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A S T MON T H , we published a piece about Rebecca Grossman, a Hidden Hills socialite facing vehicular homicide charges after the Mercedes she was driving struck and killed two young brothers in Westlake Village. Not everyone was happy with that story. Indeed, we’ve received hundreds of irate emails from readers. Some objected to the tone of the piece, perceiving our interview with Grossman as too sympathetic. Others complained that we photographed her for the article—the picture, they insisted, was too flattering. At least one reader felt we were too harsh on Grossman.

That’d be Grossman herself, who threatened to sue us after the story came out.

I could spend the rest of this editor’s note defending the story line by line—pointing out that its tone was painstakingly neutral, that the photograph of Grossman was deliberately unglamorous, that the article made abundantly clear that the true victims of this tragedy were the two little boys and their surviving family, whose ongoing struggle to

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There’s a pretty simple answer to that question: journalism.

Rebecca Grossman is a well-known personality in Los Angeles—she’s married to one of the most revered doctors in the city, Peter H. Grossman, founder of the famous Grossman Burn Center, where Anne Heche died and Jay Leno was treated—who is about to go on trial for murder. That alone makes her a figure of intense public interest. Yes, she did an indisputably terrible thing. She may end up spending decades behind bars because of it. Nobody writing for this magazine is suggesting that she should receive any leniency or sympathy. But nobody can deny that all of the above also makes Grossman a fascinating subject, a cautionary tale illustrating how just one monumentally stupid moment in an otherwise blessed life can destroy not only innocent victims’ lives but also your own.

Some readers felt we were giving Grossman a “platform” to spin her side of the story. I don’t see it that way. I think we were navigating the nuances of a heartbreaking and, for sure, infuriating tragedy. And that’s the job of journalism—to interview and write about not just good people doing good works but also those who’ve taken a terribly wrong turn, whether it’s a socialite driving her Mercedes in the suburbs or a politician who gets caught taking bribes or an inner-city kid who ends up shooting a cop. All of them have backstories worthy of exploring. That’s our job. Your job, readers, is to listen to what these people have to say and make up your own minds about what you think of it.

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THE TRANS FUGITIVE WHO SET OFF WEEKS OF RIOTS BY DISROBING IN WI SPA’S LOCKER ROOM BARES IT ALL IN AN EXCLUSIVE Q&A E D I T E D BY JA S O N M C G A H A N AND JEREMY LEE QUINN

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You must have seen the protests at Wi Spa that you sparked. What was your reaction to them? > That was the craziest thing.

I was completely caught off guard by that. I live my own personal private life. I try to stay aware of the community, but I’m very much a person that doesn’t belong to any type of organization.

Even put me under a transgender umbrella, and I’m very uncomfortable. [But] when they had that second protest, on July 17th, I wanted to really understand why [people were] protesting. I actually went down there just to witness it.

Where were you at the protest? With which side did you stand? > I was very close to the epicenter. I stayed in my car.

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denied it. They said, “No, Did you talk to anyone you’re a Proud Boy. People there? like us don’t drive Escalades.” > I was first contacted by a Black female who then When the incident at went and summoned a large Wi Spa first started makgroup to confront me. It ing noise on appeared to be social media, a mixture of there were antifa types as “I’m some outwell as this Black lets — like The and pink group. legally Guardian, Slate female. and Insider — Why did they But I have who speculated confront you? facial hair. that it was a > Because maybe hoax, that you one of them saw I have didn’t exist. me on my binoca penis.”

How’d that ulars. They made make you feel? a point to come > They said up to my vehicle it was a hoax because no and really threaten me. They one had my name. Wi Spa had no idea who I am. doesn’t retain names of people that use the spa. They Did you tell them you were have credit card receipts, the trans person at the heart but I paid in cash; no one of the whole controversy? ever knew who I was. What > I said, “I’m the whole people don’t realize is that I purpose you’re here.” They

came forward and gave my name to the LAPD. Why did you do that? > I guess I realized that maybe I am very important to the world—because look how important this really is.

This is an injustice. I’m the victim here.

How did the LAPD respond to your tip? > They thought it was a hoax too because they didn’t have a name. So I said, “No, it’s not a hoax; I can prove I was there because I parked on Wilshire that night and got two parking tickets. They almost towed my car!”

But then you decide to run.

How come? > With the Wi Spa warrant, I couldn’t bail out. They [were going to] put my bail to the point where it’s just through

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A R R E N M E R A G E R’ S exact location is unknown. On the lam from the law, the Arcadia-born fugitive is understandably cagey about revealing any geographical information. But we definitely do know where Merager was at 10 p.m. on June 23, 2021: in a Korean bathhouse at the corner of Wilshire and South Rampart, causing a near-riot by exposing his—or was it her?—penis to a locker room full of women.

Merager, you may recall, was at the red-hot center of a huge blowup over trans rights during that summer, a controversy that captured national attention (Tucker Carlson certainly weighed in) and triggered pitched protests around Wi Spa’s K-Town-adjacent neighborhood that left storefronts shattered and led to scores of arrests (and, ultimately, a warrant for Merager’s arrest for indecent exposure). Was Merager a trans martyr simply exercising her legal right to disrobe in a women’s locker room? Or a pervert using L.A.’s progressive trans rights ordinances as a loophole to flash his private parts?

Nearly two years later, nobody has an answer to that question. But today, we do have Merager in the flesh talking about what happened that night at Wi Spa and in the weeks afterward. The following exclusive Q&A, edited for clarity, comes from several conversations with Merager taped in September.

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2. A video feed reveals Merager’s parked SUV at the protests.

3. Bamby Salcedo, CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition, whom Merager refers to as a “supposed” transgender person.

4. Merager: “I’m very neutral, like non-binary, although I don’t like that word.”

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the roof. I mean, it could be close to a million dollars.

There’s no way I’d ever be able to get out. That’s not turning yourself in. I said, “I’m not going to just be kidnapped. Enough is enough.”

Let’s back up a second.

Should we be using male or female pronouns with you?

How do you identify? > I’m very neutral, like nonbinary, although I don’t like that word. I’m legally female.

But I have facial hair. I have a penis. I have no breasts. I don’t have a feminine voice. I don’t wear makeup or dress up like a female. So imagine you’re a grocery store [clerk] and you’re bagging my groceries and you say, “Excuse me, sir . . . ” I mean, am I supposed to be offended? That’d be ridiculous. How would this person know? But technically, for legal terms, I am she/her.

I put female on my driver’s license. But I’ve had to struggle my whole life fitting into tradtional society.

And you sleep with women?

You’re a female who has heterosexual sex with females? > I have heterosexual sex because my penis fits in a vagina. I don’t tell women I’m with that I’m transgender because that’s not my sex.

So I’m not faking anything.

Gender is internal, sex is external.

But you are a convicted sex offender, aren’t you?

Weren’t you once caught without pants and masturbating while peering into the window of an 85-yearold Arcadia woman? > So what happened was this elderly man got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, and his bathroom

overlooks another yard [and he saw me masturbating].

But even if it was masturbation, I don’t have a problem with that because that’s not illegal. It’s only illegal if you’re masturbating in someone’s face, like George Michael.

What did you think of the story Los Angeles magazine published about the skirmishes around Wi Spa? > It was on the cover of the Christmas issue of the magazine. So I had to read it. The story was as accurate as it could be, with information they were getting. But I have a big problem with the very end, when a supposed transgender person called Bamby Salcedo talks about me.

You mean Bamby Salcedo, president and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition, the largest trans-led

organization in L.A.?

She said in the story, “You’d think after getting arrested a bunch of times, she’d just change clothes in a stall.” > Right. So in the article, she says she goes to Wi Spa three times a year and she gets naked in there and she never has a problem. So I spoke to Bamby Salcedo on the phone before the story came out. She admitted to me that she has boobs and she takes off her top but that she does not take off her bottoms because she has a penis. Nobody knows she’s transgender.

Nobody knows you’re transgender and you have a penis. What’s the difference? And why do you call Bamby a “supposed” transgender person?

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Michael’s death in 2009.

And the family has been ferocious in protecting it, filing numerous lawsuits against interlopers, like Sony Music (which used the term on a posthumous 2016 Jackson release) as well a snack company that attempted to peddle popcorn on a website called kingofpop.com (the domain has since become a Jackson fan site).

The commoner Styles has yet to comment on the controversy.

WILL THE REAL “KING OF POP” PLEASE STAND UP? MICHAEL JACKSON’S FAMILY TELLS HARRY STYLES TO BEAT IT AND FIND HIMSELF ANOTHER TITLE

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is indisputably the hottest act in the music business right now, with multiple platinum albums and sold-out residencies at Madison Square Garden in New York and at the Forum here in L.A. So, when Rolling Stone UK dubbed him “The King of Pop” in a cover story last summer, who could possibly object?

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giving his dad’s old title to Styles. “[Michael] broke boundaries. He was popular on a global basis.

At one point, he was the most famous person in the world. The King of Pop is a title that I just don’t think could ever be taken.”

Prince isn’t the only member of the Jackson clan who’s been bristling at Styles’s new moniker.

“There is no new King of Pop,” tweeted Michael’s nephew Taj Jackson. “The title has been retired.”

Taj and Prince may actually have a point here—the Jacksons do in fact own the title: the singer’s estate trademarked the phrase “King of Pop” shortly after

L.A. TIMES TO DTLA: “SEE YA!” I T ’ S O F F I C I A L , the Los

Angeles Times has given up on downtown Los Angeles. First, in 2018, it abandoned its historic art deco headquarters on 1st Street, near City Hall, selling the property to Onni Group, a real estate developer that plans to build two high-rises on the site. The Times editorial staff decamped to new digs in El Segundo. And

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now, the paper is ditching its 26-acre printing facility on Olympic Boulevard, where the presses have been rolling since the 1980s. That’s scheduled to shut down in 2024, when the Times turns its printing needs over to Southern California News Group, the Irvine-based company that also churns out paper editions of the Times’s sister publication, the San Diego Union-Tribune.

The old printing plant, which has been purchased by real estate developer Atlas Capital Group for $240 million, will soon be turned into a 17-soundstage film facility.

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star is continuing to boycott the Golden Globes.

Although the scandalridden awards show is returning to NBC this January, Brendan Fraser, whose latest turn in The Whale is generating tons of buzz, has told GQ magazine that he has no intention of showing up.

The L.A. Times’s printing presses on Olympic Boulevard are shutting down next year in yet another sign that the Times, it is a-changing.

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“I have more history with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I have respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,” he said of the group that hosts the Globes. “No, I will not participate.”

Ruffalo tweeted)? Are they back on board?

At this writing, the answer is unclear, but at least one top Hollywood awards publicist is pretty sure the stars will come out. “The show will go on,” he tells Los Angeles, predicting that “much bigger stars than Brendan Fraser” will turn up at this year’s event. “The Globes are good for business. They’re good for box office. They’re good for ratings. Why shouldn’t they go on? The industry needs all the help it can get.”

Park and Lancaster,” explains Ken Pellman, a public information officer in the L.A. County Department of Agricultural Commissioner/Weights & Measures. “We do a sweep of them every fall.

They’re definitely more noticeable in drier weather.”

Pellman says the tumbleweeds aren’t dangerous—unless, of course, somebody lights a match. “Can you imagine if one caught fire,” he says, “and started rolling down, say, the Third Street Promenade?”

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Fraser’s history is indeed harrowing; he claimed to have been groped at a 2003 luncheon by then-HFPA head Philip Berk. But will Fraser be the only no-show, or has all that furor back in 2021 over the HFPA’s lack of diversity blown over now that the organization has beefed up its equity bona fides by adding 100 new members of color?

What about Tom Cruise, who went so far as to return his three Globes statuettes at the height of the boycott? Will he be attending? Or how about previous winners Scarlett Johansson and Mark Ruffalo, who both posted outrage at the organization (“I cannot feel proud or happy about being a recipient of this award,”

W E K N O W that people are leaving Los Angeles in droves—in 2021, the county led the nation in population decline, with nearly 160,000 residents moving elsewhere for other parts—but tumbleweeds in the streets? Really?

Turns out those big balls of bristles rolling around the Westside aren’t a sign that L.A. is becoming a ghost town; they’re an annual occurrence caused by arid conditions and high winds. Usually, the tumbleweeds blow around the Antelope Valley and in the foothills of the San Gabriel and Santa Monica mountains. But they are a lot more conspicuous this year—they’ve even been spotted in Santa Monica— thanks to the continuing drought that’s made the last three years the driest on record.

“They mostly pile up in the fall in Griffith

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Brendan Fraser (pictured with Whale costar Sadie Sink) says he’s skipping the Golden Globes.

But whether others in Hollywood will follow remains to be seen.

WOULD YOU BUY A $1,000 POTATO FROM THIS MAN? A S M A I T R E D ’ of Mr. Chow for 30 years, Chris Denton has been air-kissed by the biggest A-listers in Hollywood. Warren Beatty,

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ending the era of the superstar majordomo.

Well, not quite forever.

Denton has resurfaced as director of client relations at Caviar Kaspia, the new ultra-luxe fish-egg canteen on Melrose that opened in October. “I did some consulting,” Denton explains about how he landed the new gig. “And then I got this call . . .”

The callers were Sam-Ben Avrahim and Rahav Zuta, two fashion industry entrepreneurs who’d decided to open a West Hollywood outpost of the nearly 100-yearold Paris-based Caviar Kaspia, famous for its $1,000 baked potatoes and ritzy clientele. “They flew me to Paris where I worked in-house for a week,” says Denton. “It was so effortlessly chic.”

Thanks in part to Denton’s celebrity cred, T U RN I NG T H E TA B L E S

Chris Denton says ciao to Mr. Chow and hello to Caviar Kaspia.

Jack Nicholson, Barbra Streisand, Oprah Winfrey—

they’ve all counted on the British-born host to save them the best table in the house (often on the same night). But two years ago, at the peak of the pandemic, Denton left Mr. Chow, forever

Kaspia is already making a splash. A recent private party for designer Giambattista Valli was attended by Angela Bassett, Alexandra Daddario, Kiernan Shipka, Kaitlyn Dever and Law Roach. Gushes Denton, “I still can’t believe my luck at where I’ve landed.”— M .G .

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having lunch on the patio and Lauren Hutton two tables over. There are Jack Lemmon, Jacqueline Bisset, Swifty Lazar, Rod Stewart, Billy Wilder.

Orson Welles is here, but you can’t see him; he’s eating inside, alone, hidden in an alcove just to the right of the entrance. Wolfgang Puck is in the kitchen.

Just another afternoon at Ma Maison, circa 1979.

For more than a decade, Ma Maison, which opened 50 years ago this December on Melrose Avenue at Kings Road, was L.A.’s quintessential everyone-who’s-anyone restaurant, its most glamorous celebrity sandbox—the Chasen’s or Romanoff ’s of the ’70s, the West Coast Elaine’s, the pre-Spago in more ways than one.

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The man behind the place was a tall, handsome, deep-voiced young Frenchman named Patrick Terrail, descended from French restaurant royalty: his grandfather and greatgrandfather had run famous Paris restaurants; his uncle, Claude Terrail, was then in charge of the celebrated La Tour d’Argent. Patrick was a bit of a black sheep. He’d moved to the U.S. at 17, studied hotel management at Cornell University, and worked at the Four Seasons and El Morocco in Manhattan before heading to L.A. and taking a job with Adolph’s Meat Tenderizer. In 1973, he decided to open a restaurant of his own, borrowing part of the $40,000 start-up money from Gene Kelly, one of his Uncle Claude’s regulars in Paris.

When Ma Maison fired up its oven—singular, the kitchen was that small—no one could have predicted

what the restaurant would become.

The interior, furnished on the cheap, had a generic imitation-bistro look.

The front patio, where it turned out everybody wanted to sit, was a cliché of low-rent SoCal outdoor living: AstroTurf flooring, white plastic chairs, café umbrellas.

The menu was hardly more ambitious—salade Niçoise, pâté maison, brochettes of chicken and beef. Patrick himself did some of the cooking at first. George Christy, reviewing the restaurant for this magazine, called the pâté “a joke” and the brochettes “tough, stringy, not especially flavorful.”

Things changed in 1975, when Patrick hired a young French-trained Austrian chef named Wolfgang Puck, who reproduced the old menu briefly but soon started turning out cream of sorrel soup, steamed oysters with

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Celebrities still ate at Ma Maison baby vegetables, grilled chicken with chef—left to open Spago with his after Segal left in 1985 (Warren sherry vinegar—dishes that might future wife, Barbara Lazaroff.

Beatty threw a party there for Jack seem tame today but were cuttingTo replace him, Patrick imported Nicholson and Anjelica Huston), but edge California-nouvelle at the time.

Claude Segal from the MichelinPatrick must have sensed that the (It’s probably no accident starred La Ciboulette restaurant’s time had passed, and he that such future culiin Paris. His food was closed the place and sold the propnary stars as Mark Peel, good and the celebriIn the ’70s, erty late that year. Puck, of eourse, Susan Feniger, Gordon ties kept coming, but went on to become one of the most Hamersley, and Josie Le some of the magic Ma Maison celebrated chef-restaurateurs in Balch worked in Puck’s seemed to be slipping was L.A.’s the world. kitchen.) away, and the restaudefinitive After licensing the Ma Maison For a couple of years rant suffered a major name to the new Sofitel Hotel at in the latter 1970s, I had blow in 1982 when celebrity Beverly and La Cienega in 1985 and lunch every Thursday Segal’s sous-chef killed sandbox. running a version of the restaurant at Ma Maison, and his girlfriend, actress there for a few years, Patrick moved to I remember vividly the Dominique Dunne Georgia, where he got married and, way it felt to walk into (Joan Didion’s niece). for a time, ran a bistro and a regional the place when it was running at full A rumor went around that Patrick magazine—both now defunct. He speed: exciting, a bit daunting, a lithad paid for the man’s attorney—it seems to have no regrets. tle unreal, like opening a door into a wasn’t true—but the affair cost “You can only run one great restausecret chamber filled with everybody the restaurant a number of promirant in your life,” he likes to say. you’d ever heard of and being made nent customers. to feel somehow at home even though you weren’t really part of the crowd.

Friday was supposed to be the day to lunch at Ma Maison, but whoever was casting Thursdays did a great job. Bisset and Lemmon were almost always there, but you’d also see Goldie Hawn, Michael Caine, Ursula Andress, Suzanne Pleshette, Ray Stark, John and Mo Dean, David Hockney (who drew one of the menu covers).

Puck’s cooking and his amiable personality, inevitably described as “puckish,” were key to the restaurant’s success. But Patrick, who wore dark, double-breasted suits with Charvet ties and red carnation boutonnieres even on hot afternoons, 3 contributed a showman’s sense of image-building—the famously unlisted phone number, the trophycars-only parking lot. He also had a wicked sense of humor, hanging the awards Ma Maison regularly won from the Southern California Restaurant Writers Association dangerously close to the urinals in the men’s room. (When he overheard a regular joking that he preferred cheeseburgers to this fancy French stuff, Patrick sent a busboy down the 4 5 street to bring back a sackful and P OW E R L U N C H served them ceremoniously in place 1. Ma Maison chef Wolfgang Puck and owner Patrick Terrail in 1975. 2. A menu cover from the 1980s of whatever the guy had ordered.) designed by French artist and Pablo Picasso muse Françoise Gilot. 3. Dudley Moore, Jackie and Joan In 1981, Puck—by then a star Collins, and Michael Caine 4. Swifty Lazar 5. Tony and Leslie Curtis, and Rod Stewart L A M AG . C O M 1 7

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Just ask realtor Jonny Sorrentino, himself only 22, who’s made a budding career of finding the right digs for young internet sensations with cash to burn. What do influencers, some of whom earn $100,000 a month shilling merch like gold-dust mascara, demand in a property? “A lot of them want a huge house so they can have all their friends under one roof,” explains Sorrentino. “Usually, it’s in Sherman Oaks or Tarzana,” where there are more new properties with multiple bedrooms in which to kick it.

Sorrentino has repped influencers like Cody Orlove (with 1.8 million Instagram followers) and says that, although eager to flex their success, many young influencers don’t have established credit or even credit cards, making a real estate purchase dicey. So they lease.

“They only pay cash for things and don’t understand how to build credit,” Sorrentino says. “They’ll pay $8,000, $12,000, even $25,000 per month on a lease.”

For all their extravagance, you’d think influencers would be happy campers. Not so. “A lot of them are super stressed—they only make money when something goes viral,” Sorrentino says. “They’re always looking for the next thing because, without it, they’ll have to move.”

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The Last Sundance?

AMERICA’S PREEMINENT FILM FESTIVAL IS LOSING ITS COOL. YOU CAN BLAME NETFLIX. YOU CAN BLAME MARVEL. BUT THE REAL CULPRIT MIGHT BE SUNDANCE ITSELF

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O R DAV I D P E R M U T, the Sundance Film Festival is something of a religious pilgrimage. The Oscar-nominated producer of Hacksaw Ridge and a slew of other pictures has attended every year since 1991, and when he’s there he watches six movies a day, barely eats, rarely sleeps, and talks to almost no one.

“I’m like a lunatic,” he admits.

But this year, Permut won’t be attending in person.

Instead, he’ll be screening the festival’s offerings online, from the comfort of his home in L.A. “The reality is,” he explains, “I can see more movies virtually than I can in the actual snow.”

Alas, Permut won’t be the only no-show in Park City, Utah, when, on January 19, Sundance kicks off its first in-person festival since the pandemic began. Indeed, this year, the once-preeminent domestic film festival—where Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, David O. Russell, Steven Soderbergh, Darren Aronofsky, and scores of other A-list auteurs launched their careers—is facing what looks increasingly like an existential crossroads.

Incredibly, people are starting to wonder if Sundance matters anymore. Even more incredibly, the answer appears to be, no, it doesn’t, at least not to Hollywood.

1 “Honestly, from a studio’s perspective, you’re probably better off at SXSW these days because it has an edgier feel and a younger demographic,” says a top industry publicist who’s had clients attend Sundance every year for two streamers, whose algorithm-based green-lighting process decades but is on the fence as to whether he’ll be going this tends to be dictated more by data than by serendipitous year. “I still think Sundance can be a place of discovery for screening-room discoveries. filmmakers, but I also think it’s lost some of its edge.”

Perhaps the biggest culprit, though, was the pandemic, When Robert Redford took over the event in 1984, it which overnight forced the closure of all movie theaters, was a sleepy little get-together for movie fans called the US extinguishing box-office revenue for almost two years. Ticket Film Festival. Pretty much nobody in Hollywood had heard sales are the lifeblood of indie movies and the primary way of it, let alone were flying private jets to it. But gradually, bets on independent films acquired at Sundance pay off. with Redford’s backing, it became the Remember The Blair Witch Project? That red-hot center of the independent film film was bought by Artisan Entertainment world—in fact, Sundance all but invented at Sundance in 1999 for $1.1 million and “It was like being the independent film world, turning went on to gross nearly $250 million tiny, low-budget movies like Soderbergh’s worldwide. Studios are still occasionally at your dream 1989 Sex, Lies, and Videotape and placing those sorts of bets, and even bigwedding . . . and Tarantino’s 1992 Reservoir Dogs into ger ones, but these days even when they then having a crossover mainstream hits. By the early win, they lose. Apple purchased CODA at 2000s, all of Hollywood was descendSundance for a record-breaking $25 milpile of shit thrown ing on Park City every January, cutting lion in 2021 and ended up snagging Best all over you.” multimillion-dollar checks for the latest Picture at the Oscars. But the film’s box undiscovered work of cinematic genius office during that COVID year ended up by the newest little-known indie auteur. being a measly $2 million.

But the way movies are made, packaged, and sold has “The big question is, where is the independent film busichanged dramatically during the past five years, and the ness today?” says Permut. “The audiences are starting to market for independent films isn’t what it used to be. You come back, but how independent films are doing is a big can pin part of the blame on Marvel; Hollywood’s curquestion—and those are the films that are the chief draw rent infatuation with jumbo-budget comic-book movies at Sundance.” has squeezed low- and medium-budget movies off the big The audience is starting to return to theaters, that’s screen. Part of the blame also goes to Netflix and other true, but so far, mostly for big-budget stuff, especially if it

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1. Director Steven Soderbergh with Laura San Giacomo, Andie MacDowell and Peter Gallagher at a 2009 reunion screening of Sex, Lies, and Videotape. 2. Sundance fixtures Quentin Tarantino and Harvey Weinstein in 2009. 3. Park City during the pandemic, when the festival went virtual.

4. Jihad Rehab director Meg Smaker. 5. Clerks director Kevin Smith.

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involves escaped genetically engineered dinosaurs or Tom Cruise in a fighter jet. Low- and mid-budget independent movies—the kind that screen at Sundance—aren’t faring nearly as well, with indie-friendly theater chains shutting down (like ArcLight) or hanging by a thread (like Laemmle, which already has closed its Pasadena location).

There is, however, still one other culprit to blame for Sundance’s recent spiral into potential irrelevance: Sundance itself.

Redford’s festival was once famous—sometimes notorious—for risk-taking. This, after all, was where, in 1995, Larry Clark premiered Kids, his super-controversial, NC-17-rated, quasi documentary that the Washington Post described as borderline child pornography. It’s where, in 2005, Michael Winterbottom premiered 9 Songs, the most sexually explicit non-pornographic film ever released (its stars performed unsimulated sexual intercourse on camera).

Even outside the screening rooms, Sundance had a reputation for cowboy antics. Like in 1996, when Harvey Weinstein got into a screaming and shoving match with a rival studio head over the rights to Scott Hicks’s schizophrenia drama Shine (“You fucker! You fucked me! You bid me up . . . you fucker!” Weinstein reportedly shouted). Or in 2009, when Variety film critic John Anderson and a film publicist named Jeff Dowd got into a fistfight in a Park City restaurant over the cinematic merit of an obscure documentary called Dirt! The Movie.

Today, though, Sundance seems to have pivoted away from edgy and embraced a far more cautious attitude. So cautious, one might even use the word “cowardly.” Take, for instance, the case of Jihad Rehab, a documentary about former Guantanamo detainees that was invited to Sundance last year. The film, widely lauded by prominent critics, was directed by Meg Smaker, a first-time filmmaker who spent years in the Middle East learning Arabic but happens to be a white, blond woman from California.

Muslim filmmakers took offense at the documentary, questioning whether Smaker, a non-Arab, was qualified to make the film—prompting Sundance to do something it had never done before: apologize for showing the movie.

“For someone like me, who came from a working-class family of firefighters, getting into Sundance was beyond winning the lottery,” Smaker tells Los Angeles. “It was supposed to be life-changing, and I guess it was—just not in the way I’d hoped. It was like being at your dream wedding and getting ten feet from the altar, and then having a pile of shit thrown all over you.”

Smaker has since rebounded—she’s raised $800,000 to self-release her film—but if her experience with Sundance is at all emblematic of where the festival is heading, it does not bode well. “Sundance built its reptuation on the fact that it’s the place to showcase edgy, independent films. And if that’s gone, what are you left with? What’s the point of Sundance?”

Smaker asks. “That’s why it’s been such an alarming experience and a wake-up call.”

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Lakers vs. Clippers

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The Five Directions: Lacquer Through East Asia

› Lacquer techniques and materials from the north, south, east, west, and center of East Asia have long intermingled, represented by over 80 works from Japan, China, and Korea drawn from LACMA’s permanent collection. LACMA, December 18 to April 16.

ART

Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group, 1938–1945

THE FIVE DIRECTIONS: L ACQ U E R T H R O U G H E A ST A S I A

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› The Transcendentalist manifesto vowed “to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world, through new concepts of space,

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color, light and design to imaginative realms that are idealistic and spiritual.” Works by New Mexico artists Raymond Jonson, Emil Bisttram, Agnes Pelton, and Lawren Harris aspire to abstraction grounded in the collective unconscious.

LACMA, December 18 to June 19.

FICTION

The Villa: A Novel › From Rachel Hawkins,

the New York Times best-selling author of The Wife Upstairs and Reckless Girls, comes a murder mystery set in an Italian villa where a pair of friends are vacationing. By trying to solve an age-old murder, one of them might unwittingly inspire her own demise.

January 3.

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ST R E A M I N G

The Pale Blue Eye

› Based on the novel

by Louis Bayard, this streamer explores Edgar Allan Poe’s short stint as a cadet at West Point (fact) assisting in a murder investigation (fiction). “He’s such a misfit.

Nobody really likes him or trusts him in West Point,” Christian Bale said of Poe at a recent press screening at the Pacific Design Center. In the film, Bale plays Detective Landor, who enlists the dark poet in solving the murder of a fellow cadet.

The actor reteams with director Scott Cooper for the third time after Out of the Furnace and Hostiles, for this moody whodunit starring Harry Melling as Poe, Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and the always inspiring Robert Duvall. Netflix, January 6.

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› Horror master James Wan (Saw, The Conjuring) has created a female

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› One five-game losing streak last fall was followed by another, leaving the Lakers barely recognizable as one of the league’s premier franchises. Beset by injuries to Dennis Schröder, Thomas Bryant, and Cole Swider, along with LeBron James’s usual aches and pains, the purple and gold have been floundering. Sure, there are rumors about Bojan Bogdanović, but is there any there there? And with Russell Westbrook relegated to sixth man, offers are said to be streaming in, but none as sweet as the one that would have brought them John Wall, now a Clipper. Even with Kawhi Leonard’s knee injuries and ongoing groin condition, the Clippers have prevailed against the Lakers twice already this season, 103-97 and 114-101.

So go cheer for one or both. They need you!

the unlikely friendship he forms with the family next door. It stars Tom Hanks as Otto, along with Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, and Mike Birbiglia.

In theaters January 13.

CO N C E R T

iHeartRadio ALTer EGO

› It’s like an epic outdoor summer music fest, only indoors in the winter. But that won’t keep Jack White, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Muse, Fall Out Boy, Rosa Linn, CHVRCHES, Beach Weather, and Phoenix from rocking the roof off.

The Forum, January 14.

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Simone Forti

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reographer Simone Forti gets the museum treatment in the first West Coast exhibition dedicated to her career, including works on paper, videos, holograms, and performance ephemera, as well as weekly stagings of her piece Dance Constructions. MOCA, January 15 to April 2.

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Worlds Apart

› Gallerist Jonathan is married to Sue but has a mistress, Clarissa, whom he cannot see on account of the COVID lockdown.

Forced isolation leads to a reevaluation of relationships among three couples in this comedy starring Bob Odenkirk, Radha Mitchell, and Danny Huston. In theaters January 27.

T H E AT E R

The Little Foxes

› Lillian Hellman’s classic centered on three Southern siblings seething with greed and ambition gets a SoCal staging under the direction of Lisa Peterson.

When it premiered on Broadway in 1939, it

starred Tallulah Bankhead as the devilishly clever Regina, a role immortalized by Bette Davis in the 1941 film that received nine Oscar nominations.

South Coast Repertory, January 29 to February 26.

MEMOIR

Love, Pamela

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the punctuation, but this is how Pamela Anderson

described her memoir in an Instagram post: “I repainted scenes in detail, if it was my childhood or at the Playboy Mansion. Just one girl’s messy life—a celebration of imperfections.” The 1990s sex symbol calls the book an “unpolished attempt” by a mother, activist, and actress.

January 31.

MEMOIR

Call Me Anne

› When Anne Heche died

Chucky for the artificialintelligence age. A robotics engineer at a toy company builds a freaky life-size doll with a hunger for the kill. In theaters January 6.

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A Man Called Otto

› This is the second film adaptation of the hit Swedish novel A Man Called Ove, about a lonely old grouch and

S H OTG U N W E D D I N G

after a car crash in L.A. last summer, she left behind memorable performances in movies like Donnie Brasco. Her legacy also includes this new memoir, a sequel to 2001’s Call Me Crazy. Ellen DeGeneres, Harvey Weinstein, childhood sexual abuse—it’s all there, but so are acceptance and forgiveness.

