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Audubon's Birds of America join other treasures in renovated Hall.

Hockney landscape videos are coming to LACMA.

Home sales in the neighborhood are brisk.

See list prices.

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hancock park • windsor square • fremont place • larchmont village • wilshire center • park labrea • miracle mile

1920’S MEDITERRANEAN $4,950,000

HUDSON AVE ENGLISH TUDOR $4,299,000

GRAND ITALIANATE $3,688,000

PRISTINE ESTATE $3,450,000

Hancock Park. Exclusive “Fremont Place”, A Gated Community. 2-Story entry, 5BD/4.5BA, with Pool.

June Lee/James Song 323-860-4262/4255

Hancock Park. Gorgeous entry, extensive wood details, 4+4, elegant lib, 2mds, chef’s kit, lovely grounds Jade Mills/ Kathy Gless (310) 285-7508

Hancock Park. Located in guard gated Fremont Place. 6 beds + 4.5 baths + guest apartment.

Lisa Hutchins (323) 460-7626

Hancock Park. Totally updated throughout. 6bds/6.5 new baths,2 gst houses. New kitchen & pool w/spa.

Lisa Hutchins (323) 460-7626

TRULY ONE OF A KIND! $3,397,000

A MEDITERRANEAN RETREAT $2,895,000

TRADITIONAL BEAUTY $2,850,000

CLASSIC MEDITERRANEAN $2,835,000

Hancock Park. Restored Italianate with 21st century amenities. 5beds+4.5baths. 100NorthPlymouth.com.

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Hancock Park. Gorgeous 5 + 4.5 Mediterranean in Windsor Square.

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Hancock Park. 5 bedrooms + 4.5 bathrooms. Lush backyard w/ pool. 550SouthLucerne.com.

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Hancock Park. 4 beds + 3.5 baths. Stunning backyard with pool and spa. 354southmccadden.com Loveland Carr Properties (323) 460-7606

CLASSIC 2-STORY SPANISH $2,375,000

CLASSIC COUNTRY ENGLISH $1,486,168

PRIME LOCATION IN KOREATOWN $1,370,000

SPANISH MEDITERRANEAN $1,295,000

Hancock Park. Family room addition by architect John Lautner in 1953. 5 beds/4.5 baths. Huge lot w/pool.

Lisa Hutchins (323) 460-7626

Hancock Park. This immaculately kept home offers all modern amenities. Was in multiple offers situation.

Jacqueline Valenzuela (323) 460-7663

Mid Wilshire. Historic Monument. Convenient location & huge lot. 2 Units w/ hwd flrs & parks 23 cars.

Anna Hae Ran Gee (323) 460-7638

Lafayette Square. A must see, 1-of-a-kind home. Professionally designed historic Spanish Mediterranean.

Erik Flexner (323) 460-7660

CHARMING SPANISH IN LARCHMONT $1,199,000

CLASSIC ENGLISH TUDOR $875,000

HANCOCK PARK TERRACE $445,000

WINDSOR SQUARE SPANISH $9,500 / MONTH

Hancock Park. Full of character and style. 3 + 2. Updated kitchen and baths. www.358NorthNorton.com Loveland Carr Properties (323) 460-7606

Hancock Park. Stunning center hall entry with inlaid wood flooring. Living rm w/fireplace. 3BD/1.75BA. Sandy Boeck (323) 860-4240

Hancock Park. Bright & spacious 1BD/1.5BA. Private patio, updated kitchen & baths. Heated Pool & spa.

P. Bartenetti/J. Hutchison (310) 562-5907

Hancock Park. Beautifully updated & exquisitely furnished 4bd / 3bth w/ family rm & lrg country kitchen.

James R Hutchison (323) 460-7637

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McAvoy to receive Governor’s award Christy McAvoy will receive the Governor’s Historic Preservation Award in November at Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park in Sacramento.

The award is the only official preservation award presented by the state of Cal-

ifornia to worthy recipients in recognition of outstanding achievements in the field of historic preservation.

