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ON THE COVER: Culver City resident and creative director Max Korman recently debuted two new music videos for critically acclaimed rap/pop group Delivery Boys. Photo by Luis Chavez. Design by Arman Olivares.

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Coronavirus by the numbers and local updates Compiled by Kamala Kirk Cases and deaths by neighborhood as of September 1: Culver City: 2,729 (deaths 112); Del Rey: 40 (deaths one); El Segundo: 969 (deaths nine); Marina del Rey: 617 (deaths four); Mar Vista: 2,687 (deaths 37); Palms: 3,229 (deaths 61); Playa del Rey: 164 (deaths one); Playa Vista: 809 (deaths 10); Santa Monica: 6,193 (deaths 184); Venice: 2,471 (deaths 15); Westchester: 3,334 (deaths 53) Total Westside cases: 23,206 Total Westside deaths: 487

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L E T T E R S

Considering the open Main Street pilot program Editor: When alfresco outdoor dining on Main Street was first mentioned 14 months ago as COVID-19 mitigation indoor closures were announced, I thought, “What a fine idea. Restaurants can continue to operate with customers spread out, safely social distanced in plenty of fresh air enjoying our mostly fine weather. Main Street can take on some of the piazza character with sidewalk dining like I’d enjoyed touring Europe on my motorcycle half a century before.”

But when the PowerPoint slide deck showed car and bicycle thru lanes bifurcating the space, slashing the heart out of the potential pedestrian walkway and

corralling the dining areas in narrow parklets spread along the former curbside parking spaces — my spirits fell. Lost were the potential for replacement seating capacity to keep the restaurants and their help profitably employed, along with the potential space to spread out safely in the open air to mitigate community virus transmission potential. What a thoughtless design decision they made!

More than a year later, the “Sharing an Open Main Street” experimental pilot program was approved, financed to the tune of $70,000, and planning began as a joint effort between the leadership of the Ocean Park Association (OPA) and the Main Street Business Improvement Association (MSBIA ) for four “Pilot

Program” experimental weekends of car-free Main Street commercial and community activities.

Again I thought, “What a fine idea — correct the error of slicing the potential street plaza with noisy contagion spewing traffic, creating a much-needed safe, social and commercial activity center to replace much of what we’d lost through the COVID-19 shutdowns and closures.” But again I was disappointed.

Outdoor diners were still corralled in the small parklets and the narrowed sidewalks became even more dangerous contagion gauntlets with some restaurants adding sidewalk tables to squeeze unmasked passersby tightly along the parklet enclosures.

“How could the planners have missed the opportunity to spread diners from the storefronts out into some of the freshly vacated street area making ample room for social distancing while enlivening the empty street with activity?” I thought.

But that was the dismal outcome of the first experimental weekend last month — a sad empty street, the sides dangerously crowded with the expectant public who came to enjoy a special time safely strolling, dining and

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socializing.

I expressed my dismay and again pointed out the errors in the planner’s judgement in these pages as well as in direct communication to those involved. I hoped to see all corrected for this past weekend — some great benefit to compensate for lost street parking and potential traffic jamming adjacent residential streets.

Some things were better.

Additional park bench seating and assorted activities enlivened some sections of the street, but pedestrians, along with occasional scooters and bicycles, still crowded the sidewalks. The dangerous mix of unmasked seated patrons eating and drinking just inches away from the un-masked passersby still existed.

“How could the organizers repeat this hazardous configuration?” I asked a few of the key OPA and MSBIA players. Not getting a satisfactory answer, I’ve assumed that they decided to simply ignore the potential negative optics of considering community transmission. Their desire to make a success of their flawed execution overshadowed concerns and consideration of the new even more communicable Delta COVID variant. “For shame!” I

thought.

The world has been thrown into a severe pandemic crisis and “Open Street” has wasted that crisis. This would have been a golden opportunity to build useful models, not only to rescue Main Street from the present threat but also to set goals for a more sustainable future when the COVID threat finally subsides.

Clear-thinking, well-informed people now realize that we must dramatically reduce our dependence on carbon polluting private urban transportation if our society is to thrive and our progeny are to survive.

The strong opposition that has surfaced to open carless streets could have been countered with examples of an alternative way to live. With more resources and better planning, the “Open Street” architects could have devised transportation alternatives to convey the public from off-site central parking to this free public space where families could play and socialize. This pilot program could have been a showcase for what our future needs.

Likewise, COVID hazards could have been countered with a pop-up vaccination site and information booths distributing free face masks

Bonin and Garcetti’s Bridge Housing blunder!

Editor: The recent COVID-19 outbreak at the Venice Bridge Housing facility was preventable, avoidable and only occurred because of the insistence of poor public policy decisions by Mayor Eric Garcetti and Councilman Mike Bonin.

Despite near universal opposition by the Venice community from the start, the wishes of their constituents were arrogantly ignored and unacknowledged as Councilman Bonin rolled his eyes and described locals as “NIMBY” at a community meeting some two years ago that offered nothing more than lip service to a project that has yielded zero net results of moving the chronically homeless from the streets to permanent housing.

For the only real benefactors of this homeless boondoggle has been not-forprofit bureaucrats and the influential vendors of this cottage industry of the un-housed in the millions of dollars to say nothing of the billions squandered through the likes of the notorious HHH funding that is now for the most part depleted and broke!

For lawyers, architects, contractors and builders have reaped obscene profits from public dollars while the size of the homeless population in Venice ballooned to historic numbers!

If that is not a mortal sin, what is?

To add insult to injury, you have voices from the Venice Community Housing describing residents of Venice as “segregationists” when such nasty rhetoric has no basis in reality and does nothing to bring consensus around the issue of homelessness in our community.

Practically speaking, when thousands roam the streets of Venice with many of them mentally challenged, unstable and drug-addicted, how would a 154-bed facility even offer a dent in this ongoing crisis?

More to the point, too many Venetians during this pandemic warned of cluster outbreaks within these encampments that again fell upon deaf ears. Now the largest nest of homelessness is now ravaged by a public policy decision so ridiculous and incompetent that one wonders how either Garcetti or Bonin can even remain in elected office.

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to make the present safer and raise awareness for the mitigations we’ll certainly need when the next pandemic happens.

OPA and MSBIA meant well but they could have done so much better. Perhaps the September 18 and 19 experiments will show some improvement. We the public can encourage them when we respond to the surveys they’ll distribute. We can write letters to our local newspapers. We can communicate directly to the pilot program administrators in the city government as well as to the two sponsoring associations.

Perhaps we can bend the program into something better — something that will help establish a path toward a better future for us all.

Tim Tunks Santa Monica

Stormy sunset on Venice Beach.

As Mayor Garcetti has watched his political star stain from presidential timber, cabinet consideration to being jettisoned to India and Councilman Bonin now facing yet a second recall initiative, can these two finally admit they were wrong and the community of Venice was right to oppose this delusional and failed project?

Nick Antonicello Venice Beach Mike Bonin Editor: The letters from the people who want to recall Mike Bonin remind me of my old Boy Scout method of cooking spaghetti: throw as much on the wall as you can and see what sticks.

There are no specifics!

Can someone please explain to us middle class taxpayers a few things?

It is estimated that the recall election will cost us taxpayers around $500,000. A recall vote will most likely happen in May; the date of the next regular election is June. If the recall election succeeds, what good will it do us if we have no city councilman or woman for a few months?

What would your desired replacement on the council specifically do to reduce homelessness, that isn’t being done now?

