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Corona by the Numbers & Local Updates: The Return of the Playground Compiled by Christina Campodonico Reported Cases & Deaths by Neighborhood as of Tuesday, Oct. 13 Culver City: 404 (Deaths 28); Del Rey: 375 (Deaths 10); El Segundo: 136 (Deaths 1); Marina del Rey: 78 (Deaths 1); Mar Vista: 343 (Deaths 6); Playa Vista: 144 (Deaths 0); Playa del Rey: 29 (Deaths 0); Santa Monica: 949 (Deaths 40); Venice: 307 (Deaths 3); Westchester: 448 (Deaths 15) Total Westside Cases: 3,213 Total Westside Deaths: 104 Total Confirmed Cases in LA County: 283,750 Total Deaths in LA County: 6,790 Total New Cases as of Oct. 13: 790 Total New Deaths: 18 Hospitalizations: 692 Postivity Rate (7-day average): 3.1% Total Number of People Tested: 2,283,368 (Source: Los Angeles County Department of Public Health) ● Twelve Santa Monica playgrounds were cleared to reopen last week in accordance with county guidelines. The City of Santa Monica announced that the following playgrounds would reopen as of Oct. 9: Airport Park Playground, Clover Park Playgrounds, Douglas Park Playground, Gandara Park Playground, Joslyn Park Playground, Marine Park Playground, Memorial Park Playground, North Beach

Playground (slide closed), Reed Park Playground, South Beach Universally Accessible Playground, Tongva Park Playground, and Virginia Avenue Park Playground. ● The Annnenberg Community Beach House is on a list of parks that either don’t have a nearby restroom or need additional maintenance and “will not open until it is safe to do so,” according to a city press release. ● Per the City of Santa Monica: - Do: wear a mask (tots under 2 are exempt), keep six feet of distance from other people, wash your hands before and after your visit and monitor systems before going to the park.

- Don’t: Eat or drink at the park, play on the playground more than 30 minutes or visit if you’re showing symptoms. ● Monday, Oct.19, is the last day to register to vote in California for the Nov. 3 presidential election. Visit registertovote. ca.gov to register or check your voting status. ● The deadline for the 2020 Census has been moved up to Oct. 15. Postmark your survey today to be counted, call by 11 p.m. or respond online tonight by 2:59 a.m.

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and not tribal belief.

We have ample evidence that stringent mitigations can reduce transmission and that without them, even the President can fall victim. Most people who’ve checked the science can see that we’re still in for a long haul before we’re clear of this pandemic. And to get clear of the pandemic, we have to get really smart deciding what to do while mustering common purpose and individual obligation to escape prolonged contagion.

Outdoor dining is popular, potentially providing lifeboats to aid Santa Monica’s Main Street’s survival during this storm of community transmission. With plenty of space for social distancing and enough fresh air circulation, coronavirus carrying aerosol concentration is diluted below the danger level for most people, for most of the time.

Open Main Street by closing it to traffic and there would be room to provide a safe space for mask-less diners and drinkers, distanced in their own intimate social groups with reduced transmission risk to others. Move the tables and chairs into the

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street and keep the sidewalks safely exclusive for masked pedestrians — not the virus spewing gauntlets now constricted by the small overflowing parklets during busy times.

If the rule is: “Masks required by everyone at all times except when seated at table service locations” — then it would be easier to tag violators, increasing safety for the rest of us.

With more street space, restaurants could restore more of their lost capacity to again operate efficiently and profitably while enriching Santa Monica’s life blood, again contributing valuable tax revenue to our cash-starved city.

We know COVID added multiple significant challenges to the long list Santa Monica had before the virus hit, and now city government has reduced income to face current increased demands.

Administration time and attention is now spread over wider concerns so saving Main Street gets pushed down the priority list for attention and resources.

What can we do?

One thing is to support more professional public health input

into important decisions when planning begins. With aerosol transmission expertise at the table when the Al Fresco plan was coalescing, the proponents of thru traffic lanes with cement block safety barriers could have been challenged with basic science, psychology and economics.

Our physical and economic health depend on making wise timely choices. City government should take counsel from advocates with common sense solutions and objectively game out alternatives for our best chance at a Main Street rescue.

This election we have more than 20 candidates running to fill four city council seats, so it will be interesting to see how they’ll attend to the Main Street emergency when the new council gets seated.

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The Environment v. Homeless Housing

Citing sea level rise, local planning leaders request environmental impact report for contentious Venice Median project

By Gary Walker As homeless encampments continue to emerge on Westside streets, especially in Venice, affordable housing advocates say the last thing that city officials should do is halt or delay approval of projects designed to provide both temporary and permanent supportive housing for Los Angeles’ nearly 41,300 unhoused residents, up 16% from 2019.

“Even with the significant gains made in placing people into housing with services, it is not keeping pace with Angelenos falling into homelessness.

We need to solve for both,” said Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Commissioner Jacqueline Waggoner earlier this summer after the release of this year’s homeless count numbers.

That has not stopped resistance from some neighborhood groups that oppose housing for the

A rendering of the Reese Davidson Community project planned for Venice Boulevard between Dell and Pacific ments. homeless in their communities.

The Land Use and Planning In addition to arguing against Committee of the Venice the community impacts of these projects due to their size, density Neighborhood Council is asking city leaders to require the and scale, in Venice opponents developers of the planned Reese are also invoking a 1970 state Davidson Community project on law that often features promiVenice Boulevard between Dell nently in large scale develop-

and Pacific avenues to conduct an environmental impact analysis in conjunction with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) of 1970 due to the possibilities of sea level rise and other associated hazards associated with climate change.

The 140-unit, 104,140 square foot project would, if approved, provide 68 apartments for homeless residents, 34 for low-income residents and 34 for artists. The site will also provide four units for onsite, trained social services employees.

Currently zoned as open space, the project will require a zoning change to neighborhood-commercial.

While the project has garnered support in the beachside community, it has also been the target of legal actions and drawn fierce opposition.

The mixed-use housing, retail and restaurant plan would take

up two parking lots of 2.63 acres on what is colloquially known as the Venice Median on Venice Boulevard. The two residential buildings are slated to stand 35 feet tall but a freestanding tower on the project’s northwest side will require a city variance, as it is planned to be 67 feet tall.

Due to a state law passed by the California Assembly in September 2019 — Assembly Bill 1197 — city planning officials may exempt projects from CEQA guidelines that include bridge or temporary housing and permanent supportive housing.

Because of Reese Davidson’s proximity to the ocean, committee member Shephard Stern argued that the developers, the nonprofit organization Venice Community Housing, should be required to conduct an environmental analysis before the city issues any approvals.

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Davidson and granted the city’s In addition to the open space, motion to dismiss the case. On Dec. 13, the Venice Stakeholders recreational and artistic components, Lucks feels the project’s Association, another group architecture is an attractive opposed to building housing for feature. “It will be an iconic the homeless, saw its petition to building and will fit in well with halt the highly controversial the architecture of the [nearby] 154-bed bridge housing facility Venice Canals,” she said.

Pacific Sunset denied by For Stern, the Land Use and Superior Court Judge Mitchell Planning Committee member, Beckloff. The association environmental analysis for unsuccessfully alleged that Reese Davidson is crucial.

Pacific Sunset should not be “When you throw CEQA out the exempt from environmental The mixed-use housing facility would include residences for the homeless, artists and window, you throw Venice analysis retroactively because it low-income tenants near the Venice Canals under the bus,” Stern warned. was approved before AB 1197 sea level rise. A project this size Venice Community Housing level rise. “During all of my became law.

The Dept. of City Planning is should have a complete environ- Executive Director Becky years on the neighborhood Venice resident Nick Antonislated to hold a virtual Zoom mental impact report,” Stern Dennison told the committee at council and since I left I don’t cello took issue with other hearing on the project at 10 a.m. asserted. its Oct. 6 Zoom meeting that her recall hearing about any conelements of Reese Davidson. on Oct. 22 at https://planningThe committee’s unanimous organization had commissioned cerns about sea level rise, “This is a pre-COVID-19 lacity-org.zoom. vote will now go before the full a sea level rise study but was especially how it should impact proposal that needs to be us/j/99148601188. The meeting Venice Neighborhood Council told by city officials that the a ruling on a project,” noted reevaluated. It’s the wrong code is 991 4860 1188 and the for approval, which consists of project qualified for exemption Lucks, a former Venice Neighlocation for a project that is passcode is 412246. Anyone many members of Fight Back, under AB 1197. borhood Council president. essentially at the gateway to Venice!, a neighborhood group Linda Lucks, the community Last year, two courts rejected Venice,” said Antonicello, who is interested in learning more about Reese Davidson or in staunch opposition to Reese outreach coordinator for Venice arguments challenging the city’s against the project. scheduling a Zoom meeting can Davidson and other temporary Community Housing, said she use of AB 1197 in cases involv“There was a time when what contact Lina Lucks at llucks@ and permanent supportive was surprised to hear the ing Venice developments.

