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The Eternal Optimist Tribe Project’s Scott Marintsch aims to inject an entrepreneurial spark into Venice’s art scene

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ON THE COVER: Venice music producer and business owner Scott Marintsch has a vision to make The Tribe Project an incubator for artists to build up the business side of their creative practices. Photo courtesy of The Tribe Project. Design by Arman Olivares.

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and most non-essential indoor operations are closed.) In the “red” phase, additional businesses such as movie theaters and indoor malls would be allowed to reopen in Los Angeles County. The state authorized the reopening of salons Tuesday, but LA County had not yet authorized salon reopenings. Health officials say they are closely monitoring case rates and hospitalizations for spikes after the Labor Day holiday weekend. (via NBC4 Los Angeles and Deadline.com) • The City and County of Los Angeles have partnered with the mobile app Citizen SafePass to aid with contract tracing. The app notifies users of possible exposures anonymously and encrypts user information; participation and location tracking is voluntary. Visit citizen.com/safepass to learn more. (via ABC7 Los Angeles) • Two men in their late 20s were shot and injured Saturday night in Venice Beach near the 2600 block of Pacific Avenue, near 26th Street, according to reporting from Patch.com. The male suspect fled the (Continued from page 21)

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Re: Opinion: ‘Building an Innovative and Inclusive Community: In addressing Los Angeles’ housing needs, Westchester can be a leader,’ By Tara Barauskas, Sept. 17, 2020 I generally love reading my weekly Argonaut. My experience has been that the paper is generally balanced, fair and for the most part shows good judgment. I was very saddened to see the piece run this week regarding plans to build low-income housing in Westchester on Airport Boulevard. The article inferred that Westchester has always been and is still the home of residents who are trying to hold back others in our community.

[Opinion writer] Tara [Barauskas] clearly does not know the makeup of this area. Given today’s atmosphere, this article simply added fuel to the fire that keeps raging.

If residents have voiced their opinion about not being in favor of this project it’s because our neighborhood has already been inundated with multiple housing units that have made life in this area unpleasant. Another 100-unit building with inadequate parking is simply unacceptable.

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[Editor’s Note: The author of the original opinion piece described the units as “affordable.” The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) defines an “affordable dwelling” as one that a household can obtain for 30% or less of its income. “Low-income” housing can be public housing or Section 8 voucher housing, overseen by HUD or a local housing authority, and sets income limits between 30% and 80% of an area’s median income, depending on the metropolitan area.]

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Young people of color and everyone needs “THE TALK.” Jacob Blake should not have been shot! When a police officer points a gun at you, don’t decide to just get into your car to drive away. Stay calm and cooperate. The life you save may very well be yours.

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Rayshard Brooks should not have been shot in the Wendy’s parking lot in Atlanta! DUI lawyer Darren Kavinoky of 1-800-NoCuffs says to do this. Say: “On advice of counsel, I’m not answering any questions.

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Playa Vista Welcomes New Kaiser Permanente Medical Offices on McConnell

Kaiser adds behavioral health, occupational medicine, pediatrics and OB-GYN services to new facility PHOTOS COURTESY OF KAISER PERMANENTE

By Shanee Edwards Kaiser Permanente has stepped up its health care game by opening a new, cutting-edge medical facility in the creative commercial district of Playa Vista, north of Jefferson Boulevard. The health care provider held a virtual ribboncutting ceremony and tour that introduced the public to the 35,000-square-foot facility on Thursday, Sept. 17.

The new facility offers a number of expanded healthcare services and high-tech equipment. It takes the place of the now-demolished Kaiser offices on Mesmer Avenue that served the Playa Vista community for over 20 years.

Georgina Garcia, Senior Vice President and area manager of the West Los Angeles service area, opened the virtual event by

The new Kaiser Permanente facility sits on a cul-de-sac at the end of McConnell Avenue in the creative commercial district of Playa Vista, north of Jefferson Boulevard saying the new facility is “the embodiment of what Kaiser Permanente stands for: high quality, integrated care and

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“We added four new specialty care services: behavioral health, occupational medicine, pediatrics, and a complete care nursing clinic,” said Tamaddon, adding that, “29 physicians and more than 100 healthcare professionals will also offer adult primary care and OB-GYN [services].

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‘The World is Your Oyster’ The Tribe Project aims to inject an entrepreneurial spark into Venice’s art scene

By Samuel Aftel During a global pandemic, economic decay, and intensifying sociopolitical division, the arts may seem secondary – unworthy of the same attention and financial assistance, as say, the decaying American health care and hospitality industries.

