LC Real Estate 10 2018 by Larchmont Chronicle

MUSEUMS

BEST FRIENDS

STAGE & FILM

Opening reception for two new exhibits is at the Craft and Folk Art Museum.

Strut Your Mutt or find a new one in Exposition Park October 20.

Shakespearean twist and “Zombie Ballet” among offerings by locals.

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HANCOCK PARK • WINDSOR SQUARE • FREMONT PLACE • GREATER WILSHIRE • MIRACLE MILE • PARK LA BREA • LARCHMONT

COLDWELL BANKER Hancock Park | $4,595,000 Prime golf course location. Timeless design. 4/3.5, pool & pool house, breathtaking view.

Hancock Park | $2,889,000 Brookside Beauty. 4 beds+office +4.5 baths. Rec room & pool. www.829SHudson.com.

Hancock Park | $1,395,000 HP Fixer; 3bd+ tandem4th, 2bas; apx 6000 sf lot. Close to places of worship. SOLD.

Hancock Park | $1,299,000 Windsor Village HPOZ. Updated 3bedroom + 2bath. Fabulous cook's kitchen & open floor plan.

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Hollywood Hills East | $829,000 Charming one bedroom home in desirable Hollywood Dell. Gated & private w/ outdoor patios.

Hancock Park | $37,000 / MO Former Governor Pat Brown’s Spectacular Hancock Park Estate. One of largest homes in HP!

Hancock Park | $18,000 / MO Elegant Prime Hancock Park estate with 5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, GH and pool. Long term OK.

Hancock Park | $16,000 / MO Country English Tudor Estate once owned by the Ralph's grocery family has 6beds + 6baths.

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Miracle Mile | $7,900 / MO 2 Sty home w/ 4+4+fam rm, kosher granite kit & hwd flrs. Close to Grove, place of worship.

Miracle Mile | $6,499 / MO Beautiful spacious home w/ 3beds, 3baths+office or family room. Close to places of worship

Miracle Mile | Coming Soon 1+1 Condo, Unit #121. Probate. Close to the Grove, LACMA. Roof top pool, gated prking.

Miracle Mile | Coming Soon 1+1 Condo Unit #311. Probate. Close to the Grove, LACMA. Roof top pool, gated prking.

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‘Legacies of Lucerne’ is Society homes tour Oct. 14

HOMES on Lucerne Boulevard date back to the early 1900s.

Six stately homes on South Lucerne Boulevard will be open during the Windsor Square - Hancock Park Historical Society Home Tour on Sun., Oct. 14 from 1 to 5 p.m. Entertainment, antique cars, food, refreshments and a silent auction will be offered at the event, “Legacies of Lucerne.” The homes, in Windsor Square between Fourth and Sixth streets, date back to the early 1900s, said Richard Battaglia, Society chairman. Architectural styles include Neo-classical and Mediterranean. Docents will guide visitors through the houses and gardens and describe their history. Committee members include Laura Cohen, Patty Lombard, Suz Landay, Juanita Kempe, Beate McDermott, Carol Wertheim and Jane Gilman. Admission to the fundraiser is $75; members $65. Students pay $25. Children under 12 are free. For reservations, go to wshphs.com.

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Show support for a city landmark— vote early and often My friend Tom Mayes, deputy general counsel for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in 2013 was a recipient of the Rome Prize, awarded yearly by the American Academy in Rome to emerging artists and scholars who represent the highest standards of excellence in art and architecture. (Our own local residents McAvoy on Bill Fain and Preservation Elizabeth La by Bombard also Christy received this McAvoy honor.) Tom used his sixmonth “tour of discovery” (in Rome!) to answer the question “Why do old places matter?” New book Tom posited that while people often feel strongly about old places in their lives, they sometimes can’t articulate exactly why. Using words and concepts like “continuity,” “memory,” “individual identity,” “civic, state, and national identity,” “sacred,” “learning,” “ancestors,” and “community,” Tom set out to illustrate “how historic places affect our identity and well being.” His new book, published last month and available on Amazon and elsewhere, is titled

“Why Old Places Matter.” In discussing the role that buildings play in shaping our civic, state and national identity, Tom says, “Americans argue vociferously about what our country is, who it is for, and what it means. These debates help reshape and re-form and — hopefully — deepen our understanding of history and identity. The old places that embody our identity are the perfect places for those discussions and debates.” Vote to preserve Central to our identity is the ability to vote, and while the midterm elections spring to mind, you have a more immediate opportunity to show your pride in Los Angeles and to help rehabilitate an important landmark by participating in the 2018 Partners in Preservation: Main Streets program sponsored by the National Trust, Main Street America and American Express. No money is required — just a few minutes of your time on your computer between now and October 26. It can be a family affair. Your individual e-mail address is your voting ticket.

