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VOL 49, NO 1 Local News & Culture

Hal’s Bar & Grill Closes

INTERVIEW

It’s the end of an era on Abbot Kinney Boulevard and a new chapter cut short in Playa Vista . ........................................... 11

Ted Lieu’s Plan of Attack The Westside’s outspoken congressman will play a significant role in setting House Democrats’ national agenda, and he wants to swing hard at Trump . ........................... 8

OPINION

Hackers Stole $30,000 by Cracking ATM Codes in Marina del Rey . ...... 10

planned before Trump and #MeToo takes on heightened meaning amid social change . .... 15

The Advice Goddess

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Pedestrian Dies Trying to Cross Centinela Avenue in Mar Vista ...... 10

American Woman An art show

NEWS

Venice Dogz Howl for Locals to Protest National Chains on the Boardwalk ............................... 10

THIS WEEK

Gramping Her Style Online dating is rigged against older women, so ditch the .com and meet guys in real life ....................................... 23

No Room for Locals Middle-class workers who grew up

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in Westchester have been priced out of their hometown . .............................. 12

FOOD & DRINK Powerful Persimmons Santa Monica Restaurant Week honors the underrated winter farmers’ market staple ... 14

Meet director Yorgos Lanthimos at a double screening of “The Favourite” and “The Lobster” ................................... 24 ON THE COVER: “Libertatis,” one of a series of paintings

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L etters ‘Venice Morning High’ – A Poem I was walking around Venice on Nov. 3 when a poem came to me while witnessing evidence of the growing homeless crisis there and in many parts of Los Angeles: Moon struck,

stone struck, Venice morning high, Titillating, explicating his words ran dry.

Skin’s-a-shaking pockets empty, beachgoers walk on by sun’s-a-churning, our nation’s burning,

brother can you spare a dime? density — gone. Amenities — Laura Villanueva, disappear, yet those of us who Los Angeles pay rent and taxes aren’t seeing any reductions. Gone also is any Marina del Rey is confidence I had in local governOverdeveloped ment. A tiny park for tots on Via Change the name of Marina del Dolce cannot replace the park Rey to Marina de los Developers. that was promised at Marquesas Sidewalks, views, manageable and Via Dolce with basketball court for juniors and tables for seniors and, oh yes, a view of a marina.

Lynne Shapiro Marina del Rey

FROM THE WEB Re: “A Girl Who Cares: 4-year-old Anaya Agarwal extents a helping hand to her homeless neighbors in Venice,” Cover Story, Dec. 20 Good values indeed. Kudos to her parents for raising a socially responsible child who wants to help the community.

Dolly Fremont So out of the three homeless people you interviewed, all are from out of state, two are ex-convicts, and one of them is only in Venice because he was referred from downtown to a social service agency here. And the best part is that if any of this “homeless” housing ever actually gets built homeless people who have lived in L.A. for years are going to have to

get in line with all of these out-of-state vagrants who think (along with their progressive enablers) that they should be entitled to a free apartment at the beach.

Fed Up Homeless Guy Re: “Totally Skewered: The MoFAs roast corporations not winning on the environmental front,” Arts & Events, Dec. 27 This event sucked worse than anything I’ve ever been to (and I’ve even been dragged to *musicals*). The American left (and Americans, and humans) are totally screwed if we can’t muster sharper teeth than this.

Surly Joe Re: “Crushin’ Roulette,” The Advice Goddess, Dec. 20 For the person identified as “Conflicted,” I’m compelled to chime in because exactly the same situation as your story happened to me. My very close friend one day confessed his feelings for me. I told him that I loved him as a friend but could not reciprocate his feelings. He then said that he accepted and respected my response, “But I also still admire you as a human being. Can we stay friends?” I (Continued on page 27)

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By Joe Piasecki The Blue Wave that wrested the House of Representatives from Republican control has also lifted one of President Donald Trump’s chief congressional antagonists to a new level of national influence.

Rep. Ted Lieu, whose coastal Los Angeles district stretches from Malibu to Rancho Palos Verdes, enters the new Congress on Jan. 3 as one of four leaders of the House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee. As a co-chair of the DPCC, Lieu will have an outsized role in guiding the national messaging strategy of House Democrats.

And if the past two years shows us anything about where Lieu wants to take the party, expect him to press for a full-throttle assault on the White House.

Shortly after Trump took office, Lieu became a social media celebrity for mixing anger and humor to publicly skewer the president and top administration officials in 140 confrontational characters or less. When many in the media and government appeared flabbergasted and steamrolled by Trump’s aggressive posturing, Lieu was tweeting that former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer “makes shit up” and posted a sign outside his own Capitol office declaring it an #alternativefacts-free zone.

More recently, Lieu defied Republican House leadership to play audio of crying children separated from their families at the Mexican border so it would become part of the Congressional Record. While staffing Woolsey Fire disaster recovery centers at home in November, Lieu also introduced the Restoring the Public Trust Act, which would specifically force Trump to reimburse the country for taxpayer dollars spent at his own properties, prohibit the president’s children from doing business with the government, and force the release of all presidential candidates’ tax returns. As a member of the powerful Judiciary and Foreign Affairs committees, he led a minority-party effort last year calling for an FBI investigation into presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner allegedly leaking classified information to Saudi Arabia.

Through it all, Lieu has been relentless about keeping public attention on investigating potential Trump campaign collusion with Russia, saying that the convictions of attorney Michael Cohen and campaign manager Paul Manafort are “emblematic of Trump’s culture of corruption, and every one of us should be outraged.”

And now that the Democrats have

Rep. Ted Lieu is climbing the Democratic ladder by giving Trump a fight control of the House, Lieu has finally has some legislative muscle behind him. He spoke to The Argonaut last month about some of his plans for the year ahead.

The Argonaut: As a DPCC co-chair, what kind of a tone can people expect you to help Democrats set this year?

Ted Lieu: I’m going to work with my colleagues on a bold and inclusive

want to see corruption. We’re going to execute our congressional oversight duties to make sure the House of Representatives is restored as a co-equal branch of government.

What legislative goals should we expect from Democrat-controlled Judiciary and Foreign Affairs committees?

We’re going to have oversight hearings

“This administration has gone to enormously imaginative and creative lengths to bypass our ethics laws and regulations. … Should the administration try to shut [the Mueller investigation] down, we would then proceed with our own Democratic investigation in the House.”

— Rep. Ted Lieu message that’s going to move America forward. Now that we have the majority, we’re going to work on a positive agenda to reduce health care costs, invest in infrastructure, raise people’s wages and root out corruption in Washington D.C. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Republican or a Democrat or an Independent, you don’t

on the administration. A lot of what the administration has done in foreign policy has reduced America’s standing in the world. The administration is covering up the brutal murder of a journalist at a Saudi embassy by the Saudi government; they not only murdered [Washington Post columnist Jamal] Khashoggi, they cut

him up into pieces. It was a completely unacceptable act of savagery. We’re going to have a hearing as to why the administration is not holding Saudi Arabia accountable.