And yet, perhaps artistic institutions, and artists themselves, are more essential than ever: art has long served as a healing mechanism amid humanity’s darkest hours.

In this spirit, The Tribe Project – a Venice Beach-based nonprofit dedicated to accelerating and amplifying local artists’ work – and its visionary founder, Scott Eddy Marintsch, seek to empower artists and incentivize community-conscious creativity, even as Los Angeles and the world face an uncertain future.

“I would say especially for nonprofits, it’s a tough year,” said Marintsch, who serves as the nonprofit’s executive director. In 2020, supporting

nonprofits that do not directly address COVID-19 or racism, Marintsch says, is a particularly tough sell. Nonetheless, he and The Tribe Project are soldiering on.

Officially incorporated just this year, the organization, according to its website, provides an “experimental art space … that strives to be a haven for authentic, genuine human expression.”

Through its three-month Artist Accelerator program, the organization’s flagship initiative, The Tribe Project partners with select artists, supporting them as they pursue their artistic vision in an emerging incubator setting in Venice Beach. The program facilitates artists’ entrepreneurial education and helps them construct a plan to share (and ultimately monetize) their art to the general public.

Providing entrepreneurial mentorship to artists — thereby enabling them to potentially make a living by pursuing their creative dreams — is crucial to

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A sculpture by Venice artist by Ara Bevacqua, who’s participating in Tribe’s Artist Accelerator program

The Tribe Project’s mission.

The earnest and socially conscious Marintsch told me that it is all too easy to work a salaried “nine-to-five” job without doing what you are passionate about, like making art. However, he believes there is a way out of this late-capitalist rut “if you can realize the world is your oyster and you can get out and you can find a way to make money through your own hard work and your own sweat, blood, and tears,” while pursuing your genuine interests.

He sees organizations like The Tribe Project as potential sources of creative inspiration for those chastened by everyday life’s predictable rhythms.

Imagining people accessing artistic spaces like Tribe Project, Marintsch pondered that “you [could] have people on tours walking through and just saying, ‘Wow, that’s possible,’ and they go home, and maybe they never come back. But they have that. That’s

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their kernel. And now they get to go back home and say, ‘I’m going to buy a sketchpad.’ ” Currently, Marintsch and his colleagues are working with three Los Angeles-based artists: Venice sculptor Ara Bevacqua; Gary Weizenecker Jr., a painter and manager of Venice’s Budman Studio; and Emmitt James, a rapper.

Given the still-raging COVID-19 pandemic, however, The Tribe Project is, for this year, “limited” in the support it can provide these artists. “We could be doing so much more with them,” Marintsch said. “If it wasn’t 2020.”

Yet Marintsch believes not all is lost.

“I think as things become safer … we’ll definitely put more of a spotlight on them, and we’ll keep them involved probably on a longer-term basis.”

“The hope is that they’re able to monetize some of their artwork and through networking/relationships, get them into contracts/positions to get financially compensated for their artistry,” added Marintsch later in an email. “I believe that in the not too distant future, we’re going to get to a place where artists can join the program and feel confident that they will walk away with compensation of some sort, whether it’s as creative entrepreneurs or in a full/part-time

Tribe Accelerator Artist Gary Weizenecker Jr. is also the manager of Venice’s Budman Studio capacity.”

Notwithstanding the nearapocalyptic defeatism omnipresent in our cultural and political discourses these days, the fact that The Tribe Project and other community-facing nonprofits and businesses are weathering the storm is reason for hope.

As I talked to Marintsch, I began to remember that one day this nightmarish pandemic will end, and, on the other side of it, creative organizations like The Tribe Project will hopefully be

there to inspire us to build a better, more socially-conscious and creatively sustainable new “normal.”

The Tribe Project’s developing Psychonautic Lens Project exemplifies one such approach to producing vanguard artists equipped to face the embattled 21st-century marketplace. The Lens Project, according to Marintsch, is “an audio-visual experience with the intention of making it feel like you’re looking into a lens – like you’re PHOTO BY NICK JACKSON

Rapper Emmitt James is also collaborating with The Tribe Project

looking into a psychedelic lens, effectively.”

The project, Marintsch explained, involves the creative use of psychedelic, indoor studio “sets for musical performances, where you have two screens that are on the front and backside of whoever’s performing. And we have projections on the screens, and the screens are see-through, but they also reflect light.”

“It’s really interesting material,” Marintsch continued.

“And what we’re able to do is have someone standing inside of the space performing, singing, whatever, and they can real-time control what’s being projected around them. And the visuals react [in] real-time to whatever sound is being played.”