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By Holly Jenvey For 20 years, a colorful mural on the face of Mark Twain Middle School in Mar Vista has been a symbol of collaboration and community. So when pieces of the school’s mural began to fall down, members of the school community and surrounding neighborhoods began working tirelessly on its restoration, and they still need your help.

On July 29, neighbors around the school began to see the mural’s shining mosaic tiles being removed from the facade of the school; they were becoming unstable. Right away, members of Mark Twain and neighbors from around the Venice and Mar Vista communities jumped in to see how the mural could be repaired.

LAUSD had tile setters restore the unstable patch and allocated some funding, but the job isn’t done yet. Now, the community

around Mark Twain is trying to ensure the longevity of the mural.

“I have to make sure that this does not fall down,” said Dr. Althea Ford, Mark Twain Middle School’s principal.

Ford explained how despite the patch being fixed, the rest of the mural will inevitably become unstable due to its age. In 2000, Venice Builds brought together the late Venice artist Agustin Gonzalez and students of the school to construct the mural.

As of today, the multicolored wall is hard to miss by anyone passing by. When students came to the school, the mural’s pyramid and sun reminded students of the six pillars of character as they started their day. However, even though classes most likely won’t take place on campus this fall, the mural is still an integral part for many in the community.

“Restoring the mosaic is

collectively reinforcing our belief in our perseverance as a community and our ability to overcome these times together,” said Alyssa Moffitt, a parent and a board member of Friends of Mark Twain.

Friends of Mark Twain, also known as FOMT, is the school’s parent and community booster club. It helps the school in many ways by supporting teachers and the administration, raising money for programs, planning multicultural events and more.

FOMT also has a beautification committee, which Moffitt leads, that has started a GoFundMe campaign to fund the mural’s restoration. As of press time, $650 of a $50,000 goal had been raised. “The repairs in one third of the wall were $35,000 and we anticipate needing to repair two thirds of the wall,” added Moffitt. She explained that if funding for the mural’s restoration exceeds FOMT’s goal, the

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“The mural expresses the student’s cooperation and ideals and it is a collaboration of the larger community — local artists, Venice Build, high school students and middle school students,” Moffitt said.

The late Venice artist Agustin Gonzalez helped students construct the mural because of his love for Venice and the surrounding areas.

“He was always in the community,” said his widow Beatris Gonzalez.

Both of them were born and raised in

Venice. They attended West Venice Elementary together, and now their children and grandchildren are starting their lives here. Agustin not only painted murals all around Venice, but he also worked as a tattoo artist, a sculptor and played handball. Some of his works include murals at the school Coeur D’Alene, the corner of 4th Street and Rose Avenue, apartments at Washington Boulevard and Beethoven Street, and more murals at Venice Beach.

Mark Twain Middle School means a lot to Beatris and her family. Her sister lives very close, and her nieces attend the school.

“It needs to be there,” said Beatris of her late husband’s mural at Mark Twain.

“It would hurt my heart if it wasn’t there.”

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The Real Results of Mike Bonin’s “Reimagined Public Safety” Survey

By Allan Parsons The author is an engineer for a publicly-traded technology company.

He holds a B.S. in both Computer Science and Business from the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He’s been a resident of Los Angeles since 2012 and currently lives in Venice.

Los Angeles District 11 Councilmember Mike Bonin wrote an Argonaut opinion piece in recent months entitled “Reimagining Public Safety” in which he presented results of data collected from a June 2020 survey of his constituents in Council District 11 (“CD11”).

The survey (whose results are titled “Reimagined Public Safety” on CD11’s website) attempted to crowd-source answers about who should respond to 34 hypothetical public-safety and qualityof-life scenarios. For example, “Who should respond to reports or phone calls of vandalism or graffiti in progress?”

Sadly, Bonin deceived his constituents by misrepresenting the facts in his op-ed to The Argonaut.

Here’s how Bonin’s survey worked: A series of questions were presented in a Google Form to Los Angeles residents asking what agencies they’d prefer to respond to hypothetical scenarios (e.g. a domestic dispute). Constituents were then prompted to select one — and only one — responding agency from a drop-down menu of 10 choices that included options such as LAPD officers, trained volunteers, traffic enforcement personnel and mediators, among others.

Bonin’s analysis in The Argonaut stated that “while a majority of the 2,672 respondents favor an LAPD response to violent crimes and property crimes in progress, residents overwhelmingly prefer non-LAPD responses to most other situations for which police officers are routinely called.” That sweeping generalization wasn’t quite valid; the survey was poorly designed.

I know this because I filed for this survey’s raw data through a California Public Records Act (CPRA) request.

Reviewing the data, I found that over 30% of the survey respondents declared that they did not even live in CD11.

While Bonin stated the data presented on his Council District 11 website included only his constituents, his op-ed to The Argonaut made it less clear whether non-CD11 constituents were actually excluded when forming his opinion and setting public policy around funding for the LAPD. Bonin stated that 2,672 people responded to his survey as of noon on June 17, 2020. But using the same date obtained from Bonin’s website indicates that PAGE 10 THE ARGONAUT OCTOBER 15, 2020

Figure 1. A breakdown of where respondents stated they lived when responding to Councilmember Mike Bonin’s public safety survey there were a total of 4,001 respondents.

I filtered out those who self-reported not living in CD11, and I arrived at 2,872 respondents who live in Councilmember Bonin’s district. Why did Bonin’s dataset include 200 fewer respondents? Did Bonin remove any responses from the “analysis” he published? If so, why?

In the graph below, you’ll see a breakdown of responses by neighborhood, including those who self-reported that they did not even live in Council District 11.

Further, quality controls were absent when designing this survey. The data quality is important because it ensures that you’re collecting an accurate representation of your desired population’s surveyed sentiment toward LAPD’s involvement in both violent and non-violent crimes. Glaringly, within this survey, there were no security or audit controls in place to ensure users didn’t submit answers more than once. Respondents to the survey were not required to login or to verify their email addresses. IP addresses were not captured. It’s important to note that IP addresses are oftentimes shared amongst many people in offices, libraries and homes.

One IP address can be legitimately shared by multiple family members weighing in on the “Reimagined Public Safety” survey. Or, one IP address could be nefariously used by someone

wanting to skew the results by taking the survey dozens of times using invalid, made-up email addresses. To reiterate, the survey didn’t validate email addresses.

This information is important because there’s no way for Bonin to know if several thousand people were taking the survey in good faith, or if it was one person submitting several thousand responses to a survey that could ostensibly be used to advance his personal beliefs and ultra-liberal, progressive policies through budget cuts to the LAPD. A more appropriate method of ensuring “one person, one response” is to force users to SMS verify before submitting answers. Most people have only one cell phone, making it exceedingly difficult and laborious to submit multiple responses to the survey (though there are ways around that, too).

Contrary to Bonin’s assertion that CD11 constituents overwhelmingly preferred LAPD responses to all non-violent crimes, an analysis of the data actually reveals that CD11 constituents overwhelmingly preferred LAPD to respond to certain non-violent crimes like reports or phone calls about loud parties and excessive noise. The statement made by Bonin, “it was clear that my constituents strongly favor narrowing the scope of LAPD responsibilities,” is an overly broad generalization — especially considering flaws in the wording of the questions and the choices

for responders to the 34 hypothetical scenarios.

By presenting 10 choices of first-responders to 34 hypothetical scenarios, Bonin diluted each choice’s weight, nearly ensuring no single entity garnered enough favorability to secure a majority. So while the LAPD often did not achieve greater than 50% favorability in any of the 34 hypothetical scenarios, neither did any of the other 10 choices in the drop-down menu for a majority of the scenarios.

Honing in on data where the LAPD was strongly favored to respond — and contrary to Bonin’s assertion — in my analysis, after filtering out questions where LAPD was not the preferred first responder, I found that Westsiders favored an LAPD response to both violent and non-violent crimes, including responding to and investigating reports of graffiti in progress, trespassing, shoplifting, drug sales, loud parties, domestic abuse, violent crime, shutting down illegal businesses, stolen property and identity theft, among others. It was an easy, cheap-shot for Bonin to falsely claim that “residents overwhelmingly prefer non-LAPD responses” (see Figure 2).

If Bonin’s goal was to decide which agency should respond to each of the 34 scenarios based on constituents’ responses in CD11, he missed the mark.