And in the Judiciary Committee?

We are going to make sure we protect undocumented youth and pass a Dream Act or something similar that the U.S. Senate would also support. I also want to work on comprehensive immigration reform. A few years ago the Senate passed comprehensive immigration reform on a bipartisan basis; Speaker Boehner never allowed a vote in the House. Now that we have the majority [in the House], I believe we should be able to pass comprehensive immigration reform, and hopefully get the Senate to agree with it. … There are a lot more things we’re going to do in the area of criminal justice reform.

I also believe it’s far beyond time to have rationality in our cannabis laws. It is completely stupid to have such a large industry be all-cash. We need to allow banks to do transactions with the cannabis industry. I also believe it should no longer be a federal offense to possess or use cannabis. We should let the states decide that, and hopefully we can stop spending federal tax dollars trying to enforce stupid cannabis laws.

In terms of oversight, we have oversight over the Department of Justice, and we want to make sure the Robert Mueller investigation is protected and independent. We’re going to make sure we don’t have the administration engage in undue interference of their special counsel investigation and, should the administration try to shut it down, we would then proceed with our own Democratic investigation in the House Judiciary Committee of any possible crimes that the Trump campaign or the current administration has engaged in or is engaging in.

Is your Public Trust Act getting any traction?

Given the recent election, we haven’t yet focused on getting additional coauthors. The reason for this legislation is that a lot of these issues never arose in the past because prior administrations followed accepted norms of human behavior. This administration has gone to enormously imaginative and creative lengths to bypass our ethics laws and regulations. You had Treasury Secretary [Steve] Mnuchin fly himself and his wife to Kentucky on federal tax dollars so they (Continued on page 26)

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Venice Dogz Plan Boardwalk Starbucks Protest The neighborhood group that organized protests against Snapchat’s former expansion along the Venice Boardwalk and the eviction of the Venice Beach Freakshow will be back in action on Saturday (Jan. 5), returning to 909 Ocean Front Walk to protest a Starbucks that quietly opened there last month.

Venice Dogz: An Alliance for the Preservation of Venice is recruiting locals to picket the coffee shop from 1 to 5 p.m. and call for a new city ordinance to prevent additional national chains from setting up shop on the Venice Boardwalk. Santa Monica City Council members recently voted to ban fast-food chains from Third Street Promenade, and Los Angeles City Councilman

has stated his support for a prohibition against chain restaurants and stores on the Venice Boardwalk.

“Ocean Front Walk is the identity of Venice, and we feel it must be preserved and protected from turning into the next Third Street Promenade, The Grove or Universal City Walk,” says Venice Dogz organizer Mark Rago. “People come to Venice to see things that are different and to see things they’ve never seen before, not to see the same stores you see everywhere else. Cities all over the country have put in ordinances to prohibit or limit national chains in their towns or parts of their towns. … There’s no reason we can’t do the same here.”

— Joe Piasecki

State of the State: Supermajority vs. Overreach The Westchester-Playa Democratic Club is hosting a “State of our State” discussion with state Sen. Ben Allen (D- Santa Monica) and Assemblywoman Autumn Burke (D- Marina del Rey) next Thursday, Jan. 10, at Holy Nativity Episcopal Church in Westchester. Loyola Marymount University Professor of Political Science Fernando Guerra, founding director of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles, will moderate.

In addition to their individual legislative efforts, Allen and Burke are expected to discuss how Democrats will handle their supermajority status in Sacramento this year and how state leaders can and should battle what the club calls “federal overreach” in California.

“This is an opportunity for Sen. Allen and Assemblywoman Burke to share their thoughts and priorities for 2019, as well as reflect on legislative achievements and losses in 2018,” said Westchester-Playa Democratic Club President Duane Muller.

Expect Burke to discuss new efforts to strengthen her 2017 legislation to combat child poverty. Allen is sponsoring the Petition DISCLOSE Act, which would require ballot initiative signature gatherers to disclose the top three-funders of any such campaign.

Discussion begins at 7 p.m. (following 6:30 p.m. refreshments) at 6700 W. 63 St. The club is asking attendees to RSVP at bit.ly/state-of-state.

— Gary Walker

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B rief Pedestrian Killed Crossing Centinela in Mar Vista Last week a pedestrian attempting to cross Centinela Avenue in Mar Vista was struck by two northbound vehicles and pronounced dead at the scene. The collisions occurred near the terminus of Barbara Avenue, a few blocks south of Venice Boulevard and close to the Grand View Boulevard Elementary School campus.

According to investigators, a Latino male in his fifties was crossing Centinela eastbound at just before 9 p.m. Friday (Dec. 28) when he was first struck by a car traveling northbound along Centinela. LAPD investigators say that collision

knocked the man some 30 feet up the street, where he was struck by a second northbound vehicle and suffered blunt force trauma to the head and torso.

Contrary to reports on Twitter, both drivers stopped and identified themselves to law enforcement.

LAPD traffic investigators say it does not appear that alcohol, drugs or excessive speed factored into the fatal crash. Anyone with additional information is asked to call investigators at (213) 473-0234 during business hours or (877) 527-3247 on nights or weekends.

— Gary Walker

Hackers Stole $30,000 by Cracking ATM Codes in Marina del Rey

Surveillance camera footage shared by law enforcement shows suspects accused of hacking into an ATM at the Marina del Rey Marriott The Marina del Rey Sheriff’s Station and the United States Secret Service have launched a joint investigation into recent hackings of at least two ATM machines in the marina, where high-tech bandits made off with a combined haul of about $30,000.

Surveillance video shows five suspects — three men and two women — unlocking an ATM inside the Marina del Rey Marriott on Nov. 29 and Nov. 30 and stealing more than $15,000, according to investigators.

“We believe that the suspects were definitely using a laptop computer at the scene to help facilitate overriding the ATM’s codes. The hacking device is still unknown,” said Det. Ralpheal Banks of the Marina del Rey Sheriff’s Station. “On the video surveillance you can see them using a laptop to complete the hacking.”

Banks said the hackers are knowledgeable about ATM machines because they were able to open the machines immediately after hacking their security codes. The Secret Service is involved because the agency is tasked with safeguarding the country’s banking and financial systems.

“I believe that the suspects are scouting out certain locations and

certain ATMs. These people are experts with this type of hack. They understand how to override bank codes. They are more sophisticated than most hackers,” Banks asserted.

Sheriff’s detectives also suspect the thieves of robbing another ATM inside the Pearl Apartments at 4111 Via Marina on Sept. 12 and making off with nearly the same amount of cash taken from the Marina del Rey Marriot — more than $15,000.

