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VOL 44, NO 48 Local News & Culture
OPINION Letters to the editor (Rocky’s return) . .................................................5
NEWS Coyote sightings up in the Westchester/Playa bluffs ..........................8 Westside Voices: Immigration Reform ................................................8 City takes action on Westchester rat swarm . ................................... 11 Local toy and clothing drives ............................................................ 11 Group sues city over Venice Beach homeless camps ...................... 14 Nautical News: Anchorage anxiety in MdR . ..................................... 14
FEATURE Sheriff-elect Jim McDonnell, who takes office Monday, on his plans to “restore the shine on the badge” after years of Sheriff’s Department scandals ..................................................... 12
THIS WEEK Preservation Hall Jazz Band joins Allen Toussaint at The Broad . .... 15 “Inferno Los Angeles” updates Dante in graphic novel form ............. 16 Mar Vista Small Business Pop-up celebrates a ‘Great Street’ ..........24 Westside Happenings ......................................................................24 Robert Heft sings the Playa del Rey blues at Prince O’Whales . ......26
ACROSS THE COUNTER Alex Josef of Wheel House Cheese Store on the proper way to serve a cheese platter .................................................................. 17 ON THE COVER: Sheriff-elect Jim McDonnell surveys the harbor from the Marina del Rey Sheriff’s Station dock. Photo by Ted Soqui. Design by Michael Kraxenberger.
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LETTERS Your ‘dead zone’ is our peace and quiet Re: “Gjusta opposition grows,” news, Nov. 20 More residents are joining the cause to oppose a change of use to “restaurant with liquor license” for Gjusta, the so-called bakery at 320 Sunset Ave. that Gjelina restaurant owner Fran Camaj opened last month. Camaj’s claim to be a friend of the Venice community is dubious. As reported by The Argonaut: “Camaj said he hoped positive nighttime activity at the restaurant would inject life into a longstanding ‘dead zone’ with few retail options and a large homeless presence.” That so-called “dead zone” is, in fact, Venice’s racially diverse Oakwood area — a quiet residential and artistic community. Camaj seems to forget that the 300 block of Sunset is one block from Rose Avenue, two blocks from Main Street, three short blocks away from the worldfamous Venice Beach boardwalk, and four blocks from Abbot Kinney — streets filled with a plethora of restaurants and retailers. “Since we’ve opened I’ve seen babies in strollers on the 200 block of Sunset for the first time ever,” Camaj said. Really? Families with babies live just a few doors from Gjusta. The bedroom windows of some families with children are 13 feet from the back patio Camaj is proposing. Strollers have been seen on this part of Sunset for years because scores of children live in the area surrounding Gjusta, where the majority of buildings are residential. Apparently, Camaj believes changing his bakery (called “the fakery” by locals who oppose it) into a restaurant serving liquor on an outdoor patio open until 1 a.m. seven days a week would lead to “positive activity.” What Camaj’s plan will really do is undermine Oakwood residents’ quality of life by adding noise, traffic, parking congestion, pollution and late-night rowdiness to a tranquil neighborhood. What Camaj cynically calls a “dead zone,” residents call peace and quiet. As reported, LAPD Pacific Division Capt. Brian Johnson, Pacific Division Vice Unit Sergeant Robin Richards and Sarah Blanch of the Westside Impact Project oppose Gjusta’s securing a liquor license in an area already dense and oversaturated with them. In the Nov. 6 edition of The Argonaut, Camaj told reporter Gary Walker that his Gjelina
restaurant has not drawn unwanted attention from law enforcement. Residents surrounding Gjusta are demanding that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and City Councilman Mike Bonin and the city’s Building and Safety Department give him some at Gjusta. Gjusta is already causing a nuisance. Neighbors complain of being disturbed by noise from patrons eating on premises, smoke and cooking smells, (Continued on page 6)
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Airport vote is a bellwether for change Now is not the time to be timid about addressing the impacts of SMO In Los Angeles a gas leaf blower can’t legally be operated within 500 feet of a residence, but SMO jets blast their toxic emissions across Bundy Drive not even 300 feet from homes. have to be voted on by Santa Monica residents. This will now be part of the City Charter.
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By Martin Rubin Thank you Santa Monica voters for seeing your way through the thick smoke of deceit blown over the city by the aviation interests’ lobby groups. With 59% to 41% voting against the pro-Santa Monica Airport (SMO) Measure D and in favor of the city’s Measure LC, the only thing up in smoke now is the more than $750,000 spent trying to fool Santa Monica voters. As the dust begins to settle, let us consider what the vote means and what should be done now. The vote put to rest the proSMO argument that only a small minority is concerned about SMO impacts. Not put to rest is the question of the pro-SMO misrepresentations during petition gathering, with only about 9,500 of the 15,000 who signed the petition actually voting for Measure D. The passage of the city’s Measure LC was a huge win for slow growth. Now, with the exception of parks and open space, any future development on the land that is now SMO will
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will expire. It is essential that the city takes action while it still has the reserved proprietary powers within the 1984 agreement. Afterward, the Airport Noise and Capacity Act of 1990 (ANCA) will begin to apply to SMO. Challenges under ANCA take years, are very expensive and, so far, always lose. The city should not be timid about addressing the most egregious impacts of SMO. Health and safety are at the top of the list. The Santa Monica Airport Commission is working on a recommendation to City Council that will limit aircrafts’ use of SMO by the amount of pollution an aircraft emits. That would be comparable to existing limits on noise pollution. Also needed is a federal rule that would specify a minimum distance between the ground operations at an airport and homes. In Los Angeles a gas leaf blower can’t legally be operated within 500 feet of a residence, but SMO jets blast their toxic emissions across Bundy Drive not even 300 feet from homes.
Minimum runoff safety areas need full, not partial, implementation at both ends and both sides of the runway. This is necessary for the safety of those in the aircraft as well as those on the ground. No more runway roulette. Dealing with SMO at the federal level, Santa Monica will have a fresh, vibrant Ted Lieu as its representative in Congress. As a California assemblyman and state senator, Ted has been by far the most active state representative to address the concerns of SMO neighbors. The time is definitely right for the city to dive fully into the waters of correcting this deplorable situation. The voters have spoken. Community leaders will be watching and, as always, offering assistance. Don’t let this right-time opportunity go by. Martin Rubin is director of the advocacy group Concerned Residents Against Airport Pollution, founded in 2003 to oppose jet traffic at Santa Monica Airport.
volunteer teaching and tutoring. How many other businesses are doing that? As to the chiropractor’s complaint about parking — welcome to L.A.! Show me where parking isn’t a problem on the Westside. Let’s help our brothers and sisters living on the street before we squabble over whether an outdoor patio spells doom for our community. F. Bundy Venice
This Thanksgiving, I won’t be calling the government’s Poultry Hotline, wondering how that turkey lived and died, or dozing through the football game. Our dinner: Tofurky (a soy-based roast), mashed potatoes, stuffed squash, chestnut soup, candied yams, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and carrot cake. Steve Prosky Marina del Rey
Have ‘a nonviolent Thanksgiving’ This week, President Obama will pardon two turkeys to promote the turkey industry. Every one of us can exercise that same pardon power by choosing a nonviolent Thanksgiving observance. It’s a most fitting way to give thanks for our own life, health and happiness. The 240 million turkeys killed in the U.S. this year have nothing to give thanks for. They are raised in crowded sheds filled with toxic fumes and barbarically slaughtered.
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traffic congestion and parking problems. At the Nov. 13 zoning hearing, Building and Safety staff saw and heard evidence of these transgressions but they refuse to act. Bonin and Garcetti have apparently not given them notice to take action. The day after the hearing, Gjusta was doing business as usual. What side are our city leaders on? Roxanne Brown Venice Attacks on Gjusta misplace priorities Re: “Gjusta opposition grows,” news, Nov. 20 I just read the piece by Gary Walker about community opposition to the new Gjusta bakery plan. Am I missing something? A successful business wishes to do something positive in an area that is currently a scary place and some neighbors get uptight about it. Why isn’t anyone up in arms about the dozens of homeless
This recent snapshot of 3rd Street at Sunset Avenue in Venice has a reader asking why people are so against Gjusta “doing something positive” in an area where the crushing reality of homelessness is so prominently visible on a daily basis. men and women living on 3rd Street right in front of the new bakery? It’s ghetto and certainly a more important topic to explore for the community’s sake. Where are our priorities?
