significant proprietary breaches with that company, but we didn’t complain to X-Prize,” recalls Hertz. “We took the high road.” A few months later, Hertz got a call from X-Prize that one of the final five had dropped out, and Skysource could rejoin the contest. “We can’t give you the $50,000, and we can’t extend the deadline,” Hertz recalls being told. Plus, Skysource’s competitors now had a head start. But Hertz didn’t flinch. “That’s okay,” he told them. “We’re still in it.” ***

In addition to Hertz and Groden, the underdog Skysource team includes Doss (a commercial and art photographer who handles product images and community relations), an architect with his firm (who assists with product visualizations and marketing), and an engineering team from All Power Labs. The Skysource/Skywater Alliance’s machine is called the WeDew (short for “waste energy deployed water”), Hertz describing it as a tropical rainforest in a shipping container. Hertz was the one who came up with the idea to power the WeDew using biomass gasification, which involves vaporizing organic solids into a clean-burning fuel. For organic materials, the WeDew uses wood chips, which are plentiful in California due to the drought. In a sense, you could say Skysource is using the very wreckage of the drought to combat it. Gasification creates a byproduct called biochar, similar to charcoal, which acts as a fertilizer by simulating a fire event. Hertz plans to distribute the biochar in brown paper bags at farmers markets in Venice, Mar Vista and Malibu in what he calls a “local carbon network.” In addition to addressing water shortages, Hertz envisions the WeDew as a nimble solution for providing emergency energy and drinking water in response to extreme weather events such as hurricanes or tsunamis. One of XPRIZE’s requirements was to create a business plan to demonstrate the technology’s commercial viability; and Hertz has formed a company to productize A B OV E : Hertz describes the alliance’s WeDew machine as a tropical the WeDew. There will be labor involved rainforest in a shipping container in the collection of organic material to power the machines, but Hertz sees that as B E LO W : The WeDew condenses, filters and collects drinking water a good thing, creating jobs for people, like from atmospheric humidity November 29, 2018 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 13

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Let the Georgian’s dainty pastries whet your appetite for mayhem in the royal court By Angela Matano The new film “The Favourite” takes a hatchet to every preconception you ever had about British costume dramas, which usually burst with gentility, manners and politesse. Instead, director Yorgos Lanthimos’s vision skews darker, funnier and much, much sexier. Set during the 18th-century reign of Queen Anne, “The Favourite” stars Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz as two ladies-inwaiting jockeying for the ear of the Queen, played by the incomparable Olivia Colman like a cross between a wailing baby and an open wound. The three actresses relish every minute of their time sparring together, and you will improbably find yourself rooting for all three of them. Lanthimos brilliantly gives all of them their head, like an expert horse trainer letting his thoroughbreds gallop toward the finish line at full speed. The result is exhilarating, and a feather in the cap of the #MeToo movement, giving women the opportunity to be every bit as vulgar, profane, complex and funny as any man. One of the greatest pleasures of “The Favourite” is the humor. Pratfalls and physical comedy are prevalent throughout the picture, often coming from unexpected places. No one is safe from temper — their own or others’ — and blows rain down on just PAGE 14 THE ARGONAUT November 29, 2018

about everyone, excepting the untouchable Queen Anne. The movie truly does that most unexpected of things: it continues to surprise at every turn. Nothing pairs more delightfully with English cinema than high tea, and sipping Earl Grey at The Georgian Hotel may be one of the Westside’s best kept secrets. The hotel’s expansive front veranda sits prettily aloft Ocean Avenue with a spectacular, unobstructed view of the sea. Served daily from 2 to 5 p.m., high tea lets you indulge as little or as much as you like. After watching Queen Anne wallow in luxury, nothing could be finer than a little caviar and champagne. Presented on a lavish, three-tiered tray laden with finger sandwiches, scones and miniature desserts, the spread will most definitely awaken your inner royal, or celebrity — back in the ’30s, luminaries and mobsters, including Clark Gable and Bugsy Siegel, visited The Georgian. After loftily choosing your preferred tea, dip into some fresh berries and house-made whipped cream. Take in the view for a moment before daintily nibbling on adorable toasts, like the curried chicken or the whipped salmon, and find yourself feeling extremely civilized. A nip of scone with marmalade and a bite of a dainty macaron, and you might feel just a bit imperial