“The hack was done in the same manner as the hotel hack,” said Banks, noting that both targeted ATMs were stand-alone machines not attached to a wall at a bank. “We have recovered some evidence from the scene, and the investigation is in its early stages.”

Surveillance video from the Marina del Rey Hotel shows suspects described as a white male 30 to 35 years old, 5’6” and 160 pounds; a white male 5’6” and 180 pounds; a white female 5’4” and 130 pounds; a white male 5’7” and 160 pounds; and a white female 5’4” and 140 pounds.

Investigators are asking anyone with information about the thefts to call Banks at (310) 242-6206.

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Hal’s Bar & Grill Has Gone Out of Business Closures mark the end of an era in Venice and curtail a comeback story in Playa Vista Photo by Venice Paparazzi

By Joe Piasecki, Jessica Koslow and Gary Walker A Westside cultural institution for more than three decades, Hal’s Bar & Grill anchored the renaissance of Abbot Kinney Boulevard and pioneered a flagship presence in the growing community of Playa Vista. The restaurant, bar and live jazz venue didn’t just roll with the changes, it played a leading role in preserving a sense of local identity among the growing presence of national chain stores.

That legacy appears to be a historical one now. Late last Thursday, notes appeared on the doors of both its Venice and Playa Vista locations stating that the business will be liquidating and instructing employees to meet in Playa Vista to settle final paychecks. The mood there appeared to be a mix of shock and sadness, and owners of the business could not be reached for comment.

Hal’s original Abbot Kinney location of 30 years closed in April 2015 when its landlord sold that building (now home to a flagship Adidas store) for a reported

Event photographers Venice Paparazzi captured the Playa Vista location of Hal’s Bar & Grill packed with diners during a 2017 Runway Night Market event $44 million. A more compact version of Hal’s and sister restaurant Casa Linda (also shuttered) later opened down the street in the former home of Primitivo.

Meanwhile, Hal’s Bar & Grill owners Don Novack, Linda Novack and Hal Frederick staked the restaurant’s future

on the Runway at Playa Vista retail, entertainment and residential complex.

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About a month ago, Hal’s Bar & Grill celebrated the hiring of a new executive chef and updated its dinner menu. News of its closure has left many longtime locals feeling shocked and upset.

“Hal’s was Venice’s city hall at lunchtime. People came to eat, conduct business, see and be seen,” said former Venice Neighborhood Council President Linda Lucks. “My favorite times were just sitting with Hal and listening to his stories about his early acting career and hanging out with James Baldwin in Paris.”

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By Kyle Knoll It’s easy to get lost in Westchester these days. The neighborhood I grew up in is nearly unrecognizable.

I was filling up at the gas station on Jefferson and Centinela this summer when a driver in his early sixties sidled up to me in a faded red SUV, his grandson eyeing me pensively from the bench back seat. With a mixture of frustration and flat-out embarrassment in his voice, the man asked me for directions to the beach.

“I used to remember how to get there, and I’m trying to go off of memory,” he explained, struggling in the shadow of new Playa Vista apartments to recall the exact route of many sun-soaked trips as a younger man. “But with all of this new construction, I feel like I’m in an entirely new place. I’m completely lost.

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I used to be able to just see the coast and go that way.”

Growing up in Westchester in the 1990s and 2000s, I used to enjoy the same wide-open coastal views that had been

University perched on the Westchester Bluffs to my left and the masts of ambling mega yachts in Marina del Rey harbor on my right, the Ballona Wetlands opened-up into a naturally framed vista

Property values in Westchester have basically quadrupled since I was born in 1992. … Teacher salaries in Los Angeles have barely kept pace with inflation. this man’s North Star to the coastline. I remember being a teenager and driving west down Jefferson Boulevard with a driver’s license that had been in my wallet less time than it took to obtain it at the DMV. With Loyola Marymount

of California beauty. A patchwork of muddy ditches running along the old Hughes Aircraft Co. runway and the occasional meandering cloud filled up the expanse in between.

But now the Westchester that made me

who I am is dead. Suffocating traffic congestion, the corridor of plate glass and steel extending the length of Jefferson and the rebranding of my hometown as “Silicon Beach” are all egregious insults, but none of these are exclusively to blame for killing it. My hometown is dead because it is no longer an affordable place to live for teachers like me and others who used to be able to call themselves middle-class wage earners.

The Westchester of 2019 belongs not to those who grew up here but to corporate executives, high-wage professionals and the new arrivals who code all those new computer programs that teachers are put-upon to find uses for in their classrooms.

Who would you rather have as your neighbor: a teacher at your child’s elementary school living in a single-story

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Craftsman, or a reclusive tech-entrepreneur jetsetter who spends as much time in her eight-bedroom vanity project as the guy who details her car spends in her Mercedes?

Property values in Westchester have basically quadrupled since I was born in 1992. The average price among a sample of 46 Westchester homes sold in 1992 was $317,285, according to historic pricing data provided by The Stephanie Younger Group. The average Zillow market estimate for that same sample of homes as of this autumn was $1,247,040.

Teacher salaries in Los Angeles have barely kept pace with inflation over the same period of time. Those salaries used to buy houses in Westchester. Now they hardly cover rent.

Mainstays of a middle-class neighborhood like Gerald’s Hardware store on Manchester Avenue and The Buggy Whip on La Tijera Boulevard have no place in the gateway to Silicon Beach. But a neighborhood without at least one or two cars parked outside on the lawn is hardly a neighborhood at all. *** I understand that change has been constant in this town ever since the United States took California from Mexico in 1847 and shortened the name of El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles. The railroad reached Los Angeles in 1876, and Californian technicians were pumping one-quarter of the world’s oil supply from the ground here by 1923. Westchester, Playa del Rey and Venice all housed workers who maintained oil derricks that ran like popsicle sticks stacked along the surf from Santa Monica to Manhattan Beach.

People across the country have looked to Los Angeles as a land of opportunity for far longer than I’ve been alive. They famously include a midcentury Texas oilman eager to step out from his father’s shadow and establish himself in the aviation and movie industries. In 1940, Howard Hughes purchased 380 acres of land two miles inland of the grove of oil wells bunched at the end of Culver Boulevard and turned the land into a private airport. Hughes Aircraft and other aerospace companies powered the takeoff of the local post-World War II economy.

When the UCLA was looking for land on which to build a boathouse along Ballona Creek for its competitive rowers, the Associated Students bought those land rights from the associated Hughes Tool Company. Both my father and I spent countless formative hours rowing predawn laps up and down the creek as Bruin oarsmen. However, even our glorified sewage ditch is changing. The vibrant class and university murals painted along the cement walls of “the creek” — some of them more than 50 years ago — were plastered over with grey paint my senior year. To those who contend that Los Angeles is a place

without history, maybe it’s just that our history is being constantly erased.

