LC Real Estate 10 2022

Neighbors out in force against TVC

By Suzan Filipek

Hundreds of letters were submitted to the City Plan ning Dept. last month expressing concerns about a proposal that would signifi cantly expand the CBS televi sion studio on Beverly Boule vard at Fairfax Avenue.

Hancock Park Elementa ry School parent (and for mer land use lawyer) Danielle Schenker Peters wrote two of the 400 letters submitted to the City Planning Dept.

One was regarding general concerns of traffic and densi ty of the site now called TVC 2050. “I think it’s going to do irreparable harm to the neighborhood,” she told us.

The other was about the rum bling of trucks she alleges will carry hazardous waste from the construction site, down Fair fax Avenue to the 10 Freeway, passing open windows at her children’s school as they go.

The letters are part of a public comment period that ended last month as part of the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) and CEQA (California Environ mental Quality Act) process.

The next step for the city is to prepare and draft the Final EIR (FEIR) to include

a Response to Comments section that will address all comments, according to City Planning Dept. officials. The FEIR is then published and the developer concludes its entitlement negotiations with city departments if the city certifies the FEIR.

According to the DEIR, Cul ver City-based developer Hack man Capital Partners submit ted plans that include build ings with heights up to approx imately 15 and 20 stories.

The proposed project includes approximately 1.9 million square feet, 15 sound

stages, office, retail, parking and other uses, which collec tively add 1.3 million square feet of new development on the 25-acre property.

On its website, the devel oper lists the benefits as cre ating 4,220 new jobs during construction and 18,760 once the studio is complete.

The original building — a designated Historic-Cultur al Monument — would be retained under the proposed plan.

In an effort to revise the $1.3 billion project, Schenker

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Movie Museum wins star billing at this year’s awards

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will be pre sented with a Chair’s Award at the Los Angeles Conservan cy 2022 Preservation Awards celebration Thurs., Oct. 13, at 3 p.m. at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 3911 S. Figueroa St.

The movie museum opened a year ago on Wilshire Boule vard at Fairfax Avenue after a three-year renovation of one of the city’s most elegant depart ment stores. The Streamline Moderne-style building was a crown jewel on the Boulevard, and still is. Built in 1939 to a design by A.C. Martin and Associates, the May Compa ny building’s cylindrical gold façade continues to be a famil iar feature in the Miracle Mile.

Also getting this year’s high est-accolade Chair’s Award is the Herald Examiner Building downtown.

The Beverly Laurel Hotel on Beverly Boulevard just west of Fairfax Avenue will receive a Project Award.

Other Project Award win ners are: Apple Tower Theatre, Casa de Rosas Campus, Chase Knolls Garden Apartments, City of San Gabriel Citywide Historic Context Statement, the Museum of Neon Art and “Save As:” NextGen Heritage Conservation Podcast.

The winners are selected by an independent jury of experts in architecture, preservation and community development. For more information, visit laconservancy.org.

ACADEMY MUSEUM will be honored with the Los Angeles Conservancy’s highest honor. Photo by Iwan Baan/ © Iwan Baan Studios, Courtesy Academy Museum Foundation

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EXISTING ZONING for Television City and neighbors.

Pan Pacific Park

Modernism in our midst: Masterpieces and McMansions

October 13-16 is “Modern ism Week October” in Palm Springs, a celebration of the desert city’s history and heritage as a laboratory for modern, mid-century and contemporary design.

Really a Modernism week end, the festivities serve as a warm-up for the fall 2023 Modernism Week from Feb. 16 to 26. The exciting sched ule for the October weekend (modernismweek.com) got me thinking of the moderns in our midst here in Great er Wilshire. Far from being trapped in amber, our com munities have grown and added new structures and seen remodels as the decades have passed while preserving the vast majority of our ear ly-20th-century structures.

In a sense, the historic homes in our community have always been modern. While they may have drawn from his toric sources for inspiration for their façades and details, their floor plans, services and conve niences were always marketed as the latest in technology and comfort. The replicas of Ital ian villas, Spanish haciendas, Colonial mansions and Tudor manors all shared splendidly tiled bathrooms, large kitch ens with ice boxes and even call systems.

But modern design, which reflected the machine age with its confidence and faith in technological progress, was a little suspect to the residents of Windsor Square, Hancock Park and their sur rounding communities. The house builders and owners sought to cloak their often new fortunes in the trappings of the landed gentry and to so lidify their positions through a projection of history. But even among such reticence and social conformity there were those who embraced the modern aesthetic.

The Thirties

1930 marked a turning point in this thinking when several Art Deco and Stream line Moderne houses and apartments arrived. Among the finest was 191 S. Hudson Ave., a rare jewel of an Art Deco single-family residence designed by Clarence J. Smale. This was followed by three im portant Art Deco multifamily residences: female architect Frankie Faulkner’s 267 S. Mansfield Ave. and 100 N. Syc amore Ave. by The Arthur C. Wright Co. as well as The Ravenswood Apartments by Max Maltzman, all complet ed in 1930. Milton J. Black’s Streamline Moderne Maureta nia Apartments at 520-522 N.

Rossmore Ave would follow in 1934. The late thirties saw two more significant single-family homes with the construction of the austere modern George C. Carson Residence at 153 S. Beachwood Dr. in 1937 and 357 N. Citrus Ave. in 1938 by the titan of California Mod ernism and Richard Neutra protégé Gregory Ain.

Mid-Century

Like Art Deco, Mid-Century Modernism made its mark on the communities of Greater Wilshire, starting slowly with the fashion of low-slung ranch houses such as neo-tradition al 304 S. Plymouth Blvd. built in 1949, the Asian-inspired 301 S. Rimpau Blvd. by Ash ton and Wilson in 1953 and the more modern ranch of 216 S. Rimpau Blvd. by Co meau and Warner in 1955. Mid-century also gave rise to the exuberance of Jack Elgin Woolf’s masterpiece of Hol lywood Regency, the 1953 Reynolds Residence at 200 S. Rimpau Blvd.

The Sixties

It was not until the 1960s that Hancock Park became a locus of pure modernist taste as big-name talent be gan to build and settle here. Architects William Pereira and David Hyun both built their own personal mod ernist showplaces at 135 N. Rossmore Ave. and 300 S. Rossmore Ave., respectively, while noted modernist archi tect Paul Wuesthoff in 1963 shoehorned a discreet house for a client on a lot at 4857 West 4th St. Prolific mid-cen tury apartment complex architect Jack Chernoff took a page out of Jack Woolf’s Hollywood Regency book and built 538 S. Plymouth Blvd. in 1963. Nearby at 447 S. Plym outh Blvd. in 1966, Stanley A. Moe, principal of the power house corporate architecture and engineering firm Daniel, Mann, Johnson, Mendenhall, built his fortress-like resi dence in the heart of Windsor Square. This flowering of modernism in Greater Wilshire came to an end with A. Quincy Jones’ modern manse for William Coberly Jr. at 247 Muirfield Rd.

