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Six ficus trees on Larchmont Blvd. slated for wood chipper

Addressing homeless housing locally Hancock Park meeting

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By John Welborne Gathered in an historic Hancock Park apartment building last month were about 20 community members and local religious leaders. The teatime topic was how residents and local faith organizations can work together to address homelessness in the Greater Wilshire and Wilshire Center Koreatown areas, especially to provide needed “bridge housing” to move people off of the streets and toward permanent supportive housing.

Hostess was Marilyn Wells, and attendees included Revs.

John Kim and Kate Cress from St. James’ in-the-City Episcopal Church, Rev. Laura Fregin from First Congregational Church, Rev. Frank Buckley from Blessed Sacrament Church, and Rev. Megan HolSee Housing, p 27

31 years later, Professor still knows it all

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By Rachel Olivier This month’s February 2019 Larchmont Chronicle heralds the 31st year of William Bentley (a.k.a. Professor Know-ItAll) regaling readers with fun word and phrase etymology based on questions readers pose to him.

Jane Gilman, founder and former publisher at the Chronicle remembers Bentley pitching her the idea for a column because he thought the paper needed something a little bit more lighthearted.

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Miracle Mile 2019 Our year-round guide to lifestyle, entertainment, residential and business news, “Miracle Mile 2019,” will be published with the March issue of the Larchmont Chronicle. To reserve advertising space call 323462-2241, ext. 11. Deadline is Mon., Feb. 11.

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TROOP 17125 prepares for the cookie season at a mock booth.

Back row (left to right): Abigail Kampf, Ella Rodriguez, Diana Walters, Hanna Allee, Aliza Halm. Front row (left to right): Sloane Lindberg, Maya Schutt, Gia Plas, Sabrina Kampf, Vivien Blair.

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Girl Scouts balance tradition with 21st century tastes New cookies, technology in this year’s batch

By Talia Abrahamson Girl Scouts have been selling cookies since 1917, but they are now embracing social and technological change within the 21st century.

Cookie season will run to Sun., March 10, and local booths will open on Fri., Feb. 8. Look for stands in front of Chevalier’s Books, Burger

Lounge and Rite Aid on Larchmont Blvd. to stock up on local troops’ cookies.

Gluten-free A new cookie has joined the 2019 lineup: Caramel Chocolate Chip. The cookie features caramel, sea salt and semisweet chocolate chips, and it also happens to be gluten free.

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By Billy Taylor The city’s Urban Forestry Division announced Jan. 7 that it will consider a permit request to remove six healthy ficus trees at 606 N. Larchmont Boulevard.

The mature side-by-side trees provide a lush canopy that is much needed on the eastern side of the 600 block of N. Larchmont, according to employees who work in offices facing the street on the west.

Local residents also are outraged at the prospect of losing so many trees in one spot.

The request was made by the owner of the four-story office property which the six trees surround. The removal of three or more street trees requires a public hearing.

As the Chronicle went to press, a hearing date was not yet confirmed. If you would like to be notified once the Board of Public Works sets a hearing date, visit bsspermits. lacity.org where you can request to be notified three to five days before the hearing.

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Tickets are now on sale for the return of the Ladies’ Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tourney at the Wilshire Country Club April 22 to 28.

In addition to daily and weekly grounds passes ($25/$40 daily; $99 weekly), this year’s ticket packages include two new options for fans interested in taking their LPGA experience to the next level.

The Macbeth Pass ($1,500) is the premium hospitality ticket for the event, which entitles guests to access the Wilshire Country Club clubhouse, Member’s Grill Room and panoramic patio views overlooking the back nine.

Complimentary food and beverages will be served in the clubhouse, and access to the 18th green lounge also will be provided.

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The LPGA tournament, now called the “Hugel-Air Premia LA Open,” will feature 144 of the world’s best female golfers competing for a share of a $1.5 million purse.

Visit la-open.com for more information on tickets.

LPGA LOS ANGELES OPEN to return to Wilshire Country Club April 22 to 28. Photo above is from last year’s tournament.

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By John Welborne

A community that shares Our readers include many activist volunteers and generous philanthropists. A number of charitable enterprises originated from enterprising neighbors. One is Big Sunday, founded 20 years ago, this year, by a Hancock Park resident and hundreds of people from Temple Israel of Hollywood.

Big Sunday now offers thousands of ways for people to help others.

Among those helpful people, some are being honored at a fundraiser next month. Jon Vein of Hancock Park, along with Big Sunday senior director Berenice Katcher and NBC Universal, will be celebrated at the fourth annual Big Sunday Gala. It will be held at Candela, 831 S. La Brea Ave., on Thurs., March 14, and tickets and information are available at bigsunday.org/ gala/gala-tickets.

In the Valentine’s Day spirit, Big Sunday also is gathering volunteers of all ages on Sun., Feb. 10, to make cards and treats for thousands of shut-ins and people who are ailing or facing tough times. Call 323-549-9944 for more information.

“Thank you” Big Sunday! And “Happy Valentine’s Day” to our readers! Read about our local Valentines starting on page 11.

Sun., Feb. 3 – Los Angeles Rams in NFL Super Bowl LIII, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, at 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time on CBS. Tues., Feb. 5 – Lunar New Year, Year of the Pig. Wed., Feb. 13 – Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council board meeting, The Ebell, 743 S. Lucerne Blvd., 7 p.m. greaterwilshire.org.

Thurs., Feb. 14 – Valentine’s Day. Mon., Feb. 18 – Presidents’ Day. Sat., Feb. 23 – NGA Caddyshack for a Cause Gala, Wilshire Country Club, 310 N. Rossmore Ave., 7 p.m. to midnight.

Sun., Feb. 24 – 91st annual Academy Awards, Dolby Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., 5 p.m. oscars.org.

Tree Planting for Hancock Park

Winter is the season to plant in Southern California. With the recent rains, there couldn’t be a better time to put a tree in that open space in your parkway. If you are missing a parkway tree, you should have received an email from the Association asking your permission to plant a beautiful, healthy 15-gallon tree (paid for by your Association dues).

If you got this email, please respond right away so a tree can be planted soon. If you have an open space and didn’t receive an email, contact the Association on our website and we’ll put you on the planting list.

Our beautiful, tree-lined streets provide the shady canopies of green that make Hancock Park a park. When Hancock Park was developed in the1920’s, the builders planted a beautiful young forest of elms, sycamores and fir trees.

Now, 100 years later, the trees are reaching the end of their lifespans. Additional pressures from repeated droughts, new insects and diseases are also contributing to the loss of our trees. Thanks to our Historic Preservation Overlay Zone, our parkway trees are protected and, if one dies, we can replant.

Remember, trees are important not only for maintaining the look of our beautiful historic neighborhood and landscape, but are also a critical part of the natural infrastructure that preserves the lives of ourselves, our children, wildlife and the planet.

If you are the unfortunate victim of a crime, please be sure to report the crime to the LAPD. The phone numbers can be found at the Wilshire Division website (http://www. lapdonline.org/wilshire_community_police_station).

Choose ‘Report a Crime’ on the bottom right hand side or go directly to http://www.lapdonline.org/report_a_crime).

Remember to keep safe by locking doors and windows and arming your alarm (if you have one). If you think someone is on your property, call 911. o o o Remember, Hancock Park is an HPOZ, so be sure to check with our City Planner Suki Gershenhorn (suki. gershenhorn@lacity.org) before starting any major landscaping or planning changes to the exterior of your house. The HPOZ Preservation Plan, which regulates our HPOZ can be found at http://www.preservation.lacity.org/ hpoz/la/hancock-park. There is also an online form you can fill out to help speed up the process (http://preservation. lacity.org/hpoz/initial.screening.checklist). Report graffiti sightings by calling 311 or at the City’s Anti-Graffiti Request System — tinyurl.com/yc6s8m7 — and by calling Hollywood Beautification, 323-463-5180.

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That’s the question inquiring photographer Sondi Toll Sepenuk asked locals along Larchmont Blvd.

Thurs., Feb. 28 – Delivery of the March issue of the Larchmont Chronicle.

Tues., March 5 – Mardi Gras.

Letter to the Editor Developers vs. trees

I read with interest your article “Report finds urban forest not valued by policymakers;” I too would love to see little pocket forests.

Along Vine Street there were some large open plots of land. I thought to myself, “Wouldn’t it be nice to have a little pocket park filled with trees and shrubs?” But I knew that would never happen.

Why? When it comes down to a contest between people — you and me, who love forests, on one side, and the developers, construction unions and housing activists, on the other side, who is going to win? The developers. They along with the unions are the ones who give the big bucks to the campaigns for city council elections and top elected officials and the mayor. So, as I drove along Vine, I knew that forests

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‘What are your Valentine’s Day plans this year?’

“Since we’re in Larchmont with nice, beautiful people, we’re thinking to get together with friends… for a tamalada.

We’re going to make special tamales.”

Ruben and Raquel Oropeza Hollywood

will lose out to big construction projects.

I really don’t like to be negative. However, I just don’t see any way that forests will ever score a win over the developers.

Kevin Scanlon Windsor Square

Comment to the Editor

From larchmontchronicle. com, re “New asphalt: part of Larchmont Village news,” Larchmont Chronicle, June 2018 Hi! Thanks for reporting on Larchmont Village! I’m curious — was Larchmont Village named after the city of Larchmont in New York? The neighborhood in some places so resembles the city that it could be a “Little Westchester.” Hope this finds you well.

Tristan Tzara Editor’s reply: As reported in the November 2011 Larchmont Chronicle, the name of the Los Angeles community is attributed to real estate broker Tracy E. Shoults, who developed the tracts of Larchmont Heights and New Windsor Square in the 1920s.

According to Patricia Lombard’s foreword in “Images of America: Larchmont” (Arcadia Publishing, 2015), the neighborhood was called Glenwood until 1912, and the name was changed to Larchmont, “most likely for the residential village on Long Island Sound” since many Angelenos were transplants from the East Coast.

Write us at letters@larchmontchronicle.com. Include your name, contact information and where you live. We reserve the right to edit for space and grammar.

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Assistance League readies for its next 100 Residents help redesign

By Suzan Filipek The Assistance League of Los Angeles (ALLA) plans to continue doing what it does best — help those in need — for its next 100 years.

While its official start was in 1919, its beginnings go back much earlier — to the 1890s.

After the San Francisco Fire in 1906, some local women traveled north to assist victims. They later provided day care services for World War I widows.

Volunteers then and now also have stepped up to clothe and care for children in need

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About 40 percent of the children the ALLA serves live in foster care or are homeless. Many don’t have their own shoes or share a pair with their siblings, and one in four is hungry, according to Melanie Merians, CEO of ALLA. Among the League’s programs to help address these issues is Operation School Bell, which features an 18-wheel tractor-trailer outfitted with dressing rooms that travels to city schools.

The program readies children for school with new shoes, socks, backpacks and pretty much everything they need — nice and new, to help them feel valued, and to help reduce absenteeism.

After all, without shoes and other essentials, children can’t go to school.

If a child can’t read by the third grade, he or she often drops out by middle school, added Merians, who tells of children who have their shoes taped to their feet, or who have never owned their own toothbrush.

“If you can’t break the cycle of poverty, the future is hopeless.” It leads to dropping out of school and even violence.

Owning their own pairs of shoes can make all the difference. “It’s magical for them.”

A membership of 510 volunteers (up 14 percent from last year) works in several of the League’s programs, which mostly operate on a $5 million annual operating budget. (The accredited Preschool Learning Center is funded separately.)

Other ALLA programs include the Foster Children’s Resource Center and the 1929 Theater for

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Staff from City Council District Four and the LAPD will join residents at the La BreaHancock Homeowners Association annual meeting Sun., Feb. 10 from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. at Compass Real Estate – Hancock Park, 156 N. Larchmont Blvd. (upstairs from the former hardware store). Compass associate manager Bret Parsons will host.

City Councilman David Ryu, his field deputy Rob Fisher and LAPD Senior Lead Officer Ian O’Brien will be in attendance, said Tammy Rosato, La Brea-Hancock president.

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ALADDIN, played by Kim Harrison, and LAUSD students at the Theater for Children.

Children, the city’s longest running children’s theater.

La Bonte “windfall” The Los Angeles chapter finances recently received a substantial boost on account of the $23.5 million sale of Charlotte La Bonte Lipson’s “Lipson Building” at 124 1/2 to 148 N. Larchmont Blvd. (The building includes Chevalier’s Books, Landis Stationery and other longtime retail businesses.)

While Lipson, who died in 2017 at 100, was not a member, her mother, Pauline (Leitelt) La Bonte, was, and she was very supportive of its children’s programs. The gift was in honor of Mrs. La Bonte, said Merians.

“The windfall will be invested to continue the League’s programs into the next 100 years,” she told us.

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By John Welborne Six countywide meetings in January gave Los Angeles County residents a chance to help Metro design a more modern and more useful bus system. Two additional meetings are the day this issue of the Larchmont Chronicle is distributed (Jan. 31) and Wed., Feb. 6. Location details are below.

Metro’s most local meet-

ing took place in West Hollywood on Jan. 9. There, more than 100 residents showed up to meet with Metro staff and consultants to discuss what has been learned through data analysis concerning travel patterns and preferences, and where service is needed in various travel corridors. Attendees viewed interactive maps on giant computer screens (Please turn to page 24)

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(Continued from page 3) “We want to celebrate our past, absolutely, and protect our programs for the future. Our focus is get children in school and to stay in school. “It’s our mission.

