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ON THE COVER: Actor Will Rothhaar discusses his career, latest film project and how he helps others heal. Photo by Luis Chavez. Design by Arman Olivares.
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Corona by the numbers & local updates Compiled by Kamala Kirk Cases and deaths by neighborhood as of June 12: Culver City: 2,235 (deaths 110); Del Rey: 32 (deaths 1); El Segundo: 741 (deaths 6); Marina del Rey: 396 (deaths 4); Mar Vista: 2,082 (deaths 37); Palms: 2,625 (deaths 61); Playa del Rey: 115 (deaths 1); Playa Vista: 613 (deaths 9); Santa Monica: 4,849 (deaths 183); Venice: 1,738 (deaths 13); Westchester: 2,555 (deaths 49) Total Westside cases: 17,981 Total Westside deaths: 474
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Total confirmed cases in LA County: 1,246,123 Total deaths in LA County: 24,415 Total new cases as of June 12: 474 Total new deaths: 4 Hospitalizations: 236 Positivity rate (seven-day daily average): .40% Total number of people tested: 6,879,557 (Source: Los Angeles County Department of Public Health)
DJs and dance parties south of the Venice pier. Santa Monica Libraries in Peril Editor: “The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.” – Albert Einstein On June 22, the city leaders could decide to drastically cut funding the public libraries in Santa Monica. The role of public libraries has evolved from just simply checking out books to being a vital community resource. They are public spaces where people of all ages and races get together to have their lives enriched by the workshops, lectures, computer learning classes, even real dogs to help shy children learn to read, and so much
more. After the isolation we endured during the pandemic, we need a place to go that’s free of charge. A place to recharge our spirits and our minds. It is hard to fathom that shuttering our libraries because of funding issues is even considered. Money spent on costly consultants, boondoggle projects and overpaid city employees could be trimmed to keep our libraries open. For more information contact: save.sm.library@gmail.com Lou Steiner
ArgonautNews.com Homeless Common Sense Remedies Re: Moving Homeless Encampments (May 27, 2021) Editor: It is good to know there are community leaders with just good old common sense as exemplified by the short-term remedy to the present crisis of 66,436 homeless persons in Los Angeles County as proposed by Mr. Clark Brown in his letter to the editor. The legality mentioned in that letter refers to the federal court decision in April 2019 in the case of Martin vs. City of Boise. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled if a city doesn’t have enough shelter beds available for the homeless, enforcing a camping ban on public property violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The 9th Circuit’s jurisdiction is from Arizona to Alaska and includes California. Obviously moving thousands of homeless to vacant city lots (and why not vacant city buildings) as proposed by Mr. Brown will not happen overnight. During this transitional period, our public officials need to provide wash basins, trash bins and portable toilets in and around existing street encampments as needed. I believe the latter is just common sense to deter urinating in the alleys, don’t you? Dan Wunsch Marina del Rey Mike Bonin Editor: There is a fundamental flaw regarding the current crisis at the Venice Boardwalk, and that is LA Councilman Mike Bonin and Mike Bonin alone that is the primary reason for the explosion of encampments and rising crime at the beach! For it is his proposals, policies and initiatives that have decimated this tourist destination that once attracted millions! Talk to any LAPD officer in the Pacific Division off the record and they will tell you it is Bonin who has placed handcuffs on law enforcement to do their job! For it is Bonin’s outward hatred of law enforcement and opposition to the LA Sheriff’s Department from weighing in and assisting an exhausted and weary community tired of inaction and years of broken promises and outright lies! The lack of cooperation, support, and now the defunding of the LAPD by the likes of Bonin have created the circus-like atmosphere that has driven retailers out of business and the sense that right is now wrong and wrong is now
right. Councilman Bonin clearly lacks the temperament to lead, and his disdain and outright contempt for Venice locals is never addressed in these reports as to why Venice has gone from an international tourist destination to a drug-infested, crime-ridden encampment of transients he promotes, protects and serves! His Machiavellian approach to governance does not and will not work because the community does not believe him nor support him as
pension upon retirement, this a Venice Neighborhood Council makes him the highest paid community survey taken in 2019 council member in the United showed he had a 75 unfavorable States, and more than every state rating with residents today! governor and member of the U.S. Venice now has close to 3,000 homeless individuals on the streets Congress! Now under the threat of a and the number is rising, not declining thanks to Mr. Bonin. His second recall in four years, he has lost any mandate to implement inability to solve the homeless conversation the district supports, and question and build community Join thepolicies to expect him at this juncture to consensus is obvious and disturbing. listen or lead is foolhardy and With an annual salary of naïve at best. $285,673.48, not including free Having lived in Venice for 28 health benefits and a lifetime years and just steps from the
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By Tim Tunks Santa Monica’s lower Main Street is the center of Ocean Park commercial activity and has long been an interesting local attraction. The past 14 months of pandemic mitigation were disastrous for most of the district’s businesses, some of whom had been struggling even before Covid concerns. Revitalizing Main Street as a pedestrian piazza is a promising plan — a plan that gained both strong public opposition and effective political support. The following collection of quotes from interested people reflect the various forces at play. I’ve had to edit some of the quotes to make space for more opinions and I’ll try to keep my commentary brief for the same reason. I’ve used initials only to protect privacy. The largest group to send comments complained about displaced traffic patterns and private cars intruding on the
Edited image of Santa Monica staff slides as presented to the City Council. nearby residential streets and parking. Some perceived fault with the city’s processes prioritizing big money interests over small
property owners and renters enjoying their accustomed small town benefits. P. M. wrote, “City survey polling
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City Council ignored local resident comments and there’s no traffic studies to back it up. Yet again, residents come after
ArgonautNews.com business interests.” S. G. wrote, “The re-routing of vehicles into the local residential neighborhood is neither family nor eco-friendly. What’s portrayed as a neighborhood grass-roots movement is, in fact, astro-turf.” D added, “If SM doesn’t want people to have cars, then why are there so many car lots? What about that huge Tesla charging station? Cars are not going away. How many households in Santa Monica have multiple vehicles in their driveways? All this will do is push the cars to other streets.” R. S. reminded us that we should not forget less enabled pedestrians: “I don’t have much faith in this pilot in the way the city is run. Example: the horrible scooters — no enforcement. I am disabled and the riders in my neighborhood are visitors and tourists. I have been almost hit on numerous occasions and scooters are left in the middle of the sidewalk to trip us.” B. N. said, “The city and OPA have failed to include in both conceiving and planning the Main Street pilot residents who will be most severely impacted
by a surge of overflow traffic, parking, and late night party types into their neighborhoods. Closing a primary north-south artery through a residential community is reckless.” W. H. satirically offered, “Perhaps the city should just give the $70,000 of LA Metro money to the half dozen bars and restaurants that are involved and save everyone a lot of trouble.” The $70,000 is the city’s contribution toward funding this experiment. M. G., a nearby Ocean Park resident who has a long history of intelligent volunteerism, pointed out another concern: “It is striking to see the difference between the professional planning for revitalizing the 3rd St Promenade and the Main Street plan. I am also concerned with what may have to be cut given the inadequate budget for 4 weekends.” (The pilot plan’s organizers hope to get additional funding from other sources, with the Main Street businesses making their sizable contributions — additional funds will certainly be required to support the pilot in delivering the data it promises.)
