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EDITOR’S NOTE

Palm trees, yawn. Hollywood Walk of Fame, snore. Wake me up when you’re done with the visual clichés of life in Los Angeles. Then head to the Huntington Library, Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens, where “This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in LA Photographs” opens on June 14. The exhibition focuses on 150 years of art and documentary photography, which reveal a more complex city than the Tinseltown equivalent projected by the movie industry. It even offers a deeper view of Hollywood itself. Karen Apostalina talks to the Huntington’s photography curator, Jennifer Watts, about putting together this important new show. Check it out. You may be surprised at what you’ll find. Take it from someone else who has influenced our visual understanding of metropolitan L.A. (including Pasadena), the great architect Frank Lloyd Wright: “Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”

Another major new show of artwork that uses aspects of L.A. as fodder is “Jirayr Zorthian/Richard Feynman: A Conversation in Art,” which opens at the Armory Center for the Arts on June 29. The exhibition brings together the work of two of the most interesting intellects to have ever inhabited the Pasadena area: the eccentric artist Zorthian, whose Altadena ranch became ground zero for the San Gabriel Valley’s own Bloomsbury Group, and his student, Caltech physicist and Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman. Jenine Baines illuminates their artwork and their lives with anecdotes and memories of family and close friends.

And finally, we bring you to the runway of the Autry National Center, which recently showcased fashion by Native American designers. Fashionista Rebecca Paiement shows you how to go Native with chic designs that make their own distinctive statement.

— Irene Lacher

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FEATURES

M O N T H LY

Unknown, “Hollywood Negro Ballet,” 1953.

13 MUSIC RACHMANINOFF RISING: Young virtuosos will Rach around the clock in the third international piano competition named after the great composer.

–By Brenda Rees

14 ART THE RENAISSANCE MAN AND THE NOBEL LAUREATE: The artwork of Jirayr Zorthian and his art student and friend, physics Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman, at the Armory Center for the Arts –By Jenine Baines

19 STYLE NATIVE AMERICAN COUTURE: Indigenous chic hits the runway at the Autry National Center.

–By Rebecca Paiement

37 HEALTH WHY WEIGHT?: Dr. Rob Huizenga helps people become the biggest losers in their own lives.

–By Carl Kozlowski

40 PHOTOGRAPHY PARADISE FOUND AT THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY: A new photography show probes beneath L.A.’s sunny surface.

–By Karen Apostolina

46 REAL ESTATE DRESSING FOR SUCCESS: Susan Banks stages area homes to entice potential buyers.

–By Carl Kozlowski

DEPARTMENTS 8 FESTIVITIES The Gamble House, Planned Parenthood, the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts

11 THE ART OF SCIENCE Caltech researchers develop the world’s tiniest still.

49 THE LIST Pasadena Chalk Festival, Lummis Day, Los Angeles Concours d’Elegance and more

52 KITCHEN CONFESSIONS In the grand banquet of life, it always pays to be a cheapskate.

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FESTIVITIES

The 44th Pasadena Showcase House of Design kicked off its monthlong exhibition with a black-tie gala for 220 designers, committee members and other supporters on April 20. Showcase House organizers celebrated the home’s unveiling and the volunteers who made it happen with an evening of revelry.

The event opened with benefit chair Delise Menik welcoming guests to a preview tour of the 1922 Spanish Colonial Revival residence; the architecturally important home’s interior and 3.1-acre grounds had been transformed by 23 design teams, whose ranks included Jeff Lokker, Karen Miller, Sue Potter, Andrea Finn Adams and Kathryne Dahlman. The gala continued at Glendale’s Oakmont Country Club, where revelers savored filet mignon and shrimp at a dinner organized by event chairs Cathy Raacke and Joan Vienna.

Showcase House organizers estimated that 40,000 people would visit the 10,200-square-foot home by the time the exhibition ended on May 18. Designers looked for inspiration to the Moorish style of the home — a replica of a Spanish castle — which had been commissioned by an Illinois couple, Mr. and Mrs. George Hanson. Architect Henry Harwood Hewitt’s design won the World Prize in Residential Architecture for 1925 at the Exposition of Architecture and Fine Arts in New York.

Proceeds from the Showcase House benefit the Los Angeles Philharmonic

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Association and other music and arts programs that serve the community. On April 23, the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts, which organizes the design house, held a reception there to award $772,000 in grants raised last year.

1. Designer Aubrey James 2. Designers Kenn Myers and Mario Saverino 3. Designer Kathryne Dahlman

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The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising Museum & Galleries joined the Gamble House in celebrating its centennial with the first of two period costume exhibitions. “Fashionable Dress in an Artistic Landmark: The Gamble House, circa 1908,” which opened April 13 and runs through June 8, 2

features mannequins representing members of the Gamble family,

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Bohemians & Craftsmen: Artistic Dress, 1880s–1920s,” runs through July 2 at the FIDM Museum in downtown LA ( call 213-236-1397 for information). For reservations

1. (Left to right) Anne Mallek, curator of the Gamble House; Kevin Jones, FIDM Museum & Galleries curator and organizer of the “Fashionable Dress” exhibition and Barbara Bundy, FIDM’s vice president of education.

2. (Left to right) Jewlery designer Polthakorn Viboonviriyawong, fashion designer Sue Wong and Ted Bosley, director of the Gamble House.

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THE ART OF SCIENCE

Thinking Small A GROUP OF CALTECH RESEARCHERS HAS DEVELOPED THE WORLD’S TINIEST STILL.

BY STEVE COULTER You’re walking across a college campus when somebody tips you off that a group of fun-loving researchers has set up a still. Thirsty for, er, knowledge, you quickly set off to do a little research of your own. When you arrive at the rumored location, you peer through the window and discover a couple of joystick-wielding guys staring intently at a monitor. Convinced you’re in the right place, you open the door, make your way inside and loudly ask, “Where’s the party, bros?!”

Okay, maybe you wouldn’t do something like that, but I might. And what I would find instead of a Prohibition-era moonshine machine is the world’s tiniest still – a contraption so small that you could fit thousands of them on a single chip.

“What’s cool about this is that fluid behaves much differently on these small scales,” said David Boyd, a lecturer in mechanical engineering at Caltech and Above: Bubble separates two volumes of identical liquid in hair-width channel.

lead author of a paper describing the new approach to distillation. “You think of water as a fluid that flows very easily, but when the fluid is confined in a very

Below: Laser beam heats gold nanoparticles, causing fluid on left to vaporize and condense on the right side of bubble.

small region, it behaves much differently.”

Boyd co-authored the paper with David Goodwin, professor of mechanical engineering and applied physics at Caltech; James Adleman, a graduate student in electrical engineering, and Demitri Psaltis, Caltech’s Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering. It was published in the April issue of Analytical Chemistry, a peer-reviewed research journal.

So what’s so great about a still that isn’t used to produce liquor? According to Boyd, this device might help track the “extremely low-abundance molecular biomarkers that can indicate disease.”

Say it with me: “Huh?” In order to understand how a still can help detect diseases, you first have to understand how distillation works. It boils down to this: You heat a fluid to separate out the components with different boiling points. Let’s say you have a mixture of water and alcohol. You can boil that mixture and extract the alcohol because it boils at a lower temperature.

That’s the simple process that’s been used for centuries to turn fermented

A tiny bubble (told you so) is introduced into the channel in order to create a gap separating the fluid on either side of it. A laser with about as much inten-

grain and fruit into high-octane spirits, but problems arise when you try to distill

sity as your average pointer is used to heat the gold, which quickly transfers the

things that are as small and fragile as individual molecules. Even a difference in

heat to one side of the bubble and turns the liquid into vapor. That vaporized

temperature of 10 degrees could potentially destroy the molecules, so

liquid travels from the warm side of the bubble to the cool side of the bubble,

researchers will often try to separate out those miniscule components in a

where it condenses.

vacuum, a process that carries its own set of risks.

What Boyd and his team have discovered is a method of distillation that can be done without boiling or a vacuum, and they discovered it quite by accident.

