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Corona by the Numbers & Local Updates: COVID-19 cases top 170,000 in LA County; Small quake shakes Santa Monica Compiled by Christina Campodonico Reported Data & Cases by Neighborhood as of Monday, July 27 Culver City: 311; Del Rey: 238; El Segundo: 97; Marina del Rey: 51; Mar Vista: 228; Playa Vista: 95; Playa del Rey: 17; Santa Monica: 605; Venice: 192; Westchester: 274 Total Confirmed Cases in LA County: 178,642 Current Hospitalizations as of Tuesday, July 28: 2,051 Testing Postivity Rate: 8.4% Total Deaths: 4,426 • A small earthquake jolted Santa Monica early Monday morning (July 27). The 3.2 magnitude quake hit about 6 a.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

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• On Tuesday (July 28), Garcetti also announced the expansion of LAPD’s Community Safety Partnership into a full-blown bureau within the city’s police department. The collaboration between LAPD and LA’s Housing Authority began in 2011 and focuses on reducing crime by “bridging communcation and trust gaps between residents and the LAPD,” developing sports and recreation programs, addressing quality-of-life issues and connecting people with resources such as “employment training, mobile medical programs and counseling,” according to a release on the mayor’s website.

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A Note from Congresswoman Maxine Waters: The President’s Authoritarian Administration is Becoming a Regime Donald Trump is again misusing his executive power to create what appears to be a paramilitary organization, supposedly comprised of Department of Homeland Security agents, empowered to act as his unaccountable secret police. This force, which is flooding cities run by his political opponents with violence, unconstitutional abductions, and illegal detentions of citizens, makes it obvious that Trump’s time in office should be defined not as an administration but as a regime.

This president administers, governs, and manages nothing.

Instead of a real presidential administration, the American people are left to witness an authoritarian regime using tactics in our streets more typical of third world dictatorships than a thriving democracy. Because of the grave concern I have for the damage Trump’s actions have done to our nation, I recently signed a letter, along with over 100 of my colleagues, to the Departments of Justice and

Homeland Security demanding information, transparency, and accountability for the neo-fascist actions of both Departments, done at the instruction of their leader.

Far-right supporters of this president have said before that if Trump was ever removed from office, “it would cause a Civil War-like fracture in this nation…” a quote the president himself re-tweeted. Now, we are seeing the beginnings of such a conflict, with the president calling on federal agents to patrol our streets, arrest individuals without any proof or pretense of criminal activity, engage in violence with protestors, seize citizens and

drive off with them in unmarked vans, and roam areas other than federal property, despite the justification for such action being the supposed protection of federal land and assets. Protestors linked peacefully in arms have been tear-gassed, some have been critically injured, and many journalists have been harassed and threatened.

Further, Defense Secretary Mark Esper made clear that he is concerned with United States military uniforms being worn by law-enforcement agencies in our cities, yet that is exactly what is occurring in Oregon. This president, of course, does not listen to his generals or Secretary Esper, military minds who he does not respect, having claimed he knows “more than the generals.” Despite this claim, he doesn’t know enough or doesn’t care that the orders to invade United States cities and the subsequent actions of Trump’s secret police have violated the Fourth Amendment prohibition against arbitrary arrest, the First Amendment right to free speech, the First Amendment right to peacefully assemble, the First Amendment right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances, and the Fifth Amendment right to due process of law.

Now Trump is threatening to take his fascist, unconstitutional secret police to Chicago, Philadelphia, and other cities run by his opposing political party in a series of totalitarian decisions that mirror the

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The use of secret police is a core tenet of every authoritarian and fascist regime in modern history, from leaders in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to Vladimir Putin and Augusto Pinochet.

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Flexing Mental Muscles on a Fretboard McCabe’s Guitar Shop offers a musical cure for cabin fever

Online music lessons, like those at McCabe’s, open the door to a whole new way of learning and expressing one’s self

By Anthony Torrise Like COVID-19, music is highly contagious — but in a good way!

Whether we realize it or not, music constantly surrounds us — either while we’re at the store waiting in a sociallydistanced line or simply tapping our hands or feet to some kind of rhythm that’s stuck in our heads. Frankly, can anybody say they haven’t played an air guitar at least once in their life? As much fun as it is to tap along to a song, playing an actual instrument brings that fun to a whole new level.

More time indoors means that an escape is needed now more than ever. Thanks to Santa Monica landmark music store McCabe’s Guitar Shop, virtual music classes are turning mental tunes into musical reality. Currently, McCabe’s is offering online lessons for the guitar, bass, banjo, charango, dulcimer, harmonica, mandolin, piano, ukulele, violin, voice and even the saw!

As the new school year approaches and districts across the state, including LAUSD, have announced plans to begin the school year remotely, parents are reevaluating how they homeschool their children during the pandemic.

