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LETTERS..................................... 5 OPINION.................................. 8 COMMUNITY............................10 EDUCATION............................. 11 FOOD & DRINK....................... 12 COVER STORY......................... 14 HEALTH..................................... 16

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Coronavirus by the numbers and local updates Compiled by Kamala Kirk Cases and deaths by neighborhood as of July 31: Culver City: 2,449 (deaths 110); Del Rey: 37 (deaths one); El Segundo: 832 (deaths six); Marina del Rey: 500 (deaths four); Mar Vista: 2,380 (deaths 37); Palms: 2,881 (deaths 61); Playa del Rey: 135 (deaths one); Playa Vista: 690 (deaths nine); Santa Monica: 5,466 (deaths 183); Venice: 2,083 (deaths 13); Westchester: 2,896 (deaths 50) Total Westside cases: 20,349 Total Westside deaths: 475

Total confirmed cases in LA County: 1,300,313 Total deaths in LA County: 24,682 Total new cases as of July 31: 3,318 Total new deaths: 11 Hospitalizations: 1,008 Positivity rate (seven-day daily average): 5.39% Total number of people tested: 7,322,927 (Source: Los Angeles County Department of Public Health)

Why and where is USPS holding our mail?

Editor: It’s been one week, July 29 and continuing to count the days since any mail has been delivered to the Tierra Del Rey Community. I am unaware if other Marina del Rey communities are experiencing the same inconvenience with the USPS. I have asked Marina Del Rey Post Office if they could help us. I was directed to the postmaster general at Venice Post Office who did not answer the phone after two days of trying. I have contacted Mike Bonin’s office and they were not aware. I then called the office of Rep. Karen Bass.

I signed and filed a complaint against the USPS for not delivering and holding our mail.

I was told by two USPS drivers that there are ... no trucks ... no drivers ... no mail. “Get used to it.” Packages are delivered, but no mail is placed in those trucks.

There is no information where the mail is being held. In the meantime, bills need to be paid, checks need to be cashed, medication needs to be taken and important correspondence is not being sent. USPS is hurting our Tierra Community.

This is unacceptable for all the residents who are not receiving their mail. I myself have Informed Delivery through the USPS to know what mail will be delivered each day, which has been none.

Even given the unprecedented times we find ourselves in this is not how a federal agency should be managed.

Leslie Clarke Marina del Rey

Responsibility shouldn’t cost so much.

Editor: A most pressing responsibility now is responding to COVID in its various deadly and otherwise destructive impacts.

Without falling into a rant about opposition to vaccination, I hope to focus some attention on how social support can make responsibility more affordable.

Let’s take the “Open Main St. Pavement to People Pilot Program’s” performance for its first experimental weekend as our example.

My strongest negative reaction to the (Continued on page 6)

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July 24 and 25 Main Street opening was how the new threat of the Delta variant was not given proper concern.

Those who’ve kept up with the science know that the Delta virus fragments multiply nearly 1,000 times as efficiently as the COVID-19 version that has already devastated the world.

They are also aware of how even a fully vaccinated person’s nose can incubate these particles efficiently.

A healthy nose can broadcast and distribute that virus wherever it goes, unless it is filtered out — preferably with a face mask — or kept as a safe social distance. Science also teaches us that the current vaccines are an effective weapon against the pandemic’s ruin, in spite of the various superstitious forces that can’t recognize that fact.

Don’t you think the organizers and architects of the Main Street Pilot Program should responsibly recognize Delta’s potential?

We can understand how all who’ve worked for a successful experiment to validate Open Street’s goals might worry that publication of Delta’s threat in

association to the experimental weekend events would deter some participants. Without enough positive response to the program, success would be jeopardized. If not enough participate, the whole deal would be a “nothing-burger.”

Behaving responsibly to the Delta threat might cost the success of so much effort and good will. “How can we reduce that cost?” is the question.

Would it kill the program to acknowledge the COVID-19 threat with strongly enforced mask mandates and offered mitigations like mask giveaways, pop-up vaccination stations and adequate social distancing?

Achieving safe social distancing could be facilitated by proper design where pedestrian traffic is directed through the spacious middle of the open street that is kept available for emergency and other necessary vehicle access. Instead, we have the sidewalk gauntlet frequently further narrowed by extra sidewalk restaurant service tables and take out customer lines.

Mask giveaways would be excellent features for promo-

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tional booths whether for OPA membership or commercial enterprises. There is enough time before next month’s experimental weekend for manufacture of printed promotional masks — whether they say “Drink Coke” or “Support Santa Monica.” Or how about some kid-sized masks with animal faces imprinted?

And the city of Santa Monica is already involved in vaccination promotion and inoculation services — certainly there would be room for these to operate on the freshly opened Main Street!

My proposal is promote “Open Streets” as a special safety aware social event where the pandemic threat is acknowledged and mitigated.

“Sure, COVID-19 is scary, but here is a place and a time where people can acknowledge that threat. A place where it is mitigated to the level where you can bring your family and safely enjoy the company of others.

This Open Street offers many of the outdoor dining, shopping and social opportunities you have missed this past year. Mask up and come on out.”

Tim Tunks Santa Monica

Why the Bonin recall matters Editor: For the first time in a long time, Councilman Mike Bonin seems to be actually responding to the acute concerns of Venice and the rest of the citizens of CD-11 in wake of moving transients off the boardwalk and bringing some sense of normalcy back to Oceanfront Walk.

As the highest paid council member in the United States, Mr. Bonin only represents some 300,000 residents but earns more than every sitting state governor, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and just about every elected municipal official across the country.

Those who represent all of California like our two senators speak for 40,000,000 people, Sheriff Alex Villanueva some 10,000,000 here in LA County alone.

But as they say, “All politics is local,” and finally we see Mr. Bonin pivoting back to the notion that this council district is a collection of diverse neighborhoods in dire need of representation that will address the issues of rampant homelessness, rising

crime and this attack on our community values and qualityof-life concerns that have been ignored for too long!

And it is this severe reaction to Bonin’s failed policies and proposals across the district that have resulted in yet a second recall effort.

For the first attempt was narrow in cause and effect as the road diets he proposed were pushed back and as Mike would say, “Reimagined!”

But it took an angry and devastating push back by residents to get Mr. Bonin to finally react and do something, anything to decrease the transient population that dominates the homeless issue to say nothing of the violence and spike in crime that came with his inability to respond and react.

For crime in Venice alone year over year has ballooned some 150% according to Pacific Division data shared by LAPD. The notion of “clean” neighborhoods has evaporated and the work to end homelessness is now stuck in the mud.

For why is Los Angeles and Venice in particular the homeless/transient capital?

Why do 50% of all homeless in CD-11 live in Venice, only outdone by the conditions downtown at Skid Row? For this hint of improvement at the boardwalk is a direct result of demands for citizen action and the hostility that Bonin has agitated and provoked through ignoring the issue and avoiding the emails and phone calls of hundreds if not thousands of constituents over the last two to three years.

His presence in Venice is nonexistent as he avoids any community meetings or gatherings and continues the cries of “NIMBY” and other rhetoric designed to confuse or mask his failures as an elected official as this recall becomes a real threat to his political future.

And once again, this recall effort is truly organic in nature, being organized by Venice locals who just want the old Venice back, minus the encampments and high crime created by Bonin himself no matter how much he tries to confuse the record.

And like any recall, this is no longer about the issues but the gathering of the signatures.

For this is now about the math.

And for every registered voter

that signs the petition is making a statement that enough is enough and that it’s time for the structural change of government at the local level.

