Extraordinary circumstances, such as illness, has one family in Malibu asking for more time to build their forever home. Two 25-year residents attended the meeting on Monday to ask the Planning Commission for an extension for their home. Their twoyear extension was approved, but despite hearing what they have gone through, Commissioners John Mazza and Kraig Hill denied their two-year extension and only approved one year.
“The problem is with the code,” Hill said. “To me, it just seems like a year should be sufficient to move it forward.”
The owners experienced delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, financial difficulties, and severe health issues experienced by one owner and an immediate family member. The owners also reduced their development from a two-story home to one-story, after dealing with those hardships. The owners are currently processing a coastal development permit amendment
Lakeside celebrates its 100th anniversary
The year was 1924 — the Roaring Twenties, the sobriquet of the decade, were in full swing. It was the year when the most famous man in America was the comedian Will Rogers, when both future presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush were born, and Hollywood greats Marlon Brando, Carroll O’Connor, and Lauren Bacall were also born. It was the year when four U.S. Army Air Service airplanes left Seattle,
Washington, to complete the first round-theworld flight, the first crossword puzzle book was published, Macy’s staged its first Thanksgiving parade, the FBI was established, with J. Edgar Hoover as its first director, and the Statue of Liberty was declared a national monument. 1924 was also the year that Malibu Lakeside was established by a developer named H.L. Averill, who began offering lots for sale located to the south of the then recently established Malibou Lake Mountain Club. Ultimately, approximately 125 rough and simple country
cabins were built, some of which exist today. Today, approximately 300 people call Malibu Lakeside home. Prior to the Woolsey Fire in 2018, there were approximately 125 homes — the fire destroyed 25 of them and some of the homeowners continue to rebuild their residences.
The Malibu Times was invited to the 100th anniversary celebration on Nov. 16 and there was so much to celebrate and so much history to learn! The setting: Lakeside Park, located on
Now that divorce proceedings are stalled again between the City of Malibu and the
The Malibu City Council held its meeting last week on Tuesday, Nov. 12, and received an update on the school separation, waived the fees for the Malibu High School’s Christmas Tree lot, and honored the Malibu Outreach Team.
“I cannot begin to honor the work that you do, so we thank you very much for it,” Mayor Doug Stewart said while honoring the Malibu Outreach Team.
“I just want to say a special thank you, you really humanize everything, you make sure you know everyone who is living out there and I think that’s great that you take such a personal interest and care for everyone involved,” Mayor Pro Tem Marianne Riggins said.
In a separate interview with The Malibu Times, Public Safety Director Susan Dueñas acknowledged the team’s hard work after being recognized.
“I have so much admiration for what they do, it’s very hard and you have to have so much patience and empathy and they have what it takes and it shows,” she said. “It’s very effective, and every month when I get the report of the people
A survivor of the Hamas attack on Israel last year spoke to members of the Malibu Jewish Center and Synagogue Friday night with his personal account of the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. Rom Elhai barely escaped with his life on Oct. 7, 2023, when 364 people were killed at the Nova Music Festival. Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 Israelis that day and took
251 civilians hostage provoking a devastating response from Israel.
The year-long bombings in Gaza have killed as many as 44,000 Palestinians, caused a humanitarian crisis, and touched off protests across the U.S. and beyond.
In an effort to shed light on the terror at the Nova Music Festival, Elhai said he wanted people to hear his story of surviving the brutality he witnessed firsthand rather than reading about it through social media, which he described as not being the most accurate. Note: Elhai’s quotes have been edited for clarity.
It was by chance that the 30-year-old Israeli went to the
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Sophia Soudani (third from right), field deputy for Los Angeles County Commissioner Lindsey P. Horvath, poses on stage with members of the Malibu Lakeside Community Association during the 100-year anniversary of Malibu Lakeside on Saturday, Nov. 16. Photo by Samantha Bravo/TMT
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Malibu’s 25th Veterans Day honors past heroes, inspiring future generations
Keynote speaker Pat Boone; Ethel Margolin, 102, a veteran of WWII and the Women’s Army Corp, honored for support of veterans’ groups
Cultivating and celebrating gratitude through art, song, and service
Shemesh Farms collaborates with Hand in Hand and Creative Steps Day Programs to help citizens contribute
Malibu’s swift response to Broad Fire highlights city’s growth in emergency preparedness
Malibu Bluffs Park salvaged from the 5-acre blaze; one home on Malibu Road was severely damaged
Santa Monica plans to replace the pedestrian bridge at the pier in preparation for the 2028 Olympics
The $29 million project will also include removal, rehabilitation, and reinstallation of the historic blue pier sign
Waves women’s soccer wins WCC crown, qualifies for NCAA tourney
The squad claimed the conference title with their 3-0 victory over visiting San Francisco on Nov. 9
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The next Malibu Business Round Table meeting will take place in person on Friday, Dec. 6. Capt. Jen Seetoo will join us as one of our guest speakers. As always, the agenda will cover updates on Business, the City, the Coastal Commission, and the School Board. If you’d like to join our email notification list, please contact us at office@malibutimes.com.
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
- John F. Kennedy
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Trump’s victory shows the shift among American voters
As time will heal all wounds, the recent presidential election will take an extraordinary longer time to digest and accept than could be imagined for those of us who spent at least a portion of the time trying to rally Democratic troops around efforts to support candidate Kamala Harris. I have dedicated considerable time in campaigns promoting Democratic candidates since 1976 to coincide with a 40-year career in politics and public policy. There have been victories and defeats but this most recent election ranks up there with one of the most surprising and indeed the most deflating loss in any one yet.
Truly I was prepared for an astounding recovery from the decision to replace President Biden late in the election season with Vice President Kamala Harris and the joyous acceptance that followed her at the convention in Chicago and head-first into challenging Donald Trump. I boarded a bus full of Kamala supporters in Los Angeles that last weekend of the campaign headed for Phoenix to scour neighborhoods in Glendale with visits to ensure the occupants would vote the following Tuesday in what is affectionately known in the biz as canvassing. Without a doubt it was the most efficient and effective ground operation I have ever participated in. As Election Day arrived, I felt 100 percent certain that we were on the brink of securing a four-year victory.
I was certainly secure in my long career that victory was at our doorsteps. I could see it in the eyes of those I encountered door to door over that last weekend. It became a certainty as the evening proceeded that my hopes and dreams would essentially evaporate. The results were a disaster for Democrats and joyous for the Trump team. As the evening went from bad to worse it did not take long to accept the inevitable. Donald Trump would prevail and along with it he would be supported by a majority in both the House of Representatives and the United States Senate. A clean sweep and now he was in control of a trifecta that would bolster both the policy agenda, the administrative apparatus, and the definitive retribution he promised on the campaign trail. How could such a thing happen? How could we have been so far off the mark? Personally I had surmised that the white women’s vote, particularly in the suburban
enclaves that surround major cities in the so-called Blue Wall states, would salvage the day; that did not happen. Surely I was heartened to see the long lines on my alma mater campus in Philadelphia of young women and men waiting two or three hours to vote for the first time; they had to be our savior. They were not!
Gen Z women only went 36 percent for Trump, women aged 30-44 went 41 percent for Trump, women aged 45 to 64 went 48 percent for Trump, and women over 65 backed the former president 45 percent.
In a trend that could alter the political map, Trump won Latino men by 12 points, a 35-point swing from 2020. Trump’s improvement was fueled by Black men. According to CNN, “Exit polls showed just a 2-point shift among Black men toward Trump nationally. But the shift was much bigger in some key states, like Pennsylvania, where Biden’s 89 percent to 10 percent edge turned into a 72 percent to 26 percent win for Harris, and North Carolina, where Biden’s 91 percent to 8 percent advantage was just 78 percent to 21 percent for Harris.”
Jack Rasmas, author of “The Scourge of Neoliberalism: U.S. Economic Policy from Reagan to Trump” writes in the LA Progressive, “Perhaps the most glaring indicator of what went wrong for Harris, however, is the big shift in the popular vote away from Democrats in 2024, so far only 69.1 million. That’s 12 million fewer votes for Democrats! ... Did all the 12 million cross over to Trump? Apparently not. Trump’s 2024 popular vote was not that much different from 2020. He received 74 million in 2020 and in 2024 so far about 73.4 million.”
Rasmas asserts “In 2024, the COVID-induced mass layoffs in 2020 no longer prevailed but were replaced by another COVIDinduced economic consequence: inflation, which erupted in fall of 2021. Prices for goods started abating by 2023 but inflation in the much more ubiquitous services sector of the U.S. economy remained chronically high throughout 2023 and into early 2024.
Official government statistics estimate the price level rose 24 percent over the four Biden years, but real inflation-adjusted takehome pay for tens of millions of households was impacted more severely than the statistics or politicians and media suggested during the recent election ... Actual inflation impact on family budgets was more like 30 percent to 35 percent.”
James Carville is famous for advising “It’s the economy, stupid” and this could very well have summed up the 2024 election. In any instance, Trump has prevailed fair and square. It reminds me of the famous line in the 1972 movie “The Candidate.” Upon being victorious, Robert Redford asked, “what do we do now?”
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Last week, we published an article featuring a conversation with the newly elected city council members. Unfortunately, when quoting Councilmember Bruce Silverstein, we omitted an important sentence:
“I am grateful for the support and trust of the residents who voted for me.” This was the opening line of the paragraph which began in our publication with, “With respect to the residents who did not vote for me.” We apologize the oversight.
The election is concluded, with a decisive victory for Donald Trump and the Republicans. Trump won 3 million more popular votes than Kamala Harris, all seven battleground states, and 312 electoral college votes. The polling was horribly wrong, again, and predictable. Democrats bet the race on demonizing the candidate and, bizarrely, his supporters. Like Hilary Clinton in 2016 calling them “deplorables,” the DNC machine labeled anyone not falling into line fascists and racists, capped with Joe Biden calling Trump supporters garbage. Pages could be filled with the patronizing and condescending rhetoric. While conducting a coup to drive out a reluctant Biden with Harris who didn’t have a single primary vote, Democrats tried to label the Republicans as a threat to democracy. Remember when Democrats lamented the amount of money in politics? In 2015, Jimmy Carter called America an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” has created “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.” Unabashedly, Harris broke records raising more than $1 billion (three times what Trump raised), spent every dime, and is millions in debt. Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg each gave her $50 million, Hollywood celebrities millions more. In the Senate races, Democrats outspent Republicans by more than $150 million. The Media Research Center reports that ABC, CBS, and NBC “reporting” was the “most lopsided in history,” with Harris receiving 78 percent
positive coverage while Trump received 85 percent negative coverage. Hard to put a dollar figure to that, but it’s enormous.
Like a banana republic in an election year, Democrat henchmen filed exaggerated legal charges against Trump, all in deep blue districts with prosecutors who publicly stated they would make a career of destroying him.
Legendary Democrat operative James Carville lamented “nothing’s working.” Nothing worked. In fact, 2,588 counties voted more Republican than in 2020, including in Democrat strongholds. Ninetypercent-Hispanic Starr County, Texas, voted for Trump, the first time they voted Republican since 1898. In 2016, Clinton won there by 60 points — 2024 represents a 76-point swing. Nationally, Trump earned 46 percent of the Hispanic vote, despite failed Democrat efforts to portray his tough border policies as racist. 49 percent of young men under 30 voted Trump, while Trump improved Republican votes by 5 percent in 25 big urban counties. Panicked, distraught Democrats saw their base erode broadly, and nationally. They are the richest political organization in history, have a lock on the media, entertainment, and the universities, but feel power slipping through their fingers. Decades of race baiting and labeling of Republicans as ignorant hicks “clinging to their guns and religion” has utterly failed. Trump is not a likable politician, he should have been an easy target, yet he not only weathered the most concerted political attack in history, he won with a mandate. They called him vile slurs and tried to destroy him financially and legally.
Today, Democrats guns are smoking and empty. In 1976, 72 percent of Americans had a great deal of trust in our media, today it is rightfully down to 31 percent. Gone are the days of Walter Cronkite reporting the news, replaced by blatantly biased outlets overwhelmingly left wing. Trump labels them “Fake News” to the outrage of Democrats, but Americans agree
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The following incidents were reported between:
OCT 14 - OCT 26
10/14 | Vandalism
Three portable toilets near Westward Beach were vandalized. The report was filed by a LA County Beaches and Harbor employee. The damage was estimated to cost $1,000 to repair.
10/21 | Shoplifting
Three wine bottles worth $103 were stolen from the CVS Pharmacy on Malibu Road. The suspect was described as a white male, between 50 to 60 years old, wearing blue jeans, a black T-shirt, and a gray baseball hat. The suspect was captured on security camera leaving the store without paying. The store manager was recommended to submit the footage for evidence.
10/22 | Grand theft
A vehicle parked near Leo Carrillo State Beach was broken into and ransacked. The victim left their key fob near their vehicle, went to the beach, and upon return, their wallet and iPhone were stolen from the center console. The victim received a notification of multiple charges made in several stores in Westlake Village. There were no security cameras available for evidence.
10/26 | Grand Theft
A vehicle parked on Malibu Road was broken into and the victim’s packpack was stolen. There were no security cameras available for evidence. The laptop was worth $4,000.
Firefighters knock down 5-acre brush fire in Pacific Palisades, no major damage reported
The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a brushfire in Pacific Palisades on Wednesday, Nov. 13. The blaze broke out near a reservoir on 1400 North Palisades Drive and was moving slowly in heavy brush. The Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriffs Department was also monitoring the 5-acre brush fire.