By giving too many choices in the drop-down menu, he fragmented

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answers enough to inadequately conclude that Westside residents “‘overwhelmingly’ prefer non-LAPD responses to most other situations for which police officers are routinely called.”

Absent from the dataset are likely those in District 11 who are in underserved areas, those not on social media, and those who were sick from the coronavirus (the survey only lasted six days, about half the time it takes a healthy person to recover). Bonin’s survey made no attempt to collect basic demographic data about race, age and income.

Families without access to the internet, either at home or from a closed library, may have been left out of Bonin’s survey as well. The elderly, who do not have email addresses or social media to learn about the survey, may have been left out, too. We don’t know if it was only the upper-middle class who responded. We don’t know if the working poor had a say in Bonin’s petition to “Reimagine Public Safety” and vote to reduce the LAPD’s budget by $150 million. In a predominately white district, we don’t know how people of color responded to this survey because Bonin didn’t ask.

If Bonin heavily relied on this survey to make policy decisions affecting the public safety of CD11 residents, he failed his civic duty and oath of office to his constituents. He didn’t collect demographics. He allowed people to submit answers more than once. He may have manipulated the data by removing responses he either didn’t like or didn’t agree with; (I was never able to arrive at the published number of respondents to this survey.)

Bonin resorted to sweeping, over-generalizations of his data (and the demographic makeup of the survey respondents) to try to convince CD11 constituents that we support his own personal narrative of what needs to be done. He has allowed his personal agenda to drive his constituent representation obligations time after time. The voices of constituents are repeatedly put aside when he does not agree with them.

Manipulating and making sweeping

Figure 2. Aggregated, stacked percentages of preferred responders to hypothetical scenarios, including responding to and investigating reports of graffiti in progress, shoplifting, drug sales, loud parties, domestic abuse, violent crime, shutting down illegal businesses, stolen property, and identity theft. Responses have been grouped by responder (LAPD, social worker, etc.), and again by neighborhood (Del Rey, Brentwood, Westchester, etc.). generalizations of data is just another way for Bonin to try to prove his own agenda is in line with the residents he represents. But, the data obtained and analyzed tells a different story. It’s time Bonin stopped using Google Forms with no security controls to poll his constituents for input on public safety matters.

It’s time he used data responsibly, valuing the input from the constituents he represents. And, whether he agrees with us or not — set policy for his district and for those he is paid handsomely to represent.

Finally, Councilmember Mike Bonin utilized taxpayer dollars to create, gather and manipulate the data from a poorly designed survey. He then used this unreliable data to send out misleading

communications. It is incumbent on him to correct the record, be transparent with his raw dataset(s), and to send out corrected communication to his constituents admitting that the data he previously presented included input from outside of his district and excluded members of the community who deserve a seat at the policy-making table; that graph (shown in Figure 1 above) was conveniently omitted from Bonin’s website.

Thanks only to a Freedom of Information Act, and our willingness to demand this information, are we able to discover how misleading Bonin has been.

If you’re interested in the raw data to run your own analysis and see how people in your neighborhood responded

to the survey, it’s published here at https://tinyurl.com/boninrawdata. You can use the “Dashboard” tab to slice data by “Question” and by “Neighborhood” to discover how misleading Bonin has been in his efforts and personal agenda to defund the police.

Power to Speak is The Argonaut’s guest opinion column for community members to voice their views on local matters and does not represent an editorial position or endorsement by The Argonaut. The opinions, experiences, research and data analysis expressed in this article are the author’s own. Have a unique point of view on a neighborhood matter or a national issue with a local twist? Email christinac@argonautnews.com.

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A Tequila for Our Time Imported by way of Playa Vista, the distinctive Mico Tequila has been decades in the making PHOTOS BY ZSUZSI STEINER

By Andy Vasoyan

MONKEY THYME Ingredients 1.5 oz. Mico Tequila .5 oz. Gran Classico .25 oz. simple syrup .5 oz. lemon juice A spoon full of fig jam Instructions Add ice and all ingredients into a shaker. Shake vigorously (10 to 15 seconds), and strain into a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with charred thyme sprig.

That cocktail is courtesy of Mico Tequila, a premium brand launched out of Playa Vista in 2018. President and co-founder Subir Singh has been a PV resident since 2009, but the story of how he got into the tequila business stretches back over decades and hundreds of miles.

The Singh family emigrated from Fiji in the early eighties, and Subir’s father, Ajendra “AJ” Singh, found himself living in Los Angeles with $1500 to his name. As Subir tells it, after working his way up as a CPA, AJ was approached by Martin Crowley, the co-founder of Patron Tequila, and was asked to help bring production of Patron’s tequila in-house. AJ moved to Guadalajara, became an executive in the growing Patron

Subir Singh and his father AJ own Mico Tequila, a brand literally imported by way of Playa Vista empire, and put it on the path to becoming the king of modern upscale tequilas. At the same time, the Singh family became close with the Nuñez family, who have been in the tequila business for more than 80 years.

AJ left Patron in 2008 and began working on his own tequila brand in 2009 with the help of Juan Nuñez. Over the next six years those efforts would turn into Mico Spirits, which was established in 2015.

By that time, Subir had seen

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success as a sales representative in the liquor industry, working for Patron and Remy Cointreau, and he was also working with his dad’s company, though he wouldn’t quit his job and join Mico full-time until 2018.

“It was a shock to a lot of people, because I had a great gig,” Singh says. “There’s a lot of tequilas out there, so it’s not like this was a slam dunk!”

So what distinguishes Mico Tequila from the rest of the pack? Most importantly, it’s the tequila itself. “[The Nuñez family] and AJ worked together to produce the formula, and they harvest the agave from local farmers they have relationships with,” Singh says, “but the third component is Karina. Karina Rojo is our master distiller, and she’s one of very few female master distillers in Jalisco. She and AJ are very close, and they work together to produce tequila that really reflects the highlands and is authentic.”

Although the tequila is authentic, that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for some experimentation in Mico’s take on the three tequila varieties: blanco (“white”), which is typically not aged, reposado (“restful”), aged at least 60 days, and añejo (“aged”), which has been aging for at least a year.

“When you get into our reposados and our añejos, typically when you age tequilas, you use American oak,” Singh says. “What we did was, we’re aging first in American oak, that’s whiskey casks and bourbon casks, and then as an experiment, we’re like, let’s finish these off in cabernet casks… I don’t know if there are any tequilas out there that are finished off in cabernet casks like we are.”

In the spirits business, however, an interesting idea can easily be overtaken by an interesting marketing campaign. Ryan Reynolds became a stakeholder in Aviation Gin in 2018 and

helped sell the company for upwards of $600 million this year. George Clooney’s Casamigos brand sold for a cool billion two years ago.

“The celebrity thing is super cool,” Singh says, “but I don’t think it would be a great fit for us. People have stories and ours is just a natural story, and it’s something that’s real. But I think there are definitely consumers looking for brands… with real stories that resonate with them.”

Of course, some cool packaging couldn’t hurt. For those interested, Mico’s Blanco, Reposado, and Añejo tequilas come in suave inverted-teardrop bottles, with a well-dressed monkey man on the front (mico is Spanish for monkey). The back of the bottle even has some hometown love: Imported by way of Playa Vista, California.

This story originally appeared in The Argonaut’s sister publication, Playa Vista Direct. Visit micotequila.com to learn more.

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Sugar & Spice

Lavender and Truffles adds a touch of heat to its plant-based ice creams

By Caden Sullivan A new pop-up in Venice called Lavender and Truffles gave a sneak peek of its plant-based ice creams with free tastings last Sunday. The ice cream boutique, which officially opens in November and will remain open through the end of the year, showcased eight flavors that combine spices from traditional Asian cuisine with organic oat milk ice cream.

The name of Lavender and Truffles itself nods to a combination of savory and sweet flavors.

The use of spices seems like a strange combination with ice cream, but that’s exactly what the pop-up’s founder, Alicia Liu, is going for. Describing her background in Chinese cooking, she says, “In our culture, we use a lot of spices and herbs to flavor. With ice cream and everything that’s out there, from the rocky roads and the chunky peanut butters to the Snickers, it doesn’t have to be loaded with a lot of stuff to make it taste good.

And I think herbs and spices are completely forgotten.”

Liu’s emphasis on cooking with spices is evident in her flavors.

Releasing eight flavors to reflect the Chinese lucky number, she chose to showcase Lavender White Pepper, Spiced Kona Coffee, Ginger Turmeric, Black Tahini, Spiced Hot Cocoa, Raspberry Lemon, Mint Strawberry, and Sumac Roasted Strawberry. Although each flavor has a unique spice and taste to it, all of the Lavender and Truffles options are simply delicious. As Alicia says, “A little goes a long way.”