GOTHIC GEM, The Church of the Epiphany in Lincoln Heights is among 20 sites vying for charity preservation grants. Adrian Scott Fine/L.A. Conservancy

This year’s campaign has 20 sites nationwide, and one is in Los Angeles! Lincoln Heights church The deserving representative is the oldest operating Episcopal Church in Los Angeles, the Church of the Epiphany in Lincoln Heights. This Victorian Gothic gem was designed by Ernest Coxhead in 1883 and expanded by Arthur B. Benton in 1913. In the 1960s the church played a pivotal role in the Chicano civil rights movement as the birthplace of “La Raza,” and continues to provide needed social services in the community today. If you want to learn more about “La Raza”

and the Chicano arts movement, there is still time to catch a fabulous exhibit at the Autry Museum that beautifully details the significance of the movement and its major participants. If enough votes are cast to put Epiphany at the head of the pack, the church will receive up to $150,000 from American Express towards its badly needed rehabilitation, which includes a new roof, stained glass repair and renovation of space in the “La Raza” basement for healthcare and legal clinics, the People’s History Project and community meetings. SaveEpiphany.org is the local website that will link

you to the national voting website (VoteYourMainStreet. org). You can sign up for daily voting reminders if you wish. The Los Angeles Conservancy is a partner in this effort. Competition among the sites is intense. Epiphany deserves the support of every Angeleno. You can cast up to five votes per day, and it only takes a minute to help bring these funds to Los Angeles for a much needed restoration effort. Share this with your friends and co-workers. Let’s show the rest of the country how committed we can be to our diverse and unique history.

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Historic Neighborhoods Conference set for Oct. 13 Historic preservation and housing will be on the agenda at the Los Angeles Historic Neighborhoods Conference Sat., Oct. 13 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Lincoln High School, 3501 N. Broadway. The Dept. of City Planning and the Los Angeles Conservancy will host the biennial event. The forum, “Intersections Between Housing and Preservation,” will address

how to create more affordable housing while preserving the character of historic neighborhoods. Saul Gonzalez, KCRW reporter and host of the podcast “There Goes the Neighborhood: Los Angeles,” is the keynote speaker. The 2018 Historic Preservation Overlay Zone Awards will be given at the event, recognizing exemplary work in reha-

bilitation, new construction and community engagement within the city’s 35 HPOZs. Designed by Albert C. Martin in the Moderne style, Lincoln High School was completed in 1937. Register by Sept. 28 for the $20 rate, which includes conference materials, and lunch. After Sept. 28 the cost is $25. For information contact Rosalind Sagara at rsagara@laconservancy.org.

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Tom Bergin’s nominated for city landmark status The iconic neighborhood tavern and restaurant, Tom Bergin’s, has been nominated to become a City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. The nomination is cosponsored by the Los Angeles Conservancy and the Miracle Mile Residential Association (MMRA), with financial support from the Mid City West Community Council. The council funding allowed MMRA to engage Architectural Resources Group to prepare the nomination, Ken Hixon, MMRA vice president, told the Chronicle. Bergin’s “Old Tavern and Thoroughbred Club” at 840 S. Fairfax Ave. was built in 1949 and has the second oldest liquor license in the city. Its clinker-brick structure is a neighborhood fixture. The ceilings of the venerable establishment are covered with many decades of hand-painted shamrocks featuring the names of its regular customers, which include many Hol-

Speaker series begins Nov. 4

The 2018-2019 season of the Distinguished Speaker series will be at the Saban Theater, 8440 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, beginning Sun., Nov. 4. Included in the series are Annie Leibovitz, Chris Wallace, James Comey, Jon Meacham, Alan Alda and Paul Nicklen. For more information, call 310-546-6222 or visit speakersla.com.

lywood stars. “Bergin’s is probably the best known ‘landmark’ in town that doesn’t actually enjoy the protections of official historic monument status,” said Hixon. Adrian Scott Fine, director of advocacy for the Los Angeles Conservancy, said that, “As economic and development pressures intensify across the city, it is important to support long-operating, legacy businesses and recognize their significant imprint on our heritage.” More information is at: facebook.com/SaveBergins.

City historic cultural gem, Ruskin turns 130

Celebrate the 130th anniversary of the founding of the Ruskin Art Club in Los Angeles Sat., Oct. 13. A reception, including California wines and hors d’oeuvre and house tours, will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. at the former (and restored) clubhouse, now a private residence and a City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (No. 639). Built in 1922, the Mission Revival-style home at 800 S. Plymouth Blvd. served as a clubhouse since 1926; it is named after art and social critic John Ruskin. Ruskin societies advanced his vision of the unity of life and art, and in that vein the Ruskin Art Club was founded in Los Angeles in 1888 by some of the city’s most prominent women, according to windsorvillage.org. Also see ruskinartclub.com.

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Dinner, dancing at The Autry’s 30th anniversary

F O R L E A S E

tive on the American artist and member of the Mad River Band Wiyot tribe.

For more information, call 323-495-4331, or TheAutry.org/Celebrate.

Music Center celebrates Joni Mitchell’s 75th Birthday The Music Center will celebrate Joni Mitchell’s 75th birthday over two nights at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., Tues., Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m. and Wed., Nov. 7 at 6:30 p.m. Music will range from all 19 of her studio albums, and will be performed by musicians such as Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Los Lobos, Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Seal and Chaka Khan. (Artists are

subject to change.) Following the second concert, there will be an exclusive birthday dinner celebration/ fundraising gala, “The Music Center’s Soirée: Joni 75.” Performance tickets begin at $45 and are available at the box office by calling 213-972-0711 or online at musiccenter.ort/ joni. Tickets for the special gala dinner are available by calling 213-972-4322 or online at musicenter.org/joni75soiree.