January 24.

ST R E A M I N G

Shotgun Wedding › Jennifer Lopez and

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destination wedding is hijacked by bad guys in this star-studded rom-com. With a supporting cast including Jennifer Coolidge, D’Arcy Carden, Melissa Hunter, Callie Hernandez, Cheech Marin, Sônia Braga, Steve Coulter, and Lenny Kravitz, love will find a way. Prime Video, January 27.

› Beating the traditional taiko drum for four decades, members of Kodo- reflect on the past with their One Earth Tour 2023.

The program, Tsuzumi, held for two years because of COVID, traces their music to its origins in Japanese folklore blended with Chinese and Korean cultural influences dating to the sixth century.

Josh Duhamel’s luxurious

Kodō

Walt Disney Concert Hall, January 31.

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we don’t know who we’re gonna work with, and it’s, like, boom! Go!” One of the first special guests was Mike Myers (who later used the Groundlings’ stage to work out 4 3 his Austin Powers personae). “The Groundlings were character-based, which really spoke to me,” he says.

It was here that Myers met Sterling.

He loved her so much that he wrote the part of Frau Farbissina for her.

Quentin Tarantino also performed in the ’90s. “I remember him being 6 really playful,” says GAS icon Karen Maruyama, who eventually got cast, 5 along with Kathy Griffin and other Groundlings, in Pulp Fiction.

Big-name guests are usually won over by the Groundlings’ teamoriented approach. Paul Feig, a 2013 invitee felt nervous because he hadn’t done improv in two decades. “But THE GROUNDLINGS’ GAME-CHANGING SHOW CELEBRATES THREE DECADES they’d kind of clean up your mess,” OF IMPROV WITH CELEBRITY GUESTS IN L.A. B Y S E A N F I T Z - G E R A L D Feig recalls, “if you shit the bed.”

To this day, the unpredictability of improv, the proximity to Hollywood, “ C U T ! ” Y E L L E D the Reubens, but they’d moved on. and the mystery of the celebrity guest director. “Are you all GAS mixed Groundlings, alumni, combine for an only-in-L.A. show on drugs? and rising stars in the Sunday that’s hard to pass up.

Tragedy had struck Company (hence GAS) for a night You never know what or whom Tornadoes of Eden, a of what they loved most: improv. you’ll see. Perhaps Minnie Driver ’90s-era disaster flick. An extra had “Improv is kind of like heroin,” embodying a WNBA sabotaged the scene by sticking out explains alum Michael player. Or Jordan Peele his tongue. “Can you tuck your little McDonald. He’s talking splitting his pants. tongue back in your mouth?” the about the high of going “The Even during lockdown, director asked four times. And then onstage sans script—and Groundlings Graham’s brainchild peals of laughter offstage stopped having it work. united people who the action.

Graham became the were wouldn’t normally be Turns out the movie wasn’t real. show’s first director charactertogether. Lisa Kudrow It was improvised on a Thursday and established its strucbased, which almost broke a Zoom night in early November by the ture: two acts, six to show, as more than Groundlings, L.A.’s famed comedy eight players. The first really spoke 200 people clamored school and theater. Their snug act opens and closes with to me.” to join.

99-seat venue on Melrose brimmed an improvised song, — Mike Myers Back in the theater, at capacity for the 30th anniversary with short scenes between.

November’s anniof Cookin’ with GAS, a cult show The second act is usuversary show saw an that’s seen things—and people—you ally an extended improv. electric blend of veterans and upwouldn’t believe.

Audience suggestions fuel it all. and-comers. As actor H Michael It started with Groundling Early on, special guests were Croner tried to stay stone-faced while Melanie Graham, who created invited in. The challenge of playing begging Julian Gant to tuck in his GAS in 1992. She’d long admired with a celebrity you’ve never met, little tongue, it was easy to see GAS ’s the Groundlings’ Main Company says alum and GAS mainstay Mindy appeal. The joy’s infectious. stars like Phil Hartman and Paul Sterling, is a thrill. “We get up there, 2 6 L A M AG . C O M

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The End is Nighy

A STAR MASQUERADING AS A CHARACTER ACTOR, BILL NIGHY BRINGS HIS VEDDY BRITISH INSCRUTABILITY TO LIVING, A NEW ADAPTATION OF AKIRA KUROSAWA’S MASTERPIECE

BY STEVE ERICKSON

Not quite like anyone else in movies, Nighy projects the difI N L I V I N G , B I L L N I G H Y plays an aging fidence of someone who maybe aspired to be not an actor but bureaucrat who has six months to live. He can’t a musician, which isn’t the case, or a writer, which is. There’s bring himself to reveal this to the people he’s a musicality in the movement of his long frame, not so much supposed to be close to, like his kids, confiding his walk as his stance, and he’s always shared a mutual attracinstead in nearly random strangers for whom tion with conspicuously literate properties written by Tom he can invent himself anew in their eyes. One is a younger Stoppard or David Hare. He speaks in the cadences of someguy he gets drunk with in a pub. Another is a young woman one who is at once deliberate but slightly vexed, bewildered from his office to whom he may feel an unthreatening attracby something about existence that only he understands; it’s tion, as everyone around him leaps to the wrong conclusions. not hard to believe reports that he was once offered the role of A British version of Japanese maestro Akira Kurosawa’s Doctor Who. The stare of his 70-year-old masterpiece eyes and the small smile that Ikiru, as adapted by novelist barely whispers to the surface Kazuo Ishiguro, who pitched of his face convey a constant the remake to Nighy one bemusement that characternight when they found themizes not only his day-to-day selves in the same cab, Living attitude but a worldview, until is alternately moving and it erupts in rare rage such as in misbegotten, structurally awkthe climactic scene of 2011’s ward, and not unlike Brendan The Best Exotic Marigold Fraser’s The Whale, succeeds Hotel, when he confronts his best as a vehicle for the actor at unbearable wife and conits center. vinces you that his still waters There’s an advantage to run deep enough for that f inally becoming a star in rage to have a source. His your later years. Born working quintessential role is Johnny class in the English suburbs Worricker, the MI5 spy who where it counts and trained as came in out of the heat in an actor in London where it the TV movie trilogy Page also counts, Nighy didn’t regEight, Turks & Caicos, and ister with many Americans Salting the Battlefield, where until his washed-up rockers the apparent amorality of his in 1998’s Still Crazy and then heroism disguised a moral more prominently in 2003’s fury that everyone persuaded Love Actually, when he was themselves he didn’t have, to well into his 50s. Now 73, he their own peril. got his first starring role of Nighy finds his profile rising Counting down his days, any note when he was over 60. just in time to play dying men. so buttoned up that he’s pracWhen you’ve played everytically choking in his collar thing from hobbits and Nazi and tie, Nighy’s bureaucrat war criminals to mariner of in Living suddenly has no time to make all the connections doom Davy Jones and eternity’s oldest vampire, you know he never made, to make his life matter in a way it never has. who you are—or you know as well as you ever will. Nighy Nighy brings to this dying role the mystique of a lifetime: a always seemed to have the look and temperament of an obviBritish inscrutability that’s always been marked by fleeting ous character actor until it became just as obvious he was but unmistakable flashes of Keith Richards cool. The tightmore than that; sometimes stars are born—with that mix of lipped circumspection that marks so many major characters looks, talent, charisma, and focus, was Tom S AY WO T ? he has played is at its most laconic here, ever so precisely Cruise ever going to be anything else?— Nighy’s stiff upper mapping the emotional no-man’s-land between collapse and but just as often, they’re forged of some lip has always been marked by redemption. The movie’s greatest triumph is that one of the alignment of curious coordinates. Nighy’s unmistakable most singular men in the movies turns out to be an everyman curious alignment finds his profile rising flashes of Keith for the ages. just in time to play dying men.

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East of Eden

A TINY STRIP OF EAST HOLLYWOOD IS EMERGING AS THE CITY’S NEW HIPSTER HUB

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H E R E ’ S A N E A S T S I D E zeitgeist afoot but not in Silver Lake or Echo Park. Been there, ate and shopped that. “Young people started moving to East Hollywood because they couldn’t afford anywhere else,” explains entrepreneur Dustin Lancaster. “Rents are affordable—that’s what’s made East Hollywood the new ‘It’ neighborhood.” Lancaster opened the area’s first boutique hotel, Hotel Covell, eight years ago, in what’s since morphed into a neighborhood Los Angeles calls “EaHo.” The 2.5-mile enclave is bound by Western Avenue, Hollywood Boulevard and the 101 freeway and encompasses Thai Town and Little Armenia. Notable landmarks: the Vista Theatre (soon to be revived by Quentin Tarantino), Barnsdall Art Park and Children’s Hospital. The stretch of stores, bars, and restaurants on Hollywood Boulevard from Hillhurst to Vermont have all sprung up in the last few years. “East Hollywood is so robust with art, flavors, cultures,” says Nicole Dougherty, co-owner of Tabula Rasa bar. “Our block is happily now one of the most walkable blocks in L.A.”

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» Owner-jewelry designer Lauren Wolf opened a shop in her studio in Oakland in 2011. Now, five stores later (New York, San Diego, Echo Park, East Hollywood), all Esqueleto locations carry unique art, jewelry, crafts, and decorative objects.

Wolf’s vendors are indie artisans—everything is handcrafted and individualized. The jewelry varies in price point but tends toward the artisanal; many necklaces and rings are built for stacking, including unique engagement and wedding rings for rugged individualists. » 4618 Hollywood Blvd., shopesqueleto.com.

» Starday’s co-owners, retro-tressed-and-dressed redhead Nicole Bernstein and husband Ben McCarthy, tool around town in two 1950s Buicks as authentically vintage as their wares: pedigreed pieces for women (Rudi Gernreich! Giorgio di Sant’Angelo!) and men, costume jewelry, handbags, hats, lingerie, snoods, California pottery, dishes, phones, and clocks. “Our collection ranges from 1920s to 1990s,” says Bernstein. “We go looking for anything old and try to save it.” Attention music buffs: one corner’s jam-packed with vintage guitars and vinyl. » 4665 Hollywood Blvd, stardayvintage.com.

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» Devour flavorful sushi rolls while they’re warm, suggest co-owners Dustin Lancaster and Sarah Dietz.

“We toast the nori before we make them (yellowtail, scallop, lobster, and more); the outside’s crunchy, the rice is warm.” Order sets of three, four, five, or six. If rolls aren’t your thing, try avocado crispy rice or donburi (rice bowls with fish). “ ‘Sōgo’ means mutual in Japanese,” says Lancaster. “We locals needed some serious sushi around here.” There’s a long bar inside and outside tables for more leisurely dining. » 4634 Hollywood Blvd., sogorollbar.com

Little Giants

» “Lame Parents Stay Away,” warns a red neon sign at Little Giants, a chic store opened in 2021 by the Brooklyn original.

But tykes and toddlers are welcome: the space is full of groovy goods for pint-size hipster newborns through ten-year-olds. The upstairs event loft (baby break dancing, anyone?) has a behemoth red S-curved slide that leads little feet into a pile of plastic balls on the first floor. There, parents and progeny can peruse Little Giants camo bucket hats, toys, books, tees, kicks, sweats, hoodies—even wee onesies. » 4675 Hollywood Blvd., wearelittlegiants.com

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Tabula Rasa Natural Wine Bar

» The popular natural-wine bar’s been home to poets, musicians and artists for six years now, opening at 2 p.m. every day so creatives can work at the bar with the help of a glass of red, white, rosé, or orange wine. “Natural wine,” explains Nicole Dougherty (co-owner with Zach Negin) “is from family farms, handpicked, nonmanipulated—like traditional wines were made.” Tabula Rasa holds wine events and live jazz as well as weekly DJs and poetry readings featuring some of the friendly bartenders. » 5125 Hollywood Blvd., tabularasabar.com P H O T O G R A P H E D BY T H O M A S D R O TA R

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My mom was the earrings queen.

She’s given me a bunch, and wearing them has become special since she passed.

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ets in their home. Haile Lidow has a home in her closets. The 29-year-old stylist-slash-fashion archivist has turned her Los Feliz house into a highend garment dispensary, with racks of rare designer duds filling almost every corner. Her shoe collection alone, which occupies its own wing, would have Imelda Marcos biting her knuckles with envy. These days, her outfits are also her business: her Lidow Archive supplies other stylists and their clients — like Madonna and Lady Gaga —with one-of-a-kind red carpet ensembles. The best part? Lidow can dip into the inventory whenever she wants, making her one of L.A.’s most distinctive dressers.

When I showed my friend and hairstylist Ricky Fraser the jumpsuit, he immediately suggested this Barbarella do.

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These rings are the only items in my collection that are strictly personal—I don’t rent them out —so they are extra special.

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• NAILS

There’s nothing more powerful than a set of long nails! For years, I got intricate designs on acrylics or gel extensions, but lately I’ve been sporting press-ons for shoots and special occasions.

• JUMPSUIT

I purchased this incredible 1991 Christian Lacroix catsuit from my friend who owns Farmer Jawns, one of my favorite vintage shops.

I just love how it makes me look like an alien!

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Elon Musk’s Crash Course NEVER MIND THE DUMPSTER FIRE AT TWITTER .

THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD’S BIGGER HEADACHE JUST MAY BE TESL A , WHICH L ATELY SEEMS TO BE SELF-DRIVING OFF A CLIFF

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E L ON M U S K ’ S chaotic aquisition of the social-media giant Twitter late last year—which saw the replatforming of ex-president Donald Trump and a host of deporables alongside the dismissal of half of Twitter’s workforce—gave the world a bracing primer in the management style of the South Africanborn billionaire mogul. One can theorize that Musk’s notorious impulsiveness and probable poor emotional regulation might be interfering with achieving his vision of a Muskified future of space travel on demand and cars that the drive themselves, embodied by his two principal companies: Space X, the leading private spacetransport company, and Tesla, the definitive electric-vehicle brand. While both are alive and I L LUS T R AT E D B Y JA S ON R A I S H

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humming, the instant, just-addwater future they once offered has yet to materialize.

In no arena is this truer than that of the driverless vehicle. What was once an inspiring moonshot that as late as 2017 Musk was touting would by now be commonplace has instead settled into a morass of regulatory scrutiny, scaled-back expectations, and finger-pointing over who is to blame for bringing an overhyped technology crashing back to earth.

Increasingly, Tesla and its temperamental CEO are taking the heat.

Tesla took the first steps toward autonomous cars in 2014 when it began outfitting its Model S sedans with technology to automate certain functions, like acceleration, braking, and steering. The feature, evocatively dubbed “Autopilot,” combined lane-keeping assistance with elements of traditional adaptive cruise control—introduced on the 1998 Mercedes S-Class sedan—that were meant to keep vehicles inside lane lines painted on asphalt. A blog post released by the company in 2015 insisted that Autopilot was not a “self-driving” mechanism and that the driver would be “responsible for, and ultimately in control of, the car.”

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YouTube videos of himself using Autopilot, one of which was reposted

by Musk to his own Twitter account that purported to show Autopilot steering to “avoid collision with a truck,” Musk wrote.

Brown’s death caught the attention of the National Transportation Safety Board, which launched an investigation. In its final report, the NTSB backtracked on its preliminary findings that Autopilot failed to apply the brakes and that Brown’s crash was not in fact a result of technological defect. Ultimately, a 2019 independent review by the Quality Control 1 Systems Corporation disputed the NTSB’s findings, stating that colli2 sions involving airbag deployment in fact likely increased following integration of Autopilot. the company’s cautious corporate Meanwhile, scrutiny of Tesla’s messaging a year later by telling driverless functionalities continue to reporters on a conference call that pile up. Tests conducted by Consumer he believed Autopilot to be “probReports found that the Autopilot ably better” than human drivers. feature required “significant driver On that same call, he forecast that intervention” and that it “lagged far Teslas would be equipped to drive behind a human driver’s skills.” The better than humans within three Consumer Reports test vehicle cut off years and that, within two, it would nearby cars and passed some in ways be possible to “summon” one’s Tesla that violated state laws. The magafrom remote locations. “eg, you’re zine’s test of the “Smart Summon” in L.A. and the car is in N.Y.,” Musk feature found that a later tweeted. The driverless Tesla often unsurprising takeaway: crossed lane lines, had Teslas could already According difficulty navigating drive themselves. Soon, to Consumer parking lots, and moved YouTube broadcast “like a drunken or videos of Model S ownReports, distracted driver.” ers riding shotgun as Teslas on The National their cars hurled down Autopilot Highway Traffic Safety highways, driver seats moved “like Administration has serenely empty. thus far identified 11 Then the accident a drunken instances in which Tesla reports started rolling or distracted cars on Autopilot have in. In January 2016, driver.” struck first responders a 23-year-old in the or emergency vehicles Chinese province of utilizing flashing lights, Hebei was killed while flares, or illuminated signage to driving home from a family wedwarn of hazards. In August 2021, ding. The Tesla Model S he was the agency opened an investigadriving reportedly collided with the tion into alleged safety defects with rear of a street sweeper. His family Autopilot, bolstered by calls from sued Tesla, claiming Autopilot was Congress to look into what some have engaged at the time of the accident. described as Tesla’s deceptive marThree months later, Joshua Brown, keting practices around the feature; 40, of Canton, Ohio, was killed after a year earlier, a court in Germany his Model S slammed into the side banned Tesla from using the term of a tractor trailer in Levy County, “Autopilot” in its sales and marketing Florida. Brown was a Tesla enthusiast materials. The NHTSA also ordered who frequently made and published

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the company to disclose information about any crashes involving driverless-vehicle technology in marketing materials describing its functionality.

Tesla responded to the NHTSA inquiry in October 2021, claiming the request violated its right to shield trade secrets and confidential business information. That same month, however, Tesla issued a recall for over 11,000 vehicles using its latest “Full Self-Driving,” or FSD beta software—one of the incremental upgrades to AutoPilot the company

had promised, which was installed in 160,000 Teslas whose owners had agreed to road test the program.

Soon, drivers with FSD deployed reported instances of “phantom braking,” or sudden, jarring brake initiation while in motion. A report in the Washington Post documented similar problems with FSD-equipped Teslas. The Post assembled a panel of six experts in driverless-vehicle technology, which reviewed a series of authenticated driver videos published to YouTube highlighting

the FSD feature. The panel identified multiple instances of concern, including a scene in which a driver appeared to be fighting FSD for control and vehicles “failing to properly interpret critical road markings and signs” as well as “ordinary pedestrian behavior.”

One video reviewed by the Post, reported to be the first recorded crash of a car equipped with FSD, showed a Tesla making an automated right turn through an intersection in San Jose, California, collide head-on with a green bollard installed to protect a bike lane from passing traffic. A video review of an FSD-equipped Model 3 sedan released by CNN likened the experience to “a little like teaching a teenager how to drive.”

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every eight minutes. One of the main an investigation into an incident bugs identified by O’Dowd and his in Guangdong province, in which a team concerns FSD’s ability to read Model Y sedan attempting to park traffic signs. “It doesn’t know what suddenly took off on a two-lane road a do-not-enter sign means,” he says, at breakneck speed before colliding “So it’ll drive down a one-way-street.” with a storefront about 30 seconds FSD also comes with speed limits later. The driver reportedly survived preprogrammed, meaning it won’t with injuries, but two individuals recognize or honor temporary speed were killed in connection with the limits placed in construction zones, incident. Rumors swirled online for example. “It should not be sold,” that the vehicle was attempting an O’Dowd insists of FSD. “This product auto-park before it mysteriously is simply not ready to be on the road.” accelerated away on its own. Tesla has Since the NHTSA launched its claimed that logs from the vehicle in inquiry into the safety of FSD, the question showed that the brake pedal picture has gotten only gloomier for was not applied during the incident.

Tesla. Last February, the company Surveillance footage of the speedannounced a recall of nearly 54,000 ing Tesla show that rear brake lights vehicles equipped with FSD, which, were not illuminated for most of the in addition to its other vagaries, 30-second stretch, though they turn allows vehicles to make “dangeron briefly about 23 seconds in. ous and potentially fatal rolling Dan O’Dowd is a Santa Barbarastops at stop signs,” according to Los based engineer and CEO of Green Angeles personal injury lawyer Peter Hills Software, which provides Steinberg. To date, the company programming for intercontinenhas recalled more than 1.5 million tal nuclear bombers and what he vehicles over issues with various describes as “systems that require the automatic functions, including FSD. highest degree of reliability.” O’Dowd (Los Angeles reached out to Tesla for is also founder of the Dawn Project, comment on current a software-safety advoor forthcoming safety cacy organization that updates to Autopilot has kept Tesla squarely “It doesn’t and FSD but did not in its crosshairs over receive a response prior the years. know what a to publication.)

“It’s machinery that do-not-enter Tesla is not the only has the potential to kill sign means. electric vehicle manumany people,” he says So it’ll drive facturer running into of FSD-outfitted Tesla problems with implemodels. “And it is being down a onementing driverless developed with the way street.” technology. New York move-fast-and-breakTimes reporter Cade things methodology Metz relayed his experiof Silicon Valley. We ence riding in a driverless Chevy Bolt shouldn’t be relying on that methoperated by Cruise, the rideshare odology when building things that service backed by General Motors, many lives depend on.” through the streets of San Francisco.

O’Dowd, who unsuccesfully ran for Metz reported the Bolt swerved the California Senate last year on a sharply to avoid a car it mistook for platform of banning FSD from being a pedestrian, braked without adetested on public streets, describes quately decelerating at red lights, and FSD as “terrible” and disputes Tesla’s at one point detected an imaginary characterization of the software as accident in the road, pulled over, and “driver assistance.” promptly shut down for the night.

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Santa Barbara engineer Dan O’Dowd wants Tesla to pull its “terrible” self-driving software.

not be permanent. He’s particularly bullish on research into connected and autonomous vehicles, or CAVs, which incorporate data communicated from nearby vehicles to map their environment in real time; already, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, and Michigan have implemented programs to adopt CAV specificaions for future autonomous vehicles.

An autonomous car’s collision avoidance system that relies on, say, 11 internally stored images of a deer jumping across the road is limited to those exact scenarios; a CAV can access thousands of images of deer, standing still and in motion, solo or in groups, to recognize and respond to the threat before a set of antlers comes crashing through the windshield. There are no consumer vehicles currently on the market that have integrated CAV technology, “but there are ton of people working on it,” Wyglinski notes.

Meanwhile, Tesla plows ahead with FSD. Last November, Musk took to his just-purchased Twitter to announce: “Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta is now available to anyone in North America who requests it from the car screen . . . Congrats to Tesla Autopilot/AI team on achieving a major milestone!”

To which a commenter responded: “It should be illegal to ‘beta test’ shit like that on the open road.”

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On Sunday, October 23, Los Angeles magazine hosted the 16th annual epicurean extravaganza, The Food Event 2022.

Attendees ventured to the breathtaking Hummingbird Nest Ranch in the Santa Susana Mountains to indulge in delectable tastings from a variety of L.A. restaurants. Pours from boutique wineries, spirits, and beverages complemented the gourmet samplings of sweet and savory delights.

Additionally, guests enjoyed the Chef Demonstration Stage, hosted by California Live’s Jessica Vilchis, which featured live cooking and mixology presentations by Chef Sieger Bayer of etta, Chef Victor Muñoz of Conservatory West Hollywood and Matthew Biancaniello, proprietor of Eat Your Drink.

Poppy + Rose Prince Street Pizza Qué Padre Rainbird STK Steakhouse The Pizza Plant Velverie Cafe

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The culinary-focused day was complete with unique experiences including:

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Opposite page 1. A picture-perfect day set the scene at the annual food event 2. FitChow and Miracle Noodle serving up tasty samples 3. Jaguar featuring their F-Type convertible 4. Celebrity Cruises danced the day away with a Silent Disco, tasty Mexican bites and a mezcal cocktail featuring Mezcall 33 5. Guess showed off a new line of eyewear at their photo and demonstration booth. Their sunglasses were a hit on this beautiful sunny day 6. The Pizza Plant featured Vegan pizza freshly made on site This page 7. Guess kept all the guests in high fashion with great bags and sunglasses 8. St. Germain making some amazing cocktails 9. Momed was a crowd favorite with their tasty bites 10. The scene in the barn was just as lively as the great lawn 11. STK serving up their award winning sliders. These sliders won best burger in our Burger Bourbon Beer battle back in May of 2022 12. etta Keeping guests cool serving up refreshing oysters along side their ice sculpture and tasty Makers 46 cocktails 13. The entrance to the great lawn made for a fun arrival at the food event 14. The House of Suntory brought out some great cocktails and set up a swanky space to enjoy cocktails at the Food Event 15. Santa Teresa Rum was serving up tasty cocktails and making sure everyone was having a great day on the cocktail dance floor area 16. Drew Family Cellars sampling some great wine varieties 17. Chef Victor Munoz of Conservatory on the demo stage.

Showing guests how they can make some tasty food at home like at Conservatory 18. Guest loved lounging along the lawn lake, good times all around 19. A big party happening at the Celebrity Cruises silent disco. Celebrity Cruises knows how to keep guests entertained on land or sea 20. Makers Mark 46 made one of the best signature drinks of the day, the perfect drink for the end of a fabulous day 21. The food event is a celebration of food and drinks, but just as important, it is a celebration of life, love and the Los Angeles magazine lifestyle.

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WHAT From an over-the-top seafood temple to scrumptious Filipino rice bowls, we feature the city’s best new restaurants and dishes for every taste, budget, and occasion

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PHOTOGRAPHED BY JULIA JOHNSON STYLED BY KAREN LEVITT

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1. Asterid: Octopus 2. Saffy’s: Mixed skewers 3. n/soto: Bone marrow 4. Mother Wolf; Panzanella salad 5. San Laurel: Sea urchin 6. Asterid: Caviar 7. Asterid: Chicken liver mousse 8. San Laurel: Wild mushrooms in Laurel cream 9. San Laurel: Lobster salpicón

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camphor 923 E. 3RD ST., DOWNTOWN CAMPHOR.LA • $$$$

C H E F S M A X Boonthanakit and Lijo George met in 2020 while working at Alain Ducasse’s Blue in Bangkok, and now, with Camphor—their sleek, minimalist, whitewalled Arts District bistro—they’ve brought something entirely new to L.A. The stunning interior creates a lofty, transporting experience, while the chefs’ access to spices from George’s southern Indian homeland makes for extraordinary meals. After guests are greeted by a staff dressed in white, the space becomes a canvas for food plated with precision. Lobster tail is presented and finished with bisque at the table. Steak au poivre comes with cast-iron pots piled with frites and plates of steamed asparagus blanketed in béarnaise. Yes, it’s bistro fare, but Camphor is so much more. What appears to be a chocolate soufflé is actually chocolate meringue atop hazelnut ice cream, with marshmallows and toasted hazelnuts. Since opening, the restaurant has launched a brunch and a bar menu including one of the city’s most succulent burgers. It’s made of duck meat and dry-aged beef and served on a duck fat brioche bun with caramelized onions.

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T H E M E N U at L.A. chef Ray Garcia’s new restaurant, Asterid, inside Walt Disney Concert Hall, is as sleek and curated as the restaurant’s design. The dishes are, in some ways, a departure from the extensive fare Garcia offered at his previous B.S. Taqueria and Broken Spanish.

Here, Garcia’s expertise gets condensed into a modern Californialeaning menu with dazzling seasonal starters like sunchoke rösti with crème fraîche and strawberry pepper jam. The chicken liver mousse is a masterpiece in a bowl covered with a bouquet of grape compote, sliced pear, pickled pearl onions, and mustard, and served with sliced toasted sourdough. The lamb shank with pomegranate, preserved lemon, and ancho chiles comes with warm flatbread and is more than enough to share. Its location inside one of the city’s iconic music venues makes it a convenient place to eat or drink before or after a show, but Asterid’s food and cocktails make it a destination all its own.

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The Dish of the Year

YAKI ONIGIRI

The wedge-shaped rice ball is made of a mix of cooked Japanese short-grain rice, umeboshi, bonito flakes, and soy sauce.

It’s then formed into a triangle, or onigiri, and grilled until golden.

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with head chef Yoji Tajima, the dish consists of a sweet, caramelized piece of bone marrow plated beside rice with umeboshi, or pickled Japanese plum. It’s served with a spoon, and diners are instructed to scoop out the marrow and follow it with a bit of rice and pickled plum.—H.P.

BONE MARROW

The chef spreads a mixture of sake kasu (sake cream), a blend of red and white miso paste called awase miso, sugar, mirin, and sake onto the bone marrow before it’s cooked to a glistening caramel color.

PICKLED RED ONION

This bright-pink garnish of red onion pickled in red wine vinegar serves as a kushi naoshi (palate cleanser) after the rich bone marrow and rice.

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O U R D I S H O F the year is not the most complicated or over-the-top. But the miso-baked bone marrow at n/soto, chef Niki Nakayama and Carole Iida-Nakayama’s modern izakaya in West Adams, has the kind of showstopping flavor that lingers on your palate and in your mind. A collaboration

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dear jane’s 13950 PANAY WAY, MARINA DEL REY DEARJANESLA.COM • $$$$

T H E S I S T E R restaurant to Dear John’s, the old-school steak

house in Culver City from chef Hans and Patti Röckenwagner and chef Josiah Citrin, Dear Jane’s is an old-school seafood restaurant by the water in Marina del Rey. The separate bar is an experience in and of itself, with a roaring fireplace and a slightly more casual ambience but with food and cocktail options similar to those in the dining room. An entire side of the lively and buzzing formal dining area offers an unobstructed view of boats moored in the marina. The multitiered room evokes a feeling of special occasions, with white tablecloths and mannered table-side service for items like shrimp Louie salad, which gets drenched in a citrusy, homemade Thousand Island–like dressing. There also are seafood towers, fish sticks with caviar, Dungeness crab cakes, oysters Rockefeller, and a list of classic dishes like trout amandine, fish-and-chips, and cioppino. Dear Jane’s successfully re-creates the nostalgic style of dining so many crave while serving food that still manages to surprise and impress.

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3905 W. 6TH ST., KOREATOWN KINN.LA • $$$

T H E R E I S only one menu at this cozy, dimly lit,

20-seat Koreatown gem where chef Ki Kim uses curated ingredients to delicately weave together Korean flavors into dishes that exist in a genre all their own. A place at the chef ’s counter is ideal and provides a front-row seat for watching Kim and his team’s detailed, balletic plating. At $72 for six courses, Kinn's is one of the more affordable tasting menus around and includes an evolving, playful menu of thoughtfully crafted dishes like yellowtail in a bath of oyster sauce and charcoal-grilled Wagyu short ribs. The menu can be upgraded with add-ons such as crispy Spanish octopus and hen of the woods mushroom confit with uni. Though the restaurant lacks a cocktail menu, it features a selection of European wines and Korean spirits that pair well with Kim’s menu.

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K U YA L O R D began as a pop-up in 2019, serving Filipino street food at bars and breweries around L.A. During the pandemic, chef Lord Maynard Llera, once the sous chef at Bestia, began cooking in his garage in La Cañada Flintridge, and word spread quickly that his dishes were available for weekly pickups. Today, his extremely popular food has a home in a small storefront in East Hollywood. There are 21 seats for dining in, though Llera’s take-out business is hopping. The shareable trays are a great way to experience a selection of proteins— sweet or savory sausage, grilled Caledonia blue prawns in garlic crab sauce, or Llera’s famous lucenachon (crispy roasted pork belly)—all while sampling glistening chami noodles, tomato-cucumber salad, and wonderfully bright and vinegary pickled green papaya. Finish a meal here with tangy and sweet Filipino Calamansi key lime pie with pandan whipped cream. Though this brickand-mortar has been a long time coming for Llera, who had been planning to open a Filipino restaurant since leaving Bestia in 2016, it is, in many ways, just the beginning.