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professional singer/songwriter and guitar teacher Paula McMath. “I’m getting calls now for people to do lessons two times per week through the academic year… they’re looking for activities for their kids to augment their homeschooling.”

In fact, the benefits of playing an instrument can do mental wonders not only for children, but people of all ages.

According to a 2016 study, playing an instrument improves communication skills, cognitive function and helps lower anxiety and depression.

“Music is a language and it’s a very universal language. It transcends countries, political beliefs; it’s a very good factor in

bringing people together in good ways,” says Denny Croy, who is the head of McCabe’s music school.

Croy later elaborated on this by saying “it provides a distraction from what’s going on and also you’re developing a new skill… that’s much better than bingewatching a couple shows.”

Eric and Cate, a father-daughter pair of McMath’s students who asked to go by their first names only citing privacy concerns, speak highly of playing music in times like this and praise the skill of McMath’s teaching over video call.

“It’s a fun thing to look forward to, our lessons, and I have practice pretty much

every day,” explains Cate.

“I tried to pick it up [the guitar] once or twice before,” recalls Eric. “We’ve both been learning together, although Cate’s quickly surpassed me [and] picked it up amazingly fast.”

Some might feel that online music classes won’t work as well as in-person ones.

However, according to those who teach through McCabe’s, the shift to online lessons has not posed a serious detriment.

“It’s working out really well. I’m surprised, I almost prefer it now,” says Cheryl Saunders, a guitar teacher at McCabe’s for 38 years. “People seem to do well with it. We can see each other; we can see each other’s guitars. I can email them materials while I’m teaching. Zoom is working out extremely well.”

Even if you’re just a beginner, learning how to cleanly play a set of chords can bring forth a sense of achievement and open the door to endless possiblities.

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VIRTUAL ARTS & EDUCATION IN 2020 Breaking the Virtual Fourth Wall The Actors’ Gang Education Department brings the magic of theater home

By Katherine Brubaker The Actors’ Gang, founded by Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins nearly 40 years ago, has been hosting summer camps since 2005 and during the school year hosts a variety of free arts education programs in LA County schools.

“We go into classrooms and give free theater arts programming to kids who otherwise wouldn’t have a theater arts program. Some of our programs go into history or English classes, and we bring history or literature to life,” explains Stephanie Lee, Operations Manager of The Actors’ Gang Teaching Department, a teaching artist and actor with the company.

“They create scenes within that classroom space, and they get to be creative with chairs and tables and really dive into the scene.”

But this summer is the first time that one of The Actors’ Gang’s theater camps will be hosted online.

This new, virtual frontier presents difficulties to a program that heavily relies on group activities, but The Actors’ Gang Education Department is determined to

A Zoom screenshot from the first day of the first-ever virtual theater camp conducted by The Actors’ Gang provide the same hands-on, theatrical experience via Zoom.

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VIRTUAL ARTS & EDUCATION IN 2020 PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE ACTORS’ GANG

In previous years, The Actors’ Gang has opened up its costume shop to summer camp students. This year, students will be challenged to come up with their own creative costume and makeup designs at home.

Breaking the Virtual Fourth Wall (Continued from page 8)

Commedia dell’Arte, which The Actors’ Gang uses as a teaching tool and has a slew of stock characters or archetypes that actors can play with. “We are inviting these kids to express these emotions through the vessel of the 16th Century Commedia dell’Arte characters and by

using these characters as a canvas to create their own characters and monologues.”

The Actors’ Gang utilizes a technique called “The Style,” which was developed

by Robbins and former Co-artistic Director Cynthia Ettinger. It draws on influences from the Parisian Théâtre du Soleil, Polish theatrical director Jerzy Grotowski, punk rock, popular culture and Anne Bogart’s Viewpoints, which involves moving in the space together. “It’s all

about saying ‘yes, and’ to your scene partner, or the actors on stage with you.

We never want to deny our fellow actors.

It’s very physical and emotional. It depends on sincerity and honesty and truth in order to make that connection with the audience,” explains Lee. In “The Style,” actors also break the fourth wall and make direct eye contact with the audience. “Then the audience can feel what the character is feeling and communicating,” says Lee. “Our style of theater also heavily relies on working in an ensemble,” Lee continues, adding, “It is really helpful for these kids to express themselves with a group of their own peers — to share their feelings and truly be witnessed. We also want to give them the chance to learn how to stand up and share their ideas with confidence.”

Even though the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the program to be held online, Lee explains that all of the same physical and vocal exercises that are done in person will be done virtually with modifications.

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can focus on the actor that is speaking,” explains Lee. “So we go around and always have the kids share their names, share one thing that they are grateful for, which could be an object, a person, etc.

After that person is done, the next person will acknowledge the person before and say thank you for sharing, and then share their own names and gratitude.”

