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GOLDEN GLOBES DAY— Beverly Hills Mayor Lili Bosse was joined by comedian and Sunday’s Golden Globes host Seth Meyers and President of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Meher Tatna on Thursday morning in a ceremony in which they literally rolled out the red carpet, kicking it open across the automobile court reception area in front of The Beverly Hilton. The ceremony was in honor of Sunday’s milestone 75th Anniversary of the Golden Globe Awards, which will be held at The Beverly Hilton. In recognition of that achievement, Mayor Bosse has issued a proclamation officially naming Sunday, January 7, 2018 as “Golden Globes Award Day in Beverly Hills.”
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The Cultural Heritage Commission will consider a new tenant for the former Kate Mantilini site. 4
Rosey is a Havanese poodle who is looking for her forever home. 4 • Sports • Birthdays • Letters to the Editor
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The Many Historical Errors In The Crown And The Post Are Detailed By The Wall Street Journal’s Politically Savvy Peggy Noonan. She Finds Them “Vulgar, Dumb and Careless”
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BHUSD Superintendent Bregy Promises Action In Wake Of Alleged OnCampus Sexual Assault New principal, assistant principal poised to greet Beverly Vista students from winter break on Monday
Community Asked To Weigh In On Future Of Beverly Hills School District By Laura Coleman With Beverly Hills Unified School District projected to deficit spend upwards of $5 million next year, according to the latest BHUSD financials, the Board of Education is tasked with making serious changes to how the school district operates. While the school district, which derives the bulk of its funding from property taxes, does have sufficient reserves in its Fund 17 to keep it afloat for perhaps two more years until it begins an obvious slide into state receivership, the Board of Education has been vocal about its commitment to improving aca-
demics while cutting costs. After months of working toward consensus about just what the future of Beverly Hills schools should look like, the 22 members of Beverly Hills Unified’s Future Focused Schools Team (FFST) are slated to make a presentation to the school board at a Special Board Meeting on Jan. 23 at 5 p.m. In anticipation of that meeting, two community forums are scheduled to take place next week at Beverly Hills High School’s Salter Theatre on (see ‘BHUSD SCHOOLS’ page 11)
Traffic & Parking Commission To Reconsider South Santa Monica Boulevard Culture, Parking
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By Victoria Talbot An item before the Traffic and Parking Commission intended as a rubber stamp for one of two alternatives to keep traffic flowing on South Santa Monica Boulevard and restore some street parking was turned around Thursday by one local business owner. Instead of making a decision that would have been business as usual, commissioners were compelled to dig deeper into the culture of the street and whether speedier traffic was the desired result or a more pedestrian-friend-
ly, resident-facing “village” environment that would promote the small businesses that have traditionally made up the venue. Poised and ready to make a decision that would enhance traffic flow, the Traffic and Parking Commission switched course and requested more information, delaying a decision on the matter after public comments revealed the real price businesses along the street have paid. Parking meters on South (see ‘SOUTH SANTA MONICA’ page 20)
By Laura Coleman In the wake of the Beverly Hills Police Department’s investigation into alleged student-on-student sexual assault at Beverly Vista – which a previous Beverly Hills Unified School District report referred to as “sexual harassment” – at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 2, the Board of Education met in closed session for almost three hours to discuss just one agendized item: “PUBLIC EMPLOYEE DISCIPLINE/DISMISSAL/RELEASE.” “This is clearly a very serious and sensitive issue at Beverly Vista and it has my full attention,” said BHUSD
Superintendent Michel Bregy. “I’m working on taking action.” Bregy told the Courier that he expected to be sending out a comprehensive letter to staff, students and parents later today informing the community about the district’s immediate and future response to the incidents at Beverly Vista now that he and the board had been made fully aware of what had transpired. “Effective, January 8 an interim administrative team will be placed at Beverly Vista School,” he subsequently wrote. “Beyond that, I hope (see ‘BEVERLY VISTA’ page 20)
Loma Linda Fire Turnaround Includes Lowering Street To Accommodate Developer By Victoria Talbot When the City Council approved the dedication of easements adjacent to 1184 and 1193 Loma Linda Drive November 7, there was no mention of the upcoming engineering that will lower the street. At the developer’s cost, the City is planning to “lower the street” approximately 6-8 inches. The grade of the street is being adjusted, according to Beverly Hills Associate Planner Edgar Arroyo, “to provide the area necessary to accommodate an improved fire truck turn-around and provide the slope necessary for drainage to the catch basin (our emphasis).”
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While the adjustments provide for the safety of the residents, the slope has nothing to do with the fire turn-around and everything to do with enabling the developer, Loma Linda Trust, to build a by-right project by solving a thorny drainage problem that could require a redesign of the project by raising the garage and constructing proper drainage. It would be politically unpopular to refuse a dedication for a fire turn-around, especially in the wake of the disasters that have befallen California this fire season. It appears that a turnaround is a means to relinquish (see ‘LOMA LINDA’ page 12)
A PASSION FOR MUSIC — A fourth generation Californian, John Hotchkis grew up with a love for his Golden State and a passion for music. He has been a loyal and major philanthropist for the L.A. Phil over the years. He is photographed here with his wife Joan Hartley and L.A. Phil conductor Gustavo Dudamel during an opening night gala. For more photos, see George Christy’s column on page 6.
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Beverly Hills Police Arrest Three Women For Rodeo Drive Burglaries By Matt Lopez Beverly Hills police on Saturday arrested three women accused of stealing merchandise from several Rodeo Drive stores following a brief vehicle pursuit. According to BHPD Lt. Scott Dowling, the
two-minute pursuit ended at 5:41 p.m. in the 200 block of South Crescent Drive. The women were being chased while driving a Chrysler PT Cruiser. BHPD Lt. Elisabeth Albanese identified the three women arrested as
26-year-old Charlesa Spellman and 29-yearold Jessica Lee Robinson of Los Angeles and 31year-old Tasha Nicole Turner of Carthage, Texas. All three were arrested on burglary charges.
Cultural Heritage Commission To Consider Multi-Family Landmark, Plus Kate Mantilini’s New Tenant By Victoria Talbot The Beverly Hills Cultural Heritage Commission (CHC) will meet January 10 to discuss the potential nomination for inclusion onto the Register of Historic Properties of a multi-family dwelling located at 157 S. Crescent Dr., and to discuss the adoption of a resolution to consider a Certificate of Appropriateness for the adaptive re-use of the Gibraltar Square – Kate Mantilini Building for a new tenant, First Bank, at the location. The 157 S. Crescent Dr. property is a 4-unit apartment building south of Wilshire and north of Charleville, built in 1935 in the French eclectic revival architecture style. The staff’s Preliminary Evaluation has determined
that there is sufficient evidence that the property merits formal consideration for nomination. The property is located in an area previously identified as potentially eligible for an historic district. The “Beverly Vista Multi-Family Residential Historic District” spans two blocks south of Wilshire between Reeves Drive and Oakhurst Drive, and represents a “historic grouping” built during a significant period of multi-family residential development in the City from 1920 -1960. The building features a mansard roof with slate shingles and dormer vents, stucco finish, brick accents, low planter walls and decorative details, (see ‘CULTURAL HERITAGE’ page 20)
CRUISIN’ WITH THE COURIER — The Margo-Hornwood family and friends sailed the open seas over the holidays on a Disney Fantasy Cruise to the Bahamas, but made sure to take some reading material in the form of the Beverly Hills Courier. Pictured, from left: Standing - Randall Lebaume, Julie Hornwood (Beverly Hills High School class of 1990), Laura Hornwood Margo (BHHS class of 1987), Roberta Hornwood, Solomon Margo (BHHS class of 2018), Noah Margo (BHHS class of 1986) and Reese Margo (BHHS class of 2024). Seated - Scott Appel, Jax Margo (BHHS class of 2020) and Marlee Appel. To join them in the Carry The Courier Club, snap a photo of yourself holding the Courier on your next trip and e-mail it to mlopez@bhcourier.com.
The Beverly Hilton Reveals Menu For 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards By Laura Coleman While all eyes may be on the beautifully attired stars expected to attend Sunday’s 75th Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton, those actually in attendance at the annual event – 1,300 of Hollywood’s elite – can feast on a specially curated three-course menu. Created by The Beverly Hilton’s Executive Chef Alberico Nunziata and Executive Pastry Chef Thomas Henzi, additional highlights of the menu, revealed at an exclusive preview this week, include this year’s official cocktail created by Moët & Chandon “The Moët 75” and elaborate floral centerpieces with vibrantly-colored red and sunset-hued orange roses designed by Mark Held of Mark’s Garden. “The 75th anniversary of the Golden Globes is truly a milestone year for the prestigious awards show, and I’m thrilled to be leading the team in creating the special menu for this event,” Nunziata said. The meal begins with a “Delicata” appetizer consisting of burrata cheese, opal basil, teardrop tomatoes, Taggiasca ROSEY’S READY — Rosey’s ready for a new home. This Havanese poodle is 22 pounds and was found recently as a stray with puppies. She is great with kids and is ready to find her forever family. For more information on adopting Rossy and other available animals, visit www.shelterhopepetshop.org.
Dessert at the Golden Globes will be this white chocolate cream “Efendi.”
olives, golden friseé, garlic flowers, roasted butternut squash and purple sweet potatoes with extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar. This is followed by an entrée of Mediterranean Chilean seabass served with red beet parmesan risotto, Castelvetrano olive tapenade, broccolini florets, golden stripe baby beets, yellow squash and zucchini. To round out the meal, guests will enjoy a dessert of “Efendi,” made with white chocolate coffee cream, coffee liqueur biscuit, Frangelico mascarpone and crunchy praline. Sunday marks the 43rd consecutive year (47th total) that the Golden Globes have been held at The Beverly Hilton.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GOOD LUCK GETTING HOME — Some Bel-Air residents had some serious problems getting to and from their destinations Thursday morning when they found a portion of Stradella Road completely blocked off by construction crews for a project at 1037 Stradella, which is being developed by Roman James. Residents report to the Courier that the owner refused to provide a permit for the street closure, so police and ACS Security were called. L.A. City Inspectors seemed in the dark as to what was going on. In an e-mail obtained by the Courier, L.A. City Principal Inspector Jack Conger wrote to residents and stakeholders that he had verified with L.A. Department of Transportation that “they do have a permit to block the road for today only.” Eventually, it took the Bel-Air Association to get to the bottom of the problem. BAA Executive Director Shawn Bayliss visited the site and learned there was, in fact, a permit, but three key conditions of it were not being met – 1.) One lane was to remain open; 2.) Flagmen were to be used for traffic coordination; and 3.) Pedestrian access was to remain open. Bayliss reports that LAPD had the workers stop, remove their trucks and pull in cranes to create an open lane. During the closure, a nurse was unable to get through to get access to an elderly patient. Said Bel-Air resident Maureen Levinson: “This has turned into a mantra now: "What is the penalty?" If there are no meaningful penalties, bad behavior will continue.”
Beverly Hills Police Send Weinstein Sexual Assault Cases To District Attorney By Matt Lopez Two Beverly Hills criminal sexual allegations regarding film producer Harvey Weinstein have been forwarded to the Los Angeles County District Attorney. Greg Riesling, spokesman for the District Attorney’s Office, said “two cases have been presented to our office by the Beverly Hills Police Department regarding Mr. Weinstein and are under review.”
Exact details of the allegations were not made public. Weinstein has been slammed with accusations of sexual harassment and assault from dozens of women, including actresses Angelina Jolie, Rose McGowan, Cara Delevingne and Kate Beckinsale. Weinstein, who acknowledged "inappropriate behavior" in the past, and left Hollywood in late October to attend a rehab facility in Arizona.