We can’t wait to see what he does next.

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N A I L I N G D O W N a reservation at chef Evan Funke’s massive,

Roman-style restaurant in the heart of Hollywood isn’t easy, but you’ll be glad you did, as crowds form around the hostess station at the entrance to the 92-year-old art deco Citizen News Building.

It’s worth noting, however, that the expansive bar area of this 8,600-square-foot ode to Rome is walk-in only, and there are plenty of seats from which to enjoy the same Italian splendor. Inside, the 20-foot-high ceilings with light fixtures of Murano glass make Mother Wolf unlike any other restaurant in Los Angeles. It’s exciting to step foot inside such grandeur, with tabletops of Siena marble and luxurious red-leather booths. The service is so attentive, it borders on performative. With its open kitchen, Mother Wolf is like theater, where Funke’s talent and enthusiasm for perfecting Italian cooking is the star. Because he already had a major presence locally with his Venice restaurant, Felix, many are familiar with Funke’s ricottaand-Parmesan-stuffed squash blossoms paired with an earthy glass of Nebbiolo. The food itself is not brand-new to the city, but the kind of experience he has created here most certainly is.

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C H E F - O W N E R S Niki Nakayama and Carole Iida-Nakayama’s West Adams izakaya-inspired restaurant, n/soto, offers all of the precision and excellence that earned the pair two Michelin stars for n/naka, their modern kaiseki establishment. But n/soto exudes a more casual, relaxed spirit. The snow crab sunomono (cucumber salad) doesn’t come with a spoon, but you might secretly want one to savor every last drop of the tosazu broth. Skewers are, of course, the heart of an izakaya, and the tender lamb chops and grilled shiitake mushrooms stand out.

Each dish on the menu seems more delicious than the last. The room is filled with diners who know to order the miso-baked bone marrow with umeboshi onigiri rice balls—it lands at most tables. Larger rice dishes like trout and salmon roe with parsley-like mitsuba and pickled vegetables are also available. For dessert, the melon float—a bright-green, soda fountain-style coupe—turns heads. This is the kind of meal that has you planning your return before you’ve finished eating.

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vegan places to eat L.A.’S VEGAN REVOLUTION HAS MOVED BEYOND ITS OFTEN UNINSPIRED HEALTH-FOOD ROOTS. NOW ANGELENOS HAVE PLENTY OF CLEVER PLANT-BASED PLAYS ON COMFORT FOODS THAT DON’T SKIMP ON FLAVOR OR FLAIR. HERE, EIGHT VEGAN RESTAURANTS, ONE TRUCK, AND A GHOST-KITCHEN OUTLET THAT DEBUTED SINCE 2020 B Y J O S H U A L U R I E

At New York-based Overthrow Hospitality’s Melrose restaurant, chef Sarah Stearns’s seasonal menu includes roasted sweet-potato slices on a focaccia raft with cashew ricotta and spiced chutney.

Expect standout cocktails like the Vista Sour, a frothy sour garnished with cacao nibs.

7469 Melrose Ave., Fairfax District, avantgardenbistro.com.

BERBERE

Tezeta “Tete” Alemayehu expanded on her Smorgasburg L.A. success by opening this veganfusion restaurant offering vegan tacos and sliders with Ethiopian twists.

510 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, myberbere.com.

BURGERLORDS

Brothers Max and Fred Guerrero went fully vegan in the summer of 2020 at their Chinatown stand and Highland Park diner. They introduced a plant-based “beefy” patty made with well-seasoned soy protein, but their hearty veggie patty, blended with eggplant, mushrooms, carrots, cashews, and miso, is even more vibrant.

943 N. Broadway, Ste. 102, Chinatown, and 110 N. Avenue 56, Highland Park, burgerlords.com.

HERBIE BURGER

Peter Williams partnered with Erin Harnisch on this takeout-and-delivery concept. Their marquee item, a savory burger patty featuring crimini

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mushrooms and black beans, comes stacked with lettuce, tomato, onion, vegan cheddar, and pickles.

Oyster mushrooms are a crispy, creative stand-in for chicken "wings."

5660 Selmaraine Dr., Culver City, herbieburger.com.

HOLEY GRAIL DONUTS

Siblings Hana and Nile Dreiling make seasonal doughnuts with Hawaiian-grown taro that’s pounded, fermented, and fried in coconut oil. Chocolate Crunch showcases single-origin Hawaiian chocolate, cacao nibs, and sea salt.

8806 Washington Blvd., Culver City, holeygraildonuts.com.

HOT TONGUE PIZZA

Alex Koons serves vegan pizza here as he does at sister pizzeria Purgatory. His “round & thin” crust is supple with a crackly base. Koons makes cashew mozzarella, almond ricotta, and almond Parmesan in-house.

2590 Glendale Blvd., Silver Lake, hottonguepizza.com.

JUNKYARD DOG

This stylish sports bar from Real Food Daily owner Adaline Hobbs and her restaurateur dad, Paul Boettcher, offers burgers, pizzas, and a superfood salad (romaine, kale,

sweet potatoes, and garbanzo beans with an almond-shallot dressing).

4330 W. Sunset Blvd., Silver Lake, junkyarddogla.com.

MACIEL’S PLANT-BASED BUTCHER & DELI

Maciel Bañales Luna takes a holistic approach to wheatprotein-based meats.

An Italian hoagie packs “salami,” “pastrami,” Follow Your Heart Provolone, and a onetwo punch from “pepperoni” and cherry pepper spread.

5933 York Blvd., Highland Park, macielsplantbutcher.com.

SEABIRDS KITCHEN

Stephanie Morgan started with an Orange County food truck before migrating to brick-and-mortar locations in Costa Mesa and Long Beach. At her latest outpost, the mushroom taco doesn't pull any punches, dressing crusty griddled shrooms with ancho chile oil, tangy fermented curtido (Saldavoran cabbage slaw) and crumbled almond feta.

2138 Hillhurst Ave., Los Feliz, seabirdskitchen.com.

WOLFIE’S HOT CHICKEN

Jason Eisner parked a food truck next to his Block Party bar during the pandemic and now runs a Highland Park sports bar. His sandwiches include a fierce Seoul-inspired Korean fried “chicken” with house-made Korean barbecue sauce, spicy pickled cucumbers, and kimchi on a toasted bun.

4939 York Blvd., Highland Park, wolfieshotla.com.

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1220 HERMOSA AVE., HERMOSA BEACH EATRYLA.COM • $$$$

I N 2 0 2 2 , husband-and-wife team Ray Hayashi and Cynthia Hetlinger combined their considerable culinary experiences with their Japanese and Taiwanese backgrounds to open a lively upscale restaurant in Hermosa Beach. (He previously worked at David Lefevre’s South Bay standouts M.B. Post, the Arthur J, and Fishing with Dynamite; she spent five years at Providence.) Ryla’s modern design draws a crowd to its wraparound bar where classic cocktails, like Suntory whisky Penicillins made with ginger liqueur and honey, are crafted. There is nothing fussy or pretentious about the menu at Ryla.

The food is bright, inventive, and comforting. The fried rice comes flecked with sweet Chinese sausage and pickled ginger and is buried in a thick dusting of shaved black truffles from Burgundy. Start a meal with Hokkaido milk bread with fish roe-nori spread and make your way down the menu to a main dish like the grilled New Zealand Tai snapper that comes in a pool of lime-coconut broth with mussels, daikon, and Fresno chiles. Since opening, Ryla has launched a popular brunch menu with everything from cold sesame noodles to breakfast sausage sandwiches to Taiwanese dan bing (egg crêpe).

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CHEF ORI Menashe had been dreaming of cooking meat on skewers since he and his wife, Genevieve Gergis, opened their other Middle Eastern restaurant, Bavel, in 2018, and Saffy’s is that dream realized. The space is as vibrant as the cocktails being poured behind the pink-tiled bar. Menashe has described the food—shawarma and lamb, pork, and chicken kabobs cooked on a wood-burning stove—to be the most like what he and Gergis might serve to guests in their home. It’s food you crave—like plates of hummus dusted with smoked paprika, Lebanese pine nuts, the spicy green hot sauce zhoug and challah that the chef spent months perfecting. The meat-centric menu is complemented by vegetable-forward sides like green falafel with tahini served atop puddles of a beet zhoug and sprinkled with dill. Keeping with the theme of simplicity, Gergis’s pastry menu is short and, well, sweet: bergamot-chocolate cake with rose ganache, orange blossom creme caramel, and undoubtedly the best soft-serve around, made with house-made bases and rotating farmers’ market-inspired flavors like sour cherry or boysenberry.

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Coming Attractions

A LOOK AT THE BIG THINGS THAT SOME OF L.A.'S MOST TALENTED CHEFS HAVE IN STORE FOR 2023

CALIFORNIA/SPANISH

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ian busy with his endless efforts to feed people around the globe via his World Central Kitchen.

He also managed to open a few new restaurants in L.A. last year, including San Laurel, which is perched on the tenth floor of the new Conrad Hotel and offers possibly the best view one can have of the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The restaurant serves pleasing California cuisine that shows off Spanish flavors. Sea urchin with raw scallops in a pool of gazpacho consommé gets a dazzling dollop of caviar. This bright, cold, refreshing mouthful of the ocean is a surefire way to start a meal here. There is a Basque cheesecake for dessert that comes served with a scoop of guava ice cream. Though the food seems relatively down-to-earth considering the kind of molecular gastronomy that made Andrés famous, the cocktails are whimsical. A server pours a beaker full of liquid steam into a mezcal drink to give it an aromatic orange-thyme “cloud.” Yes, San Laurel feels like a hotel restaurant . . . the kind you want to go out of your way for.

PACO MORAN

Swordfish tacos al pastor and a seafood tower stand out at Mariscos Za Za Zá, a spinoff of LA Cha Cha Cha.

11677 San Vicente Blvd., Brentwood, jemmadimare.com.

1993 Blake Ave., Elysian Valley.

ARMEN MARTIROSYAN

JOHN LIU

“At Arroz & Fun, we are excited to offer creative interpretations of traditional Latin and Asian dishes in a casual environment,” says Liu.

“I grew up in LA. Kabobs and tacos are a passion of mine,” says Martirosyan.

“Mid East Tacos is my love of two worlds on a plate.”

1822 N. Broadway, Lincoln Heights.

3536 W. Sunset Blvd., Silver Lake, mideasttacos.com.

JASON NERONI

ROBERT AND NELSON LEE

“Best Bet is very personal to me,” says Neroni. “From soup to nuts, my wife and I have been involved with everything.

It feels like coming home.”

12565 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City.

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JACKSON KALB

Kalb promises “epic caviar service,” house-baked focaccia and “somewhere for a nice cocktail” at Jemma di Mare.

DANIEL SON

“Japanese food doesn't need to feel uptight,” says Son of Katsu Sando, which is serving Yoshoku cuisine and Japanese convenience-store fare.

710 W. Las Tunas Dr., San Gabriel, eatkatsusando.com.

“We want people to know Chinese street food is an artisanal craft that everyone from any class can experience,” says Robert, about Bang Bang Noodles.

9355 Culver Blvd., Culver City, bangbangnoodlesla.com.

ARI KOLENDER

Expect Charleston classics like she-crab soup and tomato pudding and recipes from Grandma at Queen St., a raw bar also serving wood-fired seafood.

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arly last summer, the Discovery Channel’s founder and former chairman, John Hendricks, settled in with his wife and daughter for a movie at his local Regal theater in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. They’d come to see Elvis, the grandiose musical biopic, but the most unexpected thrill came at the very beginning: There on the screen was the new Warner Bros. Discovery logo, with the vintage “WB” shield stylized like one of the King’s jeweled belt buckles, right alongside the Discovery name, as the King’s voice unspooled in a spectral remix of “Suspicious Minds.”

“We all looked at each other when that Discovery brand came up. It was like, wow,” Hendricks says of the company name he first jotted down as a young entrepreneur in 1984.

Following the examples of Ted Turner and his Cable News Network (CNN) in Atlanta and Bill Rasmussen in Connecticut with his Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN), Hendricks was so convinced that there was a place on TV for the documentaries and educational films he knew were out there that he initially funded what would become Discovery with cash advances on his credit cards.

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Communications had grown into a massive success as home to the new genre of reality television: Deadliest MythBusters, Catch, MythBusters Dirty Jobs, Jobs Naked and Afraid, the annual Shark Week bloc of man-eating programming. Its lucrative holdings grew to include a variety of other networks, from Animal Planet and TLC to the Oprah Winfrey Network.

But what Hendricks witnessed at the movies that day represented something much larger: Discovery was conquering the media world.

Much of that expansion could be attributed to Hendricks’s handpicked successor as Discovery’s president and CEO. For most of his professional life, David Zaslav, 62, was regarded as a smart, media-savvy executive with many famous friends from television, film, and business, including Steven Spielberg, General Electric’s Jack Welch, and former Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter. The married father of three is a news junkie and, during his two decades at NBCUniversal prior to joining Discovery, helped launch the cable news networks CNBC and MSNBC. At Discovery, Zaslav engineered the company’s purchase of a majority interest in Scripps Networks Interactive for $14.6 billion in 2018, adding HGTV, Travel Channel, and Food Network to the company’s roster. “We grew from five to six billion dollars in revenue to close to ten billion dollars,” says Hendricks.“David spearheaded the bulk of that growth.”

Once installed as Discovery’s CEO, Zaslav began quietly hammering out a merger deal with WarnerMedia’s then-owner, AT&T, a nearly yearlong process that became official last April. It was in fact more of a takeover than a merger, allowing Zaslav to expand Discovery’s media properties to include blue-chip brands like HBO Max, CNN, and the 99-year-old Warner Bros. movie studio. Not so

long ago, Discovery was dismissed by industry insiders as “trash TV”; now, it was swallowing a large swath of Hollywood. “A lot of people just didn’t focus on the global reach of Discovery,” says Hendricks, noting its many billions in licensing and advertising revenue, collected across more than 140 countries. “Most of us who’ve been close to Discovery knew it had that potential. But a lot of people in the marketplace were a bit surprised.”

WHEN THE merger finally closed on April 8, 2022, Discovery landed in Hollywood like an invading force; not even Jason Kilar, then CEO of WarnerMedia, knew about the merger until the news broke.

Discovery had acquired the Warner properties from AT&T for $40.4 billion in cash and assumed nearly the same amount in debt. The merger instantly expanded Discovery’s reach in the accelerating streaming wars and included plans for a new service combining HBO Max and Discovery+ in 2023. By now, Zaslav’s pay package had vaulted to an astonishing $246 million, well above the already lofty $37.7 million he earned in 2020.

Once in control, Zaslav took aim at the crushing debt he’d inherited, and many of the cuts hit hard, with layoffs across the combined companies (much as he’d cut 25 percent of staff when he took over as CEO of Discovery). He announced the closing of the CNN+ streaming channel just weeks into its high-profile, $300 million launch, laying off more than 300 newly hired employees. The beloved Cartoon Network was gutted, and a plethora of existing content was removed from HBO Max, including almost 200 episodes of Sesame Street.

To some observers, this was just the usual turmoil that follows any major media merger—such as Disney’s $71.3 billion takeover of 20th Century Fox in 2019. Only six years earlier, AT&T had purchased Time Warner for $85.4 billion—and that was after America Online merged with the latter in 2000 for a staggering $165 billion.

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“Hollywood never learns from its past, and over and over again, you see people making the same mistakes,” says Stephen Galloway, former executive editor of the Hollywood Reporter and now dean of Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film & Media Arts. “The other thing that happens frequently is one business thinks it can apply its rules to another business. They’re used to regular profit-and-loss businesses, where you can predict revenue to a certain degree. [Hollywood] doesn’t work like that. It’s extremely unpredictable.”

Warner Bros. Discovery may be another case study of why massive media mergers are often so self-destructive. After the deal is done, first on the agenda is always slashing away at some of what made the properties worthwhile, just to service the debt incurred with the purchase. Zaslav has announced his intention to find $3 billion in cuts by the end of 2023 and is already far along, targeting P H O T O I L LU S T R AT I O NS BY N E I L JA M I E S O N

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Zaslav announced his intention to find $3 billion in budget cuts by the end of 2023. It’s not lost on Warner Bros. Discovery’s rank and file that in 2021 he received a $246 million pay package duplication within the combined Warner Bros. and Discovery workforces of about 40,000.

If the initial layoffs had employees on edge, what came next shook Hollywood’s creative community to

Zaslav with 1. Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe, 2. Jon and Kate Goselin, 3. Robert Kennedy Jr. and wife Pamela, 4. Harry Styles, 5. Martha Stewart, 6. Irving Azoff and Robert Kraft, 7. Graydon Carter.

its core: Zaslav decided to cancel the feature film Batgirl, a nearly completed, trouble-free production that had finished a seven-month shoot in Glasgow, Scotland, and was gliding into postproduction for exclusive release on HBO Max. Cast and crew received no warning before the story landed in the New York Post on August 2; codirectors Bilall Fallah and Adil El Arbi were in Morocco for El Arbi’s wedding when they found out. The nearly completed animated feature Scoob! Holiday Haunt was also scuttled.

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ZASLAV USED to be a reliable presence in the news media and on the New York society circuit. He and his wife, Pamela, frequently entertain at their East Hampton retreat, purchased from ad man Jerry Della Femina for $24.6 million, two years after dropping $25 million on Conan O’Brien’s duplex on Central 6 0 L A M AG . C O M

Park West, according to Dirt. But now, in the year of his greatest triumph, Zaslav has gone quiet (he declined to be interviewed for this story). Last year, he participated in a single significant interview, a barely 17-minute chat on CNBC’s Squawk Box. In September, he was spotted on the red carpet with Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde at the New York premiere of Don’t Worry Darling, a comfortably profitable Warner Bros. release despite (or thanks to) some very public behind-the-scenes sniping between the cast and director.

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1. Leslie Grace and 2. Brendan Fraser starred in Batgirl, which Zaslav pulled ahead of its release.

Zaslav earned some needed artistic cred for naming 3. director James Gunn to head DC Films.

As Zaslav arrives in Los Angeles, to take charge of the legacy movie studio now part of his media empire, he’s made requisite symbolic gestures, including personal meetings with retired studio chiefs from Paramount’s Sherry Lansing to Disney’s Robert A. Iger—that is, before Iger reassumed his CEO’s throne following the brutal dismissal of Bob Chapek, his handpicked successor, after a devastating billiondollar quarterly loss spooked the Disney board late last year. There’s also Zaslav’s $16 million purchase of Woodland, the Beverly Hills estate of the late Paramount chief and Chinatown producer Robert Evans.

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Brendan Fraser, who was cast as the villain Firefly, called the decision “disappointing” and told Variety, “So what did we learn from this? Work with trusted filmmakers.” Backstage at the Emmys, Michael Keaton, who would have reprised his Batman role in the film, was diplomatic as he cradled his Best Actor trophy: “I think it was a business decision. I’m going to assume it was a good one.”

Warner Bros. Discovery defended the move as a “strategic shift” away from original features for HBO Max and a reemphasis on theatrical releases. CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels declared the machinations over canceled shows and disappearing content a media-generated controversy “blown out of proportion.” His insistence that the merged companies offered “one of the best platforms for anyone in the creative space” was a lot less convincing when content could be so blatantly discarded for the bottom line.

“The whole thing with the Batgirl movie shocked everyone—it was a huge slap,” says Galloway. “That said, deep down, everybody knows Zaslav would never have done it if he thought there was a way of recouping [the] money.”

Zaslav’s welcome at the various Warner Bros. properties is now tempered with outrage and suspicion.

One insider at the company, who asked not to be identified, expressed genuine sympathy: “I feel like he’s ruined half of his friendships in the last six months. And I hear from other people about the toll that’s taking on him. I can’t help but think that the last great day of his career was the day that deal closed. Every day since has been a shit show.”

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by Jeff Bezos) as a sign of his commitment to the tribe. “These are symbols of where the new court is,” says Galloway. In the case of Zaslav, a native New Yorker, “it said, ‘I’m not just taking over Hollywood. I’m staking my position geographically.’ ” Zaslav’s apparently genuine love for movies can also be read in the company’s new slogan “The stuff that dreams are made of,” uttered by Humphrey Bogart in the 1941 Warner Bros. classic The Maltese Falcon, a more poetic take on what Zaslav frequently says out loud: “Content has always been our North Star.” It is telling that he wants Warner Bros. to reemphasize theatrical releases, and on that he may be ahead of the curve—as competitor Netflix again chose to walk away from potentially tens of millions in box office by giving the highly anticipated Knives Out sequel Glass Onion only a limited theatrical release in November.

Zaslav recognizes movie ticket dollars as real money, in contrast to the AT&T-backed Warner Bros. regime, which alienated major filmmaking talent (auteurs Christopher Nolan and Denis Villeneuve among them) by announcing at the height of the COVID-19 panic a plan to simultaneously debut feature films in theaters and on HBO Max. That included hotly anticipated films like Villeneuve’s Dune and The Matrix Resurrections.

Nolan was quoted lamenting that he went from working for “the greatest movie studio” to feeding content to “the worst streaming service.” (Not for nothing was Zaslav recently spotted at lunch with Nolan and Spielberg.)

That said, Zaslav has no meaningful previous experience running a feature film company. Neither did freshly ousted Disney CEO Chapek, who rose first through the company’s home media and parks divisions before becoming Iger’s chosen heir.

After Chapek spent almost 30 years at Disney, his firing was announced on a Sunday, with none of the usual pretenses allowed for a graceful departure—maybe management skills for running theme parks were not transferable to the studio’s core film and television operations after all.

With the industry facing a possible economic slowdown in 2023, a looming contract expiration with the Writers Guild of America that many have concluded will lead to a strike, the startling example of Netflix’s loss of 200,000 paid subscribers in the first quarter of last year and another 970,000 in the second, Zaslav’s leadership will be tested when he is still preoccupied with ongoing fallout from the merger. Puck Newsletter’s Matthew Belloni quoted a banker who declared that, in such a fraught environment, no newly christened

What came next shook Hollywood’s creative community to its core: Zaslav canceled the nearly completed feature film Batgirl that was gliding into postproduction after a trouble-free shoot. media CEO, especially one with a compensation package as lavish as Zaslav’s, is safe: “Chapek is first, but all these guys will be out.”

Still, if the streaming audience has hit a ceiling, Zaslav has diversity of content to lean on. And next to the likely massive box office for new tentpoles like the sequel Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, the possibility that Batgirl might attract some streaming subscribers was difficult to quantify in numbers recognizable to Wall Street. Zaslav has other ideas for how to fight the streaming wars, and

spending $70 million on features for HBO Max made no sense to his bottom line.

“It’s always possible to cut too much and damage that brand connection” with the audience, says Eric Johnson, faculty director at the UCLA Anderson School of Management’s Center for Entertainment, Media & Sports, and a 20-year veteran of Disneyowned ESPN. But with Warner Bros.

Discovery’s combination of high-end HBO Max content, adventurous nonfiction Discovery+ programming, and all the assets of the former Turner Sports networks, “You’ve really created a moat around the castle,” Johnson points out. “They’re already one of the leading forces” in streaming.

NOTHING IN the media portfolio Zaslav oversees has drawn more scrutiny than his stewardship of CNN. (His daughter Ali is a well-liked producer at the network.) “News is critical,” he insisted in an interview with CNBC, citing his years at NBCUniversal. “I’ve been around news for more than half of my career.”

CNN is also a profound responsibility beyond its usual $1 billion in annual profits. Its place in Zaslav’s larger streaming plans is unknown, but he’s expressed a desire to have CNN accessible on personal devices around the world. “That’s differentiating versus a Netflix or a Disney, and it’s core to who I am,” he told Squawk Box. Observes a knowledgeable CNN staffer: “I think Zaslav’s heart is in the right place, but his wallet may be in a different place. He clearly feels he has to make changes that are troubling.”

The first shock came with Zaslav’s sudden shutdown of CNN+, and the loss of hundreds of jobs. A series of high-profile exits of on-air talent followed: White House correspondent John Harwood; legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin; and media reporter Brian Stelter, host of the network’s longestrunning show, Reliable Sources, now canceled. The public outcry was swift, with calls on social media to #BoycottCNN. It was a bad look for L A M AG . C O M 6 1

Zaslav’s budding regime, as was the influence of billionaire John Malone, a major shareholder in Warner Bros.

Discovery, and a past Trump supporter. In November 2021, Malone told CNBC: “I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing.” In the same interview, Malone praised Fox News.

Zaslav’s instrument of change at CNN is network chairman Chris Licht, who replaced Jeff Zucker, who resigned in 2018 after an internal investigation revealed he had not disclosed a consensual relationship with one of his lieutenants. It’s a big job for the former showrunner for Stephen Colbert’s Late Show on CBS. In his new role, Licht has been guiding multiple waves of layoffs and grappling with why “the most trusted name in news” came in last in the ratings among the three major cable news networks during last fall’s suspensefilled midterm elections. While Licht insists to staff that all decisions are his own, the uncertainty about where CNN is headed is a constant source of anxiety in the newsroom. “The conventional wisdom inside CNN is that Chris Licht is not making the decisions, that Chris Licht is really, really good at managing up,” says a CNN staffer, who asked not to be identified. “His entire focus is about his relationship with Zaslav. With the new regime, the complaint that you hear every day is that you don’t know what they want.”

Aside from Toobin, whose career derailed after he exposed himself during a Zoom meeting in 2020, there was no obvious rationale behind the highest-profile exits—except for their willingness to criticize Trump. Harwood’s was especially puzzling, considering his decades of experience across multiple White House administrations and his years of sharp, fair critiques of both sides of the partisan divide. During his final appearance on September 2 last year, Harwood’s commentary on President Biden’s warnings that “the Republican Party right now is led by a dishonest demagogue” and that 6 2 L A M AG . C O M

democracy itself was under threat carried an extra punch when, later that afternoon, he tweeted that it was his final day at the network. CNN was accused of abruptly silencing a journalist for speaking the truth.

Former CBS newsman Dan Rather tweeted: “What’s going on at CNN? It’s a serious question. There is a lot of speculation on directives and motives.” Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, who knew and disliked Licht from when they were both at the network, replied: “It’s a long story, but the new president is there to cut off the liberal heads.”

[Zaslav] ruined half his friendships in the last sixth months, and I hear about the toll that is taking.

The last great day of his career was the day the deal closed. Every day since has been a shit show.”

The anonymous CNN staffer says Harwood knew for two weeks that would be his final morning on the network; that CNN chose not to clarify the timing publicly strangely suggested that even if the personnel changes at CNN are not necessarily ideological, management doesn’t mind them appearing that way.

The news business in the Trump era is complicated, and CNN is still a long way from attracting MAGA faithful to tune in for Anderson Cooper. (Zaslav has in the past been

comfortable schmoozing at parties with Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.) So far on HBO Max’s front page, CNN remains virtually invisible, with only Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? prominently displayed. Meanwhile, the network announced it was cutting back on CNN’s original series and films for cost reasons, not politics, wounding a division that created such acclaimed (and profitable) content as Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and the 2013 documentary Blackfish. Another round of layoffs in December pushed out CNN political pundit Chris Cillizza and Atlantabased anchor Martin Savidge, who’d been with the network since 1996.

“If the goal is to make CNN this happy, friendly brand that everyone loves so they can be a tile on HBO Max, maybe that’s a great plan,” adds the CNN staffer. “I happen to think it’s impossible.”

WHEN THE news broke last March that Warner Bros. Discovery-owned DC Films would be cochaired by director James Gunn, who brings filmmaking chops to the executive offices and a genuine comfort level with DC characters, hard-core comics fans were relieved. Gunn, best known for the irreverent Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad, will lead the next wave of DC feature films, TV and animation with producer Peter Safran (Aquaman, Shazam!). Following the Batgirl debacle, the appointments were casual evidence that Zaslav was acknowledging the outsized power of fans to drive the fates of the comicsderived tentpoles dominating the U.S. box office. That same constituency was behind the public pressure that led the AT&T regime to allow Zack Snyder to complete his fourhour director’s cut of Warner Bros.’s Justice League for HBO Max. “Our job is to protect the DC brand,” Zaslav said on an earnings call last year.

“And that’s what we’re going to do.”

But that didn’t stop Zaslav from purging dozens of animated series from HBO Max. Creators saw years

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1. CNN’s White House correspondent John Harwood, 2. legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, and 3. media reporter and Reliable Sources host Brian Stetler. All were gone soon after Zaslav took over.

Blew Up, an animated feature from Warner Bros. Animation, starring the company’s iconic Looney Tunes characters, was left homeless after being cut as an HBO Max original.

That and an animated Batman film coproduced by J. J. Abrams are now being shopped instead to outside networks—sending proprietary legacy characters into the world to generate income to pay down the merger’s debt. The Cartoon Network was hit with a tsunami of layoffs, cutting 125 jobs (a crippling 26 percent of its workforce), and the news that it was being merged with Warner Bros. Animation. While the Cartoon Network channel will remain, the merger marked the likely end of its iconic animation studio as a standalone, artist-driven operation with

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EIGHT YEARS after stepping down as chairman of Discovery, Hendricks, 70, now runs Curiosity Stream, his new documentary subscription network, but remains an admirer of Zaslav as his protégé grapples with the demands and debt of a major conglomerate at a time of unprecedented uncertainty. Hendricks derides the chatter about an imminent media apocalypse as “irrational panic.”

Already, Zaslav has faced rumors that he was eyeing a sale of Warner Bros. Discovery, which he flatly denied (Iger vaguely dismissed similar rumors about selling Disney to Apple as “pure speculation”), particularly after Hollywood suffered its worst-ever non-pandemic Thanksgiving weekend at the box office last year. Zaslav is meanwhile consumed with making his gigantic new streaming service—combining sports and high-end drama, reality TV and international news, wild animals and superheroes—a profitable reality. He’s also shown a willingness to play hardball in negotiations as he eyes all that debt, even suggesting, “We don’t have to have the NBA” on his sports networks if the price is too high. If the fortunes of Warner Bros. Discovery don’t turn around fast enough, then none of his lieutenants should get too comfortable.

But if things somehow work out as Zaslav envisions they will, look for more expansion and buying of assets, which has been this executive’s fallback since he landed in Discovery’s ranks all those years ago.

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M O N G I T S other cultural gifts, hip-hop gave the world the dazzling accompaniment of jewelry that matched the music’s unapologetic bigness and boldness, spurning convention for sparkly street art you could wear. Never have diamonds been so ice-cold, so plentiful, crusting over rings and watch faces in a fury of flex. The artists and artisans who both inspired these creations and were inspired by them are the subject of a remarkable retrospective, Ice Cold: A Hip-Hop Jewelry History (Taschen). With cred-lending text by

Slick Rick, A$AP Ferg, LL Cool J, Kevin “Coach K” Lee and Pierre “P” Thomas, the book is an overdue chronicle of hip-hop’s aesthetic relevance beyond its beats and rhymes. As Slick Rick (aka Ricky Walters) points out in the forward: “Every culture celebrates its creative contributions in its own ways. Black culture goes above and beyond. Going big is just how we roll. This is true of our music, our dance, our sense of fashion . . . and our jewelry.”

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Eric Lynn Wright, better known as Eazy-E, put in the work turning West Coast flow into an international cultural phenomenon by founding Ruthless Records and leading N.W.A, which included future stars Ice Cube and Dr. Dre. N.W.A’s 1988 debut album, Straight Outta Compton, was an instant worldwide smash and one of gangsta rap’s defining artifacts. Eazy died at 30, in 1995. His son, Lil Eazy-E, holds a pendant depiction of his father by Benn Baller of IF & Co. L A M AG . C O M 6 5

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New York rapper Roxanne Shante name-checks herself with an eponymous hair plate and gold door-knocker statement earrings.