And when this recall reaches 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 and 30,000 signatures, the political narrative will no longer be about why Mike Bonin is being recalled, but when he will be replaced and a new election held to end this term of office and bring a fresh face to city government.

For any candidate thinking about challenging Mike Bonin in 2022 is no serious candidate at all if they are not gathering signatures and ending this failed term of office right now.

For if they refuse to do the heavy lifting now, how could they be trusted to the right thing later?

For the recall is bigger and more important than anything else facing this community.

He will not resign and will fight to the bitter end, and a failed recall will be political fodder that Bonin isn’t really a terrible council member and that under it all is a hint that voters may just like Mike one last time!

And all the political operatives

and consultants seeking fat fees for a shot at Mike in 2022 must realize that a defeated recall could in fact revive and resuscitate Bonin’s political pulse in the face of his across-the-board failures which are obvious and too numerous to mention here.

Anyone serious about beating Bonin can’t take a pass or sit this recall out.

Being part of this effort demonstrates a commitment to the greater good of defeating Mike Bonin once and for all!

Standing on the sidelines and doing nothing is just unacceptable.

For the common thread in this recall is the lack of solutions proposed or initiated by Bonin on the core issues of rampant homelessness, rising crime and the quality of life robbed from all of us. Bonin himself has admitted the following: · Venice Beach and Oceanfront Walk suffers from a lack of coordinated management on his watch! · Bonin has failed to create a management structure that addresses this governmental vacuum! · Where was the “neighborhoodfriendly” evening programming

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that is obvious and undeniable, and to reward Mr. Bonin’s failed efforts by taking a pass on the recall only strengthens his political hand for reelection in 2022.

For now is the hour.

For one thing I do agree with Mike is this: this isn’t about ideology, it’s about problemsolving and his solutions just don’t work.

In fact I’ll take it a step further: it’s about doing the right thing and stop applying political best practices that do not apply.

For the recall of Mike Bonin is the logical extension to solving the problem at hand and signing that petition is the first step in delivering on a new council member who has the guts to turn around Venice and the rest of CD-11.

Nick Antonicello Venice Beach

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he promised at OFW? · Bonin created and conceived the failed Venice Forward; that has since collapsed under its own weight of bureaucratic ineffectiveness! · Where is the mental health component or strategy to Mike’s failed homeless initiatives that leave the sick on the street? · Why isn’t surplus city parcels used to strategize the housing question throughout CD-11 and cease these attempts of making Venice the reliable containment zone? · Where is the daily outreach and why does Mike reject the efforts of LA Sheriff Alex Villanueva as a willing partner to solve the crisis? Where are the rest rooms, showers and bathrooms that were promised here in Venice and across the district? · Where are the street services that were promised with Bridge Housing that never occurred? · Why has Mike Bonin tied the hands of the LAPD’s Pacific Division and why does he refuse the assistance of the LASD? For Venice and CD-11 have witnessed this steep climb in rampant homelessness and violent crime under Mike Bonin

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The Last Thing We Needed The pandemic has increased substance abuse in America

By Michael Leach The COVID-19 pandemic has increased substance abuse in America. As many feared, the virus was the last thing we needed, and it is no coincidence overdose rates are at an all-time high in America.

Substance abuse is an issue of magnitude in the United States.

A drug epidemic that started with Oxycontin is now a part of our country’s fabric, raging for over 20 years now. And though it may have taken too long, we finally began to make progress in reversing a trend of overdose deaths that had shortened the average U.S. life expectancy.

Rates began to drop and continued to do so for concurrent years, marking a substantial victory in just one of many battles that comprise the larger war.

But right when we thought we’d turned the tide, rates began to climb again. And then, the pandemic hit, and the

last thing on anyone’s mind was addiction. But those who work in the substance abuse treatment industry and the field

of addiction knew one thing when we saw the news about COVID-19; things weren’t about to get any better.

2020, the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in 12 months. Synthetic opioids (primarily fentanyl) appear to be the main reason for the increase in overdose deaths.

Thirty-seven of the 38 U.S. jurisdictions with available synthetic opioid data reported increases in synthetic opioidinvolved overdose deaths.

America’s drug epidemic has taken a toll. It began in the early 2000s when prescription opioids, particularly Oxycontin, were overprescribed. The drug’s manufacturer, Purdue Pharmaceutical, took on an aggressive marketing approach that used false claims about the drug’s safety to get doctors to push the medication. These claims included that Oxycontin wasn’t addictive when used correctly and was safer than other opioids. This was far from the truth. Many people were now addicted to potent opioids.

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Since then, Oxycontin has been heavily regulated, and the formula changed to make it abuse-resistant. But the damage was done, and those people who became addicted to opioids just found a new source for the drug, heroin.

Heroin is not only stronger than Oxycontin, but it’s far cheaper. Once people became addicted, all that restricting the drug did was force people onto illicit opioids. Those who could profit from this new pool of addicts did so by flooding the market with opioids.

And some of the cheapest and strongest ones are synthetic.

Synthetic drugs are made in labs, usually overseas, and smuggled into America. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that has become one of the biggest killers in America. It is many times stronger than heroin and is causing an overdose epidemic as we speak.

The pandemic causes stress. Many people have become unemployed and have fallen on hard times. Many of us have been isolated from friends and family and don’t leave our houses much. And then there’s the worry. Will we get the virus? Will our parents?

Even worse, will we be the ones to give it to them?

All of these things can make it difficult for someone in recovery to stay clean. It can make it difficult for someone in

active addiction to curb their consumption or consider treatment. And it can make it hard for those in treatment to continue their pursuit of recovery.

But it has also been difficult for many people who previously didn’t have struggles with substance abuse and now find themselves looking for drug and alcohol treatment services. And even the landscape of these treatment services has changed, and the pandemic hasn’t made them any more accessible to people.

The COVID-19 pandemic was the last thing we needed. But we can’t forget about the epidemic that was here first.

Michael Leach has spent the majority of his career as a health care professional in the field of substance abuse and addiction recovery. He is a medical reviewer for the health care website addicted.org and a certified clinical medical assistant.

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.

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Road to Hollywood SMC student Ashley Gonzalez selected for Television Academy Internship Program COURTESY OF ASHLEY GONZALEZ

By Kamala Kirk Santa Monica College student Ashley Gonzalez has been selected for the prestigious Television Academy Foundation Internship program. She is one of 50 students chosen by Television Academy members from across the country for the 2021 program.

Gonzalez is a communications major and will be interning remotely this summer in the children’s programming department at Moonbug Entertainment in Los Angeles.

She grew up in the LA foster care system and attended Hawthorne High School.

“I feel extremely grateful for an opportunity to learn from individuals that have set the tone in entertainment,” Gonzalez said. “I am so excited to meet industry professionals and establish connections.”

Typically, the Television Academy Foundation’s annual Internship Program provides 50 paid internships at top Hollywood studios and production companies to college students nationwide. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Television Academy Foundation has had to reimagine its internship

Santa Monica College student Ashley Gonzalez is among 50 students chosen from across the country for the prestigious Television Academy Foundation Internship program. program this year, offering the 50 students selected from across the country the chance

to either intern remotely or enroll as a summer fellow.

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industry and customized seminars covering personal brand building and navigating the job market ahead. Interns also become lifelong members of the foundation’s alumni family, giving them access to events and networking opportunities as they build their careers in the industry.

The Television Academy Foundation was established in 1959 as the charitable arm of the Television Academy, and is dedicated to preserving the legacy of television while educating and inspiring those who will shape its future.