Thank you for the opportunity to serve our community’s legal needs.

*** Admittedly, Westchester also has a history of being an exclusionary and forbidding place. Racial covenants in housing deeds that restricted homeowners from selling their properties to people of color proliferated in “Whitechester” until such covenants were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1948.

And unless you are a member of the Gabrielino-Tongva tribe, you currently live on land that was taken from someone at some point in the past, most likely through coercion or by force.

For a restrictively small and privileged population, however, Westchester and the Westside in general did used to be a place of opportunity. My grandparents on both sides of my family came to Santa Monica chasing their own California Dream. My mother’s parents were born in Illinois and Alabama and met at USC shortly before World War II. My father’s parents arrived from Germany in 1957 and opened up a coffee shop on Santa Monica Boulevard in the building that now houses the popular English pub Ye Olde King’s Head.

My parents bought a house on West 76th Street near La Tijera on the Westchester-Inglewood border because of its proximity to the 405 Freeway onramp. My father needed to be close to the freeway in order to get to work at my grandparent’s Santa Monica restaurant, Knoll’s Black Forest Inn. *** Just like the railroads replaced the ranchero system at the end of the 19th century, and the aerospace industry replaced the oil and manufacturing industries after that, the likes of Snapchat, Google and YouTube are now displacing the children and grandchildren of former Hughes employees and the small business owners who served them meals.

But does change always have to mean that workers outside the prized industry of the moment are priced out of their hometown?

For all its small-town charm and its strong network of community organizations, living in Westchester is no longer economically viable for teachers, firefighters, police officers and other bedrock blue-collar workers.

Perhaps the new denizens of Silicon Beach will realize this vacuum exists and do something to address housing affordability in Westchester. In the meantime, their children will attend schools staffed by over-caffeinated, under-rested teachers braving extended commutes from far-flung, semi-affordable neighborhoods.

And the Westchester kids who become teachers when they grow up will probably have to do the same.

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By Jennifer Pellerito Stroll through the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market in winter and you’ll see bushels of persimmons at nearly every stand. The honey-sweet fruit offers anti-inflammatory compounds and is rich in vitamins A, B and C. With so many wellness benefits, persimmons are an inspiring ingredient for January, the month of renewed health and fitness goals.

But how many recipes do you know of that call for persimmons?

Local chefs, many of whom regularly source their produce from the market, were eager to take on the challenge of crafting innovative and surprising dishes with this nourishing fruit for the seventh annual Santa Monica Restaurant Week, sponsored by the Santa Monica Travel & Tourism board. From Jan. 7 to 13, more than 30 of the city’s top dining destinations are showcasing original dishes that feature the persimmon.

Here are just a few highlights to whet your appetite: Instagram-Worthy Dining @ Élephante Don’t miss the opportunity to savor the ‘nduja toast with stracciatella and persimmons at Élephante Beach House.

The buzzing rooftop scene will have you opening up your phone to snap photo after photo of the surrounding seaside ambiance and the coastal Italian cuisine.

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1332 2nd St. | (424) 320-2384 | elephantela.com To Europe and Back Again @ Massilia Massilia partakes in the fun this year as one of Santa Monica’s newest hotspots, thanks to restaurateur Emmanuel Dossetti of Zinqué Cafe. European charm and romance radiates from French, Italian and Spanish influences at the new Marseille-

Chipotle-glazed carnitas tacos with persimmon salsa at El Cholo, the private balcony at Élephante Beach House, the persimmon salad at Esther’s Wine Shop & Bar, Massilia’s persimmon and kale salad, and persimmons for sale at the Santa Monica Famers’ Market inspired restaurant. The chef’s crunchy kale and persimmon salad features shaved fennel and toasted sunflower seeds tossed with a Comté and Jerez vinaigrette. Add on smoked salmon for irresistibly fresh texture.

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persimmons, walnuts, manchego and champagne vinaigrette makes for a well-balanced, nourishing meal. Go ahead and imbibe with these greens. With a dish this healthy, it’s fair game to indulge a little — a glass of the Lambrusco Secco provides a gentle complement to the peppery arugula.

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By Christina Campodonico Ever since Eve took a bite of the apple, being a woman has hardly ever been easy.

The past couple of years have been especially fraught for women in America.

Instead of what would have been our first female president, a womanizing businessman accused of sexual harassment many times over was elected to the highest office in the land. The fall of a Hollywood kingpin triggered an avalanche exposing rampant sexual abuse at the highest echelons of media and entertainment.

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the global Women’s March movement and the creation of the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund to combat sexual harassment, and in November a record number of women won seats in Congress. But to call either 2017 or 2018 “The Year of the Woman” would be too jubilant — many would argue we still have a long way to go to reach gender parity — but undoubtedly American women are having a moment. #MeToo, Time’s Up, Harvey Weinstein, Brett Kavanaugh and the rollercoaster Trump Era didn’t exist when Venice artist Kathy Taslitz and painter Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman proposed the all-female exhibit “Life in this Ocean” to the

Annenberg Community Beach House over two years ago. But now that the work is on display, it’s impossible not to read the exhibition through the lens of #MeToo and Trump Resistance.

Taslitz’s aluminum giclée of a pink cat peeking through a vulva-shaped aperture, aptly titled “Pussy Anxiety,” recalls the pink pussy hats that became synonymous with the inaugural Women’s March.

The predatory sea creatures circling artist Lena Rushing’s figures of women in peaceful contemplation read as symbols for men who’ve threatened defilement or destruction.

Sullivan-Beeman’s Old Masters-style paintings of young ladies on the brink of

womanhood remind of the pleasures and dangers of young adulthood.

And Donna Bates’ “American Warriors” wear the American flag majestically, like battle-tested heroines for a new era.

Armed with arrows or capped by crowns, their hair strewn with curlers or wrapped by the stars and stripes, Bates’ “Badass Chicks” (as she also calls them) radiate power and regality like goddesses of the New World and a new world order, taking the iconography of America’s historically patriarchal power structure and reclaiming it as their own.

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In Bates’ universe, a riff on the Statue of Liberty’s legacy is not some lilywhite beauty queen, but a young black woman with raging red hair and pink sunglasses.

The woman in “War Paint and Curlers,” who wears arrows in her hair and holds a bitten apple, isn’t Eve thrown out of the garden, nor a victim of some William Tell-like assault, but a lipsticked maven who’s spiked the symbol of American capitalism — the dollar bill’s Eye of Providence — with one of her sharp hairpieces.

“Those things that are your battle scars,” says Bates of the arrows in her subject’s hair, “you can also use them as weapons.”

Themes of independence and survival have pulsed throughout Bates’ work over the years, she says, but have been especially resonate in our current social and political moments.

“People are more receptive to the work,” she says, noting a very successful year for selling paintings. “It seems to be hitting a note.”