McAvoy’s projects have received National Trust Honor Awards, Governor Awards, and California Preservation Foundation and Los Angeles Con-

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servancy Design Awards. She is the recipient of individual recognitions by the Los Angeles Conservancy and the American Institute of Architects as well as from other organizations.

A former Larchmont Chronicle columnist, she is a frequent lecturer and writer on historic preservation.

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ONE OF THE MANY nearby is this home on McCadden.

‘Architect to the Stars’ had 3,000 projects to his credit The Hancock Park and Windsor Square neighborhoods are dotted with houses designed by Paul Revere Williams.

His career spanned almost 60 years, and his architectural vision is seen all over the city.

Williams’ style evolved along with Los Angeles.

The architect attended classes at Los Angeles School of Art, the Beaux-Arts Institute and USC engineering school.

He became a licensed architect in 1921 and in 1923 he joined the Southern California chapter of the American Institute of Architects, becoming the first African American member of the national organization.

Initially it was difficult for him to find a job in architecture. In 1922, he started his own firm, not limiting himself to either residential or commercial but taking on a variety of projects that reflected his wide-ranging talents and versatility.

An African American with 3,000 projects to his credit, many of his clients were white.

The residences he designed

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lDAuto Show L.A. sO to stage 22 vehicle debuts

Twenty-two vehicles will be making world debuts when the 2013 L.A. Auto Show kicks off on Fri., Nov. 22 at downtown’s Convention Center.

Among lD them are concept sO from Nissan, as well vehicles as four models from Mercedes-Benz. Porsche will unveil its Macan compact SUV, along with the company’s 911 Turbo Cabriolet. In addition to the roster of global premieres, a variety of North American debuts brings the total to 56.

“As one of the world’s largest media hubs and car-buying markets, Los Angeles offers valuable consumer contact,” said L.A Auto Show president, Lisa Kaz. For tickets, go to laautoshow.com.

were in areas of the city in which he was not allowed to live because of restrictive covenants instituted in some areas in the 1920s, and outlawed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1948.

The majority of Williams’ residential work can be seen all around the Los Angeles area, but specifically, Beverly Hills, Hancock Park, La Cañada Flintridge, Pasadena and Palos Verdes.

During the 1920s and 1930s his great success was in designing homes for wealthy clients in the hillside subdivisions of Bel Air, Brentwood, and Beverly Hills. Sought by entertainment industry leaders, Williams became known as “Architect to the Hollywood Stars.”

His commercial work included the former MCA building in Beverly Hills, alterations/additions to the Beverly Hills Hotel, alterations and additions to the Ambassador Hotel, alterations to Perino’s Restaurant and the Al Jolson Memorial Shrine in Hillside Memorial Park. He also worked with the firm of Welton Beckett on the theme building at Los Angeles International Airport.

Contest to find Williams homes in our community The Larchmont Chronicle is running a contest to see who will send in the most photos with addresses of homes designed by Paul Williams.

The homes must be limited to locations between Highland and Western avenues, Melrose Ave. and Olympic Blvd.

The first three winners will receive a membership in the Windsor SquareHancock Park Historical Society.

Contest deadline is Fri., Nov. 15. E-mail to jane@ larchmontchronicle.com.

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for water, uncovered a number of unusually large bones.

The findings sparked the interest of L.A. geologist, W.W. Orcutt, who uncovered teeth of an extinct horse in bone nodules from the armor of a giant sloth.

This time the scientific community paid attention, and paleontologists and students

from L.A. High and colleges were excavating the grounds.

Unfortunately security was lax and the many sightseers took souvenirs home with them.

In 1913, L.A. County was given the exclusive right to excavate for two years under the direction of the Museum of Natural History. In 1915,

Capt. G. Allan Hancock donated 23 acres including the Tar Pits to the County. It was later named Hancock Park.

The George C. Page Museum opened in 1977 to house the finds in the tar pits, including plants as well as fossils from the animals that once roamed where buildings stand today.

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MASTODON is stuck in the asphalt at this re-creation of a “Late Pit” at the La Brea Tar Pits. Page Museum is in the distance.