The Eighties

The last quarter of the 20th century produced some no table works by less renowned

architects such as Ricardo Santiago’s nautical Post-Mod ern 1983 remodel at 212 N. Arden Blvd., followed by Den nis McFadden’s 116 N. Arden Blvd. Post-Modern Mediter ranean in 1989. The Randy Washington Group’s 605 S. Rossmore Ave. is a palatial tribute to the “go-go” eighties. The pre-HPOZ nineties and early aughts showed a prefer ence in pastiche McMansions with the noteworthy excep tions in 2001 of Linda Pollari and Robert Somol’s Off Use House at 950 S. Highland Ave. as well as Zoltan Pali’s simple and appropriately scaled 116 S. Arden Blvd.

The past two decades have seen a degradation of modern architecture via the prolifera tion of the “big white box” in the westerly neighborhoods of Greater Wilshire. While spa cious and full of light, their designs, popular with builders and speculators, are often de rivative of each other and out of scale and context with our historic communities. The area of La Brea Hancock (Cit rus Avenue to La Brea Avenue from Third Street to Wilshire Boulevard) has been particu larly impacted. A supersized version of this style, fit for a Kardashian, was recently (Please turn to page 4)

On Preservation by Brian Curran

Boeing crashes; new light on Disney; 13th century woke

Downfall: The Case Against Boeing (8/10): 89 Minutes. PG-13. If you are sanguine that Boeing builds planes with safety as its high est priority, this is the film for you. According to this film, all of that changed after the merger with McDon nell Douglas (MD) in 1997 and the appointment of new CEO, Harry Stonecipher, who had been the CEO of MD and was not a Boeing man. Suddenly profit was more important than safety. Fast forward to today. Two new 737 Max planes (Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethio pian Airlines 302) crashed. This documentary details that the cause of the two crashes was Boeing’s refusal to educate pilots on the new MCAS (Maneuvering Char acteristics Augmentation System) because it was too expensive and time-consum ing and that Boeing was in a fight with Airbus. The result was that, when the system clicked in on both flights, the pilots did not know what to do. Result: Crash! Everyone died. This is a must-see film about callous corporate mal feasance. Netflix.

The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales (8/10): 87 Minutes. NR. It would be convenient to disdain Ab igail Disney, the wealthy granddaughter of Disney co-founder Roy O. Disney, as a left-wing socialist with rich-people guilt. But many of the things she says in this diatribe against today’s Disney (and American big business) bear considering. She hits the nail on the head

when she calls out former Disney CEO Bob Iger as hyp ocritical, to give him the best of it. She points out, “There is a painful irony that some body who is working at what is supposed to be the happiest place on earth is sleeping in his car. These issues are real and painful and don’t repre sent Disney as a company and who you are as a man. What if Disney chose to pay people well and give them job securi ty?” Then she reminds us that while this is happening, Iger paid himself $65 million/year. Could Iger have survived on $20 million? $5 million?

Serendipitously, while at a screening on the Disney lot, I spoke with a Disney employ ee about this film. The person had never heard of it. I asked if people were really sleeping in their cars to which the per son had no comment, but the person did volunteer that re cently everyone had gotten a surprise pay raise, so Abigail’s film may have hit home in the corridors of Disney power.

God’s Creatures (8/10): 100 minutes. R. Emily Wat son is a hardworking woman in an Irish fishing village whose prodigal son, Paul Mescal, suddenly returns from Australia. He is a thorn in the sides of the family and when he not unexpectedly misbehaves, his actions put her on the horns of a dilem ma between trying to protect her son and telling the truth. Watson’s stellar acting is buttressed by good cinema tography and a tight script. Alas, it is marred by brogue that is often difficult to un derstand. Like a lot of these

films in highly accented En glish dialogue, it would have been a lot better with subti tles.

See How They Run (4/10): 98 Minutes. PG-13. The good things about this movie are that the production values and inventive editing are excellent. It is about a pro posed movie version of the long-running Agatha Christie play “The Mousetrap,” which opened in London in 1952 and ran continually until 2020 (I saw it in 1966) when it closed due to COVID-19. This is a Christie-style mur der mystery/comedy that mostly misses the mark due to a weak script and plot, de spite fine performances by Saoirse Ronan and Adrien Brody.

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completed at 315 S. Hudson Ave. by architect Gunther Motz for a developer.

Just when you think you have lost all hope in mod ern architecture, something comes along that redeems your faith. Dan Brunn’s Bridge House in Brookside at 750 S. Longwood Ave. could be described as Great er Wilshire’s own version of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fall ingwater, as Brunn’s house is

Catherine Called Birdy (3/10): 108 minutes. PG-13. Lena Dunham has written and directed this ludicrous film about a teenage girl in 1290s England. The plot presented is that 14-year-old Birdy (Bella Ramsey) is being used by her useless family of aristocrats to be sold in mar riage to someone who will pay big bucks to allow them to continue to live their priv ileged lifestyle.

There are so many prob lems with the film. One is that every character in the film is a 21st-century personality placed in the 13th. Worse, 13th-century English society was nothing like this film. Glaring in its absurdity is pic turing innumerable Africans as prominent members of society, even members of roy alty and members of biracial marriages. In 1290 England? There probably was nobody like Birdy in 1290, but there probably was nobody like any one else in the film, either.

However, on the positive side, Dunham, who has been

an exceptional meeting of ar chitecture and landscape, its elongated mass straddling the Arroyo de los Jardins, while at the same time being con structed with the latest green technologies. So pleased was the community with the de sign that the Bridge House was presented an award by the Windsor Square Hancock Park Historical Society.

Here’s to hoping that future modern houses in our com munities reflect our tradition of respecting the past, while building for the future.

shamed by reprehensible, cruel people for her weight, cast Ramsey as her star, even though she is not one of Hollywood’s outlandishly beautiful people and is a lit tle plump and could probably pass physically for a young woman in 13th-century En gland. And Ramsey gives a sterling performance.

Even so, the casting and story are so ridiculously 21st-century woke, it was agony to sit through. Opens October 7.

Letter to the Editor

What’s an alazon’? Tony Medley used a word in his “At the Movies” [Sept. 2022] review that I could not find in either my Webster’s International Dictionary or on Dictionary.com, and I won der if it was a misprint. The word was found in his review of “The Forgiven” stating that Ralph Fiennes’ charac ter, David, was an unfriendly “alazon.” What could he have meant?