According to KCAL News , “LAFD helicopters were making a water drop over the fire, with some flames seen burning along a hillside as a heavy cloud of smoke rose from the area.”
According to the Topanga Coalition for Emergency Preparedness, multiple helicopters are on the scene, forward progress has stopped, and LA County Fire resources have been canceled. There was no threat to Topanga or Malibu. No major damage was reported.
Election Update: Malibu City Council Race
In the latest update, as of Nov. 18, in the Malibu City Council election, Bruce Lee Silverstein is leading with 24.73% of the vote (2,902 votes). Close behind is Steve Uhring, with 22.99% (2,698 votes). Haylynn Conrad holds third place at 20.54% (2,411 votes), followed by Paul Grisanti with 19.31% (2,267 votes). C. Channing Frykman rounds out the field with 12.43% (1,452 votes). No word yet on write-in candidate Andy Lyon.
As votes continue to be tallied, these percentages may shift, but the race remains competitive. Stay tuned for further updates as the results are finalized.
Malibu’s Measure MM passes; update on other notable
measures
Measure MM for Malibu schools passed with 60.54% of voters approving the measure, according to the last tally released by election officials. The measure asked voters to approve a $395 million bond through increased property taxes. Also, Los Angeles County’s Measure G, which will increase the number on the Country Board of Supervisors from five to nine, has narrowly passed, according to a Los Angeles Times report on Tuesday, Nov. 12. The measure, which also includes a proposal to elect a chief executive and create an independent ethics commission, was showing just over 51% voting yes, with some ballots still left to be counted as of Tuesday morning.
As of 6:25 p.m. on Nov. 10, election officials reported they had tallied 71 percent of the votes and, as of that tabulation, it appears that 62.1% of voters statewide approved California Amendment 3, which repeals a ban against same-sex marriage. California Measure 2, which authorizes bonds for school facilities, is currently passing with a 57.8% approval. California Measure 34, which regulates spending by certain healthcare enti-
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ties, is currently passing narrowly with an approval rating of 50.9%. California Proposition 4, which authorizes bonds for water, wildfire, and land protection measures, is currently passing with a 58.9% approval rate, whereas the proposed amendment to California’s Constitution that would lower the vote needed to approve bonds for affordable housing and public infrastructure projects from a two-thirds majority to a 55% approval rating.
Superintendent announces passage of Bond Measures
QS and MM
Dr. Antonio Shelton, Superintendent of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, shared news regarding the successful passage of two facility improvement bonds: Measure QS for Santa Monica schools and Measure MM for Malibu schools. Both measures received strong voter support, reflecting the community’s trust in the district’s mission and recognition of the need for enhanced educational facilities.
Dr. Shelton expressed gratitude to the voters and volunteers who championed the measures, emphasizing that the bond funding will pave the way for creating future-ready learning environments. Many projects are already in the design phase, aimed at supporting students’ academic achievement and social-emotional development.
“These results demonstrate the power of community collaboration and our shared commitment to empowering students,” Dr. Shelton stated. “The future looks bright, and we are eager to bring these improvements to life.”
The district plans to maintain open communication with the community as it advances these transformative projects.
PSPS power outage response protocols explained
Southern California Edison (SCE) has indicated a strong possibility of Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) during the week of Nov. 4 due to hazardous fire conditions, including gusty Santa Ana winds and low humidity. In Malibu, PSPS outages often result in multiple traffic signals along Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) being disabled for extended periods, raising public safety concerns regarding potential traffic collisions caused by motorists failing to stop at non-operating signals, as required by California law.
The city’s PSPS response prioritizes the maintenance of essential services and ensures that the public is informed and prepared for power outages during these high-risk fire conditions. In advance of a PSPS event, the city takes preventive measures such as checking and maintaining backup generators and securing necessary resources for extended outages. Following the Woolsey Fire evacuations in 2019, the city invested in generators and developed agreements with Caltrans, which owns and controls the traffic signals on PCH. Caltrans has authorized the deployment of backup generators to power traffic signals,
facilitating emergency evacuations and other urgent needs as determined by the city manager.
To keep the community informed, the city disseminates power outage preparedness and public safety information through alerts, social media, and its website. This messaging includes vital preparedness tips for power outages, evacuations, fires, malfunctioning traffic signals, and hazardous road conditions. Residents are reminded to come to a complete stop at any malfunctioning traffic signals, as mandated by California law. The city’s Changeable Message Signs are also programmed with alerts warning motorists of potential signal malfunctions.
During a PSPS event, City Hall’s backup generators will ensure the continuity of city services and emergency coordination. The city’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) volunteers may be mobilized to assist with essential functions or support residents with special needs, while the Sheriff’s Volunteers on Patrol (VOPs) may be deployed to assist with traffic control and respond to traffic incidents. In the event of prolonged outages, the city may activate community resource centers where residents can charge devices, access information, and seek assistance.
Residents are encouraged to visit SCE’s PSPS website to sign up for notifications about PSPS events and to monitor the outage map whenever hazardous fire weather is forecasted for Malibu. For more details, please refer to the City’s PSPS response protocols.
Santa Monica College Malibu Campus Launches First-Ever Toy Drive
Santa Monica College’s Malibu Campus has initiated its inaugural Toy Drive to benefit the Malibu Community Labor Exchange (MCLE). A donation box has been set up in the campus lobby since Tuesday, Nov. 12, and contributions can be dropped off Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The campus is closed on weekends.
The MCLE, a nonprofit organization that has been part of the Malibu community for over 30 years, advocates for day laborers, housekeepers, and other temporary workers. The children of these workers, integral members of the community, often face limited resources. Each year, with support from Pepperdine University and Our Lady of Malibu, the MCLE hosts a holiday luncheon to bring joy to these families, particularly the children. A highlight of this celebration is the distribution of gifts, eagerly anticipated by the young attendees.
As a nonprofit, the MCLE relies on community donations to fulfill its mission, including contributions of toys and school supplies. This year, Santa Monica College is lending its support and encourages the community to participate. Donations of unwrapped toys or essential school supplies can be made until Dec. 12.
Requested school supplies include backpacks, lunch boxes, water bottles, pencil boxes or pouches, pencils, crayons, binders, and folders. Toys are welcomed for children aged 5–12.
For more information, contact the Malibu Campus at Malibu@ smc.edu or (310) 434-8600. Donation boxes are available at the following locations:
• Malibu Campus: 23555 Civic Center Way, next to the Malibu Library (first-floor breezeway).
• Emeritus Campus: 1227 2nd St., Downtown Santa Monica, between Wilshire and Arizona (fourth floor).
• Bundy Campus: 3171 S. Bundy Drive, next to the Santa Monica Airport (first floor, outside the Noncredit Office).
Santa Monica College invites the community to join in bringing holiday cheer to hardworking families and their children this season.
‘Home for the Holidays’ Friends of Malibu Book Sale will take place this weekend Nov. 23-24
The longest running nonprofit in Malibu, The Friends of the Malibu Library, is having its yearly book sale on Saturday, Nov. 23, from 9 a.m to 4 p.m. and on Sunday, Nov. 24, from 1 to 4 p.m. One hundred percent of the profits go towards supporting the Malibu Library. The “Home For the Holidays” Book Sale will be selling gently used books from all genres, mostly for $1; rare and first editions will also be available and priced accordingly. Gift baskets with books and more will also be available for sale. The Malibu Public Library is located at 23519 Civic Center Way in Malibu.
The Friends of the Malibu Library, one of the longest-running nonprofits in Malibu, celebrated its 45th anniversary last year and continues its dedication to supporting Malibu Library and enriching the lives of community members of all ages. Formed in 1978, the independent all-volunteer group is still guided by founding members who serve on its board and volunteer across its bookstore, community programs, and events. The group raises funds for the library and community programs through sales
generated by its bookstore.
Located near the entrance of Malibu Library and open seven days a week, the store sells the majority of its books for $1 or less, covering all genres and specialty books. Thanks in great part to generous book donations from the community, the vast offerings draw book lovers, collectors, and sellers from the Malibu community and all of Los Angeles. Volunteers are active every day, sorting through donations, shelving new books in the bookstore, and helping customers. The longevity and evolution of The Friends of the Malibu Library has allowed for consistent support of one the community’s greatest resources, Malibu Library. To learn more about The Friends of the Malibu Library bookstore, upcoming events, and opportunities to support the 46-year-old nonprofit, visit friendsofthemalibulibrary.com and find us on Facebook and Instagram.
‘Holiday Road’ returns to King Gillette Ranch for its fifth year
LA’s leading immersive holiday event, Holiday Road, is back for the fifth year and promises to be brighter and more enchanting than ever. Welcoming over 100,000 people, Holiday Road includes an immersive mile-long walking trail, larger-than-life holiday installations, thousands of Christmas lights, Santa and Mrs. Claus and all the holiday cheer year after year. Greater Los Angeles area residents, families, celebrities, and influencers are expected to return to King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas for the annual holiday tradition. Holiday Road opens Friday, Nov. 29, during Thanksgiving weekend and takes place through Saturday, Dec. 28. Tickets are now on sale at HolidayRoadUSA.com
Poetry programs scheduled for this Saturday, Nov. 23
Aspiring poets of all ages are invited to join the free poetry readings and workshops in November. An RSVP is not required. The Ripple Effect, a poetry writing workshop led by Poet Laureate Nathan Hassall, is on Saturday, Nov. 23, at 2 p.m. at the Michael Landon Center at Malibu Bluffs Park.
thu nov 21
OUR LADY OF MALIBU BINGO
NIGHT
Join Our Lady of Malibu’s Bingo Night on Thursday, Nov. 21, from 5 to 8 p.m. $10 per person, additional cards $1 each. Food, drinks, and sweet treats available for purchase at OLM Sheridan Hall. Event open to the community. For more info, call Lisa Hall at (310) 4560071, or email Gina Longo at glongo@olmalibuschool.org.
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Autumn breeze and falling leaves!
Join the City of Malibu for a Fall Fest at the Malibu Senior Center. Lunch will be a Thanksgivinginspired meal and entertainment will be provided by Elvis impersonator King Kruk. Preregistration is required. A waitlist will be created after 70 RSVPs. $5 per person.
MALIBU FILM SOCIETY AWARD
SEASON FILM SCREENING: ‘THE ORDER’
“The Order” stars Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, and Tye Sheridan in this gritty tale based on the series of bank robberies and car heists that plagued communities in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1980s — and the lone FBI agent who believed that the crimes were not the work of financially motivated criminals,
but rather a group of dangerous domestic terrorists. Free popcorn and soft drinks will be available for all guests, as well as a free pre-show wine reception when doors open at 7 p.m. for the 7:30 show at the Regency Agoura Hills Stadium 8, 29045 Agoura Road, Agoura Hills. Admission is free for members; for non-members, special discount tickets are just $10 for adults, and $5 for those 18 & under. For reservations and additional info, please visit www. MalibuFilmSociety.org
OUR LADY OF MALIBU BINGO NIGHT
Join Our Lady of Malibu’s Bingo Night on Thursday, Nov. 7, from 5 to 8 p.m. Cost is $10 per person, with additional cards $1 each. Food, drinks, and sweet treats available for purchase at OLM Sheridan Hall. Event open to the community. For more info, call Lisa Hall at (310) 456-0071, or email Gina Longo at glongo@ olmalibuschool.org.
fri nov 22
MALIBU FILM SOCIETY Q&A: ‘LOST LADIES’
“Lost Ladies” is India’s official submission for Best International Film, following the misadventures of two young brides who get lost from the same train. From mistaken identities to laugh-outloud escapades, the ensuing chaos guarantees laughter galore and heartwarming moments. Free popcorn and soft drinks will be available for all guests, as well as a free pre-show wine reception when doors open at 6:30 p.m. for the 7 p.m. show at the Regency Agoura Hills Stadium 8, 29045 Agoura Road, Agoura Hills; director Kiran Rao is confirmed to appear after the show. Admission is free for members; for non-members, special discount tickets are just
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$10 for adults, and $5 for those 18 & under. For reservations and additional info, please visit www. MalibuFilmSociety.org
SELF DEFENSE WORKSHOP
Learn essential techniques and strategies to boost confidence, raise self-awareness, and gain practical skills to be safe in everyday situations. Instructed by The Pit Malibu on Nov. 22, for seniors, ages 55-plus, at the Malibu Senior Center.
sat nov 23
MALIBU FILM SOCIETY FILM
SCREENING: ‘12.12: THE DAY’
“12.12: The Day” is South Korea’s official entry in this year’s race for Best International Film — the riveting story of the day which changed everything: Dec. 12, 1979, when the assassination of President Park Chung Hee left various military factions wrestling for control during a violent coup. There will be a free wine reception when doors open at 3:30 for the 4 p.m. matinee at the Regency Agoura Hills Stadium 8, 29045 Agoura Road, Agoura Hills. Admission is free for members; for nonmembers, special discount tickets are just $10 for adults, and $5 for those 18 & under. For reservations and additional info, please visit MalibuFilmSociety.org
THE RIPPLE EFFECT POETRY WORKSHOP
When things ripple, they emanate from a center and move outwards. Ripples are an unfolding interaction. Poems”ripple out” from us and join the ripple of existing and yet-to-be-penned poems which creates a dialogue that continuously overlaps. Join us for a generative, poetry writing workshop where we will sit in the “ripple” of each other’s energies,
read, and discuss poems to stimulate our imaginations, and write original poems from prompts provided in the workshop on Saturday, Nov. 23, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Malibu City Hall Multipurpose Room. This workshop is for everyone, regardless of ability level. Participants should bring a pen and a notepad! Led by Malibu Poet Laureate Nathan Hassall.