L.A. County District Attorney Jackie Lacey last month announced the creation of a task force that will evaluate cases of “sexual abuse in the entertainment industry.” “I have assigned a group of veteran sex crimes prosecutors to work together to ensure a uniformed approach to the legal review and possible prosecution in any case that meets both the legal and factual standards for criminal prosecution,” she said.
Man Ray’s L.A., Rachel Feinstein’s Secrets To Open Thursday At Gagosian Beverly Hills On Camden Drive By Laura Coleman Opening Thursday at the Gagosian in Beverly Hills, the gallery will present an exhibition of works by American Surrealist Man Ray, made between 1940 and 1951, in tandem with an exhibition of new work by American artist Rachel Feinstein. The juxtaposition of two very different bodies of work – both set to open for public viewing at the gallery with an evening reception on Thursday, Jan. 11, from 6-8 pm., should prove fertile grounds for thoughtful discourse and enjoyable views. During his storied career, Man Ray’s work spanned a variety of media: painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, film, poetry, and prose. Early in his career, from 1920 to 1940, Man Ray worked primarily as a fashion photographer, in Paris, shooting for Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar, as well as designers such as Vionnet, Lanvin, Chanel, and Schiaparelli. When World War II came to Paris, in 1940, he escaped to the United States, settling in Los Angeles, where he deliberately moved away from commercial photography, to focus on making fine art. This exhibition explores the collection of original silver gelatin photographs from Man Ray’s “Hollywood” period. Many of the portraits are of famous figures with whom he spent his California years, including Ruth Ford, Ava Gardner, Jennifer Jones, Tilly Losch, Jean Renoir and Igor Stravinsky.
BEVERLY HILLS OPENING–Gagosian Beverly Hills will hold an art opening on Thursday evening for artists Man Ray and Rachel Feinstein from 6-8 p.m. Pictured above, left: Man Ray’s Ava Gardner in costume for Albert Lewin’s ‘Pandora and the Flying Dutchman’, 1950. (Vintage gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 inches.) Photo Courtesy of Gagosian and Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS)/ADAGP, Paris 2018. Above, right: Rachel Feinstein’s Bandleader, 2017. (Work in progress, detail image of maquette.) Photo courtesy of Gagosian and taken by Robert McKeever.
Marking Feinstein’s first L.A. show, “Secrets” will premiere a series of eight large-scale sculptures that reflects on the Victoria’s Secret phenomenon through richly detailed sculptures and multi-art installations. As part of the exhibit, viewers will be treated to sculptures, wallpaper, and paintings in which Feinstein cannibalizes notions of beauty, belief, and spectacle to reveal perfection as a form of burlesque. Gagosian is located at 456 N. Camden Dr.
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Fitch Downgrades Wanda Commercial Property To Junk By Matt Lopez Dalian Wanda Group’s financial woes continued Wednesday when Fitch Ratings downgraded the Chinese conglomerate’s commercial properties arm from investment grade to a junk rating. Dalian Wanda Commercial Property Co. Ltd was downgraded, citing Wanda’s inability to access offshore funding channels to increase its liquidity. Fitch's move comes on the heels of a decision by S&P Global last year to downgrade Dalian Wanda Commercial Properties to a junk rating. “Wanda’s liquidity position may come under substantial
pressure if its offshore syndicated loan lenders demand for early repayment and Wanda fails to meet these demands promptly; or it fails to raise sufficient offshore liquidity to repay the $510 million second tranche of its offshore syndicated loan due in March 2018,” Fitch said in a statement. News broke in November that the Wanda Group had listed its One Beverly Hills condominium and hotel project at 9900 Wilshire Boulevard – which has still yet to break ground – for sale for $5 billion in a package deal with properties in Chicago, London and Australia. WELCOME TO BEVERLY HILLS – Beverly Hills attorney Paul Supnik sent along the picture to the left of his holiday houseguests from Liverpool, Sonny McCartney and Rosie Richards. Sonny is the nephew of Beatles legend Paul McCartney. The Supnik’s and Sonny’s dad Mike are family friends, which gave Sonny and Rosie a place to stay while visiting Beverly Hills for the holidays. To join them in the Carry The Courier Club, send a photo of yourself holding the Courier on your next trip and e-mail it to mlopez@bhcourier.com.
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e has chaired – or been a member of – numerous business and charitable organizations, serving twice on the UC Board of Regents.
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lifelong daredevil with a zest for adventure,” as he described himself.
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n December 14th, we lost John Hotchkis, 86, to liver failure, who had written his obituary, from which we have quoted a tad here and there. ____________________
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FK never smoked cigarettes,” writes Pulitzer Prizewinning and politically savvy Peggy Noonan in her always rewarding weekly Saturday column in The Wall Street Journal. About President John F. Kennedy’s erroneous portrayal in The Crown. “Many other lies!” writes Peggy about the drama’s flaws. “So vulgar, and dumb and careless … it is
disrespectful not only of real human beings but of history itself.”
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n Steven Spielberg’s film, The Post, Peggy finds disturbing lies.
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he movie is a celebration of The Washington Post for printing the top secret Pentagon Papers, which revealed U.S. government lies about the Vietnam War. But it was The New York Times that showed the greater enterprise - it got the story first and the greater valor, because its editor could not fully guess the legal repercussions and would presumably have to handle them on their own.
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ut what the heck: it’s still a good story, and the Post did show style.
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hat is bad is the lie that President Nixon is portrayed as the villain of the story. And that is the opposite of the truth. Nixon did not start the Vietnam War, he ended it. His administration is not even
mentioned in the Pentagon Papers, which were finished before he took office.”
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here’s so much more, adds Peggy, admonishing those filmmakers who mess with history.
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hy does all this matter? Because we are losing history … when people get their history through entertainment … when they absorb the story of their times through screens then the tendency to fabricate is more damaging.
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hose who make movies and television dramas should start caring about this …
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t is wrong in an age of lies to add to their sum total. That’s right. It will do harm.”
Will it stop? Not likely. Online at www.bhcourier.com/category/george-christy
John and Joan Hotchkis attending one of the opening nights of the L.A. Phil at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Wed 34 years, John proposed marriage to Joan at the Cipriani Hotel in their favorite Venice, Italy.
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his influenced my passion for local philanthropy and dedication to our grandparents’ Rancho Los Alamitos homestead in Long Beach. Which our family deeded to the city with its original adobe ranch house, barns, and gardens designed by Frederick Law Olmstead, who created Manhattan’s Central Park and the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, plus innumerable other grand landscapes.
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business strongman and financier, John founded the Trust Company of the West, Hotchkis and Wiley Institutional portfolio managers, which he sold to Merrill Lynch, and later to Ramajal LLC.
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philanthropist beloved for his loyalty and love and enduring support for the LA Phil. Along with his beautiful and born-to-elegance wife Joan Hartley, a native Californian from the wine country of Sonoma.
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fourth generation Southern Californian, born to Katharine Bixby and Preston Hotchkis, who instilled in their children a love for the Golden State and its history.
center, where children may experience the early California ranch life.
A cynosure in yellow, Gal Gadot arrived for the 29th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala at the Palm Springs Convention Center.
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ancho Los Alamitos is a museum now and an educational
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Pink’s To Celebrate Hollywood Museum’s ‘Batman 66’ Exhibit With New ‘Robin’ Hot Dog Pink’s Hot Dog’s will dedicate it’s new Burt Ward “Robin” hot dog with a special dedication at 1 p.m., Tuesday, Jan 9 at its historic location, 709 N. La Brea Ave., Hollywood. The dedication is part of the “Batman 66” exhibit opening Wednesday, Jan. 10 at the Hollywood Museum, 1660 N. Highland Ave. at Hollywood Boulevard. Ward who played Robin to Adam West’s Batman in the beloved 1966-68 TV series, will arrive at the event in George Barris’ exhibition Batmobile. “We are excited to honor the ‘Batman 66’ exhibit and TV show and Burt Ward this way. Burt created his favorite hot dog that will be on the menu starting Jan. 9,” said Gloria Pink. The Burt “Robin “ Ward hot dog is a stretch hot dog with mustard, relish and sauerkraut. The exhibit will consist of four sections (Wayne Manor, The Batcave, Gallery of Guest Super Villains and The Collectibles of Batman ‘66), and pay tribute to the memory of West, who died last June. “Batman 66” will feature original costumes and props from the show, many of which have not been seen since its original broadcast. “We have items that evoke one’s childhood memories of the ever-popular TV series, still seen today in the U.S. and around the world weekly,” says museum Pres-
Burt Ward as Robin in the Batman TV series.
ident/Founder Donelle Dadigan. “There is something for everyone—from the Batmobile and Batcycle to rare collectibles to Burt and Adam’s original costumes worn during the show’s 120 episodes on ABC, as well as guest villains—and one of my favorites—the original Dr. Casandra costume worn by TV and film star Ida Lupino, that has never been seen publicly before.” The museum is open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., WednesdaySunday. For more information, call 323-464-7776 or visit www.TheHollywoodMuseum.com.
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Playwright Bess Wohl Finds Poignancy In Silence In Small Mouth Sounds Coming To The Broad Stage Playwright Bess Wohl decided to challenge herself. After writing “dialogue heavy’ plays like Barcelona (at The Geffen in 2016) she vowed to write a play where the exposition happens in silence. The result is Small Mouth Sounds, running Jan. 11-18 at The Broad Stage. In Wolh’s story, six strangers with diverse backstories embark on a From left, Ben Beckley, Brenna Palughi, Connor Barret, Edward Chin-Lyn, silent retreat. As the par- Cherene Snow and Socorro Santiago in Small Mouth Sounds. Photo by T. Charles Erickson ticipants confront their personal crises, their vows of She wrote detailed biogsilence clash with their need to the people she observed at the retreat. “I projected a storyline raphies of the characters “to connect. Wohl was inspired to write onto them,” she said. Other help the actors” with their the play after her own experi- characters were a chance to choices; but audiences have to ence at a silent meditation examine traits she saw in her- watch facial expressions, a shake of a head, a noiseless self. retreat in upstate New York. The attendees, guided by a scream or a back doubled over “A close friend of mine had the idea to go and hear a heard but unseen teacher, in pain to help construct each teacher we both admire who include a male yoga instructor, a life story. The goal, says Wohl, is to was doing a four-day retreat,” couple that may or may not be says Wohl. “I didn’t realize it breaking up, a young woman have audiences be detectives would be in silence. I thought it stalking her former lover, a man picking up on silent behavior would be like a girls’ weekend; I trying to cope with his son’s and gathering clues. “This play requires somebrought snacks and wine so we death and another with myriad tragedies, all of whom must find thing of audiences and I wasn’t could catch up.” She was at the retreat for nonverbal ways to reach each sure they’d go on this ride with me or go to sleep or walk out or only a few hours before Wohl other. For Wohl, who “always be bored,” says Wohl. “So its realized the setting and situation would make a great play. “It hated writing stage directions,” exciting and gratifying to see so really is dramatic. People come Small Mouth Sounds was a good much love for this play.” Tickets start at $45 and are to these sessions hoping to writing exercise. “ I love writing change or find a solution, look- dialogue and it was painful let- available at www.thebroadting go of that. This was almost stage.org by calling 310-434ing for relief or connection.” Wohl’s characters were like writing a giant poem. Not 3200, or at the box office, 1310 11th St., Santa Monica. inspired, she says, by what she distracted by dialogue, I had to —Steve Simmons be clear about the structure.” imagined was going on inside
The Broad To Present Comprehensive Survey of Artist Jasper Johns In February Artist Jasper Johns, who rose to prominence with his paintings of flags, targets and other familiar objects, will be the sole subject of a special exhibition at The Broad in early 2018. Johns’ 60year career of work will be presented in the most comprehensive survey in the U.S. in two decades. “Jasper Johns: ‘Something Resembling Truth’” is the first major survey of the artist’s work to be shown in L.A., and will be on view at The Broad, Feb. 10-May 13. A collaboration with the Royal Academy, London, the exhibition will feature more than 100 of the artist’s paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, many never before exhibited in L.A. With loans from international public and private collections, including works from the Broad collection, the exhibition will trace the evolution of the artist’s six-decade career through a series of thematic chapters. The exhibition encompasses the full range of Johns’ materials, motifs and techniques—including his use of encaustic (heated beeswax) and found-material collage in paintings—and the
innovations he achieved in sculpture and the graphic arts by expanding the possibilities of traditional media. “Edye and I have admired the work of Jasper Johns for decades,” said Eli Broad, cofounder of The Broad. “His work is essential to our collection and to contemporary art as a whole, and we are pleased to share this exhibition with visitors from L.A. and around the world.” The exhibit is curated by Edith Devaney, contemporary curator at the Royal Academy, and independent curator Dr. Roberta Bernstein, author of Jasper Johns’ Catalogue Raisonné Of Paintings And Sculpture, who has written and lectured extensively on contemporary artists including Johns, Ellsworth Kelly and Robert Rauschenberg. Joanne Heyler, founding director of The Broad, and Associate Curator Ed Schad are host curators. The exhibition title is taken from a 2006 interview, in which Johns said, “Yet, one hopes for something resembling truth, some sense of life, even of grace, to flicker, at least, in the work.”