When doing this virtually, everyone participating will have to be put on speaker view, which allows the speaker’s image on the Zoom call to come up on everyone’s screens. This, along with verbal acknowledgement, helps facilitate the activity.

“This way, everyone can be seen and heard,” says Lee. Students won’t have access to the theater, costumes, props and makeup, so they will have to get inventive with what they have in their own homes. “They have unlimited amounts of props or clothes, or their parent’s clothes. They can get creative with whatever they have in their own house,” says Lee. Just like acting, it might take a little imagination.

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VIRTUAL ARTS & EDUCATION IN 2020 A Jack of All Trades Multitalented Culver City figure skater excels online, on the ice and off

By Dev Jaiswal Samir Mallya does it all — math, comedy, ice skating, teaching — all while excelling in school and earning a spot at a top university.

“Passions are made to pursue,” says Mallya, who plans to attend UCLA this fall.

Mallya credits his high school program’s flexibility as the reason he was able to do all of his co-curricular activities. He graduated from California Connections Academy Southern California, a free online public school.

Mallya started at Connections in sixth grade. He most appreciated being able to schedule his own school day. Not having to set aside a specific six-hour block for classes allowed Mallya additional time to pursue his passions in concert with his academics. The seeds of Mallya’s blossoming at Connections began the year before when he was enrolled in-person at Farragut Elementary School in Culver City and met a classmate who invited him to go iceskating.

Samir Mallya Mallya poses in his graduation regalia from California Connections Academy Southern California

“She was a figure skater and she just invited me to a get together at the Culver Ice Arena, which at that time was two minutes away from my house,” Mallya says. “I didn’t really think anything of it. I had been ice-skating probably a few or a dozen times in my life. But I went and I just really liked the feeling of being on the ice and moving across the ice. So we decided to start group lessons. And then from there, it just took off.”

And took off it did — Mallya transitioned into private classes and was soon competing. He has earned a spot at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships every single year ever since. His highest finish at nationals?

Seventh!

“We had no plan, so it’s not like I was expected to go to nationals every year,” Mallya says. “So the first year I was eligible, I was pretty surprised that I did make it to nationals because… it was just like a scenario or a best case scenario…

And then after that, I think nationals did become more of my goal for each season.”

Mallya explained that although the season

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REACH School opened its doors in September 2019 with ten founding families to serve elementary students with neurodiverse profiles who were struggling at their previous public or parochial schools.

The tremendous success of REACH’s first year has warranted expanding from grades 2-5 to grades 1-5 in the elementary school, along with adding middle school grades 6-7 this year.

Additionally, the campus has moved from Redondo Beach to join REACH’s sister independent schools, Renaissance and Rolling Hills Preparatory Schools in San Pedro.

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Students do not work together by grade level, but by their individual developmental level. For example, a student with dyslexia, which causes a student to have difficulty with the “code of the English language,” may have targeted remediation in phonics and spelling, while at the same time working above grade level in other subjects.

Students with diagnoses such as dyslexia, autism and ADHD are considered neurodiverse. While these conditions should be accepted and recognized alongside all learning styles, most schools are not equipped to accommodate these students. As a result, students fall behind, lose self-confidence, and dislike going to school. At REACH, students have an individualized learning program that targets their specific needs and helps them feel successful and happy.

AN ENGAGING and SAFE SPACE Neuroscience research shows us that a child’s daily experiences direct the development of neurons in their brain. At REACH, students are engaged and enjoy being in a calming environment where teachers care about them. Students are encouraged to be individuals, to use their voices, and are given respect for taking risks, trying new things, and being creative.

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“I’ve trained six days a week for the past seven years, and sometimes my days were as long as 12 hours with the athletic activities spread out during the day,” Mallya says.

The difficulties of this arduous schedule necessitated Mallya’s transition from Farragut to Connections but also taught him how to face stressful times on the road to pursuing his many passions.

“Obviously there are times that I’m stressed with athletics or academics or all of the stuff that I have to do,” Mallya says.

“Now each time I do feel that way, I know the best thing is just to focus on the work. … Times of stress always pass, so just focus on what you can do in that moment.”

Farragut, however, was still immensely impactful on Mallya. It catalyzed an interest in mathematics. Mallya attended Farragut’s after-school math program, where he studied advanced topics and participated in the L.A. County Math Olympiad. From there, Mallya was accepted to the UCLA Math Circle in fifth grade and has been enrolled in the program ever since. When he entered high school,

Mallya puts his skating skills on display at a sectional skating competition he was invited to teach classes for younger students in the circle.

“That was like my introduction to teaching. I learned how to work with the kids, and I learned how to explain things in many different ways to make sure that everybody was on the same page at the end,” says Mallya.

