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LARCHMONT CHRONICLE

SEPTEMBER 2020

HANCOCK PARK • WINDSOR SQUARE • FREMONT PLACE • GREATER WILSHIRE • MIRACLE MILE • PARK LA BREA • LARCHMONT

440 S. Arden Blvd.| Hancock Park | $6,680,000 5 Bed /5.5 Ba + finished basement, pool/spa. Text to show. 440Arden.com Lisa Hutchins 323.460.7626 CalRE #01018644

201 S. Plymouth Blvd. | Windsor Square | $4,995,000 Beautifully remodeled & restored English just 1 block to Larchmont. 3 bed/3.5 ba+1 bed GH

644 S Rimpau Blvd. | Hancock Park | $5,250,000 Also for Lease $17,000/MO. Magnificent 5-6 Bd/ 4 Ba estate on approx 20,000 sqft lot w/ pool/spa. Lisa Hutchins 323.460.7626 CalRE #01018644

Rick Llanos 323.810.0828 CalRE #01123101

315 Lorraine | Windsor Square | $4,249,000 Lovingly cared for Traditional w/ private, park like grounds. 5BD+5.5BA. 315Lorraine.com Loveland Carr Group 323.460.7606 CalRE #01467820, #0888374

1215 Bedford | Beverlywood | $2,4495,000

111 N Irving Blvd | Hancock Park | $2,350,000

Paul William Insprd. Remodeled 4/2.5, den, Kosh kit., Grden Rm. Prime St, Roxbry Park adj. Cecille Cohen 213.810.9949

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222 N Windsor Blvd.| Hancock Park | $1,495,000

1728 S. Orange Dr. | Mid-Los Angeles | $1,299,000 French Provincial 3bed/office/2bath. 12 ft ceilings. Central air/heat. Lush garden w/ADU Barbara Allen 323.610.1781 CalRE #01487763

3Bd + 2 Ba. Ideally located historic Spanish home harkens back to quieter, simpler era. Large lot. Erik Flexner 323.383.3950 CalRE #01352476

Lisa Hutchins 323.460.7626 CalRE #01018644

330 S Irving Blvd. | Windsor Square | $5,180,000 Stratford upon Irving. 5BD+3.5BA. 2-story gst house & park like grounds. 330Irving.com

508 N. June St | Hancock Park | $4,995,000 Beautiful English home on the golf course with 5 Bd, 4.5 Ba, wonderful outdoor space with pool.

Loveland Carr Group 323.460.7606 CalRE #01467820, #0888374

Rick Llanos 323.810.0828 CalRE #01123101

230 S. Irving Blvd. | Windsor Square | $3,349,000 Prime Windsor Square location, great floor plan & curb appeal. 4BD+3.5BA. 230Irving.com Loveland Carr Group 323.460.7606 CalRE #01467820, #0888374

604 S. Arden Blvd. | Windsor Square | $2,950,000 Crisp 4bed/3.5 bath w/open kitchen breakfast room. Grand Living + Dining rooms overlook backyard. Lisa Hutchins 323.460.7626 CalRE #01018644

531 N. Rossmore PH B | Hancock Park | $1,739,000 SOLD! Contemporary 4+5 penthouse near Larchmont Village. 531RossmorePH.com Loveland Carr Group 323.460.7606 CalRE #01467820, #0888374

2741 Rinconia Dr. | Hollywood Hills | $1,599,000 Prime Beachwood modern Mediterranean w/ 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, family room and updated Rick Llanos 323.810.0828 CalRE #01123101

2134 Clyde Ave. | Mid-Los Angeles| $1,099,000 Spanish charmer w/3bed/2bath/family room. Central air/heat. Back ADU w/bath/kitchen/office

5609 Harcross Dr. | West Hollywood | $873,000 Charming 2 bdrm 1 bath, 1,449 sq ft_SFR in the Highly desired Windsor Hills. Wood flrs Lot size 9,158 sq ft

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Larchmont Chronicle

SEPTEMBER 2020

SECTION TWO

Painters of the Ninth Street Show, LACMA and the Nature of Time

Within the shadow of memory in the presently reconstituting Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in the now-demolished, Peirera-designed Ahmanson building, was a room of pilgrimage, at least for me. I would enter LACMA’s west entry to run up those wide, sweeping stairs to My Room. Among the paintings and sculpture and other works in that marvelous, enormous room were my inspirations — works by Joseph Albers, Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell. I’m sure many of you found your own rooms at LACMA — places where what you saw allowed your minds and hearts to expand, where your lives were made richer, where you learned something new with each visit. The paintings of Albers were my intellectual guides and luminous beacons as a printmaker. But over the years the other works of art in the room became just as important. My interest in Abstract Expressionism has deep roots, beginning in my early teens. But it was at LACMA where I was struck by the depth and complexity in the work of Krasner, Frankenthaler and Mitchell.