Jasper Johns,” Flag, 1967, “encaustic and collage on canvas (three panels), 33 1/2 x 56 1/4 in. Art © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Collection.
“Jasper Johns: ‘Something Resembling Truth’” will begin with an entire gallery devoted to Johns treatment of the American flag, arguably his best-known image, deployed famously at the outset of his career in the 1950s as testing ground for a new direction for 20th century art, and for decades afterward, as an ever-evolving subject evoking a variety of social meanings. In the 1960s he added
devices within his works, including studio objects, imprints and casts of the human figure, while works from the 1970s are dominated by abstract “crosshatchings.” During this time, Johns began to explore printmaking and is now one of the most celebrated printmakers today. His work continued to evolve throughout the 1980s, as he introduced a variety of images that engaged with
“Target,” 1961. Encaustic and collage on canvas. The Art Institute of Chicago © Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photo: © 2017. The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY / Scala, Florence
themes involving memory, sexuality and the contemplation of mortality. As a paid special exhibition at The Broad, the exhibition will include access to the rest of the museum. Ticketing information will be announced closer to the exhibition opening. For more information, and to sign up for updates, visit thebroad.org.
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Cedars-Sinai Helps Future Physician Grow From Preterm Birth To Medical School Shannon Sullivan, 26, a student at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington D.C., has already co-authored a major study in a prominent neuroscience journal and earned a fellowship. She traces her career ambitions to age 12, when she learned she had spent her first months of life in the Cedars-Sinai Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Sullivan's connection with Cedars-Sinai began on Sept. 13, 1991, when she was born 13 weeks ahead of schedule. Weighing 1 pound, 13 ounces, she spent the next three months in Cedars-Sinai’s NICU. Twelve years later, after her parents told her the details of her preterm birth and Sullivan announced her career ambition, her mother and father encouraged her to learn about neonatology—the field of medicine concerned with the care, development and diseases of newborn infants. “The more I learned, the more I wanted to spend time in the NICU,” Sullivan said. When she was 15, she decided to email Charles Simmons, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics and director of Neonatology. Although more than a
decade has since passed, Simmons readily recalled Sullivan’s cyber correspondence. “Shannon said she was starting 10th grade. She also wrote about a special connection she had with Cedars-Sinai that fueled her interest in neonatology,” said Simmons, the Ruth and Harry Roman Chair in Neonatology. At Simmons’ suggestion, Sullivan applied to the CedarsSinai Teen Volunteer Program, which places teens in clerical and clinical areas of the hospital. Sullivan spent that summer, and the next two, working in nursing units and the NICU’s administrative office. “I could see Shannon was driven, patient and resilient. She also was curious and creative,” Simmons said. He told Sullivan these are good traits for doing hands-on science and suggested she keep biomedical research in mind as a possible profession. Recognizing that many teens are interested in biomedical science, Academic Human Resources at Cedars-Sinai— with the support of Leon Fine, MD, then vice dean of Research and Graduate Research Education—has since established an educational outreach to that age group. Now in its
Interns Shannon Sullivan, left, and Sivan Borenstein talk with Charles Simmons, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics, at the 2015 Research Internship Program Poster Day at Cedars-Sinai.
second year, the Cedars-Sinai Minors in Research initiative is for students 16 to 18. This seven-week summer program pairs teens with faculty mentors who introduce them to laboratory techniques and research concepts. After high school, Sullivan attended Columbia University, earning a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering. Upon graduation in 2014, she again reached out to Simmons. “Dr. Simmons has been such a supportive figure and a great educator and mentor. I told him
how much I'd like to work with him,” Sullivan said. Simmons suggested she apply to the Cedars-Sinai Research Internship Program. Launched that year by Academic Human Resources, the program is aimed at aspiring biomedical scientists 18 or older and interested in handson research. Since 2014, the program has welcomed more than 600 interns, each paired with a faculty mentor. Last year, 170 participants interned with 56 faculty members across 12 departments.
Sullivan entered the program in October 2014 and served as a pediatrics research intern through July 2015. She returned to Cedars-Sinai as a neurosurgery intern from August 2015 to June 2016, working in the laboratory of Ueli Rutishauser, PhD, Cedars-Sinai associate professor of Neurosurgery and director of Human Neurophysiology Research. She was listed as second author of an impactful study on shortterm memory published earlier this year in the journal Nature Neuroscience. Sullivan's association with Cedars-Sinai has continued. Now a second-year medical student at Howard University College of Medicine, Sullivan returned last summer to Rutishauser’s lab as a research intern, supported by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Medical Research Fellowship. In her most recent internship, Sullivan spent nine weeks building on the Rutishauser lab’s ongoing investigation of short-term memory. “Interns change the dynamics of a lab. They bring new ideas, fresh eyes and a new point of view," Rutishauser said.
CHLA Study To Examine How Tumor Necrosis Factor Works To Reduce Intestinal Inflammation D. Brent Polk, MD, AGAF, an investigator at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, has been awarded $1.5 million by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the NIH for the study of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and its role in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The new research seeks to reveal important information about the cellular and molecular activity that triggers IBD and may point to new treatment approaches for patients. IBD, which includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract. IBD affects as many as 1.6 million people in the U.S. and a fifth of those patients are children. While the exact causes of IBD are unknown, they cause inflammation that affects the lining of the digestive tract. Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is a cell signaling protein secreted by immune and other cells that affects cellular activity and controls inflammation and has been found to play a central role in the disease process of IBD. While anti-TNF therapies are part of the medical treatment regimen for many IBD patients, in the majority it is not an effective treatment in the long term. Many patients treated with anti-TNF biologics either do not respond or lose response within a year. “Our goal is to better understand the cellular activity behind the mechanisms that drive injury or impair the normal repair responses to develop more precise treatment options for patients with IBD,” said Polk, a pediatric gastroenterologist and principal investigator of the study. In a previous study, Polk’s research
Immune cells (highlighted in yellow) in the mouse colon that are the proposed target of TNFR2-activating therapy in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
team demonstrated that despite TNF’s reputation for promoting inflammation, it can have beneficial and protective effects on the intestine, as well. The molecule TNF, which is part of a major signaling center in the body, actually has two different receptors, TNFR1 and TNFR2, which can be targeted to promote or reduce inflammation. The team established that TNFR2 drives a specific pathway that restricts inflammation. The investigators are now working to understand exactly how TNFR2 acts to reduce inflammation by looking at its activity within immune cells to restrict their ability to promote intestinal inflammation. They will also look at how TNFR2 operates in the stem cells of the intestine to discover ways to change its activity to get stem cells to multiply or be more responsive to the wounds in individuals with IBD in order to repair intestinal injury.
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Wednesday, Jan. 10, and Thursday, Jan. 11, from 7-8:30 p.m. Multiple FFST members told the Courier that there is currently no plan for a possible reconfiguration of the school district that all members agree upon and that the community forums are intended to be open discussions where all residents can share ideas. “If you’re going to do something, you must do it properly, you mustn’t trade one fragmented structure for another,” observed FFST member Merle Bauer, a retired Beverly Vista teacher who had been part of previous reconfiguration studies at BHUSD over the years. “You don’t have to reinvent the wheel.” Bauer, who taught 8th grade English at Beverly Vista for 30 years after moving into Beverly Hills 40 years ago from South Africa to enroll her son in BHUSD, said she believed that having a dedicated middle school, while transforming three of the four K-8 schools into K-5 schools, is the best option the FFST has considered “I think a dedicated middle school would enable us to create the most effective studentcentered learning environment,” she said. “The more students, the more choices. It’s so simple.” Bauer is not alone in that belief. El Rodeo Principal Kevin
Allen, an FFST member who helms the K-8 with highest test scores in BHUSD, likewise touted the advantages of having a dedicated middle school, such as providing students increased opportunities for enrichment and acceleration. For over two months, the team has been meeting regularly in an effort to provide thoughtful options on how to best reconfigure the district’s four middle schools while ensuring that the educational success of students remains primary. After whittling down some two dozen possibilities, the FFST honed down on two options: The current model of four K-8 schools and one 9-12 high school, as well as a version of that model that would repurpose one school building for other use, and a new model that includes one dedicated 68 middle school, in addition to three K-5 elementary schools and one 9-12 hight school, as well as a version of that model that would repurpose one school building resulting in two K-5 elementary schools, one 68 middle school and one 9-12 high school. Local attorney Lee Egerman, whose three children attend Horace Mann, where his wife, Jill, is the Executive VP of the school’s PTA, highlighted the importance of process with respect to how the committee functions. “To me it really was a process,” said Egerman, who also attended BHUSD, in addi-
tion to his grandmother, mother, father and sister. “We started out our process with a mantra of remaining open-minded and flexible in our thoughts [while] trying to make strong recommendations of what is best.” Egerman, who said he saw clear challenges and advantages with each of the two models, highlighted one clear advantage of having a dedicated middle school: a critical mass of students would translate into more program options. Further, he noted, having the entire cohort of 6-8 students in one school would help reduce various inefficiencies, thereby resulting in a very real cost-savings. Superintendent Michael Bregy, with full Board of Education support, has been advocating for the creation of a dedicated middle school since he was hired last February. In the wake of declining enrollment, over-staffing and a looming budget crisis, the board has been vocal in its support of expeditiously creating a student-centered solution. Beverly Hills Education Association President Telly Tse, who represents the teachers union, said he hoped the process was not abrupt. “Reconfiguration, if and when it happens, must be implemented gradually and with support from all stakeholders and with minimal disruption to our educators and students in terms of teacher cuts and involuntary transfers,”
he said. “It should not be a hasty decision based on an artificially generated sense of urgency.” Saban Capital Group’s CFO and FFST member Fred Gluckman’s expertise in maximizing wealth for a multi-billion dollar company naturally lends itself to helping ameliorate BHUSD’s budget woes. The father of a Beverly Vista 8th grader and Beverly Hills High School 10th grader, Gluckman emphasized how important it is to look first at the decision through the prism of eductional excellence. “I believe we should be preparing our kids to be engaged, thoughtful, curious, ethical proud students and proud graduates and we should be preparing them for a world that will never stop changing,” he said. “We want students to have advanced academics, strong athletics, a wide variety of electives at every turn, and all of that requires money. We have to face the cold hard reality that we don’t have the same number of students in the system that we did.” Indeed, BHUSD enrollment has declined by more than 1,000 students in the past nine years since 2009-10. “There’s a truth in the financial projection that at some point we reach a limit ... and we need to find a better model for how we’re delivering education. there is a more efficient model,” he added. The FFST is slated to meet
January 5, 2018 | Page 11 on Monday, Jan. 8 to continue its analysis regarding educational opportunities and configuration options for BHUSD. Team members will also be attending meetings next Tuesday and Wednesday at Beverly Vista, Horace Mann and Hawthorne to gather additional input. El Rodeo held its meeting in December before winter break. All of this, members say, is in an effort to create the best plan to present to the board, which is scheduled to vote on a reconfiguration plan Jan. 30. “The Community Forums coming up at BHHS on Wednesday and Thursday, January 10th and 11th, will be another important opportunity for not just individual school communities, but all resident of Beverly Hills, to get involved in the process,” said district spokesperson Laura Skirde. “These will not be your typical town hall meetings.” The two forums will be slated identically, with Bregy and members of the FFST delivering a presentation about the collaborative process and reconfiguration options for BHUSD at 7 p.m. Questions and dialogue are set to follow at 7:30 p.m., with attendees encouraged to break out into small group sessions in neighboring classrooms for discussion with FFST members and district administrators and staff. For more information, or to submit comments or questions, visit: tinyurl.com/BHFFST.