“This internship proves to me that I am on the right path,” Gonzalez said. “Growing up, I was in and out of foster homes and there was not much I had control over. Now, as an adult, I see the importance of showing the world that circumstances don’t define you, and that knowledge and creativity are crafted under those conditions.

I have seen so much in my life that it has given me the ability to look through the lenses of others. I find beauty in everything and find ways to make all that I experience into a form of art.”.

Supporting Education Woman’s Club of Playa del Rey awards scholarships to local students members, Hilda Almada-Higgins, chair; Margarita Diosomito, Julie Lansing, Vicki Ohlinger and Evelyn Boyar were delighted to help the three young ladies continue to pursue their professional goals.

“It mean so much to look back on my childhood, where I started and see where I am right now in my life, I never would have imagined it,” Geyci said.

“I felt tears of joy when I read the email saying I was granted the scholarship. It meant a lot to have support and people that believed in me and my future. I feel such an honor to be supported by the Woman’s Club and I can’t stop thanking them for this great honor.”

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COURTESY OF THE WOMAN’S CLUB OF PLAYA DEL REY

By Kamala Kirk The Woman’s Club of Playa del Rey recently awarded $1,000 scholarships to three students from Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnets High School.

Jasmine Nicole Washington will attend UC San Diego, where she plans to study political science with the goal of becoming a health care attorney and helping to reform the health care system. Denise Martinez will attend UCLA, where she plans to study psychology and become a clinical psychologist. Geyci Martinez is headed to CSU Long Beach, where she plans to earn a degree in public administration: health services.

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Artist, author, former scientist and Otis College Honorary Degree recipient Enrique Martínez Celaya has joined the Otis College Board of Governors.

Art and Education Leader Otis College Board of Governors welcomes Enrique Martínez Celaya

By Kamala Kirk Artist, author, former scientist and Otis College Honorary Degree recipient Enrique Martínez Celaya recently joined the Otis College Board of Governors.

Celaya holds the position of provost professor of humanities and arts at the University of Southern California and his monumental and multifaceted work connects art to literature, philosophy and science.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in applied physics and a minor in electrical engineering from Cornell University, as well as a Master of Science with a specialization in quantum electronics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Celaya has also earned a Master in Fine Arts with the department’s highest distinction from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was also a regents fellow and junior fellow of Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

He has worked on major exhibitions, projects, interventions, and social and intellectual interactions not confined to museums and galleries, including with the Berliner Philharmonie, the State Hermitage Museum, and many others.

His work is held in over 50 public collections internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Celaya also has an extensive list of upcoming 2021-2022 exhibitions, including at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens; and Fisher Museum of Art, University of

Southern California.

“I’m thrilled that my friend, Enrique, has joined the Otis Board of Governors,” said Mei-Lee Ney, chair of the Board of Trustees of Otis College.

“Not only is he a brilliant physicist, philosopher, author, teacher, painter and sculptor, he is also deeply thoughtful about life as an artist. He is generous in sharing his insights and is excited to be part of the Otis community and working on behalf of its students.”

The board of governors is an advisory group of Otis College of Art and Design that is co-chaired by Todd Goldstein, the chief revenue officer of AEG, and Patricia Rockenwagner, a branding consultant and co-owner of Rockenwagner Bakery Group. The board of governors works closely with the board of trustees and the president’s office, and the governors serve as ambassadors to raise awareness of the college to the public and to prospective students and faculty.

They also help establish new pathways for employment for graduates and help grow fundraising efforts.

“Art and education have the potential to elevate the nature and quality of our aspirations, while reminding us of the urgency of authenticity and the interconnectivity of all things,” Celaya said.

“Otis College of Art and Design has become one of the finest art and design schools in the nation through its commitment to that potential, and it is an honor and a privilege to serve on its board of governors.”

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A Cool Time Jeni’s Free Market has the scoop on the art of ice cream PHOTOS COURTESY OF JENI’S SPLENDID ICE CREAMS

By Christina Fuoco-Karasinski Jeni Britton Bauer sees ice cream as more than a treat. Ice cream is her art, and she shares it through Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams.

“At first, I felt eating the ice cream was delicious,” Bauer says. “The first time was a pleasurable experience.

“However, you can use ice cream to tell stories. I was studying art and we were using paint or poetry. Ice cream uses scents. Scents are most of the flavor. You taste the sweet, and you feel the cold. Once I realized that, I was off and running.”

Midwest-based Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams now has scoop shops around the United States, as well as Jeni’s Free Market at Runway in Playa Vista. Her market stand is her fifth Los Angeles location.

This year, Bauer has dropped new flavors like White House chocolate chip, everything bagel, buttercream birthday cake and a Dolly Parton collaboration, strawberry pretzel pie.

Wedding cake was launched on June 8 and features vanilla cake with lemon, blackberries and buttercream icing.

Parton’s strawberry pretzel pie is just one of many collaborations, none of which are paid.

“We do have literally countless people approaching us about collaborations,” Bauer says.

“We like to hand pick the people we partner with. You never know who’s next. They’re always amazing people—amazingly talented, creative people.”

One of those was rapper/artist Tyler, the Creator, the company’s most successful collab.

Bauer used her gift as an artist to turn Tyler’s words into a resonant ice cream flavor that he loves. The LA Scoop Shops featured Snowflake, a twocolored study of mint that earned nearly 1 million likes on Instagram, and sold more than 4,000 pints on day one, and 20,000 scoops in the first week.

The two also created Pluto Bleu, described as “electric orange with a bolt of blue.”

“Tyler reached out to us,” Bauer says. “When he reached out, we hit it off right away and

Jeni Britton Bauer is the founder of Midwest-based Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, which also has a scoop shop in Playa Vista.

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“Magical” to Bauer’s daughter would be a collaboration with former One Direction singer Harry Styles.

“She’s been bugging me about a collaboration,” she says with a laugh. “If I could choose my dream collaboration, I would probably go into history. I’d have to think about that one, but maybe Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife, or Marie Antoinette.”

Just as important as the flavor is Bauer’s mission, which she dubs The Fellowship Model.

She literally builds her ice cream from the ground up, with growers, makers, producers, suppliers and customers.

“We call it The Fellowship Model,” she says. “We combine values from the good food world with tools from the 21st century. We believe we get higher-quality ingredients when we have relationships with the people we’re buying from. We buy direct whenever we can.

“Making ice cream this way

requires more work and skill than traditional ice creams made with flavorings and colorings, but we think it’s worth it.”

Bauer said her products aren’t “junk food ice cream.” Her desserts are smooth with a buttercream body. She eschews synthetic flavorings, dyes or off-the-shelf mixes, along with stabilizers and emulsifiers.

“Customers get attached to the flavors that we do,” she says.

“When you eat the ice cream, the flavor comes through brightly because there are no stabilizers or emulsifiers. I learned how to do that by working at a dairy.

“I was volunteering at the dairy so I could learn. Your passion builds when you fall in love with something. I feel like that, still, to this day.”

Bauer founded Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams in 2001 in her home. The following year, she received a Small Business Administration loan to open a pop-up in a farmers market. Her goal was to start small and build her experience as an entrepreneur.

“I had a lot of ideas when I was young,” she says. “I had a big vision, but no idea how to do any of it. I dropped out of art school and went for it, though. I learned everything I needed to learn by just doing it, whether it was accounting, making ice cream, marketing or branding.”

Ice cream is, obviously, important to Bauer. But she’s hoping her customers understand that Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams is an art.

“We, as people, make up the company,” Bauer says.

