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imes like these — see pages 24 and 27 for localized updates on coronavirus quarantine measures — remind us the importance of being able to connect with other people. And so we welcome you to The Argonaut’s annual Westsiders edition, which celebrates the expansive diversity and creative energy that enrich our local communities. Think of it as a vicarious cocktail party while much of the world is on pause. In the following pages you’ll meet a retired Olympian who helps athletes transition from elite sports into civilian life, a police officer whose second act is helping struggling families he encounters on the beat, a celebrity stylist who changes lives by cutting homeless people’s hair, the Fulbright scholar who founded Santa Monica College’s storied table tennis program, a comedian on a suicide-prevention mission, Rotary Club of Westchester’s youngest leader in 70 years, half of the longest-running duo in Los Angeles sports radio, a third-generation traditional hatmaker who fell in love with an entrepreneurial fashionista on Abbot Kinney Boulevard, the Venice native keeping The Great Western Steak & Hoagie Co. alive, a Playa Vista filmmaker bringing the romance genre into the digital streaming sphere, a reluctant thrill-seeker who helps people overcome their fears, and a Westchester community advocate, scientific researcher, podcaster and soon-to-be author who finds joy in staying busy. We are inspired by each and every one of them, and hope you are too. Go home, turn off the news, pour yourself a quarantini and enjoy meeting your neighbors.
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ou could say there are two secrets to Jason Schneidman’s success: service and saltwater. When he needs a break from the daily grind, he’ll grab his surfboard and head to the beach for a soul cleanse. “Saltwater is magic. The magic potion,” Schneidman says. “Good for the skin, great for the hair.” He should know. Not only has Schneidman coiffed the ’dos of “Late Late Show” host James Corden, “X-men” star Hugh Jackman, singer Bruno Mars and actor Jonah Hill, he’s built an entire salon and product line upon the fundamentals of men’s hair care. Aptly named The Mens Groomer, his Lincoln Boulevard headquarters is part barbershop, part coffee shop and part surf/ skate shop. But when he isn’t tailing Corden with a can of hairspray or surfing by the Venice Pier, Schneidman is out giving back. Once a month he donates his sought-after hairstyling services to the homeless in Hollywood, and on special occasions he also provides free haircuts to the homeless near the Venice Boardwalk and the encampments at Third and Rose avenues. Schneidman’s mission is to help people be seen differently and see themselves differently, which includes offering help to those who are struggling with addiction — just like he was 16 years ago. A live fast and party hard lifestyle as a club promoter left him in the grip of drug and alcohol abuse until his early thirties. That’s when Schneidman, who turns 50 this month, decided to get serious with his scissors and turn his life around — or put “both feet in the boat,” as he likes to say, quoting some wisdom he picked up while in recovery. A stint of homelessness, 13 months of rehab, five different hairstyling schools and a turn at the salon of Jennifer Aniston’s hairdresser (Chris McMillan) eventually led the Southern California native to make service an integral part of his life as a father, husband and entrepreneur. “It’s about helping one person, one haircut at a time. People have gotten jobs. People have gotten auditions. You never know what’s going to change a life,” Schneidman says. “Once I get somebody in my chair, I share my experience and my strength and hope with them. And then I actually use some resources ... in order to house and rehab people.” Schneidman uses proceeds from his haircare products to provide one person who ends up in his chair a bed for one year. Future plans include a monthly post-up of his mobile salon, The Barber Truck, alongside mobile shower trucks and working with the nonprofit Awakening Recovery to help homeless people battling addiction enter a structured one-year recovery program like the one that helped him. “We are so lucky to be able to touch people — to make people look better, to make people feel better,” he says. “Whether they’re homeless or an actor or my everyday client, it’s all about treating everybody like a celebrity.” — Christina Campodonico
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osca Musk is a romantic at heart. The Playa Vista resident has made a career of writing, directing and producing films in the romance genre, but her current infatuation is with digital entrepreneurship. Forward-thinking and tech-savvy, her latest venture is the creation of Passionflix — a streaming platform created specifically for fans of the romance genre. Until Passionflix, she says, “There has never been a place where you could find great romance movies that you know are going to take you on an emotional roller coaster, but are also going to have a happy ending.” The “emotional roller coaster” of romance stories, says Musk, is what allows people to laugh and cry — validating a range of powerful, real-life emotions. “We wanted to create a space where a woman can rejuvenate at the end of the day, watch a story without the fear of something evil lurking around the corner, and there’s a happy or hopeful ending. Overall it’s a really positive experience.” Musk has recently wrapped filming on “Gabriel’s Inferno,” based on the steamy novel from Sylvain Reynard that has a massive fan base. She also plans to direct four more films this year, including “Three Wishes,” based on the best-selling book by Kristen Ashley, about a young woman who inherits her own personal genie. “We work very closely with the authors to adapt the stories and bring these books to life as the fan would want,” explains Musk. Musk — whose famous brothers are indeed Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk and The Kitchen Restaurant Group founder and food education activist/ philanthropist Kimbal Musk –– says she’s making inclusivity a priority for new content. Currently most of the characters featured in films available on the streaming service are heterosexual Caucasians, but she wants those offerings to be more representative of her audience’s diversity. Musk’s broader content mission also involves removing cultural stigmas about female sexuality. “One of the things that really frustrates me is this double standard: If men discuss sex, suddenly they’re macho, awesome human beings; but if a woman discusses sex, she is looked down upon — she’s shamed. That’s unfair and immediately puts us in a much lesser place in society.” As she continues to grow her company, Musk loves being able to live and work in Playa Vista. “I moved into Playa Vista in 2012, when it wasn’t crazy expensive,” she says. “Everyone I know outside of Playa Vista calls it Pleasantville because everyone in Playa Vista is so pleasant, which I love.” — Shanee Edwards
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Lust for Life
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here’s a stereotype about comedians that their act is just a way of working through their depression and trauma. But for Marina del Rey-based comedian and multi-hyphenate Leo Flowers, there’s more than a nugget of truth to it. In addition to his stand-up, Flowers hosts the suicide prevention podcast “Before You Kill Yourself,” and he’s also a personal coach with an M.A. in Counseling/Psychology. Even as he works through his issues, the former college football player is more concerned about helping his listeners, fans and clients work through theirs. Early on, his stand-up set veered toward the topical and political, but Flowers didn’t hit his stride until looking inward
for material. “I realized that there’s nothing edgier than talking about yourself. There’s nothing more vulnerable than sharing your own story on stage. And people love it,” he says. Flowers builds his sets around well-worn topics — not because they’re easy targets, but because they resonate with everyone in the room. “I talk a lot about relationships because that’s something that I have struggled with, and I realized that everybody struggles with that,” he says. “We’re all struggling with relationships, trust, love, health, and how to take care of ourselves. Those are topics that are classical and will transcend time.” Flowers’ struggles have included cervical