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the land – and the responsibility – for providing proper drainage for the residence, actions which aid the developer by making the drainage improvements through the City’s Public Works Department, thus avoiding redesign to accommodate the drainage and retaining the “by right” status of the project by not exceeding cubic yards of export and correcting serious construction issues. Asked if a fire turnaround requires the lowering of the street, Acting Beverly Hills Fire Marshall and Fire Chief Greg Barton responded, “The only reason for lowering a street for FD access is to allow for angle of approach or departure issues. The Loma Linda turnaround is very close to level in its current configuration, thus it would not need to be lowered to accommodate fire department access.” Therefore, the only reason that Public Works has to lower the street is to correct issues in the construction of the residence at 1193 Loma Linda Drive. The City, it appears, is bending over backwards to accommodate the developer, who has filed a lawsuit against the City. Loma Linda Holdings LTD, as Trustee of the Loma Linda Trust, is suing the City of Beverly Hills and the City Council over the 2016 Hillside Ordinance, claiming that instituting the
interim ordinance and the permanent ordinance violated the Brown Act and was a misuse of the City’s authority directed against a few targeted projects, including the Loma Linda projects. The case is slated to come to trial on Jan. 11, according to the attorney representing the City, T. Peter Pierce, “but it most likely will not go forward on that date. It is not clear at this time to what date the trial would be continued,” he said in an email. According to the lawsuit, Loma Linda Trust withdrew the original project from consideration and split the development into two single-family residences, “in reliance on the City’s urging and assurances that the Trust could construct a ‘by right’ project with the need for an R-1 permit.” On Nov. 7 of last year, City Engineer Mark Cuneo told the City Council that permits for the projects “are contingent upon the City Council acceptance” of the easement and vacating the storm drain (our emphasis). The fire turn-around improvements are described in the agenda in great detail, including the shape of the curb, painting it red, and placing “no parking” signs in the cul de sac. Nowhere in the agenda is there any mention of sloping or drainage. “The street is being lowered approximately six to eight inches to provide a V-drain channel for downward drainage to the catch basin,” wrote
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Arroyo in a Dec. 26 email, which is not consistent with a fire turn-around. It is, however, consistent with the drainage issues raised by neighbor Debbie Weiss’ expert. These improvements will now be on City-owned property and not on the site of the development, and conveniently solves a problem that went unmentioned in numerous correction letters until resident Weiss hired an expert to review the plans. Her expert discovered that either the garage roof had to be raised or the street lowered, assuming that lowering the street, with all that it entails, was not under consideration. No longer private property, any excavation or plans will be under the jurisdiction of the Department of Public Works for the City of Beverly Hills, and will not require plan check or oversight, and importantly, will not add to any cubic yards of soil to be excavated. It seems that, coincidentally, the lowering of the street was a decision that occurred after the City Council approval, and after Weiss’s expert brought the drainage problem to the City’s attention. But confirmation of the timeline has not been forthcoming from City staff. The initial project first drew attention at a meeting Dec. 11, 2013, when Vancouver Canucks Hockey Team billionaire owner Francesco Aquilini proposed a 27,334-square foot residence that included a 13,926-square foot basement cantilevered down the hillside with moat-like water features protruding above the homes, Coldwater Canyon Park and the pre-school below. Since then, the community has galvanized around their opposition, and the project has been split into two residences, each with 1,500 cubic yards of export, the maximum export allowed before triggering a discretionary R-1 permit. The Loma Linda development has been painstakingly scrutinized for inaccuracies by neighbors. Weiss, who has spent over $300,000 in her efforts, has raised several very legitimate concerns about the project. Last month amidst those concerns, the City Council asked for a third-party to review the plans. The City has thus engaged GeoKinetics. In response to a public records request, staff produced a generic contract that doesn’t mention Loma Linda specifically. The contract refers to an attachment that has not
been produced, and the contract is for $50,000 through Dec. 31, 2018. Several questions remained unanswered. First among those concerns is the accuracy of the estimates on earth export. If either residence exceeds 1,500 cubic yards in export, the developer will either have to apply for an R1 permit or adjust the plans. It is unclear if configuring the developer’s estimate is within the scope of GeoKinetics work without reviewing the details of the contract. So far, according to Public Information Manager Therese Kosterman, the City has spent only $81,751 in legal fees for Loma Linda. In comparison, the Loma Linda Trust claims to have spent $2 million. Clearly, the City’s efforts to provide drainage for the project are not within the purview of the fire turnaround, and not the business of the City. A project and its issues should be solved by the developer, not the City, including using a fire turnaround as an excuse to provide solutions to a drainage problem created solely by the applicant. The issue has been called up to the City Council by Councilmember John Mirisch. Mayor Bosse was to agendize the issue for Tuesday’s council meeting. In an email, City Manager Mahdi Aluzri has pushed it to a later date. “I have spoken to the Mayor and Councilmember Mirisch about his request…” he wrote, and he “met with staff to [go] over the applicant plans for the roadway improvement…Placing the item on next week’s Council agenda would be premature because there are outstanding corrections related to overall site and street drainage including the garage driveway, which impacts the design and whether or not the street grade needs to be changed. We have not yet received their responses to these corrections, but if we get them back in time for the January 22nd meeting we will bring forward to the Council any necessary work on the roadway and share all the associated information including any added excavation that would be needed for that work. Also, as you know we are waiting for the peer review consultant to finish their assessment and we will make sure the neighbors get a chance to review and discuss the peer review findings with our consultant before we bring the item back to the Council.”
Southern California Housing Price Gains Reach Two-Year High Home prices in Southern California spiked at their fastest pace in nearly two years in November, according to real estate data firm CoreLogic. Los Angeles County house pricing gain hit a 21-month high and rose 7.5 percent year over year in November. The county’s median sale price rose from $565,000 in October to $567,000 in November, just short of
the record-high of $575,000 reached in early 2017. The total number of homes sold in L.A. County fell in November, from 6,878 in October down to 6,494 in November. When adjusted for inflation, SoCal's median sale price is still 13 percent lower than it was during the summer of 2007.
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Visionary Women Return This Month With Salon On Mastering Your Money
VISIONARY WOMEN – Visionary Women will hold its first salon of 2018 at the end of the month, giving women leaders across various fields a unique forum to connect around important topics impacting women today. Proceeds from the upcoming event, “Mastering Your Money: Be The Boss Of Your Own Life,” will go to support targeted women’s initiatives. Pictured are speakers (clockwise, from top left): Stacy Allred, Bruce Carlin, Cassie Mogilner Holmes, Victoria Santoro, Daniella Schlisser and Jennifer Yen.
By Laura Coleman Beverly Hills-based non-profit Visionary Women returns to the Montage Beverly Hills on Jan. 30 for its first salon of 2018, “Mastering Your Money: Be The Boss Of Your Own Life.” Marking a new concept for the salon series, the event will feature a TED Talks-style keynote address from Stacy Allred, Managing Director of Merrill Lynch’s Center for Family Wealth, followed by three break-out sessions. In “Launch a Business,” UCLA
Professor of Finance Bruce Carlin will navigate the financial basis of starting a business. UCLA Anderson School of Management Professor Cassie Mogilner Holmes will talk values and making money work for you in “Cultivate Meaning.” And in the final breakout session, “Reinvent,” financial planner Victoria Santoro will speak with entrepreneur Jennifer Yen and real estate broker Daniella G. Schlisser on reclaiming financial stability. The event, which begins with a wine reception, runs from 5-7:30 p.m.
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Inside Fleiner Automotive’s state-of-the-art new shop.
Fleiner Automotive Co. Continues Family Tradition At Spacious New Location A
dam Fleiner prides himself on being something of a renaissance man when it comes to repairing cars. Many auto shops will specialize in only one or two different types of vehicles. Fleiner, however, has taken the time over his decades in the auto industr y to Adam Fleiner is carrying on his grandfather Paulee’s learn a little bit tradition of providing top-flight automotive service. about every type of vehicle the average Beverly Hills driv- Adam pursued a career as a chef, er might bring to his shop, from the working at restaurants like Spago before deciding that his true appetite standard to high-end. “I’m not scared of any of these was back in the automotive world. Adam, who is still a “Beverly Hills cars. I like to know a little bit about ever ything, from Lamborghini to guy” through and through – he eats at Ferrari to Rolls Royce and so on,” Nate’n Al every Saturday – said he’s Fleiner told the Courier. “You might proud of Fleiner Automotive’s new have a family where the parents have headquarters in Leimert Park, which a Mercedes, and the kid has a is a 6,000 square-foot increase from Bentley. I want us to be able to serv- its old shop near the intersection of ice both of them to the best of our National Boulevard and Robertson. The building has always been a ability.” The Fleiner family has been doing body shop in one form or another and just that, repairing cars for more than Adam is hard at work restoring it to 50 years. Adam carries on that tradi- make it look like it did in the 1950s. tion today at Fleiner Automotive Co., He’s sandblasted the roof, re-painted which, late last year, moved to a new, and worked on new flooring and said larger location in Leimert Park at restoring the showroom – Fleiner Automotive also has a sales division 3443 W 43rd St. The tradition began with Adam’s in addition to its body work – is next grandfather Paul “Paulee” Fleiner, on his to-do list. Friendly faces abound when enterwho immigrated to the United States from Europe. Paulee loved working on ing Fleiner Automotive Co. The first cars and worked for several different face many visitors see is a longtime shops until opening Paulee Body Shop employee of the Fleiner family, who is in 1956. Always for ward-thinking, now 56-years-old but began working Paulee was the first body shop owner for the Fleiner’s at the age of 18. “It’s really about the community in the United States to import stateof-the-art equipment from Europe, and and making people understand this is became the first to par tner with a place they can trust their vehicle Italy’s Universal Bench, a straighten- with,” Adam said. “We’ve had cusing and repair unit that standardized tomers who have been coming here for a decade and they know the qualicar repair. Perhaps most importantly, Paulee ty of expertise they can expect from made his shop a family operation, us.” Fleiner Automotive Co. is located which allowed Adam to begin working in the shop around the age of 5. He at 3443 W 43rd St. Los Angeles, CA. washed and detailed cars before mov- 90008. For more information, call ing into the office to write estimates 424-288-4111 or visit www.fleinerautomotiveco.com. for customers. A Beverly Hills High graduate,
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OUTLOOK B E V E R LY H I L L S Ines Kaag and Desiree Heiss, the designers behind the Paris and Berlin-based fashion label BLESS, will discuss their collective work with curator Aram Moshayedi at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 10 at the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd. Founded in 1997, the duo has developed a cult following in the art and fashion worlds for its conceptual approach to the production of clothing and domestic objects. Developed in collaboration with Kaag and Heiss, the free program will focus on past BLESS projects. For more information, visit www.hammer.ucla.edu. • • • • • Dr. James D. Adams, USC associate professor of pharmacology & pharmaceutical sciences will present “Healing with Medicinal Plants of the West” from 9:30 a.m.-noon, Thursday, Jan. 11 at the L.A. County Arboretum & Botanical Garden, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. Adams trained for many years with the Chumash people and has written many books and articles on traditional healing. He is particularly interested in pain control, stroke therapy, and eczema therapy with California medicinal plants. Cost is $25. To register or for more information, visit arboretum.org or call 626-8214624. • • • • • Garry Marshall Theatre’s marshallARTS family series pre-
mieres with a new spin on a The Enchanted Nightingale, at 7 p.m., Fridays and 11 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 12March 18 at the theatre, 4252 Riverside Dr, Burbank. Written by Artistic Director Joseph Leo Bwarie and Lori Marshall and directed by Fran de Leon, the fable set in China follows an emperor and the rarest of treasures—an enchanted nightingale. When the Emperor discovers the beauty of the nightingale song, he cages it for his own enjoyment, only to banish it when he receives a bejeweled mechanical nightingale he prefers. Tickets, starting at $18, are available by calling 818-9558101 or visiting garrymarshalltheatre.org. • • • • • A special Mass Celebration of the Feast of the Infant Jesus of Prague, with Bishop Joseph V. Brennan as main celebrant, will be held at 7 p.m., Friday, Jan. 12 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, 555 W Temple St., L.A. The history of the Infant Jesus of Prague started in the 17th century when the statue was brought into Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) and eventually given to the Discalced Carmelites. Since then, the statue has remained in Prague and drawn devotees worldwide. The celebration features the holy robes the statue wears at the shrine, brought to the cathedral for the third time by the Holy Trinity Ministry.