What would your desired replacement specifically do to reduce crime, that isn’t being done now?

Wouldn’t it be better to spend this half million dollars of our tax money on building housing and reducing crime, instead of getting us a council vacancy so that we have no representation for two months?

What’s really your goal?

Jack Schwartz Venice

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C O M M U N I T Y

Supporting Mental Health NAMI Westside LA announces $1.2 million gift PHOTO CREDIT: LEE DISHMAN

By Kamala Kirk The Lowell Milken Family Foundation recently gifted $1.2 million to provide programmatic and operational support to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Westside Los Angeles, furthering its work to provide support, guidance and hope for the growing number of Angelenos affected by mental health conditions.

The three-year commitment ensures that NAMI Westside LA, whose programs reach thousands of families, individuals and educators each year, will expand its ability to offer free in-person and virtual programming in English and Spanish, as well as operational funds to continue to attract, retain and support its leaders.

“Our organization has distinguished itself, both within California and on a national level, by our ability to pivot all our programs onto a virtual platform in 2020,” said Erin Raftery Ryan, NAMI Westside LA executive director.

“Throughout the pandemic, we expanded our programs, conducted additional facilitator trainings, and provided mentorship along the way to other NAMI CA affiliates. NAMI National even arranged for us to lead a workshop for NAMI affiliates across the country on

The Lowell Milken Family Foundation has made a gift of $1.2 million to provide programmatic and operational support to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Westside Los Angeles, furthering its work to provide support, guidance and hope for Angelenos affected by mental health conditions.

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how to deliver virtual services more effectively. This generous gift from the Lowell Milken Family Foundation reaffirms the value of this work and challenges us to reach even greater heights at a time when our programs and services are needed by so many.”

Communities directly impacted by NAMI Westside LA include Culver City, Marina del Rey, Playa del Rey, Santa Monica, Venice, among others. Due to its rapid response to the mental health crisis brought on by the pandemic, NAMI Westside LA has been recognized as a leader in the greater LA community and beyond.

“Our partnership with the Lowell Milken Family Foundation allowed us to expand all our programs during the pandemic to meet the increased needs of our community,” said Tim Davis, NAMI Westside LA’s program director. “Since March 2020, we have conducted over 175 Ending the Silence virtual presentations, reaching over 2,500 students, educators and parents. Over that same period of time, NAMI Westside LA has also

expanded the classes and support groups we offer, while creating new ways for our members to build community and find hope through several innovative awareness-raising, stigma-busting events.”

The new gift builds upon LMFF’s support for NAMI Westside LA that began with the Lanetta Wahlgren Fund, which has supported the operational and programmatic needs of NAMI Westside LA since 2019 and made possible the expansion and enhancement of its signature programs.

“This gift furthers our foundation’s mission over more than three decades to equip people to pursue and attain lives that have value to themselves as well as to others,” said philanthropist and education reform leader Lowell Milken.

“Our new commitment will enable NAMI Westside LA to deepen the effectiveness of its programs and services; maintain, enrich and grow its strong leadership and staff; and continued to provide classes and community programs to families across Westside LA.” For more information, visit namila.org

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Doing Good Santa Monica businesses are giving back to the community during hard times

By Kamala Kirk While maneuvering the road to recovery, Santa Monica is recognizing and celebrating some of the businesses that are shining bright with the best intentions and putting “good work” into their reopening efforts. From hotels and museums to cafes and coffee shops, these are some of the local businesses that are doing for others: Shutters on the Beach. The hotel has created Chrysalis kites to raise money and awareness for Chrysalis and the great things they do to create job skills and opportunities. Chrysalis is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to creating a pathway to self-sufficiency for homeless and low-income individuals by providing the resources and support needed to find and retain employment. Chrysalis has five centers and locations in Southern California, including a Santa Monica center. Shutters on the Beach and Hotel Casa del Mar

have been longtime hiring partners with Chrysalis. Shutters on the Beach guests and locals can support Chrysalis by purchasing a kite for $25 and all proceeds will go to Chrysalis.

Kites are available for purchase at the Beach Activities Center located on the sand behind Shutters on the Beach.

Cayton Children’s Museum.

The museum believes all children should have access to play opportunities and arts education, regardless of their background or abilities. They have designed the space to be a welcoming place for

all children, youth and families to gather, share and learn. Cayton wants their young visitors to understand that they are all responsible for each other.

Cayton’s guests will have the opportunity to visit the museum through the Cayton’s timed entry system, as well as the museum’s new pay-as-you-wish admission model for LA County residents.

The new admission model will help the Cayton fulfill its mission of making play accessible for all.

General admission tickets are $16 for non-LA County residents and can be purchased online. The

Cayton is an initiative of ShareWell, a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring creativity, social responsibility and empathy through arts education and discovery-based learning. For more than 30 years, ShareWell has strived to improve access and bring arts education with themes of social responsibility to all communities through museum programming and youth outreach.

La La Land Kind Café. Aside from coffee specialties, teas and an expansive food menu, the café serves kindness with the purpose of hiring foster youth plus spreading kindness. After learning about the staggering statistics of what happens to foster youth who age out of the system, La La Land executives were shocked into creating the We Are One (WAO) project in 2017. They set out to provide everything youth needed to become self-sustaining, happy adults. This meant providing help with housing, job placement, mentorship and therapy. For

every city where there is a La La Land, there is a flagship store that runs eight-week internship programs for foster youth. During those eight weeks, they learn life skills, on the job training, customer service training and mentorship. At the end of eight weeks, youth can decide what they are passionate about and what career fields they want to go in. They are forever part of La La Kind Café’s WAO program to help them with job placement, housing, schooling and therapy.

Crudo E Nudo. Lenny’s Coffee and Commune at Crudo E Nudo is a vision brought to life by co-owner Leena Culhane.

Lenny’s is a neighborhood outpost for caffeine, community, and a minimal but delicious breakfast menu. Proceeds from the morning program at Crudo E Nudo benefits nonprofits in need of their support, especially those combating food deserts, working to end the hunger crisis, and supporting intersectional environmentalism.

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LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE “PREPARING FOR TAKEOFF” By MARK McCLAIN

THE CAMERA SUTRA I really like the girl I’m dating, except for one thing. On every date, she asks me to take photos of her for Instagram. Afterward, she consults me repeatedly on which will “get the most likes.” I’m starting to get really annoyed, and I find it cuts into my enjoyment of our time together. She even did this on my birthday!

–Irritated Psychologist Erich Fromm wrote, “Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.’” He died in 1980, thirty-some years before Instagram-infused love: “I need you, love, because my telescoping selfie stick won’t fit in my cute purse.”

This girl’s far from alone in turning every occasion short of stints on the toilet into a photo op. Social media (and Instagram especially) transformed fishing for compliments into a business model. #admirationvampires Some young women – especially twentysomethings with a still-murky sense of identity – might feel they don’t exist in any meaningful way if they don’t post pix and videos of themselves to score likes and gain followers. #KeepingUpWithTheInstadashians There’s also the lure of easy money for those who can rack up an audience: potentially making big “influencer” bucks just by showing up to events in some pop-up shop’s dress and striking a bunch of poses they copied off Beyonce.

Chances are you went on Tinder or Hinge or whatever in hopes of landing a girlfriend, not unpaid work as a photographer. Saying yes to taking this girl’s pic the first time – before you realized it would be an every-date thing – probably seemed like a one-off request and thus not a big deal. But now you’re annoyed that you’re constantly being pressed into photo slavehood. Even your birthday got co-opted into a #MeMeMeMe #takemypicture celebration of her personal “brand.”

