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SS Viking Apartments.com buys Westside Rentals and crew set sail one last time This story was first printed in February.

It’s reprinted here as part of our Year End coverage.

MATTHEW HALL Daily Press Editor

This story was first printed in June. It’s reprinted here as part of our Year End coverage.

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Santa Monica based Westside Rentals has been sold to the CoStar Group, operator of Apartments.com.

The sale was announced this week and the new owners said the local company will keep its Santa Monica headquarters. The company will decrease focus on its brokerage sales and leasing services to maximize its inventory of available rental properties.

Local entrepreneur Mark Verge started Westside Rentals 20 years alongside his wife Lani and his brother. He said the company had been approached by potential buyers before, but the CoStar offer was exceptional. “We are thrilled to join the CoStar team and the Apartments.com network of sites,” he said. “Becoming part of an incredibly innovative company that has truly transformed the rental experience for consumers and landlords alike is exciting and we’re eager to contribute to their success.”

He said the sale was more attractive due the buyer’s commitment to the current employees

“The key is the employees are all taken care of,” he said.

Westside Rentals offers a subscription service for finding rental housing. The company reported more than 85,000 members in 2016 and had more than 350,000 landlords listing properties. The local listings will be added to the Apartments.com network.

“The Los Angeles market represents the largest rental market in the U.S. Bringing Westside Rentals into our family of rental brands and expanding the rental choices for consumers there is a natural extension for us,” said Andrew Florance, Founder and CEO of CoStar Group. “Westside Rentals

has built a loyal base of renters in this highly competitive market as well as a dedicated group of landlords across a variety of different types of rental properties.”

Verge also owns a chain of local restaurants and said he plans to reinvest in the eateries and use the businesses to build a stronger sense of community in Santa Monica.

“It’s a fun business, I enjoy it,” he said. “I really enjoy the interaction with the community, with the employees.”

Of his four restaurants (OP Café, Margo’s, Art’s Table and Ashland Hill) Verge said the spirit SEE APARTMENT PAGE 3

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The iconic Santa Monica High School SS Viking is a symbol showing students that summer is here and graduation is near, but 2017 will be the final voyage for the popular Grad Nite tradition.

Over 600 students will be attending this year’s Samohi Grad Nite 2017 on June 8. The rite of passage for graduates consists of food, various activities throughout the night and jumping on the SS Viking to an exotic destination, this year being Jamaica.

Every year a group of men work together to construct the 28 feet tall and 34-foot long blue and gold ship. Fathers Chuck Kearsley, Chris Emhardt, and Woody Coleman direct much of the boat construction. They have dedicated nearly 20 years of work to provide an unforgettable experience for the graduating seniors.

Year after year the boat and the men never disappoint, but as the boat continues to age, so does the crew and they feel it is time to throw in the towel.

It is no secret the boat build is no easy task as it takes three weeks before graduation to setup and one weekend to tear down. The construction of the ship needs roughly

Santa Monica’s oldest flame, The Tinder Box, dies out This story was first printed in May. It’s reprinted here as part of our Year End coverage.

KATE CAGLE Daily Press Staff Writer

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When Santa Monica’s oldest tobacconist, Edward Kolpin Sr., died in April 2007, he had a wish.

That his little shop on Wilshire Boulevard would continue to sell handcrafted pipes, high-end cigars and custom blended tobacco for ten more years.

When Kolpin’s daughter-in-law turns out the lights and locks the door one last time Monday, the nearly 90-year-old store will have fulfilled that promise.

“It will be hard,” Jeanette Kolpin said as she held back tears and pulled out some pamphlets from the Museum of Neon Art. “But we will be immortalized.”

This mystery photo was retired after two months of incorrect guesses. It’s location remains a mystery.

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Pilot sentenced to prison for flying without a license This story was first printed in April. It’s reprinted here as part of our Year End coverage.

KATE CAGLE Daily Press Staff Writer

An Orange County man has been sentenced to ten months in prison for flying a plane out of the Santa Monica Airport without a license.

Last October, Arnold Gerald Leto III pleaded guilty to the charges, admitting to flying a Cessna Citation aircraft from Santa Monica Airport to Phoenix in 2015. In April, 2016, Leto piloted a Falcone 10 turbo-jet aircraft from Van Nuys Airport to Las Vegas, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. On both occasions, Leto had passengers onboard.