“We were actually trying to study the heating of nanoparticles, but that’s why

“Only the most volatile molecules cross over the bubble, but everything else is left behind,” Boyd said. “We think there will be a lot of applications for this, but we’ll see where it leads us.”

One of the potential uses that Boyd sees for this technology lies in the

you do these experiments – because you never know what’s going to happen,”

monitoring and detection of biological processes. Researchers envision the

Boyd said. “We honestly wouldn’t have thought of this, so it worked out quite

development of a patch that could constantly monitor blood sugar levels of

well. The discovery was the bubble.”

patients with diabetes.

We’ll get to that.

Until that day, Boyd and his crew are happy to continue experimenting

Are you with me so far? Good, because this is where it gets small…really

with the tiny still, a process that often involves wielding a joystick and firing

small. The still is basically a narrow channel (about the width of a human hair) that

off bursts of laser light at nanoparticle arrays. “[Adleman] is a little younger

is etched into silicone rubber. These channels are filled with tiny amounts of fluid

then me, so he’s very good at video games,” Boyd said. “I let him do all

and sealed on one side with a glass slide studded with gold nanoparticles.

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RACHMANINOFF RISING

After a performance at the competition finals, Russian pianist Andrei Korobeinikov and conductor Vakhtang Jeordania receive the audience’s applause.

YOUNG VIRTUOSOS WILL RACH AROUND THE CLOCK IN THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION NAMED AFTER THE GREAT COMPOSER.

BY BRENDA REES

Another new element introduces a little “American Idol”–like audience Armen Ter-Tatevosian has a two-pronged dream: expose the human race to participation into the competition schedule. After each round, audience the joys of classical music and reward young talent embracing the art. This members will vote on their favorite performer. At the end of the final round, month, Ter-Tatevosian gets a little closer to both goals as he produces this the winning pianist will be awarded a $3,000 gift certificate from Old Town year’s Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition and Festival (RachFest Music of Pasadena. for short) at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium and Walt Disney Concert Hall But, like many endeavors that depend on the goodwill of patrons, RachFest is from June 12 through June 22. It’s the third installment of the triennial event, struggling to navigate the stormy waters of a troubled economy. Ter-Tatevosian says which was previously held in Pasadena and Los Angeles in 2002 and 2005. he has been working with a bare-bones staff and a limited budget.

The competition will feature 24 young pianists from all over For the first time this year, the festival can’t even afford to pay airthe world vying for fame, prize money and the chance to record a fare for the 24 contestants who will be flying in for the competition.

CD. In addition, the gold medal winner will be invited to play and “This year, we are having some financial difficulties,” tour with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow, one admits Ter-Tatevosian. “But I hope that we will establish this of the world’s oldest and most respected orchestras. organization as able to handle these productions and even bigBringing RachFest to roost in the Los Angeles area may be ger ones in the future. So much of this work is like making music to the ears of serious music aficionados, but establishing Chinese pianist Wen Yu Shen was tunnels. We want to soon see the light at the end of it.” a new piano competition in a classical music scene already satu- awarded the gold medal and first prize in the 2005 Rachmaninoff In spite of this year’s tight purse strings, Ter-Tatevosian has rated with competitions was – and still is – a dicey proposition.

Piano Competition. big plans for RachFest. He envisions three different kinds of “It’s tough and expensive to take on this kind of proposiRachmaninoff International Competitions – piano, vocal and conducting – tion,” says John Perry, faculty member at the Colburn School of Music in each on a three-year cycle so there would be one every year. downtown L.A. and a juror for the first two competitions. Perry says he has Before he dedicated himself to organizing the competition, Ter-Tatevosian high hopes for RachFest because Southern California “needs this kind of expoproduced the International Piano Symposium around the L.A. area for six sure. Fort Worth has the Van Cliburn [International Piano Competition] and years, which introduced young talent to masters until its last session in 2004.

New York the Naumberg [International Violincello Competition]. We’re an Young people need to be encouraged to explore classical music, says Terinternational city; we need Tatevosian, who remembers his own musical childhood with fondness. to be known as a player in the community.”

“Our home was always filled with music,” he says. “I studied music back What sets RachFest apart from the more than 300 other competitions is “the in the Soviet Union and graduated from a conservatory. My father was a level, the scope and the requirements,” says the Russian-born Ter-Tatevosian. “Also, composer and my mother was a violinist.” our jurors come from different countries and are renowned artists themselves.”

As part of his organization’s community outreach, Ter-Tatevosian is disMore to the point, he says, RachFest is truly international at even its highest levels. tributing 200 festival tickets to Pasadena Unified School District students in the “We’re unique because we have two countries – the United States and Russia – hope of introducing them to the pleasure of hearing great music. “The whole participating as organizers,” he says. “Not even in Europe does this happen.” theme of this festival is building bridges,” Ter-Tatevosian says of connections It certainly helps that the organization’s moniker is inspired by one of between countries, students and artists, performers and audience members – classical music’s 20th-century icons, Sergei Rachmaninoff, who immigrated to including schoolchildren who may have never heard live classical music before. the United States after the Russian Revolution and lived in Beverly Hills until Despite the stress and logistical problems of putting together an internahis death in 1943. A master in the Romantic style of European classical music, tional event, Ter-Tatevosian looks forward to hearing the contestants perform.

Rachmaninoff composed symphonies and concertos that are among the more “It’s so very enjoyable to hear them,” he says. “You can see and hear how hauntingly beautiful and technically difficult pieces for musicians to perform. music is related to the soul of a person as they play.” AM Remember pianist David Helfgott who, according to the 1996 movie “Shine,” lost his mind learning Rachmaninoff ’s Third Piano Concerto?

Not surprisingly, Rachmaninoff selections are part of the competition’s The Third Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition and Festival takes place from June 12 through June 22. The first and second rounds are held at the mandatory program; but new this year will be several Rachmaninoff song Pasadena Civic Auditorium’s Gold Room; tickets cost $19. The final round and transcriptions by the Grammy Award–winning American pianist and compeaward ceremony takes place at the Walt Disney Concert Hall; tickets cost $40 to tition juror, Earl Wild. “These are songs not known to the general public,” says $120. Tickets can be ordered from Ticketmaster by calling (213) 365-3500. For more Ter-Tatevosian about the selections: “O, Cease Thy Singing,” “Vocalise,” information, call (310) 356-8060 or visit www.RachFest.com.

“Floods of Spring,” “Do Not Grieve” and “In The Silent Night.”

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The Renaissance Man and the Nobel Laureate THE FIRST MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE OF JIRAYR ZORTHIAN FACES OFF WITH THE DRAWINGS OF HIS ART STUDENT AND FRIEND, PHYSICS NOBEL LAUREATE RICHARD FEYNMAN, AT THE ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS.

BY JENINE BAINES

THE LATE ARTIST JIRAYR ZORTHIAN WAS OFTEN DESCRIBED BY OBSERVERS AS “BOHEMIAN,” “ECCENTRIC” AND A “BON VIVANT”… AND WITH GOOD REASON. HE WAS RENOWNED FOR HIS EXTRAORDINARILY FLAMBOYANT LIFESTYLE, WHICH INCLUDED THROWING ANNUAL “PRIMAVERA” PARTIES AT HIS ALTADENA RANCH; THE PARTY HOST LIKED TO INTRODUCE HIMSELF AS ZOR-BACCHUS, A HAPPY HEDONIST WHO SPORTED A TOGA OVER LONG, RED UNDERWEAR AND NIBBLED GRAPES DANGLED BY NAKED “NYMPHS.” BUT AS THE NEW ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS EXHIBITION – “JIRAYR ZORTHIAN/RICHARD FEYNMAN: A CONVERSATION IN ART” – DEMONSTRATES, THERE WAS LITERALLY MORE TO “JERRY” ZORTHIAN THAN MET MOST PEOPLE’S EYE.