The problem is not that she’s asking but that you keep going along with photographing her.

There’s a way out of this – and a way to get women to respect you instead of seeing you as a chump they can use and eventually lose – and its assertiveness.

Social psychologist Daniel Ames and his colleagues define assertiveness as “the degree to which someone stands up” for their own needs and interests “when they are faced with someone else who does not want the same outcomes.”

Assertiveness allows you to be in

charge of your life instead of becoming the tool of anyone who wants to use you: basically living like an insect that gets batted around by a cat. People who default to a passive approach – just doing whatever’s asked of them, no matter how they dread it – often have a deep fear of rejection. They act on the mistaken belief that “the way to be accepted and appreciated by others is to give and give,” explains clinical psychologist Randy Paterson.

This isn’t to say you should live like an accountant, calculating to the penny or the calorie whether the give and take between you and another person is exactly 50/50 at all times. What matters is your motivation: giving to a woman because it feels good to make her happy or, say, safer (like if you install burglar-frustrating thingies on her windows).

That’s healthy giving – in contrast with emotionally indentured Boy Scout-hood: fulfilling the terms of a contract that exists only in your head, in which you re-sod a woman’s lawn, rotate her tires, and/or become her pro bono “palace photographer” so she won’t kick you to the curb.

This “chore-bribe your way to love ’n’ sex” model tends to work about as well as my attempt, as a lonely, picked-on little kid, to geek my way into having friends. In second grade, two girls approached me, worksheets in hand, and said they’d be my friend if I did their math homework during recess. I got to work with my thick No. 2 pencil. Maybe 10 minutes later, I finished – and they immediately succumbed to childhood amnesia. Neither girl even spoke to me again – all the way through the end of 12th grade.

The willingness to assert yourself is a reflection of self-respect: the belief that you have value and have a right to be treated as if you and your needs matter. But say your current level of self-respect is on the low side. You can still act like a person with strong self-respect: Explain what you want – in this case, to retire from fashion photography and post-date photo selection.

Be prepared. It’s possible she’ll ditch you for expressing the inconvenient need to quit as her Instagram documentarian. But if your needs and feelings are of little interest to her, maybe you can view getting yourself dumped by her not as a tragedy but as a point of pride: the first day of the rest of your living with self-respect. Carpe diem! (By way of carpe scrotum!).

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Classic Comfort Food Bay Area-based Jewish deli opens in Culver City

By Sara Edwards Along with their friend Leo Beckerman, brothers Evan and Ari Bloom’s restaurant enterprises started out with a smoker in their childhood backyard where they would smoke pastrami on the weekends.

Growing up in Los Angeles, they learned that there wasn’t really a Jewish deli around to enjoy the traditional foods they loved so much.

“We always had people over who tried our recipes at our little backyard parties and people were encouraging us to start a new business in San Francisco,” Evan said. “We saw this opportunity and did a pop-up for about a year.”

Evan earned a degree in environmental design at the University of California, Berkeley, so cooking was always a hobby and not something he was looking into doing for a career.

But when he realized that there

was business potential, the trio started to refine their recipes, sandwiches and soups until they created their first menu for a pop-up shop.

After starting out as a pop-up shop in 2011, Evan, Ari and Beckerman opened their first brick-and-mortar restaurant in 2012 at 22nd and Mission Street in San Francisco. Since then, they’ve expanded with eight locations, seven in California and one in Tokyo.

The restaurant trio opened their ninth location in Culver City on August 23. This will be the company’s first Southern California location and will pay homage to LA’s iconic delis through both the food it serves and the design of the restaurant.

“Culver City is an opportunity to be a new market in southern California,” Evan said. “As the neighborhood grows from a Jewish perspective, there isn’t anything like this in the area so

it’s missing this type of food.”

At the Culver City location, customers are greeted with cubbies filled with homemade bagels with bread-lined shelves and a variety of condiments like hot sauces and mustards. The 1,900-square-foot space has indoor and patio seating, and creates a sense of nostalgia for those that walk in the door.

Creative director Danny Gonzales designed the Culver City location and has worked on several other Wise Sons projects.

His design combines a clean, modern aesthetic and the familiar sense of nostalgia with a collection of framed family photos abstractly hung up on the walls, vintage-style pennants by Scott Richards to honor the family of L.A. delicatessens, and a colorful and chaotic deli mural scene by Berkeley-based illustrator Alexandra Bowman.

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and built around it, creating the appearance of preexisting textures that lend to an Old World charm, yet twisted in modernity by a contemporary approach to art and music,” Gonzales said.

Over the past few years, Evan and his team have become widely known as leaders in a modern Jewish food movement. Evan said that while Wise Sons didn’t formally start this new food renaissance, it definitely was a part of the growth of bagel shops and delicatessens that LA and other parts of the country are seeing.

“I think people are appreciating Jewish food and are seeing it through a new lens,” Evan said.

“There are a lot of restaurants opening with new takes on modern classics or bringing back

food they grew up with by using different ingredients or techniques.”

Evan added, “When somebody walks in and smells corned beef, for so many Jewish Americans, it brings them back to their childhood and we love to provide that but we also want to provide something new and delicious at the same time.”

Wise Sons Culver City 9552 Washington Blvd., Culver City Hours: 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Monday – Friday; 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekends.

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Divine Energy Nancy Mills empowers others to heal through art if she painted.

“Two weeks later, I went to a meeting that ended up being canceled but no one told me,” Mills said. “I drove down the street and came across a sign in the window that said, ‘Anyone can paint.’ I stopped the car, ran inside and said, ‘I’m here!’ This all happened around the spring equinox. I ultimately found my way to watercolors and realized I had a gift. I could feel spiritual energy come though my hands, paint and colors. I get messages as I paint.”

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“I couldn’t even hold a ruler.

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Playa Vista resident Nancy Mills is an energy artist, empowerment leader and builder of community who helps heal and support women. and she always unsure of the finished product. While painting, she is directed to various vibrant colors that just show up in her work.

“Most artists know what they’re painting in advance, but in my case I get an urge and start painting,” Mills explained.

“It’s just as amazing to me as it is to other people who see my work. I started painting when I was 70 and since then I have created over 400 paintings.”

Realizing that she could do the same for others, Mills bought a webcam and offers energy art sessions, primarily with women, over Zoom. She has made paintings for people across the country, including Broadway performers.

Mills starts each session with meditation, then clients relax while she paints their energy.

They then take home the paintings and a recording of the session.

“First I’m drawn to a certain paintbrush, then as things pop into my head I paint,” Mills explained. “While I’m painting, I get messages from the spiritual world, which I’ll share with them. It’s been very surprising and wonderful because most of the people I’ve worked with ask me how I did it and how I knew.

I’m not a therapist, but I am an artist and a women’s empowerment leader who is very intuitive. I have this ability to see people’s strengths, what colors they might want to bring into their lives, and give them a sense of empowerment through paint. It’s very interesting to express myself through this medium and it floors everyone.”

One of Mills’ latest projects is Painted Prayers, a collection of her energy artwork that is expressed through original art and notecards. Each watercolor is a blessing of spirit, empowerment and beauty, and will add sacred energy to any space.

Mills’ work from her Painted Prayers collection is listed for sale on her website.

“The Painted Prayers are postcards of my originals and they’re messages of life and love,” Mills said. “My goal is for them to go from one person to another so that they get spread around.”