That’s what drives us.”

The League has recently restructured and streamlined its operations, purchasing a property to build a new Chapter House that is under construction at 6640 Sunset Blvd. The building, designed by OKB Architecture, should be complete in 2020.

Entrepreneurial beginnings ALLA members have been

HISTORICAL PHOTO of early Assistance League members.

“sharp and entrepreneurial” from the start, said Merians.

In earlier times, they sold tickets to a Hollywood clientele to visit their tea room.

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as an alternative to courtmandated penalties.

Also, 26 students already have benefited from a scholarship program that is in its third year. “We’re constantly trying to adapt based on the funds that we have. We don’t want to remain rigid.”

Screening Feb. 2 The Assistance League of Los Angeles is celebrating its 100th year anniversary with three upcoming red carpet events.

Screening of a 30-minute episode of the PBS documentary series, “Visionaries,” about the current work of the League, will take place on Sat., Feb. 2 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Assistance League Theatre, 1367 N. St. Andrews Pl. This summer, Hollywood Nights, an evening of Broadway performers, is Sat., June 29 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Assistance League Theatre.

Centennial Gala The Centennial Gala is probably in October. Date, time and location are to be determined.

The League’s Centennial Fundraising Campaign, Fund the Future, has raised $50,000 to start, and, Phase II is now underway. The ALLA is the nation’s original Assistance League. The national organization now has 120 chapters, and its corporate office is in Burbank.

By John Welborne Early last month, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced her new executive management team, which includes area resident Joseph P. Esposito, who has become Chief Deputy District Attorney, the secondhighest position in the largest local prosecutorial office in the United States.

In his new position, Joey Esposito will manage day-today operations for the D.A., including supervision of the office’s nearly 1,000 attorneys, 300 peace officers and 800 support staff members.

Esposito previously served as Assistant District Attorney for Special Operations. He has been a criminal prosecutor in the office of the D.A. since 1989. Prior to being in charge of Special Operations, he served in several divisions, including as Director of the Bureau of Specialized Prosecutions, Head Deputy in the Major Narcotics Division, Assistant Head Deputy of the Hardcore Gang Division, Special Assistant in the Bureau of Central Operations, and Felony Trial Deputy in the Hate Crimes Suppression Unit and Central Trials.

Professor of Law Esposito also is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Trial Advocacy Honors Program at Southwestern Law School, where he has taught since the early 1990s. The recipient of many awards as both a prosecutor and a law professor, Esposito and his wife Cara, also an attorney, are longtime local residents.

Since 1850 Established in 1850, the office of the District Attorney prosecutes those charged with

breaking laws in Los Angeles County, with the office’s top priority being the prosecution of violent and dangerous criminals — murderers, rapists, gang members, child abusers and robbers among them. Nearly 71,000 serious crimes, called felonies, are prosecuted throughout the county each year.

The office also prosecutes approximately 112,000 less serious crimes, known as misdemeanors, in unincorporated areas of the county and in 78 of the county’s 88 cities. Ten cities, including Los Angeles, have city prosecutors who handle misdemeanor crimes and municipal code violations that occur within their jurisdictions.

City Attorney’s Office The Greater Wilshire neighborhood also has senior law enforcement involvement within the City of Los Angeles. Longtime resident James P. Clark is Chief Deputy City Attorney in the office of City Attorney Mike Feuer. Jim Clark has nearly 45 years of experience as an attorney. He was a longtime civil litigator and partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher prior to being recruited to join City Attorney Feuer’s staff as Chief Deputy in July 2013, immediately fol(Please turn to page 27)

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Familiar faces, lush trees and a community paper make Larchmont John Welborne’s retrospective in last month’s Larchmont Chronicle was an eye-opening walk down memory lane — or, I should say, walk down historic Larchmont Boulevard. So much has changed in the past 57 years that the Chronicle has been in publication, but these neighborhoods — from Larchmont to Hancock Park to Park La Brea — have held onto what makes a community strong: Friendly neighbors, active community participation, support for local business, and, of course, strong local journalism.

This is the foundation from which strong neighborhoods grow, and it is what will continue to serve the Larchmont area in a growing city and a changing world.

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for the Hancock Park neighborhood. It may not have been 57 years, but the iconic street trees of Hancock Park had gone without regular care for decades — becoming overgrown and dangerous to our local infrastructure. It took an immense amount of dedicated work, persistence, and Council action to increase staffing at the city’s Urban Forestry Division — but we have finally completed trimming trees in all four quadrants identified by the Hancock Park Home Owners Association. With our most recent round of trimming, done at my urging by city crews and not contract crews, we have been able to care for every tree in Hancock Park. Just as important, removal of dead or dying trees is being done in concert with the homeowners association, so that the replacement process can be expedient, and in line with the historic nature 12/10/18 12:57 PM Page 1 of the neighborhood.

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David E. Ryu Urban canopy’s value Frankly, this was much harder than it needed to be.

Many recent events, including a report from environmental consulting firm Dudek, have made clear that the city is not considering the incredible value of our urban canopy and is

failing to take the steps needed to preserve Los Angeles’ trees.

Especially now, as our planet and our city warm, trees are our best natural tool to keep our city cool and our air clean.

Los Angeles is blessed to have one of the largest urban canopies in the nation, but that’s not guaranteed if we don’t care for it. That’s why I have introduced a number of motions to reform our tree replacement policy, further increase staffing at our Urban Forestry Division with more expertise and experience, and push for a longrange plan for our city’s trees.

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EDITOR of new book, “Dear Los Angeles,” David Kipen, speaks with Joe Donnelly at Chevalier’s.

The iconic Larchmont bookstore founded by Joe Chevalier in 1940 continues to stimulate not only with its inventory, but also with book-related events. January events included a talk about master architect Roland Coate — designer of many Hancock Park houses — and a conversation with the editor of a new book of Los Angeles-related diaries and letters written 1542 to 2018.

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This is an issue I have brought up before, and I will bring up again as I fight to make neighborhood trees a bigger priority in our City government.

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Caddyshack for a Cause with NGA Hancock Park It’s time to “ParTee and GOpher broke” at NGA Hancock Park’s annual fundraising gala on Sat., Feb. 23, from 7 p.m. to midnight at the Wilshire Country Club. This year’s kitschy theme is “Caddyshack for a Cause,” said NGA HP President Beverly Brown.

“Guests will skip the golf and go straight to the 19th hole for drinks, a lively auction, dinner and dancing.”

NGA is the Needlework Guild of America. Gala cochairs Kiel FitzGerald and Megan Derry guarantee that the iconic 1980 movie, after which the event is named, will provide fun opportunities to wear mixed patterns and country club kitsch and play golf-themed games.

Sponsor Chair Mary Jaworski has lined up local sponsors to support the event. Auction Chair Kathleen Macomber is busy rallying NGA’s 90 Hancock Park / Windsor Square members to provide a wide variety of auction items and hosted parties for bidding.

Proceeds from the event will support NGA’s mission to help those in need in our community.

An all-volunteer charity group, NGA HP purchases new clothing, linens, school uniforms, and personal care items for Alexandria House, Aviva, Good Shepherd Center for Homeless

Women and Children, Imagine LA, McIntyre House, Operation School Bell (Assistance League of Los Angeles) and Uplift Family Services at Hollygrove.

Project co-chairs Susan Kneafsey and Robin Chehrazi coordinate with the agencies throughout the year to assess their needs, and NGA members serve as shoppers.

Treasurer Shelagh Callahan reports that almost 17,000 items were provided to over 8,000 individuals in our community from last year’s gala proceeds.

To purchase event tickets and learn more about NGA HP, visit NGAHancockPark.org.

The early bird price of $145, which includes open bar and dinner, is available through Wed., Feb. 9. Tickets are $165 thereafter.

Shelagh Callahan contributed to this article.

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Holidays still in the air and on the stage; Ebell turning 125 Around the Town with

Patty Hill “The Nutcracker” and “Harlequinade,” which had its West Coast premiere this month at the Segerstrom Center.

The evening’s co-chairs were Avery and Andrew Barth, Sarah Arison, Stewart R. Smith and Robin Ferracone, and Sutton Stracke. Guests included actress Sharon Law-

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ABT’s educational programs are among the beneficiaries of the funds raised from this gala.

• • • Families, neighbors and BFFs flocked to the bedazzled and bedecked Irving Boulevard home of Suz and Peter Landay Dec. 29. There were hugs, kisses and full pockets being emptied to benefit the Jeffrey Foundation for children with special needs. Glasses of champagne were raised to the coming New Year, and dinner plates were brimming with beef tenderloin and almond crusted salmon. The highlight of the party was the hostess presenting a lovely large check to Alyce Morris Winston, founder and director of the Jeffrey Foundation.

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Las Madrinas honors families and service

SHARING A LAUGH at the Ebell Club’s monthly clubhouse “Confab” gathering are Britta Diaz, Geri Hurley, Barbara Wolford and Mikki Brisk.

Around the Town (Continued from page 8)

TOASTING the new year and J ffr oun a ion a h anday’s home are Anne Combs and Judy Bardugo.

ray of wines along with lively conversation. There was such a diversity in age — but none attending was as venerable as the Ebell itself, an institution celebrating its 125th year. “It’s a magnificent burden, here and still thriving!” exclaimed Ebell member Anne Devlin.

Other members there were board member Geri Hurley, Laura Cohen, Melba Provost, Mikki Brisk, Phyliss Hansen,

Elizabeth Yeo, Lisa Vallejo, Lisha Sevanian, Britta Diaz, Barbara Greenfield, Fazie Yakub, Carolyn LoBuglio, Laurie Schechter, Carolyn Layport and Karen Numme.

It’s a new year, and a chance to continue preserving the precious past contained in the historic facility on the corner of Lucerne and Wilshire Boulevards.

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Las Madrinas honored 27 families and their daughters in December for their service to the Southern California community and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA).

The young women were presented at the annual Debutante Ball at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

More than 800 guests, including the 28 debutantes, celebrated the occasion with members of Las Madrinas, which means “The Godmothers.”

Las Madrinas president Mrs. Douglas Andrew Thompson formally welcomed the families and guests in attendance and thanked everyone for joining with Las Madrinas in supporting the research programs at CHLA, including the current Las Madrinas project, a $5 million pledge for its endowment for the Chief of Neurology Chair and the Neurological Institute Epilepsy Program.

The Debutante Committee included Las Madrinas members Sarah Cox, who grew up in Hancock Park, and local resident Cindy MacPherson.

Jacob Maarse Florists of Pasadena designed the floral decor and the Wayne Foster Orchestra played the traditional father-daughter waltz.

Las Madrinas was established in 1933 as the first Affiliate Group of CHLA and has been supporting pediatric medicine and research there for 85 years.

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By Sondi Toll Sepenuk Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council (GWNC) President and Brookside resident Owen Smith and his wife, Reatha, have seen the world.

Over the past decades, they visited Russia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Thailand, Hong Kong, China, Japan, South America, Hungary, France, Canada, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, Greece, the Falkland Islands, Germany, Austria, Italy… I could go on, but I would run out of space. How did they get to visit so many exotic places? Cruise ships, both large and small.

“We always try to take at least one cruise per year,” says Owen, “but sometimes we do three or four.”

The Smiths were introduced to cruising through their friend Jim Wolf, chairman of the Park Mile Design Review Board, vice president of the GWNC, and immediate past

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OWEN AND REATHA SMITH view the terracotta warriors in Shaanxi province, China.

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When Owen and Reatha’s children were younger, the Smiths would take the family on cruises to destinations such as Hawaii, but then would send the young ones home and continue on to more distant destinations such as Japan.

They’ve embarked on about

40 different large and small ocean and river cruise ships, including Tauck, Viking, Renaissance, Holland America, Norwegian and Crystal cruise lines. Their current favorite is Crystal Cruises.

“We enjoy Crystal the most because they don’t seem to nickel and dime you for everything,” says Owen. “They have

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When Owen and Reatha were younger, they enjoyed many of the smaller cruise lines, but now that they are older, they find that the larger cruise ships serve their needs better.

“The smaller lines seem to involve a lot of walking,” says Owen. “As we’ve grown older, we find it easier to take the larger cruise ships and then to hire a car when we get into the ports.”

One of Owen’s favorite memories is of a visit to Prague in the Czech Republic.

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Love on Larchmont: Local couples tell us how they met

By Suzan Filipek Leah met Matt Purse in 2011 while working as a barista at Peet’s Coffee in Larchmont Village.

“He was a regular at the coffee shop and lived in the neighborhood, and I fell in love with him at first sight,” she tells us.

Initial conversations over Matt’s “wonderful little English bulldog, Dougal,” (who has been featured in the Chronicle’s annual “Pets of Larchmont” section twice) revealed the barista and the

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(Continued from page 10) dion player. As we went around town, people tried to board, but they were shooed away.

They couldn’t figure out this streetcar with so few people on board with music … that they couldn’t board!”

Since Owen and Reatha have been cruising for so long, they’ve also been able to experience the changing political winds of the United States as viewed by residents of foreign countries.

