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2017 a year of milestones, celebration for preservation

History takes the long view.

Often we cannot know how an issue, a person, or a place will be valued and remembered until some time has passed. It’s often very difficult to be dedicated to a cause and still exercise patience to get to the end game. In preserva-

The USC School of Architecture’s historic preservation programs celebrated 25 years of educational programs designed to educate the next generation of preservationists in Los Angeles. Now known as the Heritage Conservation program, the school offers

tion, though, slow and steady often produces results (with bursts of speed along the way to save threatened buildings). This year has highlighted the importance of building a strong base to advance the goals of preservation in Southern California.

Wishing all of my friends, neighbors, clients and colleagues the very best Holiday Season & A Happy New Year!

Pasadena Heritage is wrapping up an ambitious year of programming which celebrated its 40th year as an advocacy and educational organization. A celebratory dinner last month highlighted the (Please turn to page 3)

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summer courses and a master’s in heritage conservation as well as a dual degree with the Price School of Planning. Over 60 students have completed their theses, with hundreds taking advantage of the shorter, topically-oriented summer offerings. Alumni now work in all aspects of the field: architectural history, advocacy, conservation planning, and architectural rehabilitation. The program has become an amazing resource to the Los Angeles preservation community.

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(Continued from page 2) group’s considerable achievements over the decades, including the successful campaign to stop the 710 Freeway through historic neighborhoods of Pasadena, South Pasadena, and El Sereno; the designation, protection, and renaissance of historic Colorado Boulevard; and creative campaigns to preserve dozens of other landmarks.

Coming up on that same milestone is the Los Angeles Conservancy, whose gala this year at John Lautner’s breathtaking “Silvertop” showed why it is important to protect mid-century landmarks.

The owner of the property was passionate in his commitment to preserving the house and acknowledging the Conservancy’s ongoing efforts to work with owners and the community.

Hollywood Heritage, now well into its third decade, celebrated the Chinese Theater in its 90th year of operation.

Still going strong and beautifully preserved, the theatre is one of the most visited tourism destinations in the U.S. and an anchor to historic Hollywood Boulevard.

After four decades of controversy, Windsor Square’s historic Scottish Rite Temple has

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been reborn as the Marciano Art Foundation on Wilshire Boulevard. Across the street, the Ebell continues to grow its membership, host timely community programs, and maintain its elegant building.

SurveyLA collected additional honors for its groundbreaking citywide survey effort from the California Preservation Foundation and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The achievement was profiled in the Trust’s magazine, “Preservation,” as well as at a ceremony at the Trust’s national conference in Chicago in November.

But the work continues. As you’re planning your holiday celebrations and making your lists, don’t forget to patronize the historic sites with holiday events (seen the lights at Descanso Gardens or dined at Paley on Sunset Blvd.?).

And if you like what preservation organizations are doing, become a member (or give a membership to a friend) or contribute to their end-ofyear campaigns. They work hard for the built environment with the resources they have, and each contribution lets them do more.

Happy Holidays… and here’s to more successes and celebrations in 2018 (including the Los Angeles Conservancy’s 40th).

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FLOOD Magazine opens at former Chronicle site; mural planned

By Suzan Filipek Who says print is dead?

The Larchmont Chronicle is still in business (its 54th year!), while the location of its former home — 540 N. Larchmont Blvd. — is the new headquarters of FLOOD Magazine, which relocated last month.

The bi-annual entertainment and pop culture print magazine and daily-updated website, founded in 2014, is based out of

the second floor of the newlybuilt, 3,000-square foot building on the lot where the Chronicle’s bungalow had been since 1913.

The most recent 150-page magazine (“it’s more like a book”) was published last month, said publisher and owner Alan Sartirana, Fuller Ave. The magazine’s reporters cover music, film, television, art and travel, and also conduct interviews and write reviews.

Also at the site is Athemic Agency, which lists a clientele ranging from Toyota and Converse to Politico and Spotify.

A college tour marketing program is in the works for the latter, said Sartirana.

FLOOD Gallery on the first floor will host shows on a monthly or bi-monthly basis. A photography show for Pablove’s Shutterbugs will be exhibited Thurs., Dec. 6 from 6 to 9 p.m., CONSERVATION-ThEMED mural will be painted on the south wall of the new Flood building on N. larchmont Blvd.