Mills also creates hand-painted scarves in her home studio. She uses special fabric paints on large white rayon scarves, and it takes around two weeks to make a scarf, which is sacred and shamanistic. The scarves are talismans to be kept and worn on special occasions. They keep

the wearer connected to the divine feminine energy.

“As I get messages, I paint the scarves,” Mills added. “I always give women the choice of having me paint the scarf with or without them watching me.

“I get different messages, images and colors for each person. I was painting a scarf for one woman and I started singing an Indian song during our session. After she received the scarf, I learned that she had a very strong Indian lineage in her family. There have been a lot of things that have happened like that that I wouldn’t have anticipated. People enjoy my work because it adds energy to their space. People are constantly telling me that my art has filled their space with energy, and they’re thrilled about that.

It’s much more than just buying a piece of art — they’re getting an art and energy experience.”

Aside from her work as an energy artist, Mills is a longtime women’s empowerment leader.

More than 20 years ago, she founded Spirited Woman, a women’s empowerment community.

“I started Spirited Woman in the early 2000s and it became very important to me to ensure there was a community avail-

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agenda other than the fact that we show up and we talk about whatever is on our minds. It’s a way for us to be there for one another. We start every session with a meditation. It’s a great place to be around women who are of like minds and supportive.”

For the past five years, Mills has lived in Playa Vista on land that was once an Indian burial ground. She loves the beauty of the natural environment along with the strong sense of community.

“I grew up on the West Coast and have lived in different parts of Los Angeles,” Mills said.

“Playa Vista is my favorite. It’s a wonderful and embracing community. I see butterflies, hummingbirds, hawks and beautiful vistas. I walk almost 3 miles every day. There is a teepee down the street from where I live that I visit daily.

It’s very spiritual and has become my sacred place. I just love the fact that I am stimulated to create here, I’m so fortunate to live in a place like this.”

Going forward, Mills will travel to fuel her soul with energy and will continue to spread positive energy. She plans to utilize her art in as many empowering ways as she can.

“When I started painting, I started dancing,” Mills said. “I believe we are all born with an internal passion and it’s never too late to tap into it. You can become a ballroom dancer at 85. There are no limits on self-expression. When you find something that taps into your passion, it gives you joy, and joy is contagious.”

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able to support other women,” Mills said.

“I think the underlying message always was you are enough as you are. From there, it expanded into this art. For me it was very natural because I’ve always believed in the essence of women and them having so much to offer. When I started doing the energy artwork and sessions, I became empowering to others but in a different way.”

When she lived in Santa Barbara, Mills hosted Spirited Woman workshops, retreats and events. In 2012, she created the Spirited Woman Foundation with a mission of helping to heal and support women through actions of empowerment.

Through the foundation’s Sisterhood of the Sacred Scarves Project, Mills sold more than 4,000 Spirited Woman Prayer scarves, raising over $20,000, which was distributed to multiple nonprofits. The scarves, which featured designs created by other artists, were chosen by Mills because they felt spiritual and she also gave them names.

“During the women’s marches, there were hundreds of women wearing my scarves in different cities,” Mills said. “It was phenomenal.”

Now a majority of the foundation’s proceeds come from a percentage of sales from the Painted Prayers collection.

Mills also hosts a monthly Spirited Woman Circle on the third Thursday of every month.

The free, hour-long sessions are held on Zoom.

“It’s a community of love and support with women inspiring women,” Mills shared.

“It’s a safe place where women of all ages can get together and talk. We don’t have a particular

One of Mills’ latest projects is Painted Prayers, a collection of her energy artwork expressed through original art and notecards, which are symbols of spirit, empowerment and beauty

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Creative director Max Korman integrates design with comic elements

Culver City resident and Stanford graduate Max Korman is a multimedia creative director with an interdisciplinary background in design and technology.

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By Nicole Borgenicht It all started at Stanford University, where Max Korman was learning about integrative storytelling in immersive technology design. He had been creating and editing projects previously, but using advanced tools for his engineering degree opened the door for Korman’s creative flight.

His friend José Serrano, who is the manager of Los Angelesbased rap/pop group Delivery Boys, brought Korman into a meeting with the band. Korman landed the music video director position by showing a short piece of his campy, skillful range using a 360 camera.

Directing for Korman is never about the audience watching what he can do, but always about enjoying the band and their music.

The band has a great sound, and Delivery Boys are made up of several close friends, which made Korman’s work easier.

With a background in improvisation, Korman knew how to let the guys act naturally while directing them, also adding killer directorial techniques.

In the music video “YGB Rappin All Fast” which is about delivering pizza, when the customer doesn’t answer, YGB takes a bite of a slice and heads back to the convertible with the waiting band. It works like magic, and Korman dropped the speed to half, then sped it up later to sync the sound. It’s a great shot of the guys taking off from the keyhole.

“I’m playing off Spike Jonze ‘90s Beastie Boy videos with the warped fish-eye,” Korman said. “I used a 360 camera, newer technology and the next thing in video, in the Brooklyn boy band lineage.”

Korman created a storyboard, and conceptually it was about keeping everything uniform. He hid his 360 camera in the pizza box, which is held throughout so you can see everything and it gets every shot. Much of the video is seen with a pulsing effect from an aerial view in beat with the music.

“I set up the camera on a stick with a circle composition, and only had limited locations and designs,” Korman said. “I used a lot of re-timed footage, like playing homage to Spike Jonze.” This laid out reveals Korman’s imagination and adeptness at reduction and interface.

The other music video Korman

Korman recently debuted two new music videos for critically acclaimed rap/pop group Delivery Boys. directed Delivery Boys in is “Batman.” He used animated effects to start and end the music video; however, all throughout he directed fun and silly behavior as seamlessly as improv vignettes. The style fits perfectly with Delivery Boys’ (Goldwood, YGB, Max Gelter, No Trust and Lost Boy) characterizations of their rap music.

Never swaying from the rhythm, Korman said the band was easy to direct and had fun with the scenes. Korman cut from action to design to action “simplistically” with his organizational skills. He said that utilizing monotone with a pink spotlight for the Joker and other shots are a reference to the original Adam West “Batman” series from the 1960s. Capturing past and present-day audiences, Korman and Delivery Boys are playfully dynamic in their renditions.

“The band was great to direct, they were good and trusted me, and YGB did everything naturally,” Korman said.

Korman’s other work in promotional videos has been advantageous for directing music videos, along with his own improvisational artistry.

Paying homage to past styles is

common in the industry, as director Quentin Tarantino often does. Perhaps like Tarantino, Korman will do a cameo as well in the future. Meanwhile, there’s another masterful detail Korman has in his toolbox. He described one technique as “calibrating performance, thinking in real time and making something delightful for people to see.”

Moving forward, Korman is most interested in “new technology to support great art-movies and projects that usher in generations of great art in stories.” A finely tuned gift of Korman’s is comedy, whether he spins a jarring scene to absurdity or further pushes a campy moment into hilarity and back again on the rhythmic ride.

The World Premiere of “Batman” and “YGB Rappin All Fast” will debut at the Dances with Films film festival at The TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Friday, Sept. 10, at 2 p.m. maxkorman.me Link to screening: Danceswithfilms.ticketspice. com/downbeat-a-celebrationof-music-dance---grp-2

Korman’s work is tailor made for each artist and project from the ground up, ensuring the final product is a completely honest extension of their specific brand identity.