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spine surgery, which raised his awareness of others’ grappling with chronic pain, and living out of his car for a spell — all the while trying to hide it from family, friends and potential girlfriends. “Ironically, I was in the best shape of my life because I was showering every day at the gym. You can’t go to the gym and not work out,” he says. He was inspired to start his “Before You Kill Yourself” podcast after searching for a way to reach more people than he could gather in a theater or a comedy club. His struggles with suicidal ideation drove his interest in the subject, and its bracing title was inspired by a woman he spoke to who had tried to kill herself. “She was in the bathroom with a gun to her head, ready to take her life, and then
she heard her baby crying in the other room,” he recounts. “And that is what made her put the gun down. So many people who take their lives are just a distraction away from living.” Flowers’ podcast guests range from medical professional to comedians, and he finds much-needed humor in the dour subject while still giving it the gravity it deserves. His welcoming tone and infectious enthusiasm help connect his stories with listeners’ own struggles. “For some reason we think we’re the only ones going through what we’re going through,” he says. “Then people listen to the podcast and it makes them feel less alone in the world.” — Brian Marks MARCH 19, 2020 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 9
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ave Stultz was once stymied by his fears, whether that meant giving up a reliable job for something he was passionate about, or simply boarding a commercial airplane. Now he’s helping other men find the courage to do the things that scare them most. Stultz is executive director of The Fearless Man, a Marina del Reybased coaching service that helps men develop the skills to be confident in talking to strangers, meeting women and overcoming bigger life challenges. “We’re taking a lot of their fears, wants, needs, desires that are holding them back and working through them in a very therapeutic, almost meditative way to allow them to go out and achieve what they want,” he explains. Stultz grew up in Washington D.C., where he started a coaching company that taught elites the ins and outs of the dating scene. Later he moved to New York City, where he engaged his artistic instincts as a photographer. But it wasn’t the career he’d hoped for, and an encounter with his future business partner set him on a course toward a more fulfilling life. “I met my current business partner in Los Angeles through a model that I was dating here in L.A. long distance,” Stultz says. He and Fearless Man founder Brian Begin hit it off after putting on a seminar back in D.C., and Stultz slept on Begin’s couch as they got their coaching service up and running. In their intimate seminars, Stultz and Begin teach men — and a few women — how to gain confidence in everyday interactions. Some of their tasks include telling a stranger a secret they’ve never shared, or striking up a conversation with a cashier as a line builds up. From there, clients work their way up to being emotionally open and vulnerable with women. Despite all the headlines and handwringing, Stultz says the #MeToo movement hasn’t affected the program at all. “Respect, authenticity and emotional vulnerability mitigate what #MeToo was born from,” he says. “If someone’s being real and authentic with you, there’s no creepiness. There’s no weird energy that people misread and get themselves in trouble with.” As for Stultz himself, his confidence-building tactics worked wonders. Instead of being afraid to get on a plane, now he jumps out of them — for fun. — Brian Marks
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rowing up in Philadelphia, Jo Kidd played casual games of ping-pong at the local rec center. She developed a new appreciation for the game while traveling on a series of Fulbright exchanges in her thirties. In every country she visited, she saw people playing ping-pong. But “this was different,” she says. “This was a sport.” The Fulbright program sends teachers abroad to develop new skills, and as a physical education teacher, Kidd explored other countries’ games and sports. Studying table tennis in India, she liked that it was easy to learn and accommodating to players of all ages. “The older ones can teach the younger ones, and the younger ones can get very
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good at a young age,” she says. “The older ones can still play it because they don’t have to run, they don’t have to jump … but it is a good hand-eye coordination game.” In 1963, Kidd was hired to teach at Santa Monica College, where she’d work for the next 50 years. She brought her love of table tennis with her, founding SMC’s Community Recreation (Co-Rec) Program and introducing table tennis as a physical education course. In 1971, SMC student Glenn Cowan was part of the “ping-pong diplomacy” exchange that opened the doors for diplomatic relations with China. Kidd actually prefers teaching the sport to competing herself. “You become humble,” she explains,
“and you say, ‘OK, let me see if I can help you. Let me listen to you — what you want to learn — and then we’ll work it out.’” In 2015, SMC’s Table Tennis Program was inducted into the California Table Tennis Hall of Fame, and Kidd, now retired, was honored for her work with the Co-Rec program. The program has held open table tennis sessions for the community for more than 40 years. Open games are held on Sundays at noon in SMC’s Pavilion Gym, with a round-robin tournament starting at 4 p.m. “We get children coming in with their parents, and the children can be playing over on one side and getting a little coaching, and the parents can be playing,”
Kidd says. “My philosophy is that it should be for everybody in Santa Monica. Our college is still Santa Monica Community College, even though it’s just called Santa Monica College now.” Stop by on a Sunday afternoon and you might see Kidd walking around with her cane, making sure everything is running smoothly and that players are treating the equipment with respect. “Right now I’m 94, so I’m still flowing, I’m still going,” she says. And if she finds any problems, she’ll bring them to the next department meeting. “They listen to me, because I’m still around.” — Lisa Beebe
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f you’re an Angeleno who doesn’t recognize the name Steve Mason, you would probably recognize his voice. For more than 25 years Mason has been a preeminent figure in Southern California broadcasting, earning awards and universal acclaim for his engaging sports talk radio show with co-host John Ireland. The “Mason and Ireland” show, which broadcasts weekdays from noon to 3 p.m. on ESPNLA 710, features the longest running duo in Los Angeles sports radio. Mason’s reputation as a sports guy belies his other interests, which sometimes eke into the public sphere. He once co-owned a number of art-house cinemas with “Breaking Bad” star Bryan Cranston, he’s made several films himself and saw, by his count, 97 movies in theaters last year. He hosts the pop-culture podcast “Culture Pop.” He can talk politics, books, food. He’s a true generalist, just like his broadcast idols Tom Snyder and Larry King. “They knew so many things about so many things,” he says. Growing up in Toledo, Ohio, Mason often spent late nights listening to their shows. When his father got home from work, Mason would read him the sports pages out loud — a tradition that prepared him for a series of local gigs that paved the way for his Southern California success. Mason’s first on-air opportunity, at WGOR Radio in Toledo, wasn’t handed to him. “Because I loved sports so much, I decided that I would buy five minutes of airtime every afternoon at five o’clock and do my own sportscast,” he says. “I was about 15 years old. I went out and sold ads to be able to pay for it.” From there he was hired at another local station, where he was promoted from late-night DJ to morning drive host, then eventually to operations manager and vice president of the station group. Mason made his move to SoCal radio soon after, where he was paired with John Ireland. “We hit it off right away,” he recalls. “I knew there was chemistry, and he ended up working full-time with me.” Since moving to Los Angeles 28 years ago, Mason has lived exclusively on the Westside — first Westwood, then Venice, and now Mar Vista with his partner and two dogs. He’s become a regular at the Mar Vista Farmers Market and enjoys the area’s thriving restaurant scene. “Mar Vista’s beautiful,” he says. “I think it’s really one of the up-andcoming neighborhoods in all of Los Angeles.” Asked if he’d ever move from Los Angeles, his answer was simple: “This is the town that I love. I’ll never live anywhere else.”