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As to Zack Galifianakis’ point about Gjelina not caring about the neighborhood, I understand that there is a Gjelina Volunteer Program that works to help local grade-school kids through
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Coyote sightings have increased dramatically this year in the Westchester and Playa del Rey bluffs Photo By Jonathan Coffin
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By Gary Walker Like opossums, raccoons and other wildlife, coyotes have become just another part of the landscape for those living in the bluffs and hillsides of Westchester and Playa del Rey. Recent sightings of coyotes in the front and back lawns of homes — in addition to a coyote chasing and biting a small dog out for an early morning walk on Hulbert Avenue in August — have some homeowners anxious that the animals are coming a bit too close for comfort. Reports of coyotes roaming the hills in close proximity to homes has increased dramatically this year, Los Angeles Wildlife Services Officer Hoang Dinh said during a Nov. 18 community meeting in Playa Vista. Organized by the city and the nonprofit Friends of the Ballona Wetlands, the meeting sought to address how people should respond when confronting a coyote. Dinh opened with a message that he repeated throughout the meeting: “Coyotes have always been around this area. This is their home,” he said. But the one aspect of coyote behavior being reported in the bluffs and flatlands that alarms Dinh is how at ease the animals seem to be around humans. Typically shy and solitary animals, coyotes will almost certainly flee when a person stands his or her ground — or as Dinh recommended, throws an object toward them to scare them away.
“We don’t want them to get comfortable, and they will become more comfortable around us if people retreat from them,” he said. Roy van de Hoek, a wildlife biologist who is co-director of the Playa del Rey-based Ballona Institute, said he has seen coyotes around the edges of the Ballona Wetlands off Culver Boulevard. “There are small rodents, plants and squirrels in the wetlands, so there are food sources available for them,” van de Hoek said. Richard Brody, who manages the wetlands for the state Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, said he has not seen many coyotes in the wetlands, though he and some of his volunteers have found scat from the animals, meaning that they have at least passed through the ecological reserve. “We did find an old abandoned coyote den, but I really haven’t seen a lot of them in the wetlands,” Brody said. Dr. Eric Strauss, a professor of urban ecology at Loyola Marymount University, has done extensive work on coyote behavior in his home state of Massachusetts. “We still haven’t determined whether cities produce coyotes or attract coyotes. We think of the open green spaces as being the places that they want to live, and that’s true to a degree, but they also want to live where the resources are,” Strauss said during the meeting. “When you think about these areas on the
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edges [of where people are living], these peripheral areas, these become the favorite places for coyotes.” Coyotes typically prefer to avoid people, Dinh said, adding that wildlife experts generally agree that this is in the best interests of everyone — including the coyotes. “It’s very important that they fear humans. That way they will stay out of sight,” Dinh said. He stressed that people should not feed coyotes, which some at the meeting said they had witnessed. Feeding coyotes can deprive the animals of their hunting skills and make them dependent on humans. “People who do this think they’re being humane. But what they don’t realize is that a fed coyote is a dead coyote,” said Dinh. Los Angeles’ municipal code prohibits feeding coyotes and other wild animals, imposing penalties of up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. The state Dept. of Fish and Wildlife’s website, dfg.ca.gov, also gives guidelines for interacting with wildlife. “The presence of a predator in nature is a good sign that there are more than enough resources. Otherwise, there would be no incentive for them,” said Strauss. “You have to understand that they’ve always been here and they’re going to continue to be here … and we just have to accept that.” gary@argonautnews.com
On Nov. 20, President Barack Obama announced an executive order to place a three-year temporary deportation reprieve for undocumented immigrant parents of children who are American citizens or have permanent resident status. These undocumented parents can now also apply for work permits if they have been in the country for at least five years. The existing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will also expand to include undocumented kids who arrived in the U.S. before turning 16 and have been present since Jan. 1, 2010. According to the White House, an estimated 4.1 million undocumented immigrant parents could now be eligible for deportation delays, including more than 1.1 million in California — the most of any state. A Pew Research Center poll found that the Golden State has the second-highest percentage (behind Nevada) of K-12 students in public schools with at least one parent who does not have legal status. — Gary Walker
“The separation of families is one of the most inhumane parts of our immigration system and it was absolutely critical to have a policy that keeps families intact. … The president’s action is a good first step, but in some ways it does not go far enough. There has been a tremendous amount of anti-immigrant speech lately that creates this ecology of fear, as if immigrant communities are taking something away from them.” — Judy Baca, co-founder of the Social and Public Art Resource Center in Venice “Successful outcomes depend on the involvement of parents in their children’s education — from parentteacher conferences to baking cookies for a class holiday party. Unfortunately, the stable home environment that nurtures parent participation is lacking in the homes of school children who live in fear of immigration authorities. … Starting with my teaching career in 1992, I saw dozens and dozens of students with 4.0 GPAs ready for college, but facing a closed door to higher education simply because of their immigration status. Years later, as a counselor, I could only give hugs of c onsolation at graduation ceremonies to some of our greatest students who met every requirement for college eligibility except status.” — LAUSD board member Steve Zimmer “America is a nation of immigrants, and this executive action will be beneficial to many Californians and to my constituents. I support the president’s action and I plan to work on comprehensive immigration reform when I get to Washington D.C.” — Congressman-elect Ted Lieu (D- Torrance), the son of Taiwanese immigrants “There is no court that will overturn President Obama’s executive order. The president clearly has the authority to set policy for the enforcement of immigration.” — UCLA School of Law professor Adam Winkler, a specialist on American constitutional law
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County health officials are addressing an infestation of rats that centered on this Westchester home, where the animals were apparently being fed By Gary Walker An infestation of rats in an affluent Westchester neighborhood is on its way to being brought under control, according to Los Angeles County Department of Public Health officials. Residents of the 6300 block of West 81st Street in Westchester began complaining in September about a swarm of rats invading their street, attributing the problem to neighbors they accused of feeding the rodents. Public health workers have since visited the residence where neighbors say the rats are breeding and are working with the homeowners to eradicate the pests. “Public Health has provided ongoing guidance to the owners at 6366 W. 81st St., conducting several inspections since September. A final inspection report will be created when all issues have been abated,” a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said. “Public Health will be visiting the property in early December to observe the owner’s progress in eliminating the concerns addressed in the initial inspection.” In September, KTLA Channel 5 News reported that Larry Palkovic, an occupant of the home in question, acknowledged that he and his wife keep rats as pets inside the house. He said on air that rats have always been in the neighborhood. “We’ve seen raccoons in the backyard,” Palkovic told KTLA.