The hope is to create a metaphorical “post-singularity” “portal into the future.”

While Marintsch and his associates may still be working out the details and determining this experience’s exact potentialities, the psychonautic initiative’s intention is relatively clear: empower artists to make (economically viable) art through a cutting-edge, decidedly 21st-century lens.

Moreover, in the longer term, Marintsch hopes The Tribe Project “[becomes] a staple in the community” and eventually expands its digital and geographic reach.

Despite these fascinating initiatives and noble ambitions, the road forward for The Tribe

Project and other nonprofits for the arts is paved with uncertainty. Nonprofits – especially arts-based organizations – face a particularly challenging recovery period, as they struggle to gradually reignite community engagement and investment, all while adhering to ever-changing public-health guidelines. (In a proposal for the 2021 federal budget, President Trump essentially called for the elimination for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities – which financially support and incentivize artistic and humanistic endeavors, respectively. In Los Angeles alone, arts organizations have lost more than $15 million since the start of the pandemic, according to a survey report by Americans for the Arts.)

It is unclear when or how the world will fully escape this pandemic, and the arts may be especially imperiled. Nonetheless, Marintsch remains cautiously optimistic.

As he reminded me, “creativity is born from chaos, born from obstacle, and born from challenges…. I think there’s a lot of hope. I think, right now, there’s definitely some dark days, but there’s always light at the end of the tunnel, and we’re always looking towards that.”

Perhaps the rest of us should, too.

Visit thetribeproject.org for more info.

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The Power of the Protest Poster

18th Street Art Center’s ‘To Protect & Serve?’ examines cycles of police violence through protest art

By Christina Campodonico Can a protest poster change someone’s world view?

Academic turned activist Carol A. Wells believes it can.

The Founder and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) in Culver City had an epiphany while on a trip to Nicaragua to document the art of the Sandinista revolution in the 1980s. (The Sandinistas were a group of political revolutionaries who overthrew Nicaragua’s Somoza dictatorship in 1979.)

“I saw a young boy go someplace he’d never been before,” remembers Wells, describing the entrancement of the young boy as he looked at a revolutionary women’s poster with the provocative phrase, “In Building the New Country We are Becoming the New Woman” in Spanish.

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Walter Cruz’s ‘#Say Her Name’ campaign for Black Lives Matter (2016, Digital Print, New York, NY) is among the exhibit’s featured protest posters “That’s a pretty sophisticated concept,” continues Wells, “but the process of watching him just be someplace he’d never been, look around the room, see

this poster… and make him start trying to figure it out. …

In that moment, I understood how posters worked.”

At that point, the eventual

seed was planted for CSPG, which after 30 years, houses some 90,000 protest posters and pieces of political art. A subset of those posters, addressing the topic of police brutality, are currently on display at 18th Street Arts Center’s Airport Gallery in Santa Monica and online in the exhibit titled “To Protect & Serve? Five Decades of Posters Protesting Police Violence.”

Initially funded by a Mike Kelley Foundation grant for an exhibition at Venice’s Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in 2017/18 — “They literally said to me, ‘What exhibit have you always wanted to do that nobody else would fund because it’s too difficult a topic.’ … The first thing out of my mouth was ‘police abuse,’” recalls Wells — the three-yearold exhibit became relevant once again in the wake of

George Floyd’s brutal death while in police custody earlier this year, prompting Wells and 18th Street to bring “To Protect & Serve?” out of the archives.

“The vision… is to show the historical patterns of racism, the historical patterns of police violence, the historical path of [attacks] on people’s civil rights,” says Wells, who initially conceived of an exhibition on police violence following the Rodney King Riots in 1992. “Once you realize this isn’t just a mistake or this isn’t just a bad apple, or this isn’t just one bad cop, but it’s part of the system that’s really the first thing for change.”

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From the Pageant Stage to the ICU For 10 weeks, Miss Marina del Rey hung up her sash and put on her scrubs to fight COVID on the front lines PHOTO COURTESY OF RACHEL THOMPSON

By Kellie Chudzinski When 2020 started Rachel Thompson was pushing her comfort zone and preparing for her first pageant ever as Miss Marina del Rey. Just over a month after she placed as the third runner-up at the Miss California competition, the COVID-19 pandemic started in the U.S., and Los Angeles went on lockdown.