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y age 11, Ken Lew’s house in Westchester had been burglarized three times. He remembers the trauma: “… you go to your house and everything is turned upside down. You’re pretty shaken up.” But he also remembers the officers who responded. “It was late at night, and I came out in my pajamas. I saw these two officers, and my dad told them, ‘Hey, my son wants to be a police officer,’” he recalls. “Both of them kind of looked at me and said, ‘Look kid, stay in school, stay out of trouble, and hopefully maybe one day I’ll train you.’ And from then on I was hooked.” He registered for the Los Angeles Police Academy 12 years later, in May of 1990. Over the next 30 years, Officer Lew would accept some of the department’s most challenging assignments: Newton Street, 77th Street, Central Division and South Bureau CRASH, an anti-gang unit. The job was exciting, fast-paced and frequently sobering. Lew would encounter struggling families — good people who lacked the resources to improve their condition. “There are some occasions where officers come across a family, for whatever reason, and they realize there’s no food, no clothing for the kids. They’re just living a bad life,” he says. “These officers, a lot of them grew up in middle- to lower-class communities as well, so they understand it.” When Lew joined the local Pacific Division in 2011 — a comparatively more relaxed assignment — he realized that he’d reached a point in his career where he could do more to help families in need, so he founded Badge of Heart, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. “I started about five years ago, helping one family at a time,” he says. “To date now, five years later, we have helped 2,800 families throughout L.A.” Families are referred to Badge of Heart by local elementary schools and by officers working in the field, including many from Venice, Mar Vista and Del Rey. With the support of sponsors, the organization provides food, clothing and even helps pay bills. Badge of Heart also distributes turkey dinners before Thanksgiving, and plans for an annual back-to-school backpack giveaway are in the works. “We’ve been blessed so far with what we’ve been able to accomplish, but we really want to take this to the next level,” says Lew. Next year Lew will retire from police work to dedicate himself to Badge of Heart full-time. He hopes to build a talented team so they can expand their reach even further. “My passion isn’t really police work anymore,” he explains, musing on retirement. “My passion is doing this now. It’s to help the next generation.” Learn more at badgeofheart.org. — Danny Karel
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fter placing fourth with the French Olympic synchronized swimming team at the Sydney Games in 2000, Lyon-born Myriam Glez was forced to choose between training for the next Summer Games in Athens or going to business school. “I definitely wanted to do both, but it wasn’t an option at the time,” says Glez, who ended up retiring from the sport she loved to pursue her MBA. “I really had no idea that I would compete again.” But eight years later, she was back in the pool competing for the Australian team at the Beijing Summer Olympics. The team placed seventh, but Glez felt victorious about her finish. “The first time I had retired, I really PAGE 16 THE ARGONAUT MARCH 19, 2020
didn’t choose to retire,” says Glez, who turns 40 this year. “So this was a very positive experience, an opportunity basically to go back to the sport on my own terms … enjoy every minute of it and be able to compete one more time at the highest level and by choice.” Now, after a stint as USA Synchro’s executive director, Glez leads the Marina del Rey-based nonprofit Athletes Soul, which helps high-level athletes prepare for retirement and transition away from the world of sports on their own terms with the help of coaches who’ve been there. Run by former elite athletes, the organization has helped Olympians, pro football players and elite college athletes plan their second acts and adjust to the rhythms of an
ordinary life. This includes adopting a holistic “game plan” for the physical, social and emotional changes that come with leaving a sport and shifting career paths. “This is what they’ve done their whole life starting very young. They haven’t had a chance to explore anything else. … It’s pretty life-shattering,” says Glez. “They don’t know how to eat. They usually will go cold turkey and not exercise whatsoever. And they don’t know how to organize their days, now that they don’t have a coach telling them what to do.” “Most athletes will finish on an injury or being deselected [from a team or competition] and often they let that define them,” she continues. “We help them celebrate their career and understand everything
they’ve achieved.” Glez and her co-founders incorporated Athletes Soul as a nonprofit to inspire trust among clients that “this is a genuine endeavor and not one to make a profit from their image or progress,” she explains. Nonprofit status also allows them to offer financial aid, and they are currently planning a fall fundraising gala in the marina. Glez’s own second act includes enjoying local life with her husband and 10-yearold daughter. “I ride my bike everywhere,” she says. “There’s a great diversity of culture and people and experiences.” — Christina Campodonico
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lberto Hernandez and Kristin Fedyk Hernandez’s love story begins on Abbot Kinney Boulevard — he a third-generation hatmaker from Mexico churning out chapeaus for celebrity hatter Nick Fouquet, she a bubbly and entrepreneurial Canadian building a boutique specializing in Australian designers. “Our stores were right beside each other, so that’s how we met and fell in love … in the back alley … by the dumpsters,” Kristin, 35, says with a giggle, recalling how Alberto’s sense of humor charmed her. “When I met ’Berto he was speaking Spanish almost all the time, and all the dishwashers and people from Tasting Kitchen would be out back in the alleyway and they would just be cracking up at ’Berto, like laughing! And I was like, ‘This guy must be funny.’” After-work hangout sessions blossomed into a romantic and creative partnership that took them to Mar Vista. The now-married couple owns the Venice Boulevard fashion boutique Inland, where Alberto runs his custom hat brand Meshika. His assorted toppers hang on the wall, a backdrop for Kristin’s curation of indie fashions. Alberto’s creations have donned the likes of Lady Gaga, Johnny Depp, Madonna, Pharrell Williams and Tyra Banks. A sewing station in the back of the shop is where he meets with clients and puts the finishing touches on his “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly”-inspired hats. He’ll cap off his bespoke masterpieces with a playing card, a feather, a dried rose; sometimes he’ll light them on fire for an extra-distressed look, or line them with a drawing from a friend for extra luck on top of his own blessing: “Every single hat that I make, I speak to them. I tell them ‘You’re going to good places. … Please make these people look good and feel comfortable and feel happy,” he says. Kristin encourages custom hat clients to bring something special, like a family heirloom, to inspire the design process and decorate the hat. Alberto’s even adorned a hat with the ashes of a beloved dog, whose best dog friend inexplicably stopped by the shop one day to pay his respects. “I always joke we should have a show,” Kristin says of the comedy and “magic” of “shop life.” The name Meshika comes from the word the Aztecs used to describe themselves, and Alberto takes inspiration from the headpieces the Aztecs would wear to communicate status and identity. “They were headpieces like with feathers — maybe with jaguar skull heads, and if you wore a jaguar skull head that means you were a warrior … you were a mean warrior,” says Alberto, 30. “It tells a story. Same with my hats. I want it to be something special that will mean something.” But often it’s the smaller purchases that mean the most to the couple. “Venice High kids buying with their allowance or their minimum wage job … like a $20 necklace, means more to me than a $1,000 garment sale because they worked harder for that $20. It touches me deeply that they would want to spend it to support us,” says Kristin. “Now Meshika is called ‘Meshika for the People,’” says Alberto, who’s developing a line of sustainable hats at an affordable price point. “We want to serve the community, our community. Local people.” ”
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— Christina Campodonico MARCH 19, 2020 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 17
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ervice is engrained in Darlene Fukuji’s everyday life. Last July, at age 27, Fukuji became the youngest person elected president of the Rotary Club of Westchester in the organization’s 70-year history. It’s a commitment that puts her at the helm of 30-plus service projects a year, both locally and internationally — everything from a back-to-school shopping spree for local students in need to club members volunteering in Oaxaca to convert a jail into a library. She’s also of service to student entrepreneurs as assistant director of the Fred Kiesner Center for Entrepreneurship at Loyola Marymount University, where she earned her undergraduate degree and is currently pursuing an executive MBA. Though a native of Honolulu, Fukuji is in many ways a daughter of Silicon Beach. It was LMU’s commitment to social justice, and therefore social entrepreneurship, that brought her to Westchester from her “humble beginnings.” “I always carry this feeling of I need to pay it forward and impact as many lives as I can in a positive way,” she says. “Kindness and hard work go a long way. I want to make sure I’m doing that with everyone around me to make the world a better place.” Like most students, Fukuji had varied interests in college. Working in different fields while staying on campus is what led her to reactivate LMU’s Rotaract Club, which facilitates volunteer work among young professionals. “I was just trying to find where the world needed me most and how I can make the biggest impact,” she recalls. “A lot of my mentors were in Rotary and became my second family in Los Angeles. It was overwhelming, just the amount of support out there in our community.” Fukuji earned her bachelor’s degree in 2014, right at ground zero for Silicon Beach — start-ups in the area raised more than $500 million in the first six months of 2013, with 94 new businesses starting in the area. After working in investment banking, Fukuji returned to her alma mater for the chance to help students develop their fledgling companies. At the Kiesner Center she spearheads a financial literacy program and the POWER Summit, a networking and support seminar for women entrepreneurs. She’s found that her volunteer service in the community with the Rotary Club of Westchester aids her work with young entrepreneurs. “It’s really cool how everyone really wants to help students,” she says. “I wake up every day just so excited and go to bed just so exhausted because I’m so passionate about the potential for the strength of our community. Everyone’s a contributor. Any way that I can help those who are trying to find ways to contribute to society, that’s where I like to be.” — Kellie Chudzinski
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eartbreak is crushing, but it can lead to personal transformation. Garen Baghdasarian was a junior at UCLA when it happened to him. “My girlfriend at the time, my first true love, she broke up with me,” he says with a chuckle. “I was devastated, and a friend of mine was like, ‘Let’s go diving, let’s go scuba diving.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, let’s go scuba diving.’ I came back from that dive and everything changed.” Baghdasarian — now an award-winning professor and scientist at Santa Monica College — quickly switched his major to marine biology. His test scores skyrocketed. The following year, he took a 10-week senior trip to the Catalina Islands, where he bonded with the late Leonard PAGE 20 THE ARGONAUT MARCH 19, 2020
Muscatine, a pioneering scientist who would become not only his graduate advisor but a close friend and mentor. “We could talk about anything. It was a personal sort of relationship based on our passion for nature,” he says. “He was fundamental to the person I became. In some ways, he became a second father figure.” Through Muscatine, Baghdasarian discovered the primary subject of his research — coral reefs, and how they react to bleaching events — and learned pedagogical tricks that have led him to excel as an educator at SMC for the last 19 years. “[Muscatine] was focused and questiondriven, and had the ability to collaborate
with everyone,” Baghdasarian says. “He had that classic ability to simplify things, really complex ideas, into forms that anyone can understand.” Just like his mentor, Baghdasarian now takes students on trips: to Catalina, to nearby tide pools, and even to far-flung locations like Tahiti for research. In 2011 he embarked on his own grand adventure: a 5,000 mile trip across the South Pacific with his wife, Sara, to study the effects of trash accumulation in the ocean. “At times seeing all the trash and stuff in the ocean, that was of course heartbreaking,” he says. “But at the same time it’s an amazing adventure. You’re enjoying being at sea in the most isolated
waters anywhere in the world.” Baghdasarian has incorporated that experience into his lectures, and has started encouraging students to actively participate in the fight for environmental health. Two and a half years ago, he joined the City of Santa Monica’s Environmental Task Force to ensure that the community does all it can to establish environmentally conscious policies. “What I really appreciate about the city of Santa Monica, it’s the attempt to find balance between economic prosperity, social justice and environmental sustainability. They really seem to push for that.”