MALIBU HIGH SCHOOL PLAY
“JOHN LENNON AND ME”
Join the Malibu High School this weekend for their upcoming play “John Lennon and Me.” Hollywood-wannabe Star, the ultimate Beatles fan, has her path stymied by cystic fibrosis, an inherited disease that assures a young death. She spends most of her time in the hospital, where she confronts fate with imagination by surrounding herself with MTVinspired bodyguard flunkies and “morphing” her therapy nurse into a pro wrestler. Then, Star gets a new roommate, Courtney, who is Star’s opposite — a pretty cheerleader who apparently is not very sick. Neither girl knows much about the other’s world, but eventually come to understand each other, and ultimately, themselves. The play runs from Nov. 22-24. For more information, visit malibuhs. booktix.com
POINT DUME CLUB HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE
The Point Dume Club will be holding it’s Holiday Boutique on Saturday, Nov. 23, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sponsored by the Residences Association. If you would like to participate, contact Candance Ferguson (310)4578664.
sat nov23 & sun nov 24
‘HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS’ FRIENDS OF MALIBU BOOK SALE
The longest-running nonprofit in Malibu, The Friends of the Malibu Library, is having its yearly book sale on Saturday, Nov. 23, from 9 a.m to 4 p.m. and on Sunday, Nov. 24, from 1 to 4 p.m. One hundred percent of the profits go towards supporting the Malibu Library. “Home For the Holidays” Book Sale will offer gently used books from all genres, mostly for $1; rare and first editions will also be available, and priced accordingly. Gift Baskets with books and more will also be available for sale. The Malibu Public Library is located at 23519 Civic Center Way in Malibu.
sun nov 24
MALIBU FILM SOCIETY Q&A FILM SCREENING: ‘THE GOAT LIFE’
“The Goat Life” is an epic film shot over an incredible 16-year period. Featuring a mesmerizing soundtrack by Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman, the movie is based on the real-life story of a man who leaves India to seek work in the Middle East, only to find
himself forced into slave labor as a goat herder in the remote Saudi Arabian desert. Freepre-show reception when doors open at 3:30 for the 4 p.m. matinee at the Regency Agoura Hills Stadium 8, 29045 Agoura Road, Agoura Hills; director/screenwriter Blessy is confirmed to appear after the show. Free admission for members; for non-members, tickets are $15 for adults, and $5 for those 18 and under. For reservations and additional info, please visit www. MalibuFilmSociety.org
wed nov 27
MALIBU FILM SOCIETY Q&A FILM SCREENING: ‘SING SING’
Widely expected to be among this year’s top contenders in several categories, “Sing Sing” stars last year’s Oscar nominee for Best Actor, Colman Domingo (“Rustin”), as a man unjustly imprisoned at the notorious prison, where he finds purpose by acting in a theater group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art. Free pre-show wine reception when doors open at 6:30 for the 7 p.m. show at the Regency Agoura Hills Stadium 8, 29045 Agoura Road, Agoura Hills, with confirmed Q&A with guest Colman Domingo! Free admission for members; for non-members, tickets are $15 for adults, $5 for those 18 and under. For reservations and additional info, please visit MalibuFilmSociety.org
fri nov 29
AWARDS SEASON FILM
SCREENING: ‘CONCLAVE’
Another top contender in several key races, “Conclave” stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow and Isabella Rossellini in director Edward Berger’s story of a Cardinal tasked with leading one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events (selecting a new Pope), only to find himself at the center of a conspiracy that could shake the very foundation of the Catholic Church. Free wine reception when doors open at 7 p.m. for the 7:30 show at the Regency Agoura Hills Stadium 8, 29045 Agoura Road, Agoura Hills. Free admission for members; for non-members, tickets are $15 for adults, $5 for those 18 and under. For reservations and additional info, please visit www. MalibuFilmSociety.org
sat nov 30
AWARDS SEASON FILM
SCREENING: ‘WICKED’
After two long decades, the Tony Award-winning “Wicked” finally makes its long-awaited journey from stage to screen as a spectacular, generation-defining two-part cinematic event by director Jon M. Chu (“Crazy Rich Asians”), starring Grammywinner Ariana Grande as Glinda (the Good Witch) and two-time Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo as
her counterpart, Elphaba. Free pre-show reception when doors open at 7 p.m. for the 7:30 show at the Regency Agoura Hills Stadium 8, 29045 Agoura Road, Agoura Hills. Free admission for members; for non-members, tickets are $15 for adults, $5 for those 18 and under. For reservations and additional info, please visit www. MalibuFilmSociety.org
ONGOING
HOLIDAY SHOP AT THIRD SPACE
Holiday Shop “With a Purpose” events are happening at Third Space. Come enjoy hot cider and shop local, handmade, sustainable products while getting to know our local creatives and supporting youth entrepreneurship. Curated holiday gifts and wrap, men’s key chains, charcuterie boards, sweatshirts, home gifts, winter apparel, and jewelry. Sip & Shop will be Nov. 21, from 5 to 7 p.m., and Sun & Shop will be Nov. 30, from 2 to 6 p.m. at Third Space, 233357 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu.
FARMERS MARKET
The Malibu Farmers Market returns to the Library Plaza on Sundays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., located at 23555 Civic Center Way, adjacent to the library. For updates, follow up on instagram@ malibufarmersmarket.
WEEDING EVENT AT POINT DUME
Join fellow preservationists the second Wednesday of the month from 9 a.m. to noon at the Point Dume Preserve at Birdview and Cliffside Drive to keep the headlands poison-free. Please bring gardening gloves and be prepared to do some hand weeding with some of your wonderful neighbors. Parking is available at Westward Beach.
WORKOUT
TOTAL BODY
A comprehensive low-impact strengthening class targeting all the major muscles of the upper and lower body with special attention to form, stabilization, core strength, and balance. Please bring your own hand weights and yoga mats. Instructed by Jackline Daneshrad. The classes are Tuesdays from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m. $5 per class. Pre-registration is recommended. At the Michael Landon Center at Malibu Bluffs Park.
KNITTING
Join the City of Malibu’s Community Services Department and Sheila Rosenthal for a knitting workshop that takes placeon Mondays and Fridays at 9 a.m. This program is a welcoming gathering space for fiber artists that fosters community through open stitch. Make a scarf, hat, blanket, or homemade gift. Bring size 8 needles and one skein of yarn. This is an ongoing, drop-in program. Instructed by Sheila Rosenthal.
Malibu Marlins swim team hosts fundraiser at the Community Pool
Parents and kids were able to enjoy snow cones and pledged money by swimming laps during the fundraiser
By BENJAMIN HANSON Special to The Malibu Times
The Malibu Marlins swim team hosted a fundraiser for Malibu residents at Malibu High School’s Community Pool on Sunday, Nov. 17. Swimmers and kids swam laps, and attendees could pledge to donate an amount per lap each child swam or a set amount.
Participants got free snacks, coffee, and snow cones. Raffle tickets were $5 and prizes included bluetooth speakers, swag from Aviator Nation, and gift cards.
Marlins Coach Erik Ran said the team is still new and held the event to get all hands on deck.
a section of the historic Lakeside Clubhouse Property, which in its glorious times, included a clubhouse, pool, fountain, tennis and badminton courts, a children’s playground, croquet grounds, a picnic area, and even a maypole.
The party had all the endearing hallmarks of an idyllic autumnal rural neighborhood gathering. Affable horses good-naturedly neighed in nearby corrals, seemingly wanting to be part of the party, as attendees enjoyed shared
“We wanted to raise some money, so we had some funds in the bank,” Ran said. “So if something like a fire or something happens again, we can pay the coaches and do the swim meets and stuff like that.”
Ran said he hopes the children enjoyed the day and what they’re getting out of it.
“Hopefully they understand that they’re making a difference in getting this team up and running and they’re part of making the team successful, and they’re excited about competing,” Ran said.
“We got some little kids over there that are 5, 6, 7 years old and they know that every lap they swim, they make money for the team,” Ran said.
“Some of the kids ask in the beginning, ‘Do I get the money?’”
Ran said he was appreciative of parents for volunteering and putting the event together, from
cuisine, libations, and, of course, a birthday cake. Some partygoers happily huddled around bonfires and made s’mores, while others gathered conversing in small convivial groups. They all cheered as The Secret Monument Band, Luke Metzger, Sierra Drummond, and Nola Plessner performed songs that strengthened their communal bond with selections varying from rock to jazz to folk music, a mosaic of music reflecting the eclectic crowd of citizens, from young to old, from casually to formally dressed.
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making the forms, finding sponsors, and even the canopies used.
“The parents who were all volunteering, they put these forms together that you see,” Ran said.
“The parents are doing all of this. So we’re just here. They’re all getting this thing together.”
Jessie Sutton’s 6-year-old son participated in the fundraiser by swimming laps.
“We want to come out and support the team,” Sutton said. “My son loves swimming, and we want to see the program do well and continue to thrive here.”
Lonnie Vidaurri, who brought his dog Nanuk, said he enjoyed watching his daughter have a great experience. Vidaurri attended to support the swim team.
Ran shared future events the Malibu Marlins hope to hold.
“We’re hoping to have a home meet pretty soon in December,” Ran said. “We do have a couple more
Fair, but never been to a place so beautiful as this!” Metzger exclaimed. “If I was born a long time ago, I would have prayed to Sugarloaf Mountain.”
Sitting in the shadow of that gorgeous geological feature the crowd cheered louder. They cheered even more when Sophia Soudani, field deputy for Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath, presented a gorgeous certificate to honor the occasion.
A cup of sugar neighborhood Lakeside has a lot to cheer about.
If one chats with Pat Henkel, president of the Malibu Lakeside Community Association, he will learn that the community is resolved to preserve its open spaces, including the 0.6-acre lot now known as Lakeside Park.
Malibou Lakeside Fire Council helps to organize residents to protect them from catastrophic wildfires so as to minimize risks to life and homes, including participating in brush clearance on nearby State Park Lands, Henkel explained, adding, “I am overwhelmed that Malibu Lakeside is coming together to celebrate our very close-knit community — we’ve been working on this event for six to nine months and — look! What a party!”
Henkel gratefully thanked the entire organizing committee who brilliantly orchestrated the gorgeous event.
“What started as hunting cabins 100 years ago and was far removed from Los Angeles, is now a thriving community with a whole new energy as new families move in,” said Sandy Guthrie, vice president
swim meets coming up with the team. And then we’re going to work on doing some other things with the city.
“The city did their little Junior Olympic event or their little Toddler Olympics or whatever they call it. We’re part of that. So we continue doing stuff like that. But in the immediate future we have mostly swim meets coming up and then hopefully a home meet, which would be great.”
Ran said swimming and sports is about teamwork and learning about what they can do for their teammates.
“They’re learning that they can do something for others and other teams, which I think is a good team experience and a nice way for them to bond in the water with their colleagues and their little friends,” Ran said. “That’s what swimming is all about. That’s what sports is all about.”
of the Community Association, adding, “We continue to have a huge amount of residents with great creative talent who are in the music and film industries; people don’t realize how strong of a creative community we have and it’s a cup of sugar neighborhood — you can borrow things from neighbors — we are working hard to preserve that!”
An amazingly storied history of a haven just miles from Malibu Chatting with photographer Brian Rooney, the community’s local historian and author of “Three Magical Miles — L.A.’s Amazing Historical Neighborhood,” it is easy to fall in love with Malibu Lakeside.
Rooney’s book recounts the history of Historic Agoura Hills, Malibou Lake, Reagan Ranch, Historic Cornell, 20th Century Fox Ranch, Paramount Ranch, “M*A*S*H,” and locations of other classic film and TV shows. When reading about Lakeside’s history, one learns that a sales brochure in 1940 touted Lakeside lots as being ensconced “visually in a land of enchantment — for miles and miles — a view of mountain tops and lakes!”
One also learns that much of what the earliest non-indigenous homeowners valued most about the community of Malibu Lakeside in the last century stands true to this day. The lake is a leisurely, calm setting that is just about seven minutes from Highway 101 and within 11 miles from the boundaries of Los Angeles, and it is a haven and sanctuary where many in show business still find refuge. When it was founded, developers touted its beauty and logistical benefits, noting that for $10 a month, one could buy an estate and that each purchaser acquired an ownership interest in the community center.
In times past, the Hollywood elite relished being in Lakeside and
nearby Malibou Lake. It is easy to see why — Ronald Reagan’s ranch was nearby, as was King Gillette Ranch, the private estate of the shaving pioneer; 20th Century Fox Ranch, the site where the exclusive Crags Country Club once was; Lake Enchanto, a fancy resort that boasted the largest swimming pool in Western America at the height of its glory and that is now named Peter Strauss Ranch; Seminole Hot Springs, once a fancy resort with a full-blown spa that was dubbed “The Palm Springs of Los Angeles”;The Rock Store; Cornell and Paramount Ranch, where many movies and television shows were filmed; and Paramount Ranch Raceway which had a brief, two-season life as a popular race track where competitors drove all the great makes of the day, including Alfa, Porsche, Ferrari, Jaguar, AC Bristol, Maserati, Cooper, and Aston-Maron. All of those venues were nearby Lakeside and Malibou Lake.
One famous movie actor relished living in Lakeside — Strother Martin (“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “The Wild Bunch,” “True Grit,” and “Rooster Cogburn”). Rumors persist that Clark Gable once owned a home in Lakeside, according to Rooney’s book.
Today, the community is as strong as ever, and, as it celebrates its heritage, it evolves at a leisurely pace, sometimes adopting new traditions, most notably, Melanie Moreau’s beloved annual Pumpkin race, which has a simple concept: put wheels on a pumpkin and design a theme. Since its inception 20 years ago, the pumpkin race has become a cherished annual event.