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Celebration marks 100 years of digging at the Tar Pits Some 10,000 to 40,000 years ago, L.A. was a wild place, a real asphalt jungle. Lionsized saber-tooth cats slinked through the marshes. Large wolves showed their fangs and giant sloths, mammoths and mastodons roamed the grassy plains.

Long extinct, their fossils were preserved in oil, bubbling up from the sticky ground.

Digging for fossils at the La Brea Tar Pits started 100 years ago. Marking the event, Jane Pisano, president and director of the Natural History Museum of L.A. County, and John Harris, chief curator of the Page Museum, were at an Oct. 28 centennial celebration.

The asphalt formed when deposits of oil rose to the surface and collected in shallow pools; covered with sand and debris. Ice Age animals wan-

dered in unknowingly, others waded in for a drink.

However they came, they would soon be trapped, stuck to the gooey asphalt and either die of starvation or be attacked by predators who would suffer the same fate as their prey.

Decades later Indians built fires from the asphalt and made a caulking compound to seal and waterproof their baskets and boats.

Major Henry Hancock purchased 4,400 acres of Rancho La Brea and was mining the site by the late 1800s.

He first noted the significance of the fossils in 1875, when he presented the long saber of a saber-tooth cat to the Boston Society of Natural History.

Mostly the remarkable findings fell on deaf ears, until 1910 when workmen, drilling

LA BREA Tar Pits, Hancock oil fields and ranch house circa 1910; Hollywood Hills are in the distance. Courtesy Miraclemilela.com.

TODAY, VISITORS LOOK inside the “Fishbowl,” where fossils from the pit excavations are sorted, cleaned and examined by researchers.

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Exhibition Hall reopens with ‘Remarkable Works… Times’ Works by Chaucer, Shakespeare and the Gutenberg Bible are among 150 treasures to be featured at the Main Exhibition Hall at The Huntington Library in San Marino set to open Sat., Nov. 9.

“Remarkable Works, Remarkable Times: Highlights from the Huntington Library,” a new permanent exhibit, will spotlight 12 key works in vignettes organized chronologically.

“None of these great works were created in a vacuum,” said Huntington president Steven S. Koblik, “and so we want to contextualize them appropriately, especially for those who might be more inclined these days to go online and spend their time in the digital realm. Here’s an opportunity to spark their interest in the real source materials and engage them around why

SHAKESPEARE’S First Folio will be alongside books that inspired the playwright.

AUDUBON’S Birds of America will be displayed.

RENOVATION of the 1920 building cost $2.5 million.

they matter.”

Major items on display include the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Gutenberg Bible, Audubon’s Birds of America, and Henry David Thoreau’s

manuscript of Walden. The exhibition objects represent the Library’s collection of about nine million items.

Among them are a First Folio edition of Shakespeare’s collected plays, published in

1623, alongside books that inspired him, works by his contemporaries, and rare items that reflect the world he lived in—from the British colonization of the New World to the writings of Galileo.

President Lincoln, Yosemite An 1863 letter by President Abraham Lincoln to Gen. David Hunter, in which the president emphasizes his support for African American troops, will be displayed with photographs from the Civil War, a signed statement from African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass urging the president and the Union to “Unchain that black hand!”

Nearby will be photos of two other major events during the Civil War—the passage of the Pacific Railroad Act in 1862 and the preservation of Yosemite as a wilderness area in 1864.

In another section, the library will showcase letters and materials related to suffragist Susan B. Anthony, including a record of her court trial for voting illegally in 1872, as well as works by Mark Twain.

Designed by architect Myron Hunt for founder Henry E. Huntington, and first opened in 1920, the Main Exhibition Hall served as a reading room for scholars until 1931, when a new reading room was constructed, and since has served exclusively as a gallery.

Historic preservation The renovation project has included updating the infrastructure, along with restoring and repairing the interior and exterior architecture. Chandeliers have been refabricated and installed to evoke the space as it looked in 1920. Cork and marble floors, hidden under carpet for 40 years, have been refinished, another feature of the project that focuses, in part, on historic preservation.

But the most dramatic aspect of the $2.5 million undertaking has been the development of the new exhibition.