The FAA has revoked Leto’s remaining airman certificates after finding various violations of Federal aviation regulations. Leto could have faced a statutory maximum sentence of six years in federal prison.

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of OP Café is a great example of why he wants to stay involved in the local community.

“My wife Lani always says, ‘it’s the greatest place because it’s so neighborhood,’” he said.

He said a neighborhood restaurant where locals can get a cup of coffee from someone that knows their name are vitally important to the city’s wellbeing and that the local operations do far more for the community than a corporate outlet.

“Does the city really need a 24th or 25th Starbucks?” he said. “I’m from Santa Monica and I want to build more community. I’m

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20 volunteers each day of the three-weekend process to make it happen.

The process begins with scaffolding, and then the bridge and smoke stacks are added.

Then onto the shell, and it is finally sanded, repainted, portholes put in, water waves applied along the bottom and then a real Santa Monica Pier sign is put above the entrance.

Kearsley said, “Fathers, Bill Dearn, Dennis Payne, Doug Thomas, Rick Gates, Joe Perches,Murray Harreschou, John Balfus, Paul Ford, Brian Black, Dan Heiderman, Tom Wilkens and Dave Sonderdregger continue to return year after year to construct the boat.”

Kearsley said many of the men are in their 60’s so they feel it is time to retire and references one of the longest running parent volunteers, Bill Dearn.

Dearn started the first Grad Nite boat and

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are designed to protect the traveling public,” United States Attorney Eileen M. Decker said. “The investigation into Mr. Leto shows that he flagrantly violated these rules – and continued to do so after the FAA took action to take him out of the air. A swift and thorough investigation by the Department of Transportation has now improved the safety of all air travelers.”

The Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General investigated the case with assistance from the FAA. A Line Service Technician at the Van Nuys airport told the FAA inspector he saw Leto take off with seven or eight passengers without a second pilot April 8 last year, according to court documents. The FAA requires a pilot and copilot as minimum crew for the Cessna Model involved in the incident.

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Verge said part of his renewed focus would be on supporting local youth through support for local schools. He said Westside Rentals never turned down a request to support a local school and he wants all of his restaurants to increase their participation in the community.

“I Really want to support the schools,” he said. “I feel like we’re going to doing a little bit more for the neighborhood.”

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has worked 22 Grad Nites since then. He has built the boat from the time his children went to Samohi to his youngest grandson who recently graduated.

It seems to be the perfect time for the SS Viking and crew to retire.

“In the coming years, the area where we build the boat will be under construction and it seems a good time for current parents to come up with other wonderful ideas,” said Kearsley.

Parents and staff are saddened to see this be their final voyage. However, Lori Whitesell, Co-chair for Samohi Grad Nite, 2017 said, “The party will continue in the future with a new entrance, as the boat will retire with it’s crew.”

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Police Chief calls TCS opener “irresponsible” This story was first printed in June. It’s reprinted here as part of our Year End coverage.

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Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks believes the popular Twilight Concerts have become a safety hazard following a possibly record crowd for the opening show of the 2017 season.

The Chief said the events have grown beyond the capabilities of local agencies and she has requested a security analysis from the Department of Homeland Security to help guide security plans at future shows.

After the June 22 show, headliner Khalid sent out a message on social media. “Last night, around 60,000 people came out to see me in Santa Monica for the free show at the Pier. Breaking records. The Staples Center holds around 21,000 people. People all over California drove hours to come out, to sit in traffic for hours before and after, all off of good energy,” he said.

Seabrooks said her estimate for crowd size was similar. The Pier deck housing the concert can hold between 5,000 and 7,500 people depending on the configuration of an event. The Pier itself can hold several thousand people due to weight constraints on the structure itself. She said the deck reached capacity quickly and with additional people crowding the Pier and at least 40 – 50,000 people on the nearby beach, it was easily one of the biggest crowds to gather for a show.

The Chief said the crowd size jeopardized public safety and that while nothing serious happened during the show, police or fire officers would have been unable to help a victim if someone were in distress.

“Over the years we have diligently, police and fire, worked to ensure safe ingress and egress for emergency vehicles (on the beach),” she said. “The crowd size was so big and with the tideline change toward the latter part of the evening, those safety zones

were eliminated.”