“The rats are part of the urban landscape.” Palkovic could not be reached this week. Public health officials say they have not received further complaints about rats from neighboring residences. According to an inspection report issued in September, the Palkovics are required to eliminate the “infestation, harboring or breeding of rodents” and rodent-harborage conditions such as piles of debris, excessive vegetation and rodent burrows. They must also store pet food in pest-free containers and make interior and exterior repairs to the home. The inspection report also indicated that complaints of feeding wild rats could have merit. “It is recommended that the feeding of wildlife be discontinued,” the report states. While “public health inspectors did not observe anyone feeding wildlife,” they found peanut shells and “excessive” rodent droppings under hedges west of the home. Linda Black, the branch manager at Caldwell Banker Residential Brokerage for Venice and Marina del Rey, says it was critical for public health officials to get a handle on the rat infestation. “Besides the public health aspect, there is the perception and fear for prospective home buyers that the county might not have this problem under con-
trol,” she said. The Palkovics’ home is on the eastern edge of Kentwood, a very affluent neighborhood where Black said home prices have remained relatively high during the recent recession. “If buyers are being scared off because of the vermin, that could have a significant bearing on home prices,” she added. Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin’s office learned of the rat problem in September and has been in contact with county public health officials as well as the office of L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, who represents Westchester neighborhoods east of Manchester Avenue. Bonin’s office also facilitated a meeting between county officials and the Neighborhood Council of Westchester – Playa. “Councilman Bonin was aghast at the situation when he first heard, and we immediately contacted the county supervisor’s office as well as county health to urge quick action,” said David Graham-Caso, Bonin’s communications director. “The latest update we received is that while the cleanup at the site is ongoing, as of now the rats are gone.” As long as the Palkovics continue to take steps to rid the area of its rodent population, county health representatives say they will not face citations for state health and safety laws. gary@argonautnews.com
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Feature
Incoming Sheriff Jim McDonnell, right, shakes hands with Lt. Chris Perez while visiting the Marina del Rey Sheriff’s Station last week
‘It’s a New Day’
Sheriff-elect Jim McDonnell’s plan to boost morale and restore public trust in the 18,000 members of L.A.’s largest law-enforcement agency
Interview by Joe Piasecki | Photos by Ted Soqui When it comes time to take the cover shot, Los Angeles County Sheriff-elect Jim McDonnell would rather fold his hands and smile than cross his arms and scowl. “I don’t do tough-guy poses,” McDonnell, standing in front of a Marina del Rey Sheriff’s Station patrol boat, explains in an accent befitting a matter-of-fact Boston cop. It’s a somewhat telling choice by the 34-year L.A.-area law enforcement veteran, who on Monday takes the reigns of a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department battered by a jailhouse brutality scandal that recently landed six deputies in prison for obstructing a federal misconduct probe. McDonnell, 55, is no pushover. Graduating from the Los Angeles Police Academy in
1981, he rose through the ranks to secondin-command under LAPD Chief Bill Bratton — who implemented many of McDonnell’s reform proposals — before becoming chief of the Long Beach Police Department in 2010. At the LAPD he also administered compliance with the federal consent decree that came down after the Rampart scandal. In October 2011, McDonnell was appointed by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors to the Citizen’s Commission on Jail Violence, which conducted a yearlong probe into use of excessive force in the jails that ultimately faulted Sheriff’s Department leadership. The thought of running for sheriff — a rank that no one outside the department had
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attained for at least a century — didn’t cross his mind at the time, but his frustration lingered on after the commission’s September 2012 report. “The things that I heard testimony about were counter to what any of us in policing would tolerate and certainly not what the residents of L.A. County deserved,” he says. “I figured if I had something to offer but didn’t have the courage to offer it, I’d be disappointed in myself.” So run McDonnell did, and won big — with 75% of the vote against former Undersheriff Paul Tanaka, whom the commission implicated in discouraging accountability for misconduct by encouraging jail deputies “to work in an undefined
gray area” and “push the legal boundaries of law enforcement activities.” The job is a big one. With 18,000 employees and a nearly $3-billion budget, the Sheriff’s Department handles 4,700 square miles of territory, including direct patrol service to unincorporated areas and 42 cities, the county court system and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. So why is he smiling? “It’s a new day,” McDonnell says of moving forward. “We start looking at restoring the shine on the badge, if you will. What that really comes down to is restoring the trust of the public we serve and the pride and the morale of the men and women of the organization as well.”
ArgonautNews.com How do you define the task ahead? Going in eyes and ears wide-open, assessing the strengths of the organization and where we can do better, and then trying to match up personnel with the job ahead. The goal is to restore morale and pride — there are some tough years behind us — and public trust in the organization overall. What do you think about convening a civilian oversight panel for the department, an idea the L.A. County Board of Supervisors rejected 3-2 in August? I think the benefit of having a group like that is to be able to have the inspector general work for them. I see both the inspector general and the oversight commission as another filter. Just the audit capability to look and see if we are doing the job the way we want to do it, to look critically at everything we do. I’m certainly not fearful of it. I worked with the L.A. Police Commission for many years, worked with an inspector general for many years in Los Angeles, and in both cases they were by no means an impediment to what we were doing and provided an extra set of eyes and a check-and-balance. What about a Department of Justice consent decree? Been there, yeah. I’m hopeful there may be some room for negotiation to come away with a document that will be a vehicle for positive change within the organization — but something that’s not viewed as onerous throughout the organization, where it actually has a negative impact on the ability to provide services. Based on your service with the Citizens Commission on Jail Violence, what went wrong in the big picture? I grew up in policing alongside the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department. I thought I knew that organization as well as any outsider could know it. When I heard the testimony for the jail commission about the pay-to-play, about the nepotism, the favoritism and in some cases brutality and corruption, that was not the LASD I knew. And so I saw that as a crisis in leadership — the fact that it was tolerated, and in some cases encouraged, when we heard the comments about ‘work in the gray.’ We don’t work in the gray. You need to be able to set clear expectations, you need to be able to put systems in place to measure behavior and performance, and you need to be able to hold people accountable for that. That’s leadership. That’s running a police department in a competent manner, and unfortunately that was deviated from for the past number of years in many cases. Looking at how we move forward, we go in and it’s a new day. We start looking at restoring the shine on the badge, if you will. What that really comes down to is restoring the trust of the public we serve and the pride and the morale of the men and women of the organization as well. How do you create the management culture to do that? Policing is and always will be a people business, and when we forget that is when we start to go down the wrong path. It’s critical that everyone know what the expectations of them are and that we’re measuring performance to achieve the goals we all share.
During the campaign you spoke about ending mandatory jail duty and redeploying deputies into specialized tracks for field patrol, custody, the courts and public transportation. The way it’s been done in the past has been that when you come into the organization from the academy you go into the jails, and most recently it’s been for up to seven years. That’s a long time. If you come on the job at 21, and you’re 28 by the time you hit the street, you’ve spend 25% of your life in custody. The way you say that, it’s as if the deputies were locked up too. If you’re in any role that you don’t want to be in — that you didn’t come on the job to do — then you’re crossing the days off a calendar as if you were somebody in custody. That’s not a great way to go to work every day. And then you get out finally into the field, but as soon as you promote again you go back and do your time, as they say, in the jail again. Do deputies call it ‘doing your time’? You’d have to ask the deputies, but it appears that way. If you get in trouble in the field, in many cases people have been sent from the field into the jail. One of your highest-liability parts of the organization is the jail. You have the largest jail system in America; 20% of your inmates are mentally ill. You need people in there who are experts at what they do. Instead it has been treated as a dumping ground for the organization: the new people went in there — either new on the job or new in rank — and people who weren’t able to get along in the field. What [the commission] recommended was to look at the jails as a specialty and try to recruit, hire and train people who want to work in the custody environment and give them a path to a meaningful career in that specialty. When it comes to addressing the impacts of mental illness and homelessness, field deputies have been compared to firstcontact social services workers and the jails have been called the largest mental health institutions in the nation. Is that a tenable situation, and how do you approach it? I applaud [Los Angeles County District Attorney] Jackie Lacey for taking the lead on this whole issue of dealing with the mentally ill and not continuing to look at incarceration as the only option. I feel being sheriff of the largest county in America gives you the bully pulpit to bring public attention to the fact that about 20% of our jail population is people who are there because of acting out on their mental illness. Jail is not the place to put somebody where they’ll get appropriate treatment and come out better, more stabilized, than when they went in. What we need is community-based mental health clinics. And we need community-based mental health courts to assess who needs to be incarcerated because they’re a danger to the community and who can be treated at the community level with whatever family support may be available. Right now we desperately lack those community resources. We need to work more closely with the Department of Mental Health and all of the community-based organizations that deal with mental health and homelessness to create more of a web of resources rather
“When I heard the testimony for the jail commission about the pay-to-play, about the nepotism, the favoritism and in some cases brutality and corruption, that was not the LASD I knew. And so I saw that as a crisis in leadership — the fact that it was tolerated, and in some cases encouraged, when we heard the comments about ‘work in the gray.’ We don’t work in the gray. You need to be able to set clear expectations, you need to be able to put systems in place to measure behavior and performance, and you need to be able to hold people accountable for that. That’s leadership.” — Sheriff-elect Jim McDonnell than dozens of silos working very hard and trying to do the best job they can but not with an approach that is coordinated. The bottom line is there are not the resources necessary to deal with the scope of the problem, so we have a lot of work to do to be more cost-effective and more humane in the treatment of the mentally ill. What about the state and county jurisdictional issues that have hampered addressing homeless encampments and crime in the Ballona Wetlands? In March, deputies confiscated four
handguns while breaking up a bicycle theft ring. We need to bring all the players to the table. Are there people living in there because they don’t feel like they have anywhere else to go? Provide them housing and do what we can in that regard. And for those who are committing crimes, do the job we traditionally do of enforcement. Talk to people and find out what’s going on. That’s just good old-fashioned police work. Read more of the interview at argonautnews.com.