Home Ground by

Paula Panich

Ninth Street book When “Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art” by Mary Gabriel was published in 2018, I read reviews of the book with great interest. I bought the Back Bay Books paperback edition at the end of last year. Nine hundred pages! Surely I would start it on the first day of lockdown in March. But it took a bit longer than that — and I read the last 400 pages first. I’m glad I did. Ninth Street show Writer Mary Gabriel’s title refers to the now-fabled 1951 Ninth Street Show in a New York storefront, a space rented by the exhibiting 72 artists themselves, then unknown except to one another. Yet they would quickly change art history and establish the U.S. as the post-war epicenter of a new visual world.

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There were 61 men in that show, including Jackson Pollack and Willem de Kooning, and 11 women, among them the quintet of painters Gabriel follows in this group portrait, set in the political and social context of the time. But Gabriel’s book is also a moving and intimate narrative of the lives of Krasner, Hartigan, de Kooning, Mitchell, and Frankenthaler. There is a 20-year span in their ages (Krasner was born in 1908, Frankenthaler in 1928) which makes for a multi-layered story — their New York post-war experiences, and the nature of their work were divergent, but their struggle for recognition and acceptance as artists was the same. “Ninth Street Women” was slow to start. I felt daunted by the details of Lee Krasner’s beginnings in Brooklyn in a family of Russian immigrants. Later, picking up the book and reading at random, I was hooked. When I returned to the beginning to read the origin stories of each painter, I was eager to know all of it. Among the paintings I saw in “my” room at LACMA was Joan Mitchell’s 1956 “East Ninth Street.” Her work, and her struggle, continue to resonate in my mind. [View “East

BOOK’S TITLE refers to a now-fabled 1951 show in New York.

Ninth Street” at collections. lacma.org/node233733.-Ed.] Claudia Roth Pierpont, in her review of the book in the

Oct. 1, 2018 issue of the “New Yorker,” writes movingly of Mitchell in her later years: “Wholly involved in the surrounding earth and the responsive self, color and emotion, she worked with an intensity that makes these elements indistinguishable. Nasturtium gold, warm light. Forest chill, the touch of the wind, vitality. The blue-green verticals of rain and trees. The works seem timeless, yet they clearly spring from the years of Mitchell’s formation: the fifties in New York, the last moment of romanticism about paint and all that it could capture — when painting was, in her words, ‘the opposite of death’ — when a woman gave up everything to be a painter, and made a fair exchange.”

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Larchmont Chronicle

SEPTEMBER 2020

SECTION TWO

Turns out that ‘Missing Middle Housing’ has been here all along

It must be the heat. The dog days of summer in Los Angeles are when our climate takes a break from its normal programming to remind us that we do indeed live in a desert. The heat turns up to broiling, and the sun bleaches the color out of everything.

On Preservation by

Brian Curran The senses dull, and a siesta is called for. Time appears to slow. It is a time that, in the past, people associated with ill temper, madness and bad luck. It is probably no coincidence, then, that Abundant Housing Los Angeles and its offshoot, Friends of the Purple Line, decided to drop their new initiative, “The Purple Line Plan,” just in time for it to receive minimal attention, but cause maximum irritation. The Purple Line Plan’s goals sound innocent and civicminded enough, claiming to be supported by a “group of local stakeholders (The Friends of the Purple Line) who seek to build a growing, dynamic, inclusive, and afford-

STUDY AREAS that the Los Angeles Dept. of City Planning in 2018 outlined near new subway stations do not include everything that Abundant Housing lobbyists want to up-zone.

able Miracle Mile through the Purple Line Metro extension.” “Missing Middle Housing” They seek to do this by reviving construction of small-scale multi-family housing that they call “Missing Middle Housing.” These Abundant Housing lobbyists correctly say these buildings were common in Los Angeles until around WWII. The advocates write that, “Types of Missing Middle Housing typically include multiplexes, cottage courts, townhomes, small apartments, and live/work units. If built close to transit, then these spaces can provide their dwellers an enjoyable,

affordable living experience.” What’s not to like about that? The question then arises, where will all this “Missing Middle Housing” go? According to Dick Platkin, a former City of Los Angeles city planner, who analyzed the plan, “Their proposal massively up-zones a 10-mile square area, including every residential lot in the Beverly-Fairfax, Melrose, Miracle Mile, Carthay, Pico, and Hancock Park and Larchmont neighborhoods.” This is proposed to allow the construction of small apartments and fourplexes in residential neighborhoods, including existing single-fam-