Fire Chief Bill Walker said he was on the same page as Chief Seabrooks. “If we can’t get access to people, that’s a concern,” he said. “The ability to control that crowd and that movement, it’s beyond our control because we’re overwhelmed and over numbered.”

About 160 police officers are on hand during the events as are 13 fire inspection personnel and three EMT teams.

According to Seabrooks, it wasn’t just the density of the beach crowd that posed a problem. At Thursday’s show, an overflow crowd briefly knocked down a barricade near the entrance to the Pier on Ocean Front Walk and when Khalid appeared on the roof of the Loof Hippodrome building, the crowd surged in a way that was dangerous to those on the Pier. While private security was able to quickly reestablish control before things got out of hand, Seabrooks said the potential for harm is high and both Chiefs said officials want to preempt problems.

“It’s just a concern,” said Walker.”We’re in the public safety business, were in the business of worst case scenarios and in a crowd that large a worst-case scenario is something that gets away from us.”

Seabrooks said the shows can’t be judged safe based on if something happened, but need to be evaluated on how officials can respond if there’s an emergency.

“As it stands, nothing happened but that’s not the measure,” she said. “The measure is being proactive and doing things safely.”

She called the show “irresponsible” for attracting a crowd that was beyond SMPD’s ability to regulate or control and said show organizers have ignored her past concerns about appropriate sized crowds for the Santa Monica area.

“This is not Upstate New York in 1969 at Woodstock,” she said.

Seabrooks said there’s nothing anyone can do to stop public access to a public beach and crowds will always flock to a beach town

like Santa Monica. However, providing a free show of regional interest substantially increases the number of people who will come to the City.

“It’s bounded by residences and hotels and for us to have an event like this, I’m absolutely astounded that the Pier Board would enable this kind of activity to go on despite the objection of Police and Fire and the expressed concerns of the city,” she said.

The concerts are produced by the Pier Corporation, a Council-appointed nonprofit that handles events, promotions, marketing and fundraising. Pier Corp Board President Judy Abdo said staff will be working with the Police and Fire departments in the coming days.

“I am very glad that the planning process is working more smoothly this year and that the Police and the pier staff have been meeting often to address the issues that are being raised here and that my expectation is that they will meet and make sure that next week’s concert addresses the issues they have highlighted from this concert,” she said.

Jay Farrand, Executive Director of the Pier said Khalid was booked months ago and his popularity exploded in the meantime drawing a surprisingly large crowd for the TCS show. He said based on social media RSVPs, none of the remaining shows have even a third of the response and while the crowd was large, the event was safe and well planned.

“I think what was successful about last night is that we’ve been working for months with City departments, our producers, private event staff and security to make plans for the series and that planning and preparation paid off last night with calm collaborative action that kept the night running as smoothly as possible given the large crowd,” he said. “Additionally, we knew that the crowds were going to be very large for weeks in advance and had many meetings with public safety and our event staff and security to prepare, including making extra signage, hiring extra security and ushers, and

more.”

He said the crowd was large, happy and excited to see Khalid but not dangerous.

Farrand said the Pier hadn’t changed how it promoted the show and the situation Thursday was a result of the talent surging in popularity.

“Nothing was different in how we promoted the show and didn’t make any attempts to reach an out-of-town crowd, but his sudden popularity and buzz were clearly far-reaching,” he said. “While the numbers were large thanks to his sudden popularity, they were a mellow happy well-behaved crowd which is the norm for Twilight and we heard this echo’d by most of the professionals working the event in various capacities.”

Seabrooks said given the national and international reality, law enforcement has to be aware of potential problems and when officers can’t safely access the crowd on the beach it becomes a liability for everyone involved.

“With 50,000 people in a small footprint, it only takes one person to do something sideways that has the ability to impact the city of Santa Monica and the surrounding community for years to come,” she said. “I am concerned in my professional capacity, this has gone way beyond the capabilities of Santa Monica Police Department and its law enforcement partners and EMS partners…” she said.

To provide perspective on the situation, Seabrooks requested the Department of Homeland Security provide a threat assessment of the TCS shows. She said a team of experts attended the show and were not happy with what they saw. A full report from the inspection team will be provided to SMPD in the coming weeks but Seabrooks said its content might be kept confidential if it contains information that could expose public safety weaknesses. There are seven remaining TCS shows spread over the next eight weeks. There will be no concert the week of July 4.