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NEWS
Nautical
Where debris meets the sea
Anchorage away
Group sues city to remove campsites on Venice Beach; others urge compassion for homeless Photo by Mark Ryavec
Campsites on Venice Beach have become a flagrant public nuisance, the lawsuit claims
government has done nothing to prevent overnight camping and storage of personal effects on the boardwalk, which is designated a public park. Camping is illegal in L.A. parks. In a statement about the lawsuit, L.A. City Councilman Mike Bonin said finding housing for the homeless goes hand in hand with securing the boardwalk. “I share the frustration with the deplorable conditions on and near Venice Beach. The condition is unacceptable for residents, for merchants, for tourists and for the hundreds of unhoused people who sleep on our streets. We need to keep our parks and neighborhoods clean and safe — we need to find permanent shelters and services for the homeless,” said Bonin, who represents Venice. However, “As the [Venice Stakeholders Association] well knows, the courts have repeatedly handcuffed the city in its attempts to manage Venice Beach by a series of rulings on vending, on sleeping in public spaces, and on cleaning up both encampments and trash. The courts have repeatedly told the city of Los Angeles what it cannot do. While the source of the [association’s] ire is more appropriately aimed at the courts, if this lawsuit results in a ruling that tells the city what it can or must do, I would welcome it. We’re all interested in making Venice safe, clean and welcoming, and I trust that we are all also interested in marshaling the services and building the housing we need to end the crisis of homelessness in our city,” Bonin said.
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In late July, Bonin called for more police patrols, improved outdoor lighting and installation of surveillance cameras on the boardwalk after personally helping to clean up a mattress that had been lit on fire south of Windward Avenue “We should do everything that we can to get people into permanent housing, but that doesn’t mean that [the boardwalk] should become a campground for the unhoused. We have to reprogram Ocean Front Walk. It’s a park, not a campground,” the councilman said a few days after the incident. Steven Clare, who heads the Venice Community Housing Corp. (a Venice nonprofit that provides affordable housing to low-income residents), acknowledged that some homeless people have engaged in criminal activity and loitering but thinks the lawsuit is misdirected. “Everyone agrees that the city needs to do a better job on some of the issues in the lawsuit. There should be more regular trash pickups, more police patrols and the beach restrooms should be open 24 hours a day. But the tenor of the lawsuit is awful,” Clare said. “It depicts unhoused people as the only problem on the boardwalk when there really needs to be a public-private solution to getting unhoused people into permanent supportive housing.” Venice property owners Gary Harris (who was bit by a transient’s dog), Jack Hoffmann, Arthur Kraus, David Krintzman and Brad Neal are also plaintiffs in the public nuisance lawsuit. gary@argonautnews.com
Coast Guard to remove boat ‘parking lot’ from middle of Marina del Rey harbor By Pat Reynolds Back in June, Marina del Rey boater Hans Etter created a Facebook page called Save Our Public Anchorage in response to hearing that the U.S. Coast Guard was seeking to disestablish “a special anchorage” that exists in the heart of Marina del Rey harbor. Few people had even known there was such a thing as a special anchorage, including Etter. The region in question, established in 1965, is relatively small and located slightly south of Del Rey Yacht Club and the California Yacht Club in the center of the channel. It allows for anchoring, particularly at night without lights. When the Coast Guard partnered with the Army Corps of Engineers to discuss development projects that included the addition of slips, they noticed this area on the chart and pointed out the proposed concepts would encroach. Coast Guard officials began to look at the zone more closely and questioned its importance and contemporary relevancy. After review, in what they deem as a simple “housecleaning,” the agency proposed to disestablish the zone, indicating that it is not a practical place for any type of anchorage. “What this regulation did, to use an analogy, is it essentially established a parking lot that spans the entire width of the freeway,” Coast Guard Lt. Commander Matthew Salas said during a Nov. 20 public meeting at the Burton Chace Park Community Room. “And this parking lot, if you can imagine, also blocks the on-and-off ramps,” he continued.
“So, using the parking lot analogy, I think everyone can generally agree that it would be unwise to park at night on a freeway with no lights on.” Salas sees the removal of the anchorage as something that probably should have been done long ago due to its proximity to emergency vessels and the potential for collisions. For Etter, the removal of the anchorage was less about the relevance of the space than the importance of the operative word — “encroachment” — that was used in the proposal to eliminate the zone. When he and other politically concerned boaters see a development issue cutting into what exists on a nautical chart of Marina del Rey, the antennae go up. Through Etter’s efforts, a public meeting was held and he was disturbed that wasn’t simply a matter of course and protocol. “It is about taking public assets with no input from the public for the benefit of private commercial interest,” Etter told The Argonaut. “Why was the public not informed about the exact nature of that agenda/meeting, since it has everything to do with grabbing public assets for private use?” The issue represents a nervousness that exists at this time in history as Marina del Rey endures its sometimes painful redevelopment. What the Coast Guard sees as a simple clean up to a nautical chart — removing an irrelevant and potentially hazardous designation — can be a politically charged situation that stirs suspicion and concern among certain residents and boaters. Photo by Pat Reynolds
By Gary Walker Complaining of “dangerous conditions” that include drug use, violence and vandalism by homeless people camping on the Venice boardwalk, five Venice residents and a neighborhood association have filed a public nuisance lawsuit against both the city and county of Los Angeles. “The city of Los Angeles is allowing a mile-long drug emporium to exist on its property along Venice Beach, and the population occupying this extended drug den causes constant danger, crime and nuisance to the nearby residents,” said Mark Ryavec, president of the Venice Stakeholders Association. “If cities can use nuisance laws to close down crack houses, then residents can use the same laws to force the city to close down methamphetamine beach.” Ryavec was referring to nuisance abatement ordinances, which city attorneys often employ in civil actions against landlords who are accused of breaking the law or creating a public hazard. He also likened the complaint to homeowner lawsuits against airport noise. This is not the first time that the Venice Stakeholders Association has pursued legal action against a government entity over conditions at Venice Beach. The association sued the California Coastal Commission over a decision against overnight parking districts four years ago, later dropping that case after the group was unable to provide assurances that the city would allow overnight parking districts if the court presented the option. The suit, filed Oct. 30, claims
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Plans to end a public anchorage in Marina del Rey put boater Hans Etter on high alert
•This Week•
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band takes the spirit of New Orleans on tour to Santa Monica
The Soul of the Crescent City Preservation Hall Jazz Band leader Ben Jaffe on their upcoming performance at The Broad Stage with Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Allen Toussaint The collective entity of American roots music is seasoned by individual cities and regions — Appalachia, Austin, Bakersfield, Chicago, Memphis, the Mississippi Delta, Nashville — but none as expansive a cradle for American music as New Orleans, with its tangled African, English, French, Native American and Spanish ancestry. Blues, Cajun, funk, gospel, hip-hop, jazz, ragtime, R&B, rock, soul, swamp pop, zydeco … New Orleans has nurtured them all. Ben Jaffe is intimately familiar with the city and its diverse music. The son of Allan and Sandra Jaffe, who founded Preservation Hall in the French Quarter in 1961 and shortly thereafter organized the Preservation Hall Jazz Band to further exalt New Orleans jazz, Jaffe’s been playing tuba and string bass with PHJB since he left college. In 1995 he took over as creative director and has since reached across genre and generational lines to involve the band with artists like Dave Grohl, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Del McCoury and Trombone Shorty. Under his guidance, PHJB finally ventured into songwriting for last year’s joyfully swinging, critically acclaimed album “That’s It!” For the first time, they’re touring with longtime friend and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Allen Toussaint, the influential
pianist/producer/songwriter responsible for “Ride Your Pony,” “Southern Nights” and “Working on a Coal Mine.” In an interview last week, Jaffe estimated they’d played “45 shows in 50 days”; after a pair of shows at The Broad Stage on Friday and Saturday, they’ll play several more dates before wrapping up in Louisiana next month. — Bliss Bowen Many regions in America boast distinctive sounds and styles, but nowhere does music seem so woven into day-today culture as it is in New Orleans. You used a really important word: “woven” into. That’s really what it is. Music is the bond that connects every aspect of life in New Orleans. Music and food. Is live music still as prevalent after Hurricane Katrina? Yes. Very much so. Music was the thing that gave us all strength to move forward after the hurricane. … When we didn’t have electricity in our homes, we had music in the street. Have the PHJB band members displaced by Katrina returned? Everybody has replaced their home, and everybody’s back in New Orleans playing two, three nights a week when we’re
home. … Allen is back too, which is wonderful. Sometimes people forget that Allen lost his business, his studio, his home, and members of his family lost their homes. There was incredible tragedy we suffered. … Your life is forever changed by this one historic event that altered an entire city’s life. Recovering from something like that is a communal experience, with everybody healing together. It brought us as a city much closer together.