Richard Feynman, “Still Life,” 1967. Oil on canvas, 9 7/8 x14 in. Courtesy Michelle Feynman and Diego Miralles

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“While everybody knew Jerry, hardly anybody knew his work,” says Jay Belloli, curator of the roughly 80piece exhibition, which runs from June 29 to August 31. The show is the first major exhibition of Zorthian’s paintings, drawings and architectural designs in over 50 years. It also explores the friendship between the artist and his great friend and most famous student, Caltech Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman.

Belloli, who knew Zorthian for more than 20 years, had initially envisioned mounting a one-man show of his work after the artist’s death in 2004.

The focus expanded when Greg Escalante, a collector of pop surrealist art, suggested that the show encompass the two men’s quest to teach each other their respective disciplines.

“What intrigued me was how unusual it was, in the 1960s, for Zorthian and Feynman to collaborate like that,” Belloli says. “There was much less contact between the arts and science then. It was an era of exclusive specialization.”

Both men shared a passion for making art. Zorthian filled his home with his work, while Feynman, a physicist, accumulated a stack of sketchbooks more than four feet high by the time of his death in 1988.

Most of Zorthian’s work in the exhibition was part of his personal collection, although family members and friends loaned works as well. All five of Zorthian’s children played a role in amassing the exhibit — daughters Seyburn and Alice organized the massive collection of paintings, sketches and drawings — and Feynman’s daughter, Michelle, lent most of her father’s drawings in the show. One drawing is on loan from Feynman’s son, Carl: “Sketch with Last Line

by Carl Feynman” shows two windows of a house surrounded by trees, with a line added by Feynman’s then 2-year-old son. “I included it because of Feynman’s openness to this kind of serendipity,” says Belloli.

The first meeting between Jirayr Zorthian and Richard Feynman contained an element of serendipity as well. Feynman, who was soon to win the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on quantum electrodynamics, was playing the bongo drums when Zorthian slipped into the bathroom, smeared designs in shaving cream on his chest and emerged dancing with cherries hanging from his ears. Feynman was captivated. A friendship was born.

“Feynman liked people who were different,” recalls retired JPL physicist Richard Davies, who frequented the ranch and knew both men well. But

Jirayr Zorthian, “The Shipwreck,” circa 1933. Oil on canvas, 427/8 x 54 in. Courtesy the Zorthian Family Trust

Davies, who shared his friends’ passion for creating art, insists that Zorthian’s reputation as an around-the-clock eccentric was inaccurate and “unfair.”

“Jirayr was a very socially oriented man with diverse tendencies,” Davies says. “He belonged to the proper clubs and his kids went to the proper schools.

He would come to our dinner parties in a suit with a bow tie befitting a proper New England gentleman.”

Zorthian was born in Turkey of Armenian parents in 1911. His family fled the Armenian genocide, arriving in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1923. He went on to earn a master’s degree from Yale, and after graduation in the mid-1930s, he received a fellowship to study in Italy for 18 months. Zorthian’s only known painting from this time, “Italian Market Place,” reflects not only the picturesque quality of Italian street life but also the values of the social realism movement, which advocated art depicting the working class.

Davies believes that Zorthian’s Italian studies also sparked his lifelong desire to become a 20th-century Leonardo da Vinci with broad interests and talents.

“Feynman and I argued with him that the 20th century was an age of great specialization and that becoming a Renaissance man was out of reach,” Davies says.

“But, to his death, Jirayr was reluctant to believe this. It attracted him to a great variety of people – scientists, engineers, architects, actors, ranchers and others.”

By the 1950s, Zorthian’s art mirrored the anger and pain he felt as his marriage to Betsey ended. His 1952 ink drawing, “The Divorcement,” offers the first visible sign of his emotional turmoil. In “Evil Influence,” Zorthian’s

raw feelings are unquestionably on display. Male figures – representing attorneys – pull violently at Betsey’s entrails.

Life for Zorthian eventually calmed down. He received the ranch in the settlement – quipping that he was the “first man to receive alimony” – and married his second wife, Dabney. His art became more realistic and emphasized his skill in drawing rather than painting.

The Armory show includes several works in Wolf pencil, one of Zorthian’s favorite materials, and Prismacolor on paper from this period. “‘The Feast’ looks back to a bacchanalian vision of sensual pleasure, while ‘Stamp Out Reality’ is one of Zorthian’s clearest attempts to express his understanding of what was happening among American youth as the 1960s ended,” says Belloli. The curator also included 1960’s “Self Portrait with Nude Chest” – a drawing that reveals Zorthian’s personal vitality and foreshadows his first meeting with Feynman.

Since it was also in the 1960s that Zorthian began instructing Feynman, art lessons tended to focus on drawing. In fact, as the exhibit reveals, the first work Zorthian presented Feynman was a portrait of his daughter Barry.

Alan Zorthian, Barry’s half-brother, recalls looking forward to those Sunday afternoon tutorials in art and physics. “Many people came to visit my father and they would absorb his pontifications and stories rapturously and without question,” says Zorthian. “Mr. Feynman – as we were instructed to call him – would challenge and scold my father, but my father seemed to —CONTINUED ON PAGE 16 ARROYO ~ JUNE 2008 ~ 15

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respect him and would sometimes even modify his behavior in response to his criticisms. I think that what my father and Mr. Feynman respected in each other, aside from their considerable achievements, was that they were both fearless, talented and passionate in the way they lived their lives…in a way that not too many others around them were.”

Sometimes, the Zorthian children took part in the science lessons. Alan Zorthian remembers the time the family pool was allowed to stagnate.

“Mr. Feynman brought a microscope, Top: Feynman drawing. Bottom: Zorthian painting and we looked at the creatures swimming in the water,” he says. Another lesson involved a suggestion that Feynman fix the motor of the refrigeration system in the cellar.

“Once I sat on one of his legs and my sister Elsa sat on the other as Mr. Feynman pretended to be a radio,” Zorthian recalls. “We found that we could change the station by tweaking his nose. He started out with some static and I changed the station and was rewarded with a great story. My sister, however, changed the station. I wanted to find out what happened with the first [story] so I tried to get the station back. Unfortunately, it proved impossible.”

Although Feynman was revered throughout the academic community as an instructor par excellence, Zorthian’s forays into physics did not last long.

Davies believes that the artist, while motivated, simply didn’t have the science background necessary to embrace the discipline. And at the Zorthian ranch, distractions came with the terrain. Alan Zorthian recalls how his father once rented the property for a day to a group of nudists. “I remember Mr. Feynman viewing the scene with some interest,” he says.

Feynman may have appeared unflappable to the young Alan Zorthian, but he entered the world of art with some trepidation. He was convinced that he couldn’t draw. This, despite the fact that he used drawings – the “Feynman Diagrams,” one of which is in the exhibition – to simplify his calculations and win the Nobel Prize.

To obtain more practice drawing, Feynman enrolled in correspondence school. Many of the shaded geometrical forms he created – including a tempera painting of a teapot and a watercolor of a vase of camellias – are on display at the Armory. Feynman’s figure drawings and portraits are included in the exhibition as well. His models ran the gamut from colleagues and students whom he sketched during meetings at Caltech to topless dancers, drawn on cocktail napkins, at Gianonni’s, a club in East Pasadena.

“Every once in awhile, Jirayr would join us,” recalls Davies, who often drew alongside Feynman at Gianonni’s. “One time, some guy came in and told Jirayr that he was with two of the biggest horses’ asses in Pasadena. Jirayr defended us, but then Feynman and I got in an argument over who was the biggest horse’s ass, him or me.”

In a sense, the friendship between these two men and their cultural crosspollination represents the quintessence of what has come to be known as creative Pasadena. “Feynman signed his later drawings, O-F-E-Y, a phonetic spelling for the French expression ‘au fait,’ meaning ‘it is done,’” says Belloli. “But the collaboration of art and science in Pasadena was just beginning.” AM 16 ~ JUNE 2008 ~ ARROYO

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regard her creations as artwork: shining, intricate beadwork which brings storytelling to life. They may put it on display, but Greeves says her intent is to create “beautiful objects that you can wear.” After all, she adds, “Beadwork comes from that tradition of functional objects.”