Rory Cunningham Saint Andrews Square

[Reviewer Medley shares the following answer from word smith.org/words/alazon.html — Ed.]

Meaning: noun: A person characterized by arrogance, braggadocio, lack of self awareness, etc.

Etymology: After Alazon, a stock character in ancient Greek comedy. Earliest docu mented use: 1911.

At the Movies with Tony Medley

Opera, Ibsen and 19th-century science are on stage

The late Jeffrey Bernard (1932-77) wrote a column for The Spectator called “The Low Life,” where he would describe his haunts around London’s Soho dis trict. Frequently, he would be too hungover to meet his deadlines, and the maga zine would run a line stating “Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell,” which became the title of an uproarious West End play (1989) starring Peter O’Toole.

As of this writing, your columnist is unwell — not from demon rum, but from COVID-19, which has kept him out of the theaters. This virus is not going away, de spite all precautions. The pity

TVC 2050

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Peters and other neighbors have joined forces with the Beverly Fairfax Community Alliance. The group includes the Beverly Wilshire Homes Association, Save Bever ly Fairfax, the Miracle Mile Residential Association, The Grove and the Original Farm ers Market.

“The impacts of this [TVC 2050 Project] will destroy our community…” stated the Beverly Wilshire Homes Association. “[T]he plan will

is that it is an interesting fall theater season.

The Los Angeles Opera presents Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor through Oct. 9 at The Music Center. It is a production that caught a lot of attention at the Met last year.

Directed by Simon Stone, the story of marriage, madness and murder (based on the Gothic novel by Sir Walter Scott) is set in a contempo rary American Rust Belt town where addiction and violence replace ghosts and duels in an American carnage landscape that is equal parts Stephen King and Quentin Tarantino.

Theater Review by Louis Fantasia

is Lina González-Granados, another rising star, and one of several female conductors rightly claiming major atten tion today.

If 19th-century “science” underpinned Scott’s study of female hysteria and mad ness in “Lucia,” incest and hereditary syphilis were at the center of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts (at the Odyssey The ater through Oct. 23). Ibsen’s 1881 play was met with dis gust and derision when it first appeared; “an open drain…” and “a dirty act done in pub lic…” were among the more printable comments.

little chance with today’s au diences against the likes of “Slave Play,” etc. But the 2013 adaptation by Richard Eyre (former head of the National Theater), which starred the incomparable Lesley Man ville in both London and New York, is a tight 90 minutes, which “allows you to feel the bruising force with which this drama assaulted unsuspect ing audiences of the late 19th century” (New York Times, April 12, 2015).

create a massive production facility, which, if approved, would overwhelm and trans form the community….”

Supporters

While some oppose the size and scale of the development, others welcome it.

Mid City West Neighbor hood Council’s General Board approved the proposed plan on a vote of 20-5 on Sept. 13.

About that vote, Zach Sokoloff, senior vice presi dent, Hackman Capital Part ners, told the Chronicle in a statement: “We cred it this overwhelming vote to

Lucia was a smoldering mix of J.Lo and Maria Callas. In Los Angeles the role is shared be tween Amanda Woodbury and Liv Redpath (who later will sing the role in Berlin). Both are former members of the Domin go-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program and are rising stars in the opera world. Making her debut as resident conductor

several factors, including our extensive neighborhood outreach efforts, broad com munity support, and the city’s comprehensive Draft Environmental Impact Report which found no sig nificant long-term impacts.”

Sokoloff claims that the developer had more than 100 community and stakeholder meetings and events since ac quiring Television City in Jan. 2019 and announcing the TVC Project in March 2021.

Other supporters of the project he named are the Melrose Business Improve

One would think that the “well-made play” would have

What Eyre’s adaptation and Stone’s operatic staging do is bring out the rot — the lie — at the core of the comfort able, bourgeois, middle-class

The Met production featured soprano Nadine Sierra, whose (Please turn to page 8)

ment District and Holocaust Museum Los Angeles.

The project also has the support of the Los Angeles Conservancy.

Opened in 1952, the Pereira and Luckman-designed stu dio was home to “All in the Family” and “The Ed Sullivan Show,” and it is still an active production site today.

The proposed renovation is a “win-win,” Adrian Scott Fine, senior director of ad vocacy for the Los Angeles Conservancy, told us.

However, according to Schenker Peters, the indus

try has grown exponentially since the 1950s. While having the studio has been a plus in the neighborhood, two build ings at 15- and 20-stories high would overshadow the histor ic Adobe building at Farm ers Market and add significant traffic to the area, which is already congested. There are fewer parking spaces in the plan than the new employees it will bring, she said.

When the DEIR was published on July 14, neigh boring companies that now have become opponents of (Please turn to page 15)

‘Oldest’ book offers new adventures

By Abigail Kestenbaum

One of the most wellknown cities in the world, Los Angeles is home to myri ad places to go and things to do. In travel journalist Mimi Slawoff’s new book, “Old est Los Angeles,” the author explores 84 attractions here in our town. From the city’s “oldest fossil dig site” to its “oldest neighborhood book store,” Slawoff includes sev eral places relevant to the Larchmont community.

Particularly close to home is Chevalier’s Books, at 133 N. Larchmont Blvd. Cheva lier’s, a local favorite, also is the “oldest neighborhood book store” in the city, and was opened in 1940.

The city’s “oldest hot dog stand,” Pink’s Hot Dogs, opened in 1939. Pink’s is located at 1709 N. La Brea Ave., and it sells more than 40 hot dog combinations and 12 types of hamburgers.

El Cholo, at 1121 S. Western Ave., has been a fam ily-run business since 1923, and it is the “oldest Mexican restaurant” in Los Angeles.

El Cholo boasts numerous employees who have worked at the restaurant for decades.

La Brea Tar Pits, at 5801 Wilshire Blvd., is the “oldest fossil dig site” in Los Angeles,

having been opened (literally) in 1924.

The “oldest farmers mar ket” is The Original Farmers Market at 6333 W. Third St. It’s been around since 1934.

Hollyhock House, at 4800 Hollywood Blvd., was com missioned by Aline Barnsdall and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It is the oldest “Frank Lloyd Wright house” in Los Angeles. The project was started in 1919 and the house completed in 1921.

Lastly, at 2301 N. Highland Ave., is the Hollywood Bowl, the city’s “oldest outdoor con cert venue.” Celebrating its centennial this past summer, the Bowl opened in 1922.

Slawoff’s 192-page book was published by Reedy Press.