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The Autry Museum of the American West will hold its 30th anniversary celebration Sat., Oct. 13, beginning at 6 p.m. on its Griffith Park campus. The event, honoring late museum founder and “America’s Favorite Cowboy” Gene Autry, will feature a private concert by Grammy-awardwinning recording artist Willie Nelson. In addition, festivities will include a cocktail reception, dinner, and dancing under the stars with Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real. Also featured are two exhibits, “La Raza,” photography of the influential 1960s / 70s bilingual newspaper, and “Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain,” a retrospec-

ARTIST Uzumaki Cepeda, 2017.

Photo by Redgi Woods

‘Disasters,’ ‘Daydreaming,’ to open at CAFAM, reception Oct. 6

Two shows are opening at the Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) Sun., Sept. 30 and also share a reception set for Sat., Oct. 6 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the museum, 5814 Wilshire Blvd. Rooted in feminist art that grew out of her work with the Los Angeles Woman’s Building, “Merion Estes: Unnatural Disasters” is a 20-year survey of the mixed-media artist. Estes’ solo presentation comprises 20 large-scale collaged paintings made with found fabrics, mixed-paint applications and photo transfers. The work expresses environmental concerns including climate change, species extinction, pollution, and other natural and manmade disasters. “Daydreaming by Uzumaki Cepeda” features domestic spaces covered in brightly colored faux fur by the photographer and fiber sculptor. Cepeda’s daydream tells of a safe and happy childhood mixed with the loud palette of New York bodegas, liv-

ing rooms in the Dominican Republic and freshly-painted acrylic nails. Both shows are on exhibit through January 6, 2019.

Art+Film gala at LACMA Nov. 3

American photographer Catherine Opie and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro will be honored at LACMA’s eighth annual Art+Film Gala on Sat., Nov. 3. Museum trustee Eva Chow and actor Leonardo DiCaprio will co-chair the event at the museum, 5905 Wilshire Blvd. Proceeds from the gala go toward underwriting LACMA’s initiative to make film more central to the museum’s curatorial programming, while also funding exhibitions, acquisitions and educational programming. For more information about tickets and table sales, contact artandfilm@lacma.org or call 323-857-4770.

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deasy/penner home as art.® deasy/penner is excited to announce the newest agent in our family Mara Raphael, Partner

Mara is teaming up with fellow partner Michele Sanchez to focus on Hancock Park and the surrounding areas. Mara fell in love with real estate after moving to Windsor Square in 2004, and has bought and restored historic neighborhood homes from top to bottom. For over 20 years, Mara perfected her communications and creative skills as an Emmy-winning television producer and on-air talent. Michele brings over 20 years of experience as a real estate agent and is a respected leader in the industry as well as her community. 20/20. Mara and Michele will help you perfect your vision.

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French market, restaurant, bar at international food corner near Larchmont By John Welborne Within one block of the northern terminus of Larchmont Boulevard, the neighborhood is becoming quite the dining capital. Essentially at the corner of Melrose Avenue and Lucerne Boulevard, there now are four restaurants, with the fourth being Le Petite Marché that just opened in the middle of last month. Still in its “soft opening” phase, the enterprise brings more international dining to this corner. At this intersection, the decidedly French Le Petite Marché joins Fin, an “Asian tapas” restaurant; Osteria Mamma, a family Italian restaurant; and Kali, which specializes in seasonal California cuisine. Le Petite Marché, (which originally expected to be just “Le Marché”) has been on the horizon so long that many people thought it was like a ghost ship that never would be seen up close. But up-close views are available now, and they show that the new place has much to offer. The result of the vision of restaurateurs Mathew Cape and Spoon Singh, Le Petite Marché indeed has a market — a gourmet one with specialty foods, including fresh bread from Michelina, pastries from La Chouquette, sundries from

TEAM at Le Petite Marché includes, L-R: Chris Kramer, bar manager; Stephane Liot, chef; Bernard Pichereau, general manager; and co-owner Mathew Cape.

Monsieur Marcel at the Original Farmers Market and meats from Gwen Butcher Shop on Sunset Boulevard — plus gift items, beers and wine. More on the wine in a moment. The wide-open space with floor-to-ceiling windows along Melrose (and some outside tables and chairs next to the sidewalk) has a central, U-shaped bar with craft cocktails orchestrated by Chris Kramer. Le Petite Marché also has a large, open kitchen where Chef Stephane Liot and his team produce a wide variety of traditional French foods for the expansive menu. In its opening weeks, Le