Greeves’ designs were showcased in late April as part of the Autry National Center’s annual Native American fashion show, which has highlighted Western-style boots and belts, beachwear and wedding apparel in past events. This year’s show, curated by Greeves’ mother, Jeri Ah-Be-Hill, a prominent collector of Native American clothing, displayed both traditional and contemporary designs.

Their style may appear foreign to fashionistas attuned to the runways of New York and Paris, but Greeves says Native American women have their own version of couture — “except we don’t call it couture; we call it traditional clothing. Every year, a woman comes out with a new outfit, or there’s a new bead worker who is doing something special and outrageous. The shapes of

The more contemporary designs on the Autry runway included pieces by Margaret Roach Wheeler, a member of the Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes whose grandmother taught her how to knit, crochet and embroider when she was only 3. Influenced by mainstream fashion designers such as Norma Kamali, Thierry Mugler and Issey Miyake, Wheeler’s hand-woven clothing reflects her love of art and design. Her weave structure uses treadlings — which simulate the beadwork, feathers and ribbons used in Native American costumes – and she combines colors in surprising ways. “Crossing two colors that would normally not be used together is one of my favorite things,” she says. “Once I crossed a pink-orange wrap with turquoise. It was stunning. My studio was all aglow.”

The Tsosie-Gaussoin family of designers rounded out the Autry show.

Mother Connie and eldest son Jerry concentrate on traditional hand-stamped Navajo Concho belts and ranger belt buckles, while the younger members of the family, Wayne Nez and David, create what their mother calls “progressive jewelry, really taking things to the next level.” Showing items like a black beaded, coral bracelet and innovative necklaces that can also be worn as belts,

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the dresses may stay the same, but the patterns and materials change from year to year. We have couture, but in a Native sense.”

Also featured in the fashion show was jewelry designed by Greeves’ sister, Keri Ataumbi. While the Kiowa artist says she looks to Native American culture for inspiration, she designs for a wider audience. Her work reflects natural forms, like the burr that stuck to her clothing during a hike or the water bubbles in her backyard pond where insects lay their eggs. “My prayer for my pieces is that the wearer says, ‘This makes me feel like more of who I am,’ rather than [going to] someone who just wants something Indian because she’s in Santa Fe,” Ataumbi says.

One of the models in the Autry fashion show was also a designer who created the buckskin dress she wore on the runway when she was only 16.

Jamie Okuma began doing beadwork at age 5. “I really wanted to dance in powwows, which required many outfits, so, even at a young age, I helped with these outfits,” says Okuma, who also creates dolls modeled on historic Native Americans. “And then, when I got into high school, I earned extra income taking orders from other dancers.”

David says that he and Wayne might be casting their stylistic net wide, but they haven’t abandoned the Native American aesthetic.

“You say Indian jewelry and right away images of turquoise and squash blossoms pop into your mind,” says David. “But we’re trying to create our own market. After doing a lot of international travel, we realized that Native Americans aren’t really taken seriously as artists. We’re just seen as crafts and curio. We’re trying to break those stereotypes with our work to make people take a second look at what we do and then, hopefully — through that — they’ll take a second look at Native American design in general.” AM Teri Greeves’ designs are available at Jane Sauer Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, (505) 995-8513, www.jsauergallery.com; for Keri Ataumbi, contact Shiprock Trading Company in Santa Fe, (877) 982-8478, www.shiprocktrading.com; Jamie Okuma’s pieces are carried by the Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, (505) 954-9902, www.blueraingallery.com; for Margaret Wheeler, visit www.ozarkartistscolony.com; and for the Tsosie-Gaussoin family, visit www.tsosie-gaussoin.com.

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“Obesity in America is an epidemic that is costing 25,000 lives a year, but people still often don’t associate it with a disease, while they’re concerned about illnesses that kill one-tenth as many people but sound more dramatic,” says Huizenga. “People need to realize that fat isn’t just an indicator of heart problems, but it also stores the chinines that cause cancers and diabetes to form in the body. If you’re fat, you may not notice things like diabetes in your 30s, and you may think you don’t have to worry, but I guarantee it’s coming.

“You have to look at your fat as if you had lymphoma in your body,” he continued. “If I told you I knew you could have a 95 percent chance of eliminating the lymphoma within six months, wouldn’t you take it? That’s what I can do for your weight loss and you’ll have the same results: It’s a matter of saving your life.”

Huizenga has proven his program’s effectiveness for five seasons now on NBC’s “The Biggest Loser,” where he has shown that the program he developed over nearly a decade with the Raiders can be applied to average people. The overriding key to anyone’s weight loss success, he says, is the willingness to commit two hours a day to a simple walk-jog exercise program.

“When we had the Raiders exercise twice a day, we found that no matter how much they ate of even foods like pizza, they would lose weight while developing and maintaining healthy muscle mass,” says Huizenga. “But the average person doesn’t have to worry about lifting tons of weight like the play-

ers do. If your goal is to lose weight and maintain a normal healthy level of muscle, all you need to do is walk or jog or a combination of both for an hour in the morning and then an hour in the evening.”

Taking that simple approach is what makes the WOW! program both unique and appealing. Huizenga notes that many people say they want to go to the gym, but when they actually factor in the effort and time it takes to get there and change clothes, their commitment weakens.

Huizenga writes that the best way to lose weight is to take off enough that people say “wow!” — the astonishment of friends and coworkers acts as positive reinforcement for keeping the pounds off.

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The book offers plenty of advice to keep people motivated, with chapters about right foods to eat and exercises — including one he calls “push-pulltwist” — which tone the body and accelerate weight loss. With several supplementary chapters with tips on calorie counting and analyzing a typical meal’s caloric content, “The WOW! Prescription” provides a detailed road map.

“I’m saying set your alarm an hour earlier each day, roll out of bed and start walking or jogging a half-hour away from home and a half-hour back,” says Huizenga, who sees patients in Beverly Hills. “There are no excuses.”

As the son of a nuclear physicist who discovered two atomic elements, Huizenga was exposed to science at an early age. He originally planned to be a physicist, but a love of sports and the knowledge he gained about the human body from years of study drew him into medicine.

“I went to Harvard Med and played rugby, so I learned about orthopedics through my own injuries and it just evolved from there,” he recalls. “My big sport was wrestling, and I had to lose pounds every week of my life during that period. That’s why I’m fascinated by weight loss: because I developed my own problem in those years, starving myself for weigh-ins and then binge eating again. I finally realized I was harming myself and went in the opposite direction — to stop depriving myself and just exercise more.”

Huizenga landed his position as the Raiders’ team physician at age 33, beating out a field of dozens of candidates because team owner Al Davis wanted to find a doctor who had athletic experience. Thus began a wild ride through the go-go ’80s, during the last years before the NFL outlawed steroids as performance enhancers.

Of course, Huizenga didn’t prescribe or recommend such drugs to the players, but he knew that many of the athletes under his care were keeping their own personal consumption of those substances a secret. It took the death of legendary defensive lineman Lyle Alzado from an assortment of brain ailments that were likely induced by steroid use to finally bring official change to the sport, and Huizenga movingly details those hard-learned lessons in his prior book “You’re Okay, It’s Just A Bruise” (St. Martin’s Press).

That 1994 tome became the inspiration for director Oliver Stone’s controversial 1999 film on the NFL, “Any Given Sunday.”

“Eventually I went into private practice, but NBC remembered my time with the Raiders and wanted to find a weight-loss program that could help lose a lot of weight in 10 to 12 weeks while offering concrete ways to keep it off,” says Huizenga. “I just want people to know you’ve got choices: an exercise-based weight-loss program that increases muscle and decreases fat, or weight-loss surgery. That surgery costs $50,000 with all the follow-up and has a half-percent to 2-percent risk of death in surgery. So why don’t you just go and make this happen with exercise? Because guess what? — part of the program with surgery is to get moving and keep moving anyway.” AM “Where Did All the Fat Go?” is available at bookstores everywhere and on Amazon.com.