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In the late 1980s, a young Biz Markie walked into the New York Diamond District shop of Jacob “Jacob the Jeweler” Arabo of Jacob & Co. and requested a signature piece of jewelry that would become the “Biz” ring. Biz was Jacob’s first client from the hiphop world, launching a legendary run of design collaborations between Jacob and a long list of other artists in the genre.

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A pioneer in hip-hop jewelry, Slick Rick created the draped-ingold look that became a classic of the 1980s.

The New York-based Anglo-American MC popularized the large dookie rope chain while also adorning himself with crowns, scepters, and other motifs that became synonymous with hip-hop jewelry.

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Favored by high-profile rappers from Notorious B.I.G. to Pharrell and A$AP Rocky, Japanese fashion legend Nigo’s jewelry collection includes a nameplate belt, diamond ring, and set of three BAPE (A Bathing Ape) heads

by Jacob & Co. Nigo’s love for the 1968 film Planet of the Apes served as the inspiration for the BAPE logo, as well as referencing the Japanese idiom “a bathing ape in lukewarm water.”

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Megan Thee Stallion rocks “Stalli,” a 30-carat baguette diamond nameplate on a 30-karat white and rose gold Gucci Cuban link chain

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Grammy-winning rapper and songwriter Lil Baby’s assortment of jewelry from Icebox Jewelers includes diamond Cuban link chains with a “Baby” nameplate, a Cartier Santos de Cartier skeleton custom iced-out watch, and an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chrono customized iced-out timepiece.

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Fred Dapp The Agency 2048450 424-230-3700 fred.dapp@theagencyre.com

Brendan Fitzpatrick Douglas Elliman 1791703 310-850-5618 brendan.fitzpatrick@ elliman.com

Lindsay Guttman The Agency 1901278 424-230-3700 lugttman@theagencyre. com

Ron de Salvo Compass 576209 310-560-9388 ron.desalvo@compass. com

Josh Flagg Douglas Elliman 1470467 310-595-3888 josh.flagg@elliman.com

Arvin Haddad The Agency 1930604 424-230-3700 arvin.haddad@theagencyre.com

Kyle Dordick Hilton & Hyland 2039649 310-508-0966 kyle@marcnoah.com

Steve Frankel Coldwell Banker Realty 1195571 310-508-5008 homes@stevefrankel. com

Christopher Dyson The Agency 1762388 424-230-3700 cdyson@theagencyre. com

Ziv Gabay Compass 1971047 818-825-8704 ziv.gabay@compass. com

Richard Ehrlich Westside Estate Agency 1267136 310-968-8881 re@weahomes.com

John Galich Sotheby’s International Realty 1232383 310-385-3142 john.galich@sir.com

Michael Eisenberg Keller Williams Beverly Hills 1234030 310-748-5410 mikeeisenberg@sbcglobal.net

Steven Geller Coldwell Banker Realty 1153015 310-922-2141 steven.geller@camoves. com

David Emanuel Compass 1825239 818-621-9141 david@davidsellsla.com

Lilly Ghassemieh Compass 2058346 310-429-5452 lilly.ghassemieh@compass.com

Jill Epstein Nourmand & Associates 472171 310-779-9513 jill@jillepsteinre.com Azy Farahmand The Agency 1958066 424-230-3700 afarahmand@theagencyre.com Bjorn Farrugia Hilton & Hyland 1864250 310-998-7175 bjorn@bjornfarrugia. com Drew Fenton Hilton & Hyland 1317962 310-858-5474 drew@drewfenton.com Michael Fenton Compass 1926913 310-339-9052 michael.fenton@compass.com

Lilly Ghassemieh Compass 2058346 310-429-5452 lillyg@compass.com Ginger Glass Compass 1478465 310-927-9307 ginger@gingerglass. com Marcia Glow Coldwell Banker Realty 1422772 310-404-4807 marcia.glow@camoves. com Gary Gold Coldwell Banker Realty 813554 310-741-0505 gary@soldbygold.net Zach Goldsmith Hilton & Hyland 1454329 310-908-6860 zach@hiltonhyland.com

James Hancock Coldwell Banker Realty 946077 310-770-6351 james@jameshancock. com Ryan Hanke Compass 1989718 323-793-1910 ryan@yourspotla.com Jimmy Heckenberg Rodeo Realty 1910100 310-650-1116 JimmyHeck@HRGestates.com Maria Hellmund The Agency 1920353 424-230-3700 mhellmund@theagencyre.com Richard Hilton Hilton & Hyland 904327 310-278-3311 rick@hiltonhyland.com Barron Hilton Hilton & Hyland 2049154 310-777-1317 barron@hiltonhyland. com Juliette Hohnen Douglas Elliman 1772623 323-422-7147 juliette.hohnen@elliman.com Ron Holliman Coldwell Banker Realty 1161952 310-270-6682 rghbh@yahoo.com

Jerry Jaffe Compass 1326486 310-403-4925 jerry.jaffe@compass. com Amir Jawaherian The Agency 1899893 424-230-3700 amir@theagencyre.com Hofit Kahn Compass 1983538 310-463-8049 hofit.kahn@compass. com Laura Kalb Hilton & Hyland 872948 810-371-9350 Laurakonline@yahoo. com Marci Kays The Agency 1397539 424-230-3700 mkays@theagencyre. com Mark Kitching Douglas Elliman 1742148 310-902-0221 mark.kitching@elliman. com Richard Klug Sotheby’s International Realty 745969 310-991-1333 richard.klug@sir.com Vangelis Korasidis Coldwell Banker Realty 1222626 310-405-9500 ColdwellBankerBeverlyHills@Yahoo.com Alexa Kort Rodeo Realty 2054501 310-892-7563 alexakort@gmail.com Angel Kou The Agency 1751969 424-230-3700 angel.kou@theagencyre.com Leah Lail Coldwell Banker Realty 1400267 310-849-9596 leah.lail@cbrealty.com

Deedee Howard The Agency 1039224 424-230-3700 dhoward@theagencyre. com

Brian Lane Madison Residential Realty 2038343 424-202-9949 blane@madisonresidentialre.com

Justin Paul Huchel Hilton & Hyland 1375793 310-617-4824 justin@hiltonhyland. com

Alphonso Lascano Hilton & Hyland 1723550 818-800-8848 alphonsolascano@ gmail.com L A M AG . C O M 75

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION Eric Lavey Sotheby’s International Realty 1511292 310-908-6800 eric.lavey@sir.com Brett Lawyer Hilton & Hyland 897489 310-858-5402 brett@brettlawyer.com Ben Lee Coldwell Banker Realty 1808926 310-704-6580 ben@benleeproperties. com Jordana Leigh Rodeo Realty 1239166 310-383-1701 jordana769@gmail.com Michael J. Libow Compass 863172 310-691-7889 michael.libow@compass.com Maya Librush Compass 1932610 818-201-5226 maya.librush@compass. com

Yar MESHKATY Meshkaty Coldwell Banker Realty 1060780 310-666-6394 yar.meshkaty@camoves.com Drew Meyers Westside Estate Agency 1865732 310-359-3879 dm@weahomes.com Jade Mills Coldwell Banker Realty 526877 310-285-7508 Homes@Jademills.com Phillip Missig Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1367402 310-844-6434 phil@philmissig.com Zac Mostame The Agency 2110196 424-230-3700 zac.mostame@theagencyre.com Josh Myler The Agency 1443547 424-230-3700 jmyler@theagencyre. com

Dena Luciano Douglas Elliman 1827352 310-600-3848 dena.luciano@elliman. com

Jonathan Nash Hilton & Hyland 1943888 1-424-230-6088 jonathan@resnickandnash.com

Chad Lund Douglas Elliman 998185 310-801-2641 chad.lund@elliman.com

Marc Noah Hilton & Hyland 1269495 310-968-9212 marc@marcnoah.com

Peter Mac The Agency 1963649 424-230-3700 pmac@theagencyre. com

Myra Nourmand Nourmand & Associates 983509 310-888-3333 myranourmand@nourmand.com

Justin Mandile Sotheby’s International Realty 1507705 310-860-4509 j.mandile@sir.com Chris Mara Hilton & Hyland 886282 310-858-5466 chrismara@hiltonhyland.com Casey Markovic Compass 1955343 310-488-9627 casey.markovic@compass.com Linda May Hilton & Hyland 475038 310-435-5932 linda@lindamay.com

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Michael Nourmand Nourmand & Associates 1281017 310-666-3294 mnourmand@nourmand.com Lisa Optican Hilton & Hyland 1960751 310-351-6646 lisa@hiltonhyland.com Tom O’Rourke Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 931753 310-770-0221 tomorourke@bhhscal. com Bachir Oueida Douglas Elliman 936311 310-722-7727 bachir.oueida@elliman. com

Zizi Pak Rodeo Realty 694610 310-226-5032 zizi@rodeore.com Mick Partridge Hilton & Hyland 2015130 310-990-6425 Mick@hiltonhyland.com Spencer Payson Compass 1864609 310-486-8039 spencer.payson@compass.com Bryce Pennel Compass 2009053 310-367-1680 bp@compass.com Adi Perez The Agency 1963659 424-230-3700 adi@theagencyre.com Roger Perry Rodeo Realty 1882885 310-600-1553 rperry@rogerperry.com Samuel Plouchart Sotheby’s International Realty 1921196 310-752-3133 sam@samplouchart. com Lea Porter Coldwell Banker Realty 932907 310-701-9212 lea.porter@cbrealty. com Mica Rabineau Nourmand & Associates 1489710 323-816-5868 mica@micarabineau. com Kurt Rappaport Westside Estate Agency 1036061 310-995-3214 kr@weahomes.com Stephen Resnick Hilton & Hyland 1241282 310-210-5048 stephen@sresnick.com David Rindenow Compass 1945264 818-915-3467 David@DavidRindenow. com Victoria Risko Sotheby’s International Realty 1033692 310-882-0246 victoria.risko@sir.com Chad Rogers Hilton & Hyland 1204144 310-278-3311 chad@chadrogers.tv

Billy Rose The Agency 1302611 424-230-3700 brose@theagencyre. com

Daniel Stevenson The Agency 1981172 424-230-3700 dstevenson@theagencyre.com

Denise Rosner Compass 1902808 310-508-9482 denise@deniserosner. com

Kevin Stewart The Agency 2050755 424-230-3700 kevin.stewart@theagencyre.com

Lloyd Ross Douglas Elliman 2046500 310-499-8730 lloyd.ross@elliman.com

Beth Styne Coldwell Banker Realty 815705 310-367-3388 bethstyne@gmail.com

Jonathan Ruiz The Agency 1886713 424-230-3700 jr@theagencyre.com

Jon Swire The Agency 1336277 424-230-3700 jswire@theagencyre. com

Paul Salazar Hilton & Hyland 1763227 310-387-1976 paul@paulsalazargroup. com Loree Scarborough Compass 1257913 562-225-0511 loree.scarborough@ compass.com Scott Segall Douglas Elliman 1179028 310-480-4823 scott.segall@elliman. com

Feroz Taj The Agency 2004840 424-230-3700 feroz@theagencyre. com Stuart Vetterick Hilton & Hyland 1984753 310-702-9808 Stuart@hiltonhyland. com Alexander Vichinsky The Agency 2044570 424-230-3700 alex.v@theagencyre. com

Safir Shamsi Rodeo Realty 1891229 310-400-2046 safir@shmasiproperties. com

Cory Weiss Douglas Elliman 1309146 310-922-1124 cory.weiss@elliman.com

Stephen Shapiro Westside Estate Agency 1257836 310-991-6115 ss@weahomes.com

Gayle Weiss Nourmand & Associates 1050268 310-880-7948 gaylemweiss@gmail. com

Eric Smilay Nourmand & Associates 1710731 310-600-9172 eric@smilayproperties. com

Craig White Sotheby’s International Realty 1884948 310-415-8666 craig.white@sir.com

Susan Smith Hilton & Hyland 1187140 310-492-0733 susan@susansmithrealty.com

Jonah Wilson Hilton & Hyland 1078809 310-858-5465 jonah@jonahwilson. com

Mark Smith Coldwell Banker Realty 1849414 323-369-5969 Mark.Smith@camoves. com

Jen Winston Compass 1522987 310-944-1167 jen.winston@compass. com

Terre Steinbeck Rodeo Realty 1188344 310-666-4094 terre.steinbeck@gmail. com

Ron Wolotzky Rodeo Realty 1771815 323-646-1206 rwolotzky@rodeore. com

Kris Zacuto Compass 1972897 310-702-6299 kris@kriszacuto.com Melissa Zee Keller Williams Beverly Hills 1451028 310-309-0099 Melissa@MelissaZeeGroup.com Dittany Zhang-Seltzer Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1960099 310-867-0171 dee@real-dee.com Brentwood Melissa Alt Douglas Elliman 1019836 310-880-5923 melissa.alt@elliman. com Anne Burkin Douglas Elliman 1802520 310-699-5062 anne.burkin@elliman. com Gary Glass Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 933169 310-820-9343 gary@garyglassestates. com Elisabeth Halsted Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1434953 310-463-1601 eh@elisabethhalsted. com David Offer Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1150357 310-466-5648 doffer@davidoffer.com Lauren Ravitz Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1352397 310-600-4581 lauren@laurenravitz. com Ryan Sokolowski Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1859461 310-344-0898 RyanSokolowski@ bhhscal.com Loni Wiener Rodeo Realty 1901453 818-970-3526 loniwiener@gmail.com

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION Stacy Blair Young Douglas Elliman 1190242 310-367-7654 stacy.young@elliman. com

Doug Puetz Keller Williams Calabasas 995378 805-795-4455 dougpuetz@me.com

Dana Coronado Equity Union 1746702 310-562-9630 dana@incomepropertiesLA.com

Calabasas Heidi Adams Coldwell Banker Realty 997097 818-461-2278 heidi91302@gmail.com

Ray Rodriguez Keller Williams Calabasas 1402283 818-581-5829 ray@lucrumre.com

Shira Dunn Equity Union 2100807 424-653-0560 shirajerby@gmail.com

Ray Akbari The Agency 1447600 818-379-7700 ray.a@theagencyre.com

David Salmanson Rodeo Realty 2024450 818-421-2170 DS4Homes@gmail.com

Guy Azar The Agency 1882376 818-379-7700 guy.azar@theagencyre. com Jennifer Camp Coldwell Banker Realty 1021828 818-633-9501 jennifer.camp@camoves.com Bryan Castaneda The Agency 1309833 818-379-7700 bryan.castaneda@ theagencyre.com David Friedman Rodeo Realty 867551 818-915-3982 davidfriedman818@ yahoo.com Yana Galuz Keller Williams Calabasas 1454066 310-595-5522 yana@galuzgroup.com Emil Hartoonian The Agency 1796925 818-379-7700 ehartoonian@thegencyre.com Michael Koshet Keller Williams Calabasas 1504747 818-915-3829 mk@laoffmarket.com Andrew Mortaza The Agency 1470043 818-379-7700 andrew.mortaza@ theagencyre.com Oren Ovadia Rodeo Realty 1893470 818-723-2706 ovadia@att.net Milla Pariser Rodeo Realty 2006267 818-271-1233 milla@millapariserrealestate.com

David Shemesh Keller Williams Calabasas 1836977 818-665-6688 iknowyourhomevalue@ gmail.com Lisa Sorrentino Sotheby’s International Realty 974656 818-355-4751 lisa.sorrentino@sothebys.realty Lisa Weber Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1426568 818-378-9708 lisaweberhomes@ outlook.com Camellia Yeroomian The Agency 2090567 818-379-7700 camellia.yeroomian@ theagencyre.com Desiree Zuckerman Rodeo Realty 1292971 818-262-5648 desiree@dzhomes.com Claremont Geoff Hamill Wheeler Steffen Sotheby’s International Realty 997900 909-621-0500 Geoff@GeoffHamill. com El Segundo Bill Ruane RE/MAX Properties 972400 310-877-2374 BRuane@EPLAHomes. com Encino Arthur Aslanian Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1291836 818-335-1239 realestateart@yahoo. com

Scott Gorelick Concrete Real Estate 1876674 818-654-4663 scott@concreterealestateco.com Cindy Hill Slater Equity Union 885625 818-640-4360 cindyhill@valleyapartmentsales.com Ellen Katzman Equity Union 1258867 818-692-6203 ellenkatzman@sbcglobal.net Adi Livyatan Rodeo Realty 1892750 818-919-4060 Ada.Livyatan@rodeore. com Scott Nell Equity Union 1358285 818-522-2862 scott@thenellteam.com Zeev Perez Equity Union 1932490 818-445-6909 perezeev@gmail.com Stephanie Vitacco Equity Union 985615 818-576-1685 stephanie@teamvitacco.com Stephanie Vitacco Equity Union 985615 818-576-1685 stephanie@teamvitacco.com Carol Wolfe Rodeo Realty 477745 818-285-3688 Carol@CarolWolfe.com Glendale Dave Robles eXp Realty 1134528 213-712-4343 dave@thinkrealestategroup.com Hermosa Beach Rob McGarry Vista Sotheby’s International Realty 1356525 310-463-8488 rob.mcgarry@vistasir. com

Dunham Stewart Vista Sotheby’s International Realty 1006738 310-200-5283 dunham.stewart@ vistasir.com Hollywood Geoff Clark Compass 1487063 323-459-3845 geoff.clark@compass. com La Cañada Flintridge Kari Carson Compass 1903828 818-424-5537 kari@karicarson.com Kathy Seuylemez Coldwell Banker Realty 947297 818-378-7928 kathy.seuylemezian@ camoves.com La Verne Nick Abbadessa RE/MAX Masters 1398872 909-292-7888 Nick@SoldByNick.com Jenny Xu RE/MAX Masters 1258213 626-674-7368 jenny@jennyxuhome. com

Robert Iles Redfin Corporation 2031379 310-497-1580 robert.iles@redfin.com

Paul Vieyra Redfin Corporation 1802026 323-346-7600 Paul.vieyra@redfin.com

Sylva Khayalian Redfin Corporation 1323217 626-390-2545 sylva.khayalian@redfin. com

Rick Wilkinson Redfin Corporation 1427456 310-663-9064 rick.wilkinson@redfin. com

Venus Martinez Redfin Corporation 1206834 562-201-3772 venus.martinez@redfin. com

Michelle Zabukovec Redfin Corporation 1851945 206-595-6681 Michelle.zabukovec@ redfin.com

Aaron McCarty Redfin Corporation 1956114 510-673-8924 aaron.mccarty@redfin. com Keith Muirhead Compass 1228376 562-682-1558 keith.muirhead@compass.com Jaclyn Naidoo Redfin Corporation 1974475 310-968-0419 jaclyn.naidoo@redfin. com

Los Angeles Santiago Arana The Agency 1492489 424-400-5900 santiago@theagencyre. com Robert Baer Coldwell Banker Realty 1334830 323-377-5661 Robert.Baer@camoves. com Lotoya Bailey Nourmand & Associates 1963044 323-599-0089 amannle@nourmand. com

Long Beach

Sam Najarian Redfin Corporation 1988623 626-808-5101 sam.najarian@redfin. com

Todd Baker Coldwell Banker Realty 1446166 310-801-1475 toddbaker@coldwellbanker.com

M. Michelle Berg Redfin Corporation 1993627 310-487-6345 michelle.berg@redfin. com

Ronald Perez Redfin Corporation 1325218 818-749-2979 Ronald.Perez@Redfin.

Com

Amy Black Redfin Corporation 1454740 323-854-7457 Amy.Black@Redfin.com

Simon Beardmore Sotheby’s International Realty 1321605 310-892-6454 simon.beardmore@ sir.com

Simone Poingsett Redfin Corporation 1894240 424-625-4008 simone.poingsett@ redfin.com

Gregory Eubanks Redfin Corporation 1949808 310-663-7896 gregory.eubanks@ redfin.com Renata Fallon Redfin Corporation 1752799 562-331-1023 renara.fallon@redfin. com Costanza GenoeseZerbi Redfin Corporation 1941438 562-221-4527 c.genoese-zerbi@ redfin.com Dana Hughes Redfin Corporation 1940909 562-544-0582 dana.hughes@redfin. com

Thomas Royds Redfin Corporation 949407 310-738-1125 thomas.royds@redfin. com

Loren Bennett Redfin Corporation 1744020 818 674-0176 Loren.bennett@redfin. com Michelle Bolotin Compass 1397141 310-463-7278 michelle.bolotin@ compass.com

Janice Sadler Redfin Corporation 1359319 562-397-4685 janice.sadler@redfin. com

Laura Brau Compass 1931500 310-650-4156 laura.brau@compass. com

Melissa Urena Melissa Urena & Associates 1900591 562-287-4944 melissa@jhhre.com

Stephanie Brocato Redfin Corporation 2012858 818-395-2465 Stephanie.brocato@ redfin.com

Brigid Van Randall Redfin Corporation 1139489 408-221-3175 Brigid.VanRandall@ Redfin.com

Austin Brunkhorst The Agency 1823513 424-400-5900 austin.brunkhorst@ theagencyre.com

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION John Burdick Redfin Corporation 1983093 805-340-0486 john.burdick@redfin. com

Tara Fidanian Redfin Corporation 1966031 818-536-3456 tara.fidanian@redfin. com

Chris Hicks The Agency 1315836 424-400-5900 chris.hicks@theagencyre.com

Gina Butz Redfin Corporation 1898280 626-244-4106 gina.butz@redfin.com

Gavin Fleminger Nourmand & Associates 1240692 310-850-8053 gavinfleminger@nourmand.com

Charlene Hoang Redfin Corporation 1975534 408-209-3753 charlene.hoang@redfin. com

Seta Chorbajian Redfin Corporation 1419425 626-656-3255 Seta.Chorbajian@ Redfin.com

Jennifer Gainey Compass 1361195 323-559-6742 jennifer.gainey@compass.com

Todd Cloutier Compass 1382854 310-926-2201 todd.cloutier@compass.com

Evelyn Georgieva Redfin Corporation 1955913 562-310-0495 evelyn.georgieva@ redfin.com

Rachel Hsieh Keller Williams Los Feliz 1913428 310-228-8856 jerryandrachelteam@ gmail.com

Kobi Costa Compass 1500254 818-921-5111 kobi.costa@compass. com

Robert Giambalvo Redfin Corporation 1955817 626-676-6200 robert.giambalvo@ redfin.com

Jaime Cuevas The Agency 1265409 424-400-5900 jamie@theagencyre. com

Alin Glogovicean Redfin Corporation 1327641 818-395-7772 alin.glogovicean@ redfin.com

Roddy de la Garza Redfin Corporation 0 323-364-8788 roddy.delagarza@ redfin.com Katharine Deering Nourmand & Associates 1934262 310-382-4908 kdeering@thekostreycollection.com

Daria Greenbaum Compass 2007115 917-940-9043 daria.greenbaum@ compass.com Lori Grzybowski Redfin Corporation 1985498 805-302-7307 lori.grzybowski@redfin. com

Jesse Del Rio Redfin Corporation 1252958 818-613-1243 jesse.delrio@redfin.com

Nadine Guyaux Redfin Corporation 1932889 310-925-4180 nadine.guyaux@redfin. com

Andrea Dunlop Sotheby’s International Realty 1396262 310-560-4180 andrea.dunlop@sir.com

Michele Hall Coldwell Banker Realty 517739 310-850-1357 mhall@michelehallrealestate.com

Jennifer Eckert Nourmand & Associates 1512045 323-543-3697 jeneckert1@gmail.com

Brock Harris Keller Williams Los Feliz 1328996 213-842-7625 brock@brockandlori. com

Jeremiah Eden Sotheby’s International Realty 1992220 310-980-0261 jeremiah.eden@sir.com Hugh Evans III Compass 997121 310-500-1331 Hugh@HughEvans3. com 78 L A M AG . C O M

Joseph Harris Redfin Corporation 1252870 818-294-2205 joseph.harris@redfin. com Kirk Hawkins NILE Technology, Inc. 1996101 818-873-6983 kirk@getkirk.com

Matt Kanner Keller Williams Los Feliz 1349203 323-300-1772 mkanner@thekannergroup.com Lindsay Katz Redfin Corporation 1921555 818-521-9931 lindsay.katz@redfin. com Brad Keyes Keyes Real Estate 1857106 310-367-3372 brad@keyesla.com Lisa Kirshner Compass 1159728 310-770-8066 lisa.kirshner@compass. com Veronica Klein Compass 1218557 310-704-3554 veronica.klein@compass.com John Kostrey Nourmand & Associates 1729039 323-785-7545 john@thekostreycollection.com Trevor Levin Nourmand & Associates 1897050 310-866-8738 tlevin@nourmand.com Judy Lin Young RubyHome 1914120 626-215-4466 judy@rubyhome.com Grant Linscott Keller Williams Los Feliz 1715002 323-333-6222 offers@grantlinscott. com Rick Llanos Coldwell Banker Realty 1123101 323-810-0828 rick.llanos@camoves. com

Jason Lorge Keller Williams Los Feliz 1703599 714-686-5807 jason@teamlorgerealestate.com Heidi Ludwig Redfin Corporation 1400091 310-920-2129 Heidi.Ludwig@Redfin. com Lisa Mansfield Sotheby’s International Realty 1105508 310-993-2303 lisa.mansfield@sir.com Melissa Menard Compass 1858710 310-729-9726 melissa.menard@compass.com Brett Miller Nourmand & Associates 1333139 310-435-3998 bmiller@nourmand.com Mark Mintz Compass 1859203 310-991-3808 mintz@compass.com Jonathan Mogharrabi Compass 2009871 310-633-1300 j.mogharrabi@compass. com Julie Mollo Compass 1818207 323-459-2789 julie.mollo@compass. com George Moreno Keller Williams Los Feliz 560275 323-394-8168 george@georgeandeileen.com

Victor Nissani Redfin Corporation 1412328 310-710-8780 victor.nissani@redfin. com

Jeffrey T. Sandorf Compass 1396545 310-625-4099 jeffrey.sandorf@compass.com

Matthew O’Keefe Compass 1356816 310-429-4552 matthew.okeefe@ compass.com

Vahan Saroians Keller Williams Los Feliz 1085051 323-497-6655 saroians@aol.com

Blaine Ostrander Redfin Corporation 1178207 805-358-3469 blaine.ostrander@ redfin.com

Brian Schames Compass 2012778 323-633-7524 bschames@compass. com

Arto Poladian Redfin Corporation 1779642 818-383-2792 arto@redfin.com

Angela Scurry-Herrera Redfin Corporation 1462327 661-373-8026 angela.scurryherrera@ redfin.com

Jessica Ranuschio Redfin Corporation 1348375 661-607-3178 jessica.ranuschio@ redfin.com Rick Raymundo Marcus & Millichap 1357019 213-943-1855 rick.raymundo@marcusmillichap.com Ian Rhodes Keller Williams Los Feliz 1844869 323-821-4069 rhodesleadhome@ gmail.com Griffin Riddle The Agency 1949069 424-400-5900 griffin.riddle@theagencyre.com

Brian Selem The Agency 1056044 424-400-5900 brian.selem@theagencyre.com Shamon Shamonki Sotheby’s International Realty 1455034 310-713-4492 shamon.shamonki@ sir.com Jamie Blake Sher The Sher Group 1362370 323-304-2455 jamie@sherhomes.com Marianna Smith Redfin Corporation 2115194 424-390-9618 marianna.smith@redfin. com

Josh Ritnimit Redfin Corporation 1873160 626-375-7966 josh.ritnimit@redfin. com

Josh Stein-Sapir Keyes Real Estate 1979910 424-401-6165 josh@keyesla.com

Steven Moritz Sotheby’s International Realty 928961 310-871-3636 steven.moritz@sir.com

Tim Root Redfin Corporation 2106211 310-435-2067 tim.root@redfin.com

Tara Switzer Coldwell Banker Realty 1422161 310-463-5527 taraswitzer@gmail.com

Dana Murphy Redfin Corporation 1348375 805-750-2735 dana.murphy@redfin. com

Patricia Ruben Sotheby’s International Realty 1262286 323-333-3801 Patricia.Ruben@sir.com

Samira Tapia Compass 2008942 818-642-9622 samira.tapia@compass. com

Marisol Navar Redfin Corporation 1235054 562-688-2856 marisol.navar@redfin. com

Melissa Ryan Coldwell Banker Realty 1160269 310-993-8319 MelissaRyanRealEstate@aol.com

Mary Lu Tuthill Coldwell Banker Realty 556630 310-339-3327 marylu@marylututhill. com

Karl Niehaus KW Advisors 1450751 310-880-7900 KarlNiehaus@CREI.biz

Deirdre Salomone Maisonre 1325829 323-788-1674 deirdre@L34group.com

Karen Ulloa Redfin Corporation 1395066 951-206-7842 karen.ulloa@redfin.com

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION Konstantine Valissarakos Nourmand & Associates 1023114 323-252-9451 konstantine@nourmand.com Victoria Velazquez The Agency 2038302 310-614-4240 victoriav@theagencyre. com Justin Vold Redfin Corporation 1818571 408-221-3175 justin.vold@redfin.com Michael Waxman Redfin Corporation 1063090 661-373-5282 michael.waxman@ redfin.com Keri White The Agency 1491049 424-400-5900 kwhite@theagencyre. com Ari Wintraub Sotheby’s International Realty 1943483 310-428-5045 ari.wintraub@sir.com Jackie Wolf Redfin Corporation 1413548 661-755-7148 jackie.wolf@redfin.com Mary Beth Woods Coldwell Banker Realty 470539 310-463-1599 mwoods@marybethwoods.com Vanessa Yan Soulful Abode 1418060 310-259-4381 vanessa@soulfulabode. com Richard Yohon Sotheby’s International Realty 1276405 323-270-1725 Rick.Yohon@sir.com Hooman Zahedi Redfin Corporation 1849803 818-429-2940 hooman.zahedi@redfin. com Los Olivos Carole Colone Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1223216 805-708-2580 sisicc@aol.com Laura Drammer Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1209580 805-448-7500 laura@lauradrammer. com

Claire Hanssen Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 887277 805-680-0929 clairehanssen@yahoo. com Patricia Murphy Sotheby’s International Realty 766586 805-680-8571 Patty.Murphy@sir.com Malibu Marcus Beck Sotheby’s International Realty 971376 310-456-9405 marcus.beck@sir.com Katie Bentzen Coldwell Banker Realty 1091411 310-804-8423 katie.bentzen@cbrealty. com Gail Copley Coldwell Banker Realty 943961 310-210-9336 gailcopleymalibu@ gmail.com Alessandro Corona Douglas Elliman 1971190 805-630-2293 alessandro.corona@ elliman.com Chris Cortazzo Compass 1190363 310-457-3995 chris.cortazzo@compass.com

Kathy Ellis Coldwell Banker Realty 1320487 310-804-4526 kathy.ellis@camoves. com

Shen Schulz Sotheby’s International Realty 1327630 310-980-8809 shen@shenrealty.com

Ellen Francisco Coldwell Banker Realty 709314 310-589-2464 ellen@malibuonline. com

Ren Smith Coldwell Banker Realty 1329241 310-567-5704 ren.smith@cbrealty.com

Will Joseph Joseph Group 1934991 310-415-4655 will@josephgrp.com

Joshua Spiegel Sotheby’s International Realty 1861803 310-922-4924 Josh.Spiegel@sir.com

Audrey Judson Strand Hill 872303 310-902-3234 homes@audreyjudson. com

Jack Turturici Jr. Douglas Elliman 1265515 310-291-1517 jack.turturicijr@elliman. com