yourself. You might even feel like shouting, “Off with his head!” toward our own fearless leader, in the manner of the Queen of Hearts, from “Alice in Wonderland.” The ability to behead people, and the ascension of Meghan Markle, is nearly enough to turn me into a royalist. If you’re feeling frisky, the tea can be augmented with a Japanese whisky highball, a refreshing cocktail that includes crisp soda and a lemon squeeze. You can choose from four different brands of whisky to bespoke your drink to your taste. The Kaiyo whisky is matured in Mizunara oak casks for years before traveling on a three-month ocean voyage to gain full maturation! Now that’s high maintenance in the order of aristocracy. Whether you aspire to royalty, dream of a distant past or are just looking to escape the madding crowd, an afternoon of “The Favourite,” a sunset and a dish of crumpets is sure to assuage your temper and leave you in fine fiddle. The Georgian is at 1415 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica. Call (800) 538-8147 or visit georgianhotel. com. “The Favourite” is showing at The Landmark Cinema, 10850 W. Pico Blvd., West L.A. Call (310) 470-0492 or visit landmarktheatres.com.

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Electric Ladies ‘Women Who Rock’ rewrites the history of pop music from a feminist perspective By Christina Campodonico Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll — inevitably the phrase calls to mind longhaired white dudes trashing a hotel room and getting cozy with girlish groupies. But in the new book “Women Who Rock: Bessie to Beyoncé, Girl Groups to Riot Grrrl” women are anything but arm candy or footnotes to music history. In the 405-page compendium edited by Loyola Marymount University professor Evelyn McDonnell, female artists spanning nearly a century of popular music take center stage to be honored from a feminist perspective. Among the trailblazers highlighted in the book (and given nods in its subtitle) are Empress of the Blues Bessie Smith, Beyoncé “Queen Bey” Knowles-Carter (dubbed “King Bey” in the book), Riot Grrrl pioneer Kathleen Hanna and groundbreaking girl group The Go-Gos. You’ll also find essays on rock icon Joan Jett, the leading lady of Laurel Canyon folk Joni Mitchell, and the late, great Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin. “We use rock as a verb, not a noun,” McDonnell, a longtime music journalist and director of LMU’s journalism program, writes in her introduction. “We perceive it not as a static entity, defined by loud guitars and a 4/4 beat, but as an action that defies the containing force of a label — and that evokes a rich lineage of musical motions, from the lullaby swing of a cradle, to gospel’s transformation of the soul, to the sexual call-and-response of rock ‘n’ roll, full circle back to soul rocking your baby.”

An even more radical move of the book (although it shouldn’t really be that revolutionary these days) is that women author all of its profiles, accompanying playlists and illustrations — making the pussy hat hot pink tome not only a celebration of the female musical spirit, but also of female writers, scholars, artists and critics — among them NPR’s Ann Powers, Yale University’s Daphne A. Brooks and music icons like Alice Bag and electro-pop artist Peaches. “This is all about women appreciating women,” McDonnell says. “It’s not the male gaze. It’s the female listen. … It’s all women listening to and looking at other women and sort of reinterpreting them.” Next Thursday (Dec. 6), “Women Who Rock” contributors Solvej Schou, Adele Bertei and DJ Lynée Denise join McDonnell at Beyond Baroque for an evening of words and song celebrating the book and the women who’ve forged incredible paths through the tumultuous music industry.

Kate Bush is among 103 musical change-makers profiled in “Women Who Rock” (Illustration by Julie Winegard) We started working on it in October 2016, and at that time we thought that there was going to be the first female president, and of course that didn’t turn out. It was a huge change in context. And then two years later, the book came out during the Kavanaugh hearings. I felt like the book went from being really timely … to being necessary — that we needed to revalue women’s stories.