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Michael’s Restaurant has achieved the nearly impossible: after 38 years, it’s still a trendsetter, without the pitfalls of hipster trendiness.

In Los Angeles restaurant years, this is practically an eternity. If you’re a fan of red banquettes and martinis you can still find the old-school classics like Musso and Frank’s in Hollywood, Taix in Echo Park, even the Rat Pack hangout, Matteo’s in Westwood.

Michael’s of Santa Monica (and New York), however, is anything but old-school; but neither is it the hippest, hottest place in town. And that’s a good thing.

Instead, it is a both a destination restaurant and a neighborhood gem (in New York, it’s a place where power players dine to see and be seen), with a beautiful garden patio for special occasions or romantic trysts, a restaurant whose menu has changed with the times, but has not fallen into kale, yak butter or pumpkin spice territory.

Michael McCarty does not follow the herd; he leads it. And he’s still setting the standard for casual elegance, in a restaurant that’s classic and classy, casual and contemporary, warm and inviting with a menu that, throughout time, has always featured top quality ingredients prepared deliciously.

McCarty not only helped launched the movement we now take for granted—seasonal California cuisine—but he hired a who’s who of rock star chefs before they were known.

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What’s amazing is how his latest young chef, Miles Thompson, fits in with this tradition as he completely revamped the menu.

Miles’s pedigree is impressive for a guy who’s not even 30 years old. He worked at worldrenowned The Shed in Healdsburg, a roster of top L.A. hotspots including Nobu, Animal and Son of a Gun, and he ran his own restaurant, Allumette in Echo Park, named by Bon Appétit as one of 2013’s Best New Restaurants.

Keeping with one new trend, however, Michael’s now features smaller plates with creative flavor pairings.

And the wine list is curated by a down-to-earth sommelier (Roni, she’s new to the Westside and to L.A.) who not only pays close attention to enhancing the tastes on the plates, she also advances your knowledge of wine with some surprising choices.

I have never enjoyed texturally disgusting, rubbery, chewy, deep fried calamari. But I bravely took a taste of octopus, because of Miles’s renowned skill with this dish. His features lime curd, Thai chile and shrimp vinaigrette.

The balance between the sweet curd and the acidic vinaigrette helped each bite of this remarkably tender dish explode in my mouth.

If you’re a bread lover you mustn’t let your fear of gluten stop you from ordering the irresistible buckwheat sourdough bread with toasted barley butter. We only stopped after one order (plenty for two) because we had so many courses coming. It’s as perfect a bread as you’ll find at local artisanal bakeries.

Order the Hamachi collar. I had no idea what this was but it is actually the neck of this fatty fish, and it comes out looking quite crunchy.

We were fortunate enough to have Michael himself show us how to break it up and eat it – and eat it, we did, dressed with baba ganoush, honeydew melon and marjoram vinaigrette.

As far as small plates go, this one’s so big we had to take half of it home. The double-cut pork chop is served (for now—Michael’s is seasonal) with summer squash hash, tomatillo and pickled red onion.

See what I mean about Miles Thompson’s creative flavor pairings? The menu depends on what is at the market, and Miles’s experiments with ingredients we might not ever consider together. Go in expecting surprises and trust that they’ll work.

Not one but three somewhat “deconstructed” desserts later, we politely tapped our napkins to our mouths after indulging in whipped cheesecake, roasted barley pot-de-crème and hazelnut chocolate ganache. Total satiety.

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On a personal note, I want to acknowledge that Michael has been a generous supporter of the non-profit I am involved with, Food Forward (gleaning and harvesting for the hungry), as well as C-CAP (Careers through Culinary Arts Program) and many others.

Michael’s is still located in its original setting, with stunning artwork everywhere (Michael is a collector with exquisite taste), just north of Wilshire on 2nd Street in Santa Monica. It’s a wonderful night out.

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On Friday, a construction crew used a crane to pull the old Tinder Box sign from its corner on Wilshire and Harvard St. It is now headed to Glendale where it will be repaired and restored and placed in the museum. The strip is perhaps a fitting resting place for what has been a symbol of Hollywood’s smoke-filled glamour since Ed began selling cigars to the stars in the 1920’s.

Over the years, loyal customers relished Ed’s stories of famous actresses and actors and their exploits. He claimed to have once been flashed by Marilyn Monroe herself and to have skinny dipped in the Taj Mahal.