Petite Marché focused on just breakfast, lunch and a small happy hour menu from 5 to 8 p.m. “Lou is in the room.” A welcome surprise is the involvement of wine expert Lou Amdur, who long has been missed locally since the days of his first venture, the wine bar and restaurant, “Lou,” located for many successful years just around the corner in a Vine Street mini-mall still housing Flaming Patty’s restaurant. Amdur now is the proprietor of Lou Wines and Tastings on Hillhurst Avenue in Los Feliz. However, Lou is lending expertise to Le Petite Marché by

making the selections for the market’s offerings in its retail wine section. An entire long wall is devoted to Lou‘s wine choices. His picks also are the wines on the restaurant menu. OPEN KITCHEN and retail counter welcome W e l c o m e visitors. back, Lou! Initial operating hours are 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Later, the hours will be extended, and management is considering seeking permission to keep the bar open U-SHAPED BAR is in the center of the action. beyond the usual 10 p.m. closing hour for restaurant liquor sales in and around the Larchmont, Windsor Square and Hancock Park residential neighborhoods. Le Petite Marché, 5665 Melrose Avenue (at the corner of Melrose and El Centro ave- LOU AMDUR, left, consults nues). Valet parking is avail- with co-owner Mathew Cape able. The website is expected about the wine selections available at Le Petite Marché. to be lepetitemarche.com

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416 S Spring Streeet, DTLA Just Listed 1 Bed | 2 Bath | 1200 Sq Ft Close to USC Mills Act Tax Savings $729,000 Compass is a licensed real estate broker (01991628) in the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only. Information is compiled from sources deemed reliable but is subject to errors, omissions, changes in price, condition, sale, or withdraw without notice.

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Slow-plucked chicken and M.F.K. Fisher’s anti-war essay

“There was a train, not a particularly good one, that stopped at Vevey about 10 in the morning on the way to Italy. Chexbres and I used to take it to Milano.” Thus begins the essay “The Flaw” by M.F.K. Fisher, one of the most subtle anti-war and anti-Fascist pieces of writing in English. “The Flaw” was published in Fisher’s 1943 essay collection, “The Gastronomical Me,” a book many readers and critics consider her best. The ostensible subject of the essay is a train trip, taken by Fisher and Tim Parrish in the summer of 1939. (“Chexbres” is Fisher’s pseudonym for Parrish, who had recently suffered an amputation due to Buerger’s disease.) They were returning from their final trip to their house near Vevey, Switzerland, before the outbreak of war; on September 1, Germany would invade Poland. But the real subject of the essay, hidden among curling radishes and pats of butter and the bottle of Asti Spumanti in the train’s old wood-paneled restaurant car, is the terror of impending war. Why revisit an almost 80-year-old essay? It’s because of the plucked

chicken. The beautifully written essay came to mind after I heard Madeleine Albright, former U.S. secretary of state, quote Benito Mussolini in the context of her 2018 book, “Fascism: A Warning.”

[that] was truly the most cynical I have ever seen … ” who in between meals sit sorting lettuces. Fisher describes the bread and beans and salami and hard-boiled eggs the couple ate, and the wine they drank. Fisher and Parrish are wellknown on the route, and are offered elaborate courtesy. Fisher hints that something is

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Paula Panich amiss with Tim. About nine of the 11 small

pages of the essay reveal the cocooned, sensual world of this train. Yet two intrusions interrupt the idyll. Three “Strength-Through-Joyers,” young men with backpacks, enter the train (Strength Through Joy was a Nazi movement to encourage leisure, in force 1933-1939); and (Please turn to page 21)

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The Mussolini quote goes something like this: Pluck a squirming chicken feather by feather; it won’t become obvious until it’s too late. He meant people will not register the loss of their freedoms if it happens bit by bit. In “The Flaw,” Fisher writes of the details of that train. There are two waiters, a young one with a “smooth almond face,” and the other, with a “face

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Art Deco Society Dr. Porsche, Jay tour, fashion show Leno at Petersen Hear about some of Hollywood’s pioneers, movie stars and moguls during an Art Deco Society docent-led tour of Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 6000 Santa Monica Blvd., Sat., Oct. 13 starting at 10 a.m. Tours are 2 1/2 hours long and leave every 20 minutes until noon. Tickets are $20. Take a trip back to the 1920s and see fashions of the Art Deco era at fashion shows at the Workman Temple Homestead Museum, 15415 Don Julian Rd., City of Industry, Sun., Oct. 7 at 4:30 and 6 p.m. The fashion shows are part of the museum’s “Ticket to the Twenties” festival taking place Sat., Oct. 6 and Sun., Oct. 7, 3 to 7 p.m. The event and festival is free, but shopping and 1920s dress are encouraged, and Prohibition will be stricly enforced.

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Dr. Wolfgang Porsche will be honored at the Petersen Museum’s 24th annual gala on Fri., Oct. 5. The chairman of the supervisory board at Porsche Automobil Holding SE (he also has a doctorate in commercial sciences) will be joined by comedian, car enthusiast and the evening’s host, Jay Leno. The event celebrates the museum’s exhibit “The Porsche Effect” and the 70th anniversary of the Porsche marque. Food will be served by the Drago brothers (Drago Ristorante, Il Pastaio). The evening also will include a chance to win oncein-a-lifetime experiences at a live auction. Tickets start at $1,500. For more information, visit petersen.org/gala.