How did you whittle the book down to 103 profiles? They’re people that didn’t just follow the beat, they moved the beat. They changed the beat. They shifted the discourse of popular music in some way, whether that was because of musical innovations, or because of commercial breakthroughs, or Why was it important to create because of the message in their music. a book like this? This isn’t a comprehensive list of every We needed to have these women, their female artist who could be considered role in history, affirmed and explained rhythm movers. … Lord knows the book because they’re not always included in the is heavy enough as it is. We had to go for history books, or the halls of fame, or the being really passionate about the artists T-shirt selections. … They had not been included rather than trying to shove gathered in a book like this for two everybody in. decades. Not only were there a slew of new artists that had not been included in What are some of the book’s this kind of feminist history, but there’s overarching themes? also a slew of new writers and voices that There’s definitely this theme of a struggle I wanted to bring in. and some of that is personal struggle

against often a difficult upbringing, whether it’s coming out of poverty, or coming out of abusive families, or surviving assault, and then connecting that with larger struggles — the struggles of the women’s movement, the struggles of the Civil Rights Movement. The personal is political. There’s a tension in several essays between women being empowered and exploited by the music industry. Has it gotten better for women in the music industry over time? This book shows that there’s a sad history of this, from Tina Turner to Ronnie Spector to Aaliyah, of women having the very men who are supposed to be supporting and nurturing them being the ones who are also assaulting and abusing them. Is it better now? The thing that’s better today is, well, we do have 100 years of feminist struggle to stand on the shoulders of, and you certainly see some of today’s artists being very aware of that and being proud of it. Then of course you have the internet providing an alternative around sleazy radio guys and record company people. (Continued on page 16)

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Original soul sister Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Latin music icon Selena doing a photo shoot with her in the music industry. How makeup extremely downsized for institutionalized and structural Do you think the way female a cover of a fashion magazine. … the gender inequities are in the artists have reclaimed their PJ Harvey, from the beginning of music industry has not been sexuality in the last five to 10 her career, worked with one fully understood. And I think years has helped? photographer who was a friend of that day’s going to come. And I I think there’s certainly more hers, who was a woman. It was hope this book is part of it … awareness of being in control of someone who she trusted, and because I think it shows how your own image, and how you together, they very carefully many powerful women artists express your sexuality, and use crafted her visual image. there have been who’ve had your sexuality to help make you Definitely women are playing to keep pushing that rock up feel powerful. That said, the with fire and learning how that hill. relentless focus on image in our to do that better, but it can selfie culture also puts a lot of be dangerous. The celebration of “Women Who pressure on women. I’ve had a Rock: Bessie to Beyoncé, Girl lot of artists talk to me about this, Has the #MeToo movement Groups to Riot Grrrl” starts at that it’s very hard to stay in made it better for women in the 8 p.m. Thursday (Dec. 6) at power in a photo shoot because Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice the photographer is telling you to music industry? I think that there’s going to have Blvd., Venice. Tickets are $6 to do this and telling you to do that. to be more of a day of reckoning $10 at beyondbaroque.org. I’m grateful for Beyoncé for

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FICTITIoUS bUSINeSS NAme STATemeNT FILe No. 2018 263445 Type of Filing: Amended. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: THOMAS HAMBURGERS. 108 Washington Blvd. Marina Del Rey, CA 90292. COUNTY: Los Angeles. Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number: 4099650. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Thomas Hamburgers CafÈ, Inc., 108 Washington Blvd. Marina Del Rey, CA 90292. State of Incorporation or LLC: California. 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. /s/ Sera Gountoumas. TITLE: CFO, Corp or LLC Name: Thomas Hamburgers CafÈ, Inc. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: October 17, 2018. 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). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 11/8/18, 11/15/18, 11/22/18, 11/29/18 FICTITIoUS bUSINeSS NAme STATemeNT FILe No. 2018 275049 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BLACK//BROWN COLLECTIVE. 8726 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite D2561 Los Angeles, CA 90045. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Charlie Escheverry Advisory Group LLC, 8726 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite D2561 Los Angeles, CA 90045. State of Incorporation or LLC: California. 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: 02/2014. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Jessica Echeverry. TITLE: Owner, Corp or LLC Name: Charlie Escheverry Advisory Group LLC. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: October 30, 2018. 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). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 11/8/18, 11/15/18, 11/22/18, 11/29/18 FICTITIoUS bUSINeSS NAme STATemeNT FILe No. 2018 280651 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: POOUS. 3605 Maplewood Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90066. COUNTY: Los Angeles. Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number: 3822485. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Pop Capture Digital. 3605 Maplewood Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90066. State of Incorporation or LLC: California. 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. /s/ Charalampos Sarantis. TITLE: Owner, Corp or LLC Name: Pop Capture Digital. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: November 6, 2018. 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). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 11/15/18, 11/22/18, 11/29/18, 12/6/18 FICTITIoUS bUSINeSS NAme STATemeNT FILe No. 2018 284836 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MONTROSE AV. 7740 W. Manchester Avenue, Suite 110 Playa Del Rey, CA 90293, 8248 W. 83rd Street Playa Del Rey, CA 90293. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Montrose & Associates, Inc., 8248 W. 83rd Street Playa Del Rey, CA 90293. State of Incorporation or LLC: California. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 10/2018. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Robert Mitchell Montrose. TITLE: CEO, Corp or LLC Name: Montrose & Associates, Inc. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: November 9, 2018. 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). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 11/15/18, 11/22/18, 11/29/18, 12/6/18 orDer To SHoW CAUSe For CHANGe oF NAme Case No. 18SmCP00049 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition of ELISABETH ANN MAIDEN and FLOYD JOHN SHAHEEN, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Elisabeth Ann Maiden and Floyd John Shaheen filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Elleanor Love Shaheen to Elleanor Love Maiden-Shaheen 2.) THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 12/07/18. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: K. The address of the court is 1725 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90401. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each