The same goes for Rushing, who says she’s had more opportunities to showcase her work this past year.

“I’ve had a fantastic response,” she says, even though she didn’t intend for her images spiked by malevolent sea creatures — eels or sharks mostly— to be read in a #MeToo light. “Before #MeToo, I was painting powerful women who were kind of saying say f**k the patriarchy … [but] I’m drawn to creatures that maybe have a bad reputation … predatory animals, which can often mean men.”

Even so, Rushing hopes people notice the powerful women in her images.

“Most of them feature women with some sort of creature, but those creatures have been tamed or the women are just not fearful of them,” she says. “One of the pieces in the show, she’s floating on this bed with all these hammerhead sharks underneath: she’s overcome her fears.

She’s feeling strong and brave.”

Bates, 71, also hopes her paintings echo a sentiment of empowerment.

“The war paint is like your makeup,” she

Lina Rushing’s “There’s Always One” and Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman’s “Seahorse Girl” says. “We put on our makeup every day. great conversation between all the works.

We fix our hair. We carry our purse. We What I love is not just the styles are slosh through the primordial ooze with the different, but I really feel like all the slings and arrows to battle another day, people in the pieces are sort of talking and we’re facing a lot of disparity. … It’s with each other across the hallway. I love OK to go out there and do battle. Just that you sort of hear an echo.”

“We fix our hair. We carry our purse. We slosh through the primordial ooze with the slings and arrows to battle another day.”

— “Badass Chicks” painter Donna Bates getting through this life is not easy. Be loud and proud about being strong, and also don’t go looking for answers from men or expect a Prince Charming to come and save you.”

“I think subconsciously [#MeToo] does come out in everybody’s work,” adds Sullivan-Beeman. “I think there’s also

Struggle, says Taslitz, whose work often deals with the unrealistic lifestyle and beauty standards put upon women, is also major theme of the show.

“The struggle to be heard, the struggle to fit in, or to make a name, or place, for yourself,” are all present within “Life in this Ocean,” she says, citing Sullivan-

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Emblematic of that transition is SullivanBeeman’s “Seahorse Girl,” which depicts a young woman in a frilly frock gazing into treasure chest held open by the tail of a seahorse — a metaphor for the awakening of her subconscious, says the artist.

“I’m always investigating that moment when a girl becomes a woman, and that naiveté, and the ‘A-ha!’ moment,” says Sullivan-Beeman. “To me, it’s not sexual.

It’s just, there’s a moment that happens. So I’m always sort of playing with it, and I do feel like I’m investigating that moment.”

Whether we are post-#MeToo or just at the beginning of our cultural reckoning with violence against women is still up in the air, but Sullivan-Beeman believes that we are entering an Aquarian Age. In astrological speak, that means a womendriven era of change overtaking the present or, in some astrologers’ estimations, the very recently departed Piscean Age “dominated by a Christian patriarchal system,” according to astrologers with Elle.com.

“Aquarius is all about water. And Aquarius is also about the female energy,” says Sullivan-Beeman, who ran her own event design company in the 1990s and 2000s. “Women are becoming stronger, becoming themselves more. And not having any fear to speak their minds. …

The younger women, like 20-year-olds and 30-year-olds, are much stronger than the 40-, 50-, 60-year-olds. They really own their voice. … So I find this really an amazing moment in time, because I think we’re really on a bridge to changing into this Aquarian era.”

Perhaps this watery symbol is tailor-made for a seaside show speaking to a cultural moment that’s still in flux but, like a wave, unstoppable once it has formed.

“Life in this Ocean” remains on view from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily through Jan. 7 at the Annenberg Community Beach House, 415 Pacific Coast Hwy., Santa Monica. Call (310) 458-4904 or visit annenbergbeachhouse.com to confirm gallery hours.

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“This extensively renovated home is located steps from the sand in Silicon Beach,” says agent Jesse Weinberg.

“French doors connect the living room to an enormous ocean-view deck. The gorgeous kitchen seats four at the bar and the dining room seats eight at the built-in banquette.

This three-bedroom home has three full baths. The back yard has an additional entertaining patio and the entire property is fully fenced-in with an electric gate at the driveway.”

Offered at $1,799,000 Jesse Weinberg KW Silicon Beach 800-804-9132

“Stunning Marina and Harbor views are offered by this spacious one-bed, one-bath home, with quintessential coastal living,” says agent Charles Lederman. “This is a blank canvas with new waterproof wood-like flooring; it’s ready for move-in or a perfect blank palette to customize to your liking. Other features include ample storage, floor-to-ceiling windows and a large patio overlooking the marina. This home is situated in the Center tower near the majority of Marina City Club’s amenities.”

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“Fresh landscaping set the stage at this impeccably remodeled home,” says agent Stephanie Younger. “The airy living room is an elegant first impression accented by a traditional fireplace. The heart of the home is the completely redesigned kitchen. Host supper in the adjacent dining room or enjoy al fresco evenings on the deck. After dinner, the private lawn provides the perfect space to take in coastal breezes. The master bedroom is a relaxing sanctuary with serene views.”

Offered at $1,649,000 Stephanie Younger Compass 310-499-2020

“This is a fabulous opportunity to own an updated threebed, one-bath home with loads of original Spanish charm on a quiet street,” say agents Bob Waldron and Jessica Heredia. “The entrance opens to the living room and dining area, filled with sunlight. The breakfast area and open kitchen feature brand new stainless appliances and a view of lush rear yard. The private hallway off the living room leads to two bedrooms and bath. This home is steps from all Main Street has to offer.”

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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: 2/22/19. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: B. The address of the court is 825 Maple Ave. Torrance, CA 90503. 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: December 13, 2018. Eric C. Taylor, Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: The Argonaut Newspaper 1/3/19, 1/10/19, 1/17/19, 1/24/19 Please take notice US Storage Centers - Marina Del Rey located at 12700 Braddock Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90066 intends to hold an auction of the goods stored in the following units in default for non-payment of rent. The sale will occur as an online auction via www. storageauctions.net on 1/17/2019 at 10:00AM. Unless stated otherwise the description of the contents are household goods and furnishings. Lisa Marie Schmid O’connor; Mary Therese Duda; James Joseph Herman (2 units); Francis David Mancini (2 units); Phillippe Michel Shehata; Bentley Gerald Hatchett (2 units). All property is being stored at the above self-storage facility. This sale may be withdrawn at any time without notice. Certain terms and conditions apply. See manager for details. Argonaut Newspaper 1/3/19, 1/10/19

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Gramping Her Style My friend just joined a dating site for elite creative professionals. Unfortunately, it grabs your age from Facebook, so you can’t shave off years. At 50, she’s outside of most men’s search parameters — even older men’s. What gives?

— Concerned Aging is especially unkind to straight women on dating sites. At a certain point (usually age 46 on), women find their options narrowed to men who wear jewelry — the kind that sends the message, “I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!”