“When Kennedy was president, people loved America,” remembers Owen. “When George W. Bush was president, people in Austria and Holland were apprehensive of Bush. I think it had to do with the Iraq War and they seemed afraid they’d get pulled into it.

Things were good again under Obama, and not very good under our current president.”

Owen and Reatha have used their time cruising to see everything from the world’s most famous waterfalls to the glaciers of Lake Louise to the Yangtze River, and they even viewed Falkland Island penguins in their natural habitat.

Does Owen have any regrets about his vast travels?

“I bought a large rug in Hong Kong and had to roll it up, pay the duty and deal with the complications of sending it home,” laughs the avid traveler. “When I got back to L.A., I realized I could have gone down to Chinatown and bought the same rug for half the price!”

After exploring so much of the planet, where will Owen and Reatha go next?

“New Zealand and Australia,” says Owen. “We’ve never been there, and we want to see the animals that are unique to that area and spend time in the museums. Every place is different,” he continues.

“Every place is special.”

regular had a lot in common.

“We both enjoyed a very obscure and underground form of sound art called ‘noise,’ which seemed to encourage our first dates at music gear shops,” she said.

Leah had been a “noise artist / performer in the underground scene” on both the East and West Coasts since 2006. Matt is a TV editor for such shows as “Lost,” “Orange is the New Black,” “Girls” and “Riverdale.”

A few years ago, the Rossmore Ave. couple started their own underground noise label, “and that’s taken over as my part time job,” said the former barista.

With all the new coffee shops on the boulevard to choose from, Groundwork Coffee Co. is their latest caffeine beverage go-to.

They married in November 2013 at Travel Town in Griffith Park and had a month-long honeymoon in Thailand.

“We love bulldogs, watching documentaries and movies in general, coffee, theme parks, traveling (especially to Japan), hiking, strolling around the Boulevard, Sawtelle Japantown or around Santa Monica Beach.

“We’ve been married for five years now, and every day feels like Valentine’s Day!” Leah beams.

TRAVEL TOWN in Griffith Park was the scene of Leah and Matt Purse’s wedding.

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JOYCE AND JIM ALLEN are married in Montecito in 1952.

By John Welborne It was post-World War II Los Angeles. Two recent college graduates, one returned from war service in the Navy, had known each other slightly growing up. One had grown up in Windsor Square, the other in Hancock Park. But they had been three years apart in age,

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Fine paper, printed items, school rings and sports medals were among the company’s products.

Special printing jobs were featured during the 1932 Olympics, and T.V. Allen Co. for years made the Academy Award envelopes.

Jim and his brother, Van, grew up on Norton Avenue, and Jim attended Van Ness Ave. Elementary School, John Burroughs and Los Angeles High School, from which he graduated in 1943.

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Their father, Frank, came to Los Angeles in about 1910 to join the family business, Dayton Foundry in South Gate. Even today, one can see manhole covers throughout Southern California branded “Dayton Foundry.”

After graduating from L.A. High in 1943, Jim soon was at Stanford, but he left to join the Navy training program at Cal and eventually was stationed on a ship in Hawaii until the ship headed west after the war ended in the Pacific Theater. In China, Jim and his Navy shipmates helped oversee repatriation of prisoners. Jim spent six months there, visiting Shanghai, Peking (in those days not yet Beijing) and elsewhere in China before returning to the U.S. and Stanford, from which he graduated in early 1948, at which time he headed home to Los Angeles to begin full-time work at T.V. Allen Co. A fine artist as well as a businessman, Jim served as the company’s art director. But, on the side, he has created hundreds of beautiful landscape paintings, primarily in oils, over the years.

Joyce, in 1949, after four years of college at UCLA and in New York City, returned to Los Angeles, where she and her friend, Nancy Elkins Hinds, worked as board markers (pre-computers!) at E.F. Hutton in Beverly Hills.

But Jim and Joyce still did not know one another well. It was soon after Joyce’s return to town that Henry and Gladys Bateman had a party for local young people, many of them returned from the war, at the Bateman’s Sixth and Muirfield home. Both Jim and Joyce were there, each with another date.

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By Suzan Filipek Kathleen and Robert Barnes met on a rainy winter evening in Washington, D.C., where Kathleen was attending the University of Maryland and Robert was working on Capitol Hill as a press secretary.

At the time, Kathleen was going out with Robert’s best friend from grade school, but when Robert met her that evening he knew she was the one.

“She was just so beautiful, and she was really, really smart… that’s pretty much catnip to me. I had my heart set,” Robert tells us.

He promptly set out to displace his old chum and tennis partner in Kathleen’s affection. After three months of “wheedling and wooing” — with lots of cards and flowers — Kathleen finally agreed to go out with him.

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in the same social circles, it was not surprising that the four young people drove together that year to the Los Angeles airport . . . to drop off Jim’s girlfriend, who was flying to New York and moving there, and Joyce’s boyfriend, who was doing just about the same.

Jim and Joyce waved goodbye to their friends and to the plane, and they drove back to town from the airport.

And they started to date one another. In the spring of 1952, with Carolina Winston Barrie and friends at Rancho Guajome near Oceanside, Jim and Joyce were sitting on a wall around the fishpond, and Jim

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The couple has lived in Larchmont Village and Windsor Square since 1982, the same year they were married.

They remain art “enthusiasts,” as Kathleen went on to receive an MBA at UCLA and has worked for many years at Wells Capital Management.

Robert is a real estate lawyer

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The couple has two children — Claire and Ethan — and they all visit family back east on the holidays and summers, a tradition they continue to this day.

As for Robert’s grade school friend?

No hard feelings, says Robert. “We’re dear friends… and tennis partners.”

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When Robert left for law school in Philadelphia that fall, Kathleen, an art history and English major, followed and worked as a gallerist at the Institute of Contemporary Art before they came to Los Angeles.

“When we laid eyes on Larchmont it felt like something out of Westchester, and

we stayed.”

Kathleen is a native of Westchester, N, and “[Larchmont is] like Westchester except with better weather,” says Robert.

“We loved it here… we loved the vibrancy” as the city was preparing for the 1984 Olympics. “It was just a wonderful time to be in Los Angeles, and

proposed. Later that summer, on August 23, 1952, they were married at a small wedding at All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Montecito followed by a reception at the Santa Barbara Biltmore.

Their first Los Angeles abode was a unit in the apartment building on Olympic Boulevard at Muirfield Road, across the street from L.A. High “and right by the bus stop” says Jim. Next, Jim and Joyce moved north to a duplex on Irving Blvd., just north of First Street.

In 1956, they moved to Joyce’s grandparents’ house in Hancock Park, and the Allens have resided there for 62 years.

The Allens have three grown daughters, all of whom graduated from Marlborough. Lynn

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The family’s involvement with T.V. Allen Co. ended in 1995. Jim now has more time to paint, and Jim and Joyce spend more time together and with children and grandchildren.

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(Continued from page 1) It joins the other gluten-free cookie, Toffee-tastic, to make up approximately 20 percent of all available Girl Scout cookies.

The choice to include more gluten-free products reflects the relatively new trend away from wheat, barley and other sources of gluten. The market for gluten-free products, approximated at about $5 billion and projected to reach $7.6 billion by 2024, has grown especially through online sharing platforms, much like other trendy diets promising real results.

The Caramel Chocolate Chip cookie is just one cookie in a greater movement within Girl Scouts to keep up with modern consumer crazes for allergen-friendly and supposedly healthier products. In 2015, for example, Girl Scouts altered their iconic Thin Mint recipe to become vegan, and in 2011, they eliminated trans fat in five of their cookies.

Online sales Girl Scouts are also utilizing technology in another fashion: social media. In addition to the age-old methods of door-to-door canvassing and booth sales, contemporary sales practices make heavy use of the internet as the next major avenue for cookie sales.

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Troop 17125, who are gearing up for the cookie season, are learning both. As Diana Walters, 11, puts it: “You have to be nice people, and you have to be able to advertise the correct way.”

In 2014, Girl Scouts launched Digital Cookie, a platform that allows girls to sell and advertise cookies online.

Abigail Kampf, a fifth grader at Third Street Elementary School, has used such online Girl Scout platforms, selling over 1,000 cookies in years past.

“We have a kind-of Facebook, but it’s a Girl Scout thing on the Girl Scout web site. You just publish videos on the website,” Kampf said. “A lot of them are just to my family, specifically because they live far away, so they spread the word to people they know.”

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“I do one video every year.

We’ll do one about cookies with a booth behind us,” Kampf said.

In addition, the girls post on Facebook and Instagram to amplify their message.

Girl Scouts also developed a free mobile application, Girl Scout Cookie Finder, that can be installed on iOS or Android devices. The application uses its GPS capability to find nearby cookie sales, formatted in either list or map form, across the United States and Puerto Rico.

The application is meant to connect customers with Girl Scouts, especially those without direct contact to a local troop. For most Girl Scouts, this connection through cookies, no matter the form — online or in-person, allergenfriendly or not — remains

a steadfast and motivational appeal of Girl Scouts.

People skills Ella Rodriguez, a fifth grader, recently moved to Los Angeles and cites the sincerity and warmth during the Girl Scout cookie season as a reason that she joined her troop.

“When I moved here from New York, I really liked the fact that Girl Scouts get to help people and sell cookies. They work really hard, so I wanted to try, too,” Rodriguez said.

2019 is the first year of cookie sales for Vivien Blair, 6, and Maya Schutt, 7. A main reason that Blair joined Troop 17125 was in anticipation of selling cookies, and she is now equipped with skills from the Fall Product Program — where Girl Scouts sell nuts and candy — in preparation for the cookie kick-off.

“A lot of people I know are really excited about buying Girl Scout cookies. They were pretty excited about Fall Product, but they’re super excited and they can’t wait for when Girl Scout cookies season starts,” Blair said.

Girl Scouts earn badges through cookie sales, some depending on how many boxes girls can sell, so seven-yearold Schutt is similarly thrilled for the cookie season to begin.

“I’m happy because I have never done it before, and I get

to sell cookies. If I sell 500 cookie boxes, I get a badge!”

Schutt said.

This combination of the Girl Scouts’ traditional recipe of success — reaching out to the community, selling cookies and earning badges — with the organization’s incorporation of 21st century change contributes to their overall success.

Especially with potential bankruptcy looming over the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts’ adaptable philosophy highlights why, more than ever, keeping up with the times is the most delectable path forward.

Talia Abrahamson is a junior at Marlborough School.

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Goldie’s Youth Sports spring season runs from Mon., April 1 through Sun., June 9 at St. Brendan School, 238 S. Manhattan Place.

Skill evaluations are Sun., March 17 for five- to 14-year olds; visit the website for times as well as game dates, playoffs and more about the upcoming season.

Participation fee is $215 plus a uniform fee of $35; scholarships are available.

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By Lena Mizrahi 12th Grade

PACK 10 Cub Scouts talk to Den Leader Derek PACK ACTIVITIES are designed to foster fun, accountability and teamwork.

Cotton at an event in October.

Cub Scout Pack 10 going strong at St. James’ Church Cub Scouts Pack 10 has been continuously chartered at St. James’ Episcopal Church for 79 years, reports Cubmaster Patrick Walling.

Currently the pack has 48

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Practices start Mon., Feb. 25, with the season opening weekend March 1-3 at Pan Pacific Park and continuing through closing weekend May 17.

Player ages range from those born 5/1/04 to 9/1/14. Divisions span from four-and-under (4U) to 13 and 14 years of age.

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scouts, in first through fifth grades, and eight adult leaders. The pack is active from mid-September through early May. Grade-specific dens meet alternate Tuesdays through Thursdays in the basement Scout room at St. James’

Troop 10 adopted Fern Dell Trail

Matt Rauchberg, scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 10, reports a busy year. One of the most significant activities they did this year, he said, was adopt the Fern Dell Trail area in Griffith Park.

Scouts worked with rangers along the trail to keep the trees watered throughout the duration of the drought. Rauchberg said it made a major impact on the plant life in that part of Griffith Park. The troop age range is 11 to 18.

Church. Friday pack meetings are once a month.

Cub Scout activities and adventures, such as the Olympics pack meeting in October pictured above, are “designed to have fun, foster accountability and teamwork, and to live by the Cub Scout motto: Do Your Best,” says Walling.

Scout Troops, Packs Boy Scouts Troop 10: Meets at St. James’ Church 3903 Wilshire Blvd.

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Dens meet alternate Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays. Pack meetings are once a month on Fridays. Contact info@patrickwalling.com Cub Scouts Pack 16: Meets at St. Brendan School 368 S. Manhattan Pl. Contact annanason@live.com

As we celebrate the start of February, Immaculate Heart students begin a new semester with fresh notebooks and renewed enthusiasm. The memories of January’s academic rigor have quickly faded away after the end of our recent Cumulative Assessment Period (CAP) and a quick semester break to renew both student and teacher energy.

Last month, on Jan. 21, Immaculate Heart High School’s Black Student Association (BSA) commemorated the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by participating in the 2019 Kingdom Parade in Los Angeles. The televised, annual parade celebrates Dr. King’s legacy with marching bands, floats and performances.

The BSA was commended for its community service efforts, especially its fundraising for support of women cancer patients at Good Samaritan Hospital.

On tap this month is the school’s cherished Ring Ceremony. Juniors will receive their class rings in a joyful event, symbolizing each student’s connection to Immaculate Heart and her official recognition as an upper-class member.