Many other contributors painted positive pictures of possibilities a successful experiment might present: S. B. offered: “Go anywhere in Europe to see lots and lots of car-free plazas, mews, lanes, promenades, esplanades, beer gardens, etc. They are wonderful to spend time in, shop in, dine in, meet friends in, read a book (or write one!) in, daydream in, etc. Honestly, I have never understood how anyone in LA would be willing to sit on a sidewalk with all the fumes, noise, brake dust, etc., and pretend they are ‘dining al fresco’.” J. J. added, “I think the outdoor dining is a welcome addition, with and without the pandemic. I hope it stays. California weather is perfect for adding more sidewalk cafes. I would be surprised if bars and restaurants were finding issue with the additional capacity — considering all of the losses due to the pandemic.” P. B. shared, “I’m enjoying and feeling safer outside dining. I also think we need to support the restaurants so they can stay afloat.”
S. B. also wrote, “I am ecstatic to see the neighborhood and the city embrace this pilot. “Sharing the Streets” is a perfect way for Ocean Park to celebrate coming out of Covid and is a tremendous opportunity for us to collectively test out a new way to experience the Main St.” Another line of concern was that the potential benefits of this pilot would accrue only to the alcoholserving sit-down restaurants to the disadvantage of the other merchants, as well as the trafficplagued nearby residents. Long-time Main Street business owner S. B. lamented, “My front windows are my best advertisement. If the street is closed [to traffic], I lose the advantage of tourists driving to the area. Retailers have forfeited significant on-street parking to help outdoor dining.” (Her front windows are my Main Street favorites and I always pause and study the interesting objects on display during my Main Street walks.) H.H., a proponent of parklet outdoor seating since 2015, defended the pilot: “This is not about ‘selling a few more beers’. It’s about piloting a better way of
managing neighborhood-commercial districts where residents and businesses work together to plan for the future.” M.M., the major OPA spark plug of this effort, offered this closing remark: “I am ecstatic to see the neighborhood and the city embrace this pilot. ‘Sharing the Streets’ is a perfect way for Ocean Park to celebrate coming out of Covid and is a tremendous opportunity for us to collectively test out a new way to experience Main Street. Long-term, I envision a more pedestrianfriendly Main Street and this is an exciting first step in that journey!” 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 kkirk@ timespublications.com.
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By Kamala Kirk Traditional Japanese cuisine, known as washoku, consists of various dishes that feature seasonal ingredients, well-balanced flavors and beautiful aesthetics. Imari is a new culinary concept from restaurateur Philip Camino and Camino Industries (The Hudson, Fellow, Earthbar) that is rooted in authenticity and serves washoku, using only the finest and freshest ingredients available. Renowned chefs and esteemed Japanese cuisine experts, Derek Wilcox and David Schlosser, are at the helm of Imari’s culinary program. Wilcox is formerly of Shoji, NYC’s celebrated sushi and kaiseki restaurant, while Japanese Cuisine Goodwill Ambassador David Schlosser, is also of Michelin-starred Shibumi in Downtown Los Angeles. Prior to its full official dine-in opening in Brentwood on July 11, Imari is offering a selection of three sashimi bento boxes that are available in limited quantities from 5 to 8:30 p.m.
on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and 5 to 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays for pick-up or delivery across the Westside via Tock, Postmates, DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber Eats. For the sashimi bento boxes, Imari imports fresh seasonal seafood from Japan, which is flown to Los Angeles International Airport and delivered directly to Imari. The bento boxes include albacore, salmon, New Zealand tai sea bream, and more. The pickles for each bento box are made in-house in small batches, and Japanese salt is used, along with water from a special water system the restaurant installed that recreates the pH and salinity found in Japan’s water. Imari also utilizes the local bounty of seafood and produce in Southern California. “The core ethos of Imari is authenticity,” said owner Philip Camino. “Chefs Derek Wilcox and David Schlosser have impeccable training at some of Japan’s most celebrated Michelin-rated restaurants.