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Paradise Found at the Huntington Library A NEW PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW PROBES BENEATH L.A.’S SUNNY SURFACE.

BY KAREN APOSTOLINA

The city of Los Angeles — sprawling and amorphous as it seems— has always defied conventional description. Since the beginning, much of its identity has been a projection of myth: the city as gleaming, sun-drenched playground of health, youth and vitality, a veritable Garden of Eden on earth. The myth is still so compelling that people continue to flock to the West, seeking to fulfill their dreams or, perhaps, find redemption.

L.A.’s early promoters used photographs to hawk the city’s glamour, and some of those seminal images are included in a new show at the Huntington Library, Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens: “This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs,” which opens on June 14 and runs through Sept. 15.

But contemporary observers weaned on that silky facade will likely be surprised by the diverse images included in the exhibition, which encompasses 150 years of phoography. “One of the things that we were trying very hard to do with this exhibition is to ... really show images that are not what people typically think of when they think of Los Angeles,” says Jennifer Watts, the Huntington’s photography curator, who organized “This Side of Paradise” with independent curator Claudia Bohn-Spector.

The show marks the first time such a comprehensive exhibition has incorporated so many varied kinds of images – documentary, commercial and fine art — categorizing and juxtaposing them in new and telling ways. Going beyond the template of museum shows of art photography by incorporating more documentary work, plus expanding the boundaries of the conventional historical show by comparing older works with contemporary photographs, results in a “provocative and interesting dialogue between the images,” says Watts.

The exhibition’s 200 images were culled from the Huntington’s extensive collections as well as those of other museums, private collectors and the photographers themselves. Some of the country’s most important photographers, including Gary Winogrand, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Mary Ellen Mark and Catherine Opie, are represented in the show.

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as New York, London and Paris. She blames the omission on the city’s vast urban sprawl, which has confounded other attempts to define it as well.

“It’s hard to wrap one’s mind around not only the city, but this immense photographic record that’s been part of the city,” she says. “I think it’s just too daunting, really, for most people to want to undertake it, because where do you begin?” For Watts, the investigation began organically during her 17 years on staff at the Huntington. Her long tenure afforded her the luxury of studying these images over time, as well as the freedom to survey them across the decades in a way that would be impossible for someone studying, say, strictly art photography from the 20th century.

The inspiration for “This Side of Paradise” came to Watts four years ago.

After studying the Huntington’s significant archive of 19th- and early 20thcentury photographs, she became interested in curating a show organized around themes common to both mid-century works and contemporary ones; there was certainly no shortage of material.

The late 19th century was a boom time for the production of images coming out of the West. “Everything converged at just the right time,” says Watts. “The railroads, population booms, the advent of printing technology, the amateur snap shooter. It all came together in this perfect storm to allow thousands and thousands of images to start circulating from here.”

Library founder Henry E. Huntington’s mania for book collecting is well known, but he also purchased some large and important photography collections during his lifetime. The Huntington Library continued to add images after his death in 1928, building an immense and important cache of documentary and artistic photographs, the breadth of which surprised even Watts’ colleagues.

The beach, palm trees and the particular “piquant” light of the West can be seen throughout the collection, Watts says, but many of the images have dark undertones. As curators sifted through more than 800,000 images —CONTINUED ON PAGE 45

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Commissioned for “This Side of Paradise,” Sekula’s work deals with the theme of body and landscape in large, almost billboard-size photo-based works printed on vinyl.

As the viewer meanders, so does the exhibit: A 19th-century view of the San Fernando Valley hangs opposite a contemporary photograph by Larry Sultan, who grew up in the area, depicting it as the hotbed of the adult film industry; the palm tree, a visual cliché which has long symbolized the fertile garden landscapes here, contrasts with Robert Adams’ image of palm trees falling on top of one another; dreamlike photos of suburban living and sun-kissed children face stark projections of urban blight, homelessness and a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

“The fact that we’re doing the whole range of imagery, pretty much from the beginning to the present, and that we’re very boldly mixing, going outside the framework of the traditional museum show, is very exciting,” says Watts.

“This isn’t going to be like anything anyone’s seen before — because it has never really been attempted.” AM “This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs” runs June 14 through Sept. 15 at the Boone Gallery and Library West Hall of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino. Adult tickets cost $15 on weekdays and $20 on weekends and holidays that fall on a Catherine Opie, “Oliver in a Tutu,” 2004.

C-print, 24 x 20 in. © Catherine Opie, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles

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to assemble the show, “we really started to fixate on the sprawling topography, the horizontality of Los Angeles, the emphasis on a certain quality of light and Mediterranean pretensions,” she says. “And then [we focused on] the body, and how much that’s been associated with this place from the turn of the century, the body beautiful, back to nature, glamour and Hollywood sophistication.”

The exhibit also explores the intersection between natural and artificial aspects of both the landscape and body, as expressed in these images. The “irrigated, pruned and concrete cityscape, and nipped, tucked and plumped citizenry” of Los Angeles were captured by early photographers and their contemporary counterparts, says Watts. For example, an image of health entrepreneur Paul Bragg hiking in the Hollywood Hills, circa 1930, or a later one

by Edmund Teske of artist Mark Rambeau, naked in Topanga Canyon, both combine natural beauty with Hollywood sensuality.

Grouping photos into visual themes relieved the curators from the onerous responsibility of creating a definitive pictorial history. “We weren’t interested in doing an encyclopedic or chronological show, starting in the 1800s and then marching lockstep through time to the present,” says Watts.

As they sifted through thousands of images, Bohn-Spector and Watts tried to determine why some pictures were so instantly recognizable as Los Angeles scenes. Quintessential L.A. photographs seemed to reflect how people move here, the natural beauty, suburban sprawl and its attendant industries, as well as the burgeoning development and decay unique to L.A. These recurring themes inspired the curators to group the photographs not chronologically, but by subthemes: Garden, Dwell, Move, Play, Work, Clash and Dream.

The first part of the exhibition, Garden, is located in the library’s West Hall. From there, guests wander outside past the North Vista and mansion and through the Shakespeare Garden on their way to the Boone Gallery, where the remaining photos are on display. Along this path lies a site-specific installation by artist and photography theorist Allan Sekula titled “Edit Nine.”

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Louise Dahl-Wolfe, “Dolores Del Rio,” Hollywood, 1938.

Gelatin-silver print 12 x 10 in. © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents

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Dressing for Success SUSAN BANKS STAGES AREA HOMES TO ENTICE POTENTIAL BUYERS.

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VISITORS TO A HOME IN THE TONY ENCLAVE OF SAN MARINO MIGHT BE IMPRESSED BY THE STYLISH TABLEAU THAT GREETS THEM AS THEY ENTER: A LUXURIOUS COUCH AND COFFEE TABLE TOPPED WITH AN INVITING SPREAD OF WINE AND CHEESE. PAST THE LIVING ROOM IS A BRIGHT, AIRY KITCHEN WITH A BREAKFAST NOOK SET WITH FRESHLY POURED GLASSES OF ORANGE JUICE, AND A TABLE LAID WITH SIX PLACE SETTINGS. IT LOOKS AS THOUGH A PARTY IS ABOUT TO BEGIN. But if the same visitors were to peek into the bedrooms, they would find empty spaces with bare hardwood floors. They might think it strange; stranger still would be the hum of a TV show coming from the plasma screen television back in the living room – because the set is fake.

The reality is that this house hasn’t been occupied for nearly two months, and the furniture there doesn’t belong to the owner. Rather, it was chosen, supplied and arranged by a woman named Susan Banks – and its entire purpose is to help the house sell faster and at a higher price.

The La Cañada Flintridge resident is a home stager: a real estate specialist who dresses houses so they appear lived in – and attractively so. West Coast real estate agent Barb Schwarz pioneered home staging 30 years ago and trademarked the term in 1990, according to the website for the Concord, Ca.based organization she founded, the International Assn. of Home Staging Professionals. And as the real estate market grows cooler, the staging business is getting hotter as sellers look for ways to boost their odds of clinching a deal.