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as part of that foundation’s graduation program. The group seeks to find a cure for childhood cancer and improve lives of children diagnosed with the disease through the arts.

A conservation-themed mural of sharks and flowers — to cover an exterior wall of the building — will be created by Los Angeles-based artists Michael Muller and Sage Vaughn.

Sartirana said that the image is a combination of two of his magazine covers.

The mural was planned to be finished by the end of November. It will be up indefinitely.

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The Chronicle was housed for four decades in the old bungalow. The newspaper’s offices moved in 2015 to its current location at 606 N. Larchmont, Suite 103.

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Since escrow recently closed on CGI Investment Strategies’ 21,000-square-foot property at 637 S. La Brea Ave., design changes are in the offing and will be presented to the city Planning Dept.

“We’re still kind of fluid,” said company spokesman Bruce Beck. He expects the project to be reviewed by the city in the next few weeks but did not have a date.

Initial plans called for a 12-story, mixed-use building with 160 residential units and ground-level retail and dining.

The parcel is across an alley from a Metro Purple Line subway station staging site at the northwest corner of Wilshire and La Brea Ave. The subway station entrance will be at that corner when the extension project is complete.

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New realities at 2017 Auto Show: Technology leads the parade

By Steven Rosenthal Every manufacturer of automobiles in the world will present the latest alternate-fueled, computer-operated and sometimes-driverless cars at the 2017 Los Angeles Auto Show at the Convention Center Dec. 1-10.

Hydrogen and electric You’ll see the cutting-edge hydrogen fuel cell models from Toyota and Honda. Once ballyhooed as future cars, electric-

powered cars have passed the two million mark worldwide and are set to become a common mode of transportation. You can buy some right off the show floor.

Priced from less than $20,000 for entry level to one-of-a-kind electrics costing more than $1 million, there’s one for every wallet.

Battery range Carmakers are trying to produce batteries with a range similar to that of the Tesla Model

S that squeezes 335 miles on a battery charge. The hard part for any maker is doing it without the Model S price tag of $110,000, and that also includes Tesla. Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, created a minimalist Tesla 3, priced closer to $40,000 minus incentives and rebates. It gives you two battery choices, getting respectable 220- and 310mile ranges. Nissan debuts the newest 2018 incarnation of the

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world’s best selling electric, the Leaf, which is rated at a 200mile range with an asking price of about $35,000. Also, you may want to try on the Americanbred Chevy EV Bolt that comes in with an outstanding 238mile range for about the price of the Leaf.

High-end electrics Everyone’s joined the electric club. BMW is showcasing five new electric vehicles, and its Rolls Royce brand is planning to swap its V12 for electric gear. Mercedes is high-

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Instrument panels If you’re sitting in a Tesla 3, note that there’s a new reality. The instrument panel is gone! There are no information pods, no stick-out switches, no push buttons or (Please turn to page 12)

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About 50 people attended the Windsor Village Association annual meeting last month. The community voted unanimously to accept all candidates nominated for the board, welcoming new members Susan Nickels, Joe Russell and Mark Stevens and returning board members Ginger Tanner and Julie Kim. Incumbent board members who still have one more year of their terms are Barbara Pflaumer, Julie

Stromberg, Heather Brel and Betty Fox. The association seeks volunteers for a holiday food drive to benefit Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. There will be both a virtual food drive and a collection at Harold Henry Park on Sat., Dec. 16 from 9 a.m.

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Let us praise (again) Robert Irwin and his Central Garden at Getty It’s not hard to take for granted the half-century labors of artists who have made Los Angeles a star of the international art world. Robert Irwin, foremost among such artists, was asked in the 1990s to design a “sculpture in the form of a garden aspiring to be art,” as he has put it, now known as the Central Garden at the Getty Center.

The J. Paul Getty Museum, celebrating its 20th year, is the anchor of the Getty Center in Brentwood. From the beginning, the museum has ranked the Central Garden as one of its most significant pieces of contemporary art.