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The Ultimate Block Party Sixth annual WAM pulls out the stops with music, art and food EVENT PHOTOS BY DAVID ZAITZ PHOTOGRAPHY

The sixth annual Westchester Arts & Music Block Party, which benefits the Emerson Avenue Community Garden, will take place from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 18.

By Bridgette M. Redman You’ll be hard-pressed to find a wider variety of local performers than on Sept. 18 at the sixth annual WAM — the Westchester Arts & Music Block Party on Emerson Avenue between 80th Street and West 80th Place.

It’s not your typical block party. There are 10 mainstage music performers and four more performance groups ranging from dance and magic to drums that will perform throughout the day from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. It’s a different sound every hour, starting with indie/alternative and traveling through blues, surf, gospel, pop/punk, funk/R&B-inspired jam, pop, R&B soul, Americana, and ending with Latin/rock/flamenco.

But there isn’t just music and dance. There is also art, community booths, kids’ activities, garden tours, food trucks, and a beer and wine garden. The day-long free event benefits the Emerson Avenue Community Garden.

“The music has been a big part of what people are really surprised by in terms of the quality and diversity of the mix of folks we bring in to perform,” said WAM organizer John Sharpe. “It’s not your typical people playing local bars. There are a lot of decent bar bands around — I’m in one,

but these are people at decent stages in their career.”

While Sharpe said there are crowds all day listening to the bands, there are three “headliners” this year: Omar Torrez, Rose’s Pawn Shop and Rainne.

The full performer line-up is available at wamblockparty.org/ performers-1 with links to each of their music.

Omar Torrez returns from Republic of Georgia to close out block party In his first appearance at WAM, Omar Torrez brings his Flamenco rock-pop style guitar playing as the final act of the day-long shows.

He’d spent most of the pandemic in the Republic of Georgia where Sharpe said Torrez has a huge following.

When Sharpe was hosting live Instagram shows during COVID, Torrez brought in 50 people from Europe who woke up at 3 a.m. just to be a part of it and hear him perform.

“I was really impressed with that,” Sharpe said.

For his part, Torrez is eager to get back on stage as he said he’s felt like half his life has been missing.

“COVID was a complete disaster for music and people playing music,” Torrez said. “I was practicing, and practicing is not the same as playing. You

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feel kind of empty. Then John was doing these Instagram live shows. He reached out to me — I did a few for him and that went really well and I was grateful.”

When Sharpe told him he was doing a live show, Torrez jumped at the opportunity, even though he was still living in Georgia. The block party performance will mark 20 months since Torrez has performed a live concert in the United States — the longest he’s gone since he was 6 years old and performing piano recitals.

“A huge part of my life was taken away from me with this pandemic,” Torrez said. “This will mark a symbolic and actual restoration of what I do — I play for the people. It is about connection and communication.

It is an exchange of energy that goes deeper than words. It is sounds, words, emotions, ideas, all of these things together.

“My father taught me when I was young that a musician’s job is like a doctor, but it is a doctor for the soul — to heal people and give them the strength so they can do what they do best.”

Torrez, who was always influenced by Flamenco music, described a journey where he started out performing bluesy rock and went through several sounds to get to where he is

now. During his journey, he was hired to play with Tom Waits, which helped mature his music.

“Tom is a very transformative person to work for because he has completely his own sound, but he borrows pieces from all kinds of different genres and styles of music,” Torrez said.

“He puts them in a big bucket of paint and whiskey and it comes out transformed.”

Torrez too became transformed by working with him and he came out of it with a sound that he says is a post-Latin blues, something belonging to the 21st century that is Bohemian, an energetic rock but also old style.

He hesitates to pinpoint exactly what his sound is.

“It’s a famous cliché that no musical artist likes to describe their sound, but I understand that I must,” Torrez said. “If we accept that talking about music is like dancing about architecture, I would say the following: If you can imagine a mixture of Jimi Hendrix with some Latin, Afro-Cuban music mixed with a bit of Tom Waits. It’s high energy and danceable with a little psychedelic and burning guitar and rhythms.”

Rose’s Pawn Shop infuses event with flairs of Americana Rose’s Pawn Shop is making a return appearance at the WAM block party.

“It’s a pretty special community event,” said Paul Givant, the band’s lead vocalist, guitar and banjo player. “They were doing it to bring the community together. There was a gardening project and charities working with it. We had a lot of fun playing there. It had a great crowd.

When he asked if we would do it again, we were excited to return to the event.”

Rose’s Pawn Shop, which got its name after Givant’s ex-girlfriend stole all their equipment and pawned it, consists of five guys who play music centered on Appalachian and Americana music. The music is authentic and heartfelt, rooted in American folk and bluegrass.

“It’s called Americana because it draws from several different musical styles that are American, but are different,” Givant said. “There are elements of folk, elements of bluegrass, elements of rock and elements of country. You have the fiddle and the banjo doing the country and the bluegrass sound, then we have electric guitar and full drums which make it more rock.

Then we have tight harmonies between two to four singers and a stand-up bass that gives you folk and rockabilly songs with the way the player will slap the upright bass. All of these different American music styles get put in a blender.”

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A native of California, Givant said that Southern California has had a major influence on his writing style and the music he produces.

“The landscapes, the mountains, going down to the sea — that’s an inspiration,” Givant said. “It’s a melting pot of music. People come to Los Angeles from all over. California was a big part of the country music scene in the beginning.

It’s just a special place where you get these influences from all over the world meeting in one place.”

It’s a music that reaches out and connects with people.

Givant recalled a prior WAM concert where the beer garden was very close to where they were performing and everyone was having a good time. There was a moment where he got everyone to raise their glass in a cheer to good times.

While country music has a reputation for being depressing, Givant said their live performances tend to be very upbeat.

“It brings people together,” Givant said. “There is a lot of energy that gets people dancing and jumping up and down and having a good time together.

The lyrics are a little more morose and deal with issues like relationships not working out or existential dread.”

It allows for audiences, Givant explained, to choose their own adventure as to how they want to experience the music — either having a good time and forgetting about their own troubles or having a more introspective experience where they listen to the lyrics.

Saxophone-vocalist duo brings their moody pop music to the stage Lyrically and musically, pop duo Rainne has a Goth-inspired personality, but vocalist/ songwriter Annie Dingwell and saxophone player Justin Klunk say they are actually a couple of goofballs which comes out during their shows.

Regulars at the WAM block party, Rainne had experienced exciting success right before the pandemic hit. Out of 14,000 participants, they won a contest to open the “We Can Survive” benefit concert at the Hollywood Bowl. They opened for the event, which featured sets

by Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and others.

They met John Sharpe by

accident. The venue they were supposed to be performing at double booked performers and Rainne was suddenly left without a place to play and a group of fans who wanted to hear them. Sharpe’s wife, Irene, was there and invited them to bring their guests and perform in their backyard.

“John has been a huge supporter of ours,” Dingwell said.

“So, any time he needs us, we try to go through hoops to make it happen for him. He’s a great guy and a huge supporter of the arts.”

“We will always play any event where the people are awesome,” Klunk said. “This is going to be our third or fourth time now at WAM. We keep coming back.”

Dingwell recalled a moment after one of the WAM shows where she was talking to a man from the audience. She had just written a song about a really bad breakup she’d experienced. She noticed while singing it that there was a man in the audience recording her as she sang.

Afterward, he told her that he had a daughter that was Dingwell’s age who was also going through a horrible breakup.

“He said he wanted to thank me for sharing this,” Dingwell said. “He thought the song would really connect with her. It made him want to cry because he’s been watching her go through it. I was like, oh, that’s so heartfelt. That’s the heart of indie core. You want to connect with people. That is a standout moment for me that I’ll always treasure.”