Real Estate

322 Lorraine Blvd.

$6,175,000 834 Tremaine Ave. $5,960,042 117 N. Citrus Ave. $4,700,000 166 S. McCadden Pl. $4,425,000 275 S. Rossmore Ave. $3,700,000 630 N. Stanley Ave. $3,695,000 538 N. Citrus Ave. $3,460,078 138 Wilton Dr. $3,010,000 956 Longwood Ave. $2,795,000 233 S. Larchmont Blvd. $2,650,000 161 S. Citrus Ave. $2,435,000 903 S. Highland Ave. $2,370,000 517 N. Beachwood Dr. $2,010,000 132 S. Wilton Pl. $2,000,000 349 N. Windsor Blvd. $1,900,000 4521 W. 6th St. $1,785,000 647 N. Lucerne Blvd. $1,750,000 512 N. Irving Blvd. $1,525,000 633 N. Formosa Ave. $1,425,000

Condominiums

4536 Wilshire Blvd., #106 $1,570,000 4460 Wilshire Blvd., #501 $1,430,000

EL CHOLO is Los Angeles’ oldest Mexican restaurant.

PALEONTOLOGY LABORATORY at the La Brea Tar Pits.

OLDEST FARMERS MAR KET in the city, the Original Farmers Market is located at Third and Fairfax.

ON LARCHMONT, Chevalier’s Books is the oldest neighbor hood bookstore in the city.

SOLD: The home at 138 Wilton Drive in Ridgewood-Wilton was sold for $3,010,000 in August 2022.

Pedal, walk, dance across new Sixth Street Bridge Oct. 9

By Nona Sue Friedman

Seven miles of car-free streets take over downtown on Sun., Oct. 9 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. because CicLAvia – Heart of Los Angeles is coming to town. This event gives participants the chance to move along streets using only people-powered vehicles (or their feet!). It’s an oppor tunity for people to explore gems of the city from a totally different perspective.

The route includes down town, Echo Park, Chinatown,

Little Tokyo and Boyle Heights. You can also ped al over the new Sixth Street Bridge. There are four hubs along the route. Each has food trucks, free water filling stations and free basic bike repair. You can access the carfree course at any point along its path.

Special to this CicLAvia is a 10th anniversary Family Fes tival in Grand Park, which is part of the street closure. At the festival, there will be pro grams that raise awareness of

the power of creativity along with food, dance, music and art.

Also, mark your calendar for the following event on Sun., Dec. 4, where you can

explore South Los Angeles. Visit ciclavia.org for addition al information.

We invite you to take the

with you on your next trip and to snap a photo. Send your picture to editorial@larchmontchronicle.com with your name and local neighborhood, and we might publish it in a future issue. Happy traveling!

IN RICHMOND, ENGLAND, Anne Tupta Mansour of Larchmont Village (left) and longtime friend Krista Duff Manketo of St. Margaret’s, Twickenham, browse the Larch mont Chronicle at Petersham Nurseries Café.

A STATUE of the goddess Durga peeks over Fred Stella’s shoulder as he takes some time to peruse the Larchmont Chronicle while spending time in Grand Rapids, Mich. As he put it, she wanted to “find out the happenings in the ’hood.”

OPENING of the Sixth Street Viaduct, aka bridge, in July. Photo courtesy of Gary Leonard

Restaurants that have come back from the dead

By Helene Seifer

Just in time for Halloween and Day of the Dead celebra tions, two local restaurants have risen from their graves to feed us once again.

In 2012 the popular Span ish tapas restaurant Cobras & Matadors closed and sat vacant for no discernable rea son until a few weeks ago when the lights turned back on, a few scattered tables claimed sidewalk space and the sweet scent of garlic-in flected everything permeated the neighborhood once again.

We shall report on Cobras and Matadors next month.

My husband and I are huge hot dog fans. We’ve been known to screech to a halt at any hour if we see a shorter than average line at Pink’s. However, we sometimes think fondly about Tail O’ the Pup, the Beverly Center-area hot dog stand shaped like its spe cialty that opened in 1946 at

311 La Cienega Blvd. and, after many troubles and changes in location, closed in 2005.

The stand spent years floating around town. It was stored in a warehouse in Tor rance, gifted to the Valley Relics Museum, then final ly purchased by the 1933 Group, which specializes in giving new life to pop culture landmarks, including the suc cessful resuscitations of Idle Hour, The Formosa Café and the Highland Park Bowl.

Rumors swirled regarding when and where the peripa tetic puppy might come to life again.

Finally, on National Hot Dog

Day, July 20, 2022, the stand, in all its kitschy glory, opened approximately eight blocks from its original location. This noteworthy resurrection hap pens to occupy a significant spot: a plaque notes that this is where the Doors recorded their last studio album, “L.A. Woman.” Scrupulously reno vated, the bun building now fronts a two-story outdoor seating area plus an indoor eating space decorated with historic photos and bright red-and-white booths where orders are picked up and soft serve is swirled.

Tail O’ the Pup’s frank furters are still nestled in crowd-pleasing paper holders with cute little doggie faces on the end. In a nod to its pri or iterations, the restaurant serves two styles among nine types of hot dogs that honors its past. A so-called 1946 Pup, $7.25, features a split grilled dog with toasted bun, grilled

onions and house mustard — a combination popular in the early years. The 1976 Pup is classically simple: the $6.95 dog is squirted with mustard and ketchup only.

Although nostalgia drives much of the appeal of Tail O’ the Pup, times have changed and the menu has expanded to include vegan and gluten-free options, corn dogs, alcoholic beverages (beer, wine, hard

seltzer and canned cocktails) and an amazing soda machine that will mix to order a flavor (say, raspberry or vanilla) into a multitude of soda bases, such as Coke Zero or classic Coke. There also are special hot dogs and an alcohol-free beer for pooches, although I can’t imagine why.

The chili is good, especially their chili cheese fries. The sauerkraut is better than the average fermented dog-top per, and the soda float is a perfect throwback to my youth. The kids’ Puppy Dog, a hot dog served in a puppy face-shaped bun, is adorable.

The experience is very retro and fun, but that comes with a big caveat: Tail O’ the Pup’s hot dogs are tasteless. Felt man’s Uncured Coney Island brand dogs are 100 percent beef — nitrate and hormone free — but lack any snap and have a mealy texture without the fine balance of bouncy meat, smoke and salt. Ours were also cold.

I could see myself returning for some $6.95 chili cheese fries and a $4.95 float, but for hot dogs I’ll stick to Pink’s or Carney’s.

Tail O’ the Pup, 8512 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, 310-579-1213.

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“dream” of success (which is why Ibsen was such an influ ence on Arthur Miller). It’s not the frank portrayals of disease (physical or psycho logical) that are so shocking, but the exposés of manipu lative men who use money and power to control their legacies — and their women.