— Danny Karel
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usy is Michele Cooley-Strickland’s preferred state of being. Not only is she a practicing behavioral psychologist, a professor and researcher at UCLA, and a podcast host, Cooley-Strickland is also vicepresident of the Neighborhood Council of Westchester-Playa. And soon she’ll be a published author. “I get bored easily. Monotony is nothing I can do,” the longtime Playa del Rey resident says. “When I am not involved in multiple things I’m less happy. Am I less stressed? Sure. But joy is important to me.” That is to say most of her work tends to come back to helping others find balance and joy while learning to live their best lives — which means arming people with the power to help themselves. “People forget to treat themselves well,” she says, speaking from the experience of working through anxious tendencies she didn’t have a label for until graduate school. “I want people to learn to help themselves. I mean, we are remarkable beings.” In the Westchester, Playa del Rey and Playa Vista area, Cooley-Strickland may be known as PdR’s representative on the neighborhood council and for her service on its local education committee, but her reach is now truly global. Once a week she co-hosts the “She Built It Podcast with Melanie [Barr] and Dr. Michele.” Just a year in, the show has racked up downloads in 40 countries and nearly 12,000 followers on Instagram. Every week the two hosts chat with a different woman making “leaps in career, life and community,” to hopefully empower their listeners. “The podcast goes truly around the world, and being able to touch people is so meaningful for me,” Cooley-Strickland says. “What drives me is connecting with people through the microphone.” She tries to connect through a message of “stool mentality” — encouraging the cultivation of “mind, body, and spirit” because “a two-legged stool does not stand, but a three-legged stool does.” Cooley-Strickland is deep into writing a self-help book for those looking to decrease worry and anxiety and “increase joyful, productive living,” she says. The book is autobiographical in part, detailing her history with anxiety and imparting strategies for those who may not reach a diagnostic threshold for anxiety nonetheless make positive change in their own lives. “You are a social distance away from living your best life,” she says. “And it is my passion, my job, my joy to help people to get in touch with that joyful living that is clearly so close, and it just takes a little work.”
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— Kellie Chudzinski MARCH 19, 2020 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 21
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othing in Venice has more local street cred than The Great Western Steak & Hoagie Company on Lincoln Boulevard. Hoagies, as people born here often call it, has been slinging its own variety of Philly cheesesteak to every imaginable segment of the population (except vegetarians and vegans) since 1973, outlasting countless fads and trends. “Hoagies is a sanctuary,” says 37-year-old Sergio Perez, who’s doing everything he can — overseeing repairs to the foodstand’s aging structure, partnering with delivery apps, posting sizzling meat-and-cheese slowmos on Instagram — to keep it standing. Sergio and younger brother Miguel, who grew up in the Lincoln Place housing projects, have been hanging out here almost their entire lives. Their immigrant father Sergio Sr. started working in the kitchen in 1983 and pooled more than $80,000 with business partner Jose Luis to buy the restaurant in 1990. “The American Dream isn’t as tangible anymore,” reflects Sergio Jr., “but if you work really hard and believe what you’re doing affects people in a positive way, the payout in the end is not just money but feeling rich within yourself and your community. It’s a different kind of wealth than most people look for, but it’s what you need.” The family has done their best to keep Hoagies the same while the Venice they came up in implodes around them, for better and for worse. In the early ’90s, when the streets were too dangerous for Sergio Jr. to go out after dark, the payphone outside Hoagies was a hotspot for daytime drug deals and prostitution. As a kid he remembers a policewoman dressing in thigh-high leather boots as part of a sting operation on Lincoln; as an adult he’s heard stories of drug dealers insisting their customers patronize Hoagies as cover. Now the crime is gone, but he has friends and former classmates who are homeless and coming to him for help. Hoagies customers rave about the sandwiches — purists stick to meat, grilled onions and cheese; devotees add bell pepper, mushrooms and pizza sauce (aka “everything but the kitchen sink”) — but also come to remember a Venice that’s otherwise lost to history. “Growing up I never understood the importance of this place and what it means to people — fond memories of hanging out after school, meeting your girlfriend or boyfriend here,” says Sergio Jr., who’s started collecting memories and photos for a time capsule when Hoagies turns 50 in 2023. “We had a woman who came and sat out here for an hour and a half. When she left she said, ‘Thank you, you just took me home.’” — Joe Piasecki
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By Joe Piasecki and Gary Walker Almost Everything’s Cancelled
New Reports of COVID-19 Infections Public health officials announced 50 newly confirmed cases of coronavirus in Los Angeles County on Tuesday evening, bringing the county’s total number of cases to 144 as of press time. These include at least one case in Brentwood, two in Culver City, one in Inglewood, four in Manhattan Beach, one in Mar Vista, one in Santa Monica, two in Venice, and two in Westchester. In most new cases
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Los Angeles County and the cities of L.A. and Santa Monica have ordered the closure of all bars, gyms and theaters, with restaurants directed to offer delivery and takeout service only. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for similar restrictions throughout the state. Many grocery stores have announced limited service hours, typically from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., to allow for restocking and additional cleaning. Gelson’s Market in Marina del Rey opens early from 7 to 8 a.m. for senior citizens (65 and over) only. L.A. County Supervisors followed the lead of Santa Monica and L.A. city leaders in banning no-fault residential and commercial evictions through May 31, with tenants losing work due to the coronavirus or related business closures having six months after the emergency proclamation to make up back rent payments, the Los Angeles Times reported. The SBA is now offering low-interest federal disaster loans to provide small businesses with working capital during the coronavirus crisis. Business owners impacted by coronavirus can call (800) 659-2955 or visit SBA.gov/coronavirus. The Red Cross is reporting a decline in blood donations, with as many as 160 blood drives cancelled recently, according to the L.A. Times. Healthy people are encouraged to donate blood. On Tuesday, Newsom said he expects public school closures throughout California will likely extend into June.