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of local and SoCal events. • • • • • Jonathan Davis, VP for external relations at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel’s first private university, will discuss “The State of Israel: Seventy Years Young” at 11:30 a.m., following the Beverly Hills Jewish Community’s 9:30 a.m. service, at The Beverly Hills Hotel, 9641 Sunset Blvd. Davis also heads the Raphael Recanati International School and is a member of the advisory board of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism. He is also a lieutenant colonel (Res) in the IDF spokesman’s office. To RSVP or for more information, email info@beverlyhillsjc.org or 310.276.4246. • • • • •
From left, opera stars Leontyne Price and Robert Merrill during construction of the new Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center in 1964.
The Opera House, Susan Froemke’s new documentary chronicling the creation of the Metropolitan Opera’s home in New York City’s Lincoln Center, will screen at 12:15 p.m., Saturday, Jan 13 and 12:55 and 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 17 at the Laemmle Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre, 8556 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills. Featuring rarely seen archival footage, stills, recent interviews including Leontyne Price, and a soundtrack of Met performance, the film tells how the Met’s storied venue of the last 50 years came to be. Along with soprano Price, who opened the new Met in 1966 in Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra, also included are Rudolf Bing, the Met’s imperious general manager, who engineered the move from the old house to the new one; Robert Moses, the city planner
who bulldozed an entire neighborhood to make room for Lincoln Center; and architect Wallace Harrison. For more information, visit https://www.laemmle.com/theaters/25 or http://www.metopera.org/theoperahouse. • • • • • Jewish Women’s Theatre’s first art exhibit of the new year, “Speak Out,” will run from Jan.15-March 5, featuring four artists “who use their palettes to speak up for those who have no voice” including refugees and the homeless. Works by L.A. artists Pat Berger, Jenny Rubin, Corrie Siegel and Alexandra Wiesenfeld will be part of the show curated by Georgia FreedmanHarvey at the The Gallery@The Braid, the theatre’s home at 2912 Colorado Ave., Suits #102, Santa Monica. The exhibit will have its official opening and art talk at 7 p.m., Jan. 20, before the premiere performance of JWT’s new salon show, The Accidental Activist. Admission to the art exhibit and talk are free; tickets are required for the performance and available at www.jewishwomenstheatre.org. • • • • • Senator Kamala D. Harris will be grand marshal of the Annual Kingdom Day Parade, beginning at 10 a.m., Monday, Jan 15. The 2.5-mile route begins on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Western Ave., traveling west to Crenshaw, then South on Crenshaw, and ending at Leimert Park and Vernon. The parade honors the life and legacy of Dr. King and has grown into the largest and longest-running annual birthday celebration in the nation. This year would have been Dr. King’s 89th birthday and is the 50th anniversary of his death. The parade will feature more than 150 units and more than 3,000 people including the Kingdom Day Parade Queen & Her Royal Court, floats, marching bands, high- and middleschool drill teams, novelty acts, equestrian units, celebrities and community leaders. For more information, visit www.kingdomdayparade.org.
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Sam Darnold, Josh Rosen Declare For NFL Draft By Matt Lopez Los Angeles’ two biggest college football stars have decided to move onto the next level. Within a half hour of each other on Wednesday, both UCLA quarterSam Darnold Josh Rosen back Josh Rosen and USC quarterstatistically in 2017, finishing back Sam Darnold the season with 4,143 passing announced they would enter yards, 26 touchdowns and 13 this year’s NFL draft. interceptions, down from 31 Both players are forego- touchdowns and nine intering their remaining college ceptions in 2016. USC eligibility – Rosen would advanced to the Cotton Bowl, have been entering his senior but lost to Ohio State. year in 2018, while Darnold Rosen fought through an would have been a junior. injury-plagued season that Rosen and Darnold are ended in disappointment for expected to compete for the UCLA, with the firing of its top overall pick in the 2018 head coach Jim Mora. NFL Draft. Rosen finished with A mock draft published 3,756 passing yards, 26 Wednesday by USA Today touchdowns and 10 intercepprojected Darnold to be the tions, but sat out his final first overall pick by the career game, a Cactus Bowl Browns, with Rosen going loss to Kansas State. second to the New York The 2018 NFL Draft is set Giants. for April 26-28 at AT&T Darnold took a step back Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
BEEF BOWL– Days before they competed in the Rose Bowl Game, the Georgia and Oklahoma football teams took part in the 62nd annual Lawry’s Beef Bowl at Lawry’s The Prime Rib in Beverly Hills. Georgia won the Beef Bowl, then days later carried that momentum into a 54-48 victory over Oklahoma in the Rose Bowl. Georgia will play Alabama on Monday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta for the College Football Playoff National Championship. Pictured above: Pictured above: Lawry's server Miss Thomas delivers prime rib meals to hungry Georgia football players.Pictured right: Oklahoma fullback Dmitri Flowers delivers cuts of prime rib to (from left): Lawry's CEO Richard R. Frank, Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley and his wife Caitlin Riley. Photos by Image Group LA
Beverly Hills High School Sports Roundup Girls Basketball The Beverly Hills High girls basketball team is entering the new year with high hopes after a 2017 season that ended in a CIF Southern Section championship. The BHHS girls wrapped up their preseason slate on Dec. 29 with a 55-42 loss to Rolling Hills Prep in a battle of two programs that each won CIF-SS titles last season. Michelle Duchemin scored 17 points and Arbri Gillis had 14 for the Normans in the loss to
RHP at the Gator Winter Classic in Nevada. Earlier in the tournament, the Normans beat Silverado 47-11 and Henderson (Nevada) 5039. The BHHS girls, currently 10-4 overall, begin Ocean League play Wednesday at Hawthorne High. Boys Basketball The Norman boys are on a roll entering 2018, having won six of their last seven games. The most recent contest, however, was a 5851 loss to Woodcreek
High on Dec. 30 in the Nike Division final of the Rancho Mirage Holiday Classic. Daniel Zahabian had 21 points to lead the Normans in the losing effort. Before that loss, BHHS beat De La Salle 47-40 on Dec. 29 and Serra High of Gardena 54-44 on Dec. 28. The Normans (11-4) return to the court Friday in the Jordan Take Flight Challenge against Dominguez High at Cerritos College.
Dodgers’ Cody Bellinger Named Sportsman Of The Year For 2017; Will Be Honored At The Beverly Hilton Dodgers first baseman and National League Rookie of the Year Cody Bellinger was named Wednesday the 2017 Sportsman of the Year by the Los Angeles Sports Council. Bellinger will be honored during the 13th annual L.A. Sports Awards on Feb. 6 at the Beverly Hilton.
Bellinger batted .267 during his rookie campaign, bashing 39 home runs and collecting 97
RBIs. He is the second Dodger to win the award, joining two-time recipient Clayton Kershaw. National champion USC beach volleyball duo Kelly Claes and Sara Hughes were previously named the 2017 Sportswomen of the Year. –– City News Service
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including a plaster molded beltcourse, fluted columns, scrolls and embellished entry door surrounds. Built by A. Markowitz and Son, the architect or designer is unknown. But the classical French Revival-Eclectic style is significant. For Criteria A of inclusion, the building satisfies all the criteria. It is at least 45 years old, embodies the characteristics of the architectural style, retains substantial integrity from its period of significance, and has continued historic value, as per Beverly Hills Municipal Code 10-3-3212. To become eligible, a property must also satisfy at least one requirement of Criteria B, in this case that the landmark designation is initiated or agreed to by the property owner. Also on the agenda is a proposal by a new tenant, First Bank, to repurpose and reuse the Gibraltar Square-Kate Mantilini building. Located at 9101 Wilshire Blvd., the property was designated a historic resource and listed on the Beverly Hills Register of Historic Properties as Landmark No. 30 on May 17, 2016. The applicant is requesting a Certificate of Appropriateness to make modifications to accommodate the new tenant. The location, originally built as Gibraltar Square, was renovated in 1986 by Master Architects Thom Mayne and Michael Rotondi of Morphosis
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Santa Monica Boulevard (SSMB) between Crescent Drive and Wilshire Boulevard were covered in bags last year, and the 50-foot street was restriped with two 10-foot traffic lanes on each side and a left turn lane to accommodate traffic during closures on North Santa Monica Boulevard (NSMB) during the reconstruction process. The mitigations successfully enhanced the flow of traffic on SSMB as an alternate route for NSMB, removing 13 parking spaces on the south side, 26 on the north and two loading zones. To replace parking spaces, the City added 40 valet parking spaces on the upper levels of the “Santa Monica 5” parking lots and six new customer loading zones on side streets. But the mandate for the alternative plan expires when NSMB reconstruction is completed in late spring, according to Deputy Director of Transportation for the City of Beverly Hills Aaron Kunz, forc-
for celebrity restaurant clients Harry and Marilyn Lewis of Hamburger Hamlet fame. Their iconic Kate Mantilini eatery closed its doors in 2014, and the building has been vacant since. The City has designated several character-defining features as components of the resources that should be preserved, both inside and out. The overall exterior visual aspects of the projecting orrery, the three primary elevations and the high-volume, single-story with the appearance of two stories, and details including the asymmetry of the fenestration, raised concrete podiums and hanging metal podiums are among the features to be preserved that made the building so unique and bold. The painted mural by John Wehrle entitled Knockout, which graces an interior wall floating above the dining counter and the sculptural orrery, and its structure and framing, stylus, stainless steel etched floor panel and gang plank, and the relationship of height, width and volume of the dining area are to be preserved. The applicant has worked with City staff and a historical consultant to ensure that the new use will reflect the historic elements of the building. Even proposed signage will engage the same design and font as the original Kate Mantilini sign that was so familiar to so many. Staff has recommended the CHC approve the Certificate of Appropriateness and the Sign Accommodations for First Bank.