We’re thrilled for our guests to experience the bento boxes, as well as the full menu and exquisite omakase dining experiences to come. Our world-class team here at Camino Industries is very excited to deliver this truly unique Japanese concept to Los Angeles.” For more information and to order, visit imari-la.com Bento Box Menu • Saga Sho ($24) salmon, albacore, New Zealand tai sea bream, cucumber, takuan pickle, pickled ginger • The Arita ($36) salmon, albacore, New Zealand tai sea bream, tilefish, egg omelet, cucumber, takuan pickle, pickled ginger • The Imari ($48) salmon, albacore, New Zealand tai sea bream, tilefish, uni, egg omelet, cucumber, takuan pickle, pickled ginger, rakkyo, umeboshi
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Spreading the Love for LA Viva LA’s recent launch event in Venice was a big success
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flags, tees and joy to our fellow Angelenos – each event was absolutely unique and perfectly reflected the local vibe. By far the highlight of the weekend was the hour we spent at the Venice Skate Park getting to know some of the skaters. Two of the most well-known skaters at the park that day took time to pose for a show-stopping photo to show their support for the people and city of LA.” On June 13, Viva LA gave away Pride flags at The Abbey in West Hollywood to show their support for the LGBTQ community. They look forward to hosting more events in the future, and continuing to connect with Angelenos and visitors alike. “After such a long and lonely lockdown, ‘Viva LA’ is so much more than just a phrase or an icon,” Mitman said. “It’s a feeling, an energy, an unspoken bond we can share with a stranger or new friend. We didn’t know any of the people we met over Memorial Day weekend, but even after just a few minutes together, we had our love of LA and Viva LA in common.” Mitman added, “Viva LA was created to give everyone who lives in or loves LA something in common as a starting point to build our local and overall civic pride, and reinforce that although we may not know them, Angelenos on the other side of town are just like us. We’re all just doing the best we can. Viva LA is still just getting off the ground, but it’s clear that Angelenos are ready to have something in common. Viva LA!” Visit vivala.us and follow on Instagram @vivalaofficial
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By Kamala Kirk Over Memorial Day weekend, Viva LA hosted a series of special events across Los Angeles to celebrate the launch of its 10,000 Flags Project and new line of apparel and accessories. Viva LA is a brand that was created by renowned LA artist Andre Miripolsky and entrepreneur Christian Mitman of BIX Art Group with a team of world-class artists to celebrate LA’s diversity and creativity. “Over the three amazing days we met bikers, bankers, porn stars, lawyers, art dealers, skaters, comedians, accountants, artists and so many more,” Mitman said. “It was almost overwhelming, but when the message is one of hope, joy and pride, then somehow you can’t get enough! Getting out and introducing Viva LA to so many types of Angelenos in different parts of the city has shown me two universal truths about the amazing people of LA: no matter where you go, we are all Angelenos and we all love this city; and Angelenos love having an icon to call their own, created to celebrate them and their city.” On May 31, Viva LA gave away limited-edition apparel in Venice Beach and provided Viva LA Venice Beach flags to retailers on Abbot Kinney Boulevard. They hosted similar events on May 29 in DTLA’s Grand Central Market and May 30 in Hollywood at the entrance to Runyon Canyon. “All three events were fantastic,” Mitman shared. “As we all know, every area of LA has its own unique personality, so although each event was programmatically similar (giving away Viva LA
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coordinate and complete a community Soni, Oisin Whitebloom and Jack Zemke. Whitebloom and Zemke are service project that demonstrates seniors at SMHS, while Brian, Jacob and significant leadership abilities. Each of the Scouts being honored led a major Soni are juniors at SMHS. Bartley is a junior at New West Charter High School project to improve the quality of life of and Chen is a senior at Geffen Academy people in the community, and all projects included many hours of planUCLA. ning and manual labor by Troup 2 Whitebloom shared one of his favorite Scouts working under the direction of aspects of Scouting: “I think the best the Eagle candidates. part of Scouting was beginning the day “In a really general sense, it’s leaderin the Lincoln Middle School gym…and ending the day completely out in the wil- ship,” Chen said. “Leadership being to derness, away from technology, and learn how to cooperate and take orders looking at the stars.” from someone else, essentially. Being Chen added, “I think it’s something that patrol leader was one of the most has affected me, but I don’t consciously difficult years in Scouting that I’ve had. think about it. I think Scouting has led Trying to keep everyone organized and me to think about what it means to have on task. But at the end of that experience good character. Just like the Scout Oath I became a much better leader and I was and the Motto, I’ve been thinking about able to figure out how to motivate young June 2021 Troop 2 Eagle Scout candidates Connor Chen, Arjun Soni, that throughout my time as a Scout. And Scouts.” Dakota James Bartley and Oisin Whitebloom, Scoutmaster Dr. Steve I’ve thought about what it means to be Zemke added, “You have to do things Marcy, and Eagle Scout candidates Brian Kim, Jack Zemke and Jake Kim. self-reliant, and being prepared, and on your own. Nobody’s going to get it having a good outlook on things.” done for you…it gave me a huge upper By Kamala Kirk States, and in its 74-year history, Troop In addition to demonstrating proficien- hand in high school, it provides you with This month, 11 young men were 2 has awarded Eagle Scout rank to 375 cy in first aid, citizenship, camping, important skills, prepares you for life. recognized with the highest rank that individuals. The troop has traveled to swimming, emergency preparedness and Cooking skills, first aid, stuff my friends one can earn in the Scouts BSA, Scout camps and high adventure destina- other skills, Eagle candidates must that didn’t do Scouting couldn’t do.” formerly known as Boy Scouts of tions throughout the U.S., and Troop 2 America. The Eagle rank honors Scouts have saved more than 67 lives exemplary effort, leadership and service, using CPR, water rescue, first aid, and and only 6% of Scouts achieve the rank other skills and training. of Eagle. The four scouts from 2020 are Trent Four out of the 11 Scouts earned the Schroer, Nicolas Vaillancourt, Brian honor in 2020 but were unable to have a Yang and Michael Yang. Schroer and Since 2009, Goethe International Charter School (GICS) ceremony due to the pandemic. All 11 Vaillancourt are graduates of Santa has been offering a unique learning program with an internaScouts were honored at the Troop 2 Monica High School, Michael is a tional focus for students and families. Located on the campus Eagle Court of Honor on June 13 and graduate of Loyola High School, and the private ceremony was held at the Brian is a graduate of Palisades Charter of Marina Del Rey Middle School, GICS is a tuition-free indeGabrielino Tongva Springs in Los High. pendent charter school that provides a rigorous curriculum for Angeles. The seven scouts from 2021 are Dakota all students that challenges the mind and nourishes the heart. Troop 2 is one of the oldest and largest James Bartley, Connor Burton Chen, GICS is an authorized International Baccalaureate (IB) World Scout troops in the western United Brian Kim, Jacob Jong Won Kim, Arjun
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Renaissance Man Actor Will Rothhaar on his career, latest project and helping others heal