Mallya believes strongly in the interconnectedness of things, saying that “a lot of the time our activities influence each other” and that one activity may lead to another

unexpected one. Ice skating had another surprise in store for Mallya other than the national stage — theater, and then comedy.

“The way I started doing standup comedy was that I was in Theatre on Ice. It helped me gain a lot of confidence and [I] became really close to a lot of my teammates. I started making comedy scripts involving the team and my teammates,” says Mallya.

“I shared my script with a couple of my friends and they really liked it, and then we shared it with the ice skater coach, and she

also liked it. And then I ended up performing it at our biggest event of the last year.”

Mallya manages his own YouTube comedy channel and looks forward to joining a comedy or improv club at UCLA. He plans to study mechanical engineering and pre-medicine in the fall.

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From lockdown sprouts homegrown teen zine ‘Farmers Market’ ART BY SOHPIE NELSON

By Julia Escobar Born from the ashes of school closures and isolation, the new Farmers Market Zine has planted a seed for a new community of young artists and writers that stretches from West Los Angeles all the way to the Canadian border. Seventeenyear-old Annabel Axtell, a rising senior at Culver City High School, founded the teen and young adult print magazine composed of art from local and international high school students. The inaugural issue will come out at the end of July.

Creative works from everywhere under the sun, in every genre — photography, paintings, music playlists (with scannable QR codes) and poetry — are featured in this zine, all done by high school students.

Creating a zine had been on Axtell’s mind ever since 2011 after seeing her first zine, but as a busy high schooler juggling school and extracurriculars, the idea fell to the wayside — until quarantine. The zine was originally going to be just for her friends, not necessarily to sell or promote. But when the Instagram page was created online, teens from all over the world began following the account and submitting art.

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From March through June, art and writing from California, Arizona, Ohio, New York, and even Canada poured in. It quickly became apparent that the zine was growing beyond her friend group.

“It’s really amazing that so many people are making art, and so many people were waking up to certain things happening in the world,” Axtell says. “I mainly wanted to create it so that we could build a community of artists and like-minded people to discuss different things that we’re passionate about.”

Axtell assembled her friends to create a youth editorial team of eight high school-age editors, illustrators, layout designers and web designers. They created a 30-plus page youth magazine with letter-size pages, all designed in a scrapbook collage style.

“We got a lot of work that was thematically tied into being stuck at home during quarantine,” Axtell says. “So we’re naming this first issue ‘From my bedroom to yours’ because a lot of the work that we have, as well as the cover image, is art that people did in their bedroom.”

That theme is the core of the zine’s three main sections:

The inaugural issue of ‘Farmers Ma bedroom to yours’ visual arts, media, and writing.

Distinctive elements include subcategories on current topics (i.e. ‘Issues and Activism’) and an advice column embedded in the writing section. The team wanted to make sure there was a space in the zine to inform youth about timely topics like Black Lives Matter and provide a forum for youth to educate their peers about taboo subjects such as sex ed that might be missing from some teens’ high school curriculums.

The BLM section is powerful: it shares news, vital resources and personal statements, all written by youth activists. The advice column then pivots to talk about sex education from a

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Axtell, “and farmers markets are a wholesome way to bring communities together.”

To preorder the first edition of ‘Farmers Market Zine 6’ ($10), visit farmersmarketzine.com. If you are a young artist or writer and would like to have your work featured in the next edition of ‘Farmers Market’ submit your work to farmersmarketzine@ gmail.com. Follow @farmersmarketzine on Instagram for updates.

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youth perspective not usually taught in high schools. It also dispenses advice for college applications written by an alum of Culver City High School.

The team created a website to give the magazine an online platform (farmersmarketzine. com). While the full print version of the zine won’t be posted online, all writing featured in the zine and any additional work submitted will be on the website. Artists and writers can also submit their work online.

Aiming to create a strong sense of community and compassion through their newly minted publication, the Farmers Market Zine team hopes to release a

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zine every season — the next being this fall.

“We want to try to do more community activities with all the people who are following us because we love the people that are following us,” says Axtell.

“Hopefully, when COVID passes, we can have little community meetings, classes or even forums where we talk about ways to help the community.”

In fact, creating this sense of community is the exact reason why the zine is called Farmers Market. Just like produce vendors who come together to sell the fruits of their labor in a community setting, the magazine offers a forum for young artists to come together — with all their different mediums — into one cohesive space.

“We wanted to focus on issues that affect our community,” says

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Through his guerrilla posters, Rob Revere hopes to wake pedestrians up to the message of Black Lives Matter

By Kellie Chudzinski Black Lives Matter protests poured into the streets of Los Angeles’ wealthiest neighborhoods in late May through early June, with more recent demonstrations spilling into nearby Westwood.