week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Los Angeles. Original filed: November 05, 2018. Gerald Rosenberg, Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: The Argonaut Newspaper 11/8/18, 11/15/18, 11/22/18, 11/29/18 STATemeNT oF AbANDoNmeNT oF USe oF FICTITIoUS bUSINeSS NAme — FILe No: 2018277983 FILe No: 2018-201376 DATE FILED: 08/09/2018. Name of Business(es) KIRN INTERNATIONAL, 2315 28th Street Apt. 102 Santa Monica, CA 90405. REGISTERED OWNER(S): Jennifer Kirn, 2315 28th Street Apt. 102 Santa Monica, CA 90405. Business was conducted by an Individual. 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.) REGISTRANTS NAMES/CORP/ LLC (PRINT) Jennifer Kirn TITLE: Owner. If corporation, also print corporate title of officer. If LLC, also print tile of officer or manager. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on the date indicated by the filed stamp in the upper right corner: November 2, 2018. I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. DEAN C. LOGAN, LOS ANGELES COUNTY CLERK by: Juanita Carpenter, Deputy Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 11/15/18, 11/22/18, 11/29/18, 12/6/18

Public notices orDer To SHoW CAUSe For CHANGe oF NAme Case No. 18TrCP00035 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition of AGOSTINHO CALHEIROS, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Agostinho Calheiros filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Leyla Abe Dones to Sophia Leilani Calheiros 2.) THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 12/21/2018. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: B. The address of the court is 825 Maple Avenue Torrance, CA 90503-5058. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Los Angeles. Original filed: November 13, 2018. Eric C. Taylor, Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: The Argonaut Newspaper 11/22/18, 11/29/18, 12/6/18, 12/13/18

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Compiled by Nicole Elizabeth Payne Thursday, Nov. 29 “Jesse Owens” Screening, 5:30 p.m. Famed Olympic track and field star Jesse Owens stood up to Nazi racism by competing and winning big in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Yet despite his triumph, he continued to struggle with bias for the rest of his life. Lloyd Taber-Marina del Rey Library, 4533 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. Free. (310) 821-3415; lacountylibrary.org Banned JFK Films, 6 p.m. Examine the assassination of John F. Kennedy with rare films and fiery discussion. Enjoy a multi-media exploration of ’60s music with Black Shoe Polish, poetry, dance and experimental films at 9 p.m. Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice. Free. laughtears.com Bob Baker Marionettes, 6 and 7 p.m. Nov. 29 and Dec. 6. The Bob Baker Marionette Theater has been an institution since 1963, and for the first time ever it’s visiting Santa Monica Pier. The iconic puppet show features classic songs of the season and Bob Baker favorites. Santa Monica Pier’s merry-go-round building. Free. santamonicapier.org