I am an unabashed worshipper of this sculpture in the form of a garden, with its

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break-all-the-rules boldness and ever-changing aspects. Irwin was hired to crack into the beautiful, rational, fresh-milk whiteness of architect Richard Meier’s shining stone village on the hill, and so he did with this exuberant work.

I learned about Irwin in 2002, when a friend lent me a copy of the film, “The Beauty of Questions.” In it, the artist keeps up a running commentary on the

nature of art and perception.

“The subject of art has to do with feelings,” he says. “Art shows you the world in ways you haven’t seen it before; it brings you back to look at it again and again.”

I think this is the crux of his life’s work — how does art change your perception of the world? He has explored this question of perception (along with other Southern California light and space artists, James Turrell among them) for decades, when he gave up the idea of art, as he puts it, “encased in objects.” As he has been quoted, his art aims “to make you a little more aware than you were the day before of (Please turn to page 9)

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WATER FALLING over chert boulders, circa 2008.

Long live this beautiful work.

Irwin’s latest large-scale work is in Marfa, Texas, part of the artist Donald Judd’s Chinati Foundation, which has made the tiny west Texas town a mecca for contemporary art. Irwin’s installation-in-the-form-of-abuilding has no artificial light and is reportedly beautiful, and luminous. It will be my next Irwin pilgrimage.

Irwin is quoted as asking himself — why make art here?

And he answers in the same spirit that might apply to the Getty — “The sky changes. It’s amazing. Every day is a new event. The sky is everything.”

Ed. Note: The film, “The Beauty of Questions,” is not online, but many interviews with Irwin are. Details about Paula Panich’s exploration of the Central Garden can be found here: tinyurl.com/y8xbd3gk

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(Continued from page 8) how beautiful the world is.”

Amen.

It is not an exaggeration to say studying Irwin’s art and ideas — and the Central Garden at the Getty Center — have opened my world and thinking.

He is a superb teacher.

A few years ago, I spent six months attending to the Central Garden once a week. The garden came to own me, and in an odd way I owned the garden. That is, I was struck by the kinesthetic and sensual experience of it — changing patterns of light cast by the carefully-plucked London plane trees; the sound of water over chunks of chert in the Stream Garden, the spray of workers’ hoses as they wade into the azalea maze; the sweet thunder of children running to see water plunging into the pool.

If you rush through a visit chattering chattering to someone else, you’ll miss it.

It became obvious that, when I see that first corner of the garden, a jewel-box of succulents, after I run down the stairs from the entry plaza level of the Getty Center, something happens — a sheer relief to be in the sight and sound and smell of all this beauty.

Gardens are the most ephemeral of the American arts, said landscape architect Fletcher Steele long ago. All I can say is:

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Eataly in Century City is open, worth the wait There are a lot of lines at Eataly, the newly opened, hotly anticipated Italian food hall and marketplace in the Westfield Century City Mall. Once inside, there are more lines: lines to buy freshly made burrata at the cheesemonger’s; lines for Italian street food at La Piazza, one of three restaurants contained in the two-story, 67,000 square-foot hall. (Terra, a fine dining restaurant, will open soon as the fourth.)

My husband and I arrived at 4:30 p.m. on a Friday afternoon, hoping to beat the post-work rush, only to join a 100-person queue. Amazingly, it only took 15 minutes before it was our turn to enter the emporium. To help with planning, Eataly offers a Line-OMeter on its Twitter account (@ eatalyla), where a perky pepper, ranging from mild green (walk right in!) to the daunting chili

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Fifth Eataly in U.S. Oscar Farinetti opened the first Eataly in Torino, Italy in 2007, wanting to establish the essence of Italy, with all her regional bounty, under one roof. The concept took hold and rapidly expanded worldwide to 39 stores. Eataly L.A. is the fifth to open in the U.S.; all U.S. stores are partnerships with Mario Batali, Joe Bastianich and Lidia Bastianich (the first two, along with Nancy Silverton, are the team behind (Please turn to page 14)

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Chasing Mem’ries looks at loss, closure; funny ‘King Lear’ Chasing Mem’ries: A Different Kind of Musical written by Josh Ravetch features 12 songs (five of them new) with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman and music by Bill Cantos and Mari Falcone, Dave Grusin, Marvin Hamlisch, Michel Legrand and Johnny Mandel. The songs are played by a trio of cello, flute / clarinet and musical director and orchestrator Thomas Griep on piano. There are no elaborate dance numbers with glitzy costumes or big 10 o’clock dramatic moments.