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Santa Monica resident Will Rothhaar is a longtime film, TV and theater actor who has appeared on “ER”, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Battle: Los Angeles”. By Sara Edwards Actor Will Rothhaar grew up around the excitement of theater and acting. His father was a managing director who owned a small theater in South Central Pennsylvania and his mother was an actress. Rothhaar and his brother spent a good portion of their childhood hanging out backstage, and when they were old enough to roam the theater on their own, they would spend free time with actors during cigarette breaks and costume changes. “The one thing that was really great about having parents who
were actors was wanting to get into it myself,” Rothhaar said. “My parents understood, they were never stage parents and didn’t push me to do anything I didn’t want to do.” Rothhaar began acting at the age of four and his first role was in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” a play directed by his father in 1991. The experience made him want to keep going and pursue an acting career. In the 1990s, Rothhaar and his family moved to Santa Monica to further their acting careers. While he continued to book auditions and land roles, his
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parents made sure that he still had a normal childhood by setting boundaries like not signing him up for recurring roles until he graduated from high school. They also regularly checked in with Rothhaar to make sure he wasn’t burnt out from the pressures of acting and auditioning. Rothhaar said that his parents wanted him to get a good education in school and they didn’t want him growing up on a set. “My mom and dad would check in with me and ask if I still wanted to be an actor when
I was having a rough period, they understood the heartbreaking part of the business because they were actors themselves,” Rothhaar said. “I really appreciated the fact that my parents stressed the importance of me wanting to just be as normal as possible.” After graduating from high school, Rothhaar continued his acting career, appearing in multiple TV shows including “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “ER” and “Grimm.” He also received The Hollywood Reporter’s YoungStar Award in Theater, which honors young actors and actresses between the ages of 6 and 18, for his role as John in David Mamet’s “The Cryptogram’’ at the Geffen Playhouse. In 2013, Rothhaar played Lee Harvey Oswald in the National Geographic film “Killing Kennedy” and Cpl. Lee Imlay in the 2011 movie “Battle: Los Angeles.” He is most known for playing the antagonists and bad guys in films and TV. While Rothhaar said he’s excited to play any character role he gets, playing the bad guys are some of his favorites because the roles require stepping into a different mindset and behavioral attitude. Rothhaar said that while he was preparing to play the role of Lee Harvey Oswald, he went down rabbit holes of research, history documentaries, books and movies to truly understand Oswald’s demeanor and attitude so that he could properly portray him. “You’ll hear any actor say that playing the villain is the most fun and better than the hero because you get to be dark, creepy, weird and fun,” Rothhaar said. Rothhaar recently starred in a new dramatic horror film “Ghostlight”, where he plays a creepy, charismatic con artist who puts on a play in an effort to impress a fellow actor preparing to leave town. “My character, Joseph Watson, is a total opportunist with a fake it ‘till you make it attitude,” Rothhaar said. “He gets this idea to rent a haunted theater where some things have gone down in the past.” As opening night approaches, Watson goes on a revenge spree and uses the haunting spirit of the theater to back up his actions and plans. Rothhaar said he gets inspiration from
following and observing people in their daily lives before turning into what he called a “bubbling beneath the surface” psychopath. “Things start to get really weird, dark and bloody,” Rothhaar said. “It’s a really cool piece. If you’re into scary movies, this is the one to check out.” Rothhaar said much of the movie was filmed through the pandemic. But before he had signed on to do the film, he started thinking about what he would do if things didn’t return to normal, especially in the film and media industry. “I was trying to put into perspective for myself like, what’s something I could do to make money that also makes me feel most fulfilled? And to me, that’s when I get to be of service to people,” Rothhaar said. “I just started going down this rabbit hole of what I could do as a healer, so I got my certification in Reiki energy work.” Rothhaar has been working in active meditation since 2011, and after receiving his certification, he opened his own healing practice, Puzzle Peace Healing, last July. He offers Reiki healing, trigger point body work and general life coaching. “The pandemic threw a wrench in everything, but it lit a fire for me to explore all things life has to offer and then come back to the thing I love the most as well,” Rothhaar said. “Acting and I have had a tumultuous relationship the past five years so I pivoted a little bit.” Rothhaar still lives in Santa Monica and has no plans to leave. Over the years he has lived in other parts of Los Angeles, but something always brought him back to Santa Monica. His mom still lives in the apartment he grew up in, and he said there’s something about driving around and being in Santa Monica that feels like an embrace from the town itself. “I’ve been all over the world and it’s just always nice to come back here,” Rothhaar said. “I lived in Venice and Marina del Rey, but there’s just a vibe in Santa Monica that’s different from the rest of LA that keeps bringing me back.” “Ghostlight” is available on iTunes and most streaming and digital platforms. For more information about Puzzle Peace Healing, visit puzzlepeacehealing.com
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Sunrise, Sunset The Braid shines a light on Persian American stories COURTESY OF THE BRAID
By Bridgette M. Redman The Braid in Santa Monica, formerly known as The Jewish Women’s Theatre, is committed to authentic storytelling. It is why, when they returned to share stories of second-generation Iranian Americans after a successful run nine years ago of first-generation stories, they turned to the community to curate and perform the stories. “Persian Sunrise, American Sunset” focuses on Iranian Americans who were born in the United States and who sometimes clash with the older generation with whom they diverge culturally even while respecting their wisdom and experience. The previous show, “Saffron and Rosewater,” focused on Iranian Jewish women. This production opened the storytelling to reflect a greater portion of the community including non-Jews and men. Co-producing the show are Ora Yashar, a Jewish Iranian American woman who has worked as a literary consultant for The Braid, and Ronda Spinak, the theater’s artistic director. “I really wanted it to be a show for Iranians of all backgrounds,” Yashar said. “I just find in general that our stories are so seldom told, I thought it would be really nice to have an event that brought everyone in the community together. It is an opportunity for us to have more empathy, but also for people outside the community to have a better understanding of us and our experience in the U.S.” Yashar remarked that, when she was growing up, she had Iranian friends of all backgrounds and never felt a division of Jewish vs. Muslim. She wanted the show to reflect that, even while acknowledging that wasn’t always the case for everyone. Spinak originally said the Persian members of their emerging artist program had identity issues than that of the first generation and she wanted to tell those stories. She brought Yashar on board and asked her to co-produce the project. “Ora impressed me with her keen eye with respect to editing and adapting stories in The Braid’s style of theater/storytelling,” Spinak said.