“We love serving people.

We’re just a service company. I love our shops and selling ice cream in grocery stores. We speak directly to you through pints and packaging. We tell you a little story about the ice cream. I think that’s the best way to put it.”

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Nurturing Positive Change Denise Vasi founded maed to make wellness, health and beauty accessible to everyone PHOTO CREDITS: COURTESY OF MAED

By Kamala Kirk When longtime actress and model Denise Vasi was transitioning to motherhood, the content she shared from her journey on social media with her followers began to shift.

Committed to raising her children as intentionally and naturally as possible, Vasi started documenting her alternative choices via social media. She posted about the plant-based clean meals she prepared, detoxing her home, her self-care routine and parenting tips, and in response became inundated with questions from fans who wanted to know about topics such as the best clean products to use and what foods to eat when breastfeeding.

“I started to really shift what I was sharing because I was at home with my kids and all of a sudden I realized that taking care of myself was less about vanity and more about how I felt,” Vasi said.

“That first year of motherhood really taught me about the importance of self-care. If I make smart choices, feed myself well and keep stress levels down, then I have a much better chance of living a long healthy life. You have to have a holistic approach to health in order to live your life at its best and fullest. People began asking me all kinds of health, wellness and beauty-related questions about my personal life, and that’s when my husband pointed out that there was something there. I realized that I needed to create a platform for my this growing community, they really encouraged me to build something.”

This led Vasi to create maed, a beauty, health and wellness website that inspires and encourages women to be the best version of themselves. The literal combination of Vasi’s daughter’s middle name, Mae, and Vasi’s own nickname, D, maed is also a nod to what makes a woman feel like she’s

Venice resident and longtime actress/model Denise Vasi is the founder of maed, an inclusive, accessible and diverse digital platform that features a variety of wellness, health and beauty content.

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truly “made” it.

“The idea of being ‘maed’ is something that men and women both strive for and it’s not necessarily about success, for me it’s a lot of different things,” Vasi said.

“I wanted to talk to people about what it means to feel ‘maed’ in general. It’s about having a holistic version of life where you are taking care of yourself and you’re still a boss.

Whether you’re a stay-at-home home, you work for a big corporation or you run your own business, you still need to take care of yourself, go out and get the things you want and practice self-care. maed really represents the full spectrum of us as women and what we strive for.”

The inclusive, accessible and diverse digital platform features content ranging from healthy recipes and parenting hacks to clean products. Vasi strives to offer a place where her audience can be inspired and make a positive change.

“Maed is rooted in serving the community,” Vasi said. “We are giving people information, education and aspiration, and providing them with recommendations so that they can make better choices in their lifestyles and ask better questions when they talk to doctors or therapists.

Our goal is to be a resource where women can find inspiration to make positive changes in their lives.

“The other important thing for me was knowing that I was speaking to Black and brown women. Coming from Brooklyn, I wanted to offer a space that was inclusive to everybody and that catered to all demographics and economic backgrounds.”

The website features multiple sections that cover topics like Eat, Nurture, Live, Glam, and Shop. The Eat section includes vegan, gluten-free and kidfriendly recipes, product guides on everything from nontoxic cookware to coffee alternatives, as well as tips for things like how to grow vegetables without

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From style to practices and products, maed encourages readers to create positive change as they see fit and inspires them to be the best version of themselves. a garden bed.

The Nurture section shares relationship tips, Live focuses on the latest lifestyle and wellness trends, and Glam covers clean beauty, products and ingredients. The Shop section is a guide to various products and self-care tools that Vasi uses and recommends to her audience, ranging from sunscreen and facial cleansers to massage tools.

“This is a place where you can find those resources and information you need, and we feature products at every price point,” Vasi said.

“We speak to a bigger and different demographic, and we want to make sure that we’re always making wellness, clean beauty and self-care attainable and accessible.”

When the pandemic hit last year, Vasi made sure that the content on maed shifted in order to be more conscious of what was going on in the world and what felt appropriate at the time for their readers.

“Our content became about helping women who were suddenly stay-at-home moms, helping parents navigate their new work from home situations, and how to set up home offices,” Vasi shared.

“We saw an influx of people looking to figure out how to calm their anxiety and a lot of people started to do a lot of at-home beauty treatments since they weren’t going out to get

facials or manicures. Our job is to assess what the trends are and make sure that we’re always creating content that feels appropriate to the time.”

Every two months, maed also hosts various challenges that readers enjoy participating in.

On numerous occasions, the challenges have been life-changing for some. During the challenges, the community will vote on which organizations to make donations to as well.

“When we do these challenges and people say that their lives have been changed, nothing makes me feel more like I’ve made it than that,” Vasi said.

“We did a celery juice challenge and one woman said that she came off her blood pressure medication as a result. If I can affect one person in this world, I know I’ve done something big.”

This past June, maed celebrated its three-year anniversary.

Vasi looks forward to continuing to expand her platform and create engaging content for her audience, in addition to balancing her busy life as a wife and mother of two.

Since moving to Los Angeles from New York a decade ago, Vasi always felt a connection with the creative local community in Venice, where she has lived for the past nine years.

“When I found myself in Venice, it felt very grounded and creative, it was just a community of artists and people with their own identities, and people

had a true authentic vibe out here,” Vasi said. “Our kids love biking and skateboarding at the parks by the beach here. We love the accessibility and being near the water.”

Prior to founding maed, Vasi enjoyed a busy career as a successful model and actress.

She appeared in multiple magazine editorials and ad campaigns, and had roles on programs like the ABC soap opera “All My Children,” VH1’s “Single Ladies,” and “Law and Order: Criminal Intent.” While she has been busy focusing on her website and motherhood, Vasi hasn’t closed the door on Hollywood.

“I know I’ll do something else, there is a part of me that still loves to pretend to be other people and live in that fantasy world of telling stories,” Vasi shared.

“I can’t tell you how blown away and how shocked I am every day that I get to wake up and do what I do. The maed community has been so amazing, supportive and receptive to the content we create. I’m so thankful and grateful that they have been so supportive, not only of the site, but it really is a community.

“They talk to each other and they even give me advice and feedback on things. They show up for me every day and I show up for them.”

For more information, visit maed.co.

The literal combination of Vasi’s daughter’s middle name, Mae, and Vasi’s own nickname, D, maed is also a nod to what makes a woman feel like she’s truly “made” it.

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Self-Care Saturdays Free workouts offered on Third Street Promenade through September

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By Kamala Kirk Downtown Santa Monica Inc. in partnership with Fit Girl Club LA is hosting Self-Care Saturdays weekly through September 25 on the Third Street Promenade.

Classes are free and vary per week with a diverse mix of workout styles including yoga, kickboxing, barre, cardio, hip hop, and more. Participants are encourage to bring their own yoga mat, towel and water for maximum enjoyment.

Local minority-owned businesses are also featured during the workout series, offering creative and often handmade items with a selfcare focus.

Visitors are encouraged to mix and mingle with like-minded fitness enthusiasts, shop, dine or check out the celebrated Santa Monica Farmers Market, open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday.

Fit Girl Club was founded in 2015 to find other like-minded people in Los Angeles to work out with at local studios, hiking trails or beaches. Since then,

Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. in partnership with Fit Girl Club LA is hosting self-care Saturdays weekly through September 25 on the Third Street Promenade. the community has grown to over 5,000 women living in LA and has launched several city

chapters with members becoming city leaders. Every month, Fit Girl Club hosts

sponsored meet-ups, fundraisers and shopping parties. Their goal is to support women in

business, fitness, health and beauty.