And they both agreed the food trucks are great. They appreciate that the event is for a good cause, one that encourages people to plant and grow things.

“Everyone is there for such a great reason and has such a positive attitude,” Dingwell said. “Everyone is in a good mood and it really is an excellent showcase of the community coming together in every regard to support each other for the greater good.”

“This one is specifically geared toward the arts,” Klunk added.

“It’s different than doing a show in Hollywood where music can feel oversaturated. Not every listener is there to listen. But every year with WAM, no matter what time of day we are playing, we always have people

In addition to 10 mainstage music performers and four more performance groups throughout the day, there will be art, community booths, kids’ activities, garden tours, food trucks, and a beer and wine garden.

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very attentively listening.

Rainne has traveled a winding road to find their sound as an indie pop group. They met at a Grammy camp and then went to college together at the University of Southern California.

Dingwell was writing music for other people in a wide variety of genres and moods. The friendship from their high school and college days remained strong and they enjoyed playing with each other. They started combining their talents and Dingwell would throw Klunk strange songs, then he would figure out how to make the saxophone work for them.

“Sometimes the saxophone acts like a bass, sometimes it acts like a saxophone,” Dingwell said. “Sometimes it harmonizes the vocals and sometimes he puts in a ton of effects and gives it this atmosphere feel. That was a huge part of us figuring out the sound. Then I got better at honing my genres in.”

In the past several years, they’ve released such singles as “Psycho Killer,” “Sin” and “Dirty Little Dream.”

At WAM, they will be playing with a backing band, which Klunk said adds an extra level of energy to their shows.

Dingwell said audiences can expect a lot of solos and intricate arrangements during their set.

“We don’t want to play the songs the exact same way they appear on paper or on the records,” Dingwell said. “We love to have different iterations for them. The show will have lots of energy.”

“High sass and lots of brass,” Klunk added.

“You might get a few bad jokes from Justin,” Dingwell warned.

“A few?” Klunk laughed. “A lot.”

What: Westchester Arts & Music Block Party When: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 18 Where: Emerson Avenue between 80th Street and West 80th Place, Westchester Cost: Free wamblockparty.org

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Where Compassion Intersects 18th Street Art Center’s exhibit highlights racial justice and more period. A rather uplifting portrayal of people uniting is a piece called ‘One Mask, One Love, One Heart’ to heal globally of all 18th Street artists. This is an outdoor mural that measures 10 feet x 30 feet and a small piece indoors by Susie McKay Krieser and Yrneh Gabon featuring beautiful colors with an upbeat message.

Another positive message is by Rebecca Youssef, “The Sowing Imperative,” of beautiful paintings on grocery bags that pull out images of birth and air from destruction.

In a different direction is a piece by Yrneh Gabon Brown with subtle power, “Out of Many One,” of a border wall and hundreds of sneakers locked inside a net with handcuffs draped on the side. “Run Johnny Run” by Lola del Fresno depicts a video of a black man running and the horrendous recent shootings, alongside a large architecture drawing in red to indicate redlining discrimination in neighborhoods.

Other expressions of sadness comprise Debra Disman’s “Womb” installation made through tying, stitching, knotting and more into a hanging curtain of thick string-like elements. Then walk into and grasp a sense of loss – not feeling alone inside due to

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By Nicole Borgenicht Entering the building, a three-room exhibition entitled “Three Structures Touching” opens an empathetic forum. This show is a collaboration between artist Maj Hassager from Denmark with Quinn Research Center founders Carolyne and Bill Edwards. It comprises structures symbolizing a freeway going through the neighborhood and displacing black residents.

In addition, videos and photography on African American history show challenges, work and goals in the Broadway district of Santa Monica. Jan Williamson, executive director of 18th Street Art Center, said, “‘Three Structures Touching’ explores an archive of the small but influential Black community in the Santa Monica Bay area from the early 20th century onward, while ‘Recovery Justice’ highlights recent circumstances that have evolved during the pandemic (racial justice demonstrations and destruction, as well as social discontent and general disconnection) and how our Artists in Residence responded to it.”

“Recovery Justice” explores the unique ways artist create in lieu of the pandemic and incidents during this difficult

18th Street Art Center’s “Three Structures Touching” is an exhibition of new works by artist Maj Hasager born out of her years-long collaboration with the Quinn Research Center, on view at 18th Street’s Propeller Gallery through Oct. 2 in Santa Monica. the multitude of symmetrical stringy lines.

Starkness derives from Melinda Smith Altshuler’s “Ascension, Suspension to Cultural Blindness/Correcting Vision” installation featuring suspended chairs tied together with thick electric cords. Along one side are small pictures of homeless tents and on the

The “Recovery Justice” exhibition explores the unique ways artist create in lieu of the pandemic and incidents during this difficult period.

opposing wall hang large photos of portable restrooms. Altshuler shared that these are the things homeless people live without: electricity, toilets, chairs and other comforts we take for granted.

“The suspended, bound chairs represent out of reach, out of service,” Altshuler said.

Lionel Popkin’s video art entitled “Six Positions of Uncertainty” shows a carpet and a man leaning over while moving around in the attempt of finding how to live with one’s self in isolation. Popkin also created an installation of a room featuring hanging notecards with a few words above called “Room to Look Up? George Floyd 8:46” with sad written phrases above such as “I can’t breathe.”

Lola de Fresno’s mural “The innocents (save a million lives)” depicts generations of people searching for a new home, and she described it as ending the pandemic and defending the Asian community from prejudice. “Mattress from Displacement Series” is a mural by Luciana Abait that depicts a large map with noted restricted areas and a mattress in the middle, which represents problems in the world that are ours as well. Abait’s other

artwork is a construct of maps sinking to show new perspectives on climate change.

Marcus Kuiland-Nazario’s curated piece “The Sea Change Lab” is a laboratory for performance artists to explore ideas that they normally could not during Covid-19 mean as a gift of time and space for artists.

Tonight, a poet types on an old typewriter rhythmically as if a snare with humor improv exaggeration to a guitar, bass, and the international, melodic, fun sound of a mandolin.

Altogether creating a new art out of different arts, KuilandNazario keeps the flow changing, as with the earth and sea we are all connected.

One fabulous aspect of the “Recovery Justice: Being Well” and “Three Structures Touching” shows is that many of the participating artists represent different ethnicities and countries uniting in compassionate creativity.

Recovery Justice: Being Well (Through Sept. 11, 2021) Three Structures Touching (Through Oct. 2, 2021) 3026 Airport Ave – Santa Monica Airport (across from Barker Hanger)

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“This light and airy two-story home has two bedrooms downstairs and three bedrooms upstairs, including a roomy main suite with ensuite bathroom and walk-in closet. The formal living room, with fireplace and picture windows that overlook the quiet street, adjoins the formal dining room. Downstairs you will also find a large family room with fireplace that opens to a roomy kitchen with center island. Step through the family room sliding glass door or the back door in the separate laundry/mud room into the backyard that is landscaped with colorful, drought tolerant plants and drip irrigation system and has plenty of room for dining, lounging and play areas that your entire family and friends will enjoy. Double wide driveway leads to detached two-car garage would make a great office or ADU. Located in one of Westchester’s friendliest neighborhoods filled with families, local shops and restaurants.”