Ibsen’s famous line, that “the sins of the father are visit ed upon the son,” highlights more than the punishment for a dissolute life (pace Jef frey Bernard!). It says that the dark seeds coming to fruition across the cultural landscape were not born with #MeToo, or AIDS or fentanyl, but were sown generations ago and ig nored, repeatedly, at our peril. The power of the well-made play forces us to face not only those weeds and seeds, but also ourselves.

TAIL O’ THE PUP once again serves hot dogs from its bunshaped building.

On the Menu by Helene Seifer

‘Good food should be respected’: food writer Sheila Hibben

Sheila Hibben (1888-1964) was the best-known food writer of her time. She was the first food writer and food critic for The New Yorker, where she contributed 350 columns and articles from 1934 to 1954. She also wrote for House Beautiful, Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar.

Hibben was born in Mont gomery, Ala., but grew up in France and Italy. She was a nurse in World War I, and she was awarded the French Croix de Guerre for her service. In 1916, she married Paxton Hibben and they had one daughter. He died in 1928.

Sheila Hibben worked as a journalist and, from econom ic necessity, began writing cookbooks.

Eleanor Roosevelt

In 1934 Mrs. Roosevelt, the new First Lady, invited Hib ben to the White House to confer with the cooking staff.

Journalist Laura Shapiro writes about this in The New Yorker, in 2010:

“She agreed to visit the White House kitchen and advise the staff on such hom ey classics as stewed crabs, johnnycake, and chicory sal ad, as well as presidential recipes going back to Wash ington and Jefferson. Honest fare like this, Hibben believed,

by Paula Panich

could help people make their way through hard times. ‘Cri sis or no crisis, the tension of the country is better for preoccupation with the art of cooking,’ she counselled the First Lady.”

Well, it didn’t work out. An inexperienced home cook was installed in the White House kitchen instead, who sent the president, a culinary sophis ticate, into well-documented and ongoing mealtime misery.

Hibben was an advocate of American regional cooking and, 50 years ahead of her time (according to Shapiro), she raised her voice against mass-produced food flooding the market before and after World War II.

Food today

I have been thinking of her in this time of higher food costs, food shortages and restaurant meals priced out of reach. I’m losing my enthu siasm for mediocre cooking — certainly my own, and that of restaurants I now consider

too expensive to patronize.

Hibben’s cookbook, “Amer ican Regional Cookery,” was originally published in 1932; a new edition came out in 1946. The following paragraph from the introduction to the latter edition struck me as appro priate for our own uncertain time, despite our many years of fresh food advocacy:

“It will take more than bright efficient minds to get us through the uncer tain future that lies ahead. If the changing world is not to be flavored by the dreary synthetic foods which man ufacturers have thought up, with I suspect less interest in our survival than their own, our palates must be awakened to old and simple pleasures.”

And why not? For example, in “American Regional Cook ery,” Hibben chose five recipes for biscuits, each from a differ ent state or region. Three are baking powder biscuits (North Carolina, New England and Alabama); one is made with buttermilk (Georgia); and two are “beaten” (Georgia and Al abama). There are differences in the shortening (butter, lard or vegetable shortening — re member those tins of Crisco?); all but one call for sugar; and each recipe includes milk.

Talk about an old and sim

ple pleasure.

Sixteen recipes are sourced from California, including risotto, Page 178, with the following head note: “As pre pared by Italian housewives of rural California,” followed by a recipe for giblet stew, to be served in a “depression” carved out in the middle of

the plated risotto.

In Hibben’s New Yorker obituary, Robert MacMillan wrote: “She despised all gas tronomic snobbery. It was one of her ambitions to drive the word ‘gourmet’ out of the English language. She sim ply thought that good food should be respected.”

THIS COOKBOOK, originally published in 1932, warned of “dreary synthetic foods,” which manufac turers may have thought up with less interest in our survival than their own.

Logan Herr named Volunteer of the Month at Imagine LA

By Abigail Kestenbaum

Imagine LA has deep ties to the Larchmont community. Recent president and CEO Jill Govan Bauman lives in Wind sor Village. Hancock Park resident George Phillips Jr. serves as Governance Chair on its board of directors, and Logan Herr, an Imagine LA mentor, recently married Phillips’ daughter, Lindsay Phillips, a grad student. The couple lives on Rossmore Avenue.

In the past, Herr has served in many mentorship roles through his church and work. Imagine LA recently named him its “Mentor of the Month.”

Herr’s mentee, Kaleab, is from Ethiopia. Herr enjoys outdoor adventures with Kaleab, and the two have even climbed Mount Baldy together. However, Herr explained, the most important

part of their time together is the conversations they have, whether that’s while hiking or waiting for a wave when surfing.

“Eighty percent of a good mentorship is really just being their friend — someone they can lean on — and getting them to trust you and spend

time with you,” Herr said.

Imagine LA works to end poverty and homelessness in Los Angeles by providing resources and programming to families who have faced poverty. Each family member age 5 and up has the chance to be matched with his or her own mentor. Families are mentored for up to 18 months, and mentors usually spend 6-8 hours each month helping their assigned family.

Born in Pennsylvania, Herr moved to Los Angeles two years ago and works as a supply chain consultant. He was introduced to Imagine LA by the Phillips family and appreciates the way that Imagine LA ensures that the basic needs of each family are being met before jumping into a mentorship program — something that other organizations don’t always do, he said. Herr explained that by making sure every

family has access to the things they need, such as food, clothing and shelter, Imagine LA gives mentees the opportunity to really focus on getting the most out of their mentorships.

“I realized that what makes Imagine LA stand out is that it’s completely focused on delivering a one-on-one mentorship experience and providing mentorship that actually gives tangible skills to the people in need so that they can sustain and grow themselves as a result and outcome of the program.”

Because Herr hasn’t faced the obstacles Kaleab has, such as living in poverty, being undocumented and speaking English as a second language, the main challenge Herr has faced is having to put himself in his mentee’s shoes. However, Herr said, this has also been the most rewarding part of the mentorship.

Herr believes that while a mentorship should be goal oriented, the most important

part is building a strong relationship.

“I think a good mentor is someone that walks side by side with that person, shoulder to shoulder, facing challenges with them together and doing it with camaraderie and bonding involved as well,” Herr said.

Visit imaginela.og/mentors.

Sharif joins Museum staff

Omar Sharif Jr. has joined Holocaust Museum LA as the new chief advancement offi cer announced Beth Kean, the museum’s CEO.

Sharif Jr. has served as a leading fundraiser for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, helping complete that museum’s $388 million capital campaign.

Previously he was a vice president at JP Morgan Chase and a national spokesperson for GLAAD, the LGBTQ media advocacy organization.