The Immaculate Heart ring, which bears a heart encircled by roses, is

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also incorporated into a future IH tradition. As graduating seniors, students will follow tradition by turning the ring and its heart around on their fingers to signify that they will be taking their hearts out to the world.

OAKWOOD SCHOOL

By Scarlett Saldaña 8th Grade

Oakwood School has officially finished its first month of 2019! The Oakwood Middle School debate team is back and ready for everything coming its way. For their first tournament, the debaters will have the classic and traditional event, Debate Night. The event is a time to practice a lively and friendly debate against our fellow Oakwood debaters. And it has helped the team get ready for upcoming tournaments.

Around the beginning of February, the middle schoolers will separate into groups and create a poster for our up and coming Middle School Dance! The group of students will be given a certain amount of time to finish their posters and whoever wins will receive a yet-to-be-determined, prize. Similar to the middle schoolers, on Feb. 14, the high schoolers will attend their first dance of the year, their semi-formal. Last year, our themes were “the ’70s” and “Under the Sea.”

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BUCKLEY

By Jasper Gough 9th Grade It is a busy month at Buckley!

There will be a Middle and Upper School concert on Feb. 2 where the orchestra from all the grades will perform.

Students will attend a Black History Month Symposium on Feb. 8 to learn more about the

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contributions and impact of African American people on our nation’s history. Following that, there will be ACT testing for the 10th and 11th graders.

Later this month, the Buckley Student Council is holding a

video game tournament for our middle and high school students.

I’m personally looking forward to it because I heard a video game called Super Smash Bros will be the game for the competition.

The robotics team will have its first competition in Valencia on Feb. 16 and the team members will finally get to test out the robot they’ve been building for a

couple of weeks now.

There will be a Women’s History Assembly in which we will learn about important women throughout history on Feb. 22.

Lastly, on Feb. 26, the 9th grade students who are currently taking the “Intersections of Identity” course will take a field trip and perform off-site community service.

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By Nirel Davies 6th Grade

Prior to winter break, Hollywood Schoolhouse had its annual Winter Fest, a winter wonderland complete with singing, baking, and giveaways!

This year, both my acapella group and our HSH rock band, Mercury, performed at the festival.

Everyone had so much fun! Soon after that, the fourth through sixth graders sang “Simple Gifts” to the audience. After the performances, I took pictures with my friends in the new photo booth on campus.

In history class, the 6th grade is learning about Buddhism, Ancient India and Ancient China.

In a couple of weeks, our history teacher is taking us to a Buddhist temple, and the class will have to answer a questionnaire based on what we see there. In “Current Events” class, we are working on creating posters about topics that are important to us. We wrote an essay about the topic, and in technology class, we will be creating posters to accompany it. I’m so excited to present mine!

This is going to be a very busy month, but I know that the 6th grade can do it.

The spring musical is here!

This week, musical auditions were held, and this year, the Hollywood Schoolhouse is performing “Beauty and the Beast.” I got the role of Mrs. Potts, and I am so

PILGRIM

By Siobhan Schallert 7th Grade As we began our new year, Pilgrim students dove right back into the hard work and fun that is our daily school life.

We started off our week with our usual late start Tuesday, when teachers have collaboration time, and the next day was Chapel. Chapel happens every other Wednesday and is a very important tradition at Pilgrim. Students dress for the occasion (button-down shirts, skirts or pants, and a blazer) as we all come together for some community learning. For instance, we might take time to talk about our characteristics of successful learners, or CSLs. CSLs are an important part of Mastery Learning & Grading, which is how teachers evaluate students and their work. Some examples of our CSLs are collaboration, timeliness or organization, and they provide important feedback about how we’re doing as learners, and during Chapel students give short speeches about them. During Chapel we might also sing songs together and take time to learn about different cultures. We always meditate (Chapel is non-denominational), and after we’re done, the elementary students go to class while the secondary students stay to watch our own student-made news show called “The Ship’s In,” which you can check out on YouTube if you’re interested. Chapel is a Pilgrim tradition that allows our whole community a chance to come together and learn from each other and special guests who might share their passion for music or even a history lesson about our school. excited to rehearse and perform.

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Music roundup: Gorillaz, Slingerland and Menomena

By Elijah Small Welcome back, music lovers! This month I’m sharing with you three classic albums that keep me coming back for more. Happy listening!

Come Back to Me “Come Back to Me,” by Liv Slingerland, is an amazing pop rock indie listen and I highly recommend it. Slingerland is such a talented guitarist and singer and this album showcases it all. My favorite track is “Come Back to Me” because, unlike her usual soft, sweet and melodic voice, she pushes for a more rock kind of vibe. I am excited for more of her music to come out, but for now you can listen to her on Spotify or YouTube. Review: 9 out of 10.

Demon Days The Gorillaz album “Demon Days” is an ominous album that describes a dark post-apocalyptic landscape. But musically, the album showcases the idea of sections. In every song there are sections that are very defined.

For instance in the song “O green world,” we have a stressful noise section, which leads to the calm guitar-driven section.

Overall, I think this album is amazing and a must-have for any music lover. It was one of the most revolutionary albums of the 2000s, and a thousand percent the reason for the Gorillaz’ fame. This album includes the Gorillaz’ most amazing and

famous works of art and I suggest you listen to it — it’s a classic! Review: 10 out of 10.

Friends and Foes “Friends and Foes” is a masterpiece that showcases the band Menomena’s ability to bring out the emotion in people through experimental indie rock. Throughout the album, you can hear the band improving song after song. The singer in particular improves his melody, rhythm and timing. You feel the musicians try out new things, and test out ideas, and this makes the album unique.

The reason I would not give this album a 10 is because some songs felt unfinished, and some had too many ideas going on at once. A great example of that would be “Evil Bee.” Great song but there are too many parts that are not revisited due to time length. In contrast, my favorite track, “Air Aid,” showcases weird guitar and vocal concepts, while also maintaining a normal structure. Review: 9 out of 10.

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By Avery Gough 7th Grade

This month has been very exciting! We returned to school and received our grades for the first semester.

Earlier this month, a group from Yale University called Just Add Water, which is an improvisational comedy troupe, came to perform for the whole school during lunch.

There was a guest artist exhibition on Jan. 14 for the show “Traverse” in Seaver Gallery, which opened with a walk-through by the artist Ching Ching.

Many of our classmates participated in the downtown Women’s

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March on Jan. 19. And there was a playwright and screenwriter festival featuring work by students on display Jan 25.

Middle School (grades 7 and 8) sports have begun again. There are two soccer games against Harvard-Westlake scheduled this month for the white and purple teams. The purple team then follows that up with a game against Chaminade.

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By Paige Mendiola 5th Grade It’s now February, a month where we celebrate love and affection for our family and friends.

February is not only a month of love, it is also Black History Month. Black History Month is an annual observance in the U.S. It began as a way for remembering important black people and events in history.

On February 12th, there will be a dental health presentation that focuses on the importance of oral hygiene such as brushing your teeth properly and flossing. We also have heart health awareness during this month.

On Valentine’s Day, Page Academy will have a pancake breakfast with our family and friends. Student council will also be selling Valentine’s Day grams to be passed out to the students.

On February 18, the school will be closed due to President’s Day and later in the month there will be field trip to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

ST. BRENDAN

By Seamus O’Malley 8th Grade The month of January was a busy and productive month.

Moving into February, the 8th graders have finished their applications for high school and are waiting to see where they get accepted. It has been a crazy few months for our 8th graders, but they are finished and stress free.

In athletics, our A-boys and A-girls basketball is fully underway, and the teams have been doing really well. Last month, the A-boys won a big game against Cathedral Chapel School which meant a lot to us since we have not won against them in a number of years.

Finally, our school just finished celebrating Catholic Schools Week with student, parent, and principal appreciation days.

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The week of January 7th was CEE’s first annual intersession week. The week contained many classes that aren’t normally taught in school, culminating in multiple community service field trips. Some of the classes included “First Aid” where students were taught CPR and other health safety information. “Drug Education” taught students about the dangers of drugs and what effects they have on their brains.

Finally, “Cyber Education” taught students about internet safety and how to control their personal information. To end the week, the entire 6th grade traveled around West Hollywood and nearby areas to several different community service centers. There, they toured the facilities and learned what services they provided. Saban Community Clinic focuses on providing the homeless with showers, healthcare, and food. Silverado Senior Center provides care for the elderly. Finally, the Alexandria House is a housing community for children and women suffering from homelessness. It is important for students to learn more about current societal problems and what it means to serve others. Hopefully, this will become a common thing among all schools.

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Spot-on perfect sashimi followed, with standout snapper and salmon, and then it was time for the first course — a choice between king crab, miso cod, and three different Wagyu preparations. The grilled beef was succulent with a smoky depth. The cod was terrific, but so is the cod offered at every Japanese storefront restaurant in the city. Next, a choice between Wagyu beef udon, miso soup with either nigiri sushi (fish on pressed

rice), or with chirashi sushi (fish in a rice bowl). The udon noodle soup was rich, nourishing and homey, but they always are. Although the chirashi was delicious, this course felt too similar to the sashimi to be exciting. Dessert was included, so we indulged, with varying degrees of success. I found the matcha mousse to be texturally unpleasant. The orange pudding was more successful, but meh. After 8:30 p.m. one can order a la carte, and we reserved our table for that time so we had that option, which we didn’t take. The problem is that a kaiseki meal can’t be rushed and the restaurant’s lights are apparently set on a timer. We were plunged into darkness while paying our check — an odd end to what was supposed to be a tranquil evening.

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In a jarring juxtaposition of cultures, Japan House, established by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to showcase Japanese culture, has opened in that titanic of bad taste, the Hollywood & Highland complex. Nestled amidst teeming tourists and giant plaster elephants, Japan House attempts to seduce with Asian design and flavors. This little slice of serenity with a view over Hollywood is worth a visit to their library or to indulge in a porcelain purchase, if one can survive the horrendous parking to get there.

This newly opened embodiment of Japanese ideals is one of three in the world — they are also in London and Sao Paulo. Lectures, books on Japanese arts and culture, exhibits (currently on view, “This is MANGA — the Art of Naoki Urasawa,” an acclaimed illustration artist), scarves, dinnerware, matcha lattes and, of course, food, are all available.

Inn Ann, which translates as “Hidden Retreat,” is the Japan House fine dining restaurant on the top floor of the shopping center (the gift shop and café are on the second floor).

Generous booths line windowed walls that frame sparkly nighttime views. There’s a choice of prix fixe menus at $100 or $75 for selections that include fish and meat, or $65 for a vegetarian version. Master chefs change seasonally to showcase different techniques. Opening chef Taro Araki, executive chef for the Consul-General of Japan in Los Angeles, began his $100 dinner with an array of jewel-like tiny bites, including miso marinated grilled cheese, shrimp in dashi jelly, and our surprising favorite: tosui, a shot of blended soymilk and broth. Sounding mundane, or disgusting, depending on your perspective, this was delicate and earthy at once, and could probably find a

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House specialty is moulesfrites, but other items on the menu include boeuf bourguignon, escargots and confit de canard. The breakfast menu also has an “Omelette Larchmont” with goat cheese, spinach, sundried tomato, avocado and mushrooms.

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Music-themed films top the list Here is my list of the most enjoyable films I saw during 2018. Even though I cut back on the number of films I saw this year, this list is much longer than it has been in the past. Am I getting soft?

This is based only on films I saw and does not include those I didn’t see, like “Green Book,” a film most people liked. I’m afraid I might have been in the minority because it’s another twisting of the truth by Hollywood, a film that has been thoroughly disparaged by the family of the lead character, Dr. Don Shirley, as “full of lies.”

1. A Star is Born: They keep remaking this movie, and, except for the Streisand debacle, they are all good. This might be the best.

2. Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again: After the horrible casting of Meryl Streep and other non-singers in singing roles ruined the first one, this is a pure delight with wonder-

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3. Bohemian Rhapsody: Another film that knocks it out of the park musically with a terrific lead performance by Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury.

4. Searching: A brilliantly devised thriller told in such a captivating way that it is almost impossible not to enjoy.

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6. Back to Burgundy: Highlighted by gorgeous cinematography shot on atmospheric location in real Burgundy vineyards, this is a compelling view of winemaking as it really exists in France. In French, English, and Spanish.

7. Bad Times at the El Royale: Best thriller of the year.

8. Chappaquiddick: Ted Kennedy finally gets what he deserves, a truthful story about what a spoiled, selfish, pampered, irresponsible, self-centered heel he was, even though some Democrats hail him as their “Lion of the Senate.” Ha! 9. Adrift: Hollywood finally gets it right in telling a true story of an amazing survival at sea with a wonderful twist at the end, that many viewers completely missed.

10. The Children Act: British High Court Judge Emma Thompson acts with certitude in her courtroom when faced with important decisions often affecting life and death.

But when confronted with her own dilemma, she lacks such certainty and runs away from facing up to the problem. It’s a brilliant dichotomy treated with sensitivity and perception.

11. The Mule: If this is director / actor Clint Eastwood’s swan song, he’s going out on top.

12. A Private War: Rosamund Pike plays the harddrinking, hard-smoking, hard-living war correspondent Marie Colvin to the hilt.