“The point of the new installation is to tell stories, and tell them well,” said David Zeidberg, Avery Library director. “The intention is to highlight selected works in a concise display that won’t overwhelm, but rather delight and profoundly inspire people again and again.”

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Museum marks 100 with free entry, time capsule Los Angeles would never be it, “Just Add Water;” rethe same again. marks by the artist and One hundred years ago cattle curator are at 6 p.m. and reception begins at 6:30 ranchers, orchard barons, politicians and citizens gathered on p.m. the banks of the San Fernando Hear civic leaders at Reservoir to witness the first a ceremonial lighting of water from the Owens River Exposition Park Fountain surge into a thirsty city.

Nov. 6 at 5:30 p.m., and A new apex of culture—the watch materials placed Museum of History, Science, in a time capsule to be opened in 2113. and Art (NHM’s original name)– opened the following day also to Artist Rob Reynolds' 10 “LOS ANGELES WATER Traveling Over the Owens large-scale watercolors tell significant fanfare.

The Natural History Museum, Valley,” detail from a work in exhibit. of the Aqueduct history, 900 Exposition Blvd., is celebratgeography and timeline of ing these two milestones with a series of events and free its 223-mile route. The exhibit is guest curated by art admission on Tues., Nov. 5 and Wed., Nov. 6. historian Dr. Charlotte Eyerman who tells of Southern Enjoy a free bottle of water and peruse the exhib- California’s parched past.

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In the first two weeks of October, the neighborhood became Hollywood’s backlot.

It isn’t unusual for filmmakers to choose our area, but it’s unusual to have so many in a two-week period.

Movies, television episodes and commercials were shot on local houses and streets.

The following are the dates and locations of the activity.

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400 block of S. Arden Blvd.

200 block of S. Irving Blvd.

300 block of S. Rossmore Ave. 200 block of S. Norton Ave. 100 block of N. June St. 200 block of S. Plymouth Blvd.

200 block of S. Norton Ave. 500 block of S. Van Ness Ave. 300 block of S. Rossmore Ave. 300 block of S. Van Ness Ave. 400 block of S. Lucerne Blvd.

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Pacific Trust Group, a mortgage lending company specializing in residential real estate.

Now serving the Larchmont and Hancock Park area.

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KIDS FLOAT on water in giant bubbles.

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Costumed witches, princesses and warriors mingled with CAMEL RIDES were a big hit with youngsters.

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'PUMPKIN' Beatriz Nogueira with her mom Nicole.

Sotheby’s International Realty launches www.HistoricPropertySIR.com

A specialty website of the world’s leading historic properties. It provides detailed Historic lifestyle and listing information and resources and enables buyers and sellers to search for the finest properties in this popular segment. It covers a full spectrum of lifestyle types and properties including: landmarks, properties of design and historic significance and properties that are on the National Registry.

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LARCHMONT volunteers staffed the ticket booths.

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Are you a first time buyer, investor or down sizing?

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‘Titans’ showcase debuts at Greystone Mansion Nov. 2 “Titans of Business and the Best of Design” at historic Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills opens Sat., Nov. 2 and continues through Sun., Nov. 24.

Interior designers have transformed rooms at Greystone for Design House International’s 2013 Showcase House. Also called the Doheny Mansion, the Tudor-style estate has 55 livable rooms, thick limestone walls and formal English gardens.

It opened in 1928 at a cost toppling a remarkable-in-its day $3 million.

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Take an urban hike through forgotten Los Angeles Enjoy a poetic stroll through Koreatown and the downtown Arts District with Urban Hikes: Forgotten L.A. this month. Sponsored by the A+D Musuem, poet and author Mike Sonksen leads the historic tours with lively performanc-

es. Visit the eclectic mix of lofts and studios in the Arts District Sun., Nov. 3. Once home to the Ambassador Hotel and Hollywood's glamour age, Koreatown is on the calendar Sun., Nov. 10. Hikes begin at 11 a.m. Visit aplusd.org.

French chateau townhouse BeautiFul Mid-wilshire 1937 architectural restoration Mills act ProPerty-tax savings $790,000

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Hockney films Yorkshire, Hanukkah Festival, Japanese cruise-in Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring St., Sat., Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. $5.