Icons from every generation have walked through the wooden doors and smelled the cedar inside the cigar room – from Clark Gable to Nicholas Cage to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The store opened in 1928. In 1973, the company began leasing its name and selling its product as a franchise, spreading the Tinder Box name all over the world. In 1977, Ed’s son told the New York Times that business began thriving after the Surgeon General’s warning that cigarette smoking was a health hazard. Suddenly, cigarette smokers turned to cigars and pipes to get their fix without inhaling and wean themselves off their daily pack.

“Our stores have never been affected by downturns in the economy,” Karl Kolpin reportedly told The Times. “People may lose their jobs, but they continue to smoke expensive cigars. The worse the Dow Jones becomes, the better our business.”

While there are still Tinder Box stores in about 18 states, the franchise has since been sold and five years ago Jeanette made the difficult decision to sell the property on Wilshire. She negotiated a special rate for the store for a five-year lease, which expired this month. The going rent in the neighborhood has since skyrocketed beyond what the store can afford.

“Things change and nothing lasts forever,” Jeanette said.

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The Tinder Box doesn’t have a single employee who has worked there fewer than fifteen years. The shop’s manager, Leo Reyes, has been teaching customers about cigars and pipes since 1986. Once he gets going, he can rhapsodize about the craftsmanship behind hand-carving a pipe and the aroma of different tobaccos.

“As a kid, years ago, I remember someone smoking and it smelled like gingerbread,” Reyes said. “People have those kinds of memories of their uncle or their dad or grandfather smoking a pipe and they decide to give it a try. They get sentimental.”

“Everything has history so it becomes part of the ambiance of doing it.”

But while his customers have remained loyal, the base has not grown and trends in smoking have changed. The store never branched out to include new technology like e-cigarettes or vaporizers. Although they get a lot of calls requesting it, the store does not sell paraphernalia for smoking marijuana either.

“That wasn’t us. We wanted to stay pure in that sense,” Reyes said.

After they finish clearing out the store and complete the pile of paperwork that comes with ending a nearly century-old business, Reyes says he and Jeanette are looking into ways to continue the repair shop that fixes broken lighters, pipes and humidors.

“You know, the things that we do that other places don’t do anymore,” Reyes said.

Over the past few weeks, word spread that the shop was finally closing and customers began coming by to pick up mementos and say their farewells. Although their stock is already dwindling, Jeanette anticipates a busy day on Saturday when cigar and pipe smokers typically spend the afternoon inside the shop catching up with friends and enjoying their shared vice.

The stores late founder, Ed, smoked a pipe up until he turned 96 years old.

On Monday, the shop goes out like a light. kate@smdp.com

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Mystery Photo Locations for 2017: In the Dec. 30 issue of the Daily Press we republished Mystery Photos from the year.

You can find the Mystery Revealed photos on Page 7 of this issue. Their locations are as follows: The Annenberg Beach House.

Love Coffee Bar at 1732 Ocean Park Blvd.

The building at 1231 Lincoln Blvd.

A mural on the parking structure in the 1200 block of 4th Street.

Douglas Park.

Tongva Park.

The Annenberg Community Beach House.

The mural at 18th and Broadway.

833 9th Street.

Tongva Park.

Barnard Way Linear Park.

The corner of Euclid and Santa Monica

Blvd.

The Universal globe at Colorado and Cloverfield.

Centinela Feed and Pet Supplies at 1448 Lincoln Blvd.

The Santa Monica Courthouse.

Noma restaurant on Wilshire.

1415 6th Street.

A temporary sculpture on the 10 Freeway opposite the 5th Street exit.

1311 Wilshire Blvd.

A mural at 719 Broadway.

The side of Santa Monica Place.

The new SMC Center for Media and Design on Stewart Street.

The Marco Polo mural on the former home of Marco Polo Imports, 716 Colorado Blvd. (next to Fisher Lumber).

Outside the lifeguard headquarters near Ocean Front Walk and Seaside Terrace.

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A Show Like No Other How do you describe perfection? What can you say about a fantasy that keeps you spellbound and holding your breath for 70 minutes? How can I write a 700-word rave about it?

The production is called “Feathers of Fire, A Persian Epic,” and epic it is. If it were a collection of the folklore of Germany, it might have been written by the Brothers Grimm in the 19th century. But instead it is part of a 60-thousand verse compendium put together by a Persian poet more than 1,000 years ago.