UP-ZONING LOBBYISTS want single-family communities to be eliminated in Miracle Mile and surrounding neighborhoods.

ily neighborhoods, within a mile radius of a subway station. The idea is to construct 36,000 units, of which 8,000 would be affordable. Radical transformation Now why would the residents of Miracle Mile and the surrounding communities acquiesce to such a radical transformation of their historic communities and the abolition of their single-fam-

ily residential neighborhoods, historic preservation overlay zones (HPOZs) and anti-mansionization overlays? Because, according to Friends of the Purple Line, we who already live here are the inheritors of “unearned privilege.” Our historic communities are the result of a legacy of racist covenants and redlin(Please turn to page 4)

Larchmont Chronicle

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Purple Line

(Continued from page 3) ing; our HPOZs are areas of exclusion, sustained largely through single-family zoning. The result? Isaac Gendler of Abundant Housing Los Angeles writes: “This blocks off vast multitudes of potential residents from enjoying the high quality of life that the neighborhood has to offer. Residents that would have taken full advantage of its transit-accessibility, ditching a car-centric lifestyle and helping move the planet towards a more sustainable paradigm.” Good Grief! It is bad enough that state senator Scott Wiener, from San Francisco, has been lead-

ing an assault on our communities from Sacramento with his and others’ “Nine Bad Bills” (the Sons of SB 50 – see livablecalifornia.org/ act-now-3-2). Now we have another Silicon Valley-funded Bay Area group — California YIMBY — partnering with Abundant Housing Los Angeles to push this local plan. This just adds insult to injury. Miracle Mile and its surrounding communities are ethnically, religiously and economically diverse, not to mention already possessing some of the largest concentrations of historic “middle housing,” much of which is rent stabilized. Woke policy Thankfully, we need not fear that this woke housing pol-

icy from the Bay Area will be imposed upon us anytime soon. (Some of the Nine Bad Bills, however, may now be making their ways to Governor Newsom’s desk.) The Friends of the Purple Line have received a cool reception from Councilmen David Ryu and Paul Koretz, due to the fact that the “Friends” have garnered little community support. Perhaps these up-zoning advocates have not been addressing residents, community groups, neighborhood councils and homeowner associations because nothing says “support my plan” like calling us privileged racists who stand in the way of housing and climate justice. It must be the heat.

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Real Estate Sales

SOLD: This home at 835 S. Longwood Ave. in Brookside was sold in July for $2,750,000.

311 S. Lucerne Blvd. 835 S. Longwood Ave. 928 Keniston Ave. 101 N. Gower St. 915 Muirfield Rd. 500 Lillian Way 812 S. Orange Dr. 649 S. Citrus Ave. 116 N. Fuller Ave. 246 N. Beachwood Dr. 330 S. Mansfield Ave. 944 S. Longwood Ave. 347 S. Highland Ave. 351 S. Norton Ave. 564 N. Plymouth Blvd. 570 N. Irving Blvd. 852 S. Curson Ave. 342 N. Windsor Blvd. 101 S. Ridgewood Pl. 4071 W. 8th St. 358 N. Bronson Ave. 5138 Melrose Ave. (small lot) 662 N. Gramercy Pl. (small lot)

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Larchmont Chronicle

SEPTEMBER 2020

SECTION TWO

Art exhibits, dance event inspired by a drive-in at Tarfest 2020

By Suzan Filipek Pandemic or no pandemic, the Tarfest 2020 multi-arts festival will go on. This 18th annual event is an ambitious undertaking with two group art exhibits and a live dance event inspired by a beloved area drive-in theater. The Gilmore Drive-In, which opened in 1948 and closed in 1979 — now the site of The Grove — will be remembered in a dance performance at the closing of this year’s festival on Fri., Oct. 2. The festival usually takes place outdoors at Tar Pits Park in the Miracle Mile. But nothing is usual about this year. “Tarfest has been part of the Los Angeles community