By adding layers of personality and warmth – stripped of the distraction of real-life clutter — to what would otherwise be just another set of empty

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walls, the team at Pasadenabased Susan Banks & Associates Real Estate Staging has helped move more than 125 houses in the past 12 months alone, Banks says. “As you know, the real estate market is a little wacky right now,” she says. “A year ago, you put a house on the market and got 10 offers the first week. Now, with the mortgage rates [increasing], it’s just not happening. Along with the fact that people are visually oriented and it’s a buyers’ not sellers’ market now, people are staging a lot. There’s nothing [buyers] have to imagine; it’s all here for you.”

Earlier this year, Banks and her team came in to rescue a three-bedroom, two-bath home in La Cañada, which had been listed at $1.145 million. In 100 days on the market, no offers had come in above $1 million. Banks spent three days planning and staging the living and dining rooms as well as the kitchen; she recast them in a California casual style, bringing in dark wood furniture and warmly colored rugs and pillows. Five days later, the sellers received an offer for $1.09 million, which they accepted, according to Montrose-based real estate agent Robbyn Battles, who handled the sale.

“I would never sell a vacant house ever again, and in fact they’re doing one for me right now,” Battles recently said of Banks’ team. “I tell the client it’s worth the investment to stage a house. The reason to use staging is because a lot

of buyers have trouble envisioning their things in a house, especially one that’s vacant. You’ve really got to use everything you’ve got in this uncertain market.”

Banks was easily drawn into the world of staging, which clearly energizes her. Even as a child in Savannah, Georgia, she enjoyed playing with large doll houses. Eventually, she earned her real estate license and established her first staging business in Atlanta in 1995, before moving to the Pasadena area in 1999.

Banks’ first California client was her own real estate agent. “When we moved here, I told our agent that I had been in real estate in Georgia and that I always had a knack for knowing what would work well where in different people’s houses,” she says.“So she hired me to stage for her, and my whole career [evolved] from packing furniture in the back of my Escalade to driving a U Haul truck and having a storage shed, then a garage and now two warehouses.

I’ll never forget schlepping giant pieces of furniture up and down stairs myself, banging myself up and wanting to beg for help. But I stuck with it, and every time I finish arranging a home, I think ‘This is so much fun.’” Her company was incorporated in 2006.

Guiding a visitor through her current project — a San Marino home owned by a woman in the business of “flipping” properties — Banks explains that the goal of staging is to make visitors think, “Wow, this could work well for me.” She notes that bedrooms are often left unstaged because potential buyers can easily visualize where they would place a bed, but in most other rooms, they have a harder time imagining an appealing layout.

“We look at colors, the architecture of a house and at the surrounding neighborhood,” Banks says. “This market and the La Cañada market are not as affected [by the downturn] as most of the state [because their schools are good], but we’re hoping to expand our services throughout the west side of L.A.” Helping Banks realize her ambitions are fellow staff designers Terri McKenna and Janet Yukich. McKenna has spent 25 years working on private residences as well as movie, TV and theatrical productions. Yukich has been an interior designer for 15 years, and together, the trio has developed a shared sensibility for style and detail.

“Between our three sets of eyes, we know exactly what a property needs, and we pick it out right away in our warehouses or buy new stuff that works,” says Banks. “We pick the exact same things sometimes, which shows how much we’re in sync.”

The designers favor neutral palettes and an array of furniture styles – from Asian and traditional European dark wood pieces to contemporary and overstuffed couches topped with throws and pillows. They have plenty to pick from — considering that Banks’ growing operation has one warehouse brimming with hundreds of furniture pieces and accessories awaiting their next destination — and a second facility is in the works. Banks owns all the furniture she uses, which she says enables her to offer clients greater flexibility in the minimum time periods she requires for rental. She declined to specify her price range, but her website (www.susanbanksstaging.com) offers a choice of a basic stage (living room, dining room, kitchen and bathroom) and an extensive stage of a vacant property.

For no extra cost beyond that, she helps sellers relax in an otherwise stressful situation. “It makes the process a lot less painful,” says Banks’ sales director, Tricia Schaetzle. “It enables homeowners to move on.” AM

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WALKING THE CHALK June 14 and 15 — The sidewalks of Paseo Colorado form the canvas for spectacular chalk art over the weekend as the 2008 Pasadena Chalk Festival rolls in. Some 600 artists and design teams from around Southern California and the nation are expected to contribute their talents to this huge, free spectacle of temporary artwork, now in its 16th year. In the process, they will go through an estimated 25,000 sticks of pastel chalk, creating murals using concrete as their canvas. The event, billed as the world's largest one of its kind, carries on a centuries-old tradition of artists around the world using city streets and squares to create murals. In addition to diverse communities, top art schools, museums and other cultural organizations will be represented.

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JACKSON BROWNE HEADLINES LUMMIS DAY June 1—The third annual “Lummis Day: The Festival of Northeast Los Angeles” features a smorgasbord of food, music, art, poetry and dance, celebrating the diverse multicultural heritage of LA’s Northeast Arroyo neighborhoods. This year, singer/songwriter Jackson Browne, who grew up in Highland Park, heads up the entertainment roster. The show caps a twomonth tour supporting the release of his latest album, “Jackson Browne: Solo Acoustic, Vol. 2.” Besides Browne, numerous nationally and regionally renowned artists will perform in English, Spanish and Tagalog.

Lummis Day is named for Charles Fletcher Lummis, founder of the Southwest Museum and possibly the first champion of the concept of multiculturalism, who in 1876 became the LA Times’ first city editor. The day starts at 11 a.m. with a poetry reading at Lummis’ home, followed by a trek along the Arroyo Seco to Sycamore Grove Park, where a program of food, art, music and dance starts at 12:30 p.m. Lummis Day is presented by the Annenberg Foundation and the Autry National Center and is sponsored by a variety of community organizations. Tickets, which cost $24, are available online at www.workingfaith.com.

The Lummis Home is located at 200 E. Avenue 43, Los Angeles. Sycamore Grove Park is located at 4900 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles. Call (818) 535-9178 or visit www.lummisday.org.

SWINGIN’ ON A STAR FOR FIVE ACRES June 8 — Five Acres holds its fifth annual “Swingin’ on a Star” gala to benefit its child abuse prevention, treatment and education programs from 5:30 to 10 p.m. at One Colorado Courtyard in Old Pasadena. Movie and television actor Meshach Taylor hosts the Creolestyle event, featuring live and silent auctions, New Orleans cuisine from Gordon Biersch, Il Fornaio and Sushi Roku restaurants, live entertainment by Grammy-nominated zydeco act

Lisa Haley and the Zydecats, jazz and Dixieland music by the Side Street Strutters band.

Tickets cost $250 per person.

One Colorado is located between Fair Oaks and DeLacey avenues and Union Street and Colorado boulevards, Old Pasadena. Call (626) 798-6793, ext. 2244, for reservations and sponsorship information. For more information, visit www.fiveacres.org.

A BEASTLY BALL AT THE ZOO June 14— The Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association (GLAZA) hosts its annual “Beastly Ball” fundraiser under the stars at the Los Angeles Zoo at 6 p.m.

Guests are invited to dress in casual or safari attire and stroll through the grounds at night to view the zoo’s inhabitants. Animal walkabouts include a chance to speak with keepers while seeing small animals up close. Sixteen popular restaurants, from the Parkway Grill to Pink’s Famous Hot Dogs, provide the fare and libations, while steel drum bands and calypso musicians entertain the crowd. Tickets cost $1,000 per person, and individual and corporate sponsorships are available. GLAZA supports the zoo’s exhibits, conservation, capital projects and education programs.

The Los Angeles Zoo is located at 5333 Zoo Dr., in Griffith Park, Los Angeles.