Now an artist named Hamid Rahmanian has conceived, written and adapted, designed and directed one of its traditional love stories for the enjoyment of 21st century theatergoers.

It begins with the love story and marriage of a beautiful young woman to a powerful minor king in Persia. But she does not survive the trauma of giving birth to their son, and the distraught king is horrified to see that the baby has been born with a full head of white hair standing out from his scalp like a crown of feathers.

Unwilling to accept this strange child, the father takes him into the wilderness and aban-

dons him there. But the boy is soon “adopted” by a wondrous magical bird who mothers him until he reaches manhood, at which time he goes off to meet his father and learn the ways of men.

On his journey, however, he sees a beautiful young woman, Rudabeh, and like his father before him, he falls in love instantly. She, of course, responds to him immediately and they begin to plan their wedding.

But, like Romeo and Juliet, they find themselves enmeshed in the long-standing feud between their two families. So he, Zaul, goes off to implore the Great King to give him permission to marry his love. And on the way he is aided by all manner of fantastic mythical creatures: a fire-belching dragon, a four-legged monster that resembles a rabid dog, etc.

The story is simple and predictable. Its uniqueness lies in its presentation, which involves the efforts of eight hidden actors, 160 shadow puppets, and 15 spectacular masks and costumes. In addition, there is a background consisting of a 15 by 30-foot screen, and the continuously projected graphics that are gorgeous enough to warrant being shown as a single gallery exhibit all by themselves. The story and the graphics are there to enhance the activities of the true stars of this sensational production: the shadow puppets.

They are like no other puppets you’ve ever seen. They are not Pinocchio puppets with long strings attached. Nor are they like Balinese shadow puppets, made of a flat material and moving in a static manner. These are heavy black silhouettes digitally enhanced so that they are able to move their heads and every other part of their bodies in every direction, down to the little fingers on their hands. And the actors who manipulate them also provide the voices for the plummy dialogue.

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Jan. 1)

By PETER GALLAGHER

Strange Brew

By JOHN DEERING

Your gift for reading people and getting quickly to the heart of what they need and want will make you a top seller this year, even if you’re not in sales. People will buy into your ideas and your vision of the future that includes your lighthearted wishes and your deep desires. You’ll love, work and attract all you need. Libra and Gemini adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 6, 20, 22, 23 and 50.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)

You’re busy making sure the inside of your head is a nice place to live. Your mental environment will be freshened up by challenging some old thought patterns, getting sunlight, exercising and inviting encouragement and inspiration.

It doesn’t matter what the person next to you is doing. For now, looking ahead is enough. As with a horse wearing blinders, your focus on where you want to go will keep you from getting spooked as you move forward.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) TAURUS (April 20-May 20) The irresistible charm you radiate comes from your genuine interest and skill in finding out what there is to like about people and your total unconcern about what they think about you.

You’ll smile with happiness at seeing someone, and both of you will get an immediate boost.

Your smile makes people feel important and valued, and you like yourself more, too, for revving up the good vibes.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Shared knowledge is a beautiful thing, and it cuts out a lot of wasted time today because it means you don’t have to discuss everything that led to this moment. You’re on the same page, and you’ll move forward as a team.

You may feel as if you’re drinking from the silly straw of life. Everything seems to take a circuitous route to get to you, but at least you’ll find this to be a highly amusing start to the year.

CANCER (June 22-July 22)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

There are those who can do no wrong in your eyes. Have they really earned your unconditional positive regard? Well, they’re getting it today, earned or not, because they seem to need the support. You can do the math later.

You’re eager to try things, and you’ll be good right out of the gate, as beginner’s luck is your cosmic gift at the moment. Also, you’ve special luck for approaching people you don’t know.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) It’s good if the plan goes right, but if things go wrong, even better. It’s a chance for you to show what you’re made of -- that you’re a cool, in-control person who handles life in a thoughtful, responsible way.

Last night, it was the noisemakers and rowdy revelers who made all the commotion. Maybe that’s why today you’re in a quiet mood, and you don’t have to raise a hoot; your accomplishments will make all the noise for you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Because you are involved in the triumph of mankind, you will feel the struggle and ultimate achievement of perfect strangers as though it were your own victory.

There’s no compliment like your attention. Who deserves it today? You’re definitely in the running, as you’ve been doing so much to make the transition into the year a jolly one for all.