A simple concept: Victoria, a widow (the incomparable Tyne Daly) coming to terms with the recent loss of her husband Franklin (Robert Forster). Her son Mason (Scott Kradolfer) has arranged the memorial service, and he’s even hired an event planner. However, he’s struggling through losses When you pay in full of his own. The action takes

perate, she sees Franklin (Forster) appear and offer comforting words that help her cope, the words really coming from her soul. Ms. Daly’s performance is so multi-dimensional, her grief so palpable, that it will resonate with anyone who’s lost a loved one. However, the play is also very funny, which makes this an extremely entertaining evening in the theater.

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for a new production of “King Lear.”

The Francis Bacon-is-really-Shakespeare theory is also covered. Did Bacon write “King Lear?”

There is a sameness to the music and lyrics, although musical director Jan Roper keeps the musical pace perky.

She plays Phyllis, the distaff version of Phil Swann. Multitalented Roper also has a turn as one of the characters.

Writer / director Ron West, the hardest working man in show business, also has a turn on stage playing three characters. I couldn’t find a credit for choreography, but what there was in the brief dance numbers was charming and appropriate. The plot lines get confused and although you’re not always sure what’s happening, the actors are having such a good time it’s infectious. Producer Martha Demson says “Hilarity ensues, but, so do countless moments of cringe-worthy recognition — of ourselves, of our theatrical community and of our country.”

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(Continued from page 6) knobs. Instead, hooked onto the dashboard is a simple 15-inch tablet screen that you can position in portrait or landscape mode. All you need to know to drive and maintain the car can be found on your touch screen.

1950s “future” is here Audi, BMW, Nissan, Citroën, Mazda, Kia, Mercedes and Volvo now offer some form of an airplane-like “heads up” display — projecting the instrument panel onto a glass screen mounted on the windshield so you can see your speed displayed right in front of you.

This approach was first predicted as a future accessory in the 1950s at GM’s Motorama.

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Homage to D.C. editor in ‘President’s Men,’ a man of principle?

The Newpaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee (9/10): This is a fascinating but zero-warts homage to the managing editor of the Washington Post who was At the made famous Movies by the film with “All the PresTony ident’s Men” Medley (1976). It’s told with interviews with all the fawning A-listers who admired him, like Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Jim Lehrer, John Dean, Norman Lear, Robert Redford, Sally Quinn, Tina Brown, Tom Brokaw, and a myriad of others. There is nary a disparaging word (except from Henry Kissinger). The film includes some shocking scandalous stories of the apparently constantly randy President JFK, with whom Bradlee had an unprofessional best-friend relationship, that I’ve never heard before. Not interviewed are the two wives he callously dumped because he met someone younger and sexier.

Not mentioned is the perjury he committed in falsely testifying in the 1965 trial of the murderer of his sister-in law.

Asked at the end if he had any regrets, he thinks, then says, “I don’t know, if I hurt Tony Bradlee (wife #2, who broke up his first marriage; only to have her marriage to Bradlee broken up by Sally Quinn, 20 years younger), I would regret that.

If I hurt Jean Saltonstall Bradlee (wife #1), I would regret that.” Then, thinking a little, he smiles and says, “I don’t know; I don’t regret very much,” and laughs. The film lost its way when it did not deal in more detail with

the unfeeling, ruthless way he treated two loving wives and mothers of his children.

Because of Watergate, he is known as a man of principle.

But would a man of principle treat his wives and family so hardheartedly? It would have been a much better film had it dealt with this moral chiaroscuro. HBO Dec. 4.

Daddy’s Home 2 (5/10): It might be that Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell are trying to create a comedic pair akin to Laurel & Hardy. Not even close. Laurel’s character was the schlemiel to Hardy’s schlimazel. What Wahlberg and Ferrell are is anybody’s guess, but Ferrell is no schlemiel (and certainly no Stan Laurel), and Wahlberg is no

schlimazel, so it’s not what Laurel & Hardy were doing.