“I’ve lived in Malibu Lakeside since 1998,” Moreau shared. “I did so because it’s a great place to raise kids and provides a wonderful community — it is our hidden secret.”
Residents gathered to reminisce about Malibu Lakeside’s storied history and look forward to an even more resilient community. Photos by Samantha Bravo/TMT.
Laps were swum, snow cones were served and dollars were raised at the Malibu Marlins swim club fundraiser on Nov. 17. Photos by Benjamin Hanson/TMT
BUSINESS
Malibu businesses contribute to nonprofit this holiday season
Upcoming local business events
benefiting local organizations that help local kids
By BARBARA BURKE Special to The Malibu Times
As the year draws to a close, many residents attend traditional annual fundraisers that benefit nonprofit organizations. Indeed, such gala affairs are part of many residents’ social calendars.
Leveraging regular business activities to benefit nonprofits
Separate and apart from attending fundraising events for the greater good, residents can donate to local charitable causes when they participate in local businesses’ hosting events that benefit nonprofit causes as part of their regular business operations.
A recent example of a local business assisting a locally based nonprofit organization in that manner is Zinque offering to donate a portion of every dinner purchased on Jan. 12 to benefit Mending Kids, a nonprofit organization that Isabelle Fox, a Malibu local, is the President of. The organization provides free life-saving surgical care to sick children worldwide by deploying volunteer medical teams and educating communities to become medically self-sustaining. To date, the charity has mended more
than 5,400 children from 76 countries, including the United States.
“Businesses have the power to transform our kids’ lives by partnering with us,” Fox informed The Malibu Times when we caught up with her on Sept. 17 as she was volunteering in Mauritius, a Sub-Saharan African nation in the Indian Ocean.
“Our team has been gone from the U.S. for two months — this week we did 30 heart operations in Mauritius and we’ve also been to Guatemala, El Salvador, Armenia, Namibia, and Tanzania. We are so grateful that Zinque brought our community together to contribute to our efforts in a low-pressure way — people who purchased meals had part of their dinner costs contributed to our efforts. It only takes a little to make a big difference with Mending Kids!”
Fox also noted that those with frequent flier miles through United Airlines can also donate miles to Mending Kids and to other charitable causes designated by the airlines.
Upcoming events schedule where you can contribute Locals can go out to dinner at participating Malibu eateries during the next few weeks and also in the new year, while also contributing to local charitable efforts helping to augment Malibu children’s educational experiences.
“Our Dine & Shine fundraising effort is such an awesome program that Ian Roven is spearheading to support both our students and lo-
cal restaurants.” said Karin Mikhels, president of the Malibu Education Foundation.
“Every third Tuesday is Dine Out for Education night benefitting the Malibu Education Foundation,” said Roven, who serves on the MEF Board and is co-owner of All Things Malibu, which oversees the Dine & Shine effort. “Each participating restaurant donates either 10 percent of all proceeds or 10 percent from a specific meal to MEF.”
“This is the local restaurant community’s way of helping to bridge the financial gap for Malibu’s public school students that is attributable to the ongoing effort by Malibu schools to separate from Santa Monica schools,” Roven explained. “We need to raise additional funds because the district keeps giving Malibu schools less and less money each year — the first thing to go was the middle school volleyball coach and parents rallied and were determined to find a way to afford that — the district is doing a shortfall in funding and doesn’t want to give us funding for everything Malibu’s pubic school children need, including necessary teachers’ aides.”
The Dine & Shine effort does not just demonstrate that local businesses are helping the community by doing good — rather, it also demonstrates that doing good for local kids is good for local businesses.
“Howdy’s saw a higher revenue on Oct. 3, which proved worthwhile for everyone,” Roven said, adding, “So
far, we’ve had participation from Howdy’s, Malibu Sushi, Ollo, Prince Street, and Irv’s.”
Roven elaborated, saying, “I have two daughters who will one day be Malibu students and I want them to have every opportunity that SMMUSD didn’t provide me.”
Arash “Joey” Amini, a Parent Guild Lead Committee member and third-grade room representative for the Our Lady of Malibu School’s parent organization, also shared information about upcoming opportunities to benefit that school.
“For our monthly restaurant nights so far, we’ve had Ollo, Howdy’s, and Malibu Farm participate,” Amini said. “Malibu Brewing Company will contribute a portion of the proceeds of meals purchased on Dec. 11 and Taverna Tony will do so on Jan. 14.”
Dining to contribute to local school children is user-friendly and fun, Roven noted, stating, “Locals get to dine together knowing they are helping a great cause — Malibu kids!”
Choosing a for-profit corporate form that benefits nonprofit efforts
There’s another way for Malibu businesses to contribute to the greater good. When one forms a corporation in California, or if he wants to reconfigure the structure of an existing business, he can choose to structure a for-profit corporate entity as a benefit corporation, often referred to as a B corporation. The benefit
corporation structure is a corporate form designed for businesses to pursue both for-profit and nonprofit objectives. The B corporation form is available in the District of Columbia as well as in 16 states, including California.A benefit corporation can sell stock privately or publicly, but it also must have benevolent objectives set forth in its articles of incorporation.
For example, when the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter became a public benefit corporation, it released this statement on its website, “When we became a benefit corporation, we amended our corporate charter to lay out specific goals and commitments to arts and culture, making our values core to our operations, fighting inequality, and helping creative projects come to life.”
Of course, one can also opt to form
a nonprofit corporation. However, the beauty of the benefit corporation is that when it makes decisions, the board of directors need not only consider how much a certain action will render financial profit, the board may also consider a given action’s ability to accomplish the organization’s stated public benefit purposes. Thus, whether by attending a traditional charity fundraising event, going out to dinner on nights a restaurateur will donate some of the proceeds to charitable purposes, shopping at stores that will donate some of the monies spent to nonprofit causes, or deciding to contribute to charitable purposes more long-term by forming a benefit or nonprofit corporation, there are many ways Malibuites can contribute to the greater good.
Malibou Lake Lodge hosts artist at Autumn Artapalooza on Sunday
From three area art associations, providing attendees with a plethora of exhibited works
By BARBARA BURKE Special to The Malibu Times
Saturday, Nov. 9, proved to be an idyllic Malibou Lake morning, providing the perfect setting for members of the Malibu Art Association, the Allied Artists of the Santa Monica Mountains and Seashore, and the Westlake Village Art Guild to celebrate the second annual Autumn Artapalooza, a collaborative exhibit showcasing artists’ creative works in many media, works that colorfully enhanced the lush green landscape and shimmering lake.
The exhibit works were delightfully diversified. Attendees enjoyed photography, paintings, mixed media pieces, fabric art and sculptures, all while enjoying music performed by a local favorite, Merlin Snider.
The bright tropical colors that are a hallmark of Carla Bates’ works warmly embraced attendees who stopped
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to reduce the size of the approved single-family residence. The application is nearing completion.
The husband, Steve Goldman, spoke in front of the commission and expressed the challenges they have faced during his wife’s cancer treatment.
“When we first purchased the land it was a two-story home, and we thought everything would be great, but based on
to enjoy paintings depicting surfers and their intense fervor for catching a perfect wave and the tropical embrace afforded by Bates’ renditions of palm trees.
Nearby, another of Malibu’s popular artists, abstract expressionist Shifra Wylder, shared her colorful works some executed with acrylic and marker on canvas, a technique that makes her works brilliant and entrancing.
Malibu sculptor Eugenie Spirito exhibited some of her gorgeous works, works that celebrate the human form in flowing movements. Her sculpture entitled “Abstract Angel” was particularly intriguing as the piece perfectly captures the fleeting fluidity of a human form as it dances in an ethereal world.
Another sculptor, Alia Ollikainen, shared her smaller ceramic sculptures. When one leaned in closely, she discerned that many of Ollikainen’s works depicted cats.
“My Siamese Sun Queen Sculpture is of cats who are twins.” Ollikainen explained. “Cats have a special importance in my works.”
Ever since the U.S. diplomat serving for the consul in Thailand gifted a siamese cat to President Rutherford B. Hayes’ wife Lucy in 1878 — reputedly the
first Siamese cat in the country, Siamese cats have enthralled Americans. And so it is with Ollikainen’s cats which seemingly coyly flirt with an onlooker, exuding a knowing expression that makes one wonder what secrets they are harboring and what they’re thinking.
Brilliantly shining, Leela Luz’ works beckon onlookers, one with a gorgeous butterfly, perfectly symmetrical and hanging in suspension as if in midair. Luz shares that she creates mixed media pieces depicting the human form sans facial features. Her works, she explains, are designed that way so that the viewer is not distracted by the facial features, but rather can comprehend all the intricate details of the work.
Photographer Tim Horton shared his works which capture the birds in Malibu Lagoon and those magical mesmerizing moments when a setting sun dances along rippling water in the surf.
Plein air artist Barbara Freund also shared her images of the seaside. Freund’s artistic mantra shared on her website captured the essence of the moments attendees enjoyed at the show: “Art speaks the language of shared experiences and provides a visual reminder of what we hold dear!”
the medical conditions and advise from doctors, we really have to have a single story home. We went through the process, we’re in the middle of the process, we submitted all of the documents, and we’re just waiting final approval,” Goldman said. “We really want to spend our final years in Malibu. We love Malibu, and without a single-story home, we’re not sure how we can do that, and we ask for your consideration.”
The motion for a two-year extension of Coastal Development Permit No. 15-
053 passed.
The commission moved on to Extension of Coastal Development Permit No. 15050 and Variance Nos. 15-029 and 16003; A request to extend the Planning Commission’s approval for construction of a new 3,511-square-foot, two-story single-family residence and associated development; including variances to reduce the required front-yard setback and for construction on slopes steeper than 2.5 to 1. The commission approved the extension.
The commission approved Administrative Coastal Development Permit No. 22025; an application for a remodel, second unit, new onsite wastewater treatment system, and associated development.
The commission moved to continue Administrative Coastal Development Permit No. 24-020; an application to install a new onsite wastewater treatment system on Deerhead Road to the next meeting. The Planning Department said they will have a representative from the environmental health and biologist department.
After a break, the commission moved on to Coastal Development Permit No. 23-026 and Variance No. 24-011; an application for the construction of a test water well to establish a water supply to a proposed development; including a variance for encroachment into an Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Area buffer (Continued from November 4, 2024). The commission approved the permit. The next Planning Commission is on Dec. 2.
Leela Luz with her mixed media pieces at the latest Malibu Art Association Art show. Contributed photo.
Nova Festival. He and two friends were offered tickets in exchange for working clean-up at the dance/trance music festival. He showed photos taken at 5:30 a.m. of a happy crowd dancing obliviously before the horror that was to come just an hour later. By 6:30, Elhai got his first glimpse of the disaster that would enfold around him. Missiles started exploding around the festival site in the desert. “It was scary,” he said. “There were lots of people and no bomb shelters in the area.”
Minutes later, a police officer came and told the crowd to get their belongings and leave quickly. Elhai described the scene as chaotic. People were crying, confused, and scared. Others didn’t grasp the gravity of the situation and kept dancing “because they thought it was a joke,” Elhai said. But it wasn’t a joke, as Elhai and his friends discovered, while scrambling to their car as bullets whizzed past them. Frustration was building as well when the panicked crowd couldn’t leave the tiny desert roads that became overwhelmed with the traffic jam of thousands of cars fleeing the scene.
Elhai’s group decided to abandon their car and make their way out of the desert on foot with no food or water. He later showed a picture of his car, bullet-ridden and smashed beyond belief. There would have been no chance of survival if he and his buddies had stayed in that car. There wasn’t a lot of police presence to help them either. Elhai showed a picture of three policemen trying to defend the festival goers. They were among the 364 people killed at the festival.
Elhai quickly saw more death around him: first, a young girl covered in blood who had been shot. Another young
Santa Monica representatives pleaded their case. The remarks of SMMUSD Board Member Laurie Lieberman were not well-received by the audience. Lieberman, who is on the unification subcommittee, stated, “I am frustrated that we’re here and I’m certainly not happy to be booed.” The board member defended the delays, saying “We believe it is incumbent on us to do our due diligence and to take community input seriously.”
However, AMPS (Advocates for Malibu Public Schools) President Wade Major stated that at the previous public hearing in Santa Monica, “…and its 90,000 plus residents, you did not hear from a single parent or student, the stakeholders that really matter, and none online.” Major gestured to the crowd that showed up in Malibu. He also reminded the committee that noncontiguous communities are not permitted to unify, making the current SMMUSD “in violation of state law.” Major added,
man was shot right next to him. He could hear the bullets hit. “I’ll think for the rest of my life … faces, lost faces,” he said.
While bullets were flying over his head, Elhai’s mother called when she heard about the attack. “I told her I was safe, but of course, I wasn’t safe,” he said. The next day when mother and son reunited, Elhai said he felt enormous survivor’s guilt and sorrow for the anguish his mother went through in worry.
In the meantime, gunfire was turning into bombings in the area. Elhai and his friends hid under a tree for cover. Thinking his death was imminent, he saw his life flash before his eyes. He could hear the sounds of people dying: bullets, screaming, choking, and then silence. But what really disturbed Elhai, he said, were screams of celebration after the terrorists were successful in murdering victims. “We knew if they found us, asking for mercy was not an option because they had so much joy to kill people to make them laugh,” he said.