Thompson decided to give back and get back to her nursing roots in the ICU. Before the pandemic, she worked as an aesthetic nurse. But initially, after

Miss Marina del Rey Rachel Thompson dons a face shield and mask to treat COVID patients at Cedars-Sinai in Beverly Hills

graduating from ASU’s Mayo Clinic nursing program, she worked as a liver transplant ICU nurse at UCLA Medical Center.

In March, Thompson signed up with a nursing placement group that was scheduling nurses to work in centers with great need during the pandemic. Just weeks later, in May, she started a 10-week assignment at CedarsSinai in Beverly Hills, working with COVID-19 patients in the ICU. “At a time where all of us felt really hopeless and scared, I

was sitting at home with nothing to do,” she said of her decision. “I want[ed] to go use the skills and talents I have to help during this time because it was fulfilling on my end as well.”

Thompson worked 12-hours a day, four days a week, rotating between patients in critical condition at the hospital. Nurses were limited to two patients a day and worked with a new set every shift.

While discussing pandemic (Continued on page 12)

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Our dedicated staff have been on the front lines of homelessness and the COVID-19 pandemic, providing life saving support to the at-risk and unhoused youth we serve. At our Access Center, staff members work tirelessly to provide necessities to meet basic survival needs, offer case management, support with education and employment, offer access to counseling, legal support, meals packaged to-go, and on site COVID testing.

Our housing programs including; The Nest, our pregnant and parenting residential program; Roots to Grow, our 20-bed transitional living program; and A Bridge Home Sunset, a 54-bed shelter in Venice. They are up and running seven days a week. Youth experiencing homelessness are at an increased risk of complications should they contract COVID-19 and the support and services provided by staff are more important now than ever.

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June Inai has been volunteering for Meals on Wheels West since January 2017, and June has been dedicated to serving the Venice, MDR and Santa Monica communities since she started Delivering More Than a Meal.

June learned about the value of the Meals on Wheels West program when she was taking care of her uncle who was severely ill. Her uncle was passionate about the work Meals on Wheels West does in the community, and she is carrying on his legacy by volunteering and donating.

June really enjoys volunteering and being able to build connections with people throughout the community. “It is heartwarming to be able to cheer people up while helping to provide their basic needs, “ she said.

Her experience with her uncle and delivering once a week has helped June understand the value of a friendly visit.

The family of one of MOW West’s clients contacted June and let her know that he really looked forward to seeing her every week.

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how political this entire thing has gotten,” Thompson said. “The people taking care training taught in school, Thompson of the patients, no one is talking about compared the experience of working in a politics. Everyone’s worried about actual COVID ward to “a fire drill and then if facts about the science behind it.” there’s an actual fire,” as health care Due to measures put in place in hospiprofessionals worked to adapt to the tals, patients weren’t allowed visitors, situation constantly. which struck an emotional chord with Most of her patients needed constant Thomspon. care and observation, as they were “That was really hard,” she said. “It was intubated, with tubing and machines help- really hard for me to watch because they ing them breathe. Many others were also were all alone all-day.” in need of intensive medical care, Along with pounds of protective including dialysis, among other measures. material nurses in the COVID-19 ICU At the time and currently, the public and were required to wear, the hospital also health care professionals are still learning limited their exposure time spent with about COVID-19 and at-risk groups. patients and the number of medical staff Thompson said most of her patients were allowed in each room, even in emergency relatively young, and none had the severe conditions. pre-existing conditions (e.g., heart “It’s not like we can go in there with conditions, COPD) that many associate them for hours on end,” Thompson said. with being at greater risk for contracting “I felt really bad for the patients...I can’t the virus. But all did deal with “mild” imagine being hospitalized, and I pre-exisiting conditions that many may couldn’t have any family there.” not think about twice (high blood During her two and a half months pressure, diabetes or being overweight). working with critical patients, Thompson “That to me was a big eye-opener,” said did isolate herself at home. She sent her Thompson. “Almost all of us have some boyfriend home to live with his parents as type of pre-existing condition.” a precaution, “I didn’t know how easy it A recent CDC report confirmed that would be to transmit to his older parents.”

94% of people who have died from After her time in the ICU, Thompson COVID-19 had some form of “contribut- returned home to isolate for two-weeks ing condition,” and only 6% had no before returning to a nursing job in health problems before the virus. aesthetics.

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ICU Hero Brings Wedding to Patient’s Hospital Room

Thompson traded her crown and sash for scrubs and a face mask because she felt called to serve

When Michele Schonbrunn, a Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles ICU nurse, heard about a patient who was unable to physically attend his son’s wedding, she did everything she could to ensure he was connected to his family and part of the celebration.