Liu came here from New York and set the goal to spice up a plant-based product. Her take on ice cream is delicious, healthy, colorful and tastes truly unique.

The more success she sees in pop-ups, the more likely the ice cream is to be placed on the dessert menu of a Lavender and Truffles cafe-boutique in the future.

The Lavender and Truffles pop-up is located at 1510 Pacific Ave. Venice. Store hours are noon to 6 p.m. Thursday through Sunday starting in November. If you missed the tasting event on Sunday, go follow @lavenderandtruffles on Instagram or visit lavenderandtruffles.com to stay tuned for the next one.

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The Urban Future is Carless

E-scooters and bikes could pave the way for navigating our post-COVID cities

By Maurice Henderson Over the last century, two prevailing notions have governed urban development: • Cars should be the default mode of transportation in cities, and • Public space should be allocated to prioritize car travel.

According to Dr. Martin Melosi, Director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston, as much as 50% of urban land in the United States is “dedicated to streets and roads, parking lots, service stations, driveways, signals and traffic signs, automobile-oriented businesses, car dealerships and more.”

Even in U.S. cities considered pedestrian and transit-friendly, an astounding proportion of public space is allocated to cars and car storage. New York alone has an estimated 3 million on-street parking spots, which amounts to one spot for every three residents. That number balloons dramatically in cities like Los Angeles, where “the total surface lot space is larger than the entire size of Pasadena, or about 27 square miles.”

But cities find themselves at a crossroads as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and rapid push towards alternative forms of mobility have offered a glimpse into a new normal for the urban landscape.

As the coronavirus was making its initial, terrifying spread around the world, micromobility operators like Santa Monicabased Bird responded by increasing vehicle sanitization and, in some cases, pausing service to help facilitate local stay-at-home orders. Soon after cities began reopening and service resumed, a few interesting trends started to emerge: more first-time riders began using electric scooters,

more new riders became repeat riders and ride lengths got significantly longer. In other words, micromobility evolved almost overnight from an accessible and sustainable alternative to cars to a safe and socially distant supplement to public transportation postCOVID. While shared e-scooters’ broad appeal and new electrified design have no doubt played a role in their explosive popularity, the data tells us that there’s another important factor at play. More and more city residents want efficient alternatives to the estimated 46% of all U.S. car trips measuring less than 3 miles in length. In fact, according to independent surveys conducted in seven major cities, 42% of Bird rides directly replaced a car or ride-sharing trip, and the same holds true for other operators in cities across the world.

By the end of last year, the New Urban Mobility Alliance’s New Mobility Atlas identified 127 U.S. cities that had structured permit programs for shared e-scooters, along with another 190 outside

the United States. In total, more than 600 cities in 55 countries now welcome either shared e-scooters, bikes, e-bikes or multiple modes.

That’s good news for the growing number of urbanites seeking sustainable alternatives to short-distance travel by car. City leaders must now decide how best to adapt to the challenges and opportunities presented by this large-scale shift in mobility demand.

Data-Informed Investment in Infrastructure The data we’ve collected is clear: investing in protected bike and scooter infrastructure encourages more riders to take to the streets.

There’s perhaps no better example of this than Paris, France where, in her bold quest to convert the densest European capital into a pedestrian-friendly “15-minute city,” Mayor Anne Hidalgo has proposed removing 72% of all on-street parking to help make way for 100% cyclable streets by 2024. The result: between 2018 and 2019, the number of Parisians opting to use

“Experienced micromobility operators provide not only a safe and sustainable transportation alternative to cars but a wealth of data-backed insights to help cities better understand their residents’ mobility needs. As cities continue to reopen, providing a low-cost, socially distanced personal transportation option also creates a public health advantage for micromobility.

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bikes jumped by 54%.

Here in the United States, cities are making significant strides as well. Lite Individual Transportation lanes in Atlanta are slated to triple the amount of protected bike infrastructure in the city in just two years, while new car-free transitways like Market Street in San Francisco are shifting the priority away from automobiles to pedestrians and public transit users.

Prioritize Pedestrian Safety and Public Transit Earlier this year, Oslo announced that there were no cyclist or pedestrian deaths recorded in 2019. It’s likely the first time any sizable city has come close to achieving the “Vision Zero” goal of eliminating both traffic deaths and serious injuries.

The Norwegian capital’s success was made possible by several factors, including the removal of cars from the city center and a data-driven approach to public transit improvements. Here in the United States, a country that experiences 40,000 roadway fatalities every year, there’s much that can be learned from this correlation between pedestrianization, mass transit and public safety.

It’s worth noting here that experts have found that e-scooters have similar safety risks as bikes, with greater ‘safety in numbers’ felt in cities that already have a robust cycling culture. While injuries still do occur, they pale in comparison to those from single-use cars and other automobiles. New data also indicate that, in cities with robust transit networks like Washington D.C.

and Chicago, 20% to 30% of Bird trips connect to public transportation.

Intelligently Manage Micromobility Experienced micromobility operators provide not only a safe and sustainable transportation alternative to cars but a wealth of data-backed insights to help cities better understand their residents’ mobility needs. As cities continue to reopen, providing a low-cost, socially distanced personal transportation option also creates a public health advantage for micromobility.

Through sharing appropriately anonymized data on trip starts and ends, and routes taken, the city can better plan how to expand its micromobility infrastructure, such as protected bike lanes and corrals for micromobility around public transit stations.

It’s important to have a datasharing model with cities that is based on a foundation of trust, transparency and security.

Combined with intelligent practices such as merit-based fleet scaling and permitting regulations that reward responsible operators, the micromobility industry can be instrumental in helping cities grow in tandem with today’s rapidly changing urban mobility landscape.

In the 1920s, cars accelerated their claim to city streets — streets that were previously understood to be places for walking, public transit, commerce and play. A century later, catalyzed in part by micromobility, urban residents are reclaiming their rightful place as the owners of this shared public realm.

And they’re making our cities better, and more accessible, in the process.

The Takeaway: As cities consider what a post-pandemic environment looks like, micromobility devices can help reduce reliance on cars, make streets safer and be more environmentally friendly.

A version of this story was originally published on Route Fifty (route-fifty.com) and is part of the SoJo Exchange from the Solutions Journalism Network, a nonprofit organization dedicated to rigorous reporting about responses to social problems.

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A Foundation for Dreaming

Opportunity House students move into their new home in Westwood, a converted sorority house

Los Angeles Room & Board’s Opportunity House opens doors to brighter futures for underserved college students

By Caden Sullivan Earlier this fall, as many university students worldwide forwent moving into campus dormitories due to the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of college-aged former foster youths moved into a Westwood mansion, thanks to the efforts of Los Angeles Room & Board.

On Sept. 5, the nonprofit welcomed around 30 college students facing food and housing insecurity to The Opportunity House, a vacant 50-bed sorority house near UCLA’s campus. Over the next two years, the residence will offer free, then reduced room and board ($300 per month) to former foster youth now enrolled in higher ed. In the current state of California’s housing crunch and the COVID-19 crisis, this opportunity has never been more

critical.

Los Angeles Room & Board, or LARB, was founded in May 2019 to create a safe, supportive environment for community college students in need of one.

The nonprofit’s founder, Dr. Sam Prater, began this initiative after observations he made in student housing. “One in five community college students in Los Angeles are facing housing insecurity,” he says, “and two thirds of those students are also experiencing hunger.”

“Watching students being pushed out and knowing that there are vacant dorm rooms” in 2018 drove Prater to create the organization, secure funding for The Opportunity House, and simultaneously address food insecurity. (Among Opportunity House’s partners are several

charitable foundations and Everytable, an organization with the mission “to transform the food system to make delicious, nutritious food accessible to everyone, everywhere.” Everytable provides three free meals a day to every student in The Opportunity House. On top of providing food, the organization hosts monthly workshops and food demos to educate Opportunity House residents on cooking for themselves past their college years.)

Students entering The Opportunity House come from experiences as traumatic as childhood abuse, loss of an entire family, and forced homelessness. To help tenants cope with these devastating experiences, LARB has assembled a team of mentors to assist with financial literacy, mental health/wellness and interpersonal leadership. In addition to academic tutors, these mentors are available to any student in The Opportunity House at no cost. Later in the semester, LARB will connect resident students to internship and career development organizations.

In addition to these career-building resources, the community alone gives students a chance to network and make connections outside of their own colleges.

One of the most unique aspects of this home is that young people live and study with students from other schools. Opportunity House students attend UCLA, Cal-State University Northridge, Santa Monica College (SMC), Pasadena City College (PCC) and West Los Angeles College (WLAC).