Downtown Santa Monica Inc. is a private nonprofit 501(c)(3) that works with the city of Santa Monica to manage services and operations in Downtown Santa Monica that promote economic stability, growth and community life within Downtown Santa Monica. Downtown Santa Monica Inc. manages the Property-based Business Assessment District (PBAS) that encompasses the area bounded by Ocean Avenue, Wilshire Boulevard, Lincoln Boulevard and the Santa Monica Freeway.

Classes are held Saturdays through September 25. There are 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. sessions, each offering a different type of workout. All classes are free, but registration is required. .

For a full class schedule, visit downtownsm.com/ self-care-saturdays.

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Equal Representation Digital book serves as resource for queer themes, talent and culture in media authentic representation of the LGBTQIA+ community in the media.

Recently, TAP launched “In Our Own Words,” a digital book that defines terms used often when talking about the LGBTQIA+ community and pays homage to vernacular coined by the Black and brown trans women who began the movement for LGBTQIA+.

“We came up with the idea for this project because it was both a way to celebrate our community and Pride Month, while also educating those within the media industry and beyond,” said account supervisor Griffin Templeton. “We wanted to do something that had an impact

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on the way our community is represented in media, and we think this list of terms is one way we can enlighten those in the advertising industry and everywhere else on how to better understand and authentically speak about the LGBTQIA+ community. Additionally, we wanted to honor those who came before us and started this movement by including popular, mainstream vocabulary that was really born from the Black and brown trans community and ballroom culture.”

“In Our Own Words” is available for download at deutschla.com/tap-digitalalphabet-book.

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By Kamala Kirk Historically, queer individuals have not had the opportunity nor the influence to change how they are represented in the media.

Playa Vista-based ad agency, Deutsch LA, is on a mission to change that with its LGBTQIA+ employee resource group, The Alphabet People (TAP).

The group serves to connect queer colleagues of all backgrounds with each other to provide a safe place to talk about work, life and everything in between. TAP’s mission is to empower the queer community, in advertising and beyond, by sharing their stories, resources and creative ways to ensure the

Deutsch LA’s employee resource group, The Alphabet People, launched a digital book “In Our Own Words” that defines terms used often when talking about the LGBTQIA+ community.

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A Labor Of Love Westchester resident’s memoir honors the life of her late mother Lennox Middle School, Pam started an Adopt-A-Student Program, where staff and faculty mentored students.

However, Grace said her mother went above and beyond, and figuratively adopted (by mentoring) four students. Pam would take them on trips to San Diego, as well as celebrate their birthdays throughout middle school, high school and college. Those students are now around 40 years old and are like Grace’s real siblings.

Pam’s adoptive family was with her until the end. “The Rector Girls” shares a story where Grace and one of her adoptive sisters were at the orientation for Pam’s second kidney transplant, when a doctor asked her who they were.

“She said pointing to me, ‘[That] is my daughter by blood’ and pointed to Ale and said, ‘That is my daughter by love’. I thought that was beautiful because it’s true,” Grace said.

As Grace’s only biological family was her mother, she felt very isolated amid the pandemic. “The Rector Girls” also explores Grace’s isolation as she was attending virtual schooling. Since most of Grace’s friends were on the East Coast, socialization wasn’t easy and she was trapped in her grief, especially by living in her mother’s house.

Grace was affirmed knowing she wasn’t alone in the way she felt. Readers shared how they were feeling the same way, including some of her friends.

As the pandemic eased, Grace did her first two book signings, one at Georgetown University in Washington D.C and one in Los Angeles.

“I think this book has unintentionally but beautifully brought people together again to celebrate her life outside of the negative context of a funeral,” Grace said.

Even though Pam has passed away, her legacy lives on. She has instilled a love for traveling and teaching in Grace.

Single mothers have also approached Grace and said Pam’s their inspiration as she

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By Holly Jenvey Grace Rector lost her mother, Pam, in the middle of her final year of college. However, their bond and memories live on in her recent memoir, “The Rector Girls”.

The novel depicts the closeknit mother-daughter relationship they shared since Grace was born. Through exploring the world together, instilling values as well as enduring hardship, Grace published her first book this past April, showcasing the labor of love between them.

Pam passed away at the age of 64 in February 2020, a month before the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown began. Initially, Grace didn’t have plans to write a novel, but journaled stories to process the loss of her mother. It wasn’t until a professor at Georgetown University, her alma mater, reached out and offered a course teaching young people how to publish their first book.

“I thought, ‘I have all these written stories, why not turn it into something that could be passed down to generations?’”

Grace said. “And so my inspiration for writing it down into a book format was I thought it would be something so beautiful to hand to my friends and family and say, ‘These are the lessons that I learned from my mom.”

Pam worked at Loyola Marymount University for 22 years and also was a counselor at Lennox Middle School. At LMU, she conducted service trips with college students to different countries. Pam began taking Grace on these trips from when she was 4 years old until she was 18. On the trips, Grace would participate in the service activities the college students were partaking in.

“At age five, I was doing these service projects with college students and then at the end of every night, my mom would make me participate in the reflection and talk about the community members and what we learned and what we saw,” Grace said.

It was through Pam’s work at schools where Grace would find her extended family. At

Westchester resident and Georgetown University alum Grace Rector recently published the memoir “The Rector Girls” in honor of her late mother, Pam. told them not to let the perceptions deter them from doing what they want. Other readers have shared memories and stories in reaction to “The Rector Girls”, even those that didn’t know Grace or her mother.

“I think the general message of it is if life’s not going your way to make it happen and to create things in your own way, even if it doesn’t follow the plan, and as a 22-year-old, I definitely need that in mind,” Grace said.

“The Rector Girls” retails for $16.99 and is available for purchase on Amazon and at Barnes & Noble.

The book is about the lifelong lessons and intimate bond between mother and daughter, revealing the beauty of an untraditional family.

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Deserts and Abandoned Spaces Photographer invites walls and windows to tell their stories PHOTO CREDITS: OSCEOLA REFETOFF

“If These Walls Could Talk” features selections from photographer Osceola Refetoff’s award-winning windows series “It’s a Mess Without You” at Von Lintel Gallery’s new space in Bergamot Station.

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By Bridgette M. Redman A desert isn’t nearly as empty as the image the word often conjures.

Los Angeles artist Osceola Refetoff captures the richness of deserts and the spaces that people have abandoned. His series, “It’s a Mess Without You,” which he began in 2013, has garnered much recognition and rewards.

Several selections from that series are being displayed in an exhibition called “If These Walls Could Talk” at the Von Lintel Gallery through August 8. It is helping to inaugurate Von Lintel’s new space in Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station.

“The Von Lintel Gallery is a dream come true,” Refetoff said. “I’ve loved that program for as long as I’ve known it.

(Gallery founder and director Tarrah Von Lintel) reached out to me last year and I was just over the moon. She is incredibly supportive of work you need to see in person.”

While the work is shared online, Refetoff said the exhibition is designed to be seen live and that Bergamot Station is an amazing location to do just that — one with lots of parking and open air. He loves going there not only to display his own exhibitions but as an art collector who can visit many galleries at the same time.

“It is a very different experience to see the work in person in a carefully curated environment where they are contextualized,” Refetoff said. “I’m excited for people to see the website, but I would encourage people to come down to Bergamot and see the other stuff there.”

He loves the contrast of living in one of the country’s most densely populated urban areas with an expansive desert territory adjacent to it.