13. The Guilty: It’s hard to believe that watching a man speak on the phone for 84 minutes could be this entrancing. In Danish.

14. Leave No Trace: Director Debra Granik’s last film was the surprise stunner “Winter’s Bone” (2010) that introduced the world to Jennifer Lawrence as a backwoods girl. Once again, Granik is in the mountains. This time, she introduces us to Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie in her debut, and all Ms. McKenzie does is give a performance that is the equal of the aforementioned Ms. Lawrence.

Granik needs to make more than one film every eight years.

15. The Wife: With a title that turns out to be tellingly tongue in cheek, what starts out as a relatively benign story of an elderly Jewish man, Jonathan Pryce, winning the 1992 Nobel Prize for literature and his relationship with his WASPish wife, Glenn Close, and children morphs into something quite different.

16. Tully: After what seems like an interesting, entertaining, well-above-average dramedy, a reveal in the last moments causes one to wonder if something metaphysical has been going on here.

17. Puzzle: I cannot think of (Please turn to page 21)

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New vista for mid-life divorcé, latest take on Anne Frank Linda Vista by Tracy Letts (author of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning “August: Osage County”) takes place at the titular Linda Vista (translation: nice view) located near San Diego, California. Wheeler (Ian Barford) is in a full-blown mid-life crisis. Fifty years old, recently divorced with a problem child, he is attempting to make a life transition starting with a new habitat in a new location. He’s helped by his old friend Paul (Tim Hopper) as he moves into a new apartment.

Wheeler was a professional photographer, now reduced to working in a camera store with Anita (Caroline Neff) and creepy owner Michael (Troy West). Paul and his wife Margaret (Sally Murphy) intro-

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(Continued from page 20) one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant. All should have got Oscar nominations, but that is a pipe dream for a small movie like this.

18. Under the Tree: An involving film about revenge with the moral that it is often better to turn the other cheek and let things roll off your back, to mix aphorisms.

19. Colette: A biopic of the great French writer whose quality is more than a sum of its parts. For me, the best of it is the cinematography (Giles Nuttgens). The locales are so beautifully framed and shot that many of the scenes could stand as magnificent oil paintings. The visual values of this movie blew me away.

20. Journey’s End: A brilliant exposition of what life was like in the trenches of WWI and the futility of even trying to hope. The battle scenes are excruciatingly realistic.

21. Love, Gilda: Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Gilda Radner, but not enough of Roseanne Roseannadanna.

22. Moynihan: An interesting documentary on a fascinating man.

23. Gringo: A throwback to the old days, a good screwball comedy from the ’40s as things turn from bad to worse for everybody, and it’s a gas.

24. The Seagull: The play that was the game-changer for doctor / writer Anton Chekhov translated by a terrific cast is as heavy as you might expect, but well worth it.

Also worthy: “Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain,” “Hal,” “Instant Family,” “Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom,” “Red Sparrow,” “Sicario: Day of the Soldado,” “Solo: A Star Wars Story” and “Widows.”

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As the play progresses (through almost three hours with one intermission), the laughs are tempered with the seriousness of Wheeler’s situation. You can’t help but root for this angst-filled character, and the ending is hopeful. This play is for adults only and shows extensive frontal nudity, simulated sexual intercourse, and coarse language.

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The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett was a successful Broadway show in the 1950s, followed by a Hollywood movie. The play tells the story of the Frank family who, along with several other Jewish families, hid in an attic of an office building for years to avoid being captured by the Nazis occupying Amsterdam.

Taken from the diary of the youngest daughter Anne, it relates the years of privation and starvation of 10 people under constant threat of capture by a brutal regime.

The current production at The Complex (adaptation by Wendy Kesselman) features an all Latin cast. Comparing Latin families currently hiding from ICE in Safe Houses in Los Angeles, the play finds parallels to Anne’s story.

Director Stan Zimmerman draws us in effectively as the cast members, clothed in monochromatic grey, begin by reading the play from Dramatists Play Service scripts.

In a seamless transition in the first act, the actors lose the scripts and are dressed in era costumes (no costume design credited). This is an able cast, although the Latin accents are occasionally hard to understand. The play’s ending, as the final fate of all the characters is related, is particularly moving.

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By Ellen Ehrlich For the 38th consecutive year, neighbors on the 800 and 900 blocks of Masselin Avenue rang in the holidays with a progressive dinner on December 10. Over 50 residents participated in this year’s celebration.

Valerie and Jim JespersenWheat were hosts for the appetizer and main course portions of the meal, and at 8 p.m., everyone reconvened at the home of Noah and Amit Hass Cohen for dessert and a lively session of Hanukkah and Christmas songs. The evening once again gave residents a chance to catch up with old friends and get to know new ones. It was particularly wonderful to see multiple generations joining together to celebrate.

Since the dinner is a potluck, the dishes represented many different traditions and cuisines. Latkes (potato pancakes) and eggnog, enchiladas in mole salsa, stuffed mushrooms, and lasagna were a few of the treats residents got to sample. Not only were residents able to appreciate the many talented cooks on the street, but the food reminded them of the delights of having people from multiple cultures as friends and neighbors.

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The first scene takes place with them waiting in line to stand on the glass walkway that’s perched high on the rim of the canyon. Discussions of postcards, misplaced address books, etc. soon lead to the heart of the play, what’s next for them. The action moves to a café and eventually their hotel room. There are some laughs and the feel-good ending seems inevitable and right.

But this evening belongs to the actors. Married in real life, John Walker and Pamela Gaye Walker bring nuanced performances and understanding to the characters that make this one-act worth seeing.

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Barbara Yaroslavsky, 71. ‘Our city has lost a guiding light.’

By John Welborne As reported briefly on the front page of last month’s Larchmont Chronicle, noted civic leader Barbara Edelston Yaroslavsky died suddenly and unexpectedly Dec. 26 while seeming to be recuperating successfully from a West Nile Virus infection that hospitalized her on Nov. 13. Barbara, 71, leaves Zev, her husband of 47 years, two children and four grandchildren and other relatives, and hundreds of friends and associates with whom she spent a lifetime of working on worthwhile community projects.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Barbara practiced what she preached — that the way to make a difference in one’s community is to be involved.

She primarily focused on issues relating to education and health.

Education She was active on the board of LA’s BEST, helping provide

quality after-school programs for more than 25,000 students in Los Angeles-area public schools. She also served as a member of the Undergraduate Student Scholarship Committee at UC San Diego, and she was a PTA president and served in a variety of positions in the other schools that her children attended. Barbara served on several boards at the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, including the Bureau of Jewish Education. She also participated in the Jewish community’s response to literacy through the KOREH L.A. task force, where more than 1,000 volunteers have been reading with children in local elementary schools. At the Zimmer Children’s Museum, Barbara led a special projects group and participated in fundraising for the Museum’s youTHink project that now is in many public school classrooms statewide.

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Health In the health field, Barbara was a multi-decade activist volunteer at the Los Angeles Free Clinic, now the Saban Community Clinic, where she was serving on the Friends board at the time of her death.

She was active with the Health Professions Educational Foundation that offers scholarship and loan repayment programs for people going into the medical professions in California.

Barbara served on, and presided over, the Medical Board of California that licenses and disciplines doctors practicing in the state. In addition to serving as that board’s president, she chaired the Education Committee, and she cochaired the over-prescribing task force and other task forc-

es. At the time of her death, she was serving as a member of the California Board of Registered Nursing.

Barbara was a life member of Hadassah and a former president of her chapter, and she held several executive board positions. She also served on the board of directors of Executive Service Corps Southern California, a nonprofit that places former executives with other nonprofit organizations to assist in coaching and consulting to strengthen their boards and organizations. She was a Larchmont Chronicle Woman of Larchmont in 2000.

Funeral eulogists As was evident when they addressed the standing-roomonly funeral service at Temple Israel of Hollywood, two of Barbara’s greatest achievements were her and Zev’s daughter, Mina Bressler, now a licensed marriage and family therapist in San Francisco married to Dan, and Barbara and Zev’s son, David, recently appointed a judge of the Superior Court of California and married to Katy.

Barbara’s brother John Edelston and his wife Debbie and Zev’s sister Shimona Kushner and her husband Davy, (Please turn to page 24)

Rev. Dr. Kate Cress to be installed at St. James’ Feb. 2

The community is invited to the installation of the Rev. Dr. Kate Cress as rector at St. James’ in-the-City Episcopal Church, 3903 Wilshire Blvd. at a Candlemas celebration Sat., Feb. 2 at 11 a.m.

Rev. Dr. Kate Cress was chosen as the 10th rector for the historic church in August. The church vestry sifted through 22 possible candidates and three finalists before Cress was selected.

Prior to her ordination in 2009, Cress was a social scientist and teacher. She holds a doctor of educational leadership degree from Harvard University, a master of arts in teaching from Brown University, and a master of divinity degree from Boston University. Previously, she served as a rector in Somerset, Mass.

She has also lived in Botswana, South Africa, Uganda and Korea. She said last August that she was looking forward to being involved with the

REV. DR. Kate Cress is the 10th rector at St. James’ inthe-City Episcopal Church.

multicultural congregation at St. James’.

Cress, referred to in the invitation as Mother Kate, encourages those attending her installation to wear the traditional dress of their home culture.

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New student contest to name subway machines

LOCAL RESIDENTS give Metro suggestions to improve the countywide bus network at a workshop held at West Hollywood‘s Plummer Park Jan. 9.

Metro

(Continued from page 3) and offered their own suggestions by pinning Post-It Notes on maps of the county.

The Metro study began in the spring of 2018, and a new bus service plan is anticipated for rollout as early as December 2019. Metro reports that a number of recurring themes have evolved from stakeholder

comments. Being addressed in the study are issues such as equity, customer experience, accessibility, connectivity, schedules, and community engagement.

The Thurs., Jan. 31 meeting takes place in Inglewood from 4 to 7 p.m. The Wed., Feb. 6 meeting takes place in Van Nuys, also from 4 to 7 p.m.

Detailed information is available at metro.net/nextgen.

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) invites Los Angeles County students to name and provide art for two additional tunnel boring machines (TBMs) being added to the Purple Line Extension Transit Project.

Students from kindergarten to BORING MACHINES for subway tunnels fifth grade can have giant cutter heads. This one is cutting submit drawings away under Wilshire Blvd. between La Brea and Western Avenues. to illustrate their communities under which Fairfax High School freshman the TBMs will bore.

Marianne Gutierrez last June) Students from sixth to 12th in digging Section One of the grade can submit two sug- Purple Line Extension Project gested names, one for each (Western Ave. to La Cienega of the two new machines, ac- Blvd). Deadline for submiscompanied by a 200-word es- sions is Fri., March 15. For say or a two-minute video. more information, visit metThe new TBMs will join “El- ro.net/projects/purple-linesie” and “Soyeon” (named by extension-tbm.

Barbara Yaroslavsky

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MAJOR THEMES for the NextGen bus study have evolved from workshops held all over Los Angeles County.

plus grandchildren, nieces and nephews also survive Barbara. John Edelston and Shimona Kushner were among the speakers at Barbara’s funeral, as was Mayor Eric Garcetti.

Of his longtime friend, Barbara, the mayor said, “Our city has lost a guiding light …

Barbara Yaroslavsky was that light, somebody who never held back; she didn’t keep her light inside of her; she shared it; she let it out. So what do we do at this moment? We repay her kindness by doing just that. To honor the lessons and the love and the life of Barbara Yaroslavsky by letting everybody see through your window. To find the love in every person in every act, in every day and, like Barbara did, get the job done! Barbara, you got the job done. I know you had many more jobs left, but we will do them for you.”

The family has indicated that donations in Barbara’s honor may be made to the Saban Community Clinic at sabancommunityclinic.org.

Greater Wilshire Candidate Forum Feb. 13, election Mar. 31

The Los Angeles City Clerk has certified 30 candidates who signed up, prior to the mid-January deadline, to run for election for a two-year term on the Board of Directors of the Greater Wilshire neighborhood Council (GWNC).

The 21-member board has a director for each of 15 residential areas and six specialinterest directors, one each for residential renters, businesses, educational institutions, religious organizations, other nonprofit organizations, and at-large.

A GWNC Candidate Forum is Wed., Feb. 13 at 6:30 p.m. at The Ebell, 743 S. Lucerne Blvd. Stakeholders age 18 and over — who live, work, or own property within the Greater Wilshire boundaries — are eligible to vote on Mar. 31.

For GWNC boundaries and the complete list of candidates as well as other GWNC election information, see: greaterwilshire.org/2019-elections.

GWNC drought tolerance talk

Hear Marilee Kuhlmann speak on drought tolerant gardens at a Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council Environment and Sustainability Committee meeting at Marlborough School, 250 S. Rossmore Ave., Tues., Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. Kuhlmann is president of Urban Water Group, Inc., a landscape architecture design firm. She will discuss keeping a garden lush on a minimal amount of water.

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Miramar Beach Hotel (Continued from page 10) to, now, the gorgeous American Riviera in Montecito.”

Q: What were your initial thoughts when you first arrived at the site of the new Miramar?

A: “I was in complete awe!