Exhibits, classes and films featured.

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CRAFT AND FOLK ART MUSEUM—"Etsy Meet & Make Kaleidoscopes with Mark Montano," craft night is Thurs., Nov. 7, 7 to 9 p.m.

• "Sound Sculptures" drop-in family workshop is Sun., Nov. 10, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

• "The Art of Poetry" features new works by Brendan Constantine, reception follows, Sat., Nov. 16, 7 to 9 p.m.

• Curator Chris Johanson discusses "Artifacts" exhibit Sun., Nov. 17 at 3 p.m.

• "How to Close your Eyes Walking Tour with artist Carmen Papalla" is Sun., Nov. 24 at 1 and 2 p.m. Free.

• "Holiday Global Bazaar" Sat., Nov. 30, noon to 5 p.m. features fair-trade and handcrafted works by artisans locally and globally. Free.

• "Artifacts of a Life Lived by the Living (to Live)," curated by contemporary artist Chris Johanson. Interdisciplinary exhibition celebrates the meditative ritual of the artmaking process. Ends Jan. 5.

• "Nathalie Miebach: Changing Waters," solo exhibit translates scientific data of weather patterns into musical scores and woven patterns.

Ends Jan. 5.

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ZIMMER CHILDREN'S MUSEUM—Meet Anne-Marie Baila Asner, author of "Klutzy Boy, Shmutzy Girl, Noshy Boy (Please turn to page 15)

DETAIL shows Hockney's landscape videos in a multi-screen grid at LACMA.

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LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART—"David Hockney: Seven Yorkshire Landscape Videos, 2011" opens Sun., Nov. 3. Eighteen cameras fixed to Hockney’s car record drives through Yorkshire’s landscape. Ends Jan. 26.

• "Agnes Varda in Californialand" opens Sun., Nov. 3 featuring photographs and sculpture by the filmmaker. Ends June 22.

• "Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic," exhibit installation designed by architect Frank Gehry, opens Sun., Nov. 24. Ends July 27.

• "See the Light—Photography, Perception, Cognition: Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection" through March 23.

• "John Divola: As Far As I Could Get" ends July 6.

•"Under the Mexican Sky: Gabriel Figueroa—Art and Film," cinematographer from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. Ends Feb. 2.

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by Edward Steichen from the Hollander Collection" ends Dec. 8.

•"Shaping Power: Luba Masterworks from the Royal Museum for Central Africa" ends Jan. 5 • "James Turrell: A Retrospective" ends April 2014.

• "Metropolis II" sculpture by Chris Burden has 1,100 miniature cars. See the exhibit in action Fridays and weekends.

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PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM—Children make a pickup truck and fill the bed with things they are thankful for at a drop-in arts and crafts workshop Sat., Nov. 2 from 1 to 4 p.m. L.A. BookPALS read stories at 2 p.m.

• Classic and modified Japanese cars take the lead in a Cruise In Sat., Nov. 9, 9 a.m. to noon. Free.

• "Cruisin' Crafts," children make a match box Kei car, Sat., Nov. 9, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

• Grandson of legendary designer Harley Earl, historian Richard Earl talks in the "Fins" exhibit Tues., Nov. 19 at 7 p.m.

• "Pickups: The Art of Utility" includes a 1909 International Harvester and 2002 Isuzu Axiom XSR. Ends April 6.

• "Fins: Form without Function" features 12 vehicles, including a 1959 Cadillac and 1937 Art Deco Delage Aerosport. Ends Feb. 2, 2014.

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JAPAN FOUNDATION— Jazz group Ai Kuwabara Trio Project on its U.S. tour brings its contemporary urban sounds to the Los Angeles

For more details, contact Amy Glass at 310-619-2259

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Japanese Garden Festival Celebrate the art and culture of Japan at a familyfriendly festival on Sat., Nov. 9 and Sun., Nov. 10 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Arrangements by the Sogetsu School of Ikebana will be on display throughout the Festival. Learn more about plant collections and enjoy the autumn color on guided walks beginning at 11 a.m., noon, 1 and 2 p.m.