Early morning panic shoppers lined up in the rain outside the Costco in Marina del Rey last Friday the sources of infection remain under investigation. A patrol supervisor with LAPD’s Pacific Division tested positive for coronavirus, Capt. Steven Embrich confirmed Monday. LAPD Chief Michel Moore tweeted that the supervisor “exhibited flu-like symptoms around March 5” and left work. Pacific Division’s Twitter account reported Monday that his condition “is steadily improving” and “he is expected to make a full recovery.” The police station on Culver Boulevard was cleaned with disinfectant over the weekend. An employee at Hulu’s offices in Santa Monica tested positive for COVID-19, Variety reported Monday. Workers at the Water Garden and nearby Universal Music also tested positive, according to the Santa Monica
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Daily Press. Last week an employee of the Apple Store on Third Street Promenade was diagnosed with coronavirus. An Apple employee based in the company’s Culver City office tested positive for the virus, the company announced Monday. Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer is warning that any offers for in-home COVID-19 tests are scams. Neighbors Helping Neighbors Amidst all the panic shopping and food hoarding, a number of Westside residents were busy offering to help gather supplies for neighbors who are at high risk of infection or unable to venture out. Members of the Playa del Rey Community group on Facebook rallied around a new
mom in need of baby formula. A man named Joe taped notes to apartment doors on Kinston Avenue in Culver City, offering free delivery services “in loving memory of my amazing Gran.” Kasia Molenda of Playa del Rey posted notes on light poles and social media. No one’s taken her up on it yet, but she hopes “it inspires other people to check in on their neighbors too.” To thank a helpful neighbor in The Argonaut, email jpiasecki@ timespublications.com. The Del Rey Neighborhood Council stands ready to assist elderly and at-risk constituents over the next several weeks and can be contacted via delreync.org, DRNC President Matt Wersinger said. Members of the council are in touch with LAUSD about the possibility of establishing a neighborhood
resource center, he added. School Districts Open Meal Centers Restrictions against gatherings of 50 or more people have forced LAUSD to cancel plans to re-open some campuses as resource centers for families lacking meal and childcare options. The district has instead activated some 60 campuses as Grab & Go Food Centers, where students can pick up and take home two free meals between 7 and 10 a.m. on weekdays. A map of Grab & Go Food Centers on LAUSD’s website includes Marina del Rey Middle School (12500 Braddock Drive), Palms Middle School (10860 Woodbine St.) and University (Continued on page 27)
Venice Art Crawl Goes Virtual
This week’s digital art crawl features topical works by Flavio Campagna Kampah COVID-19 cannot keep the spirit of the Venice Art Crawl down. On Thursday (March 19), the quarterly activation of local Venice art studios, businesses and streets goes online with a Facebook Live event, starting with a livestream from Italy. (The Legendary Women Artists of Venice awards show, which was to be held concurrently with the art crawl, has been postponed.) From 6 to 10 p.m. on the Venice Art Crawl’s Facebook page, eight artists will take viewers on virtual tours of their studios and show new works up for sale or appreciation. First up is former
Venice resident, TV motion graphics pioneer and stencil artist Flavio Campagna Kampah (aka F CK), who will take viewers inside his studio in Parma, where he is currently quarantined as part of Italy’s national lockdown. Before moving back home to participate in Parma’s yearlong reign as Italy’s Capital of Culture, Kampah had a studio on Windward Circle and created music videos and commercials for the likes of U2 and Cherry Coke. In recent years he’s moved on to stencil design, creating murals around the world including some in the ’hood he keeps close to his heart — Venice, CA. You may
recall his depiction of Venice founder Abbot Kinney as “Abbot Hipster” or his Brooks Avenue mural of Dennis Hopper throwing his arms wide under an image of the Venice Sign. “I’ve spent the best years of my life in Venice,” writes Kampah in an email from Italy. “Venice is still in my heart.” Additional artists participating in the livestream will be announced. — Christina Campodonico The Venice Art Crawl Facebook Live event happens from 6 to 10 p.m. PST on Thursday, March 19. Visit facebook.com/ veniceartcrawl to tune in.
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LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE “THE OTHER HALF” By PAUL COULTER
CALLOUS IN WONDERLAND At family gatherings, my sister-in-law makes critical remarks about my appearance, like my shirt’s very low-cut or I might want to lose weight before wearing the dress I have on. She only does this in front of others, and she says she just tells me because she cares about me. It doesn’t feel that way. I’d really like her to stop. — Feeling Attacked When you’re female, junior high never ends. The Hello Kitty knife in your back just gets upgraded to one by Cuisinart. Women are said to be the “gentler sex,” because we rarely see one drag another out of the bar by her ponytail for a parking lot beatdown. But women aren’t better people than men. Female-onfemale aggression just plays out differently — less visibly, less identifiably — than the male-on-male kind. Psychologist Anne Campbell explains that women evolved to avoid direct confrontation — physical fights or calling somebody out to their face — and instead compete with other women through sneaky “indirect aggression.” This is aggression that doesn’t quite read as aggression, like the public shaming that wears the plastic nose and glasses of concern. Another popular form of woman-onwoman sneaky sabotage is spreading mean gossip to knock another woman down the social ladder and maybe even get her ostracized. There’s also “constructive criticism” — supposedly well-intentioned remarks meant to stress a woman out, make her feel bad about herself, and get her to dim her shine.
Campbell believes women’s tendency to use indirect aggression is “a result of their higher parental investment” — the fact that they’re the home and ground transportation for the developing fetus and are children’s primary caretakers. A physical fight (or more male-style fighting words that led to a punchoutfest) could damage a woman’s reproductive parts or kill her, and an ancestral woman’s survival was key to her children’s survival and to her passing on her genes. People like you, who are repeatedly victimized by another person, often don’t realize they never set any boundaries, never told the abuser to stop. This effectively sends their tormentor a message: “OPEN SEASON ON ME FOREVER! Keep doin’ what you’re doin’!” Whenever your sister-in-law turns a family gathering into a forum on your weight or outfit, calmly assert yourself, saying only these words: “No more comments on my appearance, please.” Be prepared for her to insist you’re crazy, oversensitive and unfairly accusing her. This is bait. Do not take it. Getting into any sort of debate allows her to cast you as neurotic and mean and cast herself as the victim. Be prepared for her to “forget” and attack you again. Simply reiterate your mantra, in a cool, calm voice: “No more comments on my appearance, please.” You’ll shut her up without looking like the bad guy, but you’ll both know what you really mean: “Inside me, there’s a skinny person longing to get out, shove a Tide Pod and load of socks in your mouth, and put your head on spin.”
WAKING THE DAD My boyfriend and I recently discussed having children. I want them, but he’s a little on the fence. He says he needs to be in a better financial place before thinking about kids. I wonder whether that’s just an excuse to put off the topic indefinitely. — Worried Children bring their parents a lot of joy — and it helps to remember that as you’re jazzwalking to the office so you can put your gas money toward your kid’s fourth round of dental work. Children are seriously expensive, so maybe your boyfriend just feels a serious sense of responsibility to support the little buggers while being unsure of exactly how many million bajillions that could take. Economist Daniel Ellsberg observed that we humans are deeply disturbed by ambiguity — a lack of information about how things could turn out. Some people are so ambiguity-averse (aka uncertainty-averse) they’ll opt for an immediate
sure loss over the possibility of a future gain. It’s why people sometimes sabotage a new relationship: They can’t stand not knowing whether the thing’ll tank, so they blow it up themselves. To figure out where your boyfriend really stands, replace the ambiguity with information. Together, add up the costs of having kids (factoring in health care, emergencies, grad school, rehab, etc.). From that, project the date of his financial readiness. You might also ask him about any fears he has about having kids. Discussing them might shrink them — or make it clear that he isn’t daddy material and that you should start looking for a man who is. Though retailers allow you to return many items, even if they’re slightly used, maternity wards don’t work like that: “Excuse me, nurse … these three kids turned out to be unexpectedly loud, sticky and expensive, but I don’t see your return policy on the receipts.” “Sir, those are birth certificates.”