With the use of technology, the wedding was virtually streamed on a laptop by the patient’s bedside. Schonbrunn also spoke with the patient’s family over the phone to help with the proper customs that traditionally take place for a Jewish wedding.

Schonbrunn, who was raised as an orthodox Jew, transformed the patient’s hospital room so it would be appropriately decorated for the occasion. She improvised a chuppah, a canopy beneath which Jewish marriage ceremonies are performed, and decorated it with fairy lights, tulle and artificial flowers that she had stored from her own son’s wedding.

Schonbrunn also dressed the patient, ensuring his attire was suitable for his role as the father in a traditional Jewish wedding. This included wearing a prayer shawl and tefillin, a set of small black leather boxes containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah. She added a bow tie as the finishing detail.

“Through technology and some creativity, we managed to bring the entire family together in a way that would have otherwise been impossible, acknowledge tradition in a time when things are anything but traditional and to hopefully provide an indelible and special memory of the celebration,” said Schonbrunn.

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Passing the Torch

Civil Rights icon Angela Davis speaks with Crossroads students about prison abolition, community and contemporary activism

By Lydia You “Thank you so much, I’m like, so starstruck right now,” an excited Alana Cotwright exclaimed over video chat.

Cotwright, a senior at progressive, private K-12 school Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences in Santa Monica, was speaking to her idol: philosopher, academic, author and iconic American political activist, Dr. Angela Davis.

Cotwright and a handful of other students from Crossroads School were participating in an online panel hosted by the school’s Institute of Equity & Justice, which was broadcast on Sept. 8 and again on Sept. 14.

Angela Davis, born in 1944, grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, where her experience with deep segregation helped incite her prolific activist career at a young age. She recalled how the KKK burned down part of her church after she participated in an interracial discussion group, and how she witnessed bombings at several houses and churches in her neighborhood.

“The only way we could live in dignity was to resist and so I spent my entire life resisting and it’s been a wonderful life,” she said with an impish smile, crediting her teachers and community for never letting her doubt her self-worth despite the violent, entrenched racism she faced.

Davis is perhaps most wellknown for her seminal work in establishing and popularizing the concept of the “prisonindustrial complex” in America.

She herself was once on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, and spent over a year in prison between 1970 and 1972 after being linked with communist organizations and tied to a fatal court shooting. She was ultimately acquitted in 1972.

Davis spoke about the mental and physical tolls of imprisonment: “I remember I had these horrendous stress headaches that would not go away.”

Nowadays, we see passionate calls to “defund the police” and strong advocacy for “prison abolition” filling our social

Dr. Angela Davis’ talk with local students on social justice was broadcast on Sept. 8 and again on Sept. 14 due to popular demand media feeds and protest chants on the streets. But how does one go about implementing these sweeping reforms in a logistical sense? Davis elaborated during the talk with students, discussing how her time in prison informed her ideas on criminal justice and incarceration.

“I was beginning to understand the role that the prison plays in structural racism,” said Davis. “Prisons have become as powerful as they have precisely because in our capitalist world, these services are considered to be commodities…and the imprisonment process itself becomes a kind of profit making process. But capitalism is racial capitalism. It has always been racial capitalism.”

Her views on prison abolition center on reforming the very systems that our country is structured on — housing, education, health care — and diverting funds from prisons and law enforcement to instead invest back into making these services free and accessible.

“Abolition is not simply about the negative process of getting rid of prisons. It’s more about creating a society that does not require prisons, that doesn’t need these institutions of violence,” Davis said.

Many students asked Davis to give advice to young activists just starting to form their own personal socio-political views.

“I’ve personally noticed an overwhelming number of young people who are becoming or wanting to become radicalized at an earlier age,” observed Crossroads senior Kai McAliley. “A lot of young people are currently searching for identities that might be outside or even explicitly against certain current social and political structures. ... How should this generation that is currently questioning structured society carry themselves in order for these individual roots to grow into a powerful community?”

McAliley asked.

Davis herself, of course, knows what it’s like growing up in a fraught time period of a

nation reckoning with centuries-old racial and social tensions.

She replied to McAliley’s question with a call for older activists to be more forgiving of young people’s mistakes, and encouraged young people to chart their own paths and explore different ways of expressing and resisting. “I often say that art helps us to feel what we don’t yet know how to say. And in that sense, art is the beacon of light. Art can shape the path and I point this out because oftentimes people assume that in order to make a difference in this world, one has to be your conventional political activist. And some people love doing that work, and that is what they should do.

But other people are more passionate about poetry. And so why not use poetry as an entrée into the movement, or music?”