There is nothing like Rosewood Miramar Beach anywhere else in the world. From the picture-perfect coastline, to the lush grounds and the residential design and feel of the property that is both glamorous and yet still so warmly inviting — it is truly unparalleled. The rich heritage and spirit of Miramar is evident with every turn. Details like framed archival photographs and the “Miramar Blue” crystal that have been discretely placed within custom chandeliers give the resort a very unique and special feel.”

Q: What can Angelenos expect from a weekend escape to the Miramar Beach Hotel?

A: “At only 90 miles away, Angelenos will be delighted to spend the weekend at this incredible, idyllic seaside retreat that offers the very best in luxury accommodations, dining, spa, beach, service and activities. Upon stepping through the solid oak door of the Manor House, guests can enjoy cocktails and refreshments before being escorted to one of the resort’s 161 guest rooms and suites.

“Beyond the comforts of their accommodations, guests can choose between the calm waters of the property’s two

refreshing swimming pools and the waves of the Pacific.

And for those looking for less sun and sea, our Sense Spa will offer a full menu of services for mind, body and spirit. Rosewood Miramar Beach will be a true respite from the city, designed to make everyone feel at home — only more spectacular.”

Q: How is the Miramar different from other resorts in the region?

A: “We are very fortunate to be the only resort in Southern California that sits directly on the beach, which is a breathtaking way to experience Montecito. Our resort will also offer a robust amount of programming, not just for our guests, but for our local community as well. Our hope is that the property will once again become a treasured place for all to visit and create memories as we unveil a beautiful new chapter for this storied retreat.”

Q: Is there one experience at the resort that you can recommend?

A: “It is difficult to pick only one! My recommendation for those stopping by for a visit would be to join us for lunch or dinner at Caruso’s, our beachfront-dining destination. Our incredible executive chef Massimo Falsini is using the best of local produce and highest quality ingredients sustainably sourced from neighboring farms, fishermen, and purveyors to bring a taste of Southern Italy to coastal Montecito. The stun-

Park La Brea residents nominate directors, hear about development

Park LaBrea Residents Association (PLBRA) president Bernie Clinch oversaw the group’s annual meeting held Jan. 13 in the Activity Center Theater of the sprawling apartment complex, the largest west of the Mississippi. Vice president Kenna Marshall and secretarytreasurer Col. Donald Harris helped oversee the meeting.

Those three and new board nominees Michaelann Easten and Robert Shore, who were nominated from the floor at the meeting, will be on the ballot being circulated to all duespaid members this month.

Col. Harris gave a financial report for the year just end-

ed, and Pres. Clinch described the major advocacy and other activities undertaken on behalf of residents.

Special guests at the meeting included Councilman David Ryu and about a dozen representatives from shopping center operator Regency Centers and apartment builder and operator Holland Partner Group. The latter guests previewed their evolving plans for the former Kmart site along Third Street, across from The Grove. The upcoming “Miracle Mile” edition of the Larchmont Chronicle will elaborate upon these proposals in March.

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POLICE BEAT Property crime down in January, but stay diligent

WILSHIRE DIVISION ROBBERIES: A bag, wallet and clothing were stolen from a man walking near the corner of La Brea Avenue and Clinton Street at 11:30 p.m. on Jan. 19 after a suspect approached the victim with a gun and demanded his belongings.

The Bank of America located on the 400 block of N. La Brea Ave. was robbed on Jan. 18 at 1:50 p.m. after a suspect used a note to demand cash.

THEFT: A bag of consumable goods was stolen from a porch to a backdoor entry of a home located on the 100 block of Larchmont Blvd. between Jan 13 at 4 p.m. and Jan. 14 at 12:10 a.m.

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Located at 5635 Melrose Ave., the new retailer, Melrose Place 25 Cap, is housed in a unit within the Melrose Gallery and Antiques building, which sits at the intersection of Larchmont Boulevard and Melrose Avenue.

Operation of businesses for commercial cannabis activity is regulated by the Dept. of Cannabis Regulation (DCR) of the City of Los Angeles.

According to the DCR website, Melrose Place 25 Cap has not been granted either temporary approval or a license to engage in cannabis activity.

A local business-owner and resident, who asked not to be named, filed an official complaint with the DCR on Jan.

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(Continued from page 1) Bentley, a screenwriter, says that he remembers that he and Gilman were at a Larchmont Boulevard Association board cocktail party after the Larchmont Family Fair. He and she were discussing, if he did write a column for the paper, what would it be called. Bentley said someone else joked that Bentley thought he “knew everything,” so make the title about that. “Mr. Know-It-All” quickly morphed into “Professor Know-It-All,” and Bentley’s column answering questions on the history behind words and word phrases was born.

First column The first column appeared on p. 16 of the first section in the February 1988 issue.

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The complaint received a response from deputy city attorney Craig Miller, assigned to the Marijuana Enforcement Unit of the office of Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer.

Miller wrote that he would forward the complaint to the Hollywood Community Police Station.

“The existence of unlawful dispensaries is frustrating for the citizens and business ownthe professor kicked off the column with three queries he himself was curious about: 1) Why are there 18 holes in golf? That’s where a quart of malt liquor ran out when the committee to standardize the game of golf was measuring the course.

2) Why do we color code boy babies blue and girl babies pink? Bentley’s answer was that boys were considered more valuable than girl babies, and the color blue was believed to repel evil spirits. Later on, pink was chosen for girls to show how much “happier and healthier” they were than boys.

3) Why is tape called “Scotch” tape? According to Bentley, it was originally supposed to be masking tape for painting cars, but it was too expensive.

When the 3M Company tried to make it more affordable by moving the adhesive to only the edges, the result was a “fiasco,” said Bentley. Angry automakers called the company “Scotch,” or cheap. Even though 3M changed the tape back, the name stuck.

At the end of that first column, the professor declared, “don’t spend another night pondering the imponderable,” and he asked readers to mail in their “burning questions” in care of the Larchmont Chronicle.

Since then, Bentley has been answering an average of four queries each month, which he says comes out to 1,488 questions over the past 31 years.

Although the column was published in Section One of the paper in 1988, by the end of the first year, it had found a comfortable home in the back of the second section, where it can be found today.

What’s in a query?

When asked about questions he’s received over the years, Bentley says some readers have sent him science ques-

ers affected by the unpermitted locations,” Miller acknowledged in his response. In regards to enforcement of the law, however, Miller was less informative: “LAPD takes appropriate enforcement action as time, resources and the law allows.”

Spokesman for the City Attorney’s office, Frank Mateljan, confirmed to the Chronicle on Jan. 23 that his office “has received referrals on that location and they are currently under review.”

Until then, Melrose Place 25 Cap is open and operating.

PROFESSOR KNOW-IT-ALL, also known as Bill Bentley, as he first appeared in the Larchmont Chronicle in 1988.

tions, and he reminds them that he deals with the origins of words and phrases. If he gets repeat questions, he emails them back directly with the original answer and the issue it appeared in.

So far, says Bentley, he has never been stumped when asked a question. He’s developed a resourceful research library over the years, and he always traces the question back to the oldest source he can find, to ensure the most accurate (and interesting) answer.

The most interesting and complex question he’s had — so interesting that Gilman reprised it in the July 2014 issue of the Chronicle — was the history behind the term “charley horse” for a knotted muscle. The answer is a “knotty” twist of the amorous habits of England’s King Charles II, which led to the term for women’s breasts (at the time, “charleys”), the shifting of the definition to include “milk,” and the appearance of old horses (with knotted muscles, etc.) used to pull milk wagons.

Read Professor Know-ItAll’s column every month on the second-to-last page of Section Two.

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Above: COMMUNITY LEADERS listen to Frank, a formerly homeless person, describe his path to recovery through permanent supportive housing.

Right: FRONTLINE storyteller organizers Allison Schallert, left, and Marilyn Wells, right, describe their project at the gathering to discuss how to help address homelessness.

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(Continued from page 1) laway from Episcopal School Los Angeles. Also participating were Sarah Dusseault, incoming chair of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, Chris Ko from United Way, Jill Bauman from Imagine LA, Meridyth Ecker from Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Margaret MacDonald from Homeless Outreach at St. James’ inthe-City, and Allison Schallert, Geraldeen Hurley, Shannon Hardin, Clare Sebenius and Julie Hogenboom.

Much information was shared about attendees’ organizations’ existing outreach programs, plans for the future, and community needs that

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(Continued from page 26) on the 400 block of S. Detroit St. on Jan. 18 at 4:30 p.m.

OLYMPIC DIVISION BURGLARIES: It is unknown if property was taken after a homeowner reported that entry had been made to her residence through a locked window on the 200 block of N. St. Andrews Pl. on Jan. 7 at noon.

A rock was thrown at the glass front door of the Eastern Presbyterian Church located at the corner of 6th Street and Norton Avenue on Jan. 8 at 2:55 a.m.

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lowing Feuer’s election.

Clark is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and has handled a multitude of complex civil litigation matters in California and federal courts. In the City Attorney’s office, Clark serves (along with the chief of staff) as the second-in-command to Feuer, overseeing 520 lawyers, approximately 220 of whom are prosecutors. There also are nearly 400 non-lawyer staff members in the office.

must be addressed to assist the population, including women and children, living on nearby streets.

There was a consensus after discussion that the simple act of reaching out, of being hospitable, can go a long way toward solving the homelessness problem.

Specific outcomes of the meeting include initiating trainings and events to provide information about the housing solutions that already exist and that are being developed and implemented by the City of Los Angeles.

Neighbors interested in more information may contact Marilyn Wells and Allison Schallert at “Stories from the Frontline:” storiesfrontline.org.

was proud to work with the Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council in January to bring the city’s Dept. of Transportation together with the community and Rob Fisher from my staff to discuss the future of transportation, how the department operates, and how community members can most effectively advocate for their needs. It was a productive forum, and I look forward to bringing more city departments directly to the community to demystify the city bureaucracy and process.

Our community is incredibly lucky, 57 years on, to have community papers and groups working on behalf of their neighbors. If you aren’t yet, I encourage you to get involved with your local homeowners’ association, business improvement district, or neighborhood council.

One of the best ways to

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be involved is to learn more about the candidates running to represent your community and then vote in your local neighborhood council election this spring. You can find election dates and more information about neighborhood councils at EmpowerLA.org.

HONOREE Steve Kramer, president of the Miracle Mile Chamber, was named a Trailblazer at the second annual awards fest last month. Read all about it in the Miracle Mile edition in next month’s Larchmont Chronicle.

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ing at a property on the 400 block of N. Norton Ave., met a girl while out clubbing and brought her to his rental for the night. When he woke up the next morning, Jan. 10 at 7 a.m., the girl was gone and so was his $8,000 Rolex watch.

The legal matters that Clark oversees include representing and advising the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles Fire Department, the nation’s largest public utility, (LADWP), the country’s largest port (in San Pedro), Los Angeles International Airport, and the legal affairs of the mayor and city council of the country’s second largest city, which itself employs approximately 40,000 individuals.

Clark and his wife, Peggy Jo, have lived in the local community since 1985.

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At long last Griffith Par gets its o n e hibition

By Sondi Toll Sepenuk How well do you think you know Griffith Park? Well, did you know that there was once an airfield inside the park? Or how about a speakeasy for golfers during the Great Depression? You probably knew about the ostrich farm, right? And the prison farm? Or what about that small town, called Rodger Young Village, which housed over 6,000 people (military veterans and their families) for seven years after World War II? Do you know about its darker history? That thousands of Los Angeles citizens of Japanese ancestry were sent to a detention camp in Griffith Park after the bombing of Pearl Harbor? Or that a Memorial Day riot erupted at the Merry-go-Round in 1961 when an African-American youth, after having challenged the practice of reserving the Merry-go-Round for white families, was accused of boarding the ride without a ticket? You surely know that Griffith Park, clocking in at more than 4,200 acres, dwarfs Manhattan’s 840acre Central Park, right?

125th anniversary If you didn’t know these things, and even if you did, you’re in for a treat: As the park readies for its 125th anni-

HOLLYWOOD SIGN can be seen from the park.

Photo by Tom LaBonge

versary in 2021, The Autry Museum of the American West, which resides in Griffith Park, has decided to give the park its well-deserved due, creating a community-driven, permanent exhibition that explores the creation, history, nature, wildlife and usage of one of the world’s great city parks.

“We were looking at ideas for our next exhibition,” says Carolyn Brucken, Senior Curator and Curator of Western Women’s History, “and we thought, ‘let’s look in our own backyard’ as a way to talk about California, its history and its people.”

As that germ of an idea

grew, the scope of the project grew with it, leading to the current “Investigating Griffith Park” temporary exhibition.

Community input “We realized that we needed the community’s input to create it,” says Brucken, “so we decided we should start a conversation about the history and meaning of Griffith Park, and we would build out by getting input from the hundreds of visitors who come to the museum every day.”

The first phase of the exhibition, known as “Phase I: Discovery,” is up and running as we speak. Visitors to the muse-

um can currently walk through a temporary gallery, exploring pictures, objects and history, while also participating in discussions, archiving their own memories of the park, showcasing ideas, and partaking in hands-on activities in order to explore, test ideas and share thoughts with the museum as the staff investigates what makes Griffith Park a unique part of Los Angeles.

“We are in the incubator phase,” says Sarah Wilson, Education Curator. “And this is very unusual for a museum to do this type of exhibition outreach. The process for creating and developing exhibitions usually happens underground and behind closed doors.