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In Escrow 7101 Playa Vista Dr #109, Playa Vista

3 bed | 2.5 bath | $1,275,000 Modern Deluxe Townhome

In Escrow 7921 Kentwood Ave, Westchester 5 bed | 5 bath | $2,995,000 Traditional Home With Pool

8232 Tuscany Ave, Playa del Rey 4 bed | 2.5 bath | $1,949,000 Meticulously Maintained

12601 Matteson Ave #4, Mar Vista 3 bed | 2.5 bath | $995,000 Delightfully Bright And Modern

Just Sold 7912 El Manor Ave, Westchester 3 bed | 2 bath | $1,396,000 Unlimited Potential

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8340 McConnell Ave, Westchester 3 bed | 2 bath | $1,537,000 SoCal Bungalow

2821 Colby Ave, West Los Angeles 3 bed | 2 bath | $1,625,000 Charming Turnkey Home

2315 Ocean Front Walk, Venice 4 bed | 3.5 bath | $18,975/month Architectural Masterpiece

In Escrow 6623 W 88th St, Westchester 3 bed | 2 bath | $1,099,000 Traditional Meets Boho Chic

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Just Sold 6411 Nancy St, Westchester 4 bed | 2.5 bath | $1,899,000 Pristine Traditional Home

1719 Easterly Terrace, Silver Lake 2 bed | 3 bath | $1,607,719 Serene Haven

Just Sold 6321 W 79th St, Westchester 3 bed | 2 bath | $1,599,000 Modern Elegance

Just Sold 3307 S. Bentley Ave, Westdale 3 bed | 2 bath | $2,195,000 Mid-Century Pool Home

FIND YOUR PLACE Stephanie Younger Group 310.499.2020 | DRE 01365696 stephanieyounger.com | @stephanieyoungergroup Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01991628. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only and is compiled from sources deemed reliable but has not been verified.

Changes in price, condition, sale or withdrawal may be made without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footage are approximate. If your property is currently listed for sale this is not a solicitation.

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Condos: the new homebuyer first pick For the first time in nine years, condos are selling above asking price, indicating a homebuyer demand shift.

decades trying to save up a 20% down payment on a house, the next best option for their budget is to look at smaller, less costly condos.

Nationally, the average condo sold for 0.7% above asking price and at the fastest pace on record within 22 days in June, according to a Redfin analysis. The national median sales price for condos rose a record 20.3% year-over-year in June to an all-time high of $304,000. For reference, the median single family residence (SFR) sales price increased 27% year-over-year to $405,000.

Also appealing to young adult homebuyers are the shared amenities and central location typical of condos in areas closer to jobs in the city. SFRs are often located in areas away from the city, in the suburbs, where commutes are long. For a young adult looking to live near where they work and have more amenities, condos are the perfect option for their first-time home purchase.

The rapid price increases of the past year have pushed many low- and mid-tier homebuyers out of their preferred market. Between choosing to purchase an $800,000 SFR or a $304,000 condo, it’s clear why first-time homebuyers are forced to choose the latter.

On the other side of the generational equation, condos are equally desirable for Baby Boomers near or past retirement age. Low maintenance and access to amenities make condos attractive followups to the suburban McMansion lifestyle Boomers are typically associated with. As this generation continues into retirement, condo demand will continue to increase.

The past 12 months have seen home prices skyrocket, but at the same time, incomes have remained stagnant. Low-to medium- income earners simply can’t qualify for single-family homes anymore. Instead, homebuyers are turning towards condos as the first-time homebuyer choice.

Renters seeking to buy are painfully aware of increasing home prices, and rather than waiting

But will there be enough condos to go around?

Despite increased demand, California’s strict zoning laws restrict building heights and limit condo construction by prohibiting denser housing.

However, state legislators aware of the housing shortage are working to change these laws with bills

like AB 725, which takes effect January 1st, 2022, requiring greater, denser housing plans, and SB 166, which was passed to ensure enough housing is available for each income segment, addressing the current shortage of affordable housing units across the state.

Another limitation is that zoning requires parking requirements, and in denser housing developments parking is expensive, especially in areas where the cost of land is high. One way legislators can remedy the negative impacts of parking requirements is by encouraging cities to lean on transit-oriented development, especially for low- to mid- tier units.

Developments near public transit reduce the cost per unit, making it easier and quicker to build.

Los Angeles is a prime example of a city focused on adding transit-oriented housing. LA’s Transit Oriented Communities (TOC) Affordable Housing Incentive Program encourages low- to mid- tier housing development near transit by rewarding housing developments with tier-based incentives such as density bonuses and lower parking requirements.

For an example of long-term successful transit-oriented communities, legislators can

look to the country of South Korea. South Korea isn’t just known for its popular Hallyu culture and entertainment, but also for its incredibly efficient transportation system all throughout the country’s major cities. Multi-family developments — including condos — are purposefully built near subway entrances due to public demand to live near transit for its benefits of being close to the city’s amenities and jobs.

On top of adding housing units, California legislators are also trying to improve the state’s transportation.

The state began construction for its high-speed rail project in 2015, connecting San Francisco to the Central Valley, which is scheduled to open by 2029.

Visit our Legislative gossip page for an up-to-date list of laws relevant to housing or real estate practice currently pending or passed.

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THE ARGONAUT PRESS RELEASES ITALIAN RIVIERA MEETS PLAYA VISTA

WESTCHESTER CHARMER

“This is a rare deluxe 3BD/2.3BA townhome located in the heart of Playa Vista,” says agent Stephanie Younger. “A beautiful stone-tiled courtyard entry leads to the classic wood-stamped floor in a wide foyer, welcoming you into all that is airy and bright. This home includes large solid doors, curved archways, plantation shutters, a marble fireplace and access to an enclosed outdoor patio facing the courtyard. The large kitchen offers luxury and comfort with custom cabinetry, SS appliances, a breakfast bar, an adjacent breakfast nook, and an additional patio out back with a natural gas hook-up for a grill.”

Offered at $1,275,000 Stephanie Younger Compass 310-499-2020

“This great 3BD/2BA floorplan offers numerous options for families,” says agent Jane St. John. “Original living room has nice hardwood floors, big front window, and a fireplace.

Bright white kitchen looks out over large grassy backyard.

Three bedrooms off center hall with an updated full hallway bathroom. Back family room has French doors out to the patio and yard, and is very light and bright. Approximately 6400 sq ft lot provides ample opportunities for an ADU, adding a pool, BBQs, and informal outdoor entertaining.”

Offered at $1,350,000 Jane St. John RE/MAX Estate Properties 310-567-5971

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“Extensively renovated 3BD/2.5BA townhome comes with an oversized patio and private direct-access 2-car garage,” says agent Jesse Weinberg. “This light and bright floorplan includes designer details throughout with wood flooring, and recessed lighting. Upstairs you will find 3 bedrooms including the sun-drenched owners suite with a barreled ceiling, private balcony and en-suite bathroom. Villa San Michele is considered to have one of best common areas including a heated pool, spa, gazebo and beautiful landscaping including an expansive lawn.”

Offered at $1,199,000 Jesse Weinberg Jesse Weinberg & Associates 800-804-9132

PLAYA VISTA’S STUNNING ASHER

“The perfect blend of modern and coastal living,” says agent Kris Zacuto. “This single family detached home offers an ideal floor plan with 4 bedrooms at approximately 2,613 SqFt. This floor plan blends a functional layout with an open floor plan perfect for entertaining. The interior design subtly showcases a modern farmhouse theme with contemporary and current surfaces and upgrades. The white oak hardwood flooring sets the tone, and the 2nd floor impresses with a picture perfect kitchen and great room.”