Playa del Rey, often noted as the city’s last sleepy beach town, was relatively unaffected by the thousands of protesters who took to the streets in nearby Venice and Santa Monica earlier this year. But moved by the need for equal justice and equality, local artist Rob Revere sought to use his art to give his neighbors a reminder of the daily fight Black communities face.

Following George Floyd’s death, Revere created vibrant illustrations in honor of Floyd, Elijah McClain and Breonna Taylor and other figureheads of the BLM movement. Printing copies in dozens, Revere took to local streets stapling his posters to Playa del Rey telephone poles.

“People could turn off the TV, they could turn off their phone.

But I’m still gonna reach them on their front doorstep,” he says of his choice to engage directly with his community. “They could choose to ignore the things that we’re seeing, but...

I’m going to make sure that they see it somehow.

“Usually when I’m taking a walk, I’m taking time away from my phone, away from the TV,

and my guard is [down], I’m more receptive to the world around me,” he adds. “So I was thinking, if I could create something where I could catch somebody else when they’re in that same mental state, then it could be effective.”

One poster reads “Justice for Elijah McClain,” the 23-year-old Black man who died after a confrontation with Aurora, Colorado police in August 2019.

The illustration shows a smiling McClain, in a red and white plaid shirt with a cat on his shoulder, and again in the background playing the violin. Some of the last words he spoke to police surround him, including “I’m a peaceful person,” “I don’t even kill flies.”

Revere says he hopes his vibrant artworks will draw in passersby — encourage viewers to feel a “connectedness” with the subjects of the posters — and “humanize” those who have died at the hands of police.

Another piece highlights Gianna Floyd, the six-year-old daughter of George Floyd whose brutal, videotapped death while in Minneapolis police custody on Memorial Day catalyzed thousands of BLM protests across the globe — daily — for weeks.

With her hair in Ghana braids, with pink and yellow beads at the ends, she raises a clenched fist in the air. On her blue and white

baseball tee is a black and white illustration of her father, with tape over his mouth reading “I can’t breathe.” “It ends today,” is written in bubble letters above her head.

Revere began placing the posters around the neighborhood in mid-June, after protests swept across LA. Now, he continues to print dozens of his illustrations and place them around SoCal wherever he goes. He’s received support on social media from passersby who’ve encountered his artwork and even gotten some love from the Instagram account of Grammy Awardwinning Afro-Latino R&B artist Miguel, who posted a picture of Revere’s “Justice for Breonna Taylor” poster to his account earlier this week.

While Revere says he “would go to the end of the world to try to bring justice” and plans to keep creating artwork in support of the BLM movement “until we see real change,” he is also not attempting to center himself in the conversation for racial justice and eschews a “white savior” mentality.

“I’m a white male,” he says.

“Our actions as white people, they don’t end when we feel good about our efforts. Our actions end… when we see real reforms and when we see real change.”

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Thai cuisine is spicy, nutty and vibrant, a slight divergence from British cuisine to say the least. Combine the two cuisines, and you’ll see that British cuisine, with a little boost from Thailand, can be pretty scrumptious.

For this week’s recipe guide, I wanted to highlight a California farm, Thao Family Farms.

Aside from the fact that they grow beautiful Southeast Asian vegetables and herbs perfect for this dish, the farm itself represents a historically powerful cultural exchange. A child of Laotian refugees, Kong Thao has grown out and expanded his parents’ American dream through their family

farm. The farm grows hundreds of different types of produce in an almost zero-waste process and serves as the backbone to many local LA restaurants, including Venice’s Night + Market and Jeremy Fox’s Rustic Canyon in Santa Monica.

Recently, Thao Family Farms sold a “Peak of Harvest Produce Box” filled with basil, cured Thai shallots, water spinach, and more through their Instagram page and offered pick up locations at the Santa Monica Farmers Market. Keep a look out for their produce on their Instagram page (@kongthao03) to get inspiration for your own freshly picked and hand-packaged seasonal box!

Recipe Guide Scotch Egg Ingredients 1-pound ground chicken (Pork,

beef or turkey will work as well) A few sprigs of mint, chopped A few leaves of basil, chopped A bunch of cilantro, chopped 2 cloves of garlic, minced 1 shallot, minced Thai chilies, chopped (entirely optional!)

1 teaspoon of salt 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce 2 teaspoons of fish sauce 1 teaspoon of sugar 2 teaspoons of cornstarch 6 eggs, cold ½ cup of cornstarch 1 to 2 cups of panko Sauce Ingredients 1 heaping tablespoon of red curry paste (I used the brand Maesri) 1/3 cup of coconut milk ½ cup chicken broth 1 teaspoon of sugar 2 tablespoons of peanut butter Veggies Leafy greens (spinach, watercress, pea shoots) Tomatoes, halved Avocado, diced Cucumber, sliced 1 lime Chopped up herbs (leftover from the chicken mixture) ½ teaspoon of salt 1 shallot, minced 1 teaspoon of fish sauce • Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Bring a large pot of water to boil, and place the cold eggs in gently, turning the heat down to a simmer. After 6 minutes, immediately put the eggs in an ice bath. Set aside.