Elhai showed more pictures he took of fires burning, set ablaze by the terrorists. When he met up with another group of young people fleeing the killings, they had heard some people were being taken hostage. The group asked aloud whether they’d rather be kidnapped or killed. “What’s funny,” he said, “everyone had the same answer, to be killed.”
Luckily for Elhai and the group of people he made it out with, his life was spared, but he didn’t let the opportunity go by without showing pictures of some of his friends who didn’t make it. One picture was of a father and his young daughter confined to a wheelchair.
The survivor reminded the Malibu crowd of the 101 hostages still unaccounted for in Gaza.
“Everyone there has a face and a family and friends and dreams still waiting for them,” Elhai said.
“Every date this process is delayed, they are playing you for fools and harming our children. This district is trapped by its own structural dysfunction, and it has been so for decades, when many of us who are now parents were students ourselves.”
After hearing from many Malibu parents frustrated about the lack of communication from the district during the recent power shutoffs and fire in Malibu one parent said, “We cannot and should not be relying on a district that is 22 miles from us to make real-time decisions in an emergency. I don’t think I need to remind anyone in this room of the shortcomings that occurred during the Woolsey Fire. My family lost our house and we were displaced for a couple of months in another school district, and I was actually receiving truancy notices from the district. We have a vibrant community of intelligent and creative people in Malibu who are ready to advocate and build a school district that can serve our community in the best way.”
The attorney representing Santa Monica, David Soldani, remarked, “The grievances we’ve heard
from this community have very little to do with the actual legal criteria that must be satisfied to create a new school district. I don’t mean to belittle the complaints and the issues they have, but you don’t get your own independent school district just because you want it, and you don’t get your own independent school district just because you don’t like something the district has done the past.”
Soldani then advised, “If the city and the district are not arm-in-arm in this endeavor with no signed agreements, you will never have unification, not ever. My advice is this: Take the passion, take the energy, lobby your City Council and your sitting negotiating team to get back to the table with the district, finish the agreements. By proceeding unilaterally, they are jeopardizing this unification, so I strongly urge you to urge your representatives to get back to the table so we can finish this work.”
Malibu’s unification attorney Christine Wood countered, “It would just be stunning for me not to address the level of arrogance and defiance that you saw at this mic just now. It gives you a complete representation of the type of un-cooperation and entitlement that we experience as a city when we were negotiating with the district.” Wood
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that have moved into temporary or permanent housing — they’re just amazing.”
City Manager Steve McClary provided updates on city events and the recent Broad Fire that occurred on Wednesday, Nov. 6. McClary said one of the issues they experienced during that fire was cellular service.
“This is an issue that we raised, especially in the past, directly with the companies, they are required to bring out generators to power up those sites, but we have not been able to get any real indication as to when they will bring those out or any schedule on that, and that remains a real frustration for us because that obviously impacts communities throughout town,” McClary said.
McClary said there were five structures that were damaged in the fire and one severely damaged.
“I have not heard any information as to the cause, it appears that it started near Pacific Coast
also questioned earlier comments by Lieberman saying, “Board Member Lieberman claimed that we negotiated agreements that were equitable for all students. That’s what she said, word for word. The question to be asked is then why did she not support this agreement at the Oct. 15 board meeting when they decided not to bring the agreements to a vote? Remember, they have a seven-member board. Three of those members were on the separation subcommittee. If all three of those members had supported the agreement that they negotiated, that she then called just today, called equitable, all they needed was one additional vote and they would have had that from the board member from Malibu. Instead at that Oct. 15 meeting, Board Member Lieberman put up excuse after excuse, obstacle after obstacle and made sure that those agreements never came before the board for ratification.”
Wood explained, “It can be another five or six years from now, even at best case scenario, not to count the kind of litigation we’re probably going to face from the district before Malibu has local control. So please, don’t allow the district to continue to prolong this community’s desire for local control.”
Highway, next to Bluffs Park,” he said. “We did have some damage to some of the city’s recreational equipment, and some of our fields got singed, but we don’t have any report of damage to the facility, but we are cleaning it out because of the smoke, that will remain closed until we can ensure that it is ready for the public.”
McClary also said that the city met with supervisor Lindsey Horvath and Caltrans to receive an update on PCH improvements and safety.
“It was a good meeting, we were able to outline a number of areas that we’re working together with Caltrans and of course the supervisor expressed her support for all that she can do,” he said.
McClary said they’ll be receiving an update from Caltrans by next month.
After a break, the City Council gave updates and Councilmember Bruce Silverstein acknowledged the fire department for their efficient efforts in clearing the fire that occurred on Nov. 6.
“It was extremely efficient and effective,” he said. “It was just very impressive to watch; it was
completely under control, so we owe a debt of gratitude to the fire department for that one.” Silverstein gave a few suggestions on what the city can do to support the community, such as creating an ad hoc committee during an emergency or power outage. Silverstein also suggests to create a community food storage center, provide dry ice for residents and generators for commercial establishments.
“I think the circuits need to be reconfigured, and I spoke about this to the SCE representative who was here at the last meeting,” he said. “The power shutoffs are a reality — we are not going to be able to stop the power shutoffs — so we have to find a way to live with the power shutoffs or minimize their occurrence in the city, and I think it needs to be looked at by the city.”
The council highlighted the Veterans Day event held the previous day, commending the organizers for a well-executed and inspiring gathering. Hosted at City Hall, the event was a collaborative effort by the Malibu Navy League, Pepperdine University, the City of Malibu, and the Malibu Association of Realtors.
Once again, the event was planned by a committee led by Ani Dermenjian and carried the theme, “A Quarter Century of Honor — 25 Years of Saluting the Past and Inspiring the Future.”
The last item on the agenda was the request from the Malibu Education Foundation to waive the facility use fees for the Ioki Property for the Annual Community Christmas Tree Lot. This year, the Malibu Education Foundation (Foundation) has taken over the Tree Lot operation and will use it as a fundraiser for all Malibu Public Schools. The council unanimously waived the fees. The Christmas tree lot will be running from Nov. 20 to Dec. 22. The next City Council meeting is on Monday, Nov. 25.
Rabbi Bill Kaplan, Nova Survivor Rom Elhai and Rabbi Cantor Marcelo Gindlin were part of the guest speaker program at the Malibu Jewish Center & Synagogue. Contributed Photo
Sycamore School’s Halloween-themed Cardboard
Carnival empowers students to learn while doing
They develop analytic and design acumen while bringing video games to life
By BARBARA BURKE Special to The
This October, Sycamore School students embarked on projects combining creativity, design, and hands-on building to bring their own arcade games to life at the Halloween-themed Cardboard Carnival.
Molly Ripton, the school’s director of admission and development, said they have hosted the Cardboard Carnival since the school opened in 2015.
“They brainstorm, prototype, and construct games entirely from cardboard — each one student imagined, student designed, and student built,” Ripton explained.
Showcasing the creativity and ingenuity of the students, this year’s Carnival delighted attendees. Students approach their projects guided by the design thinking process.
“Park Hadjio-McPhee, 7, created a puzzle game and a maze,” Andrew McPhee, Park’s father, explained. “They had prizes and booby traps — you could roll the ball around the maze and you might get sprayed with water or get a cardboard piece of candy.”
Learning while having fun
“The way they teach at Sycamore uses project-based learning and the children are tasked to learn and express skills, ranging from math, communication, and physics — the Carnival is an example of that,” McPhee said. “I come from a product design background and it reminds me of how I work in the design studio.”
For his part, Park said, “It’s very fun. It’s fun to play other people’s games and remember the ideas for my game next year.”
Little Ezra Maciejewski, a second-grader, shared, “I learned the simplest games can sometimes be the most fun. For my game, I figured out that I could use more hot glue to make everything sturdy.”
Learning by trial and error — projects that get kids thinking and creating As students grow older, their project designs are more sophisticated, McPhee said, sharing as an example a game designed by 9-year-old Luke Bickerton. “Luke made the most mind-blowing game experience — I invite readers to see a video of him talking about it on the school’s website wherein he discusses what he created in his own voice,” McPhee said. “The project was creative, mechanical, fun — all of those things rolled into a big ball. These projects get kids thinking and creating.”
Luke’s mother, Anne-Marie Judd, described her son’s invention: “Luke’s project was a dog-catcher game and he wanted
to create a real life racing game.
He created a car on a cardboard desk with a real steering wheel and accelerator and the concept is to round up all the animals and take them to the pound.”
Luke, Judd noted, “loves building and is into mechanisms. His creations are becoming more and more complex and he has started adding electronics.”
Judd explained that she and Luke’s father, “both have a background in industrial design and his dad is an inventor. We really encourage the creative process — that’s what is so great about Sycamore — it teaches kids how to think and approach problems and this project is the epitome of that.”
Luke puts a lot of thought into what game he will create every year.
“He likes the annual tradition and he starts thinking about it in the summer and puts his ideas on paper and keeps brainstorming how he’s going to do it,” Judd said. “This year, he worked on it for six weeks. It was received reallywell! His challenge this year was to create a game that had some skill involved and was not too easy for adults but also allowed preschoolers to try to play as well.”
After reflecting, Judd added,
“It’s difficult as a parent to watch your kids fail and to keep their motivation up to try new things and this is one of the projects that teaches the kids that it’s OK to make mistakes. Sometimes, the only way to get to a solution is to try options a million times and eliminate some things that don’t work.”
If one chats with Luke, he learns that he enjoys the research and design process. First, he developed his concept.
“This year, I created a racing game and I chose to have players drive a dog-catcher van to try to collect dogs and return them to the pound. I called the concept ‘Pooch Pursuit,’” he said.
Then, Luke had to brainstorm about how to execute his concept.
“I had to think about the mechanisms — how the game was going to work,” he said. “I
started with the steering mechanism — three ideas looked really good. The first one was rack and pinion — but I decided that would be hard to do in cardboard because it might wear off and it might slip and not work. So then I thought of having the steering wheel attached to a string and using a pulley.”
Luke explained his design concept in detail.
“When you push the steering wheel, it lengthens one side of the string and makes the other side small,” he said. “The prototype worked great, but there was a problem — I used a wire ring to put the string through it and it was adding a lot of friction and so I changed it, using small pulleys instead of rings so the string would slide better and have proper friction.”
However, Luke encountered another glitch.
“Doing it that way was much too wobbly and I couldn’t get the string in the right spot,” he said. Undaunted, he went back to using key rings, but “made them with stretchy strings so they didn’t have as much friction and would just stretch.”
Once that was solved, Luke had to add the road.
“My first idea was to use a big cylinder made of cardboard with its drum sidewise — the cylinder would be spinning so the car was in place,” he said. “However, that created curves and the driver could not see what was coming towards him, which meant it would be impossible to catch a dog.”
Undaunted, he thought of another way — using a big cardboard circle 3 feet wide and putting a motor in the middle with the car moving on the radius of the circle spinning towards the player.
Of course, Luke needed to design a car prototype, he noted.
“My first prototype was really small — it was only an inch wide and the circle was 3 feet wide,” he said, noting that was not the best design. “So, I made the car 3 1/2 inches wide and the front of the car was a big hole and you could
catch the dog. I tested that and it was great!”
A few more modifications were needed. “I needed to make a big circle so I cut out two large cardboard sections and spray-mount them together,” he shared.
To complete his project Luke had to develop an accelerator so that when the player pushed down, it would go fast.
“I added one pulley connected to a first pulley that is attached to a rubber band so that when you push the accelerator down, it stretches the rubber band and spins a bar connected to a spin variable resistor — the further you push down the accelerator, the higher the electric current the battery sends to the motor. I used a 12-volt electric wheelchair battery,” he said. “We got a motor that would spin faster the further
you push down the accelerator and on that steering mechanism, I put two magnets and a disc on top of the motor — the steering mechanism was on the radius of the disc, so if you put a car on the disc, it looked really cool because it used magnets so it looked like it was driving.”
Design elements were the final touches before the game was fully ready to play. “I made the dog pound in the middle of the disc and I made tiny little details, such as the car park. If a player looks inside the dog pound, he could see a guy monitoring the dogs–that’s a tiny detail that I really liked,” he said. “For the outside of the pound, I added trees and grass to make it realistic — all designed with just green sharpees on the cardboard. Then, I made the road line.”
Luke strived to design the game, “to be challenging but also to be fun!”
The goal of the game, he explained, was to collect three dogs.
“The high score was seven cars,” he said, laughingly adding, “It was crazy! I was like how’d you do that?”
Praising Luke highly, McPhee said, “If I had to bet money on one kid who would help make something amazing happen in the world 39 years from now, I would bet on Luke!”
Sycamore “strives to empower students to be analytic, imaginative thinkers, problem-solvers, and active contributors to their community,” McPhee shared. “They don’t really test kids — their philosophy is that tests are designed on a passor-fail basis, whereas life’s goal is to keep trying to get it right.”
Guided by the design thinking process, students brainstorm, prototype, and construct games entirely from cardboard — each one Student Imagined, Student Designed, and Student Built. Photos courtesy Molly Ripton.
Malibu Times
Malibu Life
‘Feminine Perspectives: A Still Life Exhibit’ opens at City of Malibu Art Gallery
Six talented artists showcase their take on
reality in a
By BARBARA BURKE
Ask most art aficionados to describe still life paintings and their responses will most likely recite details about works depicting mostly inanimate subject matters, including elements such as flowers, plants, rocks, and dead animals. Think Juan Sánchez Cotán’s “Still Life with Game Fowl, Vegetables and Fruits” (1602). Perhaps those discussing the genre would also mention paintings showcasing common human-made objects such as vases, coins, or jewelry. They might also reflect that the genre is exemplified by old Flemish paintings, dark in tone and often depicting dead animals, especially game.