Pre’ cous Mcjimson, an aspiring nurse at WLAC, is already seeing the benefit of rooming with a student from another school. She and her roommate, a student at SMC, both study health, so they’re already finding ways to integrate their studies and work together despite their separate institutions.

However, Mcjimson believes the greatest benefit of The Opportunity House is the stable, supportive environment it provides. Having lost her mother at 16 and been raised in an abusive environment, she discovered The Opportunity House through the EOPS (Extended Opportunities, Programs, and Services) Office at WLAC. Describing her new home, Mcjimson said, “We’re so comfortable. Like a lot of us were saying the other day, we already feel like we’ve been here for months, and it’s only been a week and a half.”

Budding entrepreneur Joseph

Merchain, a business student at Pasadena City College who also goes by The Big General, described his life’s turn as going “from carrying a gun to carrying my bookwork.” Joseph says he experienced racism in traditional transitional housing, so he contacted his mentor at A²MEND (African American Male Networking and Development) to search for a safer place to stay.

His mentor referred him to Dr. Prater, and now Merchain is taking full advantage of living in Westwood to forward the mission of his apparel organization, Just Minorities Merchain (instagram.com/justminorities).

Merchain’s own suffering with sexual abuse, homelessness and racism have fueled his desire to help others and build up other young minorities in difficult situations. He believes there’s real value to living in Westwood, saying, “I’m already scoping out where to sell my T-shirts and who to network with.”

Before moving into The Opportunity House, Merchain raised $1,588 at Pasadena City Hall for his organization. Now that his housing is secure, his plans have gotten even bigger.

To learn more or donate to Los Angeles Room & Board visit larnb.org/donate now.

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More Than a Name Marina del Rey boat lettering treasure Sally Curran opens a door to destiny

Sally Curran at work on the JITTERBUG; the newly painted hull Story By Staness Jonekos Photography by Michael Becker Sally Curran escaped middle England in her 20s as a nanny with a dream to unleash her inner artist in the USA. She finally got to Southern California when her second husband moved his business to Venice. Freedom was calling her name again, and after finalizing her second divorce she wanted to secure a way to make a living using her creative skills.

Surrounded by Marina del Rey’s boating community, Sally thought, “Maybe a job boat painting and varnishing would be a good place to start.” Many may remember her fondly as the “boat beauty in a bikini with a paintbrush.”

Sally gravitated to the challenge of boat lettering and met a sign painter who mentored her while attending LA Trade Tech, where she learned “realistic painting” by working with oil paints and applying “tonal values.”

With her flourishing new skills, she launched “Sally’s Sea Signs” and hung her shingle in Marina del Rey. During the past 30 years, she has worked full-time creating boat lettering and graphics.

Originally hand-painted, today she uses vinyl. She also specializes in gold leaf boat lettering and continues hand-painted lettering and design, all based on word-of-mouth referrals.

Weeks ago, Sally came to the rescue of our 2001 Catalina Mark II 36’ sloop named Jitterbug .

My photographer husband, Michael Becker, and I are the third owners, adopting Jitterbug in 2007. I loved the name and playful lettering that gave Jitterbug a unique, one-of-akind identity that told the world, “We love adventure and fun!”

Fast forward to 2016, our signature logo had faded after years in the harsh sun, but I could not fathom the idea of replacing our one-of-a-kind hand-painted lettering with an online order using vinyl with typical computer-generated fonts. Four more years later, the Jitterbug lettering was almost completely erased from her hull.

Fortunately, during a recent haul-out to paint the boat bottom, Dennis from S&K Dive Service said, “Hey, I know the lady who painted that boat lettering for Jitterbug!”

Sally remembered Jitterbug and told me 10 years ago she started using vinyl since it lasts

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longer. She invested in the software and cutting machine so she could continue to execute her artistic vision.

Sally recreated Jitterbug’s cheerful fonts with a classy drop shadow and lively ladybug to add a splash of fun over the first letter.

I finally got to meet her in person the day she applied the boat lettering. It was a dream come true having Sally revive Jitterbug’s identity with custom lettering.

Then this Jitterbug full circle moment got even better!

Twenty years ago, before I got married, I had a dream to buy a boat. It was so vivid, like an angel whispering in my ear, that I got in my car at 5 a.m. and drove to Marina del Rey ready to buy a boat.

Sitting in the parking lot at the Santa Monica Windjammers Yacht Club off Mindanao Way, I enjoyed the sunrise spilling over the masts.

My mind was racing with questions, “Does a boat cost the same as a car? Where is the best place to keep it? Should I buy new or used?” and then the rude awakening, “I don’t know anything about boats!”

Doubting my dream, I headed back to the car until I heard a

deep, raspy woman’s voice over my shoulder asking, “Sail or power?”

I turned and asked, “What?”

She said, “You look like a sailor, not a powerboat person,” with a growing smile that sparked pure joy.

What a funny thing to observe, and for the next hour this weathered spirit rich with life experience shared everything I needed to know about buying a sailboat and sent me back to my car with one final tip: “Learn to sail, charter for experience, then buy a Catalina 36’ … it is the perfect boat for you.”

Her name was Darien Murray, and I later learned she was the first boating columnist hired at The Argonaut and publisher of The Dinghy.

What does this fateful meeting have to do with Sally Curran, our marina boat lettering treasure? Sally and Darien were friends! Two independent women, with the strength to follow their personal passions, had impacted my boating journey at different times.

After this fun realization, Sally told me that they shared an office, and were part of a community group advocating to re-name West Washington Boulevard to Abbot Kinney

Boulevard in the late 1980s honoring developer Abbot Kinney who founded Venice in 1905.

Darien died two years after I met her in 2002, so I never had a chance to thank her for her wise words, but meeting Sally gave me an open door to share a destiny that tied all three of us together in one moment, at the exact spot on G Basin where 20 years earlier, Darien planted the seed to buy a Catalina 36’ sailboat named Jitterbug .

When you see a boat in Santa Monica Bay, if the boat lettering has personality and style, it was probably created by Sally Curran, a girl from middle England following her heart to unleash her inner artist in Marina del Rey. And if you see Jitterbug, know Darien is the wind in our sails and Sally captured the playful spirit that fuels our journeys.

Staness & Michael are members of Santa Monica Windjammers Yacht Club, home to Michael’s “Westside Jazz Band” where everyone is welcome to do the Jitterbug.

For queries to Sally Curran about boat lettering, email sallysseasigns@gmail.com.

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Westside local Alex Scrymgeour depicts Venice’s colorful characters in TV pilot “Eddie’s”

By Anthony Torrise If there’s one thing Venice is known for, it’s the wide net of creative people it attracts. There are countless personalities that come from all over to see for themselves and contribute whatever they can to this colorful community.

It takes a rather big crew, but thanks to the cast of “Eddie’s,” the new television pilot by Alex Scrymgeour, the full spectrum of those personalities are represented on screen.

Throughout the pilot’s 25 minutes, the motley cast of characters are faced with the possibility of losing their favorite bar on the beach to a vengeful land developer. Not willing to accept defeat, they quickly get to work to prevent the bar’s demolishment. While this is all happening, the staff welcomes a clumsy new employee from Canada named Billy (Jacob Zachor). (Scrymgeour, himself, has lived in Santa Monica for 30 years after moving from Barcelona.)

The show’s lead character and owner of the bar, Eddie, is played by New York native Eddie McGee who’s tough but fair personality embodies both the West and East coasts. Under Eddie’s employment is May, a surly waitress and aspiring actress with a heart of gold; and Arjun, a waiter with wits who prefers to speak through sarcasm. Among the nine characters is one mysteriously wise patron known as “the captain,” played by George Wendt from the hit TV show “Cheers.”

The character introductions can

The cast and crew of ‘Eddie’s’ be overwhelming at times, but once everybody becomes familiar in the pilot’s first half, the rest of the episode allows everybody to mesh naturally.

Billy is given a hard time by his co-workers after he drops a tray of beer on a family of tourists, which makes it seem like his job will be short-lived. But in their efforts to save the bar, Billy is brought further into the fold and quickly establishes his spot in the group.

“Eddie’s” beachside setting was inspired by Big Dean’s Ocean Front Cafe in Santa Monica, where McGee actually worked as a bouncer. McGee and Scrymgeour’s 18-year friendship, alongside the bar’s easygoing atmosphere, provided the groundwork for the show.

“It was originally conceived in Big Dean’s in Santa Monica and we placed it in Venice because it’s so iconic, it’s so artistic,” recalls Scrymgeour. “There’s so much flavor. There’s so much everything. There’s so much life in Venice.”

“Eddie’s” is especially meaningful to McGee because of the representation it gives to people with limb differences on film.