A study by psychologist Jan Antfolk and his colleagues looked at sex differences in the preferred age of romantic partners. They found (as have other researchers ) that “women are interested in same-aged to somewhat older men” throughout their lives. Men, on the other hand, “show a tendency to be sexually interested in women in their mid-twenties,” a preference that emerges in their teen years and (sorry, ladies!) remains consistent as men age.

And age. And age.

Men’s continuing attraction to twentysomething women makes evolutionary sense, as, the researchers note, “the highest fertility” in women “has been estimated to occur in the mid-twenties.”

However, when older men are asked to think practically — when asked not which women are running naked through their mind at the checkout stand, but whom they’d have a relationship with — women more similar in age have a shot. For example, research led

by evolutionary social psychologist Abraham Buunk found that “men of 60 years old would marry a woman of 55.”

Unfortunately, the online dating world — with the seemingly endless stream of hot 20-something women — is not exactly fertile ground for practicality and realism. It isn’t that men on dating sites who are aging into the grandpa zone could necessarily get the twentysomething chickies. But I suspect that these women’s mere presence — hordes and hordes of them — has what’s called an “anchoring effect.”

This is a term from research on decision-making by psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman. They found that a person’s “initial exposure” (to a particular price, for example) “serves as a reference point and influences subsequent judgments about value.”

Accordingly, in online dating, I suspect there’s a reference point that gets set — and it is 22 and bombshellicious, and has yet to have a whole lot of meaningful contact with gravity.

To put this in a less depressing way, in seeking male partners, context matters.

Your friend will have more interest from men when she’s in a room — in real life — where the female competition is limited in number and is around her age. She might have better luck in online dating at a site specifically for older people. Sites that aren’t for the over-50 crowd only are likely to be a continuing disappointment — along the lines of “Hmm … could it be that I accidentally set my preferences to ‘wants to die alone in an avalanche of her own cats’?!”

Debt Valley I’m a single chick in my early 30s, and I’m having financial difficulties. I got laid off and, depressingly, it’s really hard to find work. Though I want to talk to my friends about it, I’m afraid they’d think I was trying to borrow money, so I’ve been keeping to myself.

— Unemployed When you’ve been unemployed for a while, it becomes awkward to propose get-togethers: “Hey, wanna go out on Friday night for a glass of air?”

However, avoiding your friends is probably making things worse — or at least keeping you from feeling better — because social relationships seem to buffer stress, including stress from one’s currently grim “socioeconomic status.” This term, explains social psychologist Emily D. Hooker, refers to “an individual’s relative rank in society based on their income, education and employment.” Hooker notes that lower socioeconomic status — whether measured by such things as income and occupational prestige or mere

perception of one’s own status — is associated with higher mortality and poorer health. (Great, huh? You’re not only short on cash; you’re being rushed into an urn.)

But there’s good news from Hooker’s research. When participants were exposed to social stress in a lab situation, those who perceived themselves to have lower socioeconomic status but felt they had social support from others in their lives had lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol (as compared with those with a more “Eek! I’m all alone!” orientation).

As for you, guess what: People who care about you want to know what’s going on with you. Ask your friends to join you in activities that don’t cost money, like gallery openings, and they’ll get that you’re just looking for company, not moocher-tunities. You really can have both the support and fun of friendship and a bank account that resembles one of those shells of a building in the Old West with a few tumbleweeds blowing through it.

Got a problem? Write to Amy Alkon at 171 Pier Ave, Ste. 280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or email her at AdviceAmy@aol.com. ©2019, 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 and visit blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon.

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Compiled by Nicole Elizabeth Payne Thursday, Jan. 3 Culver City Senior Citizens Association New Membership Drive, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jan. 3, 4 7 & 11. Learn a new language, take computer classes, keep up with current events, watch movies, listen to live performances and make new friends at the Culver City Senior Center, 4095 Overland Ave., Culver City. Annual membership is $15.

(310) 253-6700; culvercity.org/ seniorcenter Community Jam, 7 to 10:30 p.m.

Join Jenny & Chris for a jam night the first Thursday of each month. Bring your songs and instruments. UnUrban Coffee House, 3301 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. No cover. (310) 315-0056; unurban.com Del Rey Neighborhood Council Education Committee, 7:15 p.m.

The committee meets on the first Thursday of each month at Del Rey Square, 11976 Culver Blvd., Del Rey. delreync.org Serbian Dance Party, 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Igor Petrovic & Friends play high-energy Serbian techno and house music at The Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. $10. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com

Friday, Jan. 4 Friday Night Happy Hour, 5 to 8 p.m. Folk-pop artist Katie Ferrara sings songs that sooth with a charming and sultry voice that’s entertained audiences from the Venice Boardwalk to the streets or Rome. Runway at Playa Vista, 12746 W. Jefferson Blvd., Playa Vista. facebook.com/RunwayPlayaVista Dead Babies, Street Play, the Right, the Paradoks, 8:30 p.m. to midnight.

KXLU radio show Demolisten plays live with a free raffle and great prizes.

Timewarp Records, 12204 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista. $5. facebook.com/ timewarprecordsus

Itchy Bones, DJ Jedi & Anthony Valadez Dance Party, 9 p.m.

Deejays are on the decks spinning new and old soul, funk, blues, rock, hip-hop, beats, breaks and anything else that gets the dance floor going.

Itchy Bones goes on at 9 p.m., so arrive on time. Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. No cover. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com

Saturday, Jan. 5 “Communion (Komunia),” 11 a.m.

The Los Angeles Polish Film Festival presents director Anna Zamecka’s film about 14-year-old Ola, who tries to knit her family back together while taking care of her father and autistic brother. Laemmle Monica Film Center, 1332 2nd St., Santa Monica. $8. (310) 478-3836; laemmle.com A Purposeful Rescue Adoption Event, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The nonprofit organization A Purposeful Rescue brings rescue dogs in need of permanent loving homes to The Platform. Come out and take a chance at meeting a new best friend for a new year. The Platform, 8850 Washington Blvd., Culver City. apurposefulrescue.org Music by the Sea, 1 to 4 p.m. A scenic harbor view is the backdrop for a blues concert by Jimbo Ross & The Bodacious Blues Band. Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. Free. (310) 301-9900; visitmarinadelrey.com Meet Me at Reed: Superhero Day, 2 to 4 p.m. Kids can race through a themed obstacle course, get their faces painted and enjoy tasty eats from food trucks. Representatives from Santa Monica’s police and fire departments will be on hand for free safety demonstrations. Christine Emerson Reed Park, 1133 7th St., Santa Monica. Free. smgov.net/reed.

Dance at the Odyssey, 8 p.m.

Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.