“To me, the desert is always a very uplifting thing,” Refetoff said. “I love to be in these empty spaces because they are a great counterpart to my urban existence. It is an amazing resource. The idea that these spaces exist is important for people’s mental well-being.”

Works capture abandoned vistas as they exist

Refetoff is committed to exploring the modern desert in his work. He searches for abandoned buildings and what can be seen through their windows. He explains that he used to be an outdoor adventurer who would frequently spend his vacations in Mammoth. Then, at some point, he became more interested in taking photographs of the trip.

While many art photographers stage their works, Refetoff wants to capture things as they are with his contribution being angles and lighting.

“My practice is entirely opportunistic,” Refetoff said.

“I’m exceptionally careful about not introducing any elements that aren’t there. I just leave everything as I see it. It is not composited.”

Sometimes his pieces will capture graffiti such as “You are my dirty needle” or “It’s a mess without you.”

“I can’t tell you who spray painted the message,” Refetoff said. “I’m sort of exploring it the way I see it, the way someone looking at it would, not knowing much about the people who were there before.”

When he enters the space, he spends time contemplating who might have lived there and what brought them to abandon the house forever. While he acknowledges that these questions are unknowable to some extent, he feels a connection to them.

“I feel I am standing in their shoes,” Refetoff said. “Some are over kitchen sinks where someone stood for hundreds of hours. I have no idea who they are, but I feel I know them.”

Some of the spaces he returns to many times, but he is also constantly exploring new places.

While he admits he is technically trespassing, he says he tries to treat the space with respect not only in the way he portrays them, but also in how he interacts with it. He is careful to leave the environment as he finds it.

“I’m a temporary traveler to the space and I capture a moment in time,” Refetoff said.

He has to be in the space to figure out how he is going to portray it. He concentrates on the views outside of windows

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Captured from within derelict structures in the California desert, these carefully framed vistas are akin to visual short stories. and is constantly seeking ways to make them different and interesting. Sometimes that has to do with deciding the angle — will he shoot the window straight on or at an angle? Nor does he know what he will capture outside the window until his camera is set up and he is ready to press the shutter.

“It is honest,” Refetoff said.

“I’m not shaping the vision of what is out there.”

Lockdowns bring new empathy to works focused on windows

While the work began long before the pandemic, its meaning has become shaped by the way the world has changed and what people had to do for more than a year.

“In a nod to the last year and a half, when most of us spent more time indoors, looking out through windows, dreaming of a different reality, we are proud to present some favorites from Osceola Refetoff’s acclaimed window series ‘It’s a Mess Without You,’” Von Lintel said.

“Captured from within derelict structures in the California desert, these carefully framed vistas are akin to visual short stories. These desert communities came and left, leaving

behind remnants and dreams which Refetoff interprets for us with his discerning viewfinder.”

Refetoff, who spent part of the pandemic outfitting his car to make photographic journeys easier, said that his open walls series captured a lot of attention last year because everyone was in their home looking out the window.

“One of the interesting things is how the meaning of work that exists changes in the course of time,” Refetoff said. “This window series has people looking out a window and it has evolved to our current circumstances which captures people’s imagination.”

Refetoff said he was able to continue his work throughout the pandemic because a lot of what he does involves naturally occurring social distancing and solitude.

Works expand viewpoints of deserts and windows

Refetoff hopes people walk away from his exhibition thinking about two things — the desert and windows.

He acknowledges that most people think of the desert as being empty and it can appear that way if you are just driving through it, but once you spend

time in it, that viewpoint changes.

“It is full of more subtle things,” Refetoff said. “As you spend some time out in the desert, you realize it is not empty. It’s the opposite of empty. There are much more subtle things that you need to take a second to experience.”

He also pointed out that people have been looking out windows for many centuries and artists have long painted vistas through windows.

“I think it is a very compelling perspective,” Refetoff said. “It frames the subject in a similar way that the actual frame does.

In regard to the desert, if you just take a photo of the natural view, it is so expansive that it is hard to have a sense of scale. I think the windows provide a sort of optical, specific narrative.

They are carefully crafted as far as the point of view.”

What: “If These Walls Could Talk,” a solo exhibition by Osceola Refetoff Where: Von Lintel Gallery, Bergamot Station When: Noon to 6 p.m. through August 8 vonlintel.com

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Zero-down mortgages are back a decade after mortgage meltdown Will this new wave of exotic bank statement and fog-the-mirror mortgages crash housing again?

The loftiest of home prices are upon us. Like the 17th-century tulip mania, everybody has got to get on the road to homeownership.

first $1 million dollar mortgage is 4.5%, with an initial principal and interest payment of $5,067.

Now, even first-time buyers without a down payment can get in on the action. That means no skin in the game — just like the good old Great Mortgage Meltdown days.

You then take out a 15-year fixed-rate loan for the remaining $250,000 at 9.99% with a payment of $2,685.

No down-payment loans are available for up to $1.25 million so long as the primary wage earner has at least a 700 middle FICO credit score.

Assume monthly property taxes would be $1,302 and your monthly fire insurance payment lands at $200 per month. Then your total house payment would be $7,952, excluding any potential HOA fees.

Should you not show enough income from your day job or your self-employment income to qualify, you can document your income with bank statements, averaging the most recent 24 months of personal bank statement deposits.

The only significant differences between this current crop of exotic zero-down mortgages to yesteryear’s so-called no-down subprime category are today’s mortgages ban balloon payments and prepayment penalties, thanks to the 2010 Dodd-Frank law.

Pricing is nasty on this so-called 80/20 piggy-back mortgage. But beggars can’t be choosers.

And the current minimum middle FICO score of 700 is higher than yesteryear.

There is a 4.5% minimum “floor rate” on the 30-year mortgage. It is subject to an initial rate adjustment after the first 5-years. The second mortgage has a floor of 9.99%, fully amortizing over 15-years.

Here is an example: Say you are buying a home for $1.25 million. The rate for the

But remember, the race to the bottom prior to the Great Recession. It was always about competing mortgage lenders undercutting that other guys’ or gals’ underwriting standards.

Take that to the department of foreclosure prevention.

How about some more memory lane craziness?

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Can you fog a mirror? Of course you can.

Fog-the-mirror mortgages are available now with just 20% down on a purchase and 25% equity on a refinance for loan amounts to $3 million.

No income or job listed whatsoever? No tax returns? No paystubs? No averaging bank deposits over 12 or 24 months to calculate income? You will need just page one of your bank account statement to source your down payment funds, provided you are not receiving 100% gift funds.

Do not you worry about the lender seeing those bounced checks or other financial difficulties on page two of your bank statement. Rates start at 4%.

get real.

Think through this. Home prices are peaking.

Unless you are triple sure you can handle the higher house payments, have a family lifeline to rely on, have lots and lots of cash reserves and have the stomach to ride out the eventual property value downturn, then don’t do it. Do not over-extend yourself.

Bottom line: Assuming a borrower gets the average 30-year fixed rate on a conforming $548,250 loan, last year’s payment was $38 more than this week’s payment of $2,306.

What I see: Locally, well-qualified borrowers can get the following fixed-rate mortgages with 1 point cost: A 30-year FHA at 2.25%, a How about investors instruments? Believe it or 15-year conventional at 1.875%, a 30-year not, fog-the-mirror type mortgages start even conventional at 2.5%, a 15-year conventional lower for loans on investment properties than high-balance ($548,251 to $822,375) at for primary residence mortgages. How do you 1.99%, a 30-year conventional high-balance like 3.75% on a 30-year mortgage that adjusts at 2.625% and a 30-year fixed jumbo at after the first five years?

2.75%.