In his new role at the oldest survivor-founded museum in the United States, Sharif Jr.  will lead the development and communications strategy.

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THE GROOM and his bride, Lindsay Phillips.

IMAGINE LA MENTOR Logan Herr at the Hollywood Bowl with his mentee, Kaleab.

LIBRARY CALENDAR

Learn about camouflage, make a treat box, costume contest!

FAIRFAX LIBRARY

Adults

Computer comfort class: Familiarize yourself with key boards, a mouse and execut

LIBRARIES

FAIRFAX

161 S. Gardner St. 323-936-6191

JOHN C. FREMONT

6121 Melrose Ave. 323-962-3521

MEMORIAL

4625 W. Olympic Blvd. 323-938-2732

WILSHIRE

149 N. St. Andrews Pl. 323-957-4550

ASK A LIBRARIAN 213-228-7272 infonow@lapl.org

HOURS

Mon. and Wed. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tues. and Thurs. noon to 8 p.m., Fri. and Sat. 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Closed Mon., Oct. 10, for Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

ing a search on the internet. Participants can use a library computer or bring their own. Class takes place every Mon day from 1 to 2 p.m.

All ages

Book Sale: Browse used books every Wednesday from noon to 4 p.m. All sales sup port the library branch.

FREMONT LIBRARY

Babies & Toddlers

Story time: Come to the library every Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. to hear stories and sing songs with your friends.

MEMORIAL LIBRARY Kids

Story time in the park: Drop in and listen to stories and sing songs in Memori al Park adjoining the library Wednesdays, Oct. 5 and 12, from 10:30 to 11 a.m.

Reading to the rescue: Love dogs and want your kids to read more? This event on Wed., Oct. 12, from 4 to 5 p.m. lets your child read aloud to an adorable rescue dog.

Kids & Teens

Tutoring: Now that school has started, maybe you need a refresher on some academics?

Stop by any Thursday from 3 to 5 p.m. for assistance with any subject.

Adults

Book club: Get together the first Friday of each month to discuss a selected book. "The Cartographers: A Novel" by Peng Shepherd is Oct. 7 at 1 p.m. The book for November is "It’s the Violin Conspiracy" by Brendan Slocumb.

Art class: Color, paint and glue every Wednesday from 3 to 5 p.m.

All ages Chess Club: Every Friday from 3 to 5 p.m., play chess or learn how.

Book Sale: Find a good book to purchase every Tues day from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. and every Saturday from 4 to 5 p.m. All proceeds support the library.

WILSHIRE LIBRARY

Toddlers

Story time: Listen to librar ian Sybil tell stories, sing a song and strectch on Fri., Oct. 7, from 10:30 to 11 a.m.

Kids & Teens

Animal and plant camou flage: The mysteries of how and why plants and animals camouflage themselves will be revealed by speaker Ste

phen Robertson on Tues., Oct. 5, from 4 to 5 p.m.

Create a Halloween gift box: Need a place to stash all the candy you will col lect on Halloween? Come to the library on Thurs., Oct. 27, from 4 to 5 p.m. to cre ate your own Halloween treat

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“He will play an integral part in the museum going forward,” Kean said. Holo caust Museum LA will break ground later this year on a major campus expansion that will double the institution’s existing footprint and allow it to accommodate greater numbers of students and vis itors.

Sharif Jr. is the grandson of Egyptian actor Omar Sharif on his father’s side, and of Ho locaust survivors from Poland on his mother’s.

He also is an actor appear ing in the Israeli television series “The Baker and the Beauty,” and he recently pub lished “A Tale of Two Omars: A Memoir of Family, Revolution and Coming Out During the Arab Spring.”

box.

Babies, Kids & Teens Costume contest: It’s Hal loween! Start your trick-ortreating at the library on Mon., Oct. 31, from 4 to 5 p.m. with a costume contest. Of course, there will be candy for everyone.

“Holocaust education and remembrance is integral to my being,” said Sharif Jr. “This opportunity truly represents a generational responsibility for me and one that I do not take lightly.”

Omar Sharif Jr.

Puppets to perform at ‘Spooktacular’

Hallowe’en Spooktacular.

This family-fun event fea tures more than 100 spirited puppets performing silly and spine-tingling musical num bers. It’s a wonderful way to get ready for the holiday.

This year, they’ve handcraft ed a new Dracula to join the rest of the frightful crew that includes skeletons, vampires and creepy clowns. The mon ster-like puppets dance and sing throughout the hourlong production to boo-licious songs. There’s even a glowin-the-dark sequence where children will ooh and aah as their clothing glows.

If you think this show is just for kids, you adults are miss ing out on one of the most entertaining performances in town.

Costumes are encouraged at all shows. Starting October 22, there will be a parade for

all audience members who dress up.

Get in the mood and grab tickets online at bobbaker marionettetheater.com and head over to 4949 York Blvd. in Highland Park to see the show.

Reading is like ‘insider trading’ at Chevalier’s club

By Nona Sue Friedman

A dozen dedicated readers meet each month at Cheva lier’s Books. This adult fiction book group usually meets every fourth Tuesday, which would set the next gathering for Oct. 27 at 5 p.m. at the store at 133 N. Larchmont Blvd.

The group is moderated by novelist and former employ ee Kelcie Des Jardins. She says she “loves the communi ty,” which is only one of the reasons she continues mod erating the group. Another reason is the very dedicated readers. Participants arrive with copies that are often highlighted and have tattered pages. Others come just to listen.

As Des Jardins says, she feels that being part of the group “is like insider trading, where you learn what read ers like and what gets people talking” about books.

The group ranges in age from mid-20s to 70s. At the end of each meeting, Des Jar dins makes suggestions for the next book, which the group votes on democratically.

The group is always looking for new members. Check Che valier’s website for the next title at chevaliersbooks.com or stop by on the fourth Tues day of the month if you are interested in joining.

1898 Victorian home is decked for Halloween

By Nona Sue Friedman

Get in the spirit of Hallow een by visiting Grier Musser Museum’s “Dorothy in Oz” Halloween house tour on Sun., Oct. 23, at 400 S. Bon nie Brae St. This 1898 Queen Anne Victorian home will have thirteen rooms decorat ed with witches, ghosts and goblins. It will be inspired by the “Wizard of Oz” and sprin kled with dolls and souvenirs. Maybe you’ll see ruby slippers or get spooked by the ghosts of past residents while on tour.

This haunted occasion offers two tours; one at 1 p.m. and another at 2:30 p.m.

Refreshments and sweets will be available, along with the opportunity to make a Victo rian Halloween card. The cost is $15 for adults and $6 for kids 5 to 12 years old.