“Persian Sunrise, American Sunset” consists of live-on-Zoom performances that will take place between June 19 and June 28, and the stories will be performed by Niloo Khodadadeh, Ava Lalezarzadeh and Nima Jafari. Yashar went out into her community — and reached out on social media — to find stories from her peers. She hoped for stories that stepped beyond stereotypes so often portrayed that Iranian Americans, particularly women, are either terrorists or the exotic Princess Jasmine type. Looking for stories that elicited emotional responses, they received 30 stories. They narrowed those down to 10. “These stories took us on a journey where the character learned something or this new generation reconciled the different parts of their identity,” Yashar said. “We also really wanted diversity in perspective, so no two stories were saying the same thing.” The stories include such tales as a gay man having to make end-of-life decisions for a mother who never accepted him; a woman observing how her father couldn’t shed his paranoia and distrust of strangers because of the horrors he faced in Iran from religious fanatics; the challenges a teenager faces in trying to be normal while her family sees her behaviors as impure, among others. “It will be clear that Iranians come from all different backgrounds,” Yashar said. “It was
important that the Iranian community be able to see themselves. It is also important for non-Iranians to know how a lot of times we do feel — or can be made to feel — like an outsider or the other. There is this constant struggle of balancing these different parts of our identity. In the mainstream media, we’re either demonized or portrayed as being more exotic for entertainment purposes. I wanted to show the humanity and complexity of Iranian American people and get past the stereotypes.” Director Susan Morgenstern said the pairing of Yasar and Spinak was a dream match that created a compelling show. “The two of them work so beautifully together and this show reflects both of their artistic sensibilities,” Morgenstern said. “Ora has a keen eye for what makes a good story.” As someone whose first encounter with The Braid was at Spinak’s invitation to see “Saffron and Rosewater,” Morgenstern has high praise for Spinak’s leadership. “Ora and I get to do this beautiful work because of her,” Morgenstern said. “It all starts from her. Both Ora and I love working with Ronda. It starts at the top with an organization
bringing a great message and empowering people to tell stories like this.” Morgenstern said they have leaned heavily on Yashar in every aspect of the production because she is able to keep them walking the line of authenticity. The show was cast entirely with Iranian American actors out of the need to be genuine. “That brings a truthfulness and authenticity with the point-ofview storytelling we do, rather than having other actors imagine themselves as Iranian,” Morgenstern said. “I’m from a generation where people would pretend to be from other cultures and that was accepted and can still be accepted, but I really like that we are now laser focused on the authentic point of view, the authentic people telling the stories and singing the songs.” Morgenstern found actors in the community, two had worked with The Braid before and two had not. She praised them all as being fantastic actors who bring fresh voices to The Braid, and that two of them are incredible professional musicians. Those two will sing throughout the show, including a piece in both Farsi and English. Cast members include Asal Akhondzadeh, Niloo Khodadadeh, Ava Lalezarzadeh and Nima Jafari.
In addition to leaning heavily on Yashar for cultural interpretation, Morgenstern said she turns to the actors who bring their Iranian experience to the table. She said it helps that they have shared experiences. “That is how you know you’re on the right track — when the actor feels personally connected to it,” Morgenstern said. Yashar expressed a similar affinity to the works, wishing she could have included many more than 10 because they were so beautiful and candid. “It was so nice to see things that I have felt to a degree throughout my life verbalized and written out in such beautifully poetic ways,” Yashar said. “It was validating for me. I’m not the only one who thinks these things or feels these ways.”