GOT A PROBLEM? Write to Amy Alkon at 171 Pier Ave, Ste. 280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or email her at AdviceAmy@aol.com. ©2020, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Alkon’s latest book is “Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence.” Follow @amyalkon on Twitter or visit blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon.
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ACROSS 1 Haunt 7 Mountain geography feature 10 Calypso offshoot 13 Pond buildup 18 Arrive onshore, perhaps 19 Slate or Salon 21 Plop or plunk preceder 22 Nobelist Bohr 23 Pasta on the barbie? 26 Bill with billions 27 Brother of Andrew the Apostle 28 Detective’s aid 29 Chilled 30 Churchill’s “so few”: Abbr. 32 Like the club that Sinatra, Zappa and Capra belonged to? 35 Like Stout’s Wolfe 40 Buxom 42 Hawaiian for “long” 43 Some summer shows 45 Each 46 Defense gp. since 1948 47 Give or take, say 51 “Don’t forget we’re having omelets”? 55 Sea of troubles 56 On the job, for short 57 Havens 58 Au pair’s subj. 59 How early LPs were recorded 61 Roswell sightings, briefly 63 Johnson of “Laugh-In” 64 Peke or Pom 65 Angry reaction 68 Town group that decides what kinds of lawns are allowed? 73 Legal claims 74 Court contest 76 Ravel’s “Gaspard
de la __” 77 Banned fruit spray 79 Kiwi or rhea 80 “Anderson Cooper 360°” channel 81 Facebook option 84 “The Gold-Bug” monogram 87 School near Windsor 88 Unexpected eccentric skydiver? 93 Basic video game 94 “Saving Private Ryan” craft: Abbr. 95 “I, Claudius” role 96 “You left me no choice” 97 Mag man with a mansion 98 Square 100 Condition 101 Lucky one at the dairy raffle? 107 Splitting target 109 Opposite of love 110 Yours, to Yvette 111 Largest of the Balearic Islands 117 Lush 118 Sniffing the jalapeños? 122 Makes less unruly 123 Atlanta-based channel 124 Ad headline 125 Biblical miracle units 126 In check 127 Approx. 128 Nintendo’s Super __ 129 Suppressed anger DOWN 1 Assns. 2 Diamond used as an abrasive 3 Tongue trouble? 4 W competitor 5 Bank deposit 6 Contemptuous look 7 Beauty 8 Doc bloc 9 __-12 Conference
10 “Cheers!” 11 Martial art with bamboo swords 12 “Exodus” hero 13 Sweater material 14 Jungle climber 15 Arrive 16 Smart follower 17 Saint-Saëns trio 20 Walk clumsily, like the Jabberwock slayer 24 Blah 25 Bank (on) 31 Features of beer and sponges 32 Pays 33 June 14 honoree 34 Fuddy-duddy 35 Uranus, e.g. 36 Ernie’s pal 37 Obama attorney general Holder 38 Getting too many rays 39 Coll. major 41 WWI battleship Graf __ 44 “Beat it!” 46 Leering sort 47 Colonial bloodsucker 48 Wear down 49 Wouldn’t stop talking 50 Modern sources of reflections 52 Brewer’s oven 53 Architect Saarinen 54 This, in Toledo 60 Kiara’s mother in “The Lion King” 62 Dart 63 NYC dance troupe 65 Throat problem 66 “Cool beans!” 67 Austrian composer Webern 69 Full-length 70 “Babe” in the 1995 film, e.g. 71 Dry Spanish sherry 72 Sticker in a bar 75 Undercoat 78 Mormon prophet, or the Utah city
named for him 81 One in a roundup 82 Pedestrian startler 83 In conflict with, with “of” 85 “Crimes and Misdemeanors” actor 86 Short stroke 89 Brief warning about the links? 90 Shows for the first time 91 “How’s that again?” words 92 Help-wanted ad abbr. 97 Luther’s crime, per the Diet of Worms 98 Carbon compound 99 Splendor 101 It’s enough for Juan 102 WWII sub 103 Hitching aid 104 Where mariners go 105 Poetic feet 106 Bikini blast 108 Iona College athletes 112 Asian genre influenced by The Beatles 113 Australian export 114 Debussy’s dream 115 Hudson Bay nation 116 NBA part: Abbr. 118 Canonized Mlle. 119 “At Seventeen” singer Janis 120 2019 MLB World Series champs’ division 121 Some appliances
Local Coronavirus Quarantine Updates
Some residents have been leaving notes and making social media posts offering to help neighbors in need
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High School (11800 Texas Ave.). Culver City Unified is making meals available at the Culver City High School cafeteria from 10:30 a.m. to noon today and Friday. Any student enrolled in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District can pick up free breakfast and lunch at Santa Monica High School, McKinley Elementary, Webster Elementary or Will Rogers Learning Community between 7 and 9 a.m. on weekdays.
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Hygiene Stations for the Homeless Mobile restrooms and handwashing basins are now stationed at the large homeless encampments under the 405 Freeway on Venice Boulevard in Mar Vista and around Third and Rose avenues in Venice, according to Los Angeles City Councilman
There have been lines out the door of this Washington Boulevard gun store all last weekend and into this week Mike Bonin. A mobile shower trailer is scheduled to visit Third and Rose on Tuesdays and the
freeway underpass on Fridays, with the nonprofit Five Keys assisting with daily cleanups.
At Bonin’s direction, the city has installed about 40 hand-washing stations in and around smaller
area homeless encampments in L.A. neighborhoods west of the 405.
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Coping with Our New Reality Del Rey Neighborhood Council wants to help residents stay healthy and happy By Matt Wersinger
The author is president of the Del Rey Neighborhood Council, which is offering assistance to residents via delreync.org and @DelReyNeighbor on Twitter. Last Wednesday I packed a lunch for my daughter and dropped her off at school. My wife went to work as usual, racing to meetings on a television production. I went, as president of the Del Rey Neighborhood Council, to L.A. City Hall to attend a reception hosted by Mayor Garcetti to honor Del Rey as one of four recipients of a $500,000 Great Streets grant. It seemed like a normal day. Just 48 hours later, everything about our daily routine had evaporated. Schools were closed, my wife’s job was in limbo, and all our future dreams for a reinvigorated Del Rey were put on hold. This week we sit in the confines of our home, home-schooling our daughter while worrying about our personal health, the wellbeing of our relatives and neighbors, and prospects of future employment. The barrage of cancellation notices and headlines coming at us from news outlets has been relentless. And
all reasonable prognoses are that it will be weeks or even months before our lives can begin to return to normal. Doubtless many who live alongside my family are feeling the same anxiety and uncertainty. While to date our governor and mayor have been rightly focused on practical measures to contain the real dangers of COVID-19, and our City Council has been active in reinforcing our networks with our neighbors, I’ve begun thinking ahead to the toll weeks in relative isolation will take on our mental health. As a lifelong freelance filmmaker, I’m somewhat used to having to construct my own
schedule and adapt to time away from work. And while that can hardly prepare any of us for this unprecedented new reality or take away stresses about health and finance, it does offer a few insights on things that can help keep our minds and bodies balanced and replace our daily routines that have so suddenly vanished with new ones that maintain some semblance of normalcy. Be a good neighbor – Take this time to turn to those around you, be they family or neighbors, and appreciate the time you now have to take care of and be near each other. Expand your circle, and let those most in need around you
know there’s a network of people supporting them (albeit from a six-foot distance!). There will be virtual volunteer and other safe options to engage with your fellow Del Reyans coming soon from the city as well. Stay active – Many of us are torn from our workout routines, and exercise is proven to give a boost to mental health. Free online yoga, bike rides and long walks in our beautiful parks and on our beaches are all simple and healthy activities you should explore every day. Speaking of health … while it’s nice to sit back and have a stiff drink, don’t indulge any more than you normally would. Alcohol is a depressant! Manage your intake of TV news and the internet – Movie theaters are closed and sports seasons shut down and there’s a dearth of entertainment options, but that doesn’t mean your TV should be blaring news all day long. While it’s important to get information from the right sources, overloading can enhance depression, so manage your intake by muting alerts and checking in a couple times a day. Be productive – This comes in a few forms, few of which cost
anything. First, keep a schedule. My daughter’s teachers asked us to keep her regular bedtime, for example. Then, during the day when not working remotely or home-schooling, there are many things you can do. My wife has made time to bake, my daughter has a list of great crafts projects to tackle, and I’ve balanced helping our neighbors with diving into some unread books. We don’t have to sit idly by as the weeks pass! There are immense challenges ahead. Some of us will have loved ones who are dangerously ill from the virus; our economy, both on a micro and macro level, will take months if not years to recover; life as we know it will be interrupted for longer than we can imagine. But I’ve found a beauty in the anxiety in that now is a time to reconnect with those we love and step away from everything that keeps us so busy in normal times. And with some common sense and a touch of self discipline, I believe we can come out of this stronger both mentally and physically. And if we do so individually, we will do so together as a city, country and world.