Maybe you should give it to yourself!

Supermoon: A Super Emotional Start to the New Year The Cancer supermoon welcomes 2018 with a rush of emotion. You may be surprised by how people feel and just as surprised by your own feelings. There’s a cleansing quality to feelings. If you’re willing to let them flow freely through you like water, they will clear the way as they go, always finding the path of least resistance.

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ing flowers, mountains and trees, soft clouds moving slowly across the sky, and fantasy clouds made out of loops and squiggles, like a Paisley print. The palaces are filled with stately columns and exotic chandeliers. And most spectacular of all are the costumes and headdresses based on authentic Persian designs and bursting with psychedelic colors.

Most amazing, however, was the behavior of the audience. Many people brought children to this production, aged from about four, and they came bustling into the theater in a roar, shouting and squeaking in their seats, as children will.

But the instant the show started, the theater became so quiet that you might have thought it was empty. And through the entire presentation you could have heard a pin drop.

Maybe the kids, too, were holding their breath.

CYNTHIA CITRON has worked as a journalist, public relations director, documentary screenwriter and theater reviewer. She may be reached at ccitron66@gmail.com.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 2017345966 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 12/07/2017 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as ACCESSORIES WEST. 14306 ALBERS ST. , SHERMAN OAKS, CA 91401.Ä The full name of registrant(s) is/are: JEFFREY M. MARKUS, INC. 14306 ALBERS ST. SHERMAN OAKS,

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 2017335379 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 11/27/2017 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as GOOD GIRL DINETTE. 110 NORTH AVENUE 56 , LOS ANGELES, CA 90042. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: DIEP K. TRAN 110 NORTH AVENUE 56 LOS ANGELES, CA 90042. This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)4/2009. /s/: DIEP K. TRAN, OWNER . DIEP K. TRAN. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 2017358189 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 12/26/2017 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as BDM TRANSPORTATION PLANNING. 733 MARINE STREET #2 , SANTA MONICA, CA 90405.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. SS027153 Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles Petition of JENNIFER MICHELLE FARRELL for Change of Name TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner or Attorney: JENNIFER MICHELLE FARRELL filed a petition with this court for a decree of changing names as follows: JENNIFER MICHELLE FARRELL to JENNIFER MICHELLE. The court orders that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Notice of Hearing: Date: 02/23/2018, Time: 8:30 AM, Dept: K, Room: A-203 The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA - COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, 1725 MAIN STREET, SANTA MONICA, CA 90401 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Santa Monica Daily Press.

Date: DECEMBER 22, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 2017341049 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 12/01/2017 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as APPLE LATTES, APPLE LATTEapostropheS. 2851 W. 120TH STREET #E327 , Hawthorne, CA 90250.Ä The full name of registrant(s) is/are: TAMESHA MCINTYRE 2851 W. 120TH STREET #E327 Hawthorne, CA 90250. This Business is being conducted by:Ä an Individual. The registrant has not yet commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above. /s/:TAMESHA MCINTYRE. TAMESHA MCINTYRE.Ä This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/01/2017. NOTICE: THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. SS027148 Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles Petition of BRIDGET BARRETT LAURENT for Change of Name TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner or Attorney: BRIDGET B. LAURENT filed a petition with this court for a decree of changing names as follows: BRIDGET BARRETT LAURENT to BRIDGET BRONSON BARRETT The court orders that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Notice of Hearing: Date: 02/16/2018, Time: 8:30 AM, Dept: K, Room: ANNEX The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA - COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, 1725 MAIN STREET, SANTA MONICA, CA 90401 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Santa Monica Daily Press.

Date: JANUARY 15, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. SS027136 Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles Petition of SHILOH PEACOCK WALDMAN

BY JUSTINE MARIA PEACOCK AND ADAM GANN WALDMAN for Change of Name TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner or Attorney: JUSTINE MARIA PEACOCK AND ADAM GANN WALDMAN filed a petition with this court for a decree of changing names as follows: SHILOH PEACOCK WALDMAN to SHILOH ROYAL WALDMAN The court orders that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Notice of Hearing: Date: 01/19/18, Time: 8:30 AM, Dept: K, Room: A203 The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA - COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, 1725 MAIN STREET, SANTA MONICA, CA 90401 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Santa Monica Daily Press.

Date: 01/08/2018

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