Tours of cathedral, food at St. Sophia Greek Fest

Sample spanakopita and toast “Opa!” at the St. Sophia Greek Fest at 1324 Normandie Ave. at Pico Blvd., Fri., Oct. 5 to Sun., Oct. 7. The event, hosted by Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, includes live music, homemade Greek food, dancing, tours of the cathedral and more. Dolmades, olives and tsatziki, as well as moussaka, feta fries, lamb chops and other fare are on the menu. Desserts will range from baklava to Greek yogurt. You can choose from thick Greek coffee or San Pellegrino sodas or try Greek wines or beers to pair with your food. Tours of the St. Sophia Cathedral are every hour from 6 to 10 p.m. each evening of the festival. The first day of the festival opens Fri., Oct. 5 at 5 p.m. and

goes until 11 p.m. Bouzouki player Alex Galas and the Omega Band and vocalist Takis Kokotas perform. DJ Pedro Loucatez spins Latin rhythms at 8:30 p.m. On Saturday, the Greek Fest will open at noon and run until 11 p.m. Alex Galas and the Omega Band plays beginning at 12:30 p.m., followed by the St. Sophia Dancers at 3 p.m. Participants can take a Greek dance workshop at 4 p.m. followed by the St. Sophia Dancers at 6 p.m. Sunday the festival hours are noon to 10 p.m. Following the Alex Galas and the Omega Band, dance workshop and St. Sophia Dancers, will be the Greek rhythms of DJ Peter Loukatos and a raffle grand prize drawing. For more information, visit lagreekfest.com.

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10th annual Taste of Italy at Pico House

Enjoy wine and food from more than 40 Italian restaurants at historic Pico House, 424 N. Main St., Sat., Oct. 13 from 5 to 10 p.m. The 10th annual event will focus on the southern Italian region known as Puglia, or the “heel” of Italy’s “boot.” Pugliese immigrated to Los Angeles beginning in the late 1800s. East Side Italian Market and Maestro Sausage, two family-owned companies founded by Pugliese families, will be represented at the celebration. Also represented will be Sicily, by the Drago family, and Tuscany, by Chef Aurelio Barattini. Besides wine and food, there will be live entertainment. Tickets start at $60 for adults and $25 for children. For more information, go to iamla.org/taste-of-italy.

New pizza place on Melrose Ave.

More wood-fired pizza came to the neighborhood when Ronan opened last month at 7315 Melrose Ave. Overseen by Daniel Cutler, formerly of Sotto and Alimento, and his wife Caitlin, the eatery will serve small plates as well as pizza. Menu items include grilled asparagus with cured egg yolk and preserved lemon aioli, chicken liver paté, grilled whole snapper with fermented green tomato and fennel pollen-dusted pork chops. Diners can choose an array of craft cocktails and relax in booths or at the communal tables inside and outside on the patio. For more information, visit ronanla.com.

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New restaurants bring Asian flavors into neighborhood In an unusual move, counter to trend, a popular arts district restaurant just moved west for its second Los Angeles location (they have a place in London, as well). The centerpiece of Inko Nito, a Japanese robata restaurant, is a giant grill whose special compressed hardwood binchotan charcoal flavors an array of skewers and artfully plated

meats, fish, and vegetables. The space itself displays a simple Asian design sensibility, with lots of wood, some plants, and not a lot of embellishment. The inside tends to be loud, in keeping with virtually all hot spots these days, but a patio, which faces busy Third Street, manages to be less cacophonous. Inko Nito subscribes to the

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shared-plate philosophy and recommends a minimum of four dishes per person. Instead, we ordered seven for the three of us and were perfectly satisfied. The cauliflower with garlic soy aioli and parmesan panko was a generous portion for $9, but rather than the savory and lush mixture the ingredients implied, the dish was surprisingly ordinary, needing some salt and a splash of vinegar. So, too, the $9 fried shrimp in spicy miso needed a bit of brine, was not particularly spicy, and tasted mainly of fried anything, not sweet seafood. A bowl of $7 shishito peppers was good, as was the $4 kimchi, although those expecting the fermented funkiness encountered in most Korean versions will find this one to be more of a refreshing pickled side dish. One of the best tastes we experienced was the $16 beef cheek and butter lettuce wraps with Korean miso and pickled daikon. Exceedingly soft beef is smeared with a good saltyand-sweet miso and the daikon adds a perfect vinegary pop. The meat isn’t as flavorful as I’d like, but once all the elements are combined it makes for a lovely bite. The meal’s highlight, however, was the bone marrow with smoked soy garlic toast and shallots for $12.