You need a minimum of 15% down. Loan amounts go to $1.5 million. You will have a three-year prepayment penalty (penalty for paying off early is 80% of six months interest).

If you are considering one of these mortgages because you cannot qualify for a traditionally cheaper Fannie or Freddie mortgage, first let’s

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LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE “BEGONE” By MARK McCLAIN

BRAWL STRAPS I’m a woman in my early 20s. The guy I’m dating brought me to meet his friends. His male friends were warm and friendly. The women were awful.

One deliberately kept saying my name wrong (it’s not exactly exotic), and two others glared at my miniskirt.

Another said something about how low-cut my top was. She made it sound like a compliment, but it was a mean dig. How can these women be so nasty when they don’t even know me? How do I diffuse situations like these?

— Upset Nothing like women celebrating other women: “Way to go, girl! Showing everything but your areolas.”

When a man has a beef with another man, he’ll be direct about it: hurl insults at the guy’s face and maybe try to renovate his jaw with a barstool.

Women fight sneaky-dirty with other women, using covert tactics, explains psychologist Anne Campbell. These include mobilizing a group of women to ostracize a woman, talking trash to men about her looks and how “loose” she is, and offering “compliments” that are actually nasty digs. Give a woman’s confidence a beatdown and she might dim her shine (cover her miniskirt with a shawl and wipe that sexy red lipstick off on her sleeve).

Psychologist Tracy Vaillancourt sepa-

rated female research participants into random groups. She compared one group’s reactions to a 20-something woman walking into a classroom dressed “conservatively” (in a looselyfitting shirt and khaki slacks) with the other group’s reactions to the same woman dressed “provocatively” (in a very short skirt and a tight, low-cut shirt). Dressed conservatively, she was “barely noticed by the participants.”

When she entered in skin-baring sexywear, almost all the women “aggressed against her.” They rolled their eyes at her, gave her “once-overs” and shot her “death stares.” After she left, many laughed at her, ridiculed her appearance, and/or suggested she was a man-hopping sleaze.

You’re a target for the she-hyenas whenever you wear sexy clothing and makeup (like an intense smoky eye with winged eyeliner). Decide whether you have the emotional strength and social capital to bear the glares and backbiting, or whether you need to, say, stock up on some floor-length prairie dresses. This isn’t to say you should immediately assume the worst of all women. However, understanding what you can expect from some might help you stand tall in the face of an attack – remembering that it’s about them, not about you, when they imply that your bedroom’s visitors log rivals Ellis Island’s.

QUARANTINE WOLF I’m a guy in my 30s. Before COVID, I used Tinder to hook up with different women a few times a week. I don’t recognize myself anymore. Yesterday, I was on a date, and the girl was really hot and wanted to go back to my place to have sex. I was weirdly turned off by the idea and called her an Uber home. This isn’t like me, but it keeps happening. Why am I suddenly like this?

— Worried If we hadn’t gotten vaccines, we might’ve seen a whole new category of lingerie, a la Victoria’s Crotchless Hazmat Suit.

Our body’s immune system protects us by mobilizing warrior cells to fight off invaders like bacteria, parasites and viruses that cause infectious diseases.

However, war is costly – whether between nations or inside us. Psychologist Mark Schaller notes that our body’s effort to surround and kill “pathogenic intruders” sucks up calories needed for important bodily functions. It can also be “temporarily debilitating” due to “fever, fatigue and other physiological consequences of an aggressive immunological response.” (You sometimes have to boil the village alive to save the village.)

To avoid these costs, we need to avoid being exposed to disease in the first place. Helping us do that is the job of our “behavioral immune system.” This is Schaller’s term for a suite of psychological mechanisms that function as our early warning system, helping us identify signs of pathogens in our social environment and motivating us to feel, think and behave in ways that keep us from getting invaded by the buggers.

For example, social psychology grad student James B. Moran and his adviser, social psychologist Damian Murray, find that reminding research participants of the looming threat of infectious disease puts a damper on the appeal of casual sex and their inclination to have it down the road.

Chances are this response explains your own psychological and behavioral shift: stud-turned-monk of COVID-19. There’s no clock on exactly when you’ll be back to your sexual-Wild West self. Should you get nostalgic, keep in mind that you can still dip into some elements of the hookuppy old days, such as “the walk of shame” – though, these days, that’s what we call it when you get yelled at by the old lady down the street for taking out the trash unmasked.

GOT A PROBLEM? Write to Amy Alkon at 171 Pier Ave, Ste. 280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or email her at AdviceAmy@aol.com.

©2021, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Alkon’s latest book is “Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence.” Follow @amyalkon on Twitter or visit blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon.

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ACROSS 1 Impressive sights at affairs 8 Fendi rival 13 Paved 19 Victim of river diversion in Asia 20 Like some R-rated films 21 Comfortable 22 Sports venue where the home team hasn’t won in years?

24 Boulevard feature 25 Invoice no.

26 Brainstorm 27 Dreyfus defender 29 Heavy weight 30 Hubbub 33 Trimming plans 35 Industrial site 37 Like memories to smile about 39 Sock part 41 Hottest, in a way 44 Cattle farm run by bigwigs?

51 __ Stephens: 2017 US Open Women’s Singles champ 52 Tennis feature 53 Isolated work group that hinders corporate efficiency 54 Bone near a calf 56 Belgian artist James 57 Chews like beavers 60 “I __ noticed” 62 Change for a ten 64 Drop the ball 65 Bird rarely on the wing 67 Pitt URL ending 68 Toys “R” Us giraffe mascot 71 Epithet for Henry Ford?

76 Stayed to the bitter end

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NBA impossibility Hide out Sushi bar order Company named for the exaggerated height of its tallish bottles Bowling headache “Crazy” vocalist Mountain gap Blood bank fluids Blackthorn fruit FD employee Magnate Advice for runners’ practice sessions?

Feeling guilty Ducks org.

Frozen Four org.

Tough goings Like some promises Swan dive revelation Expected result Cause for a claim Not as relaxed Smeltery input French star Powerful fall cleanup tools?

Having a twist Bug, for one Gets back to business Sorrowful tune Free-for-all Red Sea land

DOWN 1 Mother of Isaac 2 First-class 3 Totaled 4 Reindeer cousin 5 Japan’s Mount __ 6 Disobedient 7 Org. concerned with youth substance abuse 8 Ramble on

9 Egyptian site of a historic 1799 discovery 10 NFL passing stat 11 Nueve y uno 12 Bat prefix 13 Spicy food truck items 14 Had some 13-Down 15 Purplish veggie 16 TV weather promo about a storm threat?

17 Biblical twin 18 Entertainment center sites 20 Actor Morales 23 Iraq War weapon: Abbr.

28 Vinyl revival items: Abbr.

31 Low USMC rank 32 MLB Hall of Famer Brock 34 Family guys 36 Bar on a truck 38 Chef’s creation 40 Cavern phenomenon 42 [Bo-ring!]

43 Absorbent fabric 44 Many an MIT grad 45 Lawless role 46 Coup d’__ 47 Routing word 48 Respected figure 49 Concerto finale, perhaps 50 Depend 55 Poetic contraction 58 Hot spot service 59 ER demand 61 Research university with a Boston campus 63 Agronomist’s concern 66 School near Windsor 69 Org. created by the 1933 Banking Act

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Sense Shades Early number?

Buzzed Familiar greeting Fall mall hiree Ship-to-ship greetings Quarters for a spell caster?

Actor Schreiber “I’m buying!”

