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Santa Monica Daily Press
May 22-23, 2004
A newspaper with issues
Planned theater takes dramatic step forward
Figure it out FANTASY 5 3 12 27 31 37 DAILY 3 Afternoon picks: 3 5 1 Evening picks: 4 0 6 DAILY DERBY
Now they need to find another $9M; bond measure a possibility
1st Place: 08 Gorgeous George 2nd Place: 05 California Classic 3rd Place: 12 Lucky Charms
Race Time: 1:40.88
BY JOHN WOOD
NEWS OF THE WEIRD by Chuck Shepard
GOVERNMENT IN ACTION ■ After a decade of tolerance, the Tokyo metropolitan government ruled in March that used lingerie could no longer be sold in the city's sex shops, where men had been paying the equivalent of $15 to $90 for a pair of panties in a plastic bag, sometimes including a photograph of the former owner. Increasingly, schoolgirls as young as 9 had been supplying the stores.
INDEX Horoscopes Aries, dinner at your pad . . . . . .2
Local Revel with a cause . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Opinion The question remains . . . . . . . . .4
People & Places Arts afire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
State Stemming the tide . . . . . . . . . . . .7
National Bush felling trees . . . . . . . . . . .12
Classifieds Touch of class . . . . . . . . . . . .16-19
People in the News As good as it wets . . . . . . . . . . .20
Volume 3, Issue 165
Daily Press Staff Writer
NORTH OF MONTANA — Construction is scheduled to begin this fall on a new theater planned for Santa Monica after designs cleared a crucial hurdle in the Division of the State Architect this week, it was John Wood/Daily Press announced Thursday. An artist’s rendering of the Madison Project, the proMore than $8 million has posed 504-seat theater planned for Eleventh Street been raised to date for the and Santa Monica Boulevard. Madison Project. The 504-seat theater, which will be built on at a Thursday backyard garden party at a school grounds at Eleventh Street and house north of Montana Avenue that Santa Monica Boulevard, was designed organizers are diligently raising money by renowned local architect Renzo for the project. The free, invitation-only Zecchetto with the aid of acoustic experts. event netted another $110,00O in donaIt will cost an estimated $17 million to tions for the theater, with one unnamed construct. See MADISON, page 5 Organizers hope to place a bond measure on the November ballot to help fund the project. Other than a $1 million federal grant, most of the money raised has come from private donors and foundations. Among the donors is actor Dustin Alejandro Cesar Cantarero II/Daily Press Hoffman, who has taken an active role in The first person to accurately describe where this photo was taken will win two free movie tickets to helping to plan the new theater, establishLoews Cineplex Broadway on the Third Street ing a resident acting group, 3 Coasts, with By Daily Press staff Promenade. E-mail answers to sack@smdp.com. which he plans to work closely. No one won last week’s mystery photo contest — a SM COURTHOUSE — A lawsuit Dr. Piedad Robertson, president of picture of seagulls perched on poles, which are locatSanta Monica College, which is develop- levied against the City of West Hollywood ed on the beach on the Santa Monica/Venice border. ing the theater, told about 100 art patrons by a man who suffered brain damage when he was struck in a crosswalk has been continued by a Santa Monica judge so both sides can collect more evidence. Santa Monica Superior Court Judge By The Associated Press to add artificial tanning to California is estimated to have Valerie Baker this week put the matter teenage no no’s that already 1,500 tanning salons. over until the end of July. The jury trial is SACRAMENTO — A state But backers of the bill, expected to last 20 days. include smoking, drinking and famous for tanned bodies and including the California Society At issue in the case is whether the City year-round sunshine could be the buying lottery tickets. of Dermatology and Dermof West Hollywood should have known Teens often visit tanning nation’s first to ban teenagers the intersection at Sunset Boulevard and atologic Surgery, blame tanning salons before proms, vacations from artificial tanning booths. Alta Loma Road was dangerous. salons for part of 1 million new The state Assembly, citing a and weddings, say owners of an Plaintiff Jason Eli Sayers was struck in cases of skin cancer diagnosed rise in skin cancer cases in industry that claims 160,000 April of 2001 by a car driven by Danielle every year in the United States. California and across the employees nationally and $5 See LIGHTS OUT, page 5 See TAN, page 5 nation, voted 42-26 this week billion in annual revenue.
Crosswalk trial delayed
Teens get stripped of bronze mettle
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