Au contraire! When one peruses the diverse works celebrated at the opening reception for “Feminine Perspectives: A Still Life Exhibit at the City Hall Art Gallery” on Nov. 17, one enjoys a variety of still life works that, as the exhibit announcement phrased it, “reflect on the delicate balance between the mundane and the profound.”
Fireball Tim Lawrence, chair of the Malibu Arts Commission, and Julia Holland, who serves as the vice chair welcomed attendees.
“Originally, we were going to have still life pieces from everyone, but as the submissions came in, we decided that most of the artists were women and that we’d focus on the unique perspective of women,” Lawrence said.
“The exhibit just evolved,” Holland said, agreeing wholeheartedly.
Participating artist Martha Meade explained how from her perspective, the genre of still life painting has evolved. “I always thought of still life as in -
cluding traditional Dutch pieces with a vase and some flowers and perhaps dead flowers as well,” she said. “However, I now look at the genre as including the process of looking closely at the subject and focusing on a single thing about it
and going deep into that feature.” Meade, who pursued art fervently after a stint as an actress, creates works that focus on particular objects and aspects of the world around her that, as the exhibit informs, “try to convey an essence that
speaks to her,” thereby creating a personalized realism.
Mia Babalis, who specializes in painting, sculpture, and installations that explore the ephemeral nature of life, was originally a
Waves women’s soccer season concludes in NCAA tourney
Pepperdine drops a 2-1 double-overtime decision to Cal, finishing the campaign with a 12-4-5 overall record
By MCKENZIE JACKSON Special to
The visiting California Golden Bears women’s soccer team held a 1-0 lead and outplayed the Pepperdine Waves in the first half of their matchup in the opening round of the NCCA tournament on Nov. 16 at Pepperdine’s Tari Frahm Rokus Field.
That changed in the second half. There was Waves junior forward Tatum Wynalda rocketing down the left sideline, not once, but twice, with the ball between her cleats and her eyes trained on the opposing goal. Wynalda, the West Coast Conference Offensive Player of the Week twice in 2023, booted two failed-scoring attempts in the opening minutes after halftime.
There was also Pepperdine forward Tori Waldeck, a graduate student known to be a fleet-footed scorer, maneuvering in the Golden Bears’ box with the ball before kicking a scoring shot that missed.
The Waves finally tied the match when redshirt junior forward Tabitha LaParl’s corner kick connected with the noggin of sophomore defender Peyton Leonard,
who headed the ball into the net to tie the score in the game’s 59th minute. Pepperdine eventually lost the contest 2-1 in double overtime, though. Waves head coach Tim Ward said his team changed their tactics offensively
after halftime and played great.
“They are probably the most flexible team tactically in the history of Pepperdine soccer in terms of our ability to change systems within the game,”
Special to The Malibu Times
Pepperdine forward Tori Waldeck tries to manuever around a California defender during the Waves’ 2-1 loss in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Photo by McKenzie Jackson
Members of the Malibu Arts Commission and artists participating in the “Feminine Perspectives” exhibit gather at the Malibu City Gallery. Photo by Samantha Bravo/TMT
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Armory of Harmony
By Benjamin Marcus, Entertainment Editor
Composer’s Breakfast Club www.composersbreakfastclub.org
Good morning.
“No clarinetist has ever shot up a school.”
— Richard Gibbs
Richard Gibbs needs no introduction but we asked Chat GPT to do it anyway. The shortened version reads: “Richard Gibbs is a renowned composer, musician, and producer… a diverse career spanning several decades, marked by his contributions to music both as a performer and behind the scenes. Gibbs was the keyboardist for the band Oingo Boingo, led by Danny Elfman, in the 1980s. He played a significant role in shaping the band’s unique sound during its early years. Gibbs has composed music for numerous movies and TV shows. After leaving Oingo Boingo, he transitioned into a successful career as a film composer. Notable works include ‘Dr. Dolittle,’ ‘The Simpsons Movie,’ ‘Battlestar Galactica’ (the 2003 miniseries and the main themes for the series), and ‘Queen of the Damned.’ Gibbs built and operates the Woodshed Recording Studio in Malibu, a state-of-the-art facility known for its eco-friendly design and unique recording environment which has attracted clients such as Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Shawn Mendes, and many more. Beyond his musical endeavors, Gibbs is involved in educational and philanthropic efforts, including supporting music programs for youth.”
OK, maybe he did need an introduction. Currently, Gibbs is big on Armory of Harmony, a kind of “swords into plowshares” deal for melting down weapons and shaping them into musical instruments.
Armory of Harmony Armory of Harmony is a 501c3 non-profit in the middle of a major fundraising campaign. All donations are tax deductible of course (links on the website). Armory of Harmony welcomes corporate sponsorships as well! www.armoryofharmony.com/ Woodshed Recording www.woodshedrecording.com/
First of all I read that intro from Chat GPT, and there is a mistake.
The devil you say! Is this a HAL 9000 moment?
I scored the first season of “The Simpsons.” I had nothing to do with the movie, which came many years later.
Are you suggesting Chat GPT made a mistake? I once asked Chat GPT “Who is Riley Hawk’s mother” because I thought it was a woman I picked up wearing a gorilla suit at a kid’s party for one of Tony Hawk’s children in the 1990s. So I asked and it answered “Stacy Peralta is Riley Hawk’s mother.” Nobody’s perfect.
At the Composer’s Breakfast Club a month or so ago, I coulda sworn I saw a woman yodeling while swirling a hula hoop accompanied by a dude playing accordion. Did I really see that or was that some kind of David Lynchian nightmare? Not quite what you saw. The reality is even more bizarre/interesting. The gentleman was playing bagpipes, not accordion.
Ooops. Duh. I knew it was bagpipes. Frain bart. Nobody’s perfect.
Continue.
His name is Andrew McGregor, an autodidact iconoclast of the first order. He is 6’7” and, amongst many other accomplishments, is a two-time international chessboxing champion. Look it up.
Chat GPT says: “Chessboxing is a unique hybrid sport that combines the strategic depth of chess with the physical intensity of boxing. Competitors alternate between rounds of chess and boxing until a winner is determined.” That’s whack! But Composer’s Breakfast Club is a cool deal. Are you happy with it?
I’d love for even more people to know about it and join us. The name is somewhat tongue-in-cheek — everyone is welcome.
The breakfast buffet is most excellent. How many years has it been going?
Thirteen. I started it with two fellow composers here in Malibu by proposing that we meet every Monday morning for breakfast at Coogies (remember Coogies?) and has been non-stop ever since. It grew organically into the monster it has become.
Any personal highlights for you?
Other than that ex-editor of SURFER Magazine kvelling about himself for too long?
The one category of speaker that I assiduously shy away from is composers. I am already a composer. I want to learn about other walks of life and be inspired. One of my favorite speakers was Spencer Lisenby, the man who set the world speed record for remote-controlled glider flight. That’s right, no engine or human on board. He keeps breaking his own record using a principle called dynamic soaring. How fast, you may ask? Last I looked, 564 mph.
We celebrated Elliott Gould’s birthday with him on stage. Hosted Flea, who talked about co-founding the Silverlake Music Academy. Most controversially gave RFK Jr. the opportunity to speak (years before he linked up with Trump). We have toured Buck Owens’ old studio in Bakersfield, now operated by my pal Jonathan Davis of Korn. Too many other highlights to mention. Plus the performers have been awesome. Ozomatli on Memorial Day was off the hook.
Aviator Nation is a good little room. Why doesn’t Malibu have a better music scene? Think of all the talent within a mile of your house — from Bob Dylan to Babs to Beck — and that’s just the B’s. Why don’t they play in town?
Back in the day there was a better scene. But that was before it was a city. Before the outsiders came in and attempted to squash it. And, most
Books For Sale
By Burt Ross, Contributed Column
It’s strange how things change over a lifetime. When I was a young child, my mom frequently took me to the public library, and when I was in high school and then again in college, and finally in law school, there was rarely a day that I wasn’t in the library.
As I got older, I would go to the bookstore and buy my own books. Over time I owned a small library, but the Woolsey Fire took care of all my books. And now I open my Kindle and voila, the book is right before me.
So you can imagine what a pleasant surprise it
importantly, before the real estate speculators came in and drove rent prices out of control. Aviator Nation has done a great service to Malibu by reviving the Malibu Inn venue as Dreamland. For now, it operates as a loss leader and a brand-building exercise. I’d love to see more locals throw down behind it. It is the last live music venue in Malibu — let’s support it and live music. Build it and they will come.
How far back do you go in the Malibu?
I moved to L.A. in 1977 after graduating Berklee College of Music. Couldn’t even begin to afford to think of living here, but I would come out at least a couple of times a week to surf. As a goofyfoot I was always fond of Zeros. It took another 15 years of career and family building before we could finally move here in 1992.
Did Malibu ever have a great music scene? I heard it did in the 1970s. I heard that, too.
I grew up in Santa Cruz in the 1970s and we had a ridiculous music scene. Talking Heads and B-52s at the Coconut Grove. Devo, The Tubes, Stanley Clarke, Asleep at the Wheel, Bonnie Raitt, Cheech and Chong, and three dozen others at the Civic Center. Rolling Stones “Some Girls” tour at Oakland Mausoleum. Yes, I called it “mausoleum.” That place had zero charm and they are right to raze it. Did Oingo Boingo ever do a Day on the Green?
Yes, along with the Police, Thompson Twins, Madness, and the Fixx!
I asked Chat GPT if Oingo Boingo ever played at the Catalyst! Three years in a row! 1981, 1982 and 1983. Are you fricking kidding me!?!?!?! They went off! Was that you?!?!?!?! Yessir.
Catalyst was a good room back then, no? Santa Cruz had spirit. Agreed.
So getting back to the original question: Why doesn’t Malibu have a
better music scene? I have a dream: The Point Dume All Stars doing a rocking rendition of “Miserlou”: Mike D on drums. Beck on one guitar. Josh Homme or Neil Giraldo on another guitar. Richard Gibbs on the keyboards. Flea on bass then handing off the bass to Tim Commerford and picking up the trumpet to blow that ripping trumpet solo. And maybe Kenny G on soprano sax. But alas, it is only a dream. Flea was a trumpet player in high school before he was a bass player. And I played trombone in stage and marching bands all through high school in Daytona Beach. My very first time in California I was marching down Colorado Boulevard with the Seabreeze Marching 100 in the Tournament of Roses Parade!
Which leads us to your latest project, Armory of Harmony. What’s that about then? The ABOUT on your website says: “TRANSFORMING DECOMMISSIONED WEAPONS INTO MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
There are currently more firearms than human beings in the United States. Over 389 million firearms are in the hands of everyday citizens; twice the number in the possession of every law enforcement and military in the world combined. Hundreds of thousands of these guns have been deactivated, decommissioned, or are no longer wanted.
“Armory of Harmony (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit) repurposes unwanted firearms by upcycling the gunmetal into new musical instruments. AoH donates the instruments to public school music programs around the country. We foster a dialogue of harmony and hope with the power of music.”
Oh I see, That’s some “swords into plowshares” stuff. I thought it was just collecting used band equipment and redistributing it to schools and players that need it, but it’s more than that. Excellent idea.
It is SO much more than that. We are seeking solutions to violence, specifically school shootings. No clarinetist has ever shot up a school.
It’s a cool idea, but is it economical to melt down weapons and turn them into musical instruments?
The guns are being shredded and smelted down anyway — no expense to us. Typically that high carbon steel ends up being mixed in with all sorts of scrap metal from old washing machines or whatever and made into
was when Harriet Pollon called me a couple of months ago and offered to give me a tour of the Malibu Library. I feel ashamed that I have only been there several times and normally to attend a meeting, not to read a book.
I do recall attending the library’s dedication. It seems like a long time ago, but how can that be since I only moved here in 2012.
Harriet gave me a thorough tour, but she especially wanted to show me the bookstore within the library. She is a volunteer there like many other dedicated people. Almost every day, people drop off books they no longer need and buy books for $1 a book. Yes, you heard me correctly—$1 a book. Can’t beat that for a good deal! Last year, the bookstore sold over 7,000 books, with all the proceeds going to
rebar. We grab the gun steel before that happens. Only parts of instruments can utilize the steel. You cannot practically make a whole trumpet from steel — it is not malleable enough, it would be way too heavy, and it would sound terrible. But you CAN make trumpet mouthpieces from gun steel, and we have, and they work great. Other parts, too.
Where will that be done?
We work with existing manufacturers all over. Armory of Harmony does not make the instruments, we connect the supply chain and help market with our branding.
Which instruments will this process favor?
Just about any instrument in a marching band can utilize our gun steel in some fashion or another. Marching snares can be entirely made of AoH gun steel — a gorgeous look, by the way, a deep blue black gun steel snare drum. Guitar machines, all sorts of percussion, studio gear, the list is endless. Some of our first prototypes were high-end kalimbas made in Germany by a company called Hokema.
Sidebar question: How do you like your Ford Lightning? Absolutely love it. I could not stomach driving my Tesla another mile once Elon’s true self came to light. Plus Tesla’s service sucks.
You watch: Electric Vehicle 2.0 is gonna be the electric Volkswagen Bus. You think you’re seeing a lot of CYBERTRUCKS now…
Yeah I have been champing at the bit to lay hands on the Buzz. Maybe I can get one and replace the VW logo on the front with an Armory of Harmony logo!
the library. I looked through the books for sale, and they covered every interest, from travel to cooking.