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Helene Seifer The split bone was loaded with fatty, flavorful marrow and we gobbled it up, wanting more. Inko Nito, 8338 W. 3rd St., 310-439-3076. • • • Also new, Noree Thai on Beverly is the third offering from Southern Thai chefs Noree Pla and Fern Faewtahip. Their take-out-only Crying Tiger and cult fave dine-in Luv2Eat Thai Bistro have avid followers, and Noree Thai is a welcome addition west of Thai Town. A tiny place, it nonetheless sports 69 items on its menu, not including sides, beverages and desserts (Ovaltine malt pudding, anyone?) They have meticulous versions of classics, such as $15 pad thai, $15 tom yum shrimp (spicy and sour lemongrass soup), and $13 papaya salad, but don’t stay with your old standbys. Try dried crab curry for $18 (curry powder, celery and egg mixed with curried crab), $18 salmon larb (minced salmon with onion, mint and cilantro), or lonn

lobster (swimming in coconut milk with kaffir lime leaf and chili, at market price). One of their signature dishes is crying tiger. Grilled marinated sirloin steak is served with spicy lime fish sauce for $19. Luv2Eat’s version smacked my tastebuds with sweet, salt, heat, and perfect meatiness, but Noree Thai’s version fell short, surprisingly underseasoned and overcooked. More memorable was the $24 massaman lamb curry — a peanut-strewn coconut milk curry with potato, carrot and onion chunks. Their $15 lunch specials alone make a visit worthwhile. Noree Thai, 7669 Beverly Blvd. 323-937-3100.

Scary-oke, Full Moon Party at The Cat

Celebrate the Hunter’s Full Moon with a pint and a psychic reading at The Cat and Fiddle Pub and Restaurant, 742 N. Highland Ave., Wed., Oct. 24. Come back on Halloween, Wed., Oct. 31, for an evening of “Magical Scary-oke” that includes a magician and karaoke, along with your shepherd’s pie and Guinness. For more information, and to make reservations, visit thecatandfiddle.com.

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ert’s, Gwen’s and Amy’s future lives. Robert is sad to learn they will lose track of each other later in life. Questions for Danny arise: Do I want to go through my whole life again? And the big one, can you change the future from the past? Wrinkles in the story start to develop. Does Gwen choose a life with Chip, a handsome college student, and settle in Boseman, Mont.? Danny’s knowledge of the future comes in handy when Amy puts up the money for Danny to bet on the sure-thing winner of a prize fight. The second act takes a darker turn, but ultimately Gwen discovers a page in Danny’s notebook that solidifies the future as they are about to live it. Through Fri., Oct. 21, Atwater Village Theatre Complex, 3269 Casitas Ave., 818-8391197, dime.io/events/lost-intime. 3 Stars

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Snooknuk celebrates four years on Larchmont Boulevard On Sept. 6, Snooknuk Arts Cafe celebrated its fourth anniversary with a full house of Larchmont families. Snooknuk founder Cheri

Jacobs and her staff organized a Sunday carnival that included a visit from Moana, puppet shows, a life-sized robot, face painting, a drum

circle, musical performances, bounce house and slides. Topping it all off was a “Choo Choo Train” that conveyed the young patrons up and

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Imagine L.A. honored 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams at the Imagine Ball at The Peppermint Club in September. The fifth annual event raised funds to help families transition out of homelessness. Co-chair and certified public accountant and attorney George R. Phillips, Hancock Park, recently joined the Board of Directors and GEORGE R. will serve on PHILLIPS the finance committee. Rebecca Hutchinson, who leads strategic planning for The Ebell of Los Angeles, who c o -f o u nded Larchmont Charter School and who serves as Co-Executive DirecREBECCA tor of the HUTCHINSON Larchmont Village Business Improvement District, also joined Imagine L.A. last month as the vice president of communications and development.

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Legacies of Lucerne A tour of six historic houses

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Remembering ‘Gilda’ and ‘Roseannadanna’ Love, Gilda (9/10): A fascinating portrait of Gilda Radner, who rose to the heights from nowhere, it starts with her as a little girl, progresses through her days with Second City in Chicago and then the big break with Lorne Michaels and SNL. Told with archival clips and interviews with lots of contemporaries and people who were influenced by her, like Chevy Chase, Michaels, Laraine Newman, Paul Shafer, former boyfriend Martin Short, Melissa McCarthy, and many more, including archival footage of her second husband, the late Gene Wilder. The only negative is that there is only one short clip of her hilarious Roseanne Roseannadanna character. Even so, it’s a terrific documentary. Making Montgomery Clift (9/10): Montgomery Clift was an impossibly handsome man who was a terrific actor but whose life was turned upside down by his dealing with the fact that he was gay. Despite that, he was a single-minded person who knew what he wanted and didn’t make compromises, as this film shows with archival footage and interviews with a few contemporaries, mostly Jack Larson who played Jimmy Olsen in the laughable “Superman” TV series that ran from 1952-58. This is a fascinating look at an enigmatic Hollywood character who turns out to have been a lot more complex than one might have imagined. White Boy Rick (9/10): Grabbing me from the outset, although filmed in Cleveland, cinematographer Tat Radcliffe and production designer Stefania Cella brilliantly reproduced the stagnating atmosphere of Detroit in the 1980s. This unique ambiance is an essential character in the movie