“We want to make this input multigenerational,” continues Wilson. “We want to create a space for people to interact and to engage, whether they are two years old or 92 years old.”

“Nine-year-olds have just as strong opinions as adults,” laughs Brucken.

Donated in 1896 The park’s original 3,000 acres were donated to the city of Los Angeles by Griffith J. Griffith and Christina Griffith in 1896, on the condition that the land be used as a free public park. “It must be made a

place of recreation and rest for the masses, a resort for the rank and file, for the plain people,” directed Griffith for his donation.

Today, Griffith Park includes a 1926 Spillman carousel, pony rides, multiple golf courses, several rare wild gray foxes, coyotes, deer, coast horned lizards, rattlesnakes, the Greek Theatre, Griffith Park Observatory, Travel Town trains, the Los Angeles Zoo, rare plant species, the Hollywood sign, a bachelor mountain lion known as P-22, and over 53 miles of hiking trails.

Hiker LaBonge “I’ve hiked there every day for the last 41 years,” says former 4th District City Councilman Tom LaBonge, who grew up in the shadow of Griffith Park and wakes up each morning to catch the sunrise above the city. “If you look out from Mt. Hollywood, you can see four national forests: the Los Padres National Forest, the Angeles National Forest, the San Bernardino National Forest and the Cleveland National Forest.”

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Larry Guzin Another avid local hiker is Windsor Square Association President Larry Guzin, who chooses the evening hours to trek the park.

“When I get to the top of Mt. Hollywood,” says Guzin, “I can see the wonderful canopy of trees that covers Larchmont, Windsor Square and Hancock Park.”

Guzin, like LaBonge, also grew up with the park at his doorstep.

“I ran cross country in high school through the park, earned Boy Scout merit badges in the park, and even used the park to train for nine treks through the Himalayas.” For the last decade, Guzin has led over 300 Sierra Club hikes throughout the park two times per week.

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ground,” says Guzin. “This is a town with many, many amusements, but for those of us who like to walk, we become devotees and hope other people will want to walk and take advantage of the wilderness in such a major metropolis.”

Exhibit Phase I These are the stories and observations that curators Brucken and Wilson want to hear. The Autry’s Phase I includes Question and Answer boards such as “What is a Park to You?” and “What Do You Like To Do in Griffith Park?”

The answers from anonymous visitors are as varied as “A reminder that we are nature,” to “A place my kids can play free and explore their abilities…” to “a place where my ancestors once walked. We are on native land.”

Walking through Phase I, visitors will see information on the park’s history,

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both known and lost, wildlife, native plants, the Tongva Native Americans, and even the movie industry, where Griffith Park holds the honor of playing background in Cecil B. DeMille’s 1913 silent feature film “The Squaw Man,” which gave birth to Hollywood and the Southern California film industry.

Phases II and III “‘A rock is a rock, a tree is a tree. Shoot it in Griffith Park,’ goes an old Hollywood industry saying,” reads one sign in the exhibition.

The community’s answers to Phase I’s questions will lead to Phase II of the exhibition, which will involve “idea testing” based on the previous community input. The final phase, Phase III, the permanent exhibition, will open in connection with the 125th anniversary of Griffith Park in 2021-2022.

“This is an ongoing, living space,” says Brucken. “You can use Griffith Park to explore all of California history and politics.”

As Ruben Martinez of the “Los Angeles Times” once not-

ed, “The history of Griffith Park is a faithful mirror for the history of the city.”

While exploring the history of the park, the curators at the Autry also want to build (Please turn to page 4)

ANIMALS Section of Phase I showcases and provides informai i r a i a a r i i ri Park i c i a i a r i i c r

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Left: QUONSET HUTS were all-purpose, prefabricated buildings made of corrugated steel that were built in Rodger Young Village (1947-1954) for military veterans and their families after WWII. Each home was 80 feet x 20 feet. An unfurnished unit cost $34 per month. Open to all veterans, Rodger Young Village became one of the most racially diverse neighborhoods in Los Angeles during this era.

Griffith Park

(Continued from page 3) up Griffith Park’s archives.

“There is very little published about Griffith Park,” explains Brucken. “We want to encourage research and preserve everything for future scholars,

students and the community.”

The future of the park weighs heavily on everyone’s minds.

“Personally,” says Guzin, “I would like to emphasize keeping the park a wilderness — to discourage human intervention other than maintenance.”

Deasy Penner Podley’s 12th real estate office to open in former Lipson building

Another real estate brokerage office is opening on Larchmont Blvd. between First and Beverly. Hot on the heels of the new Compass Realty office, real estate firm Deasy Penner Podley is opening its 12th office at 132 N. Larchmont Blvd.

The space is a former, and long-vacant, State Farm insurance office, just south of Vincent Hair Artistry.

Emphasizing architectural, luxury and historic properties, the brokerage firm has a staff

of 300 sales professionals who cover the areas from Malibu to Palm Springs.

In September, Deasy Penner acquired Pasadena-based Podley Properties. The combined firm is led by Mike Deasy, chairman, and George Penner, chief executive officer.

The brokerage joins Coldwell Banker and Keller Williams, plus Compass, within this long block. Hancock Homes and Hollywoodland Realty are north of Beverly.

COLLAGE of birthday posters “left behind” have been gathr a .

LaBonge also encourages thoughtful planning on behalf of the park.

“Public parks are very important and special,” says LaBonge. “Our parks will be used more and more in the future, and we need to join groups, like the Los Angeles Parks Foundation, to support our parks… [and] I’d like to

“IF YOU LOOK out from Mt. Hollywood, you can see four national forests,” says former City Councilman Tom LaBonge.

SIERRA CLUB leader Larry Guzin, front left, and a group of hikers take a break en route to Mt. Hollywood.

give a big 10-gallon ‘hats off’ to the Autry Museum for its inclusivity of outreach for this exhibition.”

For more information on

Investigating Griffith Park or to submit your own ideas about the exhibition, visit the museum itself or go to theautry.org.

GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY with a view of the city skyline.

Photo by Tom LaBonge

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What God hath intended: jellies, jams

Pectin makes it all possible. Pectin is one of God’s best ideas, purveyed in fruity packages. No question: God intended us to have jellies and jams and marmalade. This is why I take my marmalade straight, by the spoonful. To that end, my friend and I, in Los Angeles, set out to make marmalade, inspired by a perfect bitter orange marmalade we had eaten in Mexico.

Marmalade in our day carries its own definition, which is a conserve of oranges. But in Europe until the 18th century, the word marmalade, when used by itself, according to British food historian C. Anne Wilson, meant only one thing: a marmalade of

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Home Ground by

Paula Panich quinces.

The word for “quince,” in Portuguese, is marmelo.

Homemade preserves were known in Roman times; Greek physicians were convinced of the efficacy of quince to aid digestion; Dioscordes recommended it for dysentery and complaints of the liver and kidneys. His recipe for kudonites, made with quince, pops up in Tudor and Stuart

recipes as “quidony of quinces.”

Marmalade of quinces was prepared dry, and cut, as you would a pie. It was the result of the discovery that cooked fruit combined with sugar (honey) and acid (vinegar) would result in a solid, thick, leathery and delicious substance.

You can buy the offspring of this idea in quince paste from Spain, membrillo, to be eaten with cheese.

Now where was I? Yes, looking for a bridge to take us from quince to orange marmalade. Wilson’s “The Book of Marmalade” (1985, 1999) shows the way.

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Love letter to preservation and architecture in time for Valentine’s Day

In 1965, two eminent architectural historians, David Gebhard of UC Santa Barbara and Robert Winter of Occidental College, produced the local region’s first guide to significant architecture, “An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles.”

It was “the 1960s,” and the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage ordinance was only three years old. People were just beginning to talk about how

to protect important buildings of past eras. Development was in full swing as the population of postwar Los Angeles continued to grow. The book, designed to fit in the glove compartment of your car, was published by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (If you have one, it is a collector’s item now and very rare).

The book divided Southern California into 14 areas, then

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“It is the intention of the authors,” said its preface, “to give a broad cross-section of the variety of architecture to be found in Los Angeles and throughout Southern California. Our main interest is in those buildings that critics and architects have considered to be significant. But we have also tried to indicate the representative and the scandalous, as well as the beautiful.”

“Gebhard and Winter,” as the tome is PUBLISHED DECEMBER 2018, “An Arknown to many, quick- chitectural Guidebook to Los Angeles,” ly became a revered by Robert Winter, David Gebhard and reference for archi- Robert Inman, Angel City Press, 6th editectural historians tion. and preservationists.

The publication has seen six Dubbed “the Bible” for many editions (1965, 1977, 1985, years, a citation in the book 1994, 2003 and 2018) in more was one benchmark establish- than 50 years. Gebhard died ing a building’s significance in in 1996; Winter continued the absence of formal archi- to update and edit. For the tectural inventories and stud- 2018 edition, he chose as his ies (methods of identification collaborator one of his forthat did not come to promi- mer students at Occidental nence until a decade later). College and an author in his Winter disavowed the notion, own right, Robert Inman. In saying, “It’s by two guys; it’s this latest edition, there are their personal opinions; that’s more than 450 new entries for all.” But it wasn’t all, because structures built before 2003 of course, Professor Winter is and 200 new entries for strucone of the foremost experts on tures built after 2003, for a the built environment who we total of more than 2,300 sites. have, and at 94 he still knows Winter’s work comprises how to tell the story better a love letter to Los Angethan anyone. Every lecture les, perhaps one of the lonhe gave was witty and memo- gest running Valentines ever. rable, and his pithy comments Share the new guide with as a commissioner of both your loved ones. Happy Valthe Pasadena and Los Ange- entines Day, Bob (and Bob)! les cultural heritage commis- Your gift to us is enormous, sions are unforgettable. and we thank you.

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Tea and history at Bullocks Wilshire with WS-HPHS

Members and guests of the Windsor Square-Hancock Park Historical Society can visit Bullocks Wilshire, a former shopping mecca and now a law school, on Sun., Feb. 10 starting at 2 p.m.

The event, at the Southwestern Law School, 3050 Wilshire Blvd., will be held in the former Louis XVI salon where, in the 1920s through the 1940s, the store’s patrons were shown the latest couturier designs, said Richard Bagttaglia, president of the WS-HPHS. “In the 1950s it became the fur salon where [allegedly] Judy Garland fell asleep in a dressing room with nothing on but a sable coat and an empty martini glass,” he added.

Historian Steven Gee will speak on his book, “Los Angeles City Hall: An American Icon.” A native of England, Gee has also written books on Los Angeles architect John Parkinson and the Los Angeles Central Library.

Myrna Gintel and Ellen Grosser are co-chairwomen. Committee members are Juanita Kempe, Marlene Zwieg, Connie Richey, Fluff McLean, Richard Battaglia, Beate Kessler McDermott,

LOUIS XVI salon is in the Bullocks Wilshire building.

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New Pavilion in park planned to help tell Holocaust story

By Suzan Filipek Plans are underway to build a pavilion at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust on Grove Drive, south of the existing museum in Pan Pacific Park.

The pavilion will expand the footprint of the existing museum. Together they “will help shape the future of not only this institution but of our greater community as a whole,” museum board member and architect Hagy Belzberg said in a six-minute video recently released by the museum.

Belzberg designed the original 32,000-square-foot museum that opened in 2010, and has produced the initial drawings for the planned new pavilion.

The new pavilion is aimed to help welcome an increase in visitors, many of whom are students.

Last year, a record 62,000

adults and children, including 20,000 students, visited the site, a 20 percent increase from the year before.

The facility is the oldest Holocaust survivor-founded museum in the United States.

There, survivors of the World War II Holocaust meet with the students, give talks and tours, and tell first-hand of their experiences.

“A switch goes off” for many of the students after they visit the site, said Beth Kean, museum executive director; many of the students are the same age as when the survivors experienced the Holocaust, she explained.

The new pavilion will allow for more space for special events and temporary exhibits, and it will serve as a reflective space for students.

“The goal of the museum is to commemorate, to educate and to inspire,” said president Paul Nussbaum.

NEW PAVILION proposed at Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. (Existing building upper right.)

Admission is always free, because the founders never wanted anyone to be turned away for lack of funds.

“It’s all about living history.

It’s not static and it’s not simply something that happened in the past and won’t ever hap-

VIEW FROM Grove Dr. of proposed Pavilion, overlooking Pan Pacific Park.

Renderings by Belzberg Architects

pen again,” said Marlborough student Dorrit Corwin.

“What makes our museum unique is that we teach the Holocaust through artifacts and oral testimonies,” said Kean.

“Our founding survivors donated our first collection of artifacts” after settling in Los Angeles.

They founded the museum in 1961, and, after several moves, the permanent home was built.

Museum leaders believe that education is the best de-

fense against bigotry and intolerance. “While we cannot change the past we can make a difference for the future,” said board member Michele Gold.

“In the rich tapestry that is Los Angeles, where we celebrate so many diverse cultures and backgrounds, it is crucial that we have the museum here,” said Councilman David Ryu. The timing of construction of the new pavilion is also in line with the recent renovation and update of Pan Pacific Park playing fields, Ryu said.

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‘Night of Ideas’ at Natural History Museum, and worldwide topic of choice before the next rotation.