GILMORE DRIVE-IN was, from 1948-1979, where The Grove is now. Photo courtesy of

The Original Farmers Market

for over 18 years, remaining an important annual event through massive changes that have transformed the city,” says Tarfest founder James Panozzo of Launch LA. “This year’s challenges of a global pandemic forced artists and producers to really impose their creative will. I think we have accomplished something special.” Tarfest kicked off last month with a Facebook Live Opening of the first of the two group exhibitions, “Transition.” It continues, online, at the ART170 building, 170 S. La Brea Ave. In all, 132 artists submitted more than 440 works in July for the open-call show, curated by Holly Jerger, who is the exhibitions curator at Craft Contemporary. The exhibit features 46 artworks by 44 Southern California artists whose practices engage with core concepts of change during these unprecedented times. The second group exhibition, “Have To Hold,” curated by Elizabeth Tinglof and Ashley Hagen, opened on Sat., Sept. 5 at Launch LA, 170 S. La Brea Ave. In the exhibition, six contemporary artists reflect upon the rich and charged history and psychology of collecting. Through their own

use of objects and materials, they construct stories of ex-

periences and conceptual perspectives, addressing both the

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1500 Crest Dr. | Beverlywood | $6,495/MO Charming 2 story Spanish home. Winding staircase, step-dn liv rm w/ fpl, hrdwd flrs, enclosed yard. Cecille Cohen 213.810.9949 CalRE #00884530

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Larchmont Chronicle

Cerrell impact is part of national, state, city, Larchmont history

By John Welborne Last month, in an article about the departure from Larchmont Blvd. of Cerrell Associates after 40 years on the Boulevard, we mentioned briefly the firm’s legendary founders, and Windsor Square residents, Joe and Lee Cerrell. Both Lee and Joe were professionally active in politics. Lee and Joe met when she was working on the 1958 gubernatorial campaign of thenAttorney General Edmund G. “Pat” Brown and Joe was working next door for the California Democratic Party. They married in 1963 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, postponing the ceremony by a week at the request of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson so they could oversee a Los Angeles event for President John F. Kennedy. Joe died in 2010, and Lee died in 2016. At the time of Joe’s death, the couple had

CASA ITALIANA on Broadway, north of Chinatown in DTLA, was a venue for many Cerrell-attended celebrations. YOUNG Joe Cerrell with JFK. LUCERNE BOULEVARD residents Joe and Lee Cerrell with family. Steve Bullock is between Joe and Lee.

lived in their N. Lucerne Blvd. home for 45 years. Our paper considered Joe a regular Larchmont Chronicle newsmaker because of his civic involvement. He was a board member of the Hollywood-Wilshire YMCA, where he was famous for the annual, black-tie, stag dinners he staged at Wilshire Country

Club with Councilman John Ferraro to raise funds for the “Y.” Most participants went home with prizes, but somehow the YMCA still ended up with lots of money. Joe also was a prominent sponsor of each September’s annual Feast of San Gennaro (celebrating Italy, of course). He earned awards from the

Public Relations Society of America and from ItalianAmerican organizations. Joe also served as president of the California Museum of Science and Industry and as a member of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission. Lee and Joe were bon vivants, known for their wonderful parties, including their annual holiday gathering at the HMS Bounty on Wilshire

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Boulevard, a jam-packed event attended by a veritable “who’s who” of elected officials and business leaders. Lee’s son, Steve Bullock, remains chief financial officer of Cerrell Associates in its new abode on the 21st floor of 5900 Wilshire Blvd., right across the street from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the Miracle Mile.

Walking, virtual tours are back at Conservancy

The Los Angeles Conservancy historic tours are back! Because of the pandemic, the nonprofit is easing gingerly back into its award-winning walking tour program with tours of historic downtown Los Angeles. Explore some of L.A.’s most beloved landmarks, such as the Central Library, the U.S. Bank Tower, and the Bradbury Building on a tour that meets your comfort level. Historic Downtown Virtual Tour is Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Fee is $8 members of the L.A. Conservancy, $12 general public. (Member September special is $5) This event is held on the Zoom platform. Historic Downtown InPerson Household* Tour is Saturdays at 10 a.m.; Fee is $50 members of the L.A. Conservancy, $75 general public. *One household of up to five people per tour. Student programs Student-program options have expanded to include free resources on demand and also feature interactive workshops and tours. Adventures in Architecture is a flexible six-workshop series that introduces students to historic and culturally significant sites in MacArthur Park and Westlake. Virtual Field Trips of historic Downtown and Union Station are docent-led tours held on the Zoom platform. Discover L.A.’s Broadway is an interactive workshop that explores how Broadway changed over time and includes a virtual field trip and group craft activity. It is held on the Zoom platform. For tickets and more information visit laconservancy. org/tours.