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Project: RPPL2020001003 Project Location: Countywide
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DEADLINE: Monday at 11am for Thursdays CALL ANN: 626-584-8747 or EMAIL: ann@argonautnews.com Lien Sale Notice FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2020055625 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ALEX AND EDIZEN LLC. 1901 Oceanfront Walk #3 Venice, CA 90291. COUNTY: Los Angeles. Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number: 201232010059. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Alex and Edizen LLC, 1901 Oceanfront Walk #3 Venice, CA 90291. State of Incorporation or LLC: California. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/2013. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Alexander Averill Stowell. TITLE: Owner, Corp or LLC Name: Alex and Edizen LLC. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: March 6, 2020. NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a new Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions code). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 3/19/20, 3/26/20, 4/2/20, 4/9/20
Legal Notices LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF REGIONAL PLANNING NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Hearing Date and Time: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. Hearing Location: 320 West Temple St., Hall of Records, Rm. 150, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Location: Countywide
If you need reasonable accommodations or auxiliary aids, contact the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Coordinator at (213) 974-6488 (Voice) or (213) 6172292 (TDD) with at least 3 business days' notice. Si necesita más información por favor llame al (213) 974-6427. 3/19/20 CNS-3353519# THE ARGONAUT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Los Angeles County ("County") Regional Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing to consider an amendment to the county zoning code (Title 22 of the County Code) that is intended to control the potential impacts caused by high-cost lenders in the unincorporated areas of the County. This project, the Alternative Financial Services Ordinance, is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") pursuant to the State CEQA Guidelines Section 15308 (Actions by Regulatory Agencies for Protection of the Environment – Class 8). Project No.: Case: 2020-000078-(1-5) RPPL2020000655 Hearing Time: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 9:00 a.m.
The Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing to consider the project described below. You will have an opportunity to testify, or you can submit written comments to the planner below or at the public hearing. If the final decision on this proposal is challenged in court, testimony may be limited to issues raised before or at the public hearing.
Project: RPPL2020001003
For more information regarding this project, contact Zoe Axelrod, Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning (DRP), 320 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA 90012. Telephone: (213) 9746417, Fax: (213) 626-0434, Ea i l : m zaxelrod@planning.lacounty.gov. Case materials are available ona t l i n e http://planning.lacounty.gov/adu/or dinance, at all County libraries, and at the Calabasas Library located at 200 Civic Center Way, Calabasas, CA 91302, and Altadena Library (Main Library) located at 600 East Mariposa Street, Altadena, CA 91001. All correspondence received by DRP shall be considered a public record.
Hearing Location: Hall of Records 320 West Temple Street, Room 150 Los Angeles, CA 90012 Contact: Larry L. Jaramillo Department of Regional Planning ("DRP") 320 West Temple Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 (213) 974-6432 LJaramillo@planning.lacounty.gov The agenda and case documents will be available two weeks prior to the public hearing at DRP and at http://planning.lacounty.gov/afs. Written comments regarding the case may be sent prior to the hearing to Larry Jaramillo. Additionally, interested or affected parties may testify or provide written comment at the hearing regarding this case.
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR ARMED AND UNARMED SECURITY GUARD SERVICES The Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors is seeking a qualified and experienced contractor to provide both armed and unarmed security guard services to patrol outdoor public places in Marina del Rey, San Pedro (White Point/Royal Palms Beach) and Playa del Rey as well as provide crowd control services for special events. Selection of a contractor will be based on the qualifications of the firms submitting Proposals as well as their prices for performing the work. A Mandatory Proposers' Conference will be held at 10:00 a.m. on April 1, 2020 at the Boathouse at Burton Chace Park, 13650 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292, 1st Floor Conference Room. The deadline for submitting proposals will be 2:00 p.m., April 16, 2020. Firms submitting proposals must have a minimum of five years' experience providing armed security services. The County may require additional minimum qualifications. The contract will be subject to the County's Living Wage Ordinance, County Code Chapter 2.201. Further information regarding the RFP is available at: http://camisvr.co.la.ca.us/lacobids/ BidLookUp/BidOpenSt_art.asp . To view and print a copy of the RFP, please visit: http://beaches.lacounty.gov/request-for-proposals/, and click the ``Request for Proposals`` link. The County reserves the right to cancel the RFP and to modify any and all terms and conditions of the RFP, including minimum requirements. For further information, email Angelica Vicente at AVicente@bh.lacounty.gov. CN968811 20090151-1 Mar 19, 2020
Name Change ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 20SMCP00104 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition of MIRIAM LIND, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Miriam Lind filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Miriam Anne Lind to Mimi Miriam Anne Lind 2.) THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 05/15/2020. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: K, ROOM: A203. The address of the court is 1725 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90401. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The Argonaut Newspaper. Original filed: March 2, 2020. Lawrence H. Chow, Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: The Argonaut Newspaper 3/5/20, 3/12/20, 3/19/20, 3/26/20
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 20SNCP00054
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition of JOANN YIANNOULLA SOCRATOUS, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Joann Yiannoulla Socratous filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Joann Yiannoulla Socratous to Joann Yiannoulla Socrates 2.) THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 04/3/2020. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: K. The address of the court is 300 East Olive Burbank, CA 91502. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Los Angeles. Original filed: January 30, 2020. Lawrence H. Cho, Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: The Argonaut N e w s p a p e r 2 / 2 7 / 2 0 , 3 / 5 / 2 0, 3/12/20, 3/19/20 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 20SMCP00090 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition of LISA RENEE BOSWELL, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Lisa Renee Boswell filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Lisa Renee Boswell to Lisa Renee Joy 2.) THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 4/24/2020. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: K. The address of the court is 1725 Main Street Room 210 Santa Monica, CA 90401. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Los Angeles. Original filed: February 20, 2020. Lawrence H. Cho, Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: The Argonaut Newspaper 3/12/20, 3/19/20, 3/26/20, 4/2/20 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 20SMCP00123 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition of MARY JANE, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Mary Jane filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Mary Jane to Mary Jane Lang 2.) THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 5/15/2020. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: K Room: A-203. The address of the court is 1725 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90401. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the
8:30 AM. Dept.: K Room: A-203. The address of the court is 1725 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90401. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Los Angeles. Original filed: March 4, 2020. Lawrence Cho, Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: The Argonaut Newspaper 3/12/20, 3/19/20, 3/26/20, 4/2/20
Fic. Business Name FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2020045296 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RAINHOUSE. 843 East Harvard Road Burbank, CA 91501. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Rainhouse Productions LLC, 843 East Harvard Road Burbank, CA 91501. State of Incorporation or LLC: California. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/2020. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Shelby Comstock Britten. TITLE: Managing Member, Corp or LLC Name: Rainhouse Productions LLC. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: February 24, 2020. NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a new Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions code). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 3/5/20, 3/12/20, 3/19/20, 3/26/20 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2020045296 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RAINHOUSE. 843 East Harvard Road Burbank, CA 91501. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Rainhouse Productions LLC, 843 East Harvard Road Burbank, CA 91501. State of Incorporation or LLC: California. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/2020. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Shelby Comstock Britten. TITLE: Managing Member, Corp or LLC Name: Rainhouse Productions LLC. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: February 24, 2020. NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a new Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions code). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 3/5/20, 3/12/20, 3/19/20, 3/26/20