the US President; they used to have concerts back in the 1970s and ’80s [that would] go all night. The boat would go up and down the Mississippi, and that night it was Fats Domino, Dr. John, Ernie K-Doe, Jessie Hill, Allen Morgan and Allen Toussaint on the bill. I was probably 10 or 11. My dad had me out way past my bedtime. My mom didn’t know where we were and I was the only kid there, running around like I owned the place. Allen had just come out of “Voulez Vous Coucher Avec Moi” for LaBelle. He was a rock What was it like running around star. His whole band had on tuxedos with Preservation Hall as a kid? ruffly shirts and big lapels, and those guys A little bit like a “the hills are alive with were tight. It blew my mind. the sounds of music” scenario. Take away And now you’re playing with him. the hills and the smiley kids and put me in [Laughs] It is intimidating when you the French Quarter surrounded by aging play with someone of his status and African-American jazz musicians, my dad caliber, who has achieved so much. You taking me to funeral parades on weekends, put all the decades together, he is responmarching alongside my godfather in sible for 50 years of New Orleans music. Mardi Gras when I was 9 years old. Irving Berlin, Rodgers & Hammerstein Studying with legends I didn’t even know — Allen is part of the Great American were legends. “Go ask so-and-so about Songbook too. The fact that we get to play that chord change, I don’t know where with him every night is amazing. … He is you put your fingers.” That’s how I the living incarnation of Jelly Roll Morton learned to play music. and Professor Longhair and Fats Domino. What connects us all is New Orleans, Did you see Allen Toussaint play then? and common experiences we had growing Probably one of the most important up there. musical moments of my childhood was (Continued on page 26) going to see Allen on this gigantic boat, November 26, 2014 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 15
This Week
“Inferno Los Angeles” reimagines Dante’s nine circles of hell. Bottom left: Illustrator Jim Wheelock and author Ron Bassilian. Top right: A billboard on Culver Boulevard advertises the graphic novel. Bottom right: An excerpt from the book.
A journey to the underworld Mar Vista’s Ron Bassilian finds a gateway to hell underneath our city in “Inferno Los Angeles” By Michael Aushenker For Ron Bassilian, the road to hell began with a Craigslist ad. No, it isn’t like that. What the Mar Vista information technology specialist was looking for was the right collaborator to visually translate his reimagining of Dante Alighieri’s “The Inferno” onto the pages of a graphic novel. Bassilian connected with illustrator Jim Wheelock, and after five years of work they published “Inferno Los Angeles.” The author and illustrator are signing copies of a 136-page deluxe hardcover edition of their book this weekend at Pulp Fiction Books and Comics in Culver City, followed by signings in December at Barnes & Noble in Santa Monica and at Dream World Comics in Mar Vista. Dante’s “The Inferno” is a complicated allegory depicting the author’s journey through the nine circles of hell as he is guided by the Roman epic poet Virgil. “Inferno Los Angeles” follows a protagonist, modeled after Bassilian, who discovers a gateway to the underworld beneath the concrete sprawl of Los Angeles. Along with various ogres, obstacles and horrific prophecies, the hero
also encounters contemporary figures that include Hollywood filmmakers and President Richard Nixon. “I was always a lover of the classics— especially Dante, who has such an evocative imagination,” Bassilian, 40, said of his first foray in publishing under his NeoClassics imprint. “I was heavily
art of Wally Wood and Alex Toth. He had also been burnt on Craigslist before by unscrupulous filmmakers exploiting artists to storyboard their films for free under the guise of audition pieces, but Bassilian’s 2008 ad won him over. “He did have an unusual concept, and I was at the point where I wanted to do a huge project,” Wheelock said. “I’m not really a superhero artist. I’m more of a fantasy and noir-ish artist.” Wheelock wanted his art to echo the Dante’s “Inferno” engravings of Gustav Doré, infused “with a comics energy — as if Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko were doing it, or Bob Powell.” “Grandville” cartoonist Bryan Talbot compared Wheelock’s resulting artwork to “the 1930s woodcut picture stories of Lynd Ward,” praising it as “a phantasmagoria of an involved in politics in my twenties. I’ve often hallucinogenic intensity.” met a lot of people in my life who had After initially collaborating on four read Dante. It was one of those things that preliminary pages via email and Dropbox, you feel like you have to do it, a calling.” the two met in person at Lulu’s Café in Wheelock — who in the 1980s and ‘90s West Hollywood, and Bassilian admits animated the TV cartoon “G.I. Joe: that he did not have the best first impresExtreme” and storyboarded videos for Ted sion. Nugent, Hall & Oates and Earth, Wind “Everyone’s there dressed to the nines, and Fire — had minimal experience looking like Brangelina, and he’s in the producing comics despite a lifelong love back looking like he never get out of the for EC titles, Warren Publishing, and the house,” Bassilian said.
“In comics, a lot of people don’t follow through,” Wheelock said.“I had a feeling that [Bassilian] would take it to the finish. It was a bigger project than either of us expected. Basically, there are a lot of dead people in the underworld who had to be drawn.”
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However, Bassilian was impressed by the “depth of his expertise, the depth of his intellect.” It became apparent to him that “if there was one person you’d want to talk to in the room, it’d be Jim.” Wheelock convinced Bassilian to use the still-nascent crowdfunding website Kickstarter to fund their “Inferno 2010” project, and the pair raised $6,000. However, like the story’s Hollywood types and politicians, the “Inferno 2010” title became one of the book’s casualties due to the project’s demanding workload. Bassilian later hired a team of inkers to assist Wheelock in the massive undertaking. “We did go through a lot of changes to get what we wanted,” Wheelock said, but “once he got used to what I was doing, we had a good flow with it.” Since the first batch of “Inferno Los Angeles” arrived from the printer in Oct. 2013, promoting the book has been a learning experience. Efforts included posting a billboard along Culver Boulevard near its intersection with Inglewood Boulevard. “If somebody had just given me a page of instructions, we’d be so much farther ahead of the game,” Bassilian said. Yet Bassilian, a resident of Mar Vista since 2004, has come a long way from those early days at his Inglewood Boulevard pad, watching Dante lecture DVDs while eating Chinese take-out. “I honestly feel that I’m bringing something new,” Bassilian said. Wheelock said he ultimately enjoyed the collaboration. “In comics, a lot of people don’t follow through,” Wheelock said. “I had a feeling that [Bassilian] would take it to the finish. It was a bigger project than either of us expected. Basically, there are a lot of dead people in the underworld who had to be drawn.”
Bassilian and Wheelock sign copies of “Inferno Los Angeles” from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday at Pulp Fiction Books and Comics, 4328 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City. Call (310) 572-6170 or visit pulp-fictionbooksandcomics.com. Future signings happen from noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 7, at Barnes and Noble, 1201 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica [Call (310) 260-9110 or visit barnesandnoble.com] and from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, at Dream World Comics, 12402 Washington Place, Mar Vista [Call (310) 390-7860 or visit dreamworldcomicbooks.com]. Copies are also available for $29.95 at infernolosangeles.com. michael@argonautnews.com
Across the Counter
Be the party’s big cheese Alex Josef of Wheel House Cheese Store on how to perfect a cheese platter Photo by Richard Foss
Alex Josef recommends combining cheeses made from three kinds of milk
By Richard Foss
Richard@RichardFoss.com
Wheel House Cheese Store
12954 W. Washington Blvd., Mar Vista (424) 289-9167 wheelhousecheese.com
One of the major culinary trends of the last decade has been the reemergence of specialty food shops. The growth of supermarkets — pioneered in Los Angeles in 1927 by a chain called Hattem’s — made specialty meat markets, produce stores and cheese shops an endangered species. It took most of a century for a newly sophisticated clientele to demand
the return of places where people who really know their products provide personal service. As an example, consider the recently opened Wheel House Cheese Store on Washington Boulevard. The shop isn’t much larger than the cheese section at most chain stores, but instead of a vast array of prepackaged items like shredded feta and “Mexi-Cheese Blend” there are wheels and blocks of cheese with exotic names and provenances. A few shelves of crackers, jams and honeys, and a cold case of sausages and charcuterie round out the selection. I asked owner Alex Josef a few questions about how to select and serve cheese to maximize your enjoyment.
room temperature as possible. Right out of the refrigerator it’s not going to have the same depth of flavor. If you take all of your cheeses out of the refrigerator half an hour before you serve them, the softer cheeses, like brie, will be warmer than the firm cheeses; it takes a longer time for the room temperature to penetrate the center.