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Tony Medley about a young FBI informant turned drug dealer, based on a true story. This film clearly has a POV; however I am not convinced. It is undisputed that after Rick Wershe was an informant he became a big time drug dealer. The movie, which takes the position that he was railroaded and left out to dry by his law enforcement handlers, pretty much glosses over that fact. The Children Act (8/10): Contrasting Emma Thompson’s certitude as a judge with her indecisiveness in her personal life, and bolstered by outstanding performances by Thompson, Fionn Whitehead, and Stanley Tucci, the movie never lags. Colette (8/10): This is a biopic of the French writer Colette (Keira Knightley) 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 story and acting are excellent, but the visual values blew me away. The Guilty (8/10): Danish police officer Asger Holm (Jakob Decergren) has been demoted to work as an emergency dispatcher. Then he gets a frantic call from a woman who has been kidnapped. Confined to the police station and anchored to his desk and earphones, Asger tries to help her through calls to and from her and other police bureaus, in-

cluding his partner. Brilliantly directed with fine pace and tension by Gustav Moller, this is a spellbinding thriller that never leaves Asger’s desk. Asger has problems of his own, too. It’s hard to believe that watching a man speak on the phone for 84 minutes could be this entrancing. In Danish. Moynihan (7/10): Daniel Patrick Moynihan was the only politician who answered questions “yes” and “no.” No equivocating. He said what he believed, and torpedoes be damned. I liked him even though I rarely agreed with his positions. This documentary captures him well (although not showing his candor in interviews) and shows that he was right on some major issues. Peppermint (5/10): This is a revenge action genre movie, and action genres apparently have rules, one of which is: make it absurd. They followed the rules. The Sisters Brothers (5/10): Despite good acting, locations, and cinematography, this over-long, talky western with a title that is too cute by half is yet another movie that aggrandizes and minimizes brutal violence that desensitizes impressionable viewers to what should be avert-your-eyes scenes, while making it a huge part of the movie. The House with a Clock in its Walls (3/10): Warlock/ witch fantasy nonsense.

‘Coco’ at El Capitan

Mariachi Divas and Ballet Folklórico de Los Angeles perform live prior to Disney-Pixar’s “Coco” at El Capitan Theatre, 6838 Hollywood Blvd. Thurs., Sept. 27 to Sun., Sept. 30 and Sat., Oct. 6 to Sun., Oct. 7. Visit elcapitantheatre. com.

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OSH closing by end of the year

Orchard Supply Hardware at 415 S. La Brea Ave. will be closing its doors along with 98 other OSH stores. Store closing sales began August 23 and will continue for approximately 10 weeks. Club Orchard reward cards will still be accepted.

The store at La Brea and 4th Street opened early in 2014 after most of the existing stores were purchased by Lowe’s. OSH was founded in 1931 in today’s Silicon Valley in San Jose as a co-op supplying fruit growers. For more information, visit osh.com.

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Spider Pavilion, marine 3-D film at NHM

A spider pavilion with fascinating and helpful arachnids is at the Natural History Museum (NHM) of Los Angeles, 900 Exposition Blvd. through Sun., Nov. 25. Spider maze The open-air spider pavilion is designed as a safe space to

get close to see how spiders live and weave their webs. Visitors walk through a maze and can peer into closed habitats that are home to tarantulas, wolf spiders, jumping spiders and more in the Spider Den. NHM Gallery Interpreters share how spiders play a big role in our ecosystem. Tickets for museum admission and the Spider Pavilion are $20 for adults, $17 for se-

niors and students with valid I.D., and $12 for children ages three to 12. Museum members and children under two are free. “Our Blue Planet” Opening in October, in a new 3-D theater, is the film “Oceans 3D: Our Blue Planet,” produced by the BBC and narrated by Kate Winslet. For more information visit nhm.org.

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ZOMBIES and witches dance in “Sweet Sorrow.”

Romeo and Juliet ‘Zombie ballet’ plays Oct. 20, 21

See what happened to Romeo and Juliet after they died (and came back from the dead) at “Sweet Sorrow: A Zombie Ballet” at Lanterman Auditorium, 4491 Cornishon Ave, La Cañada Flintridge, Sat., Oct. 20 at 7 pm. and Sun., Oct. 21 at 4 p.m. An original ballet choreographed by Leigh Purtill, who also teaches adult dance classes at Dance Arts Academy in Miracle Mile, “Sweet Sorrow” uses witches, vampires and zombies to tell the story of the star-crossed lovers after they have been killed off in Shakespeare’s play. “We are L.A.’s only annual ballet celebrating the Halloween season,” said Purtill, who refers to her ballet as “a Nutcracker for Halloween.” Visit zombieballet.com.

Play inspired by post 9-11 events back on stage

Sundeep Morrison debuted her one-woman show, “Rag Head,” about Sikhs living in post–9-11 America last spring. It was such a success it’s having another run. The play opened last month and Sundeep will continue Morrison through Sun., Oct. 14 at The Complex Hollywood, 6476 Santa Monica Blvd. “We had an overwhelmingly positive response to the show, and our ticket proceeds went to support the Sikh coalition and the invaluable work they do spreading Sikh awareness and assisting victims of hate crimes,” Morrison said. The Punjabi Sikh writer, actress and activist lives on Arden Blvd. She began to investigate a surge in xenophobic violence in 2012, after a white supremacist entered a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin and murdered six people. “My parents are members of that temple, and thankfully they attended a different service that day, but they could have easily been victims had they been there,” Morrison said. With their turbans and long beards, Sikhs are often mistaken for Muslims or Arabs, and have inadvertently become targets of anti-Muslim bias in the United States, she added.