Davis also underlined the importance of community in her talk, and pointed out the pitfalls of falling into the individualistic mindset that is

nurtured through our current hyper-capitalist system.

“Ideologies of capitalism represent the individual as the basic unit of society… they don’t recognize the importance of history, they don’t recognize the importance of community…

But capitalism has transformed you know, all of the services, all of the things we need as human beings into commodities,” Davis said. “This is what I think I have spent my entire life attempting to do — to point out that community allows us to grow and develop in ways that we could never imagine if we were only individuals.”

Now, at age 76, Dr. Angela Davis is looking to pass on the torch to a new generation of young activists.

“Virtually every major revolutionary transformation in the world has been spearheaded by young people,” she said, smiling at the earnest faces speaking to her on the screen.

“Young people are always in the vanguard...because we’re talking about your future.”

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The Admiralty Apartments

What are the real estate propositions in this November’s ballot? (Part 2) As if we aren’t already overwhelmed with the drama of the coming elections, we’ve got propositions to educate ourselves on.

This column is a continuation from last week, providing you with some basic information on the three real estate related propositions on the upcoming ballot- we discussed Prop 19 which attempts to provide more flexibility for seniors to sell and buy real estate without an unaffordable jump in property taxes. Today we will look at Propositions 15 & 21.

Prop 15, just like Prop 19, seeks to modify the rules of our existing Prop 13.

As background, “Prop 13” is the beloved California tax break for homeowners, allowing you to keep your property taxes low, based on the value at time of purchase, only rising up to 2% per year, regardless of dramatic increases in value.

Should Prop 15 pass it would institute a process to gradually have many commercial and industrial properties taxed according to market value of those properties rather than having those taxes permanently linked to its purchase price. The target of these changeslarge corporations with significant holdings that have taken advantage of their artificially low assessed values for decades. While huge companies like Disney benefit as currently allowed, many companies also have found loopholes to avoid reassessment through complex business structures that make it appear that property has not been sold, to avoid triggering new tax.

Housing Act of 1995. Rental properties built from 1995 forward have been exempt from rent control- that would change to protect properties built within the past 15 years only so that there would be a new and ever-growing inventory of rent controlled housing. Individuals (not business entities) who own no— more than two homes will remain exempt.

over time. It also causes tenants to hold on desperately to those units, where they need it or not. Rent control is a significant contributor to our shortage of affordable housing as these units do not come back on the market often enough.

THE MARINA’S FINEST 5-STAR COMMUNITY tenants are out of work and unable — ★ ★ Many ★pay★ to their ★ rent. Understandably, they are

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Those who have owned their property longer have an undeniable edge over new businesses. Two identical properties may be next door to each other with significantly different property tax expenses. This This is a critical protection for California proposition seeks to encourage growth of homeowners — but because it had newer businesses by leveling that playing not been written solely for residential field. Importantly, this proposition includes properties, commercial and industrial some key exemptions to protect smaller property owners have been reaping the business owners, applying only to property benefit of close to stagnant property taxes. holdings valued at more than $3M. All The savings to commercial properties and residential property, including apartment than twenty years as a practicing the resultant loss to California revenues is providing more affordable housing. It real estate broker and attorney. Lisa buildings are unaffected by this change. in the billions of dollars. Property taxes are causes many landlords to exit the rental is also a member of the National Association of Realtors “Green Rethe principal source of funding our public Next is Prop 21 which involves rent business- converting to condos, for school system, so it’s understandable that control, always a hot topic. It seeks to example. Many mom and pop owners can’t source Council”, and achieved its “GREEN” Designation. the state is looking for ways to increase remove some of the protections provided afford the proper maintenance or certainly www.LisaPhillipsRealEstate.com. revenue. to landlords in the Costa-Hawkins Rental •the upgrades that every property needs 310-305-1300 • 4170 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey 90292 www.admiraltyapartments.com • email: info@pom-mdr.com

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The Power of the Protest Poster (Continued from page 8)

reoccurring themes throughout CSPG’s collection.

“We did an exhibit for the Getty… in the 90s,” says Wells, recalling how she organized posters for that exhibition by theme into piles. “The smallest pile was women’s rights… The largest, by far, was police abuse. I was truly stunned.”

Wells says the posters in “To Protect & Serve?” serve “multiple functions” — to bring our attention to the crisis at hand, “to the wrong that must be righted,” and to keep the stories alive of those who “did not have their police incident on videotape.”