• In a bowl, mix together the chicken, herbs, garlic, shallot,

salt, oyster sauce, fish sauce, sugar and corn starch until fully combined. If you love spicy food, add in those spicy Thai chilies for an added kick. Cover it with plastic wrap and put it in the fridge. This step can be done the night before for a more flavorful filling.

• Heat a pan with a bit of cooking oil and toast the panko breadcrumbs with a sprinkle of salt over medium high heat until golden brown. For our keto readers, feel free to use almond flour instead! Set aside in a bowl to cool.

• Peel the eggs when they’re fully cooled and dry them off.

Bring the chicken mixture out of the fridge, and line up the eggs, cornstarch, chicken and panko next to a lightly greased aluminum-foiled baking pan.

• Coat each egg in cornstarch.

Grease your hands and take 1/6 of the chicken mixture and flatten it out into a thin patty.

Place an egg in the middle and wrap the meat mixture around the egg. Roll it in the panko breadcrumbs until fully coated, and place on the baking pan.

Repeat with all of the eggs, and spray with some oil.

• Pop it in the oven for 15 minutes at 400 degrees, and then broil on high for the remaining 5 minutes.

• While it’s cooking, combine all of the salad vegetables and mix it together with a squeeze of lime, shallot, salt and fish sauce.

• Combine the red curry paste, coconut milk, peanut butter and chicken broth in a small saucepan and bring to a simmer for 10 minutes, whisking to combine.

• Eat everything together!

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While the ingredients from both sides could not be more different, they often combine to make something uniquely harmonious; something I see as a sweet reference to my family.

And of course, it goes beyond just Japanese and Jewish; there are so many different cuisines in the world that have uniquely delicious components that, when combined, bring out the best in each other.

British cuisine has long been characterized as just plain “bad,” lacking in flavor and visually unappetizing. But I’ve personally fostered an unlikely attachment to this food through fond memories of visiting my boyfriend in London — one of the places where the Scotch Egg proverbially originated.

While everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I refuse to deny some gems that this cuisine has hidden. The Scotch egg is a rusty jewel: a hardboiled egg wrapped in sausage, and fried — the sort of crispy comfort food you dine on in an English pub on a cloudy day. It sounds slightly gruesome but make that a runny-soft boiled egg and a Thai chicken sausage baked in a panko crust — and you’ve got a totally revamped dish. Inspired by the abundant usage of mint, basil, and cilantro in Isan cuisine from

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What impact will the projected retirement of “Baby Boomers” have on real estate?

There are so many questions right now about real estate and the right timing to buy, the right timing to sell, with of course all sellers wanting to maximize their sales price and all buyers wanting to get the best deal. As in life, the answers can be very specific to each individual situation, so it’s important to get specific advice that relates to your needs and future plans. However, in generalities, there are definitely some things that we all should be aware of when anticipating changes in the real estate market. The Baby Boomers have historically had great impact on the real estate market and their coming of retirement era is expected to again shift the housing landscape.

The so-called “baby boomer generation” is the result of an increase in births following the end of World War II. Born between 1946 and 1964, this group alone constitutes almost 30% of the U.S. population and makes up the largest single age group in California. Due to government programs and optimism in The American Dream, their parents began to build housing, move to the suburbs, and have babies- lots of babies.

This powerfully large generation has consistently had a huge impact on the real estate market. They grew up, joined the work force, and all needed

apartments to rent, causing a spike in rents in the 1980s, which subsequently spurred construction of more rental housing to catch up. Toward the end of that decade, many started looking to buy homes, causing a boom in home prices and belated overbuilding, culminating in a recession. By the late 1990s, home prices had become stable, just in time for baby boomers to accumulate enough savings to invest in the stock market. Again, en masse, this group simultaneously invested and over-invested in the stock market, driving up prices (especially of overvalued tech stocks) until crashing in the “dot-com bubble”, where many lost all of their savings. The 2008 financial and real estate crash also took a toll on this group, many of whom were homeowners encouraged to use their home as an ATM, and/or whose stock or pension plan values were lost.

Financial crisis has delayed retirement from many of this generation, but they are retiring. A great many, especially those living in areas with high costs of living such as the communities served by this newspaper, will sell their homes and downsize- some within the same communities, others to different cities, states, or even countries. By some projections, the first groundswell of

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retirements and accompanying home sales has been anticipated to truly begin in 2020-2021. (With the unanticipated arrival of Covid, however, we are seeing some move up their plans.) This is a welcome development to buyers who have faced a shortage of inventory due to the delays in retirement and home turnover. The first round of home sellers in this category will likely receive the most benefit in terms of pricing and time to sell as eager buyers come to the table, finally able to purchase homes that may not have been on the market in decades.