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dancer Shade Théret presents site-specific collaboration “Maybe” with artist Lukas Penek. Odyssey Theatre, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., West L.A. $25. (310) 477-2055; odysseytheatre.com Katalyst Collective, 8 p.m. Inglewood-based future funk, soul and jazz band Katalyst Collective brings their beats to the Del Monte Speakeasy, followed by DJ Aaron Parr spinning soul, funk, hip-hop, and electronic dance music. Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. No cover. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com

Sunday, Jan. 6 Happy New Year 5k, 10k, 15k and Half-Marathon, 7 to 10 a.m. Start the year off on a health kick by completing a race challenge. Receive free downloadable photos, a finisher medal, goodie bags and prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd overall. Meet at Crescent Bay Park, 2000 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica. $21 to $45. abetterworldrunning.com Mutt Manners, 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. This four-week dog training series is designed for dogs that are comfortable with new dogs and people but want to improve their manners.

Dog trainer Kate McGuire teaches your dog new tricks and behaviors from how to sit and leave-it to walking politely on a leash. Wallis Annenberg PetSpace, 12005 Bluff Creek Dr., Playa Vista. $140. muttmannersjan2019.eventbrite.com Music by the Sea, 1 to 4 p.m. A scenic harbor view is the backdrop for a jazz funk concert by “The Funky Sax Man” Chazzy Green.

Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 301-9900; visitmarinadelrey.com Music and Comedy at UnUrban, 1 to 7 p.m. Performances by Almost Vaudeville (1 to 4 p.m.) and Mews Small and Company (4 to 6 p.m.) precede the Screenwriting Tribe workshop Meetup group at UnUrban Coffee House, 3301 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. (310) 315-0056; unurban.com The Venice Electric Light Parade, 7:15 p.m. Mr. Sebastian “The Light Man” strings LED wheel lights on bikes until 7:45 p.m. and then this family-friendly bike ride travels from Venice to Santa Monica and back, covering about eight miles. Meet at Windward Avenue and Ocean Front Walk. facebook.com/VeniceElectricLightParade

Buzzworthy folk-pop singer-songwriter Katie Ferrera, who’s busked from L.A. to London to Rome, continues her winding path of adventure with a free concert at Runway Playa Vista. SEE FRIDAY, JAN. 4.

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Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. The multigenerational Los Angeles jazz ensemble is scheduled to perform at The Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. See the website for ticket prices and show updates. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com Karaoke Lisa, 9 p.m. Sing your heart out every Sunday at the Prince

Travel back in time to the Cold War at the Wende Musuem. SEE GALLERIES & MUSEUMS. O’Whales, 335 Culver Blvd., Playa del Rey. (310) 823-9826; princeowhales.com

Monday, Jan. 7 ICE at Santa Monica, 2 to 10 p.m.

Mondays through Thursdays, 2 p.m. to midnight Fridays, 10 a.m. to midnight Saturdays, and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sundays through Jan. 21.

Celebrate the holiday season with ice-skating in Downtown Santa Monica. 1324 5th St., Santa Monica. $15 skate rental and all-day admission. (310) 260-1199; downtownsm.com Yorgos Lanthimos discusses “The Favourite” and “The Lobster,” 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone vie for the queen’s attention in 18th-century England in “The Favourite.” In “The Lobster,” single people have 45 days to find true love or else they turn into the animal of their choice. Director Yorgos Lanthimos discusses both films. Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica. Free. aerotheatre.com Mahalo Mondays, 8 p.m. Alton Clemente, DJ Vinyl Don and Record Surplus take over the Townhouse with live entertainment, tiki cocktails, Hawaiian and Polynesian vinyl, plus special guests. Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. No cover. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com

Tuesday, Jan. 8 Marshall McLuhan-Finnegans Wake Reading Club, 6 p.m. This open reading club, still going strong

after 23 years, meets for literary discussions every second Tuesday of the month at Lloyd Taber-Marina del Rey Library, 4533 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. (310) 306-7330; laughtears.com Women’s Sailing Association Presentation, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Sailor Michaela Huss discusses circumnavigating New Zealand twice, cruising Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu and New Caledonia, and sailing from Hawaii to Alaska and down the coast to Marina del Rey. Social hour is at 6 p.m., followed by a light dinner and the program at 7 p.m. Santa Monica Windjammers Yacht Club, 13589 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey. rsvp@wsasmb.org Calamity Company + United Jams, 9 p.m. Enjoy live rock, soul, folk, blues every Tuesday night in the Del Monte Speakeasy. Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. $5. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com

Wednesday, Jan. 9 Toastmasters Speakers by the Sea Club, 11 a.m. to noon. In this workshop to develop better presentation skills, Toastmasters present the fundamentals of public speaking in the relaxed, enjoyable atmosphere of a Toastmasters meeting. Pregerson Technical Facility, 12000 Vista del Mar, Conference Room 230A, Playa del Rey. (424) 625-3131; toastmastersspeakersbythesea @gmail.com DTSM Plaza Film Nights, 6 p.m.

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Corinne Shor stars in the existential Parisian adventure “I Am Sophie” Dance at the Odyssey:“maybe” @ Odyssey Theatre The Odyssey kicks off its monthlong series of dance performances with “maybe” by Berlin-based dancemaker Shade and a site-specific work by artist Lukas Panek.

Two performances only: 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday (Jan. 5 & 6) at Odyssey Theatre, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., West L.A. $15 to $25. (310) 477-2055, ext. 2; odysseytheatre.com The Hollywood Blacklist: Rogue Machine’s “Finks” @ Electric Lodge On the verge of TV stardom, a comic meets an actress/activist and their

romance blossoms as the House Un-American Activities Committee ramps up its investigation into communist subversion in Hollywood. Hundreds of directors, actors and screenwriters are blacklisted, and those who testify against friends or family inside the industry are branded “finks.” Writer Joe Gilford and director Michael Pressman, both children of blacklisted actors, team up for this endeavor based on the lives of Gilford’s parents.

Run extended: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Jan. 6 at the Electric Lodge, 1416 Electric Ave., Venice. $40, or pay or half-price on Friday, Jan. 4. (855) 585-5185; roguemachinetheatre.com Sense of Self:“I am Sophie” @ Pacific Resident Theatre When Kate decides to leave Paris to care for her father, she decides it’s also time to share her new identity with the world — Sophie. What follows is an existential adventure with a French twist.

Now playing at 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays through Jan. 27 at Pacific Resident Theatre, 703 Venice Blvd., Venice. $25 to $34. (310) 822-8392; pacificresidenttheatre.com

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could get a better view of the eclipse. You had [former Secretary of Health and Human Services] Tom Price repeatedly put himself on first-class and chartered travel that cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. You had EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt use his taxpayer-funded security detail to go to Ritz-Carlton hotels to get a certain brand of lotion.