David Keller RE/MAX Properties 851437 310-707-8706 DKeller@EPLAHomes. com

Brian Goldberg Pinnacle Estate Properties, Inc. 1900604 310-403-4623 brian@luxurymalibuproperty.com Lily Harfouche Compass 1737283 310-266-7291 lh@compass.com

Christine Anderson Strand Hill 2025722 310-750-5614 christine@strandhill. com

Barry Kinyon Sotheby’s International Realty 1097786 310-251-9254 barry.kinyon@sir.com

Tony Barberi Vista Sotheby’s International Realty 1351812 310-529-2344 Tony.Barberi@vistasir. com

Lee LaPlante Coldwell Banker Realty 1225083 310-383-3341 lee@leelaplante.com Susan Monus Coldwell Banker Realty 827409 310-663-1554 susan@susanmouns. com

Michael Cunningham Pinnacle Estate Properties, Inc. 1291455 310-985-9340 mike@themalibuagent. com

Bill Moss Coldwell Banker Realty 860010 310-293-5503 william.moss@camoves. com

Sandro Dazzan The Agency 1418033 424-305-5000 sandro@theagencyre. com

Daniel Moss Coldwell Banker Realty 1929872 310-600-6692 DanielMossMalibu@ gmail.com

Irene Dazzan-Palmer The Agency 597226 424-305-5000 irene.dazzan@theagencyre.com Karsten Demers Coldwell Banker Realty 1962663 310-403-0306 Karsten.Demers@ camoves.com Robert Edie Compass 1821992 310-717-1795 robert@pchestates.com

Manhattan Beach

Eric Haskell The Agency 1866805 424-305-5000 eric.haskell@theagencyre.com

Cooper Mount The Agency 1956287 424-305-5000 cooper.mount@theagencyre.com

Jennifer Caras Vista Sotheby’s International Realty 1466213 310-367-9129 jennifer.caras@vistasir. com Jerry Carew 3 Leaf Realty 1374136 310-714-1416 jerry@3leafrealty.com Kevin DaSilva Douglas Elliman 1946257 310-528-7708 kevin.dasilva@elliman. com Becky Davidson RE/MAX Properties 1894087 310-920-9287 RDavidson@ EPLAHomes.com Shawn Dugan Strand Hill 1749343 310-265-3428 manonthestrand@ gmail.com

Melissa* Oliver Coldwell Banker Realty 894644 310-403-4455 melissa.oliver@camoves.com

Chad Fahlbusch Strand Hill 1346526 310-600-3555 chad@southbaychad. com

Luis Robledo Douglas Elliman 1890062 805-551-9784 luis.robledo@elliman. com

Charles Fisher RE/MAX Properties 1731424 310-902-7214 CharlesFisher@ EPLAHomes.com

Alexandra Gauss Strand Hill 1426014 310-418-0869 alexgauss1@gmail.com

Lee LeGrande Palm Realty Boutique 1316971 310-930-8737 lee@leelegrande.com Lisa Levin Strand Hill 1345434 310-463-9118 lisa@lisalevin.com Lily Liang Strand Hill 837794 310-902-7799 lily@lilyliang.com Jack Mangin Palm Realty Boutique 1987418 310-866-8871 jack@jackmangin.com Andy McGuire Palm Realty Boutique 1891008 310-971-5949 andy@teammcguirerealestate.com Steven Mullins Vista Sotheby’s International Realty 1487977 310-546-7611 steven@stevenmullins. com Kristen Novoa Vista Sotheby’s International Realty 1291929 310-650-1078 kristen@southbayopenhouse.com Michael Pennings RE/MAX Properties 990231 310-266-9600 MPennings@ EPLAHomes.com Darren Pujalet RE/MAX Properties 1845166 310-613-1690 DPujalet@EPLAHomes. com

Jane Sager RE/MAX Properties 1001004 310-748-0677 JSager@EPLAHomes. com

Cindy Shearin

Strand Hill Forbes Global Properties DRE# 00925580 1311 Morningside Dr., Manhattan Beach 310.200.8318 Cindy@ TheShearinGroup.com CindyShearin.com Jim Van Zanten Vista Sotheby’s International Realty 544011 310-466-1004 vzgleads@vistasir.com Andrew Weir Stroyke Properties Group 1988668 310-850-9694 andy@stroykeproperties.com Sally Whitty Palm Realty Boutique 1981074 310-387-2787 sally@sallywhittyrealestate.com Brett Zebrowski Palm Realty Boutique 1313739 310-678-7158 Brett@PalmRealtyBoutique.com Marina Del Rey Robin Dahlstrom RE/MAX Properties 1131013 310-890-7622 RDahlstrom@EPLAHomes.com Jennifer Portnoy Compass 1215535 310-420-7861 jennifer.portnoy@ compass.com Shannon Shue KW Advisors 1975849 310-853-0335 shannonshue@kw.com Monrovia Donna Baker Douglas Elliman 1308772 626-487-0820 donna.baker@elliman. com

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION Oliver Wei HomeSmart Evergreen Realty 1980763 213-400-7158 oliverwei617@gmail. com Montecito Lori Bowles Coldwell Banker Realty 1961570 805-452-3884 Lori.Bowles@camoves. com Cristal Clarke Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 968247 805-886-9378 cristal@montecito-estate.com Dan Encell Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 976141 805-565-4896 danencell@aol.com Josiah Hamilton Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1415235 805-284-8835 josiah@thehamiltonco. com Dan Johnson Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 609860 805-895-5150 DanJohnson@bhhscal. com Omid Khaki Coldwell Banker Realty 1472496 805-698-1616 omid.khaki@camoves. com Nancy Kogevinas Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1209514 805-450-6233 nancy@kogevinas.com Harry Kolb Sotheby’s International Realty 714226 805-452-2500 harry.kolb@sir.com Sherry Lawson Coldwell Banker Realty 1019856 805-252-4400 sherrysbrealestate@ gmail.com Vivienne Leebosh Sotheby’s International Realty 1229350 805-689-5613 Vivienne.Leebosh@ sir.com

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Sandra Lipowski Sotheby’s International Realty 1355215 805-403-3844 Sandy.Lipowski@Sothebys.Realty Maureen McDermut Sotheby’s International Realty 1175027 805-570-5545 maureen.mcdermut@ sir.com Teresa McWilliams Coldwell Banker Realty 285016 805-895-7038 tereska1@aol.com

Dana Zertuche Coldwell Banker Realty 1465425 805-403-4755 dana.zertuche@camoves.com

Michelle Liberman Compass 1922406 917-692-4977 michelle.liberman@ compass.com

Newhall

Ellen McCormick Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 872518 310-230-3707 ellen@ellenmccormick. com

Tricia Fossa RE/MAX Gateway 1441052 661-702-4900 Northridge Carol Otero Rodeo Realty 864640 818-606-2694 carol@carolotero.com

Crysta Metzger Coldwell Banker Realty 1340521 805-453-8700 crysmetz@me.com

David Rothblum RE/MAX One 1332525 818-400-0803 DR@MaxOneProperties.com

Phyllis Noble Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1448730 805-451-2126 phyllis.noble@bhhscal. com

Sana Saleh Rodeo Realty 1975947 818-324-8062 sanasaleh@rodeore. com

Chris Palme Coldwell Banker Realty 989478 805-448-3066 chris@sbrivierahomes. com Patrice Serrani Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1764713 805-637-5112 patrice@patriceserrani. com Jason Siemens Sotheby’s International Realty 1886104 805-455-1165 Jason.Siemens@sir.com Randy Solakian Coldwell Banker Realty 622258 805-886-6000 Randy@Montecitoestates.com Sandy Stahl Sotheby’s International Realty 1040095 805-689-1602 sandy.stahl@sir.com Scott Williams Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 628741 805-451-9300 scott@scottwilliams. com Kathleen Winter Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1022891 805-451-4663 Kathy@KathyWinter. com

Sharon Stonefield Rodeo Realty 1519125 818-621-2897 Sharonsellssfv@gmail. com Pacific Palisades Barbara Adler Coldwell Banker Realty 1973248 201-562-9727 BarbaraSellsCali@ gmail.com Heather Bell The Agency 1897826 424-325-5000 heather.bell@theagencyre.com Laurie Hudson Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 604603 310-890-2160 lauriehudson@bhhscal. com Eric Knight Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 977963 310-994-9410 ericknight@bhhscal. com

Devin McNichol Rodeo Realty 2038322 424-835-1470 info@devinandaaron. com Isabelle Mizrahi Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1209059 310-850-1136 isabelle@inthecanyon. com Alexandra Pfeifer Sotheby’s International Realty 310-650-3540 alexandra.pfeifer@sir. com Lauren Polan Coldwell Banker Realty 900834 310-926-0029 LaurenWP@aol.com James Respondek Rodeo Realty 713972 310-488-4400 james@jamesrespondek.com Paula Ross Jones Sotheby’s International Realty 1157578 310-880-9750 Paula.RossJones@sir. com Marco Rufo The Agency 1362095 424-325-5000 marco@theagencyre. com Robert Sandefer The Agency 1996491 424-325-5000 robert.sandefer@ theagencyre.com

Sue Kohl Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 560679 310-720-3400 suekohl@gmail.com

Emil Schneeman Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1200793 310-922-3292 emil@bhhscal.com

Graham Larson Sotheby’s International Realty 1905737 310-303-9397 graham.larson@sir.com

Natasha Sizlo The Agency 1982402 424-325-5000 natasha.sizlo@theagencyre.com

Dan Urbach Compass 1147391 310-367-9865 Dan@DanUrbach.com Trevor Zien The Agency 1980857 424-325-5000 trevor.zien@theagencyre.com Palos Verdes Estates

Carol Chua Coldwell Banker Realty 908699 626-844-2222 cchua@coldwellbanker. com Alisa Cunningham Douglas Elliman 1719178 818-472-2801 alisa.cunningham@ elliman.com

Chris Adlam Vista Sotheby’s International Realty 967574 310-493-7216 chris@chrisadlam.com

Darrell Done Coldwell Banker Realty 1233781 626-354-3551 darrell@darrelldone. com

Jason Buck RE/MAX Properties 1246340 310-383-2578 JasonBuck@REMAXPV. com

Michele Downing Compass 1046965 626-523-6939 michele.downing@ compass.com

Tuba Ghannadi RE/MAX Properties 922882 310-686-4688 Tuba@REMAXPV.com

Lucy Mao Compass 1779052 626-831-2201 lucy.mao@compass. com

Lynn Kim Vista Sotheby’s International Realty 1476216 310-741-2642 lynn.kim@lynnkimrealestate.com Igor Nastaskin RE/MAX Properties 1317822 310-892-6016 INastaskin@ EPLAHomes.com

Matt McIntyre Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1844466 626-437-3643 mpmcintyre@bhhscal. com

Pasadena

Vera Nelson Hythe Realty 1333471 626-298-3025 vera@hytherealty.com

Michael Bell Sotheby’s International Realty 1164731 626-354-8505 michael.bell@sir.com

Chris Reisbeck The Agency 1475481 626-803-2000 chris.reisbeck@theagencyre.com

Garrett Chan Compass 1959579 626-456-0056 garrett.chan@compass. com

Sarah Rogers Compass 1201812 626-390-0511 sarah.rogers@compass. com

Jack Chang Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1075478 626-818-1880 jackchang@bhhscal. com Grace Chang Coldwell Banker Realty 1788890 626-318-2028 gchang@coldwellbanker.com

Gus Ruelas The Agency 1221146 626-803-2000 gus@theagencyre.com Lynette Sohl Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1256496 626-665-2649 lsohl@sbcglobal.net

Michelle Chen Coldwell Banker Realty 1491272 626-379-7266 runjing@gmail.com

Nicola Speranta Compass 1274694 626-253-6746 nicola.speranta@compass.com

Tink Cheney Coldwell Banker Realty 1173415 626-233-2938 tinkcheney@earthlink. net

Laurie Stanford Turner Coldwell Banker Realty 1919000 626-483-5269 laurieturner@coldwellbanker.com

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION Gordon Wang Compass 2049148 626-552-2339 gordon.wang@compass.com Rita Whitney The Agency 1209004 626-803-2000 rjwhitney@theagencyre.com Sabrina Wu Compass 900733 626-688-0100 sabrina@compass.com Natalie Wycoff The Agency 1755930 626-803-2000 nwycoff@theagencyre. com Pico Rivera Silvestre Madrigal Jr. CENTURY 21 Allstars 1363650 562- 843-3495 Danny Navarro CENTURY 21 Allstars 1938421 949-903-6633 dannyNteam@gmail. com Dieter Von Puschendorf CENTURY 21 Allstars 1971402 714-349-6649 Redondo Beach Daniel Assayag Vista Sotheby’s International Realty 1762501 310-493-2100 daniel@liveinla.net Gabrielle Herendeen RE/MAX Properties 1325858 310-433-7313 GHerendeen@EPLAHomes.com Gary Kooba Vista Sotheby’s International Realty 578697 310-722-2007 gary.kooba@vistasir. com

Mark Stoll Vista Sotheby’s International Realty 1280262 310-546-7611 Wendy Sun RE/MAX Properties 1729186 310-544-7301 WSun@REMAXPV.com Santa Barbara Linda Lorenzen Coldwell Banker Realty 583737 805-886-1842 Linda@LorenzenPartners.com Kit Peterson Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 2008932 805-689-5535 kit.peterson@bhhscal. com Santa Monica Cindy Ambuehl Compass 1821934 818-489-0282 cindyambuehl@compass.com Kate Bransfield Coldwell Banker Realty 1218699 310-395-1133 Kate@SantaMonicaListings.com Victoria Cruz Equity Union 1887799 310-254-8124 victoria@victoriacruzhomes.com Bill Friedman Coldwell Banker Realty 672015 213-200-2500 billfried@earthlink.net Tracey Hennessey Compass 1017938 310-779-6375 tracey.hennessey@ compass.com

Avi Barazani Coldwell Banker Realty Studio City 1004601 818-528-2210 avi.barazani@camoves. com

Stormie Leoni Compass 1949760 310-227-5996 stormie.leoni@compass.com

Phil Boroda Coldwell Banker Realty 822192 310-968-3844 barrydantagnan@gmail. com

Natalie Kraiem-Levi Equity Union 1896518 310-309-9299 natalie@nklrealestate. com

Gary Limjap Coldwell Banker Realty 927151 310-430-0818 gary.limjap@camoves. com

Dennis Chernov The Agency 1850113 818-924-2800 dennis@theagencyre. com

Brandon Kramer Rodeo Realty 1394280 310-663-3088 Brandon@WeSoldLA. com

Kelly Keith Morgan KW Advisors 1898026 310-836-3638 kelly@kellymorgancommercial.com

Barry Dantagnan Coldwell Banker Realty 1020477 818-426-8677 philip.boroda1@gmail. com

Ron Maman Rodeo Realty 1344010 818-469-7021 rmaman00@hotmail. com

Kofen Chang Coldwell Banker Realty 1951860 310-916-9081 realtor@kofenchang. com

Nancy Osborne Compass 1859960 310-795-6600 nancy.osborne@compass.com

Andrew Dinsky Equity Union 1724985 310-729-3393 andrewdinsky@gmail. com

Andrew Manning Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 941825 818-522-3972 andrew@andrewmanning.com

Michael Chez Compass 1244757 310-863-8300 michael.chez@compass.com

Tara Rodgers-Culbertso Compass 1830534 310-415-9743 tara.rodgers@compass. com Megan Silva KW Advisors 1980348 310-614-6513 megan@megansilva. com

Daniel Drantch Rodeo Realty 900188 818-261-0030 homesbydad@rodeore. com Kevin Driscoll Coldwell Banker Realty 818-398-0797 kevindriscollhomes@ gmail.com

Melanie Sommers Compass 1303647 310-418-0343 melanie.sommers@ compass.com

Matt Epstein Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1121162 818-681-2000 somatt@aol.com

Dan Stueve Equity Union 1936133 310-595-5875 dan@danstueveproperties.com

Jessica Felix Rodeo Realty 1779067 818-399-7214 jessica@jessicafelix. com

Amy Um Compass 1961595 310-804-5553 amy.um@compass.com

Cesar Gonzalez Equity Union 1864871 818-974-0681 cesar@cesarproperties. com

Robin Walpert Sotheby’s International Realty 1237116 310-480-4980 robin.walpert@sir.com

Michelle Hirsch Equity Union 1445587 818-512-4226 michelle@michellehirsch.com

Rolling Hills Estates

Nikki Hochstein Compass 1338003 310-968-1116 nikki.hochstein@compass.com

Kevin Moen RE/MAX Properties 1014808 310-466-4656 KMoen@EPLAHomes. com

Benjamin Illulian KW Advisors 2003019 310-867-0474 benjamin@illulianrealty. com

Gayle Probst RE/MAX Properties 1137236 310-977-9711 GProbst@EPLAHomes. com

Susan Kastner Compass 1237053 310-880-9227 susan.kastner@compass.com

Tom Barseghian Equity Union 1503467 818-472-5555 relator@tombarseghian. com

Craig Knizek The Agency 1377932 818-924-2800 cknizek@theagencyre. com

Charlie Raine RE/MAX Properties 982925 310-377-4932 CRaine@EPLAHomes. com

David Kelmenson Compass 1435306 310-863-3030 kelmenson@compass. com

Michael Bergin Compass 1845572 310-600-0715 michael.bergin@compass.com

Poupee Komenkul Rodeo Realty 1060862 818-482-0085 poupee.komenkul@ rodeore.com

Deborah Weiss KW Advisors 1367708 310-804-6470 debbie@debbieweiss. com Sherman Oaks

Nicole Joel The Agency 1784589 818-924-2800 nikki.joel@theagencyre. com

Jennifer Niman Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 965903 818-448-2240 jniman.realtor@outlook. com Michael Okun Sotheby’s International Realty 1430979 818-415-1819 michael.okun@sir.com Ben Salem Rodeo Realty 1367073 310-765-3020 ben@bensalemproperties.com Denise Snanoudj The Agency 1101684 818-924-2800 denise.s@theagencyre. com Alan Taylor Compass 1369255 818-650-1603 Alan@AlanTaylorRealEstate.com Marly Tempel Rodeo Realty 1384323 818-470-0432 marlytemp@yahoo.com Howard Zuckerman Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1107036 310-710-8415 hwzuckerman@aol.com

Joseph Breckner Coldwell Banker Realty Studio City 883666 818-528-2291 Joe@JoeBreckner.com

Casey Covenant Woodbridge Estates 1859825 818-308-5830 covenantestates@ gmail.com Andy Hairabedian The Agency 1900114 747-977-3250 andy.h@theagencyre. com Donovan Healey Coldwell Banker Realty 1887933 310-903-1876 donovan.healey@ cbrealty.com Donovan Healey Coldwell Banker Realty Studio City 1887933 818-621-1805 donovan.healey@ cbrealty.com Steven Hill Coldwell Banker Studio City 2023251 310-259-4381 steven.hill@cbrealty. com Todd Jones Rodeo Realty 1481426 310-882-5565 todd@toddjoneshomes. com Andrea Korchek The Agency 1311917 747-977-3250 akorchek@theagencyre.com

Studio City

Nicole Nash Rodeo Realty 1399012 323-428-6398 nicole@nicolenash.com

Mystoura Afolabi Coldwell Banker Realty 1515906 310-409-5650 mystoura.afolabi@ cbrealty.com

Danielle Peretz The Agency 1897529 747-977-3250 danielle.peretz@theagencyre.com

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION Ingrid Sacerio The Agency 1905431 747-977-3250 isacerio@theagencyre. com

Tiffany McGuinness RE/MAX Properties 1947654 310-525-7653 TMcGuinness@ EPLAHomes.com

Julie Sanders Coldwell Banker Realty 1895602 415-694-1215 jules.sanders@cbrealty. com

Melissa Pilon Compass 1974762 248-953-8405 melissa.pilon@compass.com

Michelle Schwartz The Agency 1889141 747-977-3250 mschwartz@theagencyre.com Sebastian Spader The Agency 2013827 747-977-3250 sspader@theagencyre. com Suzanna Storm Coldwell Banker Realty 1882264 213-400-4857 suzanna.storm@cbrealty.com Toluca Lake Kristin Neithercut Compass 2003278 323-397-0800 kristin@kristinneithercut.com Craig Michael Strong Compass 1450987 818-930-4050 info@strongrealtor.com Torrance John Briscoe RE/MAX Properties 692202 310-918-3030 JBriscoe@EPLAHomes. com Joe Buck Compass 1995305 310-995-1195 joebuck@compass.com Kim Doner Compass 1828186 310-720-7933 kim.doner@compass. com Jesse Dougherty Compass 01949609 310-995-4475 jesse.dougherty@ compass.com Dennis Hartley Compass 836047 310-717-2319 dennis.hartley@compass.com Gary Krill Compass 1086159 310-994-3922 gary.krill@compass. com

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Jenny Yamada-Clayton RE/MAX Properties 891965 310-251-3445 JYamada-Clayton@ EPLAHomes.com Valencia Brian Palmer RE/MAX of Valencia 1047928 616-212-3938 brian@brianpalmer.com Venice Michael Grady The Agency 1505317 424-835-7230 mgrady@theagencyre. com Courtney Lingle The Agency 1953447 424-835-7230 courtney.lingle@theagencyre.com Allie Lutz Rosenberger The Agency 1945014 424-835-7230 alutz@theagencyre. com Tami Pardee Pardee Properties 1421451 310-600-7217 tami@pardeeproperties.com Alex Quaid The Agency 1838631 424-835-7230 alex.quaid@theagencyre.com Colette Stevens Pardee Properties 1702926 818-822-9186 colette@pardeeproperties.com Kerry Ann Sullivan Pardee Properties 1927932 310-621-2662 kerryann@pardeeproperties.com Ventura Laurie Rutledge Coldwell Banker Realty 1156115 805-340-4854 Laurie.Rutledge@ camoves.com

West Hollywood Yohann Bensimon Keller Williams Hollywood Hills 1966630 310-923-1550 yohann@ikonadvisors. com Michelle Graci The Beverly Hills Estates 1925500 818-967-8295 Michelleg@TheBeverlyHillsEstates.com Tyler Jacobs Sotheby’s International Realty 2019419 310-739-9580 tyler.jacobs@sir.com Laurent Mamann Slater The Beverly Hills Estates 1348767 310-780-9971 Laurent@LaurentSlater. com Corey Nelson Sotheby’s International Realty 1462372 310-927-0095 corey.nelson@sir.com Anthony Paradise Sotheby’s International Realty 1888369 310-279-8303 anthony.paradise@ sir.com Matthew Paul Rodeo Realty 1394372 310-499-3579 matthewtpaul@gmail. com Angel Salvador The Beverly Hills Estates 1794155 818-744-1469 Angel@TheBeverlyHillsEstates.com Shahrouz Shirdel Sotheby’s International Realty 1999834 310-770-2262 shawn@shawnshirdel. com Laurent Mamann Slater The Beverly Hills Estates 1348767 310-780-9971 laurent@laurentslater. com Kevin Stolper The Beverly Hills Estates 2006447 310-403-9331 Kevin@TheBeverlyHillsEstates.com

Stefani Stolper The Beverly Hills Estates 1957452 310-733-6551 Stefani@TheBeverlyHillsEstates.com Jamie Tian Rodeo Realty 1920120 310-717-1321 jamietian@gmail.com Alison Turner The Beverly Hills Estates 1953223 310-600-8229 Alison@TheBeverlyHillsEstates.com

Sheri Karp Sotheby’s International Realty 968763 818-232-1851 sheri.karp@sir.com

Brandon Haft Rodeo Realty 1485980 818-612-7690 brandonhaft@hotmail. com

Jenna Kaye Rodeo Realty 1932772 818-307-9679 Jennakaye@rodeore. com

Kara Katz Equity Union 2062597 619-850-4106 kara@katzgroupla.com

Leo McHale Rodeo Realty 1377546 818-621-4940 lmchale@sbcglobal.net

Shauna Walters The Beverly Hills Estates 1728600 310-775-1106 Shauna@TheBeverlyHillsEstates.com Rayni Williams The Beverly Hills Estates 1496786 310-626-4248 Rayni@TheBeverlyHillsEstates.com Branden Williams The Beverly Hills Estates 1774287 310-626-4248 BrandenWilliams@ mac.com Trevor Wright The Beverly Hills Estates 2042934 310-804-9693 Trevor@TheBeverlyHillsEstates.com West Los Angeles Reid Kaplan RE/MAX Properties 1711288 310-883-8921 RKaplan@EPLAHomes. com Elizabeth Marquart RE/MAX Properties 1344207 310-246-0888 EMarquart@EPLAHomes.com Michele Walman RE/MAX Properties 940640 310-836-4840 MWalman@EPLAHomes.com Westlake Village Rosemary Allison Coldwell Banker Realty 545184 805-479-7653 rosemaryallison@aol. com Casey Gordon Rodeo Realty 1880153 805-750-9804 casey@rodeore.com

Roy Lhanie Equity Union 1854551 818-642-3449 listwithroy@gmail.com Lonnie Mintz Rodeo Realty 1251366 818-298-1108 lmintz6729@aol.com Shane Nichols Rodeo Realty 1948062 818-312-3164 Shane@SellitShane.com

Carmen Mormino

Rodeo Realty, Inc. CalBRE# 01808462 100 N. Westlake Blvd., Ste. 100a Westlake Village 818.693.2181 morminoproperties@ gmail.com carmenmormino.com Tricia Onsgard Coldwell Banker Realty 1091321 805-559-0841 triciaonsgard@verizon. net Troy Rosen Compass 1983667 818-835-7200 troy.rosen@compass. com Jonah Shenson Sotheby’s International Realty 1963119 818-621-3987 Jonah.Shenson@Sir. com Woodland Hills David Abas Equity Union 1422571 310-968-1464 jocelyn@davidabas. com

Collin St. Johns Collin St. Johns Real Estate 1240582 818-312-2171 csj24seven@gmail.com

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MORTGAGE Agoura Hills Joe Tishkoff Finance of America NLMS # 240232 818-370-8302 Dorain Williams Finance of America NLMS # 251389 818-317-4949 Beverly Hills Sasan Abrams Cohen Financial Group NLMS # 1194434 1-424-202-3843 sabrams@cohenfinancialgroup.com Sheila Berger Wells Fargo NLMS # 1493332 310-801-5151 Sheila@wellsfargo.com

Marty Azoulay Equity Union 1234131 818-822-2422 marty@myhousesellers. com

Mark Cohen Cohen Financial Group NLMS # 1593077 310-777-5401 cfg@cohenfinancialgroup.com

Dana Frank Rodeo Realty 1386144 818-618-6000 dana@danafrankhomes. com

John Demaria Wells Fargo NLMS # 486145 818-689-5001 John.Demaria@wellsfargo.com

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION Dana Dukelow Guaranteed Rate NLMS # 252986 323-394-1909 dana.dukelow@rate. com Ramona Edery Wells Fargo NLMS # 1776322 310-924-8360 Ramona.Edery@wellsfargo.com David Eghbali Change Home Mortgage NLMS # 450328 310-889-4502 deghbali@changemtg. com Chris Furie Insignia Mortgage NLMS # 357449 310-989-8824 chris@insigniamortgage.com Bill Grasska Riviera Financial Partners Inc. NLMS # 238068 310-890-8283 bgrasska@rivierafinancial.com Stephanie Kates Change Home Mortgage NLMS # 481277 818-231-8960 skates@changemtg. com Steven Maizes Guaranteed Rate NLMS # 250590 310-467-4044 steven.maizes@rate. com Jonathan O’Donnell Union Bank NLMS # 301511 310-480-6863 Jonathan.ODonnell@ unionbank.com

Calabasas

Costa Mesa

Rebeca Brady Priority Financial Network NLMS # 326187 818-936-3882 becky@priorityfinancial.net Nancy Everett Wells Fargo NLMS # 374442 818-424-5626 Nancy.Everett@wellsfargo.com

Jonathan Gih Nations Lending NLMS # 1058510 951-218-2625 jonathan.gih@nationslending.com

Mark Johnson Homebridge Financial Services NLMS # 244919 818-532-1218 Mark.Johnson@homebridge.com KJ Margolis Citibank NLMS # 457645 310-994-5642 kj.margolis@citi.com Brandon Moss Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation NLMS # 611775 818-256-4330 brandon.moss@fairwaymc.com Bryan Moss Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation NLMS # 1135360 818-723-3718 bryan.moss@fairwaymc.com Bruce Nangle Guaranteed Rate NLMS # 267122 818-427-3116 Bruce.Nangle@grarate. com John Wade Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation NLMS # 256688 818-404-1905 john.wade@fairwaymc. com Century City

Neil Patel Insignia Mortgage NLMS # 1179478 424-488-3566 neil@insigniamortgage. com

Peter Hoover Loan Depot NLMS # 1526844 310-806-7026 phoover@loandepot. com

Melissa Velasquez Wells Fargo NLMS # 633920 949-293-5119 melissa.m.velasquez@ wellsfargo.com

Christopher Ross Chase NLMS # 1180888 805-368-9648 christopher.ross@chase. com

Lisa Yacoubian Wells Fargo NLMS # 357641 310-295-0264 lisa.yacoubian@wellsfargo.com

Claremont

Burbank

Eric Kellner Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation NLMS # 471994 909-615-4993 ekellner@fairwaymc. com

May Shalhoub Movement Mortgage NLMS # 300637 818-599-8305 may.shalhoub@movement.com

Mondie Pic’l Fairway Mortgage NLMS # 299679 626-233-1303 mondie@fairwaymc. com

Covina Carlos Flores Cross Country Mortgage NLMS # 238306 626-991-7644 carlos.flores@myccmortgage.com John Paul Sazon Century 21 Cristal Cellar NLMS # 307997 818-648-4296 jp@cristalcellar.com Diamond Bar Fiona Bryan Academy Mortgage Group NLMS # 1812932 303-882-0543 fiona.bryan@academymortgage.com

Alan Grigorian Provident Home Lending Group NLMS # 380549 818-389-4315 alan@plghomeloans. com Julie Rojas Guaranteed Rate NLMS # 483738 323-855-9264 Julie.Rojas@grarate. com Glendora David Chea SquareLend NLMS # 488339 626-600-2943 david@squarelend.com Ephraim Farol SqaureLend NLMS # 488444 562-773-3870 emfarol@squarelend. com Cole Strange Movment Mortgage NLMS # 1339542 626-255-5414 cole.strange@movement.com

Downey

Granada Hills

Luz LLuncor New World Mortgage Branch NLMS # 227914 562-904-2500 Luz@newworld-mtg. com

Yanni Raz HML Investments NLMS # 1003404 310-619-5557 yanni@HMLInvestments.com

El Segundo

Harold Rodriguez Chase NLMS # 613502 310-749-0764 harold.o.rodriguez@ chase.