REGISTERED OWNER(S) Rainhouse Productions LLC, 843 East Harvard Road Burbank, CA 91501. State of Incorporation or LLC: California. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/2020. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Shelby Comstock Britten. TITLE: Managing Member, Corp or LLC Name: Rainhouse Productions LLC. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: February 24, 2020. NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a new Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions code). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 3/5/20, 3/12/20, 3/19/20, 3/26/20
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2020037467 Type of Filing: Original. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: WOLF TRIBE. 817 6th Avenue Venice, CA 90291. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Philip Folsom Programs, LLC, 817 6th Avenue Venice, CA 90291. State of Incorporation or LLC: California. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/ Philip Folsom. TITLE: President. Corp or LLC Name: Philip Folsom Programs, LLC. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: February 13, 2020. NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a new Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions code). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 3/5/20, 3/12/20, 3/19/20, 3/26/20
set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a new Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions code). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 3/5/20, 3/12/20, 3/19/20, 3/26/20 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2020046572 Type of Filing: Original The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: AYMAR MUSIC; 12530 Braddock Drive #234 Los Angeles, CA 90066. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Geoffrey Aymar, 12530 Braddock Drive #234 Los Angeles, CA 90066. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Geoffrey Aymar. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: February 25, 2020. NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a new Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., business and professions code). Publish: The Argonaut N e w s p a p e r . D a t e s : 2 / 2 7 / 2 0, 3/5/20, 3/12/20, 3/19/20 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2020045442 Type of Filing: Original The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: NC5 INSURANCE AND TAX SERVICES; 14673 Rinaldi St San Fernando, CA 91340. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Mario S. Chutan, 3905 Patrick Henry Pl. Agoura Hills, CA 91301. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Mario S Chutan. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: February 24, 2020. NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county cle rk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a new Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., business and professions code). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 2/27/20, 3/5/20, 3/12/20, 3/19/20 #28914
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GISTERED OWNER(S) Mario S. Chutan, 3905 Patrick Henry Pl. Agoura Hills, CA 91301. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business unFic.Fictitious Business Name der the Business Name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Mario S Chutan. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: February 24, 2020. NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a new Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., business and professions code). Publish: The Argonaut N e w s p a p e r . D a t e s : 2 / 2 7 / 2 0, 3/5/20, 3/12/20, 3/19/20 #28914 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2020032083 Type of Filing: Amended The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: NEXUS REALTY; 4300 Promenade Way Unit 320 M a r i n a d e l R e y , C a 9 0 2 9 2. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Eileen V. Seidlin, 4300 Promenade Way Unit 320 Marina del Rey, Ca 90292. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: 05/1994. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Eileen V. Seidlin. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: February 7, 2020. NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a new Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., business and professions code). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 2/27/20, 3/5/20, 3/12/20, 3/19/20 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2020040971 Type of Filing: Original The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MADISON BLUU; 7736 Paseo Del Rey #4 Playa del Rey, CA 90293. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Terri Budow, 7736 Paseo Del Rey #4 Playa del Rey, CA 90293. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: 2/2020. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Terri Budow. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: February 19, 2020. NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a new Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., business and professions code). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 3/5/20, 3/12/20, 3/19/20, 3/26/20
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2020050014 Type of Filing: Original The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ROBERT TOKAR ENTERPRISES; 14155 Magnolia Blvd., #305 Sherman Oaks, CA 91423. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Robert Tokar, 14155 Magnolia Blvd., #305 Sherman Oaks, CA 91423. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: 8/2017. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Robert Tokar. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: February 28, 2020. NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a new Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., business and professions code). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 3/5/20, 3/12/20, 3/19/20, 3/26/20
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THE ARGONAUT REAL ESTATE Q&A Does the American Dream extend to condo ownership? Single family residences (SFRs) have long been the ultimate goal of the American Dream. But dreams evolved and preferences changes. Homebuyers are increasingly willing to consider condos or townhomes in California and across the U.S. more broadly, according to a new study by Redfin. 89% of homebuyers still report a preference for SFRs, but they are increasingly willing to include other options in their home search. At the end of 2019, 33% of searchers nationwide limited their searches to SFRs only, following a steady downward trend from 41% who limited their search to only SFRs in 2012. Closely related, the SFR premium over comparable condos has shrunk in recent years. In Los Angeles at the end of 2019, the average SFR cost 19% more than a comparable condo or townhome, down from a 27% SFR premium in 2013. In San Jose, the SFR premium has decreased to 25%, down from 31% in 2013. At least part of the shift is due to today’s significantly higher home prices. Some
homebuyers just can’t qualify for the SFR premium and are forced to choose between buying a lower-priced condo or attached home, or else abandoning the coveted American Dream and continuing to rent.
unconcerned with the drawbacks of condo ownership. Nationally, condos average 8% of all mortgage originations. However, CoreLogic forecasts demand for condos will increase in the coming years. This positive forecast is partly due to today’s record-low age of condo inventory. Specifically, the average condo remains on the market for 60 days, which is the lowest average inventory age since CoreLogic began tracking condo sales in 2000.
time homebuyers who may not need as much room as older adults with families but who prioritize being close to jobs and amenities.
Regarding CoreLogic’s forecast for rising condo sales, since demand for condos Other reasons for the increased interest peaks around age 33, a growing population in condos are related to demographics. of young adults means demand for condos Many Millennial homebuyers prefer the will swell alongside young adult numbers. greater walkability and proximity to urban Specifically, the largest group of young adults amenities and jobs that condo life offers. At is currently aged 26-27. As an age group, the other end of the age spectrum, retiring they are about 10% larger than the current Baby Boomers also tend to prefer the lowgroup of peak condo buyers who are 33 years maintenance lifestyle of condo-living when old. Therefore, if the trend continues, demand they sell their large suburban SFRs to relocate The other reason why condos are expected to for condos is likely to rise at a similar rate increase in popularity in the coming years has over the next six or seven years. to be closer to family. to do with shifting demographics. What do these changing preferences mean Today, the peak age for homebuyers to for real estate professionals in California’s THIS WEEK’S QUESTION purchase a condo is 33. These young adult housing market? WAS ANSWERED BY homebuyers are well-suited to condos, which Carrie B. Reyes Young adults: the condo generation? tend to be smaller than traditional SFRs is Market Watch editor and and in more convenient locations, closer to project editor of the Real Estate Compared with the privacy and autonomy amenities and jobs. They also tend to be less Economics and Economic Trends of owning a single family residence (SFR), expensive than SFRs, though the trade-off in California Real Estate books. condominiums may be second choice to first tuesday Journal comes with high homeowners’ association some. But condos are also rising in popularity, (HOA) fees. Still, these qualities together P.O. Box 5707 Riverside, CA 92517 especially for the younger set of homebuyers make condos ideal starter homes for first-
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