Despite a boffo performance

by Mel Gibson, whatever it is that they are trying, it’s not funny.

Murder on the Orient Express (5/10): I suppose that somewhere in this favored land where the sun is shining bright, where the band is playing somewhere, and somewhere children laugh, there is someone who does not know the story of “Murder on the Orient Express.” For him or her, because of its high production values, this movie could possibly be rated higher. But if you know the story and you have seen the brilliant Peter Ustinov or David Suchet play the role of Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s detective with the little gray cells, the appallingly lackluster performance by director Kenneth Branagh could make this

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Thor: Ragnarok (2/10): Maybe every other American movie shouldn’t be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence. (See Bill Maher’s May 2017 monologue on the subject.) This movie (apparently intended as a comedy), and all the rest of the Marvel Superhero movies, is a monument to American entertainment’s devotion to nonsensical movies aimed at the intellect of a subnormal 13-year-old boy. The movie is so absurd and contrary to any notion of intelligent story-telling that stimulates the brain that the movie doesn’t deserve anything more than what’s written here.

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Darkest Hour (5/10): The problem that I have with this film is how much can it be trusted? The question is relevant because the screenwriter is Anthony McCarten, who also wrote the screenplay for “The Theory of Everything,” the story of Stephen Hawking. And that screenplay was inexcusably dishonest, burying the horrific unhappiness of Hawking’s wife and the brutal way he treated her. The answer is, not much. According to “Alone,” Michael Korda’s seminal 2017 book about Churchill and Dunkirk, the main theme of the film — that Churchill was opposed by his entire war cabinet including former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in wanting to fight on instead of suing for peace in 1940 when the British army was trapped at Dunkirk — is pure pop-

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Food cred aside, in a city rife with farmers’ markets,

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No place else in the city concentrates on all things Italian: imported and homemade pastas, giant wheels of crumbly Parmigiano Reggiano, luscious

salumi, fresh produce, whole fish, slabs of heavily marbled meats, cans of San Marzano tomatoes, Italian wines (and a respectable sampling from California), olive oils, stylish kitchen appliances (such as a SMEG pastel green juicer), Italian restaurants and food stands, and cooking classes.

Star chefs Unless one works in Century City, this is not a place to grab a loaf of bread and hunk of stracchino. Come to spend an evening sampling wines and olive oils, sharing lasagna and Sicilian pizza. Or try one of the made-to-order salads (Please turn to page 15)

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For the complete Italian experience, all that’s missing is a showing of Fellini films and a travel agent to book your trip to Emilia-Romagna. Eataly is

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Besides, this may be the only food emporium in town with a commitment to a greywater system to recycle water, which reduces the amount of drinkable water used to flush toilets by up to 33 percent. And one has to love the fact that they

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Origins of Christmas decor came from many peoples, places Can you explain the origins of the various Christmas decorations? asks Conor Bentley.

It started with the Roman festival of Saturn, held in December, and the temples were decorated with greenery.

Next came the Druids, who celebrated the Winter Solstice (December 21) and added mistletoe, which adorned their sacred oak trees. Then, the Saxons contributed holly and ivy. It was only natural that

these pagan customs be transferred to the Christian Christmas. The holly or holy tree is called Christ’s thorn in Germany and puts forth its red berries at Christmas.

The decorated Saturnalia tree was also a fixture in Roman times, and then made its way to Germany and, 19 centuries later, was introduced into England by the German Prince Albert after his marriage to Queen Victoria. The Prince also brought along Santa Claus and his reindeer for good measure.

• • • I’m told December 25 was not the day Christ was born.

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Most biblical scholars insist that December 25 is definitely not the day Christ was born. This date was actually

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In Anglo-Saxon England, the year even began on 25 December until 1752, when the Gregorian calendar came into use.

• • • When something is within someone’s influence it’s under his aegis. What’s the origin? asks Trudy Arbiter.

It not only refers to influence, but also protection,

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• • • Why is someone who is mischievous, puckish? ponders Toby March.

Puck was the name of an impish sprite or fairy in ancient English folklore. It’s from the Old English puka, goblin. Shakespeare made the name renowned with his character Puck in “A Midsummer’s Night Dream,” who famously exclaims: “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

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