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theme, “How the West was Sung,” with cowboy poet and singer Michael Martin Murphey teaming up with the orchestra. Murphey, a Western Music Hall of Fame inductee known for hits including “Wildfire” and “Carolina in the Pines,” is known for his musical storytelling.

The musical trip around the West includes Ennio Morricone’s “Once Upon a Time in the West” and Jay Livingstone’s theme from the TV series “Bonanza.” Gates open at 5:30 p.m. for pre-concert dining. Concerts begin at 7:30 p.m.

Descanso Gardens is located at 1418 Descanso Dr., La Cañada Flintridge. Call (626) 793-7172 or visit www.pasadenapops.org.

THE HILLS (AND STREETS) ARE ALIVE...

June 21 — The streets of Pasadena come alive with the sounds of music as major headliners and more than 100 amateur musicians answer the call of “Make Music Pasadena,” a “Fête de la Musique” event on World Music Day. “Fête de la Musique” is held in more than 300 cities and some 100 countries, making it the world’s largest music celebration. Genres include world music, indie rock, pop, Latin, classical, jazz and more, reflecting the diverse range of sound in Southern California.

Sounds will ring from sidewalks, parks, courtyards, alleys, building lobbies and other unconventional performance areas, mainly in the Playhouse District and in Old Pasadena.

Four main stages hosting better-known acts include the Levitt Pavilion in Memorial Park, Holly Street in Old Pasadena, the One Colorado Courtyard in Old Pasadena and El Molino Avenue in the Playhouse District.

Major acts booked at press time include the Danish duo the Ravonettes, with Everly Brothers–inspired vocal harmonies coupled with hard-edged electric guitar; French indie rockers Plasticines, who are four Gallic beauties playing snarling garage rock; and LA favorites Dengue Fever, with their inimitable blend of pop/world music.

The event is produced by the Old Pasadena Management District, One Colorado, Playhouse District Association, the Armory Center for the Arts, the Pasadena Convention and Visitors Bureau, Pasadena Arts Council, Alliance Française de Pasadena and French Cultural Services in Los Angeles.

“Make Music Pasadena” runs from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. in the streets of Pasadena.

Call (626) 793-8171 or visit www.makemusicpasadena.org.

VOX FEMINA IS FIESTA BOUND June 21 and 22 — As VOX Femina — a women’s choral ensemble dedicated to the performance of quality choral literature emphasizing music by women composers — prepares to leave for a tour of Mexico, they offer area residents a sneak peek at the trip. The musical ambassadors, directed by Iris Levine, perform American folk songs combined with selections from their own signature works, which feature a twist on world music, bridging the cultures of LA and Mexico. The Saturday performance is at 8 p.m. at Zipper Concert Hall of the Colburn School; on Sunday, the concert begins at 4 p.m. at the Altadena Community Church.

The Colburn School is located at 200 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles. The Altadena Community Church is located at 943 E. Altadena Dr., Altadena. Call (310) 922-0025 or visit www.voxfeminala.org.

MUSIC INSIDE AND OUT FROM CAL PHIL June 28 and 29 —The California Philharmonic opens its summer season with a pair of concerts whose venues celebrate opposite poles of the American landscape: the great outdoors and the “canyons” of our big cities. “America the Beautiful” offers a musical tour of the United States, with a 7:30 p.m. Saturday performance at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanical Garden followed Sunday by a 2 p.m. concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles.

Featured performers include vocalist James Tormé, son of the legendary performer Mel Tormé, performing “California Suite” for singer, jazz trio and orchestra, and pianist Norman Krieger playing George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” Other stops on the journey include “Grand Canyon Suite” and “Mardi

CELEBRATING ELEGANT AUTOS June 1 — The third annual Los Angeles Concours d’Elegance comes to the Rose Bowl and adjacent Brookside Golf Course from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The nonprofit Assistance League of Southern California presents the event, showcasing 300 beautifully restored cars. Vehicles include horseless carriages circa 1904; European and American classics from the 1920s, ’30s and '40s; muscle cars from the ’50s and ’60s; European sports cars; and such exotic rides as Ferraris, hot rods and race cars. Also on hand are “cars of the stars” and pre-war and post-war Cadillacs (General Motors' first model), in honor of the brand’s centennial.

Judges will pick winners among 35 classes, including special pre- and post-war categories. Food and auto-related vendors are included. General admission tickets cost $30 at the gate. Children under 12 are free. The volunteer-run event benefits the Assistance League of Southern California, which offers a wide variety of social services to more than 100,000 low-and-moderate-income people each year.

The Rose Bowl is located at 1001 Rose Bowl Dr., Pasadena. Call (323) 469-1973 or visit www.laconcours.com.

Gras Suite” by Ferde Grofe, excerpts from the musical “Chicago,” Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” and the swinging “New York, New York.”

The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanical Garden is located at 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. The Walt Disney Concert Hall is located at 111 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles. Call (626) 300-8200 for the Arboretum concert; for the Walt Disney Concert Hall performance, call TicketMaster at (213) 363-3500 or visit www.calphil.org.

MARCEL DUCHAMP REVISITED Through Dec. 8 —The Norton Simon Museum’s “Marcel Duchamp Redux” honors the 45th anniversary of the artist’s 1963 retrospective at the museum, then known as the Pasadena Art Museum. The original exhibition, “By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy,” featured 114 works of art, a major coup for what was at the time a small West Coast institution. “Marcel Duchamp Redux” features a dozen of his works acquired by Norton Simon during and after the original exhibition, plus photographs and other objects from the retrospective. The avant-garde artist was interested in optical illusion and movement, especially as applied to painting. One example is a set of 1953-vintage “rotoreliefs,” motor-driven constructions with rotating color disks giving the impression of three-dimensional form in movement. This will be its first public showing since the 1963 exhibition.

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KITCHEN CONFESSIONS

Economy Schmonomy IN THE GRAND BANQUET OF LIFE, IT ALWAYS PAYS TO BE A CHEAPSKATE.

BY LESLIE BILDERBACK

Do you have less money in your pocket lately? It’s no wonder.

Food prices rose at double their usual rate this year, oil is off the charts and we all just paid our taxes. These are the times when my talent for thrift is in demand.

use in smoothies, sauces or jam. (Relax! A little mold never hurt anyone. The world’s most important discoveries came from mold — penicillin and gorgonzola.) I still

Being cheap is a natural side effect of working in the food service industry.

Controlling food cost is the first thing we teach culinary students, right after they learn not to cough on the food.

A good chef wears his or her ability to pinch pennies with pride. If the food

save bread scraps for crumbs or pudding, although I draw the line at rum balls.

Yes, I reuse plastic bags, too.

While my frugality flourishes in the kitchen, it is by no means limited to that space. I am an equal-opportunity cheapskate. Every summer, the eyeballs roll

cost is low, the profit (and owner’s respect) is high. If all the food that comes into

as I force the family to carry our snacks into Dodger Stadium. I am also the

a kitchen isn’t sent back out at quadruple the price, the business won’t last long.

mom with the giant purse in the movie theater, doling out Ziploc bags full of

And if kitchen workers don’t toe the frugal line, heads roll.

leftover Easter candy, in an effort to avoid the $8 box of Red Vines. For years,

In the olden days, my chefs would routinely check the garbage to see how

my kids begged me to let them buy their Halloween costumes like other kids,

much food was being wasted. If your apple peels had too much apple attached,

instead of having to wear another one of my homemade creations. Ungrateful

you could count on being made an example of. And if, heaven forbid, you were to

wretches! At least I don’t darn their socks (although I have considered it).

burn something, it was prudent to quickly bury it under legitimately gooey, soggy

You might think I am the perfect mark for discount stores, such as Costco.

garbage. This was thought to discourage the chefs from rifling down deep. One

Alas, such meccas of value are ripe with impulse-buying opportunities, and I can-

could also stealthily dump burned food in a garbage can on the other side of the

not be trusted. The last time I set foot in that place I was on a mission for mayon-

kitchen. Conceal it or make it someone else’s problem — the young cook’s credo.

naise but came home with an armoire.