Larchmont Chronicle

SEPTEMBER 2020

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Fireworks, flamenco and music from Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite” are just some of the Los Angeles Philharmonic performances scheduled on KCET Wednesdays at 9 p.m. Encore presentations air on Fridays at 8 p.m. on PBS SoCal. Episodes include “Musicals and Movies” with Kristin Chenoweth, Wed.,

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MUSEUM ROW

Butterfly Pavilion, Nature Gardens to open for viewing We could all use a refreshing break in the outdoors just about now. So, it’s just in the nick of time that the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC) will open the Butterfly Pavilion at the Natural History Museum (NHM) beginning Fri., Sept. 11. Also open will be parts of NHM’s 3.5-acre Nature Gardens. See up to 30 species of but-

terflies and caterpillars in a netted enclosure filled with native plants and natural light. Spacious pathways will connect visitors with nature in the heart of Los Angeles. The indoor Museum will remain closed until further notice. Masks required Guests will be required to wear face masks, social distance, and be limited to a total of 10 persons at a time.

Advance timed-ticket reservations are required. Tickets to enter are $6 for the Pavilion and include Nature Gardens access. Parking passes must be pre-paid and are $6. The Butterfly Pavilion will initially be open Friday to Sunday from 9:40 a.m. to 5 p.m. with plans to increase the days and hours over time. Timed tickets for the Butterfly (Please turn to page 9)

THIRTY species of butterflies will be flying at the outdoor museum. Photo courtesy of NHMLAC

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Overlooking the Wilshire Country Club, charming English home welcomes you with a dramatic living room, large dining room that opens out to the yard, family room, updated kitchen plus a maids room & bath. Second floor landing leads you to the master suite with balcony overlooking the gardens as well as 3 additional bedrooms, 2 additional baths plus a home office with views. Great entertaining gardens with a pool, outdoor lounge with fire pit plus a home gym all overlooking Wilshire Country Club.

203 N. Gower St. — $2,299,000

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Great Beachwood Canyon location. This modern Mediterranean features lots of square footage and spacious rooms. Main floor has open living, dining and kitchen area with views out to hillsides and trees. Upstairs is a very spacious master suite plus 2 more bedrooms and another bathroom. Lower level has great family room, office, gym and private guest quarters or possible rental. Lower level opens out to entertaining patio. Best deal in the Hollywood Hills.

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Learn Armenian to Mandarin among classes offered online

One of the good things about a library system such as the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL), which has put most of its programming online, is that with the click of some computer keys, patrons can participate in almost any class or talk from the comfort of their homes no matter what branch the class is from. This month, patrons can

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learn a variety of languages, from Armenian, Spanish and Portuguese courtesy of the Central branch, to French from the Fremont branch, and Mandarin taught from the Chinatown branch. Programming also includes various book clubs and Zumba, yoga, meditation and exercise classes. There also are writing, craft classes, storytimes and singalongs and tutoring sessions. “Library to Go” is still going Library cardholders also can

check out the books, music and movies they crave, but the borrowing program is no longer limited to online materials. Using the online catalog, patrons can reserve materials for physical checkout, and the patrons then are given instructions via email or phone for scheduling a pickup at one of the 18 branches. Materials are set out on tables located outside the library branches for patrons to collect at the scheduled times. There

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(Continued from page 8) Pavilion and advance parking reservations will be released on Mondays at 10 a.m. for the following two-week period. For tickets and more information, visit nhm.org. NHM’s Butterfly Pavilion will be open through Oct. 4, 2020. The exhibit is part of the first phase of the museum’s reopening after months of closure. The museum’s Spider Pavilion will be open in time for Halloween and continue through winter 2021.

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Los Angeles Zoo reopens after 166-day closure The Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens, 5333 Zoo Dr., is open again after a 166day shut down to deep clean and reconfigure the spaces and ticketing operations. Guests over the age of two are required to wear masks or face coverings. Individuals or groups from separate households must maintain physical distancing (one zebra or one komodo dragon apart, please),

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TARFEST launched last month on S. La Brea Ave. A new show opens Sat., Sept. 5. Viewing is online and with an appointment.