ing the City to make a decision about how the street traffic and parking plan will go forward. Kunz’s presentation encouraged a Hybrid Alternative that would accommodate some on-street parking on the north side of the street, but would seek to maintain the flow of traffic. “Alternative 1” would maintain two lanes westbound, and two lanes eastbound from Wilshire to Bedford; the curb lane would then become right turn only. The eastbound lane would be increased from 10 feet to 12 feet from Bedford to Beverly Drive and 44 parking spaces would be added to the north side by relocating the meter poles. “Alternative 2” would eliminate a low-volume left turn onto Rodeo Drive. Some residents have expressed the desire that the mitigations remain in place, while several businesses have been anxious to have street parking returned. James Anderton, proprietor of WEST, a luxury boot, belt and leather store at 9528 S. Santa Monica Blvd, explained
you can understand that we are prohibited from commenting on individual personnel matters. I absolutely understand that the uncertainty around this situation might be upsetting to students, staff parents, and the broader Beverly Vista community. I have placed top priority on resolving that uncertainty as quickly as possible.” The Courier originally broke the story last month in the article entitled #MeToo In Beverly Hills: Former Student Details Sexual Harassment While Attending BHUSD School. The article stemmed from the victim’s desire to stand up against injustice in the wake of recent celebrity sexual abuse revelations in the news. “I want my voice to be heard,” said the girl, who is now 14 and attends high school outside BHUSD. Despite multiple reports the girl made to Beverly Vista administrators from fall 2016 through February 2017, while she was an 8th grader there, in which she detailed a litany of inappropriate behavior by an 8th grade boy at the school – and assurances by administrators that the boy would leave her alone – she said that the behavior did not stop. Shortly after Bregy took over the role of superintendent last February, the district launched an investigation into the alleged incidents, which was conducted by non-BHUSD attorney Kimberly Ludwin with the firm of Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo. The investigation concluded that the boy had repeatedly sexually harassed the girl. In an official BHUSD letter
dated May 8, 2017, former Chief Human Resources Officer Yolanda Mendoza informed the mother of the girl that the investigation had found that her daughter was the victim of “sexual harassment on multiple occasions” by another student. Multiple actions Mendoza cited as being in the referenced report, such as the boy touching the girl’s breasts and licking her neck, are actually sexual assault. The report concluded: “All of the above incidents reported by [the girl] involved unwelcome touching and hugging and had the effect of creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive educational environment as defined in Board Policy 5145.7.” A BHPD spokesperson confirmed last week that the department would be presenting a case related to the girl’s allegations of sexual assault to the district attorney’s office for consideration once it concludes its criminal investigation into the boy’s actions. The boy is currently a freshman at Beverly Hills High. Last week’s Courier article, entitled Beverly Hills Police Investigate Alleged Sexual Assault At Beverly Vista, detailed how both Beverly Vista Principal Christian Fuhrer and Assistant Principal Alyssa Para appeared to have shirked their mandated reporter responsibilities after they learned that the girl may have been sexually assaulted at school on multiple occasions. According to California Penal Code Section 11165.7, the overwhelming majority of school district employees, including teachers and administrators, are mandated reporters. Per the law, this
BEVERLY HILLS means that when a mandated reporter becomes aware of any form of child abuse, he or she must make a report “immediately or as soon as is practicably possible” to police or contact Child Protective Services. BHUSD Board Policy 5141.4 further supports California law, stating: “The district has a responsibility to protect students by facilitating the prompt reporting of known and suspected incidents of child abuse. ... Employees who are mandated reporters, as defined by law and administrative regulation, are obligated to report all known or suspected incidents of child abuse and neglect.” Despite the fact that both top school administrators knew about the incidents, in addition to multiple teachers, two of whom are referenced in Mendoza’s letter, no reports were made. “We had an emergency closed session with the board to discuss the matter,” Bregy said Thursday just before press time. “I’m working on the concerns of everyone involved in the issue right now. It’s a personnel issue and there are a number of steps that have to happen in a certain order and those steps are in progress. My top priority are the students, staff and parents.” Previous Board President Mel Spitz told the Courier that while he deferred collective board comment to Board President Lisa Korbatov, he would say that he expected an administrative change to occur at Beverly Vista. Korbatov, along with the other three board members, refused to comment. “Under the circumstances I think maybe [there should be] new management of the school,” Spitz said.
to commissioners that prior to the removal of parking meters, his business was experiencing 20-50 percent increases monthly, after opening their store three-and-a-half years ago. Just about to begin turning a profit when the meters were removed, said Anderton, his business is now down. “This is a street that is expected to be stop-and-go,” he said. “and it works with parking on both sides. The traffic is zooming by. There is not the vitality on those sidewalks. If you only restore the parking on the north side, no one will cross the street… There is no ‘dwell time’ on our street. Putting the parking back does that… My goal is to ask you, ‘What do you want the street to look like?” Anderton’s comments hit home. “Do we want this to a be a highway to pass through at high speeds,” asked Blair Schlecter, director of Economic Development and Government Affairs for the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce, “or shop?” Other business owners who spoke, like WEST, have
suffered from the loss of street parking. Landlords reported losing tenants, reducing rents as much as 50 percent, and taking on short-term tenants to forestall empty units. Adding parking spaces away from the businesses, according to business owners and landlords, did not replace the parking lost on the street or support the businesses, though it increased the traffic flow. Mark Eliot, founder of Better Bike, encouraged the Commission not to act until the “Complete Streets” report was completed. “Complete Streets” refers to a transportation policy that requires streets to be designed and operated to ensure safe and convenient access for people of all ages and abilities and multi-modalities. The City has entered into a contract with Iteris, Inc. for the development of a Complete Streets plan. Commissioner Jake Manaster reminisced about the street he remembered from his childhood, agreeing with the speakers that the businesses were frequented by residents who, “did not shop on Rodeo
Drive every day.” He pointed out that it would be, he estimated, five years before the Complete Streets report came to fruition, and any changes would be made. Some suggestions included widening the sidewalk on the north side and adding diagonal parking. Manaster asked staff if the City had made a commitment to bring back the meters. Commissioners asked for more information on the economic reality and more data on the proposals than what appeared in the agenda. “We don’t have to make a decision today,” said Commission Chair Nooshan Meshkaty. “There is not enough data.” When a decision is reached, the recommendation will go to the City Council. Staff had hoped to get their recommendations in time for a possible public comment period prior to the completion of the NSMB construction and street striping. In the absence of direction from Council, the street will return to the “zigzag” configuration prior to construction.
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KELEMEN
in beautifully appointed
receptionist, law library,
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Preferred Attorneys
310/653-2551
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CENTURY CITY New Off Market 2 Bd.+2 Ba. Jetliner Views! Move-In Ready. $995,000
2 BEDROOMS, 2 BATH CORNER PENTHOUSE $1,047,500
270 degree Unobstructed Views. Island Kitchen 2 Jumbo Balconies Viking Appliances Walk-In Closet Hardwood Floors
1+DEN+ 2 BATHROOM $945,000
High Floor. Renovated High Floor Ocean & City Views
1 BEDROOM, 1 BATH $750,000
High Floor Unobstructed City View Jumbo Balcony Totally Renovated Island Kitchen Hardwood Floors. Loft Style Lease Purchase Available CENTURY PARK EAST $671,000 TO $1,050,000
CENTURY TOWERS $699,000 TO $1,099,000
PARK PLACE $935,000 TO $1,139,000
LE PARC
$2,099,000 TO $2,895,000
CENTURY HILL
By Appointment Only.
$1,250,000 TO $2,390,000
310/557-1900
$3,400,000 TO $10,099,000
ONE CENTURY
CENTURY WOODS
$1,369,000 TO $2,799,000
BEL AIR CREST $1,788,000 TO $9,500,000
Some Complexes include Heated Pools, Sundeck, Tennis, Doorman, Houseman, Staff Engineers, Switchboard, Security Staff, Switchboard, Saunas, www. Business Center, PlayLand, bhcourier Restaurant, Acres of Flower .com Gardens and Grassy Lawns.
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425
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UNFURNISHED APT’S/CONDO’S
HOLMBY HILLS
KELEMEN
6 BDRM. + 8 BATHS
Across from Holmby Park on an acre lot.
REAL ESTATE (310) 966-0900 License 00957281
CenturyCityLiving.com
6 mo. avail. or month-to-month
GATED 5 STAR LUXURY PROPERTIES
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Beverly Hills Condo for Lease Beautiful 2BD 2BR Hardwood Floor, New Kitchen Appliances, New Central A/C $4,300/monthly.
221 S. Gale, Beverly Hills 310-926-7292
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MELROSE/BEVERLY CENTER AREA
CENTURY PARK EAST 1 BEDROOM /1 BATH $3,400/MONTH
High Floor Unobstructed City View Jumbo Balcony Totally Renovated Island Kitchen Hardwood Floors Loft Style Lease Purchase Available
FABULOUS HUGE APARTMENT 2 BEDROOM - 1.75 BATHS GORGEOUS ART DECO BUILDING GATED AND WITH SECURITY. LARGE LIVINGROOM AND PRIVATE DININGRM. HARDWD FLOORS, CENTRAL AIR AND HEAT. KITCHEN WITH BRK AREA AND LIVINGROOM WITH BEAUTIFUL BAY WINDOW. WASHER AND DRYER IN UNIT PRIVATE $3,350/MO. ONE CAR GARAGE. STREET PARKING AS WELL.
SANDRA LEWIS
CENTURY PARK EAST
AGT. 310-770-4111
$3,100/mo to $4,250/mo
BRE #00456048
• BEVERLY HILLS • BEVERLY HILLS LIGHT & BRIGHT 2 Bd.+1 Ba. • $3,150 1 BEDROOM
X-LARGE ELEGANT APT.
Lower unit with hardwood
W/ granite kitchen & bath, CENTURY HILL porcelain tile & hrwd. flrs., $6,800/mo. to $7,500/mo. washer/dryer hook-ups, walk-in closet, hi-ceilings. Shared backyard. No pets. LE PARC
Secured building. Permit Parking Only. All Utilities Paid. Available Jan. 1, 2018
ONE CENTURY
Must see! 439 S. Rexford
$22,000/mo. to $25,000/mo.
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PRIME LOCATION
$9,000/mo.
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B.H. Adj. BEVERLY HILLS Spectacular Cedars-Sinai Area
BH 254 S. Lasky Dr. 1 +1 • $2,150
COMPASS GOLD PROP. Marty: 310/293-2205
120 S. Swall Dr. • • • • • • • • • • • 1 Bd.+1 Bath •• • 2 Bd.+2 Bath • • • • • • • • •
Beverly Hills Adj. 310 S. Sherbourne Dr. 1 Bdrm.+1 Bath
Most Spectacular Apartments 120 Granville Ave.
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• 2 B d . + 2 1/ 2 B a . • 3 B d . + 2 1/ 2 B a .
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310/247-8689 Close to Cedars Sinai, Shops, Transportation
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BEVERLY HILLS • • Spacious • • • EXTRA LARGE • Jr. Executive • • UPPER DUPLEX • •
Formal dining room, living room with fireplace, breakfast room, appliances, sun room,
424/272-6596 •
Close to Brentwood Village, Restaurants, UCLA, Mt. Saint Mary’s, Newly Remodeled. & Transportation. Balcony, hardwood flrs., elevator, controlled • BRENTWOOD • access pool, on-site 872 S. Westgate Ave. laundry, parking. = = =
321 S. Sherbourne Dr.
Tennis, Doorman, Houseman, Staff Engineers, Switchboard, Security Staff, Switchboard, Saunas, Business Center, Pet PlayLand, Restaurant, Acres of Flower Gardens and Grassy Lawns.