McGee is an amputee as the result of childhood cancer; growing up he didn’t see many

people like himself in movies or on TV. “When I lost my leg as a young boy I said, ‘Well I can’t be an actor, now,’ because there is no one with one arm, or one leg, or in a wheelchair, or who has a vision impairment or hearing impairment,” says McGee. “There’s nobody with a disability that’s a major player, a real

player, on a film, TV show, or soap. There was nobody, really.”

Scrymgeour and his team recently secured a deal with a publishing company and are now looking for a broadcaster to pick “Eddie’s” up for a full season. In the event that a broadcaster picks up the show for a first season, Scrymgeour has scripts and an outline ready to go.

“Venice has seen vast changes in the past 50 years and we’re about to see a whole bunch more, unfortunately,” predicts Scrymgeour. “So I think the message is… even though there’s a lot of change, I think what we want to bring, whether to Venice or the greater population, is the feeling of togetherness.”

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Hope From a Local Scientist LMU Professor Katie Mouzakis leads a nationwide team on COVID-19 treatment research

By Shanee Edwards Assistant professor of biochemistry at Loyola Marymount University, Katie Mouzakis, has two passions: Teaching and scientific research. But with school happening mostly online, it’s the latter passion she’s able to nourish in an exciting way.

Having secured a recent $55,000 grant from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, she’s researching SARS-CoV-2, better known as the virus that causes COVID-19, with the hope of developing a drug to stop the virus, and thus, treat the disease.

But the bubbly professor isn’t new to studying viruses. In fact, she’s been studying them using biochemistry experiments in the lab for 13 years — vital experience that may lead her to become a game-changer in this unprecedented pandemic.

Originally from Rancho Cucamonga, Mouzakis says she’s always loved math and science, but fell in love with chemistry in high school. She attended Harvey Mudd College in Claremont to be a chemistry major, but one day, her world opened up.

“I discovered that things that happen inside a cell are super cool!” Mouzakis says with a laugh.

She switched her major to chemistry-biology and got involved in some exciting scientific research that, “created a love for scientific research” that helped her make the decision to pursue a PhD in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It was during this time she began studying viruses pretty hardcore.

Mouzakis first started with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Later, when she was a professor at Fort Lewis College in Colorado, she studied the HTLV-1 virus that causes a rare form of leukemia. All the techniques she learned then are the same ones she still uses today as she does experiments on SARS-CoV-2.

Since getting the research grant in June, Mouzakis has been leading a team of researchers across America whose goal is to identify drug candidates that target a specific 3D shape in the

LMU Assistant Professor Katie Mouzakis shows off her lab where she’s working on an antiviral treatment for COVID-19 things inside the cell to make the SARS coronavirus that coronavirus’ genome. viral proteins. The RNA also appeared in 2003 and began to “When the coronavirus enters folds into different three-dimenspread around the world before the [host’s] cell, it deposits a sional shapes that change how it being successfully contained. copy of its genome,” she is read.”

“In the SARS coronavirus from explains.

The researchers are trying to 2003, there is a very similar For humans, our genome is our figure out how to undermine the RNA sequence and shape. It’s DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). stability of those three-dimennearly 99% identical [to the But a virus’s genome is much sional shapes. novel coronavirus that causes smaller than a human’s and only “The understanding in the field COVID-19]. In previous contains the bare minimum of is that if you change how stable research by other scientists, they what it needs to replicate. The that structure is or which shape it found that if you have small coronavirus genome is made of adopts, you change how likely molecules that bind to that RNA (ribonucleic acid) and is the cellular protein interacting three-dimensional shape and approximately 100,000 times with it is going to do what it’s change its properties, you screw smaller than our genome. supposed to do,” she says. up coronavirus replication. It was “When the genome of the Mouzakis says similar research bad for SARS in 2003, so coronavirus is first added to the was done nearly a decade ago, theoretically, it should be bad for cell,” says Mouzakis, “its RNA when scientists were studying the novel coronavirus,” says can be immediately ‘read’ by

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Mouzakis.

To be clear, she and her team of researchers are working to possibly create a type of drug called an antiviral, not a vaccine.

Antivirals are drugs you take after you’ve been infected with the virus. The only antiviral for SARS-CoV-2 currently in use is Remdesivir (one of the drugs used to treat President Donald Trump). But she is optimistic about the prospects of several vaccines that other researchers have in the pipeline.

“I think we’re going to end up with some pretty awesome vaccines, and I think that is going to be the key to [restoring] normalcy. We will know about their safety and efficacy data – at least about a small few – probably by January, maybe late December if we are lucky. The roll-out of people getting vaccinated is going to take time because they need to make hundreds of millions of doses.

My personal, optimistic viewpoint is that by next summer, we will be back to semi-normalcy.

But I don’t think the coronavirus is going away,” she says.

And that’s where Mouzakis’ research comes in. For those who can’t get vaccinated due to an autoimmune disease, or other health risk, a drug to stop the virus is crucial.

The other thing for which she has high hopes is having fast, low-cost COVID testing. “If we could have a cheap (under $1) and fast (under 15 minutes) test, maybe something like a pregnancy test but for COVID, and be able to show people, ‘Here’s my test results’ in 15 minutes, I think that coupled with low community prevalence rates would allow us to open schools safely.”

In the meantime, Mouzakis teaches online when she’s not doing research. Despite having a friend who died from COVID, she’s keeping a positive attitude and is hopeful about the work she’s doing.

“It feels awesome to be trying to make a difference. Even if no one knows who I am, I’m doing something useful and hopefully will make an impact on people’s lives. It’s a pretty nice feeling,” she says.

B U S I N E S S PHOTOS COURTESY OF URBANIC PAPER BOUTIQUE

Founder of Urbanic Paper, Audrey Woolen, had an‘ Aha’ moment in 2005 when she decided to open a stationery boutique in Venice

Putting Her Heart on Paper

Audrey Woolen’s Urbanic Paper Boutique is coming to Free Market at Runway Playa Vista

By Shanee Edwards If you’ve been to Runway, the mixed-use living and retail mall in Playa Vista recently, you’re probably aware that Free Market, a modern retail collective of high end permanent and pop-up tenants, is set for a soft opening this November. And, if you’re a fan of Urbanic Paper Boutique on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice, you’ll be thrilled to discover that the unique stationary store will be setting up shop inside Free Market’s 21,000-square-foot space alongside Alchemy Works, County Line Florals and Mexican eatery Loqui, just to name a few.

Founder of Urbanic Paper Boutique, Audrey Woolen, can’t wait to come to the tight-knit community of Playa Vista.

Originally from Philadelphia, Woolen began her career in the fashion industry. But after a while, she wanted something in her life that felt more meaningful.

“I’ve always loved stationary and desk accessories, gift wrapping – all the little details

Stylish and creative, Woolen started her career in the fashion industry before experimenting with paper goods that make someone’s day when they get something special in the mail. I had an aha moment in 2005 that I wanted to open a paper boutique. I was living in Venice Beach at the time and took a leap of faith in this idea,” she says.

Surprisingly, Woolen was met with resistance when she told the people around her about her

business idea.

“People at the time told me – literally so many people told me – that it would never, ever work. At that time there was only bigger box stationary like Papyrus and I think Crane. The concept of what I’m doing now has since then spread out, there are others; it was definitely a new idea for something this niche to

be there,” she says.

Abbot Kinney was gaining in popularity at that time and Woolen was eager to take advantage of that upswing. While freelancing in the fashion industry, “I was designing stationary out of a rented garage in Venice and selling it at Farmers Markets and we had an excellent response to it. It was not a dying art – opposite. People wanted more of it and to have accessibility to it,” she says.

Woolen’s secret to success was not relying on just American designers, she also looked to Europe, Japan and Korea. “There were so many amazing lines [of stationary] that weren’t represented in these more chain stationary gift shops. I really wanted to put together something that was special and had an interactive experience to it,” says Woolen.

In addition to a retail shop with carefully selected merchandise, she sees Urbanic Paper Boutique as “a lifestyle establishment because we love doing events, workshops and super interactive and experimental things to bring

people together. Because the nature of our business has so much to do with creativity and thoughtfulness, it’s very easy for us to translate that into different events that are based on giftwrapping or hand-lettering or different elements of hosting,” she says.

Woolen is confident her business will survive the pandemic, because it’s made it through rough times before.

“In 2009 or 2010,” says Woolen, “we had the economy collapse. I did not know how we were going to get through that time. But we did. This time, as scary as it is, is exciting because I love a good push. When things get agitated, new opportunities and creativity start to bloom.”

Urbanic Paper Boutique is slated to open in November at Free Market in the Runway Playa Vista (12775 Millennium Drive.) Visit the original at 1644 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice or urbanicpaper.com to learn more.