Eric Formiller Wells Fargo NLMS # 485383 310-308-7144 Eric.Formiller@wellsfargo.com Katie Kostelak Wells Fargo NLMS # 1145698 310-486-9397 Katie.Kostelak@wellsfargo.com

Hawthorne

Huntington Beach Mike Wright Arbor Financial Group NLMS # 234953 714-240-4030 mwright@arborfg.com La Canada Flintridge

Gary May Wells Fargo NLMS # 611774 310-808-8453 gary@wellsfargo.com

Edwin Davidian House America Financial NLMS # 386418 818-585-8283 EDavidian@HouseAmericaHL.com

Denise Thomas Wells Fargo NLMS # 82268 424-262-2091 Denise.P.Thomas@ wellsfargo.com

Fredrik Megerdichian House America NLMS # 300774 818-321-8080 Fredrik@HouseAmericaFinancial.com

Encino

Jobe Whelan House America Financial NLMS # 380749 818-974-2183 jobe@houseamericafinancial.com

Fred Schector Bank of America NLMS # 451116 424-407-4446 Glendale Nick Bronsozian BluPrint Home Loans NLMS # 292407 818-266-8442 nick@mybploan.com

Jorge Hernandez Guaranteed Rate NLMS # 269284 562-618-9796 jorge.hernandez@rate. com

Stepanie Green CrossCountry Mortgage NLMS # 328557 310-493-7266 stephanie.green@ccm. com

Los Angeles

Brett Lightner Caliber Home Loans NLMS # 303462 310-796-7593 brett.lightner@caliberhomeloans.com

Julie Aragon Aragon Lending Team NLMS # 250691 310-340-6606 info@aragonlending. com Simon Atik Guaranteed Rate Affinity NLMS # 961014 310-880-8414 simon.atik@grate.com Francesco Foggia Bank of America NLMS # 278442 323-761-7701 David Lerman CalUnion Funding Inc. NLMS # 391243 323-855-4434 david@calunionfunding.com Irvin Lopez Guild Mortgage NLMS # 457584 562-276-3027 ilopez@guildmortgage. net Micah Raff Mortgage Capital Partners NLMS # 952625 818-808-8835 mraff@mortgcap.com Natalie Salins Movement Mortgage NLMS # 298662 323-644-1200 Natalie.Salins@movement.com Los Gatos Mary Pennel Change Home Mortgage NLMS # 305513 408-316-4562 mary@marypennel.com Manhattan Beach Joseph Archer Chase NLMS # 268431 310-713-4507 joseph.archer@chase. com Linda Buchanan Caliber Home Loans NLMS # 303528 310-796-7591 linda.buchanan@caliberhomeloans.com

Long Beach

Brett Dillenberg Cross Country Mortgage NLMS # 235446 310-293-7092 brett.dillenberg@ccm. com

Anthony Bell Citizens Financial NLMS # 1181532 310-748-0202 anthony@bell-mtg.com

Rick Ellis Citibank NLMS # 295206 310-750-5959 rick.ellis@citi.com

Jasmine Rassekh Mortgage Capital Partners NLMS # 236173 310-308-5052 jasmine@jrassekh.com Newport Beach Nate Kuchera New American Funding NLMS # 297082 949-633-6464 Nate.Kuchera@nafinc. com Northridge Jeff Fink LA Mortgage NLMS # 325731 818-723-1638 jeffrey.fink55@gmail. com Ontario Deborah E. Morgan West Coast Mortgage Associates NLMS # 276164 909-215-7943 debwestcoast@pm.me Pacific Palisades Greg Roberts Prosperity Home Mortgage NLMS # 246350 310-200-5488 Greg.Roberts@phmloans.com Pasadena Leslie Black We Fund LA NLMS # 1111536 562-322-0836 Mary Bowser Wells Fargo NLMS # 447947 626-616-2537 mary.bowser@wellsfargo.com Waleed Delawari Delaware Pacific NLMS # 838255 626-486-1775 info@delgrp.com Joseph Kloss Guaranteed Rate NLMS # 352569 626-321-4224 Joseph.Kloss@grarate. com Rob Levy Homebridge Financial Services NLMS # 493497 818-422-1850 rob.levy@homebridge. com

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION Jason Priel New American Funding NLMS # 1050960 818-312-2267 Jason.Priel@nafinc.com

Ron Karp KPL Select NLMS # 238438 818-907-5757 rkarp@kplselect.com

John Thompson C2 Financial Corporation NLMS # 252514 626-583-1623 john@smplmortgage. com

Ofir Yeyni Option One Lending NLMS # 2128416 818-769-6300 TYT@OptionOneLending.com

John Twyman Citibank NLMS # 727951 818-470-6095 john.twyman@citi.com

South Pasadena

Redondo Beach Jeremy Altervain Civic Financial Services NLMS # 261164 310-890-4896 jeremy.altervain@ civicfs.com Rolling Hills Estates Wesley Uyema Union Bank NLMS # 723901 310-874-6189 Wesley.Uyema@unionbank.com Santa Clarita Mike Meena Augusta Financial NLMS # 241370 661-714-6258 mike@augustafinancial. com Sean Treloggen Augusta Financial, Inc NLMS # 307521 661-291-2255 Sean@AugustaFinancial.com Santa Monica Steve Eckhoff Guaranteed Rate NLMS # 261230 310-470-8080 steve.eckhoff@rate.com Eric Otfinoski Prosperity Home Mortgage, LLC NLMS # 254462 619-665-2343 EricO@phmloans.com Seal Beach Tom McMurray C2 Financial Corporation NLMS # 39007 855-955-1340 tom@karbonfinancial. com Sherman Oaks Mike Hartunian Homebridge Financial Services NLMS # 247330 213-706-6624 mike.hartunian@homebridge.com

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Eddie Ajamian Journey Mortgage Advisors NLMS # 342821 626-826-5225 eddie@journeymac. com Justin Bitensky Equity Smart Home Loans NLMS # 1827357 323-919-5104 justinb@equitysmartloans.com Nareg Kaprielian Huntington Mortgage Group NLMS # 757631 818-903-8204 nareg@huntingtonmtg. com Studio City Artin Babayan Prime Lending NLMS # 304962 800-963-4623 ababayan@primelending.com Torrance Paul Cawthorne Homebridge Financial Services NLMS # 249035 310-499-8128 paul.cawthorne@homebridge.com Fernando Diaz Homebridge Financial Services NLMS # 253430 310-418-9289 Fernando.Diaz@homebridge.com Nick Do US Bank NLMS # 485767 626-660-1685 nick.do@usbank.com

Upland Tim Harrison Cornerstone Home Lending NLMS # 170960 909-260-5252 Tim@HLCTeam.com Valencia Debbie Marcoux Mortgage Mom Radio NLMS # 237926 844-935-3634 questions@mortgagemomradio.com Van Nuys V. Amayakyan Wintrust Mortgage NLMS # 675017 310-989-5522 Craig Kovler Wintrust Mortgage NLMS # 287444 818-461-5602 West Hollywood Larisa Lutes Origin Point NLMS # 367680 323-821-6966 Larisa.Lutes@originpoint.com

20 23 TEAMS

Altadena Teresa Fuller Team Compass 1315387 626-483-0710 teresa@teresafuller.com Arroyo Grande The Murphy Team Compass 1973035 805-363-1662 molly.murphy@compass. com Beverly Hills

Daniel Brown Compass 1335192 310-901-7405 dbrown@compass.com

MS Property Partners Keller Williams Beverly Hills 1261623 310-867-5589 dafna555@yahoo.com

David Kramer Group Hilton & Hyland 996960 310-691-2400 hello@davidkramergroup. com

Nancy Sanborn & Brian Joy Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 00771096 & 01324371 310-777-2858 / 818-5907303 nancy@sanbornteam.com / brianjoy@bhhscal.com

Ernie Carswell & Associates Douglas Elliman 1111566 310-345-7500 Info@CarswellandAssociates.com Grauman Rosenfeld Group The Agency 01469825, 01918229 424-230-3700 jgrauman@theagencyre. com, arosenfeld@theagencyre.com

Aaron Kirman Group Compass 1296524 310-994-9512 aaron.kirman@compass. com

Heather & Learka Douglas Elliman 1398002 323-445-3208 heatherandlearka@elliman. com

Andrew Rhoda & Associates Compass 1879250 213-915-8879 andrew.rhoda@compass. com

Ivan Estrada Team Douglas Elliman 1882046 323-574-2317 Ivan@IvanEstradaProperties.com

Gary Blau Homeowners Financial Group NLMS # 322092 818-585-8493 gblau@homeownersfg. com

Aram Afshar Team Coldwell Banker Realty 1484569 310-702-0583 aram@quintessentiallyestates.com

Jennifer Okhovat Compass 1866951 310-435-7399 jennifer.okhovat@compass. com

John Musso Citibank NLMS # 448606 818-518-1008 john.musso@citi.com

Bond Street Partners The Agency 01909801, 01905862 424-230-3700 james@theagencyre.com, dparnes@theagencyre.com

Justin Alexander Compass 1733939 970-710-1665 justin.alexander@compass. com

Karen Natapoff Homebridge Financial Services NLMS # 254553 310-849-8653 Karen.Natapoff@homebridge.com

Brent Watson Team Coldwell Banker Realty 1183125 310-600-9119 brent@brentwatsonhomes. com

Justin Leigh Compass 2011147 323-365-4000 justin.leigh@compass.com

Geoffrey Rouss Wintrust Mortgage NLMS # 285987 310-804-8181

Carl Gambino Compass 1971890 646-465-1766 carl.gambino@compass. com

Samantha Scherr Origin Point NLMS # 1202073 310-968-4046 Samantha.Scherr@ originpoint.com Westlake Village

Woodland Hills

Dean Kishiyama Loan Depot NLMS # 15931 562-716-1625 dkishiyama@loandepot. com

Sam Demirjian Priority Capital Corporation NLMS # 240052 818-426-7600 SamDemirjian@iclozloans.com

Chris Rivera Cross Country Mortgage NLMS # 331031 310-782-4039 chris.rivera@ccm.com

Michael Weisberg Lend to America NLMS # 233695 805-444-4294 lend@lendtoamerica. com

Chad Lund Team Douglas Elliman 998185 310-801-2641 chad.lund@elliman.com Daniel Banchik & Amy Dantzler Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1305623 310-503-6436 d.banchik@bhhscal.com

Larry Young & Associates Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 999537 310-801-9355 larry@larryyoungassociates.com Lee Ziff RE Professionals Keller Williams Beverly Hills 1212150 310-945-7752 david@leeziff.com Marc Hernandez Group Compass 882850 310-993-8730 marc.hernandez@compass. com

Paul Lester & Aileen Comora The Agency 01338925, 01002982 424-230-3700 acomora@theagencyre. com, plester@theagencyre. com Peter Maurice / Tregg Rustad Rodeo Realty 1129738 310-623-8819 peter@petermaurice.com Rare Properties Compass 1991628 424-230-7928 showings@rarepropertiesinc.com Rowe | Tzadik Group Compass 986502 310-880-9185 rowetzadikgroup@compass.com SHGroup: The Agency 02003365, 02028724 424-230-3700 nick.sandler@theagencyre. com, bhirsch@theagencyre. com St. James + Canter Team Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 949711 310-291-1029 cristie@stjamescanter.com Tamkin Real Estate Group Compass 1336758 310-493-4141 st@compass.com The Brill Group Compass 960792 310-497-5166 info@brillgroup.com The Brodsky Group Compass 1960565 310-623-2319 or.brodsky@compass.com The Eastside Co. Compass 1391639 323-547-0330 imraan@compass.com

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION The Fridman Group Compass 1750717 310-926-3777 tomer.fridman@compass. com The Go Group Sotheby’s International Realty 1933923 310-882-8357 neyshia@neyshiago.com The Joyce Rey Team Coldwell Banker Realty 465013 310-285-7529 joyce@joycerey.com The JY Group Keller Williams Beverly Hills 1341959 323-854-4300 Info@JeffYarbrough.com The Tom Scrocco and Randy Isaacs Team Douglas Elliman 1245433 310-259-7355 tom.scrocco@elliman.com The Umansky Team: The Agency 1222825 424-230-3700 mumansky@theagencyre. com Tiffany Martin, Christine Martin, Samira Gores The Agency 01823589, 01794840, 01323193 424-230-3700 cmartin@theagencyre.com, tmartin@theagencyre.com, sgores@theagencyre.com Tracy Tutor Team Douglas Elliman 1326769 310-595-3889 Tracy.Tutor@elliman.com VOYAGE Real Estate Compass 1753779 310-738-3180 ari@compass.com Douglas Elliman 1397788 Brentwood Scott Moore Group Douglas Elliman 1347535 310-678-7855 Scott.Moore@elliman.com Burbank The Brad Korb Real Estate Group The Brad Korb Real Estate Group 698730 818-953-5300 brad@bradkorb.com

Calabasas

Glendora

Gina Michelle and George Ouzounian: The Agency 01503003, 01948763 818-379-7700 george.oz@theagencyre. com, gina.michelle@ theagencyre.com

Maureen Haney Real Estate Team Compass 1169487 626-216-8067 maureen.haney@compass. com

Hirsch Sherman & Jared Levine Keller Williams Calabasas Hirsch Sherman 00710184, Jared Levine 01804008 818-657-6508 charms.tan1@gmail.com Lilach Basson Compass 1704715 818-618-9260 lilach.basson@compass. com

Hermosa Beach Kaminsky Real Estate Group Itzsold. Inc 958114 310-427-2414 ek@itzsold.com Lauren Forbes Group Compass 1295248 310-901-8512 lauren.forbes@compass. com

Shevin Team Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 671618 818-961-7271 info@theshevins.com

Huntington Beach

The Cohan Team Coldwell Banker Realty 1208350 818-335-9777 michelle.cohan@camoves. com

La Cañada Flintridge

The Improta Team Compass 1432200 310-597-1915 jason@improta.com Costa Mesa Carter Kaufman Compass 1968622 949-294-6411 carter@carterkaufman.com El Segundo Alex Abad Real Estate Group Compass 2098631 310-463-3204 a.abad@compass.com Nick Phillips Properties Group Compass 1742107 310-750-4828 nick@nickphillipsproperties.com Nicol Real Estate Group Compass 1918400 310-529-5286 scot@nicolrealestate.com Glendale Think Real Estate eXp Realty 1134528 213-712-4343 dave@thinkrealestategroup.com

Jody Clegg Team Compass 1230876 714-515-7052 jody@jodyclegg.com

Haynes Group Compass 1144568 818-599-8066 carey.haynes@compass. com The McGlashan Group Coldwell Banker Realty 1041976 818-512-2375 janice@janicemcglashan. com Long Beach Stonick Group Compass 1363678 562-818-5763 leslie@lesismor.com Los Angeles

Dear LA Team Compass 1935804 323-208-1827 joanna.suhl@compass.com Don Heller Group Compass 1198240 310-466-7809 don.heller@compass.com Grant Linscott Group Keller Williams Realty 1715002 323-487-9222 info@grantlinscott.com Jenna Cooper Compass 1352710 323-481-0644 jenna.cooper@compass. com Katie Crain + John Podhor Compass 1811131 310-502-2312 katie.crain@compass.com Laci Buller Group Compass 2008575 310-301-2330 laci@lacibullergroup.com Lauren Reichenberg Compass 1415570 323-849-3656 REALESTATEBYLAR@ GMAIL.COM Natalie Trabin Compass 1901052 310-415-2663 natalie.trabin@compass. com Plus Real Estate Group Compass 1915539 949-212-8721 tyrone@plusrealestategroup.com

Ahead of the Curve Homes Compass 1763313 310-350-4528 erica.lockhart@compass. com

Rogers + Stellini + Ritt Team Compass 1710680 310-963-4205 anthony.stellini@compass. com

Brock & Lori Harris Real Estate Team Keller Williams Los Feliz 1328996 213-842-7625 brock@brockandlori.com

Shelton Wilder Group Sotheby’s International Realty 1979656 310-997-7059 shelton.wilder@sir.com

Bryant \ Reichling Team Compass 1245334 323-854-1780 boni.bryant@compass.com

Smith & Berg Partners Compass 961954 310-500-3951 team@smithandberg.com

Canyonhaus Compass 1703353 323-203-0965 torih@compass.com

Solomon Property Group Douglas Elliman 1386406 310-279-7759 TEAM@SPG83.COM

Stearns + Partners Compass 1118915 310-850-9284 richard.stearns@compass. com Stephanie Younger Group Compass 1365696 310-499-2020 stephanie@stephanieyounger.com Stephen Sigoloff Compass 796067 310-804-8180 stephen.sigoloff@compass. com Take Sunset Compass 1871966 323-775-6305 hello@takesunset.com Team Lustig-Bower CBRE 409987 310 550 2556 laurie.lustig-bower@cbre. com The Alice & Malyn Team: The Agency 0 424-400-5900 alice.cannington@theagencyre.com, malyn.dahlin@ theagencyre.com The Altman Brothers Team Douglas Elliman 1764587 310-819-3250 MARKETING@THEALTMANBROTHERS.COM The Jackie Smith Group Compass 1889096 213-494-7736 jackie.smith@compass.com The Listing Group Compass 1305628 310-617-6462 nima.tehrany@compass. com The Local Real Estate Group Compass 1431217 323-667-0700 kurt@localregroup.com Victoria and Michael Compass 1762981 310-770-2823 michael.maguire@compass.com Malibu The Malibu Life Compass 1413280 310-818-5788 team@themalibulife.com

The Mark & Grether Group Compass 1836632 310-994-4247 russellandtony@compass. com The Oliver Ferra Real Estate Group Coldwell Banker Realty 00894644,01227825 310-403-4455, 310-4551717 melissa.oliver@camoves. com, pferra@coldwellbanker.com The Wright Way Team Compass 935559 818-939-6415 adrian.wright@compass. com Manhattan Beach DeRenzis Real Estate Vista Sotheby’s International Realty 1760239 310-600-7973 derenzis@vistasir.com Gillespie Host Group Vista Sotheby’s International Realty 426498 310-796-1617 Jack.Gillespie@VistaSIR. com Jen Caskey Group Compass 1075946 310-200-5900 jen.caskey@compass.com Kevin & Brigitte Pratt Strand Hill 01023090 - Kevin, 01910418 - Brigitte 310-738-2348, 310-7382348 Kpratt@strandhill.com, Bpratt@strandhill.com The Lane Team Vista Sotheby’s International Realty 768020 310-962-4022 bob.lane@vistasir.com Marina Del Rey Aria Properties KW Advisors 972387 424-247-2533 Rick@soldbyaria.com The Suarez Team The Suarez Team of Keller Williams Broker’s DRE: 01428775, 01433992 424-500-3131 Hello@TheSuarezTeam. com Montecito Calcagno & Hamilton Real Estate Group Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1499736 805-565-4000 info@homesinsantabarbara.com L A M AG . C O M 85

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION Dusty Baker Group Sotheby’s International Realty 1908615 805-570-0102 dusty.baker@sir.com

Chadmar - Terry Niemann / Katherine Meier Terry Niemann - Chadmar 1909111 310-427-4411 terryniemann@icloud.com

Ken Switzer Team Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1245644 805-680-4622 KSwitzer@bhhscal.com

Palos Verdes Realty Palm Realty Boutique 01374451,01810798, 01375596 310-944-5554 contact@palosverdesrealty.com

Kerry Mormann & Associates Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 598625 805-689-3242 kerrym@coastalranch.com

Watts & Associates Vista Sotheby’s International Realty 966894 310-874-8775 stevewatts@vistasir.com

The Kondo Group Compass 1438455 310-740-5742 hello@thekondogroup.com

Pasadena

Redondo Beach

Marsha Kotlyar Estate Group Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1426886 805-565-4014 home@mkgroupmontecito. com

Dilsaver Group Compass 620166 626-755-7372 michael.dilsaver@compass. com

Cari & Britt Group Vista Sotheby’s International Realty 850678 310-938-9167 contact@cariandbritt.com

The Chang Group Compass 1822562 626-487-8100 brent@compass.com

GCP Team Great Castle Properties 1804169 310-866-7133 will@greatcastleprop.com

The Holcomb Durkovic Group Douglas Elliman 1923778 310-810-4470 info@TheHDGroup.com

Katherine - KDM Realty 1780997 310-490-0214 km@kdmrealtygroup.com

Team Scarborough Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1182792 805-331-1465 team@teamscarborough. com The Hamilton Co. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1415235 1-805-284-8835 home@thehamiltonco.com Pacific Palisades Amalfi Estates Amalfi Estates 1173073 310-293-9280 anthony@amalfiestates. com

The LA Home Girl Compass 1734058 323-251-8626 kenya.reevescosta@ compass.com The Sabatella Group Compass 1945152 626-394-9212 homesbycarmine@gmail. com

Ryan Jancula + Trevor Montano Team Compass 1904981 310-740-9719 rt@compass.com

Thomas Atamian & Associates Compass 1739307 818-235-6325 thomas.atamian@compass. com

The Cilic Group Sotheby’s International Realty 1421044 310-925-1402 Joe.Cilic@sir.com

Tracy Do Team Coldwell Banker 1350025 323-842-4001 tracy@tracydo.com

THE FEIL GROUP Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1739001 310-422-0102 cfeil@thefeilgroup.com Palos Verdes Estates Bisignano Group Vista Sotheby’s International Realty 1116110 310-990-4727 gerad@vistasir.com

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Playa Del Rey Jesse Weinberg & Associates Jesse Weinberg & Associates 1435805 800-804-9132 info@jesseweinberg.com Team Tami Palm Realty Boutique 1745122 310-745-1600 Home@PlayaVistaLiving. com

Rancho Cucamonga Briana Price Team RE/MAX Masters 1849530 999-957-9288 briana@soldbybriana.com Rancho Palos Verdes Jerry and Laura Yutronich Team RE/MAX Estate Properties 1218093 JYutronich@EPLAHomes. com

Rolling Hills Estates Accardo Real Estate Associates Compass 1863340 310-855-3557 tony.accardo@compass. com Santa Barbara Bartron Real Estate Group Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1005021 805-689-4613 team@bartrongroup.com Glick Real Estate Associates Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 950129 805-689-7167 randy@randyglick.com Randy Freed & Kellie Clenet Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 624274 805-895-1799 Randy@TheSantaBarbaraLifestyle.com The Easter Team Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 917775 805-568-4955 associates@easterteamrealtors.com

The Santa Barbara Group Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 1314939 805-886-5735 info@thesantabarbaragroup.com Santa Clarita The Neal Weichel Group RE/MAX of Santa Clarita 1107376 661-313-4663 neal@nealweichel.com

The Miller Team KW Advisors 1389620 310-923-5353 ToddMiller22@Gmail.com The Noel Team KW Advisors 1329053 310-994-8721 sherri@sherrinoel.com The Raskin Group Compass 1912796 310-867-0173 brett.raskin@compass.com

Santa Monica Amy Jamie Homes Compass 1084312 310-613-3071 amy.hollingsworth@ compass.com Diana Braun Group Compass 1362342 310-866-5039 diana.braun@compass.com Homes by Price + Hou Group Compass 1418572 310-625-8983 scott.price@compass.com

The Richard Schulman Team KW Advisors 1427211 310-482-0173 schulmanrd@gmail.com Wheeler Coberly Team Compass 1396072 310-351-6234 wheeler.coberly@compass. com WSA Compass 420587 310-963-9944 ron@ronwynn.com Sherman Oaks

Jacqueline Chernov Team Compass 1361435 310-403-7557 jacqueline.chernov@ compass.com Pence Hathorn Silver Luxury Property Group Compass 670728 310-403-9238 charles.pence@compass. com Regina Vannicola Team Compass 1389034 310-625-2061 regina.vannicola@compass. com

Harriet Cameron Group Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties 675971 818-380-2151 Harriet@harrietcameron. com Sally Forster Jones Group Compass 558939 310-579-2200 sally.jones@compass.com The Chernov Team The Agency 1850113 818-432-1524 Info@ChernovTeam.com Torrance

Sam Araghi & Rudi Behdad Compass 1908976 310-415-1118 hello@SAMandRUDI.com Stepp Commercial KW Advisors 1456379 310-463-2916 rstepp@steppcommercial. com Team Tiffany Rochelle Compass 1247487 310-210-2213 tiffany@compass.com The Eighty8 Group Compass 1965361 310-913-9451 info@eighty8re.com

Maggie Ding Team Compass 1414326 310-937-2027 Maggie@MaggieDing.com Rob Depaoli Team Compass 1918925 310-896-5343 rob.depaoli@compass.com Ryan Shaw Group Compass 1921437 310-963-4027 ryan.shaw@compass.com Schneider Properties Compass 1867363 310-809-4875 nick.schneider@compass. com

Valencia Brandolino Group Compass 1259914 661-600-9410 jeff@brandolinogroup.com The Holly Thompson Team RE/MAX of Valencia 1825192 661-714-2772 holly@scvhollly.com The Kathy Watterson Team RE/MAX of Valencia 1022836 661-284-5066 kathy@kathywatterson. com West Hollywood Alperin Team Sotheby’s International Realty 923981 310-345-9425 sharona.alperin@sir.com West Los Angeles O’Keefe Properties Compass Real Estate 1356816 310-429-4552 matthew@matthewokeefe. com Rory Posin & Kristian Bonk RE/MAX Estate Properties 1030819 310-839-8500 RPosin@EPLAHomes.com Westlake Village Erin Pohl & Bob Pearson Coldwell Banker Realty 827028 805-907-6928 erin@erinandbob.com Lydia Gable Realty Group Compass 1704493 818-383-4335 lydia.gable@compass.com Team Nicki LaPorta and Karen Crystal Compass 1346860 805-625-0304 TeamNickiandKaren@ compass.com Woodland Hills Marc Tahler / Ken Zietz Rodeo Realty 1077251 818-970-3000 marc@marctahler.com

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ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE With region’s abundant sunshine and easy access to all manner of outdoor recreation, it’s no surprise that Los Angeles County attracts students from around the world.

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hether you are a parent looking for quality K-12 options, a rising high school senior navigating college applications, or a working professional considering an advanced degree to accelerate your career, options abound! The Los Angeles County is home to a wide range of K-12 private school options, plus renowned private colleges and universities. With choices that range from small, intimate campuses with specialized curriculums to sprawling institutions with world-class reputations, you’re sure to find your perfect pick.

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D IR ECTORY AGBU Manogian/Demirdjian 6844 Oakdale Avenue, Canoga Park (818) 883-2428 agbumds.org ASA Silver Lake 2772 Rowena Avenue, Los Angeles (323) 666-6706 appliedscholastics.org

Carousel 7899 La Tijera Boulevard, Los Angeles (310) 645-9222 carouselschool.com

Flintridge Preparatory School 4543 Crown Avenue, La Canada Flintridge (818) 790-1178 flintridgeprep.org

Carson Christian School 21828 South Avalon Boulevard, Carson (310) 609-2300 carsonchristian.com

Golden Day Schools 4508 Crenshaw Boulevard, Los Angeles (323) 296-6280

Academy of the Two Hearts 406 33rd Place, Hermosa Beach (310) 748-9870 academyoftwohearts.org

Center for Learning Unlimited 2785 Pacific Coast Highway, Suite G, Torrance (310) 997-1900 cflu.org

Adat Y’shua Academy 23676 Blythe Street, West Hills (818) 222-0200

Chadwick 26800 South Academy Drive, Palos Verdes Peninsula (310) 377-1543 chadwickschool.org

Alex Pilibos Armenian 1615 North Alexandria Avenue, Los Angeles (323) 668-2661 Armenian Mesrobian 8420 Beverly Road, Pico Rivera (562) 699-2057 mesrobian.org Bais Chaya Mushka Chabad 9051 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles (310) 859-8840 bcmla.org Bay Shore School 228 Corona Avenue, Long Beach (631) 968-1100 bayshoreschools.org Berean Fellowship Christian School 38050 30th East Street, Palmdale (661) 272-9980 bereanav.org Brentwood School 100 South Barrington Place, Los Angeles (310) 476-9633 bwscampus.com Bridgeport 13130 Burbank Boulevard, Sherman Oaks (818) 781-0360 thehelpgroup.org The Buckley School 3900 Stansbury Avenue, Sherman Oaks (818) 783-1610 buckley.org Calvary Baptist Church and Schools 2990 Damien Avenue, La Verne (909) 593-5346 calvarybaptist-laverne Calvary Chapel Christian 12808 Woodruff Avenue, Downey (562) 803-6556 cccsdowney.org Calvary Chapel Christian Academy 931 South Maple Avenue, Montebello (323) 724-8464 thearkmontebello.com Campbell Hall 4533 Laurel Canyon Boulevard, North Hollywood (818) 980-7280 campbellhall.org Canyon View School 762 West Cypress Street, San Dimas (909) 599-1227 mckinleycc.org 88 L A M AG . C O M

City of Knowledge 3285 North Garey Avenue, Pomona (909) 392-0251 cityofknowledge.com Crane Academy of Excellence 23119 Vose Street, West Hills (818) 716-7220 Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences 1714 21st Street, Santa Monica (310) 829-7391 xrds.org Da Vinci Design 12501 Isis Avenue, Hawthorne (310) 725-5800 davincischools.org Delphi Academy of Los Angeles 11341 Brainard Avenue, Lake View Terrace (818) 583-1070 delphila.org Desert Christian Schools 44662 15th Street, Lancaster (661) 948-5071 desertchristian.com

Harvard-Westlake School 700 North Faring Road, Los Angeles (818) 980-6692 Hw.com Highland Hall Waldorf School 17100 Superior Street, Northridge (818) 349-1394 highlandhall.org Hillcrest Christian 17531 Rinaldi Street, Granada Hills (818) 368-7071 heritage-schools.org Hope Chapel Academy 2420 Pacific Coast Highway, Hermosa Beach (310) 374-4673 hopechapel.org International School of Los Angeles 1105 W Riverside, Burbank (818) 994-2961 internationalschool.la Keystone Academy 8615 East Florence, Suite 207, Downey (562) 862-7134 keystoneacademyschool.com Lancaster Baptist School 4020 East Lancaster Boulevard, Lancaster (661) 946-4668 lancasterbaptistschool.org Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles 3261 Overland Avenue, Los Angeles (310) 836-3464 lyceeLA.org

Discovery Cube 11800 Foothill Boulevard, Sylmar (818) 686-2823 discoverycube.org

Lighthouse Baptist Academy 2600 North White Avenue, La Verne (909) 596-0060 lbclaverne.com

Echo Horizon School 3430 McManus Avenue, Culver City (310) 838-2442 echohorizon.org

The Lighthouse Church 1220 20th Street, Santa Monica (310) 829-2767 lighthousechurch.com

EF Academy 1505 East Howard Street, Pasadena (626) 507-9300 efacademy.org/pasadena/

Logsdon, Inc. 7600 East Graves Avenue, Rosemead (626) 572-8424

The Episcopal School 6325 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles (323) 462-3752 es-la.com Faith Baptist 7644 Farralone Avenue, Canoga Park (818) 340-6131 myfbs.org

Los Angeles Master Chorale Education Program 135 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles (213) 972-3110 lamasterchorale.org Los Encinos School 17100 Ventura Boulevard, Encino (818) 990-1006 losencinosschool.org

Faith Christian Academy 6100 Florence Avenue, Bell Gardens (562) 806-7540

Loyola High School 1901 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles (213) 381-5121 loyolahs.edu

First Lutheran School 1300 East Colorado Street, Glendale (818) 507-9591 first-lutheran-church.com

Los Angeles Adventist Academy 846 East El Segundo Boulevard, Los Angeles (323) 743-8818 laadventistacademy.com

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION Marymount High School 10643 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles (310) 472-1205 mhs-la.org/page

Sunland Christian School 13216 Leach Street, Sylmar (818) 523-6791 home-schooling.org

Marlborough School 250 South Rossmore Avenue, Los Angeles (323) 935-1147 marlborough.org

Village Christian Schools 8930 Village Avenue, Sun Valley (818) 767-8382 villagechristian.org

New Harvest Christian 11364 East Imperial Highway, Norwalk (562) 929-6034 newharvestnorwalk.church

Village Glen 13130 Burbank Boulevard, Sherman Oaks (818) 781-0360 villageglen.org

New Open World Academy 3201 West Eighth Street, Los Angeles (213) 480-3700 now-lausd-ca.schoolloop.com

Village Glen, Westside 4160 Grandview Boulevard, Los Angeles (310) 751-1101 thehelpgroup.org/school/village-glen-school

New Roads School 3131 Olympic Boulevard, Santa Monica (310) 828-5582 newroads.org

Vistamar School 737 Hawaii Street, El Segundo (310) 643-7377 vistamarschool.org

Nishiyamato Academy 2458 Lomita Boulevard, Lomita (310) 325-7040 nacus.org

The Webb Schools 1175 West Baseline Road, Claremont (909) 482-5214 webb.org

Notre Dame Girls Academy 2851 Overland Avenue, Los Angeles (310) 839-5289 academy.ndasla.org

West Hollywood College Preparatory School 1317 North Crescent Heights Boulevard, West Hollywood (323) 822-7999 westhollywoodschool.com

Notre Dame High School 13645 Riverside Drive, Sherman Oaks (818) 933-3600 ndhs.org Oakwood School 11600 Magnolia Boulevard, North Hollywood (818) 732-3000 oakwoodschool.org Pacific Baptist 3332 Magnolia Avenue, Long Beach (562) 426-5214 pacificbaptistschool.com

Life Pacific College 1100 West Covina Boulevard, San Dimas (909) 599-5433 | lifepacific.edu Loyola Marymount University 1 Loyola Marymount University Drive, Los Angeles (310) 338-2700 Lmu.edu Marymount California University 30800 Palos Verdes Drive East, Rancho Palos Verdes marymountcalifornia.edu Mount Saint Mary’s University 12001 Chalon Road, Los Angeles (310) 954-4000 msmu.edu

Otis College of Art & Design 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles (310) 665-6800 Otis.edu

Private Colleges and Universities Los Angeles County

Pepperdine University 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu (310) 506-4000 Pepperdine.edu

American Film Institute Conservatory 2021 North Western Avenue, Los Angeles (323) 856-7600 afi.com

San Fernando Valley Professional 6215 Laurel Canyon Boulevard, North Hollywood (818) 985-9485

Antioch University 400 Corporate Pointe, Culver City (310) 578-1080 antioch.edu Azusa Pacific University 901 East Alosta Avenue, Azusa (626) 969-3434 Apu.edu Biola University 13800 Biola Avenue, La Mirada (562) 903-6000 biola.edu California Institute of the Arts 24700 McBean Pkwy, Valencia (661) 255-1050 calarts.edu

South Bay Faith Academy 101 South Pacific Coast Highway, Redondo Beach (310) 379-8242 homeschool-life.com

California State Polytechnic Univ., Pomona 3801 West Temple Avenue, Pomona (909) 869-7659 cpp.edu

Stephen S. Wise Temple Elementary School 15500 Stephen South Wise Drive, Los Angeles (310) 476-8561 wisela.org

Claremont McKenna College 888 North Columbia Avenue, Claremont (909) 621-8000 Cmc.edu

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Landmark College 19 River Road South, Putney, VT (802) 387-6718 | landmark.edu

Wildwood School 12201 Washington Place, Los Angeles (310) 397-3134 wildwood.org

Rancho Dominguez Preparatory 4110 Santa Fe Avenue, Long Beach (310) 847-6400 rdps-lausd-ca.schoolloop.com

Sierra Canyon School 11052 Independence Avenue | 20801 Rinaldi Street, Los Angeles (818) 882-8121 sierracanyonschool.org

Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion 3077 University Avenue, Los Angeles (213) 749-3424 | huc.edu

Occidental College 1600 Campus Road, Los Angeles (323) 259-2500 Oxy.edu

Academy for Jewish Religion California 574 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles (213) 884-4133 ajrca.edu

Shalhevet School 910 South Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles (323) 930-9333 shalhevet.org

Harvey Mudd College (Claremont Colleges) 301 Platt Boulevard, Claremont (909) 621-8011 | Hmc.edu

West Valley Christian School 22450 Sherman Way, West Hills (818) 884-4710 westvalleychristianschool.com

Pilgrim School 540 South Commonwealth Avenue, Los Angeles (213) 385-7351 pilgrim-school.org

Seton, Inc. 44751 North Date Avenue, Lancaster (661) 948-8881 setonhome.org

Columbia College Hollywood 18618 West Oxnard Street, Tarzana (818) 345-8414 | Columbiacollege.edu

Southern California Institute of Architecture 960 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles (213) 613-2200 sciarc.edu Southern California University of Health Sciences 16200 Amber Valley Drive, Whittier (562) 947-8755 scuhs.edu Touro College Los Angeles 1317 North Crescent Heights Boulevard, West Hollywood tcla.touro.edu University of La Verne 1950 3rd Street, La Verne (909) 593-3511 Laverne.edu University of Southern California Los Angeles (213) 740-2311 | Usc.edu Vanguard University 55 Fair Drive, Costa Mesa (714) 556-3610 | vanguard.edu Whittier College 13406 E, Philadelphia Street, Whittier (562) 907-4200 | whittier.edu Woodbury University 7500 North Glenoaks Boulevard, Burbank (818) 767-0888 woodbury.edu

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LANDMARK COLLEGE 19 River Road South, Putney, VT 05346 (802) 387-6718 | landmark.edu

Open House: January 6, 2023 (virtual); March 18, 2023 (on campus)

Landmark College—the college for students who learn differently—is a global leader of integrated teaching methods for students with learning differences, including dyslexia, ADHD, autism, and executive function challenges.