However, when the turnover becomes an avalanche of homes on the market and excess inventory, we can expect homes to take longer to sell and prices to be lower since buyers will have so much more to choose from.

On the other hand, Baby Boomers were anticipated to compete with “Generation Y”- first time buyers with very similar criteria as retirees- urban, rather than suburban location; amenities; newer construction; smaller and more affordable homes or condos. It remains to be seen whether the surge in urban condominium development in a city like Los Angeles bears fruit, or whether the lack of relative affordability (exacerbated by Covid-related job losses) will continue to drive many to

more affordable locations, such as Florida or Nevada.

In summary, buyers looking for more choice in available homes, relief is on the way. Buyers who can afford to are taking advantage of less competition and low mortgage rates. These, combined with the necessary shuffling due to changes in needs caused by the shutdown- such as increased home office space, are keeping the sales prices at their stable yet elevated heights. If you are a baby boomer, think carefully about taking advantage of this market now. Don’t wait until all of your friends and neighbors’ homes are already up for sale- beat them to it and you are likely to reap the highest rewards and the most profit to ride off into the sunset with!

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Lisa Phillips is an active Realtor in the Los Angeles area, with more than twenty years as a practicing real estate broker and attorney. Lisa is also a member of the National Association of Realtors “Green Resource Council”, and achieved its “GREEN” Designation. www.LisaPhillipsRealEstate.com.

DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HIDE I’m a 30-year-old gay man with a new boyfriend. He is a total social butterfly: the kind of person who shows up to a bar on a random Friday night and just happens to know 10 people there. I, on the other hand, don’t love being super social. It’s not that I’m shy. I just find socializing exhausting. I really like him, and we mostly hang out one-onone. However, the times we are with a lot of other people, even when they’re a bunch of his friends, I feel a little overwhelmed. I’m worried he’ll find me boring because of this, and I’d rather know sooner than later if my being a wallflower will be the death of the relationship.

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in stimulus processing in introverts and extroverts. In introverts, sensory input — input from their senses — led to increased blood flow in the brain (playing out as their being socked with increased stimulation). In extroverts, the same sensory input led to less overall blood flow, which plays out as less sensitivity to external stimulation, likely leading to a need for more of it.

Input from the senses also takes off down different paths in the brains of introverts and extroverts,“thinky” (in introverts) versus “feely” (in extroverts). For example, in introverts, it led to activity in frontal lobe “higher reasoning” areas used for problem-solving, remembering, and making plans. In extroverts, rear areas of the brain that process sensory There are great parties and introverts’ experience (like seeing, watching, and version of great parties: the ones they touching) were activated, making an arrive at on the wrong day and find a extrovert’s brain optimal for managing locked, dark house. environmental stimuli (like from a big What is introversion? Good question, raging party) that can lead to sensory and, annoyingly, one that researchers overload in an introvert. have yet to agree upon an answer to. So, Extroverts also get encouragement to best I can generalize from quarrying be social (in neurochemical form) from through the research: Introversion is most increased activity in their brain’s “reward correctly summed up as the other end of network,” according to research by the spectrum from extroversion, with psychologist Richard Depue, among extroversion as “outgoingness” and others. The neurochemical more active in introversion as “ingoingness.” In the extroverts’ brains is dopamine, which middle are “ambiverts,” those who, motivates seeking and wanting. It depending on their mood and the energizes them to pursue social connecsituation, are sometimes a social butterfly tion, and there’s a memory component, too, like pop-up ads on a browser, and sometimes a social bug in amber. reminding them of all the previous An extrovert thrives on human contact awesomeness they experienced while and is motivated to pursue “novelty” being swarmed by people. (Introvert: I’d (experiences they’ve yet to have) and rather be swarmed by angry bees.) excitement. An introvert, on the other Relationships can work between an hand, is more focused on (and comfortable in) the world in their thoughts than introvert and extrovert — like my boyfriend and me. I’m the extrovert. If you’re they are in the world of people, loud human and not dead, I want to talk to noises, and buzzing activity. you. My introvert boyfriend, on the other Introversion gets confused with hand, says things like,“I enjoy interesting shyness. But shyness is a psychological conversation, even if it involves talking to problem to overcome — a fear- and people.” I take him to parties when shame-driven reluctance to engage necessary, but I will often leave him with others — whereas introversion is home, which leaves him overjoyed. merely a preference for quieter, less Explain the science to your boyfriend, populous environments. In other words, along with your fears that he’ll come to introverts aren’t dysfunctional. They’re long for the sort of partner who swings differently functional. from the chandelier while throwing back Extroverts and introverts’ differing social preferences (essentially,“I love a parade!” martinis and exchanging witty banter versus “I love a cave”) seem to result from with those below. Sure, he might realize he needs a partner who is his social differences in the ways their brains doppelganger, but he also might tell you process “stimulus” and “reward.” he finds your introspectiveness refreshing In psychology, a stimulus is something that happens in the environment around and even quietly sexy. If so, you could a person (like a horn honking or a spider make your relationship work by being mindful of each other’s differing needs legging it across their pillow) that’s and figuring out ways for each of you to registered by their senses and then their get yours met with a minimum of hellish brain, motivating a response. discomfort for the other — or, as you Cognitive scientist Debra L. Johnson used brain imaging to explore differences might put it,“Till party do us death.”