How many cheeses should be on the tray and how do you choose them? A rule of thumb is to have three different milks — usually cow, sheep and goat, but there are cheeses made from other animals’ milk. Water buffalo mozzarella is popular, but we also have buffalo milk blues and harder cheeses. There are also Say you’re preparing a cheese cheeses made from milk of yaks, tray for a party — at what horses, camels, even reindeer. temperature should you serve There’s not a ton of that availit? able. Stick with cow, goat and Are different cheeses tastier at sheep, and have one of them be different temperatures? a soft cheese with a bloomy If you’re serving good cheese, rind and maybe one be a firmer, you want all of it to be as close to harder sheep cheese — a
common one would be manchego. Most people think of goat cheeses as being a soft chevre, but there are excellent goat Goudas and other variations. Should you eat the rind? That’s usually a personal preference, but not always. Some cheese rinds are delicious, others are bitter, and some were designed to protect the cheese from dirt — you don’t want to eat those. Try a nibble before you serve it, and if you don’t like it, feel free to cut it off. Some cheeses, like Gouda, are protected in wax or plastic, and you certainly shouldn’t eat that! How far in advance of a party can you make a cheese tray? Cheese is like a living, breathing thing — from the day it’s produced, it’s dying. Get good quality cheese that is cut to order, not stuff that has been (Continued on page 18)
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“This exceptional three bedroom, four bath home has an open living/dining concept with a fireplace and French doors that open to a patio,” say agents Kim Williamson and Nicole Pagan. “The chef’s kitchen has high ceilings, granite countertops, and stainless appliances. The family room has vaulted ceilings and slider doors that open to the wrap-around back yard. Two bedrooms, a powder room, and two bathrooms complete the downstairs. Upstairs is a luxurious master suite with a fireplace, and a separate office/den.” The property is offered at $1,275,000. Information, Kim Williamson and Nicole Pagan, RE/MAX Estate Properties, (310) 678-6650.
“This exceptional home is now complete and available for purchase,” say agents Bob Waldron and Jessica Heredia. “The home offers the best in chic urban living, with exceptional attention to detail and top quality components, featuring an elegant living room, cook's kitchen with a center island, three bedrooms, 2.5 baths, luxurious master bedroom suite, custom features galore and all new systems.” The property is offered at $900,000. Information, Bob Waldron (310) 337-9225, and Jessica Heredia (424) 7023022, Coldwell Banker.
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“This wonderful five bedroom, two bath home is located in the heart of Kentwood,” say agents Kevin and Kaz Gallaher. “The living room has beautiful hardwood floors, and the kitchen has new appliances. The home is set in the middle of the block, with a private back yard and a two car detached garage.” The property is for lease at $4,800/month. Information, Kevin and Kaz Gallaher, RE/MAX Execs, (310) 410-9777.
“This inviting one bedroom, one bath home has hardwood floors and great natural light,” says agent Stephanie Younger. “The living room has glass doors opening to a covered patio, and the formal dining room is adjacent to a kitchen with stainless appliances, tile countertops and a breakfast bar. The master suite has a walk-in closet, and there is a laundry closet with a stacked washer/dryer. Complex amenities include pools, spas, tennis courts and gated entry, all close to LAX and the Westside.” The property is offered at $375,000. Information, Stephanie Younger, Teles Properties, (424) 203-1828.
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“Enjoy unparalleled Marina Harbor, channel, ocean and sunset views from this beautifully renovated three bedroom, two bath home,” says agent Charles Lederman. “The open kitchen has stainless appliances, ample cabinetry and a breakfast bar. Other features include hardwood floors, an oversized patio and floor-to-ceiling windows. The master suite overlooks the harbor and the ocean. Revel in all that Marina City Club offers: gym, classes, pools, courts, restaurant & bar, cafe, room service, car wash, 24-hour gated, guarded security. Walk to the beach and many restaurants.” The property is offered at $809,000. Information, Charles Lederman, Marina City Realty, (310)821-8980.
Bill Ruane is currently the #1 Agent for RE/MAX Estate Properties, and has received a certificate for the Luminary of Distinction award, which recognizes the highest level of achievement in the organization. Bill was the first agent to be presented with the Circle of Legends Award, and in 2014 was nominated by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top real estate professionals in America. He is experienced in all types of real estate including sales and leases for residential and commercial properties. Bill is showcasing one of his new listings on the Grand Canal in Venice this Sunday. Information, Bill Ruane, RE/MAX Estate Properties, (310) 8772374.
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Playa del Rey Home
“This newly renovated interior unit, which overlooks the pool, has floor-to-ceiling windows,” says agent Jesse Weinberg. “The open floor plan has a step-down living room and a ceramic tile fireplace. The kitchen features all new quartz countertops and stainless appliances. The downstairs powder-room has a washer and dryer, and there is a private brick patio. Upstairs, there is a master suite and a second bedroom with a teak-floored balcony.” The property is offered at $785,000. Information, Jesse Weinberg, Keller Williams Realty, Marina/LA (800) 804-9132.
“This two-story home on a corner lot has amazing curb appeal and is in impeccable condition," says listing company Berman Kandel. "The living area has vaulted ceilings, and the formal dining room leads into an open kitchen, breakfast area and a family room with a salt water fish tank. The rooms flow out to the backyard with a built-in barbecue area, a water element and a fire pit. The master suite boasts a large walk-in closet and a jetted tub. There are four additional bedrooms and another 4 baths, as well as a two-car garage.” The property is offered at $1,627,000. Information, Berman Kandel, RE/MAX Estate Properties, (310) 424-5512.
North Kentwood Home
Charming Venice Bungalow
“This traditional home has recently been updated with a contemporary open floor plan,” says agent Stephanie Younger. “The living room has wide plank wood floors and a fireplace, and there is a formal dining room. The kitchen, which overlooks the family room, has silestone counters and stainless appliances. The master suite has a spa-like bath, dual vanities and a jetted tub. Two more bedrooms and another bath complete the floor plan, and the generous detached garage could be a great office or bonus room.” The property is offered at $1,089,000. Information, Stephanie Younger, Teles Properties, (424) 203-1828.
“This recently renovated home is in one of the quietest neighborhoods in Venice,” say agents Max Alatorre and Agnes Rosiak. “The three bedroom, two bath home has an open floor plan with beautifully refinished hardwood floors, complimented by an abundance of natural light. The updated kitchen has black Caesarstone countertops, new appliances and an adjacent formal dining room. This property is zoned LAR2, a huge perk for those looking to add on a mother-in-law suite or a rental unit.” The property is offered at $1,375,000. Information, Max Alatorre (310) 776-0921 and Agnes Rosiak (310) 3842399, Gibson International.