If you can’t make the Halloween house tour, vis it — Wednesday to Saturday from noon to 4 p.m through Oct. 31 — to stroll the house on your own. The cost on a regular day is $10 for adults, $7 for seniors and students and $5 for kids.

Whichever day you choose to visit, reservations are required. To make one, please call 213-413-1814. Parking is free at the rear of the building.

Hi Larc H mont c ustomers,

Bertha has some great new housewares products that she wants everyone to see here at Koontz.  As the former manager of Larchmont Hardware and now current buyer for the Koontz Hardware, she has put together a few of her favorites just for you!

Bright new enamel-coated colanders and strainers in your favorite fun colors. These whimsical and functional kitchen necessities are perfectly suited to display on your counter with your fresh fall vegetables.

Stack-able,

By Nona Sue Friedman Lurking on stage through Sun., Nov. 6, is Bob Bak er Marionette Theater’s

VISITORS WILL BE greeted by a head in a pan at the Grier Musser Halloween house.

BARE BRANCHES teem with Halloween adornment.

SPOOKY AND CUTE decorations fill the credenza. Photos: Raymond Tejada

POSTER FOR Bob Baker Mar ionette Theater’s Hallowe’en Spooktacular.

Poster art by Hayden Evans

Goblins and ghouls come out in Wilshire Park Haunt

A creepy and scary haunted house will be featured at the 13th annual Wilshire Park Halloween Haunt on Sat., Oct. 29, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Bronson Avenue be tween Wilshire Boulevard and Eighth Street.

Dress to impress the mon sters for this ghoulish event, which is back by popular de mand after a break during the pandemic.

“We are extremely excited to be back in full Halloween Haunt mode,” said Azalea Bruns of

the Wilshire Park Halloween Haunt Committee 2022.

Old favorites making a re turn include a fortune teller, piñatas, a bounce house, dance party, silent auction and car nival games, plus food, photo opportunities and a costume contest. New this year to the Haunt will be the Creepy Car nival Haunted House, New Orleans Cemetery and a Ghost Busters photo op.

“The event has morphed from a simple front-yard get-together into our major

social and fundraising event,” said Bruns.

The Wilshire Park Associ ation is also celebrating the neighborhood’s 14 years as a city Historic Preservation Overlay Zone.

The street will be blocked to traffic, and street parking is available.

“For those of you new to this neighborhood, Welcome to Wilshire Park!” said Bruns.

Sticker Planet is turning 30

By Nona Sue Friedman

Celebrate Sticker Planet’s 30th year in business at the Original Farmers Market on Sat., Oct. 1, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event will host sticker-art projects, sticker giveaways and sweet treats.

Fall will be celebrated with pumpkins, bands

Celebrate fall with a pumpkin patch, carving demonstrations, live music and more on Sat., Oct. 22, and Sun., Oct. 23, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Original Farm ers Market, 6333 W. Third Street.

Other activities include a string band and other performers, racing pigs, sto rytellers and a petting zoo.

Besides pumpkin carving, visitors can learn leather carv ing and basket weaving during workshops held throughout the two-day fair.

Earlier in October, the cuisine and customs of Mex ico and Central and South America will be celebrated in honor of Latino Heritage Month through Sat., Oct. 15, at the Market.

The small space is stocked from floor to ceiling with thousands of stickers running the gamut from holiday and wedding to office. The store’s motto, as co-owner Hilary Kraft says, is, “If it would stick, we would sell it.” And that’s what they’ve been doing for the past 30 years. If you’re thinking stickers are just for kids, this store has just as many adults as kids walking the aisles.

If you can’t make the cele bration in person, their online store is having a sale for this day only. Visit stickerplanet. com to stock up.

Fall has arrived, and with it comes the return of the Windsor Village movie night.

This year’s screening will take place Sat., Nov. 5, at Harold Henry Park, 890 S. Lucerne Blvd. The movie will start around 6 p.m.

Attendees may bring their

blankets and enjoy popcorn and, possibly, some hot cocoa, while viewing a movie that both kids and parents will enjoy. There also will be a raf fle and other neighborly fun.

For more information, email Barbara Pflaumer at bpflaumer@aol.com.

“Experience

make a

ENJOY THE TASTES and colors of the season at the Original Farmers Market.

Right: HALLOWEEN HAUNT returns to Wilshire Park.

POLICE BEAT

Watch stolen at gunpoint; home burglaries continue

Residential burglaries continue to be the neighbor hood crime occurring in the neighborhood with the most frequency. Remember to keep your doors and windows locked when you aren’t home.

If you are going away for an extended period of time or even just for one night, let a neighbor know to watch and listen for unusual activity. Police officers encourage cit izens to report all suspicious persons and activities to 911.

WILSHIRE DIVISION

ROBBERIES: A 35-yearold white female was approached on the sidewalk at Wilshire and Lucerne bou levards by a Black 25-year-old male at 7:45 p.m. on Sept. 4. The suspect snatched the vic tim’s phone from her without a struggle, and he continued on foot and then jumped into a getaway car.

A male victim’s watch and

wallet were stolen at gunpoint while he was walking on the 200 block of North Beach wood Drive at 7:40 p.m. on Sept. 5. The suspect rode up to the victim on a motorcycle, demanded the victim’s proper ty and then rode away with it.

BURGLARY THEFT FROM VEHICLE: A catalytic converter was stolen from a white Toyota Prius between 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 9 and 8 a.m. on Sept. 10 on the 400 block of North Orange Drive.

GRAND THEFTS AUTO: A white Ford F250 was stolen from the 500 block of North Sycamore Avenue between noon and 5 p.m. on Sept. 6.

A white Nissan Altima was stolen out of Tailwaggers’ parking lot at 147 N. Larch mont Blvd. at 8:45 p.m. on Sept. 9.

OLYMPIC DIVISION

ROBBERY: A 24-yearold Black male was walking

OLYMPIC DIVISION

Furnished by Senior Lead Officer

Joseph Pelayo

213-793-0709

31762@lapd.lacity.org

Twitter: @lapdolympic

home near Fifth Street and Van Ness Avenue when he noticed a silver Lexus SUV waiting at a stop sign for a longer than usual time. As he passed the vehicle, six to 10 males exited the vehicle and surrounded him. One Black male between 16 and 18 years old pointed a handgun at the victim and said, “Drop every thing. Give me everything.”

A second Black male, 16 to 18 said, “Bro, you don’t have to do that,” and then pepper sprayed the victim in the face. The suspects grabbed the victim’s belongings; which included his backpack, wallet, cell phone, laptop and keys, re-entered their vehicle and fled west on Fifth Street. This all occurred at 12:30 a.m. on Sept. 9.