Friday, Nov. 30 Annual Holiday Boutique, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Start your holiday shopping with more than 20 vendors at this pop-up boutique. Culver City Senior Center, 4095 Overland Ave., Culver City. Free. (310) 253-6700 “Teen Vogue” Summit, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday. This two-day summit features a packed lineup of changemakers in sports, fashion, music, beauty, technology, media and public service curated by the editors of Teen Vogue magazine. Speakers, such as Serena Williams, share stories of their journeys and inspire young people to change the world. 72andSunny, 12101 W. Bluff Creek Dr., Playa Vista. $199 to $499. summit.teenvogue.com “Independence Corrupted: How America’s Judges Make Their Decisions” Discussion, 2 to 4 p.m. Judge Charles Benjamin Schudson takes readers behind the bench to probe judicial minds, analyzing actual trials and sentencings. He discusses the financial, political and professional pressures threatening judicial ethics. Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, 2920 Overland Ave., Palms. Free. (310) 840-2142; lapl.org Comedy vs. Nerds: Jokes about Technology, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Stand-up comedians roast all things Silicon Beach, everything from an app that simulates engine noises for your silent Tesla to what a self-driving car should do when it’s about to hit a pedestrian. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Westside Comedy Theater, 1323-A 3rd St., Santa Monica. $5. (310) 451-0850; westsidecomedy.com “Portrait of Jennie” Screening, 6:30 p.m. Mind Over Movies screens David O. Selznick’s wintry fantasy

about love, time and the pursuit of inspiration. A discussion and Q&A follow the film. The Christian Institute, 1308 Second St., Santa Monica. Free. facebook.com/MindOverMoviesLA Birds of Chicago, 8 to 11 p.m. JT Nero and Allison Russell of Birds of Chicago perform their Americana sound, with special guest Daniel Rodriguez of Elephant Revival opening. McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. $20. (310) 828-4497; mccabes.com Genr8r “Music for People” Album Release Party, 8 to 11 p.m. Genr8r’s debut album releases after a three-anda-half long journey with this funky celebration at The Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. $12. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com Irving Berlin’s “Holiday Inn,” 8:15 p.m. Friday, 2:30 and 8:15 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Begin the holidays with one of the most loved Christmas classics, starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby. Every show begins with pipe organ music, an audience sing-a-long and a comedy short followed by a 15-minute intermission before the feature screens. Old Town Music Hall, 140 Richmond St., El Segundo. $8 to $10. (310) 322-2592; oldtownmusichall.org

Saturday, Dec. 1 Rotary Forum: “Erase Hate, Foster Acceptance,” 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Twenty years after the brutal hate crime slaying of gay college student Matthew Shepard, his parents, Dennis and Judy Shepard, speak about their son’s legacy during the Rotary’s annual Social Awareness Forum. Murphy Recital Hall, Loyola Marymount University, 1 LMU Dr., Westchester. $30. rotary5280.org. The Bay Foundation LAX Dunes Volunteer Event, 9 a.m. to noon. The LAX Dunes are the largest remaining fragment of the El Segundo Dunes complex, providing a habitat for over 900 species. Join in the experience of removing non-native vegetation and clearing away debris. Park along Waterview Street. LAX Dunes, Trask Triangle Park, Playa del Rey. (310) 417-3093; santamonicabay.org Metro Division 6 Planning Meeting: Refining the Vision, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Metro staff return to Venice for a community workshop to organize ideas and feedback on temporary housing at the former Metro bus yard on Main Street and Sunset Avenue. Meet at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Venice, 2232 Lincoln Blvd., Venice. For questions about this project contact Olivia Segura at (213) 922-7156 or division6@metro.net. Open Wetlands at Ballona, 9 a.m. to noon. The Los Angeles Audubon Society hosts its monthly Open Wetlands event at Ballona Salt Marsh. Take a stroll through the sand dunes to the creek and explore your neighborhood wetlands. Enter through the gate

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Bonin and a special celebrity guest pull the switch to change the Venice sign’s colors to red and green for the holidays. Windward Avenue will close east of Pacific Avenue for the event, which includes live music, exhibits and a poster contest. The sign lighting is at 8 p.m. Windward and Pacific avenues, Venice. Free. (310) 822-5425; venicechamber.net Mansfield Chamber Singers 40th Anniversary Concert, 7 p.m. The program features Bach’s “Magnificat” as well as works by Palestrina, SaintSaëns, Barber and Poulenc. Grace Lutheran Church, 4427 Overland Ave., Culver City. Free. (310) 471-1247; performingartslive.com

Sunday, Dec. 2 “Mistral,” Book Signing, 3 p.m. NPR’s Renee Montagne interviews photographer Rachel Cobb about her new book “Mistral,” a portrait of Provence seen through its legendary wind that periodically gusts to 120 km per hour. The region has adjusted to accommodate the mistral’s impact. Diesel Bookstore, 225 26th St., Ste. 33, Santa Monica. Free. (310) 576-9960; dieselbookstore.com/ brentwood (Continued on page 30)