LC offers associate and bachelor’s degrees; online programs, including high school dual enrollment, online associate degrees, and College START, a fully online first-year of college; and summer programs for high school and college students. LC's Bay Area Success Center provides in-person or online support for neurodiverse teens and adults.

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Students, faculty, and education professionals are drawn to Landmark College for its innovative educational model, which has been

Year Founded: 1985 Grades Served: College (bachelor's and associate degrees) Current Enrollment Number: 450 Student-Faculty Ratio: 6:1 Graduation Rate: N/A Uniforms Required: N/A

developed over four decades of working with students who learn differently. LC’s curriculum, designed for students to master academic skills and strategies in a way that builds from semester to semester, helps them become confident, self-empowered, and independently successful learners. Ninety percent of Landmark College graduates are employed or in graduate school, and LC alumni graduate at a significantly higher rate when compared to other college students with learning differences.

LC's on-campus and online programs offer career support that begins during the application process and continues beyond graduation.

The Office of Career Connections provides a robust menu of career and internship services designed for students who learn differently, including on- and off-campus internships and an Employment Readiness Program for students who are just starting out in the workforce.

The Landmark College Institute for Research and Training pioneers LD research and trains educators to implement student-centered best practices. LC’s Center for Neurodiversity champions cultural, social, DEI, and scholarly perspectives, which aim to strengthen an understanding of neurodivergence in the workplace and society at large. Find out why U.S. News & World Report has rated Landmark College a top college in the Northeast for Undergraduate Teaching and Innovation! Discover your learning ability at Landmark College!

Tuition: $62,720 Top Awards/Recognitions: U.S. News & World Report top college in the Northeast for Undergraduate Teaching and Innovation; Great Value Colleges' Best Disability Friendly Schools Accreditations: New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE) L A M AG . C O M 91

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EF ACADEMY PASADENA INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL 1505 East Howard Street, Pasadena, CA 91104 (626) 507-9300 | efacademy.org/pasadena Open House: Saturday, February 25, 2023

EF Academy Pasadena, an international day and boarding school, opens a world of opportunities for students by providing them with a transformational, global education, thorough preparation for university and a future that knows no borders.

We believe that living and learning in an international community helps make the world a better place. Through individual and collective learning, we empower young people from all nationalities and backgrounds to realize their full potential, become open-minded individuals, and make a positive impact in their communities and in the world.

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The EF Academy Pasadena campus focuses on student-centric learning and houses our signature Global Leadership program. This program prepares the next generation of global changemakers to meet the challenges of the 21st century by designing sophisticated solutions to address local and global issues. EF Academy allows students to experience the whole world in their classroom.

Year Founded: 2019 Grades Served: 9-12 Current Enrollment Number: 125 Student-Faculty Ratio: 13:1

Graduation Rate: Based on statistics from our New York Campus: 99% Uniforms Required: No Tuition: Day Student: $42,000, 5-day Boarding: $61,500, 7-day: $69,500 Accreditations: California Department of Education, MSA

THE HELP GROUP SCHOOLS Sherman Oaks, Valley Glen, Van Nuys, and Culver City (877) 943-5747 | thehelpgroup.org Open House: Schedule an appointment at admissions@thehelpgroup.org At the heart of The Help Group’s efforts is the commitment to helping young people with autism spectrum disorder, learning disabilities, ADHD, developmental delays, abuse, and emotional challenges fulfill their potential to lead positive, productive, and rewarding lives. The Help Group also provides affirming support to all LGBTQ+ children, young adults, and their families, including those with social and learning differences.

The Help Group’s 13 specialized day schools offer preschool, elementary, middle school, high school, and transition programs, and are certified by the California State Department of Education. The schools, located on four campuses in the Los Angeles area, provide prescriptive teaching, small classes, individualized curriculum, and enrichment activities to maximize learning, social skills development, and emotional well-being. Help Group students are grouped according to their needs and peer level in a supportive environment, and are also provided with school experiences, such as athletics, prom, and more.

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The Help Group Schools include Bridgeport School, Bridgeport Vocational Center, North Hills Prep, Sunrise School, Summit View School, STEM3 Academy, Village Glen School, Westview School of Arts, and Young Learners.

Year Founded: 1975 Grades Served: Pre-K – 12+ (up to age 22) Student-Faculty Ratio: 7:1 minimum Tuition: Private and public funding accepted College Prep and AP Classes Offered: Yes

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Accreditations: Certified by the California State Department of Education; WASC (North Hills Prep, STEM3 Academy, Summit View School, Village Glen School, Westview School of the Arts)

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LE LYCÉE FRANÇAIS DE LOS ANGELES 3261 Overland Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90034 (310) 836-3464 | lyceela.org Open House: January 10, 2023, and February 16, 2023 Le Lycée (pronounced lee-say) offers a challenging international education that emphasizes collaboration, research, respect, compassion, and leadership.

A blend of the sciences and arts, Le Lycée's dual curricula (International and French section programs) provide each student with the ability to learn, think, and make decisions based on a sound foundation of logic, knowledge, and character. Academics are balanced with art, drama, music, and sports, as well as strong core human values. LyceeLA students become engaged, vibrant, and productive global citizens.

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NO NEED TO SPEAK FRENCH TO ENROLL.

Year Founded: 1964 Grades Served: preschool to 12th grade Current Enrollment Number: 775 Student-Faculty Ratio: 7:1 Graduation Rate: 100% Uniforms Required: Yes Tuition: $25,350–$38,440

Top Awards/Recognitions: Offer College Board AP Capstone, Classic Baccalaureate (BAC), and the Baccalaureate French International (BFI), and the U.S. High School Diploma. Six age-appropriate campuses in West Los Angeles and Pacific Palisades. Affiliated with Theatre Raymond Kabbaz, the contemporary performance space showcasing eclectic plays, concerts, dance shows, and films.

Accreditations: WASC, French Ministry of Education, NAIS, AEFE

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LOS ANGELES 1105 West Riverside Drive, Burbank, CA 91506 (818) 994-2961 | internationalschool.la Open House: Virtual admissions events held weekly on Thursdays and every other Tuesday.

The International School of Los Angeles is an independent, international, highquality school that offers both a French immersion track from preschool through 12th grade, which prepares students for the French Baccalauréat; and a separate international high school track that prepares students for the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in grades 11 and 12. Both programs fulfill the school’s mission of producing bilingual critical thinkers who are open-minded, confident, and caring global citizens.

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The school was established in 1978 as a nonprofit organization by visionaries of varied cultural backgrounds who felt that the Los Angeles community needed a school that would prepare children for life in an increasingly international environment. Our school, located across four campuses, is now recognized as one of the most academically challenging private high schools in the United States and continues its long commitment to academic excellence.

Year Founded: 1978 Grades Served: Preschool–12th grade Current Enrollment Number: 1,050 Student-Faculty Ratio: (grade dependent) 1:8–1:12 Graduation Rate: 100% Tuition: (grade dependent) $19,895–$25,725

Top Awards/Recognitions: Of the class of 2022, 56% of students received 40 acceptances from the Top 100 Global universities (US News & World Report).

Accreditations: French Ministry of Education, Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS), International Baccalaureate® (IB). Member of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) and the National Honor Society (NHS).

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MARLBOROUGH 250 South Rossmore Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90004 (323) 935-1147 | marlborough.org If you ask our 530 students why they chose Marlborough, they will share 530 different reasons. That’s because there’s no “one way” to be a Marlborough student. The hallmark of a Marlborough education is not only expanding what you know—it’s about exploring all that could be. From Honors Research to Athletics, Chamber Choir to Entrepreneurship and Fabrication, and Debate to Post-Apocalyptic Literature – every student’s Marlborough experience is unique.

An independent school for girls located in the heart of Los Angeles, Marlborough offers both a middle school and upper school program on our unified campus. With students coming from hundreds of neighborhoods across the city, we embrace differences, seek commonalities, and prioritize health and kindness to positively impact each other and our world.

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Guided by our legacy as a leader in girls’ education, we seek to redefine excellence and boldly envision the future as a world where equity leads education.

Year Founded: 1889 Grades Served: 7-12 Current Enrollment Number: 530 Student-Faculty Ratio: 7:1 Graduation Rate: 100% Uniforms Required: Yes Tuition: $47,400 Accreditations: CAIS, WASC, NAIS, ICGS

Top Awards/Recognitions: • In July 2022, we welcomed Jennifer M. Ciccarelli as our ninth Head of School.

• The Frank & Eileen Accelerator Program for the Leaders of Tomorrow launched in 2022, providing the funding, education, and mentorship for any student interested in entrepreneurship to launch a business.

• Thanks to the Rise & Rally capital campaign, a newly renovated performing arts center (Caswell Hall) and health and well-being spaces were opened in 2021.

• During the 2021-2022 season, Marlborough Athletics celebrated nine league championships, four CIF-SS championship appearances, and one CIF-SS championship title.

SIERRA CANYON SCHOOL 11052 Independence Avenue | 20801 Rinaldi Street Chatsworth, CA 91311 (818) 882-8121 | sierracanyonschool.org Open House: Find visiting opportunities at VisitingSC.org

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Sierra Canyon School is a complete Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12 experience that fully equips students to rethink the familiar and embrace the unknown. It is a place where ingenious teachers, intrepid students, and forward-thinking leaders work together to shape an education on the adventurous edge. Teachers create meaningful, hands-on learning experiences in the classroom, on the stage, on the playing field and court, and on life-changing journeys. Graduates are primed to excel at the finest colleges and universities, forge purposeful careers, and employ their unshakable optimism to improve the wider world. At Sierra Canyon School, our students gain unstoppable momentum to learn and explore, propelling them toward a lifetime of self-directed success.

Year Founded: 1978 Grades Served: Pre-K–12 Current Enrollment Number: 1,150 Student-Faculty Ratio: 8:1 Lower Campus; 9:1 Upper Campus Graduation Rate: 100% Uniforms Required: Lower Campus (Pre-K–6) Yes; Upper Campus (7–12) Dress Code Only

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Tuition: $20,000 to $40,770 Top Awards/Recognitions: According to Niche, Sierra Canyon School is ranked: #4 of 75 Best Private K-12 Schools in Los Angeles Area #7 of 258 Most Diverse Private High Schools in Los Angeles Area Accreditations: NAIS, CAIS, Western Association of Schools and Colleges

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39TH ANNUAL ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GALA On October 27th, Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California (AJSOCAL) celebrated their 39th Anniversary with a vibrant indoor/outdoor VIP reception at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM). The theme was UNITED: ART IN ACTION, representing the power of API creativity and expression in social justice. With over 500 API guests and allies from the worlds of social justice, arts and entertainment, gathering to unite in their cause: the fight against anti-Asian hate.

The night was emceed by Denise Dador, ABC7 Correspondent, and deejayed by DJ Gingee. Highlights of the evening included performances by Farishtey, Bhangra dance group, and St. James’ School Korean drummers. Guests were invited to experience the all-new, all-electric Cadillac LYRIQ alongside custom wine glass engraving. House of Suntory was pouring their signature HAKU Vodka, ROKU Gin and TOKI Suntory Whisky cocktails and Kozaemon was sampling their flight of sake offerings.

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1. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California 2. Guests enjoying drinks at the House of Suntory ROKU Gin bar 3. DJ Gingee, spinning at the I AM ADVANCING JUSTICE DJ Booth 4. Guests enjoying Kozaemon Sake 5. Guests enjoying drinks at the House of Suntory HAKU Vodka bar 6. Jamie Yancovitz (middle) receiving the Joseph IIeto Courage Award from Ish Ileto (right) and Paul Chan (left) 7. Korean Drumming Troupe performance 8. Custom wine glass engraving compliments of Cadillac 9. Left to right: AJSOCAL CEO Connie Chung Joe and Artists at Work fellows jason chu and Audrey Chan 10. The all-new, all-electric Cadillac LYRIQ 11. The outdoor gala activation at the Japanese American National Museum 12. Bhangara dance performance 13. House of Suntory TOKI Japanese Whisky being poured for a guest

PHOTO CREDITS: JOHN SALANGSANG/SHUTTERSTOCK AND FURIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

The gala marked the debut of the outdoor JANM exhibit and flash card series An American Vocabulary: Words in Action by Audrey Chan and jason chu, the two fellows of the Artists at Work program, an AJSOCAL collaboration with JANM. The Joseph Ileto Courage Award was presented to Jamie Yancovitz—CEO and founder of SurvivalArts, dedicated to protecting and healing victims from violence through indigenous arts.

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WEST ❂ Birdie G’s SANTA MONICA

THE BREAKDOWN » American $$

James Beard Award–nominated chef Jeremy Fox gets personal with a sunny spot named after his young daughter. The high-low menu is full of playful riffs on comfort food, from mixed summer cucumbers to a matzo ball soup with carrot miso to a next-level relish tray. Don’t miss the jiggly Rose Petal pie for dessert. 2421 Michigan Ave., 310-310-3616, or birdiegsla.com. Full bar.

❂ Broad Street Oyster Co. MALIBU » Seafood $$

If ever there was a car picnic scene, it’s at this open-air spot overlooking Malibu Lagoon State Beach. You can grab a great lobster roll (topped with uni or caviar if you’re feeling extra fancy), towers of raw seafood, great clam chowder, and a burger with Nueske’s bacon that shouldn’t be overlooked. 23359 Pacific Coast Hwy., 424-644-0131, or broadstreetoyster.com. Beer and wine.

❂ Cassia

» Southeast Asian $$$ Bryant Ng mines his Chinese Singaporean heritage, honors wife Kim’s Vietnamese background, and works in the wood-grilling technique he honed at Mozza at this grand Southeast Asian brasserie. Hunker down at a table on the patio—or treat yourself to some great takeout—to devour turmeric-marinated ocean trout or chickpea curry with scallion clay-oven bread. Wherever and however you enjoy Ng’s cooking, you won’t be disappointed. 1314 7th St., 310-393-6699, or cassiala.com. Full bar.

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✤❂ Cobi’s

» Southeast Asian $$$ Coming here is like visiting a perfectly artdirected beach house where everything—from the colors on the walls to the curries on the plate—just pops. Grab a date, grab your friends,

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and get to the party. Don’t miss the beautifully ferocious Devil Chicken curry, amped up by both fresh and dried bird’s eye chiles and accompanied by a saucer of habanero vinegar that magically cuts the heat and enhances it at the same time.

2104 Main St., 424-238-5195, cobis.la, or @cobis.la.

Beer and wine.

❂ Colapasta

» Italian $ It’s equally pleasant to grab and go or eat at this quiet, affordable spot that features fresh pastas topped with farmers’ market fare. The colorful, poppy-seed-sprinkled beet ravioli is delicate and delicious, while the gramigna with beef ragù is hearty and satisfying. 1241 5th St., 310-310-8336, or colapasta.com. Beer and wine.

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❂ Crudo e Nudo SANTA MONICA » Seafood $$

Brian Bornemann, the 31-year-old former executive chef at Michael’s Santa Monica, has gone his own way. He and his girlfriend, Leena Culhane, have launched a sustainable neighborhood joint that’s, by turns, a coffee shop, a seafood market, and a casual restaurant where you can nibble impeccably prepared crudo, tuna tartare toasts, and vegan Caesar salads on the patio while sipping a thoughtfully selected natural wine. Though the project began as a pandemic pop-up, it’s now an exciting brick-and-mortar spot from one of the city’s most promising young toques. 2724 Main St., 310-310-2120, crudoenudo.com, or @crudo_e_nudo.

Beer and wine.

❂ Dear John’s CULVER CITY » Steak House $$$

There are still good times and great food to be had at this former Sinatra hang stylishly revamped

by Josiah Citrin and Hans Röckenwagner. Steakhouse classics—crab Louie, oysters Rockefeller, thick prime steaks—pay homage to the lounge’s Rat Pack past and can be enjoyed on a sunny new patio or to go. 11208 Culver Blvd., 310-881-9288, or dearjohnsbar.com. Full bar.

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❂ Etta

CULVER CITY

» Italian $$$

With a sprawling patio, concise menu, and various party tricks (the restaurant calls them “moments”), Etta is primed for good times. You can go big and order a $120 short rib “picnic” with various accoutrements for the table or opt to have wine poured into your mouth from a large jug while a server snaps Polaroids. But you can also just pop in for a pizza or excellent pasta at the bar. For dessert, there are shots of tequila and coffee liquor topped with macaroon. 8801 Washington Blvd., 424-570-4444, ettarestaurant.com, or @ettarestaurant. Full bar.

❂ Felix VENICE » Italian $$$

At Evan Funke’s clubby, floral-patterned trattoria, the rigorous dedication to tradition makes for superb focaccia and pastas. The tonnarelli cacio e pepe—strands of pasta adorned only with pecorino Romano cheese and black pepper—nods to Roman shepherds who used the spice to keep warm, while the rigatoni all’Amatriciana with bacon, tomato, and pecorino Romano sings brilliantly alongside Italian country wines. 1023 Abbot Kinney Blvd., 424-387-8622, or felixla.com. Full bar.

❂ The Hideaway BEVERLY HILLS » Steak House $$$

Hollywood actors Ryan Phillippe and Evan Ross invested in this clubby ode-to-1970s-Baja California Mexican steak house, where cocktail king Julian Cox makes margaritas to sip alongside snapper ceviche or New York Wagyu steak with chimichurri. 421 N. Rodeo Dr., thehideawaybeverlyhills.com. Full bar.

✤ Matū

BEVERLY HILLS

» Steak House $$$

Prolific restaurateur Jerry Greenberg (Sugarfish, Nozawa Bar, KazuNori, Uovo, HiHo Cheeseburger) and his partners are convinced that they serve the world’s best beef, prepared in the most optimal way.

After trying their five-course, $85 Wagyu dinner featuring sustainably raised, 100 percent grass-fed beef from First Light Farms in New Zealand, you might see things their way. Magnificently marbled steaks are cooked to “warm red,” which is the color of rare and the temperature of medium rare. The result is meat that’s tender, luscious, and strikingly beefy.

239 S. Beverly Dr., 424-317-5031, or matusteak.com. Full bar.

❂ Ospi VENICE » Italian $$$

Jackson Kalb’s sprawling new Italian joint brings bustle and outdoor tables to a corner on an otherwise quiet stretch. Pastas, including a spicy rigatoni alla vodka and raschiatelli with a pork rib ragù, are sublime, and most travel remarkably well if you’re looking to do takeout, which is the only option for lunch. Roman-style pizzas boast a uniquely crispy, cracker-thin crust; to get the full crunch, have a slice as you drive your takeout home. 2025 Pacific Ave., 424-443-5007, ospivenice.com, or @ospiveni. Full bar.

❂ Pasjoli

» French $$$$ Dave Beran’s à la carte spot bucks the trends and eschews bistro clichés in favor of old-fashioned thrills—an elaborate pressed duck prepared just as Escoffier would have and served with potatoes au gratin dauphinois—and modern French fare. The showy duck must be reserved in advance as only a limited number of birds are available each night.

But there are plenty of other exciting dishes on the menu, such as the chicken liver in brioche and panroasted sea bass with lobster velouté. 2732 Main St., 424-330-0020, or pasjoli.com. Full bar.

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DOWNTOWN ❂ Angry Egret Dinette CHINATOWN » Sandwiches $$

Wes Avila has left Guerrilla Tacos and is focusing on torta-esque sandwiches at this heartfelt

new venture. Standouts include the Saguaro with tempura-fried squash blossoms, heirloom tomato, market greens, ricotta cheese, and salsa China. It’s hearty and decadent but also wonderfully nuanced. There’s ample outdoor seating, but sandwiches with fried ingredients miraculously manage to remain crispy and travel well. 970 N. Broadway, Ste. 114, 213-278-0987, aedinette.com, or @angryegretdinette.

Badmaash

HISTORIC CORE » Indian $$ This Indian gastropub concept comes from the father-and-sons team of Pawan, Nakul, and Arjun Mahendro, who are all well versed in the culinary techniques of East and West. The menu features contemporary mash-ups, like a version of poutine smothered in chicken tikka, charred tandoori chicken, and braised lamb. If tradition’s your thing, you’ll be comforted by what they call Good Ol’ Saag Paneer. 108 W. 2nd St., 213-221-7466, or badmaashla.com. Beer and wine. Also at 418 N. Fairfax Ave., Fairfax District, 213-281-5185.

✤❂ Caboco

ARTS DISTRICT » Brazilian $$ Rodrigo Oliveira and fellow chef/partner Victor Vasconcellos are here to show Los Angeles that there’s a lot more to Brazilian food than churrascarias, so they’re serving habit-forming fried tapioca cubes and a vegan stew (moqueca de caju) headlined by cashew fruit that’s startlingly complex.

Wash it all down with refreshing caipirinhas— the bar makes no less than five different kinds.

1850 Industrial St., 213-405-1434, cabocola.com, or @caboco.la. Full bar.

✤❂ Caldo Verde ARTS DISTRICT » Portuguese $$$

Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne have opened a Portuguese cousin to their beloved Spanish-infused A.O.C. The restaurant loads up its namesake seafood stew with a generous amount of local rock crab, grilled linguica, mussels, kale, and potato.

It’s a tremendous example of the rough-andtumble food that Goin loves—dishes in which she deftly balances salt, fat, and bold flavors with California brightness. A starter of Ibérico ham, anchovies, and olives is called “small plate of salty favorites” because Goin understands that you visit restaurants to be jolted and enjoy food that’s a bit more intense than what you typically eat at home. 1100 S. Broadway, 213-806-1023, or properhotel.com/downtown-la. Full bar.

❂ Camphor

ARTS DISTRICT » French/Indian $$$$ “The main plan for this restaurant was to transport people,” says Max Boonthanakit of the new Arts District bistro he opened with Michelin-starred chef Lijo George. “Bistro” may be an understatement, given the restaurant’s stunning minimalist interior and exquisitely prepared dishes, but Camphor is, at its core, a French bistro where plump oysters are served in a bath of amaretto mignonette and the beef tartare comes with a side of tempura-fried herbs. Boonthanakit and George aim to bring something completely new to L.A.—that is, something distinctively not L.A. Camphor’s access to the spices from George’s southern Indian homeland makes it a standout. 923 E. 3rd St., Ste. 109, 213-626-8888, or camphor.la. Full bar.

❂ Cha Cha Chá ARTS DISTRICT » Mexican $$

The huge, lively, plant-filled rooftop and some mezcal would be enough for a good night out at this Mexico City import, but chef Alejandro Guzmán, an alum of Le Comptoir, has packed his menu with quiet thrills. Carnitas get taken up a level by an orange reduction that comes at the end of the long cooking process. For dessert, the carrot flan is a small revelation, a surprising, exciting riff on carrot cake. The interior bar, La Barra, offers up unique mezcal cocktails. 812 E. 3rd St., 213-548-8487, or chachacha.la. Full bar.

❂ Girl & the Goat ARTS DISTRICT » Eclectic $$$

At long last, Top Chef winner Stephanie Izard has brought her hit Chicago restaurant to a light, airy space and pretty patio in downtown L.A. with seating for 200. The lengthy menu is full of international intrigue and the unexpected flavor combinations for which Izard is known. Roasted beets mingle with a yuzu-kosho vinaigrette. A salmon poke features chili crunch, avocado, and strawberry. Goat makes an appearance in both a liver mousse starter and a hearty curry main.

555-3 Mateo St., 213-799-4628, girlandthegoat.com, or @girlandthegoatla. Full bar.

❂ Kodō

DOWNTOWN » Japanese $$$ Everything about the look of this new izakayastyle restaurant in the Kensho Rykn hotel is serene. But don’t be fooled by the restaurant’s visual tranquility. The energy of Kodō, which translates to “heartbeat,” is intentionally boisterous because the chef, Yoya Takahashi, wanted to stay true to what a Kyoto-style izakaya would be—a fun place with an upbeat vibe and traditional Japanese bar fare. So the food comes out fast and without pretense. A Caesar salad of Little Gem lettuce is blanketed with bonito flakes.

The off-menu toro, served with a tangy cilantro sauce, minced tomato, and cucumber, has the kind of fatty, melt-in-your-mouth quality you can’t forget (and don’t want to). 710 S. Santa Fe Ave., 213-302-8010, or kodo.la. Full bar.

❂ Pizzeria Bianco ARTS DISTRICT » Pizza $

Chris Bianco’s L.A. debut at ROW DTLA is a hit. During the day, a line forms for slices of his New York-style takeout pizza. At night, it’s full-service dining, featuring the wood-fired pizza Bianco made famous. 1320 E. 7th St., Ste. 100, pizzeriabianco.com.

CENTRAL ❂ Alta Adams WEST ADAMS » California Soul Food $$

Riffing on his grandmother’s recipes, Watts native Keith Corbin loads up his gumbo with market veggies and enlivens his collard greens with a smoked oil. Hot sauce splashed onto skillet-fried chicken is pure pleasure, enhanced by a bourbon drink the bar tints with cacao-spiced bitters and Luxardo cherries. Finish the night by taking on a toasted angel food strawberry shortcake. 5359 W. Adams Blvd., 323-571-4999, or altaadams.com. Full bar.

❂ A.O.C.

BEVERLY GROVE » California $$$ Driven by culinary excellence, A.O.C. is anchored by a courtyard with soft sunlight and laurel trees. Caroline Styne’s wine list doesn’t shy away from the ecology of vineyards, while Suzanne Goin’s cooking has become indispensable.

Carefully constructed salads showcase vegetables at their best, and the roasted chicken with panzanella is both an homage to San Francisco’s Zuni Café and a classic in and of itself. The bacontopped sticky bun is legendary. 8700 W. 3rd St., 310-859-9859, or aocwinebar.com. Full bar.

Also at 11648 San Vicente Blvd., 310-806-6464, Brentwood.

✤ Bicyclette

» French $$$ Walter and Margarita Manzke’s delightful, delicious follow-up to République brings a bit of Paris to Pico. The menu is stocked with exactingly executed bistro standards: onion soup with oozy cheese, hearty short-rib bourguignon, and a luxurious bouillabaisse. Margarita’s baguettes and beautiful desserts are as great as ever. Resisting Bicyclette’s charms is futile. 9575 W. Pico Blvd., 424-500-9575, or bicyclettela.com. Full bar.

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Brandoni Pepperoni FAIRFAX DISTRICT » Pizza $$

Six nights a week, Brandon Gray turns out some of L.A.’s most exciting pizzas. Gray, a veteran of Navy kitchens and top local restaurants like Providence, brings boundless imagination to his pies. They’re topped with premium ingredients—Jidori chicken, Sungold tomatoes, smoked pork shoulder—in exciting combinations. A curry-Dijonnaise dressing renders a side salad surprisingly memorable. 7257 Beverly Blvd., 323-306-4968, or brandoni-pepperoni.com. Wine to go.

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L.A. Works’ Martin Luther King Day of Service

January 16, 12 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Join L.A. Works for Los Angeles’ largest volunteer event celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. King! The event focuses on climate change and the impact of environmental racism on our community.

Events feature: • Food Festival & Nonprofit Fair: A sampling of sustainable food at booths hosted by local restaurants + learning the impact of climate change on Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities.