BURGLARIES: A suspect gained access to a residence in the 300 block of North Windsor Boulevard through a possibly unlocked window on Sept. 2 at 9:30 p.m. The suspect looted the home and

WILSHIRE DIVISION

Furnished by Senior Lead Officer

Dave Cordova

213-793-0650

31646@lapd.lacity.org

Twitter: @lapdwilshire

fled when confronted by the victim.

Two male suspects smashed the rear door of a home on the 500 block of North Plym outh Boulevard on Sept. 9 at 8:15 p.m. and ransacked the home while the victim was asleep inside. Three watches were stolen.

The front door of a victim’s home on the 700 block of South Gramercy Place was kicked in on Sept. 13 between 10 a.m. and noon. Money, jewelry and a coat were taken.

GRAND THEFTS AUTO: Multiple cars were stolen in the neighborhood this past month. On Sept. 9, between 4 a.m. and 1:15 p.m., a gray Honda CRV was stolen from a parking lot at Seventh Street and Western Avenue. A white Mercedes G50 was taken from a garage near the 4000

block of Wilshire Boulevard at 5 a.m. on Sept. 12. A sil ver Honda CRV was stolen near Wilton Place and Eighth Street between 10 p.m. on Sept. 13 and 9 a.m. on Sept. 14.

The police recovered a black motorcycle that was stolen near Beverly Boulevard and Van Ness Avenue between 10:15 p.m. on Sept. 11 and 8:50 a.m. on Sept. 12. They arrested the suspect.

ASSAULT WITH A DEAD LY WEAPON: Two Hispanic females were caught stealing mail from a 71-year-old male’s apartment on the 600 block of South Gramercy Place on Sept. 6 at 4 a.m. The vic tim confronted the suspects. One suspect pulled a knife and stabbed the victim in the chest. A fight ensued over the knife. The victim sustained numerous lacerations. The two suspects fled on foot.

TIKTOK NOTE: A TikTok craze sweeping the nation targets the theft of Hyundais and Kias. If you own a Hyun dai from 2015 to 2022, or a Kia from 2011 to 2022, LAPD suggests purchasing a steer ing wheel lock, a boot or an aftermarket alarm system to keep from being a victim.

Strangely macabre: Latin larva is among treats from scientists

Reader beware... In celebra tion of October, this month’s café offers a veritable mixed bag of strange and macabre etymological treats to savor.

The 10 percent of the world population born with a domi nant left hand undoubtedly face difficulties and discomforts in a world that’s overwhelmingly designed with right-handers in mind, and the bias is nothing new. The Romans called the left hand sinestra, a word that took on a negative connotation due to it being the side where un favorable predictions appeared in auguries. The association of “leftness” with ill omen con

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the project say the DEIR revealed for the first time the scope of a new access road on Grove Drive and changed the zoning to Regional Center, bringing the area’s allowed density on par with Centu ry City and Downtown Los Angeles.

The developers lack trans parency, says Schenker Peters, mom to two Hancock Park Elementary students.

At a meeting, the develop er reassured the community: “You already have a Regional Center in your backyard.”

While some people may buy it, the former land use attor ney did not. “It sounds good, if you don’t know what it means.”

Sokoloff counters that the Grove Drive access and Regional Center designa tion have been public for 18 months.

In addition, “Regional Cen ter” is a diverse use, he says, noting that the Academy Muse um a few blocks away is in a designated Regional Center.

After developer Michael Hackman purchased the icon

tinued to develop through the centuries (in heraldry from the 16th century onward, for in stance, the left side of a shield was designated for illegitimate births in the family line), cul minating with the Modern English word “sinister,” which describes something character ized by thinly veiled danger or evil. Relatedly, Francophones may also note that the French translation of “left” — gauche — is used in English to mean “crude” or “lacking grace.”

As we can see, the unjust dis crimination against lefties manifests in more ways than just the ergonomics of scissors.

ic property for a purported $750 million, representatives for The Grove and the Original Farmers Market say they spent months discussing a more moderate proposal for TVC.

Not so, said Sokoloff. “We are saddened that they have chosen to use their extensive resources to wage an aggres sive campaign to further their own interests. …

“We know that the TVC Project will benefit not only studio workers … but local businesses and neighbors…”

If approved, the project would take approximately 32 months to 20 years to complete per a development agreement, according to City Planning.

For information, visit: planning.lacity.org/develop ment-services/eir/tvc-2050project-0, TVC2050.com  and beverlyfairfaxcommunityalli ance.org.

Pan Pacific Park gift

Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Parks Foundation received a $236,000 donation from Hackman Capital Partners to rebuild the Pan Pacific Park playground equipment de stroyed by a vandal-set fire this past summer.

The new and improved play ground is expected to be open by summer 2023, with the funds already received from Hackman covering the cost of

“Larva,” perhaps not the most appetizing word to begin with, traversed the supernat ural world before its adoption as a biological term. The word comes from the Latin larva, meaning “ghost-like” or, more specifically, “masked,” the latter of which was once a pop

equipment and installation as well as community outreach.

“We are so grateful to Tele vision City and Hackman Capital Partners for this do nation, as a park playground plays a vital role in connecting a community,” says Carolyn Ramsay, executive director of the Los Angeles Parks Foun dation and a local resident.

ular way to describe the dual nature of disembodied spirits.

The 18th-century Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus went with the “mask” inflection of the word to describe the life stage of an insect between egg and pupa, implying that this stage misrepresents or “masks” the insect’s adult form. This entomological use of “larva” came to eclipse its spectral meaning and now conjures images of fleshy grubs.

I marvel again at etymology’s ability to connect two seem ingly disparate ideas with the origin of the word “muscle.”

Ancient observers noted that the shape and movement of muscles in the body resembled a mouse scurrying under one’s skin, a congruity that then be came evinced in the Ancient Greek mûs, which meant both “mouse” and “muscle.”

The correlation later became adopted in the Latin word mus culus, meaning “little mouse.”

If these early onlookers were referring primarily to human

anatomy, I wonder, then, what they thought a mouse’s mus cles resembled?

Few may realize that the looming storage limit on their hard drives has anything to do with things that go bump in the night. When we describe things measured in trillions (that’s one million millions) the prefix “tera” is used — think terabytes (one step up from a gigabyte, as far as com puting storage is concerned) or “terasecond,” which is equivalent to about 31,709 calendar years. These stan dards for measurement are so inconceivably large, they emerge from a word reserved for creatures of mythic pro portions — the Greek téras, meaning “monster.”

So as you move through this most mysterious of months, take time to consider more of the traces and meanings that may lie beneath the surface. They lurk like phantoms in the night, cloaked in disguise, wait ing to make themselves known.

Word Café by Mara Fisher