Nice yard. Close to all!
Call 310/339-5714
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Upper 1 Bd.+1 Ba. BEVERLY HILLS * 2 BDRM. + 2 BA. Hrwd. flrs., balcony w/ * School District views, fireplace, private Bright & Spacious jacuzzi, a/c, elevator,
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Lrg. Deluxe w/ Pool 1 +Den +2 • $2,975
Grand Opening BRENTWOOD ’s
= = = Very Bright
2 Bdrm.+11/2 Bath = = = = = = Totally Redone. Harwood+carpet floors, fireplace, patio, parking, laundry facility.
310/592-4511
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access, a/c, stove, The Carlton 11666 Goshen Ave. elevator, laundry (•)(•)(•)(•)(•) facility, parking.
Very Spacious • 310/247-8689 • hardwod floors, service porch, Close to Cedars-Sinai, $2,000/MO. Single+Loft+1 Ba. Call 310/409-5020 A/C, 2 car garage, new carpet $7,995/mo to $8,900/mo. 310/271-6811 Beverly Center & (•)(•)(•)(•)(•) or 310/729-1400 Trendy Robertson Bl. WiFi, central air/heat, Cell: 310/994-4122 and paint. City Views.
with balcony and private laundry, secured bldg.+ side entrance, hardwood prkg. Water paid. $1,695/Month floors and garage BH TOWNHOUSE BEL AIR CREST By Appointment Only: parking. 435 S. Maple Dr. $9,000/mo. to $125,000/mo. 310/271-4207 $2,800/MO. 2 +Den +3 • $3,800 BH 435 S. Maple Dr. Some Complexes include Call 818/383-4038 Heated Pools, Sundeck, BEVERLY HILLS 2 + 2 • $3,000 BEVERLY HILLS ADJ. 221 S. Doheny Dr.
BH 237 N. Almont Dr.
BEVERLY HILLS ADJ.
• • $6,500 to $7,000/month • Newly Updated • floors, includes appliances. 3 BDRM. + 1.75 BA. Balcony, controlled
10000 SANTA MONICA
2 + 2 • $3,100
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BH 9000 Clifton Way
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* * * * * * * * Very Spacious, A/C, Large units, walk-in closet, balcony, intercom entry, custom kitchen, built-in on-sight laundry, prkg. washer/dryer, all appliClose to Cedars-Sinai, ances, hardwood floors Beverly Center, throughout, some units shops, cafes w/ skylights+high ceilings. & transportation. Health club, wifi, sauna, 424/303-7142 heated pool, controlled acess, parking.
*BEL AIR *WESTWOOD *CENTURY CITY
CENTURY TOWERS
468 N. Camden Dr., Beverly Hills, 90210
449 N. SPAULDING AVENUE
F URNISHED & U NFURNISHED
$4,500/mo to 6,100/mo.
• DIANA COOK •
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NOW AVAILABLE
PARK PLACE
2170 Century Park East $4,000 • 2+2 • #811 Best Location in Bldg.-180º Jetliner Views. Renovated, New Stainless Steel Appl., Granite Kitchen+Maple Cabinets, Beautiful Bamboo Floors Throughout.
440
UNFURNISHED APT’S/CONDO’S
all listings are on
Beautiful & serene garden with pool. High ceilings. $15,000/MO. 601 COMSTOCK AVE. Janet: 310/666-8179
440
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REMODELED • 2 BEDROOM, 2 BATH • 1 B d . + 1 B a .
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BEVERLY HILLS 310/312-9871 Great Location! Shopping & Dining in
•• • • • • • • • 1 Bd.+1 Ba. • 2 Bd.+2 Ba. •
•• • 8725 Clifton Way • Newly Remodeled • Large & Spacious French doors in bdrm. • 1 Bd.+Den+1.5 Ba. open to large balcony • overlooking pool • ••••••••• Lrg. unit. balcony, walk-in closet, central air, intercom entry, laundry facility,
fireplace, balcony, controlled access, pool, elevator, parking, laundry facility.
• GORGEOUS UNITS •
Brentwood Village — ————–––– Brentwood Village
HEART OF BRENTWOOD
11931 Goshen Ave.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Brand New Bldg. Large Luxury Units • 2 Bd. + 2 Ba. • 2 Bd. + 2 1/ 2 Ba. • 3 Bd. + 3 1/ 2 Ba. Very private, hi-ceilings,
elevator, parking. Light and bright upper • • • • • • Hardwood flrs., central large veranda, luxury Spacious, hardwood flrs., • CHARMING & BRIGHT • air, pool, elevator, with hardwood floors, kitchen+bathrooms, huge closets, built-in on-site laundry, laundry facility and • 310/276-1528 • walk-in closet, all new a/c, dishwasher, pool, intercom entry. 2 car parking space. Close to Cedars, elevator, controlled 320 N. La Peer Dr. appliances, washer/dryer $2,450MO. access, laundry Beverly Center • 310/246-0290 • in unit, central air, prkg. facilities. No pets. 918 S. BEDFORD restaurants, shopping Please Call: C L O S E TO 424/343-0015 Sam: 310/422-6026 310/312-9871 & transportation. S HOPS & D INING
••• PRIME •••
Great Location!
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• BRENTWOOD •
WEST L.A.
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W E S T W O O D • WESTWOOD • LAFAYETTE PARK
922 S. Barrington Av. 1433 Armacost Ave. 1409 Midvale Ave.
• 1 Bdrm.+1 Bath • « « « « « « « Fireplace, balcony, wet bar, dishwasher, laundry facility, elevator, parking.
2 Bd. + 2 Ba.
B RIGHT & S PACIOUS . Balcony, dishwasher, Close to shops+dining. controlled access 310/826-0541 on-sight laundry, prkg. 310/479-0700
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1343 Carmelina Ave.
BRENTWOOD Newly Updated
WEST L.A.
- 1 Bdrm.+1 Bath
1 Bdrm. + 1 Bath
• Bright Unit • On-site laundry, on-site parking.
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550 Veteran Ave. • •••• • • • • • • • • • • • • 2 Bd. +2 Ba. • • • • • Single • • ••••• Very spacious, •• •• granite counters, • • • • • • microwave, intercom WiFi, a/c, intercom entry, on-sight launentry, laundry facility, dry, parking & WiFi. elevator, parking, pool. Very close to UCLA CLOSE TO U.C.L.A., & Westwood Village. SHOPPING & 1 BLK. 310/208-5166 WESTWOOD PARK. 310/478-8616
TO
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274 LAFAYETTE PARK PL.
• 1 Bdrm.+1 Bath • Bachelor
••••••
Granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances, air conditioned, new hrwd. flrs., designer finishes, balcony, ceiling fan, elevator, controlled access. Fitness ctr, yoga room, wi-fi, skyview lounge w/ outdoor fireplace, laundry facilities. Easy freeway access 213/382-102 1
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1422-1428 Kelton Av. Balcony, dishwasher, LOS ANGELES WESTWOOD Spacious Close to a/c, heated pool, 401 S. HOOVER St. 1370 Veteran Ave. 1 Bd. + 1 Ba. • transportation. WiFi, elevator • • • • • • • • 1 Bdrm. + 1 Bath • 310/442-8265 • Hardwood floors, controlled access, • 1 Bd. + 1 Ba. Single + 1 Bath dishwasher, controlled • on-site laundry, prkg. •••• •• • •••• • access, WiFi, on-site • S i n g l e Close to Balcony, air conditioning 1628 S. Westgate Ave. laundry & parking. Brentwood Village, • • • • • • • dishwasher, controlled C LOSE TO U.C.L.A. •Control access, pool, Shops & Restaurants. X-St. Santa Monica Bl. dishwasher, elevator, 310/312-4957 • 310/826-4889 • ~ 1 Bd. + 1 Ba. ~ access bldg., WiFi, on-site laundry B r i g h t & A i r y. pool, on-sight laundry, and parking. gym, parking. WILSHIRE B R E N T W O O D Intercom entry, on-sight
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310/477-6885 CORRIDOR 213/385-4751 11730 SUNSET BLVD. parking, on-sight laundry NEWLY REMODELED facility, courtyard patio. Close to U.C.L.A. 10530-10540 MID-WILSHIRE Wilshire Bl. •••••• Close to transportation. Pl. • Jr. Executive 310/820-1810 W E S T W O O D ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ 340 •S. St. Andrews • • • •
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310/820-8584
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• 1 Bd.+1 Ba. •
∞∞∞∞∞∞ ∞
Single
• 12333 TeXaS Ave.
laundry, parking. intercom-entry, on-site laundry, parking. All Utilities Paid.
310/841-2367
310/826-4600
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Wifi, Bright, controlled access, balcony, pool, e levator, laundry facility, prkg.
323/879-9611
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Close To U.C.L.A.
• Single • Controlled access, on-sight laundry, a/c unit, kitchenette. Close to Museums, The Grove & Restaurants.
Newly Remodeled SANTA MONICA W E S T W O O D Close To U.C.L.A. Great Views 310/477-6856 Great views, controlled • S p a c i o u s • 1380 Midvale Ave. access, balcony, 3 Bdrm. + 2 Bath • • • • • • • WESTWOOD • elevator, lrg. pool, Dishwasher, on-site 1 Bd. + Den + 1 Ba. prkg, on-sight laundry. 10933 Rochester Ave. laundry, parking. Single H IKING IN R UNYON ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ • C LOSE TO S CHOOL , Jr. Executive C ANYON , H OLLYWOOD F REEWAY & • • • • • B OWL /N IGHTLIFE . Spacious a/c, fireplace, T RANSPORTATION . 323/467-8172 WiFi, pool, elevator, pool, controlled access, 310/449-1100 controlled access, onlaundry fac., prkg. 2600 Virginia Ave. sight laundry, parking. • Free WiFi Access • www. C LOSE TO S ANTA Close to U.C.L.A. 310/473-5061 bhcourier M ONICA C OLLEGE .
310/473-1509
Spacious 1 Bdrm + 1 Bath • • • • •
Balcony, controlled access, parking, elevator, on-site laundry. • Luxury Living • Close to shopping, with valet, lush garden great restaurants surrounding pool, and Metro. gym, elevator, etc. 213/738-9849 Hardwood flrs., granite W E S T W O O D counters, dishwasher, • MIRACLE MILE • 1 0 9 0 5 O h i o A v e . central air, balcony, 615 S. Cochran Ave. laundry facility. • • Newly Remodeled
• • • Free WiFi • • • • • 2 Bd.+2 Ba.• • 1 Bdrm. + 1 Bath • • Call: 310/470-4474 •• • •• • • •• • • 1 Bd.+1 Ba. • • —————–––– ∞ ∞ ∞ * HOLLYWOOD * Pool, sauna, ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ •• • • Granite counters, dish1134 N. SYCAMORE AV. intercom entry, •• • • washer, balcony, stove, elevator, on-site •
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••••••• 1380 Midvale Ave. WEST L.A. Rooftop pool, • • • • • • deck, central air, Single 1236 Amhearst Ave. elevator, intercom • Spacious Units • • • • • • entry, on-sight laundry, WiFi, pool, elevator, ^^^^^ gym, parking. 1 Bdrm.+1 Bath controlled access, on• Free WiFi Access • Dishwasher, a/c, sight laundry, parking. ~ 310/476-3824 ~ controlled access, Close to U.C.L.A. BRENTWOOD & on-site parking 310/473-1509 U.C.L.A. CLOSE & laundry facility.