In a well-run kitchen, every vegetable scrap lands in the stock pot, where

This month’s recipe — chicken pot pie — is intended especially for the thrifty.

every last bit of essence will be boiled out of it. Empty cans and jars are scraped

You know who you are. The most satisfying way to make it is to serve a roast

perfectly clean with a spatula before being discarded. Every heel of bread is

chicken with various vegetables one night, then use the leftovers to make the pie.

saved for crumbs. One chef I knew even had a place for broken cookies, stale

Strip the meat from the bird, use the bones to make the broth and add in any left-

cake and misshapen Danish, affectionately known as the “rum ball bin.” Once a

over vegetables. Alternatively, you can stimulate the economy and buy all the

week, the contents of said bin were ground, mixed with chocolate and a hefty

ingredients readymade. AM

amount of rum, rolled into balls and priced at $3.50 each. Mmmm – rum balls!

Thrift is not an innate skill but one that must be encouraged and nurtured over

Bilderback is a South Pasadena resident and the author of four cookbooks in Alpha

time. This is why I actively cultivate these skills in my kids. I save everything at home,

Publishing’s”The Complete Idiot’s Guide to...” series — “...Good Food from the Good

just like I did in my restaurant days. A paper milk carton sits in the freezer, waiting duti-

Book” (March 2008); “...Spices and Herbs” (Dec. 2007); “...Comfort Food” (Sept.

fully to receive bones and vegetable peelings. When the carton is full, I peel off the

2007); and “...Success as a Chef” (Feb. 2007). A former executive chef of the

paper, plop it in a stock pot with water for a few hours and voilà! I have a great base for

California School of Culinary Arts, Bilderback teaches her techniques online at

soup, stews and sauces. Fruit that gets too mushy or a little fuzzy is also frozen for later

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This recipe works equally well with turkey, beef or any other meat you like. You can also make a vegetarian version.

Ingredients 4 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 medium yellow onion, diced 2 stalks celery, chopped 1 large carrot, chopped 1 teaspoon each dried thyme, dried sage and dried oregano 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 2 cups milk 1 to 2 cups chicken broth

2 cups cooked chicken meat, chopped or shredded 1 large baking potato, peeled and diced 1 cup green peas, fresh or frozen 1 cup corn, fresh or frozen Salt and pepper to taste 2 cups cheddar cheese, grated Biscuit dough (see recipe below) 2 tablespoons cream 1 cup parmesan cheese, grated

Directions 1. Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees. Sauté onion, celery, carrot and herbs in butter until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add flour and stir until it absorbs all the butter and begins to brown. (This is a roux.) Slowly add milk, 1/4 cup at a time, stirring constantly. As each addition is absorbed by the roux, add more.

When the milk is all in, add broth in the same manner, until a thick-soup consistency is reached. Remove from the heat.

2. Off the heat, add the chicken, potato, peas and corn. Stir well to combine, season with salt and pepper and transfer to a baking dish. Top with grated cheddar cheese.

3. Working on a floured surface, roll or pat biscuit dough out into a 1/2-inch-thick slab in the shape of your baking dish. Place on top of pie filling and cheese. Brush it lightly with cream, sprinkle with parmesan cheese and bake until brown and bubbly, about 30 minutes.

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Biscuit Dough This recipe is suitable for dinner biscuits as well as pot pie crust.

Ingredients 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt 4 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter, diced and chilled 2/3 cup buttermilk

Directions 1. In a large bowl, sift together flour, sugar, baking soda and salt.

2. Cut the chilled butter into the dry ingredients, breaking it into small, pea-size pieces with your fingertips or a pastry blender.

3. Make a well in the center of the flour-butter mixture, and pour in the buttermilk. Stir gently until just moistened. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and fold it seven or eight times, until it holds together. Flatten the dough out until it is 1/2-inch thick, and shape as desired. For biscuits, cut into 2- or 3-inch circles and place on a greased baking sheet. Top and bake at 375° degrees as for pot pie, but only for 10 to 15 minutes.

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Historic Train Station on New Track as an American Eatery LA GRANDE ORANGE CAFÉ ARRIVES AT PASADENA’S FORMER SANTA FE DEPOT.

BY IRENE LACHER

ONE OF PASADENA’S CHARMS IS THAT ITS INHABITANTS TEND TO BE MORE APPRECIATIVE OF THEIR CITY’S OLD ARCHITECTURAL TREASURES THAN A LOT OF THOSE OTHER GUYS CLOSER TO THE OCEAN. SO THE CHANCE TO DINE IN A HISTORIC BUILDING OFFERS A DOUBLE PLEASURE, SATISFYING SOME FOLKS’ TASTE FOR PRESERVATION AS WELL AS THEIR HUNGER FOR A MEAN BURGER. The site of the new La Grande Orange Café, originally built as a Santa Fe Railroad depot in 1935, took a particularly tortuous route to achieving its double identity. The abandoned train station was saved from demolition by Pasadena Heritage, which helped get it listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

When the Del Mar Station was built on the site in anticipation of the 2003 opening of the Metro’s Gold Line, the building was painstakingly moved across Raymond Avenue to Central Park, then back, tile by numbered and archived tile.

LGO Hospitality Group, which operates La Grande Orange Grocery and other popular eateries in Phoenix, took over the property for its first foray into Southern California. LGO brought in Spacecraft’s Kristofer Keith — the designer

La Grande Orange Cafe Del Mar Station 260 S. Raymond Ave. Pasadena (626) 356-4444 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday

behind Ortolan and Hollywood hotspot Goa — to put his own stamp on the venue while staying within the bounds of preservation restrictions. What Keith didn’t want to do was what everyone expected.

“The conventional wisdom was to do the interior very modern with stainless

We started with a couple of signature appetizers you’re not

steel and glass or old and nostalgic,” he says. “I felt neither was the right thing to

likely to find all over town: a

do. Supermodern was too clichéd, and that kind of seating isn’t comfortable. Too

plank of deviled eggs and the

old is too literal. The historical society had old pictures of trains, but just because

surprisingly tender Brussels

it’s a train station doesn’t mean you had to have trains all over the place.”

sprout salad, which had a sweet-and-salty tang from dried cranberries and

The bones and wooden beams of the place remain, as do the Batchelder

Manchego cheese. Since I was in particular need of comfort that day, I went for

tiles and the oak ticket counter, which has been repurposed as a bar separating

the heavy-duty braised short ribs, which came with a rich, savory sauce, onions

the kitchen from the dining room. Keith used clean lines and rugged materials

and another surprise — a fried egg on top. My companion enjoyed the crisped

— deep mahogany wood and ruby-colored leather for seating. “Everything was

aqua pazza, a light dish of Pacific whitefish with roasted cherry tomatoes and

one off,” he says. “I didn’t want to go too literal or too modern, so I tried to split

sautéed beet greens. I was told that many of the other items on the moderately

the difference on everything.”

priced menu – which included salads and a variety of taco platters – were locally

The result is a casual place for American comfort food. On my visit, my waiter

sourced, and that the burgers were ground to order. For dessert, we sampled the

even offered to listen to me rant about my ridiculous day dealing with computer parts

olive oil cake, which was fresh and moist but rather bland; it paled in comparison

salespeople from the seventh ring of hell. The oral purge was the aural equivalent of

to the tangy key lime pie with a creamy whipped topping. Hey, they don’t call

a neck rub, helping me relax into my encounter with La Grande Orange’s high-grade

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60 0 N.. Lakee Ave.. Pasadena

COME SEE THE STORE THAT SETS A NEW LEVEL OF QUALITY AND SERVICE IN THE AREA. Let us help you add beauty and personality to your home. Vintage California and other fine art, furnishings, and antiques, all in a friendly and helpful atmosphere! OPEN DAILY!

ALWAYS BUYING FINE ART, ANTIQUES & HANDLING ESTATES! 60 NORTH LAKE AVE. PASADENA, CA 91101

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626.356.0222 | 951.316.0429 OPEN DAILY 11A.M. TO 5:30P.M.