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REQUEST FOR RELEASE OF FUNDS On or about August 15, 2020, HCIDLA will authorize HACLA to submit a request to the HUD for the release of Section 8 Project Based Voucher (PBV) funds under the Housing Act of 1937; Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009, Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2012, and Public Law 112-55, as amended to undertake the following project: PROJECT: Thatcher Yard Housing

ing, of which 30 units will be family housing and 67 units will be senior housing (aged 62+). Of the 97 units, 49 units (or 51%) will be set aside for permanent supportive housing for formerly homeless and chronically homeless families and seniors. The total mix includes 76 onebedroom units, 13 two-bedroom units, 8 three-bedroom units, and 1 three-bedroom manager’s unit, equating to 98 total bedrooms (including the manager’s unit). Each unit will have a refrigerator, an oven and stove, carpet, window coverings, air conditioning and heating, cable and internet hook-ups. The one-bedroom units will be approximately 700 SF, the twobedroom units will be approximately 940 SF, and the three-bedroom units will be approximately 1,150 SF. The project will be served by two elevators and have access to designated vehicle and bicycle parking within one level of semi-subterranean parking (Type I concrete construction garage) beneath the senior units with 82 total parking spaces.

LOCATION: 3233, 3311, & 3321 S. Thatcher Avenue, Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, CA 90292 FUNDING: Estimated: $862,104 annually for (20) years, total funding of $17,242,080 / HACLA Project Based Voucher (PBV).

FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT An Environmental Assessment under 24 CFR Part 58 was conducted for the abovementioned projects. HCIDLA has determined that these projects will have no significant impact on the human environment. Therefore, an Environmental Impact Statement under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) is not required.

Additional project information is contained in the Environmental Review Record (ERR). The ERR will be made available to the public for review electronically.

Please submit your request by email to the Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department, Environmental Services Unit, Attention: David Greenwood at david.greenwood@lacity.org PUBLIC COMMENTS

Any individual, group, or PURPOSE: Thatcher Yard agency may submit written Housing, a ground-up, new comments on the ERR to construction development is HCIDLA. All comments redesigned as a Type V wood ceived by August 14, 2020, framed construction building will be considered by for seniors over a Type I HCIDLA prior to authorizing semi-subterranean garage submission of a request for and surrounding bungalows release of funds. Comments for families. The project will should specify which notice feature 97 units of low inand which project they are come and supportive housaddressing. ing, of which 30 units will be family housing and 67 units ENVIRONMENTAL CERTIwill be senior housing (aged FICATION 62+). Of the 97 units, 49 units (or 51%) will be set aside for HCIDLA certifies to HUD that permanent supportive housEdwin C. Gipson II in his caing for formerly homeless pacity as Certifying Official of and chronically homeless the Los Angeles Housing and families and seniors. The Community Investment Detotal mix includes 76 onepartment consents to accept bedroom units, 13 two-bedthe jurisdiction of the Federal room units, 8 three-bedroom Courts if an action is brought units, and 1 three-bedroom to enforce responsibilities in manager’s unit, equating to relation to the environmental 98 total bedrooms (including review process and that the manager’s unit). Each these responsibilities have unit will have a refrigerator, been satisfied. HUD’s apan oven and stove, carpet, proval of the certification satwindow coverings, air condiisfies its responsibilities untioning and heating, cable der NEPA and related laws and internet hook-ups. The and authorities and allows one-bedroom units will be apHCIDLA to use program proximately 700 SF, the twofunds. bedroom units will be approximately 940 SF, and the OBJECTIONS TO three-bedroom units will be RELEASE FUNDS approximately 1,150 SF. The project will be served by two HUD will accept objections to elevators and have access to the Responsible Entity’s (RE) designated vehicle and biRequest for Release of cycle parking within one level PAGE 26 THE ARGONAUT JULY 30, Funds and2020 Environmental of semi-subterranean parkCertification for a period of fifing (Type I concrete conteen days following the substruction garage) beneath the

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