This story originally appeared in Playa Vista Direct.

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THE ARGONAUT’S REAL ESTATE SECTION

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“This lovely three-bed, two-bath bungalow is one of the last standing historic courtyard compounds in Santa

Monica. Serene hidden enclave of 5 privately-owned cottages. Light-filled, open kitchen/living area, a loft space with skylights and stunning garden views from a private deck. Enchanted gated grounds with a lily pond, shade trees, butterfly-filled flower gardens and stone pavers. Near Main Street’s cafes, retail shops, restaurants. Two blocks from the beach and the bike path. Simply exquisite.”

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THE ARGONAUT REAL ESTATE Q&A

Is Now A Good Time To Buy Your First House?

The coronavirus pandemic has put many things on hold, but real estate continues to chug along. Sales and listings persist across the country, with some markets harder hit than others. And home prices are rising, throwing a wrench in the plans of those who thought they might be able to swoop in for a steal.

now than they’ve ever been, making buying now more compelling than ever.”

association fees, property tax, homeowner’s insurance, etc.—shouldn’t equal more than 43% of your monthly gross income.”

If you’re considering buying your first home right now, here are the questions you’ll want Do you have down payment to ask yourself. funds?

Depending on your mortgage, your down Do you have job security? payment could be 3% of your loan or 20%.

For many of us right now, it’s hard to know That means coming up with thousands of what the future holds. But if you are in “Any thoughts of bargain-hunting in the dollars. If you don’t have the funds on your a profession that has some level of job aftermath of the coronavirus shutdown own, consider alternate means, like a family security and you’re currently in a rental, you have proven to be a losing strategy,” gift or an assistance program. might want to consider making a move. said Forbes. “While it seemed likely that With mortgage rates so low, it may also Do the numbers make sense? house prices would decline due to lack of make sense to dip into your retirement Your lender will establish if your debt-tosales activity, the opposite has occurred. funds. “If you are a first-time home buyer, income (DTI) ratio meets the standard for According to recent statistics issued by you may be able to use some funds from Realtor.com, median listing prices are 5.6% mortgage qualification. “The 43% debt-toretirement accounts (including IRAs and higher than one year ago, and more than a income (DTI) ratio standard is generally used 401(k)s) for a down payment without by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) full percentage point above the levels just incurring the typical early withdrawal as a guideline for approving mortgages,” before the COVID pandemic shut down the penalties that come with taking money out said Investopedia. “This ratio is used to economy.” of these accounts,” said Money Under 30. determine if the borrower can make their But, interest rates are at historic lows, which payments each month. Some lenders may How about those closing costs? stretches your buying power. “Buying now be more lenient or more rigid, depending It’s easy to focus on down payment funds will give you an opportunity to lock-in the on the real estate market and general and forget about closing costs. But if lowest mortgage rates in history,” they said. economic conditions. A 43% DTI means you don’t weave this expense into your “Though it’s possible mortgage rates can all your regular debt payments, plus your homebuying plan, you could end up with fall even lower from here, there’s no way to housing-related expenses—mortgage, a big, expensive surprise at closing time. know that will happen. But what we do know mortgage insurance, homeowner’s “Average closing costs for the buyer run for certain is that interest rates are better

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between about 2% and 5% of the loan amount,” said NerdWallet. “That means, on a $300,000 home purchase, you would pay from $6,000 to $15,000 in closing costs.”

How’s your credit?

“The state of your credit is just as important as the state of your finances when it comes to deciding whether you are ready to buy a home,” said MoneyCrashers. “Your credit score determines whether a mortgage lender will give you a loan at all, as well as the rate. A low credit score can result in a significantly higher interest rate, which means that you will pay thousands (or hundreds of thousands) more over the life of the loan. Typically, you need a credit score above 720 in order to get the most advantageous rates.”

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Westside Farmers Market

DIRECTORY Where healthy food is always in season TUESDAYS

SATURDAYS

Culver City Farmers Market 2 to 7 p.m.

Marina del Rey 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Santa Monica Pico Farmers Market 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Via Marina at Panay Way, Marina del Rey

Virginia Avenue Park, 2200 Virginia Ave., Santa Monica

Main Street, between Venice and Culver boulevards

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WEDNESDAYS Santa Monica Downtown Farmers Market 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Arizona Avenue, between 4th St. and Ocean Ave.

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FRIDAYS Venice Farmers Market 7 to 11 a.m.

500 Venice Blvd. (at Venice Way), Venice

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Playa Vista Farmers Market 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Mar Vista Farmers Market 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

12775 W. Millennium Drive, Runway at Playa Vista

Venice and Grand View boulevards

www.farmermark.com/ playavista Santa Monica Downtown Farmers Market 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Arizona Avenue, between 2nd and 4th streets, Santa Monica

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SUNDAYS

marvistafarmersmarket.org Santa Monica Main Street Farmers Market 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Heritage Square, 2640 Main St., Santa Monica

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The Triangle, 6200 W. 87th St.

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Farmers markets, essential for the health of local communities, remain open but are making some changes in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Expect to see wider spaces between vendors, no samples, more gloves, possible waiting lines, and other precautions. As always wear a mask and practice social distancing.

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“A healthy outside starts from the inside.”

— Robert Urich

LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE “IT’S TIME” By C.C. BURNIKEL

CODDLE HERDER My boyfriend’s enabling of his failureto-launch 26-year-old son is seeming like a deal breaker. Though his son’s very likable, he’s been fired from every job he’s had, including a well-paying delivery job I recently got him, after they perceived liability from his reckless, race-driving ways. His dad lent him a truck, pays the insurance, pays his cell phone bill, and keeps rescuing him on his rent. He spends his days video gaming, getting stoned, and online dating. I was looking forward to getting married, but I don’t want my house at risk when his son calls for a bailout. I’m also not sure I want a man who doesn’t advance his kids to independence.

— Distressedl Childhood goes so fast. It’s only a matter of time before Cody is 85 and expected to post his own bail.

Your boyfriend is acting out of empathy for his son. Empathy is taken for granted as a beautiful thing, but it has a dark side. It comes from the German word, “einfuhlung,” meaning “in-feeling” or “feeling into.” Obviously, we can’t actually tap into another person’s feelings, but psychologist Lynn O’Connor explains that when we witness another person’s suffering, our “empathy system is alerted, almost as if we were suffering ourselves.”

Our initial flare of empathy, this “feeling into” another’s suffering, happens automatically. Once we experience it, explain neuroscientists Olga Klimecki and Tania Singer, our empathy can go one of two ways: into unhealthy “empathic distress” or healthy “empathic concern.”

Empathic distress is empathy that quickly turns “me-focused.” We start feeling really bad about how bad we feel in the wake of our friend’s empathytriggering suffering — to the point that we’re prone to duck our uncomfortable feelings by avoiding our suffering friend.

(Nice, huh?) Empathic concern, on the other hand, motivates us to channel our empathy into action. We ask ourselves, “What can I do to alleviate this person’s suffering?” and then get to it.

However, even healthy empathic concern has a dark side. You can alleviate somebody’s immediate suffering but ultimately hurt them long-term, like when you show them that Daddy’s always there to mop up after their irresponsible behavior with a big wad of dollars.

Possibly saving your relationship starts with understanding the complicated mix here. Though Dad is taking action on his son’s behalf (as per empathic concern), he’s probably driven by

empathic distress: a longing to immediately alleviate the pain he feels from his son being in trouble. This is pathological empathy: empathy that ultimately harms both the person it’s intended to help and the person doing the helping. For example, in addition to the negative effect on your relationship, you noted (in an email replying to questions I’d asked you) that endlessly picking up his reckless, lazeballs son’s tab has tanked your boyfriend’s own finances.

Of course, actual helping is judicious helping, like a tough-love refusal to make the consequences of Slacker Boy’s actions magically disappear.

Forcing this 20-something brat to get socked with the costs is probably the only way he’ll get on the path to becoming an independent, fully functioning adult.

You get this, and you told me you’ve brought it up to your boyfriend “like once a month,” framing it in “constructive terms.” That isn’t working, in large part because Dad has a habit that seems to serve him (at least on the immediate level): Son crashes and burns; Dad swoops in to sweep up the wreckage, and he gets that quick hit of “feel better.”

So, though your boyfriend appears to be listening when you talk, he isn’t really hearing you; that is, really taking it in and then opening his mind to the possibility that you’re right. Only if he really hears you will you see whether he can look critically at his enabling and accept the immediate emotional pain it takes to do what’s best for his son and your relationship long-term.