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(Continued from page 5) Participating artists include Vida Liu, Constance Mallinson, Kristen Morgin, Kimberly Morris, Ephraim Puusemp and George Stoll. The gallery will be open by appointment Thursdays to Saturdays during the month of September. Drive-in and dance event For its finale, the festival moves to The Original Farmers Market on Fri., Oct. 2 with “Breathe: A Drive-In Dance Event.” Created, choreographed and directed by Laurie Sefton with original music by Bryan Curt Kostors, the performance is inspired by drive-in movie theaters similar to the beloved Gilmore Drive-In theater that was located at Third St. and what is now The Grove Drive, from 1948-1979. “‘Breathe’ will be live, outdoors, capsular and interactive, with guests enjoying the performance from the

comfort of their own cars in the north parking lot of The Original Farmers Market,” Panozzo said. Tickets will be free but limited and advance reservations will be required. Ticket information is available at farmersmarketla.com Tarfest supporters include the City of Los Angeles Dept. of Cultural Affairs, the California Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts/Art Works and The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles. Some of this year’s sponsors include Television City, The Original Farmers Market, Olympia Medical Center, Lagunitas Brewery, The Beverly Connection, Los Angeles City Councilmembers David Ryu, CD 4, and Paul Koretz, CD 5, and the Greater Miracle Mile Chamber of Commerce. LACMA and the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC) also have supported the festival the past 17 years. For more information, visit launchla.org.

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Safety is key at Olympia for food companies donating meals It’s “safety first” for food companies donating and delivering meals to Olympia Medical Center staff. Love Catering has donated 100 meals for nurses and lab and radiology teams, all the while following CDC and health department guidelines to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. “We are very grateful for the

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LA Neighborhood,” (RYLAN) with the Emergency Management Dept.’s Sahakian. “Don’t wait until it’s too late — get prepared now,” says Councilmember David Ryu. “Help your neighbor, strengthen your neighborhood and conserve our most precious resources: the firefighters themselves, our front line in a crisis.” To learn more, visit firstinfirefoundation.org or call 323933-8164.

local community and small businesses who support our committed physicians, nurses and technicians during these unique times,” says Matt Williams, Olympia’s CEO. Sanitizing and cleaning, temperature checks and hand washing are among safety procedures for donated food and delivery as well as patient

treatment and diagnosis at Olympia, a hospital spokesman said.

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This Roman god lends us his name for legal tender Why is legal tender universally known as “money”? ponders Julie Sanderson. Shortly after the Gallic invasion of Rome was defeated in 344 B.C., a thankful Camillus built a temple to the god Juno Moneta which, after a time, became the spot of the first Roman mint. Hence, the coins that were produced here were called moneta after the god who was thereafter represented on vases and medals with instruments of coinage —

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From about 1900, it has been used to describe an ardent admirer or devotee and is merely an abbreviation of fanatic. Fanatic is from the Latin fanum, which translates as temple, and in this case means one who is possessed of the madness engendered by overindulgence in the religious rites of the temple. • • • How did “Yo!” become a universal greeting? asks Dale

Mahoney. There are actually two possible origins. In African American slang, yo’ is short for your as in “Yo Mama” and is also used to express encouragement or excitement. In nautical terms “Yo!” is used to attract someone’s attention and is short for yo-ho. • • • How come the English call red wine “claret”? queries Terry Stevens.

Actually it’s the English name for the red wines of Bordeaux, which were, due to the expertise of the winemakers, much clearer than other wines. The name, which is not used in France, comes from the Old French clairet, which is derived from the Latin clarus or clear. Professor Know-It-All is the nom de plume of Bill Bentley, who invites readers to try and stump him. Send your questions to willbent@prodigy.net

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We just passed the official Dog Days of Summer (July 22 – August 22, 2020), which follow the rising of the constellation Sirius that Greek and Roman astrology connected with heat, drought, thunderstorms and bad luck. Nonetheless, for our pets, this bad luck could continue and mean fleas and ticks. These pests can cause discomfort, itchiness, allergic reactions and can carry more serious diseases, according to Los Angeles Animal Services. Fleas thrive in warmer weather, but may go dormant during the winter in colder areas. Ticks, too, are more than a nuisance, so be sure to thoroughly check your pet after a walk or a hike in the woods. Prevention is the greatest defense: Ask your veterinarian to recommend a flea product for your dogs and cats. Wash bedding in hot, soapy water. Vacuum all floors thoroughly and throw away the vacuum bag, and treat your yard with a nontoxic treatment such as sprays or pellets.

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