Patina will prepare Japanese cuisine and sake at the Camellia Lounge from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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On Sunday, Taiko drummers will perform their feats of percussive magic at the Under the Oaks Theater at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

In the garden An expert will demonstrate techniques to prune fruit trees for beauty and maximum bounty on Sat., Nov. 9 at 11 a.m.

Horticulturist Wayne Walker leads tours to the best spots to see fall colors in the Gardens on Sat., Nov. 16 at 1 p.m.

Open air fitness New yoga sessions begin Mon., Nov. 11, Tues., Nov. 12, Wed., Nov. 13 and Fri., Nov. 15 from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Classes include a 25-minute fitness walk followed by 60-minute yoga practice. Evening sessions are from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Holiday activities Guy Hernandez will show how to create a long-lasting succulent wreath for home or holiday tables on Sat., Nov. 16 at 11 a.m.

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for Thanksgiving using seasonal materials with Alison Franchi on Tues., Nov. 19 at 2 p.m.

Enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday while someone else cooks and cleans for you on Thurs., Nov. 28 at the Descanso cafe. Patina Restaurant Group will have two seatings for the holiday feast; one at noon and the other at 2 p.m.

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Native garden classes, bird walks and art workshops at Payne Three-part native plant and tree-pruning classes, painting and holiday card workshops and a bird walk are on the calendar at the Theodore Payne Foundation at 10459 Tuxford St., Sun Valley.

Volunteer Join the Payne family of volunteers on Sat., Nov. 2 from 9 a.m. to noon to clear, clean, plant, mulch and prune to spruce up the grounds. Bring hat, gloves, knee pads. Shovels, trowels, rakes, loppers, hoes and pruners will be provided.

Native plant classes Essential information on gardening with California flora including the definition of “native plants,” and why they are valuable, plus planting

techniques, establishment, irrigation, pruning and maintenance will be offered at a three-part class beginning Sat., Nov. 2 from 9 a.m. to 1 BRING binoculars p.m. walk on Nov. 7.

Recommended for beginners, the class, taught by award-winning horticulturist Lili Singer, is a required prerequisite to Payne’s California Native Plant Garden Design course.

Get tips on pruning native trees and shrubs at a class led by arborist Rebecca Latta on Sat., Nov. 9 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Class includes lecture, demalong for a bird onstration and handson practice.

Bird walk Join passionate local birder Ken Gilliland for an easy morning ramble on scenic canyon land, where more than

50 different species of birds have been seen, on Thurs., Nov. 7, from 8 to 10 a.m. Bring your own binoculars, hat and water.

Arts and crafts Payne’s artist-in-residence Mary-Austin Klein will help students experience the technique of oil pastel painting by creating a still live of native flora at a workshop on Sat., Nov. 2 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Adults will pair up with kids ages six and older to create holiday cards featuring native plant silhouettes on Sat., Nov. 16 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Each student will craft two cards using photosensitive paper while learning how to grow native plants in the garden.

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Enjoy traditional Chinese music every Wednesday from 1 to 3 in the Garden of Flowing Fragrance.

Garden talk topic is Foods Fit for a Dinosaur on Thurs., Nov. 14 at 2:30 p.m. Paleobotanist Carole T. Gee of the University of Bonn recaps her scientific research on what the last surviving examples of Mesozoic flora will tell us about dinosaur diets some 150 million years ago. Plant sale follows.

Get creative with the floral design team of Flower Duet and make a holiday centerpiece with succulent plants and fresh flowers on Sat., Nov. 23 from 10 a.m. to noon. Participants will also learn to transfer the succulents into a living art arrangement after the flowers have faded.

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View fall and winter succulents and cacti or boost your party menu repertoire at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens at 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia.

Cactus, canary shows The San Gabriel Valley Cactus and Succulent Society will exhibit fall and winter succulents and cacti on Sat., Nov. 2 and Sun., Nov. 3 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Some of the featured plants will include pelargoniums, wild relatives of the common geranium, and Cyphostemma, succulent members of the grape family.