We can’t have this waste, fraud and abuse happening. There is currently a federal regulation that says you are prohibited from using your public office for private gain; turns out that when you violate it, you get this really mean-sounding letter — that’s about it. So we’re putting some teeth in that regulation and we’re making it a crime for high-level administration officials to use their public office for private gain.

Do you have ideas for facilitating enough bipartisan cooperation among the House and the Senate to pass legislation?

Certainly there is overwhelming support among the American public for protecting undocumented youth. There is majority support for comprehensive immigration reform. The devil will be in the details, but I do feel positive we can get some significant immigration legislation passed.

What about other wedge issues, like gun control?

We absolutely need to pass commonsense gun safety legislation. Over 90% of the American public supports universal background checks. That should be legislation that we advance. The Judiciary Committee also has jurisdiction over gun issues; hopefully we can pass it off the floor of the House.

I also want to note that climate change is a threat not just to America, but to the entire world. The first bill I authored and introduced, four years ago, was the Climate Solutions Act. I was the coauthor of California’s landmark AB 32, the California Global Solutions Act, and my

federal legislation basically takes California’s legislation and makes it national. We need to work on climate change legislation because we’re starting to see extreme weather effects more and more — more severe hurricanes, more severe wildfires, repeated flooding.

How can the United States join the world in fighting global climate change with Trump in the White House?

I believe you have to keep pushing. The actual withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords doesn’t happen for another two years, so if Donald Trump is no longer in

Why is it imperative to pass your Cyber Shield Act, and what stands in the way of expanding consumer protection standards for the ever-more common “internet of things”?

Right now Republicans stand in the

“It should no longer be a federal offense to possess or use cannabis. … We need to allow banks to do transactions with the cannabis industry … and hopefully we can stop spending federal tax dollars trying to enforce stupid cannabis laws.”

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What do you think of calls for a Green New Deal and what that entails?

I support it. I signed on to the Green New Deal [in late November]. A big part of it is already in the infrastructure bill I introduced last year, which had an entire section on green jobs for the future economy. California has shown that being environmentally friendly and working on climate change is a net job creator.

We have the strongest environmental and climate change laws in America, and our state went from the eighth-largest economy in the world to now the fifth-largest economy in the world.

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way, but I do think in January we will have the opportunity to pass the Cyber Shield Act because consumers, frankly, are demanding additional information on consumer products in terms of cyber security. If you buy a lamp at Target, you know it’s not going to blow up in your living room, and that’s because there are these certifications on it. … We want to create similar voluntary certifications for cyber security so that if you go and buy a webcam, for example, you’ll know that hackers won’t easily be able to take control of it and start watching you or your kids.

What are the chances that Congress will impose stricter oversight or regulation of digital media companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter?

My view is that the First Amendment largely prevents government from interfering in the free speech of private

sector companies. Facebook and Google and other private sector companies have the absolute right to design their algorithms any way they want, as long as it doesn’t violate civil rights laws or other existing laws. For example, YouTube could decide that more consumers like watching cute cat videos than watching Rep. Jim Jordan (R- Ohio) give a speech and prioritize cute cat videos over Rep. Jim Jordan. There’s nothing Jim Jordan or the U.S. government can or should do about that — that’s free speech. And if Rep. Jordan wants to get more views on YouTube, he should just make better speeches.

[Editor’s note: Jordan and Lieu have co-authored bipartisan legislation that would block states from requiring computer software to include encryption technology to facilitate government surveillance.]

What’s the biggest or most vexing problem in your district?

In much of my district homelessness is a problem, so I’m pleased that one of the first laws I got passed in Congress was to revitalize the West Los Angeles VA with a brand new master plan that with its full buildout will have 1,000 units of housing for homeless veterans. Addressing homelessness requires the cooperation and resources of local, county, state and federal officials. It’s a difficult problem, and something I’m going to keep working on.

What’s the most important thing Congress can do to facilitate greater income equality?

We need to stop passing stupid legislation like the Republican tax law that gave 83% of the benefits to the super-wealthy.

We need to invest in infrastructure to create good-paying jobs that also help increase workers’ wages. And we really need to look at how we can improve opportunities for people in the economy of the 21st century — make sure that we educate all our children and give them their best shot in the future economy.

A joyous, musical celebration of Shabbat for Jewish women

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of L.A.’s best comics and finish it with a burlesque show featuring the Bootleg Bombshells. The Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice. No cover. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com

Thursday, Jan. 10 Adult Journaling Program, 1 to 2:30 p.m. Practice journaling skills to unleash creativity and get words down on paper. Participants discuss and select fun writing topics. Bring paper and pen. Lloyd Taber-Marina del Rey Library, 4533 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey. Free. (310) 821-3415; lacountylibrary.org State of Our State, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

The Westchester-Playa Democratic Club holds a special meeting with State Sen. Ben Allen and Assemblywoman Autumn Burke for a discussion on California’s leadership in the battle against federal overreach.

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culture wars between the U.S. and the USSR during the Cold War. Artist Semra Sevin’s exhibit “Someone to Watch Over Me” features a series of migrant children portraits that change depending on the viewer’s position.

The Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Blvd., Culver City. (310) 216-1600; wendemuseum.org “It’s a Celebration,” through Jan. 19.

Celebrations are among mankind’s earliest rituals. Members of the local Blue 7 Collective celebrate the holidays with an eclectic mix of art that has everything and nothing to do

“Life in this Ocean,” through Sunday, Jan. 6. This exhibit showcases the work of artists Kathy Taslitz, Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman, Donna Bates and Lena Rushing, each expressing their experience as women and exploring narratives that speak to the collective human condition. (See page 15.) Annenberg Community Beach House, 415 Pacific Coast Hwy., Santa Monica. annenbergbeachhouse.com Wende Exhibitions, through Jan. 13.

“War of Nerves: Psychological Landscapes of the Cold War” addresses the various layers of mutual suspicion between the Soviet Bloc and the Western World. “Red Shoes: Love, Politics, and Dance” uses ballet as an example of the high drama of the

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told him that of course we could.

He never made another move on me and was consistently a good friend for the following 12 years, until he died of cancer. I was the last friend who was by his side, and I still miss him dearly 10 years after his passing.

His genuine honesty and transparency, after his confession and my rejection, had strengthened our friendship and proved

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“Experience 37: Matriarchs,” through Jan 26. Featuring multiple works by 12 contemporary indigenous womxn artists representing 14 communities, this exhibit includes fashion, metalwork, photography, painting, basketry and video. ESMoA, 208 Main St., El Segundo. (424) 277-1020; esmoa.org

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Ellen Berkenblit in Conversation, 5 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5. Ellen Berkenblit, who is exhibiting works on canvass and on patterned quilts of calico fabric, discusses her new work and overall practice with fellow artist William J. Simmons. Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, 6006 Washington Blvd., Culver City. Free. facebook.com/vielmetter.losangeles

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