Since you’ve been unable to get through to him, you might seek out a mediator. A mediator specializes in helping parties truly hear and understand each other. (Find one with a relationship focus at mediate.com, or Google to find free or sliding-scale services locally.) There’s also a DIY option from psychotherapist Nathaniel Branden. Spend 12 hours together in a hotel room: no books, TV, smartphones, naps, or walks outside. Except for bathroom breaks, you remain together at all times. Branden told me that when all “avenues of escape are closed off,” couples experience real breakthroughs in communication.

If you try either or both of these techniques, and your boyfriend still won’t come around, you’ll at least know you’ve done all you could to try to save your relationship. Ideally, the “bonds” of marriage aren’t the sort that involve you risking your house if Slacky Sluffoffsky is too stoned to show up for his court hearing.

ACROSS 1 Not yet bought 5 Kvetch 10 Mushroom sought by mushroom hunters 15 Econ. barometer 18 Bar on a truck 19 Swiss luxury brand 20 Butler’s love 21 Provider of expert advice 22 Swindler 24 “It’s hopeless” 26 Subs 27 __ fly: run-scoring out 28 World’s largest tennis stadium 29 Social media profile picture, often 30 Clue follower 32 Muralist Rivera 34 Cybertruck maker 35 Rod’s partner 37 “Over here!”

40 Hoods at a monastery 43 Meat brand spelled out by a four-year-old in ads 48 C-SPAN addict, say 50 Miley Cyrus label 51 Noisy bunkmate 53 Prepare for another drive 54 Holiday lead-in 55 Conspiring faction 58 Italy’s cont.

59 “Look before you leap,” e.g.

61 Advanced teaching deg.

62 2009 aviation biopic 64 Authoritative code 66 Art __ 68 Timely mnemonic, or what the circled letters depict 75 Arcade giant 76 Rear-__ 77 Hand at sea

78 81 84 86

Improv bit Coordinated Closest peeps Texas site of Pizza Hut headquarters 87 Helen Reddy’s “__ Woman” 88 Flood control 89 Big name in bowling shoes 92 Dudes 93 Some Nehi drinks 96 It may be cracked with a key 99 Suite spot 100 Mount Rainier’s Native American name ... and a Microsoft typeface 102 Soothing succulent 103 “Look before you leap,” e.g.

105 Ethereal glows 108 Whitman’s dooryard bloomers 112 Pelican State campus 114 Backfire sound 116 Co-star with Chevy and Gilda 118 Open veranda 119 Cable company offering 121 Fugitive trackers, at times 123 Big party 124 Caffeine-rich nuts 125 Curling venue 126 Vending machine inserts 127 Rapper Lil __ X 128 Look after 129 Exorcist’s target 130 Overly curious

the thief Harry in “Home Alone” 9 Phone routing no.

10 Rainy season 11 “I know! Pick me!”

12 Utility bill figure 13 Jazz or swing 14 Time-__ 15 Gunpowder Plot participant of 1605 16 Hamburger’s three 17 Free of contaminants 21 Pump measure 23 Autumn blossom 25 Coast Guard mission 28 Before now 31 Sewer’s bottoms 33 “Reader, I married him” governess 34 Taco truck fare 36 The Beatles’ Penny, e.g.

38 It’s driven on a trail 39 Has a balance due 41 In real time 42 Piece inside a pumpkin 43 Seal-hunting swimmers 44 Whippersnapper 45 Pole thrown by Scots 46 “Seriously?”

47 Wild throw, usually 49 Crown collection 52 Wine and dine 56 Elite guests 57 Airport screening likelihood 60 Pie crust ingredient 61 Gas brand with a DOWN red “o” in its logo 1 Has staying power 63 Team from 2 Stand out College Station, 3 Heartthrob Texas 4 Deep-fried 65 Stefani of No Japanese dish Doubt 5 Boxer’s warning 67 Show appreciation 6 Turns 69 Selection process 7 Trojan War saga for MLB All-Stars 8 Joe who played 70 Crusoe creator

71 Swiss coin 72 National rival 73 Shaped like a megaphone 74 Danish coin 78 Sound of resignation 79 Syrup used in pecan pies 80 “It puzzles me” 82 Jon of “Chicago P.D.” 83 “You betcha!”

85 “Look, señorita!”

88 Stanford who co-founded Stanford University 90 Winter Palace monarch 91 Prison division 94 Intellectual nitpicker 95 Scoundrel 97 Sheer linen fabric 98 Grayish-yellow green 101 Clown for the camera 104 Tech whizzes 106 Put on a pedestal 107 Capital SSW of Portland 109 Not allowed 110 Batting practice sites 111 Spacek of “The River” 112 Texter’s parting 113 Where the iris is 114 Farm bundle 115 Med school subj.

117 Barcelona boy 120 “The Simpsons” bartender 121 Launch site 122 Spam holder

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Fic. Business Name STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME – FILE NO: 2020131438 file no: 2016-157972 date filed: 06/23/2016. Name of Business(es) LA TAX CENTER, LA TAX AND BUSINESS CENTER, PATRICK'S TAX SERVICE, 1100 S. Hope St., #1207 LA, CA 90015. registered owner(s): Patrick E. Rohrbach, 1100 S. Hope St., #1207 LA, CA 90015. Business was conducted by an Individual. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) reg i s t r a n t s n a m e s / c o r p / l lc (print) Patrick E. Rohrbach title: Owner. If corporation, also print corporate title of officer. If LLC, also print tile of officer or manager. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of los angeles County on the date indicated by the filed stamp in the upper right corner: August 28, 2020. i hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. dean c. logan, los angeles county clerk by: T. Tran, Deputy Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 9/24/20, 10/1/20, 10/8/20, 10/15/20

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2020136149 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: EAST COAST BAGEL-MDR. 4375 Glencoe Ave. Suite D4-4-A Marina del Rey, CA 90292, 6404 North Willard Ave. San Gabriel, CA 91775.

COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Bageldelicious LLC, 4375 Glencoe Ave. Suite D4-4-A Marina del Rey, CA 90292. State of Incorporation or LLC: California. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Stephanie N. Chung.

TITLE: Manager, Corp or LLC Name: Bageldelicious LLC. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: September 9, 2020 NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a new Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration.

The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions code). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 10/1/20, 10/8/20, 10/15/20, 10/22/20

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2020143591 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: THE CLARA LOS ANGELES. 1545 N. Bronson Ave., Apt. 201 Los Angeles, CA 90028.

COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) The Clara Group LLC, 1545 N. Bronson Ave., Apt. 201 Los Angeles, CA 90028. State of Incorporation or LLC: California. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Jennifer Panczenko Ryall.

TITLE: Managing Member/CEO, Corp or LLC Name: The Clara Group LLC. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: September 21, 2020 NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a new Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions code). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2020145665 Type of Filing: Amended. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ARTOON GALLERY. 578 Washington Blvd., Suite 753 Marina del Rey, CA 90292.

COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Money Mike Dot Com, LLC, 578 Washington Blvd., Suite 753 Marina del Rey, CA 90292. State of Incorporation or LLC: California. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 04/2020. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ James Chappel. TITLE: Member, Corp or LLC Name: Money Mike Dot Com, LLC. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: September 23, 2020. NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a new Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions code). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper.

Dates: 10/15/20, 10/22/20, 10/29/20, 11/5/20 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2020128098 Type of Filing: Original The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CAIA CANDLE; 2554 Lincoln Blvd., Suite 781 Venice, CA 90291, 4369 Chase Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90066.

COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Kaiya Peralta, 4369 Chase Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90066.

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Kaiya Peralta.

TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: August 24, 2020. NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a new Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration.

The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 ann@argonautnews.com et seq., business and professions code). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 9/24/20, 10/1/20, 10/8/20, 10/15/20

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filed before the expiration.

The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., business and professions code). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 9/24/20, 10/1/20, 10/8/20, 10/15/20 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2020137422 Type of Filing: Amended The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: YOGA BLISS; 6218 W. Manchester Ave., Westchester, CA 90045, 332 Sheldon Street El Segundo, CA 90245.

COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Lara Estrada, 332 Sheldon Street El Segundo, CA 90245 5.

THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: 08/2015. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Lara Estrada. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: September 11, 2020. NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a new Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration.

The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., business and professions code). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 10/1/20, 10/8/20, 10/15/20, 10/22/20 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2020138176 Type of Filing: Original The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: LOVE2FLYFISH MEDIA; 7324 West 88th Place Los Angeles, CA 90045.

COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Al Quattrocchi, 7324 West 88th Place Los Angeles, CA 90045. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Al Quattrocchi. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: September 14, 2020. NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a new Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration.

The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., business and profes-

filed before the expiration.

The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., business and professions code). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper Dates: 10/1/20, 10/8/20, 10/15/20, 10/22/20

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