All this brings me to this weekend’s annual sale. In addition to the hundreds of books for sale at that low price of $1 per book, there will also be collector’s items and art books more appropriately priced but still at bargain prices. Again, all the proceeds will go directly to the library. The sale will take place this Saturday, Nov. 23, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and again on Sunday, Nov. 24, from 1 to 5 p.m. The theme for this year’s sale is “Home for the Holidays,” and it will feature cookbooks, art books, rare books, and special baskets filled with books and items geared for a holiday present. So do yourself a favor this weekend, go to the library, and beat inflation.
professional dancer. Her multidisciplinary background informs her artistic practice, blending movement, and visual storytelling into evocative works that invite viewers to reflect on their own experience. Also showcasing their works were Cathey Cadieux, an accomplished portrait painter with a studio in Malibu who has exhibited widely and has taught finger painting and other art classes.
Joining those two artists is Debbi Green, who brings to her canvases her varied background in creative arts, including pursuits in everything from designing sportswear, creating children’s hand-painted furniture and working as a costumer in the film industry.
Leslie Lienau, known for her pastel paintings and for her popular teaching of drawing and painting in the classical tradition for both children and adults, adds joy to the exhibit with her works. Malibu artist Roxanne Skene, a muralist, painter, and sculptor whose commissioned life-size works include pieces for the Hilton family and the Thousand Oaks Civic Auditorium, among others, rounds out the beautiful exhibit.
The artists chatted with attendees, discussing the aspects of their paintings, including composition, texture, subject matter, dimension, and artistic processes
“My floral still life paintings are done from life,” Cadieux said. “So, the flowers are not actually still — they are in the process of opening or closing. My sense in depicting them is to capture their essence before they wilt and die.”
Elaborating, Cadieux explained further, stating, “The painting immortalizes them, and I can continue to enjoy their beauty long after they are gone — each rose has been grown and nurtured by me. It reaches its peak which is fleeting — this is a commentary on our own lives.”
“Blooms at Night,” a gorgeous painting by Meade, depicts a San Pedro cactus in full bloom.
“I’ve tried to capture the top of the cactus where the bud forms,” Meade explained, noting that when it is blooming the caucus “releases the most amazing fragrance!”
Gazing at the stunning rendition one can almost smell its gorgeous scents.
Intrigued attendees came upon Skene’s “Rock Paper Scissors,” a painting that explores the fun game with a new take.
“I decided to do a series of rock, paper, and scissors that depicts the things that can go wrong when playing the game,” Skene explained. “I incorporated the elements of wind, fire and water, elements that make the outcome of the game even more uncertain as the rock, paper, and scissors are subject to the fire’s power, the wind’s spiritual-like movement, and the water’s power.”
Skene noted she thoroughly enjoyed creating the work using metal brackets to connect its panels, and she warmly invited anyone visiting Aspen to stop by the gallery where her works, including her lovely bronze sculptures, are on show.
Lienau’s exhibited pieces included “Bread and Cheese,” an oil on board work that plays with the use of light to emphasize a knife perched on a slice of cheese, perhaps ready for its owner to indulge in an afternoon snack and another work entitled, “Lemons and Blueberries,” which similarly invitingly beckons one to imagine enjoying the tasty fruit.
Green’s works intrigued attendees, who leaned in to closely examine her work entitled “Saturday Bouquet,” enjoying its chiaroscuro-like lighting and its unique compo-
sition wherein a vase flush with flowers is positioned near the edge of a table, casting its shadow toward an empty space. Attendees mingled, observed, and conversed, enjoying snacks and the art and swaying with music performed by Christopher Woodley. It was an ideal way to spend
a Malibu Sunday afternoon. “We humans are creative beings who are most happy when we can see a creation from concept all the way to completion,” Lawrence said. “We are glad that we celebrate that process with our inspiring exhibit!”
Artist Leslie Lien poses with one of her works, part of the “Feminine Perspectives” exhibit as the Malibu City Gallery. Photo by Samantha Bravo/TMT
Musician Richard Gibbs has launched Armory of Harmony, a program that melts down deactivated weapon and makes musical instruments out of the gunmetal. Contributed Graphic
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said. “I thought we created some really good moments. Even in the first overtime, I thought that maybe — we had a couple of moments that were so close — but the margins are small at this level. That game could have gone either way.”
Ward called the Golden Bears an athletic and talented squad.
“You have to take your hat off to a well-coached team,” he said. “They are a very good Cal team.”
Pepperdine, ranked 22nd in the national soccer rankings at the end of the regular season, ended their 2024 campaign as West Coast Conference champions and a 12-4-5 overall record. California advanced to a second-round tournament contest against the Arkansas Razorbacks on Friday.
Pepperdine entered the matchup as a seventh seed.
The Golden Bears broke open a tough
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defensive contest in the 33rd minute when senior forward Alexis Wright received a pass from the right side of the field and kicked the ball into the near post.
California maintained the lead until Leonard scored 14 minutes after halftime.
The match was scoreless for the rest of regulation. Neither team scored in the first overtime. Then with four minutes left in the second extra period, the Golden Bear’s Courtney Boone, a senior center back, got the ball off a corner kick and delivered it to the back of the net to end the game and give her squad the win.
California outshot Pepperdine 15-10, but the Waves had a 6-5 advantage in shots on goal. Pepperdine’s Waldeck took four shots, three of them on goal.
Pepperdine freshman goalkeeper Jillian Medvecky had three saves. The Golden Bears goalkeeper, Teagan Wy, had five saves.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS:
1. ACU360 CLINIC
2. ACU 360 CLINIC 4768 PARK GRANADA SUITE 101, CA CALABASAS, CA 91302, LOS ANGELES COUNTY Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number (if applicable):
Registered Owner(s):
1. JENNNIFER BLAKE-HOLDEN 4768 PARK GRANADA SUITE 101, CALABASAS, CA 91302 If Corporation or LLC- CA State of Incorporation/Organization This business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 10/2024 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). Signed, JENNIFER BLAKE-HOLDEN, OWNER
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 10/11/2024. NOTICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION.THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS:
1. HARMONY TRADING CO. 23823 MALIBU RD STE 50-153, MALIBU, CA 90265, LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number (if applicable): Registered Owner(s):
1. HARMONY TRADING & DISTRIBUTION LLC 23823 MALIBU RD STE 50-153, MALIBU, CA 90265 If Corporation or LLC- State of Incorporation/Organization DE This business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime). Signed, HARMONY TRADING & DISTRIBUTION LLC, MANAGER, SCOTT SAPCARIU
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 09/23/2024.
NOTICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION.THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).
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Ward said the Waves were an unbelievable group this year and noted how the team’s seniors and graduate students — Ashlyn Siriani, Sophia Prudholme,
Caroline Coleman, Kelsey Adams, Victoria Romero, Megan Edelman, and Waldeck — led “selflessly.”
“Some of the girls didn’t play the min-
LEGAL NOTICES
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
THE FOLLOWING PERSON IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS:
1. MARC MICHEL EYEWEAR STUDIO INC
15320 ANTIOCH ST., PACIFIC PALISADES, CA 90272, LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number (if applicable): Registered Owner(s):
1. MARC MICHEL EYEWAR STUDIO INC 15320 ANTIOCH ST., PACIFIC PALISADES CA 90272
If Corporation or LLC- State of Incorporation/Organization CA
This business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 07/2000 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). Signed, MARC MICHEL EYEWEAR STUDIO INC, PRESIDENT, MARC SCOTT MISCHEL
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 10/17/2024.
NOTICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION.THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).
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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 24STCP02799
Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles
Petition of: JAARON ROBINSON GARRETT TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner: JAARON ROBINSON GARRETT a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: JAARON ROBINSON GARRETT Proposed Name: YAHRONE ROBINSON GARRETT
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: DEC. 06, 2024 Time: 10:00 AM, Dept.: 86
The address of the court is:
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS AN-
GELES
LASC- LOS ANGELES SUPERIOR COURT. 111 N. HILL
STREET, ROOM 102 LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
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 (specify newspaper): The Malibu Times
Date: AUG 30, 2024
CURTIS A. KIN, JUDGE, Judge of the Superior Court
DAVID W. SLAYTON Executive Officer/Clerk of Court
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: 1. MELINA SEMPILL WATTS CONSULTING LLC
5800 KANAN ROAD 276, AGOURA HILLS, CA 91301, LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number (if appli-
cable): 202016810420
Registered Owner(s): 1. MELINA SEMPILL WATTS CONSULTING LLC 5800 KANAN ROAD 276, AGOURA HILLS, CA 91301 If Corporation or LLC- State of Incorporation/Organization CA
This business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on:03/2020 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).
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 11/4/2024.
NOTICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION.THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).
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NOTICE OF PERMIT REQUEST
This is to inform you that an Administrative Coastal Development Permit has been filed for the property located below, pursuant to Section 22.44.940 of the Los Angeles County Zoning Code. The Director of Regional Planning shall make a decision regarding this permit request after 30 days of this public notice. Any individual opposed to the granting of this permit may express written opposition to the Director by February 10, 2025. Please note all correspondence received by Los Angeles County Planning shall be considered a public record.
Project No.: PRJ2024-003699-(3)
Project Location: 2910 Valmere Drive, Malibu, CA within the Santa Monica Mountains Planning Area
Applicant: Rachel Anderson CEQA Categorical Exemption: Class 3
Project Description: 19 roof-mounted solar modules and appurtenant equipment including junction boxes, and associated wiring affixed to the existing single-family residence. More information: Jon Schneider 320 W. Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. (213) 974-6411. jschneider@planning. lacounty.gov. planning.lacounty.gov. Case Material: https://bit.ly/PRJ2024-003699
If you need reasonable accommodations or auxiliary aids, contact the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Coordinator at (213) 974-6488 (Voice) or (213) 617-2292 (TDD) with at least 3 business days’ advanced notice. 11/21/24
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utes they wanted,” he noted. “The way they gave themselves for their sisters, the humility they possessed, the sacrifice, the love, and the unity is pretty remarkable.”
PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE OF TRUSTEED SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST LOAN: 210209/COSSAR APN: 4455-004-014 OTHER: 91231733 T.S # 24105-PR YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 12/30/2020. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. NOTICE is hereby given that REDWOOD TRUST DEED SERVICES, INC., as trustee, or successor trustee, or substituted trustee pursuant to the Deed of Trust executed by THEINGI M. COSSAR, Successor Trustee of the Myint Family Trust dated April 29, 2002, recorded on 1/4/2021 as Instrument No. 20210004973 in Book —, Page — and Memorandum of First Amendment to Note and Deed of Trust recorded on 08/18/2021 as Instrument No. 20211265947 of Official
Records in the office of the County Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, California, and pursuant to the Notice of Default and Election to Sell thereunder recorded 8/5/2024 in Book —, Page as Instrument No. 20240519078 of said Official Records, WILL SELL on 12/13/2024 By the fountain located at 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona, CA 91766 at 11:00 AM AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable at the time of sale in lawful money of the United States), all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State hereinafter described: THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTH HALF OF THE WEST HALF OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 33, TOWNSHIP 1 NORTH, RANGE 17 WEST, SAN BERNARDINO MERIDIAN, IN THE CITY OF CALABASAS, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT OF SAID LAND, FILED IN THE DISTRICT LAND OFFICE SEPTEMBER 25, 1896. EXCEPT THEREFROM, ALL OIL, GAS, MINERALS AND OTHER HYDROCARBON SUBSTANCES, LYING BELOW A DEPTH OF 500 FEET FROM THE SURFACE OF SAID PROPERTY, BUT WITH NO RIGHT OF SURFACE ENTRY, WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY RESERVED IN INSTRUMENTS OF RECORD. Assessor’s Parcel Number: 4455-004-014 The property address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: Vacant Land, Stokes Canyon Road, Calabasas, CA The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the undersigned within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. The property heretofore described is being sold “as is”. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: $409,728.69. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept a cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state. In the event tender other than cash is accepted, the Trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee’s Deed until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, advances thereunder, with interest as provided therein, and the unpaid principal balance of the Note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust with interest thereon as provided in said Note(s), fees, charges and expenses of the trustee and the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Dated: November 6, 2024 REDWOOD TRUST DEED SERVICES, INC., as said Trustee ATTN: ROBERT CULLEN P.O. BOX 6875 SANTA ROSA, CA 95406-0875 By: ROBERT CULLEN, President NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You arc encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (800) 683-2468 or visit this Internet Web site: www.servicelinkASAP.com, using the Trustee
(Left photo) Pepperdine’s Karina Gonzalez gets the ball and avoids a collision against Cal. (Right photo) Player for Pepperdine and Cal battle for the ball during Cal’s 2-1 double overtime win in the NCAA tourney. Photos by McKenzie Jackson
Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
THE FOLLOWING PERSON IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS:
1. MALIBU HAIR EXTENSIONS
22653 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY SUITE 10, MALIBU, CA 90265, LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number (if applicable):
Registered Owner(s):
1. MALIBU HAIR EXT. CO. LLC
2670 WEST KELLY RD, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91320 If Corporation or LLC- State of Incorporation/Organization CA
This business is conducted by: A LIMITED LABILITY COMPANY
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 09/2024
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). Signed, MALIBU HAIR EXT. CO. LLC, LINDSEY CARSE, MANAGING MEMBER
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 10/17/2024.
NOTICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION.THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).
