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MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2013
Volume 13 Issue 17
Santa Monica Daily Press
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Tech workers boost Silicon Beach home prices and rents THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES Tech workers flocking to Southern California’s Silicon Beach are driving already-high home prices and rents even higher. As companies like Google and Facebook set up shop in neighborhoods west of the 405 freeway, their employees have helped push the area’s median home price to $952,500 last quarter, up 19.2 percent from a year ago and above pre-recession highs, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. SEE PRICES PAGE 7
Tourney organizers: Santa Monica youth team hit by outbreak MARTIN GRIFFITH Associated Press David Mark Simpson dave@smdp.com
NICE SPOT: Writer, director Paul Sand shows off the views from the west end of the historic Santa Monica Pier.
Way out west Bloody cabaret opens Friday on SM Pier BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer
SM PIER At first glance, “The Cuttlefish Hotel,” a dark, bloody cabaret opening on Friday, seems an odd fit for the sunny Santa Monica Pier, surrounded by happy tourists and multi-million dollar hotels. But writer and director, Paul Sand, is connecting all the dots. “Kurt Weill at The Cuttlefish Hotel,” based on the 1928 German musical “The Threepenny Opera” by Bertolt
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Brecht and Weill, is the first theater production to be held at the far western end of the pier. This event, with its seating of 70 to 150 people, is one of several mid-sized events that pier officials are encouraging, saying that they are easy to manage and popular with vendors. “I thought of all of it as a daydream,” Sand said. “Daydreams are very important. They’re like blueprints. I thought of it right about here.” He’s standing at the end of the pier; the ocean is a bright blue and the coast-
line is crisp in the distance. “If this was a movie how much would this shot cost? $4 million?” he asks, gesturing west. Sand isn’t paying a dime to the Santa Monica Pier Corporation. “I see that venue at the west end of the pier as a special, tucked away space,” said Jim Harris, deputy director of the pier. “It’s kind of like you have hunt to find to it. One of the great things about that west end space is that everyone SEE PLAY PAGE 8
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Organizers of a youth football tournament in Las Vegas say two teams from California accounted for the lion’s share of illnesses during an outbreak at the event. Tournament spokesman Justin Gates said Sunday that some 90 to 100 players, coaches and parents developed flu-like symptoms of nausea, vomiting and diarrhea during the four-day National Youth Football Championships that ended Saturday. Of those, he says a Santa Monica, Calif., team accounted for about 50 cases and a Bakersfield, Calif., team accounted for some 25 cases. He says it was the worst such outbreak in the 40 years that his Florida-based company, Sports Network International, has been holding the tournament, but it only affected a little more than 1 percent of 7,000 attendees and could have been worse. Southern Nevada Health District officials say the symptoms are consistent with norovirus, a mostly food- or waterborne illness that can also be spread by an infected person. They’re investigating the cause of the outbreak.
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