The Braid Theater’s “Persian Sunrise, American Sunset” WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday, June 20; 11 a.m. Sunday, June 24; 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, June 25 WHERE: Zoom COST: Tickets start at $10 INFO: the-braid.org/psas
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Lonely Icebergs Exhibition’s meaning transforms with new pandemic-informed world IMAGES COURTESY OF LUCIANA ABAIT
By Bridgette M. Redman The story an artist tells with her work is rarely finite. It changes and morphs with time in the eyes of those who see it. Luciana Abait’s “Letter to the Future” exhibition at the LAX Airport Terminal 7 Gallery underwent one of these transformations, telling one story before the pandemic and another afterward, without her changing a single brush stroke or frame. The exhibition is part of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the Los Angeles World Airport (LAWA) Art Program. At noon on Wednesday, June 23, Abait and LAX art program director Sarah Cifarelli will conduct a walkthrough of and conversation about the artist’s vision about the future of the planet. Abait, who has shown her work internationally and in Los Angeles, is a resident artist of 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica. Born in Buenos Aires, she is now based in LA, where she does photo-based work on climate change, environmental fragility and their effects on immigration. The solo exhibition, “A Letter to the Future,” is on display through June 30. In 2018 and 2019, Abait developed the works for the show, a series featuring icebergs and designed to raise awareness about environmental issues, immigration and migration forced by climate change. “When I originally started developing my iceberg series, I
Artist Luciana Abait’s current exhibition, “A Letter to the Future,” is installed at LAX’s Terminal 7 as part of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and Los Angeles World Airport’s art program. was thinking of two things,” Abait said. “I’ve always worked with environmental issues and creating works that depict nature, and I’ve always had some human element invading this natural environment.” The exhibit opened in November 2019, but soon had to close because of the pandemic
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lockdown. Almost immediately, these scenes of loneliness and isolation took on new meaning. “The desolation and isolation portrayed in these artworks becomes not only a burden shouldered by those who have immigrated, but now by all of humanity, since we all have become as isolated as icebergs, locked down in solitude inside our homes,” Abait said. “The virus has spread so fast through our global community. I have come to realize that COVID-19 has changed the world that we all knew, and the way we interact, forever. We will all be immigrants in our own shared new world.” In Summer 2017, Abait read a news article about an iceberg in Antarctica that had broken off and was drifting aimlessly in the ocean. “I found that very poetic, and something very appealing,” Abait said. “That was how my iceberg series started — that piece of iceberg floating endlessly on the ocean.” She experimented with iceberg images and used them to create
fantastical surreal worlds with skies of deep, unexpected colors and bits of human invasion on each iceberg. Abait, who immigrated from Argentina in the 1990s, said she pictured herself as that piece of ice. “That sense of isolation that is this lonely piece of iceberg — I could not only relate it to myself, but also to anyone who has gone through an immigration process,” Abait said. She started laying the pieces together, creating several images that she knew would be shown in the Terminal 7 gallery. She said the series was personal as much as it was environmental. “I was able to put all these things together in this iceberg series in a poetic manner,” Abait said. “People see these beautiful, colorful and attractive artworks. At first glance, they might think it is a beautiful landscape, but as you start looking at it and observing it, there are all these layers of meanings and interpretations. You start to discover little clues to what is going on.”
LAX, she pointed out, went from being one of the most inhabited places on Earth before the pandemic to one of the most isolated places on Earth. Once travelers returned LAX, they told Abait that these icebergs represented everyone because we’ve all been isolated and locked down. “My new realization is that life after COVID we are all immigrants in a new world,” Abait said. “All our worlds have changed, and we have to adapt to a new world. That is the new meaning of the exhibition. The loneliness applies to everyone.” Each iceberg piece is a photo-based manipulated landscape that incorporates frosty and inhospitable terrains. She brings in supernatural colors and fragments of civilization — such as theater seats, a Ferris wheel, billboards — to produce a surreal dream landscape. The digital photo collages are made using photographs Abait snapped in the California mountains and other trips. She then combined them with photographs she’s collected from places like Iceland and Alaska, as well as encyclopedias and magazines. Abait’s background is in painting. Even though she works with photography, she said she “always uses the surface in a painterly manner. The works blur the boundary of photograph and painting and drawing. When you look at my works, it’s not a clearly defined photograph, it’s more like a painting and drawing because of the way I treat the surface.” Abait prints her photographs on a cotton matte and then mounts them on wood panels. She works over the surface of the printed photo with soft pastels and pencils. “It’s a new technique I started developing with this iceberg series,” Abait said. “The combination of an image printed on cotton paper and soft pastels applied over it creates a beautiful velvet surface, something soft and unique. The big black skies look very intense, beautiful and deep.” The first two pieces she created were “Seats” and “Wheel.” Both have a black sky pierced by the iceberg. In the first, you see empty red theater seats. In the
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second, a lonely Ferris wheel. “They are post-apocalyptic pieces in a way,” Abait said. “Those pieces look like what we’ve been living through — theater seats that are empty and Ferris wheels that are empty. It is something we would never have thought we’d see in our lives and somehow this is our new reality. It doesn’t look so surreal anymore. It’s real. When I was creating it, that was so sci-fi, something out of this world and it somehow became reality in a few months.” “A Letter to the Future” is only the second exhibition to be shown in the new Terminal 7 gallery. She designed it with the venue in mind. “It’s a beautiful space,” Abait said. “It’s very open and very airy. It has these beautiful skylights; the walls are big. It’s like a museum-style exhibition space.” Because the space was so monumental, Abait wanted to create something that would create a visual impact. She started by creating pieces with very dark skies in deep blues and blacks. While she was really drawn to them, she realized that she couldn’t just continue creating the dark skies because people who were going to the gallery would then be getting on a plane. “I have to create a balance between darkness and light,” Abait said. “All my pieces can’t be so post-apocalyptic. That is not the mood you want to have when you get on a plane.” She said she envisioned herself as a passenger on a plane and created skies in pinks, yellows, oranges and bright blues. “I think it creates a really beautiful balance and voyage from one mood to the other,” Abait said. The exhibition title takes its name from another article Abait read. In 2014, the glacier Okjokull in Iceland melted, making it the first glacier lost to climate change. In 2019, scientists erected a plaque in Iceland to memorialize its demise. The plaque is inscribed with text by Icelandic writer Andri Snaer Magnason titled “A Letter to the Future.” It reads: “In the next 200 years, all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.” lawa.org, lucianaabait.com
The exhibition imagines a vast and elemental universe where all humans are immigrants in an unknown new world still challenged by the precarious state of our collective health and our beautiful natural environment.