Offered at $2,499,000 Kris Zacuto Hilton & Hyland 310-702-6299

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“Wonderful 3BD/2BA home with 1,486 sf living space on a 6,557 sf lot,” says agent Dan Chrisitan. “Bright oversized living/dining room with wood-burning fireplace and loads of windows overlooking private backyard. Beautiful original hardwood floors throughout. The breakfast nook is adjacent to the full kitchen with refrigerator, dishwasher, range/oven and microwave, and direct access to full-sized laundry room with backdoor access. The impeccable backyard is fully fenced and includes a covered brick patio and planters with landscaping. The side yard has backdoor access to the house through the laundry room and 2-car attached garage.”

Offered at $1,495,000 Dan Christian RE/MAX Estate Properties 310-251-6918

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 21SMCP00379 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition of LYNN SACHI LEM, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Lynn Sachi Lem filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Lynn Sachi Lem to Lynn Sachi Nakai 2.) THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 10/22/21. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: K. The address of the court is 1725 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90401. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Los Angeles. Original filed: August 11, 2021. Hon. Lawrence Cho, Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: The Argonaut Newspaper 08/19/21, 08/26/21, 09/02/21, 09/09/21

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USE LICENSE OPPORTUNITIES FOR RECREATIONAL PROGRAMS AT L.A. COUNTY BEACHES & MARINA DEL REY

The Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors is seeking to issue Use Licenses to qualified and experienced operators to provide various summer camps and recreational programs to Los Angeles County residents in Marina del Rey and Los Angeles County-owned and -operated beaches. Selection of operators will be based on the qualifications of the applicants, with an emphasis on safety standards, professional experience operating similar recreational programs, operating plans, community service, financial capability, and remuneration.

Applicants must meet the minimum safety requirements as specified by the County. Applicants that do not demonstrate the ability to meet the minimum safety requirements will not be considered.

Applications and instructions will be available for download starting September 6, 2021. Visit http://beaches.lacounty.gov and click the Summer Use License Application link.

The deadline for submitting applications will be September 30, 2021 at 5:00 p.m.

The Department also reserves the right to revise the submittal instructions and to modify any and all terms and conditions of the selection process, including minimum requirements. For further information, call (424) 526-7880.

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NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 10/22/21. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: K. The address of the court is 1725 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90401. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Los Angeles. Original filed: August 11, 2021. Hon. Lawrence Cho, Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: The Argonaut Newspaper 08/19/21, 08/26/21, 09/02/21, 09/09/21 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 21BBCP00358 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition of BRIAN LAMONT WILLIAMSON, for Change of Name.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Brian Lamont Williamson filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Brian Lamont Williamson to Bronzz Nature 2.)

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

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Compiled by Kamala Kirk Annenberg Community Beach House Tour, Noon to 2 p.m.

Santa Monica Conservancy docents will be on hand to share the rich history of the Beach House site from the 1920s into present day. The free 20-minute docent tours are available on a walk-up basis for individuals and groups of up to six people. Just head to the Marion Davies Guest House where you will be greeted by a docent. Please wear a mask as it is required at City of Santa Monica facilities.

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Saturday, September 11 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 Venice Car Show Fundraiser, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Venice Car Show Fundraiser for the Venice Mexican American Traquero Monument will take place at Oakwood Park in Venice. Car entrance fee is $25 and gates open at 8 a.m.

They will also be celebrating Mexican Independence Day since Venice’s Annual “El Grito” Mexican Independence Day Celebration takes place during this week. There will be a Oaxaquena food truck, DJ music by Joey Bustamante, 50/50 drawing raffle, photo booth and more. This is a free

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Friday, September 10

free standup comedy from 7 to 8:30 p.m. followed by open mic to 9 p.m. The featured charity is The Innocence Project. Happy hour until 7 p.m. Make reservations or just show up. Learn more at servingupcomedy.com.

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Wednesday, September 15

On Sept. 14, MindTravel is hosting a walking meditation up Los Liones Canyon Trail ending with a live piano experience at the peak by composer Murray Hidary. family-friendly community event that has been sponsored

by Council Member Mike Bonin. All proceeds will go towards the Venice Mexican American Traquero Monument.

The Venice Mexican American Traquero Monument was approved to be placed at the Windward Circle in Venice and passed unanimously by the LA City Council on May 5, 2021 with Civil Rights Leader Dolores Huerta’s blessing. It will be the first monument on the Westside to honor all Mexican and Mexican American railroad workers known as “traqueros” who contributed to the development of the Main Railroad Transportation System and the Pacific Electric Interurban System in Los Angeles.

The projected completion date is in 2024.

767 California Ave., Venice MindTravel Silent Piano Experience on the Beach, 6 to 8 p.m.

Allow yourself to be carried away as the sun sets over the Pacific. Get ready for a magical journey as Murray Hidary’s real-time compositions are beamed directly into COURTESY OF RUNWAY

On Sept. 15, RUNWAY in Playa Vista is hosting a mini food festival featuring various restaurants from 5 to 8 p.m.

your mind while you kick back and take in your surroundings.

A perfect way to relax before continuing into the evening.

Don’t forget to bring your favorite beach chair or blanket and warm layers as it can get chilly as the sun sets at night.

MindTravel will provide the wireless headphones. On Sept.

11, MindTravel acknowledges the 20th anniversary of a national tragedy. In light of the current crisis in Afghanistan, 10% of the proceeds from this weekend will be donated to support Afghan refugee resettlement efforts. Event will take place on Santa Monica Beach in front of Casa Del Mar Hotel.

For tickets and more information, visit mindtravel.com.

Sunday, September 12 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

MindTravel Silent Piano Experience on the Beach, 6 to 8 p.m.

See previous event description.

Tuesday, September 14 MindTravel SilentWalking Meditation up Los Liones Trail, 6 to 8:30 p.m.

Allow yourself to be carried away by the deep feeling of freedom and connection with a walking meditation led by MindTravel creator and composer, Murray Hidary. Over the course of the MindTravel experience, you’ll join other MindTravelers exploring this idyllic setting while guided by MindTravel music delivered through MindTravel headphones. The evocative, improvisational piano music ignites freedom and expansiveness that amplifies the healing and inspirational power of being surrounded by beauty. After a short introduction and intention setting, the group will venture forth on a guided meditative hike up Los Liones Canyon Trail ending with a live piano experience at the peak of the trail for a contemplative and powerful creative journey – all while enveloped in the transcendent sounds of the beautiful, original MindTravel compositions.

For more information and tickets, visit mindtravel.com.

Serving Up Comedy, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Serving Up Comedy is back at The Warehouse Restaurant, a monthly standup comedy show every second Tuesday beginning Sept. 14. No admission fee, no 2-item minimum. Just

Taste of RUNWAY, 5 to 8 p.m.

Celebrate with RUNWAY as they say goodbye to summer with their first-ever food festival. Sample savory bites from their eateries and enjoy the best libations in Playa Vista from their eccentric bar and café, Joliet. One ticket purchase gets you 10 vouchers and each voucher is good for one sample from participating restaurants.

Drinks and alcohol sold separately. Enjoy live music along with delicious bites and drinks at the outdoor beer garden on Town Center Drive.

For more information, visit runwayplayavista.com.

12775 Millennium Dr., Suite 165, Playa Vista 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 29. Every week, The Point will feature a new musician and band with tunes ranging from folk rock to reggae. 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.

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