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The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: SFP 8950 W. Olympic Blvd. #121, Beverly Hills, CA 90211; The fictitious business name referred to above was filed on (date): February 01, 2017 in the county of Samuel Friedman 8950 W. Olympic Blvd. #149, Beverly Hills, CA 90211; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL declare that all information in this statement is true and correct, Signed: Judy Friedman Rudzki As Power of Attorney For Samuel Friedman, Principal/Owner; Statement #2017344952 is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 07, 2017; Published: December 15, 22, 29, 2017, January 05, 2018 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2017344951 The following is/are doing business as: SFP 8950 W. Olympic Blvd. #121, Beverly Hills, CA 90211; The Samuel Friedman Revocable Family Trust 8950 W. Olympic Blvd. #149, Beverly Hills, CA 90211; The business is conducted by: A TRUST, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Judy Friedman Rudzki As Power of Attorney For Samuel Friedman, Principal/Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 07, 2017; Published: December 15, 22, 29, 2017, January 05, 2018 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2017344953 The following is/are doing business as: LITTLE RED’S FURRY TAILS 415 N. Crescent Dr. #235, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; P.O. Box 7150 Beverly Hills, CA 90212; Dawn Medina 415 N. Crescent Dr. #235, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Dawn Medina, Owner: Statement is filed with
the County of Los Angeles: December 07, 2017; Published: December 15, 22, 29, 2017, January 05, 2018 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2017344954 The following is/are doing business as: 1) BHH GROUP 2) CENTINELA GROUP 1702 S. Robertson Blvd. #2009, Los Angeles, CA 90035; Enrique Mannheim 1702 S. Robertson Blvd. #2009, Los Angeles, CA 90035; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Enrique Mannheim, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 07, 2017; Published: December 15, 22, 29, 2017, January 05, 2018 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2017344955 The following is/are doing business as: FRENCH LOVE 131 S. Barrington Pl. #210, Los Angeles, CA 90049; Olivia Vaatete 131 S. Barrington Pl. #210, Los Angeles, CA 90049; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Olivia Vaatete, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 07, 2017; Published: December 15, 22, 29, 2017, January 05, 2018 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2017346278 The following is/are doing business as: POWER OF ONE DOCUMENTARY MOVIE 10850 Wilshire Blvd. #350, Los Angeles, CA 90024; Yagya Productions, Inc. 10850 Wilshire Blvd. #350, Los Angeles, CA 90024; The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed November 2017: Evangelina M. Richards, Secritary: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 08, 2017; Published: December 15, 22, 29, 2017, January 05, 2018 LACC N/C
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Chairman 2014 Paula Kent Meehan President & Publisher Marcia Wilson Hobbs Senior Editor John L. Seitz Special Sections Editor Stephen P. Simmons
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR We own Kramer's Pipe & Tobacco Shop at 9531 S. Santa Monica Blvd. The Kramer parents opened the shop in December 1949 and we have continued the business since their passing. Unfortunately and sadly, due largely to numerous concerns, mainly a rent increase, we closed on Dec.31, 2017 after 68 years. After so many years as part of Beverly Hills, I feel the need to “pipe in” and write in response to the Traffic & Parking Commission's “South Santa Monica Boulevard Parking Strategies” letter. Even though we will be closed and gone, this is deeply distressing. I believe it would be totally misguided to permanently remove the street parking on Little Santa Monica. I am not sure who “some in the community” are who question returning the meters. But I invite them to really spend some time on our street as a shopper–not as a commuter. The street has become a mini-freeway –noisy, dirty and dangerous. The noise is overwhelming. We have to close our door to deal with customers or make a phone call. Our door has always been open –but no more. The people who run the art gallery across the street have told me they have to close their doors to just make a phone call–way too much sound from whizzing by traffic. Another neighbor told me their business is down 30 percent since there is no street parking. We hear many complaints. I understand that Beverly Hills is concerned with business not being what it was, and could be, on Rodeo Drive. This “expressway” of Little Santa Monica from West Hollywood to Century City only exacerbates that situation. Cars fly by and can't even see the shops and have little or no clue where to park even if they wanted to stop. And if they do find the lots behind the shops, they are usually packed (especially holiday time–forcing cars to go round and round the block. Plus the now heavy traffic on Little Santa Monica causes much dirt and grime thrown onto the sidewalk and into the shops. When cars are parked, it buffers the dust, dirt, and noise and the traffic is slower (safer) and not speeding. It harkens back to the “village” feel of Beverly Hills. Rodeo Drive seems to get a lot of thought from the City–while Little Santa Monica receives very little. Beverly Hills is not just Rodeo. If Beverly Hills wants to continue to thrive, there needs to be a mix of the glamour and also the charm. (small shops and restaurants - some with outdoor tables.) One incident with a car smashing over the curb could be total disaster. Please don't let Little Santa Monica become an afterthought. How ironic that the developers who have been buying up properties and raising rents astronomically, will find that shops continue to close since the traffic, noise and dirt impedes them from keeping customers coming to their stores. This plan will decrease the property values of the shops on Little Santa Monica once the word gets out. The “flow of traffic” is what Big Santa Monica is for. If the flow is such a great idea, why not do the same to Canon, Beverly and Rodeo–so that traffic can flow more quickly from Sunset to Wilshire?? Just kidding, but you get the idea! Marsha Kramer Keller and Jim Keller ****** I am a mother in the BHUSD and on the executive boards of the Beverly Vista PTA and the Beverly Hills PTA Council. I’ve been hesitant to make a truly public statement regarding reconfiguration after being warned that taking a political stance is incompatible with being on these respective boards. However, I want to state that the opinions I offer below are mine alone and do not represent the opinions of either board nor the individ-
uals within. Thus, I am writing to you not as a boardmember, but as a mother. First off, I think it is important to state that I have no personal issue with the Future Focused School Team (FFST). I applaud its members for their volunteerism in this effort and, having spoken to several of them, can say without reservation that many have earned my respect. My issue with the idea of the FFST is that currently, its role seems to be acting as a sort of buffer between the public and the superintendent/school board, even though the school boardmembers are the ultimate decision makers on this matter. Putting unelected volunteers on the front line of this argument is unhelpful, and hinders the community’s efforts to understand what’s going on. There remains a profound disconnect between the two sides of this debate because they are not actually debating the same issues at all. Each side has a distinct set of goals and priorities, and there have been few efforts to reconcile these differences, or even clearly define which is which. The FFST and the Board of Education are concerned with two things: academic improvement, and financial viability–both worthwhile priorities. Academically, the argument for a consolidated middle school is that it would allow for a wider array of curricular offerings. Financially, the district’s coffers range from barely treading water to sinking like a stone, depending on whom you talk to, so some form of reconfiguration is surely imminent (even if the fact that these measures were necessitated by the mismanagement of funds is deeply frustrating to many.) Many of us in the K-8 community are making arguments which have been called emotional, sentimental, or nostalgic. We’ll cop to this: there is an element of emotion and sentiment in our views, but it’s not because we are irrationally clinging to bad solutions. It’s because there are compelling reasons to believe that the K-8 model is simply better for our children in a holistic way, which is to say it is better for their personhood, self-regard, and citizenship. Historically, the entire U.S. went through a dramatic shift in educational thinking from the “outdated” K-8 model to the “shiny and new” middle school model during the 1960s and ‘70s. Yet after 30-40 years of following the middle school model, researchers began to publish results which found that the expected benefits never appeared. Instead, they found that a “single transition” model (dividing K-8 from 9-12, or K-7 from 8-12) was far more beneficial to children both academically and developmentally. This is clear evidence that something is lost when we move our kids into double transition systems. My greatest wish for my children is that they become the best versions of themselves they can be. I want them to have a solid emotional and social foundation upon which everything else (including academic learning and career mobility) can be built. Without a strong foundation and sense of self, other aspects of a child's growth, including academic achievement, has been shown to suffer over multiple years. Having seen firsthand during my college experience at Yale what concentrating on academics without also focusing on developmental and social growth can do, the mother in me overrides the nerd in me with a much more measured response. When considering the importance of developing the “whole child” versus expanded academic offerings, a simple increase in curriculum loses its pull. I have asked FFST members for research studies that support the move to a middle school model, but have generally been pointed towards the fact that other affluent California communities participate in the middle school model and perform well in test scores, as if this were evidence that one thing caused the other. Conflating correlation with causation is a common error in policy, and cannot substitute for a controlled experiment in which kids are randomly assigned to one model
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or the other and the results analyzed. In this case, the results are undoubtedly colored by the simple fact that affluent communities do better in all academic measures across the board, and always have. (One member of FFST did mention a study in support of the middle school model from the 1980s/early ‘90s, but I have not seen any details about its size or design.) A fellow K-8 community member went looking for scholarly research on her own, and found that even when the middle school model performed as well as the single transition, K-8 type model, research invariably cautions that the changeover must be done in a deliberate, well-planned manner. I was heartened to hear from one FFST member that a number of timelines for various reconfiguration proposals are currently being discussed which would employ a more thoughtful multi-year process, rather than a “patch job” reconfiguration completed eight months from now. I can say for myself that if a more careful timeline were proposed–including deeper study of what does and doesn’t work for our kids’ development–then I could get behind the change more comfortably. (For those interested: all of the research findings I have mentioned are available on or linked to at BH4ourkids.org, a website to which I contribute. The research is predominantly in favor of the single-transition model, but it’s not for lack of looking: fellow contributors have been researching for several weeks now, and have surfaced the aforementioned two studies which state that a middle school model can be on par with the single-transition model, but only if the groundwork is properly laid.) Our BHUSD is currently at a crossroads: we can be reactive to our financial woes and act rashly, risking the very real possibility of a catastrophic overcorrection. Or we can be cautious, and treat this as an opportunity to innovate in ways befitting our highly respected standing in the state’s educational system. We know that something has to change. Let’s make sure it’s not our ideals. Farrah Dodes
POLICE BLOTTER
The following assaults, robbery, burglaries, and grand thefts have been reported by BHPD. Streets indicated by block numbers.
ASSAULTS 12/25 N. Elm Dr./Dayton Way 12/29 200 N. Canon Dr. BURGLARIES 12/21 400 S. Oakhurst Dr. 12/25 700 N. Beverly Dr. 12/25 300 S. Rexford Dr. 12/25 300 S. Elm Dr. 12/25 300 N. Canon Dr. 12/26 9600 Wilshire Blvd. 12/26 200 S. Elm Dr. 12/26 600 S. Maple Dr. 12/26 400 Shirley Pl. 12/27 300 N. Canon Dr. 12/27 1100 Loma Vista Dr. 12/27 200 S. Elm Dr. 12/27 500 N. Rodeo Dr. 12/27 300 N. Rodeo Dr. 12/28 100 N. Stanley Dr. 12/28 300 N. Crescent Dr. 12/28 300 N. Crescent Dr. 12/28 Charleville Blvd/ S. Canon Dr. 12/29 200 N. Rodeo Dr. 12/29 9100 Charleville Blvd.
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300 N. Rodeo Dr, 9300 Olympic Blvd. 8600 Wilshire Blvd. 200 N. Rodeo Dr. 300 N. Rodeo Dr. 500 N. Elm Dr. 300 N. La Peer Dr. 1000 N. Beverly Dr. 700 N. Roxbury Dr. 1200 Coldwater Canyon Dr. GRAND THEFTS 11/25 9600 Wilshire Blvd. 12/24 700 N. Palm Dr. 12/25 400 N. Beverly Dr. 12/26 300 N. Rodeo Dr. 12/28 200 S. Beverly Dr. 12/28 300 N. Rodeo Dr. 12/28 200 N. Canon Dr. 12/29 9600 Wilshire Blvd. 12/30 300 N. Rodeo Dr. 12/30 9400 Dayton Way ROBBERY 12/26 300 N. Canon Dr.
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