“George Floyd will have a lot of posters about him, Breonna will have a lot of posters about her, which is really important,” says Wells, “but so many won’t, so many don’t. … [The posters] also keep the story alive for later generations to know that this isn’t just something that’s happening right now. …

People were organizing against [police brutality] last year and a decade ago and two decades ago, that we still have to fight the same fight.”

To that end, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics is also seeking posters not only on Floyd and Breonna Taylor but anyone whose life have been impacted by police brutality. Mail contributions to 3916 Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 103, Culver City or email digital files to archives@politicalgraphics.org.

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Alicia Nauta’s ‘End Police Brutality’ (2015, Silkscreen. Ontario, Canada.) less Monday through Friday at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., 2 p.m., or by request at 18th Street Arts’ Airport Gallery (3026 Airport Ave., Santa Monica) through Oct. 2. Make an appointment via eventbrite.com at bit.ly/airportgalleryappointment. Visit 18thstreet.org/event/ to-protect-serve-cspg to view the exhibit online or politicalgraphics.org/to-protect-and-serve to view the catalog.

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scene around 11:30 p.m., and the victims were transported to a hospital in stable condition. Police do not know if the shooting was gang-related; the victims were not homeless. (via Patch.com) • The City of Santa Monica has extended its locally emergency orders and the city’s

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We have a term for a pleasant, attentive man who drops by from time to time and then isn’t seen for weeks, and no, it is not “boyfriend” but “UPS man.”

Some will say you should just ask for what you want: Hit the guy up for increased attention and presence like you’d hit up the Burgers R Us server for another thingie of mustard. However, we modern humans have an antique psychological operating system: psychology adapted for solving recurring mating problems for ancestral humans. So, responding to behavior without considering the underlying evolved motivation could get you in trouble, maybe even nuking your chances with a guy.

Evolutionary psychologists David Buss and David Schmitt find that humans opt for different “sexual strategies”: “short-term” (casual) or “long-term” (committed). Which strategy is activated depends on “context,” including factors like a person’s mate value (relative to their competition) and the stage of life they’re in.

Many men eventually want to settle down with a long-term partner. However, because for men, having sex does not lead to ye olde bun in the oven (and the need for a committed partner to help feed and shelter the child that results), they evolved to prioritize sexual variety and commitment-free sex. (All the better to spread more of their genes into future generations!) So, a “short-term sexual strategy” is generally optimal for men in a way it just isn’t for women.

Women, just like men, engage in casual sex. However, women’s emotions evolved to push them to seek commitment (and freak out and long for it when they perceive it isn’t there — sometimes even when a woman knows she wants nothing more than a onenighter from a guy). So, a woman might be relieved some himbo she dragged home is sneaking down the tree outside her bedroom window after sex but then wake up in the morning all, “How dare you?!” that he isn’t back under it, holding up a speaker attached to his iPhone, and trying to win her heart

Cusack in “Say Anything”-style.

In men, a long-term sexual strategy — being commitment-driven rather than sexual smorgasbord-driven — can be triggered. Recall that sexual strategies are “context-dependent.” Wanting a family is one such context. But men will also commit when that’s what it takes to land a woman with high “mate value,” who can “afford” to hold out: commitment or goodbye.

Your immediate focus, however, should be on what you potentially have in common with a coke-obsessed lab rat.

Psychologists find that “intermittent reinforcement” — occasional, unpredictable “rewards,” like a guy who pops up unexpectedly from time to time — is the stuff obsessions are made of. (Poor little lab rats that push a bar and only sporadically get a hit of cocaine will often push the thing till they’re lying paws up in the corner of their cage.)

Contrast intermittent reinforcement with “regular reinforcement,” like a guy who’s always there for you. When rewards come reliably and predictably rather than randomly and unpredictably, the suspense is gone. The air goes out of the crazy, and you can relax and maybe even take Mr. Reliable for granted.

Becoming obsessed with a guy — even if you do your best to hide it — tends to send a message, and it isn’t, “I’m seriously high in mate value!”

It also shifts your focus from learning who he is and what you might have together to the chase. All that matters is whether he’s called, when he might call, and how you might find a gigeconomy sorcerer to cast a spell to make him call.

To avoid taking off on the crazy train, open your life up to other men. This doesn’t have to mean swiping a new guy into your bed every night. You could be exploring your prospects in Zoom conversations, taking advantage of how the pandemic has slowed the pace of dating. Adding men on your end changes your emotional context from needy and desperate to “hope you come around, but if you don’t, plenty more where you came from.”