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In collaboration with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, the Institut Français and local partners, the Museum, at 900 Exposition Blvd., is hosting one part of a five-city U.S. series of all-night marathons that celebrate the ideas between countries, cultures and generations.

This year’s theme, “Facing Our Time,” explores climate change and global ecological challenges through the lenses of science, nature and art.

Each space within the museum will host a range of different activities that are free to the public.

“Night” will include panels, mini-talks and speeches from Acting Paris Mayor Christophe Girard, President of the French National Museum of Natural History Bruno David, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Robert Lempert. Talks will cover topics from the effects of climate change on your wallet to the human ability to adapt to extreme climates.

“It is an honor to partner with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County to host the annual Night of Ideas festival,” said Christophe Lemoine, Consul General of France in Los Angeles.

Lucy Jones conducts Led by seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones, the city’s only community baroque orchestra, Los Angeles Baroque, will start the evening in the North American Mammal Hall with a discussion and orchestral performance about climate change.

Also within the North American Mammal Hall, musicians Jónsi, Alex Somers and Paul Corley will present “Liminal Soundbath,” an intimate musical experience for listeners on a first-come, firstserved basis. Attendees will lie on mats and listen to a soundscape of wildlife recordings, such as gray wolves, caribou and polar bears, specially adapted to the space.

French vegan stylist Emmanuelle Rienda and creative agency Le Frenchlab organized a vegan fashion show to kick off Vegan Fashion Week. Rienda, the Creative Director and Founder of Vegan Fashion Week, will also curate a panel about the future of cruelty-free fashion.

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People who play cue bid limit raises usually have the understanding that the bid shows that you have a limit raise or better in your hand.

So you can make a cue bid with a huge hand, knowing that it forces your partner to bid and you’ll get another bid.

Another advantage of this bid is that you can then make a jump bid to show a weak hand with a lot of Spades.

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Hand 2: 3 Spades. A weak hand, but your extra Spade makes it prime for a preemptive call taking bidding space away from opponents.

Hand 3: 2 Clubs, showing a limit raise of 11 points (10 HCP and 1 shortness point for the doubleton).

Hand 4: 2 Clubs. You have a huge hand and maybe slam, but by cue bidding opponents’ suit you force partner to bid again and then you can decide where to play. If partner rebids Spades at the two level, you will just close out in game, but if she jumps or bids another suit, that shows she has a good suit and

you should explore for slam.

When you are the overcaller and your partner makes a cue bid limit raise, if you have overcalled a hand that is not an opening hand, you just rebid your suit at the cheapest level, and that tells partner to pass. If, however, you have a legitimate opening hand, you should jump the bidding one step (bidding 3 Spades instead of 2) or, if you have another good 4-card suit, you may bid that to show game interest. If partner has just a minimum limit raise (10-12 HCP), she would pass your jump bid or bid your suit at the cheapest level if you have bid a new suit.

This also works if your partner opens the bidding and your RHO overcalls: LHO Pass

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A bid of 2 Spades by you would show at least 3 Spades and 6-9 HCP. If you have a limit raise or better, you would bid 3 Clubs, the cue bid limit raise.

If you have a weak hand with 4 or more trumps, you would jump to 3 Spades.

Grand Slam is the nom de plume for an author of a bestselling book on bridge, an ACBL accredited director and a Silver Life Master.

Museums open doors in annual ‘Free-For-All’ day Feb. 2, Feb. 3

Museums around Southern California are participating in the annual “Free-for-All” day Sat., Feb. 2 and Sun., Feb. 3.

Local sites offering free admission on Saturday include the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (pop-up via Los Angeles County Museum of Art), The Autry, Descanso Gardens, La Brea Tar Pits and Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Skirball Cultural Center and Zimmer Children’s Museum will have free admission on Sunday.

The Broad, California Science Center, Craft Contemporary (formerly the Craft and Folk Art Museum), The Getty Center and Getty Villa, Hammer Museum and Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust will

have free admission both days.

Visit socalmuseums.org/freefor-all.

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View 10 innovative and groundbreaking race cars at “Winning Numbers: The First, The Fastest, The Famous” exhibit at Petersen Automotive Museum, 6060 Wilshire Blvd., beginning Sat., Feb. 23. The exhibit will feature groundbreaking vehicles from road, endurance, land speed and drag racing collected by Petersen Founding chairman Bruce Meyer.

A reception Fri., Feb. 22 includes a question and answer session with Meyer. Tickets are $100. Visit petersen.org/ events.

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You can bid 2 Clubs, opponents’ opening bid suit! This shows your partner that you have a limit raise in the suit she overcalled.

The advantage of this is that you don’t know if she overcalled with an opening hand or a minimum 8-point hand.

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Masters of American West to open at Autry Museum exhibit Paintings and sculptures by 64 new and returning artists will be featured in the 22nd annual Masters of the American West Art Exhibition and Sale opening Sat., Feb. 9, at the Autry Museum of the American West, 4700 Western Heritage Way. A ticketed opening-day program includes presentations by artists and an awards “chuck wagon” luncheon. A cocktail reception and art sale follow.

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Attracting birds to the garden Valentines, tea at Arboretum

Learn which native plants attract songbirds and hummingbirds to the garden at a workshop at the Theodore Payne Foundation, 10459 Tuxford St., Sun Valley, Sat., Feb. 16, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m..

Horticulturist and garden writer Lili Singer and landscaper Steve Gerischer will provide an illustrated lecture with handouts. Tickets are $25 for members and $35 for nonmembers.

For more information, call 818-768-1802 or go to theodorepayne.org.

Bring the family for an educational walk and tea in honor of Valentine’s Day at Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens at 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia Sun., Feb. 10.

The tea will begin with a walk to explore the herb garden and other fragrant edible

‘Year of Pig,’ Lunar New Year at Farmers Market, Grove See Chinese dragon and lion dances, K-pop dance performances, martial arts demonstrations and more at the Lunar New Year Celebration for the Year of the Pig at the Orig-

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View and discuss the documentary “Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart” at Wilshire branch library, 149 N. St. Andrews Pl., Sat., Feb. 9 from 2 to 4 p.m.

The film, shown in honor of African-American Heritage Month, is based on the life of Lorraine Hansberry, author of “A Raisin in the Sun,” and the first black female author to have a play performed on Broadway.

Tanya White, co-artistic director of the Santa Monica Repertory Theater, will lead the discussion.

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Valentine’s Day at Fairfax library

Kids can create a Valentine’s Day craft sculpture at the Fairfax branch library, 161 S. Gardner St., Wed., Feb. 13 and Thurs., Feb. 14 at 4:30 p.m.

The project includes sculpting a clay figure for a friend or family member on Wednesday, and then coming back to paint and finish it on Thursday, to take home.

Kids learning to read can practice with a therapy dog for Valentine’s Day, Thurs., Feb. 14 at 4 p.m.

For more information, call 323-933-8146.

Chinese New Year, camellias, bonsai at the Huntington

Celebrate Chinese New Year, visit a camellia show and see a variety of bonsai trees this month at Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino.

See lion dancers, martial arts demonstrations and mask-changing performances at the lunar New Year celebration for the Year of the Pig Sat., Feb. 2 and Sun., Feb. 3 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Shop for camellia plants and get tips on cultivation at the 47th annual camellia show cosponsored by the Southern California Camellia Society Sat., Feb. 9 from 1 to 5 p.m. and Sun., Feb. 10 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Visit a bonsai bazaar, see exhibits of miniature trees and demonstrations on care and cultivation at the annual Bonsai-a-thon Sat., Feb. 23 and Sun., Feb. 24 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

For more information visit huntington.org.

Visitors can enjoy monthly evening visits at Descanso Gardens, 1418 Descanso Dr., La Cañada Flintridge, beginning Sat., Feb. 9.

The debut evening, “Campfire Stories,” will have a shadow puppet theater, star talks on winter constellations, live music, craft activities and hot chocolate, s’mores and more available for purchase from Patina.

Other dates for NightGarden include “Plant Power” on March 16, “LA Blooms” on April 6 and “Science Quest” on May 18. Tickets are $5 for members and $15 for nonmembers.

Camellia shows See camellia exhibits and learn about the care and cultivation of the camellia, as well as its use in teas, at two camellia shows this month at Descanso Gardens. Visit descansogardens.org.

Road Scholar series at Fremont

Seniors who enjoy traveling can learn about the Road Scholar travel program opportunities at a lecture at the Fremont branch library, 6121 Melrose Ave., Sat., Feb. 16 at 2 p.m.

Part of the not-for-profit Elderhostel, Inc., the programs offer educational travel experiences for groups, couples and solo travelers ages 60 and up.

For more information, call 323-962-3521 or email the speaker, Jill Swaim, at jswaim1@aol.com.

Podcasts explained at Memorial library

Learn how to host, produce and create your own podcast at a workshop at the Memorial branch library, 4625 W. Olympic Blvd., Sat., Feb. 23 at 1 p.m.

The workshop, through LA Made and conducted by cohosts Mala and Diosa, of Locatora Radio, will also explain how to build an Instagram presence and put together a website.

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include the unveiling of a handmade pig statue to honor the 2019 Asian zodiac symbol with City Councilman David Ryu, as well as a magic show, a dumpling making demo, acrobatics, and themed craftmaking stations and live traditional music.

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plants, followed by making Valentines from pressed flowers and other botanicals to take home.

Children ages 3 to 6 years old are welcome to the 10 to 11:30 a.m. tea. Kids ages 7 to 12 are welcome to the 1 to 2:30 p.m. tea. Tickets are $12 for adults and $15 for children. For more information, visit arboretum.org.

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hibernating animals (particularly the hedgehog) left their winter lairs to find out how much more time they’d have to spend under ground.

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Cirque du Soleil to premiere in April

Watch Cirque du Soleil dancers as they bring their new show, “Amaluna,” to the Los Angeles Waterfront in San Pedro, 250 S. Harbor Blvd., beginning Thurs., April 25.

Featured in the new show are aerial and water acrobatic acts and original music set to a fantastical story directed by Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus.

The new big top show takes place on a mysterious island governed by goddesses and tells the tale of Queen Prospera, who, after directing the coming-of-age ceremony for her daughter, puts her and her lover through a series of tests to prove their worthiness.

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them flourish by means of irrigation.

Wilson surmises that if apples were put by to make jellies later in the year, intrepid magicians of the kitchen discovered that the addition of lemon juice would push along the jelling and that a bit of orange “pill” (peel) made it more interesting.

My friend and I had looked at many recipes urging a 12or 24-hour “curing.” That’s when, if you put seeds and pith into a cheesecloth bag, natural pectin will come forth and fulfill its proper function: to provide just the right amount of thickening. We did not cook the fruit long enough, nor did we “cure.” We misplaced our

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The first bridge is the apple; the second is a collective moving force made up of Moors coming to the Iberian Peninsula and, later, the returning soldiers of the Crusades.

The apple’s gift was its suitability for making jelly. (Many are the early recipes for “jelly of pippins” — pippin meaning for a few centuries any apple grown from a seed.) The pectin content of apples is highest when they are newly picked, in autumn.

Those returning Crusaders brought orange and lemon trees to Southern Europe and the knowledge of how to make

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We used commercial pectin, and the result was the dry marmalade of the Middle Ages. It took some muscle to excavate it from our pretty jars after it was refrigerated.

But we loved our marmalade.

We used mostly Rangpur limes, Citrus x limonia, a cross between a mandarin orange and a lemon (very bitter, and not a lime at all). Our marmalade was good to eat from the spoon. Not everyone thought so.

John Lennon loved marmalade, it is said. Capt. Robert Scott took Frank Cooper’s Oxford Marmalade, the thickcut version, on his fatal trip to the Antarctic a century ago, and Edmund Hillary toted some in his pack on his Everest expedition. One imagines they were able to find some momentary comfort in those jars.

This is an abridged version of an essay by the same name found in Paula Panich’s latest book, “The Cook, the Landlord, the Countess and Her Lover,” published by Tryphon Press and available through: tinyurl.com/ybk3cjbl.

used daily to strike sparks to kindle fires or to keep his tools or weapons sharp. If a person (usually a miserly merchant) could shave things so close that he could make a profit on any amount, he could supposedly skin a flint, and thereby became one himself.

• • • Why are some people “neat as a pin”? wonders Sean Petree.

There are few tools more simple and useful, more perfect in design and usage than the pin. Once you take something that was broken or torn and flapping and secure it with this spare and basic instrument, it is neatness itself.

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• • • What’s the origin of the word “oaf”? ponders Fred March.

This interesting word is from the Old English aelf, or elf, and referred to a changeling (a rejected child-goblin) exchanged for an infant human. This unfortunate deformed child was thought to be an idiot and ridiculed.

Nowadays, it merely refers to usually large, awkward men.

I guess the elves only have handsome children today.

Professor Know-It-All is the nom de plume of Bill Bentley, who invites readers to try and stump him. Send your questions to willbent@prodigy.net.

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Day is descended from this tradition, with our groundhog or woodchuck taking the place of the hedgehog. Come to think of it, the hedgehog has quills all over it. If the German settlers of Pennsylvania (who were directly responsible) had paid stricter attention to actual resemblance, we’d be celebrating Porcupine Day. • • • How about “skinflint”? asks Taylor Mason.

To medieval man nothing was as hard as the flint he

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