View birds of different types and colors at the American Canary Fanciers Society's 34th annual Canary Show and Sale on Sat., Nov. 9 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The show includes a judged competition and canaries for sale; Society members will be available to answer questions.

Ceramic festival Enjoy unique, hand-crafted and one-of-a-kind works from Southern California clay artists at the American Ceramic Society Clay Festival on Sat., Nov. 16 and Sun., Nov. 17 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Yoga Improve flexibility, balance and strength in the open air at dusk during Monday evening Hatha yoga classes led by certified instructor Candyce Columbus. Classes meet from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m.; arrive 15 minutes early in front of the main entrance.

Morning classes are on Thursdays from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m.

Family activities Youngsters ages three to seven and their families can enjoy plant and nature stores and create a take-home craft at Bookworms, which meets on Wednesdays, Nov. 6 and 20 at 10:30 a.m. and Sat., Nov. 9 at 2 p.m.

Go green for the holidays and decorate your Christmas tree with recycled items. Children, who must be accompanied by an adult, will make ornaments out of light bulbs, toilet paper rolls and CDs as well as natural materials from the Arboretum on Sat., Nov. 16 from 10 a.m. to noon.

Holiday cooking classes Peg Rahn and Susan Kranwinkle will take participants down memory lane at a cooking class on Wed., Nov. 20 from 3 to 5 p.m. The event will include stories and raffles, with a focus on holiday dishes.

For more information, go to www.arboretum.org or call 626-821-3222.

Hypertufa pots are Garden Club topic Steve Gerischer will speak about hypertufa containers at the monthly meeting of the Los Angeles Garden Club on Mon., Nov. 18.

Gerischer, a landscape designer and president of the Southern California Horticultural Society, will demonstrate how to create a hypertufa pot.

The lightweight versions of antique stone containers are crafted from three basic hardware store materials.

The meeting at the Griffith Park Visitor’s Center Auditorium, 4730 Crystal Springs Dr., begins with refreshments at 9:15 a.m. Presentation starts at 11 a.m.

For more information, call Anne Haque at 323-663-5450.

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Foldable spoons and forks complete the package and make meals on-the-go more manageable.

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In medieval times, an extra loaf was given by wholesale bakers to street peddlers, which provided their margin of profit. It also became a useful euphemism for the “devil’s dozen”—the 13 witches that make up a coven.

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

Phrase saved boys in Roman times from being bullied When we beg for mercy why do we “cry uncle?” wonders John Moore.

In pre-gang boy’s games, a tormentor would release his victim in return for being called “Uncle,” i.e. in return for being granted a title of respect, thus establishing the pecking order of the moment. This practice goes back to ancient Roman times where boys used the expression “patrue, mi patruissimo” (uncle, my best of uncles) to force a Roman bully

Museum Row (Continued from page 11) and more!" Nov. 3 as part of the Sunday drop in workshops this month from 3 to 4 p.m.

Second Sunday Concert Series with Ellen & Matt's “kindie rock music for generations X, Y, Z…and beyond” is Nov. 10.

Enjoy free admission at a Hanukkah Festival Nov. 17, and celebrate with a full day of light-themed activities including story time and holiday crafts.

Garlands of Gratitudes are created Nov. 24 to take home.

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ARCHITECTURE+DESIGN MUSEUM—"Armin Hofmann Farbe/Color" opens Thurs., Nov. 14. Former teacher at Basel School of Design and Yale, Swiss graphic designer produced silk screen compositions. Ends Jan. 19.

"Color and the Brain" lecture with Dr. M.A. Greenstein is Sat., Nov. 16 at 10:30 a.m.

"When in Doubt, Make it Red," discussion is Sat., Nov. 16 at 1 p.m. with designer Steff Geissbuhler.

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This curious word comes from the Greek “emphuein” or “impa” in Latin and Old English and refers to a shoot that is grafted on an existing plant.

By the 14th century, the term “imp” applied to any child (especially the eldest son and heir) added to the family tree.

The mischievous connotation was, of course, inevitable. *** How come an elderly man is known as an “old geezer?” asks Peter Grass.

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