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Thursday, June 17 USGBC-LA Thought Leadership Series: Reducing California’s Wildfire Risk, 2 p.m. Every year, California faces major wildfires that are catastrophic to the environment and put our community and wildlife in danger. This mini-conference from the US Green Building Council-LA will offer free virtual tours and practical panels to learn more about proper preparedness, processes and action you can take to make your home and community safer from wildfires. It will also feature the CA Insurance Commissioner and others offering guidance for you from the state level. It is free to attend but registration is required. For more information, visit usgbc-la.org
Friday, June 18 Free COVID Vaccinations at West Los Angeles College, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. The community is invited to get a free COVID-19 vaccination between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. at West Los Angeles College. Enter the college on the north side at Jefferson Boulevard. Drive-ins and walk-ins are welcome. Bus riders can reach the entrance on the Culver City Green Bus #4, which also stops at the Westfield Culver City Mall and the Metro Station at La Cienega and Jefferson. Guests are asked to wear facemasks and observe social distancing. Vaccinations will be administered by Kedren Health on campus on College Boulevard. Vaccinations are completely free. No photo ID, insurance or appointment required. Recipients must be at
On June 19 from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 pm., RUNWAY Playa Vista is hosting its first Makers Market with Creative Communal, which will include photo ops, family fun, live music, local artisans and more. least 12 years old. 10100 Jefferson Blvd, Culver City. For more information, contact Kedren Health at kedren.org Marina Drive-In Movies, Fridays & Saturdays 8 p.m. Marina Drive-In Movies returns for a summer series in mid-June through early September. Gather with your family and friends to watch movies on the big screen by the sea in Marina del Rey. Order food from gourmet food trucks on-site or bring your own COURTESY OF SANTA MONICA PUBLIC LIBRARY
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food and drinks. Movies will play every Friday and Saturday night at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 per car and parking is first-come, first-served. Marina del Rey Lot 2/Boat Launch at 13477 Fiji Way. To view the movie lineup, visit mdrmovies.com
Saturday, June 19 Marina del Rey Farmers Market, 8 to 9 a.m. (seniors), 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (general public) This weekly outdoor event allows Westside residents to support local produce sellers and other vendors. Food from a wide variety of businesses is available for purchase. Masks are required and only 40 people are allowed to shop at any one time. Held in parking lot 11 at 14101 Panay Way. More information is available at beaches.lacounty.gov/ mdrfarmersmarket Creative Communal, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Join RUNWAY for its first Makers Market with Creative Communal! They’ll have photo ops, family fun, live music and local artisans. The pet-friendly and kid-friendly event will include live music by The Honey Trio, as well as a performance by
Disney character, Moana. Free admission. RUNWAY Playa Vista, 12746 W. Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles “Dream Together” in Mar Vista, 3 to 9 p.m. In honor of Juneteenth, coldhands.life presents “Dream Together” to honor a dream held by one great man. The event will celebrate the diversity of artists in the West LA community, including a Black women-led roller skate jam. Ages 25 and older. No cover with RSVP to @ coldhands.life 12553 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles
Sunday, June 20 Santa Monica Main Street Farmers Market, 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Shop for local fresh produce and prepared foods from local restaurants starting at 2640 Main Street. You can also enjoy musical entertainment from featured weekly bands, face painting, balloon designs, and if you catch it on the right week, a cooking demonstration featuring local produce. Mar Vista Farmers Market, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. This vibrant, year-round market offers local produce, prepared
foods, kids crafts and live events. Located at 12198 Venice Blvd., Grand View at Venice Boulevard. For more information, visit marvistafarmersmarket.org
Tuesday, June 22 Eddie R. Cole Speaks on The Campus Color Line, 7 p.m. The Santa Monica Public Library welcomes professor Eddie R. Cole for an online presentation on his recent Princeton University Press book “The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom.” Each of its seven chapters recounts how a different college president dealt with a different issue raised by the Civil Rights Movement, from free speech for student protestors and controversial campus speakers, to supporting students arrested as Freedom Riders, to affirmative action. Dr. Cole will take questions about his talk. The event is free, open to the public and will be held on Zoom. Please register in advance at bit.ly/3lpmycO For more information, call 310-458-8600 or email reference@smgov.net
Wednesday, June 23 Sandra Tsing Loh’s “The B**** Is Back: An All Too Intimate Evening”, June 23-30 Relive the hilarity in prizewinning author and NPR commentator Sandra Tsing Loh’s “The B**** Is Back: An All-Too Intimate Evening”, a 70-minute comic romp on the topic of menopause. This special ondemand video captures her 2015 solo comedy masterpiece, performed in The Edye and infused with Loh’s trademark honesty, candid voice and laugh-out-loud humor. By getting a ticket to watch the show you’ll receive Zoom links to attend special Happy Hours hosted by Loh and special guests! Tickets start at $10 on a pay-what-youwish scale. Free to members of The Broad Stage, For more information and tickets, visit thebroadstage.org
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LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE “IT TAKES TWO” By MARGARET WOODRUFF ACROSS 1 Daffy Duck feature 5 Throws, as the shot 9 Real grind 13 Second most populous city in the Dakotas 18 Chip in a chip 19 Brand with a wasabi-flavored variety in China 20 Necklacefastening site 21 Most of the Earth’s surface 22 *Extra 25 Brought up 27 Paint fight sounds 28 Corned beef concoction 29 Latte maker 30 31-Across prefix 31 Cruise stopover 32 *Bad 34 Since 36 Small island 38 Afore 39 Make out, in Manchester 40 *Liar 45 Attends to 47 In an absurd fashion 48 Popular roller coaster name 50 Squatters build them 55 Saucy 56 Big Apple designer initials 58 Choice words? 59 Some campus coaches 60 Messy room metaphor 61 Bakery output 62 Plot size 64 Intellectual 65 *Hail 68 Apollo and Artemis 71 System developed at Bell Labs 72 Get rid of 73 Banned pesticide