Moistens Country whose name ends in the same three letters as its capital Debtor’s note Gull relative Lynn’s father worked in one Primate genus Pain pill target Ignore Provider of shade Harder to get Corn unit Fast flight U.K. military award Goal of an accord Flanged fastener Fashion initials __ face Peace goddess “The Gondoliers” bride Playwright Simon Sierra’s “other” Carpenter’s wedge “Auld Lang __” Cork’s home Maya __, Vietnam Veterans Memorial designer ISP option French king Just right

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H A P P E N I N G S

Compiled by Kamala Kirk Sizzling Summer Jazz Nights at RUNWAY, 5 to 8 p.m.

Enjoy live music every Friday all summer long at RUNWAY Playa Vista. Grab a bite from one of their restaurants and enjoy seating at Town Center Drive!

Every Friday from 5 to 8 p.m., June through August.

12775 W. Millennium, Playa Vista Marina Drive-In Summer Series, 5 to 10 p.m.

Gather with your family and friends to watch movies on the big screen by the sea in Marina del Rey. The Los Angeles County Department of Beaches & Harbors presents Marina Drive-In Movie Nights at Parking Lot #2 Public Boat Launch. $20 per car admission plus service fee. visitmarinadelrey.com Kabbalat Shabbat & Dinner, 5:45 p.m.

Bring friends and family members for Open House Weekend at Kehillat Ma’arav Synagogue in Santa Monica. All events are COVID-compliant.

Masks will be required indoors and all meals served outdoors.

Enjoy an early bird l’chaim followed by service with the KM Band and outdoor Shabbat dinner.

RSVP at km-synagogue.org

Saturday, August 7 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

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Friday, August 6

On Wednesdays from 6 to 8 p.m., The Point in El Segundo is hosting The Sounds of Summer, a family-friendly concert series that will feature musicians and band tunes out on the lawn. parking lot 11 at 14101 Panay Way. More information is available at beaches.lacounty.gov/ mdrfarmersmarket Shabbat Morning Kiddush, 10 a.m.

Bring friends and family members for Open House Weekend at Kehillat Ma’arav Synagogue in Santa Monica. All events are COVID-compliant.

Masks will be required indoors and all meals served outdoors.

Come for morning worship and the return of their community kiddush. Outdoor Kiddush lunch to follow.

RSVP at km-synagogue.org

Sunday, August 8 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.

2640 Main St., Santa Monica.

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 Playa Vista Sunday Scoot, 11 a.m.

All family scoot at RUNWAY Playa Vista presented by Silicon Beach Parents Group. from 11 a.m. to noon. Meet at Micro Store. Participants entered to win a Micro!

Siliconbeachparents.com Outdoor Pep Rally & BBQ, 4 to 6 p.m.

Bring friends and family members for Open House Weekend at Kehillat Ma’arav Synagogue in Santa Monica. All events are COVID-compliant.

Masks will be required indoors and all meals served outdoors.

Activities for everyone including a puppy patch, music, cheers & beers, and plenty of schmoozing with the KM Pep Squad (Rabbi, Cantor and staff).

RSVP at km-synagogue.org

Monday, August 9 On August 11 from 9 to 11 a.m., help the Ballona Wetlands Community Restoration Project remove invasive iceplant and other non-native vegetation that can impact native California plants such as pickleweed, salt grass and alkali weed.

Free Comic Book Week: Comic Book Giveaways, through August 13 Stop by the Main Library, Montana Avenue Branch

Curbside or Pico Branch Curbside for a free comic book.

One comic book per person.

Comic books are available while supplies last. For all ages.

For more information, visit smpl.org

Wednesday, August 11 The Ballona Wetlands Community Restoration Event, 9 to 11 a.m.

Want to emerge by doing good and outdoors? The Ballona Wetlands Community Restoration Project focuses on removing invasive iceplant and other non-native vegetation that can inhibit and impede the growth of drought-tolerant, native California plants such as pickleweed, salt grass and alkali weed.

Capping at 20 participants; sign up in advance. Face masks and social distancing will be required. The restoration site is about 0.3 miles east on the south side of Culver Boulevard. Gloves and tools will be provided.

Sign up at santamonicabag.org/ events RUNWAY Kid’s Club, 10 to 11 a.m.

Join the RUNWAY Kid’s Club to read, sing, learn and play in the sunshine! They will read stories, since, dance, jam with musical instruments and play with the parachute. Come by early, get settled and pop some bubbles. Stay a few minutes after to connect with other babies, meet other parents and caregivers, bang on the drums and build community around literacy! In partnership with Books and Cookies.

For more information and to sign

up, visit runwayplayavista.com Free Comic Book Week: Photo Fun, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Celebrate Free Comic Book Week with a superhero selfie.

There will be a costumed superhero on hand for selfies in the photo booth in the Main Library Lobby.

For more information, visit smpl.org First Bank Marina del Rey Grand Re-Opening, 4 to 6 p.m.

First Bank will treat you to enjoy the lovely outdoors at a meet-and-greet with wonderful community businesses and individuals and light appetizers and drinks. Along with a raffle drawing for all who participate of two amazing wine baskets from their very own Dierberg Wine.

The event will take place outdoors in the First Bank Parking Lot on Del Rey. Ribbon cutting will be at 4:45 p.m. RSVP to Gloria Dominguez at gloria. dominguez@fbol.com 4206 Lincoln Boulevard, Marina del Rey The Sounds of Summer Concert Series, 6 to 8 p.m.

Shop, stroll and dine while listening to free live music this summer at The Point in El Segundo. After 15 months, The Point is welcoming back the return of its summer concert series, The Sounds of Summer, a family-friendly concert series happening every Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m., July through September. Every week, The Point will feature a new musician and band with tunes ranging from folk rock to reggae. On August 11, The Radio Rebels will be performing hits from the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. This all-ages, outdoor event is for the whole family to enjoy as guests are welcome to pack a picnic, lawn chairs and relax on the lawn. Restaurants and shops including Mendocino Farms, North Italia and Hopdoddy are also offering special promotions and picnic baskets for guests to purchase in advance and enjoy.

850 S. Pacific Coast Highway, El Segundo

Send event information at least 10 days in advance to kkirk@ timespublications.com

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were loaded with 15 rarely seen Silver Walking Liberties, each verified to meet a minimum collector grade of very good or above, the dates and mint marks of the U.S. Gov’t issued Silver Walking Liberty Half Dollars sealed away inside the State of California Restricted Bank Rolls have never been searched. But, we do know that some of these coins date clear back to the early 1900’s and are worth up to 100 times their face value, so there is no telling what California residents will find until they sort through all the coins,” Lynne went on to say.

And here’s the best part. If you are a resident of the state of California you cover only the $39 per coin state minimum set by the National Mint and Treasury, that’s fifteen rarely seen U.S. Gov’t issued Silver Walking Liberties worth up to 100 times their face value for just $585 which is a real steal because non state residents must pay $118 per coin which totals $1,770 if any coins remain after the 2-day deadline.

The only thing California residents need to do is call the State Toll-Free Hotlines printed in today’s newspaper publication before the 2-day order deadline ends.

“Rarely seen U.S. Gov’t issued silver coins like these are highly sought after, but we’ve never seen anything like this before. According to The Official Red Book, a Guide Book of United States Coins many Silver Walking Liberty Half Dollars are now worth $40 - $825 each in collector value,” Lynne said.

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The only thing readers of today’s newspaper publication need to do is make sure they are a resident of the state of California and call the National Toll-Free Hotlines before the 2-day deadline ends midnight tomorrow. ■

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