• Volunteer Activities: A series of eco-action stations to create environmentally friendly projects and assemble vegan meals for Angelenos in need.

For more information and to participate visit laworks.com/mlk

Chi Spacca

HANCOCK PARK » Italian $$$$ The best Northern Italian steak restaurant in the city, Chi Spacca serves a bistecca alla Fiorentina so tender that it would make a vegan blush. In this meat-eater’s paradise, the cuisine comes courtesy of 2014 James Beard Award-winning chef Nancy Silverton, owner of Osteria Mozza, Pizzeria Mozza, and Mozza2Go. And if red meat’s not your thing, try the chicken or octopus. But if it is, take some of the cured meats home—you’ll thank us. 6610 Melrose Ave., 323-297-1133, or chispacca.com. Full bar.

❂ Fanny’s

» French $$$ Even with a glass wall opening onto exhibits, architect Renzo Piano succeeded in creating an eatery at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures that feels quite cinematic. While by day, Fanny’s is a café that serves salads and sandwiches to museumgoers, by night, it’s a glam, modern vision of an old-school Hollywood hangout.

Captains in suits push carts of gooey, French, washed-rind cow’s milk cheeses and carve thick, bloody slices of côte de boeuf tableside. But there are also plenty of modern touches. Instead of a live band, Fanny’s has a different DJ spinning records every night. Chef Raphael Francois (Le Cirque, Tesse) sends out perfect twists on a Caesar salad and plays around with menu items like hamachi crudo on a bed of sweet pickled grapes and jicama with brown butter and cilantro. 6067 Wilshire Blvd., 323-930-3080, or fannysla.com. Full bar.

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❂ Gigi’s

HOLLYWOOD MEDIA DISTRICT » French $$$

With its sceney Sycamore Avenue location and gorgeous, illustration-lined interiors, Gigi’s could easily succeed with subpar fare. But chef Matt Bollinger’s bistro classics—like curry mussels, steak tartare, and roasted chicken—are done quite well, if priced rather high. The wine list from beverage director Kristin Olszewski, an Osteria Mozza alum, is surprisingly interesting, with various natural and biodynamic options on offer. 904 N. Sycamore Ave., 323-499-1138, gigis.la, or @gigis_la. Full bar.

Harold & Belle’s JEFFERSON PARK » Southern Creole $$

For Creole-style food—a mélange of French, African, and Native American flavors—Harold & Belle’s is as close to the Dirty Coast as you’ll come on the West Coast. The crawfish étouffée in spicy gravy will have you humming zydeco, while the bourbon bread pudding will leave you with a Sazerac-worthy buzz. 2920 W. Jefferson Blvd., 323-735-9023, or haroldandbelles.com. Full bar.

✤ Horses

HOLLYWOOD » Eclectic $$$ Versatile power-couple chefs Liz Johnson and Will Aghajanian have created a lively California bistro that feels both old school and of the moment.

Located in the red-boothed space that was home to Ye Coach & Horses, the mostly Europeaninspired menu is rooted in both classic technique and free-spirited cooking. A sobrassada panino with white American cheese and a drizzle of honey is thin, crispy, sweet, savory, creamy, and spicy: an extremely pleasing little bite. Lumache pasta with vodka sauce gets an unexpected and delightful kick from ’nduja. 7617 W. Sunset Blvd., or horsesla.com. Full bar.

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Hotville Chicken

BALDWIN HILLS/CRENSHAW » Fried chicken $ With her hot chicken joint, Kim Prince is doing her family’s legacy justice—she’s the niece of André Prince Jeffries, owner of Nashville legend Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack, where hot fried chicken is said to have originated. Prince adds spice at every step in the cooking process to produce a complex, layered flavor. Sides, like mac and cheese, are also winners. 4070 Marlton Ave., 323-792-4835, or hotvillechicken.com. No alcohol.

Luv2Eat Thai Bistro HOLLYWOOD » Thai $$

Vibrant flavors and spices abound at this stripmall favorite from two Phuket natives. The crab curry, with a whole crustacean swimming in a creamy pool of deliciousness, is not to be missed (it travels surprisingly well), but the expansive menu is full of winners, from the massaman curry to the Thai fried chicken with sticky rice and sweet pepper sauce. 6660 W. Sunset Blvd., 323-498-5835, luv2eatthai.com, or @luv2eat.thaibistro.

Meteora

HANCOCK PARK » Eclectic $$$$ Chef Jordan Kahn, who received two Michelin stars for his tasting menu at Vespertine, sees Meteora as a restaurant about rediscovery.

“Utilizing primordial cooking methods, we seek to generate new flavors of past experience” is an excerpt from the menu. A vegetable option includes fire-cooked stone fruit served with crispy brassica leaves, grilled roses, quark, cured duck breast, and lettuce leaves for wrapping. There’s the most perfectly grilled sea bream wrapped in banana leaf. The staff, dressed in white or light earth tones, are clearly trained with precision in mind. 6703 Melrose Ave., 323-402-4311, or meteora.la.

Full bar.

❂ Ronan

FAIRFAX DISTRICT » Cal-Italian $$ At Daniel and Caitlin Cutler’s chic pizzeria, the pies—especially the How ‘Nduja Want It? with spicy sausage, gorgonzola crema, green onion, and celery—are the clear stars, but it’s a big mistake not to explore the entire menu. It’s filled with delicious delights, from cacio e pepe risotto to a sea bass served with an ever-changing assortment of banchan. 7315 Melrose Ave., 323-917-5100, ronanla.com, or @ronan_la. Full bar.

❂ Son of a Gun BEVERLY GROVE » Seafood $$

Florida-raised chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo deliver a certain brand of sun-drenched seashore nostalgia. Dropping into the nautically themed dining room for chilled peel-and-eat shrimp and a hurricane feels as effortless as dipping your toes in the sand. There are buttery lobster rolls and fried-chicken sandwiches alongside artfully plated crudos. 8370 W. 3rd St., 323-782-9033, or sonofagunrestaurant.com. Full bar.

❂ Soulmate

» Mediterranean $$$ It’s lovely outside, and there’s a stunning new WeHo spot with a patio that can hold 75 attractive people, plus hours that go to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Starters include various jamones and spicy paella bites. Further down the menu, there’s a lot of seafood options, from wood-fired octopus with charred romesco to salmon crudo. 631 N. Robertson Blvd., 310-734-7764, soulmateweho.com, or @soulmateweho. Full bar.

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EAST ✤❂ Agnes Restaurant & Cheesery » Eclectic $$

PASADENA

This low-key charmer—the work of two alums of acclaimed San Francisco Italian joint

Flour + Water—deftly mixes midwestern hospitality and European technique. The casual lunch is all about cheese and charcuterie boards and sandwiches. At dinner, excellent pastas, smartly prepared proteins, thoughtfully selected wines, and great cocktails join the party on the spacious patio. 40 W. Green St., 626-389-3839, agnesla.com, or @agnes_pasadena. Full bar.

❂ All Day Baby SILVER LAKE » Eclectic $$

Jonathan Whitener’s Here’s Looking At You is, sadly, closed, but his thrilling cooking continues on a bustling Eastside corner. Whether you opt for smoked spare ribs, a hoki fish sandwich, or a breakfast sandwich on pastry chef Thessa Diadem’s sublime biscuits, it’s all great. 3200 W. Sunset Blvd., 323-741-0082, alldaybabyla.com, or @alldaybabyla.

❂ Bub and Grandma’s GLASSELL PARK » Sandwiches $$

This sub shop in Glassell Park serves plates of brisket sandwiches made with the same crusty loaves of sourdough and squares of ciabatta that owner Andy Kadin sells to 150 of L.A.’s most prominent restaurants. Kadin refers to the sandwiches as “Bub Subs,” which pastry chef Christopher Lier, from Osteria and Pizzeria Mozza, spent at least six months developing. Chef Zach Jarrett heads the kitchen at Bub and Grandma’s, which currently serves

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breakfast and lunch, both centered on the heavenly bread. 3507 Eagle Rock Blvd., Glassell Park, bubandgrandmas.com.

Dunsmoor

GLASSELL PARK » Southern American $$ “We don’t use processed foods because we try to work within the limitations from before the Gilded Age.” This culinary ethos is the force behind Brian Dunsmoor’s new restaurant, where his devotion to “heritage cookery” is on full display and activity centers on a wood-fired hearth.

3501 Eagle Rock Blvd., Glassell Park, 323-686-6027, or dunsmoor.la. Beer and wine.

❂ Eszett

SILVER LAKE » Eclectic $$ This stylish, cozy wine bar brings warm hospitality to the strip-mall space formerly occupied

by Trois Familia. Chef Spencer Bezaire’s menu deftly brings in flavors from around the globe without feeling overly contrived. Chicken wings are accompanied by salsa macha. Don’t miss the big fries. 3510 W. Sunset Blvd., 323-522-6323, or eszettla.com. Beer and wine.

❂ Found Oyster EAST HOLLYWOOD » Seafood $$$

This tiny oyster bar was a pre-pandemic favorite, and chef Ari Kolender’s seafood dishes still thrill when taken to go or enjoyed on the restaurant’s “boat deck.” The scallop tostada with yuzu kosho and basil is a mustorder, and a bisque sauce takes the basic lobster roll to new heights. Interesting, affordable wines add to the fun. 4880 Fountain Ave., 323-486-7920, foundoyster.com, or @foundoyster.

Beer and wine.

❂ Hippo

HIGHLAND PARK

» Cal-Italian $$

Hidden in a wood-trussed dining room behind Triple Beam Pizza, this Cal-Ital restaurant from Mozza vet Matt Molina balances casual and refined. Snappy wax beans are sluiced with vinaigrette for a picnic-worthy salad. Great pastas and juicy grilled chicken thighs deliver the unfussy pleasure found at the best neighborhood spots. Eclectic regular specials like haute corn dogs add to the fun. 5916 ½ N. Figueroa St., 323-545-3536, or hipporestaurant.com. Full bar.

NATALEE THAI CUISINE www.nataleethai.com 10101 Venice Blvd., Culver City 998 S. Robertson Blvd., Beverly Hills

(310) 202-7003 (310) 855-9380

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❂ Jin Cook GLENDALE » Korean $

“Chicken” Alfredo JOI CAFÉ

This pasta has a cashew cheese sauce with plantbased “chicken” and is made from a quinoa-and-corn penne. $18, 2855 Agoura Rd., Westlake Village, joicafe.com.

Figs & Feta

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It’s the perfect balance of salty and sweet, with whipped feta and grilled sourdough.

My other must-have is the spaghetti

carbonara. The sauce is really creamy, and the “egg yolk” is made perfectly.

Figs, $16; pasta, $24, 4776 Commons Way, Calabasas, cross roadscalabasas.com.

Broth Bar

REAL COCONUT KITCHEN

Broth makes a great recovery meal.

You can add your favorite toppings.

I like to load it with raw mushrooms and vegetables. $12, 23401 Civic Center Way, Malibu, realcoconut kitchen.com/malibu.

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K-Town has the highest concentration of Korean food in the U.S., but it doesn’t get all the hits. Jin Cook works wonders with “authentic Korean soul food” in Glendale. This homey restaurant brings sparkle to dishes like spicy pork. Thinly sliced meat arrives sizzling in a stone bowl and then gets crusty and caramelized and reaches hyperdrive when showered with shredded mozzarella, which magically melds with the spicy meat and enables cheese pulls galore. 310 N. Brand Blvd., 818-637-7822, or jincooks.com. Beer.

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Beer and wine.

Northern Thai Food Club EAST HOLLYWOOD » Thai $

Offering specialty dishes unique to northern Thailand, this family-run favorite doesn’t skimp on flavor, spice, or authenticity. Tasty takeout meals include the khao soi gai (curry egg noodle with chicken), laab moo kua (minced pork), tam kha noon (jackfruit salad), and pla salid tod (fried gourami fish). For those unfamiliar with the region’s distinct cuisine, the illustrious sticky rice is still a reliable bet.

Need incentive? Everything on the menu is less than $10. 5301 W. Sunset Blvd., 323-474-7212, or amphainorthernthaifood.com.

Pijja Palace SILVER LAKE » Indian American $

Indian American restaurateur Avish Naran brings pizza and pasta featuring the flavors of his childhood to a strip mall sports bar. The innovative menu includes Malai rigatoni with tomato-masala sauce, pizza topped with chicken tikka, and cardamom-and-cookies soft serve. 2711 W. Sunset Blvd., pijjapalace.com.

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The team behind the beloved local chainlet Guisados has taken over an old seafood taco stand on a busy Eastside stretch. The results, as you might expect, are delicious and delightful. Playita has a fresh, beachy blue-and-white aesthetic and a tight

menu of well-done ceviches, seafood cocktails, and fish tacos. 3143 W. Sunset Blvd., 323-928-2028, playitamariscos.com, or @playitamariscos.

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PASADENA » Spanish $$$ The arrival of this splashy new spot suggests that the good times might soon be here again. It shares a charming, sprawling courtyard with the Pasadena Playhouse, and the seafood-heavy menu from chef Dominique Crisp, who previously worked at L&E Oyster Bar, begs for reuniting with friends on nice summer nights. Orange zest enlivens jamón ibérico crudités, while miso butter takes grilled oysters to new heights. 37 S. El Molino Ave., 626-808-4976, sasobistro.com, or @sasobistro. Full bar.

❂ Sōgo Roll Bar LOS FELIZ » Sushi $$

Sōgo is hardly the only concept in town devoted to rolls, but it has mastered the form. Rice is cooked with the same careful consideration and seasoning that sushi master Kiminobu Saito uses at the highend Sushi Note, and it manages to maintain a great temperature and texture, even when being delivered.

Fish is not just fresh but also flavorful, each type thoughtfully paired with ideal accompaniments, from a tangy yuzu-pepper sauce that makes salmon sing to brandy-soaked albacore with garlic-ginger ponzu and crispy onions. 4634 Hollywood Blvd., 323-741-0088, sogorollbar.com, or @sogorollbar. Beer and sake.

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With omakase boxes priced from $30 to $85, this new sushi place in the old Ma’am Sir space strikes the sweet spot between affordable and indulgent and is another exciting addition to the Eastside’s growing number of quality sushi options. It’s a sister spot to Highland Park’s Ichijiku but with a more luxe vibe and a larger menu, tailor-made for takeout. 4330 W. Sunset Blvd., 323-741-8371, sunsetsushila.com, or @sunsetsushi. Beer and sake to go.

❂ U Street Pizza PASADENA » Pizza $$

There was a moment when U Street’s vodka pepperoni pie was a shining star of Instagram, and rightfully so. The why-haven’t-I-had-this-before combination of pepperoni and creamy vodka sauce is an easy win. Vegetable dishes, notably a Japanese eggplant with Calabrian chili agrodolce, are more than afterthoughts. Note that while the vodka pepperoni pie travels well, the clam pie is best enjoyed in-house. 33 E. Union St., 626-605-0430, ustreetpizza.com, or @ustreetpizza.

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The go-to for Filipino comfort food offers a variety of dishes, all featuring one shared ingredient: deliciousness. Spoon & Pork puts an innovative spin on some Filipino favorites—just try its adobo pork belly, pork belly banh mi, or lechon kawali. The dishes, which can be ordered at the counter to enjoy

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Beer and wine.

❂ Black Market Liquor Bar STUDIO CITY » New American $$

Some nights it seems as if half the Valley is here, enjoying the colorful patio. Top Chef graduate Antonia Lofaso’s Italian chops are visible in

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❂ The Brothers Sushi WOODLAND HILLS » Sushi $$$

This hidden gem, reinvigorated when chef Mark Okuda took the helm in 2018, is worth traveling for. The excellent omakase is available in the restaurant on the patio or to go. You can also order à la carte or get non-sushi items like soy-glazed grilled chicken. 21418 Ventura Blvd., 818-456-4509, thebrotherssushi.com, or @thebrotherssushila. Beer, sake, and wine.

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BURBANK » Bagels $ The L.A. bagel revolution continues at this stylish spot in the Valley that serves up carefully constructed sandwiches. Tomato, aioli, and maple-glazed bacon elevate a simple bacon, egg, and cheese, while a classic salmon-and-lox construction has thoughtful touches like salted cucumbers and pickled onions. Grab a tub of Hank’s “angry” spread—a spicy, slightly sweet concoction—to have in your fridge. 4315 W. Riverside Dr., 818-588-3693, hanksbagels.com, or @hanksbagels. Also at 13545 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, 818-588-3693.

Tel Aviv Authentic Kitchen ENCINO » Middle Eastern $

Deeply comforting Israeli skewers, kabobs, and merguez come with a colorful and tasty array of salads showcasing produce like red cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplant, and pumpkin.

The spicy sauces on the side work well with any- and everything. 17630 Ventura Blvd., 818774-9400, or telavivkoshergrill.com.

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This small, unassuming spot shames all the glossy poke purveyors popping up around town to serve mediocre versions of the Hawaiian dish. Glistening cubes of tuna, flown in fresh from the islands daily, remind you how great poke can be. The smoked-ahi dip with house-made potato chips is not to be missed. 409 E. Grand Ave., 310-616-3484, or aliifishco.com.

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A premium raw bar near the beach shouldn’t be unusual, but it is. The same goes for velvety clam chowder. Here, it achieves smoky richness—you can thank the Nueske’s bacon for that—without any of the floury glop. 1148 Manhattan Ave., 310-893-6299, or eatfwd.com. Full bar.

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Whether it is managing your assets with a wealth manager, navigating the ever-changing tax landscape, sorting out your estate and succession planning or picking the right life insurance, finding the right team can be a daunting task. In fact, many consumers have a hard time figuring out where to even begin.

FIVE STAR PROFESSIONAL PROPRIETARY RESEARCH PROCESS NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES

Sometimes, a few simple questions can put you off on the right path. Asking a professional what makes working with them a unique experience can help you understand how they work and if their style meshes with your own.

Three sources of nominations: – Firm nominations – Prequalification based on industry credentials – Peer nominations

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REGULATORY CONSUMER COMPLAINT REVIEW All candidates must demonstrate a favorable regulatory history.

RESEARCH DISCLOSURES In order to consider a broad population of high-quality wealth managers, award candidates are identified by one of three sources: firm nomination, peer nomination or prequalification based on industry standing. Self-nominations are not accepted. Los Angeles-area award candidates were identified using internal and external research data. Candidates do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final lists of Five Star Wealth Managers.

• The Five Star award is not indicative of a professional’s future performance.

• Wealth managers may or may not use discretion in their practice and therefore may not manage their clients’ assets.

• The inclusion of a professional on the Five Star Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the professional by Five Star Professional or Los Angeles magazine.

CANDIDATE SUBMISSION OF PRACTICE INFORMATION Candidates must complete either an online or over-the-phone interview.

• Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any professional is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guarantee that the selected professionals will be awarded this accomplishment by Five Star Professional in the future.

• Five Star Professional is not an advisory firm and the content of this article should not be considered financial advice. For more information on the Five Star Wealth Manager award program, research and selection criteria, go to fivestarprofessional.com/research.

• 3 ,629 award candidates in the Los Angeles area were considered for the Five Star Wealth Manager award. 155 (approximately 4% of the award candidates) were named 2023 Five Star Wealth Managers.

EVALUATION OF CANDIDATE PRACTICE Candidates are evaluated on 10 objective evaluation and eligibility criteria.

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Award candidates who satisfied 10 objective eligibility and evaluation criteria were named 2023 Five Star Wealth Managers. Eligibility Criteria – Required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser or a registered investment adviser representative. 2. Actively employed as a credentialed professional in the financial ser vices industr y for a minimum of five years.

3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review. 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal firm standards. 5. Accepting new clients. Evaluation Criteria – Considered: 6. One-year client retention rate. 7. Five-year client retention rate. 8. Non-institutional discretionar y and/or non- discretionar y client assets administered. 9. Number of client households ser ved.

10. Education and professional designations.

Regulatory Review: As defined by Five Star Professional, the wealth manager has not: been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; been convicted of a felony. Within the past 11 years the wealth manager has not: been terminated from a wealth management or financial services firm; filed for personal bankruptcy; had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them (and no more than five total pending, dismissed or denied) with any regulatory authority.

Five Star Professional conducts a regulatory review of each nominated wealth manager using the Investment Adviser Public Disclosure (IAPD) website. Five Star Professional also uses multiple supporting processes to help ensure that a favorable regulatory and complaint history exists. Data submitted through these processes was applied per the above criteria; each wealth manager who passes the Five Star Professional regulatory review must attest that they meet the definition of favorable regulatory history based upon the criteria listed above. Five Star Professional promotes via local advertising the opportunity for consumers to confidentially submit complaints regarding a wealth manager.

FIRM REVIEW OF AWARD CANDIDATE LIST All candidates are reviewed by a representative of their firm before final selection.

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Ryan Mauritz Liljegren · Ameriprise Financial Services

Matthew David Heller · Willner Heller

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Jennifer Han Malek · JHM Wealth Management, Inc.

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Percy Bolton · Percy E. Bolton Associates, Inc.

James Thomas O’Grady · Braemar Wealth Management

Linda R. Klugman · LPL Financial

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Jonathan F. Rowsey · Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC

Chris Richard Luechtefeld · Morgan Stanley

Christian Raul Cordoba · California Retirement Advisors

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Bruce A. Mandel · Wealth Enhancement Group

Bradford Daniel Creger · BFF Financial

Christiane Tomasi · CS TOMASI Wealth Management

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Insurance

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CFP®, Private Wealth Advisor

55 E Huntington Drive, Suite 340 Arcadia, CA 91006 Office: 626-254-0455 Toll-free: 800-268-1155 jean.d.koehler@ampf.com ameripriseadvisors.com/jean.d.koehler

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Confident Retirement Approach: Live Confidently Today and in the Future.

• Wealth preservation strategies and estate planning strategies • Investments and insurance I am passionate about working with clients to help them plan to meet their financial needs now and in the future. I will look at your entire financial picture, including cash reserves, estate planning strategies, investments, insurance and retirement planning. I also ask targeted questions and listen closely to your answers. That way, you can feel more confident that the advice I provide reflects your personal dreams and goals. Additionally, I am a 2013 – 2023 Five Star Wealth Manager.

Hemann, Preator & Associates A private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC Los Angeles, CA 90064 Office: 310-477-2500 carolyn.f.hemann@ampf.com

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• Over 30 years of experience

• Ameriprise Circle of Success Diamond Ring award recipient Carolyn, a 2013 – 2020 and 2022 – 2023 Five Star Wealth Manager award winner, has been guiding clients toward financial independence for more than 30 years. She is passionate about providing timely, quality financial advice and financial planning that can lead to peace of mind for her clients.

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Investment products are not insured by the FDIC, NCUA or any federal agency, are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed by any financial institution, and involve investment risks including possible loss of principal and fluctuation in value.

Investors should conduct their own evaluation of a financial professional as working with a financial advisor is not a guarantee of future financial success.

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This award was issued on 12/1/2022 by Five Star Professional (FSP) for the time period 03/28/2022 through 09/23/2022. Fee paid for use of marketing materials. Self-completed managers were considered for the award; 155 (4% of candidates) were named 2023 Five Star Wealth Managers. The following prior year statistics use this format: YEAR: # 2020: 3,527, 158, 5%, 12/1/19, 3/1/19 - 10/25/19; 2019: 3,528, 154, 4%, 12/1/18, 3/26/18 - 10/16/18; 2018: 2,708, 154, 6%, 12/1/17, 3/23/17 - 10/13/17; 2017: 2,351, 6%, 12/1/13, 5/22/13 - 10/16/13; 2013: 3,488, 372, 11%, 12/1/12, 5/22/12 - 10/16/12; 2012: 1,019, 176, 17%, 11/1/11, 5/22/11 - 10/16/11.

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Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star Wealth Managers. The award is based on 10 objective criteria. Eligibility criteria – required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser (RIA) or a registered A. Been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; B. Had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them and/or a total of five settled, pending, dismissed or consumer complaint process; feedback may not be representative of any one client’s experience; C. Individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; D. Filed for personal bankruptcy within the past 11 years; E. Been terminated client retention rate; 8. Non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered; 9. Number of client households served; 10. Education and professional designations. FSP does not evaluate quality of services provided to Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the wealth manager by FSP or this publication. Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any wealth manager is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any

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Sheryl O’Donnell

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Markets change. With 42 years of experience, I can be your guide through the investing jungle. My job is to help you optimize the return on your assets in a way designed to help you meet your goals while seeking to minimize the risks involved. My clients seek my assistance to do just that. I am a 2013 – 2023 Five Star Wealth Manager award winner. ©2023 Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC. Member SIPC. CRC 4975260 10/22.

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Michael J. Leonard · UBS Evan Robert Levy · Lido Advisors

Daniel Eric Fienberg · Wells Fargo Advisors

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Were you living near Koreatown? > No. I was in the neighborhood. My local pool in the marina was closed for maintenance.

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> We can go into that, but if she’s surgically [altered] parts of her body, that’s transsexual. I know that’s a controversy in and of itself, but I can explain that.

Are you saying that transitioning either hormonally or physically somehow disqualifies someone from being authentically transgender? > You have to understand gender identity.

Everybody’s confusing your internal with your external. All these external people are doing what is being called transitioning.

There’s no transition. That’s called deviation. I’m tired of that word “transitioning.”

It’s a fake word that people like Bamby use.

The whole point is this is how you are born.

That’s a view unlikely to win you many friends within the activist community.

What do you have against plastic surgery or hormones as opposed to natural body presentation? > I won’t be able to speak for other people, but I’d like to get inside their minds.

I’d like to sit down with Caitlyn Jenner.

I saw her the other day in Malibu. She’s very around. She almost hit my car. I realized it was her. I said, “Hey Caitlyn!” I didn’t get a moment because everybody else was talking to her.

What do you want to ask Caitlyn Jenner? > What made you want to dress up?

Why is Bruce Jenner now dressing up as a woman when he knows he’s going to be attracting straight men and lesbians, when that’s not what he’s been attracted to his whole life?

Let’s get back to Wi Spa—what brought you there that night? > I reinjured my back in an unprovoked attack in Malibu, and I went to Wi Spa because it’s the only place in town you can get hot and cold treatment, which is one of the best therapies you can get for anti-inflammation.

their mouths. You bring your kids over here, and you’re afraid they’re seeing a transgender person?

Did you go to Wi Spa often? > No, I’ve only been there twice. I had to do physical therapy every couple of days, and I roam a lot. Wherever I happened to be, I just googled the nearest community pool and called ahead to get their transgender policy.

How soon after you arrived that night did the trouble begin? > I arrived, like, right at 10 p.m. And Cubana Angel [one of the spa customers] started complaining within the first hour.

Have you considered just changing clothes in a stall or wearing a bathing suit? > It’s not for me to adapt to society at this point. Even if it’s the polite thing to do or you want me to or there’s a controversy or whatever, if nobody else is using a shower curtain or nobody else is using a swimsuit, it’s illegal to try and make me do it. Technically, and from all perspectives, I am female, and everybody agrees with that. We’re all on equal grounds under the law.

Some might say you’re taking advantage of the good intentions of recent California law. What do you say?

What did you do when you were con> State senator Scott Wiener [D-San fronted by her?

Francisco] is out there saying California > I froze. I didn’t do anything. I looked will be a sanctuary state for places in the behind my shoulder because she was country where it is a crime for children behind me and she’s a large woman. to transition. I called Wiener, and I said, “You’re passing transgender laws. How How did you escape? about enforcing them?” Republicans > I didn’t. She left. The other women hate this stuff, but are the Democrats forced her to leave. They said she was really on board with it or do they just causing a disturbance. I stayed there for want our vote? And even another 11 hours. if the feminist lesbians are attacking me, which I know You stayed overnight?

“Why they are, there should be How is that even possible? more responsible people > Late at night, it calms is Bruce in the L.A. County district down. It’s very calm, [and] Jenner attorney’s office, starting the people are understandnow with George Gascón. ing. You can stay overnight.

dressing

You’re on the run from Cubana said she saw you up as a the LAPD as well as the exit a Jacuzzi fully nud woman?”

Sheriff’s Department. penis was semi-erect. Is What’s life on the lam been that how you remember it? like for you? > She concocted that story. > Being on the lam doesn’t only affect When she first described my penis me. Back when this thing first started, I that night, she said it was hanging and sold my car to my doctor, and then the swinging to the left. Then she did a police followed this car, dragged my news conference a month later when doctor’s elderly father from behind the she says for the first and only time that wheel, with the helicopters and news I was slightly erect. I think she was cameras on him, and held him there probably coached by her attorney or the handcuffed for hours. He’s clearly an detectives to change her story. I caught elderly Korean man. I’m a white guy with them doing the same thing to me in long, blond hair! So people close to me West Hollywood. have also been affected.

You’re referring to your 2019 arrest Your mother is in her 80s. How has this for allegedly exposing yourself affected her? to children at the West Hollywood > You get some crazy people walking up Aquatics Center? to your door. She answered the door for > In West Hollywood! One step away the Daily Mail from London or somefrom Santa Monica Boulevard, where thing. I told my mom not to answer the there are rainbows and guys sitting door anymore. in windows with rubber balls sticking in L A M AG . C O M 1 0 7

Are any of the big orange packinghouses still around?

FRUITS OF LABOR

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The lure and lore of citrus is at the heart of so many great California stories. The nineteenth century packinghouses where oranges left L.A. were magnificent industrial buildings that often had high ceilings, skylights, and hardwood floors, perfect for converting into an antique mall, shopping center, or food hall, which is what happened to those historic buildings in Whittier, Claremont, and Anaheim, respectively. King Richard’s Antique Center might be the liveliest, with big bands, jitterbug contests, and a 1940s-style ice cream man.

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Tasting Old L.A.

notes that, today, Cher’s wardrobe “would not be specifically regulated … just for safety.”

The Anaheim packinghouse back when California was the orange-packing capital of the world.

Q: Is it true that the Navy banned filming because of Cher?

A: Cher surprised everyone onboard the USS Missouri when she showed up in little more than her Bob Mackie

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stockings for the “If I Could Turn Back Time” video in 1989. Aside from the sci-fi action film Battleship and that Tom Cruise picture that made $1.5 billion, most shipside productions these days

are documentaries.

If the Goddess of Pop ever wanted to come back, “there’s nothing that says we couldn’t do it,” says Navy spokesman Joe Scudella III. The sailor was born a few years after the filming but

Q: Is it legal to plant edible vegetation in a park?

A: Administrators not wishing to see unstable trees uproot sidewalks discourage well-intentioned gardeners from adding any landscaping to city parks. Plants with something sweet on their branches have their own problems. “We’ve had people climb into fruit trees or break the branches to get the fruit,” says city forester Leon Boroditsky. “We have an unwritten policy about edible plants,” he says. That doesn’t mean you can’t find acorns, figs, and English walnuts planted by squirrels and birds or a historical grove of white grapefruit at Bee Canyon.

Boroditsky has even seen Chicken of the woods mushrooms growing in Rustic Canyon and Elysian Park. “If I found a species that would taste good, I’d try it.”

A NEW BOOK ON THE CITY OF ANGELS FOOD ● When he’s not

judging TV baking shows or teaching cooking classes aboard cruise ships, chef George Geary loves to try his hand at re-creating the famous dishes from L.A.’s historic restaurants.

In his new book, L.A.’s Landmark Restaurants: Celebrating the Legendary Locations Where Angelenos Have Dined for Generations from Santa Monica Press, he shares the guacamole from Casita del Campo in Silver Lake as well as main-dish favorites like Chicken Muscovite from the vanished Victor Hugo restaurant. Geary’s collection of recipes offers the promise that we can once again taste the flavors from lost legends like Little Joe’s and the Pacific Dining Car. —CHRIS NICHOLS

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