“Call for Fire, a Tragic Shakespearean Comedy for the Modern War” won several awards for Park La Brea-based filmmaker Seán Kinney, his music composer wife Christiane and film co-writer / co-producer Steven Barrons. Childhood friends Seán and Steven combined forces on the film, in which most of the cast and crew were wounded U.S. Special Operations soldiers. Barrons is a retired senior master sergeant. The film won the Best Independent Spirit Award FILM POSTER. Seán Kinney as from Hollywood Dreamz “Crantz,” left, and Steve Barrons as Int’l Film Festival and “Stern.” Best Guerilla Film Feature music had a very Renaisfrom Action on Film Festival. Both festivals took place sance / Elizabethan feel to it, blending harsher older in Las Vegas last month. The music score received a instruments like harpsichord Global Music Award and Los with more traditional string Angeles Music Critic’s Award orchestrations and drums for for Best Film Score. “The movement, a little blend of

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Key Card Blackwood is an improvement to Standard Blackwood raised some eyebrows when it came up. You have the West hand below and are lucky to hear partner open with 1D. You bid 1S and partner raises to 2S. Depending on what partner has, you may be able to take as many as 13 tricks. So you asked for aces and partner bids 5D, showing one ace. What now?

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The player holding this hand bid 6S and found that it was too high, missing an ace and the trump king. The defenders took her ace of diamonds and, even though the spade finesse worked, declarer lost a trick when South had the KJ9 of spades. A new version of Blackwood has been created that will address problems like this one. It is called Key Card Blackwood. It works like this: Instead of the 4NT bid asking responder for aces, it asks responder how many “key cards” he has. A key card is defined as one of the four aces and the trump king, a total of five key cards. Here are the responses to 4NT: 5 clubs: shows 0 or 3 key cards. 5 diamonds: shows 1 or 4 key cards. 5 hearts: shows 2 key cards without the queen of trump. 5 spades: shows 2 key cards with the queen of trump. If your bidding has not established a trump suit, then

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North responds as if diamonds is trump, so the key cards are the four aces and the king of diamonds. If, on the other hand, you have agreed on trump, like 1S – P – 3S – P – 4 NT, trump obviously is spades, and the key cards are the four aces and the king of spades. In the hand above, where West bid to slam and went down, East would bid 5D, showing one key card. West would know that two key cards were missing and would stop in five spades. When responder bids 5H or 5S, the 4NT bidder knows about every important card including the queen of trump. When responder bids 5C or 5D, the 4NT bidder is not sure about the trump queen. If she wishes to learn more, she can do so by making the cheapest available bid that is not five of the trump suit. West East 1 H 3H 4 NT 5C ? In this case, the bid that asks for the trump queen is

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5D by West. Responder (East, here) bids as follows: 1. If she does not have the trump queen, she returns to the trump suit as cheaply as possible. In this case she would bid 5H. 2. If she does have the trump queen, and no other kings, she bids 5NT. Otherwise she bids six of the suit in which she has the king if that king is lower ranking than the trump suit. If she has the trump queen and a king that is higher ranking than trump, she bids 5NT and lies about having a king. Key Card Blackwood is a good convention that is widely used by players of duplicate bridge. Some people reverse what bids of five clubs and five diamonds show, and that is called 1430 Blackwood, which in a thumbnail means that a five clubs bid shows one or four key cards, and five diamonds shows three or zero key cards. The only reason to do this is to make it easier to ask for the trump queen. The other convention is called 3014 Blackwood or Roman Key Card Blackwood. 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. classes. Jacobs reports that numerous “celebrity supermoms” have been spotted at parties and classes. Snooknuk continues to support Larchmont families with Mother’s Day events, Mommy Workshops and developmental programs for kids. The enterprise is now working on a franchise program to expand to multiple locations, says Jacobs.

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rates the Arboretum library’s acquisition of a pristine copy of the 1914 book, once owned by the Hearst Memorial Library. Formerly of Larchmont Village, Chronicle columnist Panich now lives in Albuquerque and writes on landscape, food and gardening. She has contributed to the “New York Times” and the “Los Angeles Times.” She is author of “The Desert Southwest” and other books. For information on the talk, visit arboretum.org. For more on Paula Panich, visit theliterarygardener.com.

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They hear shattering glass. A waiter finally tells them, after they finish eating, that the prisoner has slit his throat on the edge of a broken windowpane. The border police have cleaned up the “muss,” he tells them. Fisher writes: “Chexbres was a man with one leg gone ... a small wracked man with snowy hair and eyes large with suffering. And I was a woman condemned, plucked at by demons, watching her true love die too slowly. “There on the train ... we knew for a few minutes we had not escaped. We knew no

knife of glass, no distillate of hatred, could keep the pain of war outside. “I felt illimitably old, there on the train, knowing that escape is not peace, ever.” By 1940, Fisher and Parrish were living in another home, in Hemet; Tim Parrish would die there in 1941.

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