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ART Pop ‘n’ shop The Mar Vista Small Business Pop-Up and an entrepreneurial jeweler await Saturday shoppers By Michael Aushenker When Black Friday gives way to Small Business Saturday, the pop-ups will be waiting. At the inaugural Mar Vista Small Business Pop-Up, a shopper receives a map of 38 participating merchants along Venice Boulevard. The more stores one shops at, the more stamps on one’s map. Each stamp grants the shopper a raffle ticket for prizes donated by local small businesses. Participating merchants include Surfing Cowboys, Earl’s Gourmet Grub, Venice Grind, National Council of Jewish Women Thrift Store, Nitespa, Lipstic, The Vanity Room, Shaper Supply and Buckwild Gallery. The route, from Beethoven Street to Inglewood Boulevard, highlights the stretch of Venice Boulevard targeted for improvements under Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Great Streets program, an experiment in “urban acupuncture” that aims to boost neighborhoods by creating more attractive and walkable streets. “This is a real opportunity to grow the brick-and-mortar,” said Sarah Auerswald, president of Mar Vista Chamber of Commerce, which officially formed in September. Like the mayor, the chamber is
Jeweler Jennifer Crowe has organized a pop-up on Abbot Kinney Boulevard that features work from nine independent artisans Mar Vista Chamber of Commerce leaders - from left, chamber VP Staci Boggeri, President Sarah Auerswald and Treasurer David Kent - have organized an inaugural pop-up shopping event that highlights Mayor Garcetti’s Great Streets plans for the area also encouraging shoppers to use alternative transportation. “You get extra points in the raffle for riding a bike,” Auerswald said. In anticipation of its ice cream store moving into Mar Vista next year, Sweet Lucie’s will have a truck on hand — as will Coffee Connection, which is offering free coffee. “Do your big shopping on [Black] Friday but come and shop local on Saturday,” Auerswald said. Meanwhile, Jennifer Crowe is
spinning some jewelry-industry pushback into a positive with her own multi-artisan pop-up shop on Abbot Kinney Boulevard. “Being rejected from five popular holiday art festivals drove me to open my own curated ‘pop up’,” said Crowe, founder of Taisteal Jewelry. Crowe, whose retail resume includes Macy’s, the Getty Villa’s bookstore and The Bead Lounge in Woodland Hills, combined her sales experience, art history degree and a longdormant talent for jewelry
Westside Happenings Wednesday, Nov. 26 Speakers by the Sea Toastmasters Club, 11 a.m. to noon. Improve your skills for public speaking. 12000 Vista del Mar, Conference Room 230A, Playa del Rey. (310) 559-2834 22nd Annual Pacific Division Police Appreciation Thanksgiving Dinner, 3 to 8 p.m. (Food drop, 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.) Show appreciation for LAPD officers and staff working on Thanksgiving Day by joining community members in throwing a potluck. Pacific Division Community Police Station, 12312 Culver Blvd., Venice. Questions: email Chris Williams at ckwvenice@gmail.com Unkle Monkey, 6 to 9 p.m. Every Wednesday, Steve Stafford and Casey Jones play their local tropical music, creating island music on guitar, ukulele, congas and steel drums at The Warehouse Restaurant, 4499
Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. No cover. (310) 823-5451; mdrwarehouse.com Remembering Jerry Rubin, 7 p.m. A memorial for the late activist and Chicago 8 Conspiracy Trial co-defendant hosted by Activist Support Circle. In the 1960s, Rubin and co-defendants Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, John Froines, Rennie Davis, Dave Dellinger, Lee Weiner and Bobby Seale helped organize massive protests toward ending the Vietnam War. Years later, on Nov. 14, 1994, Rubin was killed while crossing Wilshire Boulevard near Selby Avenue in Westwood. Friends Meeting Hall, 1440 Harvard St., Santa Monica. Free. Refreshments served at 6:30 p.m. (310) 399-1000; activistsupportcircle. org House of Vibe All-Stars, 9:30 p.m. On Wednesdays, Anthony “Brew” Brewer leads various musicians in an R&B and hip hop-flavored concert. Past guests have included members of Fishbone and Jurassic 5 MC Chali 2Na. Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa
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making to launch her small business. After working at Crafted, a San Pedro crafts emporium created by the developers of Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station, Crowe settled on the name for her company (pronounced tahsh-tuhl, the Irish word for “travel”) because she and husband James Crowe, a television editor for “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” are frequent travelers. In fact, it was on a sleepless night in Belarus that “I grabbed my iPad and started typing up ideas for my business,” she said. In addition to Crowe, other vendors at her pop-up include Teresa Cheung’s TCLA (leather handbags/apparel), Mia Angela
(handcrafted belts), Sayde Davenport (gemstone jewelry), Jessica Lynn Woodson (watercolors/prints), Isabel Iny (hand-crocheted jewelry), Julio Santiago’s Santiago Knits (hand-loomed knitwear), Jenn Romero’s Unurth (ceramic wares) , and Crowe’s husband ’s Panoramic Photography. Crowe believes her product line’s aesthetic fits Venice perfectly. “Every time I go there, there’s just kind of this great community vibe,” she said. “Everyone on the sidewalk is open. You can spend the day there wandering in and out of shops, grabbing something to eat. It’s this really warm feeling.” The Mar Vista Small Business Pop-Up runs from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday. Visit the Mar Vista Chamber’s booth at Venice and Centinela Boulevards or any participating store for maps. marvistachamber.com Crowe’s pop-up runs from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and continues through Dec. 23 (Dec. 5 and 6 excepted) at 1306 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice. Call (818) 746-7273 or visit taistealjewelry.com. michael@argonautnews.com
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Thursday, Nov. 27 Free Vegan Thanksgiving, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. An annual Café Gratitude tradition, this free holiday plate features butternut squash and sage lentil loaf, garlic mashed potatoes with mushroom gravy, raw stuffing, persimmon and pomegranate salad, pumpkin pie square and seasonal spritzer. While supplies last. Café Gratitude, 512 Rose Ave., Venice. (424) 231-8000; cafegratitudevenice. com Three-Course Waterfront Feast, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. A Thanksgiving meal of roasted turkey breast served with
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“The People Vs. Larry Flynt”/” Auto Focus,” 7:30 p.m. In anticipation of Tim Burton’s “Big Eyes” this Christmas Day, the American Cinematheque pays tribute to screenwriting partners Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (the team that also wrote Burton’s “Ed Wood”) with arguably their biggest hit, the Milos Forman-directed “People,” and one of their least-seen, about the dark side of “Hogan’s Heroes” star Bob Crane, directed by “Taxi Driver” screenwriter Paul Schrader. Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica. $14. (310) 260-1528; aerotheatre.com
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got it!” 72 Hal who produced Laurel and Hardy films 131 Additions 74 Striped-shirt wearer DOWN 76 Too easy 1 Campsite cover 77 Emmy winner Arthur 2 Helper with a hunch 78 Rail vehicle 3 Combine 80 Doing business 4 Bank statement entries 83 1970s-’80s FBI bribery 5 Not allowed sting 6 Toast starter 85 Firewater 7 Scot’s “Crikey!” 87 Certain screecher 8 West of “I’m No Angel” 88 Janis’ comics husband 9 Poison carriers 89 Tired, but pleased to 10 Hullabaloo have invented the air conditioner, Carrier __ 11 Portuguese pronoun 12 Tour vehicle 92 Attendees of 13 Burgundy bud Connecticut’s Battell 14 “Harry Potter” garden Chapel pest 94 Orange-nosed Muppet 15 Singer O’Connor 95 Boomers’ kids 16 After inventing 96 “__ in Provence”: the forerunner to Mayle best-seller the modern toilet, 98 Bog flora Harington __ 99 Take-off programs? 17 Facility 101 Middling grades 18 Menageries 103 Deli offering 24 Pet shop fish 104 Low pair 25 Miler Sebastian 105 Proving his invention of the joy buzzer to be 30 Transmit continuously, as video a complete success, 32 Checkers cry Adams __ 33 Buck back? 109 2009 World Series 34 Where to go whole MVP Hideki hog? 111 How-to letters 35 Spill, with “out” 112 Big memory unit 36 Do followers 117 Can 37 German sub 118 Immediately upon 38 Low point inventing the box 39 To celebrate inventing camera (but not the his revolutionary lens cap), Eastman engine, Watt __ __ 40 Besiege 124 Hot brew 44 Hersey’s bell town 125 Filled pastry 45 Mesoamerican 126 Singer John language family 127 Stink 48 Coneflower genus 128 Scary film street 50 Infrequently, to 129 Pickup game side Dickinson 130 Outfielder’s “I don’t
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Luxury SUV Tiptop Census info, e.g. Drummer Van Halen Like some seals Tie Latin wings The “I” in I.M. Pei Fossil fuel transport Hustled Carlo Levi’s “Christ Stopped at __” Prayer counter’s beads Poetic lament Holders of glasses Cleaning supplies Payroll addition Fat Albert catchphrase “Shucks” Unwelcome look Opposite of ahead Cheer on They’re loaded Matzo meals Piece of cake YouTube find, for short Helmut’s denials Partner Eponymous skater Paulsen Indian tourist city “Where’ve you __?” Inflamed Tut relatives Woodcutter Baba Ryder Cup number Service station of a sort U.N. workers’ group Early Beatles bassist Sutcliffe