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LEAVE ACTUALLY I broke up with a guy I dated very briefly and said it’d be best for me if we didn’t maintain contact. He respected this for a while, but he’s suddenly all over my social media, not just “liking” but often “loving” my posts. I hate being led to think about him. Is there a kind way to ask him to stop? — Creeped Out Sometimes a person fails to grasp that “It’s best we don’t maintain contact” means “Go away forever, human stain.” You’re being “orbited,” culture reporter Anna Iovine’s word for when an ex lurks on your social media posts: showing up as one of your “story viewers” on Instagram or liking your tweets or Facebook posts. This sounds benign, but orbiting is a form of stalking. Stalking is a confusing term because the behavior involved isn’t always considered criminal. The U.S. Department of Justice defines stalking as “engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for his or her safety or the safety of others or suffer substantial emotional distress.” Laws against stalking vary across states, but causing fear in the victim is typically essential for stalking to be a crime. Outside the criminal sphere, stalking is sometimes referred to by researchers as “unwanted persistent pursuit”: repeated behavior that bothers or distresses the victim, often sucking their time and attention, and creeping them out. Noncriminal stalking like this can escalate to the criminal kind – and can turn deadly, reports evolutionary psychologist David Buss in his new book, “When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault.” Though stalkers are usually male, Buss acknowledges that women become stalkers, too. An infamous female stalker is former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak – a case you might remember not so much for the crime but for the diapers. In 2007, Nowak drove from Houston to Orlando wearing an adult diaper to avoid being slowed down by bathroom stops. She was off to confront (and possibly kidnap and harm) Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman, the slim, pretty blonde 10 years her junior whom NASA astronaut Bill Oefelein had dumped her for a few weeks prior. Gwendolyn Knapp, in Houstonia magazine, reports that Nowak was seen in surveillance video disguised in a black wig and hat following Shipman around the
Orlando airport for three hours – before attacking her with pepper spray in the parking lot. Shipman told “Inside Edition” in 2017: “I ... still have anxiety,” and media reports often claim stalking is motivated by a desire to cause fear. However, making a victim afraid as the ultimate motivation for romantic stalking makes little sense (save for the few sadists in the population who get off on causing pain). Research by evolutionary psychologist Joshua Duntley and Buss suggests romantic stalking is a form of “mate guarding”: evolved tactics – from coercion to showering affection to gift-giving – used to keep one’s romantic partner from bolting or being poached. Understanding, as Buss explains, that a “key goal” of romantic stalkers is to “reunite with the (former) partner” sheds light on your situation. You might be tempted to minimize the guy’s behavior because it’s happening in the virtual world. However, stalkers aren’t just exes hiding in your bushes with binoculars. It’s stalking just the same when somebody’s sitting in the bushes on social media, watching your life and signaling their unwillingness to accept your “no contact” terms by posting “likes” they know you’ll see. The message: “Here I am, refusing to leave you, but in a way you’d probably feel dumb complaining about!” Sure, you could politely but firmly tell him to stop – “I’d prefer that you not post anything on my social media” – and explain why you need this. However, Buss writes that one of the strategies stalking experts most frequently recommend is “ceasing all contact with the stalker.” Because you’re being cyberstalked, the ideal way to do this is blocking him on all your social media. Say nothing. Just block. Buss also advises you consider taking your accounts private for a while or “staying off social media as much as possible.” If contact escalates, shore up security in your home with locks, motion sensor lights and video surveillance; document all contact; and notify the police. Blocking without explanation might seem unkind and perhaps a little paranoid. However, Buss explains that “stalkers often construe any interaction” with the person they’re pursuing “as rewarding,” even if it’s negative. “Reasoning and logic rarely work. They give the stalker hope that the romantic relationship can be renewed.” And this could lead to situations you’d surely like to avoid. As the romantic cliche goes, “You’ll find love when you’re not looking for it” – like when it breaks in and stands over your bed, watching you sleep.
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How to Get Ready for an Open House as a Seller For the past year, open houses weren’t really happening throughout most of the country because of the pandemic. Now that vaccines are available and slowly, the country is starting to return to a sense of normalcy, there may be an uptick in open houses. These events might look a little different. For example, there might be fewer people and more social distancing, but regardless, the concept is the same. As a seller, you want your home to look beautiful and appealing to possible buyers. So what can you do to make your home stand out?
Talk to Your Real Estate Agent Your best source of information as far as what you need to do to make your home picture-perfect will come from your real estate agent. Have them go through and suggest things you can do in the weeks leading up to your first open house. They might have some low-cost tips that can make a big impact. Your real estate agent can also work with you on staging.
De-Clutter Everything
Organize
Real estate professionals will tell you that one of the most important things to do before you put your home on the market, or at least before any prospective buyers see it, is de-clutter.
Once you’ve de-cluttered, you can start the process of organizing. You want every nook and cranny of your home to be organized before an open house because people are going to be looking everywhere.
Clutter is distracting and overwhelming. It makes your home feel too personal to you, so buyers can’t envision themselves there, and it covers up the features of the home that might be attractive to buyers.
You want your home to be a relaxing oasis where buyers can easily envision themselves, and if things aren’t organized, they’re going to feel stressed out and distracted.
You should spend at least a weekend de-cluttering your entire home.
After you’ve de-cluttered, de-personalized, and organized, it’s time to start cleaning. Try to go through your home with a fresh set of eyes, and think about what you would want to see as a buyer.
Don’t just shove things in closets because these are places people are going to look. Instead, you should throw away, sell or donate items you don’t need anymore. The upside of this, in addition to making your home look better, is that it’ll be easier on you when you move. When you’re de-cluttering, go ahead and remove most of your personal items. You can store these elsewhere while your home is on the market. You might, for example, get rid of your family photos. You want potential buyers to experience a clean slate when they walk into your house.
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You might even want to hire professionals to come in and do a thorough cleaning of your house from top to bottom when you first put it on the market, and then you can maintain it from there. Clean the baseboards and trim, door handles, walls, floors, and every surface. You want your home to feel spotless as soon as people walk in. When you deep clean, make sure you identify any sources of odors and eliminate them.
Your goal should be a light and bright home, so while you’re deep cleaning, you might want to take any heavy window coverings off and wash your windows on the inside and outside as well.
Don’t Forget the Exterior At this point, you’re almost ready for an open house, but you can’t forget about curb appeal. Outside of your home, take many of the steps you did inside. De-clutter, organize, and clean. Make sure that your shrubs are well-trimmed and your lawn looks tidy. Wash your porch and add a new welcome mat, along with some greenery. If it needs it, give your front door a fresh coat of paint. You want buyers to feel like your home is the place for them and move-in ready as soon as they arrive at your open house. THIS WEEK’S CONTRIBUTION CAME FROM:
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