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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF DAVID A. VALDEZ aka ALVARO ERNESTO VALDEZ IRAHETA Case No. 24STPB12083
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of DAVID A. VALDEZ aka ALVARO ERNESTO VALDEZ IRAHETA
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Deborah Lachman Valdez in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Deborah Lachman Valdez be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held on Dec. 6, 2024 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 79 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for petitioner:
ALEXANDER FRIED ESQ
SBN 93943
ALEXANDER FRIED APC
21650 OXNARD ST STE 350
WOODLAND HILLS CA 91367
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
THE FOLLOWING PERSON IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS:
1. MANIFEST PARTY
527 WOODLAND DRIVE, SIERRA MADRE, CA 91024, LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number (if applicable): 202464119189
Registered Owner(s):
1. PSYCHEDELIC CIRCUS LLC
527 WOODLAND DRIVE, SIERRA MADRE, CA 91024
If Corporation or LLC- State of Incorporation/Organization
CA
This business is conducted by: A LIMITED LABILITY COMPANY
The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 11/2024
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). Signed, PSYCHEDELIC CIRCUS LLC, JESSI JOPLIN, CEO
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 11/14/2024.
NOTICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION.THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY OF MALIBU PLANNING COMMISSION
The Malibu Planning Commission will hold public hearings on MONDAY, December 16, 2024, at 6:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers, Malibu City Hall, 23825 Stuart Ranch Road, Malibu, CA and via teleconference on the projects identified below.
CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT AMENDMENT NO. 24-005An application to amend Conditional Use Permit No. 96-014 and Conditional Use Permit Amendment No. 15-001 for an existing restaurant to allow a change in Alcohol Beverage Control licensing from an existing Type 41 (sale of beer and wine for onsite and offsite consumption) to a Type 47 license (sale of beer, wine, and distilled spirits for consumption onsite; and sale of beer and wine for consumption offsite)
COASTAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT NO. 23-039 AND VARIANCE NO. 24-004 - An application to properly abandon two existing onsite wastewater treatment systems damaged in the 2018 Woolsey Fire and construct a single onsite wastewater treatment system, including a variance for development within 100-feet of a mapped blue line stream
Location: 33012 Pacific Coast Highway
APN: 4473-018-006
Zoning: Rural Residential, Two-Acre (RR-2)
Applicant: EPD Consultants, Inc
Owner: Alford Children’s Trust - 1992
Appealable to: City Council and California Coastal Commission
For the projects identified above with a categorical exemption for environmental review, pursuant to the authority and criteria contained in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the Planning Director has analyzed these proposed projects and found that they are listed among the classes of projects that have been determined not to have a significant adverse effect on the environment. Therefore, the projects are categorically exempt from the provisions of CEQA. The Planning Director has further determined that none of the six exceptions to the use of a categorical exemption apply to these projects (CEQA Guidelines Section 15300.2).
A written staff report will be available at or before the hearing for the projects. All persons wishing to address the Commission regarding these matters will be afforded an opportunity in accordance with the Commission’s procedures.
Copies of all related documents can be reviewed by any interested person at City Hall during regular business hours. Oral and written comments may be presented to the Planning Commission on, or before, the date of the meeting.
LOCAL APPEAL – A decision of the Planning Commission may be appealed to the City Council by an aggrieved person by written statement setting forth the grounds for appeal. An appeal shall be filed with the City Clerk within ten days following the date of action (15 days for tentative maps) for which the appeal is made and shall be accompanied by an appeal form and filing fee, as specified by the City Council. Appeal forms may be found online at www.malibucity.org/ planningforms or in person at City Hall, or by calling (310) 456-2489, extension 246.
COASTAL COMMISSION APPEAL – For projects appealable to the Coastal Commission, an aggrieved person may appeal the Planning Commission’s approval to the Coastal Commission within 10 working days of the issuance of the City’s Notice of Final Action. Appeal forms may be found online at www.coastal.ca.gov or in person at the Coastal Commission South Central Coast District office located at 89 South California Street in Ventura, or by calling 805585-1800. Such an appeal must be filed with the Coastal Commission, not the City.
IF YOU CHALLENGE THE CITY’S ACTION IN COURT, YOU MAY BE LIMITED TO RAISING ONLY THOSE ISSUES YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE RAISED AT THE PUBLIC HEARING DESCRIBED IN THIS NOTICE, OR IN WRITTEN CORRESPONDENCE DELIVERED TO THE CITY, AT OR PRIOR TO THE PUBLIC HEARING.
Maureen Tamuri, Interim Planning Director
Publish Date: November 21, 2024 MALIBU 257
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY OF MALIBU PLANNING COMMISSION
The Malibu Planning Commission will hold public hearings on MONDAY, December 2, 2024, at 6:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers, Malibu City Hall, 23825 Stuart Ranch Road, Malibu, CA and via teleconference on the projects identified below.
COASTAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT NO. 20-053 AND DEMOLITION PERMIT NO. 22-010 - An application to allow the demolition of 915 square feet of existing hardscape, site stairs, pool/spa and to allow for the construction of a new 1,106 square foot gym, a new swimming pool and spa with associated pool equipment, new 874 square foot roof deck above gym, hardscape and other site improvements to an existing single-family residence
VIEW PRESERVATION PERMIT NO. 23-001 - An application requesting corrective action to restore the views recorded at 31833 Sea Level Drive under Primary View Determination No. 12-109 with regard to foliage located
For the projects identified above with a categorical exemption for environmental review, pursuant to the authority and criteria contained in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the Planning Director has analyzed these proposed projects and found that they are listed among the classes of projects that have been determined not to have a significant adverse effect on the environment. Therefore, the projects are categorically exempt from the provisions of CEQA. The Planning Director has further determined that none of the six exceptions to the use of a categorical exemption apply to these projects (CEQA Guidelines Section 15300.2).
A written staff report will be available at or before the hearing for the projects. All persons wishing to address the Commission regarding these matters will be afforded an opportunity in accordance with the Commission’s procedures.
Copies of all related documents can be reviewed by any interested person at City Hall during regular business hours. Oral and written comments may be presented to the Planning Commission on, or before, the date of the meeting.
LOCAL APPEAL – A decision of the Planning Commission may be appealed to the City Council by an aggrieved person by written statement setting forth the grounds for appeal. An appeal shall be filed with the City Clerk within ten days following the date of action (15 days for tentative maps) for which the appeal is made and shall be accompanied by an appeal form and filing fee, as specified by the City Council. Appeal forms may be found online at www.malibucity.org/ planningforms or in person at City Hall, or by calling (310) 456-2489, extension 246.
COASTAL COMMISSION APPEAL – For projects appealable to the Coastal Commission, an aggrieved person may appeal the Planning Commission’s approval to the Coastal Commission within 10 working days of the issuance of the City’s Notice of Final Action. Appeal forms may be found online at www.coastal.ca.gov or in person at the Coastal Commission South Central Coast District office located at 89 South California Street in Ventura, or by calling 805585-1800. Such an appeal must be filed with the Coastal Commission, not the City.
IF YOU CHALLENGE THE CITY’S ACTION IN COURT, YOU MAY BE LIMITED TO RAISING ONLY THOSE ISSUES YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE RAISED AT THE PUBLIC HEARING DESCRIBED IN THIS NOTICE, OR IN WRITTEN CORRESPONDENCE DELIVERED TO THE CITY, AT OR PRIOR TO THE PUBLIC HEARING.
Maureen Tamuri, Interim Planning Director
Publish Date: November 21, 2024 MALIBU 258
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Waves tennis prepares for NCAA tourneys
Pepperdine’s
Homberg, Broadus, and Yang to compete at Baylor University courts in Waco, Texas
By McKENZIE JACKSON Special to The Malibu Times
Pepperdine tennis players began competition in NCAA tournaments in the Lone Star State this week.
Waves men’s tennis player Maxi Homberg took to the court in the opening round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis Championship Event: Singles Championship on Tuesday, more than a week after he won the Intercollegiate Tennis Association West Sectionals Singles title.
Pepperdine women’s tennis player Savannah Broadus played in the opening round of the NCAA Division I Women’s Tennis Championship Event: Singles Championship on the same day. She qualified for the spectacle by advancing to the quarterfinals of the ITA All-American Championships in September.
Additionally, Broadus, a four-time All-American in singles and doubles, took the court on Wednesday with teammate Vivian Yang, a sophomore, in the NCAA Division I Women’s Tennis
Championship Event: Doubles Championship. The pair claimed the ITA Southwest Regional doubles crown in October.
Homberg, a junior ranked 103rd in singles, began the NCAA Tournament
with a match against Oklahoma’s Jordan Hasson. The winner of that match moved on to a second-round contest against the winner of the game between Denver’s Raffaello Papajcik and Texas’ Jonah Brasell. The tournament kicked off with 64 collegiate players from across the nation.
The national championship is set for Nov. 24.
Broadus, ranked eighth in singles, competed against Mississippi’s Anaelle Leclercq-Ficher in the first round of their 64-player tournament. The winner advanced to face the winner of the contest between UCLA’s Elise Wagle and Virginia’s Annabelle Xu. The women’s singles title match is the same day as the men’s championship.
Broadus and Yang, ranked 24th in doubles, faced Georgia’s Aysegul Mert and Guillermina Grant in the opening round of the 32-duo tournament. The winner faced either UC Santa Barbara’s Anna Marie Weissheim and Amelia Honer or Virginia’s Melodie Collard and Elaine Chervinksky in the second round. The doubles championship is also on Nov. 24.
All the NCAA competitions are at Baylor University’s Hurd Tennis Center in Waco, Texas.
Homberg won four matches in four days to win the ITA West championship at Pepperdine’s Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center on Nov. 9.
Homberg downed Youssef Kadiri of Nevada 6-3, 6-1 in the title match. The Wave beat UCLA’s Emon van Loben Sels 6-2, 7-5 in the quarterfinals and Arizona’s Zoran Ludoski 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-1 in the second round. On the first day of the tournament, Homberg downed UCSB’s Gianluca Brunkow 6-4, 6-3. In route to the ITA doubles championship, Broadus and Yang beat Arizona’s Danielle Tuhten and Teja Tirunelveli 8-2 in the first round and Arizona State’s Aiya Nupbay and Emilija Tverijonaite 8-2 the following round.
They beat CSUN’s Angelo Ho and Yuliia Zhytelna 8-6 in the quarterfinals. The Waves downed UCLA’s Anne-Christine Lutkemeyer and Ahmani Guichard in the semifinals and UCLA’s Kate Fakih and Olivia Center 6-4, 6-1 in the championship.
Last May, Broadus and Janice Tjen, who graduated, were the first Pepperdine duo to make it to the NCAA doubles title match. The two were beat but, Broadus, who has played in the NCAA postseason four times now, is Pepperdine’s winningest doubles player ever.
Malibu High boys
Sharks head coach David Goosen said the team has improved scoring and shooting over last year
KENZIE
The Malibu High boys basketball team’s season tipped off this week with higher scoring expectations than a season ago.
Last year, guard Dylan Goosen, the squad’s lone upperclassman, averaged 33 points a game and handled a majority of the Sharks’ scoring load because the team had mostly inexperienced players. However, this season, the team’s head coach, David Goosen, who is Dylan’s father, said last week he expects Malibu to have more scoring punch thanks to freshmen Tommy Cupp, a guard, and Gabriel Sulkin, a forward, who are both experienced basketball players.
“The two freshmen can shoot,” he said. “They have played at the club level, so they are going to play a lot. They are going to be really good players down the road. We are going to lean on them to produce this year because we don’t have a lot of experience.” The coach said Cupp and Sulkin have meshed with the high-scoring Goosen due to practicing to -
hoops
squad season begins with new players
gether and playing in tournaments in the offseason.
“Dylan really trusts those guys,” the elder Goosen said.“The thing that struck me off the bat with Tommy and Gabe is their high basketball IQ. I could see right away these guys had good knowledge of the game. They were super dedicated and worked really hard this summer.”
Malibu began their season with a home contest against Magnolia Science Academy 5 on Monday. They hosted TEACH Tech Charter on Wednesday and host Le Lycee on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. The Sharks host Stella High Charter Academy on Nov. 25 at 4:30 p.m. On Dec. 2, the squad hosts Simon Tech at 4:30 p.m.
Malibu’s returning players are the younger Goosen and sophomore guard Sawyer Keegan. Coach Goosen expects his son, a varsity basketball player for four years, who scored 51 points in a game last season, to be the Sharks’ leader.
“He has always been a leader that leads by example and is not super vocal,” the older Goosen said.
“We’ve talked about him being a little bit more vocal in a positive way.”
The coach also challenged Goosen to be a better rebounder and defender since his 6-foot-1 height makes him the Sharks’ tallest player.
“The offensive stuff, I’m not worried about,” Goosen said about his son. “I never worry about him scoring. This year, I challenged him to be dominant in
all aspects — defending, rebounding, and still being our go-to guy on offense and to find the open man.”
Malibu will play at an up-tempo pace this season in order to score points and prevent teams from taking advantage of their lack of size.
The Sharks head coach said for the group to be successful, they need to play tough defense and rebound well.
“We have improved scoring and shooting over last year,” Goosen said. “What we are really going to have to do is buckle down on the defensive end. We lack so much size and depth, so we are going to prioritize boxing out and rebounding. If we can hold our own on the boards and make teams work on the defensive end, we will give ourselves a decent chance to win ball games.”
Sulkin, who is 5-foot-11, is a good jumper, strong, and physical, so his coach expects him to be a good rebounder.
“He plays a lot bigger than he is,” Goosen said. “He plays like he is 6’2.””
Goosen praised Cupp’s basketball skills and knowhow and said he was impressed with how well he competed against older players at a summer tournament in Las Vegas.
“He is not afraid of the moment,” he said. “He held his own, which was really good for him. He is prepared for this season because of the work he put in over the summer.”
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