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LEGAL ADVERTISING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014280229 The following person is doing business as: Whiskerhood Watch Pet Care 2800 Manhattan Ave. Apt. A Manhattan Beach, CA. 90266. Registered owners: Hailey Marie Maxon. 2800 Manhattan Ave. Apt. A Manhattan Beach, CA. 90266. This business is conducted by a individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Hailey Marie Maxon. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on October 1, 2014. Argonaut published: October 30, November 6, 13, and 20, 2014.. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or
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this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014287910 The following person is doing business as: C^2 Casting 101 Catamaran #4 Los Angeles, CA. 90292. Registered owners: Cassandra Renee Negrete 531 Indiana Ave. Unit A Venice, CA. 90291 and Cayla Mariah Croft 101 Catamaran #4 Marina del Rey,CA. 90292. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Cassandra Renee Negrete. Title: Partner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on October 7, 2014. Argonaut published: November 6, 13, 20, and 27, 2014. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014306487 The following person is doing business as: Up West 1733 Abbot Kinney Blvd. Ste. D Venice, CA. 90291. Registered owners: Zoom Productions 1733 Abbot Kinney Blvd. Ste. D Venice, CA. 90291. This business is conducted by a Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: Rainer Plank. Title: CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Oct. 27, 2014. Argonaut published: November 6, 13, 20 and 27, 2014.. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014311053 The following person is doing business as: Venice Whaler Bar & Grill 2-10 Washington Blvd. Marina del Rey, CA. 90292 and 578 Washington Blvd. #757. Registered owners: Whaler LLC 4303 Roma Court Marina del Rey, CA. 90292. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Michael Dobson. Title: CEO/ Managing Member. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on October 30, 2014. Argonaut published: November 27, December 4, 11, and 18, 2014. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014314661 The following person is doing business as: Futboleros 311 Bora Bora Way Unit 219 Marina del Rey, CA. 90292. Registered owners: James Ortega 311 Bora Bora Way Unit 219 Marina del Rey, CA. 90292. This business is conducted by a individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: James Ortega. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on November 4, 2014. Argonaut published: November 20, 27, December 4 and 11, 2014. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014319072 The following person is doing business as: Au Courant Entertainment 6705 Sunset Blvd. 2nd Floor Hollywood, CA. 90028. Registered owners: Nancy Scanlon 5000 S. Centinela Ave. Apt. 313 Los Angeles, CA. 90066. This business is conducted by a individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Nancy Scanlon. Title: Principal. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on November 7, 2014. Argonaut published: November 13, 20, and 27, 2014. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014319232 The following person is doing business as: MGS Architecture 4551 Glenco Ave. Marina del Rey, CA. 90292. Registered owners: Magdalena Glen-Shieneman 4445 Stewart Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90066. This business is conducted by a individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Magdalena Glen-Schieneman. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on November 7, 2014. Argonaut published November 13, 20, 27 and December 4, 2014. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014319262 The following person is doing business as: FOODIZSHARE 339 Vernon Ave. #9 Venice, CA. 90291. Registered owners: Techmodus INC. 339 Vernon Ave. #9 Venice, CA. 90291. This business is conducted by a Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Gina Horowitz. Title: President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on November 7, 2014. Argonaut published: November 13, 20, 27, and December 4, 2014. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014323174 The following person is doing business as: Thaler Investment Club 280 N. Glenroy Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90049. Registered owners: Milton Thaler 280 N. Glenroy Ave. Los Angeles, CA. 90049. This business is conducted by a individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Milton Thaler. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on November 13, 2014. Argonaut published: November 20, 27, December 4, and 11, 2014. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014323598 The following person is doing business as: Thomas R. Freutel APT and Patricia A. Freutel APT 18344 Taloh=ga Rd. Apple Vallyey, CA. 92309, and 6047 W. 86th Pl. Los Angeles, CA. 90045. Registered owners: Thomas R. Freutel and Patricia A. Freutel 6047 W. 86th Pl. Los Angeles, CA. 90045. This business is conducted by a Trust. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Thomas R. Freutel. Title: Owner/Trustee. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on November 13, 2014. Argonaut published: November 20, 27, December 4, and 11, 2014. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
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AWNINGS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014328782 The following person is doing business as: XpresSpa 1 World Way, LAX Intíl Airport, Terminal 6 Los Angeles, CA. 90045. Registered owners: XpresSpa LAX Terminal 6, LLC 3 East 54th St., 9th Floor New York, NY 10022. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Marisol Binn. Title: Manager. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on November 18, 2014. Argonaut published: November 20, 27, December 4, and 11, 2014. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 12014309236 The following person is doing business as: The NutButter Company 13920 Northwest Passage #105 Marina del Rey, CA. 90292. Registered owners: Jennifer Katherine Pearsons 13920 Northwest Passage #105 Marina del Rey, CA. 90292 and Michael Store 13920 Northwest Passage #105 Marina del Rey, CA. 90292. This business is conducted by Copartners. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: Jennifer Katherine Pearsons. Title: Partner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on October 29, 2014. Argonaut published: November 27, December 4, December 11, and 18, 2014. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expira-
tion. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF DELAWARE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA CIVIL ACTION-LAW NO.12-1042 IN DIVORCE TIABI T. BERHE, PLAINTIFF v. ABRAHAM TECLE, DEFENDANT NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANT TO: Abraham Tecle You have been sued in an action for DIVORCE. If you wish to deny any of the statements set forth in this Plaintiffís Affidavit Under Section 3301(d) of the Divorce Code, you must file a counteraffidavit within (20) days after this affidavit has been served on you or statements will be admitted. If you do not file with the Office of Judicial Support of the Court an answer with your signature notarized or verified or the counter-affidavit, the court can enter a final Decree in Divorce. A counter-affidavit which you may file the Office of Judicial Support of the Court is attached to this notice. Unless you have already filed with the court a written claim for economic relief, you must do so by the above date or the court may grant the divorce and you will lose forever the right to ask for economic relief. The filing of the form counter affidavit alone does not protect your economic claims. YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS PAPER TO YOUR LAWYER AT ONCE. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A LAWYER. GO TO OR TELEPHONE THE OFFICE SET FORTH BELOW. THIS OFFICE CAN PROVIDE YOU WITH INFORMATION ABOUT HIRING A LAWYER. IF YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO HIRE A LAWYER, THIS OFFICE MAY BE ABLE TO PROVIDE YOU WITH INFORMATION ABOUT AGENCIES THAT MAY OFFER LEGAL SERVICES TO ELIGIBLE PERSONS AT A REDUCED FEE OR NO FEE. Lawyerís Reference & Information Services Delaware County Bar Association 335 W. Front St. Media, PA. 19063 610-5666625 www.delcobar.org Peter George Mylonas, Esquire Attorney for the Plaintiff 2725 West Chester Pike Broomall, PA. 19008 610-335-1000 Argonaut Published: November 6, 13, 20, and 27, 2014 NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (UCC Sec. 6105) Escrow No. 14-34785JP NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk sale is about to be made. The name(s), business address(es) to the Seller(s) are: STOAN ENTERPRISES, INC, 800 W. WASHINGTON BLVD, MARINA DEL REY, CA 90292 Doing Business as: HANGERS CLEANERS & LAUNDRY All other business name(s) and address(es) used by the Seller(s) within three years, as stated by the Seller(s), is/are: NONE The name(s) and address of the Buyer(s) is/are: RAK SEO SUNG AND YOUNG HEE SUNG, 5241 KENWOOD AVE, BUENA PARK, CA 90621 The assets to be sold are described in general as: FURNITURES, FIXTURES, EQUIPMENTS, TOOLS, TRADENAME, GOODWILL, LEASEHOLD INTEREST, LEASEHOLD IMPROVEMENTS, ALL TRANSFERABLE PERMITS, LICENSES AND INVENTORY OF STOCK IN TRADE and are located at: 800 W. WASHINGTON BLVD, MARINA DEL REY, CA 90292
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