Hope Over Fear

Birds of Chicago’s new record celebrates love through gospel, soul, rock, folk and early jazz Individually, Allison Russell and JT Nero earned their stripes as road warriors in the 2000s with eclectic bands — Po’ Girl for Russell, JT & the Clouds and the Capital Sun Rays for Nero — whose Americana-infused musicality thrilled audiences almost as much as their go-for-broke performance passion. Since teaming in 2012 as Birds of Chicago, the now married duo have created an entity that transcends those dynamic parts with a personal and creative alchemy uniquely suited for this cultural moment. Recently relocated to Nashville, the peripatetic Birds spent most of their time in recent years winging around North American and European festivals with a young daughter in tow. Onstage, Russell alternates between playing clarinet and banjo, and sways and sings (occasionally in French) with deepening fervor as Nero shadows her in close, raspy harmony. Songs like “Dim Star of the Palisades” and the title track of their Joe Henry-produced

JT Nero and Allison Russell blend love and wanderlust in their musical lives 2016 album “Real Midnight” elegantly showcased Russell’s full-throated vocals as well as the Dylan-esque poetic consciousness of Nero’s songwriting. “Love in Wartime,” released in May and co-produced by Nero and North Mississippi Allstars guitarist Luther Dickinson, is at once more muscular and looser, in the spirit of north star influences The Band, Grateful Dead and the Staple Singers. Embracing gospel, soul, rock ‘n’ roll, folk and early jazz, the album unabashedly celebrates love (“There are songs to find and oh, there’s a

baby to feed/ …This is our love, love in wartime/ White flowers in a red sky”) with songs that choose hope over fear. — Bliss Bowen Birds of Chicago headlines an 8 p.m. Friday (Nov. 30) double bill at McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. Former Elephant Revival frontman Daniel Rodriguez opens. Tickets are $20. Call (310) 828-4497 or visit birdsofchicago.com.

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Avenue now up and running for the holidays. All-day admission (including skate rental) is $15, and lockers rent for $5. The Randy Gardner School of Skating offers private or group lessons for novices, and cabanas can be rented for special events. Ice at Santa Monica is open from 2 to 10 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 2 p.m. to midnight on Fridays, 10 a.m. to midnight on Saturdays and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sundays. 1324 Fifth St., Santa Monica | (310) 260-1199 | downtownsm.com

MARK YOUR CALENDARS: Marina del Rey Snow Wonder Saturday, Dec. 8 Snow usually isn’t in the forecast for Southern California’s holiday season, but kids and families can play in it to their hearts’ content from noon to 6 p.m. in Burton Chace Park. There’s even a hill for sledding! Stick around afterward for the Marina del Rey Holiday Boat Parade. 13650 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey | (424) 526-7900 | visitmarinadelrey.com Marina del Rey Holiday Boat Parade Saturday, Dec. 8 Join grand marshal Janice Hahn and about 25,000 of your friends and neighbors for the 56th annual Marina del Rey Holiday Boat Parade, a nautical parade of lights featuring animation songs and merrymaking on dozens of ships big and small, from dinghies to mega-yachts. As is tradition, the parade kicks off with fireworks at 5:55 p.m. and continues in the harbor’s main channel until 8 p.m. Boaters, it’s not too late to be in the parade! Marina del Rey Harbor | (310) 6707130 | mdrboatparade.org — Compiled by Brian Marks, with additional writing by Nicole Elizabeth Payne.

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BookArtsLA celebrates the popular resurgence of book-and-paper artistry Photo by Christina Campodonico

By Christina Campodonico Visiting BookArtsLA can feel a bit like stepping into the past. Here, in what was once a rubber stamp store, you can sow the spine of a book by hand à la the Copts of ancient Egypt, craft toy books like the Victorians, or make a greeting card on a century-old printer. “You can start back in the 3rd century and come forward to the 20th or 21st century and see the changes,” says Marcia Moore, a co-founding board member of BookArtsLA, as she shows me around the workshop dedicated to the