He may sense he has competition and change his strategy: start calling and coming around on the regular. Of course, maybe with the attention and commitment famine no longer a factor, you’ll end up with another guy — one who makes the relationship you two have feel like a dream as opposed to the last desert mirage you see before you collapse in the sand and are eaten by buzzards.

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Probate NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF DORIS C. M. BULLEN CASE NO. 20STPB01468 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of DORIS C. M. BULLEN. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Nicola Fergusson in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that: Nicola Fergusson be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

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Name Change ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 20TRCP00178 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition of MAVARIK MILA MOURINO MCGRATH through guardian Ad Litem Maeve Catherine McGrath and Martin Adolfo Mourino , for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: MAVARIK MILA MOURINO MCGRATH through guardian Ad Litem Maeve Catherine McGrath and Martin Adolfo Mourino filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Mavarik Mila Mourino McGrath to Mila Maverick Mourino 2.) THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 20GDCP00266 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition of RYAN JEAN-JACQUES FIRPO and MAREN FIRPO, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: RYAN JEANJACQUES FIRPO and MAREN FIRPO filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) WALLACE ROLAND FIRPO to HANNO ROLAND FIRPO 2.) THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 10/29/20. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: E. The address of the court is 600 E. Broadway Glendale, CA 91206. 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 Los Angeles: Original filed: September 1, 2020. Darrell Mavis, Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: The Argonaut Newspaper. 9/17/20, 9/24/20, 10/1/20, 10/8/20

Summons Summons (Domestic Violence Restraining Order) Citación (Orden de restricción de violencia en el hogar) Case Number: 20SMRO00150 1) Person asking for protection: La persona que solicita protección: Corey West 2) Notice to (name of person to be restrained): Aviso a (nombre de la persona a ser restringida): Megan Nelson The person in 1) is asking for a Domestic Violence Restraining Order against you.

La persona en 1) esta pidiendo una orden de restricción de violencia en el hogar contra usted. Lea la pagina 2 para mas información.

The court will complete the rest of this formEl tribunal llellarti el resto de esteformulario 3) You have a court date Tiene una audiencia en la corte Date Fecha: October 27, 2020 Time Hora: 8:30am Dept. Depto.: F Room Sala: 115 What if I don't go to my court date?

If you do not go to your court date, the judge can grant a restraining order that limits your contact with the person in 1). If you have a child with the person in 1), the court could make orders that limit your time with your child.

Having a restraining order against you may impact your life in other ways, including preventing you from having

in 1). If you have a child with the person in 1), the court could make orders that limit your time with your child.

Having a restraining order against you may impact your life in other ways, including preventing you from having guns and ammunition. If you do not go to your court date, the judge could grant everything that the person in 1) asked the judge to order.

Que pasa si no voy a la audiencia?

Si no va a la audiencia, el juez puede dictar una orden de restricción que limita su contacto con la persona en 1). Si tiene un hijo con la persona en 1), la corte puede dictar órdenes que limitan su tiempo con su hijo. Una orden de restricción en su contra puede tener otras consecuencias, como prohibirle tener armas de fuego y municiones. Si no va a la audiencia, el juez puede ordenar todo lo que pide la persona en 1) .

How do I find out what the person in 1) is asking for?

To find out what the person in 1) is asking the judge to order, go to the courthouse listed at the top of page 1. Ask the court clerk to let you see your case file. You will need to give the court clerk your case number, which is listed above and on page 1. The request for restraining order will be on form DV-100, Request for Domestic Violence Restraining Order.

Cómo puedo entender lo que pide la persona en(1)?

Para entender lo que pide la persona en(1) , vaya al tribunal en la direcci6n indicada en la parte superior de la pagina 1. Pida al secretario de la carte permiso para ver el expediente de su caso. Tendra que darle al secretario el nurnero de su caso, que aparece arriba y en la pagina 1. La solicitud de una orden de restricci6n se hace en el formulario DV100, Solicitud de orden de restricción de violencia en el hogar.

Where can I get help?

Free legal information is available at your local court's self-help center. Go to www.courts.ca.gov/ selfhelp to find your local center.

Donde puedo obtener ayuda?

Puede obtener informaci6n legal gratis en el centro de ayuda de su carte. Vea https://www.courts.ca.gov/ s e l f h e l p selfhelpcenters.htrn?rdeLocaleAttr=es para encontrar el centro de ayuda en su condado.

Do I need a lawyer?

You are not required to have a lawyer, but you may want legal advice before your court hearing. For help finding a lawyer, you can visit www.lawhelpca.org or contact your local bar association.

Necesito un abogado?

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