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practice of bookmaking. “It’s just a testament to our ingenuity as a species.” On Saturday, visitors can appreciate this ancient and resurging art form up close and personal during the studio’s annual Holiday Sale and Festival, which features handcrafted books, journals and greeting cards made by local artisans, as well as jewelry and other unique handmade items. “We want to bring people into the space,” says Moore, “so they know that we’re here.” Founded almost five years with seed funding from an angel donor, the not-for-

profit art studio on Washington Place holds workshops in bookbinding, papermaking, letterpress printing and paper decoration. It also hosts special events, including occasional “Typeslams” that introduce beginners to letterpress printing (relief printing done with wooden or leaden moveable type) over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. The hope is that participants will “get bitten by the type bug” and come back,” says Moore. BookArtsLA also teaches people how to marble their own paper, create nesting boxes, craft novelty books (among them

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“I personally very deeply believe in the power of making your own books,” says Moore, who also directs the visual arts program at New Roads School. “I think it’s really satisfying to make something of beauty that’s also utilitarian.” If the resurgence of letterpress printing during the turn of this century is any indication — Wired Magazine traces the rise of thousands of tiny letterpress shops to a homespun aesthetic popularized by Martha Stewart in the 1990s — book arts, more broadly, are also headed for a renaissance. “We take for granted that not

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as Land, ”for making dirt dirtier than ever”; Air, ”for making the atmosphere more visible”; and Fire, “for bringing us closer to a post-apocalyptic hellscape.” The brainchild of surfer and Lens Fire Films documentarian Kyle Thiermann and bestselling author/podcaster Chris Ryan (“Sex at Dawn,” “Tangentially Speaking”), the MoFAs take over the Miracle Theater in Inglewood on Tuesday to bestow middle-finger statuettes for the pleasure of a black-tie crowd. — Andy Vasoyan

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Downhome Cooking: “Dixie’s Tupperware Party” @ Kirk Douglas Theatre Writer, actor and Drama Desk Awardnominated drag queen Kris Andersson plays Dixie Longate, a fast-talking, gum-chewing, ginger-haired Alabama gal who knows how to throw one hell of a Tupperware party. Now playing at 8 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays and 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sundays through Dec. 16 at Kirk Douglas Theatre, 9820 Washington Blvd., Culver City. $35 to $75. dixiestupperwareparty.com Yuletide Bacchanal: “Aphrodite’s Holiday Show” @ The Actors’ Gang Aphrodite and Dionysus’ 45-year-old human daughter Poinsettia returns to The Actors’ Gang to wrestle with god/mortal issues and take part in a whimsical variety show of magicians, dancers, aerialists and jugglers. Sip hot cider and sing carols in The Actors’ Gang lobby before the show. Now playing at 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through Dec. 16 at The Actors’ Gang, 9070 Venice Blvd., Culver City. $25 to $34.99. (310) 838-4264; theactorsgang.com The Tipsy Elf: “The SantaLand Diaries” @ Santa Monica Playhouse Patrick Censoplano dons the candycane tights to revive humorist David Sedaris’s one-man play about working

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Kris Andersson serves up laughs in “Dixie’s Tupperware Party” as an elf at Macy’s in New York City and how the job showed him the best and worst in people. Keep the kids at home for this adult comedy. Now playing at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays through Dec. 16 at Santa Monica Playhouse, 1211 4th St., Santa Monica. $24.50 to $29.50. (310) 394-9779; santamonicaplayhouse.com Editor’s Pick Shared Histories: “The New Colossus” @ The Actors’ Gang This critically acclaimed theatrical work directed by Academy Award winner Tim Robbins and featuring ancestral stories

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Under the Sea: “Disney’s The Little Mermaid” @ Westchester Playhouse The Kentwood Players revive this classic from the silver screen and Hans Christian Andersen’s collection of fairytales. Now playing at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through Dec. 15 at Westchester Playhouse, 8301 Hindry Ave., Westchester. $27. (310) 645-5156; kentwoodplayers.org Dickens 2.0: “My Date with Death – A Musical Romance” @ Miles Memorial Playhouse The Zoo Theatre Company presents the world premiere of this Dickens-like new musical about a man drinking his life away and the spirit who comes to help him turn it around. For each ticket sold through the company’s website $1 will be donated to The Trevor Project, a suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ youth. Ages 13+. Last shows: 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday (Dec. 1 & 2) at Miles Memorial Playhouse, 1130 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. $15 to $40. (323) 301-9002; thezootheatreco.com

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